This is a 3 step process and likely more than you were after. I suspect you were hoping for a, "Gee, just use this obscure browser parameter." instead. Anyway here goes:
1 - Print to a custom page size using a PDF writer or "print to file". I was able to print to an A3 size Postscript file just using Mozilla for Linux. I could also generate a custom page up to 45 inches wide using an old Adobe PDF writer under Windows. I was also able to scale the output to get much more on a page. The scaling trick will work quite well even to very small scales for text and lines but will not work for raster images. If you only have raster images then simply save them individually and print them from Gimp.
2 - Manipulate the file in a graphics application. A vector based application like Illustrator or Corel Draw will work best (sorry I don't do much drawing so I don't know the Linux equivalent - Sketch?, Kontour?) for rotating and scaling. I was also able to use Gimp to import my mozilla.ps file at a high res (600 dpi) and achieve acceptable results.
3 - Print the file at whatever scale, in whatever chunk configuration you like.
I know I'm going to get flamed for this but I hate most backup systems. Most are too complex or too broken to be useful. As a result I wrote a simple Perl script to zip up directories for me. Later I found a Python script that did a little more. The result is a zip file that I can verify quickly and easily. I can burn the zips to CD and extract single files quickly and easlily. Put Python on each PC. Schedule some scripts within Windows. You're done.
If you need periodic complete system backups get some removable hard drive bays, some 100GB disks and Mondo
I love the idea. I wish my local paper would do this. It makes the news more timely but most of all it provides a way to address the fact that all news is biased, ill informed and flawed to a certain extent. As with Slashdot the real value isn't in the story but in the following discussion. Again, I would love this.
Here's the crux, though. Most people don't get it. I should say almost all people don't get it. Sure blogs are gaining popularity and blogs are getting noticed as a form of journalism but this is with early adopter types and people who feel very comfortable in front of a computer. I would guess that unless a paper is based out of a major tech center or even a college town, it will fail with a blog format - for now. The "internet" was the same way though. I would let the hype do its job and then launch. Then again it may not cost much. You could start today and let it slowly grind along until it picks up enough readers/posters to get noticed. Then you can say you were way ahead of your time.
Saw a PBS special on this...
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This was rather fascinating to follow. The researchers noticed that when a tumor is removed, often times many more tumors sprout up in other locations. They deduced that the original tumor somehow supressed the growth of these other tumors. Some discovered that the original tumor was somehow starving the other tumors of blood. They deduced that the tumor produces a chemical that suppresses blood vessle growth and a chemical that increases blood vessle growth. The later had been observed for a while. The chemical that increases blood vessle growth, however, degrades faster so the net effect is flooding the tumor with blood while starving surrounding tissue. Thus the removal of the original tumor, allows smaller tumors to flourish.
Then the hunt began for a drug that would supress blood vessle growth. Using an existing drug would be easier than isolating a new one so a search began for an existing drug with the side effect of supressing blood vessle growth. One researcher then remembered that Thalidamide caused birth defects because it supressed blood vessle growth. In this ironic twist of fate Thalidamide became the first drug to test this method for combatting cancer. It was successful so the researchers have been tuning the process ever since.
How did this get selected? I think this is a conspiracy. This is obviously a question that is specific to a particular app that runs under Windows. It's not News for Nerds but more like a Windows Annoyance Sounds like Cliff was secretly replaced by a Perl script, or worse a VB script, that counts key words (ssh, cvs, environment variables, command line, password) and posts the highest scored submissions.
Yea! I can finally run a file manager on a Mac that is easy to use and not just easy to understand. 2 panes make it easy to copy and move files with a couple clicks or keystrokes. I hate the search, click, copy, search, click, paste method of file management. cp with command completion is faster than that.
It seems odd but almost all of the friends that I road bike, mountain bike, kayak, ski, and climb with are programmers and engineers. I met all of them through the sports so don't say that we're just a bunch of geeks from work pretending to ski. It may, however, explain why I can't stand the latest round of kids who do all this _extreme_ crap. Some of them are good. I won't take that away from them, but some are not. Some are just lucky and stupid. It makes me sad when people see something like whitewater kayaking as nothing but hurling yourself off 60' waterfalls. What they are missing is the complexity of the sport. It's like chess in a way. You look at a long stretch of nasty water and consider all the possible lines through it. Then you disect each move and its consequense. You add up all the risks, all the possible alternatives if something goes wrong and you decide if it's worth doing. If it is, then you memorize the moves and execute (sometimes after a visit to the woods). That's what this stuff is about. Yea, there's adrenalin and yea there's fear but it's a lot more complex than that.
Exactly. The school is supposed to in a sense force the corporate donor to give up licenses that are essentially useless to the school (since they can't be transferred). That's why they include the note about the donated PCs being covered by the school's site license. This isn't about schools. It's about forcing corporations to upgrade the OS when they upgrade the PC.
Languages don't really die like that. Look at what happened with Y2K. There's too much invested already, especially in Java. Maybe Microsoft will be able to convince the kids in CS class that it's sexier to focus on C# and not Java. Maybe the number of Java hype magazines on the news stand will be cut in half. Maybe Java won't be as "cool" as it is today (maybe it will be) but it won't be dead.
I'm amazed at the amount of OS/2 crap that I still see, and OS/2 has supposedly been dead for years.
Agreed. But remember that the.com boom was more about hype than reality. Also remember that simply having a product to sell made you better than 90% of the ventures out there. With an idea and lots of venture capital, companies would do _anything_ to get tallent. I'm guessing that most people would be attracted by a really great work environment over a abundance of CPU power. Plus this was Lineo. What do they need $40K/mo worth of CPU power for anyway?
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Poor management? Of course it is but let's look at the pressure to do this.
For example, a close friend of mine was working for a company working on PKI stuff. They had hundreds of millions in funding from a prominent international investment bank. They were told repeatedly that they were not spending fast enough! There were some suggestions that subsequent rounds of funding hinged upon meeting a specific burn rate. Obviously this all changed very quickly and all funding dried up and so did the company.
So who is to blame? Yes management is ultimately responsible and no excuse is going to bring the company back but it should be noted that the decisions that were made were not as irrational as they seemed.
I remember a time when I anxiously scanned the back of every book for the contents of the included CDROM. This was back when my net connection was 14.4. Today, I think you're right. The contents of CDs are almost always outdated or some shareware version of an application that can be downloaded from the Net. Then again, some people may not give up their old habits. Your book could be left on the shelf because it's lacking that lump on the back page. Do you want utility or sales...
Maybe the topic can determine the level of the audience. If your book has an animal on the cover, go with the website. If the title includes "in 21 days" then go with the CD.
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The internet taught me one thing that I think I refused to beleive prior. That is: If there is a way to benefit, even slightly, even though many will be harmed, someone will be willing to do it.
Everything changes: server location, server function, location names, etc.
I worked for a company that changed it's name 3 times in 1.5 years (a buyout and a spinoff - and yes it was stupid). We had servers that were named for company and division. It wasn't a big problem but it was annoying. I once inherited a server named for the application that it ran. The name of the application changed and people were confused.
I would choose something that's easy to remember (preferably pronounceable) but isn't related to anything about the server. I don't have too many servers to name right now so I used ski resorts. Yea, it's stupid but it's fun and it works for my situation. I think onomatopoeias would be fun but harder to dream up.
I think that in this case a formula is needed but it should not indicate any feature of the server. If possible the formula should simply generate pronounceable, memorable names.
Your need for information, your threshold for pain and the signal to noise ratio. Unfortunately an open relay today has a very poor signal to noise ratio. Yes, I am in favor of free and open communication but this is like using a bull horn to call my neighbor. It might work but it causes too much pain for anyone else - and there are better alternatives.
Start every sentence with "My opinion is" and I would assume you're OK. But IANAL...
This seems strange to me though. I think I would ask that I give a verbal reference and let _them_ write it down. Isn't giving a reference a courtesy anyway?
I once owned an ISP and I am also still an admin. I have switched both my personal domains and my work domains to internal servers - Linux. I have similar circumstances to your own and I don't regret it one bit. For me the loss of reliability (since I can't afford all the redundancy that hosting companies provide) is an easy trade for the control that I gain. I finally switched everything when my provider ran a different version of Perl than the one my web catalog required. I haven't looked back since.
If, however, you do decide to go with a hosting service, try he.net or pair.net. They both are friendly to the "Slashdot type of admin" and their service is good and priced fairly.
why anyone bothers with this stuff. The airlines do it too. Why bother making some half baked (no pun intended) version of a staple when there are other much better options. Some foods travel well and some don't. If I'm longing for some home cookin' a military industrial engineered egg isn't going to make me feel any better. This is why I hope for a turkey sandwich and a cookie when I step onto a plane and not some failed attempt at microwave meatloaf (no I haven't traveled first class).
No this is not a troll. If you have Windows then try TimeClock Plus. I was about to take some time and write a time tracker system when my boss just purchased this. I was pissed because I thought the project would be fun. It turns out that this software works really well for us and has saved my _lots_ of time. We only have version 3 but it will run in a client server mode and will get time from the server.
Well I can't seem to reach the site but I imagine that that the comparison is again invalid. If this is a comparison of Linux kernel vs bare Win2K install then I suppose the stats speak for themselves. However, if this is Win2K vs RedHat or Mandrake then this is skewed since RedHat and Mandrake contain many times over all of the software one might need for a server and a desktop. This skews the exposure rating unless the comparison is between Redhat or Mandrake and Win2K + MSOffice + everything else imaginable for a desktop and serevr PC. A comparison of Win2K with a hardened, stripped down version of Linux might be more accurate. Otherwise this is simply saying that a complete install of RedHat or Mandreake is less secure than a plain install of Win2K which is a worthless statement.
You don't get the debugging (which I hear doesn't work all that well in the other options anyway) but you get a lot of other great stuff (very nice mulitplatform editor with PHP mode, projects, FTP, etc.). www.jedit.org
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This is a 3 step process and likely more than you were after. I suspect you were hoping for a, "Gee, just use this obscure browser parameter." instead. Anyway here goes:
1 - Print to a custom page size using a PDF writer or "print to file". I was able to print to an A3 size Postscript file just using Mozilla for Linux. I could also generate a custom page up to 45 inches wide using an old Adobe PDF writer under Windows. I was also able to scale the output to get much more on a page. The scaling trick will work quite well even to very small scales for text and lines but will not work for raster images. If you only have raster images then simply save them individually and print them from Gimp.
2 - Manipulate the file in a graphics application. A vector based application like Illustrator or Corel Draw will work best (sorry I don't do much drawing so I don't know the Linux equivalent - Sketch?, Kontour?) for rotating and scaling. I was also able to use Gimp to import my mozilla.ps file at a high res (600 dpi) and achieve acceptable results.
3 - Print the file at whatever scale, in whatever chunk configuration you like.
If you need periodic complete system backups get some removable hard drive bays, some 100GB disks and Mondo
I love the idea. I wish my local paper would do this. It makes the news more timely but most of all it provides a way to address the fact that all news is biased, ill informed and flawed to a certain extent. As with Slashdot the real value isn't in the story but in the following discussion. Again, I would love this.
Here's the crux, though. Most people don't get it. I should say almost all people don't get it. Sure blogs are gaining popularity and blogs are getting noticed as a form of journalism but this is with early adopter types and people who feel very comfortable in front of a computer. I would guess that unless a paper is based out of a major tech center or even a college town, it will fail with a blog format - for now. The "internet" was the same way though. I would let the hype do its job and then launch. Then again it may not cost much. You could start today and let it slowly grind along until it picks up enough readers/posters to get noticed. Then you can say you were way ahead of your time.
This was rather fascinating to follow. The researchers noticed that when a tumor is removed, often times many more tumors sprout up in other locations. They deduced that the original tumor somehow supressed the growth of these other tumors. Some discovered that the original tumor was somehow starving the other tumors of blood. They deduced that the tumor produces a chemical that suppresses blood vessle growth and a chemical that increases blood vessle growth. The later had been observed for a while. The chemical that increases blood vessle growth, however, degrades faster so the net effect is flooding the tumor with blood while starving surrounding tissue. Thus the removal of the original tumor, allows smaller tumors to flourish.
Then the hunt began for a drug that would supress blood vessle growth. Using an existing drug would be easier than isolating a new one so a search began for an existing drug with the side effect of supressing blood vessle growth. One researcher then remembered that Thalidamide caused birth defects because it supressed blood vessle growth. In this ironic twist of fate Thalidamide became the first drug to test this method for combatting cancer. It was successful so the researchers have been tuning the process ever since.
How did this get selected? I think this is a conspiracy. This is obviously a question that is specific to a particular app that runs under Windows. It's not News for Nerds but more like a Windows Annoyance Sounds like Cliff was secretly replaced by a Perl script, or worse a VB script, that counts key words (ssh, cvs, environment variables, command line, password) and posts the highest scored submissions.
Yea! I can finally run a file manager on a Mac that is easy to use and not just easy to understand. 2 panes make it easy to copy and move files with a couple clicks or keystrokes. I hate the search, click, copy, search, click, paste method of file management. cp with command completion is faster than that.
Check out:
http://krusader.sourceforge.net/
It seems odd but almost all of the friends that I road bike, mountain bike, kayak, ski, and climb with are programmers and engineers. I met all of them through the sports so don't say that we're just a bunch of geeks from work pretending to ski. It may, however, explain why I can't stand the latest round of kids who do all this _extreme_ crap. Some of them are good. I won't take that away from them, but some are not. Some are just lucky and stupid. It makes me sad when people see something like whitewater kayaking as nothing but hurling yourself off 60' waterfalls. What they are missing is the complexity of the sport. It's like chess in a way. You look at a long stretch of nasty water and consider all the possible lines through it. Then you disect each move and its consequense. You add up all the risks, all the possible alternatives if something goes wrong and you decide if it's worth doing. If it is, then you memorize the moves and execute (sometimes after a visit to the woods). That's what this stuff is about. Yea, there's adrenalin and yea there's fear but it's a lot more complex than that.
Exactly. The school is supposed to in a sense force the corporate donor to give up licenses that are essentially useless to the school (since they can't be transferred). That's why they include the note about the donated PCs being covered by the school's site license. This isn't about schools. It's about forcing corporations to upgrade the OS when they upgrade the PC.
Languages don't really die like that. Look at what happened with Y2K. There's too much invested already, especially in Java. Maybe Microsoft will be able to convince the kids in CS class that it's sexier to focus on C# and not Java. Maybe the number of Java hype magazines on the news stand will be cut in half. Maybe Java won't be as "cool" as it is today (maybe it will be) but it won't be dead.
I'm amazed at the amount of OS/2 crap that I still see, and OS/2 has supposedly been dead for years.
That's just fsckin' stupid....
.com boom was more about hype than reality. Also remember that simply having a product to sell made you better than 90% of the ventures out there. With an idea and lots of venture capital, companies would do _anything_ to get tallent. I'm guessing that most people would be attracted by a really great work environment over a abundance of CPU power. Plus this was Lineo. What do they need $40K/mo worth of CPU power for anyway?
Agreed. But remember that the
Poor management? Of course it is but let's look at the pressure to do this.
For example, a close friend of mine was working for a company working on PKI stuff. They had hundreds of millions in funding from a prominent international investment bank. They were told repeatedly that they were not spending fast enough! There were some suggestions that subsequent rounds of funding hinged upon meeting a specific burn rate. Obviously this all changed very quickly and all funding dried up and so did the company.
So who is to blame? Yes management is ultimately responsible and no excuse is going to bring the company back but it should be noted that the decisions that were made were not as irrational as they seemed.
Whoa. Go with the website and CD I guess...
I remember a time when I anxiously scanned the back of every book for the contents of the included CDROM. This was back when my net connection was 14.4. Today, I think you're right. The contents of CDs are almost always outdated or some shareware version of an application that can be downloaded from the Net. Then again, some people may not give up their old habits. Your book could be left on the shelf because it's lacking that lump on the back page. Do you want utility or sales...
Maybe the topic can determine the level of the audience. If your book has an animal on the cover, go with the website. If the title includes "in 21 days" then go with the CD.
The internet taught me one thing that I think I refused to beleive prior. That is: If there is a way to benefit, even slightly, even though many will be harmed, someone will be willing to do it.
Everything changes: server location, server function, location names, etc.
I worked for a company that changed it's name 3 times in 1.5 years (a buyout and a spinoff - and yes it was stupid). We had servers that were named for company and division. It wasn't a big problem but it was annoying. I once inherited a server named for the application that it ran. The name of the application changed and people were confused.
I would choose something that's easy to remember (preferably pronounceable) but isn't related to anything about the server. I don't have too many servers to name right now so I used ski resorts. Yea, it's stupid but it's fun and it works for my situation. I think onomatopoeias would be fun but harder to dream up.
I think that in this case a formula is needed but it should not indicate any feature of the server. If possible the formula should simply generate pronounceable, memorable names.
Your need for information, your threshold for pain and the signal to noise ratio. Unfortunately an open relay today has a very poor signal to noise ratio. Yes, I am in favor of free and open communication but this is like using a bull horn to call my neighbor. It might work but it causes too much pain for anyone else - and there are better alternatives.
rdpdesktop.org doesn't work but www.rdesktop.org does.
It came up in a review of next generation processors (a few years ago I think). The author conceeded that he would have to find a different name.
Start every sentence with "My opinion is" and I would assume you're OK. But IANAL...
This seems strange to me though. I think I would ask that I give a verbal reference and let _them_ write it down. Isn't giving a reference a courtesy anyway?
I once owned an ISP and I am also still an admin. I have switched both my personal domains and my work domains to internal servers - Linux. I have similar circumstances to your own and I don't regret it one bit. For me the loss of reliability (since I can't afford all the redundancy that hosting companies provide) is an easy trade for the control that I gain. I finally switched everything when my provider ran a different version of Perl than the one my web catalog required. I haven't looked back since.
If, however, you do decide to go with a hosting service, try he.net or pair.net. They both are friendly to the "Slashdot type of admin" and their service is good and priced fairly.
why anyone bothers with this stuff. The airlines do it too. Why bother making some half baked (no pun intended) version of a staple when there are other much better options. Some foods travel well and some don't. If I'm longing for some home cookin' a military industrial engineered egg isn't going to make me feel any better. This is why I hope for a turkey sandwich and a cookie when I step onto a plane and not some failed attempt at microwave meatloaf (no I haven't traveled first class).
A better hack would be to make my $30 bike computer store my address book and calendar...
No this is not a troll. If you have Windows then try TimeClock Plus. I was about to take some time and write a time tracker system when my boss just purchased this. I was pissed because I thought the project would be fun. It turns out that this software works really well for us and has saved my _lots_ of time. We only have version 3 but it will run in a client server mode and will get time from the server.
Well I can't seem to reach the site but I imagine that that the comparison is again invalid. If this is a comparison of Linux kernel vs bare Win2K install then I suppose the stats speak for themselves. However, if this is Win2K vs RedHat or Mandrake then this is skewed since RedHat and Mandrake contain many times over all of the software one might need for a server and a desktop. This skews the exposure rating unless the comparison is between Redhat or Mandrake and Win2K + MSOffice + everything else imaginable for a desktop and serevr PC. A comparison of Win2K with a hardened, stripped down version of Linux might be more accurate. Otherwise this is simply saying that a complete install of RedHat or Mandreake is less secure than a plain install of Win2K which is a worthless statement.
You don't get the debugging (which I hear doesn't work all that well in the other options anyway) but you get a lot of other great stuff (very nice mulitplatform editor with PHP mode, projects, FTP, etc.). www.jedit.org