Yup. Its called a compressed filesystem. Just like those stupid RAM doublers..... unless you have cycles to burn or a *LOT* of redundant data, its a waste of time.
Finding a row in an indexed table is at least as fast as finding a file in a directory. Most network DB connections involve converting binary data to string, but that is only a constant factor in space/performance. Your assertion that reading a file is really an order of magnitude faster than reading a row from an indexed table is dubious at best.
Caching, low priority deletes, etc are also found in most modern DBs. Many DBs are also quite resource efficient (I can't speak for Oracle though....).
Genetic females have a redundant X chromosome. Its like a RAID array for genetic information. For example, this is why men are an order of magnitude more likely to suffer from color blindness.
at t=impact: dv/dt (downward) ~= -(2*v(t_impact - delta) - E), where E = energy absorbed by destruction of the hard disk, acoustic dispersion, heat, etc..
i.e., negative acceleration is instantaneous only.
change in acceleration == "jerk". for hard disk drives, abs(jerk) >> 0 => data loss.
I am to (stupid|lazy|ignorant|important|stingy) to (do my own research|make use of appropriate commercial services|read the fucking manual|use google|pay for advertising). Please take care of my (personel problem|hardware issue|software issue|publicity|homework) for me. Even though my pathetic plea is in no way related to news, nor does it have any more significance than my stinky underwear, I'm sure this request is worthy of a front page story where it will be viewed by many thousands of (dorks|nerds|geeks|lusers|hax0rs|trolls) who have nothing better to do than reload slashdot all day. Thank you, and I apologize in advance if this is a dupe.
Human reaction times are no different but the control latency is significantly improved, e.g. power steering (obviously) and brake-assist which cuts valuable milliseconds off time to reach maximum breaking power. And, new tech like adaptive cruise control and vehicle stability control, the logical extension of which is partially or fully automated emergency condition handling.
None of the justices are actually undecided about what they will rule, its all determined well in advance of any case actually *getting* to the SC. After all, things generally don't go straight to the SC -- first they wind through some lower courts, so the facts are already known.
All the "deliberation" and the selection of one of the justices to be "undecided" is just an illusion to make us all think that this process of unilateral rule is actually democratic -- its not -- its nothing more than a pile of paperwork with a pigs nose.
Sorry for the rant. Have a nice day.:) Buy McDonalds and smoke Marlboro. USA! USA! USA!
i also use some assorted python scripts that watch the system logs for common attacks that portsentry does not pick up (e.g., repeated ssh login failures), and then dynamically block those IP / port combos as necessary.
I think you'd better try submitting that resume again. IIRC they have an automated reply message, so they probably didn't get it.
MAKE has some goods but a lot of junk
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Its _loaded_ with annoying ads, and aside from the 3-4 articles that actually tell you how to do something, the rest of the mag looks like reruns of content I've already seen on Wired News, Slashdot, etc -- in many cases stuff that is 6+ months old.
The how-to articles are decent though. I just wish they would drop the rest of the crap and stick to the goods.
- Kerberos domain server (and support for all the various services to authenticate using this) - Jboss / tomcat (I've never used it though) - MySQL (also I don't use this) - Firewall - Bind DNS - DHCP server - And, the Shiny Happy GUI tools are *networked* so you can tweak all the above services on any of the headless machines in your cluster - The hardware monitor / alert tools are also networked and can send you quite a lot of emails if something gets too hot. - If you happen to have an Xserve then you also get console-on-serial support. - In tiger there is some kind of Xgrid manager as well... I've not looked at this in much detail though.
- Serve network boot images to OSX clients and Xnodes - Apache with high performance cache - Open Directory server -- master, client or replica - Quicktime streaming server - iChat server (in Tiger) - IP failover - Hardware status monitoring (on the Xserve) - Integrated postfix mail server (also a high performance config) - VPN (PPTP and IPSec) server - Shiny Happy Fun GUI tools to configure most of the above (YMMV) - Can also run Xsan
In other news today, the BSA announced they are beginning an audit of The Economist.
Re:DVORAK for real world, SysAdmin/Programming use
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the location of symbols on dvorak is not significantly different from querty. some of them are easier to reach, esp. english puncuation like comma, period, dash, quotes. I find the semicolon very easy to reach as well, it is the querty "Z" key.
I would guess that in a contest of typing only symbols, dvorak would win because it spreads more of them out, i.e. assigns some to each hand so the load is more balanced (there is a speed advantage as well since one hand can prepare for the next while the other is still executing the current).
Actually LSD is a great stimulant(*). Good for unhindered creativity and cultivating an appreciation for the big picture. In other words, "Thinking different".
In fact, I'm suprised Mac OSX doesn't ship with a sheet of the stuff.
one thing about cowon/iaudio that is kind of annoying is that they seem to have about 5 different websites, but not all of them are always up to date. e.g., there are better user forums here: http://www.jetaudio.com/forums/index.php
iaudio (aka cowon) makes a couple of small players that have all the same features as iriver (ogg included).
the iaudio players also function as usb mass storage drives right out of the box, for those who abhor stupid "media player" software and all their crappy DRM restrictions -- copying music (or any other file you want to carry) is literally plug-and-play, drag-n-drop.
iaudio has also just released 2gb flash players (I have one). within a couple of months there should be more and more 2gb players on the market.
Re:Ruby on Rails as a threat to PHP?
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he transition from PHP 4 to PHP 5.
And what transition would that be, excatly? PHP5 is almost completely back-compatible with PHP4.
Obviously you have never asked the question -- you would be suprised. The causes of asthma are multiple and their inter-relations are generally not very well understood.
Its called the "healthy smoker effect" and several prior studies have concluded that smoking has a protective effect against athsma. Still other studies have found conflicting results regarding the role of second hand smoke in asthma.
Subsequent reanalysis of the data revealed uncorrected biases which gives us the answer that we now believe to be correct.
Check out this quote from American Journal of Respiratory Care:
""" Smoking and adult asthma
A healthy smoker effect?...clip...
Unfortunately, the authors missed an opportunity to advance our understanding of cigarette smoking as a possible cause of adult asthma. This is because they examined the impact of current smoking at baseline interview on the risk of subsequent asthma, which may have biased their results. In Table 3 of their article, there is no statistical relationship between current smoking and asthma risk. In fact, the odds ratio is less than 1.0, which could erroneously suggest a protective effect of smoking.
These observations may be explained by a selection bias termed the "healthy smoker effect" (3). Because most people start smoking during adolescence, a substantial proportion will have stopped by young or middle adulthood. Basagaña and colleagues observed this phenomenon: at the baseline interview, 276 of the 1,264 ever smokers had quit. Many of those who quit smoking probably did so because they experienced respiratory symptoms, such as cough or wheezing. As a consequence, the pool of current smokers at baseline interview is probably enriched for persons who have experienced fewer smoking-related respiratory symptoms. In other words, the current smokers are "healthier" from the respiratory standpoint and are less likely to have, or develop, asthma. This selection process can bias the relationship between smoking and asthma, masking a true causal effect of smoking. In fact, this bias can even make smoking appear to reduce the risk of asthma, as recognized by previous investigators (4). """
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Yup. Its called a compressed filesystem. Just like those stupid RAM doublers..... unless you have cycles to burn or a *LOT* of redundant data, its a waste of time.
Finding a row in an indexed table is at least as fast as finding a file in a directory. Most network DB connections involve converting binary data to string, but that is only a constant factor in space/performance. Your assertion that reading a file is really an order of magnitude faster than reading a row from an indexed table is dubious at best.
Caching, low priority deletes, etc are also found in most modern DBs. Many DBs are also quite resource efficient (I can't speak for Oracle though....).
Genetic females have a redundant X chromosome. Its like a RAID array for genetic information. For example, this is why men are an order of magnitude more likely to suffer from color blindness.
at t=impact+/-delta, dv/dt = 9.8m/s.
at t=impact: dv/dt (downward) ~= -(2*v(t_impact - delta) - E), where E = energy absorbed by destruction of the hard disk, acoustic dispersion, heat, etc..
i.e., negative acceleration is instantaneous only.
change in acceleration == "jerk". for hard disk drives, abs(jerk) >> 0 => data loss.
Can it give me a decent signal more than one room away from the AP?
Depends if you are in a steel frame building or not.... if only modern architects would think of the geeks.
Next time I'll take the Rational Support plan, thank you.
I am to (stupid|lazy|ignorant|important|stingy) to (do my own research|make use of appropriate commercial services|read the fucking manual|use google|pay for advertising). Please take care of my (personel problem|hardware issue|software issue|publicity|homework) for me. Even though my pathetic plea is in no way related to news, nor does it have any more significance than my stinky underwear, I'm sure this request is worthy of a front page story where it will be viewed by many thousands of (dorks|nerds|geeks|lusers|hax0rs|trolls) who have nothing better to do than reload slashdot all day. Thank you, and I apologize in advance if this is a dupe.
mod parent up. both of the slashdot links are worthless.
here is the press release from yahoo:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050803/35316.html?.v=1
Human reaction times are no different but the control latency is significantly improved, e.g. power steering (obviously) and brake-assist which cuts valuable milliseconds off time to reach maximum breaking power. And, new tech like adaptive cruise control and vehicle stability control, the logical extension of which is partially or fully automated emergency condition handling.
The SF bay area has a lot of tech wealth -- i.e., smart money. In Socal its all old money and big media.
There is also the (possible correlated) fact that the bay area is saturated with over-qualified techies, but they are somewhat rare in socal.
I live in the bay area but almost all of my income comes from non-local sources. Local work just isn't worth it (unless its google, maybe).
None of the justices are actually undecided about what they will rule, its all determined well in advance of any case actually *getting* to the SC. After all, things generally don't go straight to the SC -- first they wind through some lower courts, so the facts are already known.
:) Buy McDonalds and smoke Marlboro. USA! USA! USA!
All the "deliberation" and the selection of one of the justices to be "undecided" is just an illusion to make us all think that this process of unilateral rule is actually democratic -- its not -- its nothing more than a pile of paperwork with a pigs nose.
Sorry for the rant. Have a nice day.
The slashdot programming team seems to have a policy of ignoring persistent problems for years.
However there are already some major sites with "sound" captchas for the blind -- craiigslist for example.
$0 $100.
i also use some assorted python scripts that watch the system logs for common attacks that portsentry does not pick up (e.g., repeated ssh login failures), and then dynamically block those IP / port combos as necessary.
I think you'd better try submitting that resume again. IIRC they have an automated reply message, so they probably didn't get it.
Its _loaded_ with annoying ads, and aside from the 3-4 articles that actually tell you how to do something, the rest of the mag looks like reruns of content I've already seen on Wired News, Slashdot, etc -- in many cases stuff that is 6+ months old.
The how-to articles are decent though. I just wish they would drop the rest of the crap and stick to the goods.
- Kerberos domain server (and support for all the various services to authenticate using this)
- Jboss / tomcat (I've never used it though)
- MySQL (also I don't use this)
- Firewall
- Bind DNS
- DHCP server
- And, the Shiny Happy GUI tools are *networked* so you can tweak all the above services on any of the headless machines in your cluster
- The hardware monitor / alert tools are also networked and can send you quite a lot of emails if something gets too hot.
- If you happen to have an Xserve then you also get console-on-serial support.
- In tiger there is some kind of Xgrid manager as well... I've not looked at this in much detail though.
- Serve network boot images to OSX clients and Xnodes
- Apache with high performance cache
- Open Directory server -- master, client or replica
- Quicktime streaming server
- iChat server (in Tiger)
- IP failover
- Hardware status monitoring (on the Xserve)
- Integrated postfix mail server (also a high performance config)
- VPN (PPTP and IPSec) server
- Shiny Happy Fun GUI tools to configure most of the above (YMMV)
- Can also run Xsan
Is it also whopping?
In other news today, the BSA announced they are beginning an audit of The Economist.
the location of symbols on dvorak is not significantly different from querty. some of them are easier to reach, esp. english puncuation like comma, period, dash, quotes. I find the semicolon very easy to reach as well, it is the querty "Z" key.
I would guess that in a contest of typing only symbols, dvorak would win because it spreads more of them out, i.e. assigns some to each hand so the load is more balanced (there is a speed advantage as well since one hand can prepare for the next while the other is still executing the current).
Actually LSD is a great stimulant(*). Good for unhindered creativity and cultivating an appreciation for the big picture. In other words, "Thinking different".
In fact, I'm suprised Mac OSX doesn't ship with a sheet of the stuff.
(* do not try this at home)
abandoned? m3 firmware 1.36 was released on may 27 2005.. html ...only one bug fix though... so maybe they have basically dropped development on the m3.
http://www.cowonamerica.com/download/iaudio_rn_m3
one thing about cowon/iaudio that is kind of annoying is that they seem to have about 5 different websites, but not all of them are always up to date. e.g., there are better user forums here: http://www.jetaudio.com/forums/index.php
that and the bad korean->english translations.
iaudio (aka cowon) makes a couple of small players that have all the same features as iriver (ogg included).
the iaudio players also function as usb mass storage drives right out of the box, for those who abhor stupid "media player" software and all their crappy DRM restrictions -- copying music (or any other file you want to carry) is literally plug-and-play, drag-n-drop.
iaudio has also just released 2gb flash players (I have one). within a couple of months there should be more and more 2gb players on the market.
he transition from PHP 4 to PHP 5.
And what transition would that be, excatly? PHP5 is almost completely back-compatible with PHP4.
Obviously you have never asked the question -- you would be suprised. The causes of asthma are multiple and their inter-relations are generally not very well understood.
...clip...
Its called the "healthy smoker effect" and several prior studies have concluded that smoking has a protective effect against athsma. Still other studies have found conflicting results regarding the role of second hand smoke in asthma.
Subsequent reanalysis of the data revealed uncorrected biases which gives us the answer that we now believe to be correct.
Check out this quote from American Journal of Respiratory Care:
"""
Smoking and adult asthma
A healthy smoker effect?
Unfortunately, the authors missed an opportunity to advance our understanding of cigarette smoking as a possible cause of adult asthma. This is because they examined the impact of current smoking at baseline interview on the risk of subsequent asthma, which may have biased their results. In Table 3 of their article, there is no statistical relationship between current smoking and asthma risk. In fact, the odds ratio is less than 1.0, which could erroneously suggest a protective effect of smoking.
These observations may be explained by a selection bias termed the "healthy smoker effect" (3). Because most people start smoking during adolescence, a substantial proportion will have stopped by young or middle adulthood. Basagaña and colleagues observed this phenomenon: at the baseline interview, 276 of the 1,264 ever smokers had quit. Many of those who quit smoking probably did so because they experienced respiratory symptoms, such as cough or wheezing. As a consequence, the pool of current smokers at baseline interview is probably enriched for persons who have experienced fewer smoking-related respiratory symptoms. In other words, the current smokers are "healthier" from the respiratory standpoint and are less likely to have, or develop, asthma. This selection process can bias the relationship between smoking and asthma, masking a true causal effect of smoking. In fact, this bias can even make smoking appear to reduce the risk of asthma, as recognized by previous investigators (4).
"""