"Factoid" means a "false fact," just like "Humanoid" means a "false human." The writer, of course, means to say "fact" but feels the need to dress up the word to make himself sound more intelligent. Better get Strunk & White.
This strange thing happened to me back in '86 in San Francisco. I went jogging in a park and suddenly, I saw a helicopter transporting some giant something I could not identify only for it to disappear in a middle of a field and I saw a man walking in the air. I kicked my drug habit that same day for good.
For anyone still running glibc 2.2.5, try the French language release. It still works. Open with "thunderbird -UILocale en-US -contentLocale en-US" and it will start with English. You can download the French release at contrib-localized and it will go up in a few days. You can also find the old 0.3 release in contrib-localized.
First, this car races at a small regional track. $300 bought me the hood for one year. Whenever a car has a problem or spins out or whatever can happen, these cars go very slowly around the track and one can see the penguin extremely well.
Correct, clearly not becuase they love Linux, in fact, I do not believe that the woman who does it even knows. Still, sponsorship of Linux gives me the opportunity to support my local phonebook, which did not publish last year because of lack of ads. This all works on a VERY SMALL scale, and $400 gets me the backpage (the best page) on the book.
Hard to say where to sign up -- I do not know that much about NASCAR. My friend's car runs in a small regional division, not on major televised races. If you really want to do this, just visit your nearest track -- car owners will fall all over you when they find out that you want to sponsor a car. As to the size, we used an enlarged penguin on the entire hood. Looks very nice.
Yes, it definitely does. It also helped thinkgeek.com, because I just ordered one for my car. What experience did you have with the fish? Has anyone asked you about it?
Sure I could have, but I like to spread the little wealth I have around a bit. This PRIMARILY helps my friend who owns the car. I see your point, though: Advertising often seems so utterly wasteful. How about millions go into ads for, say, cosmetics?
Yes, I understand NASCAR's redneck reputation, but rednecks also buy computers, and if this message converts just one person away from using Microsoft, it will have served its purpose.
$35/month seems cheaper than the $25 retrieval fee the pound charges if she runs away more than twice a month. Waterproof, too. Just the ticket for an active canine.
The simple fact: Ximian Gnome seems to get worse whenever Miguel proposes some new scheme. Since the preferred Red Carpet scheme started, downloading anything has turned into a major drag. One of my users spent nearly six hours on our T1 just trying to get Evolution 1.02.
Most of my users have started complaining about Ximian, one even went so far that he considered KEEPING Ximian as punishment. Both Our sys-admin guys have logged major overtime lately. Perhaps Miguel counts on us to pay up or ship out. I probably could have saved some money if I had paid for the preferred access, but I just do not like paying for free software.
I just do not trust Miguel anymore. I think that once KDE 3 turns usable and available for SPARC, we will abandon Ximian, anyway.
I agree with the/. contributor who said that maybe the monkey in Ximian stands for Miguel himself... Microsoft's trained monkey.
Politics has nothing to do with it, though. Bad software, bloated RPMs, constant dependency problems, non-working Bonobo libraries and difficult downloading has everything to do with switching to KDE.
If Miguel succeeds with this lamebrained idea, I shall personally switch our entire Network to KDE. First he starts charging for preferred access to Red Carpet, which leaves the non-paying users with a lousy 90-user limit on their FTP server and now this. Maybe I should switch to KDE even if he does not embrace.NET.
We use Ximian on maybe half of our 120 Solaris systems and maybe ten of our Linux systems. Our IT dept. made a very easy decision after reading this: use KDE or Gnome 1.4. Both work fine and cost nothing. We would continue using Ximian for maybe $20 a year, but not for $9.95 a month. Bad pricing and since price equals permission to buy...
...Goodbye Ximian!
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I live in Zone 4 (cold winters and hot summers). I have a Sun STORedge rack with four SPARC CPUs and two i386 CPUs. The two i386s put out more heat than the four SPARCs.
During extremely hot (80F+) days, central air conditioning takes care of the system. During cool (less than 45F) days, outside air could do the job. That limits the problem to cooling during the not-hot-enough-for-a/c-days and too-warm-for-outside-air days.
I installed the rack into a 5ft. x 5ft. closet that vents through a 4" duct into a room in the attic and draws cool (not cold) air from a 1,500 sq.ft. crawlspace through an 8" duct. During the extremely hot days, the closet uses supplementary central air conditioning and switches off the draw-fan. If the outside temperature drops below 45F, an automatic damper switches the crawlspace air to direct-draw outside air (wall-mounted fan, 4" opening). The closet has foam insulation in the walls (not just for temperature but also for sound) and a tightly closing door. This setup keeps the interior between about 50F and 60F year-round with very little operating cost.
I thought about recirculating warm air back into the home heating system, but the BTU value just seemed too minuscule. Right now, I have it set up to warm up a 10ft. x 10ft. book storage room in my attic, but it does not do much for it, so I may remove that and just vent the thing to the outside directly.
Advantages
Moderate setup cost: $250 (materials) +50 (professional installation) for a low-noise high-power exhaust fan , $100+400 for a push-fan for cool air from the crawlspace, $200 for really good thermostats, $150+200 for the automatic damper, $50 for two remote sensor thermometers, $400 for foam insulation, $10+150 to add a central a/c outlet.
Little operating cost: exhaust fan runs on 150W and push-fan on 50W.
Low noise.
Drawbacks
Recovery: Unfortunately, I need to keep open the door to perform maintenance, and the closet heats instantly and takes several hours to return to its desired operating temperature.
Humidity: I have not experienced any significant problems, but the crawlspace air has very high humidity. I hope this does not adversely affect the system, but I do not really know for sure.
Dust/Dirt: I wish I had a basement built over concrete, not a crawlspace over dirt. I have to use extensive filtering, which not only reduces air flow, but also adds much cleaning time.
Uninvited Guests: On one cool summer day two years ago, the automatic damper switched on and drew thousands of tiny flies into the closet -- what a mess to clean! I have now installed double screens on both sides of the vent. I have also had a medium-sized unidentified rodent make its way up from the crawlspace.
Note: the larger the room, the more cool air it needs. The above setup works extremely well for my 8ft. x 5ft. closet and my 1,500 sq.ft. crawlspace supplies more then enough cool air in the summer.
Tip: search home improvement web sites for ideas. I could not have done this without a professional heating engineer.
I love Sun workstations: speed, stability, impressive looking cases, but I always disliked Solaris because of CDE. OpenWindows never did much for me, either. I run SuSE Linux 7.1 with KDE on my SPARC 80 and Gnome on my SunBlade 1000 and I love them both. I just find them easier to use.
Gnome has significantly shortened the time required for training new employees on our system, since most of them only have Windows experience. We use CDE only when we have some hardware problem, but that happens so rarely with these excellent systems.
Let us take a short program and translate it into how Anthony Trollope, P. G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, J. D. Salinger and downright bad writers like Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins would write them -- I would love to see the comments on a Trollope program.
This presents an excellent opportunity for the open source movement to insist that either Microsoft open its source code for the voting system to insure that it contains no weird backdoors OR to insist on use of another open source code system, perhaps one based on Linux.
If Microsoft's system fails, it will have to take the blame for a failed election. Quite a responsibility! A failure might just expose Microsoft for what it usually produces: Garbage.
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"Factoid" means a "false fact," just like "Humanoid" means a "false human." The writer, of course, means to say "fact" but feels the need to dress up the word to make himself sound more intelligent. Better get Strunk & White.
This strange thing happened to me back in '86 in San Francisco. I went jogging in a park and suddenly, I saw a helicopter transporting some giant something I could not identify only for it to disappear in a middle of a field and I saw a man walking in the air. I kicked my drug habit that same day for good.
For anyone still running glibc 2.2.5, try the French language release. It still works. Open with "thunderbird -UILocale en-US -contentLocale en-US" and it will start with English. You can download the French release at contrib-localized and it will go up in a few days. You can also find the old 0.3 release in contrib-localized.
rm -fr /redhat
and this guy missed it. $39.95, plus sales tax, (in 2003 currency) with FREE shipping. What a dork!
...because it will soon disappear and turn into a collector's item.
First, this car races at a small regional track. $300 bought me the hood for one year. Whenever a car has a problem or spins out or whatever can happen, these cars go very slowly around the track and one can see the penguin extremely well.
Correct, clearly not becuase they love Linux, in fact, I do not believe that the woman who does it even knows. Still, sponsorship of Linux gives me the opportunity to support my local phonebook, which did not publish last year because of lack of ads. This all works on a VERY SMALL scale, and $400 gets me the backpage (the best page) on the book.
Hard to say where to sign up -- I do not know that much about NASCAR. My friend's car runs in a small regional division, not on major televised races. If you really want to do this, just visit your nearest track -- car owners will fall all over you when they find out that you want to sponsor a car. As to the size, we used an enlarged penguin on the entire hood. Looks very nice.
Yes, it definitely does. It also helped thinkgeek.com, because I just ordered one for my car. What experience did you have with the fish? Has anyone asked you about it?
Sure I could have, but I like to spread the little wealth I have around a bit. This PRIMARILY helps my friend who owns the car. I see your point, though: Advertising often seems so utterly wasteful. How about millions go into ads for, say, cosmetics?
I also sponsor two children in Nigeria.
Yes, I understand NASCAR's redneck reputation, but rednecks also buy computers, and if this message converts just one person away from using Microsoft, it will have served its purpose.
Working on it. Perhaps I should have spent the money on a better digital camera???
$300.00
It totally redefines the meaning of "Steal
This Book."
$35/month seems cheaper than the $25 retrieval fee the pound charges if she runs away more than twice a month. Waterproof, too. Just the ticket for an active canine.
Politics? What Politics?
/. contributor who said that maybe the monkey in Ximian stands for Miguel himself... Microsoft's trained monkey.
The simple fact: Ximian Gnome seems to get worse whenever Miguel proposes some new scheme. Since the preferred Red Carpet scheme started, downloading anything has turned into a major drag. One of my users spent nearly six hours on our T1 just trying to get Evolution 1.02.
Most of my users have started complaining about Ximian, one even went so far that he considered KEEPING Ximian as punishment. Both Our sys-admin guys have logged major overtime lately. Perhaps Miguel counts on us to pay up or ship out. I probably could have saved some money if I had paid for the preferred access, but I just do not like paying for free software.
I just do not trust Miguel anymore. I think that once KDE 3 turns usable and available for SPARC, we will abandon Ximian, anyway.
I agree with the
Politics has nothing to do with it, though. Bad software, bloated RPMs, constant dependency problems, non-working Bonobo libraries and difficult downloading has everything to do with switching to KDE.
If Miguel succeeds with this lamebrained idea, I shall personally switch our entire Network to KDE. First he starts charging for preferred access to Red Carpet, which leaves the non-paying users with a lousy 90-user limit on their FTP server and now this. Maybe I should switch to KDE even if he does not embrace .NET.
We use Ximian on maybe half of our 120 Solaris systems and maybe ten of our Linux systems. Our IT dept. made a very easy decision after reading this: use KDE or Gnome 1.4. Both work fine and cost nothing. We would continue using Ximian for maybe $20 a year, but not for $9.95 a month. Bad pricing and since price equals permission to buy...
...Goodbye Ximian!
I live in Zone 4 (cold winters and hot summers). I have a Sun STORedge rack with four SPARC CPUs and two i386 CPUs. The two i386s put out more heat than the four SPARCs.
During extremely hot (80F+) days, central air conditioning takes care of the system. During cool (less than 45F) days, outside air could do the job. That limits the problem to cooling during the not-hot-enough-for-a/c-days and too-warm-for-outside-air days.
I installed the rack into a 5ft. x 5ft. closet that vents through a 4" duct into a room in the attic and draws cool (not cold) air from a 1,500 sq.ft. crawlspace through an 8" duct. During the extremely hot days, the closet uses supplementary central air conditioning and switches off the draw-fan. If the outside temperature drops below 45F, an automatic damper switches the crawlspace air to direct-draw outside air (wall-mounted fan, 4" opening). The closet has foam insulation in the walls (not just for temperature but also for sound) and a tightly closing door. This setup keeps the interior between about 50F and 60F year-round with very little operating cost.
I thought about recirculating warm air back into the home heating system, but the BTU value just seemed too minuscule. Right now, I have it set up to warm up a 10ft. x 10ft. book storage room in my attic, but it does not do much for it, so I may remove that and just vent the thing to the outside directly.
Advantages
Moderate setup cost: $250 (materials) +50 (professional installation) for a low-noise high-power exhaust fan , $100+400 for a push-fan for cool air from the crawlspace, $200 for really good thermostats, $150+200 for the automatic damper, $50 for two remote sensor thermometers, $400 for foam insulation, $10+150 to add a central a/c outlet.
Little operating cost: exhaust fan runs on 150W and push-fan on 50W.
Low noise.
Drawbacks
Recovery: Unfortunately, I need to keep open the door to perform maintenance, and the closet heats instantly and takes several hours to return to its desired operating temperature.
Humidity: I have not experienced any significant problems, but the crawlspace air has very high humidity. I hope this does not adversely affect the system, but I do not really know for sure.
Dust/Dirt: I wish I had a basement built over concrete, not a crawlspace over dirt. I have to use extensive filtering, which not only reduces air flow, but also adds much cleaning time.
Uninvited Guests: On one cool summer day two years ago, the automatic damper switched on and drew thousands of tiny flies into the closet -- what a mess to clean! I have now installed double screens on both sides of the vent. I have also had a medium-sized unidentified rodent make its way up from the crawlspace.
Note: the larger the room, the more cool air it needs. The above setup works extremely well for my 8ft. x 5ft. closet and my 1,500 sq.ft. crawlspace supplies more then enough cool air in the summer.
Tip: search home improvement web sites for ideas. I could not have done this without a professional heating engineer.
I love Sun workstations: speed, stability, impressive looking cases, but I always disliked Solaris because of CDE. OpenWindows never did much for me, either. I run SuSE Linux 7.1 with KDE on my SPARC 80 and Gnome on my SunBlade 1000 and I love them both. I just find them easier to use.
Gnome has significantly shortened the time required for training new employees on our system, since most of them only have Windows experience. We use CDE only when we have some hardware problem, but that happens so rarely with these excellent systems.
Let us take a short program and translate it into how Anthony Trollope, P. G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, J. D. Salinger and downright bad writers like Danielle Steel and Jackie Collins would write them -- I would love to see the comments on a Trollope program.
This presents an excellent opportunity for the open source movement to insist that either Microsoft open its source code for the voting system to insure that it contains no weird backdoors OR to insist on use of another open source code system, perhaps one based on Linux. If Microsoft's system fails, it will have to take the blame for a failed election. Quite a responsibility! A failure might just expose Microsoft for what it usually produces: Garbage.