I agree with the majority of your post here, just wanted to comment on this:
"(why is Apache still spawning processes for every request that comes in... don't they realize the overhead of that??)."
It's because they don't control the entire software stack, as MS does, so they can't guarantee that a multithreaded model will work properly -- all it takes is one library in the 3rd party module chain to have been buggy (or simply not work) under multithreading, and then the server is unstable.. Apache has supported a multithreaded workers forever.. well back to the 2.0 days (at least a decade), but it's never been default. It also supposes a hybrid mode, where there are multiple workers and each worker spawns multiple threads, in an attempt to alleviate some of the issues caused by the library chains.
OurDailyFred, sorry, i didn't see your reply until today...
Most states in the US actually don't specify a per-branch receptacle limit for _residential_ -- you're correct for commercial -- it's 10/13 max, for 15/20amp circuits, respectively. The NEC doesn't specify a limit for residential either, only commercial (where they have to assume an active load).
I'm in California, and the CEC doesn't limit it here either, except to state that the load must be balanced across circuits.
However, common sense reigns here, if anywhere. All my circuits were 20amp, and I limited to 10 per branch for general areas, with lower #'s for task- specific areas -- ie, the computer office has just 4 (duplex, 8 outlets total) per circuit, potential "entertainment unit" locations got 1 or more circuits, etc. Obviously this is in addition to the code-required "dedicated" receptacle circuits, ie, laundry, bathrooms, 2x+ for kitchen, and so on.
Outlets are supposed to be every 12 feet, not 6 -- that's the same "thinko" i did while building (self) my house. The code actually says no more than 6 feet along any wall (i think the wall has to be 4 feet or longer) to a receptacle. This has the goal of making appliances with 6 foot cords work from any point along the wall.
When I built my house, I was frustrated with my previous 1960's house that had 2 receptacles per room. I said, hell with it, code says 6 feet, I'll make it 4. Note that thinking CORRECTLY, that would have made it 8 feet between outlets.
It wasn't until I had run wire and boxes to 3 rooms that I realized I'd been wiring for 4 feet between boxes. I laughed my ass off and said fuck it, wired the entire house that way... 115 receptacles later, I was done:)
AND THERE'S STILL SPOTS I WISH I HAD A RECEPTACLE AT!:)
"Yes, because humanitarian aid, heavy repair machinery and qualified personnel will be delivered by UPS... go figure."
Besides the military, UPS and Fedex are in PRIME positions to be brought in, in the case of a catastrophe large enough. They have a worldwide (certainly US-wide) delivery system and infrastructure already in place. It's easy to picture a scenario where they are ordered (or offer) to assist.
Some background.. I read... a lot. 200-300 novels per year.
When there's a series, I finish it, even if I didn't much like the first. I'll re-read them every year or other year.
For this book, I won't be reading it again, nor will I buy the 2nd (much less the 3rd) in the series.
Directive 51 terrified me. The concepts in it are just too close to reality; the political machinations; hell those damn near happen now.
It's a book about a worldwide biotech attack that renders all petroleum-based products into goo, combined with a nanotech attack that attacks any metal with electricity present. I won't spoil the rest, suffice to say the attack on our modern technological civilization was complete. It was a book that wouldn't leave my head for several weeks.
Correct. They used a cordless tool to do it. There is video.. the only car that parked next to the truck all day only stopped for 90 seconds. That's all the time it took:)
. Catalytic converter thefts have been very high because they contain various mixtures of platinum, palladium, rhodium and prices for those precious metals were very high.
Hmm...now, I'd not have a problem with them taking my catalytic converter off the car (leave me the car)...with less air restriction, I'd likely have more performance!!
And, not like I live where they do sniff tests on inspections....I've never lived where they do that..sounds like a PITA.
If your car is like mine was, they wouldn't need to do sniff tests. They'd hear you coming. My catalytic converter was cut out of my 4Runner while in the parking lot at work. I left work at around 4pm, started it up, and nearly shit a brick. It was the loudest vehicle I'd ever heard, I thought it was broken, lol!
Brought a friend out to listen while i started it, he's peering around, and says... "wtf, where's your cc?" Just a pile of metal shavings:)
"Yeah, because the alternative is people living in a house for 30 years and being forced to sell it to pay for increasing property taxes they cannot afford on a retired fixed income is so much better for everyone."
Please. That could have easily been solved. Instead we're in a situation where the people on 3 sides of me rent their original homes out -- it makes no sense to sell them because they pay only _$400_ a year in property tax. The 2 of the 3 houses behind me pay less than $800. Me, I pay $8500. Same size house, bought 12 years ago at a decent rate -- the problem is I remodeled it, and the county reappraises at current day rates. The house across to the left just sold, I expect he'll be near what I pay.
Prop 13 does nothing but encourage neighborhoods to be turned into rent factories and engender bad feelings between neighbors who pay VASTLY different sums for the _exact same service_. It was a good idea poorly implemented, and now everyone is too scared to change it.
"(except for in California, where you have to have a teacher certificate to home school"
This is not correct. There is no requirement to have a teaching certificate in CA. That was a short-term decision of a court that was overturned on appeal a few months later; it was never a law. The only requirement is that the lessons include the standards-track material as well, and this is enforced thru periodic testing and feedback with a local school. Additionally popular are home schooling coops who create a legal and instructional framework around what is essentially a school for multiple children, run out of homes.
The largest textbook purchasers are California (#1) and Texas (#2); The rest of the country arguably gets what we 2 states 'agree' on thru our negotiations with the publishers. Texas has such a large influence because it orders books at the state level, whereas most states order (and decide) at a district level.
Now normally, we balance each others whacky theories out. However, CA has drastically reduced _new_ textbook orders due to budget issues for the last few years, so this and last years TX board meetings were of particular import, as TX had unusually strong influence with the publishers.
I make my purchasing decisions based on the cost to me, not on the cost to the power company.
The power company has to make their purchasing decisions based on your purchasing decisions.
Then perhaps the power companies should stop subsidizing CFLs? Every hardware store has CFL stacks @ near incandescent (below, in some cases) prices thanks to power company subsidies.
This article is entirely misleading; you are not sucking up double the rated wattage from the utility, they simply have to transmit that power your your wires. The only additional cost to them is the transmission loss that occurs -- there's no "larger wiring" they need to deply, because they're ALREADY wired to handle the 60-100w bulbs we're all replacing!
Why not just default to TCP for DNS resolving over UDP?
It solves the problem.
Because it increases packet count for every dns request by 8 packets minimum. There's a ton of dns traffic.. that adds up. Not to mention system overhead in the connection establishment on the higher usage(think root) servers.
"Sure, some may scoff at the quarter, but the procedure seems to work in Holland; citizens dutifully return the carts to the store after use."
"Maybe in the States, a dollar coin could be used as enticement. "
While I don't disagree that using a deposit method would tend to stop the casual person from "just using it to walk home"; it's not going to stop homeless people from buying a $0.25 - $1.00 wagon for their gear:)
Also... some may collect them, but I can count the # of dollar coins I've carried in my life as less than my age, for sure. They're mainly used for gifts for children, collections, etc in the US.
It's not exactly a pain to dispose of lightbulds (or batteries) in California.
In many cities in CA, there is both a central collection depot -- usually a pain to get to -- and retail-based assistances. For instance, in San jose, I can drop batteries, cell phones, light bulbs at Home Depot, Lowes, Orchard Supply, Longs Drugs, Rite Aid, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and a whole host of recyling-specific retailers.
Truecrypt is actually fairly spiffy in this regard, between it's design goal of plausible deniability:
"It is impossible to identify a TrueCrypt volume. Until decrypted, a TrueCrypt volume appears to consist of nothing more than random data (it does not contain any kind of "signature"). Therefore, it is impossible to prove that a file, a partition or a device is a TrueCrypt volume or that it has been encrypted. "
and the hidden volume feature:
"The principle is that a TrueCrypt volume is created within another TrueCrypt volume (within the free space on the volume). Even when the outer volume is mounted, it is impossible to prove whether there is a hidden volume within it or not, because free space on any TrueCrypt volume is always filled with random data when the volume is created* and no part of the (dismounted) hidden volume can be distinguished from random data. Note that TrueCrypt does not modify the file system (information about free space, etc.) within the outer volume in any way."
What Toby was referring to, I think, is the time to create the message -- via smoke signals. Cross-Atlantic conversations were letter based, and you'd be able to get your entire thought into the letter without spending an hour per sentence.
In all of my pricing, most of the cost is for the local loop rather than the internet service itself -- my own residential T1 costs 499 - 199$ for the service, 300 for the local loop, and I'm in the middle of a city. Local loop charges get especially ridiculous when you're rural... or even just "outside dsl range".
I'm sorry I don't have mod points for you, that caught me out of the blue and had me cracking up, after reading his semi-serious post and trying to read yours in the same light.
The author did not mis-read... you're quoting federal guidelines on the 455/week deal... state guidelines on this issue override federal unless the federal is higher.
"The most publicized part of the new law is the enactment of a special exemption for computer software professionals who: (1) are primarily engaged in work that is intellectual or creative, and (2) are paid at the equivalent of an hourly rate of $41.00 per hour ($85,280 per year). "
While I'm not saying notes is a relational system -- it clearly isn't, even with the new DB2 backend replacement for the nfs file format in v7 beta -- see http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200406/0000 1307001.html for more info plus a good background on notes & rdbms comparison), whoever designed the database you're describing was an idiot, or (being gracious) new to notes. There's no reason each of those complaints you listed couldn't have been handled with ease by any notes version in the last 10 years.
Part of the problem of notes is the half-ass job companies seem to accept in regard to database design, from notes 'consultants' who write db's while referencing their "Notes for Dummies" book. It's a complex system, needlessly so in some cases, but it doesn't deserve the rap it gets from incompetence on the part of the implementors.
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I agree with the majority of your post here, just wanted to comment on this:
"(why is Apache still spawning processes for every request that comes in... don't they realize the overhead of that??)."
It's because they don't control the entire software stack, as MS does, so they can't guarantee that a multithreaded model will work properly -- all it takes is one library in the 3rd party module chain to have been buggy (or simply not work) under multithreading, and then the server is unstable.. Apache has supported a multithreaded workers forever.. well back to the 2.0 days (at least a decade), but it's never been default. It also supposes a hybrid mode, where there are multiple workers and each worker spawns multiple threads, in an attempt to alleviate some of the issues caused by the library chains.
OurDailyFred, sorry, i didn't see your reply until today...
Most states in the US actually don't specify a per-branch receptacle limit for _residential_ -- you're correct for commercial -- it's 10/13 max, for 15/20amp circuits, respectively. The NEC doesn't specify a limit for residential either, only commercial (where they have to assume an active load).
I'm in California, and the CEC doesn't limit it here either, except to state that the load must be balanced across circuits.
However, common sense reigns here, if anywhere. All my circuits were 20amp, and I limited to 10 per branch for general areas, with lower #'s for task- specific areas -- ie, the computer office has just 4 (duplex, 8 outlets total) per circuit, potential "entertainment unit" locations got 1 or more circuits, etc. Obviously this is in addition to the code-required "dedicated" receptacle circuits, ie, laundry, bathrooms, 2x+ for kitchen, and so on.
Outlets are supposed to be every 12 feet, not 6 -- that's the same "thinko" i did while building (self) my house. The code actually says no more than 6 feet along any wall (i think the wall has to be 4 feet or longer) to a receptacle. This has the goal of making appliances with 6 foot cords work from any point along the wall.
When I built my house, I was frustrated with my previous 1960's house that had 2 receptacles per room. I said, hell with it, code says 6 feet, I'll make it 4. Note that thinking CORRECTLY, that would have made it 8 feet between outlets.
It wasn't until I had run wire and boxes to 3 rooms that I realized I'd been wiring for 4 feet between boxes. I laughed my ass off and said fuck it, wired the entire house that way... 115 receptacles later, I was done :)
AND THERE'S STILL SPOTS I WISH I HAD A RECEPTACLE AT! :)
"Yes, because humanitarian aid, heavy repair machinery and qualified personnel will be delivered by UPS... go figure."
Besides the military, UPS and Fedex are in PRIME positions to be brought in, in the case of a catastrophe large enough. They have a worldwide (certainly US-wide) delivery system and infrastructure already in place. It's easy to picture a scenario where they are ordered (or offer) to assist.
Some background.. I read... a lot. 200-300 novels per year.
When there's a series, I finish it, even if I didn't much like the first. I'll re-read them every year or other year.
For this book, I won't be reading it again, nor will I buy the 2nd (much less the 3rd) in the series.
Directive 51 terrified me. The concepts in it are just too close to reality; the political machinations; hell those damn near happen now.
It's a book about a worldwide biotech attack that renders all petroleum-based products into goo, combined with a nanotech attack that attacks any metal with electricity present. I won't spoil the rest, suffice to say the attack on our modern technological civilization was complete. It was a book that wouldn't leave my head for several weeks.
Correct. They used a cordless tool to do it. There is video.. the only car that parked next to the truck all day only stopped for 90 seconds. That's all the time it took :)
Hmm...now, I'd not have a problem with them taking my catalytic converter off the car (leave me the car)...with less air restriction, I'd likely have more performance!!
And, not like I live where they do sniff tests on inspections....I've never lived where they do that..sounds like a PITA.
If your car is like mine was, they wouldn't need to do sniff tests. They'd hear you coming. My catalytic converter was cut out of my 4Runner while in the parking lot at work. I left work at around 4pm, started it up, and nearly shit a brick. It was the loudest vehicle I'd ever heard, I thought it was broken, lol!
Brought a friend out to listen while i started it, he's peering around, and says... "wtf, where's your cc?" Just a pile of metal shavings :)
"Yeah, because the alternative is people living in a house for 30 years and being forced to sell it to pay for increasing property taxes they cannot afford on a retired fixed income is so much better for everyone."
Please. That could have easily been solved. Instead we're in a situation where the people on 3 sides of me rent their original homes out -- it makes no sense to sell them because they pay only _$400_ a year in property tax. The 2 of the 3 houses behind me pay less than $800. Me, I pay $8500. Same size house, bought 12 years ago at a decent rate -- the problem is I remodeled it, and the county reappraises at current day rates. The house across to the left just sold, I expect he'll be near what I pay.
Prop 13 does nothing but encourage neighborhoods to be turned into rent factories and engender bad feelings between neighbors who pay VASTLY different sums for the _exact same service_. It was a good idea poorly implemented, and now everyone is too scared to change it.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/firefox-9.0a1.en-US.win64-x86_64.installer.exe , as linked from http://nightly.mozilla.org/
64bit nightly installer. I've been running it a while now, fairly nice.
"(except for in California, where you have to have a teacher certificate to home school"
This is not correct. There is no requirement to have a teaching certificate in CA. That was a short-term decision of a court that was overturned on appeal a few months later; it was never a law. The only requirement is that the lessons include the standards-track material as well, and this is enforced thru periodic testing and feedback with a local school. Additionally popular are home schooling coops who create a legal and instructional framework around what is essentially a school for multiple children, run out of homes.
You are not misinformed.
The largest textbook purchasers are California (#1) and Texas (#2); The rest of the country arguably gets what we 2 states 'agree' on thru our negotiations with the publishers. Texas has such a large influence because it orders books at the state level, whereas most states order (and decide) at a district level.
Now normally, we balance each others whacky theories out. However, CA has drastically reduced _new_ textbook orders due to budget issues for the last few years, so this and last years TX board meetings were of particular import, as TX had unusually strong influence with the publishers.
I do believe this may be the best post I've ever read here.
I assume this is because documents written in english get more world press.
US army develops tooth-cleaning gum
By Simon Pitman, 21-Dec-2005
-=- 2005-=- Maybe it's been stuck in the queue this whole time?
I make my purchasing decisions based on the cost to me, not on the cost to the power company.
The power company has to make their purchasing decisions based on your purchasing decisions.
Then perhaps the power companies should stop subsidizing CFLs? Every hardware store has CFL stacks @ near incandescent (below, in some cases) prices thanks to power company subsidies. This article is entirely misleading; you are not sucking up double the rated wattage from the utility, they simply have to transmit that power your your wires. The only additional cost to them is the transmission loss that occurs -- there's no "larger wiring" they need to deply, because they're ALREADY wired to handle the 60-100w bulbs we're all replacing!
Why not just default to TCP for DNS resolving over UDP?
It solves the problem.
Because it increases packet count for every dns request by 8 packets minimum. There's a ton of dns traffic.. that adds up. Not to mention system overhead in the connection establishment on the higher usage(think root) servers.
"Sure, some may scoff at the quarter, but the procedure seems to work in Holland; citizens dutifully return the carts to the store after use." "Maybe in the States, a dollar coin could be used as enticement. " While I don't disagree that using a deposit method would tend to stop the casual person from "just using it to walk home"; it's not going to stop homeless people from buying a $0.25 - $1.00 wagon for their gear :)
Also... some may collect them, but I can count the # of dollar coins I've carried in my life as less than my age, for sure. They're mainly used for gifts for children, collections, etc in the US.
It's not exactly a pain to dispose of lightbulds (or batteries) in California.
In many cities in CA, there is both a central collection depot -- usually a pain to get to -- and retail-based assistances. For instance, in San jose, I can drop batteries, cell phones, light bulbs at Home Depot, Lowes, Orchard Supply, Longs Drugs, Rite Aid, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and a whole host of recyling-specific retailers.
Truecrypt is actually fairly spiffy in this regard, between it's design goal of plausible deniability:
i lity for more info.
"It is impossible to identify a TrueCrypt volume. Until decrypted, a TrueCrypt volume appears to consist of nothing more than random data (it does not contain any kind of "signature"). Therefore, it is impossible to prove that a file, a partition or a device is a TrueCrypt volume or that it has been encrypted. "
and the hidden volume feature:
"The principle is that a TrueCrypt volume is created within another TrueCrypt volume (within the free space on the volume). Even when the outer volume is mounted, it is impossible to prove whether there is a hidden volume within it or not, because free space on any TrueCrypt volume is always filled with random data when the volume is created* and no part of the (dismounted) hidden volume can be distinguished from random data. Note that TrueCrypt does not modify the file system (information about free space, etc.) within the outer volume in any way."
Check out http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniab
What Toby was referring to, I think, is the time to create the message -- via smoke signals. Cross-Atlantic conversations were letter based, and you'd be able to get your entire thought into the letter without spending an hour per sentence.
In all of my pricing, most of the cost is for the local loop rather than the internet service itself -- my own residential T1 costs 499 - 199$ for the service, 300 for the local loop, and I'm in the middle of a city. Local loop charges get especially ridiculous when you're rural... or even just "outside dsl range".
I'm sorry I don't have mod points for you, that caught me out of the blue and had me cracking up, after reading his semi-serious post and trying to read yours in the same light.
I believe you may have missed your parents tag, Matey!
The author did not mis-read... you're quoting federal guidelines on the 455/week deal... state guidelines on this issue override federal unless the federal is higher.
s J: www.paulplevin.com/downloads/E-Updates/1999-2000/2 2.pdf+SB+88+overtime+california&hl=en
"The most publicized part of the new law is the enactment of a special exemption for computer software professionals who: (1) are primarily engaged in work that is intellectual or creative, and (2) are paid at the equivalent of an hourly rate of $41.00 per hour ($85,280 per year). "
http://www.littler.com/nwsltr/asap_sb88.html
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:HTnCWUwtI6
While I'm not saying notes is a relational system -- it clearly isn't, even with the new DB2 backend replacement for the nfs file format in v7 beta -- see http://www.dominopower.com/issues/issue200406/0000 1307001.html for more info plus a good background on notes & rdbms comparison), whoever designed the database you're describing was an idiot, or (being gracious) new to notes. There's no reason each of those complaints you listed couldn't have been handled with ease by any notes version in the last 10 years.
Part of the problem of notes is the half-ass job companies seem to accept in regard to database design, from notes 'consultants' who write db's while referencing their "Notes for Dummies" book. It's a complex system, needlessly so in some cases, but it doesn't deserve the rap it gets from incompetence on the part of the implementors.