They're using RedHat 7.x for the boxes I work with (according to the software updates they provide). I don't think they would need to provide source for their components, as it all runs within Tomcat, etc.
IANAD, but I do know that dead red blood cells are eliminated through the stool, not urine. They are broken down by the spleen and bone marrow, the globin converted to amino acids to be reabsorbed through the bloodstream. The rest of the cell remains are biliruben which the liver filters are excretes in bile into the small intestine.
Prev Field/Next Field - to replace the appalling tab/shift-tab
IBM has had these on their terminal keyboards for a LONG while. But teminal apps are hard to screw up (not that many haven't done their damnedest), and web forms are notoriously tab-order-fucked, mostly because everyone uses tables to lay out the form.
Submit Form - this one clicks "OK" so users don't confused about the ENTER key when there are rich text fields on the form (Escape can remain the "Cancel Form" key)
An okay idea, but wouldn't work with many of the Javascript-only forms that assholes are coding now. Why? Some do it to keep our browser from storing the username and password (asshats that think that makes it more secure). Some do it because they think it's cooler to use Javascript to send the data instead of a form (idiots who don't know how forms and HTTP are supposed to work).
Help Key - using F1 as 'help' seems to have single-handedly killed the function keys. Eleven perfectly usable program-specific keys that no-one uses any more. Bring back function key overlays!:-)
You don't want to mess with BGP unless you have plenty of money to have a redundant location, and a large enough IP block to justify it. You may find an ISP that has this set up or their own block, but I don't know of any.
The way to go is DNS. For an example of this, look at Akamai: (Removed because of the fucking lameness filter. It was a very useful DNS lookup. Try 'dig images.apple.com' to see what I saw.)
It's done using an extremely short TTL on the final A record. Obviously this handles the vast majority of cases. I also recommend having a backup DNS site hosted by someone ELSE! Set up your two locations, and host DNS on them, but have third and fourth DNS servers that are authoritative for your domain. That way if your main site is down, you can switch to secondary, but if secondary goes down, you can set up something else in a pinch and point your backup DNS at it. If you don't have this, there's no chance you'll get back up in less than a day, as you'll have to change your domain's DNS servers.
Also, if you're hosting email for you domain, set up a mail forwarding service that will hold your mail or deliver it to various addresses while your main site is down.
I used Rollernet for both of these services, but I currently only use them for Secondary DNS, since my mail is now hosted by TuffMail. As a former LFS-building home-server-roller, it's nice to have others dealing with that stuff.
DNS round-robin means that browsers try the different ip addresses until they find one that works
Nope. It means that each client request for an address gets the next address in the list. A client does not do another DNS lookup when the po rt 80 connection fails.
Primary and secondary DNS servers mean that dns lookups try the different servers until they find one that works
This is true.
To address your final statement, geo-location to find the closest server and having a backup sites are two problems that are essentially unrelated. Having a site that redirects to a closer mirror is great, but you still need redundancy for the main site (the one that does the redirection).
What an absolutely horridly shitty site! It's impossible to see the html version, and the flash version has links that go to items that are wrong!
For instance, try to compare the specs of the two locations. They're the same, except for the first page! But the link to the second location goes to the second page, so you can't even tell that it's a different location!
(I'm giving up moderator status by replying. Worth it, I hope.)
Travel between the colonies was common, especially for those who signed the Declaration and Constitution. I doubt that it is much more common today. While the number of people traveling has increased, so has the population.
The driving force of the creation of the Union was to remove the power that the centralized government of England had over the colonies. The government had too much power and was using that power to keep itself established. In doing so it was oppressive.
You're right, providing the nation with a variety of legal options was not the goal, it was a side effect. In order to keep a centralized government from taking control of the country, the States were given the power to make those decisions. Creating mass opinion is not difficult, but by keeping each decision in a smaller area (the state) large society-changing laws would be limited in scope (to the state).
Unfortunately the tide turned leading up to and because of the Civil War, which the southern states rightly call the "War for States Rights". Unfortunately they are right. The states that were trying to enforce slavery were wrong for doing so, and it's fortunate that slavery was abolished. However, it was not necessary for the federal government to take over the way it did, and I hope that the pendulum swings back soon.
Mind you, not because I agree with slavery, but because the Federal government is making decisions that have far broader consequences than were intended, and there's no way out for citizens. When some states wanted a different president, they were forced by a slight majority to have another. The President's office was not supposed to be so powerful that that would be a problem. The state governors are supposed to be more important to the individual.
The Federal government has made regulations regarding various drugs, for instance, that some states disagree with. When a state opposes a federal law, is that allowed? Constitutionally yes! But there are those who want federal funds to be pulled from that state. Where are the federal funds coming from? Each individual in that state!
If the government wasn't so big on making new laws, it wouldn't be such a large a problem, but don't get me started on that.
I'm allergic to Windows. I have nothing in the upper right-hand corner. On the upper left-hand corner, I have a red dot, and a yellow dot, and green dot...you insensitive clod!
Very interesting, thank you for the post. Also, I want to point out that it is not in the carriers' interests to increase cellphone coverage to this group of users.
In North America, cellphone providers usually sell per-month plans that include a number of usage minutes. Every minute that is spent on the phone costs the carrier money, until the user runs out of minutes, then the user begins to pay for each minute. Plans are designed to target an amount of usage that is uncommon, so customers will buy the next-higher plan to ensure they won't run out.
Outside the US, it is common to sell service on a per-minute basis, pre-paid, so the carrier makes money based directly on usage. Therefore, carriers outside the US would like to see as many areas as possible covered so that calls can be placed in those areas.
In the US, providers only worry about coverage where lack of it will cause a subscriber to switch to another provider (presumably, one with superior coverage). Therefore, a ban on all cellphone usage on airplanes benefits US providers. Providers may look to provide in-flight service, but as this would be expensive to install and manage, and would provide almost no payback, it's unlikely.
The most likely solution would be in-flight service for GSM, provided with low-power equipment onboard. There are only two national GSM providers in the US, and it's doubtful that there would be enought PR capital simply because of the ability to use a phone on the plane (the population that frequently flies is small). Since the provider of such a service would be able to charge for its use, I woud expect a smaller provider to start providing in-flight service, in order to charge per-minute for its use. The large providers would either pass that charge along, or eat the charge in order to gain customers.
It seems that the European model of mobile phone usage is better for the consumer, as it might lead to better coverage. It certainly allows for more innovation in the handset market--in the US, the largest carrier removes features from phones so that they may charge extra for comparable services (for instance Verizon removes ObEx from many of it's phones so that a user may not synchronize their address book over Bluetooth, but must pay Verizon to do so over-the-air).
Don't forget iDen, which is in use by Nextel (Sprint blah blah), while also being used in numerous countries outside the US. Also, there's still AMPS and D-AMPS (a.k.a. TDMA).
The Callstar voicemail system apparently used that 'feature'. I tried to upgrade the video card in one, and found that it no longer had enough memory. Geez, that was back in 1997, and the Callstar was ancient then. It's still the best voicemail system I've used.
The Motorola C51 Bluetooth Mobile Line will connect up to 5 mobile phones to the C51 cordless phone system and each mobile phone can have its own ring. The phones are placed near the base. I don't know if the C51 system can have that many calls at once, but I suspect that it can. (Disclaimer: I work for Motorola, but not in this division, and this isn't an official statement or anything.) I happened to see this the other day on the Motorola Store, and I thought it looked pretty cool...if I had a home phone at all, I'd probably get one of these.
While they use a linear accelerator, the description of the launch was a little strange: the ship hung in the air over the end of the rail before the rocket kicked in and the craft shot into the sky. In other words, the accelerator was used to make the craft go fast enought to go up a bit and stop, then the craft's engine took it from standstill to escape velocity. It really made no sense, and it made me wonder what the hell he was thinking.
This was not the case in "The Man Who Sold the Moon" in which they use the same technology (of course, because most of Heilein's stories take place in the same universe). The payloads that are sent using the accelorators are only outfitted with rockets for the purpose of guidance toward the 'target'. So apparently he realized his mistake (or someone told him).
I don't know about the "community" but I'm a hardcore programmer in C, C++, and now PHP. I do AMP development. For the last six months, I've been using OSX on a dual G5 and a PowerBook G4. I develop in BBEdit (after trying vi, Zend Studio, and half a dozen other editors) and test in Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer inside of VirtualPC.
I was a Windows user since 1993, and Macs absolutely kick ass for development, I can SSH into them and use them just as I can my Linux servers (though the tools are not Gnu and require some getting used to). Noone in my family wants to use the badass Windows system that I built less than a year ago, they all want to use my Mac.
I'm not artsy-fartsy or at all trendy, but I've been a Mac freak for the last 5 months (it took me one month to get used to it) and I'm geeky as hell.
The next step is a video/still camera that detects an infrared source and closes an iris to keep the light from bouncing back. Or better yet, a coating that keeps the infrared from bouncing out of the lens.
A little OT, but in reference to your PHP-related comments:
Even though "" == 0 is true, "" === 0 is not true ("" !== 0). This is VERY useful in various respects.
I develop my PHP apps with E_STRICT set as the reporting level, (http://us2.php.net/error_reporting) and use a library I found that stores every PHP error/warning in an array to display it at the end of the document (in my case, inside a JavaScript popup). This way, I get warnings for using undefined variables. If you want some code, tell me...I don't have it on my site, but if there is demand for it, I can put it there.
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They're using RedHat 7.x for the boxes I work with (according to the software updates they provide). I don't think they would need to provide source for their components, as it all runs within Tomcat, etc.
Read this posting from John Carmack in 2004.
Seriously, htf is this story news? Aren't there enough decent submissions?
IANAD, but I do know that dead red blood cells are eliminated through the stool, not urine. They are broken down by the spleen and bone marrow, the globin converted to amino acids to be reabsorbed through the bloodstream. The rest of the cell remains are biliruben which the liver filters are excretes in bile into the small intestine.
You don't want to mess with BGP unless you have plenty of money to have a redundant location, and a large enough IP block to justify it. You may find an ISP that has this set up or their own block, but I don't know of any.
The way to go is DNS. For an example of this, look at Akamai:
(Removed because of the fucking lameness filter. It was a very useful DNS lookup. Try 'dig images.apple.com' to see what I saw.)
It's done using an extremely short TTL on the final A record. Obviously this handles the vast majority of cases. I also recommend having a backup DNS site hosted by someone ELSE! Set up your two locations, and host DNS on them, but have third and fourth DNS servers that are authoritative for your domain. That way if your main site is down, you can switch to secondary, but if secondary goes down, you can set up something else in a pinch and point your backup DNS at it. If you don't have this, there's no chance you'll get back up in less than a day, as you'll have to change your domain's DNS servers.
Also, if you're hosting email for you domain, set up a mail forwarding service that will hold your mail or deliver it to various addresses while your main site is down.
I used Rollernet for both of these services, but I currently only use them for Secondary DNS, since my mail is now hosted by TuffMail. As a former LFS-building home-server-roller, it's nice to have others dealing with that stuff.
To address your final statement, geo-location to find the closest server and having a backup sites are two problems that are essentially unrelated. Having a site that redirects to a closer mirror is great, but you still need redundancy for the main site (the one that does the redirection).
What an absolutely horridly shitty site! It's impossible to see the html version, and the flash version has links that go to items that are wrong!
For instance, try to compare the specs of the two locations. They're the same, except for the first page! But the link to the second location goes to the second page, so you can't even tell that it's a different location!
WHY IS THIS A FLASH SITE?
(I'm giving up moderator status by replying. Worth it, I hope.)
Travel between the colonies was common, especially for those who signed the Declaration and Constitution. I doubt that it is much more common today. While the number of people traveling has increased, so has the population.
The driving force of the creation of the Union was to remove the power that the centralized government of England had over the colonies. The government had too much power and was using that power to keep itself established. In doing so it was oppressive.
You're right, providing the nation with a variety of legal options was not the goal, it was a side effect. In order to keep a centralized government from taking control of the country, the States were given the power to make those decisions. Creating mass opinion is not difficult, but by keeping each decision in a smaller area (the state) large society-changing laws would be limited in scope (to the state).
Unfortunately the tide turned leading up to and because of the Civil War, which the southern states rightly call the "War for States Rights". Unfortunately they are right. The states that were trying to enforce slavery were wrong for doing so, and it's fortunate that slavery was abolished. However, it was not necessary for the federal government to take over the way it did, and I hope that the pendulum swings back soon.
Mind you, not because I agree with slavery, but because the Federal government is making decisions that have far broader consequences than were intended, and there's no way out for citizens. When some states wanted a different president, they were forced by a slight majority to have another. The President's office was not supposed to be so powerful that that would be a problem. The state governors are supposed to be more important to the individual.
The Federal government has made regulations regarding various drugs, for instance, that some states disagree with. When a state opposes a federal law, is that allowed? Constitutionally yes! But there are those who want federal funds to be pulled from that state. Where are the federal funds coming from? Each individual in that state!
If the government wasn't so big on making new laws, it wouldn't be such a large a problem, but don't get me started on that.
echo("mysqldump can already do that");
mysqldump --all-databases
Not sure how long we've had it, but it's been a while. I'm on 5.0.27.
I'm allergic to Windows. I have nothing in the upper right-hand corner. On the upper left-hand corner, I have a red dot, and a yellow dot, and green dot...you insensitive clod!
Very interesting, thank you for the post. Also, I want to point out that it is not in the carriers' interests to increase cellphone coverage to this group of users.
In North America, cellphone providers usually sell per-month plans that include a number of usage minutes. Every minute that is spent on the phone costs the carrier money, until the user runs out of minutes, then the user begins to pay for each minute. Plans are designed to target an amount of usage that is uncommon, so customers will buy the next-higher plan to ensure they won't run out.
Outside the US, it is common to sell service on a per-minute basis, pre-paid, so the carrier makes money based directly on usage. Therefore, carriers outside the US would like to see as many areas as possible covered so that calls can be placed in those areas.
In the US, providers only worry about coverage where lack of it will cause a subscriber to switch to another provider (presumably, one with superior coverage). Therefore, a ban on all cellphone usage on airplanes benefits US providers. Providers may look to provide in-flight service, but as this would be expensive to install and manage, and would provide almost no payback, it's unlikely.
The most likely solution would be in-flight service for GSM, provided with low-power equipment onboard. There are only two national GSM providers in the US, and it's doubtful that there would be enought PR capital simply because of the ability to use a phone on the plane (the population that frequently flies is small). Since the provider of such a service would be able to charge for its use, I woud expect a smaller provider to start providing in-flight service, in order to charge per-minute for its use. The large providers would either pass that charge along, or eat the charge in order to gain customers.
It seems that the European model of mobile phone usage is better for the consumer, as it might lead to better coverage. It certainly allows for more innovation in the handset market--in the US, the largest carrier removes features from phones so that they may charge extra for comparable services (for instance Verizon removes ObEx from many of it's phones so that a user may not synchronize their address book over Bluetooth, but must pay Verizon to do so over-the-air).
Don't forget iDen, which is in use by Nextel (Sprint blah blah), while also being used in numerous countries outside the US. Also, there's still AMPS and D-AMPS (a.k.a. TDMA).
That means "MP3 between 16 and 320 Kpbs AND MP3 VBR"
Do you seriously think iPods can't play the oldest and most common MP3 format? As an iPod owner I can tell you that they do.
There's a huge joke here somewhere...
Damnit, too much pressure.
The Callstar voicemail system apparently used that 'feature'. I tried to upgrade the video card in one, and found that it no longer had enough memory. Geez, that was back in 1997, and the Callstar was ancient then. It's still the best voicemail system I've used.
The Motorola C51 Bluetooth Mobile Line will connect up to 5 mobile phones to the C51 cordless phone system and each mobile phone can have its own ring. The phones are placed near the base. I don't know if the C51 system can have that many calls at once, but I suspect that it can. (Disclaimer: I work for Motorola, but not in this division, and this isn't an official statement or anything.) I happened to see this the other day on the Motorola Store, and I thought it looked pretty cool...if I had a home phone at all, I'd probably get one of these.
While they use a linear accelerator, the description of the launch was a little strange: the ship hung in the air over the end of the rail before the rocket kicked in and the craft shot into the sky. In other words, the accelerator was used to make the craft go fast enought to go up a bit and stop, then the craft's engine took it from standstill to escape velocity. It really made no sense, and it made me wonder what the hell he was thinking.
This was not the case in "The Man Who Sold the Moon" in which they use the same technology (of course, because most of Heilein's stories take place in the same universe). The payloads that are sent using the accelorators are only outfitted with rockets for the purpose of guidance toward the 'target'. So apparently he realized his mistake (or someone told him).
I don't know about the "community" but I'm a hardcore programmer in C, C++, and now PHP. I do AMP development. For the last six months, I've been using OSX on a dual G5 and a PowerBook G4. I develop in BBEdit (after trying vi, Zend Studio, and half a dozen other editors) and test in Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer inside of VirtualPC.
I was a Windows user since 1993, and Macs absolutely kick ass for development, I can SSH into them and use them just as I can my Linux servers (though the tools are not Gnu and require some getting used to). Noone in my family wants to use the badass Windows system that I built less than a year ago, they all want to use my Mac.
I'm not artsy-fartsy or at all trendy, but I've been a Mac freak for the last 5 months (it took me one month to get used to it) and I'm geeky as hell.
"I'm caca for Cocoa P--"
"Damn it! Take 47!"
Brain is voiced by Maurice LaMarche, the voice of H.G.B., Kif, Morbo, and the announcer. "You watched it, you can't un-watch it!"
Ample.
The next step is a video/still camera that detects an infrared source and closes an iris to keep the light from bouncing back. Or better yet, a coating that keeps the infrared from bouncing out of the lens.
A little OT, but in reference to your PHP-related comments:
Even though "" == 0 is true,
"" === 0 is not true ("" !== 0). This is VERY useful in various respects.
I develop my PHP apps with E_STRICT set as the reporting level, (http://us2.php.net/error_reporting) and use a library I found that stores every PHP error/warning in an array to display it at the end of the document (in my case, inside a JavaScript popup). This way, I get warnings for using undefined variables. If you want some code, tell me...I don't have it on my site, but if there is demand for it, I can put it there.
Um, different definition of the word "practice".
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:practice