Yeah, and sometimes you agnostics can become such highminded jackasses that you lose total touch with people's emotions and the reality of life. Sometimes people need to get it through their heads that despite the need to be scientific about understanding things, people have emotions and feelings too. And those emotions and feelings need to be healed as well. If it is a prayer that it takes to cater to those emotions, let it be said. And don't just yank out another knee-jerk anti-religious reaction whenever a word is said that is in any way related to God. People like you can be sickening sometimes.
That said, if you're going to say a prayer, say it for the families of the astronauts. I never get people who try to pray for dead people. Pray for those who are alive for comfort.
One more thing, I'm really beginning to get sick of the news media talking about terrorism. I don't know if anything could be more annoying.
Err, I don't think so. From what I've read about HTTP KeepAlive, the connection should be kept alive by adding a "Connection: KeepAlive" header to the request or something like that. I can't imagine any reason why any protocol should want to interfere with the TCP handshaking sequence for keepalive purposes. That would mean crossing out of the application layer into the transport layer.
This issue caused me a lot of grief last year, and I am just figuring out why. We set up a webmail server using Apache/Vhosts and OpenSSL, and we had this recurring problem of links just suddenly breaking in IE... It'd just return "Page could not be loaded" or something like that. The problem never cropped up in Mozilla or other browsers, and eventually I found out that if I added this line:
to the virtual host configuration, the problem went away. Now that I've read this article, I think I understand why. What I think is happening here is that Microsoft trying to make the most out of keepalive/persistent connections by bending the rules. And it's not right.
Not to nitpick, but...
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This is seriously old news. I immediately knew I had seen this before, but I just can't remember exactly where I found the link. Anyways, if you check that page, you'll realize that it was last edited in April.
That said, this is seriously awesome technology. Except that it looks so fragile... I worry it might tip over if I lean against it! How fast does that thing go, 32 mph?
I recently helped set up a cybercafe in Akure, Nigeria. Nigeria's telecommunications infrastructure has been in a dismal state for a long time, and it seems people are eating up new technology as fast as they can whenever it's available. People want to communicate... and wherever there's an alternative to the POTS, they'll rush for it.
For example, it was only recently (about a year ago) that cellphones were introduced to the market. Despite the fact that government regulatory bodies have made it unnecessarily difficult for companies to enter this market, there are already 3 operators, and within a year that industry has injected well over $1 billion into the economy. People don't bother getting land phones now...if there's cellular/GSM available they'll use it.
Cybercafes are starting up at an almost alarming rate in cities all over Nigeria. One of the big markets that these cybercafes cater for is VoIP... one could easily make a significant profit by offering international phone service to the US over VoIP, charging approximately 40 cents/minute. Net2Phone, the leading carrier here, charges only 10 cents per minute. I once saw someone walk into the cybercafe wanting to place a call to Lagos (in the same Nigeria), even though it would cost him 200 Naira per minute (about $1.45!).
At the rate at which this market is booming, I can imagine what would happen when broadband access becomes widely available for cheap prices. VoIP could all but replace the POTS as the standard means for international telephony, with mobile phones for local/long distance calls. By the time there is a solid national communications network in place with enough bandwidth, VoIP could even become the dominant means for local and long distance phone service, especially since it's already gaining serious popularity. The POTS could easily become totally irrelevant!
As far as I know, the situation in most African countries is similar to that of Nigeria, although many of them may not have the level of development in the comms industry that we do. But I believe that this continent probably has the largest potential market for VoIP (and mobile phones) right now.
Work on an OS X version of OpenOffice/StarOffice has been underway for a good while now. In fact if you bothered to visit the OpenOffice.org web site you'd see that there is already a Developer's Build of OpenOffice.org 1.0 available for download.
You're right, free StarOffice for OS X would be a most excellent idea for educational institutions.
Yeah, I'm sure all those kernel hackers were really busy sending out emails on the lkml on how they should punish companies that refuse to embrace linux.
Alan Cox must have proclaimed on the lkml that important technical information must be witholden from such companies, and they must face the consequences of committing such a dastardly sin as not using Linux.
They must be threatening such companies with high prices and severance of OEM contracts.
They must be spending 50% of their time focusing on how to write viruses and works to make Windows systems break and puke. They must be working really hard on developing algorithms by which Linux can be used to crack and break Windows systems. Linux is seriously crippling Microsoft's revenue stream right now.
Yeah, I know there is some hypocrisy on Slashdot, but please.
"For another patient, though, the implant has been a bit sobering, Chow said. The patient, who has begun to recognize faces, was disappointed to see how his own face had aged."
I can almost hear those doctors now. "Dude. You've been blind for many years, you were chosen to have your sight restored by a groundbreaking scientific process, and the only thing you can think about is how old you are?
Get back on that operating table, I'm gonna yank that damn chip out your eye..."
"The new HP will be equally strong on UNIX, Windows® and Linux-based servers, requiring middleware solutions to support all platforms."
(emphasis mine)
How do they expect to require.NET to support UNIX & Linux? The only other middleware option of significance here is J2EE, and that already supports all the platforms anyway. Mono, IIRC isn't anywhere ready for production use.
On the other hand, I think it is good to see them affirm equal attention for the three dominant platforms.
(I can almost hear the OpenVMS folk coughing loudly now...)
They did think of that, there is a page on the site that contains an inflation-adjusted list of All Time Domestic grosses. Not surprisingly, Gone With The Wind tops the list with $1.1 billion dollars, followed closely by the 1977 release of Star Wars.
As much as I don't want to sound one-sided, the problem with this evaluation is that almost every point there boils down to these two:
1. Linux does not support our technologies, like Active Directory, ASP.NET and CIFS (of course, they couldn't resist faulting samba:-)
2. Yeah, linux does that, but not the way we like it. We give you everything from one source, linux gives you too many different implementations.
Of course, there's some actual substance to those statements, especially for people who would rather talk to one person for all their needs. But it all sounds rather too skewed for me, but I ain't surprised anyway.
I have a plain Hauppauge Bt848 card. With vcr or mp1e, combined with cron, I record TV programs regularly even with DivX encoding. mp1e doesn't do DivX, but gives you the advantage of being able to play the mpeg while recording it, so you can pause, rewind and fast forward TV...sweet.
The perl camels, in apparent frustration and perplexity at their failure to produce a decent geek desktop application, have announced today a new line of business manufacturing bath and body products, and soy wax candles.
In accordance with this change, visitors to PerlBox.org are now automatically redirected to CamelotNaturals.com, complete with a product catalog and ordering information.
Actually the failure of one of the server's processors coincided with my post. It took me about an hour to revive the server, but it's back up now. And no, this isn't my computer at home, this is a server machine running on a 100mbit link.
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Methinks someone at Microsoft really needs to take their coffee regularly, especially with shots like this one (Read the caption!).
:)
Whatever you say, it's still probably the most ironic screenshot I've ever taken!
Yeah, and sometimes you agnostics can become such highminded jackasses that you lose total touch with people's emotions and the reality of life. Sometimes people need to get it through their heads that despite the need to be scientific about understanding things, people have emotions and feelings too. And those emotions and feelings need to be healed as well. If it is a prayer that it takes to cater to those emotions, let it be said. And don't just yank out another knee-jerk anti-religious reaction whenever a word is said that is in any way related to God. People like you can be sickening sometimes.
That said, if you're going to say a prayer, say it for the families of the astronauts. I never get people who try to pray for dead people. Pray for those who are alive for comfort.
One more thing, I'm really beginning to get sick of the news media talking about terrorism. I don't know if anything could be more annoying.
Err, I don't think so. From what I've read about HTTP KeepAlive, the connection should be kept alive by adding a "Connection: KeepAlive" header to the request or something like that. I can't imagine any reason why any protocol should want to interfere with the TCP handshaking sequence for keepalive purposes. That would mean crossing out of the application layer into the transport layer.
... It'd just return "Page could not be loaded" or something like that. The problem never cropped up in Mozilla or other browsers, and eventually I found out that if I added this line:
This issue caused me a lot of grief last year, and I am just figuring out why. We set up a webmail server using Apache/Vhosts and OpenSSL, and we had this recurring problem of links just suddenly breaking in IE
SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
to the virtual host configuration, the problem went away. Now that I've read this article, I think I understand why. What I think is happening here is that Microsoft trying to make the most out of keepalive/persistent connections by bending the rules. And it's not right.
This is seriously old news. I immediately knew I had seen this before, but I just can't remember exactly where I found the link. Anyways, if you check that page, you'll realize that it was last edited in April.
... I worry it might tip over if I lean against it! How fast does that thing go, 32 mph?
That said, this is seriously awesome technology. Except that it looks so fragile
I hope this link is enough to convince them.
I also hope that page ends the debates once and for all!
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If a court website gets slashdotted, would it classify as obstruction of justice?
Well, the site got crunched. Here's a text-only mirror:
Click here
If you press down-left-down-right and then press X three times rapidly, clippy will grow to ten times his normal size and say:
"IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE WRITING A LETTER!"
Tux will then explode into tiny little fragments.
I recently helped set up a cybercafe in Akure, Nigeria. Nigeria's telecommunications infrastructure has been in a dismal state for a long time, and it seems people are eating up new technology as fast as they can whenever it's available. People want to communicate ... and wherever there's an alternative to the POTS, they'll rush for it.
... one could easily make a significant profit by offering international phone service to the US over VoIP, charging approximately 40 cents/minute. Net2Phone, the leading carrier here, charges only 10 cents per minute. I once saw someone walk into the cybercafe wanting to place a call to Lagos (in the same Nigeria), even though it would cost him 200 Naira per minute (about $1.45!).
For example, it was only recently (about a year ago) that cellphones were introduced to the market. Despite the fact that government regulatory bodies have made it unnecessarily difficult for companies to enter this market, there are already 3 operators, and within a year that industry has injected well over $1 billion into the economy. People don't bother getting land phones now...if there's cellular/GSM available they'll use it.
Cybercafes are starting up at an almost alarming rate in cities all over Nigeria. One of the big markets that these cybercafes cater for is VoIP
At the rate at which this market is booming, I can imagine what would happen when broadband access becomes widely available for cheap prices. VoIP could all but replace the POTS as the standard means for international telephony, with mobile phones for local/long distance calls. By the time there is a solid national communications network in place with enough bandwidth, VoIP could even become the dominant means for local and long distance phone service, especially since it's already gaining serious popularity. The POTS could easily become totally irrelevant!
As far as I know, the situation in most African countries is similar to that of Nigeria, although many of them may not have the level of development in the comms industry that we do. But I believe that this continent probably has the largest potential market for VoIP (and mobile phones) right now.
Work on an OS X version of OpenOffice/StarOffice has been underway for a good while now. In fact if you bothered to visit the OpenOffice.org web site you'd see that there is already a Developer's Build of OpenOffice.org 1.0 available for download.
You're right, free StarOffice for OS X would be a most excellent idea for educational institutions.
And for some of the weirdest looking, coolest looking, or scariest looking cases you could possibly find, check out their PC Gallery.
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That car one is absolutely incredible.
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Yeah, I'm sure all those kernel hackers were really busy sending out emails on the lkml on how they should punish companies that refuse to embrace linux.
Alan Cox must have proclaimed on the lkml that important technical information must be witholden from such companies, and they must face the consequences of committing such a dastardly sin as not using Linux.
They must be threatening such companies with high prices and severance of OEM contracts.
They must be spending 50% of their time focusing on how to write viruses and works to make Windows systems break and puke. They must be working really hard on developing algorithms by which Linux can be used to crack and break Windows systems. Linux is seriously crippling Microsoft's revenue stream right now.
Yeah, I know there is some hypocrisy on Slashdot, but please.
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From the article:
"For another patient, though, the implant has been a bit sobering, Chow said. The patient, who has begun to recognize faces, was disappointed to see how his own face had aged."
I can almost hear those doctors now. "Dude. You've been blind for many years, you were chosen to have your sight restored by a groundbreaking scientific process, and the only thing you can think about is how old you are?
Get back on that operating table, I'm gonna yank that damn chip out your eye..."
Read this:
.NET to support UNIX & Linux? The only other middleware option of significance here is J2EE, and that already supports all the platforms anyway. Mono, IIRC isn't anywhere ready for production use.
"The new HP will be equally strong on UNIX, Windows® and Linux-based servers, requiring middleware solutions to support all platforms."
(emphasis mine)
How do they expect to require
On the other hand, I think it is good to see them affirm equal attention for the three dominant platforms.
(I can almost hear the OpenVMS folk coughing loudly now...)
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They did think of that, there is a page on the site that contains an inflation-adjusted list of All Time Domestic grosses. Not surprisingly, Gone With The Wind tops the list with $1.1 billion dollars, followed closely by the 1977 release of Star Wars.
The full list is here.
Very, very interesting site.
As much as I don't want to sound one-sided, the problem with this evaluation is that almost every point there boils down to these two:
:-)
1. Linux does not support our technologies, like Active Directory, ASP.NET and CIFS (of course, they couldn't resist faulting samba
2. Yeah, linux does that, but not the way we like it. We give you everything from one source, linux gives you too many different implementations.
Of course, there's some actual substance to those statements, especially for people who would rather talk to one person for all their needs. But it all sounds rather too skewed for me, but I ain't surprised anyway.
Good to see stuff we've known / suspected for some time backed up by real data....
:-)
Looks like Slashdot has been particularly up to speed in that department today - given stories like this one.
I have a plain Hauppauge Bt848 card. With vcr or mp1e, combined with cron, I record TV programs regularly even with DivX encoding. mp1e doesn't do DivX, but gives you the advantage of being able to play the mpeg while recording it, so you can pause, rewind and fast forward TV...sweet.
...for the perplexed, is actually a short form of "Barksdale", and is pronounced as "Bee-Dale".
I like interesting names like that.
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The perl camels, in apparent frustration and perplexity at their failure to produce a decent geek desktop application, have announced today a new line of business manufacturing bath and body products, and soy wax candles.
In accordance with this change, visitors to PerlBox.org are now automatically redirected to CamelotNaturals.com , complete with a product catalog and ordering information.
Already see this on Friday? It was released thursday, so it possibly couldn't be a different story...
Google releases Web APIs
Actually the failure of one of the server's processors coincided with my post. It took me about an hour to revive the server, but it's back up now. And no, this isn't my computer at home, this is a server machine running on a 100mbit link.
Here's a picture:
http://129.7.201.70/xcomputerman/legochurch.jpg
According to the article,
"The open-source world has produced a few free Office-compatible suites, but they, in turn, don't run on either Windows or the Mac OS."
But sir, I beg to disagree.
Both StarOffice (and its open source counterpart, OpenOffice) run on Windows, Linux and Solaris.
AbiWord, everyone's favorite lightweight word processor, runs on Windows, Mac OS X, XDarwin, FreeBSD, Linux and any other version of Unix.
So get your facts straight before jumping to conclusions =)