Check out Xcom Global - http://www.xcomglobal.com/ They offer a MiFi mobile hotspot for just about any country at $15/day. Unlimited data. I use it every time I travel outside the US. Canada has excellent data coverage.
Check out qmailrocks.org for a fantastic full featured mail server install based around Qmail. Support for database users and ldap are options, and it includes spam filtering, web mail, and even an admin web interface. The website walks you through every single little step, and has paths for various linux flavours plus the BSD's and even Solaris.
In terms of scalability you're going to want to star with some honkin' hardware. You will also need to seperate the sending (SMTP) servers from the receiving servers and the mail storage servers, in order to distribute your load. qmail.org has a ton of info as well about the Qmail system.
Has anyone noticed that when you zoom all the way into Google Moon past the resolution of their images, it goes to a swiss-cheese background? I love these guys... finally a big name company that isn't afraid to have a sense of humor!!! I haven't yet found the man on the moon, but I'm sure it's somewhere on that site!
Sorry, but I can't feel bad for spammers (or sites that support them) who get DDoS'ed. They make their $ by annoying millions in the hopes that hundreds will be gullible enough to buy their crap. What goes around comes around... and I fully support the use of DDoS attacks against these loosers.
Furthermore.. the repeated HTTP requets should include in their USER_AGENT header the following so it shows up in the logs ("LOOKS_LIKE_YOUR_WEB_SERVER_NEEDS_SOME_V1aGrA")
I live in Canada, where the costs of car insurance have risen dramatically over the last few years. I drive a 12 year old car, have a perfect driving record and am over 25. I didn't even ensure it for collision (which is the most expensive part of the premium). And still, I pay over $2000/year for insurance.
Basically i'm willing to sell my soul to the devil for cheaper insurance. If the devil wants me to drive with a black box, then so be it.
Give Iperf a try. I used it for benchmarking my home gigabit LAN. It's got multiple versions available for many platforms (as well as source code). It generates data and sends it, not requiring any hard drive access thereby taking drive speed out of the equasion. This blog site also has some more info.
A year and a half ago, I was (like many other computer type people) a slave to my glasses and contacts. I had myopia (near-signtedness) as well as astigmatism. To put it bluntly I couldn't see $*@#@ without corrective lenses. So I decided to take the plunge and investigate Laser surgery. I settled on Lasik MDs in Canada (where I live). I checked out a few other places, but they didn't really offer anything justifying their much higher cost.
They put me though hours of tests to determine if I would be an optimal candidate for the treatment. I know at least 2 people who have tried and been turned down by them because of various reasons. They're actually not willing to even try it on you if they think there might be any complications.
I had the surgery, which cost me just over $2000CDN. It took about 7 minutes. When I sat up on the table, it was pretty incredible, things were a little hazy, but I could see clearly! It only got better from there. I took a few days off work (and wore dumb old-guy-in-a-caddy type sunglasses), and rested. I ended up with 20/15 (better than normal) vision. I'm perfectly comfortable looking at a 19" monitor at 1600x1200 from a distance of 4-5 feet. Night vision is great too. I've recomended it to a few people already. It is perhaps the most life changing experience I've ever had. Seriously, go for it!
I suggest coming up to Canada to have it done. It's very cost-effective with the exchange rate, and the technology is top-notch.
What they're doing looks similar to what Bell Canada is doing in some of their downtown markets. Bell Canada has been rolling out VDSL services by installing hardware into condos in Toronto. They aren't using this to give people superfast broadband though (I mean beyond the 4mbps they already have available), but instead to offer their version of Digital TV to compete with the likes of Rogers Cable. Bell is eventually migrating away from their sattelite based ExpressVu service to an ExpressVu service based on VDSL. Check out Bell's ExpressVu site, and also another site with info.
Most people who browse websites are quite simply unaware that their computer even contains a concept called Idle CPU Cycles, or that there is any way to get a CPU % reading from their computer. Besides, not everyone is so miserly with their CPU time. Most users also have a short attention span.
If the user, whose browser visits such a website that opens up a number crunching applet, notices that their whole computer just became slower, then they'll leave the website. And the applet will be alive for less time. Therefore successful applet projects that are accepted and deployed by various webmasters, which want to obtain the most results would make sure that the applet is as unobtrusive as possible. Otherwise the user will browse away from the page (and or close the browser window all together), and the applet's lifespan will be short.
All you File Sharers come to Canada, like the previous generation of Draft Dodgers did during the Vietnam war. In Canada you're safe from the RIAA. You can stand on our side of the border and send them all the nasty "you can't catch me" e-mails you want. Not to mention, that we pay a levy on every CD-R we buy that goes back to the record companies, so it can technically be argued that copying CDs is LEGAL. Plus smoke some pot when we soon make it legal too! Did I mention the other benefits, like free health care, cheap broadband, and a $1.38 exchange rate!
Ok, it gets cold in the winter, but big deal, sit around in front of your computer on Kazaa Lite the entire time, downloading away!!!
Yes, she saw her sales go way up. Why? Cause she just got a bunch of FREE PUBLICITY. Publicity is the cornerstone of marketing.
How do record companies make money? Off their Big Ticket artists (the Britney's, N'Syncs etc.). The other 90% of their artists don't really sell enough albums to make any money.
Those Big Ticket artists have major publicity partly because the public loves them, but mostly because their record companies see them as worth spending millions of dollars a year on marketing. Record companies BUY them publicity, by promoting the heck out of them. In general, the public isn't that picky. They tend to buy who's ever getting a lot of publicity. Look at Jimmy Ray. Here was some looser with a crappy album, BUT his record company decided to promote him like crazy (calling him the Next Elvis and crap like that, cause he had nice hair or something). Even though his songs were terrible and he only had one half-decent single, this guy sold tons of records.
Ok, so what am I getting at? Bottom Line. Record Companies make $$$ on 10% of their acts, loose $ on the other 90%. They only keep these 90% around, cause they gamble on some of them eventually becoming part of the 10%. They know full well that mp3's and online music (cause they provide good free publicity) will really help out those 90% of acts that don't make much money. But they're scared to death that mp3's will EAT into the sales of their 10% money maker artists. Which they clearly do! (In short, record sales are all about supply and demand. Having mp3's around increases vastly the supply of those major artists cause so many people have their CD's in the first place to rip and mp3 them, making vast supplies of those mp3s. So mp3 trading satisfies some of the demand for those records that would have gone to CD sales.)
For that reason alone, they're way too scared not to attack online music trading with everything they've got. They're trying to protect their golden eggs.
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The US Government is releasing it's "convincing evidence" on Iraq's possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Reading from the report is US Special Consultant and former Vice President Dan Quayle.
"The US is proud to release conclusive information on Iraq's development of Weapons of Mass Destruction. These weapons in question are Potatoe Guns..... We also believe Iraq is engaged in the development of Nuclear Potatoes. As such, US warships will be confiscating all shipments of Potatoes destined for Iraq, as well as shipments of hairspray. We will also be putting forth a UN security resolution forbidding Iraq to posses piping of any kind."
Since until now JUnit really was the only game in town for java test-writing, I'm so impressed to see these guys put out something that's still compatible with it!! Even if it was frustration with JUnit that gave them the inspiration. All of us have a bunch of JUnit tests for our code (ok, well SOME of us do), and it's nice to have the option to try out another framework without having to refactor our tests.
Really, in the world of open source, and free software way too little attention is paid to compatibility. Why not be compatible with your "competition"? It's not like you're competing for customers or market share, or any of that crap. We're all on the same team!
Just self-sign a certificate. Truly, if it's not signed by some big name registrar, most internet users (IE of course) will get messages notifying them that it's not a "trusted" certificate anyways.
I remember reading that original article, and yes, I was impressed at the responsiveness of the server. But before they are congratulated so much, consider this. The original story was posted on slashdot at 1AM.. so the initial spike of activity resulting from the linking being in the top few on Slashdot was directly proportional to the number of people on Slashdot at the time. As you can see from their graphs (if they're showing up for you) that traffic spiked, then continued on during the day.
This time around, the link got posted at 2PM not 1AM, and so far as I can see, they handle this flurry of hits much less gracefully than the previous ones! There are a lot more people online at 2PM than 1AM (all arguments of nocturnal nighthawks and people in other time zones aside).
Slashdot Mirror
Check out Xcom Global - http://www.xcomglobal.com/ They offer a MiFi mobile hotspot for just about any country at $15/day. Unlimited data. I use it every time I travel outside the US. Canada has excellent data coverage.
I'm hoping the Hot Coffee style mod will let you play a fun spanking game with the ping pong paddles and the girls ;)
Check out qmailrocks.org for a fantastic full featured mail server install based around Qmail. Support for database users and ldap are options, and it includes spam filtering, web mail, and even an admin web interface. The website walks you through every single little step, and has paths for various linux flavours plus the BSD's and even Solaris.
In terms of scalability you're going to want to star with some honkin' hardware. You will also need to seperate the sending (SMTP) servers from the receiving servers and the mail storage servers, in order to distribute your load. qmail.org has a ton of info as well about the Qmail system.
Has anyone noticed that when you zoom all the way into Google Moon past the resolution of their images, it goes to a swiss-cheese background? I love these guys... finally a big name company that isn't afraid to have a sense of humor!!! I haven't yet found the man on the moon, but I'm sure it's somewhere on that site!
Sorry, but I can't feel bad for spammers (or sites that support them) who get DDoS'ed. They make their $ by annoying millions in the hopes that hundreds will be gullible enough to buy their crap. What goes around comes around... and I fully support the use of DDoS attacks against these loosers.
Furthermore.. the repeated HTTP requets should include in their USER_AGENT header the following so it shows up in the logs ("LOOKS_LIKE_YOUR_WEB_SERVER_NEEDS_SOME_V1aGrA")
I'd say the Itanium is getting a bit of respect in the highly available/high performance arena, with the HP/Tandem NonStop Platform moving to Itanium
There will always be people who hold on to their love for CRTs, just like there will always be those chubby chasers who have a fetish for fat people.
Naked Networks perhaps...
I live in Canada, where the costs of car insurance have risen dramatically over the last few years. I drive a 12 year old car, have a perfect driving record and am over 25. I didn't even ensure it for collision (which is the most expensive part of the premium). And still, I pay over $2000/year for insurance.
Basically i'm willing to sell my soul to the devil for cheaper insurance. If the devil wants me to drive with a black box, then so be it.
Give Iperf a try. I used it for benchmarking my home gigabit LAN. It's got multiple versions available for many platforms (as well as source code). It generates data and sends it, not requiring any hard drive access thereby taking drive speed out of the equasion. This blog site also has some more info.
Steve Jobs gets a cancer so rare it shows up in 1% of cancer cases. Making it just rarer than the OS he runs, which shows up in 2% of comptuers ;)
And yes, we know that Steve Ballmer already has the much more statistically prevalent; Brain Cancer
A year and a half ago, I was (like many other computer type people) a slave to my glasses and contacts. I had myopia (near-signtedness) as well as astigmatism. To put it bluntly I couldn't see $*@#@ without corrective lenses. So I decided to take the plunge and investigate Laser surgery. I settled on Lasik MDs in Canada (where I live). I checked out a few other places, but they didn't really offer anything justifying their much higher cost.
They put me though hours of tests to determine if I would be an optimal candidate for the treatment. I know at least 2 people who have tried and been turned down by them because of various reasons. They're actually not willing to even try it on you if they think there might be any complications.
I had the surgery, which cost me just over $2000CDN. It took about 7 minutes. When I sat up on the table, it was pretty incredible, things were a little hazy, but I could see clearly! It only got better from there. I took a few days off work (and wore dumb old-guy-in-a-caddy type sunglasses), and rested. I ended up with 20/15 (better than normal) vision. I'm perfectly comfortable looking at a 19" monitor at 1600x1200 from a distance of 4-5 feet. Night vision is great too. I've recomended it to a few people already. It is perhaps the most life changing experience I've ever had. Seriously, go for it!
I suggest coming up to Canada to have it done. It's very cost-effective with the exchange rate, and the technology is top-notch.
So if your new Hard Drive is made with cow protiens, will the interface be Cereal ATA ? ;)
And you're in luck, if you have a 3.2GHZ with HyperThreading and the latest NVidia 6800 video card, you MIGHT get 10fps ;)
Maybe this is their reply to piracy.. the people who can afford really really good computers can probably easily afford to blow $50 on the game!
Sources report the "sensitive customer data" included:
-Passenger's favorite brand of peanuts
-Success passenger had flirting stewardess
-Whether or not passenger washes hands after using washroom.
What they're doing looks similar to what Bell Canada is doing in some of their downtown markets. Bell Canada has been rolling out VDSL services by installing hardware into condos in Toronto. They aren't using this to give people superfast broadband though (I mean beyond the 4mbps they already have available), but instead to offer their version of Digital TV to compete with the likes of Rogers Cable. Bell is eventually migrating away from their sattelite based ExpressVu service to an ExpressVu service based on VDSL. Check out Bell's ExpressVu site, and also another site with info.
Most people who browse websites are quite simply unaware that their computer even contains a concept called Idle CPU Cycles, or that there is any way to get a CPU % reading from their computer. Besides, not everyone is so miserly with their CPU time. Most users also have a short attention span.
If the user, whose browser visits such a website that opens up a number crunching applet, notices that their whole computer just became slower, then they'll leave the website. And the applet will be alive for less time. Therefore successful applet projects that are accepted and deployed by various webmasters, which want to obtain the most results would make sure that the applet is as unobtrusive as possible. Otherwise the user will browse away from the page (and or close the browser window all together), and the applet's lifespan will be short.
All you File Sharers come to Canada, like the previous generation of Draft Dodgers did during the Vietnam war. In Canada you're safe from the RIAA. You can stand on our side of the border and send them all the nasty "you can't catch me" e-mails you want. Not to mention, that we pay a levy on every CD-R we buy that goes back to the record companies, so it can technically be argued that copying CDs is LEGAL. Plus smoke some pot when we soon make it legal too! Did I mention the other benefits, like free health care, cheap broadband, and a $1.38 exchange rate!
Ok, it gets cold in the winter, but big deal, sit around in front of your computer on Kazaa Lite the entire time, downloading away!!!
Don't forget that due to inflation in the year 2256, $350 million is probably minimum wage.
People using java: 4,000,000 .net: 2
People using
it doesn't need standards, it is the standard!
Yes, she saw her sales go way up. Why? Cause she just got a bunch of FREE PUBLICITY. Publicity is the cornerstone of marketing.
How do record companies make money? Off their Big Ticket artists (the Britney's, N'Syncs etc.). The other 90% of their artists don't really sell enough albums to make any money.
Those Big Ticket artists have major publicity partly because the public loves them, but mostly because their record companies see them as worth spending millions of dollars a year on marketing. Record companies BUY them publicity, by promoting the heck out of them. In general, the public isn't that picky. They tend to buy who's ever getting a lot of publicity. Look at Jimmy Ray. Here was some looser with a crappy album, BUT his record company decided to promote him like crazy (calling him the Next Elvis and crap like that, cause he had nice hair or something). Even though his songs were terrible and he only had one half-decent single, this guy sold tons of records.
Ok, so what am I getting at? Bottom Line. Record Companies make $$$ on 10% of their acts, loose $ on the other 90%. They only keep these 90% around, cause they gamble on some of them eventually becoming part of the 10%. They know full well that mp3's and online music (cause they provide good free publicity) will really help out those 90% of acts that don't make much money. But they're scared to death that mp3's will EAT into the sales of their 10% money maker artists. Which they clearly do! (In short, record sales are all about supply and demand. Having mp3's around increases vastly the supply of those major artists cause so many people have their CD's in the first place to rip and mp3 them, making vast supplies of those mp3s. So mp3 trading satisfies some of the demand for those records that would have gone to CD sales.)
For that reason alone, they're way too scared not to attack online music trading with everything they've got. They're trying to protect their golden eggs.
This just in:
The US Government is releasing it's "convincing evidence" on Iraq's possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Reading from the report is US Special Consultant and former Vice President Dan Quayle.
"The US is proud to release conclusive information on Iraq's development of Weapons of Mass Destruction. These weapons in question are Potatoe Guns..... We also believe Iraq is engaged in the development of Nuclear Potatoes. As such, US warships will be confiscating all shipments of Potatoes destined for Iraq, as well as shipments of hairspray. We will also be putting forth a UN security resolution forbidding Iraq to posses piping of any kind."
Since until now JUnit really was the only game in town for java test-writing, I'm so impressed to see these guys put out something that's still compatible with it!! Even if it was frustration with JUnit that gave them the inspiration. All of us have a bunch of JUnit tests for our code (ok, well SOME of us do), and it's nice to have the option to try out another framework without having to refactor our tests.
Really, in the world of open source, and free software way too little attention is paid to compatibility. Why not be compatible with your "competition"? It's not like you're competing for customers or market share, or any of that crap. We're all on the same team!
Just self-sign a certificate. Truly, if it's not signed by some big name registrar, most internet users (IE of course) will get messages notifying them that it's not a "trusted" certificate anyways.
I remember reading that original article, and yes, I was impressed at the responsiveness of the server. But before they are congratulated so much, consider this. The original story was posted on slashdot at 1AM.. so the initial spike of activity resulting from the linking being in the top few on Slashdot was directly proportional to the number of people on Slashdot at the time. As you can see from their graphs (if they're showing up for you) that traffic spiked, then continued on during the day.
This time around, the link got posted at 2PM not 1AM, and so far as I can see, they handle this flurry of hits much less gracefully than the previous ones! There are a lot more people online at 2PM than 1AM (all arguments of nocturnal nighthawks and people in other time zones aside).