1. Create the application with SQL within the code inside some custom DBI object layer.
2. When the query are stabilized inside your DBI functions, morph them to be "prepared" or morph them into stored procedure as needed.
3. This means that your DBA is not the weakest link and tight deadlines can be met.
4. It is better before going in full production to have stored procedure, but it's not required. You can perform some query analysis to see if you can improve performance, by adding indexes, sorting, limits, paging, etc.
5. It is better for long term maintenance to have everything in stored procedure.
6. The reason is you know that if you make changes, you won't break any SQL code, since you have access to everything. In big companies, sometimes this golden rule is broken and you have to patch tables with some white gloves and retest everything crossing fingers.
7. Security should be implemented many ways.
8. You should think of a good compromise between getting the app out of the door, having good performance and long term maintenance and security.
9. I've seen too many companies which have a DBA weakest link that if that guy is sick for few weeks the entire IT department collapse.
10. Like I said it's good if you can use stored procedures but don't go crazy about it.
Clean syntax... You can write some pretty clean syntax in perl just:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -Tw
use warning; use strict; use diagnostics; use vars qw{... };
main(); exit;
# Your perl code.
1;
portable libraries?! What the heck are you smoking dude? I want some! It works on more platforms than any other language, including C because it wraps libc platform weirdness into "you don't have to know or care" equivalent. Think about EBCDIC, incomplete , endianess, file systems that don't have all unixes attributes.
A decent GUI library? There's a Perl/Tk. okay it sux. There's a wrapper for GTK and Windows API. okay it sux too.
There's an HTML API, where you can write your entire program in HTML/JavaScript/Perl, and just install some Apache, with mod_xmlrpc and mod_perl thing that runs whatever you want locally on the machine. --> "good portable compromise".
You could also use something like C++ Builder an embed your perl program within your C/C++ application.
1. Burning an old motherboard... 150$
2. Going to the store to buy a new one... 10$
3. Making the front page of Slashdot telling how you were proud to have an half-working motherboard after burning it up and asking if other people did similar stuff... priceless.
I kan't attend the konferenke, but I kertainly am looking forward to the simultaneous release of KDE 3.3. It promises to be great, with lots of bugfixes and new features, like groupware support for kontakt.
Seriously, that's what I love with DOS and FAT/FAT32, you cannot screw up a system!
Using Norton uneraser/unformat
for DOS on a floppy disk:
C:\>format c:
A:\>unformat c:
C:\>diskcopy A: C: won't work
C:\>deltree/y .
A:\>uneraser C:\
(have to guess the first letter
of every file but still, it even recognized
deleted directory, the only catch is not overwritting the file entries)
And some people still wonders at work why
I format my Windows XP in FAT32,
because if it screw up, I can undo it!
Seriously, Linux is great,
but with cryptic command name for beginners
like dd, df, rm... it's easy to screw up.
Where's uneraser/unformat for Linux ?!
Some people use backups, that's good sometimes.
What I found useful is people running
mirrors of every directory/etc/home/usr/var/opt
under things like a mounted/.mirrors/
with hourly.1 hourly.2 up to.24,
weekly.1, weekly.2, weekly.3, monthly
and some automatic backups.
That's feasible in an enterprise-scale
linux/solaris/unix server.
But even that the problem is disk space!
You cannot do that with a terrabyte database,
ftp deposit box, flat files or similar really.
Also, tell a linux newbie to do that.
Backups are for wimps! =P
I think it would be better to have
really user proof methods!
Oh and my Windows XP machine crash 2-6 times
a day, while my Windows 98 SE machine crash
6 times a year... my Slackware server?
been up and running for 4 years! =)
[except for the small kernel patch downtime]
I don't understand those who use a weird unreadable combination of bash/tcsh/ksh/awk/sed/m4/makefile script when one simple perl script can do it all, what's the point anyway.
If it can be done in one script language fine (no golden hammer) but in any other case use Perl!
I was #40956, the server statistics are down and the images didn't show up neither (broken), but the main page still works, hey that's quite an exponential growth support. =)
Pure Guess: Image made offline... for saving bandwidth?
.doc and.ppt are FULLY supported on Linux,
just buy CrossOver Office and install
Office 97, Office 2000 or Office XP.
Why people bother with OpenOffice...
Re:Worthy Cause, but Huge Barriers to Entry
on
Mono Beta 2 Released
·
· Score: 0
The problem is that most Microsoft shops are like: ASP.net on IIS on Windows server 2000/2003, C# for Win apps,.NET for the 3-tier core logic, Visual Source Safe for their CVS, Microsoft Visio for UML, SQL Server for their database, Microsoft Cluster for clustering... (WTF?!)
At first, I tought that it was a joke... Especially, I couldn't believed it when the person said they were using Microsoft Clustering Technology!
Some architecture designers most be smoking crack but after seeing more than 50 jobs ads requiring all that technology and barely no one asking for Unix/Linux/Apache skills. =|
Any doubts? Look on Monster, Workopolis, Jobboom!
So, to replace all this, we not only need.NET, we need a PostgreSQL accepting SQL Server scripts and a better PL/SQL script PgSQL is fake, we need kivio or similar to replace Visio, we need Apache resolving ASP.NET (some commercial version exists or hacks with Cassini) and finally some way to extract Visual Source Safe into something else like CVS, Subversion or Arch.
They make does company switch... might be the hardest part!
"As part of its services offerings announced on Monday, Santa Clara, California-based Sun rolled out a pay-for-use storage service, with prices starting at 2 cents per megabyte per month. The service includes installation services, Sun support and software licenses, Sun said. " http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=t ech nologyNews&storyID=5304507
$0.02 per MB per month or $0.24 per MB per year or $1 per 4 MB per year or $10000 per 40000 MB per year or $10000 per 40 GB per year
Of course, the company who sells this
"free" large
Sun Fire E25K Server, for only $3,196,985.00...
Some scenario...
Salesman:Now we have a great deal, we give out for free our new Sun Fire E25K Server...
Voices: Nice! I want it, I want it...
Salesman:...as long as you subscribe to our friendly contract for the next 4 years for our superbe Sun server application system at a low introductionary cost of 1M$ per year!!!
Voices: --silence--:(
Salesman: Including our new J2EE server for free! Salesman: This offer is only available for a limited time period.
Salesman: Isn't that a great deal?
Voices: *hang up*
Salesman: Hello!?
Re:Perlin noise URL right here
on
GPU Gems
·
· Score: 0
Dupe!
Of course, you can find it dude,
it's right here or
here.
This means that they may use WINE source code
as they wish and add improvement to it
by using it like a library,
mostly like Transgaming does.
They do NOT have to release their improvement unless it affects the library source code itself.
In most case, they will have to modify it,
but not necessarily, if they choose to build
on top of it or around it instead.
Think of it like a 3rd party library or component.
Slashdot blindly associate LGPL with GPL,
they are different license folks!
Well, the problem is that the unicode << >> tags didn't display correctly, and that will be a problem with Perl6 among all the other Unicode and other charset being used.
Ok, another:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET; $n=IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalP ort=>20010,Listen=>5); $n->listen(); while(($s=$ n->accept())) { print <$s>; close $s; }
Perl 6:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET; my IO::Socket::INET $n = (LocalPort=>20010,Listen=>5); $n.listen(); while ($s=$n.accept()) { $stdout.print($s.getlines); $s.close; }
$s is a socket, but the thing is at first sight, when I read this, I saw string concatenation...
print if f($s+%h<<f>>) == $b;
is what should have been seen if tags worked, which is print $_ if f( taking the addition of two scalar one from $s the other from the hash %h key "f" is equal to $b in numerical context.
In Perl5, idioms were under control some how:
We had stuff like regexp, match, search, translate.
Context grouping keywords like q, qq, qw:
for non-interpreter string, interpreted string, list context.
The usual @_ $_ @ARGV $` $& $' $| variables,
not including the other ones...
Usual __END__ __DATA__ and similar.
POD stuff =cut =head1 =item
Stream operator = )
Some for slurping $a = ; @b = ;
The rest was quite straightforward,
except 'advanced regexp' syntax
with backtracking that most people don't use,
at least not without proper comments.
The problem with Perl6 is that Perl5 code
won't work anymore, everything you knew
about Perl5 doesn't exist anymore,
you need Ponie for one part
and Perl6 for the remaining.
It's like comparing Perl5 with Python.
[or your favorite language].
It would have been better to introduce new keywords
gradually without breaking source code that currently works,
so people can use the new keywords as they need it,
that would have create a more smooth learning curve.
But currently, you have to learn a new language
that has nothing to do with Perl5.
Without looking further, assuming you are comming from Perl5
and that you have to maintain some Perl6 library,
what does the following do:
while ($s=$n.accept()) { print $s.gets; }
if +(f($s+%hf)) == +$b { print; }
$a = "abc"~$b~$c~$d~"def"~getVar($d);
@a ^[{ $^a > $^b ?? 1:: ($^a,$^b):= ($^b,$^a) }] @b;
@b = + @c;
@a = += @b;
@b = + @c;
@a = += @b;
@a ^+= @b;
@a v+= @b;
Assuming you can see the > operator
on your ASCII non-Unicode editor, instead of ?+?.
Have fun!
Why not simply assign a MAXIMUM amount of RAM that normal application may used, let say an application may never used more than 64 MB of RAM.
Application like OpenOffice, Mozilla, GCC, KDE, GNOME, could be
nice --RAM 512MB pid nice --RAM 0 pid = No limit
or started with a shell script with a specific amount of RAM.
If an application runs out of RAM, two possible solutions:
- Kill it "gracefully"
- Suspend it and send an email to root@host
basically, you reduce the timeslice to 0.
This would allow for instance "nuclear reactor" to have that process use whatever it needs and watchdog or any other "less important" process get killed, instead of having the entire system becoming slugish after some amount of time.
You may also provide a 'hint' to the parent process via some API that the child got "out of control" and something should be done about it.
This would allow finer control over the current "statue quo".
(2) These Linux packages (RPM, DEB, ebuild) are available for manual download, apt-get, urpmi, or emerge for these supported operating systems: RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Generic.
"
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Too many connections in/home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/admin/db_mysq l.php on line 40
There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
"
Yes and that "slight problem"
is called SLASHDOT.
Enjoy!
Maybe, next time, they should make
a static HTML page without MySQL
and use Apache rewrite to fake the PHP link?
Poor website, maybe some mirrors could help!?
freecache.org
+1 funny
Why does OSNews has to FORCE me to install Gator adware to view their article,
even when clicking 'NO', then rundll32,
crash my Internet Explorer browser
then crash my computer.
Just to read their article...
Slashdot Mirror
From my experience...
1. Create the application with SQL within
the code inside some custom DBI object layer.
2. When the query are stabilized inside your DBI functions, morph them to be "prepared" or morph them into stored procedure as needed.
3. This means that your DBA is not the weakest link and tight deadlines can be met.
4. It is better before going in full production to have stored procedure, but it's not required.
You can perform some query analysis to see
if you can improve performance, by adding indexes, sorting, limits, paging, etc.
5. It is better for long term maintenance to have everything in stored procedure.
6. The reason is you know that if you make changes, you won't break any SQL code, since you have access to everything. In big companies,
sometimes this golden rule is broken and you
have to patch tables with some white gloves
and retest everything crossing fingers.
7. Security should be implemented many ways.
8. You should think of a good compromise between getting the app out of the door, having good performance and long term maintenance and security.
9. I've seen too many companies which have a DBA weakest link that if that guy is sick for few weeks the entire IT department collapse.
10. Like I said it's good if you can use stored procedures but don't go crazy about it.
Clean syntax...
... };
You can write some pretty clean syntax in perl just:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -Tw
use warning;
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use vars qw{
main();
exit;
# Your perl code.
1;
portable libraries?!
What the heck are you smoking dude? I want some!
It works on more platforms than any other language,
including C because it wraps libc platform weirdness into "you don't have to know or care" equivalent.
Think about EBCDIC, incomplete , endianess, file systems
that don't have all unixes attributes.
A decent GUI library?
There's a Perl/Tk. okay it sux.
There's a wrapper for GTK and Windows API.
okay it sux too.
There's an HTML API, where you can write
your entire program in HTML/JavaScript/Perl,
and just install some Apache, with mod_xmlrpc
and mod_perl thing that runs whatever you want locally on the machine. --> "good portable compromise".
You could also use something like C++ Builder
an embed your perl program within your C/C++ application.
1. Burning an old motherboard... 150$
2. Going to the store to buy a new one... 10$
3. Making the front page of Slashdot telling how you were proud to have an half-working motherboard after burning it up and asking if other people did similar stuff... priceless.
I kan't attend the konferenke, but I kertainly am looking forward to the simultaneous release of KDE 3.3. It promises to be great, with lots of bugfixes and new features, like groupware support for kontakt.
Seriously, that's what I love with DOS and FAT/FAT32, you cannot screw up a system! Using Norton uneraser/unformat for DOS on a floppy disk: C:\>format c: A:\>unformat c: C:\>diskcopy A: C: won't work C:\>deltree /y .
A:\>uneraser C:\
(have to guess the first letter
of every file but still, it even recognized
deleted directory, the only catch is not overwritting the file entries)
And some people still wonders at work why
I format my Windows XP in FAT32,
because if it screw up, I can undo it!
Seriously, Linux is great,
but with cryptic command name for beginners
like dd, df, rm... it's easy to screw up.
Where's uneraser/unformat for Linux ?!
Some people use backups, that's good sometimes.
What I found useful is people running
mirrors of every directory /etc /home /usr /var /opt
under things like a mounted /.mirrors/
with hourly.1 hourly.2 up to .24,
weekly.1, weekly.2, weekly.3, monthly
and some automatic backups.
That's feasible in an enterprise-scale
linux/solaris/unix server.
But even that the problem is disk space!
You cannot do that with a terrabyte database,
ftp deposit box, flat files or similar really.
Also, tell a linux newbie to do that.
Backups are for wimps! =P
I think it would be better to have
really user proof methods!
Oh and my Windows XP machine crash 2-6 times
a day, while my Windows 98 SE machine crash
6 times a year... my Slackware server?
been up and running for 4 years! =)
[except for the small kernel patch downtime]
I don't understand those who use a weird unreadable combination of bash/tcsh/ksh/awk/sed/m4/makefile script when one simple perl script can do it all, what's the point anyway.
w in98>
If it can be done in one script language fine (no golden hammer) but in any other case use Perl!
Here the same using ActivePerl 5.8:
C:\win98>perl -e "for (1..10) {print $_.chr(10);}"
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
C:\
When will I get a default perl shell on Linux
instead of a dumb bash?
- Tired of typing perl -e
Yes, I remember cleaning ping pong with MSAV on a i386 SX 25MHz running on MS-DOS 6.x
That was the good old time where Central Point was still alive with their PC Tools and CPAV.
Both product where "stolen" and copied by Microsoft with an MS-DOS version of both!
not mentionning the stacker clone...
I was #40956, the server statistics are down and the images didn't show up neither (broken),
but the main page still works, hey that's quite an exponential growth support. =)
Pure Guess: Image made offline... for saving bandwidth?
Have you ever try to "really" use Java3D?
You make let say 3 tabs with some Java3D/OpenGL context.
You draw something on the first tab, it eats up 256MB let say, because lots of polygons are drawn...
You open another tabs, you try to free the previous one...
Java crash "Out of memory" if you didn't edicated like 512MB of memory on the command line...
Let say you kill both tabs and create a new context... you're now at 768MB !
The problem with Java is simple a stupid Garbage Collector...
The problem is that there is no way of saying you know all this "context" delete it now... like in C/C++.
So, yes, it works, but yes they are big limitation on it...
.doc and .ppt are FULLY supported on Linux,
just buy CrossOver Office and install
Office 97, Office 2000 or Office XP.
Why people bother with OpenOffice...
The problem is that most Microsoft shops are like: .NET for the 3-tier core logic,
.NET,
ASP.net on IIS on Windows server 2000/2003,
C# for Win apps,
Visual Source Safe for their CVS,
Microsoft Visio for UML,
SQL Server for their database,
Microsoft Cluster for clustering... (WTF?!)
At first, I tought that it was a joke...
Especially, I couldn't believed it when the person said they were using Microsoft Clustering Technology!
Some architecture designers most be smoking crack
but after seeing more than 50 jobs ads requiring all that technology and barely no one asking for Unix/Linux/Apache skills. =|
Any doubts? Look on Monster, Workopolis, Jobboom!
So, to replace all this,
we not only need
we need a PostgreSQL accepting SQL Server scripts and a better PL/SQL script PgSQL is fake,
we need kivio or similar to replace Visio,
we need Apache resolving ASP.NET (some commercial version exists or hacks with Cassini)
and finally some way to extract Visual Source Safe into something else like CVS, Subversion or Arch.
They make does company switch... might be the hardest part!
"As part of its services offerings announced on Monday, Santa Clara, California-based Sun rolled out a pay-for-use storage service, with prices starting at 2 cents per megabyte per month. The service includes installation services, Sun support and software licenses, Sun said. "t ech nologyNews&storyID=5304507
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=
$0.02 per MB per month
or
$0.24 per MB per year
or
$1 per 4 MB per year
or
$10000 per 40000 MB per year
or
$10000 per 40 GB per year
Yeah right!
Just buy a 1000$ computer for the next 4 years.
Of course, the company who sells this "free" large Sun Fire E25K Server, for only $3,196,985.00...
:(
Some scenario...
Salesman:Now we have a great deal, we give out for free our new Sun Fire E25K Server...
Voices: Nice! I want it, I want it...
Salesman:...as long as you subscribe to our friendly contract for the next 4 years for our superbe Sun server application system at a low introductionary cost of 1M$ per year!!!
Voices: --silence--
Salesman: Including our new J2EE server for free!
Salesman: This offer is only available for a limited time period.
Salesman: Isn't that a great deal?
Voices: *hang up*
Salesman: Hello!?
Dupe!
Of course, you can find it dude, it's right here or here.
Wine use an LGPL license http://winehq.com/site/license
This means that they may use WINE source code as they wish and add improvement to it by using it like a library,
mostly like Transgaming does.
They do NOT have to release their improvement unless it affects the library source code itself.
In most case, they will have to modify it, but not necessarily, if they choose to build on top of it or around it instead.
Think of it like a 3rd party library or component.
Slashdot blindly associate LGPL with GPL, they are different license folks!
Well, the problem is that the unicode << >> tags
P ort=>20010,Listen=>5);$ n->accept()))
e ($s=$n.accept())
:: ($^a,$^b) := ($^b,$^a) }] @b;
.= scenarios and others like the Yen operator instead of zip...
didn't display correctly, and that will be a problem with Perl6 among all the other Unicode
and other charset being used.
Ok, another:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET;
$n=IO::Socket::INET->new(Local
$n->listen();
while(($s=
{ print <$s>; close $s; }
Perl 6:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use IO::Socket::INET;
my IO::Socket::INET $n = (LocalPort=>20010,Listen=>5);
$n.listen();
whil
{ $stdout.print($s.getlines); $s.close; }
$s is a socket, but the thing is at first sight,
when I read this, I saw string concatenation...
print if f($s+%h<<f>>) == $b;
is what should have been seen if tags worked,
which is print $_ if f( taking the addition of two scalar one from $s the other from the hash %h
key "f" is equal to $b in numerical context.
$a = "abc"~$b~$c~$d~"def"~getVar($d);
is equal to this in Perl5:
$a = "abc".$b.$c.$d."def".getVar($d);
@a ^[{ $^a > $^b ?? 1
This in place comparision thingy can be found
explained on perl.perl6.language
I agree that we have $^a $^b in Perl5.
The others one which didn't print
is all the possible <<+>> >>+<< scenarios.
@b = >>+<< @c;
@a = >>+=<< @b;
@b = <<+>> @c;
@a = <<+=>> @b;
@a ^+= @b;
@a v+= @b;
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=200 21101113810.B7568%40rama.comp.pge.com
Not mentioning the abuse of
In Perl5, idioms were under control some how: We had stuff like regexp, match, search, translate. Context grouping keywords like q, qq, qw: for non-interpreter string, interpreted string, list context. The usual @_ $_ @ARGV $` $& $' $| variables, not including the other ones... Usual __END__ __DATA__ and similar. POD stuff =cut =head1 =item Stream operator = ) Some for slurping $a = ; @b = ; The rest was quite straightforward, except 'advanced regexp' syntax with backtracking that most people don't use, at least not without proper comments. The problem with Perl6 is that Perl5 code won't work anymore, everything you knew about Perl5 doesn't exist anymore, you need Ponie for one part and Perl6 for the remaining. It's like comparing Perl5 with Python. [or your favorite language]. It would have been better to introduce new keywords gradually without breaking source code that currently works, so people can use the new keywords as they need it, that would have create a more smooth learning curve. But currently, you have to learn a new language that has nothing to do with Perl5. Without looking further, assuming you are comming from Perl5 and that you have to maintain some Perl6 library, what does the following do: while ($s=$n.accept()) { print $s.gets; } if +(f($s+%hf)) == +$b { print; } $a = "abc"~$b~$c~$d~"def"~getVar($d); @a ^[{ $^a > $^b ?? 1 :: ($^a,$^b) := ($^b,$^a) }] @b;
@b = + @c;
@a = += @b;
@b = + @c;
@a = += @b;
@a ^+= @b;
@a v+= @b;
Assuming you can see the > operator
on your ASCII non-Unicode editor, instead of ?+?.
Have fun!
And High School students complains about High School Math being too difficult and too abstract. I have no clue whatsoever why...
Hey, it's easy folks you take a prime twins
and you try fit this on a parabola...
Hey, Where did everyone go?
Why not simply assign a MAXIMUM amount of RAM
that normal application may used,
let say an application may never used more than 64 MB of RAM.
Application like OpenOffice, Mozilla, GCC, KDE, GNOME,
could be
nice --RAM 512MB pid
nice --RAM 0 pid = No limit
or started with a shell script with a specific amount of RAM.
If an application runs out of RAM, two possible solutions:
- Kill it "gracefully"
- Suspend it and send an email to root@host
basically, you reduce the timeslice to 0.
This would allow for instance "nuclear reactor"
to have that process use whatever it needs
and watchdog or any other "less important"
process get killed, instead of having
the entire system becoming slugish
after some amount of time.
You may also provide a 'hint' to the parent process
via some API that the child got "out of control"
and something should be done about it.
This would allow finer control over the current "statue quo".
Just a tought.
Other platforms download link:r nates/
x .cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P2_Platform=Li nux&P3_Browser_Version=Netscape4
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alte
Linux x86 Flash Player 7 for Mozilla 1.2
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/inde
Older version not supported by MacroMedia
Linux x86 (1) (2) Flash Player 6 for Mozilla 1.1
http://macromedia.mplug.org/
(1) Not officially supported by Macromedia.
(2) These Linux packages (RPM, DEB, ebuild) are available for manual download, apt-get, urpmi, or emerge for these supported operating systems: RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE, Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Generic.
Server Slashdotting starts in 3...2...1... =]
700$ Oracle?
Last time I checked it was like 40K$ per CPU
plus 100$ per end-users at the extreme back-end.
Are you sure you got it from otn.oracle.com ?
" Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Too many connections in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/admin/db_mysq l.php on line 40
There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
"
Yes and that "slight problem"
is called SLASHDOT.
Enjoy!
Maybe, next time, they should make
a static HTML page without MySQL
and use Apache rewrite to fake the PHP link?
Poor website, maybe some mirrors could help!?
freecache.org
+1 funny
Can I get one for X-mas?
l .net/zmax /zmaxdp_1.asp
Please!
It's sad that x-mas is over.
The webpage should give more pictures
of the inside and the actual configuration...
Here's a mirror:
http://www.freecache.org/http://www.iwil
You should try citeseer or one of its mirror too.
d +virtual+machine
Most paper are free for download.
IEEE is another website or ACM queue.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cis?cs=1&q=stack+base
Why does OSNews has to FORCE me to install Gator adware to view their article, even when clicking 'NO', then rundll32, crash my Internet Explorer browser then crash my computer. Just to read their article...