Nothing simply falls from the sky. The rate isn't alarming, you are just probably paying more attention. Military aviation is dangerous and has always been so. I can't think of a single cruise I did back in my time with the military that we didn't lose an aircraft and/or crew on board the ship. It's the nature of the job.
That is true, but I think that if two relatively evenly matched nuclear capable nations went to war, each reserving going nuclear as an option to avoid surrender, they would go nuclear within a matter of weeks. The lethality and high maintenance needs of modern weapon systems wouldn't allow an all out conflict to be protracted over years or quite possible even months.
well, unless it is between you and at least one other person, over the phone - wiretapping isn't going to be a problem. not disagreeing that people should be concerned - but this isn't an issue for things that are "stuff that should be between me, myself, and I, and no one else."
I'm sure it's a beautiful place. I'd love to be able to visit there without breaking the law. I think it's quite possible that I will be able to someday.
Just pointing out that the Helms-Burton acts specifically mentions Fidel and Raul by name. Some people seem to think the moment Fidel is somewhat out of the way, that everything gets better. It's going to take longer than that. I'm not saying 50 more years or something, but significant change wont happen in the next week either.
From the downloads page"Now remember these are professional tools. This means they are pretty big files so make sure you have the bandwidth and space to bring them to your machine."
That kind of cracked me up. Remember kids, professional tools take up lots of storage space. If it's not big, it's not 'professional'.
Also - this is not open to any student in the countries listed. There is a list of about 42 schools in the US that are plugged into their student verification system. In Belgium it is 2 schools, China 3 schools, etc.
But I have no problem finding great comics to read anyway. So who cares? There may not be many of us (I'm 39) but there are apparently enough paying customers of whatever age to keep the business going.
I try hard not to just summarize the book. Or just go over stuff that's really easy to get - I think you might find that this page has a lot of what you want - the toc will give you a great idea of what the book covers.
The subjects are covered thoroughly as I mentioned, with coverage of command line as well as gui tools and the appropriate config files. There is also some explanation as to why things work the way they do and nice ideas/examples of various ways that those options can be implemented.
I think the importance in regards to audience is not level of experience but rather desire. That's why I addressed this issue the way that I did. A person who doesn't care how X works - as long as it does, probably would not be too interested in this book or implementing what it has to offer. A person who is new to systems that use X or is experienced but hasn't played with X a lot would find it useful. I don't think it would bewilder a newbie. Things are explained thoroughly and I guess all they would need is some level of familiarity with the command line. Nothing extreme though. They could probably even get by without vim, as easy as it is to use things like Kate or other options. I guess I also assumed that anyone who would buy this - would in all likelihood know enough to work through it.
I can't really put the cost in the review - I mean I guess I could tell you what O'Reilly has suggested for the price - but if you are paying that, you aren't being a smart consumer. Every book review is accompanied by a link directly to the book at Amazon (or whoever slashdot links to at the time). And the ISBN is up there too - if cost is a consideration I'd use that to find your best option.
You could read it cover to cover. I did. It was almost all new to me so that worked out well. With any technical book - I think a good index is really important so that it can serve as a decent reference. This book has a good index and would work well as a reference. If it didn't have a good index, I guess the detailed breakdown of the toc would help - but it would still be tough to go back and hunt down specific bits. This is, in my opinion where Safari shines. Searching the electronic version is nice.
I didn't have any real problems with the book beyond the Linux orientation. If I had, I'd have mentioned them.
No bad information to my knowledge. There was one typo - they used the word depreciate instead of deprecate. I filled out the form on the book's O'Reilly page. It wasn't too big a deal, I knew what the author meant.
Aimed at Linux to the degree that it's pretty much always Linux he's dealing with when he moves outside of generic X stuff. I'm not sure what you want beyond that. That I thought I was pretty clear on, but I guess not. Now - in the case of the flavor of Unix I work with, AIX - a lot of Linux stuff is available on it now. But it would have been cool to know if AIX keeps something somewhere different from most Linux distros that he would mention that. But he didn't really deal with Unix that way. I'm assuming this is in large part due to the fact that it isn't as easy to get one's hands on Unix. I never worked with AIX until my current job - because my employer has it. I don't own any p-serires machines or anything myself. It's not a deal breaker though - because a lot of X stuff is pretty standardized across all platforms.
I wrote the review at Panera, on a Sunday morning after I finished the book. It's kind of a hobby, writing reviews and submitting them to Slashdot. I find myself often pulled to just regurgitate what's in the book. That would be more of a book-report than a review. With a review, my understanding is that I want to convey more why I think the book is worthwhile or not, as opposed to listing what's in the book. But maybe I pulled a little too far that way this time. The nice thing is, I think, if
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What did I leave out that you would like to know? I'm always looking to do a better job and would appreciate any help in that regard.
as clueless in regards to technology but somehow having completely mastered the art of suckering management into paying up decent amounts of cash for their "insight".
Yeah - it was my introduction to Scalzi, and I'm stoked to get an electronic version to go with my dead tree edition. Android's Dream is also awesome. Shows he can write great action/comedy with a definitely dark twist. I've got Last Colony on preorder (waited for the paperback) and he just finished another set in the Old Man's war universe, Zoe's Tale. I'm looking forward to when that becomes available.
He had the guys from Penny Arcade do the artwork for Agent to the Stars - which has been available on-line for quite some time. He just seems like an all-round decent guy on his blog. Yeah- I'm a fanboy I guess, but he's just one of those really talented yet down to earth people that deserves to do well.
I believe your passport already applies to the realid standards. I think the concern is, and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, that America is moving towards requiring Federally mandated and controlled id - period.
On a slightly related note, I've been going through a ton of crap recently trying to find out if my passport is valid. I accidentally washed it and I don't know if the RFID chip inside is still functional. Externally it looks brand new. I didn't want to be traveling and have that be a problem, but a new passport would be more money than I want to spend right now - and I just paid for this one.
It's a catch-22 thing. The readers to check if the chip is functional are at my local airport. The airport customs people wont let me in unless I'm traveling. I went round and round with people on the phone about this, and was finally told by a customs official - "We see tons of passports where the chip is not functional, don't worry about it."
When I go to Mexico next month I guess I'll find out for sure. But it is funny - all the extra cost of this chip - the extra security concerns and apparently it is irrelevant anyway.
I have a limited frame of reference - my experience has primarily been in the support of mission critical business processes - where data loss is the end of one's job. And from the replies I guess I can see that circumstances exist where this might be desirable, though part of me wonders, if in such cases that a database is the right tool.
My other concern still stands - I hope the documentation makes the ramifications of choosing this option clear.
this was a new feature for Oracle with 10g R2 also - and as a DBA I can only shake my head and ask "why?" Why would you want to drop the durability part of ACID? Why would you risk losing data for speed? There are so many ways to tune things and speed things up without taking such drastic measures. I know I'd fight tooth & nail before I'd turn this on in anything I managed. I just hate to think that someone with less understanding is going to think of it as a 'go-faster' button and then blame postgres when they lose something important.
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Nothing simply falls from the sky. The rate isn't alarming, you are just probably paying more attention. Military aviation is dangerous and has always been so. I can't think of a single cruise I did back in my time with the military that we didn't lose an aircraft and/or crew on board the ship. It's the nature of the job.
That is true, but I think that if two relatively evenly matched nuclear capable nations went to war, each reserving going nuclear as an option to avoid surrender, they would go nuclear within a matter of weeks. The lethality and high maintenance needs of modern weapon systems wouldn't allow an all out conflict to be protracted over years or quite possible even months.
We've been able to shoot down satellites since the 80's. I'm not sure what we gave away here.
If I understand your point - I think you are missing an important piece of information. It was not previously a web app.
well, unless it is between you and at least one other person, over the phone - wiretapping isn't going to be a problem. not disagreeing that people should be concerned - but this isn't an issue for things that are "stuff that should be between me, myself, and I, and no one else."
of life.
... something.
He'll still get attention - and you get bucket loads of slashdot karma. It's a win
I'm sure it's a beautiful place. I'd love to be able to visit there without breaking the law. I think it's quite possible that I will be able to someday.
Just pointing out that the Helms-Burton acts specifically mentions Fidel and Raul by name. Some people seem to think the moment Fidel is somewhat out of the way, that everything gets better. It's going to take longer than that. I'm not saying 50 more years or something, but significant change wont happen in the next week either.
yes, sadly, even xml has limitations.
in fact, one might go as far as to say that even xml is useful. Sometimes. If it's used correctly.
From the downloads page "Now remember these are professional tools. This means they are pretty big files so make sure you have the bandwidth and space to bring them to your machine."
That kind of cracked me up. Remember kids, professional tools take up lots of storage space. If it's not big, it's not 'professional'.
Also - this is not open to any student in the countries listed. There is a list of about 42 schools in the US that are plugged into their student verification system. In Belgium it is 2 schools, China 3 schools, etc.
Unless the embargo law is changed it cannot be ended as long as Fidel or his brother are in charge. And his brother will be in charge.
But I have no problem finding great comics to read anyway. So who cares? There may not be many of us (I'm 39) but there are apparently enough paying customers of whatever age to keep the business going.
Except of course games make tons of money - and comics are pretty popular. They should find another word.
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind.
Isn't this being added to their product that is already based on Xen?
Aside from that - if you are interested in FOSS - then it now pays to be aware of what is going on with Sun. That was my main point.
Between what they've opened of their own - and the companies they've bought is anyone bigger in the open source realm?
I try hard not to just summarize the book. Or just go over stuff that's really easy to get - I think you might find that this page has a lot of what you want - the toc will give you a great idea of what the book covers.
The subjects are covered thoroughly as I mentioned, with coverage of command line as well as gui tools and the appropriate config files. There is also some explanation as to why things work the way they do and nice ideas/examples of various ways that those options can be implemented.
I think the importance in regards to audience is not level of experience but rather desire. That's why I addressed this issue the way that I did. A person who doesn't care how X works - as long as it does, probably would not be too interested in this book or implementing what it has to offer. A person who is new to systems that use X or is experienced but hasn't played with X a lot would find it useful. I don't think it would bewilder a newbie. Things are explained thoroughly and I guess all they would need is some level of familiarity with the command line. Nothing extreme though. They could probably even get by without vim, as easy as it is to use things like Kate or other options. I guess I also assumed that anyone who would buy this - would in all likelihood know enough to work through it.
I can't really put the cost in the review - I mean I guess I could tell you what O'Reilly has suggested for the price - but if you are paying that, you aren't being a smart consumer. Every book review is accompanied by a link directly to the book at Amazon (or whoever slashdot links to at the time). And the ISBN is up there too - if cost is a consideration I'd use that to find your best option.
You could read it cover to cover. I did. It was almost all new to me so that worked out well. With any technical book - I think a good index is really important so that it can serve as a decent reference. This book has a good index and would work well as a reference. If it didn't have a good index, I guess the detailed breakdown of the toc would help - but it would still be tough to go back and hunt down specific bits. This is, in my opinion where Safari shines. Searching the electronic version is nice.
I didn't have any real problems with the book beyond the Linux orientation. If I had, I'd have mentioned them.
No bad information to my knowledge. There was one typo - they used the word depreciate instead of deprecate. I filled out the form on the book's O'Reilly page. It wasn't too big a deal, I knew what the author meant.
Aimed at Linux to the degree that it's pretty much always Linux he's dealing with when he moves outside of generic X stuff. I'm not sure what you want beyond that. That I thought I was pretty clear on, but I guess not. Now - in the case of the flavor of Unix I work with, AIX - a lot of Linux stuff is available on it now. But it would have been cool to know if AIX keeps something somewhere different from most Linux distros that he would mention that. But he didn't really deal with Unix that way. I'm assuming this is in large part due to the fact that it isn't as easy to get one's hands on Unix. I never worked with AIX until my current job - because my employer has it. I don't own any p-serires machines or anything myself. It's not a deal breaker though - because a lot of X stuff is pretty standardized across all platforms.
I wrote the review at Panera, on a Sunday morning after I finished the book. It's kind of a hobby, writing reviews and submitting them to Slashdot. I find myself often pulled to just regurgitate what's in the book. That would be more of a book-report than a review. With a review, my understanding is that I want to convey more why I think the book is worthwhile or not, as opposed to listing what's in the book. But maybe I pulled a little too far that way this time. The nice thing is, I think, if
What did I leave out that you would like to know? I'm always looking to do a better job and would appreciate any help in that regard.
as clueless in regards to technology but somehow having completely mastered the art of suckering management into paying up decent amounts of cash for their "insight".
Yeah - it was my introduction to Scalzi, and I'm stoked to get an electronic version to go with my dead tree edition. Android's Dream is also awesome. Shows he can write great action/comedy with a definitely dark twist. I've got Last Colony on preorder (waited for the paperback) and he just finished another set in the Old Man's war universe, Zoe's Tale. I'm looking forward to when that becomes available.
He had the guys from Penny Arcade do the artwork for Agent to the Stars - which has been available on-line for quite some time. He just seems like an all-round decent guy on his blog. Yeah- I'm a fanboy I guess, but he's just one of those really talented yet down to earth people that deserves to do well.
I'll check back when they get out of alpha.
That's actually a good point as apparently having it be nonfunctional will have no impact on use other than providing a more secure document.
I believe your passport already applies to the realid standards. I think the concern is, and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong, that America is moving towards requiring Federally mandated and controlled id - period.
On a slightly related note, I've been going through a ton of crap recently trying to find out if my passport is valid. I accidentally washed it and I don't know if the RFID chip inside is still functional. Externally it looks brand new. I didn't want to be traveling and have that be a problem, but a new passport would be more money than I want to spend right now - and I just paid for this one.
It's a catch-22 thing. The readers to check if the chip is functional are at my local airport. The airport customs people wont let me in unless I'm traveling. I went round and round with people on the phone about this, and was finally told by a customs official - "We see tons of passports where the chip is not functional, don't worry about it."
When I go to Mexico next month I guess I'll find out for sure. But it is funny - all the extra cost of this chip - the extra security concerns and apparently it is irrelevant anyway.
I have a limited frame of reference - my experience has primarily been in the support of mission critical business processes - where data loss is the end of one's job. And from the replies I guess I can see that circumstances exist where this might be desirable, though part of me wonders, if in such cases that a database is the right tool.
My other concern still stands - I hope the documentation makes the ramifications of choosing this option clear.
this was a new feature for Oracle with 10g R2 also - and as a DBA I can only shake my head and ask "why?" Why would you want to drop the durability part of ACID? Why would you risk losing data for speed? There are so many ways to tune things and speed things up without taking such drastic measures. I know I'd fight tooth & nail before I'd turn this on in anything I managed. I just hate to think that someone with less understanding is going to think of it as a 'go-faster' button and then blame postgres when they lose something important.