Some 15 years ago I sat next to a rather large woman on a "tea cup" carousel, and was almost pushed out of the cart when she managed fell over me. My feet were hanging out of the cart, and I had to try to pull myself into it again. While I was struggling (and slightly panicking:-), I heard the operator yell "Faaaster"! Not what you want to hear when you are going to get tossed 10 meters if you lose your grip.
Eventually, I managed to get back in. After that, I'm only playing coin-ops at amusement parks:-)
I use bluetooth on my T68i to control XMMS on my Linux box, and it works fine. I can control the volume, skip in the playlist, turn random on/off; pretty much all you need.
The T68 and P800 (AFAIK) support a rather simple "API" where you can use AT commands to prompt for user input. It is very easy to display yes/no, lists and simple search dialogs. You can also listen on the keypresses, so maintaining state in an app shouldn't be much of a problem. Great hack value:-)
Same here. Most competent MS admins I know always install the cygwin tools, and use Perl or similar for automating most of the daily admin chores. It works pretty well, and as a developer, it is nice being able to tail/grep logs etc on the WinNT box.
(God, I hate bringing up a 200MB log file in Notepad *) to check what happened 3 hours ago)
I'm using Python for most of my WinNT programming, and the win32 modules are excellent. With minimal work we're now using NT's eventlog, COM etc. and the application is running as a NT service. Kudos to the Python win32 team!
*) No, installing my favorite editor is unfortunately not always an option
Yep, same here. But, if they managed to create an organized way of reporting errors or events in the system, it cannot be bad. I for one is sick of tailing, greping, cating etc whenever I try to find out why the fscking printer doesn't work.
(Not replace the logs, but add something a bit easier to work with. Like being able to say "All services should now output debug information" or "I want to see all WARN messages in the last hour from Postgres, Apache and cups" without digging up a Perl cookbook would be nice.)
Since most of the 'improvements' mentioned in the article seems to be stuff ripped from Windows NT, one could hope they'd copy and improve NT's event log, too.
Or maybe just a more standardized way of representing dates in the/var/log-chaos would be a big improvement.
It's, IMHO, moronic to not at least include the year. I guess this really is distribution specific (and some distros maybe even have a unified way of logging from the different daemons?), and not really Linux specific, but this is pretty high up on my wishlist.
Hm. Zeldman. That seemed familiar. Ah, yes! It is the idio^H^HHTML guru that uses light-grey text on white background. Thank $DEITY for CTRL-G in Opera.
Uh, where's the redundancy in that? What happens is your "all purpose storage bitch" goes down? I really hope you backup that one.
I use RAID1 to mirror my/home etc., and it has saved my ass a couple of times. Installing an OS is easy, but having to redo all my projects would be a PITA.
(Yes, I agree the backgrounds used in the terminal windows could suggest the developers are into mind-expanding substances, but the program works great.)
"Yes, our installer sucks, but it sucks on 9 platforms." Yeah!
(I still have nightmares about installing Oracle on a Linux-box with a crappy VGA card, 16 colors and 640x480. Good grief, why couldn't they have made a commandline version? It must have been around three or four years ago, and hopefully things have improved now, but really, if you're charging a premium for something; the installation procedures and help system should be way better than what Oracle provided.)
Hm, those cards look nice, especially the SATA variant.
I've been using software-RAID for some time, and I'm quite pleased with it. However, I'm considering a switch to hw RAID next time I'm upgrading my machine. A few questions:
1. If I connect two IDE drives on one cable to a HW RAID card, can the failure of one the disks make the other disk unavailable, and thus corrupt the entire disk set? (Since they both operate via the same cable.) This is a major angst point for me, so if someone could clear this up, I'd be glad. (Also, is this the same for both ATA and SATA drives?) Does this also apply to software-RAID?
Right now I got a vanilla IDE card with two IDE ports, and both disks in my RAID set have their own cable/port. However, it would be nice to be able to add more disks to the RAID set. But as I've read on some newsgroups, a disk failure on one of the disk as on a cable/port can block the other disk, and this can lead to a corrupt set. Well, I'm confused.
(Using Debian Linux, 2.4.21)
2. Are the various HW RAID solutions compatible with each other? My nightmare is buying a card or a motherboard with a built-in RAID, and if I then experience a hardware error in the card or mb, I must replace the faulty card/mb with more or less exactly the same type? (This will probably occur three months after the hw goes out of production)
Or can I take two RAID-1 disks used on a 3ware RAID card and just plug them into a Promise RAID card, and still be able to access the disks? Or is this something that requires a reformat/repartioning or similar?
Norwegian telco Telenor sold a phone named SmartPhone a few years ago. http://press.telenor.com/PR/200003/798859_5.html. It was sold in shops, and was an internet enabled phone with browser and email support.
I used dselect a while, but found that using apt-cache and apt-get on the command line were much easier.
$ apt-cache search emacs python mode kate-plugins - plugins for Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor python-elisp - Emacs-lisp python-mode for the Python language (v2.3)
$ apt-cache show python-elisp... Description: Emacs-lisp python-mode for the Python language (v2.3)...
Ah yes. That explains why w3c used tables for the layout of their pages until a year ago, or something? I think not.
W3C had the option of using their recommended way (DIV and CSS etc), but CHOSE not to do it. So, when the W3C used tables for layout purposes, why shouldn't Joe D. Webduhsigner use it as well?
Face it: Tables were, unfortunately, the norm and still is, to some (for a very large value of some) extent.
(Yes, using tables for layout sucks, but using fixed-width DIV tags sucks just as much. )
Hm, it could be. Have you tried Opera 7 and the custom stylesheets? In the menus: Choose View/Style/User mode . Then try one of the stylesheets mentioned there. You should also be able to modify them. On my Linux box, the stylesheets in the menu are located in/usr/share/opera/styles/user
You can also adjust the user mode CSS in the File/Preferences/Page style tab.
(Tip: Hit CTRL-g to enable/disable user mode stylesheets.)
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If you enjoyed the links mentioned above, I'd also recommend these guides: this one.
Also known as the Vulcan Nerve Pinch
From the Linux at work-survey: "How complete of a replacement for Windows do you feel Linux is?"
*sigh*
"Why stare through the Windows if you can walk through 135"
Some 15 years ago I sat next to a rather large woman on a "tea cup" carousel, and was almost pushed out of the cart when she managed fell over me. My feet were hanging out of the cart, and I had to try to pull myself into it again. While I was struggling (and slightly panicking :-), I heard the operator yell "Faaaster"! Not what you want to hear when you are going to get tossed 10 meters if you lose your grip.
:-)
Eventually, I managed to get back in. After that, I'm only playing coin-ops at amusement parks
That is called scoring. Gnus and other good email/news clients have this. Very useful for reading high-volume lists and avoiding USENET kooks.
I use bluetooth on my T68i to control XMMS on my Linux box, and it works fine. I can control the volume, skip in the playlist, turn random on/off; pretty much all you need.
:-)
The T68 and P800 (AFAIK) support a rather simple "API" where you can use AT commands to prompt for user input. It is very easy to display yes/no, lists and simple search dialogs. You can also listen on the keypresses, so maintaining state in an app shouldn't be much of a problem. Great hack value
Same here. Most competent MS admins I know always install the cygwin tools, and use Perl or similar for automating most of the daily admin chores. It works pretty well, and as a developer, it is nice being able to tail/grep logs etc on the WinNT box.
(God, I hate bringing up a 200MB log file in Notepad *) to check what happened 3 hours ago)
I'm using Python for most of my WinNT programming, and the win32 modules are excellent. With minimal work we're now using NT's eventlog, COM etc. and the application is running as a NT service. Kudos to the Python win32 team!
*) No, installing my favorite editor is unfortunately not always an option
The press release only mentions IR, so it seems that the phone will be lacking bluetooth support. I'll wait for the P900.
Actually, VAT is very fair. You pay a tax on what you spend, not on what you earn. Now, if the government could keep the hands off my income...
Two other ways of getting the filename to the clipboard without leaving the keyboard, albeit somewhat cumbersome:
1) Select the file (using arrow keys or the mouse ), press F2, CTRL-C and ESC
2) Select the file, hit right menu button, 'm' (for rename), CTRL-C and ESC
Yep, same here. But, if they managed to create an organized way of reporting errors or events in the system, it cannot be bad. I for one is sick of tailing, greping, cating etc whenever I try to find out why the fscking printer doesn't work.
/var/log-chaos would be a big improvement.
(Not replace the logs, but add something a bit easier to work with. Like being able to say "All services should now output debug information" or "I want to see all WARN messages in the last hour from Postgres, Apache and cups" without digging up a Perl cookbook would be nice.)
Since most of the 'improvements' mentioned in the article seems to be stuff ripped from Windows NT, one could hope they'd copy and improve NT's event log, too.
Or maybe just a more standardized way of representing dates in the
Examples from my computer:
Cups:
localhost - - [30/Sep/2003:23:58:21 +0200] "POST / HTTP/1.1" 200 137
auth.log:
Oct 2 22:23:01 localhost cron(pam_unix)[15119]: session closed for user mail
boot:
Tue Sep 30 15:52:26 2003: Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm.
It's, IMHO, moronic to not at least include the year. I guess this really is distribution specific (and some distros maybe even have a unified way of logging from the different daemons?), and not really Linux specific, but this is pretty high up on my wishlist.
Hm. Zeldman. That seemed familiar. Ah, yes! It is the idio^H^HHTML guru that uses light-grey text on white background. Thank $DEITY for CTRL-G in Opera.
Uh, where's the redundancy in that? What happens is your "all purpose storage bitch" goes down? I really hope you backup that one.
/home etc., and it has saved my ass a couple of times. Installing an OS is easy, but having to redo all my projects would be a PITA.
I use RAID1 to mirror my
While you are at it, try the Multi Gnome Terminal. If all you have on those virtual desktops are shells, you could probably save 19 of them. :-)
:), and the ability to split the the terminal window horisontally and vertically.
MGT's main features are "tabbed shelling." (Nice phrase, btw
If you are using Debian, just do a
$ apt-get install multi-gnome-terminal
and start the program with
$ multi-gnome-terminal
Check out the screenshots
(Yes, I agree the backgrounds used in the terminal windows could suggest the developers are into mind-expanding substances, but the program works great.)
Banning software generating lists. What's next? Banning lists generating software? A bad day to be a lisper!
"Yes, our installer sucks, but it sucks on 9 platforms." Yeah!
(I still have nightmares about installing Oracle on a Linux-box with a crappy VGA card, 16 colors and 640x480. Good grief, why couldn't they have made a commandline version? It must have been around three or four years ago, and hopefully things have improved now, but really, if you're charging a premium for something; the installation procedures and help system should be way better than what Oracle provided.)
Thank you to all of you for your replies! The issue is clear to me now
Ah, ok. Thanks! What about two drives on one ATA cable?
Hm, those cards look nice, especially the SATA variant.
I've been using software-RAID for some time, and I'm quite pleased with it. However, I'm considering a switch to hw RAID next time I'm upgrading my machine. A few questions:
1. If I connect two IDE drives on one cable to a HW RAID card, can the failure of one the disks make the other disk unavailable, and thus corrupt the entire disk set? (Since they both operate via the same cable.) This is a major angst point for me, so if someone could clear this up, I'd be glad. (Also, is this the same for both ATA and SATA drives?) Does this also apply to software-RAID?
Right now I got a vanilla IDE card with two IDE ports, and both disks in my RAID set have their own cable/port. However, it would be nice to be able to add more disks to the RAID set. But as I've read on some newsgroups, a disk failure on one of the disk as on a cable/port can block the other disk, and this can lead to a corrupt set. Well, I'm confused.
(Using Debian Linux, 2.4.21)
2. Are the various HW RAID solutions compatible with each other? My nightmare is buying a card or a motherboard with a built-in RAID, and if I then experience a hardware error in the card or mb, I must replace the faulty card/mb with more or less exactly the same type? (This will probably occur three months after the hw goes out of production)
Or can I take two RAID-1 disks used on a 3ware RAID card and just plug them into a Promise RAID card, and still be able to access the disks? Or is this something that requires a reformat/repartioning or similar?
Norwegian telco Telenor sold a phone named SmartPhone a few years ago. http://press.telenor.com/PR/200003/798859_5.html. It was sold in shops, and was an internet enabled phone with browser and email support.
Don't know if they trademarked it, though.
I used dselect a while, but found that using apt-cache and apt-get on the command line were much easier.
... ...
$ apt-cache search emacs python mode
kate-plugins - plugins for Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor
python-elisp - Emacs-lisp python-mode for the Python language (v2.3)
$ apt-cache show python-elisp
Description: Emacs-lisp python-mode for the Python language (v2.3)
$ apt-get install python-elisp
Yes, and the best thing is that it would only take two weeks to configure, and then you'll have almost synchronized video and sound! Yeah!
Ah yes. That explains why w3c used tables for the layout of their pages until a year ago, or something? I think not.
W3C had the option of using their recommended way (DIV and CSS etc), but CHOSE not to do it. So, when the W3C used tables for layout purposes, why shouldn't Joe D. Webduhsigner use it as well?
Face it: Tables were, unfortunately, the norm and still is, to some (for a very large value of some) extent.
(Yes, using tables for layout sucks, but using fixed-width DIV tags sucks just as much. )
Hm, it could be. Have you tried Opera 7 and the custom stylesheets? In the menus: Choose View/Style/User mode . Then try one of the stylesheets mentioned there. You should also be able to modify them. On my Linux box, the stylesheets in the menu are located in /usr/share/opera/styles/user
You can also adjust the user mode CSS in the File/Preferences/Page style tab.
(Tip: Hit CTRL-g to enable/disable user mode stylesheets.)