Two weeks ago a transformer blew out in the building I work in. First there was no power for 3 hours, then temporary power as a large generator was hooked up, but it was not big enough to run the AC, so we did no turn on the servers. It took another day to get a large enough generator (about the size of a tractor trailer). In total, our business was shut down completely for a day and a half due.
I don't think you can even get a SLA from the power company.
Yea, that seems right. But maybe not. Yes, a little right. No, not at all. Total bullshit. Yet also 100% right. Doorknob. Right about 30% of the time. Wait, what was the question?
Speaking of slashdotting, I've often wondered if slashdot itself can survive the effect due to design, server size, or something else. Now as a Perl fan (though I am a sysadmin, not a programmer per say), what about Perl do you think allows it to handle the slashdot loads--and that is an honest question.
Boromir, son of Faramir, King of Gondor and Minas Tirith?!
I know this has been covered, but Boromir (of Company of the Ring a.k.a The Nine Walkers fame) was the brother of Faramir, and the son of Denethor II. See here
These was another fellow with the name Boromir from Gondor, but he was the son of Steward Denethor I.
Neither Boromir's became king of Gondor--they were of the line of Stewards since the last of the kingly line was killed.
See the
The Encyclopedia of Arda
Personally, I am on the fence. When I updated to RH 9 and Ximain 2, I was very disappointed that I could not have an always on top keybinding--only after a little gnashing of teath did I find (stumble upon) the feature in gconf-editor. Once I understood how (relativly) easy gconf-editor was I was happy--perhaps clearly pointing documentation to gconf-editor might alleviate such complaints. It would have made my transition easier.
Oh yea?! I might not know what I am posting about, but I think you are dead wrong about me not reading what you think I am posting about or responding to you, and you responce. Wrong.
Americans today have a short attention span?!!
. . . Well I oughtta! Oh, I was going to respond to that, but I kinda' lost interest half way through my post.
I am no physicis, but maybe the problem of cooking on molten lava is related to people walking over hot coals--that is the important physical quality is not temperature but the ability to transfer heat. Called specific heat, IIRC. If the lava has a low specific heat, then it cannot release the heat to the food fast enough before it cools. Of course on the other hand I could be barking up the wrong tree.
Many medical applications for small/med medical facilities unfortunately only run on Windows. In my experience the majority of these have a desktop component (such as medical record information systems), but a whole bunch of (somewhat low end) equipment like digital X-Rays, and such also come with W2K workstations. The big stuff, like multi-million $ MRI, PET scanner, etc run a version of Unix (IRIX, Solaris, even VAX). So sometimes there is no real alternative. The vendor of the equipment decides what to run.
The article says the DoD is going to use StarOffice 5.2, and that Sun has plans to release Star Office 6.o later this year. I thought that StarOffice was going away, and that Open Office was the replacement. Anyone know about the future of StarOffice and Openoffice?
The bonobo info from the gnome office page http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/bonobo.shtml talks about using bonobo in gnome office. Perhaps I don't really understand what gnome *is*, but what parts of gnome (that is besides base applications like the gnome office stuff) would need to be bonobo-ized?
As a gnome user, but not a programmer, I have been trying to follow the argument since yesterday. However, I have no idea what the argument is *really* about. Not the ego-who-can-make-decisions argument, but the bonobo vs. gconf and GNOME 2.0 argument. Can someone give a quick sum up of the two (?) positions?
Slashdot Mirror
Two weeks ago a transformer blew out in the building I work in. First there was no power for 3 hours, then temporary power as a large generator was hooked up, but it was not big enough to run the AC, so we did no turn on the servers. It took another day to get a large enough generator (about the size of a tractor trailer). In total, our business was shut down completely for a day and a half due.
I don't think you can even get a SLA from the power company.
Google Apps went down for 3 hours.
Shit happens.
Yea, that seems right. But maybe not.
Yes, a little right. No, not at all. Total bullshit. Yet also 100% right. Doorknob. Right about 30% of the time. Wait, what was the question?
Metropolis == Chigaco (near Kansas)
Gotham == NYC (just like one of the many nicknames of NYC, "Gotham)
Speaking of slashdotting, I've often wondered if slashdot itself can survive the effect due to design, server size, or something else. Now as a Perl fan (though I am a sysadmin, not a programmer per say), what about Perl do you think allows it to handle the slashdot loads--and that is an honest question.
Hey, did you get permission to quote Webster.com?!
Execpt that Gnucash is NOT written in C. It is written in Scheme.
I know this has been covered, but Boromir (of Company of the Ring a.k.a The Nine Walkers fame) was the brother of Faramir, and the son of Denethor II. See here
These was another fellow with the name Boromir from Gondor, but he was the son of Steward Denethor I. Neither Boromir's became king of Gondor--they were of the line of Stewards since the last of the kingly line was killed. See the The Encyclopedia of Arda
Personally, I am on the fence. When I updated to RH 9 and Ximain 2, I was very disappointed that I could not have an always on top keybinding--only after a little gnashing of teath did I find (stumble upon) the feature in gconf-editor. Once I understood how (relativly) easy gconf-editor was I was happy--perhaps clearly pointing documentation to gconf-editor might alleviate such complaints. It would have made my transition easier.
Thoes are screenshots of the current Evolution. The topic is the new UI.
Oh yea?! I might not know what I am posting about, but I think you are dead wrong about me not reading what you think I am posting about or responding to you, and you responce. Wrong.
Americans today have a short attention span?!! . . . Well I oughtta! Oh, I was going to respond to that, but I kinda' lost interest half way through my post.
I am no physicis, but maybe the problem of cooking on molten lava is related to people walking over hot coals--that is the important physical quality is not temperature but the ability to transfer heat. Called specific heat, IIRC. If the lava has a low specific heat, then it cannot release the heat to the food fast enough before it cools. Of course on the other hand I could be barking up the wrong tree.
Many medical applications for small/med medical facilities unfortunately only run on Windows. In my experience the majority of these have a desktop component (such as medical record information systems), but a whole bunch of (somewhat low end) equipment like digital X-Rays, and such also come with W2K workstations. The big stuff, like multi-million $ MRI, PET scanner, etc run a version of Unix (IRIX, Solaris, even VAX). So sometimes there is no real alternative. The vendor of the equipment decides what to run.
I have not tried it, but ifyou really want to play with Mindstorm and Linux, check out http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Lego/
If you are useing DHCP, you don't have to reboot windows either.
How about "Code Red III: Attack of the Clones?"
The article says the DoD is going to use StarOffice 5.2, and that Sun has plans to release Star Office 6.o later this year. I thought that StarOffice was going away, and that Open Office was the replacement. Anyone know about the future of StarOffice and Openoffice?
Indeed. This will have little effect on the future. For those who are too busy to read, you can listen to a report from NPR that ran 3-29-01
Slightly OT, but in fact there is a song titled "Gone with the Wind." It is a jazz standard circa 1935, and has nothing at all to do with the novel.
The bonobo info from the gnome office page http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/bonobo.shtml talks about using bonobo in gnome office. Perhaps I don't really understand what gnome *is*, but what parts of gnome (that is besides base applications like the gnome office stuff) would need to be bonobo-ized?
As a gnome user, but not a programmer, I have been trying to follow the argument since yesterday. However, I have no idea what the argument is *really* about. Not the ego-who-can-make-decisions argument, but the bonobo vs. gconf and GNOME 2.0 argument. Can someone give a quick sum up of the two (?) positions?