At least with Joker, mere mortals *can* qualify for the "reseller" prices, so 200 domains * $10 (at godaddy) == $2000 which is an effective increase to the equivalent of $3077 based on Joker's pricelist, lowering domain registration cost to effectively $7.80 each, thus "saving" $400/year...
Based on your ratings, we think you'll like the following two movies: Bambi Platinum Edition and Scarface 20th Anniversary Edition. "Say hello to my little hopping friend!"?
I'm already preparing the wife for the cancellation of our account, since we use profiles the same way so many many people in this tiny minority do, and it would increase our costs by $6/mo for the equivalent abilities using separate accounts. Not to mention all the screwed up and/or lost ratings & recommendations.
It's as screwed up there as elsewhere. Maybe they should try creating valid HTML and/or CSS at some point, as neither the HTML nor the CSS seems to validate.
To hell with jingle, I'd just like to see Pidgin handle XMPP properly... It seems to be one of the most-lacking clients that claims to support XMPP, and, at least for coworkers, consistently crashed every single time they tried to join a MUC on our internal server. I could never figure out service discovery with it either (I actually didn' KNOW about service discovery, despite years of using gaim/pidgin with XMPP).
Since then, I've switch to one of: psi, kopete, gajim (I've used them all, each has particular strengths)
I've also played a bit with the whiteboard-over-XMPP feature in Inkscape, after discovering tha Coccinella doesn't, and apparently never will, support logging into multiple separate accounts at once, which is a necessity at work, as I have both an internal and an external account.
All of them have significantly better support for XMPP, and by running the AIM/YIM/MSN/ICQ transports on my home XMPP server, I have the best of all worlds (including being able to be signed in from multiple locations at once).
The wife & me just got a couple of these 8G micro-SDHC cards. What's shown there is a reader with the micro SDHC card not inserted. It's actually pretty impressive (and comes with a lanyard & clip so you don't lose the reader).
You can get a low cost dell server for cheap, 1u or even cheaper if you go with a low end desk-side server. I'm going to have to second this. As much as I loathe Dell's consumer products, and especially their laptops, I'm really in love with their rack-mount servers. The last I checked, there are often deals on low-end servers in their SMB server section. Granted, it's not going to be a $199 PC, but it's still in the "reasonable" realm for rackmount... (ie, just speccing out a 1U PowerEdge R200 using the specs given, it comes in at under $1k. If you look at over the course of "many moons", that's a decent price for rackmount. You'll do a LOT better going desktop/tower though, in terms of prices.
Keep in mind though that lately I've been speccing a half-dozen 4U 16-core systems in the range of $20k-$30k to (eventually) replace multiple racks of older equipment[1], and so my views of "reasonable" might be skewed...
[1]...once I can prove to the middle people that it's at least as acceptable in terms of power/performance/reliability as using ancient EOSLed random systems pulled from surplus...
Or you're like me, and probably the only one in your well-known peer group that would be using/promoting Freenet. Whee, I can share the same vacation photos and bad camcorder movies, only much more slowly and unreliably, if I use only Darknet.
I wonder if my current machine will have the same major load issues that 0.4? had with the machine I tried that one on...
The last time I used Freenet, in the 0.4? days, there were sites that would index whatever was submitted, without regard to content, and it was these index sites that were most heavily promoted for "finding" anything in Freenet. It was hard NOT to notice "the worst crimes of humanity", so to speak, when they're sitting there with a full description. Whether the descriptions were accurate, I have no idea, as the novelty of Freenet wore off as soon as I realized I could get better speed from a tape-carrying tortoise.
For all its other faults, the Sidekick 3's keyboard has been great for the past 2ish years, and that includes a several month period where my phone was the only available internet access I had outside work.
I managed to scratch a Sun-branded Trinitron about 10 years ago, carrying it from one office to another in a parallel hallway. At the time, it never occured to me to take my ID badge with the metal clip off my neck, so with it between my chest an the tube, I ended up with a nice 2" wavy scratch in the middle of the screen...
Ok, I'm surprised I haven't seen this yet, so here goes...
I totally agree with you here, but there is one thing to think about; what happens if we make an even worse epidemic than HIV/AIDS? You mean, something like... Gator-AIDS?
I wouldn't want X installed on a cluster or server. I cringe every time I use a server-room KVM and end up on a Linux server that has X running...WHY?! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY?!
That being said, I've had very few problems getting X running in Debian. At least 80% of that is researching before I buy a video card... If X doesn't support the card/chipset, I don't care if it's the latest and greatest card out there with 2G of FTL SDRAM, 2 quintillion colors, and able to support 300 fps @ 16000x9000 resolution.:-)
Few even within SGI seem to be working on IRIX either. At least, that's the impression I get from our unfortunate IRIX admin here. The amount of cursing and swearing that ensues when SGI has a "recommended" change/fix, especially for our CXFS servers is...impressive. The fact that even the "5 minute" changes still require us to notify users we're expecting at least a half day of downtime (based on experience), is significantly less impressive...
Well, one of the things I'm running into, having walked into a RHEL-heavy shop, is that every single RH box has what I've come to derisively refer to as/usr/local/hell. Every. Single. One. Basically, because of the extreme pain of upgrading (or others' laziness, though my limited experience in the distant past says it's mostly the former), we have RHEL3, RHEL4, and RHEL5 servers, all at whatever the then-current patchlevel was (AS, ES, WS, BS, XYZS, ASS...Taroon, Macaroon, Buffoon...you get the idea), that have almost everything important duplicated in/usr/local, built from tarballs. Can't remove the system-supplied stuff, since what's left that expects it will balk, but can't use it either, since users or security concerns dictate significantly newer releases of everything from Apache to perl to php to mysql to...
This is, of course, a nightmare. Worse, the kernels on all of these have the notorious RH patchsets, so as far as anyone knows, each and every one has a mish-mash of backported "features" from newer kernels, but few of the bugs fixed that those newer ones have. In fact, several are still at 2.4.x kernels that, even years later, suffer from a kswapd problem that makes the machines unusable after a while. And we're getting in newer hardware that the 2.6 kernels that ARE supplied don't support. Everyone here has given up trying to build a plain vanilla kernel from the latest sources, because there are so many RH-applied patches to their kernels that may or may not even be applicable or available for the vanilla Linus kernels, that no one can say with any degree of certainty that the system will even boot. With Debian, I gave up on vanilla kernels because I was just tired of sitting through recompiles for the "advantage" of just removing a few things that were modules that I knew I would never use, customized to each of a half-dozen machines.
With Debian, which I've run for years without a "reinstall", updates are significantly simpler to perform, and if you want to throw backports.org into your sources.list (which may or may not be a fair thing to do), even *stable* has 2.6.22, or 2.6.18 withouth bpo in the mix. Remote updates? No problem, Debian was *designed* to be updatable like that from the start. The dpkg/apt* tools are still worlds ahead of the RH (and SUSE) equivalents. Dependencies are easier to deal with, as are conflicts, and security.d.o seems to be a lot more on the ball about patches than anyone else.
In fact, I'm often telling our security guys about updates that fix vulnerabilities that their higher-up counterparts haven't started riding them about yet, so they can get a head start on going through the major hassle of begging/cajoling/threatening the RH admins to grab the latest sources, rebuild, and re-install so we don't get slammed on the next security scan for having vulnerable servers. Not that it's ever "the latest", but always "the least amount of upgrade needed to avoid being flagged", which means that next month we go through this all again. With Debian, "aptitude update ; aptitude upgrade" (or just "aptitude"/whatever and then manually select packages, though in stable, it's only going to be fixes anyway most of the time), and the handful of systems I've gotten in under the radar are up-to-date security-wise with significantly less effort.
Even the "you get what you pay for in terms of support" canard has been proven to be false. We had a couple brand-new freshly-patched RHEL5 systems that just would not stay up. First thing RH Support has us do is run some custom tool of theirs before they'll even attempt to help us. A tool that, I should add, is rather difficult to run on a machine that goes down within minutes of coming up. Finally we re-installed and didn't apply the RH-sanctioned updates. Machine...stays up. Same thing with some RH-specific clustering software. Another RH-approved release resulted in...no clustering at all. For whatever reason, re-installing the prior RPM wasn't possible, but the
I'd LOVE to have FiOS or DSL, but no... Cable or Satellite are the only choices here (because there's no more capacity at the single Verizon CO in the area for more DSL circuits, they refuse to upgrade capacity, and, well, we're just a hick town, so why bother to put in FiOS?)
Every computer language I've ever learned since BASIC I learned initially by reading in the bathroom... Brings new (old?) meaning to the term "shit code"...
My lawyers will be contacting you and/. with a DMCA Take Down request for disclosing the contents of my new start-up's business plan, as soon as they stop chasing the ambulance that just went past...
The $1295/day yesterday is for ongoing fines, the $32,600/day is apparently retroactive fines, according to the article linked in yesterday's story. Said story also mentions an ealier judgement had the retroactive fines at $1,300,000/day...
I've been extremely happy with joker.com. They're not the cheapest (if/when the US dollar makes gains on the Euro it might work out better), but they're reliable. I don't know what else to say, as I've been using them so long, and been so happy, that I haven't bothered to look elsewhere.
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Hell, Opera released 9.51 RC1 (now on RC2) just a few days after 9.5...
Already to RC3 today, according to http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/show.dml/2286880
At least with Joker, mere mortals *can* qualify for the "reseller" prices, so 200 domains * $10 (at godaddy) == $2000 which is an effective increase to the equivalent of $3077 based on Joker's pricelist, lowering domain registration cost to effectively $7.80 each, thus "saving" $400/year...
(Yes, there are caveats, like needing to pre-pay)
I'm already preparing the wife for the cancellation of our account, since we use profiles the same way so many many people in this tiny minority do, and it would increase our costs by $6/mo for the equivalent abilities using separate accounts. Not to mention all the screwed up and/or lost ratings & recommendations.
It's as screwed up there as elsewhere. Maybe they should try creating valid HTML and/or CSS at some point, as neither the HTML nor the CSS seems to validate.
To hell with jingle, I'd just like to see Pidgin handle XMPP properly... It seems to be one of the most-lacking clients that claims to support XMPP, and, at least for coworkers, consistently crashed every single time they tried to join a MUC on our internal server. I could never figure out service discovery with it either (I actually didn' KNOW about service discovery, despite years of using gaim/pidgin with XMPP).
Since then, I've switch to one of: psi, kopete, gajim (I've used them all, each has particular strengths)
I've also played a bit with the whiteboard-over-XMPP feature in Inkscape, after discovering tha Coccinella doesn't, and apparently never will, support logging into multiple separate accounts at once, which is a necessity at work, as I have both an internal and an external account.
All of them have significantly better support for XMPP, and by running the AIM/YIM/MSN/ICQ transports on my home XMPP server, I have the best of all worlds (including being able to be signed in from multiple locations at once).
The wife & me just got a couple of these 8G micro-SDHC cards. What's shown there is a reader with the micro SDHC card not inserted. It's actually pretty impressive (and comes with a lanyard & clip so you don't lose the reader).
Keep in mind though that lately I've been speccing a half-dozen 4U 16-core systems in the range of $20k-$30k to (eventually) replace multiple racks of older equipment[1], and so my views of "reasonable" might be skewed...
[1]
Or you're like me, and probably the only one in your well-known peer group that would be using/promoting Freenet. Whee, I can share the same vacation photos and bad camcorder movies, only much more slowly and unreliably, if I use only Darknet.
I wonder if my current machine will have the same major load issues that 0.4? had with the machine I tried that one on...
The last time I used Freenet, in the 0.4? days, there were sites that would index whatever was submitted, without regard to content, and it was these index sites that were most heavily promoted for "finding" anything in Freenet. It was hard NOT to notice "the worst crimes of humanity", so to speak, when they're sitting there with a full description. Whether the descriptions were accurate, I have no idea, as the novelty of Freenet wore off as soon as I realized I could get better speed from a tape-carrying tortoise.
By even asking, you've disclosed it. Give up now, we have you surrounded.
For all its other faults, the Sidekick 3's keyboard has been great for the past 2ish years, and that includes a several month period where my phone was the only available internet access I had outside work.
I managed to scratch a Sun-branded Trinitron about 10 years ago, carrying it from one office to another in a parallel hallway. At the time, it never occured to me to take my ID badge with the metal clip off my neck, so with it between my chest an the tube, I ended up with a nice 2" wavy scratch in the middle of the screen...
Crazy kayaks.
There, I fixed your spelling...
I wouldn't want X installed on a cluster or server. I cringe every time I use a server-room KVM and end up on a Linux server that has X running...WHY?! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, WHY?!
:-)
That being said, I've had very few problems getting X running in Debian. At least 80% of that is researching before I buy a video card... If X doesn't support the card/chipset, I don't care if it's the latest and greatest card out there with 2G of FTL SDRAM, 2 quintillion colors, and able to support 300 fps @ 16000x9000 resolution.
Few even within SGI seem to be working on IRIX either. At least, that's the impression I get from our unfortunate IRIX admin here. The amount of cursing and swearing that ensues when SGI has a "recommended" change/fix, especially for our CXFS servers is...impressive. The fact that even the "5 minute" changes still require us to notify users we're expecting at least a half day of downtime (based on experience), is significantly less impressive...
Well, one of the things I'm running into, having walked into a RHEL-heavy shop, is that every single RH box has what I've come to derisively refer to as /usr/local/hell. Every. Single. One. Basically, because of the extreme pain of upgrading (or others' laziness, though my limited experience in the distant past says it's mostly the former), we have RHEL3, RHEL4, and RHEL5 servers, all at whatever the then-current patchlevel was (AS, ES, WS, BS, XYZS, ASS...Taroon, Macaroon, Buffoon...you get the idea), that have almost everything important duplicated in /usr/local, built from tarballs. Can't remove the system-supplied stuff, since what's left that expects it will balk, but can't use it either, since users or security concerns dictate significantly newer releases of everything from Apache to perl to php to mysql to...
This is, of course, a nightmare. Worse, the kernels on all of these have the notorious RH patchsets, so as far as anyone knows, each and every one has a mish-mash of backported "features" from newer kernels, but few of the bugs fixed that those newer ones have. In fact, several are still at 2.4.x kernels that, even years later, suffer from a kswapd problem that makes the machines unusable after a while. And we're getting in newer hardware that the 2.6 kernels that ARE supplied don't support. Everyone here has given up trying to build a plain vanilla kernel from the latest sources, because there are so many RH-applied patches to their kernels that may or may not even be applicable or available for the vanilla Linus kernels, that no one can say with any degree of certainty that the system will even boot. With Debian, I gave up on vanilla kernels because I was just tired of sitting through recompiles for the "advantage" of just removing a few things that were modules that I knew I would never use, customized to each of a half-dozen machines.
With Debian, which I've run for years without a "reinstall", updates are significantly simpler to perform, and if you want to throw backports.org into your sources.list (which may or may not be a fair thing to do), even *stable* has 2.6.22, or 2.6.18 withouth bpo in the mix. Remote updates? No problem, Debian was *designed* to be updatable like that from the start. The dpkg/apt* tools are still worlds ahead of the RH (and SUSE) equivalents. Dependencies are easier to deal with, as are conflicts, and security.d.o seems to be a lot more on the ball about patches than anyone else.
In fact, I'm often telling our security guys about updates that fix vulnerabilities that their higher-up counterparts haven't started riding them about yet, so they can get a head start on going through the major hassle of begging/cajoling/threatening the RH admins to grab the latest sources, rebuild, and re-install so we don't get slammed on the next security scan for having vulnerable servers. Not that it's ever "the latest", but always "the least amount of upgrade needed to avoid being flagged", which means that next month we go through this all again. With Debian, "aptitude update ; aptitude upgrade" (or just "aptitude"/whatever and then manually select packages, though in stable, it's only going to be fixes anyway most of the time), and the handful of systems I've gotten in under the radar are up-to-date security-wise with significantly less effort.
Even the "you get what you pay for in terms of support" canard has been proven to be false. We had a couple brand-new freshly-patched RHEL5 systems that just would not stay up. First thing RH Support has us do is run some custom tool of theirs before they'll even attempt to help us. A tool that, I should add, is rather difficult to run on a machine that goes down within minutes of coming up. Finally we re-installed and didn't apply the RH-sanctioned updates. Machine...stays up. Same thing with some RH-specific clustering software. Another RH-approved release resulted in...no clustering at all. For whatever reason, re-installing the prior RPM wasn't possible, but the
I'd LOVE to have FiOS or DSL, but no... Cable or Satellite are the only choices here (because there's no more capacity at the single Verizon CO in the area for more DSL circuits, they refuse to upgrade capacity, and, well, we're just a hick town, so why bother to put in FiOS?)
My lawyers will be contacting you and /. with a DMCA Take Down request for disclosing the contents of my new start-up's business plan, as soon as they stop chasing the ambulance that just went past...
Haven't you been reading? They don't work in them apples either...
That's because Nintendo owners are so calm and polite. :-)
The $1295/day yesterday is for ongoing fines, the $32,600/day is apparently retroactive fines, according to the article linked in yesterday's story. Said story also mentions an ealier judgement had the retroactive fines at $1,300,000/day...
I've been extremely happy with joker.com. They're not the cheapest (if/when the US dollar makes gains on the Euro it might work out better), but they're reliable. I don't know what else to say, as I've been using them so long, and been so happy, that I haven't bothered to look elsewhere.