Of course some things suck: (1) it's microsoft (2) it crashes more than palmos(3) the battery life is crap and (4) the box is a bit bigger.
the zaurus fixes 1 and 2. I guess 3 and 4 would depend on the particular unit you compare it too. You can get a zaurus for $350 some places. Plus add built-in keyboard, and CF slot *and* SD slot. I use the CF slot for communication while using the SD slot for addition memory.
I agree with you that a "handheld pc" has a lot of advantages, I can't see myself every going back to a regular palm. Music, movies, better games, emulators,... I use my zaurus *exactly* as I use by regular PC, with the same applications as my desktop, OpenSSH, XMMS, Opera ( ok, on my desktop I use mozilla ),...
This has caused an even bigger problem because the school sees the dorms using obcene amounts of bandwidth on 80 and to control it they have limited the dorms to just 5 megabits.
that was a mistake on your netadmin's part for two reasons
(i) As someone else said, they could have still filtered traffic based on the protocol, or even class of protocol, it does not matter what port it's on. The packetshaper inspects the contents of the data portion of the TCP packet and determines the protocol from there. ( btw. the linux kernel has packet shaping code built in as well )
(ii)While using the shaper we found an interesting problem. Throttling creates a shit load of traffic inself. When the packet is throttled TCP resets and timeouts increase, the more traffic you're throttling, the more 'protocol overhead' traffic you will see. That traffic alone is enough to bring a network to its knees. This is likely what you're seeing.
Shaping can only do so much, the more you try to squeeze a large pipe using shaping, the more protocol traffic is generated, hence the more inefficent it gets.
(That's TSDF2, for you. Easier to read, write than XML, and uses less bandwidth. Parse it in 40 lines of PHP, or less if you're clever:-)
Or ~5 lines, if you're really, really, clever. Why add 40 lines of PHP to a web application, when you don't really have to? Yeah, with XML you supply the DTD and call the already written parser. Do you want to pit your 40 lines of php against expat or libxml2 ( via PHP extensions )? I didn't think so.
Plus you're going to have to write a parser for any language you want your script to be supported in. What if we would want other apps to be able to configure this application? With XML you would just have to provide the DTD.
Linux has a lot of fine programs that can only be configured using a config file. That's a drawback for many users. Using XML configuration files would at least make it easier for gui developers to come in after the fact and provide configuration gui's for those. I've work on a gui for an application I did not write once ( OpenLDAP ), pain in the butt. I have to modify the parser whenever a feature is add or deprecated. If the config was XML based, only a DTD would need to be changed.
Is your parser building a decent parse tree with a load of already written accessor functions to traverse/modify/output this tree ( aka DOM )? I did not think so.
Also, try modifying your simple language in the future. You'll have to modify your parser every time you did. With XML, just edit the DTD
Your script language might be simple to you, but it's another syntax your users would have to get familar with, another one added to dozens of others. I've seen enough of those, there is no reason to not have a stardard syntax for most configuration files IMHO.
The more applications that move to XML the better!
I think is not a bad idea at all. The reward is high though, so I suspect a few people might find some way to abuse the system.
But what if someone creates a site were you can put a bounty on a particular spam message and add to the pot on locating the spammer ( for legal action, of course ). I don't mean just finding originating network, but the real contact information of the individual or company responsible.
So say you get a particular "work at home" message once a day. You can post your message on there and put $5 in the collection for finding the prick who's harassing you. If he/she is annoying you, chances are there are others who are being annoyed as well. If there is a match in the database, then your money is added to others.
I am sure there are lots of capabable people out there, given $100 bucks to find a spammer *will* find them.
This site could also be used to organize groups of people who would like to sue spammers. So instead of one person footing the bill, if your spammer is being sued, you can join the fun as well.
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Exchange is just a simply IMAP4/LDAP3/NNTP/POP/SMTP + Calender server. I say 'just' because all of these services except calendar are already available as open source already.
The functionality you speak about parts of the individual ietf standards and not invented by microsoft. It's now a matter of configuring them to play nice with each other, which is what the kroupware people are doing with kolab. eg make the NNTP server look to LDAP for accounts ( already been done I'm sure), make the calender store appointments in the a user's IMAP folder ( trival, really it is ) etc.
Exchange goes far beyond what you describe. First by centralizing these functions it makes it easier to manage the single application, rather than several different ones. Backups are a breeze.
point all youre data directories to somewhere in/var. backup/var. I don't see it getting any easier then this.
The calendaring goes beyond what you describe. Not only can you receive a meeting invitation, you can also share calendars or entire mail boxes....
IMAP4 standard supports shared folders. You can share a folder to a group of other IMAP users, to everybody, etc. It's a lot like standard filesystem permissions but on folders in your IMAP inbox and managed by the IMAP4 server through the IMAP protocol. This is all support in Cyrus IMAP server already.
What MS probably did was to take the calender info and store it in a special "calendar" folder which is special to exchange. Being a IMAP folder , permissions could be set as needed and subfolders can be created to manage calender between groups. Nobody is going to win a noble prize for this.
Then there is the additional feature of Exchange called public folders.
Same as above. Nice racket MS has running there.
Exchange 2000 also has a NNTP server built in so you can host USENET news or your own NNTP news groups.
INN from ISC works great.
The biggest part of the puzzle missing is Outlook integration, and there are DLLs out there for that. Bynari has one, wish there was a GPL version though. It's amazing that MS builds a service on standards and still manages to make it incompartible with others using those exact same protocols.
The poster illustrates the problem with examples such as bookmarks and address books ( which is a different problem than what liberty et. al tries to solve I believe) . These kinds of information can already be kept in an LDAP server and most applications can store and retrieve these from those servers. Outlook does it, mozilla does, ximian does it.
LDAP address book support is relatively mature in most email readers. Check out OpenLDAP for more info.
Single sign-on can also be done via LDAP. Or Kerberos/LDAP if you're so inclined. Netscape NTSych product, the Psynch® product, etc. can be used to sych NT or win2k with an external database. Check out projects such as pgina. There's a free general purpose NT password sync dll available from AcctSync. This DLL is nice, you can catch user passwords and pass them to an arbituary script with the username. This could be a perl script that updates LDAP to a vbscript that updates the coresponding Oracle user, it doesn't matter.
Also, it's simple to store public certs in an ldap server, making it easier to deploy PKI on a budget ( you don't want to know how much netscape and novell charges for this per user, trust me:)
In short, a lot of your problems can be solved right now by running a LDAP server and configuring your applications to rely on it for their datastore. Good luck.
The NYTimes is asking *so* little for their content and use of their servers. Abusing their registration system is being extremely unreasonable IMHO, since for one we are not *forced* to use it.
If you don't want to give the information then don't read the articles!!
I for one would perfectly understand if NYTimes some day decides to banned links from slashdot.
*continues laments about sense of fairness in todays society...*
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and does not depend on who the oppenent is.
If both players play a perfect game, awari results in a draw. If the opponent makes a mistake, the perfect game will result in *at least* a draw but may result in a win.
The computer has a *huge* database of *every* possible valid configuration of pieces. Whenever the other player makes a move, it simply prunes all moves that are impossible to make and only considers the best of the valid sequences. There is no guessing as the computer knows *everthing*. I'm sure the algorithm is not that simple, but I believe that's the gist of it.
Try a search on google for backtracking algorithms and red-black trees.
PS. my apologies if this is not what you were getting at.
I think this is exciting news for those of us interested in the linux pda market. I have zaurus sl5500 and loving it. The zaurus is by far the pda with the most geek potential out there. Try finding another pda with an SD slot, CF slot and a qwerty keyboard built in, all in a reasonable size and price( contrary to the article, the zaurus is not big at all ).
And should every user that wants to give crash data ( from a core file or talkback ) from linux have to build their own?
it takes 3 hours and 1Gig of drive space on a P450. I did build my own for a while and I contributed a few bug fixes in that time as well. But I can't have such a huge build running everyday on my desktop.
Also, the unstripped binary would be in *addition* to the stripped and can clearly be labelled as such. eg. mozilla-linux-i686-unstripped.tar.gz, along with the others in ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/lastest/
But this is only an example, my point is that it is getting increasing difficult to give feedback in the larger OSS projects nowadays.
PS. This is meant as serious argument I've observed, not a troll ( as my previous post has seemed to be labelled )
Just after I read your post mozilla crashed on me again, so I am going to respond.
I submitted one of those WONTFIX bugs, and I stand by my suggestion still today. I recommended that an unstripped nightly or a linux talkback nightly build be distributed ( either one ), just as talkback nightlies for windows are distributed. The sad thing is the suggestion is simple. They would have to *not* strip a binary before inclusion on the mozilla ftp server. This would require no code changes and only a minor build change.
I'm not just bitching about not being able to run nightlies under a debugger without building from scratch. I'm complaining about not being able to provide any reasonable information to the developers for those random crashes. And thus having to live with those crashes.
I'm complaining about being shut out of this "mozilla community" I keep hearing about.
Mozilla and other large OSS projects are turning their backs on one of the most important advantages of OSS, user feedback. As more and more of the decisions go corporate and behind closed doors, these projects will appeal less and less to many users.
XML is more than hype. It's a god send for many of us.
Try writing a parser for any widely used file format. Go ahead I dare you, DOC, RTF, anyone. Just the parser, so the end result is a syntax tree in memory. See how long it takes to get anything useful. Don't stop there think of revisions of the format. Languages, are we going to have one solid C library and thats it? Aren't we going to support Ruby and Phython? Think of the API to get other programs to use your in-memory parse tree. How are you going to do that? Another API?
XML makes this trivial. with libxml or any of the other popular XML libraries, no *real* coding is involved, just supply the DTD. And plus XML libraries are everywhere. DOM is documented and understood by programmers who may not have encountered your format before, shortening the learning curve for use of your product
With an XML file format *any* of those libraries can be used to edit the format. No more sending mouse clicks to Microsoft word to do simple doc conversions or other hacks. Just write a *very* short PERL script that would parse this file. Also because XML is becoming the parser language of choice, there is a good chance that suitable XML libraries are available for your platform/langauge or installed already.
The idea to use XML is most likely from coders who have had to deal with these parser issues for years. I doubt it was handed down my OpenOffice "management".
I just become a member as well, $50. I could have done a lot of other things with that money, but I think having a GPL tool like Blender is going to be worth the money.
The Blender foundation only needs about 2000 members to meet its goal of $100,000, including overhead for collecting the money. If you become a member, then you have a good chance of making a difference in the campaign.
A lot of people talk the talk, but don't back it up with action. Nows your chance people!
As a side note. I donated the $50 minimum required for being a member thinking I gave them a little extra, being that all their values are quoted in EUROs and I was donating in US. Only afterwards did I remember how much the dollar has fallen lately : ) Turns out I owe them some change:)
what about the new zaurus linux pda release 2day?
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This just breaks my heart. I submit a story on the hot new linux powered Xscale pda hitting the shelves and my story gets rejected. Later that same day I see a story on "feather-powered circuits". I kid you not:)
We've also found that cell phones are displacing the sales of watches, as most modern cell phones have a server-synchronized clock built in.
I know I'm on a geek site but...
Many people, like myself, don't wear a watch to tell the time only. For instance, I wear a movado, it has *no numbers* and *no strokes to mark anything*. You don't tell time on that thing, you take a rough estimate:)
What the watch does very well is look nice. I get compliments from random people, chicks mostly, constantly. I've discovered a watch is one of the first things a girl will look for in bars,clubs,etc. to figure if you're worth the trouble.
Sometimes it's good to take your geek hat off for a bit : )
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I agree that the interface at first glance appears to be convuluted. But once you learn it, you'll realize it's one of the most well thought-out gui's out there, period. I'm sure many blender users out there would atest to that.
Don't just download blender and expect to learn the GUI by fiddling around. Chances are you'll only get fustrated after a while. Buy the tutorial, it is *well* worth the ~$35 if you're serious about learning this 3D app. The Official Blender 2.0 Guide.
Please masturbate before submitting questions, not during.
Come on guys, please dislodge any primates you have up your butt before reading post. The original question was just a joke, and the really wasn't anything offense in there either ( most reasonable people when have taken it as a complement ). If you take things a little more light-heartedly, you may have a laugh once in a while
Not intending to be a troll or anything. But I have heard in the past that MySQL will lose a very small fraction of it's data due to it's underlying technology ( ISAM?? or something ).
My view is that if you want to view their content, you should play by their rules
I would mod you up if you weren't at +5 already.
Slashdot, including it's editors, gives "anonymous cowards" all that grief for not registering while *at the same time* complaining about NY times requiring a identical login. Why aren't they just called "anonymous users"?
When you cheat the papers out of the *only* thing they ask from you, a tiny bit of statistical data, you just make it harder for them to make a buck and justify their existance. These papers are going to go away and it will be that much harder to get well written free content on the web.
The newspapers incure expense, publishing this free content and delivering it to you. That's something I think slashdot should understand. They don't have "thinkgeek" or "sourceforge" to sell to they users either.
Making sites like http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html only gives big company justification for DMCA like laws. You are retarding their ability to make a buck, whilst using their content. That,IMHO, is stealing.
it was just easier for marketing to call it a "switch" instead of give a big, long description of what it actually is...a really cool, tricked out bridge.
true.
Nice point, btw.
But get this. I work with foundry bigiron 8ks. These can inpect layer 4+. Are they "layer 4 routers"?:)
If I have my dns server send certain queries to other dns servers, is it a "layer 7 router"? I mean, it is routing at the 7th OSI layer.
if we look at this conceptually, switching and routing much alike. But we call them different things, making it easier, in part, to communicate what layer we're 'thinking' in. ie. encapsulation.
to be honest, I'll admit mine is not a very important or particularly insight argument. but hey, it's slashdot and I'm bored:)
For many vendors, Layer 4 switching simply refers to applying filters to IP packets based on Layer 4 information. For example, if you want to filter all Web traffic off certain ports, or all PointCast traffic from your network, a simple Layer 4 access-control filter will do it. In a way, these products function as rudimentary firewalls, except they aren't designed to alert you when a user violates a rule--they simply enforce it.
Thanks for the link, it actually cleared up what I was trying to say.
I consider that class of device a "filter" or "traffic shaper" rather than a "layer 4 switch".
But yeah, you point is valid. I may as well surrender the fight and call them "layer 4 switches" like everyone else:) sigh.
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the oil, at least in our case was 'parafin oil' (sp.?)
this story brings back memories :) 20+ high schoolers sneaking out of the lab anything we thought would be explosively reactive.
Eventually we figured that we needed metals lower down in the group, never got any potassium though. Today I thank god for that.
the zaurus fixes 1 and 2. I guess 3 and 4 would depend on the particular unit you compare it too. You can get a zaurus for $350 some places. Plus add built-in keyboard, and CF slot *and* SD slot. I use the CF slot for communication while using the SD slot for addition memory.
I agree with you that a "handheld pc" has a lot of advantages, I can't see myself every going back to a regular palm. Music, movies, better games, emulators,... I use my zaurus *exactly* as I use by regular PC, with the same applications as my desktop, OpenSSH, XMMS, Opera ( ok, on my desktop I use mozilla ), ...
that was a mistake on your netadmin's part for two reasons
(i) As someone else said, they could have still filtered traffic based on the protocol, or even class of protocol, it does not matter what port it's on. The packetshaper inspects the contents of the data portion of the TCP packet and determines the protocol from there. ( btw. the linux kernel has packet shaping code built in as well )
(ii)While using the shaper we found an interesting problem. Throttling creates a shit load of traffic inself. When the packet is throttled TCP resets and timeouts increase, the more traffic you're throttling, the more 'protocol overhead' traffic you will see. That traffic alone is enough to bring a network to its knees. This is likely what you're seeing.
Shaping can only do so much, the more you try to squeeze a large pipe using shaping, the more protocol traffic is generated, hence the more inefficent it gets.
Or ~5 lines, if you're really, really, clever. Why add 40 lines of PHP to a web application, when you don't really have to? Yeah, with XML you supply the DTD and call the already written parser. Do you want to pit your 40 lines of php against expat or libxml2 ( via PHP extensions )? I didn't think so.
Plus you're going to have to write a parser for any language you want your script to be supported in. What if we would want other apps to be able to configure this application? With XML you would just have to provide the DTD.
Linux has a lot of fine programs that can only be configured using a config file. That's a drawback for many users. Using XML configuration files would at least make it easier for gui developers to come in after the fact and provide configuration gui's for those. I've work on a gui for an application I did not write once ( OpenLDAP ), pain in the butt. I have to modify the parser whenever a feature is add or deprecated. If the config was XML based, only a DTD would need to be changed.
Is your parser building a decent parse tree with a load of already written accessor functions to traverse/modify/output this tree ( aka DOM )? I did not think so.
Also, try modifying your simple language in the future. You'll have to modify your parser every time you did. With XML, just edit the DTD
Your script language might be simple to you, but it's another syntax your users would have to get familar with, another one added to dozens of others. I've seen enough of those, there is no reason to not have a stardard syntax for most configuration files IMHO.
The more applications that move to XML the better!
I think is not a bad idea at all. The reward is high though, so I suspect a few people might find some way to abuse the system.
But what if someone creates a site were you can put a bounty on a particular spam message and add to the pot on locating the spammer ( for legal action, of course ). I don't mean just finding originating network, but the real contact information of the individual or company responsible.
So say you get a particular "work at home" message once a day. You can post your message on there and put $5 in the collection for finding the prick who's harassing you. If he/she is annoying you, chances are there are others who are being annoyed as well. If there is a match in the database, then your money is added to others.
I am sure there are lots of capabable people out there, given $100 bucks to find a spammer *will* find them.
This site could also be used to organize groups of people who would like to sue spammers. So instead of one person footing the bill, if your spammer is being sued, you can join the fun as well.
Exchange is just a simply IMAP4/LDAP3/NNTP/POP/SMTP + Calender server. I say 'just' because all of these services except calendar are already available as open source already.
The functionality you speak about parts of the individual ietf standards and not invented by microsoft. It's now a matter of configuring them to play nice with each other, which is what the kroupware people are doing with kolab. eg make the NNTP server look to LDAP for accounts ( already been done I'm sure), make the calender store appointments in the a user's IMAP folder ( trival, really it is ) etc.
Exchange goes far beyond what you describe. First by centralizing these functions it makes it easier to manage the single application, rather than several different ones. Backups are a breeze.
point all youre data directories to somewhere in /var. backup /var. I don't see it getting any easier then this.
The calendaring goes beyond what you describe. Not only can you receive a meeting invitation, you can also share calendars or entire mail boxes....
IMAP4 standard supports shared folders. You can share a folder to a group of other IMAP users, to everybody, etc. It's a lot like standard filesystem permissions but on folders in your IMAP inbox and managed by the IMAP4 server through the IMAP protocol. This is all support in Cyrus IMAP server already.
What MS probably did was to take the calender info and store it in a special "calendar" folder which is special to exchange. Being a IMAP folder , permissions could be set as needed and subfolders can be created to manage calender between groups. Nobody is going to win a noble prize for this.
Then there is the additional feature of Exchange called public folders.
Same as above. Nice racket MS has running there.
Exchange 2000 also has a NNTP server built in so you can host USENET news or your own NNTP news groups.
INN from ISC works great.
The biggest part of the puzzle missing is Outlook integration, and there are DLLs out there for that. Bynari has one, wish there was a GPL version though. It's amazing that MS builds a service on standards and still manages to make it incompartible with others using those exact same protocols.
The poster illustrates the problem with examples such as bookmarks and address books ( which is a different problem than what liberty et. al tries to solve I believe) . These kinds of information can already be kept in an LDAP server and most applications can store and retrieve these from those servers. Outlook does it, mozilla does, ximian does it.
LDAP address book support is relatively mature in most email readers. Check out OpenLDAP for more info.
Single sign-on can also be done via LDAP. Or Kerberos/LDAP if you're so inclined. Netscape NTSych product, the Psynch® product, etc. can be used to sych NT or win2k with an external database. Check out projects such as pgina. There's a free general purpose NT password sync dll available from AcctSync. This DLL is nice, you can catch user passwords and pass them to an arbituary script with the username. This could be a perl script that updates LDAP to a vbscript that updates the coresponding Oracle user, it doesn't matter.
Also, it's simple to store public certs in an ldap server, making it easier to deploy PKI on a budget ( you don't want to know how much netscape and novell charges for this per user, trust me :)
In short, a lot of your problems can be solved right now by running a LDAP server and configuring your applications to rely on it for their datastore. Good luck.
Amen bro!
I couldn't agree with you more.
The NYTimes is asking *so* little for their content and use of their servers. Abusing their registration system is being extremely unreasonable IMHO, since for one we are not *forced* to use it.
If you don't want to give the information then don't read the articles!!
I for one would perfectly understand if NYTimes some day decides to banned links from slashdot.
*continues laments about sense of fairness in todays society...*
and does not depend on who the oppenent is.
If both players play a perfect game, awari results in a draw. If the opponent makes a mistake, the perfect game will result in *at least* a draw but may result in a win.
The computer has a *huge* database of *every* possible valid configuration of pieces. Whenever the other player makes a move, it simply prunes all moves that are impossible to make and only considers the best of the valid sequences. There is no guessing as the computer knows *everthing*.
I'm sure the algorithm is not that simple, but I believe that's the gist of it.
Try a search on google for backtracking algorithms and red-black trees.
PS. my apologies if this is not what you were getting at.
recent linuxdevices.com article
I think this is exciting news for those of us interested in the linux pda market. I have zaurus sl5500 and loving it. The zaurus is by far the pda with the most geek potential out there. Try finding another pda with an SD slot, CF slot and a qwerty keyboard built in, all in a reasonable size and price( contrary to the article, the zaurus is not big at all ).
And should every user that wants to give crash data ( from a core file or talkback ) from linux have to build their own?
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it takes 3 hours and 1Gig of drive space on a P450. I did build my own for a while and I contributed a few bug fixes in that time as well. But I can't have such a huge build running everyday on my desktop.
Also, the unstripped binary would be in *addition* to the stripped and can clearly be labelled as such. eg. mozilla-linux-i686-unstripped.tar.gz, along with the others in ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/nightly/lastest
But this is only an example, my point is that it is getting increasing difficult to give feedback in the larger OSS projects nowadays.
PS. This is meant as serious argument I've observed, not a troll ( as my previous post has seemed to be labelled )
... allowed to be heard.
Just after I read your post mozilla crashed on me again, so I am going to respond.
I submitted one of those WONTFIX bugs, and I stand by my suggestion still today. I recommended that an unstripped nightly or a linux talkback nightly build be distributed ( either one ), just as talkback nightlies for windows are distributed. The sad thing is the suggestion is simple. They would have to *not* strip a binary before inclusion on the mozilla ftp server. This would require no code changes and only a minor build change.
I'm not just bitching about not being able to run nightlies under a debugger without building from scratch. I'm complaining about not being able to provide any reasonable information to the developers for those random crashes. And thus having to live with those crashes.
I'm complaining about being shut out of this "mozilla community" I keep hearing about.
Mozilla and other large OSS projects are turning their backs on one of the most important advantages of OSS, user feedback. As more and more of the decisions go corporate and behind closed doors, these projects will appeal less and less to many users.
If there's a contract involved.
Microsoft is stipulating that they buy in the future, according to the article. There's an obvious transfer of value between parties.
If I were in the position to bid in one of those cities, believe me, I would sue.
XML is more than hype. It's a god send for many of us.
Try writing a parser for any widely used file format. Go ahead I dare you, DOC, RTF, anyone. Just the parser, so the end result is a syntax tree in memory. See how long it takes to get anything useful. Don't stop there think of revisions of the format. Languages, are we going to have one solid C library and thats it? Aren't we going to support Ruby and Phython? Think of the API to get other programs to use your in-memory parse tree. How are you going to do that? Another API?
XML makes this trivial. with libxml or any of the other popular XML libraries, no *real* coding is involved, just supply the DTD. And plus XML libraries are everywhere. DOM is documented and understood by programmers who may not have encountered your format before, shortening the learning curve for use of your product
With an XML file format *any* of those libraries can be used to edit the format. No more sending mouse clicks to Microsoft word to do simple doc conversions or other hacks. Just write a *very* short PERL script that would parse this file. Also because XML is becoming the parser language of choice, there is a good chance that suitable XML libraries are available for your platform/langauge or installed already.
The idea to use XML is most likely from coders who have had to deal with these parser issues for years. I doubt it was handed down my OpenOffice "management".
I just become a member as well, $50. I could have done a lot of other things with that money, but I think having a GPL tool like Blender is going to be worth the money.
The Blender foundation only needs about 2000 members to meet its goal of $100,000, including overhead for collecting the money. If you become a member, then you have a good chance of making a difference in the campaign.
A lot of people talk the talk, but don't back it up with action. Nows your chance people!
As a side note. I donated the $50 minimum required for being a member thinking I gave them a little extra, being that all their values are quoted in EUROs and I was donating in US. Only afterwards did I remember how much the dollar has fallen lately : ) Turns out I owe them some change :)
Sharp released a brand new zaurus in Japan today ( or it was at least scheduled for today ). The main site is in Japenese and is here http://sl.ezaurus.com Linux devices is also carrying the story at http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3610510159.html
This just breaks my heart. I submit a story on the hot new linux powered Xscale pda hitting the shelves and my story gets rejected. Later that same day I see a story on "feather-powered circuits". I kid you not :)
We've also found that cell phones are displacing the sales of watches, as most modern cell phones have a server-synchronized clock built in.
I know I'm on a geek site but...
Many people, like myself, don't wear a watch to tell the time only. For instance, I wear a movado, it has *no numbers* and *no strokes to mark anything*. You don't tell time on that thing, you take a rough estimate :)
What the watch does very well is look nice. I get compliments from random people, chicks mostly, constantly. I've discovered a watch is one of the first things a girl will look for in bars,clubs,etc. to figure if you're worth the trouble.
Sometimes it's good to take your geek hat off for a bit : )
I agree that the interface at first glance appears to be convuluted. But once you learn it, you'll realize it's one of the most well thought-out gui's out there, period. I'm sure many blender users out there would atest to that.
Don't just download blender and expect to learn the GUI by fiddling around. Chances are you'll only get fustrated after a while. Buy the tutorial, it is *well* worth the ~$35 if you're serious about learning this 3D app. The Official Blender 2.0 Guide.
Come on guys, please dislodge any primates you have up your butt before reading post. The original question was just a joke, and the really wasn't anything offense in there either ( most reasonable people when have taken it as a complement ). If you take things a little more light-heartedly, you may have a laugh once in a while
Not intending to be a troll or anything. But I have heard in the past that MySQL will lose a very small fraction of it's data due to it's underlying technology ( ISAM?? or something ).
Is that still true? or has that been fixed?
I would mod you up if you weren't at +5 already.
Slashdot, including it's editors, gives "anonymous cowards" all that grief for not registering while *at the same time* complaining about NY times requiring a identical login. Why aren't they just called "anonymous users"?
When you cheat the papers out of the *only* thing they ask from you, a tiny bit of statistical data, you just make it harder for them to make a buck and justify their existance. These papers are going to go away and it will be that much harder to get well written free content on the web.
The newspapers incure expense, publishing this free content and delivering it to you. That's something I think slashdot should understand. They don't have "thinkgeek" or "sourceforge" to sell to they users either.
Making sites like http://www.majcher.com/nytview.html only gives big company justification for DMCA like laws. You are retarding their ability to make a buck, whilst using their content. That,IMHO, is stealing.
maybe modify the worm to notify www@domain that the server is exploitable?
true.
Nice point, btw.
But get this. I work with foundry bigiron 8ks. These can inpect layer 4+. Are they "layer 4 routers"? :)
If I have my dns server send certain queries to other dns servers, is it a "layer 7 router"? I mean, it is routing at the 7th OSI layer.
if we look at this conceptually, switching and routing much alike. But we call them different things, making it easier, in part, to communicate what layer we're 'thinking' in. ie. encapsulation.
to be honest, I'll admit mine is not a very important or particularly insight argument. but hey, it's slashdot and I'm bored :)
Thanks for the link, it actually cleared up what I was trying to say.
I consider that class of device a "filter" or "traffic shaper" rather than a "layer 4 switch".
But yeah, you point is valid. I may as well surrender the fight and call them "layer 4 switches" like everyone else :) sigh.
ps there's no such thing as a layer 4 switch. This might be some new market-speak, maybe.
Network switches operate at layer 2, eg. ethernet, etc. If you at layer 3, then you're routing.
layer 4 to 7 filter is new, but they're definately not switches. Most times AFAIK, they're called 'packet shapers'