I do miss however the "big pictures" yellow + blue graphs that seduced me into trying out postfix long time ago. Now we're stuck with pityful text-only rendering
Still great, after all those years, postfix is my MTA of choice: ease of use, power and security.
should possible on any PC with sufficient hardware
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Dual User Windows PC
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· Score: 1
Ingredients:
- 2 video cards - 2 screens - 4 free keyboard/mouse ports (USB or PS/2) - appropriate keyboards and mice (USB or PS/2) - a PC with enough RAM and CPU power - any UNIX with X installed
Recipe:
(1) setup a first X with the first set of video/mouse/keyboard, in its own config file (2) redo (1) with the second set.
What am I missing here? What's keeping 2 X servers to use their own displays and inputs on a same machine?
You know, when you posted this, there maybe was 19 articles, but right now, they are at 129, and growing, as the slashdot phenomenon actually does something useful.
I encourage the whole slashdot community to participate, it's easy and much more constructive than just crashing servers for nothing.
[Funny how/. strips out all non-pure-ascii characters from posts... Can't use dead keys here?]
Remember, Mandrake is french, so you have the bonus of having the french press release too!
Pour ceux qui parlent francais dans la foule: n'oubliez pas! Mandrake est une entreprise francaise, alors vous avez enfin la chance de lire un communique en francais!
Note that the folks mentionned something about not telling Slashdot about this news item, in order to survive the day. Thanks for nothing again,/.!
Wikipedia:Celebrating 200,000
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
And the prize for the 200,000th article on the English language Wikipedia goes to:
20:42, Feb 1, 2004 Neil Warnock (196 bytes) . . User:SimonMayer
Congratulations to all Wikipedians. Today is a great day.
Table of contents [showhide] 1 Useful Pages 2 Size matters 3 Getting the word out 1 Slashdot
Useful Pages
* In the true spitit of Wikipedia, I'd help Wikipedia by expanding it, but I don't know anything about football. fabiform | talk 02:06, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
* For those who are interested, you might want to check out Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth. Very interesting read. Raul654 02:18, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)
Size matters congrats! (and lets go on to 250,000...) TeunSpaans
Talk about shooting low. According to Modeling wikipedia's growth link, that should happen in June, 2004;) Raul654 02:39, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)
The index of the print version of Encyclopedia Brittannica contains approximately 750,000 entries, if I remember correctly. That's about four times our present article count. How about that as a short-term goal? -- Seth Ilys 02:48, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
If that is the case, we'd better rise more money to buy servers. -- Taku 02:58, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)
That number seems high - 750,000. The whole set of print encyclopedias only has 65,000 entries, according to [1] Fuzheado 04:26, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Not right. The 2004 Encyclopedia Britannica has 65,000 articles. It may still very well have 750,000 entries in its index. --mav
I understand the distinction. I should have said 65,000 "articles" but didn't since Britannica calls them entries, not articles. Nevertheless, 750,000 "index entries" doesn't seem in sync with 65,000 articles. I'm no data mining expert, so I'd like to see a source for the "750,000." Fuzheado 05:05, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Just looked in one of my textbooks (Introduction to Reference Work, Katz, v. 1, p. 227) where I was recalling the stat from. Accoring to its comparison table for major encyclopeias; the 2000 print Brittannica has 790,000 index entries (I was off by 40,000). The largest article count it lists is the 2000 online Britannica at 83k. I assume those stats came (originally) from the publisher. Most of the index items listed in Britannica don't have dedicated entries of their own; they're people or places or concepts that might get one or two mentions in some other 500-1000 word article essay. We can create dedicated entries for each of those that aren't subordinate to any other topic or article. I felt it might be a useful comparison point, one it looks like we might reach (at present growth rates) in about two years (at about five years from Wikipedia's birth). -- Seth Ilys 07:57, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. Yes, it would be interesting to try creating an automated index, but I suspect that Google and a search engine obviates the need for actually creating an exhaustive alphabetical list. It would be interesting nonetheless. -- Fuzheado 08:01, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Getting the word out Ok, question - has anyone outside of wikipedia actually noticed? I added a couple geek friendly Featured articles to the main page in anticipation of a slashdotting (for the record, my submission was shot down in 2 minutes flat). Raul654 08:04, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)
Please don't - that would kill the second hand server that we are now using. Things are slow enough as it is. We should concentrate on the project-wide 500,000 press release instead. By the time we hit that milestone, the new server farm should be up and running. --mav 08:08, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Even the NRC admits that a contractor established an unprotected computer connection to its corporate network, through which the worm reached the plant network.
Seems like the philosophy got kicked out the door for some reason.
Interesting insight from an investigator of corporate racketers. Though I doubt any slashdotter can *really* read this one to the end.:)
Interesting excerpt:
Of particular significance as I write here in the dark, regulators told utilities exactly how much they had to spend to insure the system stayed in repair and the lights stayed on. Bureaucrats crawled along the wire and, like me, crawled through the account books, to make sure the power execs spent customers' money on parts and labor. If they didn't, we'd whack'm over the head with our thick rule books. Did we get in the way of these businessmen's entrepreneurial spirit? Damn right we did.
No, I am not what you call a moron throwing bricks through store windows, and yes they're still after me. No I won't put a foil hat on my head, but yes, I'm still paranoid, because it just happens that the paranoids are the one that don't get caught.
I happen to be an independant media reporter and the police have already arrested me on bullshit charges of "Illegal assembly". So yes, they are after me, and for good reasons: I have a voice and actually speak up! I guess I wasn't paranoid enough and thought the police wouldn't bust a peaceful demo.
In other news, recent demonstrations in downtown montreal produced the arrests of 21 street medics and a few more journalists. 240 persons were arrested on charges of "illegal assembly" (again) *after* the demo was over, and *after* the cops had already arrested 4 of the "throwing bricks morons" (as you call them).
It's pretty easy to dismiss other people suffering by saying "you looked for it, you deserve it". But once the cops come busting down your door, no one will care for you either.
The problem with this is that the authorities are not hunting for neo-nazis, they're hunting for environmentalists, anti-globalization folks, anarchists, communists, in other words, political bodies which sometimes have valid concerns and challenges to the society.
Anyways, is knowledge on how to kill someone a danger in itself for that person? Is *knowing* how to make a nuke or how to kill the president a danger that should be neutralized? If so, then we're all potential murderers that must be put behind bars, because everyone knows how to kill a man, especially in the US: grab a gun, aim, pull the trigger. Pretty simple.
BTW, it's ironic that you mention neo-nazis, because the first article that you can read on raise the fist actually talks about neo-nazis being *protected* by the police when doing a demo at the capitol.
There is no service pack for the "french" version of W2K, like there was for the 2nd service pack. I do hope they end up making one or that it doesn't matter which one you install...
I downloaded the 2nd service pack *twice* last time: one time in english (to realise it wouldn't install) and one time in french.
Slashdot Mirror
the faq seems to have been defaced, as we speak.
"OWNED BY YOGI! MOUAHAHAHAHAH
You fucker steal artists !
REAL FAQs ARE HERE AND HERE
"
i have censored a oh so original link to that other site...
Wouldn't those be illegal and say to every single cop around "I don't want you to recognize me, please arrest me?"
Yeah, that's good. I always had trouble finding my way into the postfix documentation, now it's a lot clearer. I especially like the listing of all main.cf settings (now if there would be a manpage for master.cf too...) and the bottleneck analysis tool.
I do miss however the "big pictures" yellow + blue graphs that seduced me into trying out postfix long time ago. Now we're stuck with pityful text-only rendering
Still great, after all those years, postfix is my MTA of choice: ease of use, power and security.
You said "windows" eh?
:)
Nevermind then.
Ingredients:
- 2 video cards
- 2 screens
- 4 free keyboard/mouse ports (USB or PS/2)
- appropriate keyboards and mice (USB or PS/2)
- a PC with enough RAM and CPU power
- any UNIX with X installed
Recipe:
(1) setup a first X with the first set of video/mouse/keyboard, in its own config file
(2) redo (1) with the second set.
What am I missing here? What's keeping 2 X servers to use their own displays and inputs on a same machine?
I don't see the big deal here.
You know, when you posted this, there maybe was 19 articles, but right now, they are at 129, and growing, as the slashdot phenomenon actually does something useful.
I encourage the whole slashdot community to participate, it's easy and much more constructive than just crashing servers for nothing.
[Funny how /. strips out all non-pure-ascii characters from posts... Can't use dead keys here?]
Remember, Mandrake is french, so you have the bonus of having the french press release too!
Pour ceux qui parlent francais dans la foule: n'oubliez pas! Mandrake est une entreprise francaise, alors vous avez enfin la chance de lire un communique en francais!
Le communique!
Note that the folks mentionned something about not telling Slashdot about this news item, in order to survive the day. Thanks for nothing again, /.!
;) Raul654 02:39, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Celebrating 200,000
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
And the prize for the 200,000th article on the English language Wikipedia goes to:
20:42, Feb 1, 2004 Neil Warnock (196 bytes) . . User:SimonMayer
Congratulations to all Wikipedians. Today is a great day.
Table of contents [showhide]
1 Useful Pages
2 Size matters
3 Getting the word out
1 Slashdot
Useful Pages
* In the true spitit of Wikipedia, I'd help Wikipedia by expanding it, but I don't know anything about football. fabiform | talk 02:06, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
* For those who are interested, you might want to check out Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth. Very interesting read. Raul654 02:18, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)
Size matters
congrats! (and lets go on to 250,000...) TeunSpaans
Talk about shooting low. According to Modeling wikipedia's growth link, that should happen in June, 2004
The index of the print version of Encyclopedia Brittannica contains approximately 750,000 entries, if I remember correctly. That's about four times our present article count. How about that as a short-term goal? -- Seth Ilys 02:48, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
If that is the case, we'd better rise more money to buy servers. -- Taku 02:58, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)
That number seems high - 750,000. The whole set of print encyclopedias only has 65,000 entries, according to [1] Fuzheado 04:26, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Not right. The 2004 Encyclopedia Britannica has 65,000 articles. It may still very well have 750,000 entries in its index. --mav
I understand the distinction. I should have said 65,000 "articles" but didn't since Britannica calls them entries, not articles. Nevertheless, 750,000 "index entries" doesn't seem in sync with 65,000 articles. I'm no data mining expert, so I'd like to see a source for the "750,000." Fuzheado 05:05, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Just looked in one of my textbooks (Introduction to Reference Work, Katz, v. 1, p. 227) where I was recalling the stat from. Accoring to its comparison table for major encyclopeias; the 2000 print Brittannica has 790,000 index entries (I was off by 40,000). The largest article count it lists is the 2000 online Britannica at 83k. I assume those stats came (originally) from the publisher. Most of the index items listed in Britannica don't have dedicated entries of their own; they're people or places or concepts that might get one or two mentions in some other 500-1000 word article essay. We can create dedicated entries for each of those that aren't subordinate to any other topic or article. I felt it might be a useful comparison point, one it looks like we might reach (at present growth rates) in about two years (at about five years from Wikipedia's birth). -- Seth Ilys 07:57, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Thanks for the info. Yes, it would be interesting to try creating an automated index, but I suspect that Google and a search engine obviates the need for actually creating an exhaustive alphabetical list. It would be interesting nonetheless. -- Fuzheado 08:01, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Getting the word out
Ok, question - has anyone outside of wikipedia actually noticed? I added a couple geek friendly Featured articles to the main page in anticipation of a slashdotting (for the record, my submission was shot down in 2 minutes flat). Raul654 08:04, Feb 2, 2004 (UTC)
Please don't - that would kill the second hand server that we are now using. Things are slow enough as it is. We should concentrate on the project-wide 500,000 press release instead. By the time we hit that milestone, the new server farm should be up and running. --mav 08:08, 2 Feb 2004 (UTC)
OK, keep slashdot out. For the
For folks wondering if this is a production release or whatnot, you might like to read the 5-STABLE roadmap, more specifically, the 5-STABLE schedule.
I didn't have flash on the machine, and the PGN was very helpful, thanks!
Anyone has a PGN file of the game somewhere? I'd like to study it in Xboard, and flash is lacking here.
Heard that before.. Same thing was said about XFree not even a month ago. Then there's the BSD trolls telling us that BSD is dying.
What's next? The beginning of the end for audio CDs? Oh, wait...
Put enough (monkeys|slashdot readers) on (typewriters|3D17) and you get (shakespeare|goatse.cx).
Wow. Thank you slashdot.
What's the deal with this 2003-2006 thing? Aren't we in 2003?
Or are these *projected* sales and therefore all bull?
And unlike the shuttle, it can venture beyond low Earth orbit, which means the U.S. could once again send astronauts to the moon.
Just wondering.. Why can't the shuttle venture beyond low orbit anyways?
So you are denying the claims laid in this article and this notice from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission?
Even the NRC admits that a contractor established an unprotected computer connection to its corporate network, through which the worm reached the plant network.
Seems like the philosophy got kicked out the door for some reason.
...wrest away from the strangle-hold that the oil-producing nations have upon us.
Oil-producing nations.. you probably mean those nations right? Well, looks like we'll get rid of the US in the third round eh?
Who would have tought Devin Vasquez was so popular!?
:)
Now either someone mistyped a bid, or someone is philantropic here.
For the record, the bid is now at $9,700 and rising. It was at $360 not 10 minutes ago and $9,600 when I started this comment.
Go bidders!
Interesting excerpt:
No, I am not what you call a moron throwing bricks through store windows, and yes they're still after me. No I won't put a foil hat on my head, but yes, I'm still paranoid, because it just happens that the paranoids are the one that don't get caught.
I happen to be an independant media reporter and the police have already arrested me on bullshit charges of "Illegal assembly". So yes, they are after me, and for good reasons: I have a voice and actually speak up! I guess I wasn't paranoid enough and thought the police wouldn't bust a peaceful demo.
In other news, recent demonstrations in downtown montreal produced the arrests of 21 street medics and a few more journalists. 240 persons were arrested on charges of "illegal assembly" (again) *after* the demo was over, and *after* the cops had already arrested 4 of the "throwing bricks morons" (as you call them).
It's pretty easy to dismiss other people suffering by saying "you looked for it, you deserve it". But once the cops come busting down your door, no one will care for you either.
The problem with this is that the authorities are not hunting for neo-nazis, they're hunting for environmentalists, anti-globalization folks, anarchists, communists, in other words, political bodies which sometimes have valid concerns and challenges to the society.
Anyways, is knowledge on how to kill someone a danger in itself for that person? Is *knowing* how to make a nuke or how to kill the president a danger that should be neutralized? If so, then we're all potential murderers that must be put behind bars, because everyone knows how to kill a man, especially in the US: grab a gun, aim, pull the trigger. Pretty simple.
BTW, it's ironic that you mention neo-nazis, because the first article that you can read on raise the fist actually talks about neo-nazis being *protected* by the police when doing a demo at the capitol.
Comment?!
There is no service pack for the "french" version of W2K, like there was for the 2nd service pack. I do hope they end up making one or that it doesn't matter which one you install...
I downloaded the 2nd service pack *twice* last time: one time in english (to realise it wouldn't install) and one time in french.
Fun-fun-fun.
[overly geeky nerd mode]Like duh.. the machine has its own propulsion system to reach back to earth!
You "develop Air Traffic Control software for the US", on X-windows???
God help us all.
Well, there's traditionnaly been much support for "focus" in window managers, we could extend the notion of "focussed" window to that. :)