They've been out for at least three to five years now. I started on my R1 about two years ago.
And you're right, these models are not for a beginner. I've got appx. 50-60 hours in my R1, and it still needs another 15-30 hours to finish. If you don't know what you are doing, expect to spend 120-150+ hours on one of these things. They are _very_ detailed.
If you decide to build one, I would recommend that you do the tires sometime in the beginning (after you have done some more simple assemblies for practise). They'll drive you insane later on if you follow the order in the instructions. They take 3+ hours and 4 glue sessions to cut out and assemble (each!), there are hundreds of cuts to make, and they're very finiky. If you don't get everything just right, the tire won't go together correctly.
Also, if you are careful, you can use wood glue instead of white glue which is a bit more sticky and easier to use.
It rained off and on, and the wind was varying from 3-20mph. The entire place was soaked, and there was standing water up to 8" deep. Rain was not a factor, but wind (or lack thereof) was.
The 10:35am flight was canceled due to not enough wind -- 5mph when 10-22mph is needed.
They tried flying it at appx. 12:30 est, but the plane did not lift off, instead sort of flopping off of the end of the rail.
They were slated to fly it again at appx. 2pm. However, the wind shifted to where it was coming from the W/SW at appx 15mph. There is a line of trees to the W that caused turbulent air, so they scrubbed that flight.
At appx. 4:00, they wheeled the flyer out onto the field for the second time. They started it, did the run up (it sounds very similar to a lawnmower engine), but had to scrub the flight due to not enough wind -- 3mph. The front that brought all of the rain had passed through, and left a lull in its wake.
There were several things to see at Kill Devil Hill, including the replica 1911 flyer, a couple other replica 1903 flyers, and several other displays including a space shuttle engine.
They alluded to trying again next year. The replica 1903 flyer is slated to be displayed at the Henry Ford museum.
It isn't that the hash can be substituded for your password, but that with this database, they're able to map the hash to every single possible password. So, in order to brute-force a password, you use the list of passwords *known* to generate the hash, and try all of them until you get a match.
Of course, to make this of any use, you'd have to have access to the hash, which is difficult.
You are absolutely correct. I break up my day into 3 pieces:
1. Cleaning up/refactoring code. This includes removing redundant/inefficient code and moving our site towards XHTML 1.0 transitional compliance. Most of the code base is HTML 4.0, and very table-oriented. Like I said in my last post, I've probably weeded out some 5 000 loc over the past year or so. I know there is at least 10 000 loc that can be removed, given enough time.
2. Bug fixes. Because the site is fairly mature, this is usually the least of my worries. Right now, I only have about 4 open bugs. On a bad day, I'll get 4-5 bug reports for very minor things that are fixed within minutes.
3. Adding features. This, of course, takes up most of my day.
The question was whether or not PHP could be managed when it approaches 100 000 loc. I posted that it could. It's manageable even though there are hacks and there is some pretty nasty spaghetti code.
Good vs Bad programming kinda takes a backseat to Just Getting Things Done when you are under pressure and behind schedule.
I've actually been reducing code size recently. I'm sure we were over 95k at one point.
And then I ran the same thing on my intranet and got:
8679 total
for a grand total of 98,649 loc.
I was the sole developer for about a year, and we now have two developers. The project is about 5 years old.
The database is about 7gb if you include all of the archived data. We have about 5000 logins per day (you have to login to use the system), and serve up 10 000 000 hits/month; 3 600 000 pages/month; 120gb/month.
The site is running on a Dell 2450 running two 733mhz PIIIs with 768mb of ram. The database is a 2650 with dual 2.2 Xenons and 2gb of ram.
CPU usage never goes above 60% on either server. The key to PHP speed is to use an accelerator, we use phpa. That in itself was worth about 2x increase in performance.
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In other words, those aren't real search results, they're who paid the most to be in MSN's search engine.
Use the WASD keys for movement. It seperates your aiming and shooting from your moving. It also frees up the hard to press middle button for things that you rarely use but are handy -- say weapon shot mode (1, 3, full) or flashlight or whatever.
I tried building a RAID 0+1 system with a RocketRAID 133 on a dual athlon system running linux. I ran into nothing but problems:
- The card crashed at boot. Display corruption. Luckially a BIOS flash fixed that. - The card doesn't support booting Linux. At all. - The card's drivers for linux are horrible. It took me 2 days of fiddling with compile settings and kernel settings, and all sorts of settings before linux would even recognize the card. - Once I got the card running, Sybase would crash out hard, taking the system with it, when trying to load in a largish database (3gb). I'm not sure if it was because of the HighPoint card or because of the Athlons, but it just didn't work out.
In the end, I gave up, sent all the parts back to newegg.com and bought a Dell with proper SCSI RAID.
Brilliant. Yeah, I know Mengelev. He, Hitler, Stalin, and myself go way back.
No, I don't work for Creative. I just like my Zen. It cost about $100 less than the iPod, and it sounds great. The earphones it comes with are complete crap; muddy, muffled, and dark. Replace them with some Sony MDR-CD180s and it sounds great.
Their customer support is bad. The Jukeboxes were fragile. I went through 3 of them under warrenty just by using them here at work.
I have had no problems with the Zen, and am completely pleased with it. The iPod has the nifty touch screen and nifty UI, but it is expensive.
It's from a Saturday Night Live skit where Wil Ferrel is playing the cowbell for the Blue Oyster Cult. Christopher Walkin is the mixer, and he comes in and says something like "that was great guys, but it really needed more cowbell." Funny stuff.
How about drinking less beer, eating better, and exercising at home?
You can also try simple things like parking in the furthest parking spot in the lot, drinking water instead of coke, and not having a big mac everyday for lunch.
The Zen comes with a LiON battery that lasts about 11-12 hrs at a decent volume (between 9 and 11). The USB 2.0 version can charge from the USB cord.
It has a nice interface that boots up in about 2 seconds. I can do whatever I want to with the jukebox, while it is playing a MP3 without any noticable slowdown or lockout. The buttons are well placed, and the unit itself is fairly well constructed.
This is my 4th creative player, and I can't really speak highly of their quality. The zen is leaps ahead of the 3 jukeboxes I owned. But it is far behind the iPod, judging from the limited use of the iPod I've had with in-store demos.
My first jukebox's stop button stopped working. Something cracked, broke, or whatever and fell behind it. Took it back to best buy with no problems.
My second jukebox liked to randomly double the volume of the playback for about 1/10th of a second. I almost threw it across the room. Several times.
My third jukebox had a messed up jack in the back for the multi-speaker output. I never used those jacks, but when I noticed they were broken, Best Buy said it was too late to fix.
I got a $300 cert to Best Buy from work as a Christmas bonus. Gave my friend the jukebox and bought the Zen, after doing some research.
The Zen's menu button is now a little.. wonky. It feels like something is catching, probably a spring off center or whatever. I've taken the unit apart as far as possible without voiding my warrenty, but don't see anything wrong with it. It is just a minor annoyance, and I don't want to go through the warrenty process for it.
On the upside, the Zen has really nice sound quality. The headphones it comes with are crap. Use something like the Sony MDR-CD180, and you'll be glad you bought the Zen.
And then later, if you needed to switch to PostgreSQL, you would change one line of code:
$con = new dbPostgreSQLCon(server params here);
Sure, you could write an abstraction layer and rewrite that if you wanted to change the underlying database, but then you wouldn't be able to use multiple databases in the same script.
Well, you could, if you encapsulated everything into an array with attributes ($con["db_type"]="MySQL"), but then you are just reinventing the OOP wheel.
Another advantage is when you have data that needs to be consistently massaged. You can say $obj->GetSomething() and the GetSomething method can massage the whatever before it returns it. You've got one place to change how the somethings look on your entire website.
OOP isn't the magic hammer that the Java people want you to belive it is. Though, when used properly in a mix of procedural and OO programming, maintainability and code clarity goes up dramatically for little extra work.
It works fine on my Windows 2000 machine. IE is most definitly required though, as it is used for all in-game message boards, chat boards, and several other things.
I honestly don't find it very fun though. It feels like Instant Messaging with a twist. I never liked the whole MMO genre, so your experience may be better.
Also, the beta is limited for a handful of hours every night, and I'm never around.
The most enjoyable thing I did was to get on a hover board and mow down the people standing around and chatting. Line up, get some speed (10mph), and *thwap* 20 people go flying across the screen. So much for the "realistic physics."
The next day they sent out a message to all beta testers to say that this kind of behaviour was no longer allowed.
This is the only movie that has ever actually scared me. Most other horror movies seem too predictable and fake. Blair Witch was neither. The format was truly unique, and made for a great movie. 4 stars!
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Sigma has released two camera bodies based on the Foveon X3 chip: the SD-9 and the SD-10
I haven't seen any reviews of them either. The idea is great, and it seems to cut down on the moire patter.
They've been out for at least three to five years now. I started on my R1 about two years ago.
And you're right, these models are not for a beginner. I've got appx. 50-60 hours in my R1, and it still needs another 15-30 hours to finish. If you don't know what you are doing, expect to spend 120-150+ hours on one of these things. They are _very_ detailed.
If you decide to build one, I would recommend that you do the tires sometime in the beginning (after you have done some more simple assemblies for practise). They'll drive you insane later on if you follow the order in the instructions. They take 3+ hours and 4 glue sessions to cut out and assemble (each!), there are hundreds of cuts to make, and they're very finiky. If you don't get everything just right, the tire won't go together correctly.
Also, if you are careful, you can use wood glue instead of white glue which is a bit more sticky and easier to use.
The flyer didn't fly today.
It rained off and on, and the wind was varying from 3-20mph. The entire place was soaked, and there was standing water up to 8" deep. Rain was not a factor, but wind (or lack thereof) was.
The 10:35am flight was canceled due to not enough wind -- 5mph when 10-22mph is needed.
They tried flying it at appx. 12:30 est, but the plane did not lift off, instead sort of flopping off of the end of the rail.
They were slated to fly it again at appx. 2pm. However, the wind shifted to where it was coming from the W/SW at appx 15mph. There is a line of trees to the W that caused turbulent air, so they scrubbed that flight.
At appx. 4:00, they wheeled the flyer out onto the field for the second time. They started it, did the run up (it sounds very similar to a lawnmower engine), but had to scrub the flight due to not enough wind -- 3mph. The front that brought all of the rain had passed through, and left a lull in its wake.
There were several things to see at Kill Devil Hill, including the replica 1911 flyer, a couple other replica 1903 flyers, and several other displays including a space shuttle engine.
They alluded to trying again next year. The replica 1903 flyer is slated to be displayed at the Henry Ford museum.
You're absolutely right (and an AC corrected me earlier). I left my thinking cap off when I posted. Mea culpa.
yeah, you're absolutely correct! I completely forgot about that little caveat with hashes.
It isn't that the hash can be substituded for your password, but that with this database, they're able to map the hash to every single possible password. So, in order to brute-force a password, you use the list of passwords *known* to generate the hash, and try all of them until you get a match.
Of course, to make this of any use, you'd have to have access to the hash, which is difficult.
Drag. Actually, heat from drag. Metal expands when heated, and flying supersonic generates an impressive amount of heat.
Same thing with the SR-71. Apparently, it leaked like a seive until it warmed up enough for the fuel cells to seal correctly.
You are absolutely correct. I break up my day into 3 pieces:
1. Cleaning up/refactoring code. This includes removing redundant/inefficient code and moving our site towards XHTML 1.0 transitional compliance. Most of the code base is HTML 4.0, and very table-oriented. Like I said in my last post, I've probably weeded out some 5 000 loc over the past year or so. I know there is at least 10 000 loc that can be removed, given enough time.
2. Bug fixes. Because the site is fairly mature, this is usually the least of my worries. Right now, I only have about 4 open bugs. On a bad day, I'll get 4-5 bug reports for very minor things that are fixed within minutes.
3. Adding features. This, of course, takes up most of my day.
The question was whether or not PHP could be managed when it approaches 100 000 loc. I posted that it could. It's manageable even though there are hacks and there is some pretty nasty spaghetti code.
Good vs Bad programming kinda takes a backseat to Just Getting Things Done when you are under pressure and behind schedule.
I just ran the same thing on the website and got:
89970 total
I've actually been reducing code size recently. I'm sure we were over 95k at one point.
And then I ran the same thing on my intranet and got:
8679 total
for a grand total of 98,649 loc.
I was the sole developer for about a year, and we now have two developers. The project is about 5 years old.
The database is about 7gb if you include all of the archived data. We have about 5000 logins per day (you have to login to use the system), and serve up 10 000 000 hits/month; 3 600 000 pages/month; 120gb/month.
The site is running on a Dell 2450 running two 733mhz PIIIs with 768mb of ram. The database is a 2650 with dual 2.2 Xenons and 2gb of ram.
CPU usage never goes above 60% on either server. The key to PHP speed is to use an accelerator, we use phpa. That in itself was worth about 2x increase in performance.
PHP works great for us.
In other words, those aren't real search results, they're who paid the most to be in MSN's search engine.
Use the WASD keys for movement. It seperates your aiming and shooting from your moving. It also frees up the hard to press middle button for things that you rarely use but are handy -- say weapon shot mode (1, 3, full) or flashlight or whatever.
I tried building a RAID 0+1 system with a RocketRAID 133 on a dual athlon system running linux. I ran into nothing but problems:
- The card crashed at boot. Display corruption. Luckially a BIOS flash fixed that.
- The card doesn't support booting Linux. At all.
- The card's drivers for linux are horrible. It took me 2 days of fiddling with compile settings and kernel settings, and all sorts of settings before linux would even recognize the card.
- Once I got the card running, Sybase would crash out hard, taking the system with it, when trying to load in a largish database (3gb). I'm not sure if it was because of the HighPoint card or because of the Athlons, but it just didn't work out.
In the end, I gave up, sent all the parts back to newegg.com and bought a Dell with proper SCSI RAID.
Wow, way to be pedantic.
It's COMEDY. It's supposed to be FUNNY, not accurate. Sheesh.
Brilliant. Yeah, I know Mengelev. He, Hitler, Stalin, and myself go way back.
No, I don't work for Creative. I just like my Zen. It cost about $100 less than the iPod, and it sounds great. The earphones it comes with are complete crap; muddy, muffled, and dark. Replace them with some Sony MDR-CD180s and it sounds great.
Their customer support is bad. The Jukeboxes were fragile. I went through 3 of them under warrenty just by using them here at work.
I have had no problems with the Zen, and am completely pleased with it. The iPod has the nifty touch screen and nifty UI, but it is expensive.
The software is total crap. No doubt about it. The stuff from redchair is better, but still buggy in different ways.
Or you could opt for a Creative Nomad Zen that has 2x the storage of your iPod, costs less than any iPod, and has Creative's legendary sound quality.
If you really must have the nifty white look, there is the Creative Zen NX that holds 30 GB and has even more features.
It's from a Saturday Night Live skit where Wil Ferrel is playing the cowbell for the Blue Oyster Cult. Christopher Walkin is the mixer, and he comes in and says something like "that was great guys, but it really needed more cowbell." Funny stuff.
How about drinking less beer, eating better, and exercising at home?
You can also try simple things like parking in the furthest parking spot in the lot, drinking water instead of coke, and not having a big mac everyday for lunch.
Fossil already has a watch designed to work with SPOT, and it is supposed to be available this summer. It looks a little bulky, but definitly useable.
Click here to see it.
"Uh oh!"
**not funny unless you actually watch Sealab 2021**
I have a Zen 20GB USB 2.0.
The Zen comes with a LiON battery that lasts about 11-12 hrs at a decent volume (between 9 and 11). The USB 2.0 version can charge from the USB cord.
It has a nice interface that boots up in about 2 seconds. I can do whatever I want to with the jukebox, while it is playing a MP3 without any noticable slowdown or lockout. The buttons are well placed, and the unit itself is fairly well constructed.
This is my 4th creative player, and I can't really speak highly of their quality. The zen is leaps ahead of the 3 jukeboxes I owned. But it is far behind the iPod, judging from the limited use of the iPod I've had with in-store demos.
My first jukebox's stop button stopped working. Something cracked, broke, or whatever and fell behind it. Took it back to best buy with no problems.
My second jukebox liked to randomly double the volume of the playback for about 1/10th of a second. I almost threw it across the room. Several times.
My third jukebox had a messed up jack in the back for the multi-speaker output. I never used those jacks, but when I noticed they were broken, Best Buy said it was too late to fix.
I got a $300 cert to Best Buy from work as a Christmas bonus. Gave my friend the jukebox and bought the Zen, after doing some research.
The Zen's menu button is now a little.. wonky. It feels like something is catching, probably a spring off center or whatever. I've taken the unit apart as far as possible without voiding my warrenty, but don't see anything wrong with it. It is just a minor annoyance, and I don't want to go through the warrenty process for it.
On the upside, the Zen has really nice sound quality. The headphones it comes with are crap. Use something like the Sony MDR-CD180, and you'll be glad you bought the Zen.
Well, you could, if you encapsulated everything into an array with attributes ($con["db_type"]="MySQL"), but then you are just reinventing the OOP wheel.
Another advantage is when you have data that needs to be consistently massaged. You can say $obj->GetSomething() and the GetSomething method can massage the whatever before it returns it. You've got one place to change how the somethings look on your entire website.
OOP isn't the magic hammer that the Java people want you to belive it is. Though, when used properly in a mix of procedural and OO programming, maintainability and code clarity goes up dramatically for little extra work.
It works fine on my Windows 2000 machine. IE is most definitly required though, as it is used for all in-game message boards, chat boards, and several other things.
I honestly don't find it very fun though. It feels like Instant Messaging with a twist. I never liked the whole MMO genre, so your experience may be better.
Also, the beta is limited for a handful of hours every night, and I'm never around.
The most enjoyable thing I did was to get on a hover board and mow down the people standing around and chatting. Line up, get some speed (10mph), and *thwap* 20 people go flying across the screen. So much for the "realistic physics."
The next day they sent out a message to all beta testers to say that this kind of behaviour was no longer allowed.
Or even better:
"ok, after building that armory, I want you to get two clips and build this res node"
clicky-clicky-waypoint
clicky-clicky-waypoint
noob gets 250 rounds of ammo primary, and 30 rounds secondary, taking 2 precious minutes.
*grr*
"GO!"
clicky-clicky-waypoint
clicky-clicky-waypoint
"can I have a jetpack?"
no.
"HMG?"
no. the game just started. We need res.
clicky-clicky-waypoint
"move to your waypoint soldier"
"armor?"
no!
"comm, you suck!"
*chomp chomp* newbie dies with 300 rounds of ammo.
This is the only movie that has ever actually scared me. Most other horror movies seem too predictable and fake. Blair Witch was neither. The format was truly unique, and made for a great movie. 4 stars!