I know of at least one large ISP who have bought a commercial, closed source monitoring system. However, this works so badly that the sysadmins have installed Nagios to run alongside it (presumably without official permission). Do you know of any other instances like this, and how do you think it impacts on Nagios usage and development? For instance, is it hard to get people to publish bug fixes and new features if their employers have commited the company's resources to a competing product?
To be honest, "GNU/Linux" has become interchangable in my mind with "Debian". I know that this is factually incorrect, but thats just how I think of it.
The other sad irony is that LaTeX is fairly easy to learn (if you are tolerably computer literate) but writing your own class files is a MAJOR pain in the ass.
Accidently shooting your allies in "Operations" will gain you extra points. (The versions of the game in non-US NATO countries will not have this feature).
Assuming that the RIAA win this round (and I really hope they don't), what's to stop you relocating your operations? Is there any overwhelming practical or legal reason why you can't broadcast from say, Britain or Holland?
That's good. The way a successful businessman explained it to me was "think of every possible way your partners can screw you over and put a clause in the contract to prevent that"
Why is this modded as 'Funny'? Strange yes, but feasible. The 'make menuconfig' system already has a 'page-at-a-time' interface, and if CML2 makes it easy to develop new interfaces then this would be fairly easy to write as a set of CGI's, for integration into something like Webmin.
I have been in correspondance about this with both the Inland Revenue, my MP and the Cabinet Office. (gov. dept. responsible for gov. IT, amongst other things).
The gist of it is that the whole digital certificates thing will be extended to none M$ browsers at some (unspecified) point in the future. You cannot currently get into *ANY* part of the site with a non-M$ browser.
My opinion is that this site is very important for a whole load of reasons, and it is important that it must work properly (we are not talking a $10 paperback from Amazon here, we are talking about personal and business taxes, amongst other things). Since they have taken the arguably short sighted step of using an M$ server solution, the fact that the first browser to be "certified" is Explorer is not surprising. This is of course a bit stupid - half the point of the public-key infrastructure is to make it all work without having to check every browser with every server.
U.K. slashdotters: please pester your MP about this, and suggest they pass on your comments to Ian McCartney, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office. You can do this here.
Each disclaimer represented a particular way in which an attorney's client had previously been screwed
This is so true. I love reading the small print on products to find exactly what some stupid people have done with them. "Do not insert forcibly into body cavities","Not to be used for drying pets", etc.
My favorite disclaimer was from a local brewery who were giving out scratch cards to win a free T-shirt. It said something like:
"they are usually presented at a very high level that hides most of the
detail"
Some might say that herein lies the power & beauty of mathematics. If you present theorems in the most abstract manner possible, you suddenly become able to apply them to problems completely different from the original motivating application.
Presenting mathematics from "first principles" (i.e. axiomatic set theory) is nothing new. I doubt if it really helps teaching and comprehension though, especially not for engineers and physicists (who usually couldn't care less about set theory). The best maths teachers I had were the ones who managed to combine abstract theoretical rigour and motivating application in just the right balance
Save for th UK, which appears to be in the process of killing off any form of privacy, all European countries have similar or comparable data protection laws.
There are many fucked up laws in the UK at the mo (Regulation of Investigory Powers act, Criminal Justice act, etc.) and the whole CCTV big brother thing sucks. But data protection regulation is very good, and now applies to non digital data too. The data protection act is very useful for getting information out of people who collect data on you for a living and also as a stick to wield against stupid people. Example: the finance department of my University put an Excel file contianing the home addresses of all students in a shared directory on the campus LAN. Once I notified the Uni data protection oficer it was removed in about 10 minutes!
There are rules about government departments not sharing data unless neccesary, but everyone knows that it still goes on. The way to combat this is to make it hard for them to share the data, e.g. NOT by putting it all in the same place.
I tired ALL the xmms visualisation plugins last month. Here is the low-down, with some random notes I made at the time. Hope this is useful for someone.
# Bezier - Boring, crashes.
# Blur scope max. Promising, fixed res, slow, hangs XMMS sometimes. Config is also slow...
# Blursk. Very Nice. Bug: Need to restart if resized.
# Bump scope. OK. Bump mapped scope with moving light. Can run "full screen on play" but assmues geometry nd breaks X a bit.
# Synastehsia-xmms. V nice. Same "full screen on play" problem as Bump scope.
# Emmisions. libxstars is kinda OK, maybe hack it a bit. Runs on root window!
# G-force. Good. Scales well. Config text goes to screen:-(. BUG: closing window kills XMMS. Try DGA patch ?? Needs very latest 'make' to compile
# Infinite. Nice circle based scope thingy. Good, stable. Scaling a problem.
# Iris. Most strange, quite good. Stable, good config tool.
# Goom. Nice. Resolution config a bit buggy? Doesn't run fullscreen. Closing the window breaks it.
# Jess. Nice, wierd effects. Crashes on start? Enable button broken? Fixed res. Worth a look at code. Apparently color-cyclable (press return. Perhaps this should be in a config window).
# Nurbies. Not sure what this does, but the GL stuff crashes my XMMS. Makefile is broken - 'libdir' is hard coded. Try this on a GL box.
# Plazma. Fairly simple colour stuff (turn the scope off). Has promise. Crashes XMMS hard if window closed.
# Rainbow. Very boring coloured rectangles. Makefile broken as for nurbies (same guy)
# Neato. Broken install.
# Tazma. Depedency farce (OpenPTC, hermes, lots of other broken graphics stuff).
# WMDiscoTux. "Dancing" penguin (nods head and flaps feet). A bit shit really.
# Xmms-speakers. Broken Makefile (libdir). Puts speakers on your XMMS. Crap.
# XPLSISNJASP. Control h/w via parallel port. Promising but untried. Could be crap.
Peter Hain (a likely future Foreign Minister) was framed for a bank robbery in the 1970's. Feel so confident now about MI5's ability to decide who are the people that are a threat?
Care about you or I down the pub, no. But historically MI5 has kept files on people who they considered at the time to be a threat to national security, but are now respected members of the establishment (including several ministers, e.g. Jack Straw, Peter Hain). If MI5 could be so wrong then, then they can be just as wrong now -- I don't trust them, as a matter of principle.
the "module / class / package" thing is very similar to the change in LaTeX from v2.0.9 to v.2e, where files changed from starting with \documentstyle to starting with \documentclass. It was easy to start using 2e and backwards compatibility was easily maintained
It's a phone! If you want to communicate with someone CALL THEM!!!! I don't need no stinking WAP or texting on my phone - I can talk to people (remember that?).
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I know of at least one large ISP who have bought a commercial, closed source monitoring system. However, this works so badly that the sysadmins have installed Nagios to run alongside it (presumably without official permission). Do you know of any other instances like this, and how do you think it impacts on Nagios usage and development? For instance, is it hard to get people to publish bug fixes and new features if their employers have commited the company's resources to a competing product?
To be honest, "GNU/Linux" has become interchangable in my mind with "Debian". I know that this is factually incorrect, but thats just how I think of it.
And people think Americans have no clue about the rest of the world. Surely not!
(And they also say you have no understanding of sarcasm or irony either. How could that possibly be?)
The other sad irony is that LaTeX is fairly easy to learn (if you are tolerably computer literate) but writing your own class files is a MAJOR pain in the ass.
Gah!
... well you look it up, but for about 30 years or something.
Britain has been using "billion" for 10^9 and "trillion" for 10^12 for
Can you guys start using metric now, please.
Accidently shooting your allies in "Operations" will gain you extra points. (The versions of the game in non-US NATO countries will not have this feature).
Assuming that the RIAA win this round (and I really hope they don't), what's to stop you relocating your operations? Is there any overwhelming practical or legal reason why you can't broadcast from say, Britain or Holland?
That's good. The way a successful businessman explained it to me was "think of every possible way your partners can screw you over and put a clause in the contract to prevent that"
All the evidence I need is right here. My cow-orker on the next desk is running it right now under FreeBSD on his Sony Vaio!
Can someone explain to me why wireless mobile gaming is not just WAP mark2?
I have been in correspondance about this with both the Inland Revenue, my MP and the Cabinet Office. (gov. dept. responsible for gov. IT, amongst other things).
The gist of it is that the whole digital certificates thing will be extended to none M$ browsers at some (unspecified) point in the future. You cannot currently get into *ANY* part of the site with a non-M$ browser.
My opinion is that this site is very important for a whole load of reasons, and it is important that it must work properly (we are not talking a $10 paperback from Amazon here, we are talking about personal and business taxes, amongst other things). Since they have taken the arguably short sighted step of using an M$ server solution, the fact that the first browser to be "certified" is Explorer is not surprising. This is of course a bit stupid - half the point of the public-key infrastructure is to make it all work without having to check every browser with every server.
U.K. slashdotters: please pester your MP about this, and suggest they pass on your comments to Ian McCartney, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office. You can do this here.
This is so true. I love reading the small print on products to find exactly what some stupid people have done with them. "Do not insert forcibly into body cavities","Not to be used for drying pets", etc.
My favorite disclaimer was from a local brewery who were giving out scratch cards to win a free T-shirt. It said something like:
This offer valid until we
Will it? I thought python was whitespace dependent ... :-)
Optimisation?????????????? Typing like this will be an optional feature, but it will speed up certain programs (e.g. numerical routines).
Some might say that herein lies the power & beauty of mathematics. If you present theorems in the most abstract manner possible, you suddenly become able to apply them to problems completely different from the original motivating application.
Presenting mathematics from "first principles" (i.e. axiomatic set theory) is nothing new. I doubt if it really helps teaching and comprehension though, especially not for engineers and physicists (who usually couldn't care less about set theory). The best maths teachers I had were the ones who managed to combine abstract theoretical rigour and motivating application in just the right balance
I'll get my coat ...
There are many fucked up laws in the UK at the mo (Regulation of Investigory Powers act, Criminal Justice act, etc.) and the whole CCTV big brother thing sucks. But data protection regulation is very good, and now applies to non digital data too. The data protection act is very useful for getting information out of people who collect data on you for a living and also as a stick to wield against stupid people. Example: the finance department of my University put an Excel file contianing the home addresses of all students in a shared directory on the campus LAN. Once I notified the Uni data protection oficer it was removed in about 10 minutes!
There are rules about government departments not sharing data unless neccesary, but everyone knows that it still goes on. The way to combat this is to make it hard for them to share the data, e.g. NOT by putting it all in the same place.
I tired ALL the xmms visualisation plugins last month. Here is the low-down, with some random notes I made at the time. Hope this is useful for someone.
...
:-(. BUG: closing window kills XMMS. Try DGA patch ?? Needs very latest 'make' to compile
# Bezier - Boring, crashes.
# Blur scope max. Promising, fixed res, slow, hangs XMMS sometimes. Config is also slow
# Blursk. Very Nice. Bug: Need to restart if resized.
# Bump scope. OK. Bump mapped scope with moving light. Can run "full screen on play" but assmues geometry nd breaks X a bit.
# Synastehsia-xmms. V nice. Same "full screen on play" problem as Bump scope.
# Emmisions. libxstars is kinda OK, maybe hack it a bit. Runs on root window!
# G-force. Good. Scales well. Config text goes to screen
# Infinite. Nice circle based scope thingy. Good, stable. Scaling a problem.
# Iris. Most strange, quite good. Stable, good config tool.
# Goom. Nice. Resolution config a bit buggy? Doesn't run fullscreen. Closing the window breaks it.
# Jess. Nice, wierd effects. Crashes on start? Enable button broken? Fixed res. Worth a look at code. Apparently color-cyclable (press return. Perhaps this should be in a config window).
# Nurbies. Not sure what this does, but the GL stuff crashes my XMMS. Makefile is broken - 'libdir' is hard coded. Try this on a GL box.
# Plazma. Fairly simple colour stuff (turn the scope off). Has promise. Crashes XMMS hard if window closed.
# Rainbow. Very boring coloured rectangles. Makefile broken as for nurbies (same guy)
# Neato. Broken install.
# Tazma. Depedency farce (OpenPTC, hermes, lots of other broken graphics stuff).
# WMDiscoTux. "Dancing" penguin (nods head and flaps feet). A bit shit really.
# Xmms-speakers. Broken Makefile (libdir). Puts speakers on your XMMS. Crap.
# XPLSISNJASP. Control h/w via parallel port. Promising but untried. Could be crap.
# Zon. Won't compile.
No, he is planning (suggesting?) that that should be the default. Perl rarely forces anything.
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