No, its partly that (but really, who cares how many milliseconds are shaved off your DNS queries while the standard lookups are acceptably quick).
Its the spamhaus integration that makes this interesting - all those IP addresses for http://66.199.20.6/www.paypal.com/... will be blocked and all the not-technically-savvy users will have another layer of protection from phishing. If the websites you go to to buy your herbal viagra found their A records returning nothing, it'll help against the spammers too. If they also stop IP lookups for www.ebsy.com too, then it'll help against the cybersquatters too.
In many respects I wish this kind of anti-spam support was added to the the DNS RFCs and every ISP could implement it!
Sure, they sell adverts on mistyped addresses but everyone has to make money somehow. I doubt donations or subscriptions would provide them with enough to run the service.
Yes, no-one seemed to notice that the panel is not a product available to the public at all. You have to sign up for their services and then you get to use it. Why is this different from, say 1&1 who also have their own custom-developed control panel?
The product placement of/. does seem to be so prevalent now that it cannot be just accident. What next - a slashdot story about a new herbal drug that will make you sir last longer and have none shame in bed?
perhaps so.. "these fairtrade landmines are created using traditional techniques by the tribesmen of some of the world's most dangerous places, who have little means of supporting themselves beyond growing small, red flowers. In purchasing these, you are not only acquiring a substantial tactical weapons system, but also helping to rebalance the trade deficit of the third world. We thank you for your humanitarian gesture to help eradicate poverty in this way."
That depends - if you perform incremental backups then 15 minutes of more than feasible. Try BackupPc for a easy-to-use rsync solution with a web front end for restores. I'm not sure about the encrypted bit though, but it can copy over a SSH tunnel.
Alternatively, try Mozy for 2 gig of free online encrypted backups with individual file restores. (yes, someone hosts it and they expect you to pay for more storage space, but its useful for your important stuff at least)
Ignore most of the uninformed comments on/. about this subject - go to WHT and get a proper, considered answer from people who have your same issue. (and you'll get good, informed, unbiased answers from Linux users too)
If they're all dancer types, then they work in an all-girl environment. And yes, I do refer to their male dancer colleagues in that statement. So meeting someone who isn't loud and obnoxious and obviously doesn't love himself (ie the usual types they meet in the bars) will be like heaven to them. Just remember to wash and not talk about star trek, ok.
Na, it'll be when MS issues a critical update that accidentally switches your network stack to use IPv6....:-)
Perhaps this is what it would take to get IPv6 in place - MS to say 'we will stop supporting IPv4 in a year's time'. Watch all the computer companies scramble to update their software (and hardware - obviously you'll need to buy the updated versions) and then it'll happen. Otherwise, we're going to be stuck with IPv4 for a very long time to come.
defintitely the same reason - when you right click, you get a list of commands you can perform on the document. If Open wasn't one of them, then you couldn't open it:-)
You can change the default action to something else instead of open. Left-click is just a shorthand way of right-clicking and selecting the default.
The reason its done this way is that's much better (a more OO way) of associating commands with a file type. You can add a new command, change the default to that, and then left-click the file performs the new command! I do this for.reg files - leftclick them and I get notepad with the text inside it. Also, for dlls, leftclick and I get dependancy walker. Similarly, when I click a cpp file, it loads in Visual Studio. If left-click was hard-coded to open, none of these things would work.
If you want to know more, read about Shell Extensions in MSDN.
Depends what you mean.. PRK has a quicker recovery time in the the LASIK flap procedure never, ever, ever heals. The flap is held on by surface tension (or something like that). PRK does have the advantage that the cells on the front of the eye heal over. There is a better PRK method nowadays where they 'soften' the cells on the front of the eye with alcohol, push them to one side, do the 'reshaping' and then push them back. Apparently its still a bit painful, but a lot less than the old PRK.
In a way, the GPL tries to be a monopoly all of its own. Unless you're assimilated into the make-it-free-and-share-it culture, you're not going to be allowed to play.
Its irrisistable market force meets the immovable idealogical concept, should be interesting...
lol. I think you'll just be able to tell the power gamers by the alien/biohazard/etc-shaped windmills on their houses, and Tom's Hardware Guide will have the latest silent, efficient and most power-generating uber-tubines for review, along with sleek, black inverters for your grid connection.
Market forces will sort things out in their own way:-)
Similarly for heavy traffic - if you reduce the speed limit during peak traffic times, the ovrall flow of traffic is greater. I guess its because of less wave effects, where you end up stopping and starting all the time.
Why does no-one get the point? I even put a smiley in just make sure.
I was criticising java (J2EE at least) as a platform that requires multiple boxes scaled out horizontally. The most cost-effective and reliable way to scale up a system is not to need to do this in the first place, but you never get that with J2EE systems.
The architectural technique is good nevertheless, but remember that the more boxes you put in, the more maintenance will need to be managed and that starts to cost much more past 3 or so boxes. Think of the Hard drive MTBF as one reason why it starts to get expensive.
God, that is the ideal. I used to do that on Windows years ago - VB wrote the client GUI, C++ on the server (and of course, SQL on the DB...) . Fantastic results from that programming model, and you got to use different developer's skills where they made the most difference.
I strongly recommend this development model, not only is is good from a people perspective, and efficient in a best-tool-for-the-job perspective, it also has the massive business perspective of reduces risk in updating apps to the next generation (imagine if you had one of my VB->C++ apps, want a thin client version? easy, replace the VB and you're set to go, no issues with a whole new server that needs coding)
so the only good part of your architecture is the ability to scale... makes sense, I've never seen a single enterprise Java app that didn't *have* to scale horizontally.:-)
I recall the Quake 2 port that some people did and posted on MSDN. (they took the native quake 2 code, compiled it using the new.net compiler in native mode, then they added the 'run in clr' mode switch and made as few modifications as were needed to make it compile under the managed runtime. No other changes at all, pretty much exactly the same code was compared.)
So for an absolutely objective test, the managed version was 10% slower. While the article said 'only 10% which si nott very much nowadays', it is still a significant performance hit. Now, if you write code using the libraries and easy-to-use features in the managed system, you'll likely see a larger hit simply because you're not handling memory (especially) or other resources as efficiently as you'll be using the stuff that 'does it for you'. An example: I wrote a simple database update tool for a one-off upgrade task. As it was a one-off I thought I'd knock it up using.NET as it'd be easy. And it was. Trouble is, it was so slow it was unusable. So I spent some time optimising it (stringbuilders, removed the datagrid GUI part, etc) and it was still too slow. We looked at what it was doing and it spent a lot of time allocating and freeing memory (a *lovely* sawtooth memory graph, lol). So I rewrote it in native oledb, and the performance difference was huge, instead of several hours, it came down to 12 minutes.
Now I'm not an expert.net programmer, but I am very experienced, and I tried everything I could to fix the.net problem, and I think it was the.net db-access classes I used doing things for me and not worrying about memory internally that was fine for a small dataset, but useless for a large real-world database. (I understand it uses xml internally... what a mistake, no wonder it was slow)
So, managed code is fine, depends on what you're doing, but never ever expect it to be just better than native because it says so on the tin. Apart from poor programmers using it as a crutch to doing things properly, it won't necessarily be beneficial. (another quick anecdote: I was called in for a job interview for a performance engineer - the company had rewritten their email archiving software in C# and it performed extremely badly. Terribly actually, and they *had* to get it fixed otherwise the company was in trouble - what with the amount of money they'd spent on rewriting it. Remember that when anyone tells you you must rewrite in the latest, coolest new language toy).
lol. quite right. I implemented a mobile tracking utility for a breakdown service here in the UK (so when you called the call centre, they could figure out where you were even if you had no idea).
First thing that happened.. one woman did the location lookup 50 times... yup, her boyfriends' mobile.
Second thing, the manager's wife had her handbag stolen, with mobile in it (and housekeys and address). He tracked the bag to see if the burglars were heading towards his house. (they weren't, the bag moved in the opposite direction and the bag was later found using it).
The biggest issue with it though, it that the locations are not very accurate - good enough to see which section of motorway you're on, or which village you're in, but to determine exactly the location (like they find terrorists in 24) is fiction. The location is usually within a hundred to a thousand metres depending on the area (number of cells etc).
In any case, tracking someone without their knowledge is illegal, you have to ask. But no doubt you asked your spouse quietly one day while the football was on and they said 'yes dear', so you'll be fine there:)
and classified a previously unseen subset of malware using the trained system
automated systems determined that the new worm, W32.setup/install.exe is the most prevalent ever, due to the success of its social-engineering attack vector.
Beats me why they can't detect when a machine rebooted and reset a counter that they keep. then, as long as they check a site at least once every 49.7 days, they'll have an accurate idea of how long its been up.
Come on Netcraft, the entire computing community needs to know objective data on which OS is more stable so we can stop the stupid "Linux is teh l33t so it is better than that toy OS that BSODs daily" comments and know for sure.:-)
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No, its partly that (but really, who cares how many milliseconds are shaved off your DNS queries while the standard lookups are acceptably quick).
Its the spamhaus integration that makes this interesting - all those IP addresses for http://66.199.20.6/www.paypal.com/... will be blocked and all the not-technically-savvy users will have another layer of protection from phishing. If the websites you go to to buy your herbal viagra found their A records returning nothing, it'll help against the spammers too.
If they also stop IP lookups for www.ebsy.com too, then it'll help against the cybersquatters too.
In many respects I wish this kind of anti-spam support was added to the the DNS RFCs and every ISP could implement it!
Sure, they sell adverts on mistyped addresses but everyone has to make money somehow. I doubt donations or subscriptions would provide them with enough to run the service.
Yes, no-one seemed to notice that the panel is not a product available to the public at all. You have to sign up for their services and then you get to use it. Why is this different from, say 1&1 who also have their own custom-developed control panel?
/. does seem to be so prevalent now that it cannot be just accident. What next - a slashdot story about a new herbal drug that will make you sir last longer and have none shame in bed?
The product placement of
perhaps so.. "these fairtrade landmines are created using traditional techniques by the tribesmen of some of the world's most dangerous places, who have little means of supporting themselves beyond growing small, red flowers. In purchasing these, you are not only acquiring a substantial tactical weapons system, but also helping to rebalance the trade deficit of the third world. We thank you for your humanitarian gesture to help eradicate poverty in this way."
I don't think it'd catch on.
That depends - if you perform incremental backups then 15 minutes of more than feasible. Try BackupPc for a easy-to-use rsync solution with a web front end for restores. I'm not sure about the encrypted bit though, but it can copy over a SSH tunnel.
Alternatively, try Mozy for 2 gig of free online encrypted backups with individual file restores. (yes, someone hosts it and they expect you to pay for more storage space, but its useful for your important stuff at least)
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries!
g reat-great-grandmother' ?
So, this could be true if we changed mother to 'great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-
This is the answer you are seeking.
/. about this subject - go to WHT and get a proper, considered answer from people who have your same issue. (and you'll get good, informed, unbiased answers from Linux users too)
Ignore most of the uninformed comments on
That assumes you have an old CPU that doesn't handle power stepping, like the AMD64s or Intel M series, or a laptop.
Gates obviously was listening when the man in charge of this asked for money :)
If they're all dancer types, then they work in an all-girl environment. And yes, I do refer to their male dancer colleagues in that statement. So meeting someone who isn't loud and obnoxious and obviously doesn't love himself (ie the usual types they meet in the bars) will be like heaven to them. Just remember to wash and not talk about star trek, ok.
aren't humans designed to walk 30-45 minutes per hour not per day?
Na, it'll be when MS issues a critical update that accidentally switches your network stack to use IPv6 .... :-)
Perhaps this is what it would take to get IPv6 in place - MS to say 'we will stop supporting IPv4 in a year's time'. Watch all the computer companies scramble to update their software (and hardware - obviously you'll need to buy the updated versions) and then it'll happen. Otherwise, we're going to be stuck with IPv4 for a very long time to come.
defintitely the same reason - when you right click, you get a list of commands you can perform on the document. If Open wasn't one of them, then you couldn't open it :-)
.reg files - leftclick them and I get notepad with the text inside it. Also, for dlls, leftclick and I get dependancy walker. Similarly, when I click a cpp file, it loads in Visual Studio. If left-click was hard-coded to open, none of these things would work.
You can change the default action to something else instead of open.
Left-click is just a shorthand way of right-clicking and selecting the default.
The reason its done this way is that's much better (a more OO way) of associating commands with a file type. You can add a new command, change the default to that, and then left-click the file performs the new command! I do this for
If you want to know more, read about Shell Extensions in MSDN.
Depends what you mean.. PRK has a quicker recovery time in the the LASIK flap procedure never, ever, ever heals. The flap is held on by surface tension (or something like that). PRK does have the advantage that the cells on the front of the eye heal over. There is a better PRK method nowadays where they 'soften' the cells on the front of the eye with alcohol, push them to one side, do the 'reshaping' and then push them back. Apparently its still a bit painful, but a lot less than the old PRK.
but falsehood need to be addressed.
good for you, its a shame how MS gets accused of spreading FUD by all the people who then happily spread their own FUD against them about.
In a way, the GPL tries to be a monopoly all of its own. Unless you're assimilated into the make-it-free-and-share-it culture, you're not going to be allowed to play.
Its irrisistable market force meets the immovable idealogical concept, should be interesting...
lol. I think you'll just be able to tell the power gamers by the alien/biohazard/etc-shaped windmills on their houses, and Tom's Hardware Guide will have the latest silent, efficient and most power-generating uber-tubines for review, along with sleek, black inverters for your grid connection.
:-)
Market forces will sort things out in their own way
Similarly for heavy traffic - if you reduce the speed limit during peak traffic times, the ovrall flow of traffic is greater. I guess its because of less wave effects, where you end up stopping and starting all the time.
a lot of things are un-intuitive, but correct.
Why does no-one get the point? I even put a smiley in just make sure.
I was criticising java (J2EE at least) as a platform that requires multiple boxes scaled out horizontally. The most cost-effective and reliable way to scale up a system is not to need to do this in the first place, but you never get that with J2EE systems.
The architectural technique is good nevertheless, but remember that the more boxes you put in, the more maintenance will need to be managed and that starts to cost much more past 3 or so boxes. Think of the Hard drive MTBF as one reason why it starts to get expensive.
God, that is the ideal. I used to do that on Windows years ago - VB wrote the client GUI, C++ on the server (and of course, SQL on the DB...) . Fantastic results from that programming model, and you got to use different developer's skills where they made the most difference.
I strongly recommend this development model, not only is is good from a people perspective, and efficient in a best-tool-for-the-job perspective, it also has the massive business perspective of reduces risk in updating apps to the next generation (imagine if you had one of my VB->C++ apps, want a thin client version? easy, replace the VB and you're set to go, no issues with a whole new server that needs coding)
We throw shitloads of big boxes at it
:-)
so the only good part of your architecture is the ability to scale... makes sense, I've never seen a single enterprise Java app that didn't *have* to scale horizontally.
I recall the Quake 2 port that some people did and posted on MSDN. (they took the native quake 2 code, compiled it using the new .net compiler in native mode, then they added the 'run in clr' mode switch and made as few modifications as were needed to make it compile under the managed runtime. No other changes at all, pretty much exactly the same code was compared.)
.NET as it'd be easy. And it was. Trouble is, it was so slow it was unusable. So I spent some time optimising it (stringbuilders, removed the datagrid GUI part, etc) and it was still too slow. We looked at what it was doing and it spent a lot of time allocating and freeing memory (a *lovely* sawtooth memory graph, lol). So I rewrote it in native oledb, and the performance difference was huge, instead of several hours, it came down to 12 minutes.
.net programmer, but I am very experienced, and I tried everything I could to fix the .net problem, and I think it was the .net db-access classes I used doing things for me and not worrying about memory internally that was fine for a small dataset, but useless for a large real-world database. (I understand it uses xml internally... what a mistake, no wonder it was slow)
So for an absolutely objective test, the managed version was 10% slower. While the article said 'only 10% which si nott very much nowadays', it is still a significant performance hit. Now, if you write code using the libraries and easy-to-use features in the managed system, you'll likely see a larger hit simply because you're not handling memory (especially) or other resources as efficiently as you'll be using the stuff that 'does it for you'. An example: I wrote a simple database update tool for a one-off upgrade task. As it was a one-off I thought I'd knock it up using
Now I'm not an expert
So, managed code is fine, depends on what you're doing, but never ever expect it to be just better than native because it says so on the tin. Apart from poor programmers using it as a crutch to doing things properly, it won't necessarily be beneficial. (another quick anecdote: I was called in for a job interview for a performance engineer - the company had rewritten their email archiving software in C# and it performed extremely badly. Terribly actually, and they *had* to get it fixed otherwise the company was in trouble - what with the amount of money they'd spent on rewriting it. Remember that when anyone tells you you must rewrite in the latest, coolest new language toy).
lol. quite right. I implemented a mobile tracking utility for a breakdown service here in the UK (so when you called the call centre, they could figure out where you were even if you had no idea).
:)
First thing that happened.. one woman did the location lookup 50 times... yup, her boyfriends' mobile.
Second thing, the manager's wife had her handbag stolen, with mobile in it (and housekeys and address). He tracked the bag to see if the burglars were heading towards his house. (they weren't, the bag moved in the opposite direction and the bag was later found using it).
The biggest issue with it though, it that the locations are not very accurate - good enough to see which section of motorway you're on, or which village you're in, but to determine exactly the location (like they find terrorists in 24) is fiction. The location is usually within a hundred to a thousand metres depending on the area (number of cells etc).
In any case, tracking someone without their knowledge is illegal, you have to ask. But no doubt you asked your spouse quietly one day while the football was on and they said 'yes dear', so you'll be fine there
and classified a previously unseen subset of malware using the trained system
automated systems determined that the new worm, W32.setup/install.exe is the most prevalent ever, due to the success of its social-engineering attack vector.
They can read BSD though...
:-)
Go to Netcraft's longest uptime stats and have a look - BSD and 4 Windows boxes.
Beats me why they can't detect when a machine rebooted and reset a counter that they keep. then, as long as they check a site at least once every 49.7 days, they'll have an accurate idea of how long its been up.
Come on Netcraft, the entire computing community needs to know objective data on which OS is more stable so we can stop the stupid "Linux is teh l33t so it is better than that toy OS that BSODs daily" comments and know for sure.
But now these languages are getting bigger and bigger, causing bigger and bigger problems.
you can't *still* be pissed at object-orientation being added to PHP5?