I recently rebuilt the entire Mail Me Anywhere platform as a virtual appliance system. Under QEMU:)
Entirely built of free software or my own code (it uses MailStripper as its backend) but due to the nature of both the appliance isn't distributable...
If the Razorback2 servers were designed in such a fashion that no index information was ever written to disc (e.g. all cached in RAM, no swap file/partition) then the seized servers would have lost all information about anything that might have been indexed the moment the power cables were disconnected.
Maybe this is the way for future indexing servers to go?
Hopefully they'll block outbound port 25, and enforce use of a smart-host, perhaps a transparent SMTP proxy. Should do something for the spam from there!
In the UK (240V 50Hz), our CFLs come in various sizes.. 9W for a 40W equivalent, 11W (60W), 15W (100W) and 20W (120W) are common. At the brighter end of the scale they certainly seem to be better than 60 - or 75% - closer to 85%.
You can put your scripts into the TclKit EXE as a resource, creating a single-file EXE distribution of your application. With UPX compression the resulting file will be around 1.2Mb (depending on what extensions you choose to use).
I've used Freewrap for things like this, and at least the version I'm using, the resultant binaries typically weigh in at about 650K.
That's an easy one. Go to www.google.cn, do a search for "Democracy" (Hmm.. slashcode is removing the HTML entities for the Chinese characters.. the unicodes are: 6C11 4E3B 653F 6CBB, convert these into their Chinese characters and paste into google.cn) and see what you get back. Oh, and all the better if you can, or can borrow someone who can, read Chinese.
I quite agree. My first job out of university was obtained by railroading a student placement scheme, and getting to stay there for a year.
I was making the moves to become a normal member of staff there, when the division I was working for (a joint venture between a UK and a US telco) collapsed messily, so jumped fast elsewhere.
Having that "real world" experience from that gave me the advantage that I was able to get my current job.
Not if he's following it with Lynx. Won't load images, won't run Javascript. It'll just pull the basic HTML file and render that without pulling anything else.
From what I remember from my Latin classes, the -a ending for neuter plurals is 2nd declension. "domus" is instead 4th declension, but an irregular one, in that the plural can be either -us (as in regular 4th declension) or -i (following 2nd declension). I can't think of any "regular" 4th declension words off the top of my head, but due to its irregularity, "domus" wasn't a good choice for an example:-)
Probably the government. No other reason why the BBC would show it.
My monitor (an Iiyama 17" CRT) seems to have two modes of standby, the first seems to be where the tube is kept warm for a fast start, and after a few minutes in that mode it goes into a deeper sleep and turns the tube right off. Although my machine (run as a server) is on 24/7 I've almost always manually turned my monitor off.
Aside: If I turned on every single light in my (admittedly fairly small) house, I'd be using no more than 120W.
In this case, the customer was sufficiently pissed to justify putting me on a flight that night with CD in hand. By the way, booking the flight with about 6 hours notice probably had something to do with why the trip cost about $4000.
Surely it would have been cheaper to take that CD, drive home, and send it from your own broadband internet connection (just changing the From: header to that of your work address)? Even if your ISP charges you per MB I doubt it would have cost anything like $4000 - and it would have been quicker than flying.
The smaller devices have no problem whatever (e.g. flash). The larger hard discs, if they're going on a Windows-only system are most likely to get formatted NTFS. On a Linux-only system there is no problem. On a dual-boot system (or the drive is removable, e.g. USB) Linux can be used to format it, and more than likely you already have the tools installed.
The only time an issue arises is, say, trying to use it on a Win9x single-boot system, and such systems are getting fewer (and those may have other hardware issues preventing discs over a certain size being recognised by the system at all).
Unless you also want HDTV, a new TV won't be necessary, a set-top box to convert the signal should be all that's required, and hopefully the economy of scale should mean the boxes become pretty cheap.
When digital over-the-air TV started in the UK, the boxes were very expensive (and the Pay TV operator running the show collapsed). When it was relaunched as a primarily free-to-air service the boxes started out at the £100 mark, but as boxes have come down in price (now to around £30 for a basic unit) it has been a very popular choice, and that's without any government subsidy. More details of our service are at the Freeview website.
The UK seems to have got the right idea. We can get digital terrestrial set-top boxes that plug into the TV, via a SCART lead (which carries, amongst other things RGB and Composite picture signals, and stereo audio), or on a few boxes via an analogue RF signal. That way virtually all existing TV sets can remain in use long after the switch-over takes place.
Only the really old sets don't have SCART sockets now, and although suitable boxes with RF Out exist they are more expensive.
We use Sun Ultra 10s by the truckload at $DAYJOB. The IDE 20GB discs all are parts obtained from Sun. We tried using off-the-shelf IDE discs of the same size (even by the same manufacturer), but the box couldn't see more than 8GB of disc space. Jumper settings were even matched. Could only be the firmware on the drive allowing the Sun and the disc to address >8GB in a somewhat non-standard fashion.
Nevertheless, you can't legally mix GPL code with BSD code because the GPL requires that all code be GPL.
According to GNU's licence list, you can mix GPL code with code licensed under a "GPL-compatible" licence. One of which is the "Modified BSD" licence. The original BSD licence, however, has the advertising clause, and it is that which renders it GPL-incompatible.
I know you're making a joke, but seriously, kids can wander off. The elderly may forget where they are (assuming they knew in the first place), and it's so easy to get lost or injured in risky sports such that you can't call for help, but would make life much easier for rescuers to locate you before it's too late.
It doesn't help that pop-ups grab the focus when they appear, so if one appears while you're typing something (web address, notepad etc) hitting Space will trigger the default button, so you might accidentally kill the pop-up (and accept what it's saying) without realising it even appeared until it's too late.
It wouldn't be quite so bad if pop-ups had no default button.
Methane has no smell. Otherwise the gas companies would have no need to add the artificial smell to mains and bottled gas (at least they do in UK). What you're smelling are probably sulphur compounds.
The article refers to CO (carbon monoxide) - which also has no hydrogen. This is supplied by water. Not entirely sure what the bacterium does with the carbon-based resultant products, but CO + H2O --> H2 + 2C + O2. This is probably how it generates its oxygen supply (assuming it needs one) and also a supply of carbon for making proteins/DNA/etc...
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The noise you just heard there was the sound of a paradigm shifting without a clutch.
I recently rebuilt the entire Mail Me Anywhere platform as a virtual appliance system. Under QEMU :)
Entirely built of free software or my own code (it uses MailStripper as its backend) but due to the nature of both the appliance isn't distributable...
If the Razorback2 servers were designed in such a fashion that no index information was ever written to disc (e.g. all cached in RAM, no swap file/partition) then the seized servers would have lost all information about anything that might have been indexed the moment the power cables were disconnected.
Maybe this is the way for future indexing servers to go?
Hopefully they'll block outbound port 25, and enforce use of a smart-host, perhaps a transparent SMTP proxy. Should do something for the spam from there!
In the UK (240V 50Hz), our CFLs come in various sizes.. 9W for a 40W equivalent, 11W (60W), 15W (100W) and 20W (120W) are common. At the brighter end of the scale they certainly seem to be better than 60 - or 75% - closer to 85%.
You can put your scripts into the TclKit EXE as a resource, creating a single-file EXE distribution of your application. With UPX compression the resulting file will be around 1.2Mb (depending on what extensions you choose to use).
I've used Freewrap for things like this, and at least the version I'm using, the resultant binaries typically weigh in at about 650K.
That's an easy one. Go to www.google.cn, do a search for "Democracy" (Hmm.. slashcode is removing the HTML entities for the Chinese characters.. the unicodes are: 6C11 4E3B 653F 6CBB, convert these into their Chinese characters and paste into google.cn) and see what you get back. Oh, and all the better if you can, or can borrow someone who can, read Chinese.
I quite agree. My first job out of university was obtained by railroading a student placement scheme, and getting to stay there for a year.
I was making the moves to become a normal member of staff there, when the division I was working for (a joint venture between a UK and a US telco) collapsed messily, so jumped fast elsewhere.
Having that "real world" experience from that gave me the advantage that I was able to get my current job.
Not if he's following it with Lynx. Won't load images, won't run Javascript. It'll just pull the basic HTML file and render that without pulling anything else.
From what I remember from my Latin classes, the -a ending for neuter plurals is 2nd declension. "domus" is instead 4th declension, but an irregular one, in that the plural can be either -us (as in regular 4th declension) or -i (following 2nd declension). I can't think of any "regular" 4th declension words off the top of my head, but due to its irregularity, "domus" wasn't a good choice for an example :-)
Probably the government. No other reason why the BBC would show it.
My monitor (an Iiyama 17" CRT) seems to have two modes of standby, the first seems to be where the tube is kept warm for a fast start, and after a few minutes in that mode it goes into a deeper sleep and turns the tube right off. Although my machine (run as a server) is on 24/7 I've almost always manually turned my monitor off.
Aside: If I turned on every single light in my (admittedly fairly small) house, I'd be using no more than 120W.
In this case, the customer was sufficiently pissed to justify putting me on a flight that night with CD in hand. By the way, booking the flight with about 6 hours notice probably had something to do with why the trip cost about $4000.
Surely it would have been cheaper to take that CD, drive home, and send it from your own broadband internet connection (just changing the From: header to that of your work address)? Even if your ISP charges you per MB I doubt it would have cost anything like $4000 - and it would have been quicker than flying.
That didn't hurt Windows 95..
:)
erm.. waitamo..
The smaller devices have no problem whatever (e.g. flash). The larger hard discs, if they're going on a Windows-only system are most likely to get formatted NTFS. On a Linux-only system there is no problem. On a dual-boot system (or the drive is removable, e.g. USB) Linux can be used to format it, and more than likely you already have the tools installed.
The only time an issue arises is, say, trying to use it on a Win9x single-boot system, and such systems are getting fewer (and those may have other hardware issues preventing discs over a certain size being recognised by the system at all).
Return to the bridge from whence you came, troll.
You can indeed format a larger disc FAT32 - I have a 120GB disc and a 200GB disc both formatted FAT32, which I formatted myself.
mkdosfs will do it quite happily. And Windows (and Linux) will be happy reading and writing that disc.
So, all you need is a Knoppix disc if you don't have dual-boot on that machine.
If you can't spring for a new TV...
Unless you also want HDTV, a new TV won't be necessary, a set-top box to convert the signal should be all that's required, and hopefully the economy of scale should mean the boxes become pretty cheap.
When digital over-the-air TV started in the UK, the boxes were very expensive (and the Pay TV operator running the show collapsed). When it was relaunched as a primarily free-to-air service the boxes started out at the £100 mark, but as boxes have come down in price (now to around £30 for a basic unit) it has been a very popular choice, and that's without any government subsidy. More details of our service are at the Freeview website.
The UK seems to have got the right idea. We can get digital terrestrial set-top boxes that plug into the TV, via a SCART lead (which carries, amongst other things RGB and Composite picture signals, and stereo audio), or on a few boxes via an analogue RF signal. That way virtually all existing TV sets can remain in use long after the switch-over takes place.
Only the really old sets don't have SCART sockets now, and although suitable boxes with RF Out exist they are more expensive.
We use Sun Ultra 10s by the truckload at $DAYJOB. The IDE 20GB discs all are parts obtained from Sun. We tried using off-the-shelf IDE discs of the same size (even by the same manufacturer), but the box couldn't see more than 8GB of disc space. Jumper settings were even matched. Could only be the firmware on the drive allowing the Sun and the disc to address >8GB in a somewhat non-standard fashion.
It's an offshoot of "Animals Do The Funniest Things", when the animals objected en masse of being lumped in with Australian senators.
Large stick of dynamite, with any luck.
Nevertheless, you can't legally mix GPL code with BSD code because the GPL requires that all code be GPL.
According to GNU's licence list, you can mix GPL code with code licensed under a "GPL-compatible" licence. One of which is the "Modified BSD" licence. The original BSD licence, however, has the advertising clause, and it is that which renders it GPL-incompatible.
I know you're making a joke, but seriously, kids can wander off. The elderly may forget where they are (assuming they knew in the first place), and it's so easy to get lost or injured in risky sports such that you can't call for help, but would make life much easier for rescuers to locate you before it's too late.
It doesn't help that pop-ups grab the focus when they appear, so if one appears while you're typing something (web address, notepad etc) hitting Space will trigger the default button, so you might accidentally kill the pop-up (and accept what it's saying) without realising it even appeared until it's too late.
It wouldn't be quite so bad if pop-ups had no default button.
Methane has no smell. Otherwise the gas companies would have no need to add the artificial smell to mains and bottled gas (at least they do in UK). What you're smelling are probably sulphur compounds.
The article refers to CO (carbon monoxide) - which also has no hydrogen. This is supplied by water. Not entirely sure what the bacterium does with the carbon-based resultant products, but CO + H2O --> H2 + 2C + O2. This is probably how it generates its oxygen supply (assuming it needs one) and also a supply of carbon for making proteins/DNA/etc...