Don't forget that as of November 14th, Eurostar will go from St. Pancras on a new high-speed line all the way, which will take at least 20 minutes off the journey time and avoids the tedious crawling through London on the commuter lines. In fact I'm taking the Eurostar to Paris soon and I can't wait - already been to Brussels on it (lovely place by the way). Anyway, unless you are coming from somewhere like Birmingham, its just as quick as the plane if not quicker, when you include airport check-in times and the time it take to get from the airport to the city at the other end. If you ask me, anyone who still flies from London to Paris or Brussels must be mad!
Driving on the right lets you operate the gearshift with your right hand.
Funny how this is an argument for driving on the right in a country where nearly everyone drives an automatic, and gear sticks are generally mounted on the steering column. Meanwhile in the UK, 90% of cars are manual (or "stickshift") with the gear lever in the middle of the car and everyone is perfectly happy changing gear with their left hand.
"The Free Software movement is dead. Linux doesn't exist in 2007. Even Linus has got a job today." Controversial statements from the head of Microsoft's Linux Labs, Bill Hilf.
What are you talking about? Of course you don't own the copyright to the movie when you buy a DVD. And you don't own Mac OS X when you buy a Mac. Similarly, you don't own the copyright to GPL software when you use it.
Copyright belongs to the original author, unless they specifically sign it over to someone else. The copyright holder can give you a license to use the work under whatever terms they see fit. The closed licenses of software such as OS X, and also the GPL, are both examples of just that - licenses from the copyright holder to use the software under certain conditions.
Indeed, if you're interested in the lighttpd+fcgi approach you might want to check out this article on my blog which covers virtual hosting multiple Rails apps with lighttpd and also how to make it co-exist with Apache on the same server by using 2 IP addresses.
If you want a wiki that is as easy to use as a word processor, may I recommend MoinMoinWiki. It's a Python based Wiki that has an AJAX GUI-mode editor, with nice friendly buttons to make text bold, choose heading types, etc. We use it at my place of work and its great.
The basic principle is that you put your "source" IP block(s) in the database, and the script will then assign blocks from them. And if you delete an allocation, it will find that "gap" the next time you need a block that size.
Full source code is available from the link above. This might not be exactly what the original poster needs, but I hope it helps somebody.
Note this relies on PostgreSQL's ability to do operations on IP subnets using its CIDR datatype.
> Thy don't really give away VMWare Server. Only the beta version.
Not true, it will continue to be free after the beta. Here's an email I got from them today about the Beta 2:
In addition to bug fixes, VMware Server Beta 2 also includes exciting new features such as:
* support for connecting to and configuring GSX Server 3 hosts
* VMware Server C API Technology Preview.
We appreciate your candid feedback on VMware Server beta software and documentation. For more information on the software, we also encourage you to visit our free online knowledge base and the community discussion forum. If you encounter problems during beta testing, please submit an online support request.
VMware Server will continue to be a free virtualization product when it becomes generally available.
Oh, get over it. Does this have to happen any time anything developed less than 10 years ago is mentioned on slashdot? Ruby on Rails being the current favourite example. Here is how it goes every time...
Article: "here is a link to an interesting review of (insert technology here)".
Random guru: "That's nothing! I wrote something similar myself 6 years ago using perl/punchcards/blood from my own hand!"
Elitist Java developer: "Hahaha! You amateurs! How does your pathetic toy deal with redundant HA database clusters in a real-time mission-critical enterprise environment with a 5-nines uptime guarantee? Come back when you've grown up!!"
And so on. Personally, I'm a big fan of Ruby on Rails. I'm rather bored of seeing it compared to Java, a language I have never used. I moved to RoR from PHP, and let me tell you, its like a breath of fresh air. Yes, I could develop the exact same websites using PHP, but it involves writing a lot more code. Aren't computers supposed to do mundane work for us? Why make life difficult for yourself - I'm interested in results, not in worrying about whether I've escaped my SQL queries correctly using some function I had to write myself because PHP can't even do that properly.
Bottom line - RoR means better sites with less work. And that means more time to concentrate on making sites better for users, which is really what its all about.
OK, point taken. I'm not usually so indignant. But I got a bit annoyed by the reaction of a lot of Slashdot users to the mention of MySpace. But hey, at least I'm not posting anonymously;-)
As a 29-year-old MySpace user and owner of my own domain (in fact I have my own vmware server), may I be the first to invite you to shut the hell up?
You want to set up your own site on your own domain/hosting, go right ahead. Good luck getting any visitors. You want to make contact with new people, communicate with them, set up a virtual social network of people who you can later meet up with in real life, well you need something like MySpace. It's the users, stupid. Oh, and you get to discover cool new bands as well.
And another thing - is the irony of a lot of Slashdot users making fun of a lot of "12-year-old goth" MySpace users lost on everyone but me? I frequent both sites, and let me tell you, MySpace has a LOT more "normal" people on it than Slashdot.
You know what somebody needs to so? Somebody needs to set up scripts for grepping the apache config files using CRM114. YOu could even use it make sed like for the pseudo xml file format.
I, for one, think somebody needs to explain what on earth they are talking about.
Hell, why don't you answer your own question instead of simply leaving it as an assumed suggestion that your second option is the only possible answer?
It's called a rhetorical question.
The paper's argument is correct in its analysis. If P2P helps smaller artists by giving away their work then it's goingto be extremely difficult to jump from there to asking people to pay for music they traditionally got for free. The internet has proven that pay services don't work if the service was free initially. Even the New York Times' free subscription sends many slashbots into fits of rage.
With pay services you are paying for convenience, not the product itself. E.g. you might discover an act via P2P, then go to a pay site and pay a modest fee to download the whole album in a decent-quality encoding, complete with cover art. The success of iTunes shows that this model certainly does work, even in the face of competition from free P2P services. As for the NYT, thats an objection to unecessary collection of personal data - completely irrelevant to this discussion.
"File sharing is reducing the probability that any act is able to sell millions of records, and if the success of the mega-star artists is what drives the investment in new acts, it might reduce the incentive to invest in new talent."
So what this is saying is, P2P helps smaller independent artists and is detrimental to large "manufactured" pop acts. Which is pretty much common sense, and is why the corporate music industry is so against it.
The argument that "lack of investment" will produce a shortage of talent is clearly ridiculous. How many of the great, truly talented acts we all know and love were the product of "investment" by the music industry? And how many struggled in poverty for years because they loved making music, before finally being signed up by a label and exploited for all they were worth...?
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What's wrong with that?
> They're probably the same people who top-post in email.
Don't forget that as of November 14th, Eurostar will go from St. Pancras on a new high-speed line all the way, which will take at least 20 minutes off the journey time and avoids the tedious crawling through London on the commuter lines. In fact I'm taking the Eurostar to Paris soon and I can't wait - already been to Brussels on it (lovely place by the way). Anyway, unless you are coming from somewhere like Birmingham, its just as quick as the plane if not quicker, when you include airport check-in times and the time it take to get from the airport to the city at the other end. If you ask me, anyone who still flies from London to Paris or Brussels must be mad!
Driving on the right lets you operate the gearshift with your right hand.
Funny how this is an argument for driving on the right in a country where nearly everyone drives an automatic, and gear sticks are generally mounted on the steering column. Meanwhile in the UK, 90% of cars are manual (or "stickshift") with the gear lever in the middle of the car and everyone is perfectly happy changing gear with their left hand.
"Row" as in "to have a row" (argument, domestic dispute, barney, altercation, fracas, etc.) rhymes with "cow".
"Row houses" - what? Do you mean terraced houses?
Ah, Britain and America - two countries divided by a common language...
Who'd have thought that treating your customers with respect and giving them what they want would pay off?
Amazing!
Did you try to recover the photos? If it was a filesystem corruption (quite likely) then try this on Linux:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8366
I did this on an unreadable SD card and got nearly everything back except some photos were chopped off part way down the image.
So I guess you're out of a job then, Bill?
What are you talking about? Of course you don't own the copyright to the movie when you buy a DVD. And you don't own Mac OS X when you buy a Mac. Similarly, you don't own the copyright to GPL software when you use it.
Copyright belongs to the original author, unless they specifically sign it over to someone else. The copyright holder can give you a license to use the work under whatever terms they see fit. The closed licenses of software such as OS X, and also the GPL, are both examples of just that - licenses from the copyright holder to use the software under certain conditions.
Indeed, if you're interested in the lighttpd+fcgi approach you might want to check out this article on my blog which covers virtual hosting multiple Rails apps with lighttpd and also how to make it co-exist with Apache on the same server by using 2 IP addresses.
Dude the article is about Birmingham, England.
You mean Nazis, not Nazi's.
What the heck are you talking about? Make a what now?
If you want a wiki that is as easy to use as a word processor, may I recommend MoinMoinWiki. It's a Python based Wiki that has an AJAX GUI-mode editor, with nice friendly buttons to make text bold, choose heading types, etc. We use it at my place of work and its great.
I wrote an IP assignment script in PHP based on PostgreSQL. I was so pleased with the result, that I wrote an article about it on my blog:
http://blog.wilf.me.uk/articles/2004/11/27/assigni ng-ip-addresses-with-postgresql-and-php
The basic principle is that you put your "source" IP block(s) in the database, and the script will then assign blocks from them. And if you delete an allocation, it will find that "gap" the next time you need a block that size.
Full source code is available from the link above. This might not be exactly what the original poster needs, but I hope it helps somebody.
Note this relies on PostgreSQL's ability to do operations on IP subnets using its CIDR datatype.
> Thy don't really give away VMWare Server. Only the beta version.
Not true, it will continue to be free after the beta. Here's an email I got from them today about the Beta 2:
In addition to bug fixes, VMware Server Beta 2 also includes exciting new features such as:
* support for connecting to and configuring GSX Server 3 hosts
* VMware Server C API Technology Preview.
We appreciate your candid feedback on VMware Server beta software and documentation. For more information on the software, we also encourage you to visit our free online knowledge base and the community discussion forum. If you encounter problems during beta testing, please submit an online support request.
VMware Server will continue to be a free virtualization product when it becomes generally available.
So, are you hiring? :-)
Oh, get over it. Does this have to happen any time anything developed less than 10 years ago is mentioned on slashdot? Ruby on Rails being the current favourite example. Here is how it goes every time...
Article: "here is a link to an interesting review of (insert technology here)".
Random guru: "That's nothing! I wrote something similar myself 6 years ago using perl/punchcards/blood from my own hand!"
Elitist Java developer: "Hahaha! You amateurs! How does your pathetic toy deal with redundant HA database clusters in a real-time mission-critical enterprise environment with a 5-nines uptime guarantee? Come back when you've grown up!!"
And so on. Personally, I'm a big fan of Ruby on Rails. I'm rather bored of seeing it compared to Java, a language I have never used. I moved to RoR from PHP, and let me tell you, its like a breath of fresh air. Yes, I could develop the exact same websites using PHP, but it involves writing a lot more code. Aren't computers supposed to do mundane work for us? Why make life difficult for yourself - I'm interested in results, not in worrying about whether I've escaped my SQL queries correctly using some function I had to write myself because PHP can't even do that properly.
Bottom line - RoR means better sites with less work. And that means more time to concentrate on making sites better for users, which is really what its all about.
OK, point taken. I'm not usually so indignant. But I got a bit annoyed by the reaction of a lot of Slashdot users to the mention of MySpace. But hey, at least I'm not posting anonymously ;-)
As a 29-year-old MySpace user and owner of my own domain (in fact I have my own vmware server), may I be the first to invite you to shut the hell up?
You want to set up your own site on your own domain/hosting, go right ahead. Good luck getting any visitors. You want to make contact with new people, communicate with them, set up a virtual social network of people who you can later meet up with in real life, well you need something like MySpace. It's the users, stupid. Oh, and you get to discover cool new bands as well.
And another thing - is the irony of a lot of Slashdot users making fun of a lot of "12-year-old goth" MySpace users lost on everyone but me? I frequent both sites, and let me tell you, MySpace has a LOT more "normal" people on it than Slashdot.
So in summary, shut up.
Dude, get a new radio.
You know what somebody needs to so? Somebody needs to set up scripts for grepping the apache config files using CRM114. YOu could even use it make sed like for the pseudo xml file format.
I, for one, think somebody needs to explain what on earth they are talking about.
Hell, why don't you answer your own question instead of simply leaving it as an assumed suggestion that your second option is the only possible answer?
It's called a rhetorical question.
The paper's argument is correct in its analysis. If P2P helps smaller artists by giving away their work then it's goingto be extremely difficult to jump from there to asking people to pay for music they traditionally got for free. The internet has proven that pay services don't work if the service was free initially. Even the New York Times' free subscription sends many slashbots into fits of rage.
With pay services you are paying for convenience, not the product itself. E.g. you might discover an act via P2P, then go to a pay site and pay a modest fee to download the whole album in a decent-quality encoding, complete with cover art. The success of iTunes shows that this model certainly does work, even in the face of competition from free P2P services. As for the NYT, thats an objection to unecessary collection of personal data - completely irrelevant to this discussion.
"File sharing is reducing the probability that any act is able to sell millions of records, and if the success of the mega-star artists is what drives the investment in new acts, it might reduce the incentive to invest in new talent."
So what this is saying is, P2P helps smaller independent artists and is detrimental to large "manufactured" pop acts. Which is pretty much common sense, and is why the corporate music industry is so against it.
The argument that "lack of investment" will produce a shortage of talent is clearly ridiculous. How many of the great, truly talented acts we all know and love were the product of "investment" by the music industry? And how many struggled in poverty for years because they loved making music, before finally being signed up by a label and exploited for all they were worth...?
Yes, but can it handle two cows?
But I was using my whole ass!