Hi, it is the right one... I added maxconnections to MySQL, but still having trouble... I am using a CDN, but there is a video on the page which I think is still pulled from the server, and I think that's what causing the overload. Last time I was slashdotted, that didn't happen... Sorry about that...
Today, they are called gyroplanes. These simple aircrafts are still used today, and a lot of fun to fly. You can build one for probably as low as $8k. Here is a great short movie about present time gyroplanes:
He was flying a Citabria, which can land pretty much anywhere, with or without it's engine running.. Most likely, he experienced some engine trouble and had to land in the desert. Hopefully he has water with him. It is surprising though that he wasn't able to send a radio distress call. The next possibility would be some medical emergency. Small planes don't break-up in the sky. The problem must be mechanical or medical. I had two engine failures in small planes, landing dead stick is no big deal. The Citabria touches down at 51mph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citabria)..
Digg is a bunch of bored teenagers reading sensationalized news posted by greedy bloggers. Try http://over30news.com/ for more mature news. I just started it...
He could have been accused of terrorism.. These days, pretty much anything can fall in that category. See: http://www.leg.state.or.us/03reg/measures/sb0700.d ir/sb0742.intro.html Note that merely conspiring about "disrupting commerce," or even the "free and orderly assembly of inhabitants" could get you a life sentence, if some people get their way. So, I am surprised the mention of "missiles" doesn't qualify...
About three maybe.. I remember going to an open market. Then sporadic memories, but quite a few of them. Of course, every time I read another programming book, I have to loose a few to make space!
I have read many posts about the "evil" corporations and uselessness of copyrights, but never figured out how this could be a good thing. If I produce software, music, or writings, these are the results of my work and efforts, and nobody is entitled to steal them! Intellectual property is no less than private property. How would you feel if someone stole your computer because presumably they have a better use for it? Sure, it would be nice if artists could bypass some middlemen and we could buy a CD for a couple dollars, it doesn't mean we should steal music because CDs are too expensive. If no-one would buy them over $10, the producers would have to lower their prices, simple law of supply and demand. About corporations, don't forget that they are not faceless entities. Many corporations are the result of someone risking the little money they had in starting a business and working their ass off for many years before succeeding. Corporations pay your salary, they turn theories into reality. Do you think you could get antibiotics to save your life if medicines were free? Not a chance, nobody would produce them. Same goes for anything else. Intellectual property should be affordable, but not free. What about open source software you'll ask? Open source software is great, but don't forget that it is produced by people who have another occupation to pay the bills; I don't mean your cable TV bill here, I also mean buying food to eat. Artists won't produce music if they can't eat. Sure you'll be able to download free music from the net, maybe enough songs to fill a whole cdrom... The day intellectual property is abolished will be a really sad day indeed, not that I'll care, the next morning I would be sailing off!
A couple weeks ago I put up a survey on my aviation site (planenews.com) asking if people would actually become space tourists. I am trying to get enough votes to make it relevant. Please have a look. Thank you for participating.
A couple weeks ago I put up a survey on my aviation site asking basically if poeple would become space tourists: <A HREF="http://planenews.com>http://planenews.com </A> So, would you go?
All these features are not desirable in an expedition truck (as this is clearly not an SUV). If you don't plan on driving more than 50 miles away from an electronics store, then fine. An expedition truck should be as simple as possible, with as little electronics as possible. Any backyard mechanic from some African village should be able to fix it with a few wrenches and an oxy-acetylen torch. Forget electronic suspensions, electronic anything! If it can't be replaced on the field with scrap materials, it's not good. Look at all the current SUVs, most couldn't even cross a small ditch. This trend towards complicated systems is very regretable. Toyota stopped producing the FJ40, Land Rover dropped the Defender line, what's left? Jeep? I don't think so. Today, either you buy and older 4x4 or you are rich enough to get a Hummer or a Unimog (without all the bells and wistles). I wish there was a real affordable 4x4 available today on the U.S. market, there isn't.
I read the sad replies to this post and wonder how people do not see the consequences of such programs. Equality, in this context, means forcefully taking property from some people to give it to others. Equality is a utopia. People are not equal, some will naturally rise above the others. If one isn't smart enough to make enough money to buy a computer, are they smart enough to use it anyway? If I was in that case, I would find such a donation rather insulting: "Here, take a PC, since you can't buy one yourself." Socialism is the end of freedom, self esteem and individuality. And by the way, I am not American (I moved to the US from France) and certainly not rich. I simply don't want to work for people I never met and who couldn't care less about me!
I try Linux a couple year ago, but it was way too much trouble. On the other hand, FreeBSD was as easy to install and pretty maintenance free... For someone who wants to learn all the facets of Unix, Linux is a good choice. To get the job done, FreeBSD is in my oppinion a better choice.
I tried a few things for my planenews.com aviation site... First, the site wasn't put up for profit but started out as the Aircraft Builders Mailing List, which gave me a base of members to announce the site to. Syndication also brings me some traffic. I syndicate the news themselves, and also wrote a script that grabs the NTSB reports and turns them into an XML file. Sporadic announcements on newsgroups helps too, but I don't want to spam so these are very limited. The hardest thing to do is entice visitors to post their own news. I still have to post news myself to keep the site alive... If anyone cares to look at it, I am looking for constructive criticism...
Gil.
Although my main use of FreeBSD is for hosting, I use it as my desktop OS as well. Having tried Linux before (Mandrake 7), I didn't find it to be a better suited desktop OS. However, even though FreeBSD in my opinion is easier to use and maintain, I was never able to make the sound work or print a color page from Netscape... With Linux, multimedia and printing were better supported at installation time.
I would still prefer FreeBSD over Linux for my desktop though, because of it's reliability and the fact that you can install an application so easily from the ports collection, and it works flawlessly every time!
Moreover, after installing Linux, I end up removing a bunch of stuff I don't need... With FreeBSD, I actually add the applications I want! I like the ports system much better than the rpms, which always gave me trouble.
Both systems can do the same thing, and I think FreeBSD can be made as desktop friendly as Linux with a bit of work. For me, the payoff came later with less maintenance...
Hello,
I tried both, and the difference for me is that when I was running Linux I had to fix glitches all the time. Installing an rpm would not assure that the application would work. Installing a program in FreeBSD is a breeze. Maintenance on FreeBSD is but nonexistent... Moreover, the installation is very clean, you don't need a 1Gb HD to fill with a ton of stuff you don't need. Linux is great to learn about Unix and experiment with, FreeBSD gets the job done. (I do hosting on FreeBSD, so the reliability and simplicity of the OS makes things much easier.
Gil.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's the Boeing press release: http://planenews.com/archives/16096
Hello, I seem to have fixed the problem, playing with httpd.conf and my.cnf... Now I need better hardware! Sorry about the downtime.
Hi, it is the right one... I added maxconnections to MySQL, but still having trouble... I am using a CDN, but there is a video on the page which I think is still pulled from the server, and I think that's what causing the overload. Last time I was slashdotted, that didn't happen... Sorry about that...
Gil.
I once had an old Motorola flip phone that survived complete immersion to about three feet of fresh water when I fell off a canoe..
Wrote a blog about it..: http://keskydee.com/wordpress/archives/625
Gil.
This little program encrypts your passwords: http://islandlimited.net/download.php?file=3
http://planenews.com/rss2.php
The page didn't load.. Slashdot effect! I couldn't read it.
Today, they are called gyroplanes. These simple aircrafts are still used today, and a lot of fun to fly. You can build one for probably as low as $8k. Here is a great short movie about present time gyroplanes:
http://planenews.com/modules.php?name=Video_Stream&page=watch&id=133
Gil.
He was flying a Citabria, which can land pretty much anywhere, with or without it's engine running.. Most likely, he experienced some engine trouble and had to land in the desert. Hopefully he has water with him. It is surprising though that he wasn't able to send a radio distress call. The next possibility would be some medical emergency. Small planes don't break-up in the sky. The problem must be mechanical or medical. I had two engine failures in small planes, landing dead stick is no big deal. The Citabria touches down at 51mph (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citabria)..
Digg is a bunch of bored teenagers reading sensationalized news posted by greedy bloggers. Try http://over30news.com/ for more mature news. I just started it...
So, who wants to write an open source gambling software? We have OSCommerce, why not OSGambling ;-)
Gil.
He could have been accused of terrorism.. These days, pretty much anything can fall in that category. See: http://www.leg.state.or.us/03reg/measures/sb0700.d ir/sb0742.intro.html
Note that merely conspiring about "disrupting commerce," or even the "free and orderly assembly of inhabitants" could get you a life sentence, if some people get their way. So, I am surprised the mention of "missiles" doesn't qualify...
About three maybe.. I remember going to an open market. Then sporadic memories, but quite a few of them. Of course, every time I read another programming book, I have to loose a few to make space!
I have read many posts about the "evil" corporations and uselessness of copyrights, but never figured out how this could be a good thing. If I produce software, music, or writings, these are the results of my work and efforts, and nobody is entitled to steal them! Intellectual property is no less than private property. How would you feel if someone stole your computer because presumably they have a better use for it? Sure, it would be nice if artists could bypass some middlemen and we could buy a CD for a couple dollars, it doesn't mean we should steal music because CDs are too expensive. If no-one would buy them over $10, the producers would have to lower their prices, simple law of supply and demand. About corporations, don't forget that they are not faceless entities. Many corporations are the result of someone risking the little money they had in starting a business and working their ass off for many years before succeeding. Corporations pay your salary, they turn theories into reality. Do you think you could get antibiotics to save your life if medicines were free? Not a chance, nobody would produce them. Same goes for anything else. Intellectual property should be affordable, but not free. What about open source software you'll ask? Open source software is great, but don't forget that it is produced by people who have another occupation to pay the bills; I don't mean your cable TV bill here, I also mean buying food to eat. Artists won't produce music if they can't eat. Sure you'll be able to download free music from the net, maybe enough songs to fill a whole cdrom... The day intellectual property is abolished will be a really sad day indeed, not that I'll care, the next morning I would be sailing off!
Hello,
A couple weeks ago I put up a survey on my aviation site (planenews.com) asking if people would actually become space tourists. I am trying to get enough votes to make it relevant. Please have a look. Thank you for participating.
sincerely, Gil.
Hello,
:-)
A couple weeks ago I put up a survey on my aviation site asking basically if poeple would become space tourists:
<A HREF="http://planenews.com>http://planenews.com </A>
So, would you go?
Thank you for participating
Gil.
So, who was really the first? Looks like the Wrights came third... I put a poll here, cast your vote!
All these features are not desirable in an expedition truck (as this is clearly not an SUV). If you don't plan on driving more than 50 miles away from an electronics store, then fine. An expedition truck should be as simple as possible, with as little electronics as possible. Any backyard mechanic from some African village should be able to fix it with a few wrenches and an oxy-acetylen torch. Forget electronic suspensions, electronic anything! If it can't be replaced on the field with scrap materials, it's not good. Look at all the current SUVs, most couldn't even cross a small ditch. This trend towards complicated systems is very regretable. Toyota stopped producing the FJ40, Land Rover dropped the Defender line, what's left? Jeep? I don't think so. Today, either you buy and older 4x4 or you are rich enough to get a Hummer or a Unimog (without all the bells and wistles). I wish there was a real affordable 4x4 available today on the U.S. market, there isn't.
I read the sad replies to this post and wonder how people do not see the consequences of such programs. Equality, in this context, means forcefully taking property from some people to give it to others. Equality is a utopia. People are not equal, some will naturally rise above the others. If one isn't smart enough to make enough money to buy a computer, are they smart enough to use it anyway? If I was in that case, I would find such a donation rather insulting: "Here, take a PC, since you can't buy one yourself." Socialism is the end of freedom, self esteem and individuality. And by the way, I am not American (I moved to the US from France) and certainly not rich. I simply don't want to work for people I never met and who couldn't care less about me!
I try Linux a couple year ago, but it was way too much trouble. On the other hand, FreeBSD was as easy to install and pretty maintenance free... For someone who wants to learn all the facets of Unix, Linux is a good choice. To get the job done, FreeBSD is in my oppinion a better choice.
Hello,
I tried a few things for my planenews.com aviation site... First, the site wasn't put up for profit but started out as the Aircraft Builders Mailing List, which gave me a base of members to announce the site to. Syndication also brings me some traffic. I syndicate the news themselves, and also wrote a script that grabs the NTSB reports and turns them into an XML file. Sporadic announcements on newsgroups helps too, but I don't want to spam so these are very limited. The hardest thing to do is entice visitors to post their own news. I still have to post news myself to keep the site alive... If anyone cares to look at it, I am looking for constructive criticism...
Gil.
Hello,
I am getting a flow of information from different sources and posting them on planenews.com
Gil.
Although my main use of FreeBSD is for hosting, I use it as my desktop OS as well. Having tried Linux before (Mandrake 7), I didn't find it to be a better suited desktop OS. However, even though FreeBSD in my opinion is easier to use and maintain, I was never able to make the sound work or print a color page from Netscape... With Linux, multimedia and printing were better supported at installation time.
I would still prefer FreeBSD over Linux for my desktop though, because of it's reliability and the fact that you can install an application so easily from the ports collection, and it works flawlessly every time!
Moreover, after installing Linux, I end up removing a bunch of stuff I don't need... With FreeBSD, I actually add the applications I want! I like the ports system much better than the rpms, which always gave me trouble.
Both systems can do the same thing, and I think FreeBSD can be made as desktop friendly as Linux with a bit of work. For me, the payoff came later with less maintenance...
Hello, I tried both, and the difference for me is that when I was running Linux I had to fix glitches all the time. Installing an rpm would not assure that the application would work. Installing a program in FreeBSD is a breeze. Maintenance on FreeBSD is but nonexistent... Moreover, the installation is very clean, you don't need a 1Gb HD to fill with a ton of stuff you don't need. Linux is great to learn about Unix and experiment with, FreeBSD gets the job done. (I do hosting on FreeBSD, so the reliability and simplicity of the OS makes things much easier. Gil.