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  1. Re:Meet your MP on UK Becomes Sixth Country to Implement EUCD · · Score: 1

    shouldnt that be faxyourgimp.com

  2. Re:The English are so charmingly eccentric on Broadband Barrage Balloons · · Score: 1

    the US are still trying to use walky talkies arent they?

  3. Re:Searching Technique on Web Searches For What Lies Beneath · · Score: 1

    I worked for an web portal that had on it a well know search engine. Looking through the logs, the most common search was for "" i.e. nothing the users had just hit the search button. This search was double that for "sex" which came a poor second.

  4. How to fool Google on Web Searches For What Lies Beneath · · Score: 1

    5) The number of times a particular page is linked to.
    7) The number of times the linking page is linked.


    This is not hard to manipulate. Put lots of links in your pages instead of "keywords".
    Once again the porn industry leads the way on the web ;-)
    instead of pages that look like this

    sex sex sex sex sex
    sex sex sex sex sex
    sex sex sex sex sex
    sex sex sex sex sex

    they now look like this

    sex sex sex sex sex
    sex sex sex sex sex
    sex sex sex sex sex
    sex sex sex sex sex


    Also I think google looks at the url to see if it matches the search word this is not difficult to manipulate either

    www.foo.com/sex.html has 20 links to www.foo1.com/sex.html etc etc

  5. some tips on On Building High Volume Dynamic Web Sites · · Score: 2


    1)Free text search on your database is going to
    slow down your application. If you can try searching on a summary or title, or try to use a third party search i.e like verity

    2) Have you indexed the tables?

    3) Ram use is very intensive on dynamic sites
    try for 1G to start with

    4) 200 req a second is pretty respectable, put page requests and more importantly dynamic page requests is what you want to measure.

    5) have a look at

    http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/design/site_ building/tutorials/tutorial1
    .html

    for some tips about designing redesigning sites

    6) dont make everything dynamic just because you can

    adios

  6. Re:Nit-picking.. on Compaq to Build Alpha Supercomputer · · Score: 1


    Who says this has anything to do with exporting from the US?

    could be made in france or taiwan

  7. Re:YOU FORGOT THE POPE on Leap Year Woes in Japan · · Score: 1


    No he wasnt

    KAROL JÓSEF WOJTYLA

    1920 May 18 Born in Wadowice (Kraków), Poland.

    http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/b iography/documents/hf_jp-ii_bio_01061996_p re-pontificate_en.html

  8. Re:Wow! on Experiences of Running Linux on a Mainframe · · Score: 1

    what next porting linux to pcs? I cant wait

  9. Re:Wow! on Experiences of Running Linux on a Mainframe · · Score: 1

    whats happened to the moderation on this story?

    guess informed opinions are a rarity these days

  10. Re:This is exactly why I got an MS in CS on The Dark Side of IT · · Score: 1

    totally agree, Its a myth that things are moving/changing quickly. The basic Software engineering constructs/methods have remained
    stable for a long time. If you know these you can
    apply them to 90% of "new" ideas.

  11. he also made this on Sinclair Does Linux · · Score: 1
  12. Tits on NSI challenged over "obscene" domains · · Score: 1


    Tits is a dirty word?
    wow
    glad I don't live in Scunthorpe

  13. 5 Project Managers? on Bid for Geeks? · · Score: 1


    Seems alot to me. What is it you think these Administrators will be doing?

  14. 5 Administrators? on Bid for Geeks? · · Score: 2

    I think they are either trying to jump a sinking ship or have already been laid off. The fact that
    there are 5 administrators in a team of 16 points
    to me that they are trying to leavage the skills of the technical side to pull jobs for the administrators (who while very good at their jobs, do not have the same job opportunities as the technical guys)

    I know I've been in a similar situation. When a previous company was shaky everyone, started sending their cvs out. Pretty soon the employment agencies catched on and twigged that someone could get a full team (v. important word) for the same price as 16 indivuduals (spooky coincidence that the numbers are the same). This is what actual happened. A small company looking to increase there presence in the internet world stepped in and saved the day buying the office, desks, machines etc etc, plus giving the employees
    employment (with better salary). The office that
    they took over is now the main office for the new company. So this can happen.

    good luck with the auction

  15. "Pick and mix" philosphy on Beyond The Holy Circle · · Score: 1

    While I undestand the need to condense and give a sense of cohension to the ideas katz put forward.

    I think it would have been better to give links to some background reading to those of us who are interested in philosophical points he makes. (after all computing is one of the main areas where philosophers find work).

    Then people could find out that Kant and Hume (two names thrown in the hat), rather than agreeing, were pretty much apposed.

    "Kant gives a number of arguments to show that Hume's empiricist positions are untenable because they necessarily presupposes the very claims they set out to disprove. In fact, any coherent account of how we perform even the most rudimentary mental acts of self-awareness and making judgments about objects must presuppose these claims, Kant argues. Hence, while Kant is sympathetic with many parts of empiricism, ultimately it cannot be a satisfactory account of our experience of the world."

    To use philosphers names to add weight to a piece, does Katz, philosophers and us a disservice.

    and to use them to put forward some idea that all philosophers think alike is particularly bad.

    philosphers != enlightenment != anti christian

  16. The Java Apache Project on Review:Java Servlet Programming · · Score: 2


    If you interested in trying out servlets try

    http://java.apache.org/