Ahhh. Using RedHat 9 was your problem. RedHat 7.3 uses the same core build as RedHat AS. That's why I used that particular downloaded distro. A bit of research beforehand was all that was needed;-)
I have Oracle 9i running on a 266MHz PC with 512Mb RAM on top of the download version of RedHat 7.3.
It's my Oracle testing box and it works just fine. No extra libraries/workarounds required.
Granted it doesn't run anything except Oracle and it's slow. But who cares about that for app testing (it kinda simulates heavy load/lots of data - in a round about way)
Sounds very similar to Active Shape Models. If you've never heard of these, they are very cool things that allow you to classify objects in N dimensional space and then apply probability rules to find likely matches. I used them working on a project to convert speech to sign-language (amongst other techniques).
Having visited you country the most important thing in any guide for the ignorant is to not mention sand, desert, archaology etc.
Talk about the thriving Coptic Christian community in old Cairo so people know that the whole country isn't muslim and there is good religious toleration.
Talk about how no-one should ever drive in Cairo unless they were born and raised there;-)
Nubian culture in the south is not very well known outside of Egypt
Food and drink are another thing not well known outside the country (I stupidly assumed Egyptian food would be "typical" North African Cuisine with loads of cous-cous). And Egyptian wine is surprisingly good
Etc, etc
I really enjoyed my time in your country and would love to visit again. As for the stolen atrefacts, I asked a local professional archaeologist about whether he resented that and strangely he said he saw it as a good thing since the artifacts were being preserved and are on public display (generally) whereas they do not have enough money to keep the antiquities that they still have in a good condition.
Asking for a Slashdotting here, and also OT, but here are my pics from my visit. We went on a historical tour in a small group and we noticed the armed guards thing too, but they did their best to be subtle about it.
A large portion of the Egyptian population are actually Nubian (probably about 50% overall from what I could see with this figure tending towards 100% further south) and their physical features are more Sudanese.
When I was at the Pyramids (OK, I'm from the UK, you gotta take a look right?) a couple of months ago it was raining. It certainly was not sunny. Also, as Alaa was at pains to point out in the interview, Egypt is a very green and fertile country (the bits where people live anyway) and there is no sand there. You gotta go out to the desert for that.
Eveyone can thank the can spam act for this but he is still going to win his suits.
The can spam act only applies in the US. The suit only applies in the US. Why not just move the blacklists abroad? SORBS is in the Netherlands AFAIK, for example, therefore untouchable under US law.
Microsoft decided "that even if someone has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him safe than it is to be concerned about the revenue issue."
What they mean is "it is more important to keep us safe from the media when the next round of viruses hit any unpatched machines by saying we allowed anyone to install SP2"
You mention struts, but struts isn't exactly part of J2EE, or is it? Fact is that most companies wouldn't touch struts with a ten-foot pole because of the same reason most companies prefer WebLogic over JBoss.
Absolutely NOT true, at least in the UK. I'm a software contractor, and every time I'm called about a project the first question is "Do you do Struts?". It's massive.
My sister runs an old P233 with Win98 SE. Explain how she upgrades Windows without buying new hardware?
Don't worry though, she'll soon be following the lead of my mother and having Mandrake installed on there next time I'm over her house.
No smart comments about needing someone's help to install Linux either, she needed my help to show her how to upgrade her IE for her online bank, never mind install Windows.
See this is what I don't understand. You're patching to fix a bug in LSASS and the consequence is "You cannot view enhanced metafile format graphics files (or EMF image files) that were created in Adobe Illustrator".
How the hell does that happen? This is dependencies gone mad.
...in February I distinctly noticed a lot of Tux images on billboards. There were a lot of computer companies advertising Linux services where I was staying around the Ma'adi area. Don't remember seeing a Microsoft ad, though the internet cafes all seemed to run XP. Perhaps this should be where LUGgers target their actions?
You obviously don't own a business that supports you and your family.
I do and I run it on Linux, and SCO can whistle for their license fee. And I've pro-actively e-mailed them saying I would never buy a license. No reply to date...
My little brother and my parents machines back home have not been formatted since last summer and are still running fine. Well I assume so, they have not complained to me about it. No firewall, no virus software, running winXP. Sounds scarry but they haven't had any problems what so ever. My brother even uses p2p alot and IRC. I'm finaly going home tomorrow so I'll likely give their computers a little checkup(Mostly cleaning out the dust). Now I do have winXP stripped down and the patches were up to date as of xmas.
Arrrghhhh!!! I hope you're joking. Please tell me you're joking.
If not, I'm glad the DNSBL I subscribe my mailserver to is doing its job.
That's not what I'm doing. What I'm saying is that I'm not responsible for any copyright infringement perpetrated by other people if I use/recommend their software.
I'm an independant contractor, and when I sign my contracts (usually through a headhunter-type firm) there are provisions in my contract for assumption of IP violation risks and liability for my work. In other words, I agree to take responsibility for any and all IP violations that arise as a result of my work.
I'm an independent contractor too (albeit in the UK) and I've seen things like this in potential contracts, along with all kinds of other nastyness - one particular one I often see is that if I supply code written by me and licensed under the GPL then that code must be relicensed to become the property of the client (its never worded like that but that's what it essentially means). I always request that these clauses get taken out of the contract or I don't sign. It's not like there isn't plenty of other work out there, at least here in the UK. I turned down 5 contracts before landing my current one for similar contractual reasons. Anyone who signs a contract like that only has themselves to blame if it comes back to bite them. Plus, I hope you have indemnity insurance and public liability insurance, if not what the hell are you doing?
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Man I wish I had mod points (assuming this is true of course)...
Bob
Ahhh. Using RedHat 9 was your problem. RedHat 7.3 uses the same core build as RedHat AS. That's why I used that particular downloaded distro. A bit of research beforehand was all that was needed ;-)
Bob
I have Oracle 9i running on a 266MHz PC with 512Mb RAM on top of the download version of RedHat 7.3.
It's my Oracle testing box and it works just fine. No extra libraries/workarounds required.
Granted it doesn't run anything except Oracle and it's slow. But who cares about that for app testing (it kinda simulates heavy load/lots of data - in a round about way)
Bob
On Linux I just choose the "Navigator only" install option...
Bob
Sounds very similar to Active Shape Models. If you've never heard of these, they are very cool things that allow you to classify objects in N dimensional space and then apply probability rules to find likely matches. I used them working on a project to convert speech to sign-language (amongst other techniques).
Bob
Having visited you country the most important thing in any guide for the ignorant is to not mention sand, desert, archaology etc.
- Talk about the thriving Coptic Christian community in old Cairo so people know that the whole country isn't muslim and there is good religious toleration.
- Talk about how no-one should ever drive in Cairo unless they were born and raised there
;-)
- Nubian culture in the south is not very well known outside of Egypt
- Food and drink are another thing not well known outside the country (I stupidly assumed Egyptian food would be "typical" North African Cuisine with loads of cous-cous). And Egyptian wine is surprisingly good
- Etc, etc
I really enjoyed my time in your country and would love to visit again. As for the stolen atrefacts, I asked a local professional archaeologist about whether he resented that and strangely he said he saw it as a good thing since the artifacts were being preserved and are on public display (generally) whereas they do not have enough money to keep the antiquities that they still have in a good condition.Bob
Very interesting read. If only I had mod points...
Bob
Asking for a Slashdotting here, and also OT, but here are my pics from my visit. We went on a historical tour in a small group and we noticed the armed guards thing too, but they did their best to be subtle about it.
Bob
"What's a Nubian?"
The toplink on Google is this - Nubian
Bob
A large portion of the Egyptian population are actually Nubian (probably about 50% overall from what I could see with this figure tending towards 100% further south) and their physical features are more Sudanese.
Bob
When I was at the Pyramids (OK, I'm from the UK, you gotta take a look right?) a couple of months ago it was raining. It certainly was not sunny. Also, as Alaa was at pains to point out in the interview, Egypt is a very green and fertile country (the bits where people live anyway) and there is no sand there. You gotta go out to the desert for that.
Bob
Eveyone can thank the can spam act for this but he is still going to win his suits.
The can spam act only applies in the US. The suit only applies in the US. Why not just move the blacklists abroad? SORBS is in the Netherlands AFAIK, for example, therefore untouchable under US law.
Bob
Microsoft decided "that even if someone has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep him safe than it is to be concerned about the revenue issue."
What they mean is "it is more important to keep us safe from the media when the next round of viruses hit any unpatched machines by saying we allowed anyone to install SP2"
Bob
You mention struts, but struts isn't exactly part of J2EE, or is it? Fact is that most companies wouldn't touch struts with a ten-foot pole because of the same reason most companies prefer WebLogic over JBoss.
Absolutely NOT true, at least in the UK. I'm a software contractor, and every time I'm called about a project the first question is "Do you do Struts?". It's massive.
Bob
IE starts up and renders faster than mozilla. Do a benchmark. Hell, my computer starts up faster than mozilla.
It only matters how long your apps/OS takes to start up if you are having to restart them on a regular basis.
Bob
My sister runs an old P233 with Win98 SE. Explain how she upgrades Windows without buying new hardware?
Don't worry though, she'll soon be following the lead of my mother and having Mandrake installed on there next time I'm over her house.
No smart comments about needing someone's help to install Linux either, she needed my help to show her how to upgrade her IE for her online bank, never mind install Windows.
Bob
See this is what I don't understand. You're patching to fix a bug in LSASS and the consequence is "You cannot view enhanced metafile format graphics files (or EMF image files) that were created in Adobe Illustrator".
How the hell does that happen? This is dependencies gone mad.
Bob
...in February I distinctly noticed a lot of Tux images on billboards. There were a lot of computer companies advertising Linux services where I was staying around the Ma'adi area. Don't remember seeing a Microsoft ad, though the internet cafes all seemed to run XP. Perhaps this should be where LUGgers target their actions?
Bob
Technically, unless you use a program that legally licensed the official CSS decrypter from the DVD-CCA, it is illegal to play a DVD on Linux.
Only in the US. The rest of the world doesn't have the DMCA. It is perfectly legal for me to play DVDs under Linux here in the UK.
Bob
You obviously don't own a business that supports you and your family.
I do and I run it on Linux, and SCO can whistle for their license fee. And I've pro-actively e-mailed them saying I would never buy a license. No reply to date...
Bob
My little brother and my parents machines back home have not been formatted since last summer and are still running fine. Well I assume so, they have not complained to me about it. No firewall, no virus software, running winXP. Sounds scarry but they haven't had any problems what so ever. My brother even uses p2p alot and IRC. I'm finaly going home tomorrow so I'll likely give their computers a little checkup(Mostly cleaning out the dust). Now I do have winXP stripped down and the patches were up to date as of xmas.
Arrrghhhh!!! I hope you're joking. Please tell me you're joking.
If not, I'm glad the DNSBL I subscribe my mailserver to is doing its job.
Bob
it's the only one that still offers a smoking carriage
Not true. Anglia Railways (now rebranded as "One") have smoking carriages on their mainline services between Norwich and London.
Bob
That's not what I'm doing. What I'm saying is that I'm not responsible for any copyright infringement perpetrated by other people if I use/recommend their software.
Bob
I'm an independant contractor, and when I sign my contracts (usually through a headhunter-type firm) there are provisions in my contract for assumption of IP violation risks and liability for my work. In other words, I agree to take responsibility for any and all IP violations that arise as a result of my work.
I'm an independent contractor too (albeit in the UK) and I've seen things like this in potential contracts, along with all kinds of other nastyness - one particular one I often see is that if I supply code written by me and licensed under the GPL then that code must be relicensed to become the property of the client (its never worded like that but that's what it essentially means). I always request that these clauses get taken out of the contract or I don't sign. It's not like there isn't plenty of other work out there, at least here in the UK. I turned down 5 contracts before landing my current one for similar contractual reasons. Anyone who signs a contract like that only has themselves to blame if it comes back to bite them. Plus, I hope you have indemnity insurance and public liability insurance, if not what the hell are you doing?
Bob
Some have gone as far as calling this unamerican
Who cares if it's un-American? The majority of the world are not Americans.
Bob