The stop and refresh buttons are combined into a single button that is logically separate from back and forward. The button is "cancel" while a page is loading, and "refresh" when the page is done loading. There's no need to clutter the screen with more buttons.
About the only feature of MSIE that I prefer over Mozilla/Firefox is the ability to click the stop button even after a page has fully loaded in order to stop those fscking animated GIFs.
The player is 24x24x24 milimeters (about the size of the tip of your finger or various small items)
Most posters seemed to find the "size of the tip of your finger" part of this quote funny, but I personally find "or various small items" even funnier.
What we need now is a Slashdot story on somebody's ultimate DIY keyboard mod, complete with about 28 high-quality close-up PNG's showing every step of unplugging the keyboard from the PC, masking the keyboard, spraying the primer, watching the primer dry, digging out the primer that got between the keys, and hooking the keyboard back up. Oh, and about 5 more "action" shots of the keyboard in use, some with the lights off (so you can see the cool green Num Lock LED).
Then in another week we'll see another Slashdot story about basically the same thing, but this time using a wireless keyboard!
Any library that requires a logon has a good reason for this. Considering most libraries operate autonomously from the government, what a library does has no bearing on the totalitarianism of a state.
From personal experience, I have to disagree with you here. It wasn't until after the Patriot Act was passed that public libraries stopped allowing anonymous web access. Previously, I don't remember ever entering a single library (in a number of different cities and counties in different states) that required any kind of sign-up on logon.
They shut off access logging in IIS. As far as I could see, they left logging on for Red Hat. This means that lots of disk writes were being generated on Linux but not on Windows. As http request volume goes up in their tests, the RAID write-cache could eventually fill up (only under Linux), at which point the webserver starts blocking while waiting for disk I/O to complete.
Figures that right after submitting this I see that they turned off access logging in Apache. Doh!
This report may be two years out of date, but I can't see any signs of bias in its production.
I see a few signs. The first thing I noticed is that they used Compaq Smart-Start to install Windows. Smart-Start basically ensures that the installed OS automatically gets the right drivers, and configures tweaks specifically for the vendor's hardware. The out-of-the-box Red Hat installs may have used older and sometimes generic hardware drivers.
I also noticed that for the Red Hat installs, they selected "custom" but left all the pre-selected items checked. IIRC, this installs a lot of crap, including many optional daemons. I doubt their Windows configuration had lots of extraneous services installed and running.
They shut off access logging in IIS. As far as I could see, they left logging on for Red Hat. This means that lots of disk writes were being generated on Linux but not on Windows. As http request volume goes up in their tests, the RAID write-cache could eventually fill up (only under Linux), at which point the webserver starts blocking while waiting for disk I/O to complete.
As others have pointed out, there are also possible issues with CGI, the SSL handshaking, etc.
The problem with this would be that the XGrid agents would need to be cross-platform.
A mature cross platform version of this type of technology, which has similar discovery and grid-computing capabilities, is called Jini. Once again, Sun proves its marketing prowess.
AD is a directory made useful far beyond bare-bones LDAP, and with more fully realized utility than NDS.
Let me apologize in advance for veering off-topic here, but I gotta call you out on this one.
After spending the last 3 months working on building an LDAP-based user-provisioning system for AD, I could write a book about everything that's wrong with it.
First, the whole thing is still based on the legacy NT domain model. If you have a forrest of multiple domains, you need trusts between them in order for a user in one domain to access resources in another. And technically, each domain is a separate directory.
The Global Catalog is basically just a hack to try to address the fact that there isn't really a single directory. But it's read-only, and just contains a subset of attributes.
There's no concept of partitioning the directory (other than by using domains). So if you have a widely distributed directory, you either need a lot of WAN bandwidth for replication, or you need lots of individual domains.
Microsoft strongly discourages extending the AD schema - so much so that they came out with AD/AM - Active Directory / Application Mode - for use by custom applications, so as to avoid extending production Active Directory deployments. Furthermore, there's no way to remove a class or attribute from AD once you've added them - you can only disable them.
Group Policies aren't stored in the directory - they're stored in the filesystem (the directory just contains UNC paths to the files).
AD will only listen for LDAP traffic on 389, or secure LDAP on 636. You can't choose any other ports.
By default, AD listens for unencrypted LDAP on port 389, and allows authentication on that port. What's funny is that you can't use port 389 to change a user's password (for security reasons) but AD will let you bind as "Administrator" on that port without complaint, having allowed you to pass the Administrator password across the network with no SSL or TLS.
AD's LDAP error messages are horrible. In general, they're not very descriptive of the real problem. Other LDAP implementations provide error messages that are meaningful enough to pass back to the user.
AD requires the use of Windows DNS, and does some non-standard things so that LDAP referrals often won't work correctly unless the LDAP client uses the same DNS servers.
By default, LDAP sessions time out after a few minutes. So if you're browsing the directory using some generic LDAP tool and you're idle for a few minutes, when you then try to examine something you find you've been disconnected. My guess is they added this because so many developers are incapable of closing connections when they're done.
If one believes God created us, then one can accept on faith that there are some things which we cannot understand - like how God exists in the first place. We have finite minds, our minds cannot comprehend something always existing, but I know it's true because I'm willing to accept it on faith.
I find it much more reasonable to believe it was created with a snap of the fingers and admit I cannot understand how God could always exist than to believe this Awesome Universe "evolved" exactly the way it did!
HEY MODERATORS!!!
Read the freaking moderation guidelines. This post did NOT deserve to be modded down as a troll. You do NOT moderate a post as a troll just because you disagree with the content.
BTW, thanks for your wholly invented numbers about Phillip Morris. We can all reach some really worthwhile conclusions from numbers you figure might be true.
You're right. I was quoting from memory a story that was almost 4 years ago. Sorry I don't have a photographic memory.
Here is a passage from an article that estimates the donation was around $125,000 while the production costs were well over a million. Note that this doesn't include air time, which is probably much more costly. There were also additional ads. I seem to remember one in which flood victims in Mississippi were getting fresh water from Philip Morris volunteers. IIRC, these aired quite a few times, during prime time and during popular sporting events.
Philip Morris declined to disclose the net value of the donated food (Per-pound wholesale costs for items such as macaroni and cheese suggest a value of about $125,000.). Neither will it reveal production costs for the ad (Producers not involved in the project peg its cost at well over $1 million, excluding airtime.). AmeriCares, the not-for-profit group that worked with the Belgian military to deliver the Kraft food, as well as medicine and other provisions, isn't mentioned in the commercial. AmeriCares vice chairman Andrew Hannah says that Philip Morris did contact his group about the ad, but only after production had begun. "They asked us if we wanted to participate in an advisory fashion or if we wanted to be mentioned, although it was not planned," he says.
First, I think it's ridiculous that my previous (grandparent) post got modded down as a troll. Hopefully meta-moderators will act accordingly.
You want MS to create OSS software to give out for free, but do it anonymously? Ok, then how are we supposed to give credit to MS for doing this generous thing?
We're not. See, isn't that the point? If they really care about child porn, they wouldn't be doing it in order to get credit.
Under your model there is no way for MS to get credit for their work - which is not only publicity but a tax write-off which they are entitled too.
So you're saying that if you donate money anonymously, you can't write it off on your taxes? That's just silly. Of course you can.
And who says that MS has to donate a certain amount of money? If they want to spend 10 mil on a 100k donation - that is their choice - we should thank them for the 100k donation and we should thank them for putting 10 mil back into the economy and lining someone elses pockets.
First of all it was Phillip Morris. Nevertheless, the point was that the company is just being manipulative. You want me to reward a company for being manipulative? Sorry, that's not me. If you want to do that, go right ahead.
Is saying "good job" too much to ask for? What does MS need to do to earn a thank you from all the nay-sayers.
Ummm, how about doing exactly what they did, but anonymously, so that we know they didn't just do it for the positive press?
Microsoft's certainly not alone in this sort of thing. A couple of years ago Phillip Morris had a series of TV advertisements in which they boasted how they had helped communities during various disasters. They probably spent $10,000,000 on the prime-time ads to showcase the $100,000 they spent on disaster relief.
Microsoft has a long history of being insincere and untrustworthy. Frankly, many of us will never believe they've changed their ways, no matter what they do.
Jim Gray is a "Distinguished Engineer" in
Microsoft's Scaleable Servers Research Group
and manager of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC).
OK, Xerox has their famous Palo Alto Reseach Center (PARC), so Microsoft just has to have its own similarly named center in the same general vicinity. Sheesh!
Just so everyone knows, as of right now you can still get to the old search:
http://groups.google.com/
Wow! They're changing things as we speak. A minute ago, www.google.com had a link to the beta groups search. Right now, it has changed to a link to some intermediate page that now redirects to the old groups search page (which now has a link to the beta groups search).
Is this in response to the Slashdot effect? Or are Google employees reading the complaints on Slashdot?
I'd take a phone with NO camera, NO games, NO PDA functions, NO mp3 player, and NO radio, if the thing consistently sounded like, and was as reliable as, a land line.
Heck, as long as I'm on this rant, here in the US we have no competition between the service providers. Thanks FTC, for allowing 2 of the existing big 4 to merge. The 7000 being laid off thank you as well. If Cingular, Sprint, and T-Mobile can each afford to put a retail outlet in every strip mall in America, they're obviously making way too much money, and could easily afford to give us unlimited use (including text messaging, data, etc.) for $25 a month.
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From the review:
The stop and refresh buttons are combined into a single button that is logically separate from back and forward. The button is "cancel" while a page is loading, and "refresh" when the page is done loading. There's no need to clutter the screen with more buttons.
About the only feature of MSIE that I prefer over Mozilla/Firefox is the ability to click the stop button even after a page has fully loaded in order to stop those fscking animated GIFs.
Morons!
The player is 24x24x24 milimeters (about the size of the tip of your finger or various small items)
Most posters seemed to find the "size of the tip of your finger" part of this quote funny, but I personally find "or various small items" even funnier.
Q: How big is 24x24x24 millimeters?
A: About the size of various small items.
Yeah, that's some real useful information.
If you think ddr2 the game is more geeky than ddr2 the memory, we must have a really different definition of geekness.
I'd say an ubergeek is someone who knows both definitions.
Congratulations!
SERENITY NOW!
Hey, you plagiarized my sig!
With patents in Europe and the USA how long will it take for someone to use this to swim the English Channel underwater?"
I don't know. Probably about the same length of time it would take without the patents.
What we need now is a Slashdot story on somebody's ultimate DIY keyboard mod, complete with about 28 high-quality close-up PNG's showing every step of unplugging the keyboard from the PC, masking the keyboard, spraying the primer, watching the primer dry, digging out the primer that got between the keys, and hooking the keyboard back up. Oh, and about 5 more "action" shots of the keyboard in use, some with the lights off (so you can see the cool green Num Lock LED).
Then in another week we'll see another Slashdot story about basically the same thing, but this time using a wireless keyboard!
Any library that requires a logon has a good reason for this. Considering most libraries operate autonomously from the government, what a library does has no bearing on the totalitarianism of a state.
From personal experience, I have to disagree with you here. It wasn't until after the Patriot Act was passed that public libraries stopped allowing anonymous web access. Previously, I don't remember ever entering a single library (in a number of different cities and counties in different states) that required any kind of sign-up on logon.
Who's the bonehead that modded parent down as redundant? For crying out loud, the guy posted 4 minutes after the article appeared!
If you're going to moderate, read the freakin' moderation guidelines. Try to focus on positive moderation of good posts.
They shut off access logging in IIS. As far as I could see, they left logging on for Red Hat. This means that lots of disk writes were being generated on Linux but not on Windows. As http request volume goes up in their tests, the RAID write-cache could eventually fill up (only under Linux), at which point the webserver starts blocking while waiting for disk I/O to complete.
Figures that right after submitting this I see that they turned off access logging in Apache. Doh!
This report may be two years out of date, but I can't see any signs of bias in its production.
I see a few signs. The first thing I noticed is that they used Compaq Smart-Start to install Windows. Smart-Start basically ensures that the installed OS automatically gets the right drivers, and configures tweaks specifically for the vendor's hardware. The out-of-the-box Red Hat installs may have used older and sometimes generic hardware drivers.
I also noticed that for the Red Hat installs, they selected "custom" but left all the pre-selected items checked. IIRC, this installs a lot of crap, including many optional daemons. I doubt their Windows configuration had lots of extraneous services installed and running.
They shut off access logging in IIS. As far as I could see, they left logging on for Red Hat. This means that lots of disk writes were being generated on Linux but not on Windows. As http request volume goes up in their tests, the RAID write-cache could eventually fill up (only under Linux), at which point the webserver starts blocking while waiting for disk I/O to complete.
As others have pointed out, there are also possible issues with CGI, the SSL handshaking, etc.
The problem with this would be that the XGrid agents would need to be cross-platform.
A mature cross platform version of this type of technology, which has similar discovery and grid-computing capabilities, is called Jini. Once again, Sun proves its marketing prowess.
They have 1.5 million customers.
They have 3 million subscribers, not 1.5 million
Wow! What a testament to the power of the Slashdot effect. They doubled their subscribers since the grandparent post!
AD is a directory made useful far beyond bare-bones LDAP, and with more fully realized utility than NDS.
Let me apologize in advance for veering off-topic here, but I gotta call you out on this one.
After spending the last 3 months working on building an LDAP-based user-provisioning system for AD, I could write a book about everything that's wrong with it.
If one believes God created us, then one can accept on faith that there are some things which we cannot understand - like how God exists in the first place. We have finite minds, our minds cannot comprehend something always existing, but I know it's true because I'm willing to accept it on faith.
I find it much more reasonable to believe it was created with a snap of the fingers and admit I cannot understand how God could always exist than to believe this Awesome Universe "evolved" exactly the way it did!
HEY MODERATORS!!!
Read the freaking moderation guidelines. This post did NOT deserve to be modded down as a troll. You do NOT moderate a post as a troll just because you disagree with the content.
Now it's fun to laugh at the morons out there who don't know the finer points of US currency . . .
Not to mention the morons out there who would point a cardboard poster tube, like a bazooka, at an armed armored card driver.
That's a great way to win a Darwin award! ;)
BTW, thanks for your wholly invented numbers about Phillip Morris. We can all reach some really worthwhile conclusions from numbers you figure might be true.
You're right. I was quoting from memory a story that was almost 4 years ago. Sorry I don't have a photographic memory.
Here is a passage from an article that estimates the donation was around $125,000 while the production costs were well over a million. Note that this doesn't include air time, which is probably much more costly. There were also additional ads. I seem to remember one in which flood victims in Mississippi were getting fresh water from Philip Morris volunteers. IIRC, these aired quite a few times, during prime time and during popular sporting events.
Philip Morris declined to disclose the net value of the donated food (Per-pound wholesale costs for items such as macaroni and cheese suggest a value of about $125,000.). Neither will it reveal production costs for the ad (Producers not involved in the project peg its cost at well over $1 million, excluding airtime.). AmeriCares, the not-for-profit group that worked with the Belgian military to deliver the Kraft food, as well as medicine and other provisions, isn't mentioned in the commercial. AmeriCares vice chairman Andrew Hannah says that Philip Morris did contact his group about the ad, but only after production had begun. "They asked us if we wanted to participate in an advisory fashion or if we wanted to be mentioned, although it was not planned," he says.
First, I think it's ridiculous that my previous (grandparent) post got modded down as a troll. Hopefully meta-moderators will act accordingly.
You want MS to create OSS software to give out for free, but do it anonymously? Ok, then how are we supposed to give credit to MS for doing this generous thing?
We're not. See, isn't that the point? If they really care about child porn, they wouldn't be doing it in order to get credit.
Under your model there is no way for MS to get credit for their work - which is not only publicity but a tax write-off which they are entitled too.
So you're saying that if you donate money anonymously, you can't write it off on your taxes? That's just silly. Of course you can.
And who says that MS has to donate a certain amount of money? If they want to spend 10 mil on a 100k donation - that is their choice - we should thank them for the 100k donation and we should thank them for putting 10 mil back into the economy and lining someone elses pockets.
First of all it was Phillip Morris. Nevertheless, the point was that the company is just being manipulative. You want me to reward a company for being manipulative? Sorry, that's not me. If you want to do that, go right ahead.
Is saying "good job" too much to ask for? What does MS need to do to earn a thank you from all the nay-sayers.
Ummm, how about doing exactly what they did, but anonymously, so that we know they didn't just do it for the positive press?
Microsoft's certainly not alone in this sort of thing. A couple of years ago Phillip Morris had a series of TV advertisements in which they boasted how they had helped communities during various disasters. They probably spent $10,000,000 on the prime-time ads to showcase the $100,000 they spent on disaster relief.
Microsoft has a long history of being insincere and untrustworthy. Frankly, many of us will never believe they've changed their ways, no matter what they do.
There is a rather better write-up of this awesome story on MNSBC, including some rather shocking pictures.
When I followed the link, I saw this picture at the top of the page.
Shocking indeed! What that hideous kid needs is to to bleach his face, chop off his nose, and straighten his hair. Then he'd look normal.
From the "Jim Gray" link:
Jim Gray is a "Distinguished Engineer" in Microsoft's Scaleable Servers Research Group and manager of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center (BARC).
OK, Xerox has their famous Palo Alto Reseach Center (PARC), so Microsoft just has to have its own similarly named center in the same general vicinity. Sheesh!
Microsoft is still not under ANY obligation to update YOUR emulator.
This whole thread is moot. Wine Is Not an Emulator, dammit!
Case closed. :)
Note to moderators: You should mod me up just for spelling "moot" right, a rare thing on Slashdot, where "mute" is the norm.
Just so everyone knows, as of right now you can still get to the old search:
http://groups.google.com/
Wow! They're changing things as we speak. A minute ago, www.google.com had a link to the beta groups search. Right now, it has changed to a link to some intermediate page that now redirects to the old groups search page (which now has a link to the beta groups search).
Is this in response to the Slashdot effect? Or are Google employees reading the complaints on Slashdot?
Hmmm, I'd say the load testing has commenced. Thanks, Slashdot!
I'd take a phone with NO camera, NO games, NO PDA functions, NO mp3 player, and NO radio, if the thing consistently sounded like, and was as reliable as, a land line.
Heck, as long as I'm on this rant, here in the US we have no competition between the service providers. Thanks FTC, for allowing 2 of the existing big 4 to merge. The 7000 being laid off thank you as well. If Cingular, Sprint, and T-Mobile can each afford to put a retail outlet in every strip mall in America, they're obviously making way too much money, and could easily afford to give us unlimited use (including text messaging, data, etc.) for $25 a month.
Sorry for the off-topic rant. I feel better now.
I notice that the article doesn't mention any people converting from apple to microsoft. Is this number zero?
Well, there's at least one!