For home I use Norton Internet Security product and it's excellent. I don't have any issues whatsoever with it. Now, I want to install a product for my server. The operating system is Windows Server 2008 and I'm planning to upgrade to Windows Server 2012 in the near future. I searched around and...
ServerFault doesn't generate very many re-open reviews, today when I looked it showed there was one question to be reviewed. Even though the counter only showed one, after I dealt with that, I was shown this question:
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I clicked through to get a better sense o...
putty : The term 'putty' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
In order to keep down comments about people's accept rates, accept rates are no longer displayed. However, that leads to a question: what is the incentive to accept answers now? Are we in a situation where there is no real incentive to accept answers?
Yes, you get +2 uncapped rep. But that's har...
Side note: I found it hilarious how prevalant MA is in SO users in the annual report. It's like 3-4% of SO users in the country, and like... 2% of the country.
Fuck you Australia. Electronics breadboard I see everywhere on the internet is about $30 from virtually any US retailer. In Australia it's $100+ from only one retailer
@WesleyDavid Well, it's a lot when you have a $500,000 mortgage, grocery prices are through the roof, petrol is $1.78/litre, taxes are up, car insurance is up, health insurance is up, council rates are up
@MarkHenderson Yeah, it was kinda cool actually because the solar industry was really getting more and more viable when the prices were that high, and people were seriously moving to mass transit and bikes in a meaningful way.
Then gas prices went down below $4 a gallon and people went back to their hummers.
And the solar industry tanked. And Obama got blamed.
The solar feed-in tarrifs were about 26c/kwh, but what happened was so many people took up solar panels that they were payout out billions in feed-in tarrifs that were going to waste
So they dropped everyone to about 10c/kwh and dropped all subsidies for the actual panels and installations
Gotta protect your power industry dontchaknow!
Can't have their profit levels dropping
Same as the auto industry. Ford Australia can't produce a well put together car to save its life (I would know, I've had a few), so people stopped buying them and then.. wait for it.. BAILOUT!
They make good cars, they're just put together badly
Like my boot release doesn't work because the rear spoiler is too heavy
It just pushes the boot closed as soon as it unlatches
@MarkHenderson There are so many slimy deals with energy companies that solar will never take off until it's the 11th hour and too late.
If I ever get Bruce Wayne rich, I'm secretly buying tons of desert in Arizona, close to the California border, and then putting up miles and miles of solar panels.
@WesleyDavid Well, one of our clients has the maintenance contracts for hundreds of generators around the city. His deal is he will maintain them for a pittance, but he gets to turn them on whenever he wants. So he will power on 200 generators around the city for 4-5 hours overnight, when demand is low but the tarrif is high, collect the feed-in credits and then turn them off.
That's his entire business model and he makes a fortune
He makes more than enough money from turning them on to go in and re-fuel them
Like even those guys that do stupid sites like kittenwar.com and put some adsense on it. I know of people that have just a small handful of sites like that and make surprising money.
My stepdad works with a guy who made a site years ago that does some kind of fantasy football scoring or statistics calculating. His income from that alone is pretty impressive for just a handful of hours a month.
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@WesleyDavid never heard of them, might have to check it out
I try show preview djvu file in browser.
I'm using DjVuLibre in this code but the picture doesn't show in browser
header('Content-type:image/x-portable-pixmap');
passthru("ddjvu ".
"-format=pnm ".
"-page={$numPage} ".
"-size=100x100 ".
"./file.djvu - ");
how to show preview djvu file in brows...
I recently installed Windows 8, and I am unable to access the Store.
I receive the error:
We weren't able to connect to the Store. This might have happened because of a server problem or the network connection timed out. Please wait a few minutes and try again.
If I completely disable IP...
We don't know. We're just the sysadmins. Perhaps you meant to visit our sister site Stack Overflow to ask your programming question? — Michael Hampton22 secs ago
@Iain Look at where it's called from. The parameter's hardcoded to 1 in the call. You'd think they would put that in a configuration file or something, if they were going to go to all the trouble to make a parameter.
C was the 4th programming language I learnt. That assumes you include mainframe oddities such as JCL, CLIST and REXX as languages. I'm well out of practice at coding in any language, and code like that still worries me.
ah yes, now punched cards I remember. Had to boot one of our mainframes from those. Boot sequence was input a boot strap into the machine by hand through a panel on the front, that could read the OS from punched card. What fun.
We had ATEs that used PDP8a/PDP8e controllers untill just a few years ago. The 8e had piano keys that you had to key in the boot sequence on, the 8a had a hex keypad
hex keypad! that's the phrase I was looking for, that's what this thing had for the bootstrap to load the OS.
Anyone who yearns for the good old days when computers were simpler should spend half an hour trying to get one of those to boot. Then come back and tell me again that things are too complex these days.
I was working for TI back then so we had an in-house TI system but the old versions had that, the "newer" versions had the keypad and they all wanted punched cards. But they were the only thing in the building that could read some of the tapes we got in from field surveys, and it was cheaper to keep those beasts running than to re-do the surveys with proper gear.
This was an oil exploration subsidiary of TI, so they had lots of field teams doing seismic surveys in unpleasant and expensive places to visit, never mind to operate expensive computer gear in.
ServerFault doesn't generate very many re-open reviews, today when I looked it showed there was one question to be reviewed. Even though the counter only showed one, after I dealt with that, I was shown this question:
Load avg weirdness on Linux Ubuntu
I clicked through to get a better sense o...
I try show preview djvu file in browser.
I'm using DjVuLibre in this code but the picture doesn't show in browser
header('Content-type:image/x-portable-pixmap');
passthru("ddjvu ".
"-format=pnm ".
"-page={$numPage} ".
"-size=100x100 ".
"./file.djvu - ");
how to show preview djvu file in brows...
I recently installed Windows 8, and I am unable to access the Store.
I receive the error:
We weren't able to connect to the Store. This might have happened because of a server problem or the network connection timed out. Please wait a few minutes and try again.
If I completely disable IP...
