Ever heard of bloom filters? Sharding? Indexes? They are clearly not doing a table scan on 50gb of data every time you open your Facebook inbox.
You know, there's a certain point where people need to stop and actually think about the implimentation.
Um, they do. They regularly blog about their solutions to their problems and open source their solutions and contributions to existing projects. They come up with amazing solutions to their large scale problems. They're running over five million Erlang processes for their chat system!
Also, when was the last time you tried to visit Facebook and it was down? They're doing quite well for people who need to stop and actually think about their "implimentation".
Check your firewall log. You'll see connection attempts from Slashdot on various ports making sure that you're not a Tor exit node, open HTTP proxy, etc.:-)
My first Linux was Gentoo (stage 1 install)... if I didn't have an irrational desire to learn Linux, I would have definitely given up after the first day of trying to get it to install. I was mesmerized by the command line, though.
It is kind of ridiculous that so much stuff is still broken out of the box on modern Linux distros. It's also ridiculous how it's also apparently the fault of the end users themselves.
Just wondering, but are you unable to simply download the sources/ISO files? Unless you collect the CDs or something, it seems strange in this day and age.
That said, I will be donating to the project today.:-)
Hacks? ID3v2 allows for storing of any metadata you desire. It's not a hack; it's part of/an extension to the standard.
You can even store multi-byte encodings of lyrics nowadays.
Usage of TCP in a game is odd. Most (all?) modern games use UDP which, while not guaranteed to be delivered, doesn't have a round-trip time associated with it.
TCP should only be used in situations where packetloss is unacceptable (downloading game updates, sending credentials to a server, etc.) and not where only simple updates are happening (firing your gun, ordering a unit to move, etc.).
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The USA tried banning alcohol once, but it didn't work out too well.
At least we got cool bar names like "The 21st Amendment" out of it.
Is this a troll? The USA did not invent SMS.
it's unlikely they'll ever release the death grip and let the world play with OS X.
The real question is: do they even need to in order to maintain their ridiculous profit margins?
You speak of Mac OSX as if it's not a fully-certified Unix. It is: http://opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3555.htm
Attacks against that password format (alpha + some trailing numbers) are referred to as "hybrid attacks" if I recall correctly.
Ever heard of bloom filters? Sharding? Indexes? They are clearly not doing a table scan on 50gb of data every time you open your Facebook inbox.
You know, there's a certain point where people need to stop and actually think about the implimentation.
Um, they do. They regularly blog about their solutions to their problems and open source their solutions and contributions to existing projects. They come up with amazing solutions to their large scale problems. They're running over five million Erlang processes for their chat system!
http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1
http://github.com/facebook
Also, when was the last time you tried to visit Facebook and it was down? They're doing quite well for people who need to stop and actually think about their "implimentation".
Mod up for Cosmos.
Check your firewall log. You'll see connection attempts from Slashdot on various ports making sure that you're not a Tor exit node, open HTTP proxy, etc. :-)
Installing WINE on Ubuntu systems sets that value to 0.
You have WINE installed. It sets the value to 0.
The plural form of "anecdote" is not "data".
That said, the poll stating that less than 40% of people were successfully able to upgrade isn't totally accurate either. It's a self-selected sample.
Why?
Serious problems with the most widely-used Linux distribution isn't "news for nerds"?
My first Linux was Gentoo (stage 1 install)... if I didn't have an irrational desire to learn Linux, I would have definitely given up after the first day of trying to get it to install. I was mesmerized by the command line, though.
It is kind of ridiculous that so much stuff is still broken out of the box on modern Linux distros. It's also ridiculous how it's also apparently the fault of the end users themselves.
By "bleeding edge versions of Ubuntu" you mean "bleeding edge versions of Debian Unstable", right?
I'll remain with Debian Stable for all my machines for now.
Probably because copyright infringement (unless commercial) is a civil matter and burglary/theft is a criminal one?
SELinux has nothing on GRSecurity. http://www.grsecurity.net/
Just wondering, but are you unable to simply download the sources/ISO files? Unless you collect the CDs or something, it seems strange in this day and age. That said, I will be donating to the project today. :-)
I thought the earth was only 6,000 years old. :-P
Hacks? ID3v2 allows for storing of any metadata you desire. It's not a hack; it's part of/an extension to the standard. You can even store multi-byte encodings of lyrics nowadays.
Usage of TCP in a game is odd. Most (all?) modern games use UDP which, while not guaranteed to be delivered, doesn't have a round-trip time associated with it.
TCP should only be used in situations where packetloss is unacceptable (downloading game updates, sending credentials to a server, etc.) and not where only simple updates are happening (firing your gun, ordering a unit to move, etc.).
Mod parent up.