I'm not sure what is wrong with you people who get overloaded.
You can register a new domain, and it will start getting spam within a week to common names such as "bob@, sally@, john@, etc.". Not all spam is because someone actually has a verified address, but because it is a common name used. We get tons of spam hit our mail server that is addressed to people that have never had an account on our domain, but is instead a common name.
Also, I just started getting spam on one biz account because I had been helping a customer, and it appears they got infected, and since I was in their address book, I got hit with them.
Yes, plenty of people are stupid enough to sign up for every newsletter on the web, but blaming someone with a common email name (or inferring that they are stupid, as you did in your post) who DIDN'T sign up for anything, isn't solving anything or adding to the conversation.
I guess I am old enough to remember the real TV dinners. Aluminum tray, aluminum wrap, always tiny meat pieces and some of the peas and carrots always get mixed with the apple "thing" they call dessert (lots of dough, some apple like gravy, and one apple wedge). They were either overcooked, or cold in the middle.
Seriously, I was in the military, the old C rations were better than TV dinners before the microwave became popular. At least you got a decent wedge of chocolate or a good cookie.
Back when I was a kid, we always held any mom who served TV dinners as suspect. Any mom who served them regularly was considered rather lazy or "low class" in the 60s/70s. You know, the single mother type, who we all knew must be a bad person or she would have a man around.... the times, how they change.
I just installed SUSE 9.1, and NOT on a dual Opteron (amd2500+). Flash is auto installed on the box using Mozilla. Obviously, it will run on less of a machine, not just shiney new dual Opterons. Spend less time crying and more time just downloading and installing it for your distro of choice.
Just because a program is not GPL, doesn't make it bad. Really.
My "lowly" dialup is an ADSL connection that does better than T1 speeds.
In theory. In the locations I use, I have access to cable, adsl, sdsl and two different T1s. You *might* be able to download a large file faster on some ADSL lines, but there is a huge gap in performance in ADSL and T1 in every other way. Latency, reliability, sustained throughput, "jitter", etc. ADSL is ok, but other than the occasional 50mb+ download, its slower. Even on ISOs, a T1 will often be faster than a cable or adsl line rated twice the speed because the T1 can maintain the speed continuously.
I also ran game servers on all the different pipes. HUGE difference. There is a reason people pay $800+ for a T1 that is theoretically slower than your $50 adsl.
The primary problem with prostitution is the fact that it is illegal. If legalized, it could be regulated the same way you would any business that affects public health, be it a food server or medical institution. But so many hide behind the theory that prostitution is immoral, when their real goal is control.
I have always felt that the way to prevent pimps from turning innocent, unhappy girls into crackhead prostitutes is to legalize prostitution and allow women who would choose this profession to organize.
computergate.com has frames and racks for swapping drives for less than 10 bucks each for ata100. I have 12 of them, and swap out drives to try out every os i want to. good bargain.
I am forced to manage the network at the office, as we have no IT staff, so I am the part time IT staff. 25 clients, 6 servers. Fortunately, I am an old school nerd, so I have learned lots of helpful tips to reduce the workload.
1. If they complain about the speed of their system or internet connectivity, firewall their IP off the network for 2 to 3 days. When you release the lock out, they seem to think its a lot faster and don't complain anymore.
2. The easiest way to reduce errors and mistakes is to make a big deal out of every small problem. This way they are terrified to do anything except what they have to do in order to get the job done. No more wondering around the control panel, internet, etc.
3. If they ever install any program without your permission, then the computer probably needs to be pulled and bench tested. This should take 3 to 5 days. Complain about "spywear" and "viruses", and try to use lots of confusing terms with nano, giga and mega in them (then they will act like they understand, which is really funny). They will never install anything again.
Now, some may think I am being funny (it is, but I'm not). Some will think I am cruel. Some will think its a bad BOFH inpersonation. But if you get about 10 hours a week to keep with all this stuff, you would develop these methods as well.
I would safely assume that half of the users are no longer users, just prior users. You can probably assume that half of the remainder did a few units, and then installed some Natalie Portman screen saver instead (obligatory inside joke).
But if you do the math, 11000 work units is still a shit load of units, and I started just a month after the program began. I have it on a few servers, and about 25 work stations, although I initially ran it for years on just a couple boxes. Getting to 99% is slow. Getting each hundredth or thousanth point after than is even slower. Its not the only reason I do it (or the main reason). My main reason is to back up my belief that while it is a worthwhile project, it should NOT be govt. funded, and if its worthwhile, private citizens should chip in. This is my chipping in, over 15 years of equivelent CPU time donated. Save the Govt. dollars (read: my tax dollars) for cancer research and better roads. And even the occassional space probe.
That said, I can't wait to be in the top 15,000 (a few weeks to a few months away) so everyone will think I am uber133+;)
To be honest, the seti client is a terrible way to benchmark for several reasons. It used to not be, but it is as of version 3.0 or so.
Each bite takes a different amount of time to process. On the same computer, one could take 8 hours, another would quit the bite after 30 seconds and fetch another. If the particular sample you get one time has some high gaussians or such, it will report back, call it completed, and fetch another. Because of the new tests that came in since around 3.03, this is much more pronounced.
In order to use it as a benchmark, you have to use more than a few dozen processed units to compensate for this, and even then, its still not a very good benchmark.
I agree its fun to see my average change from 12 hours, to 4 hours (then 8 hours with the new tests) then back down again, but just know the time to calculate varies terribly from unit to unit. This from my experience, anyway. I didn't start participating in seti@home until almost June of 1999;)
Very close to 5 mil anyway: <brag> Results Received 11824 Total CPU Time 15.636 years Average CPU Time per work unit 11 hr 35 min 02.1 sec Average results received per day 6.55 Last result returned: Fri May 21 19:44:56 2004 UTC Registered on: Sun Jun 13 01:37:11 1999 UTC SETI@home user for: 4.945 years Your rank out of 5001324 total users is: 15035th place. You have completed more work units than 99.699% of our users. </brag>
So some of us 5 million are more equal than others;)
What we really need is some way of convincing him he doesn't need them.
Doesn't work that way. You are suggesting we educate the entire world. As someone who has been in marketing for 20 years, I can promise you that you can't educate the whole world. (You CAN make a good living out of giving them what they think they want, however.)
If you want to stop a commercial activity (legal or otherwise), you have to remove the profit from it. This is just economics 101. This is done with taxation, regulation, prohibition all the time with limited success, but its still better than trying to convince 3 billion people speaking 240 languages that pills won't make their wang bigger. The pills are not the problem, its the method of advertising that is.
This is an interesting route to go about getting rid of spyware, attacking its source of income instead of the manufacturer."
That is an understatement. The only reason most of these spywear companies exist...is to make profit. Go after their source of profit. Same with spam. Take the profit out of it, and there is no reason for it to exist, or more realistically, it simply becomes too expensive a media to use. The reason it exists now is because of how cheap it is.
Asprin. When ever you get the urge to have sex, place one asprin between your knees and hold it there until the urge passes. Repeat as necessary.
Re:DRM doesn't happen at the codec level
on
XVID 1.0 Released
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Ok, good point. I still wonder about how popular a codec can be if its not used commercially. This may not be the goal of the authors, but it does influence whether the format is cross platform or not. I can see movie distributors, microsoft, et al not wanting to use open source anything, considering open source (and the GPL in particular) are seen as the platform of choice for hackers, crackers, pirates and other lower forms of life.
Rediculous, yes, but "free" still scares a lot of companies, and many other companies make a tidy living by capitolizing on, and feeding, this fear.
So I still wonder how accepted an open sourced codec will be in the short run, since 95% of desktop users run Windows, without requiring someone to manually install a codec.
does it matter if the codec isn't used commercially? Odds are that commercial publishers are not going to want any new format that doesn't have some kind of DRM, like it or not.
A long time ago I switched from redhat to mandrake. I wonder if it's time to switch back.
I have been a RH customer for a long time, paying for RHN and all, and have found they change their support structure entirely too often. I have RH9 and Fedora 1 on a couple boxes now only because of necessity. As always, RH is a decent "generic" version, with mixed support.
I just downloaded SuSe 9.1 Live, and liked it enough to order a "hand rolled" version. If I like that, I will order their pro version on CD. As a desktop, it appears to blow away the RH versions, IMHO. It is more responsive, more intuitive and better looking. And this is from a Live CD distro. I am looking hard at SuSe to replace everything RH I have now. We will see if I like it well enough in a few weeks.
Since IBM loaned Novell the money to buy SUSE in the first place, I am betting it will end up being the best supported version for the corporate desktop in a year or two, which it lags RH on now. You can download the live CD free at suse.com and try it out. Its different, but as a RH (and formally Mandrake) user, it was nice to fire it up and have everything respond much faster.
No PPC version. Fedora only supports the various i386 flavours. Redhat used to support Alpha and Sparc, but I think they dropped everything but i386/i64/amd64 a few versions back.
Try yellowdoglinux.com for a PPC version of Linux. Or OS-X;)
its not that uncommon for a slimeball to go around and accuse others of doing what they themselves are doing. Thats the first sign of a cheating husband, he starts accusing his wife of running around.
Are we really shocked that SCO was stealing someone elses IP?
No, this is called a server swapping out previously (but not recently) accessed data. If I have 1.5 gigs of ram, and 4 gigs of content, over time, it will read and cache to swap the contents of the website, even tho the server is never *ACTIVELY* using more than 1/3 of the RAM. No leak, no using swap for current apps, just cacheing out the previously read static web content to swap. This is normal and expected. It is also still faster than a fresh read from the disks (although only slightly) as I stated.
It is totally amazing at the replies received, it appears many do not understand how swapping and caching on a server works at all. It is not the same as a workstation thrashing because it needs more active RAM.
Personally, I just try to keep my memory usage below the physical memory in my machine, but I guess that's not always possible..."
I keep my memory usage much below the total ram on the servers, but in real life, the machine still swaps. This is because even tho the machine NEVER needs more ram than is available at any given time, over a period of days, it will use more than the available ram. It caches out the old data that was used 12 hours ago.
Unless you reboot every day (as in a client machine) you will use swap on just about any machine. Using swap is not bad. Using swap for a currently running application is not so good. This isn't a bug, its a feature. Reading data from swap after it has been accessed is still faster than reading new data from the drives, especially if its a network drive.
I thought the RIAA was an association of companies, or put another way: a company that represents the interests of a group of companies. Not to be a pisser, but technically, it IS a company. I am sure it is incorporated, for instance, for taxes if no other reason.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not sure what is wrong with you people who get overloaded.
You can register a new domain, and it will start getting spam within a week to common names such as "bob@, sally@, john@, etc.". Not all spam is because someone actually has a verified address, but because it is a common name used. We get tons of spam hit our mail server that is addressed to people that have never had an account on our domain, but is instead a common name.
Also, I just started getting spam on one biz account because I had been helping a customer, and it appears they got infected, and since I was in their address book, I got hit with them.
Yes, plenty of people are stupid enough to sign up for every newsletter on the web, but blaming someone with a common email name (or inferring that they are stupid, as you did in your post) who DIDN'T sign up for anything, isn't solving anything or adding to the conversation.
I guess I am old enough to remember the real TV dinners. Aluminum tray, aluminum wrap, always tiny meat pieces and some of the peas and carrots always get mixed with the apple "thing" they call dessert (lots of dough, some apple like gravy, and one apple wedge). They were either overcooked, or cold in the middle.
Seriously, I was in the military, the old C rations were better than TV dinners before the microwave became popular. At least you got a decent wedge of chocolate or a good cookie.
Back when I was a kid, we always held any mom who served TV dinners as suspect. Any mom who served them regularly was considered rather lazy or "low class" in the 60s/70s. You know, the single mother type, who we all knew must be a bad person or she would have a man around.... the times, how they change.
I thought we quit calling them TV dinners back in the 70s......
I just installed SUSE 9.1, and NOT on a dual Opteron (amd2500+). Flash is auto installed on the box using Mozilla. Obviously, it will run on less of a machine, not just shiney new dual Opterons. Spend less time crying and more time just downloading and installing it for your distro of choice.
Just because a program is not GPL, doesn't make it bad. Really.
My "lowly" dialup is an ADSL connection that does better than T1 speeds.
In theory. In the locations I use, I have access to cable, adsl, sdsl and two different T1s. You *might* be able to download a large file faster on some ADSL lines, but there is a huge gap in performance in ADSL and T1 in every other way. Latency, reliability, sustained throughput, "jitter", etc. ADSL is ok, but other than the occasional 50mb+ download, its slower. Even on ISOs, a T1 will often be faster than a cable or adsl line rated twice the speed because the T1 can maintain the speed continuously.
I also ran game servers on all the different pipes. HUGE difference. There is a reason people pay $800+ for a T1 that is theoretically slower than your $50 adsl.
What's wrong with prostitution?
The primary problem with prostitution is the fact that it is illegal. If legalized, it could be regulated the same way you would any business that affects public health, be it a food server or medical institution. But so many hide behind the theory that prostitution is immoral, when their real goal is control.
I have always felt that the way to prevent pimps from turning innocent, unhappy girls into crackhead prostitutes is to legalize prostitution and allow women who would choose this profession to organize.
computergate.com has frames and racks for swapping drives for less than 10 bucks each for ata100. I have 12 of them, and swap out drives to try out every os i want to. good bargain.
Sorry, but I must digress...
I am forced to manage the network at the office, as we have no IT staff, so I am the part time IT staff. 25 clients, 6 servers. Fortunately, I am an old school nerd, so I have learned lots of helpful tips to reduce the workload.
1. If they complain about the speed of their system or internet connectivity, firewall their IP off the network for 2 to 3 days. When you release the lock out, they seem to think its a lot faster and don't complain anymore.
2. The easiest way to reduce errors and mistakes is to make a big deal out of every small problem. This way they are terrified to do anything except what they have to do in order to get the job done. No more wondering around the control panel, internet, etc.
3. If they ever install any program without your permission, then the computer probably needs to be pulled and bench tested. This should take 3 to 5 days. Complain about "spywear" and "viruses", and try to use lots of confusing terms with nano, giga and mega in them (then they will act like they understand, which is really funny). They will never install anything again.
Now, some may think I am being funny (it is, but I'm not). Some will think I am cruel. Some will think its a bad BOFH inpersonation. But if you get about 10 hours a week to keep with all this stuff, you would develop these methods as well.
Oh, and it is a fun way to relieve stess, too.
I would safely assume that half of the users are no longer users, just prior users. You can probably assume that half of the remainder did a few units, and then installed some Natalie Portman screen saver instead (obligatory inside joke).
;)
But if you do the math, 11000 work units is still a shit load of units, and I started just a month after the program began. I have it on a few servers, and about 25 work stations, although I initially ran it for years on just a couple boxes. Getting to 99% is slow. Getting each hundredth or thousanth point after than is even slower. Its not the only reason I do it (or the main reason). My main reason is to back up my belief that while it is a worthwhile project, it should NOT be govt. funded, and if its worthwhile, private citizens should chip in. This is my chipping in, over 15 years of equivelent CPU time donated. Save the Govt. dollars (read: my tax dollars) for cancer research and better roads. And even the occassional space probe.
That said, I can't wait to be in the top 15,000 (a few weeks to a few months away) so everyone will think I am uber133+
To be honest, the seti client is a terrible way to benchmark for several reasons. It used to not be, but it is as of version 3.0 or so.
;)
Each bite takes a different amount of time to process. On the same computer, one could take 8 hours, another would quit the bite after 30 seconds and fetch another. If the particular sample you get one time has some high gaussians or such, it will report back, call it completed, and fetch another. Because of the new tests that came in since around 3.03, this is much more pronounced.
In order to use it as a benchmark, you have to use more than a few dozen processed units to compensate for this, and even then, its still not a very good benchmark.
I agree its fun to see my average change from 12 hours, to 4 hours (then 8 hours with the new tests) then back down again, but just know the time to calculate varies terribly from unit to unit. This from my experience, anyway. I didn't start participating in seti@home until almost June of 1999
Very close to 5 mil anyway:
;)
<brag>
Results Received 11824
Total CPU Time 15.636 years
Average CPU Time per work unit 11 hr 35 min 02.1 sec
Average results received per day 6.55
Last result returned: Fri May 21 19:44:56 2004 UTC
Registered on: Sun Jun 13 01:37:11 1999 UTC
SETI@home user for: 4.945 years
Your rank out of 5001324 total users is: 15035th place.
You have completed more work units than 99.699% of our users.
</brag>
So some of us 5 million are more equal than others
actually, that was pretty funny. and topical to boot :p
What we really need is some way of convincing him he doesn't need them.
Doesn't work that way. You are suggesting we educate the entire world. As someone who has been in marketing for 20 years, I can promise you that you can't educate the whole world. (You CAN make a good living out of giving them what they think they want, however.)
If you want to stop a commercial activity (legal or otherwise), you have to remove the profit from it. This is just economics 101. This is done with taxation, regulation, prohibition all the time with limited success, but its still better than trying to convince 3 billion people speaking 240 languages that pills won't make their wang bigger. The pills are not the problem, its the method of advertising that is.
This is an interesting route to go about getting rid of spyware, attacking its source of income instead of the manufacturer."
That is an understatement. The only reason most of these spywear companies exist...is to make profit. Go after their source of profit. Same with spam. Take the profit out of it, and there is no reason for it to exist, or more realistically, it simply becomes too expensive a media to use. The reason it exists now is because of how cheap it is.
How do you determine age from a UID?
$age=((UID * "shoe size") / (IQ - "year graduated")) + ("wing speed of a sparrow" / Pi);
print $age;
Asprin. When ever you get the urge to have sex, place one asprin between your knees and hold it there until the urge passes. Repeat as necessary.
Ok, good point. I still wonder about how popular a codec can be if its not used commercially. This may not be the goal of the authors, but it does influence whether the format is cross platform or not. I can see movie distributors, microsoft, et al not wanting to use open source anything, considering open source (and the GPL in particular) are seen as the platform of choice for hackers, crackers, pirates and other lower forms of life.
Rediculous, yes, but "free" still scares a lot of companies, and many other companies make a tidy living by capitolizing on, and feeding, this fear.
So I still wonder how accepted an open sourced codec will be in the short run, since 95% of desktop users run Windows, without requiring someone to manually install a codec.
does it matter if the codec isn't used commercially? Odds are that commercial publishers are not going to want any new format that doesn't have some kind of DRM, like it or not.
A long time ago I switched from redhat to mandrake. I wonder if it's time to switch back.
I have been a RH customer for a long time, paying for RHN and all, and have found they change their support structure entirely too often. I have RH9 and Fedora 1 on a couple boxes now only because of necessity. As always, RH is a decent "generic" version, with mixed support.
I just downloaded SuSe 9.1 Live, and liked it enough to order a "hand rolled" version. If I like that, I will order their pro version on CD. As a desktop, it appears to blow away the RH versions, IMHO. It is more responsive, more intuitive and better looking. And this is from a Live CD distro. I am looking hard at SuSe to replace everything RH I have now. We will see if I like it well enough in a few weeks.
Since IBM loaned Novell the money to buy SUSE in the first place, I am betting it will end up being the best supported version for the corporate desktop in a year or two, which it lags RH on now. You can download the live CD free at suse.com and try it out. Its different, but as a RH (and formally Mandrake) user, it was nice to fire it up and have everything respond much faster.
No PPC version. Fedora only supports the various i386 flavours. Redhat used to support Alpha and Sparc, but I think they dropped everything but i386/i64/amd64 a few versions back.
;)
Try yellowdoglinux.com for a PPC version of Linux. Or OS-X
its not that uncommon for a slimeball to go around and accuse others of doing what they themselves are doing. Thats the first sign of a cheating husband, he starts accusing his wife of running around.
Are we really shocked that SCO was stealing someone elses IP?
This is known as a memory leak.
No, this is called a server swapping out previously (but not recently) accessed data. If I have 1.5 gigs of ram, and 4 gigs of content, over time, it will read and cache to swap the contents of the website, even tho the server is never *ACTIVELY* using more than 1/3 of the RAM. No leak, no using swap for current apps, just cacheing out the previously read static web content to swap. This is normal and expected. It is also still faster than a fresh read from the disks (although only slightly) as I stated.
It is totally amazing at the replies received, it appears many do not understand how swapping and caching on a server works at all. It is not the same as a workstation thrashing because it needs more active RAM.
Personally, I just try to keep my memory usage below the physical memory in my machine, but I guess that's not always possible..."
I keep my memory usage much below the total ram on the servers, but in real life, the machine still swaps. This is because even tho the machine NEVER needs more ram than is available at any given time, over a period of days, it will use more than the available ram. It caches out the old data that was used 12 hours ago.
Unless you reboot every day (as in a client machine) you will use swap on just about any machine. Using swap is not bad. Using swap for a currently running application is not so good. This isn't a bug, its a feature. Reading data from swap after it has been accessed is still faster than reading new data from the drives, especially if its a network drive.
I thought the RIAA was an association of companies, or put another way: a company that represents the interests of a group of companies. Not to be a pisser, but technically, it IS a company. I am sure it is incorporated, for instance, for taxes if no other reason.
Interestingly, this post is modded up, while another one from two minutes earlier is modded down.
;)
Just goes to show you, like comedy, its all in the timing.