If your hosting service doesn't have an Anti-DDoS tier or option available, the people at blockdos.net were able to help in a pinch. If your host can change your IP address, you'll get the best results. You point your domain at the BlockDoS provided IP and then set your firewall (or server if firewall not an option) to block any inbound traffic not coming from a second BlockDoS provided IP. The downside is that you lose a lot of request header information and your server logs show all requests coming from a small set of IPs. (Using external services such as Google Analytics still works fine though.)
My father has attended both "public" colleges and for-profit colleges and says that both seem to offer very similar educations and difficulty of completion. He's gotten degrees from each (a bit of an over-achiever at times) and hasn't had any problems regarding the pedigree of his degrees when it comes to finding jobs or contracts.
Maybe for-profit colleges do lead to a higher loan default rate, but that could be because a lot of the people defaulting on the loans are people who just weren't ready or able to learn at the pace required for college study. More scholarships and grants that don't turn their noses up at the for-profits could help reduce those loan defaults, but it wouldn't help those who enroll who just aren't prepared to learn.
I would like to have a video card with an HDMI output that also puts sound through that HDMI connection. Either by means of an audio in or by emulating a second card to the board to work with existing audio and video drivers. And I want a Linux driver that supports the card(s).
Not sure what's different about my searches, but oil spill returns Wikipedia, Huffington Post, NY Times, Yahoo news, etc. I don't actually see a BP site in there and no sponsored ads at all. Maybe we Slashdotted their ad budget. Hooray for our team if so.
Since my video card wasn't blessed by the Second Life gods as good enough, my only experience with it was somewhere between terrible and horrible. Linden can take it's virtual world and flush it down the toilet (real or virtual) as far as I care. I'm glad I didn't invest much of what little time we have on this earth to a fake one.
If he were an American using torrents to distribute those plans he'd have gotten 20 years instead, but only because the MPAA would have sued him instead claiming the shuttles were used in several movie scenes.
From what I've seen of it (which is very little), Lucene lets you, as a programmer, index data using your own field names. So, say you're indexing word documents and HTML documents. You can extract most of the text and index it as "maincontent", but seperately extract the author, title and subtitle, indexing those individually. This lets you query attributes, like: "space nasa and not genre:sci-fi". Full text search also does ranking based on the occurences of different words you query by, etc. Presumably Lucene would let you specify which fields/attributes are included in a search, and which ones have the highest scores in search results, for instance.
You've certainly hit close to the mark. I work on a site that uses Solr and it does work just as incredibly as others have said. You can tell it what fields you want to search. You can tell it what order you want results sorted in (and you can sort on more than one column in cases of relevancy ties). You can tell it you want matches in one column weighted more than another. You can tell it you want the terms to be within X words of each other. And you can tell it what words should not be in the results.
And then there's the other results it can offer. Faceted search is fantastic. If you have products split by department, you can facet by department and your search for widgets can then return not only the results, but a list of the departments the current results were found in with a result count for each. (Very common feature on ecommerce sites, especially those using Endeca.)
They also have more-like-this results you can use as well as match highlighting. I haven't had the opportunity to try the spelling correction parts yet.
And the indexes can be incredibly small. After indexing over 1 million pages of information, the index data folders were under 500MB. The Lucene indexer can literally hold our entire search set in RAM while it's running.
The software I write is for internal company use, and they were just silly little things like a message box popping up asking why you would have clicked there, or some kind of motivational (work, not religious) blurb.
Ok, am I being thick here, but why can't some enterprising soul (or organisation), use the algorhythm to take control of the bots and then gets them to purge or go inactive?
That was exactly my first thought when I read this.
How hard is it to make this license show up on the initial tab you see. Every time I upgrade to a new Firefox there's a extra tab popping up to tell me just how cool I am for upgrading to the latest version and why I should be such a happier person for it. Just do that with the license and be done with it. Is there really that big a need for some "accept" button on this thing?
Actually, if you have medical coverage, your insurance company will sue them to try to recoup as much of what little those suited bastards paid the hospital to begin with. Apparently, collecting your monthly insurance tithe isn't profitable enough. God forbid you should actually have to use your insurance.
While the official Quake 1 release had no sniper rifle, and Q3 didn't either. I remember player a sniper quite often when Team Fortress and Mega Team Fortress were popular mods. I'm even having some fun with the new Enemy Territory Fortress, though the gaming pie has been cut very thin lately.
SuSE/Novell wouldn't be the ones going after them. Microsoft does the dirty work. Novell isn't trying to enforce any patent or such nonsense and violate the GPL. And Microsoft even gets to take out the Linux that helped them play this dirty game since all the hard-core Linux vets will be dumping SuSE like a plague for what they've done if it's at all reasonably possible to replace in their places of work.
We've had fantastic success with Jabber and Exodus where I work as well. It's too bad Exodus seems to have stalled though. We haven't been able to get the Jabber User Directory service to work, so Exodus's auto-accept reciprocating account addition has been a necessity. Unfortunately, Exodus 0.9.1.0 has some kind of memory leak issue and will eventually freeze Windows XP for less-than-apparent reasons. Still, a kill and a double-click later, it's back up and running. Jabber itself has worked flawlessly.
And then you run into the non-average family. Foster parents with 4 to 8 kids who have a 12 passenger van for use on the weekends when they have to take the whole family somewhere. It's cheaper than driving the two smaller vehicles.
Not sure what they're compensating for, but you'll probably get whacked over the head with your ruler if you try taking any measurements.
I agree. My wife has been teaching out son sign language and he spoke a complete sentence before he was 8 months old. (It was "I want my mommy" while I was trying to feed him breakfast, much to my chagrin.) We normally ask him about a particular toy or person during playtime and most (80%+) of the time he does identify the correct item or person. (He has 3 siblings and 2 parents to pick from, so random looks would only make him right about 20% of the time.)
And now I'll probably get modded down as some kind of Slashdot infiltrating imposter for claiming to be married and having children. C'est la vie.
Excellent points. Having not gone to court (as a defendant anyway), gone to jail, spent long periods of time in a hospital, or died yet, I missed those. My wife did declare bankruptcy before we met though. Not sure if that benefits her while hurting me as far as credit score goes. It certainly benefits her when I make her an authorized user on my credit cards as those show up on her credit report too for some reason.
Really. Send me a note with what freebies I've been missing out on all these years. My wife's really good at finding us tax deductions and such, particularly with her running her own business. However, I don't recall her ever mentioning a deduction that we get just because we're married. We get credits for the children, but one of us or the other would get that as a single parent as well. I don't know if it's ever been corrected, but if anything, we get penalized for being married. The standard deduction for a married couple is less than twice that of a single person. The thought process behind this little gem was that women stay home and raise kids while men go to work. Since the women had no income, they had nothing to apply a standard deduction against. This made it a tax benefit for a man to marry. Now that we have two income families, the standard deduction for a married couple becomes a penalty instead for the majority of families. And what keeps parents together for the sake of children (assuming they no longer love each other) is more likely a fear of child support payments and possibly alimony (though alimony is less likely with the two income reality). Nothing like getting behind in your payments and instead of getting a car repossessed, the government wants to repossess your freedom (jail time). To get back to the topic of the article however... As far as WoW is concerned, I think it quite wrong-headed for them to deny a guild's existence based on sexual orientation. If they're concern is that there are kids playing, they better be prepared to remove guilds based on swingers, swappers, bi-curious, racially exclusive, religiously exclusive, or gender exclusive guilds as well. Marriage (hetero / homo, catholic / bhuddist / hindu / muslim / protestant / wiccan / scientolocult / druidic, democrat / green / libertarian / communist / nazi / republican / socialist / anarchist) is a serious thing and should be treated as such (even if there aren't going to be kids). I suppose it's no worse than little kids playing house, but that usually dies down with adolescense. While it would be interesting to see an actual marriage status in a game, worked into the game mechanics in some way, I think it would be the wrong lesson to send to children (marriage being entered into lightly or equating it to being part of some big people game).
Poor assumption of the military's handling of the gate travel protocols. Unscheduled activations cause an armed detail to take post in the gate room, and there's still someone standing by in the control room to close the iris if it appears they've been caught in a ruse.
Most of that invading army is going to end up as nothing more than a bunch of thumping sounds against metal if they don't get word from the initial troops through that the iris has been closed.
I've installed the GPL licensed SharpDevelop at home and work. It's similar to a stripped down Visual Studio. It doesn't do ASPX with code-behind very well yet, but they're working on it. It should be just fine though for making a Windows GUI app as long as the DotNet libraries provide access to the ports you're using or you can get a hold of some that do.
Slashdot Mirror
If your hosting service doesn't have an Anti-DDoS tier or option available, the people at blockdos.net were able to help in a pinch. If your host can change your IP address, you'll get the best results. You point your domain at the BlockDoS provided IP and then set your firewall (or server if firewall not an option) to block any inbound traffic not coming from a second BlockDoS provided IP. The downside is that you lose a lot of request header information and your server logs show all requests coming from a small set of IPs. (Using external services such as Google Analytics still works fine though.)
Translation: We can't be bothered by this issue that never hits the mass media news cycles.
I've been making this same argument for the last few months. I suppose it's good to know I'm not alone in this.
I tether a laptop to a feature phone and tell Apple, Microsoft, and Nokia to suck it.
My father has attended both "public" colleges and for-profit colleges and says that both seem to offer very similar educations and difficulty of completion. He's gotten degrees from each (a bit of an over-achiever at times) and hasn't had any problems regarding the pedigree of his degrees when it comes to finding jobs or contracts.
Maybe for-profit colleges do lead to a higher loan default rate, but that could be because a lot of the people defaulting on the loans are people who just weren't ready or able to learn at the pace required for college study. More scholarships and grants that don't turn their noses up at the for-profits could help reduce those loan defaults, but it wouldn't help those who enroll who just aren't prepared to learn.
I would like to have a video card with an HDMI output that also puts sound through that HDMI connection. Either by means of an audio in or by emulating a second card to the board to work with existing audio and video drivers. And I want a Linux driver that supports the card(s).
Not sure what's different about my searches, but oil spill returns Wikipedia, Huffington Post, NY Times, Yahoo news, etc. I don't actually see a BP site in there and no sponsored ads at all. Maybe we Slashdotted their ad budget. Hooray for our team if so.
Since my video card wasn't blessed by the Second Life gods as good enough, my only experience with it was somewhere between terrible and horrible. Linden can take it's virtual world and flush it down the toilet (real or virtual) as far as I care. I'm glad I didn't invest much of what little time we have on this earth to a fake one.
If he were an American using torrents to distribute those plans he'd have gotten 20 years instead, but only because the MPAA would have sued him instead claiming the shuttles were used in several movie scenes.
From what I've seen of it (which is very little), Lucene lets you, as a programmer, index data using your own field names. So, say you're indexing word documents and HTML documents. You can extract most of the text and index it as "maincontent", but seperately extract the author, title and subtitle, indexing those individually. This lets you query attributes, like: "space nasa and not genre:sci-fi". Full text search also does ranking based on the occurences of different words you query by, etc. Presumably Lucene would let you specify which fields/attributes are included in a search, and which ones have the highest scores in search results, for instance.
You've certainly hit close to the mark. I work on a site that uses Solr and it does work just as incredibly as others have said. You can tell it what fields you want to search. You can tell it what order you want results sorted in (and you can sort on more than one column in cases of relevancy ties). You can tell it you want matches in one column weighted more than another. You can tell it you want the terms to be within X words of each other. And you can tell it what words should not be in the results.
And then there's the other results it can offer. Faceted search is fantastic. If you have products split by department, you can facet by department and your search for widgets can then return not only the results, but a list of the departments the current results were found in with a result count for each. (Very common feature on ecommerce sites, especially those using Endeca.)
They also have more-like-this results you can use as well as match highlighting. I haven't had the opportunity to try the spelling correction parts yet.
And the indexes can be incredibly small. After indexing over 1 million pages of information, the index data folders were under 500MB. The Lucene indexer can literally hold our entire search set in RAM while it's running.
The software I write is for internal company use, and they were just silly little things like a message box popping up asking why you would have clicked there, or some kind of motivational (work, not religious) blurb.
Ok, am I being thick here, but why can't some enterprising soul (or organisation), use the algorhythm to take control of the bots and then gets them to purge or go inactive?
That was exactly my first thought when I read this.
How hard is it to make this license show up on the initial tab you see. Every time I upgrade to a new Firefox there's a extra tab popping up to tell me just how cool I am for upgrading to the latest version and why I should be such a happier person for it. Just do that with the license and be done with it. Is there really that big a need for some "accept" button on this thing?
Actually, if you have medical coverage, your insurance company will sue them to try to recoup as much of what little those suited bastards paid the hospital to begin with. Apparently, collecting your monthly insurance tithe isn't profitable enough. God forbid you should actually have to use your insurance.
Oops. /rant
This reinforces my rejection of religious fervor, even when the religion has nothing to do with supernatural forces.
Your truly, a proud Gentoo / Ubuntu / Mandriva / DSL / OpenWRT user.
I urge Nokia to take DRM, commercial IP, and locked SIMs and shove them straight up their collective arse.
While the official Quake 1 release had no sniper rifle, and Q3 didn't either. I remember player a sniper quite often when Team Fortress and Mega Team Fortress were popular mods. I'm even having some fun with the new Enemy Territory Fortress, though the gaming pie has been cut very thin lately.
SuSE/Novell wouldn't be the ones going after them. Microsoft does the dirty work. Novell isn't trying to enforce any patent or such nonsense and violate the GPL. And Microsoft even gets to take out the Linux that helped them play this dirty game since all the hard-core Linux vets will be dumping SuSE like a plague for what they've done if it's at all reasonably possible to replace in their places of work.
We've had fantastic success with Jabber and Exodus where I work as well. It's too bad Exodus seems to have stalled though. We haven't been able to get the Jabber User Directory service to work, so Exodus's auto-accept reciprocating account addition has been a necessity. Unfortunately, Exodus 0.9.1.0 has some kind of memory leak issue and will eventually freeze Windows XP for less-than-apparent reasons. Still, a kill and a double-click later, it's back up and running. Jabber itself has worked flawlessly.
And then you run into the non-average family. Foster parents with 4 to 8 kids who have a 12 passenger van for use on the weekends when they have to take the whole family somewhere. It's cheaper than driving the two smaller vehicles.
Not sure what they're compensating for, but you'll probably get whacked over the head with your ruler if you try taking any measurements.
I agree. My wife has been teaching out son sign language and he spoke a complete sentence before he was 8 months old. (It was "I want my mommy" while I was trying to feed him breakfast, much to my chagrin.) We normally ask him about a particular toy or person during playtime and most (80%+) of the time he does identify the correct item or person. (He has 3 siblings and 2 parents to pick from, so random looks would only make him right about 20% of the time.)
And now I'll probably get modded down as some kind of Slashdot infiltrating imposter for claiming to be married and having children. C'est la vie.
Excellent points. Having not gone to court (as a defendant anyway), gone to jail, spent long periods of time in a hospital, or died yet, I missed those. My wife did declare bankruptcy before we met though. Not sure if that benefits her while hurting me as far as credit score goes. It certainly benefits her when I make her an authorized user on my credit cards as those show up on her credit report too for some reason.
Really. Send me a note with what freebies I've been missing out on all these years.
My wife's really good at finding us tax deductions and such, particularly with her running her own business. However, I don't recall her ever mentioning a deduction that we get just because we're married.
We get credits for the children, but one of us or the other would get that as a single parent as well. I don't know if it's ever been corrected, but if anything, we get penalized for being married. The standard deduction for a married couple is less than twice that of a single person. The thought process behind this little gem was that women stay home and raise kids while men go to work. Since the women had no income, they had nothing to apply a standard deduction against. This made it a tax benefit for a man to marry. Now that we have two income families, the standard deduction for a married couple becomes a penalty instead for the majority of families.
And what keeps parents together for the sake of children (assuming they no longer love each other) is more likely a fear of child support payments and possibly alimony (though alimony is less likely with the two income reality). Nothing like getting behind in your payments and instead of getting a car repossessed, the government wants to repossess your freedom (jail time).
To get back to the topic of the article however...
As far as WoW is concerned, I think it quite wrong-headed for them to deny a guild's existence based on sexual orientation. If they're concern is that there are kids playing, they better be prepared to remove guilds based on swingers, swappers, bi-curious, racially exclusive, religiously exclusive, or gender exclusive guilds as well.
Marriage (hetero / homo, catholic / bhuddist / hindu / muslim / protestant / wiccan / scientolocult / druidic, democrat / green / libertarian / communist / nazi / republican / socialist / anarchist) is a serious thing and should be treated as such (even if there aren't going to be kids). I suppose it's no worse than little kids playing house, but that usually dies down with adolescense. While it would be interesting to see an actual marriage status in a game, worked into the game mechanics in some way, I think it would be the wrong lesson to send to children (marriage being entered into lightly or equating it to being part of some big people game).
Most of that invading army is going to end up as nothing more than a bunch of thumping sounds against metal if they don't get word from the initial troops through that the iris has been closed.
I've installed the GPL licensed SharpDevelop at home and work. It's similar to a stripped down Visual Studio. It doesn't do ASPX with code-behind very well yet, but they're working on it. It should be just fine though for making a Windows GUI app as long as the DotNet libraries provide access to the ports you're using or you can get a hold of some that do.