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I imagine a similar argument was made in the USSR about Xerox photocopiers. Oh, right, those spying photocopiers.... Now while you can argue that it's just the US being evil and therefore expecting everyone else to be evil, anyone who deals with the Chinese government has absolutely no illusions about which government is the best of the two.

The Chinese government has been caught red handed on several occasions attacking private companies, so ... what doubt is there, really, that Huawei equipment is too dangerous, even if it's not outright sabotaged from the start ?

I mean seriously does anyone think the OS companies aren't in on this type of operation?

It reminds me of the CIA-Xerox story.

http://dagmar.lunarpages.com/~parasc2/articles/0197/xerox.htm

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LunarPages is around that range and they provide both PostgreSQL and MySQL as options.

OK, I have to show off - I did something similar four years ago.
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I'm a much better programmer now, just for the record. :)

On another note, what's with the lack of hosting services providing PostgreSQL? I would love to use it, at least for some projects, but the fact that it's not available on many hosts makes it quite a hard decision to make. I don't want to pick up another hosting provider, or switch over all my stuff just to use a different database.

I know you said you don't want to switch, but:

Lunarpages kicks ass.

Not an employee, just a long-time, satisfied customer.

Gelgamek overlords.

My old hosting provider, Lunarpages, did this to me. I distribute FREE DVD's of RC Helicopters, via bittorrent, that I shot and produced myself. All content and copyrights belong to me and yet no matter how many times I explained it to my "former" provider, or who I explained it to, they told me my account would be shut down if I continued to distribute the DVD.

I spoke with my money and canceled my account that I had had for the last 5 years.

Yeah, lunarpages does have some that are mighty lightweight ... my personal fave is http://www.lunarpages.com/mini_whois.php :)

I thought about using Lunarpages for hosting (having observed them as a stable host for several years) but at the time I got my hosting, they were still $14/mo. for 100mb, and 1&1 was offering 500mb for 3 yrs/free with an upgrade to 100GB for $4.50/mo. It's nice to see more pricing parity, tho, so they'll have to compete on service and reliability as well as cost per gig.

The disk space offers keep rising everywhere -- they're the new "Free AOL for NNNN Hours!" of the hosting world. I'd bet they all oversell their current disk space, but most people will never use but a small fraction of the NNN-gigs that even the most basic packages now offer. Only reason I got a 100GB package was so I can mirror some public FTP sites, as a justincasing should they vanish overnight, as happens occasionally.

I haven't been to LA in years, but Toronto is certainly starting to remind me of Blade Runner's LA.

I remember seeing this in the 80s and thinking the cars were absurdly round and bulbous, and now here we are in 2006, and I think 13 years is more than enough to turn this into this.

I got Drudged when I was hosting tsunami videos and got something in the realm of 7 million hits in the span of a week.

You got seven million hits on a single line of text? How did you know that you received 7 million page loads? (Blogger doesn't provide statistics, the last I knew.)

Granted, if you actually got 7 million hits, the lousy templates of Blogger would have cost you about 34K * 7,000,000 = 226GBs for that single line of text. That's still well below what a service like Lunarpages includes in its basic package.

1) Don't run your own Email Server. It's a pain in the rear, and it'll get blacklisted for being on a consumer subnet anyway.

2) If you have a website that you need to guarantee availability for, get a cheap webhost like LunarPages or IPowerWeb. (Note that blogs fall under this category. Don't run your own blog unless the Blogger.com service doesn't meet your needs.)

3) If you have something personal (such as vacation pictures, web scripts for testing, an experimental web app, etc.) run your own server. It's a rewarding experience and can teach you a lot.

4) DO NOT run ANYTHING on your employer's servers, unless you have explicit permission. It was one thing to make quick use of them back when bandwidth was hard to come by. But now that everyone and their dog has server-grade bandwidth, there's no reason to be making illicit use of your employer's server.

With apologies for straying off-topic to answer...

BTW, can you point to online info about IQ test norming?

The notorious but well-written and methodically researched 'The Bell Curve' http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684824299/002-21 85531-9075203?v=glance&n=283155 also springs to mind, if your interested in the intersection of race and racism with intelligence testing.

For a casual historical introduction Wikipedia covers the basic history and common instruments, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient , as well as the specific topic of race and intelligence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_intelligence .

I'm particularly interested in historical data about the levels to which common instruments were normed in prior decades.

I can see building the business logic in java and using php to render the pages. I think there's a way to use php to call java objects. Not sure what version that's in or if it's supported by php4 which seems to be the most popular amongst web hosts.

I'm almost afraid to mention this, but one of the big reasons I like Java over PHP is performance. In my own tests I found Tomcat a lot faster than PHP. It wasn't a very scientific test. I had 2 pages about the same html size. The java based page used a controller servlet in my own mvc framework that loaded a header and footer file, did some cookie checking and even connected to a postgresql database on the same machine. The php file only inlcuded a header and footer. No mvc, no database access. The java page loaded about 2x as fast and I had about 2x the throughput of the PHP page.

The test probably wasn't technically fair. I used the latest tomcat build with the most current jdk (1.5). I didn't use apache as a frontend to Tomcat. For PHP I used the latest Apache 1.3 build with the latest mod_php and PHP 4.3.4. The reason for using this setup for PHP is that seems to be the most common among web hosting companies. Apache 1.3 seemed to be what was realling slowing things down because tests with apache as a front end for tomcat brought the numbers more inline. But from what I've seen most webhosts use 1.3 with php because of some threading issues with some php libraries and the apache 2 series of server.

I've also been able to do some neat things with threads in web applications with Java that have increased performance as well. I don't know if that's possible with PHP.

I did my tests not too long after there was the whole Friendster switching to PHP from JSP. I did some digging to get some info to see why the performance would be so bad for JSP. Turns out their architecture was all screwey. They had 50 servers hosting the site. Each server had a Tomcat instance and MySQL instance. They used some home brewed replication scheme to propogate the changes across the mysql instances. Any database write would have to be replicated to 49 other servers. That's gotta put some extra load on the db, especially since MySQL isn't that great for applications with a lot of updates. It's much better for mostly read sites. I remember someone also mentioning that they say a stack trace on a page and there was a Database.class with over 9,000 lines in it. They obviously didn't have a good multi-tiered architecture. That probably hurt their performance a lot. If they had their databases and app servers running on seperate servers they could have tuned each environment better for the task. Good connection pooling would also help, this is easy to setup since it's part of the servlet spec and all compliant servlet containers support it. Apparently the developers were authors of a JSP book which was supposed to give credibility to them being able to design a good JSP site. Unfortantely you need to know a lot more to develop a performant site. Most of the time the bottle neck isn't the application or the lanquage. It's the design or the database. A poorly designed database and queries usually going to bite you in the ass. Set up your data model correctly, do a bunch of explains on your queries to see how they perform and optimize them correctly, seperate your presentation logic from your business logic (this is more for maintainability than for performance), if you're running multiple servers seperate your appservers from your database and you can tune the os and memory for each function and you'll have a good platfo

I have so many ideas. I just need the bandwith.

Okkaaayyy... Why is bandwidth the problem? These guys can fix you up with everything you need at a low cost. Besides, if your ideas were sufficient to warrant VC attention, then you could get money from them for a T1.

Find a web host online that has PHP, MySQL and will autointall scripts for you. One such good one is http://secure.lunarpages.com/tracking/cgi-bin/clic kthru.cgi?id=mnewbe2 Purchase Webspace Login and click the Mambo installer button. Done - You Now have a PHP/ MYSQL Web Site Or you can just install Mambo yourself http://mamboserver.com/ That is my suggestion for a QUICK way to do it.

It seems that the only thing that the Smart has going for it is PR hype.

Some of the ideas are sound, but I'm not sure how well they are implimented. Most of the ideas aren't new, and are indicated by basic physics and experience.

You want a car that handles like a sports/racer and gets good fuel economy? Make it small and light and put a small, fast engine in it for a high power-to-weight ratio (motorcycle engines are damn-near F1 knockoffs and cheap as dirt).

The fewer powered accessories in the vehicle, the less engine/fuel needed to power them (a small car doesn't need power steering, brakes, windows, or AC - the McLaren F1 doesn't have them either).

If you really want to knock off even more power-robbing weight and complexity, drop the rear tranny and one of the rear wheel assemblies, make it a three wheeler. You lose almost a third of the rotating inertia of the entire drivetrain!

Add some smarts to the control system. A large part of the expense and complexity of the modern automobile is the custom control electronics used to lock in the customer to the original manufacturer for repair parts. You can drop a lot of the expense by using standard of-the-shelf systems. A fast PDA could easily handle most of the control functions in a small car, and act as a removable instrument cluster/electronic key, and look! You've got a PDA also!

"Space frames" are a well-known technology. Every shade-tree mechanic that's built a dirt-track racer or demolition vehicle can build one. A well built frame is very strong and stiff, but heavy. A more appropriate technology is a stressed-skin monocoque filled with crush resistant honeycomb (like cardboard) or foam beads.

The use of changable panels, simplification of design, and cheap parts, have all been used before... in commodity goods.

These vehicles aren't meant to be "investments", they are commodity goods, like toasters, blenders, PC's and TV's.

These vehicles all have some traits in common: small, light, and look like kids go-carts trimmed out to look like their parents real cars.

Some other sport vehicles are:
Campagna T-Rex http://www.go-t-rex.com/
Norton Shrike http://unitas.lunarpages.com/~norton2/shrike.htm
Tri-Magnum http://www.rqriley.com/index.html
Vortex http://www.vortexplans.com/
The Indycycle http://www.indycycle.net/
Grinnall Scorpion http://www.grinnallcars.com/

Note to people that like bashing Americans: If you had to grow up in our society, with our history, with our government and laws, you would be us. After all, where do you think we came from?

Bah, I found prior art for the transmogrifier

My relatively graphics heavy site averages about 3 million hits a month and I pay $100/year for hosting. This guy was clearly trying to get a huge payoff for something he promised to do for free.

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Here's the original one on the site:
http://apollo.lunarpages.com/~fracke2/DCP_1976.JPG
And with a little bit of URL tweaking, the better pic:
http://apollo.lunarpages.com/~fracke2/DCP_1975.JPG

Here's the original one on the site:
http://apollo.lunarpages.com/~fracke2/DCP_1976.JPG
And with a little bit of URL tweaking, the better pic:
http://apollo.lunarpages.com/~fracke2/DCP_1975.JPG

Yep, I just noticed the same thing.
link to the full-res picture.

From the picture, left to right:
Device 1: wired ethernet, RCA red/white/yellow, power?
Device 2: power, optical audio out, RCA red/white/yellow, s-video, (???), and wired ethernet.
Device 3: wireless antenna, unknown what else

First, the image is much larger than in the page.

Anyway... here's my thoughts.

The far left has RCA, SVIDEO, and Ethnernet. Maybe some way to output data over a network to RCA-based stereo systems, something like a PRISMIQ.

The middle device looks to be the same, except it has DV and optical in addition to RCA and SVIDEO. It could be another PRISMIQ-esque device, or it could also be something designed to go the other way too.

We can't see the back of the last unit, but I'm gonna guess it's something w/ wireless similar to the first two.

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google said there is a crc reverse engineering tutorial at http://www1.lunarpages.com/biw/tuts/crctut1.htm (oh look, it's written by the "c00l guy" "by anarchriz "... ;). didn't look at it, but it at least should give some insight into general CRC strategies.

Intelligent people switched to Kazaa Lite.

Here http://kazaalite.lunarpages.com/
ive tried it and its pretty cool, but they need mirrors.

Even more hilarious are the parodies of Jack Chick
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