aparently the unix file system layout is what admins have come to agree on was the best in the last 20+ years. or something like that.
No, the unix filesystem is what admin have found out what works. Every software maker (linux/xyzBSD distro makers too) has his own ideas and puts their software wherever he likes. Of course it may be configurable, but not always, or even often. Often changing the defaults breaks things. It's a mess, with multiple sets of general guidlines, which you are free to choose from.
At least under windows there's a Program Files where things are installed. Ideally. Except for windows components. And only if it's on C:. And that's not counting in the registry. Sigh.
No, I don't think it's a preemptive action to prevent DDoS. There are enough drones in the USA, and you can pick the most damaging targets via the google cache. If it is such an attempt, they should fire the webmaster.
My guess is that it saves enough money from bandwidth costs, to make it worth blocking the site.
You are so right! And yet, you fail to look beyond the surface. My original point wasn't that p2p isn't a big factor. It was that copy protection is a factor. Whether through increased growth of p2p or by itself is not the point, and not sure even.
Obviously there are two processes at work here. One being the ever growing demand for smaller music players and gadgets, which drives the demand for other than-cd-format music. The other being the large and growing p2p volume in South Korea, which in turn causes a lot of music to be available in mp3 format and increases the demand for smaller music players.
How do you know which process is the cause of the other? You assume the p2p process is the cause, and therefore the cause of problems like this decline. Do you work for the RIAA?
Obviously, these processes boost each other, and that's not even considering other factors. Blaming p2p and ethics that don't follow your line of reasoning as the only causes is short sighted.
People listen more and more music through small portable [mp3|ogg|wma|whatever]players, and not directly from a cd player anymore. Thus cds need to be converted to a format that can be listened to. With copy protected cds that is impossible, or at least harder than downloading. The cds aren't usable anymore, so they're not bought.
In high tech countries like Korea and Japan, this is felt first. In more countries this effect will be noticed soon, I expect.
There is no distinct line between server hardware and desktop hardware. A lower end server is easily build from decent desktop components. The bottom line is: buy good hardware.
Don't skimp on the harddrives, but go for reliable ones. SATA Raptors are as reliable as many SCSI drives, and go in any modern desktop. RAID5 them. RAID5 in software isn't much of a CPU hog in modern machines. RAID5 in hardware is faster, but more expensive. Fit to budget.
Hotplugging SATA is not really supported (tested) in Linux, but expect it to mature. When a drive fails at this moment, downtime is unavoidable. In the near future, expect this to improve.
As for the mobo, memory, network, case. Get quality stuff, but don't go overboard. Onboard vga is fine for your purposes: it will act as a server.
Depending on your needs, backup media need to be considered. Put DVD burners in the server. Backup often. When you need more storage, portable harddrives are great. You need more than one.
Most important: (stress)test your equipment before putting it to use. Most broken hardware is broken from the beginning. Failing hardware is much less likely. The biggest difference between so called server hardware, and desktop hardware is the amount of checking it had before it leaves the factory. So do that yourself.
This is not too surprising, because of the different ways Chinese (and Japanese) and English (and all germanistic and romanistic languages) are read.
English is a synthetic language: you have to combine the characters to form the words and grasp concepts.
Chinese is an analytic language: you have to break apart the (combination of) characters to get the meaning to grasp concepts.
Both methods suit different people. People with a latent dyslexia, would not be showing signs of it when the form of reading they use suits their preferred way of thinking. Yet they would show dyslexia when they are already at a disadvantage. This, of course, works both ways.
That and that is also why orbital reentries are at the shallowest angle possible. If their reentry would be any shallower, they would bounce right off. It it was any steeper, braking would be much faster. Then, the brakes would get too hot, and burn up. The brakes being the heat shield, that would not be a good thing.
As this craft does not have to lose this insane amount of energy by braking against the atmosphere, it can come straight down again.
I really believe it. People differ. You obviously don't see it as an appealing prospect. So don't act on it, no hard feelings. However, please accept other people who do feel like I do.
This is not to say that Google is a haven for nerds. I wouldn't know, I've never been there. All I'm saying is that when you do something because you like it, rather than because you're getting paid to do it, you do it better. Because you care. Money can be gotten anywhere.
Google recognizes that, and tries to find people who like to do what Google needs, and therefore do it better, because they like to.
I'm sorry to hear that you're stuck in a job you don't like. OTOH, if it were possible to have a job you actually liked, with co-workers you can relate to, you probably wouldn't that be that cynical. And if you were less cynical you might just find that.
Most geeks are ridiculed by people who cannot understand our way of thinking. It would be a nice change to be in an environment where that was not so. Google understands that. They created an environment where geeks thrive. Now they are expanding, and are attempting to keep that environment functional. It's their basis of success.
I'm like that too, so I keep up the pressure: on top of my day job as a perl programmer, I'm in lawschool (getting my bachelor this year) and recently started learning Japanese. Besides that, I've got a whole load of hobbies. And yes, I'm married, so I do need to spend time with my family.
It's not as much stress that causes me to work hard, but pressure helps me to focus and keeps me from slacking. I've found that it is slacking that causes boredom and gets me feeling stressed. Keeping busy helps me to feel good, and the variation keeps me from getting bored. Go figure.
No document conversion. Document conversion is a pain. Are you LISTENING Palm?
Palm's document conversion, while a pain, is a leftover from the early days. Nowadays there are viewers for most document formats.
Documents are always converted, when viewed, stored in memory, etc. When palm was first released, it came with little memory, and little processing power. To store documents, document format should be as sparse as possible, with no unusable information that would take up memory and use processor time when viewing.
Nowadays, all PDA's have enough memory and processing power to justify lugging this extra information with it.
Document conversion isn't all bad. It saves memory, so having it as an option is useful. But it should be transparent, i.e. should not require any action/knowledge from the user.
Or use relay-yEnc (http://ziberex.dk/ENG-yEnc.htmI). It's a news proxy that does yenc encoding on the fly. It's also great to use in an organisation, where it will give you a single point to allow news data to/from. You can firewall the rest.
This is the same as saying people with a programming background should not make computer programs.
It's a bit tiresome to hear everybody without any thorough knowledge of the system claim they know better how to make better laws.
Au contraire. Much like inexperienced programmers make unmaintainable code, inexperienced lawmakers make unmaintainable and unenforcable laws. Of course, the same analogy goes for bad programmers and bad lawyers.
Modern airliners can do the the whole takeoff and landing. In fact, pilots are required to do 1/3 of their takeoffs and landings manually, as to not lose practice.
Many frequent fliers know the difference between an automated landing and a manual one. The bumpy ones are the manual landings.
That's a self fulfilling statistic: people with an unsupported browser (in which the page won't render correctly or at all) won't return. Thus, the supported browsers will always be top in the logs, unsupported browsers will stay at accidental hits.
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aparently the unix file system layout is what admins have come to agree on was the best in the last 20+ years. or something like that.
No, the unix filesystem is what admin have found out what works. Every software maker (linux/xyzBSD distro makers too) has his own ideas and puts their software wherever he likes. Of course it may be configurable, but not always, or even often. Often changing the defaults breaks things. It's a mess, with multiple sets of general guidlines, which you are free to choose from.
At least under windows there's a Program Files where things are installed. Ideally. Except for windows components. And only if it's on C:. And that's not counting in the registry. Sigh.
This only allows you 7 images to be used: 3 primary, and 4 on the extended.
That's pretty limited, even on a 32MB usbdrive, when only using floppy images.
format c: /autotest
it's an undocumented feature since early dos, and still supported last time I tried...
that's my password too, but I often stumble over the "sks" part at the end... :)
On the site: Proxies, VPNs, IP Spoofing, Encryption, etc....You Are No Longer Anonymous!!
Well, aren't we glad? There's the proof that lifting anonimity is only for your own good </sarcasm>
No, I don't think it's a preemptive action to prevent DDoS. There are enough drones in the USA, and you can pick the most damaging targets via the google cache. If it is such an attempt, they should fire the webmaster.
My guess is that it saves enough money from bandwidth costs, to make it worth blocking the site.
I have the european version (DVP630 I believe):
open the tray
press 7-8-9-ok-0
It's now region free. Not bad, at 129 euro. (last friday)
You are so right! And yet, you fail to look beyond the surface. My original point wasn't that p2p isn't a big factor. It was that copy protection is a factor. Whether through increased growth of p2p or by itself is not the point, and not sure even.
Obviously there are two processes at work here. One being the ever growing demand for smaller music players and gadgets, which drives the demand for other than-cd-format music. The other being the large and growing p2p volume in South Korea, which in turn causes a lot of music to be available in mp3 format and increases the demand for smaller music players.
How do you know which process is the cause of the other? You assume the p2p process is the cause, and therefore the cause of problems like this decline. Do you work for the RIAA?
Obviously, these processes boost each other, and that's not even considering other factors. Blaming p2p and ethics that don't follow your line of reasoning as the only causes is short sighted.
People listen more and more music through small portable [mp3|ogg|wma|whatever]players, and not directly from a cd player anymore. Thus cds need to be converted to a format that can be listened to. With copy protected cds that is impossible, or at least harder than downloading. The cds aren't usable anymore, so they're not bought.
In high tech countries like Korea and Japan, this is felt first. In more countries this effect will be noticed soon, I expect.
There is no distinct line between server hardware and desktop hardware. A lower end server is easily build from decent desktop components. The bottom line is: buy good hardware.
Don't skimp on the harddrives, but go for reliable ones. SATA Raptors are as reliable as many SCSI drives, and go in any modern desktop. RAID5 them. RAID5 in software isn't much of a CPU hog in modern machines. RAID5 in hardware is faster, but more expensive. Fit to budget.
Hotplugging SATA is not really supported (tested) in Linux, but expect it to mature. When a drive fails at this moment, downtime is unavoidable. In the near future, expect this to improve.
As for the mobo, memory, network, case. Get quality stuff, but don't go overboard. Onboard vga is fine for your purposes: it will act as a server.
Depending on your needs, backup media need to be considered. Put DVD burners in the server. Backup often. When you need more storage, portable harddrives are great. You need more than one.
Most important: (stress)test your equipment before putting it to use. Most broken hardware is broken from the beginning. Failing hardware is much less likely. The biggest difference between so called server hardware, and desktop hardware is the amount of checking it had before it leaves the factory. So do that yourself.
a simple seal would have sufficed.
This is not too surprising, because of the different ways Chinese (and Japanese) and English (and all germanistic and romanistic languages) are read.
English is a synthetic language: you have to combine the characters to form the words and grasp concepts.
Chinese is an analytic language: you have to break apart the (combination of) characters to get the meaning to grasp concepts.
Both methods suit different people. People with a latent dyslexia, would not be showing signs of it when the form of reading they use suits their preferred way of thinking. Yet they would show dyslexia when they are already at a disadvantage. This, of course, works both ways.
That and that is also why orbital reentries are at the shallowest angle possible. If their reentry would be any shallower, they would bounce right off. It it was any steeper, braking would be much faster. Then, the brakes would get too hot, and burn up. The brakes being the heat shield, that would not be a good thing.
As this craft does not have to lose this insane amount of energy by braking against the atmosphere, it can come straight down again.
Application of said substance for treating microbe based diseases.
If it's an invention, it can be patented. The pharmaceutical is not the invention. Processing and application are the inventions.
I really believe it. People differ. You obviously don't see it as an appealing prospect. So don't act on it, no hard feelings. However, please accept other people who do feel like I do.
This is not to say that Google is a haven for nerds. I wouldn't know, I've never been there. All I'm saying is that when you do something because you like it, rather than because you're getting paid to do it, you do it better. Because you care. Money can be gotten anywhere.
Google recognizes that, and tries to find people who like to do what Google needs, and therefore do it better, because they like to.
I'm sorry to hear that you're stuck in a job you don't like. OTOH, if it were possible to have a job you actually liked, with co-workers you can relate to, you probably wouldn't that be that cynical. And if you were less cynical you might just find that.
Most geeks are ridiculed by people who cannot understand our way of thinking. It would be a nice change to be in an environment where that was not so. Google understands that. They created an environment where geeks thrive. Now they are expanding, and are attempting to keep that environment functional. It's their basis of success.
The guy is 50. He probably doesn't even hear frequencies beyond those anymore.
Mindstorms sold about 300% of the expected number of boxes the first year.
If that's a financial flop for Lego, I don't want to know how they survived this long.
I'm like that too, so I keep up the pressure: on top of my day job as a perl programmer, I'm in lawschool (getting my bachelor this year) and recently started learning Japanese. Besides that, I've got a whole load of hobbies. And yes, I'm married, so I do need to spend time with my family.
It's not as much stress that causes me to work hard, but pressure helps me to focus and keeps me from slacking. I've found that it is slacking that causes boredom and gets me feeling stressed. Keeping busy helps me to feel good, and the variation keeps me from getting bored. Go figure.
No document conversion. Document conversion is a pain. Are you LISTENING Palm?
Palm's document conversion, while a pain, is a leftover from the early days. Nowadays there are viewers for most document formats.
Documents are always converted, when viewed, stored in memory, etc. When palm was first released, it came with little memory, and little processing power. To store documents, document format should be as sparse as possible, with no unusable information that would take up memory and use processor time when viewing.
Nowadays, all PDA's have enough memory and processing power to justify lugging this extra information with it.
Document conversion isn't all bad. It saves memory, so having it as an option is useful. But it should be transparent, i.e. should not require any action/knowledge from the user.
I mean, I saw this before
Or use relay-yEnc (http://ziberex.dk/ENG-yEnc.htmI). It's a news proxy that does yenc encoding on the fly. It's also great to use in an organisation, where it will give you a single point to allow news data to/from. You can firewall the rest.
This is the same as saying people with a programming background should not make computer programs.
It's a bit tiresome to hear everybody without any thorough knowledge of the system claim they know better how to make better laws.
Au contraire. Much like inexperienced programmers make unmaintainable code, inexperienced lawmakers make unmaintainable and unenforcable laws. Of course, the same analogy goes for bad programmers and bad lawyers.
Modern airliners can do the the whole takeoff and landing. In fact, pilots are required to do 1/3 of their takeoffs and landings manually, as to not lose practice.
Many frequent fliers know the difference between an automated landing and a manual one. The bumpy ones are the manual landings.
That's a self fulfilling statistic: people with an unsupported browser (in which the page won't render correctly or at all) won't return. Thus, the supported browsers will always be top in the logs, unsupported browsers will stay at accidental hits.