It took 2.5 hours to evacuate the towers when the first bombing happened several years ago. There is no way they got even half the people out in 30 minutes, I'm afraid to say:(
Not to mention the brave firefighters actually going into the building to help others get out.
Amen brother. If they don't step in and fix this situation very soon, they are gonna lose *WAY* more than two grand. It only takes purchases (or lack thereof) of one or two customers for Adobe to lose money.
Show some good will Adobe. Pay the lawyers yourself. Earn back some of the respect you have already lost.
Agreed. The new format sucks... bad. I really really hope they restore the old threaded format. As others have mentioned, it wasn't the best or fastest way to follow a thread, but it was significantly better than the flat-mode they have now. I used to use Deja on a daily basis to get work done...now I can't. Ugh!
Another (bad) aspect to Access is it's 1GB filesize limit. Thats not very useful for big projects. I'm quite sure PostgreSQL can grow to be much much larger than that.
You have made a wonderful script Manuka, thanks for your hard work! I have made a quick security guide for my local users group, and this script is a big part of it.
I did my own benchmarking a while back using PostgreSQL 6.5 and Access 2000. The table structures and data were identical, each table had identical indexes on it and everything.
PostgreSQL 6.5 was about 10-15% slower than Access 2000. Not to mention it was even on a faster box with a lot more memory (K6-266 w/256MB Linux vs. P233 w/64MB Windows 2000).
Now, I love PostgreSQL... its got lots of features and is truely Open Source. But you shouldn't be using it if speed is your utmost concern.
Of course, maybe version 7.0 _is_ that much better...who knows.
Inti looks strikingly similiar to QT with its use of Slots/Signals. I don't think RedHat will ever be happy until QT and the whole KDE project is dead, and that is a shame. The licensing issue isn't really a factor anymore, it has been declared "open source" by the powers that be. Now it seems RedHat is more interested in saving face.
For an object oriented framework class library, QT is pretty darn nice. Not just in theory, but in actuallity (see KDE 2.0 beta). Its had several years to mature as well, whereas Inti is brand new and will undoubtedly go thru all the same growing pains.
At any rate...I find it hard to get excited about yet another framework (Inti) when there is a perfectly acceptable and mature one available (QT).
This is exactly what happened to me. As soon as Q3A for Linux was released, I was all over it. Unfortunately, my Linux box is just a bit underpowered to play it, so I'm kinda stuck until I can get a new system.
A lot of Linux users have underpowered systems simply because you can run Linux very respectibly on them. Windows 2000 users are going to always have to have the latest hardware, therefore its not an issue to them. Compounding the problem is that the Linux version of Q3A was benchmarked to be about 10-15% slower then the Windows version.
Some people have commented on the fact that the game was hard to setup and run. I found the Q3A betas very hard to keep from SIG11'ing, but the final gold version was pretty stable for me.
At any rate, I'm hanging onto this CD. It won't be long before I get a new Athlon and life will be good again : )
...and now we have the baby-Bill's. Any bets to see how long it takes before Microsoft East puts out a Linux version of Office? Or for that matter, before Microsoft West includes drivers for Windows that can read ext2fs partitions natively?
Breaking up Microsoft into two companies may not be the perfect way to handle the situation, but I have a feeling that, individually, they might start being more friendly towards Linux/OSS. And that would be a Good Thing(TM).
Thats a great letter, I also wrote on myself. However I couldn't easily find the authors email address, so I just sent it to webmaster@washingtonpost.com
Could you please post the authors email address so that I can send my message to him directly (to be sure he gets it;)
Hmm...nice to have you aboard. Apparently you are new here however. I think there is general concensus here and on the Internet in general that Microsoft has "innovated" exactly two things:
1. the dancing Paperclip 2. the squiggly underline
This has been debated over and over, and like it or not, its the truth. If you know of any others, please bring them forth (but they will be shot down as either a ripoff of someone elses work, or aquired by means of a buyout.) On a personal note, I come from much the same background as yourself. Worked with Microsoft products since DOS 3.x and on thru Windows 3.0, 3.1, Windows 95, NT, and on and on. Created applications with C++, VB, Access, SQL Server, etc etc.
Fortunately for me however, I gave Linux a serious look one day and started using it for everything I did. Back then that was quite an undertaking considing there were far fewer applications to choose from. But you know what? That was the best decision I ever made! Next to Windows, Linux is _pure_ bliss. No crashing, no silly shareware click-thru's, no assinine registry, no need for WaReZ (can you honestly say that about Windows? really?)... its all good!
So, without a doubt, please give Linux a try if you haven't already. And be prepared to be blown away!
I don't know who is in charge of PR over there in Redmond, but I strongly suggest letting this one slide. Its not worth fighting and ticking off hords of/. readers... including MCSE's (like myself) who also use and love Linux. Face it, you got called on your bluff of actually opening up "standards" and now you are showing your true colors.
Anyway, Rob, just send them a big bowl of Hot Grits!Mikey likes it, I think Bill would too...
In his day, the incredible MEEPT always made me laugh. He was one of the first trolls on/. but his posts were always classic. I think he's still around, but doesn't post nearly as often... which is a shame.
up2date is a nifty RedHat program that looks for updated RPM files available on ftp.redhat.com (or priority.redhat.com if you have paid for that service). It compares what you have installed with whats available, and then gives you a list of RPMs to pick from. Works much like http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ actually. Although not quite as easy use, there are certainly numerous other advantages (pgp signing of RPMs, don't have to reboot, etc etc).
I actually just got it to work with ftp.redhat.com for the first time *yesterday* because its always busy. But when I finally got in, it worked pretty well. Got the new Netscape 4.72 release and some other security updates as well.
up2date is new with version 6.1 of RedHat I believe.
Great, I was 420MB into my RedHat 6.2 download...and then metalab.unc.edu decided to kick everyone off and do this...
d-w------- 7 root bin 512 Mar 26 02:13 redhat-6.2/
Arg! Whats going on here, why is there a big coverup? Its rude to nuke sessions that have already been started like mine was. It looked to me like a full mirror was already done, there were no missing files at 8:00am when I started AFAIK.
Slashdot Mirror
Instead of having 2000 programs that do only very specific things, have 1 program that can do everything. Think Microsoft Word for instance...
QED.
post those mirrors people! i don't want to login to no stickin' web page...
It took 2.5 hours to evacuate the towers when the first bombing happened several years ago. There is no way they got even half the people out in 30 minutes, I'm afraid to say :(
Not to mention the brave firefighters actually going into the building to help others get out.
Q. Will you buy a chip that hides its Mhz rating?
A. Even as a current AMD Athlon owner, I wouldn't. Not even close. This has got to be the stupidist idea ever.
Amen brother. If they don't step in and fix this situation very soon, they are gonna lose *WAY* more than two grand. It only takes purchases (or lack thereof) of one or two customers for Adobe to lose money.
Show some good will Adobe. Pay the lawyers yourself. Earn back some of the respect you have already lost.
Where are you finding these VMware beta releases? I'd like to try them out (RedHat 7.1 host)
Wait, I thought /usr was the prefered install path for KDE in the LSB ?!?
Agreed. The new format sucks ... bad. I really really hope they restore the old threaded format. As others have mentioned, it wasn't the best or fastest way to follow a thread, but it was significantly better than the flat-mode they have now. I used to use Deja on a daily basis to get work done...now I can't. Ugh!
Don't forget that this same arguement swings both ways. I live in Maine, and a vote for Bush just about anywhere in New England is worth squat.
But even tho "my guy" won the race, I still think the electoral vote idea is antiquated and should be replaced by pure popular vote.
I thought there were an exstimated 160 billion galaxies, not millions of billions?
You will need the latest copy of RealPlayer to play the DnD video link above. Heres the link to save you time.
http://scopes.real.co m/real/player/unix/unix.html?src=rpbform
Another (bad) aspect to Access is it's 1GB filesize limit. Thats not very useful for big projects. I'm quite sure PostgreSQL can grow to be much much larger than that.
You have made a wonderful script Manuka, thanks for your hard work! I have made a quick security guide for my local users group, and this script is a big part of it.
http://usmcug.usm.main e.edu/papers/linux_security_guide.html
I did my own benchmarking a while back using PostgreSQL 6.5 and Access 2000. The table structures and data were identical, each table had identical indexes on it and everything.
... its got lots of features and is truely Open Source. But you shouldn't be using it if speed is your utmost concern.
PostgreSQL 6.5 was about 10-15% slower than Access 2000. Not to mention it was even on a faster box with a lot more memory (K6-266 w/256MB Linux vs. P233 w/64MB Windows 2000).
Now, I love PostgreSQL
Of course, maybe version 7.0 _is_ that much better...who knows.
Inti looks strikingly similiar to QT with its use of Slots/Signals. I don't think RedHat will ever be happy until QT and the whole KDE project is dead, and that is a shame. The licensing issue isn't really a factor anymore, it has been declared "open source" by the powers that be. Now it seems RedHat is more interested in saving face.
For an object oriented framework class library, QT is pretty darn nice. Not just in theory, but in actuallity (see KDE 2.0 beta). Its had several years to mature as well, whereas Inti is brand new and will undoubtedly go thru all the same growing pains.
At any rate...I find it hard to get excited about yet another framework (Inti) when there is a perfectly acceptable and mature one available (QT).
This is exactly what happened to me. As soon as Q3A for Linux was released, I was all over it. Unfortunately, my Linux box is just a bit underpowered to play it, so I'm kinda stuck until I can get a new system.
A lot of Linux users have underpowered systems simply because you can run Linux very respectibly on them. Windows 2000 users are going to always have to have the latest hardware, therefore its not an issue to them. Compounding the problem is that the Linux version of Q3A was benchmarked to be about 10-15% slower then the Windows version.
Some people have commented on the fact that the game was hard to setup and run. I found the Q3A betas very hard to keep from SIG11'ing, but the final gold version was pretty stable for me.
At any rate, I'm hanging onto this CD. It won't be long before I get a new Athlon and life will be good again : )
Can anyone tell if OpenSSH is part of the standard install now? Licensing issues resolved, etc etc ... ?
... has been renamed to "Internet Acceleration and Security Server".
...
OMG, thats fscking lame! How about "Internet Deacceleration and Insecurity Server"? St00pid Micro$oft
The Bill is dead.
...and now we have the baby-Bill's. Any bets to see how long it takes before Microsoft East puts out a Linux version of Office? Or for that matter, before Microsoft West includes drivers for Windows that can read ext2fs partitions natively?
Breaking up Microsoft into two companies may not be the perfect way to handle the situation, but I have a feeling that, individually, they might start being more friendly towards Linux/OSS. And that would be a Good Thing(TM).
Thats a great letter, I also wrote on myself. However I couldn't easily find the authors email address, so I just sent it to webmaster@washingtonpost.com
;)
Could you please post the authors email address so that I can send my message to him directly (to be sure he gets it
Thanks!
Hmm...nice to have you aboard. Apparently you are new here however. I think there is general concensus here and on the Internet in general that Microsoft has "innovated" exactly two things:
... its all good!
1. the dancing Paperclip
2. the squiggly underline
This has been debated over and over, and like it or not, its the truth. If you know of any others, please bring them forth (but they will be shot down as either a ripoff of someone elses work, or aquired by means of a buyout.) On a personal note, I come from much the same background as yourself. Worked with Microsoft products since DOS 3.x and on thru Windows 3.0, 3.1, Windows 95, NT, and on and on. Created applications with C++, VB, Access, SQL Server, etc etc.
Fortunately for me however, I gave Linux a serious look one day and started using it for everything I did. Back then that was quite an undertaking considing there were far fewer applications to choose from. But you know what? That was the best decision I ever made! Next to Windows, Linux is _pure_ bliss. No crashing, no silly shareware click-thru's, no assinine registry, no need for WaReZ (can you honestly say that about Windows? really?)
So, without a doubt, please give Linux a try if you haven't already. And be prepared to be blown away!
I don't know who is in charge of PR over there in Redmond, but I strongly suggest letting this one slide. Its not worth fighting and ticking off hords of /. readers ... including MCSE's (like myself) who also use and love Linux. Face it, you got called on your bluff of actually opening up "standards" and now you are showing your true colors.
...
Anyway, Rob, just send them a big bowl of Hot Grits! Mikey likes it, I think Bill would too
In his day, the incredible MEEPT always made me laugh. He was one of the first trolls on /. but his posts were always classic. I think he's still around, but doesn't post nearly as often ... which is a shame.
up2date is a nifty RedHat program that looks for updated RPM files available on ftp.redhat.com (or priority.redhat.com if you have paid for that service). It compares what you have installed with whats available, and then gives you a list of RPMs to pick from. Works much like http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/ actually. Although not quite as easy use, there are certainly numerous other advantages (pgp signing of RPMs, don't have to reboot, etc etc).
I actually just got it to work with ftp.redhat.com for the first time *yesterday* because its always busy. But when I finally got in, it worked pretty well. Got the new Netscape 4.72 release and some other security updates as well.
up2date is new with version 6.1 of RedHat I believe.
Great, I was 420MB into my RedHat 6.2 download...and then metalab.unc.edu decided to kick everyone off and do this ...
;)
d-w------- 7 root bin 512 Mar 26 02:13 redhat-6.2/
Arg! Whats going on here, why is there a big coverup? Its rude to nuke sessions that have already been started like mine was. It looked to me like a full mirror was already done, there were no missing files at 8:00am when I started AFAIK.
Well, thank God ncftp supports RESUME