Comment just another route (Score 1) 77
This route already existed for years and Iraqis are using it to connect to Europe.
Comment PHP still making money (Score 3, Interesting) 137
I am still making good money from writing good PHP code. I was about to trade it for something else till I found Laravel which is making PHP saner and more convenient. One thing I love(d) about PHP, is the code/functions style is as messy as legacy C code. People coming from C background will find their same function names in PHP and working on the web.
Comment bad reviews (Score 1) 107
You must think twice before posting a bad review about this phone
Comment No Windows are allowed (Score 1) 198
Our company uses only Linux desktops at work. Windows is not allowed. Infact, we forbid our employees from using Windows PCs to connect via ssh to any of our servers.
Comment Re:a- a- (Score 4, Informative) 198
They are sunni group following wahbisim interpretations which are officially adopted by Saudi Arabia.
On the other hand , Iran backed forces (Shiaa militas) were the first to resist ISIS progress and defeated them in Tikrit,Anbar,Diyala.
Read more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comment Re: UPS (Score 1) 236
My 1500VA UPS cost me around $70 and I only need to replace battery pack each year for $30
Comment Not New (Score 1) 232
Well..this is not new, Microsoft has be doing this for years.
Comment Use Cache Servers (Score 1) 239
I live in Baghdad and bandwidth here is very very expensive as it comes from VSAT terminals , 1024/512 link costs more than $3000USD/month.
As a temporary solution , I started integrating Squid Cache Servers for ISPs , and I am thinking about building a city wide cache network using ICP (Internet Cache Protocol), normally the request hit ratio is more than $40 , with some servers it is 60%.
London Stock Exchange To Abandon Windows 438
BBCWatcher writes "Computerworld's Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols reports that the London Stock Exchange is abandoning its Microsoft Windows-based trading platform: 'Anyone who was ever fool enough to believe that Microsoft software was good enough to be used for a mission-critical operation had their face slapped this September when the LSE's Windows-based TradElect system brought the market to a standstill for almost an entire day .... Sources at the LSE tell me to this day that the problem was with TradElect ...'"
Optical Character Recognition Still Struggling With Handwriting 150
Ian Lamont recently asked Google if they planned to extend their transcription of books and other printed media to include public records, many of which were handwritten before word processors became ubiquitous. Google wouldn't talk about any potential plans, but Lamont found out a bit more about the limits of optical character recognition in the process:
"Even though some CAPTCHA schemes have been cracked in the past year, a far more difficult challenge lies in using software to recognize handwritten text. Optical character recognition has been used for years to convert printed documents into text data, but the enormous variation in handwriting styles has thwarted large-scale OCR imports of handwritten public documents and historical records. Ancestry.com took a surprising approach to digitizing and converting all publicly released US census records from 1790 to 1930: It contracted the job to Chinese firms whose staff manually transcribed the names and other information. The Chinese staff are specially trained to read the cursive and other handwriting styles from digitized paper records and microfilm. The task is ongoing with other handwritten records, at a cost of approximately $10 million per year, the company's CEO says."
GNOME 2.24 Released 163
thhamm writes "The GNOME community hopes to make our users happy with many new features and improvements, as well as the huge number of bug fixes that are shipped in this latest GNOME release! Well. What else to say. I am happy." Notably, this release is also the occasion for the announcement of videoconferencing app Ekiga's 3.0 release.
Comment Re:Why people should stay away from it (Score 1) 301
I was just like you , but when I used Ubuntu I found that there is no need for Yast when everything works just fine without touching any configuration utilities.
But I might go back to SuSE when they stop using Mono in their system utilities , especially the ones in the startup !
