Well, at least 802.11g (new standard Apple adopted) is backwards compatible with 802.11b so you don't really have to buy anything unless you want more speed. I was also hoping I'd be able to upgrade (15'' PB owner) to 802.11g without having to buy a new laptop or any PCMCIA cards. There may yet be third party Airport compatible internal cards...
Not that there is anything wrong with Postfix but Courier can do everything Postfix can and a lot more (IMAP among other things as you have noted yourself). Is there any advantage to using Postfix for SMTP related tasks instead of Courier?
it would crash all the time and give me all kind of troubles
That's strange. I am using Courier both at home and at work as well as a friend of mine and there are no problems. There is a mailing list for courier. Did you try getting help there? Well, I am glad you found something that works for you...
I have been using Courier for over two years now. No remote roots ever or problems of any kind (I am amazed!). It's open sourced and a full package (esmtp, pop, imap, webmail and a thousand other things). It gets my vote.
No, no, you almost had it right. The ape is really Darl McBride on prowl for new potenetial licensees. And yes, National Geographic is definitely infringing for taking pictures of Darl's poo.
The main argument is that Windows sysadmins get paid less than Unix/Linux sysadmins.
That's BS. I am a senior UNIX programmer (C/C++/Java) and sysadmin. I'd be more than happy to work for the Windows sysadmin salary. I am sure that there are plenty others in my shoes (in fact I know some). That argument about salaries just doesn't hold any water since the bubble burst.
what happened to bytemonsoon. They just set up their DNS to keep returning 127.0.0.1 on any query. Bytemonsoon is in Austria. I wonder whether they started the DOS because they can't get to them through cease'n'decist?
"matrix3 = matrix1 + matrix2". However, that's not going to be very efficient (assuming that's why you're using C++ in the first place) because there is no way to get to the matrix3 variable from inside the + operator.
Why in the world would you want access to matrix3 from the plus operator???
It has nothing to do with zeroconf (that is not to say that zeroconf has nothing to do with printing). CUPS has its own way of finding other CUPS servers on a LAN (using UDP broadcasts port 631). Your shiny OS X 10.2 is running just plain old CUPS (10.1 didn't though) which is finding the Linux box and presto. It works as well in between two Linux boxes with CUPS. On a side note I think Apple did a good job chosing CUPS over their previous system. CUPS works well.
excess charge of just $6 per GB - 25 times cheaper than the industry standard.
I just have to mention my ISP again: Istop. They offer static IPs for their DSL customers, allow you to run servers and charge CDN $2 per excess GB. And you thought US $6 was cheap. You poor bastards:) I wouldn't give up this for anything.
Or for the rest of us mortals who can't afford (or aren't crazy enough) those $1000 tables here's an alternative from Ikea. They have nicer ones but I can't find them now. That price is Canadian dollars so it comes out to ~$100 US. And I have had a computer table from Ikea for 3 years now and it's perfectly fine so don't get me started on Ikea quality. I can buy a new one every year at that price and still save cash for neat machinery.
eDonkey is closed source and quite frankly the quality of the thing sucks (I put it in a root jail just in case). It crashes, corrupts files, its slow and buggy. It is based on the same premise as torrent (the more people download, the faster it gets) but it doesn't show in practice. I tried downloading RH9 ISOs right after they were put up and gave up after *two* days without a single full ISO downloaded (got it from a friend who got it off Torrent in a couple of hours). BitTorrent is just technically superior or at least it appears so right now.
I think a good parallel would be programming. Say you have a 4000000000 line program (I think someone estimated that this is what the DNA translates to in terms of code but it is irrelevant). I can go in and change 100 lines and make that program not behave anything like the original. On the other hand you can change a half of it without making any substantial difference in the final result. The sheer amount of identical code is a good hint but by no means an accurate measurement of how closely related to chimps we are.
True. My framerate in QIII goes up 20-25% (depending on demo) on cas change from 333 to 222. All the other settings are the same meaning the actual bandwidth didn't change. That's on a dual PIII 1 GHz, VIA Apollo Pro chipset, PC133 SDRAM.
I varies from place to place. I am in Ottawa, Canada. I used to have cable in my old place and Rogers (the cable company) overloaded their cable hubs so bad I was having up to *50%* packet loss and attrocious speeds in the afternoon (and it is capped at 2Mb/384k and the IP shifted every now and then). Then I moved (same town) and I got cable again but this time it was fine - no packet loss at all. In the mean time DSL became available in my neighbourhood and I swithched. My ISP sells me a 3Mb/600k DSL with a static IP line for about US $35/mo. Eat your heats out Americans:)
Same here. I also complained about a BBC story and the editor got back to me and fixed it. Same with CNET news.com (except that in this case I was wrong and the editor pointed that out to me - I thought the PowerBool was the first DVD burning laptop but it turns out it was a model from HP that beat Apple by a couple of weeks). Nice folk both of them. Unlike CNN.
I am afraid you are mistaken about 'WaitForMultipleObjects'. This is from the manual page (discusses the return value):
If bWaitAll is FALSE, the return value minus WAIT_OBJECT_0 indicates the lpHandles array index of the object that satisfied the wait. If more than one object became signalled during the call, this is the array index of the signalled object with the smallest index value of all the signalled objects
It returns the smallest index and you have to test the objects with higher indexes. As for 'CreatePipe' there is no reason it can't be overlapped except that the same call is supported on Win9x which doesn't do async I/O (the 'CreatePipe' is implemented using 'CreateNamedPipe' on NT which as you noted can be overlapped).
You can't do async I/O on pipes which is *really* annoying (as in Win32 'CreatePipe'). No async I/O for Win9x (except for parallel and serial ports) family so you have to stay away from it unless you want to write separate code for Win9x & NT. Also the whole OVERLAPPED crap is just a lot clunkier than UNIX async I/O. And don't get me started with the crazy 'WaitForMultipleObjects'. Returns the index of the first signaled object and you have to test the rest of them. 'select' is a lot smoother than that. Don't get me wrong, making everything sychronizable is a right way to go except Win32 sometimes feels so half-assed (I can go on and on especially about the sockets).
Two huge things still need to happen before that. X needs to get fixed and I think Keith Packard's move is going in that direction (I want my the copy and paste and my bloody five mouse button to just work). And the more important and difficult one is Wine. They are also progressing at snail's pace (it is a difficult task I give you that). People just won't move unless most of their software works on the new platform.
I am not sure I understand your question. You could just use mplayer if you are trying to see it on Linux/x86. You can use Apple's Quicktime for Windows or on a Mac. Also, re-encoding a movie results in quality loss. I'll second that QT is evil because Apple won't release a native Linux version. Is a licensing issue with Sorensen codec or something?
This myth about companies being unwilling to clean up their act is hogwash.
How about the events portrayed in Erin Brockovich? Or the tragedy in Bopal, India? That's just of the top of my head.
They want to see the world as clean as the next guy.
Did you ever consider that some of them could be greedy bastards without any respect for safety of others? Saying that all companies are pro environmental is just a huge (and inaccurate) generalization.
I used to play UT CTF a lot and never once have I used a bot in an online game (I tried a bot in a single player game just to see what I'm up against). I used to get accused of using a variety of bots but most often the radar/wallhacker. Some people just can't accept you are a better player or that they are predictable and are behaving like asses accusing you of cheating. I mean if you took the same route three times I'll bloody well be there waiting for you the fourth time and it doesn't mean I used a bot.
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Well, at least 802.11g (new standard Apple adopted) is backwards compatible with 802.11b so you don't really have to buy anything unless you want more speed. I was also hoping I'd be able to upgrade (15'' PB owner) to 802.11g without having to buy a new laptop or any PCMCIA cards. There may yet be third party Airport compatible internal cards...
Not that there is anything wrong with Postfix but Courier can do everything Postfix can and a lot more (IMAP among other things as you have noted yourself). Is there any advantage to using Postfix for SMTP related tasks instead of Courier?
it would crash all the time and give me all kind of troubles
That's strange. I am using Courier both at home and at work as well as a friend of mine and there are no problems. There is a mailing list for courier. Did you try getting help there? Well, I am glad you found something that works for you...
I have been using Courier for over two years now. No remote roots ever or problems of any kind (I am amazed!). It's open sourced and a full package (esmtp, pop, imap, webmail and a thousand other things). It gets my vote.
No, no, you almost had it right. The ape is really Darl McBride on prowl for new potenetial licensees. And yes, National Geographic is definitely infringing for taking pictures of Darl's poo.
The main argument is that Windows sysadmins get paid less than Unix/Linux sysadmins.
That's BS. I am a senior UNIX programmer (C/C++/Java) and sysadmin. I'd be more than happy to work for the Windows sysadmin salary. I am sure that there are plenty others in my shoes (in fact I know some). That argument about salaries just doesn't hold any water since the bubble burst.
what happened to bytemonsoon. They just set up their DNS to keep returning 127.0.0.1 on any query. Bytemonsoon is in Austria. I wonder whether they started the DOS because they can't get to them through cease'n'decist?
"matrix3 = matrix1 + matrix2". However, that's not going to be very efficient (assuming that's why you're using C++ in the first place) because there is no way to get to the matrix3 variable from inside the + operator.
Why in the world would you want access to matrix3 from the plus operator???
It has nothing to do with zeroconf (that is not to say that zeroconf has nothing to do with printing). CUPS has its own way of finding other CUPS servers on a LAN (using UDP broadcasts port 631). Your shiny OS X 10.2 is running just plain old CUPS (10.1 didn't though) which is finding the Linux box and presto. It works as well in between two Linux boxes with CUPS. On a side note I think Apple did a good job chosing CUPS over their previous system. CUPS works well.
excess charge of just $6 per GB - 25 times cheaper than the industry standard.
I just have to mention my ISP again: Istop. They offer static IPs for their DSL customers, allow you to run servers and charge CDN $2 per excess GB. And you thought US $6 was cheap. You poor bastards:) I wouldn't give up this for anything.
There are parallels and I also sincerely wish SCO the same faith Mr. Novak got.
Or for the rest of us mortals who can't afford (or aren't crazy enough) those $1000 tables here's an alternative from Ikea. They have nicer ones but I can't find them now. That price is Canadian dollars so it comes out to ~$100 US. And I have had a computer table from Ikea for 3 years now and it's perfectly fine so don't get me started on Ikea quality. I can buy a new one every year at that price and still save cash for neat machinery.
eDonkey is closed source and quite frankly the quality of the thing sucks (I put it in a root jail just in case). It crashes, corrupts files, its slow and buggy. It is based on the same premise as torrent (the more people download, the faster it gets) but it doesn't show in practice. I tried downloading RH9 ISOs right after they were put up and gave up after *two* days without a single full ISO downloaded (got it from a friend who got it off Torrent in a couple of hours). BitTorrent is just technically superior or at least it appears so right now.
I think a good parallel would be programming. Say you have a 4000000000 line program (I think someone estimated that this is what the DNA translates to in terms of code but it is irrelevant). I can go in and change 100 lines and make that program not behave anything like the original. On the other hand you can change a half of it without making any substantial difference in the final result. The sheer amount of identical code is a good hint but by no means an accurate measurement of how closely related to chimps we are.
True. My framerate in QIII goes up 20-25% (depending on demo) on cas change from 333 to 222. All the other settings are the same meaning the actual bandwidth didn't change. That's on a dual PIII 1 GHz, VIA Apollo Pro chipset, PC133 SDRAM.
LIDS doesn't offer stack overflow protection whereas this patch does. LIDS addresses different security areas as far as I know.
Please keep going--you haven't named one yet.
How about MS Bob? Ha ha, open source loser!
I varies from place to place. I am in Ottawa, Canada. I used to have cable in my old place and Rogers (the cable company) overloaded their cable hubs so bad I was having up to *50%* packet loss and attrocious speeds in the afternoon (and it is capped at 2Mb/384k and the IP shifted every now and then). Then I moved (same town) and I got cable again but this time it was fine - no packet loss at all. In the mean time DSL became available in my neighbourhood and I swithched. My ISP sells me a 3Mb/600k DSL with a static IP line for about US $35/mo. Eat your heats out Americans :)
Same here. I also complained about a BBC story and the editor got back to me and fixed it. Same with CNET news.com (except that in this case I was wrong and the editor pointed that out to me - I thought the PowerBool was the first DVD burning laptop but it turns out it was a model from HP that beat Apple by a couple of weeks). Nice folk both of them. Unlike CNN.
I am afraid you are mistaken about 'WaitForMultipleObjects'. This is from the manual page (discusses the return value):
If bWaitAll is FALSE, the return value minus WAIT_OBJECT_0 indicates the lpHandles array index of the object that satisfied the wait. If more than one object became signalled during the call, this is the array index of the signalled object with the smallest index value of all the signalled objects
It returns the smallest index and you have to test the objects with higher indexes. As for 'CreatePipe' there is no reason it can't be overlapped except that the same call is supported on Win9x which doesn't do async I/O (the 'CreatePipe' is implemented using 'CreateNamedPipe' on NT which as you noted can be overlapped).
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You can't do async I/O on pipes which is *really* annoying (as in Win32 'CreatePipe'). No async I/O for Win9x (except for parallel and serial ports) family so you have to stay away from it unless you want to write separate code for Win9x & NT. Also the whole OVERLAPPED crap is just a lot clunkier than UNIX async I/O. And don't get me started with the crazy 'WaitForMultipleObjects'. Returns the index of the first signaled object and you have to test the rest of them. 'select' is a lot smoother than that. Don't get me wrong, making everything sychronizable is a right way to go except Win32 sometimes feels so half-assed (I can go on and on especially about the sockets).
Two huge things still need to happen before that. X needs to get fixed and I think Keith Packard's move is going in that direction (I want my the copy and paste and my bloody five mouse button to just work). And the more important and difficult one is Wine. They are also progressing at snail's pace (it is a difficult task I give you that). People just won't move unless most of their software works on the new platform.
I am not sure I understand your question. You could just use mplayer if you are trying to see it on Linux/x86. You can use Apple's Quicktime for Windows or on a Mac. Also, re-encoding a movie results in quality loss. I'll second that QT is evil because Apple won't release a native Linux version. Is a licensing issue with Sorensen codec or something?
George W., is that you?
This myth about companies being unwilling to clean up their act is hogwash.
How about the events portrayed in Erin Brockovich? Or the tragedy in Bopal, India? That's just of the top of my head.
They want to see the world as clean as the next guy.
Did you ever consider that some of them could be greedy bastards without any respect for safety of others? Saying that all companies are pro environmental is just a huge (and inaccurate) generalization.
I used to play UT CTF a lot and never once have I used a bot in an online game (I tried a bot in a single player game just to see what I'm up against). I used to get accused of using a variety of bots but most often the radar/wallhacker. Some people just can't accept you are a better player or that they are predictable and are behaving like asses accusing you of cheating. I mean if you took the same route three times I'll bloody well be there waiting for you the fourth time and it doesn't mean I used a bot.