So why don't they do that? We already have nifty stuff like mod_perl and mod_gzip and a whole bunch of other mod_*'s. Maybe it would be good to seperate some of the other functionality into modules. Make the core apache service serve strictly static HTML. Then, if you need it, have the apache daemon call other modules if they are available and they client requests information that needs them such as a mod_php and a mod_ftp.
I probably know less about the inner workings of apache than i should and some of the stuff i mentioned may already be there, but it seems to me that some linux developement shops are trying to provide the ultimate product. I'd be happy if apache handed me a box of parts and a roll of duct tape if it would make my apache implementation lighter weight. ----------------------
I can't seem to remember where i read it, (it may have been on [H]ardOCP.) but whatever it was, it stated that the Pentium 4 is messed up because it is configured for pure MHz. However, the way that it uses those cycles is very inefficient. it is very common to see 1.33Ghz athlons, or even 1Ghz P!!!'s outperform the 1.4Ghz p4's as far as throughput and other factors besides clock speed. ----------------------
The really interesting part about this whole thing, (the M$ faq and the satire above) is that M$ only provides the answers to questions that they want you to ask. Where are the answers to questions like "why does microsoft feel the need to *&(^&)@@#$ the customer every chance they get?" or "Why does microsoft think that you can't make money off of the GPL?" or my favorite "Why are you a bunch of software Nazi's out to kill everyone who pisses you off?" ----------------------
This is a great technology for people who are physically impaired in some way. However, I don't think that pilots will go for it. There is just too much to be said for having a tactile interface. You need force feedback when flying, or else you could end as an oily smear on the side of a mountain. It may make sense to use some form of this technology for specific functions such as radar. Imagine being able to get a target lock by just keeping in eye contact with your target.
Despite the usefullness of this technology, it will not soon or easily displace a good old fashioned stick ----------------------
Funny you should compare genetic manipulation to coding.
It's all ok until someone writes buggy code, and then we have people who pass out because they smelled canned peaches. Or there is some bug that makes them have an unnatural fear that someone will steal all of their ideas and technology, so they become unreasonable psychopaths who hate freedom. (hmmm.. sound familiar?)
Our genetic code might not be the most secure stuff, but it fairly stable. (can you keep any of your servers, windows or *nix's, up for 70 years?)
What i am trying to say is that humans don't know nearly enough about genetics to be able to safely do this sort of thing with 100 percent reliability. I just hope that they can keep from trying to "fix" other "flaws" before they know enough to keep from collapsing the codebase by accidentally creating some sort of genetic virus or something. ----------------------
Speaking of blurring definitions. You should hear what microsoft calls open source software. A coworker was using a technet training cd, and it had a slide show with voice accompanyment. There was mention that win2k can connect to a unix server running samba which is a "freeware program". while that is technically true, it shows how they are completely unable to grasp the concept that something can be both free and Free. All he could grasp was that it was free(beer)ware.
i guess it is just impossible to M$ to comprehend anything that does not (a) shaft the customer (b)rip off the customer (see a) or (c)guarentee them billions is revenue (see b)
AND they managed the upgrade without interrupting services. That is one of the benefits of using many indivudual smallish servers instead of a few large ones that way you dont get stuff like this that was on yahoo today:
Whoops! We cannot process that request.
We are presently performing system upgrades. During this time, some areas of the site may be unreachable.
Yeah i know that yahoo uses google for their searches, but they don't use it for other services on their site.
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I agree with some of your points, but i feel that not everyone can qualify as being "normal". There are some people at the hospital that i work at that are so incompetent about computers that we don't even want to go to their desks. We use registry hacks to lock down all workstations, and we are really happy about having win2k so that we can restrict even further. (it would be cool to have our users use linux, but the bootup kernel messages would make them call the helpdesk).
Our users don't even need to know how to use alot of computer features. On win95 boxen we don't have complete control over whether they can install, but we make sure that they know who is boss, and what they can't do. I suppose that whether you let users mess with their own computers depends on the environment. In a healthcare situation, there are a lot of healthcare specific applications. None of them work too well on their own, and if we let the users install stuff on/tweak their computers, they would be doomed. ----------------------
I think that one of the things that it comes down to is that both GNOME and KDE have applications that specifically run under those platforms. Both have functionality that the other lacks.
It is true that it is good to have several projects out there so that people can choose what is best for them. However, what linux really needs right now is a standardised GUI that can work with either a standard toolkit, or with the existing ones. One of the only things that Linux really lacks is a good front end. That is, and has always been one of the reasons that people choose windows over linux. ----------------------
Apple likes fire wire and has based their marketing on fire wire devices. AND
M$ has decided to use fire wire over usb 2.0 AND
M$ likes to "embrace and extend" THEREFORE
Apple is doomed
The hostpital that I work at recently spent a couple of hundred thousand dollars on a very complicated piece of patient scheduling (it does other stuff too) software.
The company is MediServe (just so that you guys can know and avoid them in the future) and they sold the hospital this software that was at version 1.x. We should have gotten a discount from them for being a beta site.
First of all, this thing requires an SQL server in the backend to handle the data. OK, that's no problem. But this software can't even talk to M$ SQL server! It required an interface pc to translate between the desktop software and the SQL server.
After that, the real trouble started. Even though it was a 1.x release, the project manager felt that it should have been in the early beta cycle. He would spend hours on the phone relaying bugs to the developers. These were bugs that our poor users were wasting time documenting and working around. (luckily it is currently running in parallel to the original system.) In one week, we recieved 5 (yes, five!) new versions of the software. That was only in one week!.
My theory, is that some moron messed up on the budget and they started running out of capital and had to find some suckers to pay them. and they got paid to have someone else test.
A word of caution to everyone out there, Investigate new applications before you buy! ----------------------
Yup, that's the only way to go. It's MUCH better than lugging around even a small tower becuase you still need a monitor, keyboard, etc... and that gets bulky.
Personally, i've resigned myself to renting a uhaul and taking my 19" monitor and full tower case with me. With the size (and raw unrestrained power) of that thing, the intimidation factor makes up for the transport hassle. ----------------------
hehe, double talk. Maybe that's why they have so many problems with their products stability and security. They don't directly fix the problem, they just make it so that i can't send myself a word document from home to work. (outlook blocks all *.M$ documents.) ----------------------
I think that microsoft seriously needs to change the way that they release security updates. First, they need to always make sure that all fixes can appear in windows update. Second, they really need to create period mass updates for download that contain a series of smaller updates.
I want to be able to download a 100 meg file that i can burn to cd that contains all critical updates, security patches, and compatability updates and service packs that have been released since win2k was released. It really is a pain in the rear to have to update a computer that is on a dialup, or spend the time doing windows update when i could just whip out the cd and fix it all right there. The same goes for IE. ----------------------
i'll believe that they are stealing GPL code, when i try to print and an error message pops up that says "lp0 is on fire" or if i see some other form of hard evidence. ----------------------
actually, considering the quality of most fan sites. with their clipart, blink tags, painful color schemes, etc... they usually look like they were made in about ten minutes. ----------------------
I think that euroderf is right about the way that math is taught in school, at least in High School anyway. When i was in HS, math concepts were taught without any eplanation. We were told that in order to do this, you must do this. It always involved doing it in some long drawn out way, and it always seemed really hard. It wasn't until i got into a College Algebra class that the instructor showed us simple formulas for what had been hard and obfuscated in HS.
HS teachers also have a stupid way of doing assignments and tests. My HS algebra II teacher would lecture, and then give us and assignment. and then he would hardly ever give us the oppourtunity to ask questions. Then the test would take 2 hrs to do because it would be 30 problems. College is so much easier actually. You spend half the hour learning why you couldn't do some of the homework from the previous day, and then the rest is new stuff, and our tests are like 8 problems that are hard, but since we've already beat the subject to death, then if you paid attention you whip through them. ----------------------
many states don't have sales tax, but believe me, they make up for it in on way or another. For example, here in Oregon, we have no sales tax. However, we do have a property tax, and they do screw you with that. You'll get something from the state that says, "you painted your cardboard box. It is now worth $2000 more." And then they raise your taxes accordingly. Sure, it's a red hot metal rod up the ass, but it offsets the taxes that we don't have.
What needs to be asked is how much will it cost to form a new government beauracracy to regulate this? ----------------------
Absolutely right! I went to a public school that did not have a rules against slandering it, and i'm glad for that. They did a whole lot to merit getting cursed under my breath and publicly. They did so much to screw me over that finally i dropped out and got my GED.
While i fundamentally agree with piggy, i feel that adminstration in public schools can be just as dumbassish as in private institutions.
It is also important that maybe the state get regulated by some of the rules of the private sector. Private sector does have to answer to it's shareholders. Aren't we all shareholders in the government? Instead the government does all kinds of crazy things like allowing school officials to be dumbasses ----------------------
Personally, I never have, and never will buy a gaming console.
Lets see, the features of the latest gaming consoles are what:?
Damned fast CPU's: wait, i already got two of those in my desktop.
Schweet graphics: wait, i already go that on my desktop.
Modem: wait, i already have one of those in my proxy server.
Network connectivity: wait, i already have that on my desktop.
Hard drives: wait, i already have several on my desktop and in a file server.
And i daresay that the typical desktop monitor looks nicer than a TV.
and play control on my computer is always better. Who likes having to punch in up, left, down, bbb, xx,z, left, left, left, left, zxbca, leftright, L, R, LLLL, right, Æ. aaaahhhhggg where's the Æ?
What my point is, is that all this nifty tech that is going into gaming consoles should be going into making my desktop box better. Consoles are just trying really hard to be desktops. It will be interesting to see if consoles try to let the user get on the internet to just surf and check email. ----------------------
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So why don't they do that? We already have nifty stuff like mod_perl and mod_gzip and a whole bunch of other mod_*'s. Maybe it would be good to seperate some of the other functionality into modules. Make the core apache service serve strictly static HTML. Then, if you need it, have the apache daemon call other modules if they are available and they client requests information that needs them such as a mod_php and a mod_ftp.
I probably know less about the inner workings of apache than i should and some of the stuff i mentioned may already be there, but it seems to me that some linux developement shops are trying to provide the ultimate product. I'd be happy if apache handed me a box of parts and a roll of duct tape if it would make my apache implementation lighter weight.
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effectively placing text ads on everyone's pages without payment
They can put as many links in my website as they want, just as long as i am amply compensated.
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I can't seem to remember where i read it, (it may have been on [H]ardOCP.) but whatever it was, it stated that the Pentium 4 is messed up because it is configured for pure MHz. However, the way that it uses those cycles is very inefficient. it is very common to see 1.33Ghz athlons, or even 1Ghz P!!!'s outperform the 1.4Ghz p4's as far as throughput and other factors besides clock speed.
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The really interesting part about this whole thing, (the M$ faq and the satire above) is that M$ only provides the answers to questions that they want you to ask. Where are the answers to questions like "why does microsoft feel the need to *&(^&)@@#$ the customer every chance they get?" or "Why does microsoft think that you can't make money off of the GPL?" or my favorite "Why are you a bunch of software Nazi's out to kill everyone who pisses you off?"
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This is a great technology for people who are physically impaired in some way. However, I don't think that pilots will go for it. There is just too much to be said for having a tactile interface. You need force feedback when flying, or else you could end as an oily smear on the side of a mountain. It may make sense to use some form of this technology for specific functions such as radar. Imagine being able to get a target lock by just keeping in eye contact with your target.
Despite the usefullness of this technology, it will not soon or easily displace a good old fashioned stick
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Funny you should compare genetic manipulation to coding. It's all ok until someone writes buggy code, and then we have people who pass out because they smelled canned peaches. Or there is some bug that makes them have an unnatural fear that someone will steal all of their ideas and technology, so they become unreasonable psychopaths who hate freedom. (hmmm.. sound familiar?) Our genetic code might not be the most secure stuff, but it fairly stable. (can you keep any of your servers, windows or *nix's, up for 70 years?) What i am trying to say is that humans don't know nearly enough about genetics to be able to safely do this sort of thing with 100 percent reliability. I just hope that they can keep from trying to "fix" other "flaws" before they know enough to keep from collapsing the codebase by accidentally creating some sort of genetic virus or something.
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Speaking of blurring definitions. You should hear what microsoft calls open source software. A coworker was using a technet training cd, and it had a slide show with voice accompanyment. There was mention that win2k can connect to a unix server running samba which is a "freeware program". while that is technically true, it shows how they are completely unable to grasp the concept that something can be both free and Free. All he could grasp was that it was free(beer)ware.
i guess it is just impossible to M$ to comprehend anything that does not (a) shaft the customer (b)rip off the customer (see a) or (c)guarentee them billions is revenue (see b)
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AND they managed the upgrade without interrupting services. That is one of the benefits of using many indivudual smallish servers instead of a few large ones that way you dont get stuff like this that was on yahoo today: Whoops! We cannot process that request. We are presently performing system upgrades. During this time, some areas of the site may be unreachable. Yeah i know that yahoo uses google for their searches, but they don't use it for other services on their site.
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I agree with some of your points, but i feel that not everyone can qualify as being "normal". There are some people at the hospital that i work at that are so incompetent about computers that we don't even want to go to their desks. We use registry hacks to lock down all workstations, and we are really happy about having win2k so that we can restrict even further. (it would be cool to have our users use linux, but the bootup kernel messages would make them call the helpdesk).
Our users don't even need to know how to use alot of computer features. On win95 boxen we don't have complete control over whether they can install, but we make sure that they know who is boss, and what they can't do. I suppose that whether you let users mess with their own computers depends on the environment. In a healthcare situation, there are a lot of healthcare specific applications. None of them work too well on their own, and if we let the users install stuff on/tweak their computers, they would be doomed.
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I think that one of the things that it comes down to is that both GNOME and KDE have applications that specifically run under those platforms. Both have functionality that the other lacks. It is true that it is good to have several projects out there so that people can choose what is best for them. However, what linux really needs right now is a standardised GUI that can work with either a standard toolkit, or with the existing ones. One of the only things that Linux really lacks is a good front end. That is, and has always been one of the reasons that people choose windows over linux.
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you're right, i just like saying "doomed"
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more points:
Apple likes fire wire and has based their marketing on fire wire devices. AND
M$ has decided to use fire wire over usb 2.0 AND
M$ likes to "embrace and extend" THEREFORE
Apple is doomed
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The hostpital that I work at recently spent a couple of hundred thousand dollars on a very complicated piece of patient scheduling (it does other stuff too) software.
The company is MediServe (just so that you guys can know and avoid them in the future) and they sold the hospital this software that was at version 1.x. We should have gotten a discount from them for being a beta site.
First of all, this thing requires an SQL server in the backend to handle the data. OK, that's no problem. But this software can't even talk to M$ SQL server! It required an interface pc to translate between the desktop software and the SQL server.
After that, the real trouble started. Even though it was a 1.x release, the project manager felt that it should have been in the early beta cycle. He would spend hours on the phone relaying bugs to the developers. These were bugs that our poor users were wasting time documenting and working around. (luckily it is currently running in parallel to the original system.) In one week, we recieved 5 (yes, five!) new versions of the software. That was only in one week!.
My theory, is that some moron messed up on the budget and they started running out of capital and had to find some suckers to pay them. and they got paid to have someone else test.
A word of caution to everyone out there, Investigate new applications before you buy!
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Yup, that's the only way to go. It's MUCH better than lugging around even a small tower becuase you still need a monitor, keyboard, etc... and that gets bulky. Personally, i've resigned myself to renting a uhaul and taking my 19" monitor and full tower case with me. With the size (and raw unrestrained power) of that thing, the intimidation factor makes up for the transport hassle.
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no, i'd just get the source my self. How else is my termite farm supposed to run apache?
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hehe, double talk. Maybe that's why they have so many problems with their products stability and security. They don't directly fix the problem, they just make it so that i can't send myself a word document from home to work. (outlook blocks all *.M$ documents.)
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I think that microsoft seriously needs to change the way that they release security updates. First, they need to always make sure that all fixes can appear in windows update. Second, they really need to create period mass updates for download that contain a series of smaller updates.
I want to be able to download a 100 meg file that i can burn to cd that contains all critical updates, security patches, and compatability updates and service packs that have been released since win2k was released. It really is a pain in the rear to have to update a computer that is on a dialup, or spend the time doing windows update when i could just whip out the cd and fix it all right there. The same goes for IE.
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i'll believe that they are stealing GPL code, when i try to print and an error message pops up that says "lp0 is on fire" or if i see some other form of hard evidence.
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you can get them over at thinkgeek, maybe we can load balance the /. effect on this one.
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actually, considering the quality of most fan sites. with their clipart, blink tags, painful color schemes, etc... they usually look like they were made in about ten minutes.
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I think that euroderf is right about the way that math is taught in school, at least in High School anyway. When i was in HS, math concepts were taught without any eplanation. We were told that in order to do this, you must do this. It always involved doing it in some long drawn out way, and it always seemed really hard. It wasn't until i got into a College Algebra class that the instructor showed us simple formulas for what had been hard and obfuscated in HS.
HS teachers also have a stupid way of doing assignments and tests. My HS algebra II teacher would lecture, and then give us and assignment. and then he would hardly ever give us the oppourtunity to ask questions. Then the test would take 2 hrs to do because it would be 30 problems. College is so much easier actually. You spend half the hour learning why you couldn't do some of the homework from the previous day, and then the rest is new stuff, and our tests are like 8 problems that are hard, but since we've already beat the subject to death, then if you paid attention you whip through them.
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many states don't have sales tax, but believe me, they make up for it in on way or another. For example, here in Oregon, we have no sales tax. However, we do have a property tax, and they do screw you with that. You'll get something from the state that says, "you painted your cardboard box. It is now worth $2000 more." And then they raise your taxes accordingly. Sure, it's a red hot metal rod up the ass, but it offsets the taxes that we don't have.
What needs to be asked is how much will it cost to form a new government beauracracy to regulate this?
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if computers have contributed nothing usefull, then i would like to see them argue with this:
the Human Genome project uses computers
sheer speed is cool too you can use it to simulate blowing stuff up with nucs without the radiation.
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Absolutely right! I went to a public school that did not have a rules against slandering it, and i'm glad for that. They did a whole lot to merit getting cursed under my breath and publicly. They did so much to screw me over that finally i dropped out and got my GED.
While i fundamentally agree with piggy, i feel that adminstration in public schools can be just as dumbassish as in private institutions.
It is also important that maybe the state get regulated by some of the rules of the private sector. Private sector does have to answer to it's shareholders. Aren't we all shareholders in the government? Instead the government does all kinds of crazy things like allowing school officials to be dumbasses
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Personally, I never have, and never will buy a gaming console.
Lets see, the features of the latest gaming consoles are what:?
Damned fast CPU's: wait, i already got two of those in my desktop.
Schweet graphics: wait, i already go that on my desktop.
Modem: wait, i already have one of those in my proxy server.
Network connectivity: wait, i already have that on my desktop.
Hard drives: wait, i already have several on my desktop and in a file server.
And i daresay that the typical desktop monitor looks nicer than a TV.
and play control on my computer is always better. Who likes having to punch in up, left, down, bbb, xx,z, left, left, left, left, zxbca, leftright, L, R, LLLL, right, Æ. aaaahhhhggg where's the Æ?
What my point is, is that all this nifty tech that is going into gaming consoles should be going into making my desktop box better. Consoles are just trying really hard to be desktops. It will be interesting to see if consoles try to let the user get on the internet to just surf and check email.
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