Yeah, but there isn't any Giardia in bottled water...:) Anyone who's been camping wishes they have some of that bottled water after they taste the iodine tablets.
I like Mediawiki, but I have found that the code under the hood is a bit messy. It seems difficult to change the default look of the wiki without modifying the source code directly. Be that as it may, Mediawiki does still work very well.
Maybe it isn't new, but I noticed today when poking at the new features that you can "Add more info" to contacts like phone number address, etc. which I don't think was there before. (again, I could be wrong).
I submitted a feature request for the ability to export the contacts list so I can rig up some kind of sync script with my PDA.
I couldn't help but wonder if the two are related? Is Mt. St. Helens related to the the quake in California on Tuesday? They're in that same general fault line aren't they?
Can anyone who knows more about Earth Science help me out here?
I remember when I was in High School (early 90's) and my dad got Computer Shopper all the time. It's really funny to see a magazine rack with Computer Shopper in it and realize that it really looks the same as it did over 10 years ago. Sure, there are DVD-RW's and other new hardware toys we never dreamed about in 1994, but their schtick has been the same forever...
I got bored with tracking the latest hardware in 1999.
Soon we will attain the goal of all geeks, to never have to see or go outside again. I suspect it has something to do with being picked last for kickball in Junior High.
The company I contract for now made the switch from Redhat to Debian since Redhat's decision to not support anything besides Enterprise after a certain date (and Fedora was an unknown quantity at the time).
The pros were Debian's stability and backports for security.
The cons were mostly that most proprietary hardware vendors (i.e., Dell and a few others) at least semi-officially support Redhat and no other distro really. Matt Domsch's linux page (and later linux.dell.com) were helpful for those of us struggling to figure out how to get Openmanage working to do something seemingly simple like snmp monitor the dell hardware.
Alien also was key, for those who don't know, alien can convert.rpms to.debs, though not always perfectly, since most proprietary vendors make their rpms with all sorts of unnecessary dependencies on Redhat where something more generic could have been used as far as file locations and installation scripts.
We had another 3rd party vendor who I won't name that sells a PCI card with "Linux support", though it really means Redhat. To use it required patching Apache, Openssl, and mod_ssl. We had some problems getting it all to work, but since it was only officially supported on Redhat, I had to setup a Redhat box and replicate our problems on there. Lots of extra work, but it's all working in the end.
I guess the summary is that debian in a commercial environment is very feasible, especially from a maintenance (apt and apt-proxy rocks!) and a security point of view (not a lot of extra crap installed and running). The downside can be lack of support for non-Redhat style installs. A few years ago, we would have been lucky to have any Linux support at all!
I enjoy reading fantasy series (less so these days) and I used to be big time into the Dragonlance series started by Hickman and Weis. The biggest problem I found with spin-off books was not only that they were written poorly (I was young, I didn't know the difference), the problem was that they were so inconsistent! It seemed like every book had some major revelation of the Dragonlance universe that spun the whole series a different way, or some element that just didn't make sense which (IMHO) spoiled the whole book.
My question is this: How are spin-off books written? Do the spin-off authors even talk to the original authors or do they just read the originals and write what they feel like? I'm tossed up between the purist camp of only reading the originals and the I just want to find out more about this and I don't care if it's crap camp.
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Why is it all I see on Slashdot now-a-days is stories that were on engadget yesterday?
Yeah, but there isn't any Giardia in bottled water... :) Anyone who's been camping wishes they have some of that bottled water after they taste the iodine tablets.
I like Mediawiki, but I have found that the code under the hood is a bit messy. It seems difficult to change the default look of the wiki without modifying the source code directly. Be that as it may, Mediawiki does still work very well.
Maybe it isn't new, but I noticed today when poking at the new features that you can "Add more info" to contacts like phone number address, etc. which I don't think was there before. (again, I could be wrong).
I submitted a feature request for the ability to export the contacts list so I can rig up some kind of sync script with my PDA.
Can anyone who knows more about Earth Science help me out here?
I remember when I was in High School (early 90's) and my dad got Computer Shopper all the time. It's really funny to see a magazine rack with Computer Shopper in it and realize that it really looks the same as it did over 10 years ago. Sure, there are DVD-RW's and other new hardware toys we never dreamed about in 1994, but their schtick has been the same forever... I got bored with tracking the latest hardware in 1999.
Soon we will attain the goal of all geeks, to never have to see or go outside again. I suspect it has something to do with being picked last for kickball in Junior High.
The pros were Debian's stability and backports for security.
The cons were mostly that most proprietary hardware vendors (i.e., Dell and a few others) at least semi-officially support Redhat and no other distro really. Matt Domsch's linux page (and later linux.dell.com) were helpful for those of us struggling to figure out how to get Openmanage working to do something seemingly simple like snmp monitor the dell hardware.
Alien also was key, for those who don't know, alien can convert .rpms to .debs, though not always perfectly, since most proprietary vendors make their rpms with all sorts of unnecessary dependencies on Redhat where something more generic could have been used as far as file locations and installation scripts.
We had another 3rd party vendor who I won't name that sells a PCI card with "Linux support", though it really means Redhat. To use it required patching Apache, Openssl, and mod_ssl. We had some problems getting it all to work, but since it was only officially supported on Redhat, I had to setup a Redhat box and replicate our problems on there. Lots of extra work, but it's all working in the end.
I guess the summary is that debian in a commercial environment is very feasible, especially from a maintenance (apt and apt-proxy rocks!) and a security point of view (not a lot of extra crap installed and running). The downside can be lack of support for non-Redhat style installs. A few years ago, we would have been lucky to have any Linux support at all!
How are they getting past the new gmail authentication?
"Joining them at the event will be actress Bo Derek"
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My question is this: How are spin-off books written? Do the spin-off authors even talk to the original authors or do they just read the originals and write what they feel like? I'm tossed up between the purist camp of only reading the originals and the I just want to find out more about this and I don't care if it's crap camp.