Don't know about 2.2, but I can give you a read on 2.0.54.
For historical reasons we run on Apache on Windows. We currently run 1.3 and wished to upgrade to 2.0 because it is supposed to work better on Windows. We run a high volume site with a farm of servers building dynamic pages. Apache 1.3 has worked reasonably well but it leaks constantly and hangs processes fairly regularly under high load (>80%). We switch a few servers in the farm to 2.0.54 in our production set up. What a disaster! Despite decent testbed results, in production Apache 2.0.54 on Windows leaked memory so fast as to be almost unusable. Most disturbingly (look in the bug reports to see others with the same problem) Apache would grind to almost a stop for minutes on end for no apparent reason. It would just stop serving all but a few pages a second without consuming CPU or disk I/Os. Apache 2.0 performance and reliability was so miserable in production we revereted back to 1.3 after only 12 hours.
I see nothing in the 2.2 Changelog that would indicate either of these issues were addressed, so I assume they still exist.
I have a request for the Apache Team, FOCUS ON RELIABILITY on Windows!
Do people really think such a site would be of significant value? Basically a site dedicated to matching missing or found with those looking. I this gets mod'ed up I will try to pull something together.
This law will only have the opposite effect. The email senders who will obey these laws are responsible corporate citizens, which are not likely those at whom the law was intended. The more nafarious senders of spam (drugs, porn, etc) will not make an effort to follow the law.
The law will likely cut down on the mild content spam and only increase the awful content spam to children. If the "do not spam" list is made available to anyone, how long until lawless spammers add those names to their target lists? Answer: not very long.
This law will likely serve to filter out the mild content spam and only increase the amount of nasty spam.
The law is a nice idea, but won't do a bit of good in the real world.
Who in the world would let the mouse guard the cheese?
This is such an oxymoron. Micro$oft writes vulnerable software then sells you software to protect the vulnerabilities. Does anyone see the the conflict? If Micro$oft would invest in writing tighter software the need for anti-virus products would be *greatly* reduced.
If Micro$oft cannot write tight software in the first place, why would you use their product that software?
Can some now scold Debian too? Their focus on social and software perfection, while well intended, can be maddening. I am a long time Debian user but I am about ready to dump them (we'll see when/if Sarge is ever released) because I am stuck in the past due to lack of releases. Long live http://www.backports.org/
Software users don't look at a project's source code and say, "Wow, that source code is pretty, I have to use this software!". Users want the latest features and expect a steady flow of updates. Evolving open source projects that have been most successful are those who have banged out a steady stream of updates and enhancements. Users do not want to wait literally years for a big ball of updates. They want a trickle of updates as they become available.
What about the more sinister but equally obvious, rewriting the pages before serving them back local?
Google could do their own "smart tags" and hook it directly to their AdWords. Since they see all your surfing habits they should be able to know the keywords to convert to paid advertising links to specifically target you. Could make DoubleClick.com and similar look rather impotent at tracking you.
Beyond "smart tags" Google could easily extended rewriting to other things to their advantage.
Second that here, their generosity to Linux users should be recognized. We all know that IBM contributes heavily to Linux, but they are far from the only ones.
Having been an contractor for the federal government on several occasion, I must say this is the only government site I have ever seen that is vastly superior to commercial counterparts. Good work NWS.
By my calculations at $166 million a day to be in Iraq, the US government could save the Voyager's first year's $4.5 million by leaving Iraq 39 minutes early. That seems reasonable.
Well then by that line people need to make it worth *their* money to improve security. Stop doing business with them. If their client list drys up, I bet their security would beef up.
Of course that assumes Joe Six-Pack knows just how stupid they are for implementing such a lax method of securing personal data.
The device will help mobile phone users charge their phones while travelling in a bus, a car or a train. All they need to do is -- place the turbine against the wind flow.
So if I need to charge my phone, I can drive my 12 MPG SUV around town and hang this turbine out the window?
Here is EA locking up Arena League Football. EA also does an NCAA game. I would venture to guess that EA is going to or has given the NCAA proposals on an exclusive deal for college football games.
MLBPA can say whatever they like, its all about money. Granting a monopoly ensures that no price competition will exist. Its the exact same reason the NFL PA granted EA a monopoly. If only one company can make the game then it becomes much easier to maximize the amount of money raked from consumers. You just price the game up and up until sales volume starts to decline faster than the price increase. Competition, of course, does not maximize the revenue stream to MLB and MLBPA, so why not eliminate it?
Why not have Slashdotters send real informed email from real email accounts. I for one have no problem telling these VC groups what I think of their investments in spyware AND SIGNING MY NAME TO IT.
Since Paul Allen of Microsoft put up much of the funding, does this mean I have to pay for a copy of Windows if I fly in any spaceship whether it is his or not?
Local TV news says 213 of the suits are against folks here in St Louis, Missouri. Looks like Washington DC file swappers are also a major target of this round.
I have long been a user of the Debian distro. Its a fine server distro. It has always been rock solid. My only complaint is the painfully long release cycle where some packages are more than a year behind the lastest version when they are first released. I suppose this contributes to the solid behavior, but it can be frustrating wait a year or more for a new package feature.
How does Gentoo do in this area? Can a person get Samba 3 without waiting years or running a Debian distro labelled 'unstable' ?
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Don't know about 2.2, but I can give you a read on 2.0.54.
For historical reasons we run on Apache on Windows. We currently run 1.3 and wished to upgrade to 2.0 because it is supposed to work better on Windows. We run a high volume site with a farm of servers building dynamic pages. Apache 1.3 has worked reasonably well but it leaks constantly and hangs processes fairly regularly under high load (>80%). We switch a few servers in the farm to 2.0.54 in our production set up. What a disaster! Despite decent testbed results, in production Apache 2.0.54 on Windows leaked memory so fast as to be almost unusable. Most disturbingly (look in the bug reports to see others with the same problem) Apache would grind to almost a stop for minutes on end for no apparent reason. It would just stop serving all but a few pages a second without consuming CPU or disk I/Os. Apache 2.0 performance and reliability was so miserable in production we revereted back to 1.3 after only 12 hours.
I see nothing in the 2.2 Changelog that would indicate either of these issues were addressed, so I assume they still exist.
I have a request for the Apache Team, FOCUS ON RELIABILITY on Windows!
"* that is completely safe at room temperature"
Unless your city is below sea level
http://findkatrina.com/
http://www.fullcircle.net/
Do people really think such a site would be of significant value? Basically a site dedicated to matching missing or found with those looking. I this gets mod'ed up I will try to pull something together.
This seems too far fetched to be real. I would not want to be the first human trial.
This law will only have the opposite effect. The email senders who will obey these laws are responsible corporate citizens, which are not likely those at whom the law was intended. The more nafarious senders of spam (drugs, porn, etc) will not make an effort to follow the law.
The law will likely cut down on the mild content spam and only increase the awful content spam to children. If the "do not spam" list is made available to anyone, how long until lawless spammers add those names to their target lists?
Answer: not very long.
This law will likely serve to filter out the mild content spam and only increase the amount of nasty spam.
The law is a nice idea, but won't do a bit of good in the real world.
I offer my head as exhibit A. 3 women and me in the house. I half gray and years short of 40.
I think you should write up your theory and get published!
My wife and I are both engineers. We have two kids, both daughters.
Should I play PowerBall ?
Who in the world would let the mouse guard the cheese?
This is such an oxymoron. Micro$oft writes vulnerable software then sells you software to protect the vulnerabilities. Does anyone see the the conflict? If Micro$oft would invest in writing tighter software the need for anti-virus products would be *greatly* reduced.
If Micro$oft cannot write tight software in the first place, why would you use their product that software?
Can some now scold Debian too? Their focus on social and software perfection, while well intended, can be maddening. I am a long time Debian user but I am about ready to dump them (we'll see when/if Sarge is ever released) because I am stuck in the past due to lack of releases. Long live http://www.backports.org/
Software users don't look at a project's source code and say, "Wow, that source code is pretty, I have to use this software!". Users want the latest features and expect a steady flow of updates. Evolving open source projects that have been most successful are those who have banged out a steady stream of updates and enhancements. Users do not want to wait literally years for a big ball of updates. They want a trickle of updates as they become available.
What about the more sinister but equally obvious, rewriting the pages before serving them back local?
Google could do their own "smart tags" and hook it directly to their AdWords. Since they see all your surfing habits they should be able to know the keywords to convert to paid advertising links to specifically target you. Could make DoubleClick.com and similar look rather impotent at tracking you.
Beyond "smart tags" Google could easily extended rewriting to other things to their advantage.
I sure hope their "Do No Evils" montra holds.
Second that here, their generosity to Linux users should be recognized. We all know that IBM contributes heavily to Linux, but they are far from the only ones.
BTW-- I can attest that the dual Opteron DL145's from HP are rocking boxes for Linux.
Perhaps Slashdotters should pool the resources and buy a senator. Owning a senator could be useful in instances like this. ;-)
WRONG.
Santorum has his own copy of the Constitution that he and his Republican byatches have been given by corporate lobbyists .
Find out if you are safe while its still free :
http://www.nws.noaa.org
Having been an contractor for the federal government on several occasion, I must say this is the only government site I have ever seen that is vastly superior to commercial counterparts. Good work NWS.
By my calculations at $166 million a day to be in Iraq, the US government could save the Voyager's first year's $4.5 million by leaving Iraq 39 minutes early. That seems reasonable.
Well then by that line people need to make it worth *their* money to improve security. Stop doing business with them. If their client list drys up, I bet their security would beef up.
Of course that assumes Joe Six-Pack knows just how stupid they are for implementing such a lax method of securing personal data.
The device will help mobile phone users charge their phones while travelling in a bus, a car or a train. All they need to do is -- place the turbine against the wind flow.
So if I need to charge my phone, I can drive my 12 MPG SUV around town and hang this turbine out the window?
Cool! That is such a leap forward.
Here is EA locking up Arena League Football. EA also does an NCAA game. I would venture to guess that EA is going to or has given the NCAA proposals on an exclusive deal for college football games.
MLBPA can say whatever they like, its all about money. Granting a monopoly ensures that no price competition will exist. Its the exact same reason the NFL PA granted EA a monopoly. If only one company can make the game then it becomes much easier to maximize the amount of money raked from consumers. You just price the game up and up until sales volume starts to decline faster than the price increase. Competition, of course, does not maximize the revenue stream to MLB and MLBPA, so why not eliminate it?
Why not have Slashdotters send real informed email from real email accounts. I for one have no problem telling these VC groups what I think of their investments in spyware AND SIGNING MY NAME TO IT.
Since Paul Allen of Microsoft put up much of the funding, does this mean I have to pay for a copy of Windows if I fly in any spaceship whether it is his or not?
True, that thought had crossed my mind. Charter Communicaions (cable provider) is headquartered here.
Local TV news says 213 of the suits are against folks here in St Louis, Missouri. Looks like Washington DC file swappers are also a major target of this round.
Read about it here.
I have long been a user of the Debian distro. Its a fine server distro. It has always been rock solid. My only complaint is the painfully long release cycle where some packages are more than a year behind the lastest version when they are first released. I suppose this contributes to the solid behavior, but it can be frustrating wait a year or more for a new package feature.
How does Gentoo do in this area? Can a person get Samba 3 without waiting years or running a Debian distro labelled 'unstable' ?
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