Re:Some Line Lore (slightly OT)
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You raise a valid point w.r.t. "distance to your neighbour's house".
Around here, the telco won't punch down on the neighbourhood block. So, we have a 2.5 mile link between us and our ISP, which is less than one city block away.
We both punch down to blocks on different corners, then our corners go five blocks down the street to the *same* block, but our signals "meet" at the CO. Stupidity.
Convincing them to remove the load coils was easy, though.
Re:This is great but...
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Actually, the big problem with NS is that they never bothered implementing half of the document object model as defined by the W3C.
This makes programming anything decently nice brutally difficult under Netscape, even though it could be a breeze under IE.
If you have ever written anything even vaguely demanding, you'd know this is true. And since you don't, I can just assume that you're another person who likes to bitch for the sake of hearing his own voice.
There really isn't a standardized way to assign value to a web site, unlike things like cars which have "blue book" values.
The thing about a website is it is worth whatever somebody wants to pay for it. The trick is convincing somebody to pay a lot.
You have to evaluate many things when coming up with an asking price. The number of hits, etc isn't as relevant often as the user base (i.e. slashdot == geeks == people with buying power == geeks that hit other sites == high value) and the amount of "impression" time your site generates.
Banner Ads as a source of revenue should not be taken seriously by a buyer who is in this for the long run. This is because the revenue stream is potentially unstable in the future.
What revenue/value does your page bring? Is there an intrinsic need for it?
And you're right, I wasn't alive in the 1950s... But I do remember reading about him, and watching him on TV.. And he is very topical right now... who was he after? Communisits? That's what some people think. But listen to his words:
"...the deluded liberals, the eggheads... who can become heros overnight in the eyes of the left wing press if they will join with the jackal pack"
.... "All of them... were either fired or suspended. Let's run through the names"
The United States of America may tout it's capitalist infranstructure as the Glorious Saviour of Mankind, but they are closer to communists and fascists than many of their citizens are willing to admint to themselves.
George Orwell warned that this could happen in his epic novel, 1984.
The fact that U.S. is not heeding this warning does not surprise me. After all, this is happening when the people in power in government are of the first generation to not be able to remember James McCarthy, and the Communist Inquisition, first hand.
You could be looking at a transparent proxy. I wouldn't be surprised if AOL wanted to know about every connection you made on port 25, whether it was to them or not.
Telnet into your remote server on port 25, and tell us what SMTP banner message you get.
This is actually quite frustrating. As a consumer, I strongly dislike AOL. However, they have a huge share of the North American e-mail market. I am trying to convince my superiors to let me start refusing mail based on ORBS and MAPS RBL queries, but denying a large volume of legitimate mail (as the case would be with AOL on the ORBS list) actually puts us in a situation where our customers would be complaining that they can't get their e-mail. O, woe is me. Is there a solution to this conundrum? I don't for one minute believe that AOL gives a rat's ass about open relays, or what list they are on -- after all, they are used to being hated. Hrmp.
One solution which I use with Oracle under Solaris HA "out of the box" might be reasonable to move to an OSS RDBMS running under Linux.
It has proven scalable enough and is used on a system which generates millions of transactions daily.
- Two external RAID boxes, running RAID 0 (striping), running RAID 1 across them (effectively RAID 0+1)
- Journaling filesystem on the RAID partitions where the database files are stored. In this case, it is Veritas VxFS.
- Both RAID boxes are connected to independant SCSI controllers on each box -- they are dual-ported. You could do this also with one controller and single-ported boxes, but you lose a little bit of redundancy.:)
- SCSI controllers on one machine are ID 6, the other ID 7. (for obvious reasons)
- When one machine dies, the other one takes over the RAID, mounts the volumes, and fscks them. This is fast because of the journaling filesystem.
- After mounting the filesystem, Oracle fires up and does an autorecover from the archive log and whatnot area.
- The application is now back online.
CAVEATS: This also causes the applications to "die" which were running on that box (duh) and client applications need to know how to handle this.
The technique my applications use for handling this something like...
1. begin transaction 2. do transaction 3. get result from Oracle 4. Ok? commit; break; 5. Bad? Why bad? (examine oracle response code). 6. If bad because of reasonable oracle response, break; 7. If bad because TCP socket connection, take appropriate action.
"Appropriate action" in this case is often "re-exec self" or "sleep awhile and try again a few times".
I, as an Open Source advocate who happens to be deaf, am personally insulted that RMS would choose to make his works unfree by making sure that only the majority (i.e. the hearing folks and their powerful lobby groups) could hear what he had to say.
It is this spirit of forked-tongue hypocrisy which so typically characterizes the prominent members of the Open Source movement and the FSF. Out of one side of his mouth, RMS chants his "Free for all" mantra, while he hypocritically insures that the message he is transmitting is not, in fact, free for all.
If somebody out there on/. feels like making the text of this interview available, I would be sure to read it.
Thank you.
PS: I am also blind, but can feel my floppy drive moving. Please post your response in the form of a Base64-encoded dd image of a 3.5" floppy disk formatted with ext2fs in such a way as to cause the movement of the disk heads (while reading the first file of the first directory)to yield your message in Morse Code.
In English, this is to pluralize a noun by putting an S after it. Millions of speakers of the language will pluralize the noun in this way until only a few throwbacks are left running around insisting that it's not so.
Yeah, and I suppose you make pillows from gooses, shoot deers, catch fishes and run away from mooses.
Somebody might open a site like anon.penet.fi. Oh, wait, it's stupid people Curzon (who does he think he is, Dax? That's not his real name. I read it on that site:-) who caused that very useful resource to be shut down.
May people like him rot in H-E-double-hockey-sticks.
My college library had certain books which you could not take out of the library. There was no option to take the book straight home, do all your research, and bring it straight back. The library's terms of service required that you use the book on their premises. So that's what we did.
So, if you took one of those books, and opened it up to the page you were interested in, and put it back on the shelf (open) so that it could face the window, and then you used a telescope from your home to read it, would you expect the cops to come and arrest you?
Slashdot Mirror
You raise a valid point w.r.t. "distance to your neighbour's house".
Around here, the telco won't punch down on the neighbourhood block. So, we have a 2.5 mile link between us and our ISP, which is less than one city block away.
We both punch down to blocks on different corners, then our corners go five blocks down the street to the *same* block, but our signals "meet" at the CO. Stupidity.
Convincing them to remove the load coils was easy, though.
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Assuming we can forget about the fact that monitors don't have lasers in them?
I guess the answer is yes then, for the same reasons as 2=1:
Let: A + B = C
then: 2A + 2B = A + B + C
and: 2A + 2B - 2C = A + B - C
so: 2(A + B - C) = 1(A + B - C)
pf: 2 = 1
Cheers, Mate.
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In any directory with more than one file:
echo n | deltree *.*
Kaboom!
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Actually, the big problem with NS is that they never bothered implementing half of the document object model as defined by the W3C.
This makes programming anything decently nice brutally difficult under Netscape, even though it could be a breeze under IE.
If you have ever written anything even vaguely demanding, you'd know this is true. And since you don't, I can just assume that you're another person who likes to bitch for the sake of hearing his own voice.
Cheers.
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There really isn't a standardized way to assign value to a web site, unlike things like cars which have "blue book" values.
The thing about a website is it is worth whatever somebody wants to pay for it. The trick is convincing somebody to pay a lot.
You have to evaluate many things when coming up with an asking price. The number of hits, etc isn't as relevant often as the user base (i.e. slashdot == geeks == people with buying power == geeks that hit other sites == high value) and the amount of "impression" time your site generates.
Banner Ads as a source of revenue should not be taken seriously by a buyer who is in this for the long run. This is because the revenue stream is potentially unstable in the future.
What revenue/value does your page bring? Is there an intrinsic need for it?
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If I was you, I wouldn't kick the dog that was biting me.
Finish fighting your RSI battle first. You deserve to win.
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And cryptography software!
:)
Amazing coincidence, no?
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Whoops. Early mornin' foggies.
And you're right, I wasn't alive in the 1950s... But I do remember reading about him, and watching him on TV.. And he is very topical right now... who was he after? Communisits? That's what some people think. But listen to his words:
Land of the Free, indeed.
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I'm calling the W.A.V.E. on you. You sound depressed and immoral.
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This doesn't really surprise me.
The United States of America may tout it's capitalist infranstructure as the Glorious Saviour of Mankind, but they are closer to communists and fascists than many of their citizens are willing to admint to themselves.
George Orwell warned that this could happen in his epic novel, 1984.
The fact that U.S. is not heeding this warning does not surprise me. After all, this is happening when the people in power in government are of the first generation to not be able to remember James McCarthy, and the Communist Inquisition, first hand.
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You could be looking at a transparent proxy. I wouldn't be surprised if AOL wanted to know about every connection you made on port 25, whether it was to them or not.
Telnet into your remote server on port 25, and tell us what SMTP banner message you get.
--
This is actually quite frustrating. As a consumer, I strongly dislike AOL. However, they have a huge share of the North American e-mail market. I am trying to convince my superiors to let me start refusing mail based on ORBS and MAPS RBL queries, but denying a large volume of legitimate mail (as the case would be with AOL on the ORBS list) actually puts us in a situation where our customers would be complaining that they can't get their e-mail. O, woe is me. Is there a solution to this conundrum? I don't for one minute believe that AOL gives a rat's ass about open relays, or what list they are on -- after all, they are used to being hated. Hrmp.
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I don't know if they still do, but they used to make M16 rifles for the US Army.
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Does anybody know if there is a LEGO Mindstorm attachment which lets you shoot things other than those little catapult balls?
.22 caliber bullets and fire them off one at a time.
I want to shoot cats.
Say, with a rail gun that fires ball bearings at 120ft/sec?
Or perhaps heat-generating attachments? I could fixed-mount some
Thank you.
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One solution which I use with Oracle under Solaris HA "out of the box" might be reasonable to move to an OSS RDBMS running under Linux.
:)
It has proven scalable enough and is used on a system which generates millions of transactions daily.
- Two external RAID boxes, running RAID 0 (striping), running RAID 1 across them (effectively RAID 0+1)
- Journaling filesystem on the RAID partitions where the database files are stored. In this case, it is Veritas VxFS.
- Both RAID boxes are connected to independant SCSI controllers on each box -- they are dual-ported. You could do this also with one controller and single-ported boxes, but you lose a little bit of redundancy.
- SCSI controllers on one machine are ID 6, the other ID 7. (for obvious reasons)
- When one machine dies, the other one takes over the RAID, mounts the volumes, and fscks them. This is fast because of the journaling filesystem.
- After mounting the filesystem, Oracle fires up and does an autorecover from the archive log and whatnot area.
- The application is now back online.
CAVEATS: This also causes the applications to "die" which were running on that box (duh) and client applications need to know how to handle this.
The technique my applications use for handling this something like...
1. begin transaction
2. do transaction
3. get result from Oracle
4. Ok? commit; break;
5. Bad? Why bad? (examine oracle response code).
6. If bad because of reasonable oracle response, break;
7. If bad because TCP socket connection, take appropriate action.
"Appropriate action" in this case is often "re-exec self" or "sleep awhile and try again a few times".
--
I, as an Open Source advocate who happens to be deaf, am personally insulted that RMS would choose to make his works unfree by making sure that only the majority (i.e. the hearing folks and their powerful lobby groups) could hear what he had to say.
/. feels like making the text of this interview available, I would be sure to read it.
It is this spirit of forked-tongue hypocrisy which so typically characterizes the prominent members of the Open Source movement and the FSF. Out of one side of his mouth, RMS chants his "Free for all" mantra, while he hypocritically insures that the message he is transmitting is not, in fact, free for all.
If somebody out there on
Thank you.
PS: I am also blind, but can feel my floppy drive moving. Please post your response in the form of a Base64-encoded dd image of a 3.5" floppy disk formatted with ext2fs in such a way as to cause the movement of the disk heads (while reading the first file of the first directory)to yield your message in Morse Code.
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Yeah, and I suppose you make pillows from gooses, shoot deers, catch fishes and run away from mooses.
You're an idiot.
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Oh no!
:-) who caused that very useful resource to be shut down.
Somebody might open a site like anon.penet.fi. Oh, wait, it's stupid people Curzon (who does he think he is, Dax? That's not his real name. I read it on that site
May people like him rot in H-E-double-hockey-sticks.
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That's not the Lance Taylor, of Taylor-UUCP, is not?
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If you really want to know, send me email and I'll ask my sister. She lives off campus and dials in a 14.4k.
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So, if you took one of those books, and opened it up to the page you were interested in, and put it back on the shelf (open) so that it could face the window, and then you used a telescope from your home to read it, would you expect the cops to come and arrest you?
That is basically what those kids did.
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Heh heh.
I use BSOD blue for my Xemacs background, because it reminds me of the Borland IDE I grew up with 10 years ago.
The nice effect is that it wards off windows users, sort of like those smoking bug-repellants you buy for the backyard
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