Disclaimer: I work at Andover.Net (..and getting tired of typing that)
Yes, Freshmeat will have one ad banner like/. as far as I know. Don't know what will happen to existing mirrors -- right now we're indifferent about mirrors. Our first priority is setting up scoop on a rack of servers that can handle more traffic.
Basically our attitude toward Freshmeat is the same as Slashdot: let the existing site managers do whatever they want and we feed them as much hardware and bandwidth as they need to do it.
That won't happen. We built LDC (Linux.DaveCentral) to be different than any other Linux software archive -- basically the category scheme and content is different. We consider Freshmeat to be for experienced Linux people and LDC is geared toward Linux newbies so it is to everyone's advantage that they be maintained separately.
This post contains SPOILERS so read beyond it if you haven't seen BWP:
The ending was brilliant: How do you know the 3 kids are dead? All we know is that they're missing. Yes, Josh dissappears and hints are made that he was mutilated but is he dead? Are any of them dead? You can assume that but then again like any good book or film it's left to the audience to figure it out the details -- it makes you think.
Re:My theatre was NOT so quiet....
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I made the mistake of going to see BWP at a Saturday matinee at the local Cinema-super-mega-plex stadium seating super-Dolby-sound -- you get the idea. Anyway, the theatre was packed and I was surrounded by parents who brought their crying little toddlers (can you say "babysitter"?) and on the other side of me was a group of plus-size women trying to break a world record for loudest comsumption of three buckets of popcorn, in front of me was a 7-foot tall guy with a weak bladder jumping up to go to the restroom every 10 minutes.
I loved BWP! It was the only movie I had seen in my adult life that actually freaked me out, but my best advice is see it at a small theatre late at night with very few people to get the maximum effect, or wait for it to come out on video.
The key to enjoying BWP is to watch it with absolutely no distractions because the whole story is told from first-person point of view so you sympathize with the chracters and their plight.
...and has a copy of the license (for what seems to be legal reasons) but throughout the book there's no words to encourage readers to get into Open Source projects and how they can contribute and reap benefits of Open Source. The Acknowledgements includes thanks to FSF and GNU but in a sort of tone as thanking Santa Claus for all the free stuff -- we don't want new Linux programmers thinking that GNU developers live in some far off monastery where they write tools all day for to atone for their sins in past lives -- GNU is not just about generousity, it's really about "We're building Linux because we want it and need it so if you like it too then why not contribute some of your code too".
I've been using Communicator in Linux for months and the only problems I've had have been from prolonged use with Java applets enabled. Now I keep Java turned off and the browser only crashes once a week or less.
How come I wasn't invited on the tour?! Damnit, I only work here! I want Linus himself to teach me all the hand signals and secret handshakes I need to know to use Linux properly. Ooohhhh, it'so "cryptic and exclusive" -- I imagine it would be something like what Tom Cruise found at the mansion in "Eyes Wide Shut", no? I mean, that's what goes on at these "secert" Linux gatherings, right?
Oooh Linux is so "cryptic and sectretive", that's why you can only download the full friggin' source code for it on at least 500 FTP sites and countless CDROMs with full documentation mirrored world wide with an army of IRC channels open and Usenet newgroups that have been there since day one openly exchanging information about it all day and night for the apst 8 years. Yeah, big friggin' secret don't know how anyone could've found about it.
SourceXchange and CoSourse were already discussed here on/. over a month ago and I think the consensus was that this is a noble idea but not in synch with what drives the open source movement.
Sure go ahead and keep fighting Quark, in the meantime GIMP will be kicking your sorry asses to the gutter. I also suggest you keep on yanking the eval version of PhotoShop of your web site so newbie webmasters, God forbid, might actually use PhotoShop and get hooked on it -- wouldn't want that to happen. Oh yeah, and why not keep on selling PhotoShop $500 per license -- that's a great idea! Hell, we all have money to throw away, make it $1000! Bundle in more usueless tools with it too... that'll teach those Quark-heads!!
With regards to NT vs Linux to serve Adobe's "portal":
"I want to pay for an operating system from a vendor with a contractual relationship that gives me recourse if things go wrong,"
...OK. Just try holding Microsoft responsible when things go wrong. Go ahead, try it. Don't worry we'll still be here to help you get up in running iwth a real OS when the big bad Redmond giant laughs at you and tells you to stick it up your butt with a coconut.
1. MSDN CD's cost $500 per year last time I subscribed. Linux API docs and source are free.
2. Visual C++ subscriptions costs $250 last time I bought it (circa 1996). Linux dev tools are free.
3. Microsoft constantly assures developers that their new XYZ API is the way of the future "Port all your code to XYZ now before it's too late!" then a few months later they either abandon XYZ or change the rules of it completely. How long do you expect me to tolerate that?
4. Microsoft constantly competes with it's own 3rd party developers and beats them senseless.
5. With the Open Source paradigm it's not about selling software anymore -- it's about *using* the tools available to build entire systems and content. If you you reach the limits of the software then open your code editor and dig in.
6. Geeks are leaving Windows because it's not interesting anymore. Linux, BSD, Apache, Perl, GNOME, KDE, GIMP, etc.. those things are interesting. News things are happening everyday in those areas and people are contributing code because it's useful, interesting, challenging, and other programmers are actually listening to their suggestions rather than letting a group of marketing droid design the software using zombie focus group of morons.
I had a friend who worked at WalMart who told me that the most of the ceiling cameras in the store are fake (complete with blinking LED and occaional movement) and occasionally floor personal will call for a security gaurd over the PA system "Security: code orange, section 3" for no reason other than to keep potential shoplifters paranoid.
MTV.com are the assh*les that tried a scheme (or should I say scam) to charge ISPs for access to their wonderful pompous we're-so-so-cool-we-should-charge-you-to-access- our-site
They've also pulled a scam where the drummed up publicity by pretending they're site got hacked just to promote the MTV Video Awards show....
I'm sorry but I hate MTV. They don't play music video anymore and they have single-handedly commercialized every tiny aspect of youth culture and pimped it all out to Pepsi and AT&T ad execs.
I'm not a GIF file guru but I was told by someone who is that he's written GIF image tools that have basic RLE compression, or some other compression and they're standard GIF image files. GIF images don't have to use LZW compression.
Face it -- Microsoft missed the Internet while it was already built into UNIX. Even if Microsoft includes a web service in Windows 2000, and even if it's faster than Apache, so what because:
1. Remote server administration: Would you be able to "telnet" into your Win 2000 box and reboot it??? How about general remote admin ability??? I doubt it. To do most admin tasking you'll have to sitting right there at the console.
2. FTP services, email services, news services: are those also going to included in Win 2000??? I doubt it. Again, Linux wins.
3. Programming and development: compilers, perl, python,... are any of those going to included in Win 2000 too??? Not bloody likely. Again, the choice is Linux.
I could prattle on for ever listing more but I gotta go.
OK so NT can serve twice as many GIF files as Apache/Linux per second, so what? What about *dynamic* database driven web pages??
Again I complain that this is not a real-world test of server capability -- if you think NT is so great than how come Hotmail is still being served from Sun machines??? Because NT can't handle it -- I rest my case.
...but still yes, this test does show where the Linux kernel and Apache need work, I suppose.
Godamnnnnnnn!!!...some people just don't know when to stop typing!! -- just state your point and shut up! We didn't need the full history of desktop publishing and web browser, and that whole paragraph describing why you use three machines or whatever -- just get to point!
I don't agree with the author's proposals to open the MS Office file formats -- that would only lead to even stronger support of MS Office which we don't want -- we want MS Office file format to die and go away not become even more common.
Web documents should be the next standard, not MS Office.
Think about all the proprietaray crap embedded in each Word and Excel doc -- Windows-specific fonts, OLE objects, backslased directory names, ActiveX controls, VBA macros, etc, etc -- you expect us to adopt all that stuff into other platforms just so you won't be incovenienced??!!
We want Microsoft to keep doing what it's doing -- go ahead and make MS Office as incompatible as possible and slowly and surely people will throw more support into cleaning up web document standards and forget about using MS Office formats.
Support web standards, not M$ standards.
As a receiver of resumes, I delete any attachments
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I'm sorry but sending a WordPerfect file is really like asking them to throw your resume in the wastebasket.
I've had to sort through piles of incoming resumes and this is how it goes on the receiving end:
1. Garbled attachments (delete)
2. BinHex'd attachments (damn Mac users - delete)
3. doc files (I don't have Word and I'm not impressed by you doc formatting skills - delete)
4. WordPerfect attachments (are you kidding me? - delete)
5. doc files with macro virus (oh why thank you, get a virus scanner you friggin' putz! DELETE)
I hope TuneLinux.com takes off, but so far it hasn't changed much since the week it was launched. The x86 and TCP/IP pages still only have two tune-up tips posted. The Apache has three links to www.apache.org
What I'd really like to see is the Linux team at PC Week disclose everything they did to optimize their servers.
The problem with the "AOL PC" is where are the other applications, ie. Office applications??? What else could you do with an AOL PC other than surf and send email?? Not much else -- no games, no office apps, no servers, just surfing. You may as well buy a WebTV. If you think you can build Java apps to play Quake and write heavily formatted spread sheets, well it's not going to happen any time soon -- Java can't handle heavy applications.
Microsoft's dominance rests on at least three hinges: Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet Explorer. OK, so you figure you can replace Windows and Internet Explorer but you're forgeting the Big One: Microsoft Office, and I don't recall Sun or Netscape having any office application ready to roll.
As long as the business world is hopelessly addicted to MS Office, Windows will be there too. The only real threat to that market is Linux w/ Star Office or Applix or some other office suite in Linux.
I hope to see the deatils for the Linux tweaks
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So three Linux geeks have been given a full week to tune their machines. I hope they post everything they do on the web so we can all pick up a few performance tweaking tips from them.
I'm sorry but the "Linux Enterprise" web sites that sprouted up during the first Mindcraft aftermath have already petered out -- they posted a few little tidbits and that's it. I submitted a full page of Apache tuning tips to one of those sites and they didn't even bother posting any of it.
Even still we have no single big source of Linux performance help.
I agree with most of the gripes in what's right/wrong list but we seem to forget that this is just another Star Wars flick. George Lucas simply recreates the heros and villians and plot lines from the cheezy serial pictures he enjoyed watching when he was a kid.
I don't care what the critics say about this flick: I asked my 7 year old nephew if it was a good movie and he said he it was awesome hence Lucas still knows who his real audience is.
Forgive me if any of these are obvious -- I'm not trying to be sarcastic, it just that some sys admins don't know this yet:
"top" shows you CPU load, memory usage, and usage per process -- there are many options in "top" check out the man page for it.
"pstree" shows a tree graph all processes and who spawned what.
"ps auwx" (or "ps -ef" in Solaris) shows all current processes
"netstat" and "ifconfig -a" shows network info such as errors, dropped packets, etc.
Big Brother is a decent package for monitoring several servers at once. It generates a web page of colored lights (GIFs) indicating system load, web daemon status, email daemon status, ftp daeomon status, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Disclaimer: I work at Andover.Net (..and getting
/. as
tired of typing that)
Yes, Freshmeat will have one ad banner like
far as I know. Don't know what will happen to
existing mirrors -- right now we're indifferent
about mirrors. Our first priority is setting up
scoop on a rack of servers that can handle more
traffic.
Basically our attitude toward Freshmeat is the
same as Slashdot: let the existing site managers
do whatever they want and we feed them as much
hardware and bandwidth as they need to do it.
Disclaimer: I work at Andover.Net.
That won't happen. We built LDC (Linux.DaveCentral)
to be different than any other Linux software
archive -- basically the category scheme and
content is different. We consider Freshmeat to
be for experienced Linux people and LDC is geared
toward Linux newbies so it is to everyone's
advantage that they be maintained separately.
This post contains SPOILERS so read beyond
it if you haven't seen BWP:
The ending was brilliant: How do you know the 3
kids are dead? All we know is that they're missing. Yes, Josh dissappears and hints are made
that he was mutilated but is he dead? Are any of
them dead? You can assume that but then again like
any good book or film it's left to the audience to
figure it out the details -- it makes you think.
I made the mistake of going to see BWP at a
Saturday matinee at the local Cinema-super-mega-plex
stadium seating super-Dolby-sound -- you get the
idea. Anyway, the theatre was packed and I was
surrounded by parents who brought their crying
little toddlers (can you say "babysitter"?)
and on the other side of me was a group of plus-size
women trying to break a world record for loudest
comsumption of three buckets of popcorn, in front
of me was a 7-foot tall guy with a weak bladder
jumping up to go to the restroom every 10 minutes.
I loved BWP! It was the only movie I had seen in
my adult life that actually freaked me out, but
my best advice is see it at a small theatre late
at night with very few people to get the maximum
effect, or wait for it to come out on video.
The key to enjoying BWP is to watch it with
absolutely no distractions because the whole
story is told from first-person point of view
so you sympathize with the chracters and their plight.
...and has a copy of the license (for what seems
to be legal reasons) but throughout the book
there's no words to encourage readers to get into
Open Source projects and how they can contribute
and reap benefits of Open Source. The Acknowledgements
includes thanks to FSF and GNU but in a sort of
tone as thanking Santa Claus for all the free
stuff -- we don't want new Linux programmers
thinking that GNU developers live in some far off
monastery where they write tools all day for to
atone for their sins in past lives -- GNU is not
just about generousity, it's really about "We're
building Linux because we want it and need it so
if you like it too then why not contribute some
of your code too".
I've been using Communicator in Linux for months
and the only problems I've had have been from
prolonged use with Java applets enabled. Now
I keep Java turned off and the browser only
crashes once a week or less.
In *nix builds of Communicator, you can already
/home/kurt/3.xpm
change its colors and map an xpm imge to the
window by putting this in your ~/.Xdefaults file:
! Some Netscape hacks
*nsMotifFSBHacks: true
Netscape*background: grey20
Netscape*backgroundPixmap:
Netscape*foreground: grey80
! End Netscape hacks
...now I haven't been able to get the Pixmap
option to work but I've seen screenshots from
someone who has. No details on how they got
it to work.
Disclaimer: I work at Andover.Net.
How come I wasn't invited on the tour?! Damnit, I
only work here! I want Linus himself to teach me
all the hand signals and secret handshakes I need
to know to use Linux properly. Ooohhhh, it'so
"cryptic and exclusive" -- I imagine it would be
something like what Tom Cruise found at the
mansion in "Eyes Wide Shut", no? I mean, that's
what goes on at these "secert" Linux gatherings,
right?
Oooh Linux is so "cryptic and sectretive", that's why
you can only download the full friggin' source code for
it on at least 500 FTP sites and countless CDROMs
with full documentation mirrored world wide with
an army of IRC channels open and Usenet newgroups
that have been there since day one openly exchanging
information about it all day and night for the
apst 8 years.
Yeah, big friggin' secret don't know how anyone could've found about it.
Oh, I gotto go, my clue phone is ringing.
SourceXchange and CoSourse were already discussed here on /. over a month ago and I think the consensus was that this is a noble idea but not in synch with what drives the open source movement.
With regards to NT vs Linux to serve Adobe's "portal":
"I want to pay for an operating system from a vendor with a contractual relationship that gives me recourse if things go wrong,"
1. MSDN CD's cost $500 per year last time I
subscribed. Linux API docs and source are free.
2. Visual C++ subscriptions costs $250 last time
I bought it (circa 1996). Linux dev tools are free.
3. Microsoft constantly assures developers that their
new XYZ API is the way of the future "Port all
your code to XYZ now before it's too late!"
then a few months later they either abandon
XYZ or change the rules of it completely. How
long do you expect me to tolerate that?
4. Microsoft constantly competes with it's own
3rd party developers and beats them senseless.
5. With the Open Source paradigm it's not about
selling software anymore -- it's about *using*
the tools available to build entire systems
and content. If you you reach the limits of the
software then open your code editor and dig in.
6. Geeks are leaving Windows because it's not
interesting anymore. Linux, BSD, Apache, Perl,
GNOME, KDE, GIMP, etc.. those things are
interesting. News things are happening everyday
in those areas and people are contributing code
because it's useful, interesting, challenging,
and other programmers are actually listening
to their suggestions rather than letting a group
of marketing droid design the software using
zombie focus group of morons.
I had a friend who worked at WalMart who told me
that the most of the ceiling cameras in the
store are fake (complete with blinking LED and
occaional movement) and occasionally floor
personal will call for a security gaurd over the
PA system "Security: code orange, section 3"
for no reason other than to keep potential
shoplifters paranoid.
So which one of Microsoft's PR firms do you
think posted this insightful message?
MTV.com are the assh*les that tried a scheme- our-site
8 4.html
(or should I say scam) to charge ISPs for access
to their wonderful pompous
we're-so-so-cool-we-should-charge-you-to-access
http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/7
They've also pulled a scam where the drummed up
publicity by pretending they're site got hacked
just to promote the MTV Video Awards show....
I'm sorry but I hate MTV. They don't play music
video anymore and they have single-handedly
commercialized every tiny aspect of youth culture
and pimped it all out to Pepsi and AT&T ad execs.
F*ckers!
I'm not a GIF file guru but I was told by someone
who is that he's written GIF image tools that
have basic RLE compression, or some other
compression and they're standard GIF image files.
GIF images don't have to use LZW compression.
Face it -- Microsoft missed the Internet while
... are any of those going to included
it was already built into UNIX. Even if Microsoft
includes a web service in Windows 2000, and even
if it's faster than Apache, so what because:
1. Remote server administration: Would you be
able to "telnet" into your Win 2000 box and
reboot it??? How about general remote admin
ability??? I doubt it. To do most admin tasking
you'll have to sitting right there at the console.
2. FTP services, email services, news services:
are those also going to included in Win 2000???
I doubt it. Again, Linux wins.
3. Programming and development: compilers, perl,
python,
in Win 2000 too??? Not bloody likely. Again,
the choice is Linux.
I could prattle on for ever listing more but
I gotta go.
OK so NT can serve twice as many GIF files as
Apache/Linux per second, so what? What
about *dynamic* database driven web pages??
Again I complain that this is not a real-world
test of server capability -- if you think NT is
so great than how come Hotmail is still being
served from Sun machines??? Because NT can't
handle it -- I rest my case.
...but still yes, this test does show where the
Linux kernel and Apache need work, I suppose.
Godamnnnnnnn!!! ...some people just don't know
when to stop typing!! -- just state your point
and shut up! We didn't need the full history
of desktop publishing and web browser, and that
whole paragraph describing why you use three
machines or whatever -- just get to point!
I don't agree with the author's proposals to
open the MS Office file formats -- that
would only lead to even stronger support
of MS Office which we don't want -- we want
MS Office file format to die and go away not
become even more common.
Web documents should be the next standard,
not MS Office.
Think about all the proprietaray crap embedded
in each Word and Excel doc -- Windows-specific
fonts, OLE objects, backslased directory names,
ActiveX controls, VBA macros, etc, etc -- you
expect us to adopt all that stuff into other
platforms just so you won't be incovenienced??!!
We want Microsoft to keep doing what it's doing
-- go ahead and make MS Office as incompatible
as possible and slowly and surely people will
throw more support into cleaning up web
document standards and forget about using MS
Office formats.
Support web standards, not M$ standards.
I'm sorry but sending a WordPerfect file is really
like asking them to throw your resume in the
wastebasket.
I've had to sort through piles of incoming resumes
and this is how it goes on the receiving end:
1. Garbled attachments (delete)
2. BinHex'd attachments (damn Mac users - delete)
3. doc files (I don't have Word and I'm not
impressed by you doc formatting skills - delete)
4. WordPerfect attachments (are you kidding me? - delete)
5. doc files with macro virus (oh why thank you,
get a virus scanner you friggin' putz! DELETE)
The best ways to send a resume online:
1. Plain text in an email message
2. URL where the resume is posted online
I hope TuneLinux.com takes off, but so far it
hasn't changed much since the week it was
launched. The x86 and TCP/IP pages still
only have two tune-up tips posted. The Apache
has three links to www.apache.org
What I'd really like to see is the Linux team at
PC Week disclose everything they did to optimize
their servers.
The problem with the "AOL PC" is where are the
other applications, ie. Office applications???
What else could you do with an AOL PC other
than surf and send email?? Not much else --
no games, no office apps, no servers, just
surfing. You may as well buy a WebTV. If you
think you can build Java apps to play Quake
and write heavily formatted spread sheets, well
it's not going to happen any time soon -- Java
can't handle heavy applications.
Microsoft's dominance rests on at least three
hinges: Windows, Microsoft Office, and Internet
Explorer. OK, so you figure you can replace
Windows and Internet Explorer but you're
forgeting the Big One: Microsoft Office, and
I don't recall Sun or Netscape having any office
application ready to roll.
As long as the business world is hopelessly
addicted to MS Office, Windows will be there
too. The only real threat to that market is
Linux w/ Star Office or Applix or some other
office suite in Linux.
So three Linux geeks have been given a full week
to tune their machines. I hope they post everything
they do on the web so we can all pick up a few
performance tweaking tips from them.
I'm sorry but the "Linux Enterprise" web sites that
sprouted up during the first Mindcraft aftermath
have already petered out -- they posted a few
little tidbits and that's it. I submitted a full
page of Apache tuning tips to one of those sites
and they didn't even bother posting any of it.
Even still we have no single big source of Linux
performance help.
I agree with most of the gripes in what's right/wrong
list but we seem to forget that this is just
another Star Wars flick. George Lucas simply
recreates the heros and villians and plot lines
from the cheezy serial pictures he enjoyed
watching when he was a kid.
I don't care what the critics say about this
flick: I asked my 7 year old nephew if it was
a good movie and he said he it was awesome
hence Lucas still knows who his real audience is.
Forgive me if any of these are obvious -- I'm
not trying to be sarcastic, it just that some
sys admins don't know this yet:
"top" shows you CPU load, memory usage, and
usage per process -- there are many options in
"top" check out the man page for it.
"pstree" shows a tree graph all processes and
who spawned what.
"ps auwx" (or "ps -ef" in Solaris) shows all
current processes
"netstat" and "ifconfig -a" shows network info
such as errors, dropped packets, etc.
Big Brother is a decent package for monitoring
several servers at once. It generates a web page
of colored lights (GIFs) indicating system load, web
daemon status, email daemon status, ftp daeomon
status, etc.