I have played with 5 or 6 web based email
packages that I found on the net. Some writen
in Perl and some php3/4. They only one I considered to put on my companys intranet is IMP.
It has a great interfance IMHO and is very easy
to customize. Its been rock solid so far. I have over 1000 people using it on a casual basis (most just use pop). It uses imap as the access agent
which provides for a great "check email.. if you
dont delete then you can pop it down later for storage environment".
In the Goverment on Secure networks. Everything
is locked in rooms with very high security. There
are no outside nework connections and all access
is controlled via cards/guard/and cameras.
Anything that goes into those rooms never leaves
unless it is totally destroyed. I suggest you
put your financial data on lans not connected to
the net what so ever. Does it really need net access? Do the employees really NEED net access
that work with that data? Sniifing the lan over
time might reveal some wierd traffic patterns
you might investigate but at that point you might
have already lost everything.. It basically boils
down to this.. Not everyting should be connected
to the net. And buy pc's with floppy drives..:)
As a sysadmin/manager who hires admins on a regular basis I always look for those that have
college degrees.. Why? Out of the technology people I have come across.. the people with degrees or at least a lot of college (I have 140 credits done with 3 to go), imho have better business skills. By that I mean.. Being able to write well, present material, etc. These are critical skills that you NEED to master. Plus college provides a lot of time to grow up. Most 18 year olds would not be ready to handle the responsibilities I would give to them. Nor would I want an 18 year old making a major presentation to my VP (based on my experience with 18 year olds so far). Now of course there are going to be exceptions to the rule. Go to college, join a frat, Have Fun and study hard. You have the rest of your life to work. I am 29 now, which means I have about 30 more years to go. Plenty of time to amass my fortune. Now I understand how many people feel that comp sci degrees dont relate to real life skills. College does not teach you skills. It teachs theory, How one should format a proposal, Write a sort..etc.
If you feel you already know everything about compsci then do go for compsci. Otherwise pick another degree. I went to college for Biology.
A new company across the street from mine has been
working on inventing new hydrogen/electric car. Esentially its a totally electric car with a small 2 stroke engine burning hydrogen to recharge the batteries. They are getting normal cars converted as well. They have a Honda prelude, and a ford explorer, and a few others. Really neat to see a
ford explorer pull away totally silently. Its essentially a zero emissions car. All it produces is water as a by product. Now you are probably thinking hidenburg like I was when I frist spoke to them. Evedently they have fixed this by using some soapy chemical mixture that when passed through a catalyst it produces hydrogen. Evedently the car only makes hydrogen when it is really needed. So it only has a minumum of hydrogen on board at any time. I have no clue about milage or anything.. It was all very hush hush. I am suprised they told me what they did.
Its seems to me that this thing is a death trap
waiting to happen. What if you have a major engine failure? Death! Helicopters have very high
maintence needs. Can you expect a private
citizen to perform the necesary maintence? At least in a normal helicopter ou can autorotate
if you have a major engine failure. I would expect
you would just drop like a stone in this thing.
It has always been a dream of mine to obtain my helicopter pilots license and purchase one of
those 50k dollar single seater choppers. I wouldnt
be caught dead it one of these things.. we maybe I would be caught dead in one:)
I have worked at a bunch of companies as a consultant and serveral perm places. Not one of them asked me to commit to any length of time to get paid training. Basically the company is shelling out 2k to get some skills they need. Quite a bargin if you ask me. Some skills take forever to learn on your own. Veritas Volume Manager is an example (confusing product). My company didnt have anyone that had decent skills in it. Couple people had hacked around with it but nothing serious. We went out and bought 2 Sun Enterprise 6500's fully loaded, but noone felt comfortable doing the veritas work and supporting it (our main billing servers). So off to training I go:) If we hired a consultant to do the work it would have cost us at LEAST 2k if not a whole lot more. This way they get the skills for a longer period of time, I get some more skills for my resume.. everyone wins. Companies provide training for their own benefit.. not out of the goodness of their hearts. Keeping employees skill sets up is to their direct benefit. I wouldn't sign anything that said I had to pay them back if I left. Within weeks of taking the classes they have already made their money back because of improved effeciency, better quality work.. able to do something I would have hired a consultant to do..etc. IMHO I would find a new company if I were you. This is not a industry standard (at least in the NE).
I am in a similiar situation. Instead of MS its
Sun. I love solaris.. I make my living off of supporting it. Unfortunalty Sun hardware is IMHO way over priced at the workgroup server level when compared to equally powered i386 hardware. I could get a LOT more done with a lot less money if I could convience my company to go linux for the lower end servers. I have managed to get a few linux box's in our environment but its really tough. I need to basically shove it down their throats. Heck I would even be happy with the BSD family.. for example. I want to setup a usenet news server. Several deptartments in my company have asked for one, unfortunatly there is no money in the budget for a 10k dollar server and about 10k worth of disk. If we went i386 hardware I could at least cut this figure in half if not a third and get better performance to boot.
I totally agree with the poster.. we need to get some knowledgable people together to write some
Something versus linux documents that admins can use to convince companies that linux is the way to go. At least on the workgroup server level. I am definatly not saying that linux can replace my enterprise 6500 solaris box, but it can least replace a netra t1 webserver (at a third of the cost).
I dont think it will hurt. I interview people regularly for my department (unix admin) and I find the NT expereince people have useful, although given someone with equal or more unix experience I will take them any day. Be sure to get some good unix admin experience if you want to become a unix admin. I suggest taking a few sun classes after you are done with the mcse and that should help get you in the door somewhere to start. Most people in this industry dont care at all about certs (at least on the unix side). Experience experience experience is where it is at.
If you keep learning throughout your career and keep you skills sharp then there is no reason you easily shouldnt be coding for a long time. I have seen way to many people get comfy in their careers and stop learning. Those who keep learning usually end up managing the lazy ones. I would also suggest that as you age you work towards managment. Techs come and go but managers are tougher to get rid of. Not that they would want to since you are keeping you skills up right?
I used to use freeagent quite happily. Back then they used to be know as churchill benefit. basically you would go out an get a contract with a client. Call up churchhill and used them as you employer for w2 stuff. For about 200 bucks a month they took care of w2, taxes, etc.. plus you could get decent group rates on heath benefits..etc. I think it makes going independant a lot easier since they basically take away all the hassle and let you concentrate 100% on your client. All I had to do was send them a timesheet every week and they billed my client for me.
I have this desk. Works REALLY well. Easily fits my 21" monitor, two computers underneath, two printers, on swivels on each side and a couple external drives. Its doesnt have any drawers but its bigs and roomy. The monitor is on a sheft elevated as well to eye height.
With the dmca, the riaa, and the mpaa suing everyone on the planet it has to stop. Dont they make enough freaking money as it is? If this isnt nipped in the bud NOW our freedoms as consumers are going to go the way of the dodo.
I think a couple things need to happen to start to change things.
1. Setup a website that starts a major Internet petition declaring that until these lawsuits stop NOONE on this list will buy one audio cd or movie. Highly publicize it!
2. Send this petition to every single artist, executive, congressman, news agency that exists. By snail mail if necessary.
Make this bullshit well know to the american people and most will cry foul. We need to turn americas sheep into wolves.
Lastly, one of the real joys of shooting with a high-res digicam like this is getting to see 1600x1200 shots on a big monitor. It is truly amazing; it takes your breath away in a way that film just doesn't. Go to www.catalystinternet.com/photos, bump your monitor up to full screen, and click on the files that start with "DSCN". Those are the raw files coming straight out of the Nikon CoolPix 950, no cropping, no color correction. (Warning: some of those images are 800K in size. If you only have a slow connection and are male and heterosexual you'll only want to look at DSCN1510.JPG.)
BTW.. The red head.. WoWo! I gotta get a sideline pass to an eagles game one of these days. Malice
The depth of field in the pros picture is a feature. And I dont think the color looks washed out. I think it loks more realistic then your picture.. although your picture is very good. I noticed in your picture that there does not seem to be much difference in the colors.. as you move across the players shirt you would normally see varying shades of green as the light hits it at different angles.. Yours seems to be rather flat. The shadow detail is not there. Also.. I bet the pro shot 8 pics in the time it took for you to take one. This is another problem with digitals. You cant do reliable sports photography with them. Digitals are great for snap shots, close objects..etc. You cant really get beyond 100mm with of zone with anything under 10 thousand it seems. Digitals are becoming really amazing but the prices need to come down and the add ons need to go up. I would jump on a chance to get a digital back for my canon elan IIe but I cant justify paying 10x the cost of my camera for one. Digital for newpaper work IMHO rocks. Move on to sports, nature, etc. and to get great pics.. you need a great analog (lens especially).
Combined with the original story today i would suspect that this site has been quite hacked to death by now. I sure hope whoever hacks it that they quietly email all the relavent documents to the linux/*bsd groups working on usb support.
I have used register.com quite a few times. Compared to using network solutions they are a dream! Their web interface makes it really easy to make changes and those changes are propogated rather quickly. No more stupid emailing then and them emailing back..over and over. As long as you know the domain name and the password you can make any and all changes needed. Thye will park your domain for free, not sure about email forwarding though.
Anyone know anyone selling the muppet puppets? Not the original ones of course..although that would be really cool, but replicas? Like a chef puppet or fozzie? I found a place that sells kermit but I can't find any of the other characters:( It would be neat to have a couple puppets in the office to keep the day lively.
Depending on your budget you can do quite a number of things..
The poor/freeware route
1. Seperate out static content from dynamic content. Try to make as much content as static as possible. Does that page need to be built every hit? Maybe it could be built out of cron every 10 mins instead?
2. setup static content on one server or port (on the same machine) and dynamic on another with multiple apache servers running.
3. Tons of ram! cache as much as you can in ram
4. If you have another box set it up as a reverse caching proxy server using squid to cache the static content. Avoid using the nocache tag if at all possible so clients can cahe locally
5. tune mysql/apache to death.. you can do a lot to mysql/apache to improve its speed..see the docs.
6. Optimize all sql queries. Index everything important to your site even if it requires seperate tables. indexing saves a LOT of time.
7. Make sure you use something like mod_perl to maintain static connections to the database so a seperate connection isnt made for every single hit.
8. reduce your images down as much as possible and try to keep the site layout simple.
9. Make sure apache is not doing dns lookups for each hit. Reduce apache and mysql logging if possible.
10. Put the mysql server on a seperate box if possible with at least 100mbit between it and the web server(s).
11. Compile everything from scratch with all optimizations for you processor/platform. Only include modules that you really NEED.
12. DO NOT use.htaccess files at all
13. And dont forget security in all of this..
Layer security.. Mysql should have tcp wrappers installed and a firewall protecting the site as well. Dont do NAT on the firewall unless REALLY needed. Security is a whole of arena but very critical as well. If it is popular you WILL get attacked many times per day. heck my server is dinky and unknown basically and I get hit 4-5 times a day by port scans.
14. Make sure all you servers are in the/etc/hosts table of all the others. files access is faster then dns lookups. Heck using ips instead of names would be best although it can be a pain with a lot of machines.
15. Tune your OS as much as possible.. There are quite a number of tune linux sites out there.
16. Setup raid 1 or 0+1 if possible on wide scsi drives with multiple controllers (at least one for each side of the mirror).
Now if you have some bucks to spend route..
1. everything above + put everything on sperate servers with 100 mbit between them. (switched if possible)
2. IMHO 2 400 mhz cpus (smp) is better then 1 600 mhz cpu when using apache since it is threaded..
If you want to build a site like slashdot then..
1. Load balancing! get a load balancer like a BIG IP product (F5). and plenty of back end web servers.
2. Pick up sybase replication server and replicate your content to multiple databases.. I am told it should work with other databases beside sybase. Load balance the database queries then as well.
3. Get at t3 at least with a 3mbit backup line
Document everything you do so and write a nice article for slashdot so others can have a reference on how to hit 1 mil plus hits per day:) And you get free advertising at the same time.
I cant believe noone has mentioned the pets.com commercial. I thought it was GREAT! actually I like all their commercials but this one was very good. The crying turtle was a nice touch:) The EDS cat hurders one was good to... Just like work every week.
Here are my mirrors.. Remember to mirror early and often. Spread it far and wide! The best way to help is to mirror the software and join the EFF today!
I just ran out and picked one up tonight. Very nice IMHO, although this is my first dvd player so i have nothing to compare it with:( So far it has worked well.. I just have to get used to the remote a bit. I know someone else asked about what remote code this player might emulate.. Well it is majorly screwing with my NEC tv big time. A lot of the remote buttons do stuff to my tv so i suppose there is where you want to start. I can live with it for now since the big screen I bought tonight is coming on Sunday:) !!! Oh and DTS receiver + 5+1 speaker set:) !! Kinda went hog wide but this has been planned for months.
I did notice that when playing the matrix..my only dvd right now I cant figure out how to get back to the opening menu when the dvd is first inserted without ejecting and inserting it again. Is there a better way that i am just missing? Unfortunaly I havent had time to try out the mp3 part but hopefully it will be worth it:)
I worked on trying to get several new ideas rolling that could have done well but its tough to find people to stay interested. There arent a lot of computer folk who really truly LOVE what they do and are willing to spend a lot of free time doing computer stuff. I spend at least 9-10 hours a day at work.. though I could easily go home after 8, I generally am online 4-7 hours minumum per night working on stuff and I hate being away from the computer for more then a few days. Bring my laptop on vacation. I basically love computers.. its tough to find people like me IMHO.. I have looked. Most put in the time they need to to get a paycheck and dont go much further. I think its also a matter of taking time to learn. I am currently building a very dynamic website and I need to learn perl much better, databases from scratch, sql, mason, mod_perl..etc. This takes a lot of time and reading. Most people dont seem to be willing to spend the time to advance their knowledge enough to take it to the next level without serious motivation..like money.
I would suggest you get them to first make a financial commitment in the company.. nothing motivates people like money.. second. Provide a very fun working environment. Maybe on day go out and buy 5 nerf guns and hand them out for nerf wars. People will work harder if they enjoy their jobs. People that dont want to put in the effort should be tossed. You have a long enough road ahead without being held back by slackers. Maybe you could ask people on the net to join your team.
Most people that are online a lot LOVE computers..
Slashdot Mirror
I have played with 5 or 6 web based email
packages that I found on the net. Some writen
in Perl and some php3/4. They only one I considered to put on my companys intranet is IMP.
It has a great interfance IMHO and is very easy
to customize. Its been rock solid so far. I have over 1000 people using it on a casual basis (most just use pop). It uses imap as the access agent
which provides for a great "check email.. if you
dont delete then you can pop it down later for storage environment".
I would definatly reccomend you check it out
at http://www.horde.org
Malice95
In the Goverment on Secure networks. Everything :)
is locked in rooms with very high security. There
are no outside nework connections and all access
is controlled via cards/guard/and cameras.
Anything that goes into those rooms never leaves
unless it is totally destroyed. I suggest you
put your financial data on lans not connected to
the net what so ever. Does it really need net access? Do the employees really NEED net access
that work with that data? Sniifing the lan over
time might reveal some wierd traffic patterns
you might investigate but at that point you might
have already lost everything.. It basically boils
down to this.. Not everyting should be connected
to the net. And buy pc's with floppy drives..
Mike
As a sysadmin/manager who hires admins on a regular basis I always look for those that have
college degrees.. Why? Out of the technology people I have come across.. the people with degrees or at least a lot of college (I have 140 credits done with 3 to go), imho have better business skills. By that I mean.. Being able to write well, present material, etc. These are critical skills that you NEED to master. Plus college provides a lot of time to grow up. Most 18 year olds would not be ready to handle the responsibilities I would give to them. Nor would I want an 18 year old making a major presentation to my VP (based on my experience with 18 year olds so far). Now of course there are going to be exceptions to the rule. Go to college, join a frat, Have Fun and study hard. You have the rest of your life to work. I am 29 now, which means I have about 30 more years to go. Plenty of time to amass my fortune. Now I understand how many people feel that comp sci degrees dont relate to real life skills. College does not teach you skills. It teachs theory, How one should format a proposal, Write a sort..etc.
If you feel you already know everything about compsci then do go for compsci. Otherwise pick another degree. I went to college for Biology.
A new company across the street from mine has been
working on inventing new hydrogen/electric car. Esentially its a totally electric car with a small 2 stroke engine burning hydrogen to recharge the batteries. They are getting normal cars converted as well. They have a Honda prelude, and a ford explorer, and a few others. Really neat to see a
ford explorer pull away totally silently. Its essentially a zero emissions car. All it produces is water as a by product. Now you are probably thinking hidenburg like I was when I frist spoke to them. Evedently they have fixed this by using some soapy chemical mixture that when passed through a catalyst it produces hydrogen. Evedently the car only makes hydrogen when it is really needed. So it only has a minumum of hydrogen on board at any time. I have no clue about milage or anything.. It was all very hush hush. I am suprised they told me what they did.
Malice95
Its seems to me that this thing is a death trap
waiting to happen. What if you have a major engine failure? Death! Helicopters have very high
maintence needs. Can you expect a private
citizen to perform the necesary maintence? At least in a normal helicopter ou can autorotate
if you have a major engine failure. I would expect
you would just drop like a stone in this thing.
It has always been a dream of mine to obtain my helicopter pilots license and purchase one of
those 50k dollar single seater choppers. I wouldnt
be caught dead it one of these things.. we maybe I would be caught dead in one:)
Malice
I have worked at a bunch of companies as a consultant and serveral perm places. Not one of them asked me to commit to any length of time to get paid training. Basically the company is shelling out 2k to get some skills they need. Quite a bargin if you ask me. Some skills take forever to learn on your own. Veritas Volume Manager is an example (confusing product). My company didnt have anyone that had decent skills in it. Couple people had hacked around with it but nothing serious. We went out and bought 2 Sun Enterprise 6500's fully loaded, but noone felt comfortable doing the veritas work and supporting it (our main billing servers). So off to training I go:) If we hired a consultant to do the work it would have cost us at LEAST 2k if not a whole lot more. This way they get the skills for a longer period of time, I get some more skills for my resume.. everyone wins. Companies provide training for their own benefit.. not out of the goodness of their hearts. Keeping employees skill sets up is to their direct benefit. I wouldn't sign anything that said I had to pay them back if I left. Within weeks of taking the classes they have already made their money back because of improved effeciency, better quality work.. able to do something I would have hired a consultant to do..etc. IMHO I would find a new company if I were you. This is not a industry standard (at least in the NE).
I am in a similiar situation. Instead of MS its
Sun. I love solaris.. I make my living off of supporting it. Unfortunalty Sun hardware is IMHO way over priced at the workgroup server level when compared to equally powered i386 hardware. I could get a LOT more done with a lot less money if I could convience my company to go linux for the lower end servers. I have managed to get a few linux box's in our environment but its really tough. I need to basically shove it down their throats. Heck I would even be happy with the BSD family.. for example. I want to setup a usenet news server. Several deptartments in my company have asked for one, unfortunatly there is no money in the budget for a 10k dollar server and about 10k worth of disk. If we went i386 hardware I could at least cut this figure in half if not a third and get better performance to boot.
I totally agree with the poster.. we need to get some knowledgable people together to write some
Something versus linux documents that admins can use to convince companies that linux is the way to go. At least on the workgroup server level. I am definatly not saying that linux can replace my enterprise 6500 solaris box, but it can least replace a netra t1 webserver (at a third of the cost).
Malice
I dont think it will hurt. I interview people regularly for my department (unix admin) and I find the NT expereince people have useful, although given someone with equal or more unix experience I will take them any day. Be sure to get some good unix admin experience if you want to become a unix admin. I suggest taking a few sun classes after you are done with the mcse and that should help get you in the door somewhere to start. Most people in this industry dont care at all about certs (at least on the unix side). Experience experience experience is where it is at.
Mike
I just set this up for my boss. It has no requirement for local user accounts and it can authenticate and deal with aliases from ldap.
/bin/passwd and make sure you lock down ftp.
Or you can just set everyones shell to
Then you could use whatever you want.
Mike
If you keep learning throughout your career
and keep you skills sharp then there is no reason you easily shouldnt be coding for a long time.
I have seen way to many people get comfy in their
careers and stop learning. Those who keep learning
usually end up managing the lazy ones. I would also suggest that as you age you work towards managment. Techs come and go but managers are tougher to get rid of. Not that they would want to since you are keeping you skills up right?
Malice95
I used to use freeagent quite happily. Back then
they used to be know as churchill benefit. basically you would go out an get a contract with
a client. Call up churchhill and used them as you employer for w2 stuff. For about 200 bucks a month
they took care of w2, taxes, etc.. plus you could get decent group rates on heath benefits..etc.
I think it makes going independant a lot easier since they basically take away all the hassle and let you concentrate 100% on your client. All I had to do was send them a timesheet every week and they billed my client for me.
Mike
I have this desk. Works REALLY well. Easily fits
my 21" monitor, two computers underneath, two printers, on swivels on each side and a couple
external drives. Its doesnt have any drawers but
its bigs and roomy. The monitor is on a sheft elevated as well to eye height.
Malice95
With the dmca, the riaa, and the mpaa suing everyone on the planet it has to stop. Dont they make enough freaking money as it is? If this isnt
nipped in the bud NOW our freedoms as consumers are going to go the way of the dodo.
I think a couple things need to happen to start
to change things.
1. Setup a website that starts a major Internet petition declaring that until these lawsuits stop
NOONE on this list will buy one audio cd or movie.
Highly publicize it!
2. Send this petition to every single artist, executive, congressman, news agency that exists.
By snail mail if necessary.
Make this bullshit well know to the american people and most will cry foul. We need to turn
americas sheep into wolves.
Malice95
Lastly, one of the real joys of shooting with a high-res digicam like this is getting to see 1600x1200 shots on a big monitor. It is truly amazing; it takes your breath away in a way that film just doesn't. Go to www.catalystinternet.com/photos, bump your monitor up to full screen, and click on the files that start with "DSCN". Those are the raw files coming straight out of the Nikon CoolPix 950, no cropping, no color correction. (Warning: some of those images are 800K in size. If you only have a slow connection and are male and heterosexual you'll only want to look at DSCN1510.JPG.)
BTW.. The red head.. WoWo! I gotta get a sideline pass to an eagles game one of these days. Malice
The depth of field in the pros picture is a feature. And I dont think the color looks washed out. I think it loks more realistic then your picture.. although your picture is very good. I noticed in your picture that there does not seem to be much difference in the colors.. as you move across the players shirt you would normally see
varying shades of green as the light hits it at different angles.. Yours seems to be rather flat. The shadow detail is not there. Also.. I bet the pro shot 8 pics in the time it took for you to take one. This is another problem with digitals. You cant do reliable sports photography with them. Digitals are great for snap shots, close objects..etc. You cant really get beyond 100mm with of zone with anything under 10 thousand it seems. Digitals are becoming really amazing but the prices need to come down and the add ons need to go up. I would jump on a chance to get a digital back for my canon elan IIe but I cant justify paying 10x the cost of my camera for one. Digital for newpaper work IMHO rocks. Move on to sports, nature, etc. and to get great pics.. you need a great analog (lens especially).
Malice
If this was a fraud, this is the most detailed
version of the story I have ever heard. Almost believeable.. I say Bravo.. Long live the rocket car!
Malice95
Combined with the original story today i would suspect that this site has been quite hacked to death by now. I sure hope whoever hacks it that
they quietly email all the relavent documents
to the linux/*bsd groups working on usb support.
Malice
I have used register.com quite a few times.
Compared to using network solutions they are a dream! Their web interface makes it really easy
to make changes and those changes are propogated
rather quickly. No more stupid emailing then and them emailing back..over and over. As long as you
know the domain name and the password you can make
any and all changes needed. Thye will park your
domain for free, not sure about email forwarding though.
Anyone know anyone selling the muppet puppets? ..although that
Not the original ones of course
would be really cool, but replicas? Like a chef
puppet or fozzie? I found a place that sells
kermit but I can't find any of the other characters:( It would be neat to have a couple
puppets in the office to keep the day lively.
Mike
Depending on your budget you can do quite a number of things..
.htaccess files at all
/etc/hosts table of all the others. files access is faster then dns lookups. Heck using ips instead of names would be best although it can be a pain with a lot of machines.
The poor/freeware route
1. Seperate out static content from dynamic content. Try to make as much content as static as possible. Does that page need to be built every hit? Maybe it could be built out of cron every 10 mins instead?
2. setup static content on one server or port (on the same machine) and dynamic on another with multiple apache servers running.
3. Tons of ram! cache as much as you can in ram
4. If you have another box set it up as a reverse caching proxy server using squid to cache the static content. Avoid using the nocache tag if at all possible so clients can cahe locally
5. tune mysql/apache to death.. you can do a lot to mysql/apache to improve its speed..see the docs.
6. Optimize all sql queries. Index everything important to your site even if it requires seperate tables. indexing saves a LOT of time.
7. Make sure you use something like mod_perl to maintain static connections to the database so a seperate connection isnt made for every single hit.
8. reduce your images down as much as possible and try to keep the site layout simple.
9. Make sure apache is not doing dns lookups for each hit. Reduce apache and mysql logging if possible.
10. Put the mysql server on a seperate box if possible with at least 100mbit between it and the web server(s).
11. Compile everything from scratch with all optimizations for you processor/platform. Only include modules that you really NEED.
12. DO NOT use
13. And dont forget security in all of this..
Layer security.. Mysql should have tcp wrappers installed and a firewall protecting the site as well. Dont do NAT on the firewall unless REALLY needed. Security is a whole of arena but very critical as well. If it is popular you WILL get attacked many times per day. heck my server is dinky and unknown basically and I get hit 4-5 times a day by port scans.
14. Make sure all you servers are in the
15. Tune your OS as much as possible.. There are quite a number of tune linux sites out there.
16. Setup raid 1 or 0+1 if possible on wide scsi drives with multiple controllers (at least one for each side of the mirror).
Now if you have some bucks to spend route..
1. everything above + put everything on sperate servers with 100 mbit between them. (switched if possible)
2. IMHO 2 400 mhz cpus (smp) is better then 1 600 mhz cpu when using apache since it is threaded..
If you want to build a site like slashdot then..
1. Load balancing! get a load balancer like a BIG IP product (F5). and plenty of back end web servers.
2. Pick up sybase replication server and replicate your content to multiple databases.. I am told it should work with other databases beside sybase. Load balance the database queries then as well.
3. Get at t3 at least with a 3mbit backup line
Document everything you do so and write a nice article for slashdot so others can have a reference on how to hit 1 mil plus hits per day:) And you get free advertising at the same time.
Malice95
I cant believe noone has mentioned the pets.com
commercial. I thought it was GREAT! actually I like all their commercials but this one was very good. The crying turtle was a nice touch:) The EDS
cat hurders one was good to... Just like work every week.
Malice95
Maybe its time the eff gets a gag order to equal the playing field.
Here are my mirrors.. Remember to mirror early and often. Spread it far and wide! The best way to help is to mirror the software and join the EFF today!
Join the EFF to help fight this! http://www.eff.org
New Mirrors:
http://www.securityinsight.com
http://hiway1.exit109.com/~malice/
Fight for your rights!
I just ran out and picked one up tonight.
Very nice IMHO, although this is my first dvd player so i have nothing to compare it with:( So far it has worked well.. I just have to get used to the remote a bit. I know someone else asked about what remote code this player might emulate.. Well it is majorly screwing with my NEC tv big time. A lot of the remote buttons do stuff to my tv so i suppose there is where you want to start.
I can live with it for now since the big screen I bought tonight is coming on Sunday:) !!! Oh and DTS receiver + 5+1 speaker set:) !! Kinda went hog wide but this has been planned for months.
I did notice that when playing the matrix..my only dvd right now I cant figure out how to get back to the opening menu when the dvd is first inserted without ejecting and inserting it again. Is there a better way that i am just missing? Unfortunaly I havent had time to try out the mp3 part but hopefully it will be worth it:)
Malice95
I worked on trying to get several new ideas
rolling that could have done well but its tough
to find people to stay interested. There arent
a lot of computer folk who really truly LOVE what they do and are willing to spend a lot of free time doing computer stuff. I spend at least 9-10 hours a day at work.. though I could easily go home after 8, I generally am online 4-7 hours minumum per night working on stuff and I hate being away from the computer for more then a few days. Bring my laptop on vacation. I basically love computers.. its tough to find people like me
IMHO.. I have looked. Most put in the time they need to to get a paycheck and dont go much further. I think its also a matter of taking time to learn. I am currently building a very dynamic
website and I need to learn perl much better, databases from scratch, sql, mason, mod_perl..etc.
This takes a lot of time and reading. Most people dont seem to be willing to spend the time to advance their knowledge enough to take it to the next level without serious motivation..like money.
I would suggest you get them to first make a financial commitment in the company.. nothing motivates people like money.. second. Provide a very fun working environment. Maybe on day go out and buy 5 nerf guns and hand them out for nerf wars. People will work harder if they enjoy their jobs. People that dont want to put in the effort should be tossed. You have a long enough road ahead without being held back by slackers. Maybe
you could ask people on the net to join your team.
Most people that are online a lot LOVE computers..
Mike