[Possible Job] Perl, Linux
I'm doing some work for a .com type company in the travel sector. They have a network support blokey and a Windozey programmer type, but since their live system is apache and linux they have a slight hole in their skillset. Are there any of you lot still looking for jobs? Nice offices in W2 BTW. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: M$ SQueaLServer
Ian Brayshaw wrote: What I'm trying to find is industry evidence of SQueaL's performance (or lack of). The more gory the details the better. It's not unbiased and you have to sift through the cruft but checking old Ask-Slashdots is often worth doing as the occasional person comes up with some hard evidence and some convincing facts. Building Large Scale e-Commerce Systems? http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/00/09/07/1758230.shtml might have some stuff and I'm sure there was something about terabyte database solutions one time Linux Databases with Huge Tables? http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/09/29/0520201.shtml RAID Solutions For Terrabyte Databases? http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/01/01/11/2243216.shtml might also have some useful links -- simon wistowwireless systems coder i think, i said i think this is our fault.
Re: [Possible Job] Perl, Linux
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I presume that this is a permie thing? Yes. And I'd estimate that _most_ of you I know would be, um, a bit too heavyweight for them... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Re: M$ SQueaLServer
On or about Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 04:58:11PM -0700, Paul Makepeace typed: At the end of the day, the simple fact is that Windows 2000 crashes more frequently than *n[ui]x does -- this surely is unquestioned fact. Bear in mind also this item from Monday's RISKS (21.44): Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 12:20:53 +0400 (MSD) From: Oleg Broytmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Insurer considers Microsoft NT high-risk [...] An insurance company has started to charge 5-15% more if you use Windows NT as a base for Internet services: We saw that our NT-based clients were having more downtime due to hacking, says John Wurzler, founder and CEO of the Michigan company, which has been selling hacker insurance since 1998. Wurzler said the decision to charge higher premiums was not mandated by the syndicates affiliated with Lloyd's of London that underwrite the insurance he sells. Instead, the move was based on findings from 400 security assessments that his firm has done on small and midsize businesses over the past three years. Wurzler found that system administrators working on open-source systems tend to be better trained and stay with their employers longer than those at firms using Windows software, where turnover can exceed 33 percent per year. http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2766045,00.html Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-04
From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] whether there were any Masai tribespeople on the list. Anyone? Anyone? reminds me of that Reggie Perrin snippet .. 'Is there anyone here from Tarporley ...' I dunno .. maybe I'm getting old. pass the earwig would you please... /Robert
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-04
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Robert Shiels wrote: From: Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] whether there were any Masai tribespeople on the list. Anyone? Anyone? reminds me of that Reggie Perrin snippet .. 'Is there anyone here from Tarporley ...' I dunno .. maybe I'm getting old. pass the earwig would you please... I didn't get where I am today by saying 'earwig' instead of 'thank you' -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: London.pm List Weekly Summary 2001-06-04
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:25:17AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: I didn't get where I am today by saying 'earwig' instead of 'thank you' Might it've helped? P
Re: Social meet
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm 07957 386 815 i'm also going to be free this afternoon after about 2 ish (ill switch the phone on then) so if anyone wants to meet up before the meeting give me a bell Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. /Robert
Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. Has anybody got the USB syncing thing to work under Linux/BSD? I tried coldsync, but unfortunately, the USB protocol that sony use appears to be completely different to the visor one that it supports. :-( -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: Social meet
* Robert Shiels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm 07957 386 815 i'm also going to be free this afternoon after about 2 ish (ill switch the phone on then) so if anyone wants to meet up before the meeting give me a bell Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. funny enough i was planning on going to TCR as well, for a new digital camera (something cheap and cheerful) - i just hope PO will let me charge it -- Greg McCarrollhttp://217.34.97.146/~gem/
Re: Social meet
Robert Shiels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm 07957 386 815 i'm also going to be free this afternoon after about 2 ish (ill switch the phone on then) so if anyone wants to meet up before the meeting give me a bell Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. those nice people at scan.co.uk were offing it at 199 the other day... -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Interim CTO, web server farms, technical strategy
Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On 07/06/2001 at 10:45 +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. When this came up on IRC I asked at Micro Anvika who wanted 240 ukp inc vat for the basic package (8MB onboard, 8MB memory stick, etc). Mark Fowler paid about the same, but after haggling his way up and down the street, so I'd just cut the hassle and go there. Mind you, I'm no good at the haggling thing, so YMMV. -- :: paul :: 'this incredibly cool hands-on :: bongo drum thing isn't easy.' dadadodo
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:59:32 +0100 Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/06/2001 at 10:45 +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. When this came up on IRC I asked at Micro Anvika who wanted 240 ukp inc vat for the basic package (8MB onboard, 8MB memory stick, etc). Mark Fowler paid about the same, but after haggling his way up and down the street, so I'd just cut the hassle and go there. Mind you, I'm no good at the haggling thing, so YMMV. On a roughly related note, can anyone recommend somewhere to look for the following. 1) Laptop screen repairs. We have had the backlight go on a gateway at work that is out of warrantee. 2) Cheep low end laptops. Basically don't need anything with a lot of zoom, just want to put linux on it to relieve train boredom. So my only real want is reasonably standard kit inside and battery life. -- Tony Kennick TechnoPhobia Limited. Phone: +44 (0)114 2212123 Fax: +44 (0)114 2212124 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.technophobia.com Registered in England and Wales Company No. 3063669 VAT registration No. 598 7858 42 The contents of this e-mail are confidential to the addressee and are intended solely for the recipients use. If you are not the addressee, you have received this e-mail in error. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. Any opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the author personally and not TechnoPhobia Limited who do not accept responsibility for the contents of the message. All e-mail communications, in and out of TechnoPhobia, are recorded for monitoring purposes.
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 June 2001 10:44 Subject: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet) On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. Has anybody got the USB syncing thing to work under Linux/BSD? I tried coldsync, but unfortunately, the USB protocol that sony use appears to be completely different to the visor one that it supports. :-( I did some reading on this, and you are of course right. The Sony machine has a serial interface, with some kind of USB conversion. Therefore you only get serial speed from the sync, but you don't have to mess about with serial ports and IRQs and stuff. I suppose I should get a PalmV, but I like Sony stuff so much, and it does have the memory stick expansion slot. /Robert
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:10:48AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. Has anybody got the USB syncing thing to work under Linux/BSD? I tried coldsync, but unfortunately, the USB protocol that sony use appears to be completely different to the visor one that it supports. :-( I did some reading on this, and you are of course right. The Sony machine has a serial interface, with some kind of USB conversion. Therefore you only get serial speed from the sync, but you don't have to mess about with serial ports and IRQs and stuff. I suppose I should get a PalmV, but I like Sony stuff so much, and it does have the memory stick expansion slot. I've got a sony laptop with a builtin memory stick slot, so it's not the end of the world, but it would be very handy to sync to my Linux box as well... I tried looking up developer docs for the clie on the web, but there's a a dearth of information about it, and what there is is protected by sony's restrictive licensing. It's a real shame, I wanted to add jog dial support to a doc reader, but I'm probably not going to be able to now. :-( Sony: Lovely kit, crap support. -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: M$ SQueaLServer
Hi guys, Thanks for the input. I'll investigate further, but it has confirmed my suspicions that SQueaL hasn't made an impact at the terabyte level. As for the job, it's good, but not the be-all and end-all. I'm too passionate about what I do to work on systems that I don't believe in. Anyway, it would be the excuse some are looking for to dump Perl/Apache and move to ASP/IIS/ColdFusion. Might see you at the pub tonight and do a proper introduction. Cheers. Ian _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
From: Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 07/06/2001 at 10:45 +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. When this came up on IRC I asked at Micro Anvika who wanted 240 ukp inc vat for the basic package (8MB onboard, 8MB memory stick, etc). Mark Fowler paid about the same, but after haggling his way up and down the street, so I'd just cut the hassle and go there. PCWorld were doing it for 249gbp, so I suppose 240gbp will save me a bit. Thanks everyone, it's nice to know in advance the kind of price to expect. I'm crap at haggling too. scan.co.uk btw will charge me £252.63, (includes 10pp). Not very good if they can't undercut PCWorld. /Robert
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Tony Kennick wrote: On a roughly related note, can anyone recommend somewhere to look for the following. 1) Laptop screen repairs. We have had the backlight go on a gateway at work that is out of warrantee. SKA system engineering ..purveyors of all manner of laptop spares 01582 477970 ..did me a backlight invertor for a toshiba for 10 quid and a new Li battery for 65 .. the invertors usually plug in easy enough once you get the case apart. 2) Cheep low end laptops. Basically don't need anything with a lot of zoom, just want to put linux on it to relieve train boredom. So my only real want is reasonably standard kit inside and battery life. www.laptopshop.co.uk or just buy a nice new Dell ;) ... -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:12:23AM +0100, Tony Kennick wrote: On a roughly related note, can anyone recommend somewhere to look for the following. 2) Cheep low end laptops. Basically don't need anything with a lot of zoom, just want to put linux on it to relieve train boredom. So my only real want is reasonably standard kit inside and battery life. Morgans, New Oxford St. They have a webshite too, but I disremember the address. -- David Cantrell | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david/ Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it-- Agatha Christie
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Tony Kennick wrote: 2) Cheep low end laptops. Basically don't need anything with a lot of zoom, just want to put linux on it to relieve train boredom. So my only real want is reasonably standard kit inside and battery life. and .. crap web page .. but... http://www.sterlingxs.co.uk/system/index.html -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I tried looking up developer docs for the clie on the web, but there's a a dearth of information about it, and what there is is protected by sony's restrictive licensing. It's a real shame, I wanted to add jog dial support to a doc reader, but I'm probably not going to be able to now. :-( Sony: Lovely kit, crap support. their Memory Stick is a closed book. bastards. they only release documentation to their partners after big bucks licences .. so any chance of seeing memory stick support natively under linux is probably going to be from someone with a copy of IDA pro and Softice reversing the windoze drivers. I just dont get why they wont release specs .. surel;y the plan is to sell as many memory sticks as possible? ..or hav I missed someting? -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On or about Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:40:20AM +0100, Robin Szemeti typed: I just dont get why they wont release specs .. surel;y the plan is to sell as many memory sticks as possible? ..or hav I missed someting? Yup. The plan is (a) not to get kicked out of bed by MS and (b) not to have cheap memory-stick-compatible devices (cf Apple clones). R
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 11:40:20AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote: On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I tried looking up developer docs for the clie on the web, but there's a a dearth of information about it, and what there is is protected by sony's restrictive licensing. It's a real shame, I wanted to add jog dial support to a doc reader, but I'm probably not going to be able to now. :-( Sony: Lovely kit, crap support. their Memory Stick is a closed book. bastards. they only release documentation to their partners after big bucks licences .. so any chance of seeing memory stick support natively under linux is probably going to be from someone with a copy of IDA pro and Softice reversing the windoze drivers. Well, the memory stick works just fine (at least under FreeBSD). It just appears as a SCSI-over-USB device (and I'll wager that's how it's implemented in the clie as well). I suppose that the PCMCIA memory stick reader does something totally different? I just dont get why they wont release specs .. surel;y the plan is to sell as many memory sticks as possible? ..or hav I missed someting? Pass. Withholding developer information to *anything* seems nuts to me. F'rinstance, I'd love the jog dial to work on my laptop, too... -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Well, the memory stick works just fine (at least under FreeBSD). It just appears as a SCSI-over-USB device (and I'll wager that's how it's implemented in the clie as well). I suppose that the PCMCIA memory stick reader does something totally different? kewl .. thats a step forward from he situation a while ago .. excellenty I just dont get why they wont release specs .. surel;y the plan is to sell as many memory sticks as possible? ..or hav I missed someting? Pass. Withholding developer information to *anything* seems nuts to me. ideedy .. do they really think that by withholding info they will stop people cloning things ? arsewipes the lot of em. as any fule kno there is precious little that you cant do with some strong acids and an electron microscope .. anything is possible. F'rinstance, I'd love the jog dial to work on my laptop, too... and if you could make the 'stop play FF REW' buttons on my inspiron accessible to something linuxy on my Inspiron I'd be pleased too. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
On Thu, 07 Jun 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: their Memory Stick is a closed book. Fine with me. Then maybe we'll get decent short range wireless data exchange with good authentication and encryption. and the problem with Lucent Orinoco ( + RC128 ) is? actually I was keen on using the memory stick for data capture in a datlogger I;d been working on .. but it lokkslike im stuck with either SmartMedia or CompctFlash ... prolly compact flash as it mounts as a plain IDE device. -- Robin Szemeti Redpoint Consulting Limited Real Solutions For A Virtual World
London.pm posting stats
This is dated from beginning of last year, and mutt is saying that's
about 13,700 messages (gasp!). Note that some people
(cough/dcrosscough/) appear more than once. Not that a) they
necessarily need it b) have any hope, ever, of catching Greg...
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Robin Szemeti: 586 **
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Robert Shiels: 176 *
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Roger Burton West: 156 *
Dominic Mitchell: 152
Steve Mynott: 147
Neil Ford: 144
Dean: 139
Simon Cozens: 134
Robin Houston: 128
Richard Clamp: 122 ***
Elaine -HFB- Ashton: 120 ***
James Powell: 118 ***
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Nathan Torkington: 109 ***
Struan Donald: 108 ***
dcross - David Cross: 106 ***
Matthew Byng-Maddick: 100 ***
Tony Bowden: 97 ***
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Paul Mison: 95 ***
Cross David - dcross: 86 **
Andy Wardley: 83 **
Dean S Wilson: 82 **
Paul, *finally* not anywhere near the top.
PS The ratty bit of code, should anyone wish to automate this, that
produces this is:
cat $* | formail +1 -x From: -ds | perl -lne 's-\\?--g;s/(\w+), ([\w\s]+\w)/$2 $1/;/^
(\w.*) / and $p{$1}++; END {printf %20s: %4d\n,$p,$n while ($p,$n) = each %p}' |
sort -t : -k 2,2rn | head -40 | perl -lpe 's-(\d+)$-$1 .*x($1*($s||=50/$1))-e'
Re: London.pm posting stats
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 04:26:44AM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote: Dominic Mitchell: 152 Oh dear. And I haven't even been subscribed since the beginning of the year... -Dom -- | Semantico: creators of major online resources | | URL: http://www.semantico.com/ | | Tel: +44 (1273) 72 | | Address: 33 Bond St., Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1RD, UK. |
Re: Sony Clie (was: Re: Social meet)
From: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sony: Lovely kit, crap support. Has anyone seen http://www.sonystyle.com/micros/clie/ /me drools. /Robert
Sony Clie (was Re: Social meet)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:45:09AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] i'm 07957 386 815 i'm also going to be free this afternoon after about 2 ish (ill switch the phone on then) so if anyone wants to meet up before the meeting give me a bell Between 5 and 6pm I'll be wandering up and down TCR looking for a new PDA. Sony Clie is my preferred choice at the moment. If anyone knows a good shop, or is good at haggling and wants to help, I'm on 07801 814138. /Robert I would strongly suggest you check out the Palm M500/505 as they come in the lovely Palm V form factor but have an expansion slot (taking both Secure Digital and Multimedia cards) http://www.palm.com/products/accessories/expansioncards/ or alternatively the Handera (formerly TRG) 330, which uses the Palm III form factor, supports existing Palm III peripherals but has both a Compact Flash and a SD slot for expansion! http://www.handera.com/ Oh yeah, and it's got a real speaker :-) Neil. -- Neil C. Ford Managing Director, Yet Another Computer Solutions Company Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.yacsc.com
Re: Big Shiny Toys (was: Re: M$ SQueaLServer)
Dominic Mitchell [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: * *AFAIK, the starfire (Sun Ultra Enterprise 1) only goes up to 64 *processors (I used to work on an under equipped one ;-) The SGI *challenge does 128 procs, though. The starfile does, indeed, max out at 16 boards with 4 processors each making 64 processors in total. It also has a cap of 64 GB ram. *Sorry, but I have no experience of SQL server worth mentioning, just *Oracle. Although the starfire had 6Gb of RAM in the place I used to *work at, it still ran like treacle. But I'm no DBA, so there's probably *a very good reason for it doing this. Yeah, probably someone was a cheap bastard after buying the E10k. One of the major US broadcasting companies used to run their website on a couple of U2s with 512mb ram and a NFS mounted filesystem with Oracle..and let us not forget them using FrontPage for collaborative design. Buying fast hardware is only one part of the solution. If the E10k was slow it was most certainly due to bad system operation desgin and a human who didn't connect the dots and follow the slow I/O. *[1] The ultrasparc was still stuck at 400Mhz last I looked... Look again. The UltraSparc-III is at 750Mhz and up. e.
rewind elector
eek, i've just grokked that george osborne, who was 2 years above me at college, has been elected tory mp for tatton. i wish i hadn't been passed out on dave's sofa at that point. gah, i feel old and sleepy so nothing changes, but it was nice to realise that in the company of perlmongers. cheerz jo xx
