And in a related news item, the aunt of Britney Spears' new man has given the couple her blessing, insisting he was single when the pop superstar fell for him.
Firefox is the popular Mozilla Browser, because it follows windows and IE conventions (e.g. shortcuts) and is fast (not bloatware). It does not try to be anything except a browser. It is the best at what it does. I'd want to suggest that if Mozilla has a real future, it's with Firefox!
___________ seun osewa
The only way the director in question could make a difference is by being among the patent owners and working to make things freer, from within. It's like refusing to arm yourself in a rough neighbourhood because you "don't believe in violence".
________________ proud VDS user
I tried Debian for some weeks on my web server; I experienced all sorts of probs related to the fact that the only stable Debian is an outdated Debian so here I am, using Fedora once more. Any attempt to use recent packages made my Debian system unstable. Fedora works exactly like RedHat, and is now managed by RedHat.
________________ go fantasia, this is your night
I started learning Linux with Mandrake Linux and it really made things very easy. Then I moved to RedHat by accident (I lost my Mandrake CDs, couldn't get a replacement and thought, 'well, Mandrake is based on Redhat...'). After reading the previous slashdot stories about Mandrakesoft's financial challenges, I am happy to hear that things are progressing. However, I'm sticking to Fedora since most of my Linux work is server-side; Redhat and Debian happen to be the standards these days and lots of free online support (via google!)is available for them. I have written this personal stuff because I think there are many people in my shoes. 'We like them, but we really can't use them'
_______ by the way I Am A Fantasia Barrino fan
This site shows what's commercially available, but gives no price. Does any fellow slashdotter have a clue about exactly how much money has been saved?
_________________ distract free online advertising
Algae ultimately get their energy from the sun, as do plants. Whether this is a more efficient way of harvesting the sun's energy than other ways remains to be seen. The major potential advantage is that in this casethe algae produce oils/hydrocarbons which (hopefully) could be used in place of fossil fuels (no need to design new machines)
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and by the way, i blog
"Because geoprocessing often involves processing many datasets or datasets with many records, geoprocessing tasks typically are repetitive and good candidates for automation. Any scripting language with a COM interpreter, such as Python, JScript, or VBScript, can be used to write scripts that execute ArcGIS Desktop 9 geoprocessing tools and automate tasks. Because these scripting languages are not proprietary, many resources for learning them are available."
Source __________________ working & blogging from nigeria
Beehive is an open-source software project designed to deliver a cross-container, ease-of-use programming model and application framework for J2EE- and SOA-based applications. Beehive includes support for JSR 175 metadata annotations, the Java controls framework for creating and consuming J2EE components, a simplified Web services programming framework, and the Struts-based Java Page Flow technology for creating Web-based user interfaces and applications.
The recent movie The Day After Tommorrow makes global warning seem like a more imminent threat than it probably is. Could it be that those more concerned about the risks have taken its release as a good opportunity for sounding their views (since people will be more receptive?)
Texas Memory System's OEM, Dynamic Solutions International, which has over 18 years of experience delivering solid state disk solutions to the enterprise, installed a
2.5 Terabyte Tera-RamSan at a customer site to accelerate critical database applications, metadata and to maintain a technological edge.
The system uses DSI's 3200 solid state disks, with two to eight Fibre Channel ports that can push out 250,000 IOPS - up to 3Gbit/s - and contain
16-64 GB of capacity. There are two hot-swappable power supplies and three hot-swappable drives per DSI 3200. Uptime is five-nines - 99.999 percent.
(from the Techworld article)
Speeding up Perl/Python
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What about simply using C++ or Java for the performance-intensive aspects?
As mentioned before, remote systems are where this utility would really shine. If there was a simple way to tell a kernel to reboot on error instead of locking up the system, then it'd be the perfect system for testing various kernels on a remote system. No need to call your colocation host and ask for a manual reboot!
Again, there are projects being developed to reduce the imit time for Linux. On such systems, the relative speed of this approach wil be significant. And, yes, 150 seconds can be a lot of time to wait for a reboot.
It's not just Linux that forms a good alternative to Windows. OPenBSD was built to be a secure OS. Where lives are involved, there is good reason to go the extra mile to use an OS which, though less convenient, has proven to be more reliable. In the current era, with all these worms, Microsoft just isn't the best alternative.
On the other hand, all they needed to do was use http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and enable Windows' built-in firewall software.
Worm and Virus writers should be made to know that they are accountable when their creations do what they were (mis)designed to do "take over systems, disable them, disrupt networks?" How do you actually catch the original author of a worm, anyway?
Yes, but the ordinary, non-scientific people who these reconstructions are supposed to impress are hardly going to make any discoveries about the past that they couldn't have made by studying books about the original monument!
I'm not very much into 'scientific' promotion that aim to interest people in the past. Let's talk about how we can change things, make things better. Let's talk about the science in invention and innovation! Let's work on tchnologies that make the future better!
______
my homepage
By the time I was about to choose a web host for my site, the RedHat 9 end-of-life issue was already known and they offered Fedora (not RedHat 9.0) as the main OS. I strive to configure my systems in such a way that I can freely upgrade to the latest packages without worrying that anything would break.
___________ naija geek
What do companies do when they have products which, though not being best of breed, require huge and increasingly unjustifiable Research and Development funds? They go Open Source! (no, I am not naming names... sap db netscape interbase...
Slashdot Mirror
And in a related news item, the aunt of Britney Spears' new man has given the couple her blessing, insisting he was single when the pop superstar fell for him.
Firefox is the popular Mozilla Browser, because it follows windows and IE conventions (e.g. shortcuts) and is fast (not bloatware). It does not try to be anything except a browser. It is the best at what it does. I'd want to suggest that if Mozilla has a real future, it's with Firefox!
___________
seun osewa
The only way the director in question could make a difference is by being among the patent owners and working to make things freer, from within. It's like refusing to arm yourself in a rough neighbourhood because you "don't believe in violence".
________________
proud VDS user
I tried Debian for some weeks on my web server; I experienced all sorts of probs related to the fact that the only stable Debian is an outdated Debian so here I am, using Fedora once more. Any attempt to use recent packages made my Debian system unstable. Fedora works exactly like RedHat, and is now managed by RedHat.
________________
go fantasia, this is your night
I started learning Linux with Mandrake Linux and it really made things very easy. Then I moved to RedHat by accident (I lost my Mandrake CDs, couldn't get a replacement and thought, 'well, Mandrake is based on Redhat...'). After reading the previous slashdot stories about Mandrakesoft's financial challenges, I am happy to hear that things are progressing. However, I'm sticking to Fedora since most of my Linux work is server-side; Redhat and Debian happen to be the standards these days and lots of free online support (via google!)is available for them. I have written this personal stuff because I think there are many people in my shoes. 'We like them, but we really can't use them'
_______
by the way I Am A Fantasia Barrino fan
This site shows what's commercially available, but gives no price. Does any fellow slashdotter have a clue about exactly how much money has been saved?
_________________
distract free online advertising
Algae ultimately get their energy from the sun, as do plants. Whether this is a more efficient way of harvesting the sun's energy than other ways remains to be seen. The major potential advantage is that in this casethe algae produce oils/hydrocarbons which (hopefully) could be used in place of fossil fuels (no need to design new machines)
___________________
and by the way, i blog
"Because geoprocessing often involves processing many datasets or datasets with many records, geoprocessing tasks typically are repetitive and good candidates for automation. Any scripting language with a COM interpreter, such as Python, JScript, or VBScript, can be used to write scripts that execute ArcGIS Desktop 9 geoprocessing tools and automate tasks. Because these scripting languages are not proprietary, many resources for learning them are available." Source
__________________
working & blogging from nigeria
working & blogging from Nigeria
The recent movie The Day After Tommorrow makes global warning seem like a more imminent threat than it probably is. Could it be that those more concerned about the risks have taken its release as a good opportunity for sounding their views (since people will be more receptive?)
Even deep-water divers can take advantage of this technology!
What about simply using C++ or Java for the performance-intensive aspects?
As mentioned before, remote systems are where this utility would really shine. If there was a simple way to tell a kernel to reboot on error instead of locking up the system, then it'd be the perfect system for testing various kernels on a remote system. No need to call your colocation host and ask for a manual reboot! Again, there are projects being developed to reduce the imit time for Linux. On such systems, the relative speed of this approach wil be significant. And, yes, 150 seconds can be a lot of time to wait for a reboot.
It's not just Linux that forms a good alternative to Windows. OPenBSD was built to be a secure OS. Where lives are involved, there is good reason to go the extra mile to use an OS which, though less convenient, has proven to be more reliable. In the current era, with all these worms, Microsoft just isn't the best alternative. On the other hand, all they needed to do was use http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com and enable Windows' built-in firewall software. Worm and Virus writers should be made to know that they are accountable when their creations do what they were (mis)designed to do "take over systems, disable them, disrupt networks?" How do you actually catch the original author of a worm, anyway?
LARGEST, perhaps, but not necessarily the FASTEST!
Yes, but the ordinary, non-scientific people who these reconstructions are supposed to impress are hardly going to make any discoveries about the past that they couldn't have made by studying books about the original monument!
I'm not very much into 'scientific' promotion that aim to interest people in the past. Let's talk about how we can change things, make things better. Let's talk about the science in invention and innovation! Let's work on tchnologies that make the future better!
______ my homepage
See here, the story has been out for some time. It would be nice if production companies could be structures for innovations such as this to become immediately useful. As things are, this is not the case.
Since most of us on this site like "open" and "freedom" so much, the Salon article about Open Source Fiction might be interesting reading.
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coming soon: geek hangout at this url
By the time I was about to choose a web host for my site, the RedHat 9 end-of-life issue was already known and they offered Fedora (not RedHat 9.0) as the main OS. I strive to configure my systems in such a way that I can freely upgrade to the latest packages without worrying that anything would break.
___________
naija geek
What do companies do when they have products which, though not being best of breed, require huge and increasingly unjustifiable Research and Development funds? They go Open Source! (no, I am not naming names... sap db netscape interbase ...
And the name is owned by one man. Linus Torvalds.
Yes, and the Longhorn-related APIs will widely used, and more difficult to replicate, like SWF currently is.