Don't know if it's a memory leak but my Apache server will work fine for days/weeks, but will begin to get really slow. A restart of httpd fixes it. I'm running Mandrake 8.2.
Is it just me or are do-it-yourself water-cooled PCs just an electrical fire waiting to happen? Unless you have some pretty high grade(expensive) seals, it seems to me the potential for leaks is way too high. I'll definitely think twice before running a partially conductive water through my PC.
...which brings us to rule #7,
NEVER TRUST MAIL-IN REBATES
Seriously, I NEVER factor a mail-in rebate into a product's price. I've been bilked way too many times since companies' main motiviation with these is to find a way to invalidate your refund. Problems with your address, mailed it late, one piece of information missing? Sorry, no refund.
If anyone has any information on any laws affecting honoring mail-in rebates, please pass them along.
With the number of devices in the home that now use DC power, I always thought it might save energy to have one large AC to DC transformer for the house, rather than having "wall wart" adapters for each device. Even when the device is off that wall wart is using energy(feel it, it's always warm). Why not have a more advanced transformer that could adjust for load, and run DC through wires to the whole house. Plus, no more problems trying to plug 2 wall warts into adjacent spots on a power strip!
I know you are asking about server software specifically, but I thought I'd take the opportunity to mention Putty, a suite of useful SSH clients includind a SSH/telnet, Pageant their key manager, and plink their command-line version.
I'd like to change my register from Verisign, but one thing I like about their service is that you can manage your accounts from SSL-protected pages. Does anyone know of other registrars with similar security measures for managing accounts?
This is an interesting comment with many good points, but let's examine #3.
If the buyers keep MCI and/or UUNET running, they now have working networks for which they paid nearly nothing. So they can drop their prices almost to the cost of operation and undercut competitors who had to pay for (and are still paying for) their equipment.
If their equipment is put up for auction, all those competitors out there will have an equal chance to bid up the prices. So it doesn't make sense to say that equipment will go for nearly nothing, allowing huge prices cuts. If the equipment is cheap enough everyone will bid on it, and it won't go for nearly nothing anymore.
Also, don't ignore the positive effects that a cheap equipment auction could have. Maybe some company will be able to keep a few more employees with the money they save buying used MCI racks.
Yes, I do agree to some extent about informing the developers. BUT, open source advocates are always complaining about Microsoft's security through obscurity and how open source is great because you don't have to wait 2 months for MS to issue a patch to even know there was a vulnerability. According to most open source advocates what happened is what's supposed to happen: the hole was announced immediately and users have the choice of whether to keep Apache running.
This is in response to the rather uninformed and questionable security notice by ISS X-Force, about a bug that has already been mentioned on the public mailing lists for Apache and is fixed in CVS for Apache 2.0.
So your company publicizes a bug for IIS, you're a hero. Publicize one for Apache, you're now "uninformed and questionable"? Geez.
One thing I'm surprised that doesn't get mentioned more is the expected response of ISPs to people re-distributing their bandwidth to strangers via wireless. As this becomes more common I think you can count on telecos at the very least preventing customers from sharing bandwidth with the general public with their service agreements. The more people that share a connection the fewer customers telecos will have. Imagine the response from a cable company if someone started sharing their cable TV via wireless!
Expect a response soon from the big ISPs. Wireless is currently in the phase that MP3 sharing was in its infancy, too small a blip to register much. But it will attract attention as more people do this. I wouldn't be surprised to see them even getting laws or FCC regulations that prevent wireless sharing.
Given the recent controversy with Ogg's specification or lack thereof, it is very possible that portable music companies will shy away from the Ogg format. Their reasoning could be that without a spec it is too difficult to incoporate Ogg into their player, or because they suspect Xiph will do something funny with Ogg's free status.
You are very correct, it's silly to have such DB platform-specific syntax in the language. In addition to PEAR which others have mentioned there is also John Lim's ADODB, a DB abstraction layer for PHP. It seems pretty robust, check it out.
Unfortunately, no system is immune to attack. If we switched tommorrow to email instead of snail mail for everything, terrorists would have a tempting target for electronic attack, since vital documents would depend on our electronic infrastructure. Really the only solution is to secure any system as much as possible.
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You beat me to it! Must be too much potasium benzoate in my diet.
Don't know if it's a memory leak but my Apache server will work fine for days/weeks, but will begin to get really slow. A restart of httpd fixes it. I'm running Mandrake 8.2.
Is it just me or are do-it-yourself water-cooled PCs just an electrical fire waiting to happen? Unless you have some pretty high grade(expensive) seals, it seems to me the potential for leaks is way too high. I'll definitely think twice before running a partially conductive water through my PC.
NEVER TRUST MAIL-IN REBATES
Seriously, I NEVER factor a mail-in rebate into a product's price. I've been bilked way too many times since companies' main motiviation with these is to find a way to invalidate your refund. Problems with your address, mailed it late, one piece of information missing? Sorry, no refund.
If anyone has any information on any laws affecting honoring mail-in rebates, please pass them along.
With the number of devices in the home that now use DC power, I always thought it might save energy to have one large AC to DC transformer for the house, rather than having "wall wart" adapters for each device. Even when the device is off that wall wart is using energy(feel it, it's always warm). Why not have a more advanced transformer that could adjust for load, and run DC through wires to the whole house. Plus, no more problems trying to plug 2 wall warts into adjacent spots on a power strip!
This DOE site has a good amount of information about fuel-efficient cars. Among other things there is a list of this model year's hybrid cars.
I'd like to change my register from Verisign, but one thing I like about their service is that you can manage your accounts from SSL-protected pages. Does anyone know of other registrars with similar security measures for managing accounts?
If the buyers keep MCI and/or UUNET running, they now have working networks for which they paid nearly nothing. So they can drop their prices almost to the cost of operation and undercut competitors who had to pay for (and are still paying for) their equipment.
If their equipment is put up for auction, all those competitors out there will have an equal chance to bid up the prices. So it doesn't make sense to say that equipment will go for nearly nothing, allowing huge prices cuts. If the equipment is cheap enough everyone will bid on it, and it won't go for nearly nothing anymore.
Also, don't ignore the positive effects that a cheap equipment auction could have. Maybe some company will be able to keep a few more employees with the money they save buying used MCI racks.
Yes, I do agree to some extent about informing the developers. BUT, open source advocates are always complaining about Microsoft's security through obscurity and how open source is great because you don't have to wait 2 months for MS to issue a patch to even know there was a vulnerability. According to most open source advocates what happened is what's supposed to happen: the hole was announced immediately and users have the choice of whether to keep Apache running.
So your company publicizes a bug for IIS, you're a hero. Publicize one for Apache, you're now "uninformed and questionable"? Geez.
A Chinese free software environment? How will anyone over there be able to understand the prompts?
Expect a response soon from the big ISPs. Wireless is currently in the phase that MP3 sharing was in its infancy, too small a blip to register much. But it will attract attention as more people do this. I wouldn't be surprised to see them even getting laws or FCC regulations that prevent wireless sharing.
Actually they have the SS40 (not the SS40G), which is a slightly older model. I don't see any entry for ss40g.
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Given the recent controversy with Ogg's specification or lack thereof, it is very possible that portable music companies will shy away from the Ogg format. Their reasoning could be that without a spec it is too difficult to incoporate Ogg into their player, or because they suspect Xiph will do something funny with Ogg's free status.
You are very correct, it's silly to have such DB platform-specific syntax in the language. In addition to PEAR which others have mentioned there is also John Lim's ADODB, a DB abstraction layer for PHP. It seems pretty robust, check it out.
Unfortunately, no system is immune to attack. If we switched tommorrow to email instead of snail mail for everything, terrorists would have a tempting target for electronic attack, since vital documents would depend on our electronic infrastructure. Really the only solution is to secure any system as much as possible.