The theory is simple, and well understood, but the execution is thorny.
I can tell you how HTTP works, the high points of the protocol, and how to implement an HTTP server, but to actually sit down and program one would require a whack of trial and error, observing how 'real world' browsers actually interact with servers, how Internet conditions affect how things work, and so on.
I can bash out something in, well, BASH that would work, and call it FatMan-d.sh, and there you go, but in a few years, with applied research, feedback, and an improvement cycle, Apache will be smaller, faster, more featureful, and so on.
How to build a nuke? Take a chunk of plutonium, and figure out a way to make it hit critical mass really quickly; either squish it down using an implosion, or take a critical mass, break it into two chunks, then squish them together real quick. Boom, done.
Hint: build your mill buildings with big heavy stone walls on three sides and a wimpy wood wall facing the river so that when it explodes, the explosion will blow over the river and not set the other mills on fire...)
It's DAMN SCARY to be standing there, watching a solid line of huge horses charging at you, and all you have is a little bitty pointy stick. And often all it takes is for one man to break ranks, and you get a rout.
Guns then took over, but not because of their combat effectiveness; but because they're even more scary. Ranks of musket men, volley-firing; big bang, flash, smoke, damn. They were very inaccurate, but they were scary as hell.
Grossman's 'On Killing' is a pretty good book on basic combat and killing psychology, as well as military history, and that it wasn't until recently that wars got especially deadly. No, I don't agree with him that Quake is programming an army of super soldiers, but the book itself is pretty good.
Setting it to 0 means "I don't have 1 gig of RAM and 2 gigs of swap; I've got three gigs of RAM, bitch.
Setting it to 100 means 'don't you DARE touch the swap file unless you have NO other choice. Scythe pages in RAM down like wheat, rather than touch that HIDEOUS, UnClEaN swap space!
As you say, try a few settings, and go with what works. Faster disks, or swap across multiple disks, especially scsi, and you can swap to disk more happily. If you have a metric buttload of ram, then devalue swap a bit.
Squirrel 1: What happen?
Squirrel 2: Someone set up us the winter.
Squirrel 2: We get signal.
Squirrel 1: What?
Squirrel 2: Main screen turn on.
Old Man Winter: How are you rodents?
OMW: All your body heat are belong to us.
Squirrel 1: What you say??
OMW: You are on the way to hibernation.
OMW: You have no chance to stay active, make your time.
OMW: Ha ha ha!
Squirrel 1: Take off every nuts.
Squirrel 2: You know what you doing?
Squirrel 1: Move nuts.
Squirrel 1: For great justice.
The directors specifically wrote out the home-built webslingers, as they didn't want to be so insulting to the audience as claim that a high school kid can build in an evening an adhesive that 3M couldn't come up with in several years.
Even in the original comic, as I recall, Spidey was portrayed as having a lot of 'grass roots' support; the average man on the street loved him and his crime fighting ways, and there was a fair amount of city boosterism.
Same thing in Superman and Batman, of course, but they're fictional cities.
Hendrix69 already replied, but I'll clarify; No, Saddam is actually quite secular; Iraq was one of the only places, if not the only place, in the Middle East, with churches, synagogues, and so on. He wouldn't care about his beard; he didn't wear one, previously, anyway.
To the average Iraqi, however, who are Islamic, not to mention other Islamic people around the world, the fact that the US shaved him is a huge statement. Like being publically branded, or tarred and feathered, or put in the stocks and left for people to throw rotten fruit at him.
No, the better way is to do an end-user needs analysis, design a GUI that accomplishes what the end users need to do, then go from there.
Case in point; one of my old companies had a web-based app for phone monkies to use. Simple, elegant, let them get their jobs done. They did a drastic redesign, redid the system in client side java, designed the whole thing based around the back-end database schema. Never asked a single actual user about how they did their jobs.
Next thing you know, you've got, instead of a perfect 'workflow' model, a crazy Wizard style, multiple possible view, need to pull down menus and jump around just to input a logical progression of 'a', 'b', 'c' style data.
Call times went from being measured in tens of seconds, to minutes. Strictly because the agents could no longer enter data efficiently.
I'm in the process of switching to cricket, after MRTG's faults were just too glaring. Like claming that an integer can't be a negative number.
Oh, and terrible scalability; but that's what's happen when you start bolting functionality on. MRTG was designed to read ifcounter from routers, and nothing else, originally, and it shows.
Cricket takes a little bit of head wrapping, but once you realize that data collection is data collection, and graphing is graphing, and all of the neat aggregation and comparison features you can do, not to mention the rather nifty 'config tree' setup, you grow to love it.
As I recall, it was WebTV's 'home grown' application that they did decide to release.
Hence why Microsoft makes such an issue of controlling the back end of Xbox Live, and, of course, the joys of a hard drive to hold those lovely anti-cheat patches.
Well, I'd assume that one could reasonably apply the same basic tenants to Internet traffic; it likely passes through several states, and from source A to destination B might just route differently if done multiple times.
That having been said, the US gov't has gone from an elected republic to a self-sustaining aristocracy, beholden to the lobbyists. Hence, the new 'Now now, no spamming *nudge nudge wink wink*' style laws.
Start spamming some of the big oil companies. Then you'll see the heat come down.:-)
2: By that logic, I should be able to throw bags full of pennies off of tall buildings; how do *I* know that people will be walking underneath?
He knows he's sending spam to random receipients; he knows it could end up just about anywhere.
Which leads to another interesting question; you spam me. I live in, say, Texas; the mail server I'm popping from, though, is in Mississipi. Which one has jurisdiction?
Probably for the same reason that we say things have 'run out of steam' when they're obviously not steam-powered. Generic terminology and figures of speech.
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The theory is simple, and well understood, but the execution is thorny.
I can tell you how HTTP works, the high points of the protocol, and how to implement an HTTP server, but to actually sit down and program one would require a whack of trial and error, observing how 'real world' browsers actually interact with servers, how Internet conditions affect how things work, and so on.
I can bash out something in, well, BASH that would work, and call it FatMan-d.sh, and there you go, but in a few years, with applied research, feedback, and an improvement cycle, Apache will be smaller, faster, more featureful, and so on.
How to build a nuke? Take a chunk of plutonium, and figure out a way to make it hit critical mass really quickly; either squish it down using an implosion, or take a critical mass, break it into two chunks, then squish them together real quick. Boom, done.
The execution, though....
Yes, and talking about the rules (or lack thereof) that govern giving those pieces of paper to politicans are the topic at hand.
Now that's good, practical advice.
1: They can. Just not from him.
2: Upon hearing, in response to 'will you guarentee that we won't be sued,' such a negative response, what would YOU think?
As the guy said, in the States, you can't guarentee anything when it comes to litigation. Period.
Or, put more succintly, 'If it's aimed at men, it's disgusting, degrading pornography. If it's aimed at women, it's sensitive, beautiful erotica.'
It's all about the military psychology.
It's DAMN SCARY to be standing there, watching a solid line of huge horses charging at you, and all you have is a little bitty pointy stick. And often all it takes is for one man to break ranks, and you get a rout.
Guns then took over, but not because of their combat effectiveness; but because they're even more scary. Ranks of musket men, volley-firing; big bang, flash, smoke, damn. They were very inaccurate, but they were scary as hell.
Grossman's 'On Killing' is a pretty good book on basic combat and killing psychology, as well as military history, and that it wasn't until recently that wars got especially deadly. No, I don't agree with him that Quake is programming an army of super soldiers, but the book itself is pretty good.
I still use the Monster Sound 2; it's an Aureal 2 chip.
The Monster Sound, though, was a Diamond designed DSP that *emulated* an Aureal 1 chip. Needed whacked out drivers to do much else.
Gods, I miss Aureal...
Setting it to 0 means "I don't have 1 gig of RAM and 2 gigs of swap; I've got three gigs of RAM, bitch.
Setting it to 100 means 'don't you DARE touch the swap file unless you have NO other choice. Scythe pages in RAM down like wheat, rather than touch that HIDEOUS, UnClEaN swap space!
As you say, try a few settings, and go with what works. Faster disks, or swap across multiple disks, especially scsi, and you can swap to disk more happily. If you have a metric buttload of ram, then devalue swap a bit.
I believe that S3TC is what Microsoft licensed into DXTC.
Squirrel 1: What happen?
Squirrel 2: Someone set up us the winter.
Squirrel 2: We get signal.
Squirrel 1: What?
Squirrel 2: Main screen turn on.
Old Man Winter: How are you rodents?
OMW: All your body heat are belong to us.
Squirrel 1: What you say??
OMW: You are on the way to hibernation.
OMW: You have no chance to stay active, make your time.
OMW: Ha ha ha!
Squirrel 1: Take off every nuts.
Squirrel 2: You know what you doing?
Squirrel 1: Move nuts.
Squirrel 1: For great justice.
Happy?
Aye, comic books are all about that. Trying to bring them into the mainstream of movies...
Or would you rather another Punisher or Captain America movie effort? :-)
The directors specifically wrote out the home-built webslingers, as they didn't want to be so insulting to the audience as claim that a high school kid can build in an evening an adhesive that 3M couldn't come up with in several years.
Even in the original comic, as I recall, Spidey was portrayed as having a lot of 'grass roots' support; the average man on the street loved him and his crime fighting ways, and there was a fair amount of city boosterism.
Same thing in Superman and Batman, of course, but they're fictional cities.
Episode 1. They gave away all the good bits about Maul and what not.
But for this trailer, they should have left it at the two footsteps from the robot arms, approaching the shattered window of the restaurant.
Hendrix69 already replied, but I'll clarify; No, Saddam is actually quite secular; Iraq was one of the only places, if not the only place, in the Middle East, with churches, synagogues, and so on. He wouldn't care about his beard; he didn't wear one, previously, anyway.
To the average Iraqi, however, who are Islamic, not to mention other Islamic people around the world, the fact that the US shaved him is a huge statement. Like being publically branded, or tarred and feathered, or put in the stocks and left for people to throw rotten fruit at him.
No, the better way is to do an end-user needs analysis, design a GUI that accomplishes what the end users need to do, then go from there.
Case in point; one of my old companies had a web-based app for phone monkies to use. Simple, elegant, let them get their jobs done. They did a drastic redesign, redid the system in client side java, designed the whole thing based around the back-end database schema. Never asked a single actual user about how they did their jobs.
Next thing you know, you've got, instead of a perfect 'workflow' model, a crazy Wizard style, multiple possible view, need to pull down menus and jump around just to input a logical progression of 'a', 'b', 'c' style data.
Call times went from being measured in tens of seconds, to minutes. Strictly because the agents could no longer enter data efficiently.
Find and install IE4, and I believe you'll get the quicklanuch bar.
I'm in the process of switching to cricket, after MRTG's faults were just too glaring. Like claming that an integer can't be a negative number.
Oh, and terrible scalability; but that's what's happen when you start bolting functionality on. MRTG was designed to read ifcounter from routers, and nothing else, originally, and it shows.
Cricket takes a little bit of head wrapping, but once you realize that data collection is data collection, and graphing is graphing, and all of the neat aggregation and comparison features you can do, not to mention the rather nifty 'config tree' setup, you grow to love it.
As I recall, it was WebTV's 'home grown' application that they did decide to release.
Hence why Microsoft makes such an issue of controlling the back end of Xbox Live, and, of course, the joys of a hard drive to hold those lovely anti-cheat patches.
Well, I'd assume that one could reasonably apply the same basic tenants to Internet traffic; it likely passes through several states, and from source A to destination B might just route differently if done multiple times.
That having been said, the US gov't has gone from an elected republic to a self-sustaining aristocracy, beholden to the lobbyists. Hence, the new 'Now now, no spamming *nudge nudge wink wink*' style laws.
Start spamming some of the big oil companies. Then you'll see the heat come down. :-)
Yup. So, by definition, Internet activities are basically cross-state; therefore, one would assume that laws would also have to be cross state.
Or, put another way, how do interstate commerce laws work?
1: Arguable, but not by me. :-)
2: By that logic, I should be able to throw bags full of pennies off of tall buildings; how do *I* know that people will be walking underneath?
He knows he's sending spam to random receipients; he knows it could end up just about anywhere.
Which leads to another interesting question; you spam me. I live in, say, Texas; the mail server I'm popping from, though, is in Mississipi. Which one has jurisdiction?
Access is a SQL database.
Probably for the same reason that we say things have 'run out of steam' when they're obviously not steam-powered. Generic terminology and figures of speech.
Ken sent me.