If someone wants to run IE, let em. Some people still smoke too despite all the evidence of health problems, huge cost, etc.
This analogy is unfortunately all too accurate. Not only does the rest of the insured/tax-paying population have to shoulder the health-care costs of smokers so too does the rest of the Internet-using population have to shoulder the cost of spams/viruses/wasted bandwidth etc. perpetuated by IE users.
Me - "Well duh! That's true of any RAID solution." Fweeky - "Really?"
True enough, maybe I should have been a little less emphatic, eh?:)
Out of curiousity, (not argument), since there are no "standard" RAID definitions above Raid-5, which particular manufacturer's RAID-10 were you referring to?
PP - raid 5 isn't fast, usually. Depends on the controller. If it supports parallel reads/writes it can be the fastest of all RAID configurations. (Otherwise it's the slowest:).
P - Until you have two drives fail. Well duh! That's true of any RAID solution. And while it does happen occasionally, I can say that it's pretty goddamn rare! I've been consulting for over ten years and out of many thousands of RAID configurations across numerous controllers/drives/etc I have seen exactly one case of honest-to-goodness simultaneous drive failure.
Now controller failures that trash the RAID are another matter entirely - seen that lots of times!:)
As with anything it just depends on the quality of the gear...
Interesting.
One of my larger clients handles about 12k per day of which a good 8-9k is spam. They have a Barracuda which gets about a dozen false positives a day (usually crude humor, chain letters etc.:). Dunno what the pass through rate for spam is though as the users don't usually mention it (ad hoc QA shows it to be very low though).
This is not your server [asahi-net.or.jp], and this is not your account on that server, either. [asahi-net.or.jp]
Granted, you never claimed that they were
So, what exactly is your point then? I should post a disclaimer?
Okay, here you go:
"As a long time slashdot user I know the effect a Slashdotting can have on some poor bastard's server. I sure as hell am not going to subject any of my machines to it so I'm asking for somebody else to step up and do the good deed before it's gone for good."
There, do you feel better now?:)
Oh, wait, I forgot: "these videos have been getting hammered by the entire nation of Japan" Augh! My psychic powers failed me again! Damn you for bringing back the painful memories of flunking out of Psych-101...! [sob]
My bad!:)
I figured the Slate article was a rehash included for bandwidth purposes and went straight for the "true word".
Of course now I've read the Slate article and see that she wrote it as well and it is indeed all about color (funny she didn't mention that at all in the post on her site).
However, many people who see a movie will read the book just to see what got left out. This could be a good thing! I'm sure there's a segment of the population that would either be turned off by the presence of color or read negative reviews because of it.
This way some of them will see the movie, read the books and, as she put it "get into Ged's skin" before discovering that he's not a "lily". (She does have a way with words, I've always loved that series).
couldn't help but notice that 90% of her complaints were about the fact that they changed the story into all white people
Um, I think you must have read a different article/post/something/WTF? She doesn't say anything like that at all!
Here's a copy of what she posted. You show me where she says anything like that:
"Earthsea" 11/13/2004
"Miss Le Guin was not involved in the development of the material or the making of the film, but we've been very, very honest to the books," explains director Rob Lieberman. "We've tried to capture all the levels of spiritualism, emotional content and metaphorical messages. Throughout the whole piece, I saw it as having a great duality of spirituality versus paganism and wizardry, male and female duality. The final moments of the film culminate in the union of all that and represent two different belief systems in this world, and that's what Ursula intended to make a statement about. The only thing that saves this Earthsea universe is the union of those two beliefs." Sci Fi Magazine, December 2004
I've tried very hard to keep from saying anything at all about this production, being well aware that movies must differ in many ways from the books they're based on, and feeling that I really had no business talking about it, since I was not included in planning it and was given no part in discussions or decisions.
That makes it particularly galling of the director to put words in my mouth.
Mr Lieberman has every right to say what his intentions were in making the film he directed, called "Earthsea." He has no right at all to state what I intended in writing the Earthsea books.
Had "Miss Le Guin" been honestly asked to be involved in the planning of the film, she might have discussed with the film-makers what the books are about.
When I tried to suggest the unwisdom of making radical changes to characters, events, and relationships which have been familiar to hundreds of thousands of readers all over the world for over thirty years, I was sent a copy of the script and informed that production was already under way.
So, for the record: there is no statement in the books, nor did I ever intend to make a statement, about "the union of two belief systems." There's nothing at all about the "duality of spirituality and paganism," whatever that means, either.
Earlier in the article, Robert Halmi is quoted as saying that Earthsea "has people who believe and people who do not believe." I can only admire Mr Halmi's imagination, but I wish he'd left mine alone.
In the books, the wizardry of the Archipelago and the ritualism of the Kargs are opposed and united, like the yang and yin. The rejoining of the broken arm-ring is a symbol of the restoration of an unresting, active balance, offering a risky chance of peace.
This has absolutely nothing to do with "people who believe and people who do not believe." That terrible division into Believers and Unbelievers (itself a matter not of reason but of belief) is one which bedevils Christianity and Islam and drives their wars.
But the wizards of Earthsea would look on such wars as madness, and the dragons of Earthsea would laugh at them and fly away...
Toto, something tells me Earthsea isn't Iraq.
I wonder if the people who made the film of The Lord of the Rings had ended it with Frodo putting on the Ring and ruling happily ever after, and then claimed that that was what Tolkien "intended..." would people think they'd been "very, very honest to the books"?
simple form entry and data retrieval tasks could be handled by Zope with the appropriate Zope extensions
That's what I thought until I tried to research that possibility and discovered there's about a zillion of 'em and 99% are half-baked crap.
I think Zope is awesome but I don't have the time to roll my own billing front-end from scratch or finish (re)writing somebody else's.
If you have any recommendations for specific extensions please post 'em!
Coolness! I have a working implementation of Compiere right now but I still find it rather cumbersome and very difficult to customise. (Not impossible, but a *%^&^% PITA).
I will definitely have to check this out!
I dunno anything about BlackBoard but all of these problems sound like database indexing issues. What does it use for a back end?
Anybody know of any cleanup utilities that can/should be run periodically?
It only works if you open the link from their site. So yeah, if they control the session they can do what they want, OMGWTFBBQ duh!
Easy test to prove this: 1 - Open CitiBank with their link and be horrified. 2 - Now, leaving their windows open, open a new browser window and go to exactly the same URL, and hey presto - it doesn't work!
So yeah, it's a cute trick, but I wouldn't be wetting my pants over it...
I meant redundant web hosts as in having your site hosted at more than one compant.
Dunno about the parent but I have a couple clients that do that right now.
The commonality is they all have federal industry regulations mandating a maximum of 4 hours downtime (which is impossible for one company to truly deliver in the real world).
It's no big deal really. Just two bills every month instead of one and a few extra steps when doing site updates.
According to ICRC estimates, the total dead in the war in Iraq since March 2003, military and civilian, is between 9,400 and 11,800.
I dunno about all the rest but this caught my eye.
I've been reading estimates in the news of the Iraqi civilian death-toll being over 100,000.
So, while we're on the topic, do you have anything to back these statements up?
Barracuda Networks makes a pretty good "pretty box" that satisfies the PHBs while retaining OSS goodness. And a damn sight better than the products in the review!
(I know, I had to evaluate them all recently! Grr... Told 'em OSS was the way to go...)
Slashdot Mirror
5. Browse-alicious extensions!! :)
If someone wants to run IE, let em. Some people still smoke too despite all the evidence of health problems, huge cost, etc.
This analogy is unfortunately all too accurate. Not only does the rest of the insured/tax-paying population have to shoulder the health-care costs of smokers so too does the rest of the Internet-using population have to shoulder the cost of spams/viruses/wasted bandwidth etc. perpetuated by IE users.
Me - "Well duh! That's true of any RAID solution."
:)
Fweeky - "Really?"
True enough, maybe I should have been a little less emphatic, eh?
Out of curiousity, (not argument), since there are no "standard" RAID definitions above Raid-5, which particular manufacturer's RAID-10 were you referring to?
PP - raid 5 isn't fast, usually. :).
:)
Depends on the controller. If it supports parallel reads/writes it can be the fastest of all RAID configurations. (Otherwise it's the slowest
P - Until you have two drives fail.
Well duh! That's true of any RAID solution. And while it does happen occasionally, I can say that it's pretty goddamn rare! I've been consulting for over ten years and out of many thousands of RAID configurations across numerous controllers/drives/etc I have seen exactly one case of honest-to-goodness simultaneous drive failure.
Now controller failures that trash the RAID are another matter entirely - seen that lots of times!
As with anything it just depends on the quality of the gear...
Interesting. :). Dunno what the pass through rate for spam is though as the users don't usually mention it (ad hoc QA shows it to be very low though).
One of my larger clients handles about 12k per day of which a good 8-9k is spam. They have a Barracuda which gets about a dozen false positives a day (usually crude humor, chain letters etc.
Their 600, for example, claims it can process "25 million messages per day" but that assumes it is rejecting 95% of the mail
Out of curiousity, what's your mail volume and what percentage of that is legit?
This is not your server [asahi-net.or.jp], and this is not your account on that server, either. [asahi-net.or.jp]
:)
:p
Granted, you never claimed that they were
So, what exactly is your point then? I should post a disclaimer?
Okay, here you go:
"As a long time slashdot user I know the effect a Slashdotting can have on some poor bastard's server. I sure as hell am not going to subject any of my machines to it so I'm asking for somebody else to step up and do the good deed before it's gone for good."
There, do you feel better now?
Oh, wait, I forgot: "these videos have been getting hammered by the entire nation of Japan" Augh! My psychic powers failed me again! Damn you for bringing back the painful memories of flunking out of Psych-101...! [sob]
UMD Guillotine o' Death
Now if somebody with more bandwidth than me wants to mirror it... Pretty please!
Yes, the rest of us read the Slate article
:)
My bad!
I figured the Slate article was a rehash included for bandwidth purposes and went straight for the "true word".
Of course now I've read the Slate article and see that she wrote it as well and it is indeed all about color (funny she didn't mention that at all in the post on her site).
However, many people who see a movie will read the book just to see what got left out. This could be a good thing! I'm sure there's a segment of the population that would either be turned off by the presence of color or read negative reviews because of it.
This way some of them will see the movie, read the books and, as she put it "get into Ged's skin" before discovering that he's not a "lily". (She does have a way with words, I've always loved that series).
couldn't help but notice that 90% of her complaints were about the fact that they changed the story into all white people
Um, I think you must have read a different article/post/something/WTF? She doesn't say anything like that at all!
Here's a copy of what she posted. You show me where she says anything like that:
"Earthsea"
11/13/2004
"Miss Le Guin was not involved in the development of the material or the making of the film, but we've been very, very honest to the books," explains director Rob Lieberman. "We've tried to capture all the levels of spiritualism, emotional content and metaphorical messages. Throughout the whole piece, I saw it as having a great duality of spirituality versus paganism and wizardry, male and female duality. The final moments of the film culminate in the union of all that and represent two different belief systems in this world, and that's what Ursula intended to make a statement about. The only thing that saves this Earthsea universe is the union of those two beliefs." Sci Fi Magazine, December 2004
I've tried very hard to keep from saying anything at all about this production, being well aware that movies must differ in many ways from the books they're based on, and feeling that I really had no business talking about it, since I was not included in planning it and was given no part in discussions or decisions.
That makes it particularly galling of the director to put words in my mouth.
Mr Lieberman has every right to say what his intentions were in making the film he directed, called "Earthsea." He has no right at all to state what I intended in writing the Earthsea books.
Had "Miss Le Guin" been honestly asked to be involved in the planning of the film, she might have discussed with the film-makers what the books are about.
When I tried to suggest the unwisdom of making radical changes to characters, events, and relationships which have been familiar to hundreds of thousands of readers all over the world for over thirty years, I was sent a copy of the script and informed that production was already under way.
So, for the record: there is no statement in the books, nor did I ever intend to make a statement, about "the union of two belief systems." There's nothing at all about the "duality of spirituality and paganism," whatever that means, either.
Earlier in the article, Robert Halmi is quoted as saying that Earthsea "has people who believe and people who do not believe." I can only admire Mr Halmi's imagination, but I wish he'd left mine alone.
In the books, the wizardry of the Archipelago and the ritualism of the Kargs are opposed and united, like the yang and yin. The rejoining of the broken arm-ring is a symbol of the restoration of an unresting, active balance, offering a risky chance of peace.
This has absolutely nothing to do with "people who believe and people who do not believe." That terrible division into Believers and Unbelievers (itself a matter not of reason but of belief) is one which bedevils Christianity and Islam and drives their wars.
But the wizards of Earthsea would look on such wars as madness, and the dragons of Earthsea would laugh at them and fly away...
Toto, something tells me Earthsea isn't Iraq.
I wonder if the people who made the film of The Lord of the Rings had ended it with Frodo putting on the Ring and ruling happily ever after, and then claimed that that was what Tolkien "intended..." would people think they'd been "very, very honest to the books"?
Ursula K. Le Guin
13 November 2004
simple form entry and data retrieval tasks could be handled by Zope with the appropriate Zope extensions
That's what I thought until I tried to research that possibility and discovered there's about a zillion of 'em and 99% are half-baked crap.
I think Zope is awesome but I don't have the time to roll my own billing front-end from scratch or finish (re)writing somebody else's.
If you have any recommendations for specific extensions please post 'em!
So he's supposed to hire a consultant in order to avoid paying the MS tax? That will be a big money-saver!
He'll need a consultant for the MS stuff anyway, why not save a few bucks and security/support headaches down the road and go OSS in the first place?
Coolness! I have a working implementation of Compiere right now but I still find it rather cumbersome and very difficult to customise. (Not impossible, but a *%^&^% PITA).
I will definitely have to check this out!
I said, "Ya know, I don't see why quicksand would need water anyway.
You are correct. In fact this phenomenon does occur naturally (though durned if I can find a good reference in Google, grr).
how do you run JS code w/o a browser?
I second this question!
I'm also wondering why the heck the original post that started this whole thread has been modded Flamebait?
I dunno anything about BlackBoard but all of these problems sound like database indexing issues. What does it use for a back end?
Anybody know of any cleanup utilities that can/should be run periodically?
Send out a phishing expedition
So how is that (effectively) any different from a URL spoof?
I'll say it again, if the bad guys control the session you're screwed anyway...
And here's why:
It only works if you open the link from their site. So yeah, if they control the session they can do what they want, OMGWTFBBQ duh!
Easy test to prove this:
1 - Open CitiBank with their link and be horrified.
2 - Now, leaving their windows open, open a new browser window and go to exactly the same URL, and hey presto - it doesn't work!
So yeah, it's a cute trick, but I wouldn't be wetting my pants over it...
Sig: Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
By definition half the population is of below average intelligence...
ROFL!! Mod parent Funny/Insightful!!!!
I meant redundant web hosts as in having your site hosted at more than one compant.
Dunno about the parent but I have a couple clients that do that right now.
The commonality is they all have federal industry regulations mandating a maximum of 4 hours downtime (which is impossible for one company to truly deliver in the real world).
It's no big deal really. Just two bills every month instead of one and a few extra steps when doing site updates.
According to ICRC estimates, the total dead in the war in Iraq since March 2003, military and civilian, is between 9,400 and 11,800.
I dunno about all the rest but this caught my eye.
I've been reading estimates in the news of the Iraqi civilian death-toll being over 100,000.
So, while we're on the topic, do you have anything to back these statements up?
Barracuda Networks makes a pretty good "pretty box" that satisfies the PHBs while retaining OSS goodness. And a damn sight better than the products in the review!
(I know, I had to evaluate them all recently! Grr... Told 'em OSS was the way to go...)
Professional photographers
...
:)
a) don't have time
b) don't have time
kthxbye
Er, you wouldn't happen to be a Professional photographer, would you?
My understanding is that the US will not tolerate you becoming a dual-citizen
Two points:
1 - when that was the case it was easy enough to get around by simply not renouncing it (they couldn't legally force you to)
2 - as of 4 or 5 years ago they realised how stupid it was to have an un-enforceable law and got rid of it completely