This is completely off-topic, but I can't resist suggesting you check the facts.
Here you can produce your own comparative data: http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_step1.php?clear_countries=1&clear_regions=1&clear_indicators=1
Obviously, UNICEF doesn't count hospitals. They go after indicators like child mortality rate, life expectancy, etc.
You will notice that Cuba and the US are basically equivalent with such health care indicators, despite the enormous income disparity. (I added 2 European countries for comparison.)
Cuba US France Netherlands Under-5 mortality rate 2005 7 7 5 5 Under-1 mortality rate 2005 6 6 4 4 Neonatal mortality rate 2000 4 5 3 4 Life expectancy at birth 2005 78 78 80 79
I don't really care about better filesystems. ext3, NTFS and Mac OS Extended seem to be extremely reliable and work perfectly well on their respective platform.
The only real problem I have is there doesn't exist a modern journaling FS which would work just as well on all 3 platforms.
I can use ext3, but cannot plug it into a Mac.
I can use Mac's FS, but cannot plug it into Windows (unless I pay for a proprietary driver every time I use that disk on a different machine)
I can use NTFS, but cannot write to it on a Mac.
This is the real problem I have. I would like one of these 3 (preferably the open source ext3) to have perfect support on both of the other 2 OSes. And if there is a serious such project for ext3, I would be glad to contribute with a donation.
Sorry if you really felt insulted. My intention was only mild teasing. (and a genuine wish to know who that quote was from).
I must admit I know nothing of German humour, even though I had a few German grand-grand-parents. If I think about funny things in German, the little I know tends to be Austrian (like Wilhelm Busch or Georg Kreisler).
Here is another rant about this problem: The Firefox 3 SSL scam. This one takes the angle: how much money did the Mozilla Foundation get from big business (Verisign et al.) to kill self-signed certificates?
Note that in FF2, the dialog was perfectly clear, safe and simple. Nothing needed to be changed.
What is this about? Not trying to start an off-topic flamewar, but would appreciate if someone could post a couple of links to understand what you are referring to.
It seems to me that this was NOT users testing a system, but instead was a (10 minute) demo shown to users. So it wouldn't mean anything. All demos always look good (or someone needs to be fired quickly).
I agree on keeping it short and pronounceable over the phone.
Users don't really need hostnames. They get mapped drives through login scripts, and that works fine for the 10 to 50 hosts networks which I manage.
For the TLD of your internal domain, you cannot use.local anymore since Apple hijacked it a few years ago for their Rendez-vous thing or whatever. I now mostly use.lan, and also inherited a network which was using.private.
Then comes the company name of course, sometimes in a simplified form.
If distinguishing locations is important to you, you could use location-based sub-domains. But most times, it's not worth the trouble.
To keep various info about hosts (function, configuration, main user, etc.), I had a small database (could also be a spreadsheet). Then I realized I could keep everything in DNS too. So for the last years, I have just used TXT (and sometimes also HINFO) DNS records. Since DNS zone files need to be edited anyway when there are changes, the rest of the info is done at the same time in the same file. And it can be queried from anywhere with plain DNS tools. (In fact I have this very handy alias for searches: alias hostinfo='host -l -a mydomain.lan | grep -i ')
As for non-offensive names, at one place using Greek god names, the boss wanted his notebook named Eros. I don't think anyone would find it offensive, but I'm not sure the boss realized it would be visible in Network Neighborhood. Anyway, probably nobody noticed. As mentioned, users use shortcuts and mapped drives. Nobody cares about names. It's only for network admins.
Who cares about hotmail anyway? Isn't that the obnoxious service which adds advertisements to all the mails sent by their users? (And most users not being aware that they are sending spam at the bottom of the mails they write.)
Well, in fact Yahoo does the same thing. Strange that the MS/Yahoo deal didn't work out. As far as treating their email service users, they seem to behave the same.
Why oh why oh why does message composition for new accounts default to HTML instead of plain text?
You don't seem to have tested this. It may look like it defaults to HTML, because you have a formatting toolbar.
However, if you do not apply any formatting, your message will be sent as text/plain. It will only be sent as multipart with HTML if you actually did use formatting.
This seems to me the clever thing to do.
You also have an option that will ask you before actually sending HTML, and offer the choice (plain/plain+HTML/HTML-only)
new UI inspired from Microsoft Office 2007 [...] Is this the future of OpenOffice.org?
When OOo came, I was thrilled to hear there was an alternative to MS-Word. It turned out to be a bloated MS-Word clone, just orders of magnitude slower, and filled with bugs.
For somoeone who hated Word, it was the same but worse.
I sure hope the future of OOo is NOT to continue (badly) cloning MS-word. I have not tried Office 2007 yet, but I still hope that some day OOo can offer a real alternative and be different.
If we are to believe the pictures, this one will also miss the essential Home/End/Pgup/Pgdn keys.
Maybe I'm too old school, but I really need these keys. I use them all the time. Ctrl-Shift-End is cumbersome enough without needing to add some stupid 4th Fn or whatever key to the mix. Yes, I do have 10 fingers, but I'm not a pianist.
On my bank's web site, when I used the browser's back button, things started to get out of sync. You had to click their own custom back button somewhere in the pages so that everything would continues to work.
When I called to report it, I was explained that I had to click their own back button, not mine. When I said "Yes, I know, I just wanted to let you know so that you can fix the bug sometime", the final answer was something like "It's by design. It's for security reasons". At that point I was expected to say "ok. thank you" or whatever, and to understand that a "bug" was totally unthinkable on their super-reliable ultra-secure blah blah bank site.
Nevertheless, a few months later, the bug was gone. I didn't call back to say I'm now worried about the security...
$50US for UltraEdit is expensive? Uhhh...ok. Not really. Sorry, I somehow thought I remembered it was $90 a long time ago. At a time when the $ was much more expensive than it is now. Anyway, I can't really remember, because I didn't pay for it myself.
And I'm still using that old version 8. I see it's at 14 now...
In Windows, as someone else already mentioned: UltraEdit and Notepad++. I prefer Ultra Edit, but it's expensive. On all machines, I always install Notepad++, which is free, good, and has better syntax management than my old version of UE.
In Linux, I use MC's built-in editor (mcedit) and Kate when I have a GUI. Will read the comments for other suggestions...
No mod seems to have noticed yet, but the parent is funny!
I'd post the make and model number of the reader, but I haven't been able to find it for a couple days. I probably should have tagged it.
I'm a Windows user, can you tell me where I can get an EXE that will do that?
You see, the cool thing about Windows is that don't need an iptables.exe.
Either because your Windows box is not directly connected to the public Internet, or because if it is, it is much too late already for anything other than reformatting it...
So you really don't need to worry about iptables and all that geeky stuff at all.
I wonder if anyone has actually tried making such a fingerprint copy, and then using it on a fingerprint reader like the ones on laptops etc.
Do you really get a good enough copy? How hard is it? (After all, any security can be broken somehow. So an essential aspect is the "cost" of breaking the security)
Slashdot Mirror
There is: The Perl Review. (And like The Perl Journal before it, is has nice cover pictures too).
Strange enough, I now remember that my first memory of Dr.Dobbs is an interview of Larry Wall, which I read there in the nineties...
Here are the results for my small Debian web/mail/dns/databse/etc server.
Not very readable :-), but Perl helped to show that it's quite popular indeed, ranking third after ELF executables and shell scripts.
$ find
$VAR1 = {
'setuid perl script' => 1,
'' => 8,
'ELF 32-bit LSB executable' => 1154,
'Bourne shell script' => 144,
'perl script' => 197,
'Bourne-Again shell script' => 14,
'Korn shell script' => 1,
'a python script' => 1,
'setuid setgid ELF 32-bit LSB executable' => 6,
'a
'python script' => 13,
'a
'setgid ELF 32-bit LSB executable' => 13,
'setuid ELF 32-bit LSB executable' => 19,
'a
};
This is completely off-topic, but I can't resist suggesting you check the facts.
Here you can produce your own comparative data: http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index_step1.php?clear_countries=1&clear_regions=1&clear_indicators=1
Obviously, UNICEF doesn't count hospitals. They go after indicators like child mortality rate, life expectancy, etc.
You will notice that Cuba and the US are basically equivalent with such health care indicators, despite the enormous income disparity.
(I added 2 European countries for comparison.)
Cuba US France Netherlands
Under-5 mortality rate 2005 7 7 5 5
Under-1 mortality rate 2005 6 6 4 4
Neonatal mortality rate 2000 4 5 3 4
Life expectancy at birth 2005 78 78 80 79
I don't really care about better filesystems. ext3, NTFS and Mac OS Extended seem to be extremely reliable and work perfectly well on their respective platform.
The only real problem I have is there doesn't exist a modern journaling FS which would work just as well on all 3 platforms.
I can use ext3, but cannot plug it into a Mac.
I can use Mac's FS, but cannot plug it into Windows (unless I pay for a proprietary driver every time I use that disk on a different machine)
I can use NTFS, but cannot write to it on a Mac.
This is the real problem I have. I would like one of these 3 (preferably the open source ext3) to have perfect support on both of the other 2 OSes. And if there is a serious such project for ext3, I would be glad to contribute with a donation.
But that was Austrian humour
Sorry if you really felt insulted. My intention was only mild teasing. (and a genuine wish to know who that quote was from).
I must admit I know nothing of German humour, even though I had a few German grand-grand-parents. If I think about funny things in German, the little I know tends to be Austrian (like Wilhelm Busch or Georg Kreisler).
Who was it, who once described it as: "German humour is just like jewish humour, except it's not funny"?
Here is another rant about this problem: The Firefox 3 SSL scam. This one takes the angle: how much money did the Mozilla Foundation get from big business (Verisign et al.) to kill self-signed certificates?
Note that in FF2, the dialog was perfectly clear, safe and simple. Nothing needed to be changed.
12 - a number that humans seem to like
No. Humans hate it. But they hate non-integer numbers more. So 12 is damn useful. You can divide it by 2, 3, 4 and 6!
60 is useful for the same reason. You can divide it by 2, 3, 4, 5(giving you 12), 6, 10, 12, 15 and 30!
Compare that with 10, which you can only divide by 2 and 5.
If you only want to deal with integers, 12 and 60 are very practical bases.
horrible record on Israel/Palestine
What is this about? Not trying to start an off-topic flamewar, but would appreciate if someone could post a couple of links to understand what you are referring to.
Offtopic, but if s/,/./g "can be a major PITA", then you are in trouble indeed.
It seems to me that this was NOT users testing a system, but instead was a (10 minute) demo shown to users. So it wouldn't mean anything. All demos always look good (or someone needs to be fired quickly).
Or did I misunderstand it?
I agree on keeping it short and pronounceable over the phone.
Users don't really need hostnames. They get mapped drives through login scripts, and that works fine for the 10 to 50 hosts networks which I manage.
For the TLD of your internal domain, you cannot use .local anymore since Apple hijacked it a few years ago for their Rendez-vous thing or whatever. I now mostly use .lan, and also inherited a network which was using .private.
Then comes the company name of course, sometimes in a simplified form.
If distinguishing locations is important to you, you could use location-based sub-domains. But most times, it's not worth the trouble.
To keep various info about hosts (function, configuration, main user, etc.), I had a small database (could also be a spreadsheet). Then I realized I could keep everything in DNS too. So for the last years, I have just used TXT (and sometimes also HINFO) DNS records. Since DNS zone files need to be edited anyway when there are changes, the rest of the info is done at the same time in the same file. And it can be queried from anywhere with plain DNS tools. (In fact I have this very handy alias for searches: alias hostinfo='host -l -a mydomain.lan | grep -i ')
As for non-offensive names, at one place using Greek god names, the boss wanted his notebook named Eros. I don't think anyone would find it offensive, but I'm not sure the boss realized it would be visible in Network Neighborhood. Anyway, probably nobody noticed. As mentioned, users use shortcuts and mapped drives. Nobody cares about names. It's only for network admins.
Mod parent up! His link to an article in Joel Spolsky's blog is very relevant, and the article puts this whole code release into perspective!
Who cares about hotmail anyway? Isn't that the obnoxious service which adds advertisements to all the mails sent by their users? (And most users not being aware that they are sending spam at the bottom of the mails they write.)
Well, in fact Yahoo does the same thing. Strange that the MS/Yahoo deal didn't work out. As far as treating their email service users, they seem to behave the same.
Yes, these strong little magnets are cool. I have a bunch of them and wonder how to keep them, so that they keep their strength.
Do magnets loose strength over time? I had the impression they do. But what factors influence this?
Why oh why oh why does message composition for new accounts default to HTML instead of plain text?
You don't seem to have tested this. It may look like it defaults to HTML, because you have a formatting toolbar.
However, if you do not apply any formatting, your message will be sent as text/plain. It will only be sent as multipart with HTML if you actually did use formatting.
This seems to me the clever thing to do.
You also have an option that will ask you before actually sending HTML, and offer the choice (plain/plain+HTML/HTML-only)
new UI inspired from Microsoft Office 2007 [...] Is this the future of OpenOffice.org?
When OOo came, I was thrilled to hear there was an alternative to MS-Word. It turned out to be a bloated MS-Word clone, just orders of magnitude slower, and filled with bugs.
For somoeone who hated Word, it was the same but worse.
I sure hope the future of OOo is NOT to continue (badly) cloning MS-word. I have not tried Office 2007 yet, but I still hope that some day OOo can offer a real alternative and be different.
(In the meantime I use TextMaker)
If we are to believe the pictures, this one will also miss the essential Home/End/Pgup/Pgdn keys.
Maybe I'm too old school, but I really need these keys. I use them all the time. Ctrl-Shift-End is cumbersome enough without needing to add some stupid 4th Fn or whatever key to the mix. Yes, I do have 10 fingers, but I'm not a pianist.
On my bank's web site, when I used the browser's back button, things started to get out of sync. You had to click their own custom back button somewhere in the pages so that everything would continues to work.
When I called to report it, I was explained that I had to click their own back button, not mine. When I said "Yes, I know, I just wanted to let you know so that you can fix the bug sometime", the final answer was something like "It's by design. It's for security reasons". At that point I was expected to say "ok. thank you" or whatever, and to understand that a "bug" was totally unthinkable on their super-reliable ultra-secure blah blah bank site.
Nevertheless, a few months later, the bug was gone. I didn't call back to say I'm now worried about the security...
And I'm still using that old version 8. I see it's at 14 now...
In Windows, as someone else already mentioned: UltraEdit and Notepad++. I prefer Ultra Edit, but it's expensive. On all machines, I always install Notepad++, which is free, good, and has better syntax management than my old version of UE.
In Linux, I use MC's built-in editor (mcedit) and Kate when I have a GUI. Will read the comments for other suggestions...
You see, the cool thing about Windows is that don't need an iptables.exe.
Either because your Windows box is not directly connected to the public Internet, or because if it is, it is much too late already for anything other than reformatting it...
So you really don't need to worry about iptables and all that geeky stuff at all.
I wonder if anyone has actually tried making such a fingerprint copy, and then using it on a fingerprint reader like the ones on laptops etc.
Do you really get a good enough copy? How hard is it? (After all, any security can be broken somehow. So an essential aspect is the "cost" of breaking the security)