Here's a little gotcha on a default Linux install.
If you master DVDs then the tmp partition should be at least 5G. Well it doesnt HAVE to be, but you have to know where those temporary DVD ISOs are written to. (which is surely what/tmp is for) Last I looked, K3B fails quietly if there is not enough space in/tmp.
Of course you could put the files somewhere else - but then that is just a/tmp with a different name. (Alternatively do everything on the fly of course)
Get you own domain if you want prestige and NO lock in to email provider OR isp. And its cheaper than you think if you do the research. The just use email forwarding or POP as required.
I'm in the process of extricating myself from bigfoot after about 8 years because
1. They started charging
2. Their prices are just not competative compared to the features I get bundled with my own domain.
3. I personally feel there is something unethical about email providers charging more for the ability to recieve more messages and then charging more for anti-spam facilities! I say f**k-em and good-bye bigfoot.
Good companies in the UK are www.123-reg.co.uk, www.nameroute.co.uk (US presense www.nameroute.com). Plenty of good US hosting companies too!
Especially as most GNU / GPL / Open/BSD stuff runs on *NIX anyway (often even before it ran on Linux)
In the corporate server market savings on Linux are minimal compared to Sun etc because of two things:
1. Server quality x86 boxes for hosting business critical applications can cost as much as Sun / HP Boxes. So no real hardware savings that justify the "risk".
2. Most companies do not have/dedicated/ Linux admin support skills and need to outsource some degree of support in order to provide that support level themselves. So no real support savings.
3. In some environments a lot of applications (that you may in turn be depending on) are supported on recent flavours of Unix but only on a particular Linux Distro ( and usually an old one given Linux release cycles) say Redhat 7.2. I suspect this is changing (especially as Linux distros are EOLing their releases a lot faster) but companies may not see potential ROI in testing against recent (not latest) releases of every major distro.
So whilst it may be good to have at home, or even in the Web Farm (where all required apps required are often better supported on Linux) there is still a lot of demand of *NIX - and in turn a lot of integration work with APIs of applications best supported (by their vendors) on *NIX.
Also the cowards argument - If the target platforn is *NIX, no one gets sacked for choosing Solaris. If it goes pear shaped it wasnt your fault:)
I like one of the adds displayed when I went there
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Huh? You can write recursive functions that dont go "up or down". Just call themselves. Granted you will get a stack overflow before anything happens but its still recursion.
Also interesting how you used "iterate" TWICE to describe recursion?????
By your broken login.. given...
fobar(x) { if (x > 0) { call fobar(x-1); } else { say "banana"; } }
fobar(10) is recursive but fobar(-10) isnt just
because its infinite (or stack dumps / Dr Watsons)
Two monitors gives much more space per buck.
Eg Two 17s gives as much real estate as a 24" monitor.
sqrt ( 17^2 * 2 ) = 17*sqrt(2) = 24.04
If your resourceful you can usually get 17" CRTs
for free (or next to nothing).
Of course 2 TFTs is much nicer.
And the shape of two monitors side by side is often more practical for typical windowed desktops.
I read somewhere that the brain amplifies threatening or unusual noise at attenuates
sounds that if is comfortable and familiar with.
Thats why a noisy PC seems to become increasingly annoying whilst at other times you forget its there.
Besides, I used to work in another area that banned cell phones because they were concerned that the fumes from 2000 gallon tanks of boiling solvent might get ignited. After a few demonstration videos of small scale going ka-boom
A number of Japanese discs include English subtitles.
Have you ever tried reading English titles on Japanese DVDs! They never seem to be proofed by anyone with good English. Maybe proofreading subtitles is the equivalent of flipping burgers in the world of bi-lingual folk...
Anybody here ever heard of the Malayan Monkey Trap? It's a hollow log with a hole cut in it to the precise diameter of a monkey's empty hand. Next place a piece of fruit in the log. The first monkey to come along, will reach in and grab the fruit. The monkey being a monkey will die before letting go of that fruit. The hunter can now liesurly walk up to mister monkey and pack his ass into a nice little tote bag.
Not criticism the previous poster, I found this interesting. Can anyone point to authoratative documentary evidence of this. I've googled for "Monkey Trap Fruit" and the tellings are all slightly different and almost anecdotal.
I submitted this 24 hours before it got listed, before any of the news sites had it,
I was finally going to get an interesting/. type story up before it had broke...
and it got rejected.
It was in neutral language and I kept it short and sweet. I want my glory. I want my 15 minutes? Who rejected me ? I want to know why dammit why [sniff] What do I have to do [bwah ha].
I resorted to posting it off-topic in another thread because I was so - ahem - excited.
PS. Please dont hurt my karma. Unless you really want to - you bad boy you...
I submitted it as a story (in neutral language) a full 6 hours before another was approved, and it was rejected. (grouse grouse)
So I hooked it on here because I thought/. readers might be interested, . (as you can see by the number of comments on the official thread).
I found it (on news:uk.comp.vendors) before it appeared on any common news sites, so
I though it would be a good oppertunity for/. to get in there first.
It was originally modded off-topic fwiw!
I think the situation has changed a bit in the last five years although when I meet people from the US over here they always seemed shocked by the penetration of mobiles in the UK population.
The current dilemma is what age youngsters should have a mobile phone at. (Some potential child abductions have been foiled by either a call or triangulation)
However, part of the US network's problems were due to Americans being used to free local landline calls and generally being a more demanding bunch when people try to charge them more for stuff.
(A quality previously lacking in the UK but thankfully on the rise)
Hence teenage girls having their own lines in their bedrooms etc. The idea of making a call and being charged for it was almost unmarketable. But they had to charge someone, and started off charging the recipient! Which meant most people simply switched off their phones....
Also the initial lack of inter-operability between competing networks was a big issue.
By all reports things are much better now, and one day they wont have to be embarrased and surprised at being "behind" the UK anymore:)
For instance, Blunkett wants ID cards, and it is his dying wish to force them upon us (and in anther audacious slap in the face to the British people, charge everyone 40 to buy their ID card).
The Conservatives, in large, do not support this mass scale monitoring, or at least don't shout for it with quite so much vigour.
Remember opposing parties hate to publically agree unless disagreeing makes them look really stupid. Whenever government changes hands you rarely see laws being repealled that the ruling party opposed when they were in opposition.
The point is that parents have the responsibility of monitoring their children and their children's actions.
That's what seperates the good parents from the bad parents.
Agreed, in part.
I think good parents should also equip their children to deal with things they may encounter in life.
It is a process of "gradual revelation". I would definitely censor/monitor an 8 year old, but by the age of 15 I think the horse has well and truly bolted. At this stage/age I think a good parent should just be as honest as possible.
Our 15 year olds access to porn or "faces of death" is not as important as their reaction to it.
Lets face it some porn looks damn healthy and all parties are enjoying themselves, and some is clearly abusive. And for many our outlook on porn can put us in a potentially hypocritical position. Conversely it is important to remember that many 15 year olds are physically mature but mentally immature.
I remember a visit to Paris where they screened adult themed films (not porn) on big screens in the park whilst children would run around playing,
I (being a Londoner) and my companion (From US) both had pre-teen children with us and we quickly left the park! But then I got to thinking, not all French are metally traumatised weirdos are they? (running.. ducking) so maybe children have a greater capacity for dealing with this stuff than we imagine, but they may be less able to deal with (some of ) our hypocrasy or this could reflect our inability to communicate our values to them??
Still, my pr0n is firmly out of reach at the moment:)
Also UK has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy. I'm not sure how this fits in but it does somewhere!
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Like most *Nix apps. You can tell K3B to put temporary files anywhere. Just so happens I think /tmp is a good place for this!
Of course you could put the files somewhere else - but then that is just a /tmp with a different name. (Alternatively do everything on the fly of course)
Get you own domain if you want prestige and NO lock in to email provider OR isp. And its cheaper than you think if you do the research. The just use email forwarding or POP as required.
I'm in the process of extricating myself from bigfoot after about 8 years because
1. They started charging
2. Their prices are just not competative compared to the features I get bundled with my own domain.
3. I personally feel there is something unethical about email providers charging more for the ability to recieve more messages and then charging more for anti-spam facilities! I say f**k-em and good-bye bigfoot.
Good companies in the UK are www.123-reg.co.uk, www.nameroute.co.uk (US presense www.nameroute.com). Plenty of good US hosting companies too!
In the corporate server market savings on Linux are minimal compared to Sun etc because of two things:
1. Server quality x86 boxes for hosting business critical applications can cost as much as Sun / HP Boxes. So no real hardware savings that justify the "risk".
2. Most companies do not have /dedicated/ Linux admin support skills and need to outsource some degree of support in order to provide that support level themselves. So no real support savings.
3. In some environments a lot of applications (that you may in turn be depending on) are supported on recent flavours of Unix but only on a particular Linux Distro ( and usually an old one given Linux release cycles) say Redhat 7.2. I suspect this is changing (especially as Linux distros are EOLing their releases a lot faster) but companies may not see potential ROI in testing against recent (not latest) releases of every major distro.
So whilst it may be good to have at home, or even in the Web Farm (where all required apps required are often better supported on Linux) there is still a lot of demand of *NIX - and in turn a lot of integration work with APIs of applications best supported (by their vendors) on *NIX.
Also the cowards argument - If the target platforn is *NIX, no one gets sacked for choosing Solaris. If it goes pear shaped it wasnt your fault :)
"Protect computers from scumware, spyware, adware and hackers!
Malice hackers, spyware, scumware and adware invade privacy, crash computers, spew popup ads and worse. To stop these scourges we use and highly recommend PestPatrol and ZoneAlarm."
meant to be if (x = 0 ) but you get the point Just upgraded to Mandrake 10 / 2.6 Kernel / KDE 3.2 Konq is v fast!!
Also interesting how you used "iterate" TWICE to describe recursion?????
By your broken login .. given ...
fobar(10) is recursive but fobar(-10) isnt just because its infinite (or stack dumps / Dr Watsons)
Two monitors gives much more space per buck. Eg Two 17s gives as much real estate as a 24" monitor. sqrt ( 17^2 * 2 ) = 17*sqrt(2) = 24.04 If your resourceful you can usually get 17" CRTs for free (or next to nothing). Of course 2 TFTs is much nicer. And the shape of two monitors side by side is often more practical for typical windowed desktops.
I read somewhere that the brain amplifies threatening or unusual noise at attenuates sounds that if is comfortable and familiar with. Thats why a noisy PC seems to become increasingly annoying whilst at other times you forget its there.
So everyday you go to work you'll be potentially committing a sackable offence just to beat the system.
"Mr Smith, I trust that sound from your pocket is coming from a small sex toy and not a cell phone."
Ah like many pumping stations they have bought in to the old sparking phone Urban Legend
I hope rubber soled shoes were banned prior to cell phones.
Have you ever tried reading English titles on Japanese DVDs! They never seem to be proofed by anyone with good English. Maybe proofreading subtitles is the equivalent of flipping burgers in the world of bi-lingual folk...
Not criticism the previous poster, I found this interesting. Can anyone point to authoratative documentary evidence of this. I've googled for "Monkey Trap Fruit" and the tellings are all slightly different and almost anecdotal.
I submitted this 24 hours before it got listed, before any of the news sites had it, I was finally going to get an interesting /. type story up before it had broke...
and it got rejected.
It was in neutral language and I kept it short and sweet. I want my glory. I want my 15 minutes? Who rejected me ? I want to know why dammit why [sniff] What do I have to do [bwah ha].
I resorted to posting it off-topic in another thread because I was so - ahem - excited.
PS. Please dont hurt my karma. Unless you really want to - you bad boy you...
I submitted it as a story (in neutral language) a full 6 hours before another was approved, and it was rejected. (grouse grouse) So I hooked it on here because I thought /. readers might be interested, . (as you can see by the number of comments on the official thread).
I found it (on news:uk.comp.vendors) before it appeared on any common news sites, so
I though it would be a good oppertunity for /. to get in there first.
It was originally modded off-topic fwiw!
The inquirer have now picked up the story. /. could have had it first but 'twas rejected (grouse grouse)
No this is
Is that 99%air or 99% vacuum/nothing???
Interoperability? Sorry, but your information is either terribly old or just plain terribly inaccurate
Er. Thats why I used the words "initial" and "was". Within the context it was correct AFAIK
I think the situation has changed a bit in the last five years although when I meet people from the US over here they always seemed shocked by the penetration of mobiles in the UK population.
The current dilemma is what age youngsters should have a mobile phone at. (Some potential child abductions have been foiled by either a call or triangulation)
However, part of the US network's problems were due to Americans being used to free local landline calls and generally being a more demanding bunch when people try to charge them more for stuff. (A quality previously lacking in the UK but thankfully on the rise)
Hence teenage girls having their own lines in their bedrooms etc. The idea of making a call and being charged for it was almost unmarketable. But they had to charge someone, and started off charging the recipient! Which meant most people simply switched off their phones....
Also the initial lack of inter-operability between competing networks was a big issue.
By all reports things are much better now, and one day they wont have to be embarrased and surprised at being "behind" the UK anymore :)
Some or all of this post may be inaccurate!
For instance, Blunkett wants ID cards, and it is his dying wish to force them upon us (and in anther audacious slap in the face to the British people, charge everyone 40 to buy their ID card).
The Conservatives, in large, do not support this mass scale monitoring, or at least don't shout for it with quite so much vigour. Remember opposing parties hate to publically agree unless disagreeing makes them look really stupid. Whenever government changes hands you rarely see laws being repealled that the ruling party opposed when they were in opposition.
Talk in terms of ROI, TCO and other clear business benefits, otherwise they wont care.
In most countries sex/adult related laws have "anomalies". State your country and we'll list them for you...
Agreed, in part. I think good parents should also equip their children to deal with things they may encounter in life.
It is a process of "gradual revelation". I would definitely censor/monitor an 8 year old, but by the age of 15 I think the horse has well and truly bolted. At this stage/age I think a good parent should just be as honest as possible.
Our 15 year olds access to porn or "faces of death" is not as important as their reaction to it.
Lets face it some porn looks damn healthy and all parties are enjoying themselves, and some is clearly abusive. And for many our outlook on porn can put us in a potentially hypocritical position. Conversely it is important to remember that many 15 year olds are physically mature but mentally immature.
I remember a visit to Paris where they screened adult themed films (not porn) on big screens in the park whilst children would run around playing, I (being a Londoner) and my companion (From US) both had pre-teen children with us and we quickly left the park! But then I got to thinking, not all French are metally traumatised weirdos are they? (running .. ducking) so maybe children have a greater capacity for dealing with this stuff than we imagine, but they may be less able to deal with (some of ) our hypocrasy or this could reflect our inability to communicate our values to them??
Still, my pr0n is firmly out of reach at the moment :)
Also UK has one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy. I'm not sure how this fits in but it does somewhere!