Why did they use the development branch of Apache, when only a handful of sites are running it? I would have found an analysis of the stable 1.3 branch, which 60% of the web-serving world uses, to be more informative.
I'd be interested in seeing how XFS and NTFS/WinFS compare to each other in terms of large/small file performance, lots of file accesses, etc. Does anyone know of any such comparisons?
If it's affordable to you (I'm still in college so it is for me), accept paid "volunteering" or true volunteer, whichever appeals more to you. I am currently helping out the local school district clean 26 schools of PCs. I spend a few hours a day helping them out, and (for me, at least) their gratitude more than makes up for the lack of pay. It might even open up job opportunities in the future. Right now, doing work I enjoy (and probably will end up doing later in life) is far more important than doing a paying job, like flipping burgers, that I would not enjoy.
They're probably using a FreeBSD machine as a proxy/firewall/load-balancer, in front of their IIS web servers. See this FAQ for a more detailed explanation.
Agreed. And not only that, but the big computer corporations often started with class A (16 million addresses) blocks, and acquired more over time. HP, for one, has its own class A, Compaq's class A, Digital's class A, and I believe also has Tandem's class A as well. That's 48 million IP addresses. I bet that a full.001% are actually in use. And all the other old IT companies (IBM, Sun, SGI, etc.) probably are similarly inefficient.
Instead of reasoning that diseases pop up near where the atmosphere is thinner, which seems to be giving me near-fatal bogon poisoning, why not say that diseases pop up most where health care is poorest? China, while it is developing, still has poor living conditions and restricted access to life-saving drugs. It makes perfect sense to me that SARS originated in China and not Europe or the US, just as cholera, malaria, and AIDS ravage Africa and not Europe nor the US.
I've used XFce on everything from a 486 to a P-4. It'll be snappy no mattery where you run it. It's not too hard to get used to, and almost never crashes.
If you want even less resource consumption, go for VTWM. I've also used it on everything from a 486 to a P-4, and it's even faster than XFce, and not too much more difficult to figure out. We use it at the Earlham College CS department on our Red Hat Linux P-4 clients, and it really flies.
The article left out an even more important "digital divide": that between the poor and the rich. Seriously, that is something that has far greater "digital availablity" importance (not to mention socioeconomic) than age does.
It's becoming even more important, too. With the Internet and computers in general becoming more important to life, that the poor have less access to computers is going to hold them back more and more as time goes by.
I do. I remember typing assignments on an Epson PX-8 with that, with an 80x8 screen. I often look back on it, and I think I would prefer using the PX-8, except it can't do TeX.
However, my understanding is that trinitron tubes are inherently not flat and outer/inner colors and pixel spacing differ slightly (of course I may be completely wrong now). I mean, my trinitrons are really old and I know the technology is even older.
My Trinitron is about eight years old (rebranded Dell), and isn't flat either. It's just the newer Trinitron FDs that are externally flat.
Get a Trinitron. They're pricey, but you won't regret it. They're brighter than regular monitors, as sharp as LCD screens, have excellent color and long life. The new ones have a special screen that is externally flat, but internally concave. This reduces glare but prevents the annoying edge distortion of normal flat CRT monitors.
Sony has an interesting description of Trinitron technology here.
If you're not adverse to looking on eBay, you can find some good deals there. Remember that many Dell, Sun, IBM, and SGI monitors are actually relabelled Trinitrons, so don't forget to check on them as well.
Poke around in your college's IT and CS departments. I too am a first-year student (at Earlham College), and have an internship with the IT department, and a job as a sysadmin (or whatever we decide to call ourselves) with the CS department.
In the end, job/internship experience you can put on your resume is probably going to be more useful than a college degree, although the latter might put in a better position for employers who look more at pieces of paper than experience.
When is nsswitch going to be added to FreeBSD? I've been wanting to get FreeBSD authenticating off LDAP for a while now, but there is no LDAP support in the hard-coded name switching service.
It really depends where you go. Where I am, at Earlham College, I've learned more about sysadmining since I got here than at any other time.
The entire CS department's network is student-run, and being an admin there has taught me far more than any class could have taught me. I also have an internship with the computing center, for which I work on testing out LDAP authentication. Small schools tend to provide more opportunities like that, because it allows direct communication between professors and students, and staff and students.
Slashdot Mirror
To save Netcraft, here's a mirror of that page.
That server's gotten /'d, so here's a mirror.
Why did they use the development branch of Apache, when only a handful of sites are running it? I would have found an analysis of the stable 1.3 branch, which 60% of the web-serving world uses, to be more informative.
I'd be interested in seeing how XFS and NTFS/WinFS compare to each other in terms of large/small file performance, lots of file accesses, etc. Does anyone know of any such comparisons?
If it's affordable to you (I'm still in college so it is for me), accept paid "volunteering" or true volunteer, whichever appeals more to you. I am currently helping out the local school district clean 26 schools of PCs. I spend a few hours a day helping them out, and (for me, at least) their gratitude more than makes up for the lack of pay. It might even open up job opportunities in the future. Right now, doing work I enjoy (and probably will end up doing later in life) is far more important than doing a paying job, like flipping burgers, that I would not enjoy.
Definitely SMP. You know the people who are impressed will be your friends.
They're probably using a FreeBSD machine as a proxy/firewall/load-balancer, in front of their IIS web servers. See this FAQ for a more detailed explanation.
Excuse me? Take a look at Microsoft's Netcraft page. The top three machines (UT servers) are running Linux, and are sponsored by MSN.
Agreed. And not only that, but the big computer corporations often started with class A (16 million addresses) blocks, and acquired more over time. HP, for one, has its own class A, Compaq's class A, Digital's class A, and I believe also has Tandem's class A as well. That's 48 million IP addresses. I bet that a full .001% are actually in use. And all the other old IT companies (IBM, Sun, SGI, etc.) probably are similarly inefficient.
Instead of reasoning that diseases pop up near where the atmosphere is thinner, which seems to be giving me near-fatal bogon poisoning, why not say that diseases pop up most where health care is poorest? China, while it is developing, still has poor living conditions and restricted access to life-saving drugs. It makes perfect sense to me that SARS originated in China and not Europe or the US, just as cholera, malaria, and AIDS ravage Africa and not Europe nor the US.
That server looks like it's getting loaded. Here's a mirror.
I've used XFce on everything from a 486 to a P-4. It'll be snappy no mattery where you run it. It's not too hard to get used to, and almost never crashes.
If you want even less resource consumption, go for VTWM. I've also used it on everything from a 486 to a P-4, and it's even faster than XFce, and not too much more difficult to figure out. We use it at the Earlham College CS department on our Red Hat Linux P-4 clients, and it really flies.
The article left out an even more important "digital divide": that between the poor and the rich. Seriously, that is something that has far greater "digital availablity" importance (not to mention socioeconomic) than age does.
It's becoming even more important, too. With the Internet and computers in general becoming more important to life, that the poor have less access to computers is going to hold them back more and more as time goes by.
Ho hum. Another /.'ing. Here's a mirror of of the French, and one for the Babelfish-translated English.
These mirrors are getting hammered, so here's another one.
I do. I remember typing assignments on an Epson PX-8 with that, with an 80x8 screen. I often look back on it, and I think I would prefer using the PX-8, except it can't do TeX.
My Trinitron is about eight years old (rebranded Dell), and isn't flat either. It's just the newer Trinitron FDs that are externally flat.
There's service marketed as broadband in my area that's around $35(US) a month for 256kbps down/128kbps up. Is that not broadband too?
Get a Trinitron. They're pricey, but you won't regret it. They're brighter than regular monitors, as sharp as LCD screens, have excellent color and long life. The new ones have a special screen that is externally flat, but internally concave. This reduces glare but prevents the annoying edge distortion of normal flat CRT monitors.
Sony has an interesting description of Trinitron technology here.
If you're not adverse to looking on eBay, you can find some good deals there. Remember that many Dell, Sun, IBM, and SGI monitors are actually relabelled Trinitrons, so don't forget to check on them as well.
Poke around in your college's IT and CS departments. I too am a first-year student (at Earlham College), and have an internship with the IT department, and a job as a sysadmin (or whatever we decide to call ourselves) with the CS department.
In the end, job/internship experience you can put on your resume is probably going to be more useful than a college degree, although the latter might put in a better position for employers who look more at pieces of paper than experience.
pam_ldap can do part of it, but it can't provide the UID/GID mappings that are required at the filesystem level.
When is nsswitch going to be added to FreeBSD? I've been wanting to get FreeBSD authenticating off LDAP for a while now, but there is no LDAP support in the hard-coded name switching service.
It really depends where you go. Where I am, at Earlham College, I've learned more about sysadmining since I got here than at any other time.
The entire CS department's network is student-run, and being an admin there has taught me far more than any class could have taught me. I also have an internship with the computing center, for which I work on testing out LDAP authentication. Small schools tend to provide more opportunities like that, because it allows direct communication between professors and students, and staff and students.
Hmmm. I hope CNN has a backup plan for maps, because it looks like it is the latest victim of Shock and Awe.
I can think of a couple reasons.
It handles high-load much better than Linux.
It handles many processors much better than Linux.
It handles lots of memory much better than Linux.
PA-RISC support is Linux is still kind of iffy.
It has decent ACL and quota support.
The last one can be solved using SGI's addition of XFS to Red Hat Linux, but there aren't that many people out there using it yet.
In short, Linux is useful on the low- and mid-range servers, but HP-UX will still rule the roost on the PA-RISC and high-end Itanium systems.