You know what'd be handy, is if someone could centralize a cpu-contribution service. Like the way United Way does it: at previous jobs, we'd get to contribute to United Way, and pick what percentages of our contributions would go to what causes.
I use Seti@Home, which I think is worthy, but I've given them plenty of cpu cycles and I wouldn't mind spreading that around. But I'm sure, at this point, I'd need to install a new product for any new service I'd want to use.
Wonder if someone would figure out a way to call that cpu time tax-deductible.
A utility I wrote over the weekend to get whois info quickly. Yeah, you can script it yourself, I know, but I'm sure people are still typing -h whois.networksolutions.com like I was for a while. You can use the page until you get around to writing the script yourself.
Although mine also has the neato feature of linking site names and contact handles, which I've already found pretty handy.
Oh, I was wondering what you were talking about, but finally read the ITWeb article you're talking about.
This is because you're used to saying "slashdot". Probably very few people who read this message still say the "http" part, but many of my clients do, for some reason. (Although the majority also assume "www" is at the start of every machine name on the Web. Go figure.) So, for the standard person, they pronounce it like this:
"aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot com."
Which, yeah, would be confusing, if you're in the habit of using all that noise anyway.
This is God getting me for my hubris, is what it is.
Last week, my site was mentioned on slashdot. (I run the DFC on my site, along with a bunch of other stuff, thank you...sigh...) Several people sent me mail, saying "whooaaa, look out, slashdot effect, man, look out for the slashdot effect." And I'm looking at my logs, thinking, "What effect?" I do a pretty brisk amount of traffic already, and those mentions increased my traffic by, oh, maybe 25%. Blip level.
So, added to the fact that seeing the phrase "slashdot effect" so many times was getting my auto-anti-groupmind circuits kicking in, I was like, "pfft. Slashdot. Pfft. Effect. Pfft."
And, of course, this thing gets posted, and immediately my traffic goes up 500%. Uhhuh. Thank you, God, thank you so bloody much.
I forget, but I think my server's only sitting on a 256K pipe just now. What a mess that was. I'm temporarily sending that traffic over to spinnoff.com, which is at a provider that doesn't limit bandwidth (hee hee hee! stupid morons). Hope y'all come back later, ya hear?
Slashdot Mirror
I use Seti@Home, which I think is worthy, but I've given them plenty of cpu cycles and I wouldn't mind spreading that around. But I'm sure, at this point, I'd need to install a new product for any new service I'd want to use.
Wonder if someone would figure out a way to call that cpu time tax-deductible.
After having read this story, and then the press release, and then saying "huh?", I decided to make a contest out of this.
It's at <http://www.spinnwebe.com/spinn/mscon test.shtml>. You have to create your own innovative Microsoft innovation. The prize is a latte mug.
My ideas were "ability to make folder names different colors" and "can make a DVD spin counter-clockwise".
http://www.spinnwebe.com/whoitis/
A utility I wrote over the weekend to get whois info quickly. Yeah, you can script it yourself, I know, but I'm sure people are still typing -h whois.networksolutions.com like I was for a while. You can use the page until you get around to writing the script yourself.
Although mine also has the neato feature of linking site names and contact handles, which I've already found pretty handy.
Oh, I was wondering what you were talking about, but finally read the ITWeb article you're talking about.
This is because you're used to saying "slashdot". Probably very few people who read this message still say the "http" part, but many of my clients do, for some reason. (Although the majority also assume "www" is at the start of every machine name on the Web. Go figure.) So, for the standard person, they pronounce it like this:
"aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash slash dot dot com."
Which, yeah, would be confusing, if you're in the habit of using all that noise anyway.
Last week, my site was mentioned on slashdot. (I run the DFC on my site, along with a bunch of other stuff, thank you...sigh...) Several people sent me mail, saying "whooaaa, look out, slashdot effect, man, look out for the slashdot effect." And I'm looking at my logs, thinking, "What effect?" I do a pretty brisk amount of traffic already, and those mentions increased my traffic by, oh, maybe 25%. Blip level.
So, added to the fact that seeing the phrase "slashdot effect" so many times was getting my auto-anti-groupmind circuits kicking in, I was like, "pfft. Slashdot. Pfft. Effect. Pfft."
And, of course, this thing gets posted, and immediately my traffic goes up 500%. Uhhuh. Thank you, God, thank you so bloody much.
I forget, but I think my server's only sitting on a 256K pipe just now. What a mess that was. I'm temporarily sending that traffic over to spinnoff.com, which is at a provider that doesn't limit bandwidth (hee hee hee! stupid morons). Hope y'all come back later, ya hear?