The site www.paypal.com is running Stronghold/2.4.2 Apache/1.3.6/L C2NetEU/2412 (Unix) on Linux
no, the webservers are running the abovementioned OS/servers. What the back end is could only really be stated by someone familiar with PayPal's back end structure. For all we know the back end DBs could be Alphas, AIX.. or even eNpTy.
.. and even the webserver info string could be falsified; it's trivial in the code or config. Don't assume simply by a webserver version response.
While electronically-submitted comments will have some impact on this process, it can also get drowned in the noise of some moronic l33+ g33K mail, discounting the entire medium as kooks, zealots or plain old Microsoft bashers?
You want a real opportunitiy to make your voice heard? Revert back to pen and paper, write a well-thought-out letter detailing the issues you have with this and send it. If nothing else, the actual writing process seems to stimulate a lot more thought.
Just this once.. bypass the submit button. Kill a tree. Stick a mountain of paper on someone's desk.
It still claims a lot of my time; I have the Palm version. 'tis a hell of a way to survive long meetings.:)
What's so cool about it is the fact the game has translated across so many platforms (there was even a unix version out somewhere) and it retains the full character and interest of the game. A kudo to non-massively-graphic games that make you think.
a simple addition to my little proxy filter program and I won't see those ads either. heh.
thought it kinda strikes me funny: the staunch hatred for spam out there, yet there doesn't seem to be as much disgust for the banner ads that consume (x)k in download. and with gator you'll now be getting 2*(x)k in bandwidth wasted* in the ads you both do and don't see.
-'fester
* for wasted == "shit I could care less about and simply clutters up my browser viewing space."
The person who submitted the story (Troy Baer) is also the admin of the beast. Troy had an interesting article on the current (previous?) cluster setup at OSC in one of the recent Linux mags (Linux Journal, 2001 July). To call Troy a proud father of this setup might not be too far off.;)
I knew Troy from school, admin-ed with him in the Ohio State engineering labs. Ask him what he's doing with that Aero Eng. diploma nowadays..;) Overall, a pretty damn sharp guy. He gets to play with Linux/SGI clusters now, I'm stuck with Alphas & an O2000 in a back room somewhere.
-'fester
Re:G4 is by far the nicest consumer case I've ever
on
Case Tweaking
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· Score: 2
Well, after saddling users with the case from the PowerMac 8500, apple had a shitload to atone for.
The shell was easy to remove.. but woe to you if you wanted to add memory. Gads, I love apple with a passion (my first computer purchase was a Mac+, followed by a SE/30 I still own) but that box's internals still gives me flashbacks.
My gripe with Linux is that it is complex to use.
And this is precisely why it will never catch on with the masses.
If you want a REALLY good book to read, I'd suggest taking a look at The Unix Philosiphy by Mike Gancarz. It's a rather consise book on why Unix is the way it is, and (unintententionally) demonstrates why Unix will never be a mainstream entity. People want apps that can do most anything, don't want to mess with low-level detail and just plain want it to do stuff withougt caring how it's done. Unix is almost the complete opposite of those desires.
If someone's going to allow submission of a review for a 2+ year old 'How-to config' book they should review this 9+ year old "Why is it the way it is" book. This one has been a great read so far.
Can it be confirmed this is an issue related to the Via *b Southbridge and Athlon CPUs only? I've been eyeing the Gigabyte dual Socket370 VIA board and hope I'm not stepping into sometihng slick and smelly.
Sure, rackmount might be nice to save a little space, but I have a bit of a bigger issue. I have a number of machines in my 'office,' including (no, this is not geek dick-waving, but it won't come out better any other way):
My primary PC (P3/800) with GeForce DDR heater, 2 disks, CDROM & CD-RW.
Router PC (P200 in minitower)
SGI Indigo2 R10000 (winner of the Best Heater award)
HP 9000/712
Sun SparcIPC
an 'experiment' PC (Celery 466) which gets various distros
2 monitors (Sony 17" & Gateway (Sony) 15")
music equipment (2 synths, bass amp are the major power users)
Keeping that room cool is a bitch. There's a ceiling fan, but even with the AC on in the place it hovers around 90. Short of sticking a thermostat in the room in question (or getting the room its own window A/C), I don't know what else to do.
Keep in mind a rack will also concentrate a lot of that heat in one spot. You could end up with scorch marks on your ceiling.:) Be sure to keep the air flowing around and above that rack.
I second this. I'm gonna do my best to completely chuck all adobe crap.. including acrobat. XPDF will cover me on the *nix side... what are my Win32 alternatives?
(please.. no bs.. it's there for a few good reasons.. none of which I can think of this very minute... oh yeah, quakeIII).
I'm not trying to start anything, I swear. Slack is my favorite Linux distro; I have it on 3 boxes at home and a monitoring box at work. I've been rsyncing to slackware-current for the last few months. I love it.
.. but one thing I wish (and i know; if you want it write it your damn self) is it had the option of doing BSD-style or SVR4-style init scripts. I use 'real' Unices in my day job (HP-UX in the last one, Tru64 & IRIX in the current one) and all three used a SVr4-style init script structure. You know 'service '. A control system such as this simplifies life for tasks such as service restarting, service starts at boot, etc. NFS is a prime example; it gets old SIGTERMing mountd & nfsd for/etc/export changes (and despite what the docs or anyone says, you're hit-or-miss if you simply try SIGHUP).
My point; while pretty much every Unix has both BSD & SVr4 conventions in it, the SVR4 seems to win out in daemon control and some other basic operation.
.. and yes, I know Slack can fake it with an/etc/rc.d/rc.(initlevel)-type directory structure. Maybe some simply prefer the kill-level control of mucking with each daemon. It would just be more handy for me if Slack has some type of support for this out of the box.
(ok, I'll just shut up write my scripts, lazy bastard that I am. Just my $0.02).
I've yet to buy it.. the main reason; I know the LD (yes, the big shiny record-size thingies [yes, records, the big black plastic-like thingies]) had an audio track with commentary of the making of the film. Something I actually heard once when Grail was shown on Comedy Central. Something I was pissed being left off. Something I hope to hell makes it on this re-release.
Now if only we could get the Godfather trilogy on DVD, I'd never have to leave the house again.
Latency (time to deliver the data to destination) might be a problem though...
Not to mention out-of-order packet reception. I think we could have a rather large issue hunting for pigeon #35431 in the Great Flock.
And of course, the risk of packet loss is much higher. Farmers out in their fields with shotguns have a lot lower chance of disrupting your ethernet connection but could take out pigeons #234, 54245 and 6644 with one good blast of 00 buck. Just imagine of the retransmission requests.. *shudder*
Suckey as it is, I'll stick with my csma/cd, thank you. Though it doesn't have that soothing 'coo.':)
There was a good reason they disowned it. I bought a ZipPlus for use at work because it's so flexable (and also the option to hook to our Unix boxes if need be)... only the thing didn't work well on my SCSI bus. A week or so later I got a notice in the mail 'amending' the user manual as to the proper use of the drive. It boiled down to this:
You can only have one device (the zip drive) on the SCSI bus.
You can only have one device (the zip drive) on the parallel port.
I kid you not. That was their solution. I called them, bitched loudly, and was offered a SCSI zip drive. When I pointed out I didn't have scsi in the PC they threw in the card.
I don't know firsthand, so I may be talking out of my ass.. but reading the comp.dcom.*.dsl group up to last year, it seemed the safest bet for DSL service was the telco themselves. As soon as you add more layers of providors, you add more layers of woe: fingerpointing of who drops the ball, who should do what service, etc etc.
I'm currently cable modem, but the area I'm looking to buy a home is rural enough DSL will be my only real hope.* Given whatever options I have at the time, I'm betting I'll still stick with the local telco providor (BellSouth) and try to ride it out.
* sorry, I don't count satellite yet. Think it's still kinda impractical
Maybe it's time to consider state owned and run high-speed internet providers.
No.
No way.
No fucking way in hell.
Take a good long look at your state government, federal government, various departments such as transportation, bureau of motor vehicles, welfare, taxation, etc.. look at how those departments actually run.. then take your meds and come back and say that again.
If it was left to the government, we'd just now be getting those new kickass 4800bps modems. And you would probably be paying $0.01/packet tax to boot.
But hey, at least rich people get a tax cut (even if they don't want one)..."
So who is this mighty Timothy who deigns us with his apparently oh-so-correct opinion? Is it fair the wealthy pay more % in tax then you? Why? For what earthly reason? Or are we simply assuming they deserve to pay more simply because they must have obtained it through some improper means?
I come from a farm background, and if you look at the balance sheet (including assets) we would probably be classified as 'wealthy' to you. Does that mean it's fair we have to fork over 70% of those assets to the government if my father dies? Is it fair we are paying ~45%+ in taxes compared to your measly ~33%?
I seriously suggest you go somewhere and take your foot out of your ass.. and while you're there consider what actually makes our capitalist sociecty (in the US) actually work. If you continue to punish the wealthy you will stifly any true progress in this country (I would dare say we see some of that currently).
OBPotshot: Go tell Linus he owes more taxes. Doubt he'll give you a peck on the cheek.
.. but I'm only a dumb hick, so what do I know, right?
Slashdot Mirror
Real men use make.
(I'm sure soon someone will degenrate this to 'real men use as...')
-fester
..at least when I check a few minutes ago. And SamSpade is reporting the front-end NPS server is Netscape Enterprise v4.1.
:)
.. why let the facts hamper you?
-'fester
It's not OnStar; it's GM. I have a GM credit card to rack up the points, and I get a small tonnage of GM-related spam daily as well.
.. and I drive a Toyota too.. heh.
-'fester
The site www.paypal.com is running Stronghold/2.4.2 Apache/1.3.6/L C2NetEU/2412 (Unix) on Linux
no, the webservers are running the abovementioned OS/servers. What the back end is could only really be stated by someone familiar with PayPal's back end structure. For all we know the back end DBs could be Alphas, AIX.. or even eNpTy.
.. and even the webserver info string could be falsified; it's trivial in the code or config. Don't assume simply by a webserver version response.
-'fester
While electronically-submitted comments will have some impact on this process, it can also get drowned in the noise of some moronic l33+ g33K mail, discounting the entire medium as kooks, zealots or plain old Microsoft bashers?
You want a real opportunitiy to make your voice heard? Revert back to pen and paper, write a well-thought-out letter detailing the issues you have with this and send it. If nothing else, the actual writing process seems to stimulate a lot more thought.
Just this once.. bypass the submit button. Kill a tree. Stick a mountain of paper on someone's desk.
Actually, you would type with something else, but since Nintendo markets more towards kids, they can't show you.
..thus showing this is not a tool for the female gamer. But then again, some of them.... naaaah, not gonna go there.
-'fester
It still claims a lot of my time; I have the Palm version. 'tis a hell of a way to survive long meetings. :)
What's so cool about it is the fact the game has translated across so many platforms (there was even a unix version out somewhere) and it retains the full character and interest of the game. A kudo to non-massively-graphic games that make you think.
a simple addition to my little proxy filter program and I won't see those ads either. heh.
thought it kinda strikes me funny: the staunch hatred for spam out there, yet there doesn't seem to be as much disgust for the banner ads that consume (x)k in download. and with gator you'll now be getting 2*(x)k in bandwidth wasted* in the ads you both do and don't see.
-'fester
* for wasted == "shit I could care less about and simply clutters up my browser viewing space."
.. and i thought only birds everted their cloacha.
ick.
The person who submitted the story (Troy Baer) is also the admin of the beast. Troy had an interesting article on the current (previous?) cluster setup at OSC in one of the recent Linux mags (Linux Journal, 2001 July). To call Troy a proud father of this setup might not be too far off. ;)
;) Overall, a pretty damn sharp guy. He gets to play with Linux/SGI clusters now, I'm stuck with Alphas & an O2000 in a back room somewhere.
I knew Troy from school, admin-ed with him in the Ohio State engineering labs. Ask him what he's doing with that Aero Eng. diploma nowadays..
-'fester
The shell was easy to remove.. but woe to you if you wanted to add memory. Gads, I love apple with a passion (my first computer purchase was a Mac+, followed by a SE/30 I still own) but that box's internals still gives me flashbacks.
If you want a REALLY good book to read, I'd suggest taking a look at The Unix Philosiphy by Mike Gancarz. It's a rather consise book on why Unix is the way it is, and (unintententionally) demonstrates why Unix will never be a mainstream entity. People want apps that can do most anything, don't want to mess with low-level detail and just plain want it to do stuff withougt caring how it's done. Unix is almost the complete opposite of those desires.
If someone's going to allow submission of a review for a 2+ year old 'How-to config' book they should review this 9+ year old "Why is it the way it is" book. This one has been a great read so far.
(1) Internal Battery
only one? Cheap bastards.
Can it be confirmed this is an issue related to the Via *b Southbridge and Athlon CPUs only? I've been eyeing the Gigabyte dual Socket370 VIA board and hope I'm not stepping into sometihng slick and smelly.
thx,
-'fester
Keeping that room cool is a bitch. There's a ceiling fan, but even with the AC on in the place it hovers around 90. Short of sticking a thermostat in the room in question (or getting the room its own window A/C), I don't know what else to do.
Keep in mind a rack will also concentrate a lot of that heat in one spot. You could end up with scorch marks on your ceiling.
I second this. I'm gonna do my best to completely chuck all adobe crap.. including acrobat. XPDF will cover me on the *nix side... what are my Win32 alternatives?
(please.. no bs.. it's there for a few good reasons.. none of which I can think of this very minute... oh yeah, quakeIII).
(ok, I'll just shut up write my scripts, lazy bastard that I am. Just my $0.02).
I've yet to buy it.. the main reason; I know the LD (yes, the big shiny record-size thingies [yes, records, the big black plastic-like thingies]) had an audio track with commentary of the making of the film. Something I actually heard once when Grail was shown on Comedy Central. Something I was pissed being left off. Something I hope to hell makes it on this re-release.
Now if only we could get the Godfather trilogy on DVD, I'd never have to leave the house again.
Not to mention out-of-order packet reception. I think we could have a rather large issue hunting for pigeon #35431 in the Great Flock. And of course, the risk of packet loss is much higher. Farmers out in their fields with shotguns have a lot lower chance of disrupting your ethernet connection but could take out pigeons #234, 54245 and 6644 with one good blast of 00 buck. Just imagine of the retransmission requests.. *shudder*
Suckey as it is, I'll stick with my csma/cd, thank you. Though it doesn't have that soothing 'coo.' :)
I kid you not. That was their solution. I called them, bitched loudly, and was offered a SCSI zip drive. When I pointed out I didn't have scsi in the PC they threw in the card.
Be glad you missed the ZipPlus; it was a POS.
I don't know firsthand, so I may be talking out of my ass.. but reading the comp.dcom.*.dsl group up to last year, it seemed the safest bet for DSL service was the telco themselves. As soon as you add more layers of providors, you add more layers of woe: fingerpointing of who drops the ball, who should do what service, etc etc.
I'm currently cable modem, but the area I'm looking to buy a home is rural enough DSL will be my only real hope.* Given whatever options I have at the time, I'm betting I'll still stick with the local telco providor (BellSouth) and try to ride it out.
* sorry, I don't count satellite yet. Think it's still kinda impractical
Maybe it's time to consider state owned and run high-speed internet providers.
No.
No way.
No fucking way in hell.
Take a good long look at your state government, federal government, various departments such as transportation, bureau of motor vehicles, welfare, taxation, etc.. look at how those departments actually run.. then take your meds and come back and say that again.
If it was left to the government, we'd just now be getting those new kickass 4800bps modems. And you would probably be paying $0.01/packet tax to boot.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
Methinks California has more important issues than forcing NorthPoint to stay open..
of course, they could solve the issue by powering down the state from time to time.. oh.. waitaminute.. nevermind.
what about those lame proposals upper management gives you for implementing Project Impossible with its overly-adequate budget of $4.62?
/dev/null was long-term storage! You mean that was a joke?"
Or long-term storage of disaster recovery plans?
"Oh, I though
But hey, at least rich people get a tax cut (even if they don't want one)..."
So who is this mighty Timothy who deigns us with his apparently oh-so-correct opinion? Is it fair the wealthy pay more % in tax then you? Why? For what earthly reason? Or are we simply assuming they deserve to pay more simply because they must have obtained it through some improper means?
I come from a farm background, and if you look at the balance sheet (including assets) we would probably be classified as 'wealthy' to you. Does that mean it's fair we have to fork over 70% of those assets to the government if my father dies? Is it fair we are paying ~45%+ in taxes compared to your measly ~33%?
I seriously suggest you go somewhere and take your foot out of your ass.. and while you're there consider what actually makes our capitalist sociecty (in the US) actually work. If you continue to punish the wealthy you will stifly any true progress in this country (I would dare say we see some of that currently).
OBPotshot: Go tell Linus he owes more taxes. Doubt he'll give you a peck on the cheek.
.. but I'm only a dumb hick, so what do I know, right?