virtual machines (VMWare), where a virtual machine's 100GB virtual HDD is stored as a single 100GB vmdk file. Though this is a specific case, and VMWare has their own custome vmfs filesystem to support these files.
Winter's fast approaching. Wear a jacket with a few pockets for the next few months (not as much of a gadget geek here, but I carry darts, cigarettes, wallet, cell phone, etc without issue between my pants and jacket pockets), and do some research on good laptop bags in the meantime.
Timbuk2 and Targus both have bags that have satisfied my needs in the past and currently (laptop messenger and sport deluxe bags, respectively). I still currently use the Targus backpack, as I tend to carry more books around, and it has plenty of pockets and elastic straps to carry all of my random junk, but I'm sure there are fancier models out nowadays.
I'd concentrate more on where you will get support. If you have a competent Linux team and well-supported hardware, then go with whatever your admin group is familiar with and whatever you can easily install and maintain on your hardware. If you have a bunch of Debian gurus, go with Debian, etc. And by a bunch, I mean a large enough group that you can continue to train new admins on Debian specifics. If you only have a few Linux-savvy admins, opt for SuSE, RHEL, or preferably whatever is supported by your hardware vendor.
You can probably configure any typical server distro (slack, deb, SuSE, RHEL, et al) to run the applications you need, so ask yourself the important questions: Who will be supporting the OS? If in-house, how can we keep newhires trained? What works easily with our hardware and what will easily meet our software requirements?
If you can't easily answer the last question, use the first few questions to narrow down your choices, then do a few installs on test servers. See how easy you can get a production server up and running. Gentoo is great, but a typical admin probably won't be able to do a quick reinstall if your drive array fails and you have to get a mailserver up and running ASAP (or if you opt for a distro that takes a while to install, will you be able to have backup servers, etc?).
I don't think choice of distros is nearly as important as these other questions.
I believe OP's point was "single point of failure". If the main link goes out, 115 screens in 27 theaters will be refunding hundreds of tickets each. Your broken movie impacted the profit of around 1% that number of people./obvious
If you don't mind possibly voiding the warranty on your phone, browse the internet. I know my Motorola phone has plenty of firmware flashes and flexes (flexes enable/disable options like bluetooth, AIM, etc) available for download -- I'm sure Nokia updates would be just as readily available. You can probably enable and use those options, but may run into support problems if your phone breaks in the future. I just had to buy a data cable for $5 off of ebay so I could connect it to my USB port.
(if there are updates available, I'm sure you could get bluetooth and WAV ringers working, but GPS may rely on Verizon offering some cell phone GPS service, so I'm not sure about that one.)
or click "preferences" and check the "light" box, scroll to the bottom, hit "save". streamlines the page. you'll get used to it after a few days, then the old/. layout will just look klunky.
Yup. Except that "(officially?)" may be debatable. It depends on what you regard as official.
IEC (Internation Electrotechnical Commission) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) both agree on using SI (International System of Units) metric units as they were intended (i.e.- Kilo = 1,000, etc) and new binary prefixes (i.e.- Kibi = 1,024), but it should be noted that the binary prefixes are *NOT* part of the SI metric system.
The above can be found at: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
I prefer to operate off of the assumption that the above is a proposal and I'll begin to follow it if it picks up wider usage. Until then, I'll probably continue using Megabyte and Kilobyte and just clarify when questions arise:P
Dell lets you go through a standard OS install. And it is because of OEM licensing. M$ apparently doesn't produce OEM CDs for their OEMs, telling them to make their own. Dell's CD simply checks to make sure you have a Dell BIOS on the system, so you can only use the CDs on other Dells (vendor-specific, not model-specific).
elint@maureen:~/$ diff troll.txt original.txt >... about Trinity dying in matrix 2...
Wow, you're sick. Was that really worth it? I need mod points again:P
--elint "There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more." --Woody Allen
If Kim Stanley Robinson had it right (see Green Mars, maybe Blue Mars), depending on where the cable breaks, it more than likely would NOT fall straight down or anything close -- it would wrap around the world a few times... Would be interesting for anybody not living in its' path, but unfortunate for those that do:)
One argument for scrollbars on the bottom and right: it seems less tedious to move the mouse down and to the right (if you mouse right-handed, which I believe most poople do) than to move it up or to the left... Still probably not as important as your other arguments, but might as well get both sides of the argument in there... --elint
I've got a friend who did essentially the same thing... except he also installed a 4" mono TV in the dash and installed DOS instead of Linux... takes only a few seconds to boot and you don't have to worry about shutting down the OS before killin' the engine...
Maybe because somewhere you have to figure in the cost of paying the recording studio, the artist, etc... Or should they all create CDs for very little profit as Garth Brooks did on that one Double CD set? I do believe he can afford to do that a little more than some other artists can...
slack 3.4 was my first distro... my introduction to linux... mainly 'cause I borrowed the CD set my ISP had bought and they ran Slack 3.4:P
anyway, it was fairly easy to figure out, and I'm glad that the installation has remained the same so far... The first few times I installed it, I battled with trying to dual-boot my system with Win95... It would result in me installing slack, RTFM, not find anything, rebooting to windows, asking questions on IRC (to get my net connection up and running), rebooting to linux and following directions...
I went back and forth, installing slack, using it for a few weeks and dumping it... I finally found out the best way to learn Linux: Delete Windows... I either had to learn or starve (Admitted addictions to userfriendly, slashdot, etc)...
Not sure how coherent this is and I don't have time to proofread at the moment, but mainly, if you're a newbie, I'd suggest killing windows after you're sure you can get your net connection up and running so you will have access to enough resources to fix any other problems... it's too easy to say in a dual-boot situation, "I want to do this, and it'd be easier in windows, so I'll reboot"... tough it out and you might learn something...
As I understand it, a site gets indexed by Netcraft when somebody goes to Netcraft to look up a site... So my question is, who uses Netcraft? If mostly linux users (most of/.?) visit mindcraft to look up a site, they are probably going to check out some of their usual hangouts (slashdot, freshmeat, ), most of which are run on Apache... Wouldn't this bias the results in favor of Apache? I'm guessing that you could really affect the results for next month if you were to find a large number of -run sites and then started looking them up on Netcraft...
Not sure if this makes sense or if I even understand how Netcraft works... Just curious how reliable these results are...
--elint "...So if you're cute, or even beautiful, remember: There's more of us ugly motherfuckers than you are." --Frank Zappa.
I think you need to clarify what you're trying to say to help out the AC... I believe the text of revelation is saying that he is damned to hell and all that if he changes the MEANING or ADDS to the text... I believe King James (or whoever the actual translators were when the KJV was created) tried to translate the scripts into English, with the objective of keeping the MEANING as accurate as possible...
Disclaimer: I've never read the original scripts (can't read anything but English), so I can't verify this...
--elint "MCSEs are the stunted children of an overbearing parent; they should be pitied, not hated." --unknown
and now this is what gets +1 ? "shut up"? what the fuck is wrong with you people? Here's another offtopic, but it clears something up... if you'd read the moderation guidelines, you'd realize that logged in users (those not posting as AC) automatically start with a score of 1... You replied while this "shut up" post was still at 1, unmoderated... As soon as moderators noticed, it got moved to -1, flamebait...
moderators are no better than the rest of us. we should control slashdot not a bunch of two bit morons on an ego trip. As for that comment, sorry to inform you, but moderators ARE the rest of us... we do control slashdot... again, I refer you to the moderation guidelines...
--elint UFO's are real. The Air Force doesn't exist.
Ok... I have taken on up to 3 AI using the following method (with 1 AI of each race) (I've also beat 7, but you have to take out the other 4 by beating 'em to resources):
Play Protoss. Send Probes to find all 3 bases... Build a Pylon 1 screen away... Build a forge near any of them... now you can build plasma cannons... build 2 or 3 plasma cannons by each pylon you built... send your probe in to their base to attack a building... it will get the attention of ALL their creatures (even taking drones and SCVs off of resource-nabbing)... run back to your plasma cannons and enjoy the slaughter of another race... That's shoddy AI for you (Our 20 SCVs can beat his 1 probe, let's kill him and be done with it even if we have to follow him into 3 plasm---aaargh!)... But it doesn't cheat... It just maximizes efficiency...
Back when I ran nintendo, apple emulators, and older PC games on my DOS-based P75, I found a program called Mo-Slo that would let you slow the processor down to a percentage of its processing speed (in increments of 1). It worked fine on the P75, as I could get close to 1Mhz or 8Mhz or whatever the game required.
I'm curious if a program like this exists now that is a little more improved (as 1% of my PII-300 is still 3Mhz, a little too fast for a 1Mhz Apple progam):)
Isn't that how everything is run now? "Don't wait for perfection, but release it and worry about bugfixes later." That sounds a lot like the motto "release early, release often" This idea keeps open source projects alive. What good is it if a programmer keeps code to himself until he can figure out how to make it perfect? Granted, this only applies to open source projects. Any commercial products SHOULD be perfect before being released.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=permanently+s et+exe+process+priority&btnI=I'm+Feeling+Lucky
virtual machines (VMWare), where a virtual machine's 100GB virtual HDD is stored as a single 100GB vmdk file. Though this is a specific case, and VMWare has their own custome vmfs filesystem to support these files.
--elint
Previous Slashdot Article Regarding Google's "Datacenter-In-A-Shipping-Container"
Winter's fast approaching. Wear a jacket with a few pockets for the next few months (not as much of a gadget geek here, but I carry darts, cigarettes, wallet, cell phone, etc without issue between my pants and jacket pockets), and do some research on good laptop bags in the meantime.
Timbuk2 and Targus both have bags that have satisfied my needs in the past and currently (laptop messenger and sport deluxe bags, respectively). I still currently use the Targus backpack, as I tend to carry more books around, and it has plenty of pockets and elastic straps to carry all of my random junk, but I'm sure there are fancier models out nowadays.
you misspelled gramm'er (er, or mispelt). ;)
I'd concentrate more on where you will get support. If you have a competent Linux team and well-supported hardware, then go with whatever your admin group is familiar with and whatever you can easily install and maintain on your hardware. If you have a bunch of Debian gurus, go with Debian, etc. And by a bunch, I mean a large enough group that you can continue to train new admins on Debian specifics. If you only have a few Linux-savvy admins, opt for SuSE, RHEL, or preferably whatever is supported by your hardware vendor.
You can probably configure any typical server distro (slack, deb, SuSE, RHEL, et al) to run the applications you need, so ask yourself the important questions: Who will be supporting the OS? If in-house, how can we keep newhires trained? What works easily with our hardware and what will easily meet our software requirements?
If you can't easily answer the last question, use the first few questions to narrow down your choices, then do a few installs on test servers. See how easy you can get a production server up and running. Gentoo is great, but a typical admin probably won't be able to do a quick reinstall if your drive array fails and you have to get a mailserver up and running ASAP (or if you opt for a distro that takes a while to install, will you be able to have backup servers, etc?).
I don't think choice of distros is nearly as important as these other questions.
I believe OP's point was "single point of failure". If the main link goes out, 115 screens in 27 theaters will be refunding hundreds of tickets each. Your broken movie impacted the profit of around 1% that number of people. /obvious
If you don't mind possibly voiding the warranty on your phone, browse the internet. I know my Motorola phone has plenty of firmware flashes and flexes (flexes enable/disable options like bluetooth, AIM, etc) available for download -- I'm sure Nokia updates would be just as readily available. You can probably enable and use those options, but may run into support problems if your phone breaks in the future. I just had to buy a data cable for $5 off of ebay so I could connect it to my USB port.
(if there are updates available, I'm sure you could get bluetooth and WAV ringers working, but GPS may rely on Verizon offering some cell phone GPS service, so I'm not sure about that one.)
or click "preferences" and check the "light" box, scroll to the bottom, hit "save". streamlines the page. you'll get used to it after a few days, then the old /. layout will just look klunky.
Yup. Except that "(officially?)" may be debatable. It depends on what you regard as official.
:P
IEC (Internation Electrotechnical Commission) and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) both agree on using SI (International System of Units) metric units as they were intended (i.e.- Kilo = 1,000, etc) and new binary prefixes (i.e.- Kibi = 1,024), but it should be noted that the binary prefixes are *NOT* part of the SI metric system.
The above can be found at: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
I prefer to operate off of the assumption that the above is a proposal and I'll begin to follow it if it picks up wider usage. Until then, I'll probably continue using Megabyte and Kilobyte and just clarify when questions arise
--elint
Dell lets you go through a standard OS install. And it is because of OEM licensing. M$ apparently doesn't produce OEM CDs for their OEMs, telling them to make their own. Dell's CD simply checks to make sure you have a Dell BIOS on the system, so you can only use the CDs on other Dells (vendor-specific, not model-specific).
elint@maureen:~/$ diff troll.txt original.txt ... about Trinity dying in matrix 2 ...
:P
>
Wow, you're sick. Was that really worth it? I need mod points again
--elint
"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more." --Woody Allen
And even then, you can't write an equation to tell what ONE person is going to do... only what society will *probably* do in general.
If Kim Stanley Robinson had it right (see Green Mars, maybe Blue Mars), depending on where the cable breaks, it more than likely would NOT fall straight down or anything close -- it would wrap around the world a few times ... Would be interesting for anybody not living in its' path, but unfortunate for those that do :)
--cody
I believe that was also irony, idiot ... but quit feeding the trolls ... didn't you catch the "kidding....just kidding..." part?
--elint
One argument for scrollbars on the bottom and right: it seems less tedious to move the mouse down and to the right (if you mouse right-handed, which I believe most poople do) than to move it up or to the left ... Still probably not as important as your other arguments, but might as well get both sides of the argument in there ... --elint
I've got a friend who did essentially the same thing ... except he also installed a 4" mono TV in the dash and installed DOS instead of Linux ... takes only a few seconds to boot and you don't have to worry about shutting down the OS before killin' the engine ...
Maybe because somewhere you have to figure in the cost of paying the recording studio, the artist, etc ... Or should they all create CDs for very little profit as Garth Brooks did on that one Double CD set? I do believe he can afford to do that a little more than some other artists can ...
anyway, it was fairly easy to figure out, and I'm glad that the installation has remained the same so far ... The first few times I installed it, I battled with trying to dual-boot my system with Win95 ... It would result in me installing slack, RTFM, not find anything, rebooting to windows, asking questions on IRC (to get my net connection up and running), rebooting to linux and following directions ...
I went back and forth, installing slack, using it for a few weeks and dumping it ... I finally found out the best way to learn Linux: Delete Windows ... I either had to learn or starve (Admitted addictions to userfriendly, slashdot, etc) ...
Not sure how coherent this is and I don't have time to proofread at the moment, but mainly, if you're a newbie, I'd suggest killing windows after you're sure you can get your net connection up and running so you will have access to enough resources to fix any other problems ... it's too easy to say in a dual-boot situation, "I want to do this, and it'd be easier in windows, so I'll reboot" ... tough it out and you might learn something ...
Not sure if this makes sense or if I even understand how Netcraft works ... Just curious how reliable these results are ...
--elint
"...So if you're cute, or even beautiful, remember: There's more of us ugly motherfuckers than you are." --Frank Zappa.
Disclaimer: I've never read the original scripts (can't read anything but English), so I can't verify this ...
--elint
"MCSEs are the stunted children of an overbearing parent; they should be pitied, not hated." --unknown
and now this is what gets +1 ? "shut up"? what the fuck is wrong with you people? ... if you'd read the moderation guidelines, you'd realize that logged in users (those not posting as AC) automatically start with a score of 1 ... You replied while this "shut up" post was still at 1, unmoderated ... As soon as moderators noticed, it got moved to -1, flamebait ...
... we do control slashdot ... again, I refer you to the moderation guidelines ...
Here's another offtopic, but it clears something up
moderators are no better than the rest of us. we should control slashdot not a bunch of two bit morons on an ego trip.
As for that comment, sorry to inform you, but moderators ARE the rest of us
--elint
UFO's are real. The Air Force doesn't exist.
Ok ... I have taken on up to 3 AI using the following method (with 1 AI of each race) (I've also beat 7, but you have to take out the other 4 by beating 'em to resources):
... Build a Pylon 1 screen away ... Build a forge near any of them ... now you can build plasma cannons ... build 2 or 3 plasma cannons by each pylon you built ... send your probe in to their base to attack a building ... it will get the attention of ALL their creatures (even taking drones and SCVs off of resource-nabbing) ... run back to your plasma cannons and enjoy the slaughter of another race ... That's shoddy AI for you (Our 20 SCVs can beat his 1 probe, let's kill him and be done with it even if we have to follow him into 3 plasm---aaargh!) ... But it doesn't cheat ... It just maximizes efficiency ...
Play Protoss. Send Probes to find all 3 bases
Back when I ran nintendo, apple emulators, and older PC games on my DOS-based P75, I found a program called Mo-Slo that would let you slow the processor down to a percentage of its processing speed (in increments of 1). It worked fine on the P75, as I could get close to 1Mhz or 8Mhz or whatever the game required.
:)
I'm curious if a program like this exists now that is a little more improved (as 1% of my PII-300 is still 3Mhz, a little too fast for a 1Mhz Apple progam)
Isn't that how everything is run now? "Don't wait for perfection, but release it and worry about bugfixes later." That sounds a lot like the motto "release early, release often" This idea keeps open source projects alive. What good is it if a programmer keeps code to himself until he can figure out how to make it perfect? Granted, this only applies to open source projects. Any commercial products SHOULD be perfect before being released.