There's a "Darken" bookmarklet that you could use to darken a particular page. They also have a Greasemonkey script if you have certain pages you want to have auto-darkened.
you can't use ssh to connect to your Mom's machine in a different city and help figure out why she has trouble using/interacting with Kmail or some other GUI program. But with vncserver + vncviewer, you CAN.
You may want to look into x11vnc, which will allow you to connect to a running X session and view it using VNC. This is how I access my home machine from work when I want to check on a running GUI task at home. SSH in, run x11vnc -display:0, then connect to the tunneled VNC connection.
Works great, and when I'm done, I just take down the x11vnc so it's only up and running when I need it.
Alas, I have no good suggestions for a cheap firewall router.
A cheap PC running m0n0wall would work very well. When I got a DSL installed, I took a spare PC and set up m0n0 to act as the router/firewall and it has been simple and solid.
No offense, but to hear someone calling themselves snorklewacker complain about the name chungles made me laugh. After all, could you imagine introducing your boss to someone called snorklewacker? Or, mentioning to your boss that someone online named snorklewacker helped you fix a problem?
Sure, this is way off-topic, but obviously nobody cares. What you might be looking for the the/. Hall of Fame, which lists some of the Top type categories, but none of the bottom (which would be kind of interesting)
I'm looking forward to see how they are going to plan a uniform distribution of packages across such a large quantity of workstations... rpm/apt/yum/redcarpet2/zenworks/altiris ?
Well, since they are using Debian, I would assume the use of apt/dpkg since that's Debian's package management software.
I am curious as to what you mean by "a uniform distribution of packages"? Are you discussing the bandwidth of updating 14,000 desktops from a Debian mirror, and thus want to setup your own mirror/repository? Or, are you asking about how someone would administer/roll out 14,000 workstations?
Has it occurred to you that this might not be a joke? Technically, I see no reason why what they are claiming shouldn't be possible. There is nothing on the site that might give away the fact that it's a hoax. The last site update was (apparently) on 3/28/2005.
I think you've jumped the gun.
Since this is a Linux story, shouldn't your last line read:
does irony have to come in the form of a frying pan to the head for people to recognize it?
Considering the number of spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors one typically sees on/., an intentional misuse of a word to convey irony gets lost in the noise of GNAA trolls, Astroturfers, etc.
So, in this case, something slightly less subtle would have been more effective, IMHO.
As a couple of posters have pointed out, I was a little short-sighted on suggesting using FLOPS as a benchmark for processors. Serving web pages, building software, etc. doesn't require floating operations, so FLOPS are irrelevant to that type of work.
So, I propose that manufacturers list
Floating operations per second
Integer operations per second
Other measures of performance i.e. not clock speed, cache size, etc.
Basically, tell us all about how a chip performs in each area and let us make the decision.
Amen. This x000+ crap has got to stop. I'm thinking we need some sort of ISO standard for clock speed, something we can compare PowerPCs, AMDs, Intels, and the like together without having to pull out a calculator and Google for benchmark tests. However it wont happen due to some stupid reason or other.
If you can get all the manufacturers to agree, comparing systems based on FLOPS would be effective, because it would remove the irrelevant clock speed argument, and thus allow you to compare how much work can be done in a time frame by the processor.
Unfortunately, I doubt you'd get the manufacturers to agree to it, since it would make too much sense and allow an easy and unbiased comparison between their products.
If you read http://www.coralcdn.org/, you will see how to Coralize links. If you are going to link to
A video
A large image collection
A PDF file
A "personal" website (possibly hosted on a home DSL/Cable connection
then please consider using Coral.
As long as Coral can see the site, it will be in the cache, and as more/.ers hit the Coral Cache, it will be distributed around (kind of like what Akamai does, only without having to set it up in advance)
Do you get Karma for submissions?
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If so, this is the best thing ever. I could submit a review of an Alton Brown cookbook, because it at least has some geek appeal.
Er, um, excuse me. I have something to do.
(Rushes off to submit another worthless book review to/.)
Isn't proper CSS support one of the weak links in all of the Internet Explorer browsers? Even simple things like:
li { list-style:none;}
used to create a navigation using list items for links (since the navigation is a list of links), displays fine in Firefox (anchors fill their block), but displays funny in IE (where the anchors fill their block, but with a gap on the left where the list marker would be)
Bottom line is, Microsoft has just shown, once again, that the only standard they care about is their own. Hopefully, the sheep who continue to support them will be shown the light, and learn that there are alternatives.
SUSE and gentoo already do, I would guess someone (Debian?) made their own decision not to ship Java rather than being disallowed by Sun.
While I'm not sure how SUSE manages to distribute Sun's JRE, Gentoo doesn't distribute it at all. Instead, the ebuild merely simplifies the process of downloading the file from Sun and installing it.
While this may seem like a small nit to pick, the fact is, if you look on the Gentoo CDs, they distribute the Blackdown JRE, not the Sun JRE.
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There's a "Darken" bookmarklet that you could use to darken a particular page. They also have a Greasemonkey script if you have certain pages you want to have auto-darkened.
mplayer -vo aalib video Same result, without the pesky scrolling, plus sound.
The Coral Cache extension, which allows you to open a link using the Coral Cache. It's great when sites get Slashdotted, Farked, etc.
A cheap PC running m0n0wall would work very well. When I got a DSL installed, I took a spare PC and set up m0n0 to act as the router/firewall and it has been simple and solid.
Then he would be able to Git-R-Done
Touché. Although, to be honest, I don't really work in IT, networking, etc., so I wouldn't expect you to find my name searching like you did.
No offense, but to hear someone calling themselves snorklewacker complain about the name chungles made me laugh. After all, could you imagine introducing your boss to someone called snorklewacker? Or, mentioning to your boss that someone online named snorklewacker helped you fix a problem?
Since OSDN owns both /. and Freshmeat.net, why do we get stories about test releases, new betas, etc? Isn't that the point of having two sites?
Oh well, just mod this offtopic and move on.
Wouldn't the bigger fool be the one who falls for the pyramid schemes?
Sure, this is way off-topic, but obviously nobody cares. What you might be looking for the the /. Hall of Fame, which lists some of the Top type categories, but none of the bottom (which would be kind of interesting)
Well, since they are using Debian, I would assume the use of apt/dpkg since that's Debian's package management software.
I am curious as to what you mean by "a uniform distribution of packages"? Are you discussing the bandwidth of updating 14,000 desktops from a Debian mirror, and thus want to setup your own mirror/repository? Or, are you asking about how someone would administer/roll out 14,000 workstations?
Or, you could check out Born to Frag from Penguin Computing.
Since this is a Linux story, shouldn't your last line read:
Considering the number of spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors one typically sees on /., an intentional misuse of a word to convey irony gets lost in the noise of GNAA trolls, Astroturfers, etc.
So, in this case, something slightly less subtle would have been more effective, IMHO.
Will my post impact the way people use language, especially as it pertains to the word irregardless?
As a couple of posters have pointed out, I was a little short-sighted on suggesting using FLOPS as a benchmark for processors. Serving web pages, building software, etc. doesn't require floating operations, so FLOPS are irrelevant to that type of work.
So, I propose that manufacturers list
Basically, tell us all about how a chip performs in each area and let us make the decision.
If you can get all the manufacturers to agree, comparing systems based on FLOPS would be effective, because it would remove the irrelevant clock speed argument, and thus allow you to compare how much work can be done in a time frame by the processor.
Unfortunately, I doubt you'd get the manufacturers to agree to it, since it would make too much sense and allow an easy and unbiased comparison between their products.
- A video
- A large image collection
- A PDF file
- A "personal" website (possibly hosted on a home DSL/Cable connection
then please consider using Coral.As long as Coral can see the site, it will be in the cache, and as more /.ers hit the Coral Cache, it will be distributed around (kind of like what Akamai does, only without having to set it up in advance)
If so, this is the best thing ever. I could submit a review of an Alton Brown cookbook, because it at least has some geek appeal.
Er, um, excuse me. I have something to do.
(Rushes off to submit another worthless book review to /.)
It's slashcode. If you just want to type text, you can turn off the HTML formatting.
Newlines aren't considered significant in HTML, except for <pre> elements and maybe <code> or <ecode>
I typed this message using the extrans (html tags to text) and keyed in newlines where you see them.
Who would have thought bitching on /. could lead to a fix for a problem? That worked very well.
Isn't proper CSS support one of the weak links in all of the Internet Explorer browsers? Even simple things like:
used to create a navigation using list items for links (since the navigation is a list of links), displays fine in Firefox (anchors fill their block), but displays funny in IE (where the anchors fill their block, but with a gap on the left where the list marker would be)Bottom line is, Microsoft has just shown, once again, that the only standard they care about is their own. Hopefully, the sheep who continue to support them will be shown the light, and learn that there are alternatives.
While I'm not sure how SUSE manages to distribute Sun's JRE, Gentoo doesn't distribute it at all. Instead, the ebuild merely simplifies the process of downloading the file from Sun and installing it.
While this may seem like a small nit to pick, the fact is, if you look on the Gentoo CDs, they distribute the Blackdown JRE, not the Sun JRE.