And N. Portland isn't as bad as it used to be. I live off Skidmore and Vancouver and there is little to be scared of. Any bullets that do fly have particular targets in mind. Since I don't deal and I not in a gang, there aren't too many guns pointed my way:-)
The point of the post was that Gmail, according to me and many other reviewers, provides better functionality than other web-based email services. They achieve a more rich interface than their peers (and avoid that mittens feeling) by using this browser feature.
You are in favor of this RPC feature if it eliminates your issues with web applications, no?
The Week is pretty great. It doesn't have a great deal of information, since most articles are summaries of original sources. Still, you can get blurbs on a couple dozen topics in a 30-40 minutes read. I usually pick a few of the more interesting topics and go looking for additional information elsewhere.
Good reading for the can, since all the articles are short.
I've never had a Sun patch fail, but it does take a depressingly long time to apply them. And while they've fixed many problems in their "patch manager", I still weep for apt/dpkg/debian-security and end up using good ol' patch clusters every time.
Sun always seems to get 90% of it perfect, then drop the ball on 10% on the niceties.
I'm bored of the "Sun should have embraced Linux" shite. Sun needs linux like I need a hangnail (I agree with Stallman at this point: most linux users don't have a clue what their ego-maintaining Linux distros are actually comprised of). That being said, they should have embraced "open source" applications a long time ago. They started getting the picture in Solaris 9 and I think that Solaris 10 will prove they are once again saavy to the needs of their users.
We just benchmarked our java application on sparc and xeon(solaris/x86) machines and found that the xeon was at least three times faster in all scenarios.
This was for dual cpu machines, I'm sure that the tables would turn if we have 4+.
Configuring Internet Explorer to identify hyperlinks[1]:
1. Activate the "Tools" menu at the top of IE 2. Select the "Internet Settings" menu item 3. Select the "General" tab at the top of the dialog. This tab may already be selected. 4. Activate the "Colors" button at the bottom of the dialog 5. Choose bright, yet readable, colors for both visited and unvisited links. A third "hover color" may be selected to make hyperlinks even more visible when under the mouse cursor. 6. Now select the "Advanced" tab at the top of the dialog. 7. Under "Browsing", then further under "Underline links" in the hierarchy of options, select the "Always" radio button. 8. Activate the "OK" button at the bottom of the dialog.
Hyperlinks will now be noticably identified by underlined text in the colors you have chosen. Be warned that improper use of javascript on websites such as www.msnbc.com may render hyperlinks more difficult to see. Slashdot and other websites that adhere to established guidelines do not employ these methods.
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[1] A hyperlink is, in its most common incarnation, a portion of text inside a greater body of text such as a paragraph. The text itself should fit into the context of the content, but has an associated website address. This website address should, according to style, contain information on the subject that the hyperlink text is being used to represent. A perspective that may be helpful is that the hyperlink text represents a question and the website associated with the link is the answer. Instead of requiring the consultation of other sources to define the meaning of the hyperlink's text, it is possible to follow the link directly and discover the authors intent.
Links are usually "followed" by placing the mouse cursor over the link and activating the left mouse button. While the concept may seem unnatural, people who are familiar with interfaces such as ATM's, touch tone telephone menus, and mass transit kiosks usually catch on quite quickly.
If your DBA fucks up your data on a replicated system it is fucked all on the systems, so "no". Replication is useful for failover/redundancy as well as load balancing.
It seems as though NX is adding the concept of state, beyond bitmap caching, to X11. By reducing round trips between the client and server, it eliminates unnecessary data transfer because something on the client side of the network is already aware of the state of the server and doesn't need to inquire about it.
Is my understanding accurate?
Do more recently designed network graphics protocols use sychronized state between the client and server? With gobs of memory easy to come by these days, it seems like this would be acceptable cost, where perhaps it wasn't when X11 was designed. Would a stateful, high-level vector api (higher level than cairo, even) be a useful extension to X11?
I'm not sure I agree. "IF" SCO really did "own" it and didn't mean to publish it under that license, but an employee contributed it, then SCO should be able to ask that it is removed and placed under a license of their choosing. Anything else would be mean that copyright infringment circumvents copyright protection.
What if (and this is a big "if", just for the exercise) SCO's copyrights were infringed upon and it unwittingly distributed those infringments via the Linux kernel. Does that mean that their copyrights are automatically invalidated and GPL-ized? No, of course not.
If the court perceives this as a possibility (ie, SCO says they didn't know "their" code was contributed to linux and accidentally GPL'd it via distrubution), then the court may rule against the GPL, setting a negative precedent.
I'm concerned that something like this could happen when the bullets (or rather, mountains and mountains of paper) start flying. If IBM can't prove that Caldera knowingly contributed the code in question to Linux, then it seems to me that the GPL need not be brought into the argument. I'd rather they left it alone and stuck to their contract infringements and fraud allegations.
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Yeah, but it still isn't emacs.
There is a combination of an eclipse plugin and an emacs mode that allows you so used emacs as an external editor. It isn't perfect, particularly in that it crashes emacs sometimes, but it really improves my dev env, since I can use the editor I'm most comfortable in while still being able to take advantage of eclipse.
You mean your web browser's UI? I'd recommend mozilla, konqueror, opera, or internet explorer. If you have trouble with any of these I'd recommend this book. This page might also be useful.
I just looked into this the other day. One of the requirements for broadcasting is that you can't use the same band as somebody else within X distance. This prevents you from getting coverage through lots and lots of low power emitters.
If you can find info to the contrary I'd love to hear it. Portland Oregon has a serious case of unbelievably shitty music radio. It's either Clear Channel, Fundie Christians, or New Country. The only exceptions are a few sparse programs on the community radio that are broadcast at inconvenient times.
Somebody needs to put a stake in Michael Powell's heart before he finishes sucking the quality out of the air waves.
Because it is hastily planned and executed attack that will destabilize an already unstable part of the world, also setting a precedent for "preemptive strikes" , which are fundamentally opposite to the legal ideals our country was founded on, thereby invalidating any claim we had to the moral high ground.
And don't forget that American soldiers will be breathing the American nerve gas we gave them in the 80's.
Another usefull tool that is often installed in a linux distro is "slocate" (secure locate, secure meaning that it takes permissions into consideration). If slocate is installed, it updates a database of file locations, usually on a daily basis. The slocate tool searches this database for the substring you supply.
bash> slocate/hdparm
would find/hdparm,/sbin/hdparm,/foo/loc/hdparm, etc... It is much faster than the find command because it doesn't need to examine the whole harddrive in its current state, just the indexes/hashed/whatever database that already exists.
Don't forget that Itaniums are clocked far lower than P4's. The difference is that Intel doesn't plan on marketing 64bit chips to the consumer for a couple years, while AMD has their sights set earlier due to the expected lifespan on the Athlon-family and that their future is bet on 64bits.
I guess the main thing to note is that the P4 will be around for a least two years longer, where you can't say the same thing about Athlon family, at least at the high end.
Also coming into the picture is that Apple may have 64 bit workstations in ~ a year.
Is black box programming a pipe dream? I wouldn't go that far, as software engineering/compsci is a relatively new "science". At any rate, I know that I am very reliant on knowledge of the underlying platform that my code is running on. When a piece of software (especially one that I didn't write) doesn't work, I often resort to tools like truss/strace, lsof, netcat,/proc,etc... to help me determine what is going on "under the hood". I can figure out what ports, files, dlls, and logs the software is using in a matter of seconds, instead of resorting to a dubugger or printf's.
I'm no superstar engineeer, but I find this methodology (my window into the black box) so valuable that I'm often frustrated by collegues who refuse to learn more about an OS/VM/interpreter and make use of it. It is also what most frustrates me about troubleshooting in windows.
While it's true that I don't know much about windows, I get the feeling that these kind of observation tools that are so common on unix-ish machines aren't quite so prominently available on winderboxen. Sure, you can figure out a lot about a problem using MSDEV (what I remember from college, where VC++ wouldn't stop opening everytime netscape crashed), but it isn't available on ANY machine that I ever troubleshoot.
Hell, even when I'm programming java I use truss to figure out what the hell is wrong with my classpath;-)
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And N. Portland isn't as bad as it used to be. I live off Skidmore and Vancouver and there is little to be scared of. Any bullets that do fly have particular targets in mind. Since I don't deal and I not in a gang, there aren't too many guns pointed my way :-)
The point of the post was that Gmail, according to me and many other reviewers, provides better functionality than other web-based email services. They achieve a more rich interface than their peers (and avoid that mittens feeling) by using this browser feature.
You are in favor of this RPC feature if it eliminates your issues with web applications, no?
The Week is pretty great. It doesn't have a great deal of information, since most articles are summaries of original sources. Still, you can get blurbs on a couple dozen topics in a 30-40 minutes read. I usually pick a few of the more interesting topics and go looking for additional information elsewhere.
Good reading for the can, since all the articles are short.
I've never had a Sun patch fail, but it does take a depressingly long time to apply them. And while they've fixed many problems in their "patch manager", I still weep for apt/dpkg/debian-security and end up using good ol' patch clusters every time.
Sun always seems to get 90% of it perfect, then drop the ball on 10% on the niceties.
I'm bored of the "Sun should have embraced Linux" shite. Sun needs linux like I need a hangnail (I agree with Stallman at this point: most linux users don't have a clue what their ego-maintaining Linux distros are actually comprised of). That being said, they should have embraced "open source" applications a long time ago. They started getting the picture in Solaris 9 and I think that Solaris 10 will prove they are once again saavy to the needs of their users.
Oh gawd, I've joined the fray.
We just benchmarked our java application on sparc and xeon(solaris/x86) machines and found that the xeon was at least three times faster in all scenarios.
This was for dual cpu machines, I'm sure that the tables would turn if we have 4+.
Questions should be punctuated with question marks.
Does this make sense? See how easy it is?
At the risk of being nitpicky, I would also recommend that you employ commas to separate independent clauses in a rhetorial sentance.
"You're a little stupid, aren't you?"
Configuring Internet Explorer to identify hyperlinks[1]:
1. Activate the "Tools" menu at the top of IE
2. Select the "Internet Settings" menu item
3. Select the "General" tab at the top of the dialog. This tab may already be selected.
4. Activate the "Colors" button at the bottom of the dialog
5. Choose bright, yet readable, colors for both visited and unvisited links. A third "hover color" may be selected to make hyperlinks even more visible when under the mouse cursor.
6. Now select the "Advanced" tab at the top of the dialog.
7. Under "Browsing", then further under "Underline links" in the hierarchy of options, select the "Always" radio button.
8. Activate the "OK" button at the bottom of the dialog.
Hyperlinks will now be noticably identified by underlined text in the colors you have chosen. Be warned that improper use of javascript on websites such as www.msnbc.com may render hyperlinks more difficult to see. Slashdot and other websites that adhere to established guidelines do not employ these methods.
Thank you for visiting Slashdot.org, please remember to log in and meta-moderate.
[1] A hyperlink is, in its most common incarnation, a portion of text inside a greater body of text such as a paragraph. The text itself should fit into the context of the content, but has an associated website address. This website address should, according to style, contain information on the subject that the hyperlink text is being used to represent. A perspective that may be helpful is that the hyperlink text represents a question and the website associated with the link is the answer. Instead of requiring the consultation of other sources to define the meaning of the hyperlink's text, it is possible to follow the link directly and discover the authors intent.
Links are usually "followed" by placing the mouse cursor over the link and activating the left mouse button. While the concept may seem unnatural, people who are familiar with interfaces such as ATM's, touch tone telephone menus, and mass transit kiosks usually catch on quite quickly.
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If your DBA fucks up your data on a replicated system it is fucked all on the systems, so "no". Replication is useful for failover/redundancy as well as load balancing.
Excellent list. I would add backup and recovery software, techniques, and failure points.
It seems as though NX is adding the concept of state, beyond bitmap caching, to X11. By reducing round trips between the client and server, it eliminates unnecessary data transfer because something on the client side of the network is already aware of the state of the server and doesn't need to inquire about it.
Is my understanding accurate?
Do more recently designed network graphics protocols use sychronized state between the client and server? With gobs of memory easy to come by these days, it seems like this would be acceptable cost, where perhaps it wasn't when X11 was designed. Would a stateful, high-level vector api (higher level than cairo, even) be a useful extension to X11?
Yes, his address is:
6200 Courtney Campbell Causeway, Suite 480, Tampa, FL 33607
Maybe they don't get to choose whether their life is endangered or not...
I'm not sure I agree. "IF" SCO really did "own" it and didn't mean to publish it under that license, but an employee contributed it, then SCO should be able to ask that it is removed and placed under a license of their choosing. Anything else would be mean that copyright infringment circumvents copyright protection.
What if (and this is a big "if", just for the exercise) SCO's copyrights were infringed upon and it unwittingly distributed those infringments via the Linux kernel. Does that mean that their copyrights are automatically invalidated and GPL-ized? No, of course not.
If the court perceives this as a possibility (ie, SCO says they didn't know "their" code was contributed to linux and accidentally GPL'd it via distrubution), then the court may rule against the GPL, setting a negative precedent.
I'm concerned that something like this could happen when the bullets (or rather, mountains and mountains of paper) start flying. If IBM can't prove that Caldera knowingly contributed the code in question to Linux, then it seems to me that the GPL need not be brought into the argument. I'd rather they left it alone and stuck to their contract infringements and fraud allegations.
Yeah, but it still isn't emacs.
There is a combination of an eclipse plugin and an emacs mode that allows you so used emacs as an external editor. It isn't perfect, particularly in that it crashes emacs sometimes, but it really improves my dev env, since I can use the editor I'm most comfortable in while still being able to take advantage of eclipse.
jde-eclipse/RemoteEclipse
You mean your web browser's UI? I'd recommend mozilla, konqueror, opera, or internet explorer. If you have trouble with any of these I'd recommend this book. This page might also be useful.
I just looked into this the other day. One of the requirements for broadcasting is that you can't use the same band as somebody else within X distance. This prevents you from getting coverage through lots and lots of low power emitters.
If you can find info to the contrary I'd love to hear it. Portland Oregon has a serious case of unbelievably shitty music radio. It's either Clear Channel, Fundie Christians, or New Country. The only exceptions are a few sparse programs on the community radio that are broadcast at inconvenient times.
Somebody needs to put a stake in Michael Powell's heart before he finishes sucking the quality out of the air waves.
Because it is hastily planned and executed attack that will destabilize an already unstable part of the world, also setting a precedent for "preemptive strikes" , which are fundamentally opposite to the legal ideals our country was founded on, thereby invalidating any claim we had to the moral high ground.
And don't forget that American soldiers will be breathing the American nerve gas we gave them in the 80's.
Perhaps it is possible to run the console client with mono?
Another usefull tool that is often installed in a linux distro is "slocate" (secure locate, secure meaning that it takes permissions into consideration). If slocate is installed, it updates a database of file locations, usually on a daily basis. The slocate tool searches this database for the substring you supply.
bash> slocate
would find
I've never been an alcoholic. And I'm only an alcoholic sometimes.
But it isn't a problem.
Really.
Hardly at all.
Don't forget that Itaniums are clocked far lower than P4's. The difference is that Intel doesn't plan on marketing 64bit chips to the consumer for a couple years, while AMD has their sights set earlier due to the expected lifespan on the Athlon-family and that their future is bet on 64bits.
I guess the main thing to note is that the P4 will be around for a least two years longer, where you can't say the same thing about Athlon family, at least at the high end.
Also coming into the picture is that Apple may have 64 bit workstations in ~ a year.
In case some of you didn't see, this interview is from 1995.
Ha! No apology neccessary, that was hilarious. I wanted more in my sig, but that is all that it would let me have.
Is black box programming a pipe dream? I wouldn't go that far, as software engineering/compsci is a relatively new "science". At any rate, I know that I am very reliant on knowledge of the underlying platform that my code is running on. When a piece of software (especially one that I didn't write) doesn't work, I often resort to tools like truss/strace, lsof, netcat, /proc,etc... to help me determine what is going on "under the hood". I can figure out what ports, files, dlls, and logs the software is using in a matter of seconds, instead of resorting to a dubugger or printf's.
;-)
I'm no superstar engineeer, but I find this methodology (my window into the black box) so valuable that I'm often frustrated by collegues who refuse to learn more about an OS/VM/interpreter and make use of it. It is also what most frustrates me about troubleshooting in windows.
While it's true that I don't know much about windows, I get the feeling that these kind of observation tools that are so common on unix-ish machines aren't quite so prominently available on winderboxen. Sure, you can figure out a lot about a problem using MSDEV (what I remember from college, where VC++ wouldn't stop opening everytime netscape crashed), but it isn't available on ANY machine that I ever troubleshoot.
Hell, even when I'm programming java I use truss to figure out what the hell is wrong with my classpath