Yes, I understand that lightweight servers such as Boa or lighttpd are ideal for static content. I am just wondering why this article failed to mention Boa. Apache 1.3 was the server mentioned for all of slashdot, when Boa serves up images.slashdot.org
BootIt(TM) Next Generation is a great free tool. It even re-sizes existing partitions of many types including NTFS, ext2, FAT32 and many more. I switched to this after using Ghost for a few years, and haven't looked back. I can't say enough positive things about it.
There's also an episode wher Lisa and Homer go to a "New Age" type of store and they lay in a sort of relaxation tank. Lisa has a hallucination where she becomes Homer and she's eating a sandwich with Bacon, Canadian Bacon, and Mexican Bacon. She then (as Homer) falls asleep during the ballet and Lisa yells at him for snoring and he thinks "Why is Lisa so mad at me??? And what happened to my big sandwich???"
If Google decides to release a browser, they will likely use an open source rendering engine such as KHTML (think of Safari) or Gecko (Mozilla/Firefox for those of you that don't know). Tie in the Google Desktop to the yet unreleased browser, and they will have a product miles ahead of the upcoming IE7 and even be ahead of the currnet Firefox/Mozilla. The question no longer seems a matter of 'if?', but 'when?'
A lot of people do still use dial-up, actually. But you do bring up interesting points: a dial-up user really should be NAT'd. After all, NAT is what has helped the world not really need v6 in such a hurry. On the other hand, switching now might save pain down the road. Being proactive is often a good thing, and rather than having a Y2K-like situation where everyone has to scramble at the last minute/month/year, we could switch before it becomes an issue.
Well that _is_ a different architecture. I could also point out that my website (which I won't post here because I don't want it slashdotted to oblivion) runs on an Linksys NSLU2 and consumes less than 2 Watts on its own. (less than 15W with the external disk attached to it.) The NSLU2 uses an ARM chip, made by Intel, and has 32MB memory built in.
So although that is great that your G4 powerbook consumes 45W of power, please do not troll. You must consider the architecture.
[apu]Thank you, come again.[/apu]
...Stress security - complex passwords containing numbers, letters and punctuation that they will keep private. Show them some commands at a bash shell 'just in case' something goes wrong on the GUI side. Show them how to navigate the file system, both command-line and graphically. Teach them about man pages. Demo applications that they need, and tell them the names of replacement programs: Microsoft Office : OpenOffice.org Internet Explorer : Firefox/Mozilla PhotoShop : GIMP
MySQL-Front - Old version of the MySQL windows front end, much much better than the new one you pay for. Source isnt open and the old developer discontinued development, possibly one of the best advertisements for why OSS is good:(
Try MySQL Control Center. It's free and works a lot like Microsoft's Enterprise Manager for MS SQL Server.
"(posting anonymously to preserve my precious karma)"
Riiiiight... and you previewed your comment before you posted, huh? Isn't it great when a troll forgets to click that pesky little "Post Anonymously" checkbox, and you see his real username? Especially when it's such an old and stale troll about BSD dying?
Anyway I have been running 5.2 for a while and it has been solid: Uptime: 11:30AM up 39 days, 20:47, 6 users, load averages: 2.04, 2.01, 2.00
I have only tried FreeBSD once before, I believe it was in the 4.x series, and it was OK as a server, but I couldn't get X to work. I was still semi-new to the Linux/Unix world at that point, so that may have been part of it, but 5.2 works well as a server and a desktop, which was not very difficult at all to get running. So even though I didn't need to feed that trolls, I figured I'd chime in with my (good) experience with FreeBSD 5.2...
In the CNN link posted above (which was written when the site was online for three years), there's an interesting quote in lieu of the site about to go offline:
Ringley says she will keep the site going indefinitely -- "I can't imagine any situation which would cause me to want to" take it down.
My favorite is actually a trackball. No un-necessary wrist movement avoids carpal-tunnel nicely. My preference is the Logitech TrackMan Marble Wheel, which has a scroll button as a third button. It's sort of the older version of this.
Mine is a bit 'wider' left to right, and is white rather than silver/gray.
On The Simpsons, in the episode where Maude Flanders dies, Bart was ordered my Marge to cheer up Rod and Todd. Bart wanted to play video games, and the only one that the Flanders boys had was "Billy Graham's Bible Blasters" when you had to 'convert the heathens'. By shooting them, they turned into Christians.;)
Ahhh the beauty of OSS/Free software. They 'borrowed' icons from KDE, and used them with GNUstep. There's no violation to the GPL that I can see. Let's say the KDE project decided that they were tired of their icons (for the sake of my example). They could take GNOME's icons and incorporate it right into the KDE codebase. No problem. Where would Linux (or any open-source project) be without borrowing code (or in this case icons) from other projects? Just my thoughts... hopefully worth more than $0.02.
Joel Spolsky had a similar thought on Monday about using VMWare to run webservers in a virtual machine, and to always have similar virtual machines ready, in case the server is hacked etc. (See his June 2, 2003 entry)
Slashdot Mirror
Yes, I understand that lightweight servers such as Boa or lighttpd are ideal for static content. I am just wondering why this article failed to mention Boa. Apache 1.3 was the server mentioned for all of slashdot, when Boa serves up images.slashdot.org
There is no mention of the fact that http://images.slashdot.org/ runs on Boa/0.94.14rc21 and not Apache 1.3. Why is that?
This will likely spark the rumors of a Sun and Apple merger again.
The hardware is called 'iUpload'. If you take out the u-l-a, it's 'iPod'...
BootIt(TM) Next Generation is a great free tool. It even re-sizes existing partitions of many types including NTFS, ext2, FAT32 and many more. I switched to this after using Ghost for a few years, and haven't looked back. I can't say enough positive things about it.
There's also an episode wher Lisa and Homer go to a "New Age" type of store and they lay in a sort of relaxation tank. Lisa has a hallucination where she becomes Homer and she's eating a sandwich with Bacon, Canadian Bacon, and Mexican Bacon. She then (as Homer) falls asleep during the ballet and Lisa yells at him for snoring and he thinks "Why is Lisa so mad at me??? And what happened to my big sandwich???"
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Enjoy.
If Google decides to release a browser, they will likely use an open source rendering engine such as KHTML (think of Safari) or Gecko (Mozilla/Firefox for those of you that don't know). Tie in the Google Desktop to the yet unreleased browser, and they will have a product miles ahead of the upcoming IE7 and even be ahead of the currnet Firefox/Mozilla. The question no longer seems a matter of 'if?', but 'when?'
Vote Quimby!
A lot of people do still use dial-up, actually. But you do bring up interesting points: a dial-up user really should be NAT'd. After all, NAT is what has helped the world not really need v6 in such a hurry. On the other hand, switching now might save pain down the road. Being proactive is often a good thing, and rather than having a Y2K-like situation where everyone has to scramble at the last minute/month/year, we could switch before it becomes an issue.
Well that _is_ a different architecture. I could also point out that my website (which I won't post here because I don't want it slashdotted to oblivion) runs on an Linksys NSLU2 and consumes less than 2 Watts on its own. (less than 15W with the external disk attached to it.) The NSLU2 uses an ARM chip, made by Intel, and has 32MB memory built in. So although that is great that your G4 powerbook consumes 45W of power, please do not troll. You must consider the architecture. [apu]Thank you, come again.[/apu]
At first glance, it reminded me a lot of RedHat's website. I wonder if they 'borrowed' XHTML and CSS code from them...
Yes. Next question.
...Stress security - complex passwords containing numbers, letters and punctuation that they will keep private. Show them some commands at a bash shell 'just in case' something goes wrong on the GUI side. Show them how to navigate the file system, both command-line and graphically. Teach them about man pages. Demo applications that they need, and tell them the names of replacement programs:
Microsoft Office : OpenOffice.org
Internet Explorer : Firefox/Mozilla
PhotoShop : GIMP
MySQL-Front - Old version of the MySQL windows front end, much much better than the new one you pay for. Source isnt open and the old developer discontinued development, possibly one of the best advertisements for why OSS is good :(
Try MySQL Control Center. It's free and works a lot like Microsoft's Enterprise Manager for MS SQL Server.
"(posting anonymously to preserve my precious karma)"
Riiiiight... and you previewed your comment before you posted, huh?
Isn't it great when a troll forgets to click that pesky little "Post Anonymously" checkbox, and you see his real username? Especially when it's such an old and stale troll about BSD dying?
Anyway I have been running 5.2 for a while and it has been solid:
Uptime: 11:30AM up 39 days, 20:47, 6 users, load averages: 2.04, 2.01, 2.00
I have only tried FreeBSD once before, I believe it was in the 4.x series, and it was OK as a server, but I couldn't get X to work. I was still semi-new to the Linux/Unix world at that point, so that may have been part of it, but 5.2 works well as a server and a desktop, which was not very difficult at all to get running. So even though I didn't need to feed that trolls, I figured I'd chime in with my (good) experience with FreeBSD 5.2...
In the CNN link posted above (which was written when the site was online for three years), there's an interesting quote in lieu of the site about to go offline:
Ringley says she will keep the site going indefinitely -- "I can't imagine any situation which would cause me to want to" take it down.
Ironic huh?
According to Network Solutions it's still available:
beaver-overlord.com
This name is available for registration.
Click continue to register now.
Clickable
http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/001001.htm l
My favorite is actually a trackball. No un-necessary wrist movement avoids carpal-tunnel nicely. My preference is the Logitech TrackMan Marble Wheel, which has a scroll button as a third button. It's sort of the older version of this. Mine is a bit 'wider' left to right, and is white rather than silver/gray.
So to sum it up:
;)
1) Create non-profit Mozilla Foundation
2) ???
3) NO profit
On The Simpsons, in the episode where Maude Flanders dies, Bart was ordered my Marge to cheer up Rod and Todd. Bart wanted to play video games, and the only one that the Flanders boys had was "Billy Graham's Bible Blasters" when you had to 'convert the heathens'. By shooting them, they turned into Christians. ;)
Ahhh the beauty of OSS/Free software. They 'borrowed' icons from KDE, and used them with GNUstep. There's no violation to the GPL that I can see. Let's say the KDE project decided that they were tired of their icons (for the sake of my example). They could take GNOME's icons and incorporate it right into the KDE codebase. No problem. Where would Linux (or any open-source project) be without borrowing code (or in this case icons) from other projects? Just my thoughts... hopefully worth more than $0.02.
Joel Spolsky had a similar thought on Monday about using VMWare to run webservers in a virtual machine, and to always have similar virtual machines ready, in case the server is hacked etc. (See his June 2, 2003 entry)