how so? the old map just showed (for example) a grey cloud over the south east of the UK, how much of the SE? the eastern tips? or the more central parts? The new map shows clearly where cloud, rain etc are going to be, if you can guess the location of your town you can clearly see at what time to expect a change in the weater.
> -Not even developed in the UK!
Which shouldn't be a factor in the BBC selecting the best system to produce the weather.
One of the big things in Universities at the moment are Institutional Repositories. Bascially a web accessible database containg records and FULL TEXT of all articles published by academics at the organisation.
Have a look at a list of a few here (from the eprints website). Many of them are in there early days, but in a few years will have grown to be quite a collection. The next step will be to cross search them, perhaps using Z39.50.
There are two software applications to run these sites. eprints from Southampton University (UK) and dspace from MIT/HP.
Somone else posted a yahoo finace chart showing HP, IBM, dell. and oh my sweet fucking god, I added Sun to laugh at the steep slope to down, and their share price is going up. So, to get my 'steep slope' kick I added SCO as well...
And this study was for his Ph.D. thesis. I really hope he fails. We don't need Ph.D's that come to wild conclusions based off of the poor analysis of data.
It doesn't have anything to do with his PHD (which according to his site was finished quite a while a go). the sentence from the top of the page is a quote that appears in his PHD.
He knows his stuff, this was just a quick page, probably knocked up in a spare bit of time, never intended for a slashdot audience.
from the site: "Based on those keywords being monitored, 99.9% of IRC traffic to the top 60 channels is "illegal"." he's not trying to say this concludes anything about irc in general, this quote is his conclusion, i.e. based on those keywords and those 60 channels is 'illegal' (and he puts illegal in quotes).
So it's a US thing? Please explain, then, why I had to fill out a form saying where I would be staying when I flew into London from the US?
To be honest, speaking to people from both sides of the pond, it does seem that while UK (Europe in general) now have a number of procedures and checks in place, the US system can be incredibly difficult and unpredictable.
I also had a friend, who - pre-9/11 - was going to visit her father (who, as a senior member of staff at a UK university, was at a number of conferences in the US). She was 18 at the time. Once in the US, she and her brother was stopped at just about every oppotunity (there was a connecting flight one reaching the US). Okay, they might be worried this might be a case of illegal immigration, hence the questionning. However, they had their bags searched 3 times in the same number of hours (totally emptied over the floor and left each time to pack themseleves), they had written information as to where they were meeting and contact information for the Universities their father was currently in meetings, detained at one point. All this time, not one person ever explained what was happening, why, how long, instead they constantly shouted at and treated badly. All this (and you will have to take my word I know) to two of the quietest, polite people I know.
There's a few more stories like this, a guy going on business - making the same trip to the US headquarters of his company from the UK - same trip many times in the past, one time detained without reason, again, never told why or given a clue why he was being held. Again, had full contact details of the company he worked for and if they had called (he has no idea if they did) the company would have confirmed why he was there.
The main media ouotlets seemed to have failed to pick up on this, and yet - if true - to me this seems like major news: Banning an advert that says 'anyone is welcome to our church' because the president was *thinking* about changing the Constitution to ban gay marrige.
Where does this leave the indexing service on 2k and xp? This service was meant to allow you to search for files and the contents of files etc. Will this totally replace the indexing service service? (not that it was of much use, and it always seemed bizare that you could search the contents of each file on your drive quicker than just searching by filename).
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"Instead of one big file system, one user community, one secure setup uniting your network of machines, you had a hodgepodge of workarounds to Unix's fundamental design decision that each machine is self-sufficient."
I hate to say this, but doesn't Windows 2000/2003 server, Active Directory (and Novell NDS etc) do a lot of this. One set of users, a network of machines (without being reliant on one master machine*), and one security model. Maybe not quite there on 'one big file system', though can basically be achieved with a bit of setting up.
(* I haven't manafged a Windows domain for a few years, seem to remember 2k had a PDC-like machine as such, but also with backup servers - ready to take over).
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SCOX&t=1y he he he, ho ho ho, and a little bit of tum tum tum SCO is fucking up shit creak is the merry ol' land of OZ*
* (and, it just so happends, the rest of the world too)
Okay with all respect, politics can be a little bit different between the UK and US.
If the government try to do something which is perceived as 'self interest', them that is considered a scandal in the UK. If a government was seen to put the restrictions on the BBC based on their own political gain, then the fallout from media, cross-party select committees and independent inquiries would be over whelming. There's a real belief in the UK that the government should be able to carry out its business in the best interest of the people without putting party/personal benefits first.
The UK also has a very clear separation of the civil service - which remains impartial to politics, and politicians. I'm sure that the US has the same sort of checks in place, but these seem to break down when men involved in the energy industry are allowed to write a country's energy policy.
According to the BBC, Britain's public librarires will be out of use by 2020.
The article seems to blame libraries for not buying books. Of course libraries want to buy more books, but face two problems. First lack of funds, secondly, the funds they do get are nearly all applied to the current schemes of the government (certainly in the UK), life-long-learning, access-for-all, e-learning, e-government, open access to records. All good ideas, but all ideas that councils and goverments want libraries to be involved in. And being involved in any scheme like this involves a lot of paper work, management meetings, training of staff, creating new space... i.e. money that used to be spent on books is now being spent of the trendy scheme of the moment.
oh and have a look at http://www.ideastore.co.uk/bow/ for an example of "library plus stuff mentioned above"
Chris - who works at a University Library but occasionally bumps in to staff from public libraries
" is written in intentionally limited language that the less sharp members of mankind might be imagined to use in 4000 BC. It's not an easy read; this segment is a struggle to decode at times, but the rewards are significant, because the emotions are powerful, and the story strong. "
hell I'm from Northampton, what's all this "*intentionally* limited lanaguage" crap? Language full stop is a minor miracle for us Northamptonians, so you boffins can fuck off and leave us alone.
Can be useful in the library world. check out http://cms.3m.com/cms/US/en/2-115/cerueFD/view.jht ml
for more. For example, it can tell you when a book is on the wrong place on the shelves (a misplaced book is as good as lost when this happens), and you can also have a 'auto check out' system where a book goes on loan to someone just by them walking out the exit gate (if the borrower card and the book have these tages in them).
" They aren't going to make more money by dividing their development resources between Netware and Linux. So there will be less development work done on Netware."
Not true as far as I see it. Most of the Novell services will sit on top of netware or linux, this will be the same code. It's just which OS sits underneath that will be different. This is like Oracle running on Linux or Solaris. The only difference being that in Novell's case, one of the OS is in-house.
Okay, off topic, but are they *any* downsides to AS400s? It seems that every time I hear them mentioned its regarding what they do well! I can never help thinking that in a ideal world it should have been systems like these that dominate the server market, not UNIX and Windows servers.
For Solaris, once your util becomes an essential application used everyday by 99.9% of Solaris users, Sun and your good self can follow this procedure:
- Use the Solaris package tools to create a package for your program, make the default install directory somethig sensible such as/opt/SUNWats/sun4u/bin/thiswillneverbeinyourPATH/p kg1921u9238/
- make sure the package requires a few libraries that will take a least a day of pain to install on to any Solaris box.
- Ensure to include a man page, avoid using words with less 5 syllables, refer to everything as n.
- now do nothing for roughly six years (more if the program is required for other popular applications).
- Once that is done, send the package to sunfreeware (because downloading endless packages from the designed-by-satan website is by far the quickest way of installing essential programs via a text based console).
- It can sometimes only take a few years from this point for Sun to include it on the Solaris CDs!
- Of course, they will first need to put it through the flag-randomiser to ensure no command line switch is the same as what it is for every other OS in known universe. It will also remove --help and -h, to avoid you having to do this yourself.
- Just think, by Solaris 27 (aka SunOS 2.9.1) you can see your package installed by default from a Solaris CD!
cjk PS remember, if your program involves text editing, ensure it implicitly uses ed, lord knows what confusion it will course otherwise.
Interesting looking back to this article from August last year when Dan McBride joined the Caldera (now SCO).
Example quote: "The first four weeks on the job I've spent a lot of time looking for value points...there are a couple of interesting things in there that I found out about Caldera that I didn't know before. One, the intellectual properties that we hold -- we own SVRx, UnixWare, SCO Unix -- in terms of the Unix timeline, the thread that runs through the middle of these is really SVRx."
I guess he found them 'interesting' enough to make them the main focus of the company.
"I have to say that I did notice Mozilla picked up some mail as SPAM right out of the gate. The unfortunate part was; it picked up several false positives. It was a real bitch going through my mailing list archives and de-SPAM-ifying dozens of messages."
In Mozilla, I basically went to each of my normal mail folders (which don't contain spam) in turn, edit>select>all, select 'not junk'. Then went to my junk folder, selected all and maked them as junk.
This seems like a quick (perhaps a little dirty) way of teaching the filter what I consider is junk.
The BBC link to this page, which provides some more maps of the birds progress.
All the birds take the same route from Iceland to Greenland, even though they took the journey at different times. On the 4th of June Arnthor was well ahead of the pack (okay okay so it's not a race but), but by the 10th of June, it was clear he/she had decided to have a few days break on the edge of Greenland while Hugh and Kerry had a few days break. Also intresting is that these two birds both arrived on the same island, and it looks like they arrived at the same time, but at opposite ends of the island.
This could be a new sport, taking bets on which bird gets to Canada first - with daily web updates. More exciting than the football.
Slashdot Mirror
> -Obviously dumbed down, less information
how so? the old map just showed (for example) a grey cloud over the south east of the UK, how much of the SE? the eastern tips? or the more central parts?
The new map shows clearly where cloud, rain etc are going to be, if you can guess the location of your town you can clearly see at what time to expect a change in the weater.
> -Not even developed in the UK!
Which shouldn't be a factor in the BBC selecting the best system to produce the weather.
Chris
One of the big things in Universities at the moment are Institutional Repositories. Bascially a web accessible database containg records and FULL TEXT of all articles published by academics at the organisation.
Have a look at a list of a few here (from the eprints website). Many of them are in there early days, but in a few years will have grown to be quite a collection. The next step will be to cross search them, perhaps using Z39.50.
There are two software applications to run these sites. eprints from Southampton University (UK) and dspace from MIT/HP.
Some other links can be found here.
Chris
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Jon Udell has also has written about OpenSearch.
CK
...I submitted the same story a month a go. Once again slashdot posting old news.
Somone else posted a yahoo finace chart showing HP, IBM, dell. and oh my sweet fucking god, I added Sun to laugh at the steep slope to down, and their share price is going up. So, to get my 'steep slope' kick I added SCO as well...
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=5y&s=HPQ&l=on&z=m& q=l&c=ibm%2Cdell%2Csun%2Cscox
It doesn't have anything to do with his PHD (which according to his site was finished quite a while a go). the sentence from the top of the page is a quote that appears in his PHD.
He knows his stuff, this was just a quick page, probably knocked up in a spare bit of time, never intended for a slashdot audience.
from the site:
"Based on those keywords being monitored, 99.9% of IRC traffic to the top 60 channels is "illegal"." he's not trying to say this concludes anything about irc in general, this quote is his conclusion, i.e. based on those keywords and those 60 channels is 'illegal' (and he puts illegal in quotes).
Chris.
To be honest, speaking to people from both sides of the pond, it does seem that while UK (Europe in general) now have a number of procedures and checks in place, the US system can be incredibly difficult and unpredictable.
E.g. http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,123 0539,00.html
I also had a friend, who - pre-9/11 - was going to visit her father (who, as a senior member of staff at a UK university, was at a number of conferences in the US). She was 18 at the time. Once in the US, she and her brother was stopped at just about every oppotunity (there was a connecting flight one reaching the US). Okay, they might be worried this might be a case of illegal immigration, hence the questionning. However, they had their bags searched 3 times in the same number of hours (totally emptied over the floor and left each time to pack themseleves), they had written information as to where they were meeting and contact information for the Universities their father was currently in meetings, detained at one point. All this time, not one person ever explained what was happening, why, how long, instead they constantly shouted at and treated badly. All this (and you will have to take my word I know) to two of the quietest, polite people I know.
There's a few more stories like this, a guy going on business - making the same trip to the US headquarters of his company from the UK - same trip many times in the past, one time detained without reason, again, never told why or given a clue why he was being held. Again, had full contact details of the company he worked for and if they had called (he has no idea if they did) the company would have confirmed why he was there.
CBS, NBC refuse to air gay-friendly church ad
The main media ouotlets seemed to have failed to pick up on this, and yet - if true - to me this seems like major news: Banning an advert that says 'anyone is welcome to our church' because the president was *thinking* about changing the Constitution to ban gay marrige.
Where does this leave the indexing service on 2k and xp? This service was meant to allow you to search for files and the contents of files etc. Will this totally replace the indexing service service? (not that it was of much use, and it always seemed bizare that you could search the contents of each file on your drive quicker than just searching by filename).
"Instead of one big file system, one user community, one secure setup uniting your network of machines, you had a hodgepodge of workarounds to Unix's fundamental design decision that each machine is self-sufficient."
I hate to say this, but doesn't Windows 2000/2003 server, Active Directory (and Novell NDS etc) do a lot of this. One set of users, a network of machines (without being reliant on one master machine*), and one security model. Maybe not quite there on 'one big file system', though can basically be achieved with a bit of setting up.
(* I haven't manafged a Windows domain for a few years, seem to remember 2k had a PDC-like machine as such, but also with backup servers - ready to take over).
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SCOX&t=1y
he he he,
ho ho ho,
and a little bit of tum tum tum
SCO is fucking up shit creak
is the merry ol' land of OZ*
* (and, it just so happends, the rest of the world too)
Okay with all respect, politics can be a little bit different between the UK and US.
If the government try to do something which is perceived as 'self interest', them that is considered a scandal in the UK. If a government was seen to put the restrictions on the BBC based on their own political gain, then the fallout from media, cross-party select committees and independent inquiries would be over whelming. There's a real belief in the UK that the government should be able to carry out its business in the best interest of the people without putting party/personal benefits first.
The UK also has a very clear separation of the civil service - which remains impartial to politics, and politicians. I'm sure that the US has the same sort of checks in place, but these seem to break down when men involved in the energy industry are allowed to write a country's energy policy.
From the JISC Monitoring Unit, also based at Kent.
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AXA sues Google over AdWords - Slashdot -
The article seems to blame libraries for not buying books. Of course libraries want to buy more books, but face two problems. First lack of funds, secondly, the funds they do get are nearly all applied to the current schemes of the government (certainly in the UK), life-long-learning, access-for-all, e-learning, e-government, open access to records. All good ideas, but all ideas that councils and goverments want libraries to be involved in. And being involved in any scheme like this involves a lot of paper work, management meetings, training of staff, creating new space... i.e. money that used to be spent on books is now being spent of the trendy scheme of the moment.
oh and have a look at http://www.ideastore.co.uk/bow/ for an example of "library plus stuff mentioned above"
Chris - who works at a University Library but occasionally bumps in to staff from public libraries
" is written in intentionally limited language that the less sharp members of mankind might be imagined to use in 4000 BC. It's not an easy read; this segment is a struggle to decode at times, but the rewards are significant, because the emotions are powerful, and the story strong. "
hell I'm from Northampton, what's all this "*intentionally* limited lanaguage" crap? Language full stop is a minor miracle for us Northamptonians, so you boffins can fuck off and leave us alone.
Can be useful in the library world. check out http://cms.3m.com/cms/US/en/2-115/cerueFD/view.jht ml
for more. For example, it can tell you when a book is on the wrong place on the shelves (a misplaced book is as good as lost when this happens), and you can also have a 'auto check out' system where a book goes on loan to someone just by them walking out the exit gate (if the borrower card and the book have these tages in them).
" They aren't going to make more money by dividing their development resources between Netware and Linux. So there will be less development work done on Netware."
Not true as far as I see it. Most of the Novell services will sit on top of netware or linux, this will be the same code. It's just which OS sits underneath that will be different. This is like Oracle running on Linux or Solaris. The only difference being that in Novell's case, one of the OS is in-house.
cjk
Okay, off topic, but are they *any* downsides to AS400s? It seems that every time I hear them mentioned its regarding what they do well! I can never help thinking that in a ideal world it should have been systems like these that dominate the server market, not UNIX and Windows servers.
Chris.
For Solaris, once your util becomes an essential application used everyday by 99.9% of Solaris users, Sun and your good self can follow this procedure:
/opt/SUNWats/sun4u/bin/thiswillneverbeinyourPATH/p kg1921u9238/
- Use the Solaris package tools to create a package for your program, make the default install directory somethig sensible such as
- make sure the package requires a few libraries that will take a least a day of pain to install on to any Solaris box.
- Ensure to include a man page, avoid using words with less 5 syllables, refer to everything as n.
- now do nothing for roughly six years (more if the program is required for other popular applications).
- Once that is done, send the package to sunfreeware (because downloading endless packages from the designed-by-satan website is by far the quickest way of installing essential programs via a text based console).
- It can sometimes only take a few years from this point for Sun to include it on the Solaris CDs!
- Of course, they will first need to put it through the flag-randomiser to ensure no command line switch is the same as what it is for every other OS in known universe. It will also remove --help and -h, to avoid you having to do this yourself.
- Just think, by Solaris 27 (aka SunOS 2.9.1) you can see your package installed by default from a Solaris CD!
cjk
PS remember, if your program involves text editing, ensure it implicitly uses ed, lord knows what confusion it will course otherwise.
Perhaps these smaller systems, unheard off by most people, are being replaced by more well know organisations, which people have some level of trust in. E.g. Natwest (large UK bank) have something similar: http://www.natwest.com/personal/services/onlineser vices/index.asp?navid=PERSONAL/ACCOUNTS_SERVICES/O NLINE_SERVICES/FASTPAY
Example quote:
"The first four weeks on the job I've spent a lot of time looking for value points...there are a couple of interesting things in there that I found out about Caldera that I didn't know before. One, the intellectual properties that we hold -- we own SVRx, UnixWare, SCO Unix -- in terms of the Unix timeline, the thread that runs through the middle of these is really SVRx."
I guess he found them 'interesting' enough to make them the main focus of the company.
Chris.
SCO's share price can be > found here</a>. Some people (but not the parent post) are suggesting the stock price is in a free fall plumet, but looking at it, it is still far higher than it has been for the last year (except for the last few days).
"I have to say that I did notice Mozilla picked up some mail as SPAM right out of the gate. The unfortunate part was; it picked up several false positives. It was a real bitch going through my mailing list archives and de-SPAM-ifying dozens of messages."
In Mozilla, I basically went to each of my normal mail folders (which don't contain spam) in turn, edit>select>all, select 'not junk'. Then went to my junk folder, selected all and maked them as junk.
This seems like a quick (perhaps a little dirty) way of teaching the filter what I consider is junk.
Chris
All the birds take the same route from Iceland to Greenland, even though they took the journey at different times. On the 4th of June Arnthor was well ahead of the pack (okay okay so it's not a race but), but by the 10th of June, it was clear he/she had decided to have a few days break on the edge of Greenland while Hugh and Kerry had a few days break. Also intresting is that these two birds both arrived on the same island, and it looks like they arrived at the same time, but at opposite ends of the island.
This could be a new sport, taking bets on which bird gets to Canada first - with daily web updates. More exciting than the football.