You might want to consider swapping out rl0 for a better card - read/usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c for details.
The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is
probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible
exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master
DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance
gains that bus-master DMA usually offers.
Shouldn't you wake up to the reality that you can't trust any software - Linux or Windows or MacOS - to be bugfree.
Which would you rather do?
Spend an hour or so checking out a patch on a test system before installing it.
Tell your boss to send everyone else home for the rest of the day because you fucked up because you didn't take a basic precaution because you were in too much of a hurry.
How do you think your boss will react if you chose option 2?
For some time, I've felt that math is the answer to verifying that a viewer is a human, and still keeping the test accessible to the widest number of disabled people.
A couple of simple math/logic problems such as these should be suitable:
Find the two roots of x*x-16x+60=0
What are two numbers who have the sum of 16 and the product of 60?
From the following facts, what can you infer about Albert?
All men are mortal.
Albert is a man
Simple puzzles like this should be able to be figured out by almost all people in a few seconds, and can be expressed in plain text, making them accessible to the blind.
On OS X you can add Ogg/Vorbis support to iTunes by adding an Ogg/Vorbis component to QuickTime. I would assume that you can do the same thing under windows.
I've never tried it myself, as something about Vorbis audio (even at high bit rates) sounds odd to me, so I stick with high bit rate AAC, and sometimes uncompressed audio.
Apple's "loose" DRM is all well and good, but what happens when the computer I have is hopelessly outdated, has been upgraded as far as it can be, and needs to be
replaced? I've yet to see a DRM solution that accounts for this. At best, your music library will now view your new primary computer as a "secondary" one with limited
rights. And you can never get the rights back that the primary computer had.
Well, when you want to get rid of your old system, you use the handy "Deauthorize Computer" option under the "Advanced" menu, and then authorize the new computer. Problem solved.
With Apple's system, there is no "Primary" PC - all three authorized systems are equal.
Most of the stamp machines I know of won't give you more than $5 in change.
I found out the hard way when I wanted to break a $20 for some other vending machines (that took dollar coins).
If you are playing slots in a casino, it is because you feel you have too much money, and want to get rid of it as fast as possible, while gaining no benefit from it.
It doesn't matter if they track you as you move from one slot machine to another - you will lose either way.
I've been looking at a couple of different techniques over the past year or so. They are closely tied into the Roxen Webserver, and probably won't work with Caudium, or any other webserver.
The first technique I used (described here) was a simple RXML macro, that defined a tag called <cloak>. It would check to see if the client was on a list of known robots. If the client was a robot, a graphic version of the email address would be returned. If the client looked like a normal browser, then the address would be entity encoded, and returned as a mailto link.
Shortly after I set that up, I realized that entity encoding was pretty much useless - that if a web browser can figure out the address, so can a spam bot.
My second attempt appears to be working well. I wrote a Roxen module called mailcloak which takes addresses, and replaces them with a graphic link to a dynamically generated form to send an email to that address.
As an example, the code <mailcloak> maileater@ofdoom.com</mailcloak> would be replaced with a graphical version of the address maileater@ofdoom.com and a link to this page.
It also has support for finding and cloaking bare addresses in pages, and I'll probably add support for rewriting mailto tags sometime in the next few weeks.
It's really handy when you want to pick a few items at random from a large dataset.
for example, "select whatever from bigdata where oidrand(oid,100) order by random() limit 1;" works well for selecting one item, and is faster that the other methods I've tried.
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Does it work as well as Tsearch2?
Tsearch rocked, and Tsearch2 looks to be another giant step beyond.
The first thing that comes to my mind, is to wonder if VMware will run on DART?
If it does (AFAICT, DART looks a lot like linux), I could see it being a part of expanding the functionality of the Celerra systems.
Probably measured from the feet to the top of the comb.
It also probably gave it a strong beak, and nice plumage.
Well, fortunately web sites aren't forever
You are forgetting about archive.org.
As an example, here is my class schedule from the fall semester of my sophomore year.
That account has been gone for years, yet the content lives on in the archive.
DVD players have Macrovision signal generators, but they only add the signal if a flag is set on the DVD.
DVD producers are only allowed to set that flag on the DVDs they produce if they have paid a fee to Macrovision.
Any DVD you produce at home, will not have the flag set and will not have Macrovision added to the output signal when played on a DVD player.
With VCRs, the Macrovision signal is on the tape itself, it is not generated by the VCR.
Which would you rather do?
- Spend an hour or so checking out a patch on a test system before installing it.
- Tell your boss to send everyone else home for the rest of the day because you fucked up because you didn't take a basic precaution because you were in too much of a hurry.
How do you think your boss will react if you chose option 2?Shouldn't you be applying those patches during a scheduled change window, outside of production hours?
Shouldn't you have noticed that the patch forces a reboot when you applied it to one of your test systems to see if it would cause any problems?
So it does about 3 writes per second, and about 10 reads per second?
No wonder it never goes down, if it's sitting idle all the time.
Or did I misunderstand, and that is per user, and you have several hundred users connected with that being the average workload per user?
So what is the Hydrogenaudio equivalent of goatse posters?
I would guess it would be people who post links to something like this.
(If you want more audio monstrosities, look in that directory - I'm testing how different codecs respond at extremely low bit rates )
maporama lets you do that, at least for the UK.
It gives 3 route planning choices - by foot, by foot and subway, and by car.
A couple of simple math/logic problems such as these should be suitable:
- Find the two roots of x*x-16x+60=0
- What are two numbers who have the sum of 16 and the product of 60?
- From the following facts, what can you infer about Albert?
- All men are mortal.
- Albert is a man
Simple puzzles like this should be able to be figured out by almost all people in a few seconds, and can be expressed in plain text, making them accessible to the blind.Nope - ofdoom.com runs FreeBSD 4.x / Roxen 3.4.94-cvs / Pike 7.4 release 28.
But at the time I posted that link, the webserver was responding to about 1 in 20 requests, and then stopped completely.
I have a complete copy (graphs and all) here.
There was also a documentary made about him this summer.
I thought it turned out quite well, although when I talked to Dave after he saw it, he wasn't that happy with it.
On OS X you can add Ogg/Vorbis support to iTunes by adding an Ogg/Vorbis component to QuickTime. I would assume that you can do the same thing under windows.
Try looking here for more info.
I've heard it works well - at least on OSX.
I've never tried it myself, as something about Vorbis audio (even at high bit rates) sounds odd to me, so I stick with high bit rate AAC, and sometimes uncompressed audio.
Apple's "loose" DRM is all well and good, but what happens when the computer I have is hopelessly outdated, has been upgraded as far as it can be, and needs to be replaced? I've yet to see a DRM solution that accounts for this. At best, your music library will now view your new primary computer as a "secondary" one with limited rights. And you can never get the rights back that the primary computer had.
Well, when you want to get rid of your old system, you use the handy "Deauthorize Computer" option under the "Advanced" menu, and then authorize the new computer. Problem solved.
With Apple's system, there is no "Primary" PC - all three authorized systems are equal.
- It's well documented.
- Subtitles are easy with text atoms.
- It supports variable bit and frame rates.
- It can be hinted for rtsp streaming via the Open Source Darwin Streaming Server.
- They have an Index for fast seeking in large VBR files.
- They support as many audio and video tracks as you want.
Seriously - I don't know why more projects don't use it, it seems perfect to me...Most of the stamp machines I know of won't give you more than $5 in change. I found out the hard way when I wanted to break a $20 for some other vending machines (that took dollar coins).
If you are playing slots in a casino, it is because you feel you have too much money, and want to get rid of it as fast as possible, while gaining no benefit from it.
It doesn't matter if they track you as you move from one slot machine to another - you will lose either way.
I've been looking at a couple of different techniques over the past year or so. They are closely tied into the Roxen Webserver, and probably won't work with Caudium, or any other webserver.
The first technique I used (described here) was a simple RXML macro, that defined a tag called <cloak>. It would check to see if the client was on a list of known robots. If the client was a robot, a graphic version of the email address would be returned. If the client looked like a normal browser, then the address would be entity encoded, and returned as a mailto link.
Shortly after I set that up, I realized that entity encoding was pretty much useless - that if a web browser can figure out the address, so can a spam bot.
My second attempt appears to be working well. I wrote a Roxen module called mailcloak which takes addresses, and replaces them with a graphic link to a dynamically generated form to send an email to that address.
As an example, the code <mailcloak> maileater@ofdoom.com</mailcloak> would be replaced with a graphical version of the address maileater@ofdoom.com and a link to this page.
It also has support for finding and cloaking bare addresses in pages, and I'll probably add support for rewriting mailto tags sometime in the next few weeks.
ISPs that are serious about protecting customer privacy will simply quit keeping these records.
And spammers will flock to them in droves.
After all, if the ISP has no record linking Time and IP Address to a customer, then there is no way to know who sent the spam...
Remove rarely used oidrand()...
Damn it - I use oidrand() quite often.
It's really handy when you want to pick a few items at random from a large dataset.
for example, "select whatever from bigdata where oidrand(oid,100) order by random() limit 1;" works well for selecting one item, and is faster that the other methods I've tried.
Dave's still alive and well - I talked to him a couple of weeks ago.
There's a good documentary about him that was made earlier this year.
You can get some info on it here.