I bought the media kit for Borland Interbase, and the big box contains a couple of CD and a few inches thick of documentation. (I never dug too deeply into those, but that's another story) When you said "mediocre" were you referring to the free documentation or were you referring to documentation of Firebird/Interbase as a whole?
I couldn't agree more with the above comment. I am no longer a customer of JohnCompanies, but would go with them again in a heartbeat if I ever have the need for decent hosting.
1. Depending on the ISP, you might not be able to obtain more than one IP address w/ your line. Needs two to run DNS.
2. Uplink speed generally sucks, at only around 50KB/s.
Something like virtual (machine) hosting would be a better bet. I am a happy customer of http://www.johncompanies.com/. You need the Linux package to run DNS thou.
The FreeBSD jail environment however has a few oddities. You are only restricted to one IP address, and no localhost 127.0.0.1.
OTOH for US$10/month more they have the virtual Linux server. 10 IP addresses and presumably access to localhost. I would say comparatively this may be a better deal.
I am somewhat surprised that nobody has mentioned Philip Greenspun's "Guide to Web Publishing", online version available http://philip.greenspun.com/panda.
Check out http://www.openacs.org/. It is a toolkit derived from the original ACS, but instead of Oracle, it works with PostgreSQL. It is under active development. Greenspun's website survived a slashdot, and so did OpenACS. Certainly saying something about the scalability.
The problem with Apache 1.x/PHP/mod_perl/MySQL/PostgreSQL is that the so-called persistent database connection is per-process based. There is no guarantee that requests for a particular site will always be served by the same process with the appropriate db connections. Then there is the problem of running out of db connections for any particular process. It seems to be a lot of fine tuning work, a lot of memory and CPU power. Apache 2.0 is likely to be better in this respect, but I still think that AOLServer is cleaner.
Heard on the radio a couple of weeks ago. Some local buses have different fares along different parts of the routes. On occasions bus drivers would forget to operate on the transaction console to change it.
Some folks realized the overcharging, wrote/call the bus company to complain, and were sent cheques for the overcharged amount (typically about US$0.5).
It is not possible to roll back the transactions. If you don't know about the overcharging then tough.
The plain-Jane Octopus is pretty much anonymous, but I have opted for one of those linked with my credit card, so when credit of my Octopus goes to zero it is automatically topped up. Very convenient, and no big loss if I ever lose my Octopus.
In theory, the system could be abused and the government could find out what bus I took which fastfood chain I went to how much I spent at the 7-11, etc. I just make sure that when I am up to no good, I use cash instead.
It was quite obvious that the MCSE guy didn't understand the implication of exposing those workstations out to the Internet. In my limited experience, these types normally do a brain shutdown if they come across something they don't understand. Talking to this MCSE person in this case is likely to be fruitless.
Because the $1800 iMac is much nicer hardware than the $800 Celeron?
My Powerbook G4 goes to sleep everytime I close the lid, and comes back to life instantly upon opening it. My HP laptop running Win2000 often refuses to wake up after a sleep, or after waking up refuses to go back to sleep.
I use KDE on my desktop workstation. As a programmer/developer who rely mainly on mozilla, multiple term windows, bbedit/kate, emacs/vi, KDE has the advantage of excellent virtual desktop support. I am happy under both environments, and not convinced that Aqua the UI has overwhelming advantage over KDE.
Having used a prepaid-dialup-top-up ISP card in Southern China a few weeks back, I can confirm that the dialup server gives out non-routable IP numbers (i.e. 192.168.X.X), and I expect most ISPs in China to do the same thing regarding dialup and ADSL users.
So, yes I agree we would be better off going IPv6, but no we could make do for a few years to come.
Nah... The whole point is that the slashdotted sites should die a horrible death. Slashdot is an assets to VA in the sense that it would actually attract businesses. Think about it: a news site wannabe doesn't survive a slashdot effect. Who are they going to call to solve the problem? The operator of Slashdot of course.
Mod me down. I don't care. I have no karma to start with.
If the WIPO route of resolving a domain conflict is indeed arbitration, then yes the outcome could be contested in a proper court of law. This is however uncommon.
Arbitration is normally a voluntary process. The two parties both agree to go for arbitration, and before they do, they normally sign cross-undertakings, agreeing that the outcome of the arbitration is final and they would accept it. So if one party doesn't like the outcome? Tough luck. If they would go against the undertaking already signed and bring the case to court, the other side would show the judge the undertakings, and chances are, the judge would then throw the case out.
I agree with most folks that these two "new" models are dead boring. Visor should have had them two years ago.
Referring to folks who said that 16MB is pointless, in my part of the world, palm-users generally have a couple of dictionaries loaded, a Chinese-Japanese-Korean enabling system, lots of reading and reference materials installed and a few Avantgo channels. The above would almost certainly stretch the 8MB that comes with the Palm Vx.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.exile.ru/2003-October-02/war_nerd.html.
Me no French.
I agree that the documentation is mediocre
I bought the media kit for Borland Interbase, and the big box contains a couple of CD and a few inches thick of documentation. (I never dug too deeply into those, but that's another story) When you said "mediocre" were you referring to the free documentation or were you referring to documentation of Firebird/Interbase as a whole?
the guy's reputation according to Google.
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I couldn't agree more with the above comment. I am no longer a customer of JohnCompanies, but would go with them again in a heartbeat if I ever have the need for decent hosting.
1. Depending on the ISP, you might not be able to obtain more than one IP address w/ your line. Needs two to run DNS.
2. Uplink speed generally sucks, at only around 50KB/s.
Something like virtual (machine) hosting would be a better bet. I am a happy customer of http://www.johncompanies.com/. You need the Linux package to run DNS thou.
According to this, Steve Jobs thinks death is a better solution than a tablet computer.
Yap. It's 127.0.0.1.
I am also a user, and reasonably happy with them.
The FreeBSD jail environment however has a few oddities. You are only restricted to one IP address, and no localhost 127.0.0.1.
OTOH for US$10/month more they have the virtual Linux server. 10 IP addresses and presumably access to localhost. I would say comparatively this may be a better deal.
I am somewhat surprised that nobody has mentioned Philip Greenspun's "Guide to Web Publishing", online version available http://philip.greenspun.com/panda.
Check out http://www.openacs.org/. It is a toolkit derived from the original ACS, but instead of Oracle, it works with PostgreSQL. It is under active development. Greenspun's website survived a slashdot, and so did OpenACS. Certainly saying something about the scalability.
The problem with Apache 1.x/PHP/mod_perl/MySQL/PostgreSQL is that the so-called persistent database connection is per-process based. There is no guarantee that requests for a particular site will always be served by the same process with the appropriate db connections. Then there is the problem of running out of db connections for any particular process. It seems to be a lot of fine tuning work, a lot of memory and CPU power. Apache 2.0 is likely to be better in this respect, but I still think that AOLServer is cleaner.
Yap, I viewed a sun eclipse with a telescope once.
Heard on the radio a couple of weeks ago. Some local buses have different fares along different parts of the routes. On occasions bus drivers would forget to operate on the transaction console to change it.
Some folks realized the overcharging, wrote/call the bus company to complain, and were sent cheques for the overcharged amount (typically about US$0.5).
It is not possible to roll back the transactions. If you don't know about the overcharging then tough.
The plain-Jane Octopus is pretty much anonymous, but I have opted for one of those linked with my credit card, so when credit of my Octopus goes to zero it is automatically topped up. Very convenient, and no big loss if I ever lose my Octopus.
In theory, the system could be abused and the government could find out what bus I took which fastfood chain I went to how much I spent at the 7-11, etc. I just make sure that when I am up to no good, I use cash instead.
I personally haven't seen a site that uses browser specific layers in a long time, so it's not the issue it was in 1998.
http://www.oddpost.com/
It was quite obvious that the MCSE guy didn't understand the implication of exposing those workstations out to the Internet. In my limited experience, these types normally do a brain shutdown if they come across something they don't understand. Talking to this MCSE person in this case is likely to be fruitless.
The way I read the Register, none of the writers of those letters were reachable for comments. Call me cynical...
Google is multilingual alright.
Okay Google may not be as well known in the non-English speaking world, but Yahoo is big in Japan, and Yahoo provides Google results.
I was in my old man's summer flat in southern China a few weeks ago. Couldn't get onto bbc.co.uk from there. Access to /. was however okay.
Because the $1800 iMac is much nicer hardware than the $800 Celeron?
My Powerbook G4 goes to sleep everytime I close the lid, and comes back to life instantly upon opening it. My HP laptop running Win2000 often refuses to wake up after a sleep, or after waking up refuses to go back to sleep.
I use KDE on my desktop workstation. As a programmer/developer who rely mainly on mozilla, multiple term windows, bbedit/kate, emacs/vi, KDE has the advantage of excellent virtual desktop support. I am happy under both environments, and not convinced that Aqua the UI has overwhelming advantage over KDE.
Wiki.
So, yes I agree we would be better off going IPv6, but no we could make do for a few years to come.
Mod me down. I don't care. I have no karma to start with.
If the WIPO route of resolving a domain conflict is indeed arbitration, then yes the outcome could be contested in a proper court of law. This is however uncommon.
Arbitration is normally a voluntary process. The two parties both agree to go for arbitration, and before they do, they normally sign cross-undertakings, agreeing that the outcome of the arbitration is final and they would accept it. So if one party doesn't like the outcome? Tough luck. If they would go against the undertaking already signed and bring the case to court, the other side would show the judge the undertakings, and chances are, the judge would then throw the case out.
You can also get a similar cable that charges those Palms that run on rechargable batteries.
I agree with most folks that these two "new" models are dead boring. Visor should have had them two years ago.
Referring to folks who said that 16MB is pointless, in my part of the world, palm-users generally have a couple of dictionaries loaded, a Chinese-Japanese-Korean enabling system, lots of reading and reference materials installed and a few Avantgo channels. The above would almost certainly stretch the 8MB that comes with the Palm Vx.
One obvious use is for folks w/ digital cameras, c.f. Digital Wallet. It is more expensive, but does a whole lot more, and far more flexible.
Now if I could only get PHP/MySQL/PostgreSQL/Apache to run on this thing...