so, by buying more, cheaper servers, you're increasing your crash-likelihood
You have a weird theory... Did you know that multiple servers serving the same service through round robin DNS only need trivial configuration to become downtime free, by detecting with heartbeat or something like that when they are down.
So, by having multiple servers, its not like "one goes down were fscked", its more like "one goes down, the others hold 'til we fix it". Yes, its going to be a bit slower while the other server is up again (unless you have enough margin on your server farm capacities), but its it going to hold the load. That is not possible with one big server, that also costs MUCH more.
In any way the war on irak and the afterwards apropriation of their oil resources is interfering in their business. OMFG, i forgot you were saving all the poor iraki people!! It's also interesting to note the way people justify terrorists' motives. We interfere with everybody! Yeah, that means it's okay to blow people up.
You people seem to forget that the no.1 people blower in the world is the USA, i meen, 9/11 was bad, but a mere few thousand people is nothing compared to the massive homicide in Irak, Kosovo, etc. Oh wait but theres a justification: women in irak have their faces covered (!!!) lets go get this sons of bitches!!!!!
WAKE UP!
This idea is not like an optical telescope (kinda Hubble) that can take neat pictures. Its an effect that amplifies the radio emissions of a quasar or any other source of these which pass through the gas clouds so they can be more easily read here on earth. BTW, you could RTFA which is very short, I promise.
Yes, in fact in spanish "libre" is like "free" in english, it has two senses: It can be free "as in beer" (gratis, gratuit) or "free as in freedom" (libre). In spanish we say "codigo libre" (free code) for what you understand as "open source". It can also be "codigo abierto" (open code), but we tend to use "libre" instead.
They removed almost every part of water in the oil to avoid problems (yes, a bit can be dissolved into oil) They could have used mineral oil wich is less acid and would have worked well. The thing about HDs is like this: they *were* vacuum closed in the beginning, but in some really dry and heat condition (texas, etc) they kinda explosed. So they started putting some small valves on them to avoid this: so the oil goes in.
because it was easier to me to install the vanilla kernel on debian woody in a P166-mmx with tons of ISA stuff and if im using fluxbox instead of kde, i dont need any kernel sources nor packages wasting space on my hd. I will just apt-get everything: if it works, why change it?
yeah but its a fact that most windows users dont read slashdot nor blogs nor forums. The average joe user uses [insert instant messagin system], email and looks for stuff on the web sometimes... I mean if I look around on my family which is pretty computer-ized (almost all using win) they rarely get posted on the web and they never say anything about windows... And ive got 7 uncles! I know its ONE case but think of your own examples.You might as well be surprised.
Hellloo-oo! You don't get it?
*nixes use slashes, *ndows use backslashes...
We are on slashdot here...
Over there at www.backslashdot.org they let you say "Windows is better than linux"
( \.) Backslashdot!
"Patches every week. Stuff that crashes"
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what i find great about mandrake is that its the newbie dist: if i was told i had to select kernel modules in the installation of linux i would say "wtf is this mi BSODs rox0rs".. I started with mandrake and after trying a few others i moved to debian. And its definitely better than mandrake... Everything works!! So it gives a big hand to the community by letting new users approach linux.. Another reason for Linux having zillion more users than any *bsd
The only thing about urpmi is that it doesnt work at all... Nothing to do with apt-get, im sorry but on mandrake i couldnt install anything directly from the net by using "software manager" (gui for urpmi) since when the dependencies went over 3 it would just give away errors... Imagine, i ended up using red carpet... Sheesh, do you realize how good apt-get is? It just *works*
The thing is, GPG is not yet on real standards with MIME types, there are different ones like rfc 2440 (evolution) and rfc 3156, the second one sends the signature as an attachment. Then signatures get rejected by different email clients. IMHO, this sucks "the good thin on standards is the are so many to choose from"
I send email to myself to check how GPG works on different MUA's, if they can check signs etc By now i got the conclusion that Sylpheed and Evolution dont sign the same way. Whatever, its useful
Its like on IRC trivias... The question says: "whats the command to quit on irc" and then suddenly the channel goes almost empty./quit, sheesh
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A week ago ive installed Debian Woody on a P166 with 64 RAM. I agree its not a 286 (ive had one), a 386 (ive also had one) nor a 486 (mi P166 used to be one). But you say "blackbox" like a bunch of crap. Im running fluxbox on xfree 4.1 and its smoother than windows 95. Ive found tons of programas that are really lightweight and run as fast as kde 3 does on a PIV. Im not using knoqueror but xnc or gentoo (theres a x file manager with this name), not the gimp but feh o gqview (i could also run gimp anyway). A true oldie that was about to become a router is now a useful desktop. With idesk it even looks beautiful. Im using phoenix for browsing, it takes a little to load but once loaded its pretty fast. You can always use old pcs if you dont stick to KDE/Gnome (IMHO), and dont need high computing power like for 3d stuff or intensive compiling.
starcraft was as fine in win as in linux for me I ran it on a spare x server about the 8 hours thing, read the parents, he really means "it didnt, in any way, take 8 hours, just a smidge..."
The site recommends an article from tom ligon on Analog magazine, which talks about "the simplest fusion reactor". Since all you slashdot readers are kinda lazy here is the google cache for the article: link Its pretty nice, since the tripod page linked on the site is not/.ed but over free bandwidth.
I think many of you are the same who post "linux better than windows on desktop" and all that stuff. Have you ever thought that about ALL the people that gets started with linux does it with mandrake linux? Because it's easy. This is the only corporation that really helps the linux community. Many of you certainly would have tried linux if your linux buddy told you "yes, try debian, i can't guarantee it'll work if you don't know all the crappy commands but, whatever, they're a non-profit corp!". Yeah sure, Mandrake is giving away for free a great product for beginners or simply for all those who want linux but don't really care about configs and servers and all the command line thing. Personally I started with mandrake. I guess i could have started with redhat too, since i had quite an idea on how it works. But many of the REAL beginners would never try linux if not because there's this easy distribution. I certainly can install and get to work slackware, debian, gentoo and many more, but the new users in the community come from Mandrake. Not for any of the "hard" distros. Realize it: if linux has grown so much it's a LOT because of Mandrake. So don't act as an idiot, if you won't give away your money, that's cool, but let the others think without all your stupid "ugly distro" shit. IMHO, of course.
There was a project here in Argentina named Pampa 1 that looked like a funny red & yellow spaceship set on hydraulic pistons. The effect was really cool and there was a screen outside so you could see what it was like inside and want to get on it. It's 5-6 years old by now, it was pretty well done and they were in front of many shopping malls.
I agree no book is as good as experience... But, you know, i was glad to set up XFree on a slackware AFTER i had been around with mandrake/redhat for a while. At the beginning i hardly could do much more than ls... I dont think its a good beginning. (IMHO)
I was reading about these ants on a math magazine a few weeks ago... I find it extremely interesting, and would like to know if the source code of the algorithm is GPLd (or any license that lets me see the code). Anyone has an idea?
and what if I want to LAN party with my friend in Australia? With all the airport and stuff, that would take more time... I prefer sticking to my good ole' 7200 rpm disk where an unpowered week would only loose my BIOS memory...
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so, by buying more, cheaper servers, you're increasing your crash-likelihood
You have a weird theory... Did you know that multiple servers serving the same service through round robin DNS only need trivial configuration to become downtime free, by detecting with heartbeat or something like that when they are down.
So, by having multiple servers, its not like "one goes down were fscked", its more like "one goes down, the others hold 'til we fix it". Yes, its going to be a bit slower while the other server is up again (unless you have enough margin on your server farm capacities), but its it going to hold the load. That is not possible with one big server, that also costs MUCH more.
In any way the war on irak and the afterwards apropriation of their oil resources is interfering in their business. OMFG, i forgot you were saving all the poor iraki people!!
It's also interesting to note the way people justify terrorists' motives. We interfere with everybody! Yeah, that means it's okay to blow people up.
You people seem to forget that the no.1 people blower in the world is the USA, i meen, 9/11 was bad, but a mere few thousand people is nothing compared to the massive homicide in Irak, Kosovo, etc. Oh wait but theres a justification: women in irak have their faces covered (!!!) lets go get this sons of bitches!!!!!
WAKE UP!
This idea is not like an optical telescope (kinda Hubble) that can take neat pictures.
Its an effect that amplifies the radio emissions of a quasar or any other source of these which pass through the gas clouds so they can be more easily read here on earth.
BTW, you could RTFA which is very short, I promise.
Yes, in fact in spanish "libre" is like "free" in english, it has two senses: It can be free "as in beer" (gratis, gratuit) or "free as in freedom" (libre).
In spanish we say "codigo libre" (free code) for what you understand as "open source". It can also be "codigo abierto" (open code), but we tend to use "libre" instead.
They removed almost every part of water in the oil to avoid problems (yes, a bit can be dissolved into oil)
They could have used mineral oil wich is less acid and would have worked well.
The thing about HDs is like this: they *were* vacuum closed in the beginning, but in some really dry and heat condition (texas, etc) they kinda explosed. So they started putting some small valves on them to avoid this: so the oil goes in.
because it was easier to me to install the vanilla kernel on debian woody in a P166-mmx with tons of ISA stuff and if im using fluxbox instead of kde, i dont need any kernel sources nor packages wasting space on my hd. I will just apt-get everything: if it works, why change it?
yeah but its a fact that most windows users dont read slashdot nor blogs nor forums.
The average joe user uses [insert instant messagin system], email and looks for stuff on the web sometimes...
I mean if I look around on my family which is pretty computer-ized (almost all using win) they rarely get posted on the web and they never say anything about windows... And ive got 7 uncles!
I know its ONE case but think of your own examples.You might as well be surprised.
Hellloo-oo! You don't get it?
*nixes use slashes, *ndows use backslashes... We are on slashdot here...
Over there at www.backslashdot.org they let you say "Windows is better than linux"
( \.) Backslashdot!
"Patches every week. Stuff that crashes"
-- BEGIN MODERATOR ADVISE --
plz try to get the fine sense of humour used here before modding as flame, thx
-- END MODERATOR ADVISE
what i find great about mandrake is that its the newbie dist: if i was told i had to select kernel modules in the installation of linux i would say "wtf is this mi BSODs rox0rs".. I started with mandrake and after trying a few others i moved to debian. And its definitely better than mandrake... Everything works!!
So it gives a big hand to the community by letting new users approach linux.. Another reason for Linux having zillion more users than any *bsd
The only thing about urpmi is that it doesnt work at all... Nothing to do with apt-get, im sorry but on mandrake i couldnt install anything directly from the net by using "software manager" (gui for urpmi) since when the dependencies went over 3 it would just give away errors...
Imagine, i ended up using red carpet...
Sheesh, do you realize how good apt-get is? It just *works*
YOU KILLED DOLLY! YOU BASTARD!
(this text included to avoid "dont use so many caps its like yelling" filter. Yelling, right, thats the idea)
The thing is, GPG is not yet on real standards with MIME types, there are different ones like rfc 2440 (evolution) and rfc 3156, the second one sends the signature as an attachment.
Then signatures get rejected by different email clients.
IMHO, this sucks
"the good thin on standards is the are so many to choose from"
Would a moderator please say *why* this is offtopic?
I find email address spoofing pretty much on topic
I send email to myself to check how GPG works on different MUA's, if they can check signs etc
By now i got the conclusion that Sylpheed and Evolution dont sign the same way.
Whatever, its useful
Its like on IRC trivias... /quit, sheesh
The question says: "whats the command to quit on irc" and then suddenly the channel goes almost empty.
A week ago ive installed Debian Woody on a P166 with 64 RAM. I agree its not a 286 (ive had one), a 386 (ive also had one) nor a 486 (mi P166 used to be one).
But you say "blackbox" like a bunch of crap. Im running fluxbox on xfree 4.1 and its smoother than windows 95. Ive found tons of programas that are really lightweight and run as fast as kde 3 does on a PIV. Im not using knoqueror but xnc or gentoo (theres a x file manager with this name), not the gimp but feh o gqview (i could also run gimp anyway).
A true oldie that was about to become a router is now a useful desktop. With idesk it even looks beautiful.
Im using phoenix for browsing, it takes a little to load but once loaded its pretty fast.
You can always use old pcs if you dont stick to KDE/Gnome (IMHO), and dont need high computing power like for 3d stuff or intensive compiling.
how would the kernel devs steal code from a closed source app?
starcraft was as fine in win as in linux for me
I ran it on a spare x server
about the 8 hours thing, read the parents, he really means "it didnt, in any way, take 8 hours, just a smidge..."
The site recommends an article from tom ligon on Analog magazine, which talks about "the simplest fusion reactor". /.ed but over free bandwidth.
Since all you slashdot readers are kinda lazy here is the google cache for the article:
link
Its pretty nice, since the tripod page linked on the site is not
I think many of you are the same who post "linux better than windows on desktop" and all that stuff.
Have you ever thought that about ALL the people that gets started with linux does it with mandrake linux?
Because it's easy.
This is the only corporation that really helps the linux community. Many of you certainly would have tried linux if your linux buddy told you "yes, try debian, i can't guarantee it'll work if you don't know all the crappy commands but, whatever, they're a non-profit corp!".
Yeah sure, Mandrake is giving away for free a great product for beginners or simply for all those who want linux but don't really care about configs and servers and all the command line thing.
Personally I started with mandrake. I guess i could have started with redhat too, since i had quite an idea on how it works. But many of the REAL beginners would never try linux if not because there's this easy distribution.
I certainly can install and get to work slackware, debian, gentoo and many more, but the new users in the community come from Mandrake. Not for any of the "hard" distros.
Realize it: if linux has grown so much it's a LOT because of Mandrake. So don't act as an idiot, if you won't give away your money, that's cool, but let the others think without all your stupid "ugly distro" shit.
IMHO, of course.
There was a project here in Argentina named Pampa 1 that looked like a funny red & yellow spaceship set on hydraulic pistons. The effect was really cool and there was a screen outside so you could see what it was like inside and want to get on it.
It's 5-6 years old by now, it was pretty well done and they were in front of many shopping malls.
I agree no book is as good as experience... But, you know, i was glad to set up XFree on a slackware AFTER i had been around with mandrake/redhat for a while.
At the beginning i hardly could do much more than ls... I dont think its a good beginning. (IMHO)
I was just wondering when was the last time you saw KDE?
My KDE desktop is MUCH nicer than my windows one.I'll get you a screenshot if you want me to!
- My english is sow-sow
I was reading about these ants on a math magazine a few weeks ago...
I find it extremely interesting, and would like to know if the source code of the algorithm is GPLd (or any license that lets me see the code).
Anyone has an idea?
and what if I want to LAN party with my friend in Australia? With all the airport and stuff, that would take more time...
I prefer sticking to my good ole' 7200 rpm disk where an unpowered week would only loose my BIOS memory...