But start with the Chapter:Of Feanor and the unchaining of Melkor.
That is where the story starts.
After you read from there to the end (of the Silmarillion, not into the Numenor Stuff) go back and reread the Ainulindale and Valenquenta. Just too fill in the holes.
Or skip em and pick up Unfinished tales, as the best stories are:
The Fall of Gondolin Turin Turambar Beren and Luthien
followed by
Earendil
C.S. Lewis books can't hod a candle. I loved them as a child, but I reread them when I turned 30. I'm non-christian, and the preachiness in them turned me off. He just wasn't as in to his world as Tolkien was into Middle Earth.
Just because the term was debunked (I won't challenge that) doesn't change the fact that wife beating was common up to the present day.
I conceed the point about the upper classes declaring war etc. I merely meant within polite society people were less likely to resort to beatings, but only because of the logisticts involved. I'll conceed the point also because it supports my overall argument.
If we were to get rid of our legal system, would we replace it with the brutality of years passed?
People used to brawl out their differences. So people banded together. THey called them gangs. Go watch gangs of New York. Tell me if that is how you want to live. Or in the days before The U.S.A split of from the U.K. look at how every major (present day) democracy in the world treated its own citizens. There was a reason the French started axing their own Aristocrats.
Yes, it is still about money and power. But lawyers and insurance firms are a vast improvment over roving gangs with knives and clubs.
Teach em SQL. Make em do it from the command line. They will thank you in the long run. Why, because then when they have to write embbedded SQL to get their app to run, they will know it.
1) They are a labor intensive (still think we should spell that on OK style as Labour).
2) They don't have the shelf life they claim. If it ain't 100% reliable, you better have a backup of your backup.
3) The tape hardware can be really unreliable too.
4) Make sure you can really retstore just that one file you want as opposed to the entire tap.
As for Network Backups...point 4 definitely applies. All the other posts talking about network connectivity definitely apply.
I did a contract for a network backup solution. The kept buying really high end dirk arrays. However, you probably can get away with cheap disks for backups. Assuming 1 TB of slow IDE is about $250 right now (I haven'r priced in a while) You can back up 4 TB with no redundancy for $1000. Using AMANDA, you can do the partials etc for weekly, daily, monthly.
Depending on how you set this up, it can be more or less labo intensive than the tapes.
Just like a securityu advisory, it would be nice if he could somehow let people know before he posted a map that lest other people steal their bandwidth...but I guess there really is no other way to let people know. Hell, most of those people probably don't read slashdot, so they won't figure out
Had a similar problem. Look at the custom install steps in the debian installer. There is one in there for 24 kernels. THis will allow you to install with ext3 etc.
One follow up: You probably don't really need a scanned image for everything. Just make it optional. 1 to N where N can be zero probably makes the most sense, since you want to scan certain doscs page by page.
Seems to me that the solution would involve a scanner, a database, and a mechanical system for retrieving the documents.
1) Scan the document. 2) Slide document into doc protector with ID tag (UPC codes might work, but really it could just be sequentioal 3) Create DB entry for ID, BLOB of scanned image, (or perhaps a foreign key to keep the images out of the quesry, but realistically most DBs optimize this for you) and most importatntly, meta data about document.
The more I think about it, the more I realize a number system of 1,2,3,4...would work fine. The automated retrieval, which would be nice, is not really vital. The match between the doc ID and the scanned version is enough, so long as the document always goes back into the same folder.
Note that garbage collection (compation is not really an option, which means to reaclaim discarded IDS (Reuse folders would crank insertion back up to O(log(n))
The question is whether the scanning process would be worth the time.
While I try not to get drawn into Pedantic discussions like this one, some times I can't resist.
KDE and Gnome are not aprt of Linux. They run on top of Linux.
There are many, many, many ways to put together a Linux distribution.I think Beos is a good example of that. Use the Linux OS an build a better UI layer on top of it.
It would be more accurate to say that you are Running KDE or Gnome as your system if you are complaining about Desktop applications. Or the distributions. I tell people I run Debian. I've Run Redhat. Yes, Linux is the Marketing term for all this, but it is misleading.
One thing that RMS has right is that Linux is only one part of the whole equasion. While he may want the Moniker Gnu for the whole system, other people want their efforts acknowledged as well.
I guess the points I'm trying to make in this rant is that these systems are complex, heterogeneous systems put togehter to solve a particular set of Problems. OSX is a single, monolithic system. Of course things like UI standards are going to be easer to enforce in a single corporation.
To say Linux should have have better UI standards is a nonsequitor. It would make more sense to say XFree86 should have better UI standards, but still it is a non sequitor. It would certainly make sense to say that Open Source GUI applications should follow better UI standards, but: Who is going to set these standards and how are they going to evolve? Do we smack down the innovative UI designer because he's strayed from the Norm?
Look at Blender. I find the UI frustrating because I have never learned it before. But the people who use it all the time say they find it very easy to work with. Same deal with the Gimp, although I have now used it enough that I "See where they were coming from" when they designed the UI.
If IBM thought they were going to make money (lose less Money, which ever way) by supporting JBoss, you can be sure they will have it analyzed and supported in a Heart Beat. THey have a lot of realy smart people. There is no reason they would miss up on a support opportunity. And you can be sure the JBoss group would be just as glad to sign a contract with them for support as well.
Will people switch away from Websphere...Lets give it a few years and see. The two have coexisted for a while now. I think they will continue to do so for a while.
Something like this has been neede for a long while, let's just hope that once something is developed in Rave, it can be integrated with other tools (straight Java code) while allowing the people Using Rave to continue to update as well.
I'm just a little concerned that I'll do all this switching around:ATI drivers, recompile the Kernel etc and I'll just end up trashing my system without actually getting the game to work.
Slashdot Mirror
But start with the Chapter:Of Feanor and the unchaining of Melkor.
That is where the story starts.
After you read from there to the end (of the Silmarillion, not into the Numenor Stuff) go back and reread the Ainulindale and Valenquenta. Just too fill in the holes.
Or skip em and pick up Unfinished tales, as the best stories are:
The Fall of Gondolin
Turin Turambar
Beren and Luthien
followed by
Earendil
C.S. Lewis books can't hod a candle.
I loved them as a child, but I reread them when I turned 30. I'm non-christian, and the preachiness in them turned me off. He just wasn't as in to his world as Tolkien was into Middle Earth.
Just because the term was debunked (I won't challenge that) doesn't change the fact that wife beating was common up to the present day.
I conceed the point about the upper classes declaring war etc. I merely meant within polite society people were less likely to resort to beatings, but only because of the logisticts involved. I'll conceed the point also because it supports my overall argument.
If we were to get rid of our legal system, would we replace it with the brutality of years passed?
Study History.
Maybe in the upper reaches of society, people were polite, but for the vast majority of human history it has been Might makes right.
Ever heard of the "Rule of Thumb"
People used to brawl out their differences.
So people banded together. THey called them gangs. Go watch gangs of New York. Tell me if that is how you want to live. Or in the days before The U.S.A split of from the U.K. look at how every major (present day) democracy in the world treated its own citizens. There was a reason the French started axing their own Aristocrats.
Yes, it is still about money and power. But lawyers and insurance firms are a vast improvment over roving gangs with knives and clubs.
It ain't perfect, but it is an improvement.
You don't get modded up because...
You post this on the day I don't have mod points.
You don't know how right you are.
The one time I recorded (for friend's demo album) all he used in the mixing process were a bunch of screeches and honks...basically sound effects.
As a saxophone player all I can say is...
Turn down the amp.
Damn guitarists. That's it. I'm getting a mike and an Amp.
Whoops.
Yeah, need to learn that Higher Math. I sit corrected.
Yep. It works well.
Better yet, don't teach em Access at all.
Teach em SQL. Make em do it from the command line. They will thank you in the long run. Why, because then when they have to write embbedded SQL to get their app to run, they will know it.
Computer Science Courses shouldn't be taught on Windows. They should be taught on some flavor of UNIX/Linux.
But But But that is what they will use in industry cry the MS folks.
Not in my shop.
I feel better now.
Teach PostgreSQL.
SQL != MS SQL Server.
12 Signs of the Zodiac.
They were called: Gemen, Caprica, etc.
Sheesh
1) They are a labor intensive (still think we should spell that on OK style as Labour).
2) They don't have the shelf life they claim. If it ain't 100% reliable, you better have a backup of your backup.
3) The tape hardware can be really unreliable too.
4) Make sure you can really retstore just that one file you want as opposed to the entire tap.
As for Network Backups...point 4 definitely applies. All the other posts talking about network connectivity definitely apply.
I did a contract for a network backup solution. The kept buying really high end dirk arrays. However, you probably can get away with cheap disks for backups. Assuming 1 TB of slow IDE is about $250 right now (I haven'r priced in a while) You can back up 4 TB with no redundancy for $1000. Using AMANDA, you can do the partials etc for weekly, daily, monthly.
Depending on how you set this up, it can be more or less labo intensive than the tapes.
Just like a securityu advisory, it would be nice if he could somehow let people know before he posted a map that lest other people steal their bandwidth...but I guess there really is no other way to let people know. Hell, most of those people probably don't read slashdot, so they won't figure out
Tie String to pen
lower pen from top of building
measure string.
I prefer Leviticus 23:13
Had a similar problem. Look at the custom install steps in the debian installer. There is one in there for 24 kernels. THis will allow you to install with ext3 etc.
One follow up: You probably don't really need a scanned image for everything. Just make it optional. 1 to N where N can be zero probably makes the most sense, since you want to scan certain doscs page by page.
I've wondered about this myself.
Seems to me that the solution would involve a scanner, a database, and a mechanical system for retrieving the documents.
1) Scan the document.
2) Slide document into doc protector with ID tag (UPC codes might work, but really it could just be sequentioal
3) Create DB entry for ID, BLOB of scanned image, (or perhaps a foreign key to keep the images out of the quesry, but realistically most DBs optimize this for you) and most importatntly, meta data about document.
The more I think about it, the more I realize a number system of 1,2,3,4...would work fine. The automated retrieval, which would be nice, is not really vital. The match between the doc ID and the scanned version is enough, so long as the document always goes back into the same folder.
Insertion O(1)
Search O(log(n))
Deletion O(log(n))
Note that garbage collection (compation is not really an option, which means to reaclaim discarded IDS (Reuse folders would crank insertion back up to O(log(n))
The question is whether the scanning process would be worth the time.
I think the curse you are trying to quote is usually translated as: May you live in interesting times.
Then again, my Mandarin is not strong enough to say...assuming it was a mandarin quote to begin with.
While I try not to get drawn into Pedantic discussions like this one, some times I can't resist.
KDE and Gnome are not aprt of Linux. They run on top of Linux.
There are many, many, many ways to put together a Linux distribution.I think Beos is a good example of that. Use the Linux OS an build a better UI layer on top of it.
It would be more accurate to say that you are Running KDE or Gnome as your system if you are complaining about Desktop applications. Or the distributions. I tell people I run Debian. I've Run Redhat. Yes, Linux is the Marketing term for all this, but it is misleading.
One thing that RMS has right is that Linux is only one part of the whole equasion. While he may want the Moniker Gnu for the whole system, other people want their efforts acknowledged as well.
I guess the points I'm trying to make in this rant is that these systems are complex, heterogeneous systems put togehter to solve a particular set of Problems. OSX is a single, monolithic system. Of course things like UI standards are going to be easer to enforce in a single corporation.
To say Linux should have have better UI standards is a nonsequitor. It would make more sense to say XFree86 should have better UI standards, but still it is a non sequitor. It would certainly make sense to say that Open Source GUI applications should follow better UI standards, but: Who is going to set these standards and how are they going to evolve? Do we smack down the innovative UI designer because he's strayed from the Norm?
Look at Blender. I find the UI frustrating because I have never learned it before. But the people who use it all the time say they find it very easy to work with. Same deal with the Gimp, although I have now used it enough that I "See where they were coming from" when they designed the UI.
OK, I'm done ranting. For now
No, he is right. Because KDE, Gnome, et Alles run on BSD and Solaris as well.
If IBM thought they were going to make money (lose less Money, which ever way) by supporting JBoss, you can be sure they will have it analyzed and supported in a Heart Beat. THey have a lot of realy smart people. There is no reason they would miss up on a support opportunity. And you can be sure the JBoss group would be just as glad to sign a contract with them for support as well.
Will people switch away from Websphere...Lets give it a few years and see. The two have coexisted for a while now. I think they will continue to do so for a while.
Actually, the Underscore should be in there:
Is a drag and drop editor for Java Server Faces.
THey are doing a Direct To DB binding as well.
Something like this has been neede for a long while, let's just hope that once something is developed in Rave, it can be integrated with other tools (straight Java code) while allowing the people Using Rave to continue to update as well.
I'm just a little concerned that I'll do all this switching around :ATI drivers, recompile the Kernel etc and I'll just end up trashing my system without actually getting the game to work.
Are the Binary ATI Drivers GPL legal?