The Register Scripting News K5 What was the point of this again? For everyone to list their favorite sites? (Note, the list above is not my favorite sites, just some large ones that can cause/.effects.)
Who about making a section invariant to preserve the original authorship? If you take the time to make a piece of good documentation, you'd probably want your name attachecd to it, maybe even your e-mail. Say you obscured it to keep it from spammers.
A year later, someone comes along and updates it for a version change. They don't believe in obfuscation, so they change it to a spam friendly format. Or perhaps they want to put their name on it, even removing yours!
Who wants that? I know I wouldn't. Mark the credits immutable and you retain your original credit, while allowing others to extend your work. Cerative Commons is possibly a better license for documentation anyway.
Just a though on the logic of MS buying "their way into this one." If MS were to do this, they wouldn't forget to make NPR to drop Real, which is still available from NPR's site. Doesn't smell like a MS buyout from here.
I'm disappointed that there's no QT available, but as long as there is an alternative to Windows Media, my mac and my linux boxes are happy (and my Mac linux box for that matter).
If you look at the link you provided, you can find that you get more than just a software with a "4-CPU license" like SCO. (CPU licenses for Linux, what a load of @#$% from SCO. Why would anyone pay for that?)
From the TOS for RH AS: (4) one year of the following Support Services for each Installed System: installation support, configuration support, advanced configuration support, systems administration support, high availability clustering support and 24x7 emergency support for Severity 1 Issues (as defined below). Customer acknowledges that Red Hat Linux Advanced Server (or Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux AS) supports a maximum of eight-way SMP hardware and 16 gigabytes of RAM.
You're really paying for the year of support from RH: the way companies are supposed to make money off of Linux. Remeber companies are supposed to make money? After recently working with trying to use stuff that's in RH AS from just the source (which you can still get for free), I wish there wasn't a budget crunch here, and we could afford the AS support. It would have saved me many hours of frustration (which on the clock is worth money, but my salary is already budgeted).
SCO's announcement has a "broad range of support services available," which means you have to pay additional for support services. You pay for nothing with SCO (at least nothing you can't get for free elsewhere).
On a related note: Star Bridge is in talks with Banyan and SGI to create a new SUPER-Dee-DUPER OS and Network Stack that will rival those of the mid 1990's. No word yet on who in the hell would be interested in such a thing.
I haven't read the discussion of the Legacy Free PCs (just the article) and I find it ironic that I came straight here. From where someone is making a big deal out of getting rid of the BIOS, to an OS geared to something the Macs did ages ago to drop the BIOS (Open Firmware).
However don't you or your wife get too worked up if Breast Feeding doesn't work. It just won't work for some. My wife tried hard to breast feed and I supported her (and support anyone doing this), but it just didn't happen. Turns out that most of the women on her side of the family have been unsuccessful at this. My kids had to be fed formula. (You think regular formula stinks, try Nutramogen. I'll never smell potato chips agin without retching.)
While formula is new, and breast feeding is the best food your baby can ever have, before formula there were wet nurses, and that was around probaby as long as there have been kids to feed. Do what works for you (plural, mainly your wife) and your baby. Don't spend too much time feeling guilty - your baby will make as many mistakes in life as you will, it's part of babies growing into adults and adults growing into parents.
BTW, ask your extended families now about their experiences, before they start giving advice. If my wife knew 1/3 of the medical history she found out after getting pregnant, we would have been a lot better prepared for the pregnancies and these last few years.
I'm sick of these Ask/.s that can be solved with a simple Google search! If you can't figure out raising kids with a quick Google search, I don't know how you can call yourself a geek!
Seriously though, keep your sense of humor and perspective on the whole experience. If you have the humor of a kid, then you can understand a lot of what makes them tick, and can see things from their point of view. If you work on this, then you can see the world through your kids eyes. This not only helps your personal enjoyment of living, but help you see how to deal with those arguments/fights/frustrations as well. If you can see it in your kids perspective, then you'll be better able to troubleshoot or debug the situation.
For reference, I've got a 5 year old boy and a 4 year old girl (with apraxia). Congrats and have fun!
Last I checked, we're reading what can be defined as a web log right now. Is/. statistically insignificant or is the/.effect in our collective heads? An old.sig:
"Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates." (from fortune)
As the self joking crack-smoker in this thread, I just want to mention that I said nothing about a conspiracy or gave an opinion on the subject matter of the picture. I just commented (poorly as I've admitted) on the retouching of the pictures, which is what the article was about. As was said in the discussion, I'm sure there's no shortage of boys throwing rocks at tanks in the world today (or when this picture was taken). I believe the debate given here shows that most all (if not all) of us are unable to tell altered images from unaltered images.
Bringing it back on topic, I know I'd be more proned (not saying I'd believe) to belive a picture put in this newspaper, as they are willing to put their integrity in their priorites. As usual, I like to get multiple sources for my info, but that's just being a good consumer and researcher.
I must be smoking crack today (or drank something left over from April Fool's Day). The credit is there on the MSNBC copy, and I now see the shadow. This is why I should sit behind my computer and look at servers, not images. I'm going back to browsing in lynx.
The one with the boy is a fake, as he is not casting a shadow. That is a pretty stupid mistake. A quick Google resulted in this picture with the credit that MSNBC removed (to their downfall since it's a fake).
RTFA -- from the Sun RPX XDR libraries notice: "BSD-derived libraries with XDR/RPC routines (libc)"
Don't think your safe just because your OS make you feel that way. Patch now! Patch Often!
I don't follow true BSDs so I don't know if there is actually a fix for OpenBSD or FreeBSD. My linux boxes are patched. I assume my OS X boxes are vulnerable as well. Don't assume because your OS is great for you, that it's secure and you don't need to be concerned about patches. Read up on what was released so you know what the average cracker and script kiddie knows. Beat them to the punch and be happy knowing you're smart enough to know better. Only then will you be secure, Grasshopper.
Most all current browsers will automatically uncompress gzipped files sent to it, allowing things such as the mod_gzip module to compress web pages and have them rendered on the browser transparently. The bandwith savings ccan be huge, with all the associated benefits (less bandwith for the server, less for the clients and less congestion on the net). Without bzip2 support built into the browser, the hardware compression isn't useful for general web traffic, as it can't be used for the pages being sent.
It'd be nice if I could convince my boss to get some of these for us, but our CPU usage is pretty low right now with the mod_gzip module installed, so it'd be an unnecessary luxury at this point for us.
It never occurred to me until I read the parent to do this for the (sigh) 2 servers I have to run IISs on for a specific app. Copy and paste this into a text file (notepad) named diableWebDAV.reg, then double click to add to any registry:
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Ser vi ces\W3SVC\Parameters] "DisableWebDAV"=dword:1
Only 1 post, and that one on topic an hour after the story is up! Wow!/. must be too busy updating samba to FP, troll hotgrits allover Natilie Portman, and in Soviet Russia, All Your Shares are Beling to Us!
OWA won't replace much of anything for me, since I keep my Calendar and e-mail on my PDA and sync it (via Evolution). If anyone can manage to do that through the web, then I'm impressed (and I want links so I can do it myself).
I'm writing this from a Linux workstation owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia (Virginia Tech actually), but sometimes Linux is not the best choice. Any shop (government or otherwise) should not be told that they have to pick Linux to help them "make the correct choice."
There are other OSs out there that are not Linux that are the best choice.
Refusal to *consider* Linux is another story, but that's not what your statment / question said you wanted to talk about. Was it? You basically say that everyone should be using Linux on the desktop.
I'd love to be able to fix MacOS X boxes all day, then I could concentrate more on/.
Having to explain linux all day would bad as explaining Windows all day, for some of my users, just as I have to explain Windows repeatedly to my entrenched DOS user, the BSD user who likes to run our servers from his FreeBSD Box, the geek next door that uses Solaris (came with his hardware, and is free for education if he wants to upgrade)....
$100 computer bag supplied with every notebook in the department. PCs and Macs do still break though the TiBook has gained a bad rep as a result of its problems. Hope later revisions are fixing these issues (we'll see see when the new models are 6 months old).
I have to chime in on this. I know 3 out of the 5 TiBooks that I know of at work, have had at least one major problem due to hardware failure. This includes mine that has been back 3 times itself. Once for a cracked case that was causing a short somewhere, with crashes everytime it was moved at all, even a fraction of an inch. The other two times (screen problems) would be surviveable (pun only slightly intended) in a military situation, but the crashing due to a cracking computer would not. A coworker had his start to smoke on his lap! There is the common crack in the CD/DVD drive and other cracks in the titanium many have had. Just google cracked titanium powerbook and you'll find stories of this. Also there is the fact that if you take the bottom case off (say to put an AirPort card in), the titanium is glued on to plastic, and so the titanium easily comes loose on the bottom.
Spare the marketing for Apple. I love my TiBook, but it doesn't have any of the ruggedness that my old Wallstreet did (going well until this last year when the hinge gave up-and I was lucky on that from what I've heard).
"I propose that the set of all of these explanations is infinitely large. Given that, independant of all other factors, the probability of any one of these explanations being correct approaches zero, making it impossible to guess... Now is there an infinite number of specific explanations?.... You'll have to keep generalizing on your theory in order to get a FINITE probability that your theory is correct. I can't prove this yet"
I'm not going to dig out my Hitchiker's Guide, but doesn't Douglas Adams (a noted athiest) use a similar logic to prove that life cannot exist? Something to the tune of: the universe has an infinite number of worlds, and that the number of habitable worlds, when compared to this infinite number approaches zero. So a habitable world is then mathematically proven not to exist, and so we cannot exist.
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What was the point of this again? For everyone to list their favorite sites? (Note, the list above is not my favorite sites, just some large ones that can cause
Who about making a section invariant to preserve the original authorship? If you take the time to make a piece of good documentation, you'd probably want your name attachecd to it, maybe even your e-mail. Say you obscured it to keep it from spammers.
A year later, someone comes along and updates it for a version change. They don't believe in obfuscation, so they change it to a spam friendly format. Or perhaps they want to put their name on it, even removing yours!
Who wants that? I know I wouldn't. Mark the credits immutable and you retain your original credit, while allowing others to extend your work. Cerative Commons is possibly a better license for documentation anyway.
Just a though on the logic of MS buying "their way into this one." If MS were to do this, they wouldn't forget to make NPR to drop Real, which is still available from NPR's site. Doesn't smell like a MS buyout from here.
I'm disappointed that there's no QT available, but as long as there is an alternative to Windows Media, my mac and my linux boxes are happy (and my Mac linux box for that matter).
If you look at the link you provided, you can find that you get more than just a software with a "4-CPU license" like SCO. (CPU licenses for Linux, what a load of @#$% from SCO. Why would anyone pay for that?)
From the TOS for RH AS:
(4) one year of the following Support Services for each Installed System: installation support, configuration support, advanced configuration support, systems administration support, high availability clustering support and 24x7 emergency support for Severity 1 Issues (as defined below). Customer acknowledges that Red Hat Linux Advanced Server (or Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux AS) supports a maximum of eight-way SMP hardware and 16 gigabytes of RAM.
You're really paying for the year of support from RH: the way companies are supposed to make money off of Linux. Remeber companies are supposed to make money? After recently working with trying to use stuff that's in RH AS from just the source (which you can still get for free), I wish there wasn't a budget crunch here, and we could afford the AS support. It would have saved me many hours of frustration (which on the clock is worth money, but my salary is already budgeted).
SCO's announcement has a "broad range of support services available," which means you have to pay additional for support services. You pay for nothing with SCO (at least nothing you can't get for free elsewhere).
On a related note: Star Bridge is in talks with Banyan and SGI to create a new SUPER-Dee-DUPER OS and Network Stack that will rival those of the mid 1990's. No word yet on who in the hell would be interested in such a thing.
Peter T. Hooper.
I haven't read the discussion of the Legacy Free PCs (just the article) and I find it ironic that I came straight here. From where someone is making a big deal out of getting rid of the BIOS, to an OS geared to something the Macs did ages ago to drop the BIOS (Open Firmware).
This is the first O'Reilly Review I can remember without a mention of the Sample Chapter O'Reilly is known to provide.
(Blatant Kerma whoring, but I immediately "dug" to find is, so I thought I'd post it.)
However don't you or your wife get too worked up if Breast Feeding doesn't work. It just won't work for some. My wife tried hard to breast feed and I supported her (and support anyone doing this), but it just didn't happen. Turns out that most of the women on her side of the family have been unsuccessful at this. My kids had to be fed formula. (You think regular formula stinks, try Nutramogen. I'll never smell potato chips agin without retching.)
While formula is new, and breast feeding is the best food your baby can ever have, before formula there were wet nurses, and that was around probaby as long as there have been kids to feed. Do what works for you (plural, mainly your wife) and your baby. Don't spend too much time feeling guilty - your baby will make as many mistakes in life as you will, it's part of babies growing into adults and adults growing into parents.
BTW, ask your extended families now about their experiences, before they start giving advice. If my wife knew 1/3 of the medical history she found out after getting pregnant, we would have been a lot better prepared for the pregnancies and these last few years.
I'm sick of these Ask /.s that can be solved with a simple Google search! If you can't figure out raising kids with a quick Google search, I don't know how you can call yourself a geek!
Seriously though, keep your sense of humor and perspective on the whole experience. If you have the humor of a kid, then you can understand a lot of what makes them tick, and can see things from their point of view. If you work on this, then you can see the world through your kids eyes. This not only helps your personal enjoyment of living, but help you see how to deal with those arguments/fights/frustrations as well. If you can see it in your kids perspective, then you'll be better able to troubleshoot or debug the situation.
For reference, I've got a 5 year old boy and a 4 year old girl (with apraxia). Congrats and have fun!
Last I checked, we're reading what can be defined as a web log right now. Is /. statistically insignificant or is the /.effect in our collective heads? An old .sig:
"Disraeli was pretty close: actually, there are Lies, Damn lies, Statistics, Benchmarks, and Delivery dates." (from fortune)
As the self joking crack-smoker in this thread, I just want to mention that I said nothing about a conspiracy or gave an opinion on the subject matter of the picture. I just commented (poorly as I've admitted) on the retouching of the pictures, which is what the article was about. As was said in the discussion, I'm sure there's no shortage of boys throwing rocks at tanks in the world today (or when this picture was taken). I believe the debate given here shows that most all (if not all) of us are unable to tell altered images from unaltered images.
Bringing it back on topic, I know I'd be more proned (not saying I'd believe) to belive a picture put in this newspaper, as they are willing to put their integrity in their priorites. As usual, I like to get multiple sources for my info, but that's just being a good consumer and researcher.
I must be smoking crack today (or drank something left over from April Fool's Day). The credit is there on the MSNBC copy, and I now see the shadow. This is why I should sit behind my computer and look at servers, not images. I'm going back to browsing in lynx.
It's not a pre-emptive strike, since he did alter the photograph. It's after the altering, and is after the publishing. Hardly pre-emptive.
I modded this up, then threw it out by replying.
The one with the boy is a fake, as he is not casting a shadow. That is a pretty stupid mistake. A quick Google resulted in this picture with the credit that MSNBC removed (to their downfall since it's a fake).
RTFA -- from the Sun RPX XDR libraries notice:
"BSD-derived libraries with XDR/RPC routines (libc)"
Don't think your safe just because your OS make you feel that way. Patch now! Patch Often!
I don't follow true BSDs so I don't know if there is actually a fix for OpenBSD or FreeBSD. My linux boxes are patched. I assume my OS X boxes are vulnerable as well. Don't assume because your OS is great for you, that it's secure and you don't need to be concerned about patches. Read up on what was released so you know what the average cracker and script kiddie knows. Beat them to the punch and be happy knowing you're smart enough to know better. Only then will you be secure, Grasshopper.
Stop hanging out on /. all day! FP != a job.
Most all current browsers will automatically uncompress gzipped files sent to it, allowing things such as the mod_gzip module to compress web pages and have them rendered on the browser transparently. The bandwith savings ccan be huge, with all the associated benefits (less bandwith for the server, less for the clients and less congestion on the net). Without bzip2 support built into the browser, the hardware compression isn't useful for general web traffic, as it can't be used for the pages being sent.
It'd be nice if I could convince my boss to get some of these for us, but our CPU usage is pretty low right now with the mod_gzip module installed, so it'd be an unnecessary luxury at this point for us.
It never occurred to me until I read the parent to do this for the (sigh) 2 servers I have to run IISs on for a specific app. Copy and paste this into a text file (notepad) named diableWebDAV.reg, then double click to add to any registry:
r vi ces\W3SVC\Parameters]
REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Se
"DisableWebDAV"=dword:1
Only 1 post, and that one on topic an hour after the story is up! Wow! /. must be too busy updating samba to FP, troll hotgrits allover Natilie Portman, and in Soviet Russia, All Your Shares are Beling to Us!
OWA won't replace much of anything for me, since I keep my Calendar and e-mail on my PDA and sync it (via Evolution). If anyone can manage to do that through the web, then I'm impressed (and I want links so I can do it myself).
I'm writing this from a Linux workstation owned by the Commonwealth of Virginia (Virginia Tech actually), but sometimes Linux is not the best choice. Any shop (government or otherwise) should not be told that they have to pick Linux to help them "make the correct choice."
/.
There are other OSs out there that are not Linux that are the best choice.
Refusal to *consider* Linux is another story, but that's not what your statment / question said you wanted to talk about. Was it? You basically say that everyone should be using Linux on the desktop.
I'd love to be able to fix MacOS X boxes all day, then I could concentrate more on
Having to explain linux all day would bad as explaining Windows all day, for some of my users, just as I have to explain Windows repeatedly to my entrenched DOS user, the BSD user who likes to run our servers from his FreeBSD Box, the geek next door that uses Solaris (came with his hardware, and is free for education if he wants to upgrade)....
ps2 as in IBM ps2 or Playstation 2?
$100 computer bag supplied with every notebook in the department. PCs and Macs do still break though the TiBook has gained a bad rep as a result of its problems. Hope later revisions are fixing these issues (we'll see see when the new models are 6 months old).
I have to chime in on this. I know 3 out of the 5 TiBooks that I know of at work, have had at least one major problem due to hardware failure. This includes mine that has been back 3 times itself. Once for a cracked case that was causing a short somewhere, with crashes everytime it was moved at all, even a fraction of an inch. The other two times (screen problems) would be surviveable (pun only slightly intended) in a military situation, but the crashing due to a cracking computer would not. A coworker had his start to smoke on his lap! There is the common crack in the CD/DVD drive and other cracks in the titanium many have had. Just google cracked titanium powerbook and you'll find stories of this. Also there is the fact that if you take the bottom case off (say to put an AirPort card in), the titanium is glued on to plastic, and so the titanium easily comes loose on the bottom.
Spare the marketing for Apple. I love my TiBook, but it doesn't have any of the ruggedness that my old Wallstreet did (going well until this last year when the hinge gave up-and I was lucky on that from what I've heard).
"I propose that the set of all of these explanations is infinitely large. Given that, independant of all other factors, the probability of any one of these explanations being correct approaches zero, making it impossible to guess ... Now is there an infinite number of specific explanations? .... You'll have to keep generalizing on your theory in order to get a FINITE probability that your theory is correct. I can't prove this yet"
I'm not going to dig out my Hitchiker's Guide, but doesn't Douglas Adams (a noted athiest) use a similar logic to prove that life cannot exist? Something to the tune of: the universe has an infinite number of worlds, and that the number of habitable worlds, when compared to this infinite number approaches zero. So a habitable world is then mathematically proven not to exist, and so we cannot exist.