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I believe you've Missed The Point Entirely. SVG is a graphics file format, so generally end-users won't have to write SVG, in the same way that you don't need to know the format of a BMP file to get a wallpaper on your Windows desktop.
The fact that IMAP stores mail in folders on the server is a huge advantage. It means it's easy to read and organise your e-mail from different locations - desktop, laptop, webmail from some else's box - and you can get your present and past e-mail from anywhere.
It looks like it's just ordinary Gnome with a theme, like Ximian Desktop. Correct me if I'm wrong, but none of the apps running in the screenshot were Java-based... it shows StarOffice, Gaim(?) and Evolution.
The reason for that bogus response is that their servers do indeed run IIS 6.0, but they're behind Akamai's distributed server platform. Akamai happen to run Linux.
It appears that for some businesses'.UK domains you get a contact address for the organisation, for some you get a contact address for their ISP, and for others you get nothing. E.g.: try "whois oneandone.co.uk" (you get their address) and try "whois morereasons.co.uk" (the address given is their web host's). "whois legend.org.uk", as you stated, shows no address.
And for some individuals'.UK domains, you get their address or a note saying they've elected to have their address omitted, and for others you get no Address section at all.
I'm not sure why this is the case. Perhaps the domain tagholder gets to choose what goes in the Whois info?
(OT: And it's interesting that RFC-ignorant.org appears to be W3C-standards-ignorant:-) Try displaying that site in Mozilla... overlapping text all over the place.)
And what if your PC got stolen, along with both hard drives?
Your method is OK to protect yourself if a drive fails, but don't rely on it as your only backup method - backing up to removable media or another machine across the Internet remains the best way.
And for those of us stuck with a slow internet connection, removable media is the only option (hell, I don't want it to take two weeks to upload my weekly backup!).
Yes, I totally agree - a box I set up serves 2000 hits an hour across a LAN/WAN, every hit being to a PHP page using a MySQL database; the same box is also a Squid proxy, with usage peaking at 10,000 requests per hour. That server is a single 2GHz PIII with 256Mb RAM.
Yeah, it could probably do with a bit more RAM, but speed-wise it's coping very well.
...the Linux kernel is only a (replaceable) component in the GNU operating system...
It's not quite as simple as that. I installed GNU/Linux because I wanted the proven stability of the Linux kernel, not because it contained the GNU tools. I would probably have been happy with a different set of (free) tools, if such a thing existed. But I wouldn't have been happy with a different (unproven, perhaps not as stable) kernel - hence why I didn't install GNU/HURD.
I'm more inclined to believe that these days, the more important part of 'GNU/Linux' is the 'Linux', not the 'GNU'.
[DISCLAIMER: I'm not doubting for an instant the huge contribution the GNU project has put to Linux. Linux wouldn't be quite what it is today without GCC etc.]
It looks like bonzi.com runs Windows 2000... shame really, it would have been so ironic if they ran Linux.
Interestingly, according to Netcraft, their servers have never been up for more than 13 days. Sounds like they're running BonziBuddy on their own machines too:-)
SourceForge's download counters claim that Jazilla M1 has been downloaded zero times. Looks like either no-one's actually bothered to download the thing at all, or the mighty SourceForge has failed us. Ho hum...
Further, their CUSTOMERS can be sued for violating the GPL now
Hold on, hold on. I'm sure this can't be right... if that's the case, *anyone* with a copy of the Linux kernel could be sued. Surely the onus lies on the distributor, or the "creator of a derivative work", not the customer.
Slashdot Mirror
But what about the automatic light switches which only work with incandescent bulbs? In any case, incandescent bulbs are not really inefficient if you think about it.
Too much Slashdot can be counterproductive for homework.
Mirror here.
Wow. 75GB of traffic on that file. Time to pull it, I'm afraid...
Another mirror here. No guarantees as to how long it will stay up; if it pushes me close to my monthly bandwidth limit I'll kill it...
Mirror here
The 2.6.0 kernels have safe read/write support for NTFS. (Not complete support, but enough for most purposes AFAIK.)
And make sure you listen to the release song too. It's great :-)
I believe you've Missed The Point Entirely. SVG is a graphics file format, so generally end-users won't have to write SVG, in the same way that you don't need to know the format of a BMP file to get a wallpaper on your Windows desktop.
The fact that IMAP stores mail in folders on the server is a huge advantage. It means it's easy to read and organise your e-mail from different locations - desktop, laptop, webmail from some else's box - and you can get your present and past e-mail from anywhere.
It looks like it's just ordinary Gnome with a theme, like Ximian Desktop. Correct me if I'm wrong, but none of the apps running in the screenshot were Java-based... it shows StarOffice, Gaim(?) and Evolution.
The enlarged screenshot is actually here, for anyone interested.
Yes... take that with a pinch of salt :)
The reason for that bogus response is that their servers do indeed run IIS 6.0, but they're behind Akamai's distributed server platform. Akamai happen to run Linux.
(I meant, of course, legend.co.uk and not legend.org.uk.)
It appears that for some businesses' .UK domains you get a contact address for the organisation, for some you get a contact address for their ISP, and for others you get nothing. E.g.: try "whois oneandone.co.uk" (you get their address) and try "whois morereasons.co.uk" (the address given is their web host's). "whois legend.org.uk", as you stated, shows no address.
.UK domains, you get their address or a note saying they've elected to have their address omitted, and for others you get no Address section at all.
:-) Try displaying that site in Mozilla... overlapping text all over the place.)
And for some individuals'
I'm not sure why this is the case. Perhaps the domain tagholder gets to choose what goes in the Whois info?
(OT: And it's interesting that RFC-ignorant.org appears to be W3C-standards-ignorant
And what if your PC got stolen, along with both hard drives?
Your method is OK to protect yourself if a drive fails, but don't rely on it as your only backup method - backing up to removable media or another machine across the Internet remains the best way.
And for those of us stuck with a slow internet connection, removable media is the only option (hell, I don't want it to take two weeks to upload my weekly backup!).
Or perhaps you mean H3O2. But anyway, it's all quantum, so we may well be talking about half-atoms floating round.....
Hey, congratulations. You must be the one person who managed to download this before the server died a horrible death :-)
Perhaps you could post a mirror?
Yes, I totally agree - a box I set up serves 2000 hits an hour across a LAN/WAN, every hit being to a PHP page using a MySQL database; the same box is also a Squid proxy, with usage peaking at 10,000 requests per hour. That server is a single 2GHz PIII with 256Mb RAM.
Yeah, it could probably do with a bit more RAM, but speed-wise it's coping very well.
It's not quite as simple as that. I installed GNU/Linux because I wanted the proven stability of the Linux kernel, not because it contained the GNU tools. I would probably have been happy with a different set of (free) tools, if such a thing existed. But I wouldn't have been happy with a different (unproven, perhaps not as stable) kernel - hence why I didn't install GNU/HURD.
I'm more inclined to believe that these days, the more important part of 'GNU/Linux' is the 'Linux', not the 'GNU'.
[DISCLAIMER: I'm not doubting for an instant the huge contribution the GNU project has put to Linux. Linux wouldn't be quite what it is today without GCC etc.]
It looks like bonzi.com runs Windows 2000... shame really, it would have been so ironic if they ran Linux.
:-)
Interestingly, according to Netcraft, their servers have never been up for more than 13 days. Sounds like they're running BonziBuddy on their own machines too
SourceForge's download counters claim that Jazilla M1 has been downloaded zero times. Looks like either no-one's actually bothered to download the thing at all, or the mighty SourceForge has failed us. Ho hum...
They're talking about ripping the batteries apart and replacing some or all of the individual cells inside. ...Read the article :-)