Comments on: Another week

By: Jordon Kalilich

Jordon Kalilich — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 04:18:39 +0000

Your mileage might vary with digital logic. You might love it, or your college might even make it kind of easy. So I wouldn’t worry about that too much.

I think when I was using Windows, I had the same problem with file sizes when uploading files to a FreeBSD machine. Or maybe I didn’t. I definitely remember being annoyed by changing file sizes, though. Friggin’ newlines.

There could be a few good things you could get out of an Esperanto book but probably not enough to justify the cost.

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:55:25 +0000

digital logic

I’m sure that’s what’s called Fundamentals of Digital Computers at my college (which I’ll be able to take after this semester, since Trigonometry is the prerequisite), and you don’t make it sound fun.

did you know there were Mac servers

Yup, I had Network+ last semester (oddly, I did worse on the chapter about Windows than the one about Netware).

ha ha, Apache

My host runs Apache, but on my computer, I use lighttpd, which is smaller and takes a lot less power. My college’s servers use IIS. It’s kind of funny: I’m taking JavaScript this semester and when I upload files to the server, they’re always bigger than the ones on my computer, apparently because IIS converts line endings (I have Vim use Unix file endings).

excellent Teach Yourself Esperanto, third edition

I never read it or any instructional Esperanto book, and I figure it’s too late for me to get anything out of it now.

@Luke: Mac OS X wasn’t based on FreeBSD. It was based on NeXTSTEP, which used the Mach kernel (a drop-in BSD kernel replacement).

By: Jordon Kalilich

Jordon Kalilich — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:24:47 +0000

I know FreeBSD is a good server operating system, and yes, this site does run on FreeBSD. I was trying to avoid overanalysis and questions from people who thought I made that choice for the web server at work.

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:21:46 +0000

Darwin is based on FreeBSD, but it seems the keys is BASED ON. I had no idea they were so dumb. No, you can’t stop people from doing dumb things like using Mac OS or using Ubuntu on servers, &c, but FreeBSD is a solid system. They have some of the longest uptimes on the net. Correct me if I’m wrong, but your site runs on BSD, too.

Forgive me for saying that it sounds like your current web setup is a patchy one. Ahem.