An ISP I had something to do with moved to courier IMAP.
1) It doesn't LOCK the mailbox, there is not need to LOCK anything. Each mail message is a seperate file. 1a) Yes this is not efficiant disk block usage 1b) Yes this is efficient IO, when IMAP is supported or large mailboxes are common it is a dreadful thing to have to make a copy of the ENTIRE mailbox file every time their biff does a pop3 login! 2) This means you can have NFS mounted mailboxes - no locking! 3) Yes, no need to lock Thats the answer. And if the user wants a 5 hour download, at least they can get the message WITHOUT locking their mailbox, they can still webmail at the same time, or use imap.
1) You may be right about the quantity. It was the "4107" tub, some sources list it as having 1000 pieces
2) I bought it from Argos (catalog shop) so I didn't see the side of the box till after I handed over my wads, and then I was in a hurry to get home, not thinking the box would be mostly empty.
3) The stuff non ebay was pretty good, although one vendor sold 10% by weight small non-lego toys.
3b) It isn't sold by weight but the unless the vendor is counting out a very few pieces of the same type, the weight is usually given as a guide, and except for specialist bits the going rate last summer in the UK was arounf 10 GBP per kilo.
3c) as you might guess I'm after lego for children to build with, the good stuff for me is mindstorm, which as you say is not sold by the kilo.
3d) The whole point about my post is that what I got from ebay was NOT what I got at the store. Or rather its what I DIDN'T get at the store.
It would have cost me 1500 GBP if I bought it at the store!
A saving of 1350 GPB can make up for quite a bit of play doh in the bricks (there wasn't any), and in a couple of years if the lego had any use, who would be able to tell the difference?
And if it hadn't had much use, all the more reason to buy from ebay and not waste the money.
The 25GBP price
600kbits; 25GBP/month = 46USD/month
Is I believe dependant on receiving an extra service, either telephone or cable-tv from NTL. Certainly the same applies to telewest area but I believe that NTL and Telewest are now merged.
I had to pay 30GBP per month for the 600K service because I didn't want another service.
ALSO: NTL, at least around the Leicester area seem to block by default many ports; someone I know had to run VNC server on an unusually low port in order to be able to get incoming connections.
Also, not all ADSL are the same; a few offer fixed IP addresses, and some dont put any kind of artificial restriction on service use. Telewest on the other hand prohibited running public servers or using the connection for VPN in to corporate network when I last heard.
I use demon internet now (cancelled TeleWest cable) because 1) Fixed IP without paying around 4 times the price 2) No silly rules like against running servers 3) Decent news server 4) No silly rules about not VPN to work 5) Save 5.00 per month 6) Did I mention no silly rules? 7) Twice the upload speed
Hmmm, does that mean they American astronomers thought the observed observations were technically impossible or that the planned observations were technically impossible.
I thought the former, you make me think it might mean the latter, in which case: fair enough - it would be like some kid wanting to borrow my multi-meter to stick on the end of an antenna and measure signal strength.
I know people don't normally read the article before posting, but you didn't even read the comments!
I didn't single out American Science I commented on Italian Science too.
I mentioned American Science because it was American Scientists who denied use of the telescope. The poitn was that they were turned down, but the reason.
Seriously; I think you can see the difference between having a "theory" that the universe is made of cheese and observing something that looks like a galaxy in an unusual place and wanted to use a better telescope to check it.
"The team were refused time on a US telescope because many American astronomers believed the observations were technically impossible."
So thats the state of American science, only look at things that agree with current theory!
I guess Galileo's ideas were impossible too, no need for the pope to take a look through the telescope cos he already KNOWS Galileo is making it all up.
A portable object oriented forth at less than 100K for a full implementation, able to handle calls from your apps as well as call your apps fgunctions or other dll's.
Under a BSD-ish license.
The upside: 1) Its tiny 2) The forth code you write will be tinier
Downsides: 1) You need to learn forth (I mean properly) to appreciate it.
Forth is unlike most other languages, it was designed to avoid the debug, recompile cycle that is so common.
Nice closing comment, but in 1970's you couldn't make a transformer brick smaller OR more efficient.
The electrolytic only charges up in one cycle (current is only drawn from mains on one cycle) and THEN only insofar as the electrolytic capacitor has been discharged. No discharge means do mains current used (except to cover leakage).
And lots of modern plug-in timers and light sensitive switches worked the same way.
I converted such a light sensitive switch to a radio-control mains switch by combining it with a wireless door-chime.
On my SE P900 (and before that P800, and before that on my Osaris [PSION clone]) I read eBooks on the toilet.
I use gutenmark to convert guten-texts to half-decent html from which I build eBooks using mobi-pocket publisher.
MobiPocket-Reader is the BEST ebook reader in the world (with a free version) supporting more platforms than you can imagine (TRY!)
Mobi have an extensive online library, but also supply a personal publisher tool that can work text, html, and open-ebook format sources (not too strict) to produce ebooks.
I've produced my own ebook of up to 30MB with this tool although it took a long while to build.
After earlier rants against debian I finally got it installed on intel AND an HPPA Risc box.
I feel I have to say this publically on slashdot as I ranted badly twice against it in public.
The debian website is still bad with all the cross-linked "informative" links outnumbering the "where to get bits from" mostly-broken links. The links to the prizes the debian website won still work but its hard to find them.
Now I have managed ot make the installer install its hard to see how I was getting it wrong, I think its in the wording of some of the titles, or maybe because I'm not needing PCMCIA this time?
Anyway, kudos to Debian and all those who contributed to the HPPA flavour.
You send configure.log and the failure message to the developers, who hopefully understand autoconf a bit more and why it failed.
Some projects you can't find the developers, then its time to learn how autoconf works and read the autoconf mailing lists and work out what test failed and why.
Most tests fail because * some required feature is not supported on your platform, * or because the configure script is old and autoconf has been updated
The latter is sadly quite common in badly maintained projects as autoconf has undergone revisions and badly written autoconf definitions have started failing.
If your platform lacks a feature you write around it for your platform with "ifdefs" which get activiated according the the test failure. I dont know how to do this, fortunatly for me all my projects have been working under people who understand autoconf quite well.
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An ISP I had something to do with moved to courier IMAP.
1) It doesn't LOCK the mailbox, there is not need to LOCK anything. Each mail message is a seperate file.
1a) Yes this is not efficiant disk block usage
1b) Yes this is efficient IO, when IMAP is supported or large mailboxes are common it is a dreadful thing to have to make a copy of the ENTIRE mailbox file every time their biff does a pop3 login!
2) This means you can have NFS mounted mailboxes - no locking!
3) Yes, no need to lock
Thats the answer.
And if the user wants a 5 hour download, at least they can get the message WITHOUT locking their mailbox, they can still webmail at the same time, or use imap.
Sam
1) You may be right about the quantity. It was the "4107" tub, some sources list it as having 1000 pieces
2) I bought it from Argos (catalog shop) so I didn't see the side of the box till after I handed over my wads, and then I was in a hurry to get home, not thinking the box would be mostly empty.
3) The stuff non ebay was pretty good, although one vendor sold 10% by weight small non-lego toys.
3b) It isn't sold by weight but the unless the vendor is counting out a very few pieces of the same type, the weight is usually given as a guide, and except for specialist bits the going rate last summer in the UK was arounf 10 GBP per kilo.
3c) as you might guess I'm after lego for children to build with, the good stuff for me is mindstorm, which as you say is not sold by the kilo.
3d) The whole point about my post is that what I got from ebay was NOT what I got at the store. Or rather its what I DIDN'T get at the store.
It would have cost me 1500 GBP if I bought it at the store!
A saving of 1350 GPB can make up for quite a bit of play doh in the bricks (there wasn't any), and in a couple of years if the lego had any use, who would be able to tell the difference?
And if it hadn't had much use, all the more reason to buy from ebay and not waste the money.
Lego costs too much, is my point.
And what info do you have about the recent license change? Perhaps you mean this but the mysql license page says its GPL with PHP exceptions.
You post was sparse its hard to tell if these were the rumours you were talking about.
FSF will take up the case but only if copyright has been assigned to FSF.
Sam
I bought an giant tub of lego, >2000 bits in it.
It was mostly empty and most of the bits were one or two square size!!
I was very angry!
New lego in the UK costs about 100 GBP per kilo.
Lego on ebay costs 10 GBP per kilo.
For the summer I bought 15 Kilo of lego, enough for 5 children to play with (no, I dont have 5 children.)
I bought it from ebay!
Sam
The 25GBP price
600kbits; 25GBP/month = 46USD/month
Is I believe dependant on receiving an extra service, either telephone or cable-tv from NTL.
Certainly the same applies to telewest area but I believe that NTL and Telewest are now merged.
I had to pay 30GBP per month for the 600K service because I didn't want another service.
ALSO: NTL, at least around the Leicester area seem to block by default many ports; someone I know had to run VNC server on an unusually low port in order to be able to get incoming connections.
Also, not all ADSL are the same; a few offer fixed IP addresses, and some dont put any kind of artificial restriction on service use. Telewest on the other hand prohibited running public servers or using the connection for VPN in to corporate network when I last heard.
Sam
I use demon internet now (cancelled TeleWest cable) because
1) Fixed IP without paying around 4 times the price
2) No silly rules like against running servers
3) Decent news server
4) No silly rules about not VPN to work
5) Save 5.00 per month
6) Did I mention no silly rules?
7) Twice the upload speed
Sam
Hmmm, does that mean they American astronomers thought the observed observations were technically impossible or that the planned observations were technically impossible.
I thought the former, you make me think it might mean the latter, in which case: fair enough - it would be like some kid wanting to borrow my multi-meter to stick on the end of an antenna and measure signal strength.
I know people don't normally read the article before posting, but you didn't even read the comments!
I didn't single out American Science I commented on Italian Science too.
I mentioned American Science because it was American Scientists who denied use of the telescope. The poitn was that they were turned down, but the reason.
Seriously; I think you can see the difference between having a "theory" that the universe is made of cheese and observing something that looks like a galaxy in an unusual place and wanted to use a better telescope to check it.
Sam
Lisp is as ugly as worms
Forth is as ugly as mechano
Sam
I think you are right, the previous guy added nothing meaningful.
Yes, and with forth you get to alter the compiler.
Oooh, scary!
Sam
Yes, I knew, I read the article to make sure the block I quoted was really from the article and not some rabid summary.
Sam
"The team were refused time on a US telescope because many American astronomers believed the observations were technically impossible."
So thats the state of American science, only look at things that agree with current theory!
I guess Galileo's ideas were impossible too, no need for the pope to take a look through the telescope cos he already KNOWS Galileo is making it all up.
Bad science, but very quick science.
Shame!
Sam
ficl.sourceforge.net
A portable object oriented forth at less than 100K for a full implementation, able to handle calls from your apps as well as call your apps fgunctions or other dll's.
Under a BSD-ish license.
The upside:
1) Its tiny
2) The forth code you write will be tinier
Downsides:
1) You need to learn forth (I mean properly) to appreciate it.
Forth is unlike most other languages, it was designed to avoid the debug, recompile cycle that is so common.
Sam
Nice closing comment, but in 1970's you couldn't make a transformer brick smaller OR more efficient.
The electrolytic only charges up in one cycle (current is only drawn from mains on one cycle) and THEN only insofar as the electrolytic capacitor has been discharged. No discharge means do mains current used (except to cover leakage).
And lots of modern plug-in timers and light sensitive switches worked the same way.
I converted such a light sensitive switch to a radio-control mains switch by combining it with a wireless door-chime.
Sam
On my SE P900 (and before that P800, and before that on my Osaris [PSION clone]) I read eBooks on the toilet.
I use gutenmark to convert guten-texts to half-decent html from which I build eBooks using mobi-pocket publisher.
MobiPocket-Reader is the BEST ebook reader in the world (with a free version) supporting more platforms than you can imagine (TRY!)
Mobi have an extensive online library, but also supply a personal publisher tool that can work text, html, and open-ebook format sources (not too strict) to produce ebooks.
I've produced my own ebook of up to 30MB with this tool although it took a long while to build.
Sam
D*mn
Still, I'd like to see them try that with my time machine invention.
Sam
And I think it was your sig I got it from the day before in another posting.
I would have attributed you but I couldn't find the post, and ended up checking my browser history to find the page.
Sam
All I have to do is pay sales tax on the parts.
My real worry is not regulations against my warp drive cos there aren't any, its submarine patents.
I'm afraid in 1982 somebody may have made an initial filing which by the time my invention comes out will cover my invention.
Sam
After earlier rants against debian I finally got it installed on intel AND an HPPA Risc box.
I feel I have to say this publically on slashdot as I ranted badly twice against it in public.
The debian website is still bad with all the cross-linked "informative" links outnumbering the "where to get bits from" mostly-broken links. The links to the prizes the debian website won still work but its hard to find them.
Now I have managed ot make the installer install its hard to see how I was getting it wrong, I think its in the wording of some of the titles, or maybe because I'm not needing PCMCIA this time?
Anyway, kudos to Debian and all those who contributed to the HPPA flavour.
Sam
I thought this but checked before I posted and can't find any mention of it in C++ histories or histories of programming languages.
You may be right of course....
Or I could just put up a fake history for you to link to.
Sam
You send configure.log and the failure message to the developers, who hopefully understand autoconf a bit more and why it failed.
Some projects you can't find the developers, then its time to learn how autoconf works and read the autoconf mailing lists and work out what test failed and why.
Most tests fail because
* some required feature is not supported on your platform,
* or because the configure script is old and autoconf has been updated
The latter is sadly quite common in badly maintained projects as autoconf has undergone revisions and badly written autoconf definitions have started failing.
If your platform lacks a feature you write around it for your platform with "ifdefs" which get activiated according the the test failure. I dont know how to do this, fortunatly for me all my projects have been working under people who understand autoconf quite well.
Sam
There's always: http://sys.xiloo.com/
Which seems a bit improved on the very useful expore2fs.
I want NATIVE file system integration, VFS is NOT DEEP ENOUGH.
http://sys.xiloo.com/
Sam
and more....
hmmm
up2date is the dependancy resolution tool for RPM.
The only advantage apt or dpkg have over RPM is that by default it allows you to specify more than one repository for software.
Sam
I already did that before asking.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=piano
Nothing about a linux piano there.