All you mostly read about JavaScript is in the browser. There are however project that take JavaScript beyond the browser. Are there any people who have experience with a project like Gluescript? It's on http://gluescript.sourceforge.net/ and it provides GUI programming, server side JavaScript, and maybe other things. I just found out its existence today. Just wondering about opinions.
I see this reply all the time on slashdot. But just this week I found out that at my work, where we have simple P4 machines, a simple javascript animation causes Firefox to use 100% cpu. That's quite a lot. So I think javascript performance still can be improved. It's just one animation that runs continuously, on my own site: http://chaosmongers.org/ So dismissing speed improvements is not something I do anymore. I do think speed improvements can and should be made.
My comment was mostly meant as funny/sarcastic, but I guess no one else thinks of it that way. So anyway...
Strict ordering is afaik part of the POSIX standard. It means that when you run a command line application, you first give the options, then the arguments. Like "less -p 60/var/log/messages" where -p is an option, and/var/log/messages is an argument. On BSD's libc strict ordering is demanded, while Linux/glibc have sloppy ordering. You can run it like "less/var/log/messages -p 60" on Linux. When you're used to the sloppy way, it's hard to get yourself used to the strict way.
Why I prefer BSD over Linux. There are several reasons:
1. Tcsh is the best shell ever. I just don't understand why Apple ever switched to Bash. 2. Nvi is a really nice vi editor, much better then Vim. Combined with minimal but effective terminal settings I get my work done much faster. 3. Bind 4 is a proven and secure DNS platform. 4. A command-line with strict ordering is fully POSIX 2.0 compliant. I just can't stand anything with sloppy ordering. 5. The package management is simple but effective. 6. Security patches should come as source code only, so you can review them.
These are the reasons why you should switch to BSD today.
I can advise a Linux server with Courier-imap. It's easy to centrally store your mail, and as long as it's on the internet you can reach it. Even from work, with friends, or on vacation. It's not really fast in my experience, but not terribly slow. And you can save things in Maildir format, which is universally supported. And it's easy to backup with some scripts.
I never posted this, so maybe I should now I still have the chance:). Just before old SCO was bought by Caldera a friend of mine worked there in pre-sales. He did a lot of stuff with both of their UNIXes and Tarantella. He also had a lot of contact (we live in Holland) with the UK division of SCO. There they did a lot of stuff with Linux, sold support, and there were even rumours that they were working on their own distro of Linux. On some fairs they even sold Linux T-shirts. I posted some pics of one here: http://www.chaosmongers.org/sco.php The company is all turned to shit now, but the Linux-history of old SCO is quite interesting I think. But ofcourse there's also the situation that new SCO is actually Caldera, a straight Linux company.
That may be true, I don't know. But can we please get rid of the mess that is the cumulative patch? I just don't understand how Debian packagers survive through it. To me it's just a nightmare in maintainance.
Here in Holland it's forbidden to leave your car running, while going away yourself. If a cop sees it you will get a fine. The reason is, you're stimulating someone to commit a crime. I do agree though, the one who would steal your car then is to blame for the action and the crime, but I also think it would be fair to still get a fine for leaving your car running.
Thanks. I've been advised to check out Alix boards as well, when my submission was still hanging in the air. I have looked at them and they seem a bit cheaper then Soekris boxes. Right now I'm in the process of buying an Alix board together with a small case and a 20 Gb disk. I can always upgrade that disk later on, or add an usb disk if I want to. I'm buying the complete system here in Holland for 138 Euro, so that's quite cheap. It comes with vga and 100Mbit nic, which should be good enough. If I upgrade the disk, it will cost me an additional 50 Euro for a 250 Gb disk (2,5").
I would like a working TV Out. I have a laptop with an Nvidia chipset and a tvout. The Mandriva config tool didn set up the tvout, nor did vnidia-settings. I had to hack a xorg.conf to get it recognize the tvout composite output. But there was no way I could get it to recognize the tv, or get anything on the tvscreen. With Twinview it would just give errors, and without twinview it would simply give no error, and still no output. In the past I tried the same with a Raeon tvout, and couldn't get it to work either. And just for info, I've been using Linux for 10 years now, and have developed on a distro in the past, so it's not my skills that are lacking.
I haven't really tried FF3, but your comment makes me hesitate to try it.
Back in the day I used Galeon as a frontend for Gecko/Mozilla. I always had about 10 tabs open, and could just as easily open about 50 tabs. Then had it run for 2 weeks before having te restart the browser. About 2 years ago this wasn't possible anymore. After 2 or 3 days it would start up eating all the available ram, untill the oom-killer kicked in. This happened with Galeon, Mozilla-Seamonkey and Mozilla-Firefox. This all on 32-bit Linux. I'm now using Konqueror with much better memory behaviour. I had the silent hope this ram-eating was fixed, but according to your experience it isn't.
I haven't used Vista, but I hear about the same complaints about Vista now as at the time when XP was released. In the end just about everyone will use the new system. How many people are still using Windows 2000 or Windows 98? Almost everybody has moved on to XP now. As time goes by, after the first or second service pack, with newer updated apps and hardware/drivers there's probably no reason not to. I guess the complaining is just a way of learning to cope with the change.
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world."
Your post makes me think of the song "Twist in my sobriety" of Tanita Tikaram. It's about the phenomenom that just thinking about changing your life, and how to change it, that it can give enough satisfaction to not needing the change anymore. Just thinking about it is enough. I realize it's true, just as you say "so true, so true":-)
They probably use AAC software from http://www.audiocoding.com/ Since it's patented you're probably not allowed to distribute binaries of it (even though PLF for example does), but it is allowed to distribute source code, since that's regarded as just a blueprint, just like lame (mp3 encoder) and freetype (Apple bytecode interpreter).
3. Use a script like DenyHosts to monitor your authentication log, and add suspicious hosts to a block list (either temporarily or permanently). This looks like a very nice solution to me.
You will want to use a temporary block list. An attacker can always hose up your network by using other source addresses, like from your mail provider, or another office connected through a vpn.
Untill Nvidia releases a new generation of their hardware, and there are less and less releases of new drivers of their older generation. Then Xorg 7.0 comes out, or Linux kernel 2.8, and you're lost with non-working hardware (or at least no 3D or tv-out) on your new Linux install. This will somewhat force you to buy new hardware. It might not happen so often with Nvidia hardware, even their TNT cards use the same driver as their Gforce cards, but for other hardware it happens rather often, like flatbed scanners. It makes me wary to buy hardware without open-source drivers.
I see this type of comment more on Slashdot. I'm wondering if it's true or not, if it's juts a theoretical pose or not. Did you run into instability yourself? I run only Mandrake kernels, mostly the latest (kernel-multimedia in Cooker contrib) and don't have any real problems. Any kernel has problems, even a stable line like 2.4. If they would rewrite the tty layer or ide system in 2.6 then I'm sure I'd be with you, but things break and get fixed in any kernelline. I expect that this new numbering and release scheme gives about the same stability to 2.6 kernels as 2.4 kernels had when that was the mainline kernel (not like maintainance mode as it is in now).
I mostly agree with you. Society as a whole isn't really open for these things. Though I do think that the experience of society is also the people that you hang around with, and now that I get older (oh, just 31 now) it seems that more people around me are sensitive of other things (sixth sense, telepathy, precognition, etc.). Maybe it's also that I'm less scared of sharing those things with others, and knowing who to share it with, that I experience open-mindedness of others.
Hmm, I have this year rescued data of 2 harddrives by connecting it to a 486 machine, and getting the data over an nfs mount. One was a 40Gb IBM Deathstar (probably with a headcrash), another was a 60Gb Maxtor. The Maxtor couldn't handle multiple reads anymore, it would just lock up on the 486 that way. it would lock up any way on any other machine. I'm sure there are different causes to failing disks, and different "solutions" that can be applied to them.
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All you mostly read about JavaScript is in the browser. There are however project that take JavaScript beyond the browser.
Are there any people who have experience with a project like Gluescript? It's on http://gluescript.sourceforge.net/ and it provides GUI programming, server side JavaScript, and maybe other things.
I just found out its existence today. Just wondering about opinions.
I see this reply all the time on slashdot. But just this week I found out that at my work, where we have simple P4 machines, a simple javascript animation causes Firefox to use 100% cpu.
That's quite a lot. So I think javascript performance still can be improved. It's just one animation that runs continuously, on my own site: http://chaosmongers.org/
So dismissing speed improvements is not something I do anymore. I do think speed improvements can and should be made.
Thanks, that's a very informative read. It explains to me what xhtml is and is not (wrt mime-types), and why html5 is the way to go.
My comment was mostly meant as funny/sarcastic, but I guess no one else thinks of it that way. So anyway...
Strict ordering is afaik part of the POSIX standard. It means that when you run a command line application, you first give the options, then the arguments. Like "less -p 60 /var/log/messages" where -p is an option, and /var/log/messages is an argument. /var/log/messages -p 60" on Linux.
On BSD's libc strict ordering is demanded, while Linux/glibc have sloppy ordering. You can run it like "less
When you're used to the sloppy way, it's hard to get yourself used to the strict way.
Why I prefer BSD over Linux. There are several reasons:
1. Tcsh is the best shell ever. I just don't understand why Apple ever switched to Bash.
2. Nvi is a really nice vi editor, much better then Vim. Combined with minimal but effective terminal settings I get my work done much faster.
3. Bind 4 is a proven and secure DNS platform.
4. A command-line with strict ordering is fully POSIX 2.0 compliant. I just can't stand anything with sloppy ordering.
5. The package management is simple but effective.
6. Security patches should come as source code only, so you can review them.
These are the reasons why you should switch to BSD today.
Whoops, apparently there's just an update released today. With a different fix it seems.
http://forums.cpanel.net/f185/case-45290-exim-0-day-178281.html
According to the changelog in Cpanel it's not fixed for CentOS 5.5. At least it's not in the changelog for exim-4.69-23.1_cpanel_maildir
I can advise a Linux server with Courier-imap. It's easy to centrally store your mail, and as long as it's on the internet you can reach it. Even from work, with friends, or on vacation.
It's not really fast in my experience, but not terribly slow.
And you can save things in Maildir format, which is universally supported. And it's easy to backup with some scripts.
I never posted this, so maybe I should now I still have the chance :).
Just before old SCO was bought by Caldera a friend of mine worked there in pre-sales. He did a lot of stuff with both of their UNIXes and Tarantella. He also had a lot of contact (we live in Holland) with the UK division of SCO. There they did a lot of stuff with Linux, sold support, and there were even rumours that they were working on their own distro of Linux.
On some fairs they even sold Linux T-shirts. I posted some pics of one here:
http://www.chaosmongers.org/sco.php
The company is all turned to shit now, but the Linux-history of old SCO is quite interesting I think. But ofcourse there's also the situation that new SCO is actually Caldera, a straight Linux company.
That may be true, I don't know.
But can we please get rid of the mess that is the cumulative patch? I just don't understand how Debian packagers survive through it. To me it's just a nightmare in maintainance.
I reckon the Tegra GPU still supports VGA or VESA modes. You won't get nifty 3D effects, but it might be good enough for desktop use.
Here in Holland it's forbidden to leave your car running, while going away yourself. If a cop sees it you will get a fine. The reason is, you're stimulating someone to commit a crime.
I do agree though, the one who would steal your car then is to blame for the action and the crime, but I also think it would be fair to still get a fine for leaving your car running.
Thanks.
I've been advised to check out Alix boards as well, when my submission was still hanging in the air. I have looked at them and they seem a bit cheaper then Soekris boxes. Right now I'm in the process of buying an Alix board together with a small case and a 20 Gb disk. I can always upgrade that disk later on, or add an usb disk if I want to. I'm buying the complete system here in Holland for 138 Euro, so that's quite cheap. It comes with vga and 100Mbit nic, which should be good enough. If I upgrade the disk, it will cost me an additional 50 Euro for a 250 Gb disk (2,5").
I would like a working TV Out.
I have a laptop with an Nvidia chipset and a tvout. The Mandriva config tool didn set up the tvout, nor did vnidia-settings. I had to hack a xorg.conf to get it recognize the tvout composite output. But there was no way I could get it to recognize the tv, or get anything on the tvscreen. With Twinview it would just give errors, and without twinview it would simply give no error, and still no output.
In the past I tried the same with a Raeon tvout, and couldn't get it to work either. And just for info, I've been using Linux for 10 years now, and have developed on a distro in the past, so it's not my skills that are lacking.
I haven't really tried FF3, but your comment makes me hesitate to try it.
Back in the day I used Galeon as a frontend for Gecko/Mozilla. I always had about 10 tabs open, and could just as easily open about 50 tabs. Then had it run for 2 weeks before having te restart the browser.
About 2 years ago this wasn't possible anymore. After 2 or 3 days it would start up eating all the available ram, untill the oom-killer kicked in. This happened with Galeon, Mozilla-Seamonkey and Mozilla-Firefox. This all on 32-bit Linux. I'm now using Konqueror with much better memory behaviour.
I had the silent hope this ram-eating was fixed, but according to your experience it isn't.
I haven't used Vista, but I hear about the same complaints about Vista now as at the time when XP was released. In the end just about everyone will use the new system. How many people are still using Windows 2000 or Windows 98? Almost everybody has moved on to XP now. As time goes by, after the first or second service pack, with newer updated apps and hardware/drivers there's probably no reason not to.
I guess the complaining is just a way of learning to cope with the change.
"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world."
:-)
Your post makes me think of the song "Twist in my sobriety" of Tanita Tikaram. It's about the phenomenom that just thinking about changing your life, and how to change it, that it can give enough satisfaction to not needing the change anymore. Just thinking about it is enough.
I realize it's true, just as you say "so true, so true"
There's the Link-grammar parser, which can do grammar checking. It is being used by Abiword (2.3/2.4).
http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/
They probably use AAC software from http://www.audiocoding.com/
Since it's patented you're probably not allowed to distribute binaries of it (even though PLF for example does), but it is allowed to distribute source code, since that's regarded as just a blueprint, just like lame (mp3 encoder) and freetype (Apple bytecode interpreter).
3. Use a script like DenyHosts to monitor your authentication log, and add suspicious hosts to a block list (either temporarily or permanently). This looks like a very nice solution to me.
You will want to use a temporary block list. An attacker can always hose up your network by using other source addresses, like from your mail provider, or another office connected through a vpn.
Untill Nvidia releases a new generation of their hardware, and there are less and less releases of new drivers of their older generation. Then Xorg 7.0 comes out, or Linux kernel 2.8, and you're lost with non-working hardware (or at least no 3D or tv-out) on your new Linux install. This will somewhat force you to buy new hardware.
It might not happen so often with Nvidia hardware, even their TNT cards use the same driver as their Gforce cards, but for other hardware it happens rather often, like flatbed scanners.
It makes me wary to buy hardware without open-source drivers.
I see this type of comment more on Slashdot. I'm wondering if it's true or not, if it's juts a theoretical pose or not. Did you run into instability yourself?
I run only Mandrake kernels, mostly the latest (kernel-multimedia in Cooker contrib) and don't have any real problems. Any kernel has problems, even a stable line like 2.4. If they would rewrite the tty layer or ide system in 2.6 then I'm sure I'd be with you, but things break and get fixed in any kernelline. I expect that this new numbering and release scheme gives about the same stability to 2.6 kernels as 2.4 kernels had when that was the mainline kernel (not like maintainance mode as it is in now).
I mostly agree with you. Society as a whole isn't really open for these things. Though I do think that the experience of society is also the people that you hang around with, and now that I get older (oh, just 31 now) it seems that more people around me are sensitive of other things (sixth sense, telepathy, precognition, etc.). Maybe it's also that I'm less scared of sharing those things with others, and knowing who to share it with, that I experience open-mindedness of others.
There are 2 kinds of people. Those that have lost data, and those that will.
Hey, I'm part of both groups. That makes me happy, I've always wanted to feel special.
Hmm, I have this year rescued data of 2 harddrives by connecting it to a 486 machine, and getting the data over an nfs mount. One was a 40Gb IBM Deathstar (probably with a headcrash), another was a 60Gb Maxtor. The Maxtor couldn't handle multiple reads anymore, it would just lock up on the 486 that way. it would lock up any way on any other machine.
I'm sure there are different causes to failing disks, and different "solutions" that can be applied to them.