You pay on run-time, not CPU time consumed, so pay 0.11*24*31 for a month, regardless of usage.
Unless ofcourse you have a script that fires up an instance on the moment your website is accessed, and shuts it down afterward, but that might be sub-optimal in responsetime:)
But now? Well, I've heard enough horror stories by now from friends and colleagues about entering the USA that, despite me having no criminal convictions whatsoever, I'm afraid it ain't on my "to-do" list any more.
I've read most of the replies, and am left wondering what these horror-stories are. I'm Dutch, I travelled to a lot of places, and yes, the US is one of the toughest on tourists. Been there about 20 times, had my fair share of interogations & new techniques pushed upon me (including the now new all finger fingerprinting). Going into the US sucks for the visa waiver which you have to fill in online (ESTA) and then again in the airplane (euhms, systems are not aligned yet), and then undergo an interrogation by someone who's clearly not there to make friends. But hey, it's still just a few minutes on your entire trip.
UK however is also not nice (both going in (long lines) and out (more like US security, take off shoes etc) ), had quite a few random passport-checks in Argentina by police, and my passport in now in the Chinese ambassy for a visum, with a letter with it that a give them permission to do a medical examn on me + allow 7 day quarantine in case they deem this necessary (swine flu)).
In short, there's something going on everywhere. Yes, travelling through Europe and the Schengen countries is a breeze, no checks at all. But that's about it.
Tip: Next time you land in the US, UK or any other country with customs waiting to check you passport, make sure you get IN FRONT of the line. Get of the plane asap, keep walking while passing all those tourist-strollers that keep glazing around. This will save you soo much more time&stress, and prevents you from standing for half an hour in the line just behind those 2 guys in front of you, speaking almost no english at all, trying to make clear to the guard they are really just tourists...
Patching has become much easier, in fact, with the atv-usb-creator (http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator/), you have a fully legal* and easy way to install Boxee on it: create USB image, plug, reboot appletv & play
And with a bit of luck, the BIOS password was the same as the hard disk password, making all these "Use Ubuntu" or "Remove HDD from laptop" replies null and void, as you can simply not access/read the HDD without the correct password.
Given the fact that MSDN is now displaying a "MSDN Subscriber Downloads Service Outage Notification" for 7:00PM to 9:00PM Pacific time, Friday, November 10, 2006, I guess you'll just have to wait one more day
I still have my "Internet for Dummies" 1st edition 1994 with an overview of "nearly all websites" available. Surfing was explained as telneting to port 80 and starting a text-browser on the server, BUT, a new graphical browser (mosaic 0.8x?) was also something you could check out!
Remember Veronica and Gohper ? Remember having your browser, email-client & usenet reader one a single 1.4M floppy ?
Bigger frustration: Remember 1993, sex.com was still available, and checking upon it, seeing it costs $100/year, deciding "this internet is not going anywhere", atleast, not commercially...
Oh well...
[ Queue the "I put the tubes for the 'Net myself in the ground" oldies ]
Have those problems as well, and basically makes surfing using IE impossible:
Everytime I type in a URL and/or click on a link that opens in a new window,
I get a new empty window, and a messagebox with "Windows cannot find '(null)'"
Sometimes, 10 empty windows are requested at the same time.
The empty page also keeps requesting the focus for some time.
Another nice and strange problem is that IE totally ignores ETag headers on gzipped pages (it does not send a If-None-Matched header back). So effectively IE requests each and every page again if it's gzipped.
Nice to know that this bandwidthreduction-solution has the opposite effect...
We have 'recently' switched our servers over to debian (coming from redhat), because of the so-called stability etc.
We decided to go with Sarge (testing), as we where expecting a final release with security-fixes soon, and didn't wanted to have woody installed and becoming obsolete within a couple of weeks.
This was almost 7 months ago, and right it's not even in a freeze.
(Yes, I know, Debian releases when it's ready, but hey, atleast get the security team start having a look at the packages.)
No flaming (I love the ease in the distribution), just a bit disappointed.
We had our servers running redhat too (due to being Dell servers, support, yadayada), and also had to choose a new distro.
We tested slackware, gentoo, fedora, suse and debian, and to my own suprise, our sysadmin (who is running Gentoo on both our fileservers as his personal box) went for debian.
Guess running production servers has other requirements than 'internal' servers. Now I only wonder why we still have Gentoo on our fileservers.
Had to write a convertor for one DOS-based salary-system (file storage) to a new one (Windows, own db-system), while file formats where proprietary/not known etc.
Tried to hack around, couldn't convert the files.
Final solution:
DOS-box in windows running old system
Key-emulator to go through the whole system, through every option.
Screen grabber to grab output and convert to intermediate format (Q&D).
Importer for new system
Well, not that proud of it afterwards, but hey, it worked!
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No, you don't.
You pay on run-time, not CPU time consumed, so pay 0.11*24*31 for a month, regardless of usage.
Unless ofcourse you have a script that fires up an instance on the moment your website is accessed, and shuts it down afterward, but that might be sub-optimal in responsetime :)
But now? Well, I've heard enough horror stories by now from friends and colleagues about entering the USA that, despite me having no criminal convictions whatsoever, I'm afraid it ain't on my "to-do" list any more.
I've read most of the replies, and am left wondering what these horror-stories are.
I'm Dutch, I travelled to a lot of places, and yes, the US is one of the toughest on tourists. Been there about 20 times, had my fair share of interogations & new techniques pushed upon me (including the now new all finger fingerprinting). Going into the US sucks for the visa waiver which you have to fill in online (ESTA) and then again in the airplane (euhms, systems are not aligned yet), and then undergo an interrogation by someone who's clearly not there to make friends. But hey, it's still just a few minutes on your entire trip.
UK however is also not nice (both going in (long lines) and out (more like US security, take off shoes etc) ), had quite a few random passport-checks in Argentina by police, and my passport in now in the Chinese ambassy for a visum, with a letter with it that a give them permission to do a medical examn on me + allow 7 day quarantine in case they deem this necessary (swine flu)).
In short, there's something going on everywhere. Yes, travelling through Europe and the Schengen countries is a breeze, no checks at all. But that's about it.
Tip: Next time you land in the US, UK or any other country with customs waiting to check you passport, make sure you get IN FRONT of the line. Get of the plane asap, keep walking while passing all those tourist-strollers that keep glazing around. This will save you soo much more time&stress, and prevents you from standing for half an hour in the line just behind those 2 guys in front of you, speaking almost no english at all, trying to make clear to the guard they are really just tourists...
* YMMV
Unless ofcourse I understood the concept of HDD password wrong, but I just googled it and it seems to work like I thought: http://www.laptoptips.ca/security/hard-disk-password/
Well, not much of a phrase
(but consists of actual family names like naaktgebored (borne naked) and zeldenthus (seldom at home) )
Atleast, that's what I've heard ^^
Given the fact that MSDN is now displaying a "MSDN Subscriber Downloads Service Outage Notification" for 7:00PM to 9:00PM Pacific time, Friday, November 10, 2006, I guess you'll just have to wait one more day
I still have my "Internet for Dummies" 1st edition 1994 with an overview of "nearly all websites" available. Surfing was explained as telneting to port 80 and starting a text-browser on the server, BUT, a new graphical browser (mosaic 0.8x?) was also something you could check out!
Remember Veronica and Gohper ? Remember having your browser, email-client & usenet reader one a single 1.4M floppy ?
Bigger frustration: Remember 1993, sex.com was still available, and checking upon it, seeing it costs $100/year, deciding "this internet is not going anywhere", atleast, not commercially...
Oh well...
[ Queue the "I put the tubes for the 'Net myself in the ground" oldies ]
Note the timestamps of the last two lines, sounds like he had, well, an evening that did not go as planned
Everytime I type in a URL and/or click on a link that opens in a new window, I get a new empty window, and a messagebox with "Windows cannot find '(null)'"
Sometimes, 10 empty windows are requested at the same time.
The empty page also keeps requesting the focus for some time.
Seems he started half an hour ago.
More info about SPAMIS:. htm
http://antivirus.about.com/od/emailscams/a/spamis
Also nice:
Setting up iptables-rules:
A Full Pay Deucesw wild VideoPoker machine even has a negative house edge, so in the long end you are making money on those machines.
An excelent site in this is Wizard of Odds, he explains and calculates house edges for each and every game.
So effectively IE requests each and every page again if it's gzipped.
Nice to know that this bandwidthreduction-solution has the opposite effect...
See my blog for more info.
Mine actually is watching the house during daytime, while uploading pictures to its roblog :)
Oh, wait, this is slashdot, wrong answer:)
I see atleast 2 G less traffic than last week (but as said, this might be nothing).
Drive one myselve...
Can confirm this one.
Sent and received messages, and no ads where added.
Furthermore, when you enable pop3, you have 3 options:
* Enable POP for all mail
* Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now
* Disable Pop3 (Doh)
You can also choose to
* Keep GMail's copy in inbox
* Archive GMail's copy
* Trash GMail's copy
Sending and receiving is done through SSL-ports, and sending requires authentication.
We have 'recently' switched our servers over to debian (coming from redhat), because of the so-called stability etc.
We decided to go with Sarge (testing), as we where expecting a final release with security-fixes soon, and didn't wanted to have woody installed and becoming obsolete within a couple of weeks.
This was almost 7 months ago, and right it's not even in a freeze.
(Yes, I know, Debian releases when it's ready, but hey, atleast get the security team start having a look at the packages.)
No flaming (I love the ease in the distribution), just a bit disappointed.
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Stable = Stable = Woody
Testing = Stuff not in stable yet, but in the queue = Sarge
Unstable = Living on the edge = sid (and will always be sid)
http://www.debian.org/releases/
But after reading the article, I tried the real installer URL, and, surprise, with Norton Antivirus (fully updated) the ad-bar WAS installed.
As said in the article, due to various layers of encoding the javascript, detection is avoided.
Ad-Aware luckely recognized all 34 (!!) regkeys, dll's etc.
We tested slackware, gentoo, fedora, suse and debian, and to my own suprise, our sysadmin (who is running Gentoo on both our fileservers as his personal box) went for debian.
Guess running production servers has other requirements than 'internal' servers. Now I only wonder why we still have Gentoo on our fileservers.
Tried to hack around, couldn't convert the files.
Final solution:
DOS-box in windows running old system
Key-emulator to go through the whole system, through every option.
Screen grabber to grab output and convert to intermediate format (Q&D).
Importer for new system
Well, not that proud of it afterwards, but hey, it worked!