I'd certainly call the HP DL360 and 380 the most engineer friendly webserver hosts going.
Are you effing kidding me? The DL360? These completely non-redundant machines are the worst things you can use for a production server. I had four of them that I couldn't wait to get rid of - I'd have a machine go down without warning for a blown PSU or one of the fans stopping, RAID controllers gone haywire and all sorts of other hassles once every couple of months.
The darn things can't even support their own weight in the rack - they sag in the middle. This is seriously the saddest piece of garbage I've ever had the displeasure of deploying in the server room.
We're finally rid of ours, replaced with an IBM BladeCenter. Our problems disappeared as soon as we did that. Perhaps they're popular because they're relatively cheap. They're certainly not any good.
physically cashless, so you don't have anything that can be traded for goods and services if they decide to pull your card
Sounds more and more like a real-life version of PayPal, right? The scary part is when they arbitrarily (and unilaterally) decide to freeze your funds and make it next to impossible to get them back, even if you did nothing wrong.
He is, after all, a teacher being paid to teach, not a wise man imparting his pearls of wisdom in the form of incomprehensible riddels out of the goodness of his heart.
I don't know what University you went to, but in mine the professors are there to do research, write papers and get published.
Teaching is an afterthought. This is how the University gets their income to do the above.
5. you can get everything you want at the library. You can legally borrow it and rip it to MP3 or copy the disc for your personal collection (in Canada, anyway). You can even get new/popular stuff if you simply put a hold on it. In my town, you can place a hold online, and they'll check all the libraries in the area and bring it to the library of your choice when it's available. The wait is usually somewhere between 3 days and 2 weeks. They call you when it's ready for pickup.
I've not had a need to download when all the material I want is available for free right there.
It isn't safe to use SCAMP. SCO's corporate future is uncertain. They've based their entire company around a lawsuit that it looks like they will probably lose. It would be a bad idea to use SCAMP for a production system only to have SCO go bankrupt a year or two later.
It's not safe to not use SCO, at least if you used to be a customer at some point. It's sad, but I think that they actually have customers that are hoping they'll go bust, in order to cease being their customer without risking getting sued.
LOL. Take this the next logical step. Your health insurance company parks outside your house and sets up a Pringles Can RFID scanner to see what's coming down the sewer.
Your premiums just went up because you ate too many pork rinds.
1 - Linux won't use Solaris code because there doesn't appear to be any intention of migrating to GPL3
2 - Solaris can't use Linux code because Sun wants to keep their code under a second license (CDDL), which is at some level incompatible with the GPL (a.k.a incompatible with any imported Linux code)
I applaud Sun's ideas, but I am looking forward to a Fully Open Source Java (granted, I do appreciate that alternatives from other vendors are available nevertheless).
I've been using JExcelAPI for a while, and it's dirt simple to use for reading and writing Excel files. It's fairly complete feature-wise, and it's been able to do everything I need. It also has an easy learning curve, which was helpful when we were in a crunch.
While I applaud the idea of signed drivers and the like, this looks like a very clever way to shut out OSS developers. Heck - some of the smaller commercial outfits might even balk at having to spend that kind of money on the certificate.
What pains me is knowing full well that this really won't necessarily increase the quality of the drivers, though. So they're signed. So what? All this might do is delay upgrades, if anything.
Cool idea, but that wouldn't quite meet my needs. The 4 computers in my house aren't necessarily in the same room. I have cat5 in every room, though, so networking is a possibility, and two notebooks with wireless.
The ideal solution would be some sort of USB "server" (like a standalone print server) that supports all of the functionality of the devices (ie, instead of acting as an SMB print server it would just make the USB devices available more or less natively). Basically behave as a USB bridge or something, and list/use the devices connected to the remote server.
They mention that you can make the devices wireless. That sounds great. But can they be shared with multiple PCs?
Case in point - I have a multifunction printer that I'd like to use from the 4 machines in the house. Setting the printer up as a network printer is fine - that part works no problem.
It's very difficult, however, to find a way to use its scanning capabilities over the network. Is there any way to accomplish this? This is my main beef with products like the Linksys print servers and the like. They work, but only with the print function and nothing else.
I'd love to have a way to share all of my USB devices on the network from one device, and have them behave as if they were locally connected (or have some way to click a button to take ownership of a particular device if auto-sharing isn't possible). I don't even care if it's wireless - a 10/100 RJ45 port on it would be just fine. Oh - and it'd be nice if it works on more than just Windows. I usually like to have the option of supporting Linux directly.
I'd love it if somebody came up with a way for multiple cars to be able to share the same set of shaft/tracks and pass each other at designated points (or switch shafts). Instead of having, say, six shafts for six cars you should be able to double the number of cars (at least) in a tall building, given that if a car is heading upwards from floor 18 there should be no reason why another car couldn't use the shaft below, say, floor 16. Obviously there'd have to be serious work on collision avoidance (multiple redundancies), but I don't see why this shouldn't be possible.
And before somebody tries to patent that (assuming it's not already), consider this post prior art.
And while we're at it being able to switch to horizontal travel might be nice too (although the logistics of sorting out who gets to go where first might get tougher).
Why don't you look into ccache? I've been using it, and it can be particularly useful when updating packages that you've compiled already (assuming some of the source files are unchanged from the last version).
Speaking of which... I do the same. But has anyone found a tool that can zero out the slack space at the end of each file? Unused blocks are easy to fill with zeroes, but partially used ones are a bit harder to pull off.
I would expect that that would be able to get much better compression when you create your images.
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I'd certainly call the HP DL360 and 380 the most engineer friendly webserver hosts going.
Are you effing kidding me? The DL360? These completely non-redundant machines are the worst things you can use for a production server. I had four of them that I couldn't wait to get rid of - I'd have a machine go down without warning for a blown PSU or one of the fans stopping, RAID controllers gone haywire and all sorts of other hassles once every couple of months.
The darn things can't even support their own weight in the rack - they sag in the middle. This is seriously the saddest piece of garbage I've ever had the displeasure of deploying in the server room.
We're finally rid of ours, replaced with an IBM BladeCenter. Our problems disappeared as soon as we did that. Perhaps they're popular because they're relatively cheap. They're certainly not any good.
Are there any plans to re-release the Bork edition?
I for one enjoyed that Valentine's day treat quite a bit!
physically cashless, so you don't have anything that can be traded for goods and services if they decide to pull your card
Sounds more and more like a real-life version of PayPal, right? The scary part is when they arbitrarily (and unilaterally) decide to freeze your funds and make it next to impossible to get them back, even if you did nothing wrong.
Now having my passport stolen will be the least of my worries...
...you worried about having your face stolen?
He is, after all, a teacher being paid to teach, not a wise man imparting his pearls of wisdom in the form of incomprehensible riddels out of the goodness of his heart.
I don't know what University you went to, but in mine the professors are there to do research, write papers and get published.
Teaching is an afterthought. This is how the University gets their income to do the above.
5. you can get everything you want at the library. You can legally borrow it and rip it to MP3 or copy the disc for your personal collection (in Canada, anyway). You can even get new/popular stuff if you simply put a hold on it. In my town, you can place a hold online, and they'll check all the libraries in the area and bring it to the library of your choice when it's available. The wait is usually somewhere between 3 days and 2 weeks. They call you when it's ready for pickup.
I've not had a need to download when all the material I want is available for free right there.
Since you can't *give* the Canadians weapons
Right. And when Canada buys weapons from another country we get used pieces of crap that nobody else wants. We don't buy new - we take the mothballed junk.
It isn't safe to use SCAMP. SCO's corporate future is uncertain. They've based their entire company around a lawsuit that it looks like they will probably lose. It would be a bad idea to use SCAMP for a production system only to have SCO go bankrupt a year or two later.
It's not safe to not use SCO, at least if you used to be a customer at some point. It's sad, but I think that they actually have customers that are hoping they'll go bust, in order to cease being their customer without risking getting sued.
"Hey guys, lets get a lot of photos of people pretending to paint, then copy and paste and rotate them a lot so it looks like a kaleidoscope!"
Looks more like they're bending over to me...
How else do you explain his Expression?
LOL. Take this the next logical step. Your health insurance company parks outside your house and sets up a Pringles Can RFID scanner to see what's coming down the sewer.
Your premiums just went up because you ate too many pork rinds.
So it can cause hearing loss, all the while killing cancer. Sounds more like a feature than a bug!
1 - Linux won't use Solaris code because there doesn't appear to be any intention of migrating to GPL3
2 - Solaris can't use Linux code because Sun wants to keep their code under a second license (CDDL), which is at some level incompatible with the GPL (a.k.a incompatible with any imported Linux code)
I applaud Sun's ideas, but I am looking forward to a Fully Open Source Java (granted, I do appreciate that alternatives from other vendors are available nevertheless).
I've been using JExcelAPI for a while, and it's dirt simple to use for reading and writing Excel files. It's fairly complete feature-wise, and it's been able to do everything I need. It also has an easy learning curve, which was helpful when we were in a crunch.
And so if a parent refuses to have their privacy infringed just to pick their child up from school will the child be held indefinitely?
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
While I applaud the idea of signed drivers and the like, this looks like a very clever way to shut out OSS developers. Heck - some of the smaller commercial outfits might even balk at having to spend that kind of money on the certificate.
What pains me is knowing full well that this really won't necessarily increase the quality of the drivers, though. So they're signed. So what? All this might do is delay upgrades, if anything.
Cool idea, but that wouldn't quite meet my needs. The 4 computers in my house aren't necessarily in the same room. I have cat5 in every room, though, so networking is a possibility, and two notebooks with wireless.
The ideal solution would be some sort of USB "server" (like a standalone print server) that supports all of the functionality of the devices (ie, instead of acting as an SMB print server it would just make the USB devices available more or less natively). Basically behave as a USB bridge or something, and list/use the devices connected to the remote server.
They mention that you can make the devices wireless. That sounds great. But can they be shared with multiple PCs?
Case in point - I have a multifunction printer that I'd like to use from the 4 machines in the house. Setting the printer up as a network printer is fine - that part works no problem.
It's very difficult, however, to find a way to use its scanning capabilities over the network. Is there any way to accomplish this? This is my main beef with products like the Linksys print servers and the like. They work, but only with the print function and nothing else.
I'd love to have a way to share all of my USB devices on the network from one device, and have them behave as if they were locally connected (or have some way to click a button to take ownership of a particular device if auto-sharing isn't possible). I don't even care if it's wireless - a 10/100 RJ45 port on it would be just fine. Oh - and it'd be nice if it works on more than just Windows. I usually like to have the option of supporting Linux directly.
That's not what I'd call a real smart elevator.
I'd love it if somebody came up with a way for multiple cars to be able to share the same set of shaft/tracks and pass each other at designated points (or switch shafts). Instead of having, say, six shafts for six cars you should be able to double the number of cars (at least) in a tall building, given that if a car is heading upwards from floor 18 there should be no reason why another car couldn't use the shaft below, say, floor 16. Obviously there'd have to be serious work on collision avoidance (multiple redundancies), but I don't see why this shouldn't be possible.
And before somebody tries to patent that (assuming it's not already), consider this post prior art.
And while we're at it being able to switch to horizontal travel might be nice too (although the logistics of sorting out who gets to go where first might get tougher).
The first rule of the Sony Rootkit is that we do not talk about the Sony Rootkit.
The second rule of the Sony Rootkit is that we DO NOT TALK about the Sony Rootkit.
Why don't you look into ccache? I've been using it, and it can be particularly useful when updating packages that you've compiled already (assuming some of the source files are unchanged from the last version).
Start a Tim Horton's franchise? Surely there a corner somewhere that doesn't have one yet.
My team has thought about doing it. At least, back when our company was in the rough and it looked possible that layoffs were coming.
Cool. Except it looks like a Windows product. What about Linux? I would need ext3 and Reiserfs support...
Speaking of which... I do the same. But has anyone found a tool that can zero out the slack space at the end of each file? Unused blocks are easy to fill with zeroes, but partially used ones are a bit harder to pull off.
I would expect that that would be able to get much better compression when you create your images.
although clearly it's a concern that, should the salt value become known, all your passwords, etc, become breakable...
...and this is why anybody who implements salt generates a unique random salt for *each* password, not one system-wide one.
1 minute 58 seconds (I had the clock open) on my IBM T42 notebook, which is a 1.6Ghz Pentium M.