You can fly commercial to Resolute, but it's dang expensive (several hundred dollars to even Yellowknife or Iqualuit). I actually want to go up there sometime just for the heck of it.
Why, they allowed the creation of a piece of software that will let people copy their legally purchased books! The horror! Gotta give 'em what they deserve....
If you're NOT saving more than half, there are possible explanations. POST requests cannot correctly be handled by Slash and mod_gzip. I host Slash sites, so I know this.:) Of course that will only account for a tiny bit.
The biggest reason why you wouldn't save half your bandwidth is that most of your pages are served to clients that can't take it. And nearly all modern browsers can. That means.....
you're serving lots and lots of pages to spiders or spambots. Ouch!
I have Kylix 1 and have been following the kylix newsgroups for a while. I'd love to be able to write some cool end user software in Linux with Kylix, but haven't had much opportunity yet (started a couple cool things though).
Problem with Kylix (and much proprietary software) is that Borland hasn't really responded acceptably to reasonable gripes. Back in AUGUST it was made fairly clear that some K1 patches would be coming out that would fix the IDE, debugger, upgrade the MySQL drivers (they shipped only supporting the old 3.22 version!) and presumably other things. Then the Borland folks teased us again in October by saying that we'd see a K1 patch before K2 shipped. Then a ***BETA*** patch came out and they say "oh yeah, we only mean beta". Now, only about a week ago did the final patch come out, and all it is is a debugger fix for the 2.4 kernel and a MySQL upgrade. That couldn't possibly have been that hard to fix. How in the name of all that's good and holy did it take them this long to put it out? Any self-respecting Free Software project would have had fixes for that kind of thing LONG ago!
So that solidifies my position that one should use only Free Software tools to develop something that is truly important or mission critical. Proprietary vendors simply can't be trusted. If something is wrong with the compiler and they won't fix it, YOU'RE SCREWED!
Having said that, however, Kylix is a great tool for the most part. It is far and away the easiest way to build end user GUI applications for Linux, especially if they involve database access. So I will probably use Kylix in that way in the future -- AS LONG AS the project isn't a super critical one where loss of support from the tool vendor would be a disaster. In that case, I'd probably use Python and wxPython, or perhaps C++ if it was performance critical.
Actually this was discussed on the borland.kylix.non-technical newsgroup a while ago. The aim is apparently to be able to compile ANY C/C++ Linux application, in fact the complete system, including the kernel. Thus it will need to emulate gcc's extensions.
We'll see if this turns out or not. That's just what I recall reading in discussions.
But if so it would be pretty sweet, assuming you're not a Free Software zealot (which I am, kind of, but I can see some coolness factor in this). If the pull it off, someone will be able to build an ENTIRE Linux distribution with their optimized compiler. Everything could run faster.
> while others are quite disturbing (like using corporal punishment).
Why is that disturbing? IT WORKS!!! It gives people that commit wreckless crimes that endanger other people WHAT THEY DESERVE!
I think that's a fine punishment for rape, any crime involving a gun, drunk driving, and maybe other things (spamming?:-) )
They have a very low crime rate there, and I bet corporal punishment is one of the reasons. Law abiding citizens that don't endanger others have NOTHING to fear.
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I agree totally. I often ask my bank for them when cashing checks (and they usually do have a few, if not a whole roll). They're so convenient in Canada -- you can go into a fast food joint and pay for your burger and Pepsi with pocket change, without pulling out your wallet.
But it's been well over a year since I've received one in change. That's pretty annoying.
Unlike previous posts though, most people I've talked to DON'T seem to like them, saying they're too heavy. I guess it will take time.
I use Gnumeric to calculate profits from option trading with Datek. Have been since about 0.6.1 or so. Works great!
And soon AbiWord 1.0 will be released.
I use KDE for my desktop, but Gnumeric and AbiWord are two awesome, lightweight programs. They give you just what you need to get your job done, without a lot of memory hogging crap.
My only problem is that you need Guppi 4.0 for graphing. I currently have Guppi 0.35 installed, but when I try to upgrade to 0.4:
[root@eclipse micah]# rpm -Uvh Guppi*
error: failed dependencies:
libguppidata.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppidataui.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppimath.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppiplot.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppispecfns.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppistat.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppitank.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppiuseful.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
So is there a way to have both Guppi versions co-existing? I really prefer to stick with RPMs. Thanks
> The thing to realize about Revelation is that it was meant for the time in which it was written, not our time.
Well I wholeheartedly disagree with that. It was meant to ENCOURAGE the persecuted people in the time it was written, and it DID have specific messages for some of the churches (Rev 2 and 3).
However, the book was a DIVINE revelation of things that will happen at the end of the world. The encouragement is that we win!
Of course, you have to believe in God to believe that divine revelations are possible. But personally I've experienced at least one and heard of several others, and I've seen God do a lot of other really cool things, so I have no trouble at all believing that Revelation is exactly what it claims to be.
uh yeah. The Rapture will solve all kinds of problems -- traffic as you say, overcrowding, overpopulation, bandwidth clogs, etc.
As long as you don't mind replacing them with minor things like widespread chaos as planes and cars crash due to sudden lack of drivers, nuclear war as the one world government takes control, etc. I'm sure it will be a blast!
Well you're right that the primary purpose of the mark is a symbol of (misdirected) worship. However, due to the nature of the one world government, it *does* seem likely that it will be a literal mark. In a cashless society, it would be quite easy for said government to require a scan of the mark for any transaction, thus being consistent with the scripture saying that the mark is required for anyone to buy or sell.
No generation before us would have had technology to do that, and that was my point.
There are an astounding number of other things, technologically and otherwise, that are required for the fulfillment of prophecy in Daniel and Revelation that are possible or practical for our generation and NO generation before us!
Well I've read various interpretations and then read the Bible for myself. I *do* think most evidence points toward a pre-trib rapture:
Surprise element. The Bible says we will be changed in the "twinkling of an eye" and Jesus will "come like a theif". This is so we will always be ready. If it happened at the end of the tribulation, we would not be surprised when it happened.
It should be noted that Paul's "Last Trumpet" does NOT equal the seventh trumpet of Revelation. Revelation was revealed to John about 30 years after Paul's death! He would not have known about those trumpets.
These saints that the Antichrist will wage war against are the Tribulation Saints, those who will be saved AFTER the rapture. Revelation 7:9-14 seems to attest to this, saying that "a great multitude that no one could count" of saints will come out of the Tribulation.
God's plan for the Trublation -- the final 7 years of human history on earth -- is to punish the unbelievers and give them a final chance to repent before REAL punishment. He NEVER intended to punish believers, and it is consistent throughout Scripture that God's wrath falls only upon those who reject Him. Compare with the plagues on the ancient Egyptions -- they did not affect the Israelites!
That's what I can think of off the top of my head. There are some great resources on this for further reading. I recommend this article: "The Rapture of the Church". It says most of what I've said and tons more!
My understanding of prophecy is along these lines:
1. Spiritual forces start aligning the nations of the world to be more united in government and religion -- the UN and others are working on this now.
2. The Church (all true believers in Jesus) will be instantly raptured and will simply disappear from the earth.
3. Shortly after that, the Antichrist will sign a 7-year peace agreement with Israel. He will put the finishing touches on the world government.
4. Halfway through that 7-year period, he will be killed and rise again, indwelt by Satan himself.
5. THAT is when the Mark comes into play. People all over the world will be fascinated by his resurrection, and wooed by his false miracles. They will gladly accept this Mark.
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. -- Revelation 13:16-17
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You can fly commercial to Resolute, but it's dang expensive (several hundred dollars to even Yellowknife or Iqualuit). I actually want to go up there sometime just for the heck of it.
What did Russia do to deserve this?
Why, they allowed the creation of a piece of software that will let people copy their legally purchased books! The horror! Gotta give 'em what they deserve....
There's not much it can cache for logged in users, but it IIRC it does cache the home page for non logged in users.
Also it's fairly efficient with things like slashboxes and the Recent Topics, so it doesn't have to re-generate those from SQL each time.
hmm.
:) Of course that will only account for a tiny bit.
could have fooled me... (see reply)
If you're NOT saving more than half, there are possible explanations. POST requests cannot correctly be handled by Slash and mod_gzip. I host Slash sites, so I know this.
The biggest reason why you wouldn't save half your bandwidth is that most of your pages are served to clients that can't take it. And nearly all modern browsers can. That means.....
you're serving lots and lots of pages to spiders or spambots. Ouch!
mod_gzip works wonders on Slash based sites, so I have no idea why they don't use it here.
The typical Slash home page is about 50K or more. mod_gzip literally gets it down to less than 6K!
It would literally cut their bandwidth costs by more than half!
Of course, they may need another server or two, but it would pay for itself quickly.
I *think* so. The code itself is what matters. You can distribute it under any Open Source license you want.
Of course, if it depends on a proprietary compiler, it can't be part of a Totally Free(tm) system. But that doesn't mean the code itself is non-Free.
In a way I agree and in a way I don't.
I have Kylix 1 and have been following the kylix newsgroups for a while. I'd love to be able to write some cool end user software in Linux with Kylix, but haven't had much opportunity yet (started a couple cool things though).
Problem with Kylix (and much proprietary software) is that Borland hasn't really responded acceptably to reasonable gripes. Back in AUGUST it was made fairly clear that some K1 patches would be coming out that would fix the IDE, debugger, upgrade the MySQL drivers (they shipped only supporting the old 3.22 version!) and presumably other things. Then the Borland folks teased us again in October by saying that we'd see a K1 patch before K2 shipped. Then a ***BETA*** patch came out and they say "oh yeah, we only mean beta". Now, only about a week ago did the final patch come out, and all it is is a debugger fix for the 2.4 kernel and a MySQL upgrade. That couldn't possibly have been that hard to fix. How in the name of all that's good and holy did it take them this long to put it out? Any self-respecting Free Software project would have had fixes for that kind of thing LONG ago!
So that solidifies my position that one should use only Free Software tools to develop something that is truly important or mission critical. Proprietary vendors simply can't be trusted. If something is wrong with the compiler and they won't fix it, YOU'RE SCREWED!
Having said that, however, Kylix is a great tool for the most part. It is far and away the easiest way to build end user GUI applications for Linux, especially if they involve database access. So I will probably use Kylix in that way in the future -- AS LONG AS the project isn't a super critical one where loss of support from the tool vendor would be a disaster. In that case, I'd probably use Python and wxPython, or perhaps C++ if it was performance critical.
Actually this was discussed on the borland.kylix.non-technical newsgroup a while ago. The aim is apparently to be able to compile ANY C/C++ Linux application, in fact the complete system, including the kernel. Thus it will need to emulate gcc's extensions.
We'll see if this turns out or not. That's just what I recall reading in discussions.
But if so it would be pretty sweet, assuming you're not a Free Software zealot (which I am, kind of, but I can see some coolness factor in this). If the pull it off, someone will be able to build an ENTIRE Linux distribution with their optimized compiler. Everything could run faster.
...for the first time in 6 years. Somethiing must really be up!
oh crap that's funny. I have a layover in Denver in a couple weeks. Wish I had a (good) laptop...
how would you get an IP address? DHCP?
> while others are quite disturbing (like using corporal punishment).
:-) )
Why is that disturbing? IT WORKS!!! It gives people that commit wreckless crimes that endanger other people WHAT THEY DESERVE!
I think that's a fine punishment for rape, any crime involving a gun, drunk driving, and maybe other things (spamming?
They have a very low crime rate there, and I bet corporal punishment is one of the reasons. Law abiding citizens that don't endanger others have NOTHING to fear.
I agree totally. I often ask my bank for them when cashing checks (and they usually do have a few, if not a whole roll). They're so convenient in Canada -- you can go into a fast food joint and pay for your burger and Pepsi with pocket change, without pulling out your wallet.
But it's been well over a year since I've received one in change. That's pretty annoying.
Unlike previous posts though, most people I've talked to DON'T seem to like them, saying they're too heavy. I guess it will take time.
well, I have at least two PDF viewers on Red Hat 7.2, and I believe they're both open source.
xpdf -- generic
KDE PS/PDF Viewer -- KDE specific
The KDE version has a bit nicer an interface, but xpdf seems to be able to view some docs that the KDE version can't.
But they both produce gibberish when trying to print. Would be nice to print PDFs from Linux.
I use Gnumeric to calculate profits from option trading with Datek. Have been since about 0.6.1 or so. Works great!
And soon AbiWord 1.0 will be released.
I use KDE for my desktop, but Gnumeric and AbiWord are two awesome, lightweight programs. They give you just what you need to get your job done, without a lot of memory hogging crap.
My only problem is that you need Guppi 4.0 for graphing. I currently have Guppi 0.35 installed, but when I try to upgrade to 0.4:
[root@eclipse micah]# rpm -Uvh Guppi*
error: failed dependencies:
libguppidata.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppidataui.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppimath.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppiplot.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppispecfns.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppistat.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppitank.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
libguppiuseful.so.11 is needed by gnucash-1.6.2-1
So is there a way to have both Guppi versions co-existing? I really prefer to stick with RPMs. Thanks
I thought I heard that Gnumeric had some kind of perl or python interface for scripting, but I haven't found any docs or examples (I've looked some).
If anyone has a pointer I'd appreciate it!
> The thing to realize about Revelation is that it was meant for the time in which it was written, not our time.
Well I wholeheartedly disagree with that. It was meant to ENCOURAGE the persecuted people in the time it was written, and it DID have specific messages for some of the churches (Rev 2 and 3).
However, the book was a DIVINE revelation of things that will happen at the end of the world. The encouragement is that we win!
Of course, you have to believe in God to believe that divine revelations are possible. But personally I've experienced at least one and heard of several others, and I've seen God do a lot of other really cool things, so I have no trouble at all believing that Revelation is exactly what it claims to be.
uh yeah. The Rapture will solve all kinds of problems -- traffic as you say, overcrowding, overpopulation, bandwidth clogs, etc.
As long as you don't mind replacing them with minor things like widespread chaos as planes and cars crash due to sudden lack of drivers, nuclear war as the one world government takes control, etc. I'm sure it will be a blast!
As for when....... who knows, but I think it's getting close!
yep! I've read the other books in 4 or 5 days each!
Well you're right that the primary purpose of the mark is a symbol of (misdirected) worship. However, due to the nature of the one world government, it *does* seem likely that it will be a literal mark. In a cashless society, it would be quite easy for said government to require a scan of the mark for any transaction, thus being consistent with the scripture saying that the mark is required for anyone to buy or sell.
No generation before us would have had technology to do that, and that was my point.
There are an astounding number of other things, technologically and otherwise, that are required for the fulfillment of prophecy in Daniel and Revelation that are possible or practical for our generation and NO generation before us!
Please see this article for more info: The Signs of the Times
Well I've read various interpretations and then read the Bible for myself. I *do* think most evidence points toward a pre-trib rapture:
That's what I can think of off the top of my head. There are some great resources on this for further reading. I recommend this article: "The Rapture of the Church". It says most of what I've said and tons more!
Yes, I sure have! Great series!!!
Haven't read Desecration yet. Will probably get it for Christmas.
It won't happen in the US as we have it today.
My understanding of prophecy is along these lines:
1. Spiritual forces start aligning the nations of the world to be more united in government and religion -- the UN and others are working on this now.
2. The Church (all true believers in Jesus) will be instantly raptured and will simply disappear from the earth.
3. Shortly after that, the Antichrist will sign a 7-year peace agreement with Israel. He will put the finishing touches on the world government.
4. Halfway through that 7-year period, he will be killed and rise again, indwelt by Satan himself.
5. THAT is when the Mark comes into play. People all over the world will be fascinated by his resurrection, and wooed by his false miracles. They will gladly accept this Mark.
Times will be *completely* different then.
He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,
so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. -- Revelation 13:16-17
We now have technology to make that happen!
I'm getting 175Kb/sec while downloading OpenOffice.
IIRC I got 430Kb/sec while downloading a build last time, but admittedly that was a LONG time ago.
oh well, compared to dialup......