I have to agree about the OOP, though. I wrote a pretty large-scale ecommerce project in php, though, and it took me about 1/5 the time it would have taken in perl.
except that it's not addictive and doesn't cause brain and liver damage
Maybe I'm just believing the propoganda that they pump us full of in high school drug/sex ed classes, but I'm pretty sure that it's been proven that smoking pot more than "once in a blue moon (or so)" causes brain dammage - blocking neural pathways associated with long-term memory and cognitive processes.
Granted, though I'm willing to bet that alcohol is *worse*, it (any alcohol, not just red wine) has also been proven to be helpful in small doses (see Eat, Drink and Be Healthy by the folks at Harvard Medical).
I'm pretty sure that there is a special clause in fair-use that allows a certain amount of copying for educational purposes. Another user mentioned 10%, which sounds about right. I also know that there is a 45-second rule for multimedia clips, though I doubt that any college students bothered to really check this for their presentations.
Same stuff. The blade servers are/were a joint project between IBM and Intel. IBM has had their servers available for awhile, but Intel has just finished their side of things, and is opening up the market a bit so you can buy them from more than one source (the Intel blades are also a bit nicer from a physical-design standpoint - better mounting, etc.)
Activity lights are nothing. Relatively useless in the grand scheme of things (except they'd make a wonderful addition to a good case mod)... The new Intel Blade Servers (sorry, no link, they're not released until Tuesday - you might try searching for the IBM ones, since they're pretty much the same hardware) have an LED next to each RAM slot that lights up when the stick dies (there's a capacitor on the board that keeps 30-40 seconds worth of electricity, so the LED's will stay lit up when you remove the blades from the chassis).
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...while they continue to use white text on a black background.
And what's wrong with this? It's physically easier for the human eye to focus on light text on a dark backgroundm as opposed to dark text on a light background - especially if that light background is PRODUCING light (your pupils have to close to protect your eyes from the light, but open to let you pick out the text).
I spend 10-12 hours daily in front of a computer screen, and have very little eye strain specifically because as much of my interface as possible is set to near-white text on a near-black background.
Besides, I doubt that the reviewer has any control over the look of the website.
Actually, macs can't really run headless... True, OSX will still allow you to ssh in, but without a monitor attached (or having the right pins on the vga plug jumpered), you still won't be able to run things like VNC to get into the graphical bits of the OS.
You're (obviously) not the only one... I started using Courier a few years back when one of my sysadmin friends mentioned that his company was switching over all of their mail systems to courier. And though people may not all like them, Real Networks it a big company, and it says a lot that they gave courier the vote of confidence over Postfix or QMail.
Try to imagine what will happen in 200 years. Most of our history will be written to electronic media, and for people that will live in 200 years, the file format used for that media will very probably be undecipherable.
That's why I write all of my important documents in plain text or html... Then again, I'm banking on the hope that ASCII will never go away.
I picked up an "alkaline" charger from realgoods.com a few years back (they don't seem to carry it anymore) that has circuitry in it to charge alkaline, NiMH and NiCad batteries (and maybe some others - can't remember). It gives a readout for each battery's voltage and life expectancy (alkalines recharge better if they're used in high-drain devices like electronics, rather than in something like a flashlight), and uses a combination of deltaV and trickle charging to assure a minimum of "memory" effect (don't let anyone convince you otherwise - ALL batteries can and do get memory - I've had plenty of LIon cellphone batteries get memory).
The advantage of a good "true" alkaline charger is that you never really need to buy batteries again because you can just get all of your friends to give you their dead ones. You do have to watch out for old batteries, though, since they tend to leak a bit.
And on that note, some companies (panasonic) are making both 1.4v and double-amp-hour (1200 instead of 600) batteries NiCad/NiMH batteries - I've managed to pick up a pack here and there from costco, and they work great.
NiMH batteries are great but they have the downside of losing charge very quickly "on the shelf"
You must be joking. I have a pile of panasonic NiMH batteries that I got at costco a couple of years ago. I keep a couple of spare sets in my camera bag for my flash, and they've kept a full charge for over a year.
"You can't hide a trojan
when the source code is open".
Sure you can. How many of you actually READ the source code you're compiling. Or compile your code instead of using a package, for that matter. Granted, it'd get found out pretty quickly, but it's possible.
Learn to spell...
there = location
their = possessive (ie. belongs to them)
they're = they are
My appologies if English isn't your first language, but this stuff just bugs me.
I'm not worried about this law passing--it would be political suicide (I hope) to support something so broadly unpopular--but you know how this works.
It's thinking like this that gets laws like the DMCA and Patriot Act an easy run through congress. Come on people, can't you see that this kind of thing is already going through with no trouble? Get off your a$$es and make some phone calls to your local senators and representatives - they're there to listen to you, and they won't know what you think unless you tell them!
Then again, didn't the DMCA already make copyright violation of digital works a felony? That was the "reasonable in comparison" law - now they're making it worse.
Did you read the packaging? I have one of these little things that I got from Real Goods - little solar powered gadget that emits a high-pitched whine that some people can hear.
These devices emit the noise of an "angry male mosquito", and because only pregnant females bite, they're supposed to get scared away by the sound of an angry male. The thing is, according to the packaging on my device, there are over 1400 species of mosquito in the world, and this only works on about 500 of them. It doesn't scare all of them away - some of them it just makes not interested in biting. And of course, there are those 900 species that it has no effect on.
I've used my mosquito guard thingie all over the place - from the mountains in WA state (I live in Seattle and camp fairly often) to jungles in central america (where I've been on several occasions). It seems to work on most mosquitos I've run across, both in the flying-away sense (luckily, the horribly-toxic ones that live around my house), and in the not-biting sense (about 90% of the ones in Costa Rica). Others (like some I ran across while camping last weekend) seem completely unaffected.
It's a gamble. But if I figure it prevents me the annoyance of a few mosquito bites, it's worth carrying around.
I beg to differ. UPS is more than happy to ship whatever my company wants to (rackmount servers in our case), wherever we want to. We're a Seattle-based company, but ship our machines somewhat regularly (meaning at least 1-2 per month - not many, but it's more than most of our competitors are willing to do) all over the world - Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Denmark, etc. The most we've had trouble with are customs agents who like to open up machines (disregarding the "warranty void if removed" stickers) to check for bombs and other unlikely things. Granted, it costs several hundred dollars to send a machine overseas (UPS doesn't have a "slow" internaltional option), and many people aren't willing to fork over the cash, but it's far from difficult.
an electronic communication that neither damages the recipient computer system nor impairs its functioning
So does this mean that if I hack into a computer in CA, take a look around, but don't actually DO anything (ie. white hacker type stuff), I'm not trespassing? Surely this stuff will need to be worded better.
As has been suggested in that bug report, it's pretty easy to recompile the RPM without the "obseletes" clause. Well, for those of us redhat users who still remember how to compile things...
Just `apt-get source db4` (or download the source your own way), do an `rpm -i` on it, which will place the spec into your redhat/SPECS directory. Then, just edit the.spec file, remove (or comment out) the "Obseletes: db1" clause and recompile with `rpmbuild -ba db4.spec`...
viola! reinstall it and all of your dependency issues are fixed.. annoying to have to do this, though. that bug really needs to be resolved.
I'm looking for PC notebook computers that outperform the iBook..... Performance isn't a major concern
I don't understand this. First, you say that you want it to outperform an iBook - which is a pretty beefy little machine - and then you say that performance isn't an issue.
Honestly, Apple still makes the best laptops in the business, and they run linux just fine. (I've even heard of people hassling the apple store enough to get one shipped with no OS)
I forgot to mention that VersusLaw is much cheaper than its competitors (it costs about the same for one month of unlimited access as it does to retrieve one case from Lexis).
And as for restricting access to libraries, it's all about how they make their money. Most (if not all) legal database give away subscriptions to students and schools, but when selling to others, they usually have a per-person fee (or price breakdown for larger groups). And though I agree that libraries should be given the same treatment that schools are (I doubt that many professional lawyers will be doing all of their research at the local library), I can at least understand why they're not - there's no way to tell how many people will be accessing the service.
I used to work for VersusLaw, a smaller competitor with WestLaw and Lexis. Other than WestLaw (who publishes the hard copies, and thus has access to ALL of this info), most legal database companies get their info from the web, ftp, email, etc.
There is a law that states that non-classified government documents fall under the public domain. This means that anyone can request the information, and cannot be charged for it (though a processing/handling fee may be applied). Some courts aren't happy about this (and have signed illegal exclusivity agreements with companies like Lexis and WestLaw, but VersusLaw's owner has been pretty good about reminding them of the legalities), but most courts are have web pages and post their daily proceedings for anyone to grab (and grab they do). The trick is finding the web pages, and then getting around things like image-based pdf's with no actual text in them, etc.
When you pay for access at places like VersusLaw, WestLaw, etc., you are not paying for the case data (most of these places offer free searching, and Lexis even offers free recent case data for many federal jurisdictions), you're paying for the value-addition of the search engine, formatting, spell checking, etc - things that hard-working, relatively low-paid data entry people have laboriously checked, typed, scanned, etc.
Salaried/Exempt (Officers & management) do not get paid an hourly wage, and are not required to be paid overtime.
Before being hired for my last (salaried) job, I signed a contract stating that I would be expected to work a 40-hour week, but would occasionally be asked to work longer hours. In exchange for this, I'd have the ability to take short-term paid time off for things like doctor's appointments, etc (referred to a few posts up as TOIL).
My guess is that many companies are doing this kind of thing - such that even if I had qualified for overtime, I had signed away that right when I took the job
Seriously. Being in a position of trust is different than impersonating someone in a position of trust. I think his point was that if an employer sat him in front of a computer and said, "here, look over some documents, but I trust you not to hack in and steal my password," he wouldn't hack into the computer and steal any passwords.
Click! Network has been doing this for several years. It's a subsidiary of the local power company, which pulled fibre into most of the city (Tacoma's claim is that they're the most wired city in the country) in an attempt to draw some of the dotcom business away from nearby Seattle.
It's basically city-subsidized bandwidth. I got 2048x256 Mbit cable for $25/month, and later bumped it up to 4096x512 (basically uncapped) for $80. When I had to move up to Seattle for work reasons, this was one of the hardest things to give up (since I'm now paying the same price for 768x384 DSL - granted, Speakeasy encourages their customers to run web servers, etc, and I get 2 static IP's).
For businesses, Click! offers extremely competetive rates on connections up to an OC-48, and you can get one just about anywhere in the city. They're also expanding (slowly) into nearby cities, too (Tacoma has had a lot of internal neighborhoods become incorporated, so it's unfortunately not like they're expanding very far).
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Then what's the set_error_handler() function for?
I have to agree about the OOP, though. I wrote a pretty large-scale ecommerce project in php, though, and it took me about 1/5 the time it would have taken in perl.
Maybe I'm just believing the propoganda that they pump us full of in high school drug/sex ed classes, but I'm pretty sure that it's been proven that smoking pot more than "once in a blue moon (or so)" causes brain dammage - blocking neural pathways associated with long-term memory and cognitive processes.
Granted, though I'm willing to bet that alcohol is *worse*, it (any alcohol, not just red wine) has also been proven to be helpful in small doses (see Eat, Drink and Be Healthy by the folks at Harvard Medical).
I'm pretty sure that there is a special clause in fair-use that allows a certain amount of copying for educational purposes. Another user mentioned 10%, which sounds about right. I also know that there is a 45-second rule for multimedia clips, though I doubt that any college students bothered to really check this for their presentations.
Same stuff. The blade servers are/were a joint project between IBM and Intel. IBM has had their servers available for awhile, but Intel has just finished their side of things, and is opening up the market a bit so you can buy them from more than one source (the Intel blades are also a bit nicer from a physical-design standpoint - better mounting, etc.)
Activity lights are nothing. Relatively useless in the grand scheme of things (except they'd make a wonderful addition to a good case mod)... The new Intel Blade Servers (sorry, no link, they're not released until Tuesday - you might try searching for the IBM ones, since they're pretty much the same hardware) have an LED next to each RAM slot that lights up when the stick dies (there's a capacitor on the board that keeps 30-40 seconds worth of electricity, so the LED's will stay lit up when you remove the blades from the chassis).
And what's wrong with this? It's physically easier for the human eye to focus on light text on a dark backgroundm as opposed to dark text on a light background - especially if that light background is PRODUCING light (your pupils have to close to protect your eyes from the light, but open to let you pick out the text).
I spend 10-12 hours daily in front of a computer screen, and have very little eye strain specifically because as much of my interface as possible is set to near-white text on a near-black background.
Besides, I doubt that the reviewer has any control over the look of the website.
The OS is basically too smart for itself.
You're (obviously) not the only one... I started using Courier a few years back when one of my sysadmin friends mentioned that his company was switching over all of their mail systems to courier. And though people may not all like them, Real Networks it a big company, and it says a lot that they gave courier the vote of confidence over Postfix or QMail.
That's why I write all of my important documents in plain text or html... Then again, I'm banking on the hope that ASCII will never go away.
The advantage of a good "true" alkaline charger is that you never really need to buy batteries again because you can just get all of your friends to give you their dead ones. You do have to watch out for old batteries, though, since they tend to leak a bit.
And on that note, some companies (panasonic) are making both 1.4v and double-amp-hour (1200 instead of 600) batteries NiCad/NiMH batteries - I've managed to pick up a pack here and there from costco, and they work great.
You must be joking. I have a pile of panasonic NiMH batteries that I got at costco a couple of years ago. I keep a couple of spare sets in my camera bag for my flash, and they've kept a full charge for over a year.
Sure you can. How many of you actually READ the source code you're compiling. Or compile your code instead of using a package, for that matter. Granted, it'd get found out pretty quickly, but it's possible.
Learn to spell... there = location their = possessive (ie. belongs to them) they're = they are My appologies if English isn't your first language, but this stuff just bugs me.
It's thinking like this that gets laws like the DMCA and Patriot Act an easy run through congress. Come on people, can't you see that this kind of thing is already going through with no trouble? Get off your a$$es and make some phone calls to your local senators and representatives - they're there to listen to you, and they won't know what you think unless you tell them!
Then again, didn't the DMCA already make copyright violation of digital works a felony? That was the "reasonable in comparison" law - now they're making it worse.
These devices emit the noise of an "angry male mosquito", and because only pregnant females bite, they're supposed to get scared away by the sound of an angry male. The thing is, according to the packaging on my device, there are over 1400 species of mosquito in the world, and this only works on about 500 of them. It doesn't scare all of them away - some of them it just makes not interested in biting. And of course, there are those 900 species that it has no effect on.
I've used my mosquito guard thingie all over the place - from the mountains in WA state (I live in Seattle and camp fairly often) to jungles in central america (where I've been on several occasions). It seems to work on most mosquitos I've run across, both in the flying-away sense (luckily, the horribly-toxic ones that live around my house), and in the not-biting sense (about 90% of the ones in Costa Rica). Others (like some I ran across while camping last weekend) seem completely unaffected.
It's a gamble. But if I figure it prevents me the annoyance of a few mosquito bites, it's worth carrying around.
I beg to differ. UPS is more than happy to ship whatever my company wants to (rackmount servers in our case), wherever we want to. We're a Seattle-based company, but ship our machines somewhat regularly (meaning at least 1-2 per month - not many, but it's more than most of our competitors are willing to do) all over the world - Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Denmark, etc. The most we've had trouble with are customs agents who like to open up machines (disregarding the "warranty void if removed" stickers) to check for bombs and other unlikely things. Granted, it costs several hundred dollars to send a machine overseas (UPS doesn't have a "slow" internaltional option), and many people aren't willing to fork over the cash, but it's far from difficult.
So does this mean that if I hack into a computer in CA, take a look around, but don't actually DO anything (ie. white hacker type stuff), I'm not trespassing? Surely this stuff will need to be worded better.
Um, ximian gnome is free....
As has been suggested in that bug report, it's pretty easy to recompile the RPM without the "obseletes" clause. Well, for those of us redhat users who still remember how to compile things... Just `apt-get source db4` (or download the source your own way), do an `rpm -i` on it, which will place the spec into your redhat/SPECS directory. Then, just edit the .spec file, remove (or comment out) the "Obseletes: db1" clause and recompile with `rpmbuild -ba db4.spec`...
viola! reinstall it and all of your dependency issues are fixed.. annoying to have to do this, though. that bug really needs to be resolved.
I don't understand this. First, you say that you want it to outperform an iBook - which is a pretty beefy little machine - and then you say that performance isn't an issue.
Honestly, Apple still makes the best laptops in the business, and they run linux just fine. (I've even heard of people hassling the apple store enough to get one shipped with no OS)
And as for restricting access to libraries, it's all about how they make their money. Most (if not all) legal database give away subscriptions to students and schools, but when selling to others, they usually have a per-person fee (or price breakdown for larger groups). And though I agree that libraries should be given the same treatment that schools are (I doubt that many professional lawyers will be doing all of their research at the local library), I can at least understand why they're not - there's no way to tell how many people will be accessing the service.
There is a law that states that non-classified government documents fall under the public domain. This means that anyone can request the information, and cannot be charged for it (though a processing/handling fee may be applied). Some courts aren't happy about this (and have signed illegal exclusivity agreements with companies like Lexis and WestLaw, but VersusLaw's owner has been pretty good about reminding them of the legalities), but most courts are have web pages and post their daily proceedings for anyone to grab (and grab they do). The trick is finding the web pages, and then getting around things like image-based pdf's with no actual text in them, etc.
When you pay for access at places like VersusLaw, WestLaw, etc., you are not paying for the case data (most of these places offer free searching, and Lexis even offers free recent case data for many federal jurisdictions), you're paying for the value-addition of the search engine, formatting, spell checking, etc - things that hard-working, relatively low-paid data entry people have laboriously checked, typed, scanned, etc.
Before being hired for my last (salaried) job, I signed a contract stating that I would be expected to work a 40-hour week, but would occasionally be asked to work longer hours. In exchange for this, I'd have the ability to take short-term paid time off for things like doctor's appointments, etc (referred to a few posts up as TOIL).
My guess is that many companies are doing this kind of thing - such that even if I had qualified for overtime, I had signed away that right when I took the job
Seriously. Being in a position of trust is different than impersonating someone in a position of trust. I think his point was that if an employer sat him in front of a computer and said, "here, look over some documents, but I trust you not to hack in and steal my password," he wouldn't hack into the computer and steal any passwords.
It's basically city-subsidized bandwidth. I got 2048x256 Mbit cable for $25/month, and later bumped it up to 4096x512 (basically uncapped) for $80. When I had to move up to Seattle for work reasons, this was one of the hardest things to give up (since I'm now paying the same price for 768x384 DSL - granted, Speakeasy encourages their customers to run web servers, etc, and I get 2 static IP's).
For businesses, Click! offers extremely competetive rates on connections up to an OC-48, and you can get one just about anywhere in the city. They're also expanding (slowly) into nearby cities, too (Tacoma has had a lot of internal neighborhoods become incorporated, so it's unfortunately not like they're expanding very far).