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First off, someone else posted the full coversation:

http://pastebin.com/m2cfd19dd

Which is a little less one sided than your truncated version.

Yes, I admitted it was a configuration mistake, after it was tracked down. Of course you are ignoring the fact that the error was not any of the suggestions given, and that I pointed out that those reasons could not possibly be the problem since I could connect with another client.

The problem was not properly logged in the debug files.

The problem was not known or solved by anyone on the channel.

The problem was accepted as a bug by the devs.

I didn't smear MythTV, I pointed out how arrogant assholes can ruin someones experience and cause them to leave.

I said thank you because one of those people didn't assume that I was had no idea what I was doing.

I FOUND THE PROBLEM, and relayed the solution to the channel so MAYBE it could help someone else.

You entirely missed the point because just like my original statement, you assume you were right when NO ONE in the channel was right, myself included.

I'm going to have to assume, Anonymous Coward, that you were one of the arrogant and unhelpful assholes who pissed me off in the first place.

I realize its IRC, and its free help, but it STILL has an effect on people using the software. Considering its the channel that mythtv.org or mythbuntu.org suggests to ask for help in, that DOES mean its the place people go to ask for help and not being an arrogant prick is a good start.

I have no problem accepting 'Ive never seen that error' or 'your an idiot, you did this wrong' when you actually know the answer.

But I was told what I did wrong before I even finished stating the problem.

theres 745 Queries per second avg (see http://pastebin.com/m7f6415a1)

there are many background tasks running all the time, crunching alot of data, beside serving pages

most of the data fits nicely into the RAM (database is 12GB, most of that is log data) and the SSD drive helps alot, average loads are 2.5 @ 50% idle

also the application/site is highly tweaked and designed from the ground up

backups are done to another server on local network and to backup server on another continent which is configured to take over if theres hardware failure

IRC in itself is pretty good, but it misses a couple of features, like offline backlogging and some kind of more direct integration with pastebins, source code repository and such.

If you want offline backlogging, an IRC bouncer like ZNC can take care of that for you. As for pastebins, pasting the URL to a post is dead easy; there's plenty of IRC bots out there which can automatically post a "$user has made a new pastebin post at $url" message to a channel as soon as someone posts.

At work, we use IRC to communicate, we have a copy of the codebase from pastebin.com with a small modification to report pastebin posts to our development channel, and a script run from a Subversion post-commit hook which reports commts to the channel with a link to view the diff.

Works pretty well for us!

Now you can use BB-code in slashdot comments with this greasemonkey script http://www.asemet.com/baqueiro/#bbcode.

I know it is off topic and all that. But you might find it useful.

Yeah, I am the original author and I am an avid slashdot reader. The userscript can be downloaded straightforward and as far as I know works on Firefox 3.5 (Windows XP).

BTW, sorry for the site plug... in case you don't trust unknown 3rd party site, here's the pastebin text, for one month

the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies has weighed in on the dispute in favor of the NPG.

There's a shocker. These people are just as bad as the *AA here in the U.S. Their about us page just screams "we make money of every dirty copyright trick we can think of and pretend to do it for you, the artist, the photographer, the little guy". It's all such a sham.

Check out their site, I was going to quote some of it but you can't even right click the page without their stupid JavaScript alerting you that their site is their content, blah, blah. Hello, 1996 called they want their cheap tricks back. Obviously this stuff is easy to defeat but it's still ridiculous that they even do it at all.

I hope this suit goes all the way to the new Supreme Court England is setting up and that these idiots get a total smackdown. Hey, a guy can dream a little right?

http://pastebin.com/f51666d45

Here's a sketch of a command line version in python:

http://pastebin.com/f36d1639b

No error checking, not well tested, I forgot to use the filename given in the torrent as the output file instead of the shorter name I was using to simply comparisons, etc.

custom script that works well for me: http://pastebin.com/f6239e9c9

In order to really get an idea of how fast (or slow) Java is, I tried the following on my outdated machine, a 1600 MHz AMD Turion. First, I tried to measure the dreaded JVM cold startup time by running Apache Rhino:

peppe@tikal:~$ time java -jar /usr/share/java/js-1.7R2.jar -help
[...]
real 0m1.444s
user 0m0.232s
sys 0m0.084s

Then I’ve done it a second time to see what the delay becomes on a hot start:

peppe@tikal:~$ time java -jar /usr/share/java/js-1.7R2.jar -help
[...]
real 0m0.358s
user 0m0.252s
sys 0m0.036s

...that’s a little more than a third of a second. So there is a one-time delay to pay if you write your app in java, but it’s not so user-noticeable as many believe.

So far for the startup time. Then I tested the run time.
Probably the JVM cannot compete with native code as a byte-pusher. But how well does it fare when it comes to support high-level languages? I wrote two small nonsense programs, that aim to exercise some random high-level functions I expect to be common in today’s software. The two programs try to do exactly the same thing, the first in C, and the latter Java.
Link to the C source
Link to the Java source
(sorry, slashdot didn’t let me put the snippets inline without making them unreadable)

I compiled and timed the C implementation:

peppe@tikal:~$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
[...]
gcc version 4.4.0 (Ubuntu 4.4.0-6ubuntu2)
peppe@tikal:~$ gcc -O3 -march=athlon64 cperf.c -Wall -o cperf.exe
cperf.c: In function `main':
cperf.c:18: warning: ignoring return value of `asprintf', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
peppe@tikal:~$ time ./cperf.exe

real 0m43.429s
user 0m43.351s
sys 0m0.028s

...then I did the same with the Java version:

peppe@tikal:~$ javac -version
javac 1.6.0_14
peppe@tikal:~$ javac JavaPerf.java
peppe@tikal:~$ time java JavaPerf

real 0m28.300s
user 0m27.770s
sys 0m0.464s

Not only Java performance was comparable to native, but Java was even faster in this case. And that included the JVM startup penalty.

Finally, about the JVM size versus the .NET framework size, the latest win32 version of the JRE weighs 15.50 MB (link), while the latest win32 version of the .NET framework weighs 231 MB (link).

In order to really get an idea of how fast (or slow) Java is, I tried the following on my outdated machine, a 1600 MHz AMD Turion. First, I tried to measure the dreaded JVM cold startup time by running Apache Rhino:

peppe@tikal:~$ time java -jar /usr/share/java/js-1.7R2.jar -help
[...]
real 0m1.444s
user 0m0.232s
sys 0m0.084s

Then I’ve done it a second time to see what the delay becomes on a hot start:

peppe@tikal:~$ time java -jar /usr/share/java/js-1.7R2.jar -help
[...]
real 0m0.358s
user 0m0.252s
sys 0m0.036s

...that’s a little more than a third of a second. So there is a one-time delay to pay if you write your app in java, but it’s not so user-noticeable as many believe.

So far for the startup time. Then I tested the run time.
Probably the JVM cannot compete with native code as a byte-pusher. But how well does it fare when it comes to support high-level languages? I wrote two small nonsense programs, that aim to exercise some random high-level functions I expect to be common in today’s software. The two programs try to do exactly the same thing, the first in C, and the latter Java.
Link to the C source
Link to the Java source
(sorry, slashdot didn’t let me put the snippets inline without making them unreadable)

I compiled and timed the C implementation:

peppe@tikal:~$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
[...]
gcc version 4.4.0 (Ubuntu 4.4.0-6ubuntu2)
peppe@tikal:~$ gcc -O3 -march=athlon64 cperf.c -Wall -o cperf.exe
cperf.c: In function `main':
cperf.c:18: warning: ignoring return value of `asprintf', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
peppe@tikal:~$ time ./cperf.exe

real 0m43.429s
user 0m43.351s
sys 0m0.028s

...then I did the same with the Java version:

peppe@tikal:~$ javac -version
javac 1.6.0_14
peppe@tikal:~$ javac JavaPerf.java
peppe@tikal:~$ time java JavaPerf

real 0m28.300s
user 0m27.770s
sys 0m0.464s

Not only Java performance was comparable to native, but Java was even faster in this case. And that included the JVM startup penalty.

Finally, about the JVM size versus the .NET framework size, the latest win32 version of the JRE weighs 15.50 MB (link), while the latest win32 version of the .NET framework weighs 231 MB (link).

You make some valid points, especially regarding Exchange...but:

suspend-to-RAM in Linux quite simply does not work (on my current system, or the last two before it). This is, to put it mildly, a problem on a laptop.

Have you checked out uswsusp (userspace software suspend)? I installed this package, and suspend-to-RAM works on my laptop (Dell Latitude D600) out of the box. No patching the kernel necessary. I just issue the command s2ram as root and my laptop suspends.

It works without modification on an increasingly wide range of laptops, and for others a bit of tweaking is necessary, but you can check the whitelist to see if your laptop is there:

whitelist

You sure about that?
http://pastebin.com/f23937796
Looks like shit to me

It actually seems to be a parameter issue. Here is the log output: http://pastebin.com/f6a134c54

This is gentoo's icedtea6:
IcedTea6 1.3.1 (Gentoo) Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_0-b12) OpenJDK Client VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode)

The Google service is only a front-end search engine. The music files are hosted on a bunch of hosts in the domain "top100.cn" e.g. "file4.top100.cn" (Top100.cn being a Google partner). The interesting part is, if you try to resolve the hostnames using a nameserver outside China, you'll receive very funny results. Look at the output of dig:

This is using a DNS server in China: http://pastebin.com/m67e3f7c4

This is using a DNS server in the USA: http://pastebin.com/f5233fc2e

Note the difference?

So, in order to download songs from top100.cn's file server farm, you have to have a Chinese DNS resolving the hostnames for you.

The Google service is only a front-end search engine. The music files are hosted on a bunch of hosts in the domain "top100.cn" e.g. "file4.top100.cn" (Top100.cn being a Google partner). The interesting part is, if you try to resolve the hostnames using a nameserver outside China, you'll receive very funny results. Look at the output of dig:

This is using a DNS server in China: http://pastebin.com/m67e3f7c4

This is using a DNS server in the USA: http://pastebin.com/f5233fc2e

Note the difference?

So, in order to download songs from top100.cn's file server farm, you have to have a Chinese DNS resolving the hostnames for you.

It got taken down. Again,

http://pastebin.com/f6243281b

Fixed /. format mangling and put it in a pastebin: http://pastebin.com/f58b29f4f

And on Freenet:

CHK@dO6gV~xXO7~3uFnjB26oJdyyAviK-rZRT6s3QaQAcQY,JG0-2kjXf4LtZi6vqKjwRU5S0fXRmByDrwPoest0Nwk,AAIC--8/MMPI2-test-questions.txt

Also posted to a pastebin: http://pastebin.com/f55d66ed1

In case of a cease and desist letter, some other places to get it,

http://pastebin.com/f3e3885e

And Freenet,

CHK@WlCowp~Sqixp4SDTicWSl3NN8gYDbLUXOtP0o5wCRKw,s91t8UasJ3QVq8vc4uFrT4NhOIe4QOdPkKjwC5ZRcmY,AAIC--8/EyeFiServer.py

Here's another of interest...

http://pastebin.com/fc53f5e8

http://pastebin.com/fc53f5e8 This is the one that I prefer. I own a Kindle and many books for it too but for archival this is what I'll be using.

also http://pastebin.com/f280aa6b9

One German mirror and one extra American mirror

PDF decryption tool: http://pastebin.com/f1cb3663c
http://nopaste.info/8ad6b71874.html
http://paste2.org/p/161270

key-retrieval tool: http://pastebin.com/f26972321
http://nopaste.info/8b62e63436.html
http://paste2.org/p/161271

If you know of any other foreign pastebins,
mirror and post in this thread.

One German mirror and one extra American mirror

PDF decryption tool: http://pastebin.com/f1cb3663c
http://nopaste.info/8ad6b71874.html
http://paste2.org/p/161270

key-retrieval tool: http://pastebin.com/f26972321
http://nopaste.info/8b62e63436.html
http://paste2.org/p/161271

If you know of any other foreign pastebins,
mirror and post in this thread.

>But now what youâ(TM)re really here for â" the PDF decryption tool: http://pastebin.com/f1cb3663c. (And >if you don't already have it, the key-retrieval tool: http://pastebin.com/f26972321.)

From the original article without having the links broken by law.
I wonder is /. will have to do the same now?
You can always call it back from google cache...as I did.
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:aoDTe7wI6s4J:i-u2665-cabbages.blogspot.com/2009/02/circumventing-adobe-adept-drm-for-pdf.html+http://i-u2665-cabbages.blogspot.com/2009/02/circumventing-adobe-adept-drm-for-pdf.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca

>But now what youâ(TM)re really here for â" the PDF decryption tool: http://pastebin.com/f1cb3663c. (And >if you don't already have it, the key-retrieval tool: http://pastebin.com/f26972321.)

From the original article without having the links broken by law.
I wonder is /. will have to do the same now?
You can always call it back from google cache...as I did.
http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:aoDTe7wI6s4J:i-u2665-cabbages.blogspot.com/2009/02/circumventing-adobe-adept-drm-for-pdf.html+http://i-u2665-cabbages.blogspot.com/2009/02/circumventing-adobe-adept-drm-for-pdf.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=ca

Well, dunno if it is the most up-to-date version, but here are the two links you mentioned:
ADEPT key retrieval prog

Decrypt PDF prog

Well, dunno if it is the most up-to-date version, but here are the two links you mentioned:
ADEPT key retrieval prog

Decrypt PDF prog

There is of course, Google Cache ...

Or, you can just get it from pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/f1cb3663c

and

http://pastebin.com/f26972321

There is of course, Google Cache ...

Or, you can just get it from pastebin:

http://pastebin.com/f1cb3663c

and

http://pastebin.com/f26972321

Here's the page source if anyone's interested.
http://pastebin.com/m2a02a25
I didn't get any of that happen, but I can see from the source that it was trying to. I just hope the telnet stuff didn't run in the background or anything like that. I didn't even realise I had it installed, but it's purged now.

Use your brain. ;)

Think of a set of sections, paragraphs for every paragraph of a section, and sentences for every sentence of a paragrap
Then you can run a function which randomly or from some seed value selects which sentences and paragraphs go into the paragraphs and sections.
In fact, this comment is a Haskell program to do exactly this. (Of course, in reality, the Picker type would be "[a] -> IO a".)

Damn Slash. I got a "Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk' characters.". Apparently non-circumventable.
So yo can grab the original from here: http://pastebin.com/f22167cc9

Maybe to me this is so obvious because I'm a programmer. But I think, if one regularly uses a computer, one should know how to automate such things. Not nessecarily in Haskell though. ;)

Here's a Stylish style I made that makes Slashdot not look like shit:
http://pastebin.com/f39655fa6

Heeeey dude. First grab Stylish for Firefox. It's an extension that overrides the CSS of the page: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/2108

Then try some Slashdot overrides: http://userstyles.org/styles/search/slashdot

I used one of these and tweaked it a bit to fit my taste. Here it is:
http://pastebin.com/f1b780512 (backup link: http://pastebin.ca/1286782 )

All I can see here is classic Slashdot ;)

Recording does suck, but if you are just doing mixing or generating (synths, etc) the soundcard itself doesn't really matter. Other than that, the card works very well for me. In Windows, I can achieve 5ms latency with ASIO, in Linux, I can acheive 5-10ms with jackd (and a realtime kernel). Note that I really don't know much about jack, so I could have probably gotten it lower.

Some informational output for you*:
http://pastebin.com/f1da18c82

* And because slashdot's junk filter is annoying, I have to bless you with a pastebin link instead of just putting it here. Goddamn trolls ruining it for hte rest of us. "junk" characters and all that.

nah nah mate... this is much better.

About the only advantage I see to this is the "up to 320k", whereas Amazon's are 160k I believe.

160 kbit is a bit marginal, but Amazon's MP3s are encoded at 256 kbit. For most people who aren't audiophiles, this is indistinguishable from the original CD.

I ran MediaInfo over one of their MP3s. The output is at http://pastebin.com/m75a78b22 .

http://pastebin.com/f652c44fb

As noted by others, its already been confirmed, but what they got into was not the juicy gov.sarah@yahoo.com address that's the potential subject of investigation, just her personal yahoo address. Since then though, both gov.palin and gov.sarah have been removed - pastebin.com/f652c44fb.

I ran mtr to see if the problem is my router or my ISP, how does this look:
http://pastebin.com/m36bd850f

Sorry for the use of pastebin, but the lame /. filter won't let me post the mtr output here.

downloadPatches.sh - shell script that extracts the torrent files from all Blizzard Downloader clients in the current directory
extorrents - Perl script that extracts the torrent files from all Blizzard Downloader clients in the current directory
biz-extorrents.py - Python script to extract torrent files from all Blizzard Downloader clients in the current directory
web app extractor - Web app to extract torrent files out of any Blizzard Downloader EXE linked online

Source

Already available as a bookmarklet: http://pastebin.com/m21e4f5c3

Written by Jesse Ruderman, https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/

There goes my job prospects producing literary works like this:

o cube1
#64 vertices, 60 faces
v -9.50000000 -1.00000000 1.00000000
v -9.50000000 1.00000000 1.00000000
v -7.50000000 1.00000000 1.00000000
v -7.50000000 -1.00000000 1.00000000
v -9.50000000 -1.00000000 -1.00000000
v -9.50000000 1.00000000 -1.00000000
v -7.50000000 1.00000000 -1.00000000
v -7.50000000 -1.00000000 -1.00000000
v -5.50000000 1.00000000 1.00000000...

...this exerpt of the whole probably doesn't make enough sense, perhaps look at pastebin where the lameness filter doesn't kill it. http://pastebin.com/f351dd9fa

Here's a Python one that scrapes every such from every album by an artist you specify.

pastebin broke my link? (tries again)

http://pastebin.com/m79ec0872

i keep kde for other users mostly (family & friends) i like to use dwm, fvwm2 and openbox, i switch between the three light weight window managers almost on a daily basis, i do have a custom built ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc that makes fvwm minimal and functional by trimming the cruft off of it, for those fvwm2 fans you might like it:http://pastebin.com/m13b1df9b/

You do not even need vmwaretools to detect if its running inside vmware. Theres small differences in memory and virus creators have used these tricks for long to mess around with antivirus companies trying to figure out how the virus works and what it does. For example this code also detects if running inside vmware

there is a script to de-drm prc (mobypocket) books. check here:
http://darkreverser.wordpress.com/

and here

http://pastebin.com/m40582493

fvwm2 rulez!

heres my ~/.fvwm2rc http://pastebin.com/f5f82f926

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