Ballmer is near invincible, so long as the MSFT stock continues to not-decline.I don't think anyone has the guts to actually show him the door when the stock isn't plummeting. Sure, maybe the stock will plummet if Surface flops, but somehow I doubt it.
I made World of Solitaire (http://worldofsolitaire.com) and I think it's pretty awesome. 100% HTML/JavaScript, no flash. Over 50 different solitaire games, multiple decks, undo support, customizable backgrounds, statistics and more.
Over the past several years I've tried various things to solve my own needs for a large storage array at home. I ran a Linux server with a lot of drives software raided for 2 or 3 years. While it 'mostly' worked, it was a huge huge hassle to set up and maintain. Also when a drive failed (and boy did they) it was a huge hassle to open up my case, determine which one was the failed drive, replace it, then *hope* that I could run the right commands in the right order to restore the drive. God help me if more than one failed.
I eventually realized I need a more 'professional' and 'fool proof' device.
After a lot of research I bought a Drobo. Despite some good reviews, once you register a product key with them and gain access to the customer only forums, you will find a LARGE number of complaints. Valid complaints. Basically their software leaves a LOT to be desired. At the time they didn't have any 'standalone NAS devices'. They all required you to install buggy software that didn't work with linux. I tried several different Drobos and worked with their support departments, but eventually just had to give up entirely on them.
I did even more research and came across the Netgear ReadyNAS systems. They had great reviews, the only problem is they were damned expensive.
I decided I'd give it a try and I ordered a ReadyNAS Pro
That was about 2 years ago or so. It was an absolute BREEZE to set up. Just accessed it's built in web server via any browser. It has worked PERFECTLY since then. ZERO issues.
It's very fast and serves up files via NFS to my linux systems and to my windows systems as a mapped network drive (SMBFS/Samba).
I really could not be happier with the system. I HIGHLY recommend you invest in one.
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One thing that I find disappointing with all the code search engines is they all treat them as regular text files, more or less. None of them seem to make an effort at understanding the code syntax.
I just did it as an experiment, and using all open source software and in my spare time, but I think it having the ability to syntactically know the difference between a comment, a function, a structure, etc. makes a big difference.
When Google launched their engine, I was disappointed they didn't take the extra time needed to make their parser/engine smart.
Well the server didn't actually die. I had a limit of 125 connections for Apache, and that was reached and stayed maxxed for several hours.
The site did respond to requests, searches, etc. it was just very slow due to high load on the box: 18:38:29 up 97 days, 9:21, 1 user, load average: 27.49, 21.31, 28.03
I just did it for fun, and hopefully some people might get some use out of it.
This engine understands the code at a C/C++ syntax level, unlike koders.com so you can better search for what your after (comments, functions, macros, classes, etc).
Also this engine DOES allow you to click on words in the code, but only includes and function or macro calls.
There are several things that are not that great about my site, it's a little slow, doesn't support free text searching nor variable searching, and you can't copy search URL's for pasting (uses XMLHttp and form POST's).
But it's just me doing this thing, and I have limited time and most importantly limited money/hardware.
My wish is for google to do their own but index a LOT more code and have it be fast and friendly:)
They certainly have the resources to do it and would be a great tool for coders to use. Maybe this will help fill a gap in the mean time:)
I've used MySQL in the past for some projects at work, where the number of rows were several hundred million and ran with no problems so I knew it was capable of large row numbers.
I initially used their FULLTEXT indexing as well, but it dies a horrible death with a large number of rows or search terms. (The developers that live in #mysql on Freenode confirmed this)
So I had to hand off searching to Lucene, which worried me a great deal (being java) but as folks tell me 'Java is not slow'. They are right, Java is very fast at handling the searching and I've been very impressed. Most searches in the Java database only take one or two seconds. The MySQL query/join for additional info take another 4 or 5 seconds.
Most searches take about 8 seconds to come up, even under no load.
I simply don't have enough RAM to keep the necessary MySQL indexes in RAM and use index only queries.
I couldn't care less if www.worldofwarcraft.com is working while I play.
The reason worldofwacract.com is down so often is because it's running ASP.NET
That simple.
I used to have respect for Blizzard web programmers, they chose PHP/Apache for previous websites (websites that never had a problem with load). Sounds like when their smart programmers quit to form their own companies, that they ended up hiring some prune who thinks Microsoft products are the best.
Does anyone else think this benchmark is pretty much pointless? What good is a benchmark if the only included cards are the latest top of the line models?
Maybe we should draw the conclusion that if you have anything less than what was benchmarked, don't buy Doom 3.
That's your problem. I've never ascended either, and I've been playing for more than 7 years now.
And your game doesn't sound very appealing to Nethack players. Maxing stats and worrying about how much attack damage is not what Nethack is about. And 'recalling' back to town to 'sell treasure' sounds way too much like an MMOG than Nethack.
Nethack simply isn't for you. It's not for everyone. Anyone who stops playing Nethack for good, well, it isn't for them:)
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Just last week I made a blog post about how I created several 5000x5000 wallpaper montages of old Commodore game ads. Includes code. http://cosmicrealms.com/blog/2012/12/31/c64-magazine-game-wallpaper-generator/
Ballmer is near invincible, so long as the MSFT stock continues to not-decline.I don't think anyone has the guts to actually show him the door when the stock isn't plummeting. Sure, maybe the stock will plummet if Surface flops, but somehow I doubt it.
She thinks Coffee (by itself, pure coffee) makes you fat.
She did an interview to fox news (big surprise) here: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/health/111709-Does-coffee-make-you-fat
Conveniently she has a patent on something that she claims prevents coffee from making you fat so you can continue drinking it.
I made World of Solitaire (http://worldofsolitaire.com) and I think it's pretty awesome.
100% HTML/JavaScript, no flash. Over 50 different solitaire games, multiple decks, undo support, customizable backgrounds, statistics and more.
I have to absolutely second this suggestion.
Over the past several years I've tried various things to solve my own needs for a large storage array at home.
I ran a Linux server with a lot of drives software raided for 2 or 3 years.
While it 'mostly' worked, it was a huge huge hassle to set up and maintain.
Also when a drive failed (and boy did they) it was a huge hassle to open up my case, determine which one was the failed drive, replace it, then *hope* that I could run the right commands in the right order to restore the drive.
God help me if more than one failed.
I eventually realized I need a more 'professional' and 'fool proof' device.
After a lot of research I bought a Drobo. Despite some good reviews, once you register a product key with them and gain access to the customer only forums, you will find a LARGE number of complaints. Valid complaints.
Basically their software leaves a LOT to be desired. At the time they didn't have any 'standalone NAS devices'. They all required you to install buggy software that didn't work with linux.
I tried several different Drobos and worked with their support departments, but eventually just had to give up entirely on them.
I did even more research and came across the Netgear ReadyNAS systems.
They had great reviews, the only problem is they were damned expensive.
I decided I'd give it a try and I ordered a ReadyNAS Pro
That was about 2 years ago or so. It was an absolute BREEZE to set up. Just accessed it's built in web server via any browser.
It has worked PERFECTLY since then. ZERO issues.
It's very fast and serves up files via NFS to my linux systems and to my windows systems as a mapped network drive (SMBFS/Samba).
I really could not be happier with the system. I HIGHLY recommend you invest in one.
AJAX Solitaire has come a LONG way too, as shown here: http://worldofsolitaire.com/
One thing that I find disappointing with all the code search engines is they all treat them as regular text files, more or less.
None of them seem to make an effort at understanding the code syntax.
That's why a few years ago I wrote one for C/C++ code called http://csourcesearch.net/
I just did it as an experiment, and using all open source software and in my spare time, but I think it having the ability to syntactically know the difference between a comment, a function, a structure, etc. makes a big difference.
When Google launched their engine, I was disappointed they didn't take the extra time needed to make their parser/engine smart.
This tin smells spoiled!
Well the server didn't actually die.
:)
I had a limit of 125 connections for Apache, and that was reached and stayed maxxed for several hours.
The site did respond to requests, searches, etc. it was just very slow due to high load on the box:
18:38:29 up 97 days, 9:21, 1 user, load average: 27.49, 21.31, 28.03
It was in the 40+ range earlier
The site is AJAX :)
It also uses XSLT to transform the received XML into the search results.
Before the slashdot article I was getting about 4 or 5 visitors an hour.
:)
Since it's been slashdotted my server is maxxed serving 125 requests at a time, according to server-status about 10 requests/second.
I imagine the traffic will die down in a few days, and settle into something more sane, hopefully something my poor little celeron server can handle
I just did it for fun, and hopefully some people might get some use out of it.
:)
:)
This engine understands the code at a C/C++ syntax level, unlike koders.com so you can better search for what your after (comments, functions, macros, classes, etc).
Also this engine DOES allow you to click on words in the code, but only includes and function or macro calls.
There are several things that are not that great about my site, it's a little slow, doesn't support free text searching nor variable searching, and you can't copy search URL's for pasting (uses XMLHttp and form POST's).
But it's just me doing this thing, and I have limited time and most importantly limited money/hardware.
My wish is for google to do their own but index a LOT more code and have it be fast and friendly
They certainly have the resources to do it and would be a great tool for coders to use. Maybe this will help fill a gap in the mean time
You can see the list of projects this code is from here:
http://csourcesearch.net/package/
I've used MySQL in the past for some projects at work, where the number of rows were several hundred million and ran with no problems so I knew it was capable of large row numbers.
I initially used their FULLTEXT indexing as well, but it dies a horrible death with a large number of rows or search terms. (The developers that live in #mysql on Freenode confirmed this)
So I had to hand off searching to Lucene, which worried me a great deal (being java) but as folks tell me 'Java is not slow'.
They are right, Java is very fast at handling the searching and I've been very impressed.
Most searches in the Java database only take one or two seconds.
The MySQL query/join for additional info take another 4 or 5 seconds.
Most searches take about 8 seconds to come up, even under no load.
I simply don't have enough RAM to keep the necessary MySQL indexes in RAM and use index only queries.
You can see the license type broken down here:
http://csourcesearch.net/license/
You can also click on any of those licenses and then on that page choose to only search for code found in that license.
Thanks for all the comments, there are some great statistic ideas here.
:)
It will take a while to generate all the stats, potentially months.
Once they are finished I'll post the results somewhere.
In the mean time I hope some people find the site useful.
I didn't do it to make money or anything, I just want to help out other coders
Advertise? No, I'm just a single coder doing this for fun and hope that some people will find it useful.
Well, it's been about 2 minutes on slashdot... my site is already dead. So uhm... 2 minutes?
The reason worldofwacract.com is down so often is because it's running ASP.NET
That simple.
I used to have respect for Blizzard web programmers, they chose PHP/Apache for previous websites (websites that never had a problem with load).
Sounds like when their smart programmers quit to form their own companies, that they ended up hiring some prune who thinks Microsoft products are the best.
It's not thriftway or seven-11 that we should be worried about.
It's RADIO SHACK!
Most towns have more Radio Shack stores than walmarts!
And how often have you seen anyone SHOP there?
They have got to be a govt front.
Like Ken, the current computer programming jeopardy champion, you need to have funny smart ass remarks.
J eopardy.mpg
As seen here:
http://www.cosmicrealms.com/coolness/movies/KenOn
If your XML is gonna be translated with XSLT, then hands down the best XML/XSLT editor to use is Xselerator
http://www.topxml.com/xselerator/default.asp
Does anyone else think this benchmark is pretty much pointless?
What good is a benchmark if the only included cards are the latest top of the line models?
Maybe we should draw the conclusion that if you have anything less than what was benchmarked, don't buy Doom 3.
Or just get an ENTIRE whole server at http://www.servermatrix.net/
They have dedicated servers (all yours, not shared, full root) starting at $79/month ($49/month with a set up fee).
Then you can give other people free shells and help solve the problem instead of just bitching about it.
That's your problem.
:)
I've never ascended either, and I've been playing for more than 7 years now.
And your game doesn't sound very appealing to Nethack players.
Maxing stats and worrying about how much attack damage is not what Nethack is about.
And 'recalling' back to town to 'sell treasure' sounds way too much like an MMOG than Nethack.
Nethack simply isn't for you. It's not for everyone.
Anyone who stops playing Nethack for good, well, it isn't for them