I personnally find Reloaded very good. Maybe not as much a revelation as the first was, but very well done and polished.
The FX where excellent. Nothing earth-shattering, but a definite improvement over the first. The rotating camera and fast-slow-fast motion where improved upon. The photography was impeccable and really stand out. Like the first, there was a lot of attention paid to detail and some innovative camera point of view. I think Reloaded have good chance of winning the best photography Oscar this year.
IMHO, the greatest improvement over the first is the music. It is very techno-trance and it fit very well with the action. I'll probably buy the soundtrack.
Speaking of action, this movie is an orgy. Fight after fight after fight sprinkled with car chase. For any other movie, the incredibility of the fights would have bothered me but the fact that the character have god-like power make it possible; apparently, the director have taken full profit of this plot twist. The kung-fu fighting was very enjoyable since it is so well shot.
But what is the Matrix without the philosophy ? The first seduced with me its his kitsh orientalism. The second intrigued me by his cerebrality. I am not a native english speaker and I have seen it in OV thus some part of the dialog eluded me. I will have to see it again a few times to really grab the depth of the relexion given. There are a lot of reference about faith and choice and how one affect the other. The fatality of existence vs control of one's destiny is a strong theme here. I think Reloaded goes much deeper than the first and I love it. The first Matrix was about the perception we have of reality while Reloaded is about the grasp we have on it.
I give 9.5/10. This is going to be a classic, just like the first. I would not be surprised if my kid study this trilogy in their Cinema course in college 20 years from now.
BTW, the idiot at the backup power station should have upgraded SSH on the control computer. SSHv1 had been outdated for a very long time...
Netscape (actually, Mozilla) rewrite from scratch may have been a disaster from a commercial POV, but from a technical one it is a great success. Personnally, I don't care about the browser war or market share, I care about quality software. That is what OSS is about. Mozilla > 1.0 is quality software. They could have refactored the cruft of Netscape 4 but it is open to debate if they would have had a result as good.
jwz criticism of the Mozilla project in 1998 may have been justified. Joel rant on Mozilla from 2000 may have been revelant. History prove them both wrong. Mozilla grab the technical lead in 2002 and will certainly continue to hold it for time to come considering his headstart it have and his rapid pace of developpement.
I don't care about what is popular, I care about the best. Thus I use Mozilla.
/. is all nice and dandy, but if you want opinion from people who are real computer AV maniacs, go ask the Arstechnica Audio/Visual Club at http://arstechnica.infopop.net/ . You should also read the FAQ at http://faq.arstechnica.com/?s=1
On Unix systems, novices know they have no idea what is going on, and experts know that they know what is going on. On Windows systems, novices think they know what is going on, and experts know that they do not know what is going on.
I'm stealing that quote ! Did you just come up with this one or you got it from someone else ? I'd like to give proper attribution when I'll use that quote.
If the encryption overhead is too much for you and you don't care about your file flying clear-text on the network (ie. don't backup/etc thru it), you could use a kerberized ftp client and server. It would be a pain to configure a KDC for just an home LAN, but it work pretty well once setup.
IMHO, there is no excuse for cleartext password on the wire.
It's not exactly what you have in mind, but the "Scoop" system used at www.kuro5hin.org is based on article moderation. It work quite well there; something similar could surely be tailored for Slashdot.
It's not about dupe being annoying, it's about the message they send : editors don't read their website. Scanning the headline take me about 10 minutes a day. If editors (paid to run this site, I remind you) can't be bother to take 10 fscking minute of their work time to read the site they are paid to run, they might as well quite and get a job they care about.
Dupe within a few days don't really annoy me. But this dupe had two post within a few hour. Ouch !
You made a few good points, although it is debatable how people smart enough to use a relationnal database could confuse it with a browser. However, you totally obscured the real question : why in the world did the FirebirdSQL team started an email flood campaign ? This is the kind of behavior I would expect from a bored 14 years old. Since I suppose maintaining a SQL database codebase require more skill than most bored 14 year old dispose, I can only conclude that the FirebirdSQL team is composed of immature jerk with an inflated ego and no sense of diplomacy. Either way, I do not want to be associated with this kind of people so I will probably never use your project or recommend it to client. Too bad.
.... is the time factor. RH 7.3 was the latest version when the book went to press, yet RH 9.0 just recently came out.
YMMV, but I have never encountered a RedHat > 7.3 in production. Most server I support are 7.3 and I still see quite a few 6.2 (this may change with EOLing). Lot of people are averse of using.0 release. (although one could argue that RH 9.0 is really 8.1...)
Though this chapter is well done, and a nice introduction to mail in general, I would prefer to get rid of it in favor of a "mail-is-only-for-dedicated-servers" policy. A short note on how to deactivate or remove the default MTA should be included in the previous chapter (yes, I know that not everyone shares this point of view).
This made me jump on my chair ! How are you suppose to read alert sent by email, backup report, cron errors, etc ? You login to each and every one of your Unix server every morning to check root's mailbox ?
As far as I am concerned, a working MTA is an essential part of any self-respecting Unix system. At the very least, a good sysadmining book should tell you how to configure a smarthost and make sure your MTA is not an open relay.
This is far from a new trend. I remember a few years back (around 1998 or 1999, IIRC), legacy-free PC were all the rage. Compaq, among other, had line of business PC branded as "Legacy-free" (no ISA, PS/2, serial, parallel, etc). As to what goes around...
Thompson elaborated on the importance of NT's foundations. "Our core architecture is so solid, that we were able to take NT from 386-25's in 1990 to today's embedded devices, 64-way, 64-bit multiprocessor machines, and $1000 scale-out server blades. We've been able to deliver a whole array of services on it."
the biggest thing people need to learn is file systems. We all know about the metaphors of desktops, files and folders. But common folk just don't get it. Because of this "easy to use" programs like MS Office become difficult. Trainers should teach people the parts of a computer, how they work, how their operating system works, and all the basic things that apply to everything they do on a computer. Once they comprehend this much, picking up a new system is not so difficult. Instead the trainers just say "click on the OK button in this box". If they don't know the meaning of this, they don't know what to do when something weird happens.
I disagree. In my time, I had been doing a lot of computer training. Once, I advertised an introductory course as "for people who never touch a keyboard". There was a lot of interest and my course was booked full. I had that vision of what real beginner should learn, like how the file system is organised, how to start a program by naviguating the Start menu (it was Windows 95 back then), etc.
This course was a complete disaster. People are not good with abstract concept such as the file system hierarchy. I spent almost an hour explaining them how file was organized like a tree, why drive could be compared to drawer, folder to folder and file to individual document, etc. After my lecture, I had a little exercise where they were asked to create a folder in Explorer, drag a file there and rename the file <your name>.txt. More than half the class created a folder named <your name>.txt and did not know what to do from there.
If you are a cartesian type of person, you probably believe that you must first learn the foundation and than put it in pratice. Most people are not wired that way, especially for stuff even remotely abstract. I regret I did not taught them useful stuff instead, like word processing or changing the background image of their desktop. None of these person took any of my more "advanced" course.
IMP does not support calendar per se, but other Horde application does it and integrate pretty seamlessly with IMP. Horde have a decent contact manager (Turba) with LDAP support and a correct calendar (Kronolyth, yes they have funny name). Kronolyth have iCalendar and shared calendar support in CVS (not yet in stable version). There is also note manager, time tracker, etc available at http://www.horde.org/projects.php
You should have a look at mimp, the Mobile IMP. It is currently only available from the Horde CVS. Never used it so I don't know where they are in the developpement but seem to fit your requirement.
I was planning a similar, modulo the ambiant light sensor, inspried by this article. But instead of using an EL cable powered by battery, I want to use a few LED powered by tapping the keyboard controller. The PS/2 specification call for 300 mW on the port. Depending on how much is unused by the KB controller, somebody could probably wire 4 or 5 more LED and place them strategically for the best effect.
Slashdot Mirror
Shit ! We have "... exact OS match for host" but the damn screenshot does not show the OS !!!
I personnally find Reloaded very good. Maybe not as much a revelation as the first was, but very well done and polished.
...
The FX where excellent. Nothing earth-shattering, but a definite improvement over the first. The rotating camera and fast-slow-fast motion where improved upon. The photography was impeccable and really stand out. Like the first, there was a lot of attention paid to detail and some innovative camera point of view. I think Reloaded have good chance of winning the best photography Oscar this year.
IMHO, the greatest improvement over the first is the music. It is very techno-trance and it fit very well with the action. I'll probably buy the soundtrack.
Speaking of action, this movie is an orgy. Fight after fight after fight sprinkled with car chase. For any other movie, the incredibility of the fights would have bothered me but the fact that the character have god-like power make it possible; apparently, the director have taken full profit of this plot twist. The kung-fu fighting was very enjoyable since it is so well shot.
But what is the Matrix without the philosophy ? The first seduced with me its his kitsh orientalism. The second intrigued me by his cerebrality. I am not a native english speaker and I have seen it in OV thus some part of the dialog eluded me. I will have to see it again a few times to really grab the depth of the relexion given. There are a lot of reference about faith and choice and how one affect the other. The fatality of existence vs control of one's destiny is a strong theme here. I think Reloaded goes much deeper than the first and I love it. The first Matrix was about the perception we have of reality while Reloaded is about the grasp we have on it.
I give 9.5/10. This is going to be a classic, just like the first. I would not be surprised if my kid study this trilogy in their Cinema course in college 20 years from now.
BTW, the idiot at the backup power station should have upgraded SSH on the control computer. SSHv1 had been outdated for a very long time
Netscape (actually, Mozilla) rewrite from scratch may have been a disaster from a commercial POV, but from a technical one it is a great success. Personnally, I don't care about the browser war or market share, I care about quality software. That is what OSS is about. Mozilla > 1.0 is quality software. They could have refactored the cruft of Netscape 4 but it is open to debate if they would have had a result as good.
jwz criticism of the Mozilla project in 1998 may have been justified. Joel rant on Mozilla from 2000 may have been revelant. History prove them both wrong. Mozilla grab the technical lead in 2002 and will certainly continue to hold it for time to come considering his headstart it have and his rapid pace of developpement.
I don't care about what is popular, I care about the best. Thus I use Mozilla.
/. is all nice and dandy, but if you want opinion from people who are real computer AV maniacs, go ask the Arstechnica Audio/Visual Club at http://arstechnica.infopop.net/ . You should also read the FAQ at http://faq.arstechnica.com/?s=1
I bet it's going to happen a few weeks before release on a leaked demo unit.
... and build some kind of mechanical weeding system in the robot. That way, reliance on pesticide could be almost eliminated.
Still a step in the right direction.
What is .NET ?
On Unix systems, novices know they have no idea what is going on, and experts know that they know what is going on. On Windows systems, novices think they know what is going on, and experts know that they do not know what is going on.
I'm stealing that quote ! Did you just come up with this one or you got it from someone else ? I'd like to give proper attribution when I'll use that quote.
If the encryption overhead is too much for you and you don't care about your file flying clear-text on the network (ie. don't backup /etc thru it), you could use a kerberized ftp client and server. It would be a pain to configure a KDC for just an home LAN, but it work pretty well once setup.
IMHO, there is no excuse for cleartext password on the wire.
It's not exactly what you have in mind, but the "Scoop" system used at www.kuro5hin.org is based on article moderation. It work quite well there; something similar could surely be tailored for Slashdot.
It's not about dupe being annoying, it's about the message they send : editors don't read their website. Scanning the headline take me about 10 minutes a day. If editors (paid to run this site, I remind you) can't be bother to take 10 fscking minute of their work time to read the site they are paid to run, they might as well quite and get a job they care about.
Dupe within a few days don't really annoy me. But this dupe had two post within a few hour. Ouch !
That's my point : no need to remove/disable it, just to configure it properly.
You made a few good points, although it is debatable how people smart enough to use a relationnal database could confuse it with a browser. However, you totally obscured the real question : why in the world did the FirebirdSQL team started an email flood campaign ? This is the kind of behavior I would expect from a bored 14 years old. Since I suppose maintaining a SQL database codebase require more skill than most bored 14 year old dispose, I can only conclude that the FirebirdSQL team is composed of immature jerk with an inflated ego and no sense of diplomacy. Either way, I do not want to be associated with this kind of people so I will probably never use your project or recommend it to client. Too bad.
YMMV, but I have never encountered a RedHat > 7.3 in production. Most server I support are 7.3 and I still see quite a few 6.2 (this may change with EOLing). Lot of people are averse of using .0 release. (although one could argue that RH 9.0 is really 8.1 ...)
Though this chapter is well done, and a nice introduction to mail in general, I would prefer to get rid of it in favor of a "mail-is-only-for-dedicated-servers" policy. A short note on how to deactivate or remove the default MTA should be included in the previous chapter (yes, I know that not everyone shares this point of view).
This made me jump on my chair ! How are you suppose to read alert sent by email, backup report, cron errors, etc ? You login to each and every one of your Unix server every morning to check root's mailbox ?
As far as I am concerned, a working MTA is an essential part of any self-respecting Unix system. At the very least, a good sysadmining book should tell you how to configure a smarthost and make sure your MTA is not an open relay.
This is far from a new trend. I remember a few years back (around 1998 or 1999, IIRC), legacy-free PC were all the rage. Compaq, among other, had line of business PC branded as "Legacy-free" (no ISA, PS/2, serial, parallel, etc). As to what goes around ...
I hate to nitpick but ...
Really, Linux is pretty much the only OS today that can scale from 386-25 and embedded device to really big SMP or NUMA machine
64-way, 64-bit multiprocessor machines ...
Thompson elaborated on the importance of NT's foundations. "Our core architecture is so solid, that we were able to take NT from 386-25's in 1990 to today's embedded devices, 64-way, 64-bit multiprocessor machines, and $1000 scale-out server blades. We've been able to deliver a whole array of services on it."
Remind me of some other OS
the biggest thing people need to learn is file systems. We all know about the metaphors of desktops, files and folders. But common folk just don't get it. Because of this "easy to use" programs like MS Office become difficult. Trainers should teach people the parts of a computer, how they work, how their operating system works, and all the basic things that apply to everything they do on a computer. Once they comprehend this much, picking up a new system is not so difficult. Instead the trainers just say "click on the OK button in this box". If they don't know the meaning of this, they don't know what to do when something weird happens.
I disagree. In my time, I had been doing a lot of computer training. Once, I advertised an introductory course as "for people who never touch a keyboard". There was a lot of interest and my course was booked full. I had that vision of what real beginner should learn, like how the file system is organised, how to start a program by naviguating the Start menu (it was Windows 95 back then), etc.
This course was a complete disaster. People are not good with abstract concept such as the file system hierarchy. I spent almost an hour explaining them how file was organized like a tree, why drive could be compared to drawer, folder to folder and file to individual document, etc. After my lecture, I had a little exercise where they were asked to create a folder in Explorer, drag a file there and rename the file <your name>.txt. More than half the class created a folder named <your name>.txt and did not know what to do from there.
If you are a cartesian type of person, you probably believe that you must first learn the foundation and than put it in pratice. Most people are not wired that way, especially for stuff even remotely abstract. I regret I did not taught them useful stuff instead, like word processing or changing the background image of their desktop. None of these person took any of my more "advanced" course.
IMP does not support calendar per se, but other Horde application does it and integrate pretty seamlessly with IMP. Horde have a decent contact manager (Turba) with LDAP support and a correct calendar (Kronolyth, yes they have funny name). Kronolyth have iCalendar and shared calendar support in CVS (not yet in stable version). There is also note manager, time tracker, etc available at http://www.horde.org/projects.php
You should have a look at mimp, the Mobile IMP. It is currently only available from the Horde CVS. Never used it so I don't know where they are in the developpement but seem to fit your requirement.
http://cvs.horde.org/cvs.php/mimp?login=2
I was planning a similar, modulo the ambiant light sensor, inspried by this article. But instead of using an EL cable powered by battery, I want to use a few LED powered by tapping the keyboard controller. The PS/2 specification call for 300 mW on the port. Depending on how much is unused by the KB controller, somebody could probably wire 4 or 5 more LED and place them strategically for the best effect.
What exactly is the problem with RPM wrt security ? What does a package format have to do with security (beside, possibly, ease of applying patch) ?
www.horde.org
BTW, I am mostly programming in Perl.