Apache 1.3.24 is the best version of Apache currently available; everyone running 1.2.X servers or earlier are strongly urged to upgrade to 1.3, as there will not be any further 1.2.X releases. At present, the Win32 port of Apache is not as stable as the UNIX version.
and also
Apache 2.0 offers numerous enhancements, improvements and performance boosts over the 1.3 codebase
But nowhere do they actually say that 2.0.35 is their best release. At least not yet, maybe they will change their website in the future....
Sadly, you are are wrong. It is simple to prove, the checksum is 1 digit. 10 is two digits, therefore, by simple deduction of 1 not equal to 2, 10 cannot be a checksum digit.
Which pretty much means that the original author, while informative, was factually wrong. It is that simple. This from the web site that you pointed to:
The USPS adds a "checksum" digit at the end which is a digit which, when added to the sum of the digits making up your ZIP+4 (or ZIP+4+2), makes the entire sum a multiple of 10.
Assume, for sake of argument that 10 was a valid checksum. (i.e. of 14228-2588) then the full number would be 14228-2588-10. Now, the digit at the end, added to all of the others makes a multiple of 10. Let's check it:
1 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 8 + 2 + 5 + 8 + 8 + 1 + 0 = 41
And so we can see that the checksum fails. It is trivial then to see that 14228-2588-0 is correct.
The way the POSTNET checksum value is given by (10-((Summation of all digits) Mod 10)). The total of our digits 02347112525 = 32... (10-(32 mod 10)) = 8. The checksum is valid and our decoding is probably successful.
post online.
I know that this is just being picky, but....the check digit cannot be as described above, since if you had the number 02347112523, then using your method you would have a check digit of 10. This is obviously two digits and not one. One can only assume that this s meant to be 0, therefore leading to the checksum digit being computed as follows:
(10 - ( (Summation of digits - 1) Mod 10 ) - 1)
This means that your example would be (10 - ((32 - 1) Mod 10) - 1) = 8, and my example would give (10 - ((30 - 1) Mod 10) - 1) = 0.
Having said that, I want to take nothing away from the the wonderfully instructive example that you gave on how to use/abuse this information!:-) I along with many other slashdotters stand in awe:-)
BTW, just because I'm playing Devil's Advocate here doesn't mean you have the right to come in, misinterpret me, and then tell me I'm an idiot. I've had enough of that over the last week. I don't support what MS did so don't twist what I said into saying I do.
Yet more proof that people just don't understand what/. is all about....
The problem with this article is, not that they assume that gravity is hardwired, the article actually states that they are not sure, but rather that there assumptions are off base.
They say that it takes about 2-3 days before you get over the (lack of) motion sickness. That is, it takes the human body roughly 48-72 hours of doing something that it considers really wrong before it gets used to it.
Now consider the throwing, they say that after 15 days the astronaughts were getting used to it. Lets assume (for sake of argument) that they were throwing the ball 3 hours a day. It might seem unlikely given the cost of putting someone in space that we would give them them such a task, but even if we did, then we are saying that after roughly 45 hours of practice the body is getting used to something that it considers really wrong.
Am I really the only one that sees the parallel here?
Actually, the problem is still the apps.
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Cringely: OS X on Intel
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Cringley makes two assertions:
OS X on Intel is no threat to Apple hardware.
and
There simply is no technical problem with porting OS X to alternate hardware.
Only one of these is correct. Getting OS X onto a new platform is not the tricky bit, not really...look at linux, look at BSD, hell even look at NT (alpha port anyone?).
No, the biggest problem will be getting all of the application manufacturers to release two versions of the software. And before everyone talks about the 68K->PowerPC as a refutal, don't forget that that was only transitional. Try and find 68K binaries now. You get lucky somtimes, but not normally.
Now, the problem is simple. If you release on two platforms, you have to support two platforms. That is, two compilers, and their associated bugs. That is, two different endian systems. That is twice the headache in any project managers book.
Any language you want...
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What is .NET?
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...so long as it is CLS. I mean, I like Eiffel, but that does not mean that I will like Eifel#. Is C# closer to objective C (Man that would rock!) or C++(The truth and not my preferred choice).
This whole "any language that you want" is vastly overrated. Especially since it is not even true....
The target environment for Farsite is an organization in 2006 with 100,000 computers, 10 billion files and 10 petabytes (10,000TB) of data.
Now the problem as I see is that only fortune 1000 size companies have 100,000 computers, and a good whack of those currently are pretty old, and will be in 2006. While it is likely that there will be 100Gb per machine, does anyone really believe that there will be an average of 10,000 (assuming american billion) files per machine? Remember, this is a distributed OS, therefore the OS files only get counted once, averaging to roughly 1 file per machine. That means that every machine will have roughly 9,999 unique files. That's a lot of Pr0n!
Plus, as these are fortune 1000 companies, what is the bet that they won't even look at this technology for another 10+ years.
Maybe, just maybe, it will be possible (well, it already is, but...) what is the chance of it being really deployed?
Plus, where are the offsite backups going to be done? Does this mean that every workstation has to be left on at all times. How much retraining does this require. Yes, we know that you used to get fired for leaving your machine on, but if you don't from now on, you will be fired!
Methinks that the dream will not match the reality....
Incidentally, this is why Palm sales are so slow - the Palm you bought 2 years ago still works perfectly and quickly, so there's no reason to upgrade.
I would like to back this up one hundred percent. If we talk about useful and useable devices, the Palm hit my optimum point with the Palm VX. I thought about upgrading to the 500 or the 505. But I don't want colour. I don't need more storage. PalmOS 4 does not excite me, since I need none of it's features.
This is a real problem in the tech world, we rely on a continuous upgrade pattern, and when that is not required then the company suffers. The same is happening in the PC market, people relise that we don't really need umpteen billion gigahertz, most people are perfectly happy with their computer of 18 months ago, and that hurts sales of hardware, lots.
Please read what the
judgement says before posting. DVD videos certainly contain computer programs that create the interactive menus. However, that doesn't mean that the whole disc is a computer program, any more than then software inside a car makes a car a computer program.
In particular, the relevant phrase for most people is essential object of the rental. I.e. both parties agree that the software on the DVD belongs to Warner, and if consumers were renting ththis to get the software, then Warner could charge more.
However, since the essential object of the rental, i.e. the reason for renting the DVD, is not the menus and language selection (which is what the software provides) then it does not matter, and the DVD can be rented just as a normal video tape.
As always, IANAL, and this is a five minute summary of a 10+ page document....
Don't you just love it when someone has already done the hard work for you? This package was specifically written to fool O/S fingerprinting, at least at the smartness level of nmap anyway. Start to check the services, and then you can really work out what the box is....
Note that this also lets your own computer impersonate an amiga:-)
OK, we are not a big company, so your "bigwigs" won't care too much for this story, but...
We are using Samba and cups to provide all of our file/print services, and they are both authenticating back to LDAP. Here is best source that I have found so far for samba and LDAP integration. It works very nicely, and with Samba 2.2 you can even do automatic NT/2000 printer driver installation as well.
For backup we use a Tivoli storage manager, which has native linux support, and so far has proved to be pretty reliable. We also run this thing in a very heterogenous environment (Linux, AIX, Solaris, NT and 2000!) with very few problems.
talk of fakes and whether this is real Apple?
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# whois iwalk.com
Registrant:
Puget Sound Network, inc.
1521 Queen Anne Ave. N
Suite H
Seattle, WA 98109
US
Domain Name: IWALK.COM
[...]
Record Created on 08-Apr-1997.
[...]
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So they definitely do not have the domain name, and have not for a while.....Amusing site though. Almost has an apple feel about (think about the think different campaign....)
Hmm. Sadly, being a socialist myself, I have to say that anyone who used that argument aginst you is a fool.
Socialism is about the most good for the community, not how to make one person more productive. The most good for a community actually involves having most people feeling productive. When people do not feel productive, they get bored. When they get bored, they start mucking around. When people start mucking around, the bell shaped curve idicates that a certain percentage will turn to crime. The more the people who are bored, the longer the tail on the curve...
Socialism is not about raping the productive individual, but rather, the individual not raping the society.
To counter your argument, just because someone is born a cripple, is that reason to make them lve on the street?
Using your text, I suspect that the answer would be euthanasia, but, as I recall, that is illegal in America....
Anyway, to make this vaguely on topic, if you brush your teeth, as dentists recommend, twice a day, three minutes a time, that is roughly 3 hours a month just wasted. Better kill all those people with clean teeth too.
If you drink one coffee a day, assuming 1 minute to walk to the machine, get the coffe etc, then you are wasting a 1/2 hour per month. Better kill those people who like coffee as well. They are just robbing you of your riches!
If you get stuck in a traffic jam, then you, along with the thousand or so others, could easily build a new freeway to alleviate the congestion. Hmm, maybe I have the answer to road rage here....
Relaxation has nothing to do with Socialism vs. Capitalism. In a true capitalist society, you make money so that you can enjoy it. And guess what, that is what we "socialists" call relaxation.
The problem as I see it with the current model is that bandwidth is just time. For the most part, you can place the updater in the background and nobody cares a whit if it takes 1 hour to update or 10 hours to update. To quote the V5 add: It won't heppen (sic) overnight, but it will heppen (sic).
There are whacks of people here who are more than happy to just set a local cache and use that for their corporate site. I already do something similar for my home site (and it is only two machines!)
What then is a viable alternative? How about releasing updates earlier? NOT security fixes, but the new versions of galeon, nautilus, evolution, etc. So under my scenario, the timeline would like this:
new release of software
Ximian bundles it all up
Ximian tests it to make sure that it runs and the like
Priority Ximian customers can download it.
<one week later>normal users can download it.
You still get the software, but you can pay to get it earlier. I have no problem with this. This obviously does not apply to security fixes!
You may want to consider using SuSE. They have pretty good multilingual support (I use the dutch), you can buy it with Spanish manuals (or at least you could with 7.2, probably still can) and they also have spanish how-tos on the disk. And, assuming the program supports it, it comes with spanish translations for KDE ang GNOME programs as well.
If you are going to be without the internet, this could be an interesting choice I think.
Some of the intersting ones are:
Name : howtoes
Summary : Collection of HOWTOs from the 'Linux Documentation Project' (Spanish)
Name : network_es
Summary : SuSE Linux Manual: Network (spanish)
Name : qappl_es
Summary : SuSE Applikation Manual (spanish)
Name : qconfig_es
Summary : Configuration Manual (spanish)
Name : sdb_es
Summary : SuSE Support-Database (spanish)
Name : susehelp_es
Summary : SuSE Help-System (base)
Name : suselinux-reference_es
Summary : System and Reference Manual (es)
Name : susetour_es
Summary : SuSE Tour spanish
Name : books_es
Summary : Several Linux Books translated to spanish
This is the first reference in a newsgroup to MS windows that Google has found, 12th November 1983. This is before we even came up with the concept of microsoft bashing. And here is what they had to say:
This is the first I've heard of this, which appears to be Microsoft's answer
to Lisa(tm Apple) and VisiON (tm Visicorp). (MS-* are tm's of Microsoft)
What operating systems and platforms do you personally use and which ones do you also use (and why)?
MT: I use Linux for work and sometimes I use Windows to play games.
You know this really should scare lokigames and the other linux game manufacturers...Here is there target market publicly stating that he uses windows for games.
I can't that you can blame him, personally I don't run windows, but I also don't play many games... However, almost all of the really good games at the moment are either console or PC only.
Most of the rest of the interview was pretty much what you would expect anyone to say, this is the only bit that jumped out and said "boo" to me. If we can keep him to his promises though Marcelo looks to be every bit as good a maintainer as Alan and Dave.
Note: While they say they are based on linux, they do not appear to of have released the sources anywhere that I can find. They do claim to be making a developers kit, but that is alos hard to find at the moment....
Apple has led the educational market for many years, and 38K laptops is certainly a big win for them....
However, with M$ and the ***Billion Dollar*** Settlement offer still floating around (looking however less politically viable everday)
What can Apple do to keep their educational position?
You know what I would love to see? That Billion dollars being spent on Apples. If that happens, i don't even care if they all come pre-loaded with IE. Hell, truth be known, I wouldn't even mind if they all came with office.
Why? Because this would have a very strong effect of breaking the operating system stranglehold. Plus, they might even go for it since it has the benficial side effect of increaing their office mind share.
But, please let them be loaded with MacOS X. This way at least the kids have a chance of seeing Unix, and all that extra users sure would help the unix software cause....
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Which just goes to show the problems with the whole "open software" movement. People actually care about what is gratis not vrij.
I.e. They do not care about the freedom of things, just the prive of things. :-(
And again, I say, so what? It takes the human body a while to accustomise yourself to a new environment, this is hardly breaking news!
Any SysAdmin who has gone from Solaris to AIX could tell you exactly the same thing! :-)
Which pretty much means that the original author, while informative, was factually wrong. It is that simple. This from the web site that you pointed to:
Assume, for sake of argument that 10 was a valid checksum. (i.e. of 14228-2588) then the full number would be 14228-2588-10. Now, the digit at the end, added to all of the others makes a multiple of 10. Let's check it:1 + 4 + 2 + 2 + 8 + 2 + 5 + 8 + 8 + 1 + 0 = 41
And so we can see that the checksum fails. It is trivial then to see that 14228-2588-0 is correct.
You are the weakest link!
Having said that, I want to take nothing away from the the wonderfully instructive example that you gave on how to use/abuse this information! :-) I along with many other slashdotters stand in awe :-)
The problem with this article is, not that they assume that gravity is hardwired, the article actually states that they are not sure, but rather that there assumptions are off base.
They say that it takes about 2-3 days before you get over the (lack of) motion sickness. That is, it takes the human body roughly 48-72 hours of doing something that it considers really wrong before it gets used to it.
Now consider the throwing, they say that after 15 days the astronaughts were getting used to it. Lets assume (for sake of argument) that they were throwing the ball 3 hours a day. It might seem unlikely given the cost of putting someone in space that we would give them them such a task, but even if we did, then we are saying that after roughly 45 hours of practice the body is getting used to something that it considers really wrong.
Am I really the only one that sees the parallel here?
No, the biggest problem will be getting all of the application manufacturers to release two versions of the software. And before everyone talks about the 68K->PowerPC as a refutal, don't forget that that was only transitional. Try and find 68K binaries now. You get lucky somtimes, but not normally.
Now, the problem is simple. If you release on two platforms, you have to support two platforms. That is, two compilers, and their associated bugs. That is, two different endian systems. That is twice the headache in any project managers book.
This whole "any language that you want" is vastly overrated. Especially since it is not even true....
Plus, as these are fortune 1000 companies, what is the bet that they won't even look at this technology for another 10+ years.
Maybe, just maybe, it will be possible (well, it already is, but...) what is the chance of it being really deployed?
Plus, where are the offsite backups going to be done? Does this mean that every workstation has to be left on at all times. How much retraining does this require. Yes, we know that you used to get fired for leaving your machine on, but if you don't from now on, you will be fired!
Methinks that the dream will not match the reality....
I would like to back this up one hundred percent. If we talk about useful and useable devices, the Palm hit my optimum point with the Palm VX. I thought about upgrading to the 500 or the 505. But I don't want colour. I don't need more storage. PalmOS 4 does not excite me, since I need none of it's features.
This is a real problem in the tech world, we rely on a continuous upgrade pattern, and when that is not required then the company suffers. The same is happening in the PC market, people relise that we don't really need umpteen billion gigahertz, most people are perfectly happy with their computer of 18 months ago, and that hurts sales of hardware, lots.
However, since the essential object of the rental, i.e. the reason for renting the DVD, is not the menus and language selection (which is what the software provides) then it does not matter, and the DVD can be rented just as a normal video tape.
As always, IANAL, and this is a five minute summary of a 10+ page document....
Note that this also lets your own computer impersonate an amiga :-)
OK, we are not a big company, so your "bigwigs" won't care too much for this story, but...
We are using Samba and cups to provide all of our file/print services, and they are both authenticating back to LDAP. Here is best source that I have found so far for samba and LDAP integration. It works very nicely, and with Samba 2.2 you can even do automatic NT/2000 printer driver installation as well.
For backup we use a Tivoli storage manager, which has native linux support, and so far has proved to be pretty reliable. We also run this thing in a very heterogenous environment (Linux, AIX, Solaris, NT and 2000!) with very few problems.
# whois iwalk.com Registrant: Puget Sound Network, inc. 1521 Queen Anne Ave. N Suite H Seattle, WA 98109 US Domain Name: IWALK.COM [...] Record Created on 08-Apr-1997. [...] --- So they definitely do not have the domain name, and have not for a while.....Amusing site though. Almost has an apple feel about (think about the think different campaign....)
Socialism is about the most good for the community, not how to make one person more productive. The most good for a community actually involves having most people feeling productive. When people do not feel productive, they get bored. When they get bored, they start mucking around. When people start mucking around, the bell shaped curve idicates that a certain percentage will turn to crime. The more the people who are bored, the longer the tail on the curve...
Socialism is not about raping the productive individual, but rather, the individual not raping the society.
To counter your argument, just because someone is born a cripple, is that reason to make them lve on the street?
Using your text, I suspect that the answer would be euthanasia, but, as I recall, that is illegal in America....
Anyway, to make this vaguely on topic, if you brush your teeth, as dentists recommend, twice a day, three minutes a time, that is roughly 3 hours a month just wasted. Better kill all those people with clean teeth too.
If you drink one coffee a day, assuming 1 minute to walk to the machine, get the coffe etc, then you are wasting a 1/2 hour per month. Better kill those people who like coffee as well. They are just robbing you of your riches!
If you get stuck in a traffic jam, then you, along with the thousand or so others, could easily build a new freeway to alleviate the congestion. Hmm, maybe I have the answer to road rage here....
Relaxation has nothing to do with Socialism vs. Capitalism. In a true capitalist society, you make money so that you can enjoy it. And guess what, that is what we "socialists" call relaxation.
There are whacks of people here who are more than happy to just set a local cache and use that for their corporate site. I already do something similar for my home site (and it is only two machines!)
What then is a viable alternative? How about releasing updates earlier? NOT security fixes, but the new versions of galeon, nautilus, evolution, etc. So under my scenario, the timeline would like this:
You still get the software, but you can pay to get it earlier. I have no problem with this. This obviously does not apply to security fixes!
So, what do you think?
Hi there,
You may want to consider using SuSE. They have pretty good multilingual support (I use the dutch), you can buy it with Spanish manuals (or at least you could with 7.2, probably still can) and they also have spanish how-tos on the disk. And, assuming the program supports it, it comes with spanish translations for KDE ang GNOME programs as well.
If you are going to be without the internet, this could be an interesting choice I think.
Some of the intersting ones are:
Name : howtoes
Summary : Collection of HOWTOs from the 'Linux Documentation Project' (Spanish)
Name : network_es
Summary : SuSE Linux Manual: Network (spanish)
Name : qappl_es
Summary : SuSE Applikation Manual (spanish)
Name : qconfig_es
Summary : Configuration Manual (spanish)
Name : sdb_es
Summary : SuSE Support-Database (spanish)
Name : susehelp_es
Summary : SuSE Help-System (base)
Name : suselinux-reference_es
Summary : System and Reference Manual (es)
Name : susetour_es
Summary : SuSE Tour spanish
Name : books_es
Summary : Several Linux Books translated to spanish
In essence, the problem is seen on reiserfs (being investigated) and also in NFS. No-one has mentioned following up on the NFS problems yet...
Nor have problems yet been seen in XFS, Ext2 or Ext3.
Now you are just being obtuse :-)
I can't that you can blame him, personally I don't run windows, but I also don't play many games... However, almost all of the really good games at the moment are either console or PC only.
Most of the rest of the interview was pretty much what you would expect anyone to say, this is the only bit that jumped out and said "boo" to me. If we can keep him to his promises though Marcelo looks to be every bit as good a maintainer as Alan and Dave.
Note: While they say they are based on linux, they do not appear to of have released the sources anywhere that I can find. They do claim to be making a developers kit, but that is alos hard to find at the moment....
Why? Because this would have a very strong effect of breaking the operating system stranglehold. Plus, they might even go for it since it has the benficial side effect of increaing their office mind share.
But, please let them be loaded with MacOS X. This way at least the kids have a chance of seeing Unix, and all that extra users sure would help the unix software cause....
Also, you can get all of the patches that SuSE use on their kernel, not only this one. Please note that this link is