adobe already checked out what's possible by using Trottlechs QT for their windows version of photoshop album. they made the design mistake to enable cleartype antialiasing - so the interface looks quite fuzzy - but the overall design is quite a success IMHO.
come on guys. watching cnn from europe it looks like a report from tv afganistan. they just report the votes count so far (9 ET)! how long do they want to do this? sind decades, scientists created models to count early polls, exit polls and polls before the election together to get projections with error margins of around 5-10% at least.
why do the tv stations stop using them, just because they made false projections four years ago - in an election so close, nobody has to be shameful to have beeing wrong sometime during the night?!
i do it with replication. i have another server connected to the main server and changed 3 lines in each servers my.cnf according to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Replication.html - it takes minutes and afterward you can easily shut down and restart the backup mysql server to backup things the way you like..
i have now my second boblbee backpack. in 5 years. yes, these are the backpacks which just dont break or wear out otherwise. and i wear the backpack/each/ day! they have a superb quality. my first boblbee was a "peoples delite", now i have a "mentor". the latter is not quite as stylish as the first, but is much more practical with a lot of pockets and a soft bag which you can mount on top of the backpack shell itself.
the main point in the boblbee is ergonomics. even fully loaded and weighing some 20 pounds you don't get back aches at all, even when you wear it for hours - hard to believe but so it is. the soft back is like a pillow on your back and very soothing that way.
when empty or only lightly filled you almost forget that you waer a backpack and that is the reason that i really always and ever have it with me - it just doesn't bother to have it with you..
no, i'm not payed by boblbee - although, maybe i should ask them;)
when gmailfs was released, i tried to install it, but abandoned it after it didn't work out of the tar. my python was not up to date, my old red hat box had some library missing and gmailfs was not thar important to me to waste an hour just to install that thing.
the gmail drive shell extension was installed in 10 seconds. it may be not quite a fair example, but the ease of installation was clearly on the windows side this time.
problem in the linux worlds seems to me not the lack of packaging systems, not even that there are more than one - problem is that there is no easy way to actual package your software or, more often, that the developer just doesn't care. this is just not necessary..
to correct myself, as reported here (it's in german, use the fish):
not the visa itself was rejected but a special entry permission which was neccessary to arrive to the WCG in time. they refered him to the normal visa application process which takes around 1,5 weeks - but which has no use when the WCG starts today..
in a german games television show they had an interview with a german warcraft player who qualified for the WCG but it's visa to the US was rejected. the only problem was (as he described it) that he had the german/and/ the turkish citizenship (which is quite usual in germany, we have some 3 million turkish immigrants (out of a population of 80 million)).
i think the US is shooting it's own foot if they continue to behave this way. a lot of people here already wait with their holidays in the US in the hope, that the obligatory fingerprints when entering the US will go away sometimes (which i doubt personally)
and look, isn't that great that the story mentioned some minutes ago here and published some hours ago in spiegel-online.de is already mentioned in wikipedia? this beast is revolutionary..
just for the record, go into opera, load slashdot, press ctrl-alt-v (validate frame) and you get back a document with some hundred validation erors against html 3.2
a) the speed difference in decompressing is still extremly notably. (my servers are usually 1-2 ghz x86 machines..)
b) bandwith is growing faster then processing power. means, in real live i'm quicker done when i/fast/ compress and later transfer a/bigger/ file then visa versa..
..and they have the most annoying spam filtering beside web.de
i can't count how often i get called from clients complaining, that/my/ server doesn't send their mails - and when i ask them for the recipients address it is most definitely a gmx.* account.
as stated yesterday, how do you conclude, that a change in login procedure while in beta is meant to exclude third party email checkers - and WHY?! with you pranoia you should apply for a job at intel;)
i use microsoft mice since the are on the market - i just like them.. but right click with the pinky? no way. i just simulated it and it's majorly non-ergonomic. MHO..
what BS. how do you come to the conclusion that they changed the login protocol to exclude third party notification tools?
1. why should they? 2. it's beta. they changed their login scheme, so what? (it was a bit strange anyway..) 3. you are wrong. google notifier pop's up when new mails arrive.
conclusion: is there nothing important going on to post such badly invastigated zero news to slashdot?
if you get new hardware you certainly want to upgrade.
i'm a bit sick of all the MS bashing sometimes. see, as an IT-consultant, i install new PCs, servers etc. for a living. i certainly don't install every new MS OS just after release, but i haven't upgraded my servers to the 2.6 kernels too.
but, since a year, I certainly install XP, not 2000, on new PCs. why? because it is better then 2000, ME (oh my god!;) ), 98 and NT. hardware detection has gotten better, WLAN support works, no need for a third party firewall, you can easily downgrade the UI to 9x/2000 style etc. - so why should i install an older windows just to proove that i'm a REAL/.er.. ?;)
or to put my question another way: is the whole stripeset f***ed up when there are bad sectors on one disk or do i have some time to evacuate the data as i have it when i get bad sectors on a single drive?
when it comes to reliability, RAID 0 has it's drawbacks, no question. if one disk crashes, your data's gone.
but i can't remember when i've seen a complete crash of a disk in recent times (if it was not more than some years old). what i see from time to time are bad clusters - and even those are foreseeable to some extent by using S.M.A.R.T. monitors.
so, my question is, has someone experienced bad sectors on one of his striped disks and how does it effect the whole stripe set?
i already proposed to cmdrtaco that he add's a backend scripts which semi-automatically puts wikipedia-links into a sidebox (without success until now). write him about it if you care...
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adobe already checked out what's possible by using Trottlechs QT for their windows version of photoshop album. they made the design mistake to enable cleartype antialiasing - so the interface looks quite fuzzy - but the overall design is quite a success IMHO.
PAT
come on guys. watching cnn from europe it looks like a report from tv afganistan. they just report the votes count so far (9 ET)! how long do they want to do this? sind decades, scientists created models to count early polls, exit polls and polls before the election together to get projections with error margins of around 5-10% at least.
why do the tv stations stop using them, just because they made false projections four years ago - in an election so close, nobody has to be shameful to have beeing wrong sometime during the night?!
PAT
i do it with replication. i have another server connected to the main server and changed 3 lines in each servers my.cnf according to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Replication.html - it takes minutes and afterward you can easily shut down and restart the backup mysql server to backup things the way you like..
PAT
hi,
/each/ day! they have a superb quality. my first boblbee was a "peoples delite", now i have a "mentor". the latter is not quite as stylish as the first, but is much more practical with a lot of pockets and a soft bag which you can mount on top of the backpack shell itself.
;)
i have now my second boblbee backpack. in 5 years. yes, these are the backpacks which just dont break or wear out otherwise. and i wear the backpack
the main point in the boblbee is ergonomics. even fully loaded and weighing some 20 pounds you don't get back aches at all, even when you wear it for hours - hard to believe but so it is. the soft back is like a pillow on your back and very soothing that way.
when empty or only lightly filled you almost forget that you waer a backpack and that is the reason that i really always and ever have it with me - it just doesn't bother to have it with you..
no, i'm not payed by boblbee - although, maybe i should ask them
PAT
when gmailfs was released, i tried to install it, but abandoned it after it didn't work out of the tar. my python was not up to date, my old red hat box had some library missing and gmailfs was not thar important to me to waste an hour just to install that thing.
the gmail drive shell extension was installed in 10 seconds. it may be not quite a fair example, but the ease of installation was clearly on the windows side this time.
problem in the linux worlds seems to me not the lack of packaging systems, not even that there are more than one - problem is that there is no easy way to actual package your software or, more often, that the developer just doesn't care. this is just not necessary..
PAT
rofl..
PAT
right, and i seriously doubt, that the US will have a lot of international events in the next years. have fun in your hole.. ;/
PAT
not the visa itself was rejected but a special entry permission which was neccessary to arrive to the WCG in time. they refered him to the normal visa application process which takes around 1,5 weeks - but which has no use when the WCG starts today..
PAT
in a german games television show they had an interview with a german warcraft player who qualified for the WCG but it's visa to the US was rejected. the only problem was (as he described it) that he had the german /and/ the turkish citizenship (which is quite usual in germany, we have some 3 million turkish immigrants (out of a population of 80 million)).
i think the US is shooting it's own foot if they continue to behave this way. a lot of people here already wait with their holidays in the US in the hope, that the obligatory fingerprints when entering the US will go away sometimes (which i doubt personally)
PAT
ed2k://|file|worldwind-1_2.zip|265444979|ed5ca6a72 890de497be2185c2007e31e|/
ok, it's election year, but next year there will be a world beyond US borders again, don't be surprised ;)
PAT
and look, isn't that great that the story mentioned some minutes ago here and published some hours ago in spiegel-online.de is already mentioned in wikipedia? this beast is revolutionary..
PAT
just for the record, go into opera, load slashdot, press ctrl-alt-v (validate frame) and you get back a document with some hundred validation erors against html 3.2
PAT
because
/fast/ compress and later transfer a /bigger/ file then visa versa..
a) the speed difference in decompressing is still extremly notably. (my servers are usually 1-2 ghz x86 machines..)
b) bandwith is growing faster then processing power. means, in real live i'm quicker done when i
PAT
i wonder if this woud make a great mikroscope/scanner. all you need is some lego and a way to get the image from the laser..
PAT
..and they have the most annoying spam filtering beside web.de
/my/ server doesn't send their mails - and when i ask them for the recipients address it is most definitely a gmx.* account.
i can't count how often i get called from clients complaining, that
PAT
as stated yesterday, how do you conclude, that a change in login procedure while in beta is meant to exclude third party email checkers - and WHY?! with you pranoia you should apply for a job at intel ;)
PAT
i use microsoft mice since the are on the market - i just like them.. but right click with the pinky? no way. i just simulated it and it's majorly non-ergonomic. MHO..
PAT
PAT
what BS. how do you come to the conclusion that they changed the login protocol to exclude third party notification tools?
1. why should they?
2. it's beta. they changed their login scheme, so what? (it was a bit strange anyway..)
3. you are wrong. google notifier pop's up when new mails arrive.
conclusion: is there nothing important going on to post such badly invastigated zero news to slashdot?
PAT
i'm a bit sick of all the MS bashing sometimes. see, as an IT-consultant, i install new PCs, servers etc. for a living. i certainly don't install every new MS OS just after release, but i haven't upgraded my servers to the 2.6 kernels too.
but, since a year, I certainly install XP, not 2000, on new PCs. why? because it is better then 2000, ME (oh my god! ;) ), 98 and NT. hardware detection has gotten better, WLAN support works, no need for a third party firewall, you can easily downgrade the UI to 9x/2000 style etc. - so why should i install an older windows just to proove that i'm a REAL /.er.. ? ;)
PAT
it takes the disk offline or the whole stripeset?
or to put my question another way: is the whole stripeset f***ed up when there are bad sectors on one disk or do i have some time to evacuate the data as i have it when i get bad sectors on a single drive?
PAT
when it comes to reliability, RAID 0 has it's drawbacks, no question. if one disk crashes, your data's gone.
but i can't remember when i've seen a complete crash of a disk in recent times (if it was not more than some years old). what i see from time to time are bad clusters - and even those are foreseeable to some extent by using S.M.A.R.T. monitors.
so, my question is, has someone experienced bad sectors on one of his striped disks and how does it effect the whole stripe set?
PAT
i already proposed to cmdrtaco that he add's a backend scripts which semi-automatically puts wikipedia-links into a sidebox (without success until now). write him about it if you care...
PAT
helpful as ever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCO