While I agree with your post, I don't have a GigE NIC in any of my PC's, and the 1394 cable only cost me 25. With firewire becoming ubiquitous in new machines, it seemed interesting to point this out.
Just earlier today I bought a FireWire 6-to-6 pins cable to plug two of my PC's back-to-back, since they're otherwise on different VLANs (one on VPN to work ond one directly on the ADSL link for personal stuff). That worked really nicely, and I'm now experiencing the joy of transfering stuff 4x faster than FastEthernet between the two machines. Cost of the cable: 25 EUR.
video size is said by researchers in most video conferences in the field that is going to be reduced at most 100% in the next 10 years.
So: infinite compression, no content ?;)
On the serious side, the movies play just right on a AthlonXP 2.2+. There were a couple of times where the video stalled for a second but this could be due to other factors that the OS had to take care of, perhaps coward disk activity or rebellious network packets.
Fools, you do not realize tha the technology described in the RFC has previous-art, and that a certain company has patented it already ???
Yet it was obvious from the description:
The bit field is laid out as follows:
0
+-+
|E|
+-+
Currently-assigned values are defined as follows:
0x0 (snip)
0x1
The press release is pretty clear: "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
More terrifying are the implications, if you keep reading: "Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and zero, Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all mathematics and logic systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys and levers, gravity, and the basic Newtonian principles of motion, as well as the concepts of existence and nonexistence," Yale University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund Lattimore said. "In other words, pretty much everything."
After all, these guys invented the Internet, right ?
I have Apache 2.0 and MySQL 4.0 configured as services. Then upon logon, Mozilla 1.3 loads itself in memory. I often had to wait up to one full minute after system boot and user logon, for the networking subsystem to get started !!! This meant no Internet access until one minute after logon - not acceptable. With the hotfix applied, boot is faster (as in pre-SP1) and there was a sizeable difference in programs load time.
Any network monitoring applet docked to your environment will do for real-time stuff, but for historical logs you should consider keeping MRTG logs as well. MRTG works with *everything* and the log file format it uses doesn't grow over time (magic!)
For your firewalling needs, Smoothwall fits on a single floppy (or it used to anyway:)
And a few years ago, it was still possible to install Slackware on a 486 w/ 8 MB of RAM and 40 MB hard drive, including the development tools such as gcc. Arguably there wasn't left space to be of any real use, but that was more of an exercise to the reader!!
Slack is the distro for those who want to learn. I was a total newbie when they unleashed SLS on me in '94 (SLS was the precursor to Slackware). SLS and Slackware were the two only distros where I really learned the stuff.
So in a sense, yes Slackware is for the newbie, but no it won't hold your hand: you have to walk the path yourself.
My personal favourite is the Linux Gazette, but there are others (too lazy to reahch for bookmarks now;). Don't overlook past issues even if they are pretty old, because some of the tricks discussed haven't changed much over the years (like motd, rdev, tcsh etc.), but of course some of it is to be viewed from a historical point of view =)
The article was a great informative piece, and their conclusion was interesting:
Conclusions
1. E-mail addresses harvested from the public Web are frequently used by
spammers. By an overwhelming margin, the greatest amount of spam we
received was to addresses posted on the public Web.
They have forgotten to mention the very mailto: tag in their research. IMHO this might have been a crucial factor to their research.
Although on the majority of web pages you have the mailto: link to be the same as your email address (duh), for research purpose it would have been interesting to separate the visible email address and the one in the mailto: tag. I am confident that whatever is in the mailto: link is what attracts spiders, and the email address displayed on the page gets less.
Can someone with knowlege of harvesting get back to us and tell me if this assumption is correct ? Better yet, does someone has any data ?
For 11 million pounds (or even dollars) I would stuff myself with painkillers, keep my mouth shut about the pain and pocket the money ! What's the big deal ? =)
The article reminds me of this particular piece, somewhat old I agree (2000). Follow some extracts.
There are very good reasons for using MySQL. A need for a reliable, ACID-compliant datastore isn't one of them.
A Few More Details
MySQL has no subqueries.
Instead of performing one complex query that is entirely processed on
the database end, MySQL users have to perform 2 or more serial queries
that each must go over inter-process or network communication between
the app and the database. This significantly reduces the speed
advantages of MySQL.
MySQL has no stored procedures.
If a series of DB actions need to be performed in a block, MySQL
requires each SQL statement to be sent from the app, again in a serial
manner, again over IPC or network.
MySQL has no triggers or foreign key constraints.
Data invariants must be maintained by application-level code, which
requires building carefully-planned abstractions to guarantee
integrity (for every means of accessing your DB), and even more
unnecessary back-and-forth communication between the app and the
database.
MySQL only has table-level locking.
Only one user can write to a table at the same time. For web usage,
that falls under the category of "pathetic."
The Bottom Line:
MySQL is just a glorified filesystem with a SQL interface.
Slashdot must be a raising power since this article is listed right now on the front page of Google News, as well as 4 related. I've saved a screenshot for posterity. Kudos;)
Slashdot Mirror
Haha, yeah right, so we're all here NOW and we want to see !!! Can we please. Can we now ? What ? ;)
This story was already posted 2 weeks ago.
Check what these guys do.
This is news for nerds. Show us hardware, and we'll find things to do with it !
Just earlier today I bought a FireWire 6-to-6 pins cable to plug two of my PC's back-to-back, since they're otherwise on different VLANs (one on VPN to work ond one directly on the ADSL link for personal stuff). That worked really nicely, and I'm now experiencing the joy of transfering stuff 4x faster than FastEthernet between the two machines. Cost of the cable: 25 EUR.
you forgot to blame france..
So: infinite compression, no content ? ;)
On the serious side, the movies play just right on a AthlonXP 2.2+. There were a couple of times where the video stalled for a second but this could be due to other factors that the OS had to take care of, perhaps coward disk activity or rebellious network packets.
LOL !!!!!!!!!
If Slashdot had any value between 0 and 1, your post alone had made it worthwhile for me today =)
Yet it was obvious from the description:
The bit field is laid out as follows:
0
+-+
|E|
+-+
Currently-assigned values are defined as follows:
0x0 (snip)
0x1
The press release is pretty clear: "For years, in the interest of the overall health of the computer industry, we permitted the free and unfettered use of our proprietary numeric systems. However, changing marketplace conditions and the increasingly predatory practices of certain competitors now leave us with no choice but to seek compensation for the use of our numerals."
More terrifying are the implications, if you keep reading: "Because all integers and natural numbers derive from one and zero, Microsoft may, by extension, lay claim to ownership of all mathematics and logic systems, including Euclidean geometry, pulleys and levers, gravity, and the basic Newtonian principles of motion, as well as the concepts of existence and nonexistence," Yale University theoretical mathematics professor J. Edmund Lattimore said. "In other words, pretty much everything."
After all, these guys invented the Internet, right ?
In other news, Duke Nukem Forever actually released !
Hello.... Hello ???? Anyone ?
After all the talks about this long-waited-for event, why is this story not on the front page today ?
did someone call my name ? ;)
The server has got great bandwidth too, considering the deeplink to the file right on the front page (I got 300KB/s).
KiSS Technology DP-450 and DP-500. There are even efforts underway to dezone the 450 and 500.
I have Apache 2.0 and MySQL 4.0 configured as services. Then upon logon, Mozilla 1.3 loads itself in memory. I often had to wait up to one full minute after system boot and user logon, for the networking subsystem to get started !!! This meant no Internet access until one minute after logon - not acceptable. With the hotfix applied, boot is faster (as in pre-SP1) and there was a sizeable difference in programs load time.
(Basically, what's in it for me ?)
Any network monitoring applet docked to your environment will do for real-time stuff, but for historical logs you should consider keeping MRTG logs as well. MRTG works with *everything* and the log file format it uses doesn't grow over time (magic!)
There was never a SLS CD that I can remember of. At the time, even a *CD-rom drive* was a luxury :)
The distro was designed to fit on multiple floppies. You can grab a copy from here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/distribu tions/sls/
And a few years ago, it was still possible to install Slackware on a 486 w/ 8 MB of RAM and 40 MB hard drive, including the development tools such as gcc. Arguably there wasn't left space to be of any real use, but that was more of an exercise to the reader!!
So in a sense, yes Slackware is for the newbie, but no it won't hold your hand: you have to walk the path yourself.
My personal favourite is the Linux Gazette, but there are others (too lazy to reahch for bookmarks now ;). Don't overlook past issues even if they are pretty old, because some of the tricks discussed haven't changed much over the years (like motd, rdev, tcsh etc.), but of course some of it is to be viewed from a historical point of view =)
1. E-mail addresses harvested from the public Web are frequently used by spammers. By an overwhelming margin, the greatest amount of spam we received was to addresses posted on the public Web.
They have forgotten to mention the very mailto: tag in their research. IMHO this might have been a crucial factor to their research.
Although on the majority of web pages you have the mailto: link to be the same as your email address (duh), for research purpose it would have been interesting to separate the visible email address and the one in the mailto: tag. I am confident that whatever is in the mailto: link is what attracts spiders, and the email address displayed on the page gets less.
Can someone with knowlege of harvesting get back to us and tell me if this assumption is correct ? Better yet, does someone has any data ?
For 11 million pounds (or even dollars) I would stuff myself with painkillers, keep my mouth shut about the pain and pocket the money ! What's the big deal ? =)
There are very good reasons for using MySQL. A need for a reliable, ACID-compliant datastore isn't one of them.
A Few More Details
Instead of performing one complex query that is entirely processed on the database end, MySQL users have to perform 2 or more serial queries that each must go over inter-process or network communication between the app and the database. This significantly reduces the speed advantages of MySQL.
If a series of DB actions need to be performed in a block, MySQL requires each SQL statement to be sent from the app, again in a serial manner, again over IPC or network.
Data invariants must be maintained by application-level code, which requires building carefully-planned abstractions to guarantee integrity (for every means of accessing your DB), and even more unnecessary back-and-forth communication between the app and the database.
Only one user can write to a table at the same time. For web usage, that falls under the category of "pathetic."
The Bottom Line: MySQL is just a glorified filesystem with a SQL interface.
Slashdot must be a raising power since this article is listed right now on the front page of Google News, as well as 4 related. I've saved a screenshot for posterity. Kudos ;)