It would be great if more people designed sites properly, using CSS to keep formatting separate from content, keeping page size to a minimum, using URLs that won't change, etc... I'd like to think that a web-based document-management system I designed would fit into this category - although it's far from perfect, I'd like to think I was making one step towards a better World Wide Web. I think the Gentoo Linux site is also a very well-designed site, and another great example to the rest of the Net - I'm never lost there, despite the huge amount of info on the site.
Instead of buying a B-grade display and expecting it to break every few months, what about buying a standard cheap-ish 15-inch LCD and investing in a decent enclosure?
I'm sure you'll be able to buy the sort of monitor housings they use at museums and the like, with a thick layer of perspex or glass between the monitor and the outside world. That way, you'd get a decent display, and it would be less likely to break due to people spilling things on it, leaning on it, drawing on it, etc.
I wish I could point you in the direction of a useful site... anyone know of anywhere you can buy enclosures like this?
Hear, hear. The Series 5 was a great machine, and for me, the OPL language was one of its best points. The ability to quickly code something on-the-move is surprisingly useful.
Since Psion aren't actively developing OPL, I think that Symbian have done the Right Thing (tm) by open-sourcing it. That way, new life might come to those thousands of OPL programs Psion users have accumulated over the ages. Plus I think it's a great language for beginners - not as sloppy as BASIC, but almost as easy.
I've been using Apache 2.0.44 with PHP 4.3.1 for a while on a Gentoo-based server, and I've had no problem at all. Works like a treat.
The PHP team needed to do a bit of code tweaking to make PHP fit into the Apache 2 module format (APXS2) - so initially, as you say, PHP support for Apache 2 was very bad/nonexistant. But that work has been completed AFAIK, so any recent PHP version should work fine with Apache 2.
Anyone know how to check whether my server has this problem? Or alternatively, does anyone know whether the Grsecurity patches for 2.4.20 (as included in Gentoo's kernel) fix this hole?
It's actually being done as a favour for my Dad - so there's no real deadline (just "the sooner the better"). It's already live and in use by a few hundred machines, but more features are being added when I finish them.
Features: it's a dynamic menuing system, which generates a menu of web-based apps depending on which machine you're sat at, and whether you've logged in or not. It's for a supermarket chain - so people working at one store might have a link to a system only present at that store, etc. Menu items can be targetted at a particular set of IP addresses, or a particular store, or a particular department. It also keeps gaining random features as they're requested, e.g. an announcements system; the latest feature is about making announcements targetted at particular subnets.
Trying to avoid the advogato worm - in fact, that was in mind when designing it:-) - by use of htmlspecialchars() in PHP. One thing I keep missing is stripslashes() - don't know why, but PHP has a habit of adding backslashes to submitted form fields. And I think I'm doing it 'right';-)
It's their first Linux server though (and their second Linux box, after my Dad's, which was also set up by me) - and I might have started a trend, since they're suddenly finding which of their existing techs know Linux, and they're starting to set up servers of their own. Nice to think I've introduced Linux into a big company without even being employed by them:-)
Anyway, this is completely OT, and probably much more info than you wanted. But never mind:-)
[Groan] Like the Intranet system I'm writing at the moment... that was my great idea too, which popped out in a conversation. That'll teach me to use initiative...
why should someone need to learn them, or XML, to configure a desktop?
The end-user wouldn't need to learn anything other than how to use a tabbed dialog box to configure their desktop. The file format is only relevant to the programmers and any advanced user who wants to poke around in the files for whatever reason.
Talking of documentation, one thing I really think AIX could do with gaining is "--help" options.
Being used to Linux, I frequently want to know the subtle differences between AIX syntax and Linux syntax, and I always end up discovering only that the lack of "[command] --help" is one such subtle difference...
We already have changed the weather by all the polution we produce. So why not.
Maybe we can change it for the better.
Weather or climate? Pollution has had a vast effect on the climates of the world - i.e. long-term weather and temperature patterns. A short-term change of the weather is unlikely to be able to repair our damaged climate.
Actually, the default fonts for the Windows XP user interface are Trebuchet MS and Tahoma, complete with anti-aliasing and shadow effects.
...And those are my default fonts on Linux as well. (Fully antialiased, of course.) Microsoft's Andale Mono is also my default monospaced font. I find them very easy-on-the-eyes and not too bad-looking. If only I didn't have to break license agreements to do this...
What Linux really needs is a good set of free, scalable, antialiased fonts, on a par with Microsoft's.
I recommend Debian to newbies if they want to learn Linux
I disagree - I think that the best distro to use if you want to really learn about each package on your Linux system is Gentoo. Installing Gentoo is an education in itself. No automated installer - not even a text mode one. Just have a glance through the steps in that installation guide and see what I mean.
Gentoo wasn't my first distro -- that was SuSE -- and perhaps the process may seem a little daunting to someone who's never used Linux before. However, I believe that a reasonably intelligent sysadmin who's had a fair bit of experience with command lines should be able to install Gentoo themselves, and will learn a huge amount in the process.
No, you're thinking of binary. Digital means something that can take one of a finite number of states (e.g. on/off, or red/green/blue/off), rather than taking any value in a certain range (e.g. anything between 0 and 1, or any colour in the visible spectrum).
A computer would still be digital if it used 0, 1 and 2. Or if it used the decimal system. Computers happen to use binary because that's convenient for the electronics.
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It would be great if more people designed sites properly, using CSS to keep formatting separate from content, keeping page size to a minimum, using URLs that won't change, etc... I'd like to think that a web-based document-management system I designed would fit into this category - although it's far from perfect, I'd like to think I was making one step towards a better World Wide Web. I think the Gentoo Linux site is also a very well-designed site, and another great example to the rest of the Net - I'm never lost there, despite the huge amount of info on the site.
Instead of buying a B-grade display and expecting it to break every few months, what about buying a standard cheap-ish 15-inch LCD and investing in a decent enclosure?
I'm sure you'll be able to buy the sort of monitor housings they use at museums and the like, with a thick layer of perspex or glass between the monitor and the outside world. That way, you'd get a decent display, and it would be less likely to break due to people spilling things on it, leaning on it, drawing on it, etc.
I wish I could point you in the direction of a useful site... anyone know of anywhere you can buy enclosures like this?
Hear, hear. The Series 5 was a great machine, and for me, the OPL language was one of its best points. The ability to quickly code something on-the-move is surprisingly useful.
Since Psion aren't actively developing OPL, I think that Symbian have done the Right Thing (tm) by open-sourcing it. That way, new life might come to those thousands of OPL programs Psion users have accumulated over the ages. Plus I think it's a great language for beginners - not as sloppy as BASIC, but almost as easy.
I access the share via typing \\mypc.mydomain.edu
What?! You have SMB accessible externally? Do you have any idea of security?
I've been using Apache 2.0.44 with PHP 4.3.1 for a while on a Gentoo-based server, and I've had no problem at all. Works like a treat.
The PHP team needed to do a bit of code tweaking to make PHP fit into the Apache 2 module format (APXS2) - so initially, as you say, PHP support for Apache 2 was very bad/nonexistant. But that work has been completed AFAIK, so any recent PHP version should work fine with Apache 2.
D'oh! I ran it. What did it just do? ;-)
(I'm too gullible.)
Anyone know how to check whether my server has this problem? Or alternatively, does anyone know whether the Grsecurity patches for 2.4.20 (as included in Gentoo's kernel) fix this hole?
"the patch did not specify what kernel version it applied to"
...
"A patch for Linux 2.4.20/Linux 2.4.21pre is attached."
And how many people really have 42 x's as their password?
It's actually being done as a favour for my Dad - so there's no real deadline (just "the sooner the better"). It's already live and in use by a few hundred machines, but more features are being added when I finish them.
:-) - by use of htmlspecialchars() in PHP. One thing I keep missing is stripslashes() - don't know why, but PHP has a habit of adding backslashes to submitted form fields. And I think I'm doing it 'right' ;-)
:-)
:-)
Features: it's a dynamic menuing system, which generates a menu of web-based apps depending on which machine you're sat at, and whether you've logged in or not. It's for a supermarket chain - so people working at one store might have a link to a system only present at that store, etc. Menu items can be targetted at a particular set of IP addresses, or a particular store, or a particular department. It also keeps gaining random features as they're requested, e.g. an announcements system; the latest feature is about making announcements targetted at particular subnets.
Trying to avoid the advogato worm - in fact, that was in mind when designing it
It's their first Linux server though (and their second Linux box, after my Dad's, which was also set up by me) - and I might have started a trend, since they're suddenly finding which of their existing techs know Linux, and they're starting to set up servers of their own. Nice to think I've introduced Linux into a big company without even being employed by them
Anyway, this is completely OT, and probably much more info than you wanted. But never mind
Malcolm
[Groan] Like the Intranet system I'm writing at the moment... that was my great idea too, which popped out in a conversation. That'll teach me to use initiative...
Talking of documentation, one thing I really think AIX could do with gaining is "--help" options.
Being used to Linux, I frequently want to know the subtle differences between AIX syntax and Linux syntax, and I always end up discovering only that the lack of "[command] --help" is one such subtle difference...
And since when did 130 + 45 + 4 = 79? :-)
Hey, since when did 2 equal 4? :-)
/. them even worse by posting the same image link twice!"
or: "I know, I'll
Weather or climate? Pollution has had a vast effect on the climates of the world - i.e. long-term weather and temperature patterns. A short-term change of the weather is unlikely to be able to repair our damaged climate.
...And those are my default fonts on Linux as well. (Fully antialiased, of course.) Microsoft's Andale Mono is also my default monospaced font. I find them very easy-on-the-eyes and not too bad-looking. If only I didn't have to break license agreements to do this...
What Linux really needs is a good set of free, scalable, antialiased fonts, on a par with Microsoft's.
I disagree - I think that the best distro to use if you want to really learn about each package on your Linux system is Gentoo. Installing Gentoo is an education in itself. No automated installer - not even a text mode one. Just have a glance through the steps in that installation guide and see what I mean.
Gentoo wasn't my first distro -- that was SuSE -- and perhaps the process may seem a little daunting to someone who's never used Linux before. However, I believe that a reasonably intelligent sysadmin who's had a fair bit of experience with command lines should be able to install Gentoo themselves, and will learn a huge amount in the process.
Interestingly, both Ogg and Vorbis are key characters in various novels by Terry Pratchett.
I don't know if this is the real source of the name, but it seems more than a coincidence to me.
There's nothing that says you can't trademark an English word.
No, you're thinking of binary. Digital means something that can take one of a finite number of states (e.g. on/off, or red/green/blue/off), rather than taking any value in a certain range (e.g. anything between 0 and 1, or any colour in the visible spectrum).
A computer would still be digital if it used 0, 1 and 2. Or if it used the decimal system. Computers happen to use binary because that's convenient for the electronics.
OK, perhaps I should have said "to see the eclipse from Earth..." :-) Amazing picture though.
How about learning some Geography? ;-) Austria != Australia.
As your map shows, there was a total solar eclipse on Aug 11 1999 passing through Austria (Europe!).
See also here, here for photos, and here for more reports.