Geeze, who is the author of this lame article. Should I start writing articles about my trip to the grocery store? I wounder if I could get published, well at least I could get slashdotted...
*sigh* this articles so lame, it just makes me laugh to hard.
This has to be by far one of the worst things i've seen posted on slashdot. Really, the fact that someone even took the time to write this article amazing me.
How many ways can I destroy a computer... yahh
Maybe if there were good gory pictures or something
I guess Akamai never heard of Syn Cookies? Yes you need to build them into your kernel, and for whatever reason, there not enabled by default... but seriously, Akamai...
At least there still calling it Java, Borland comes to mind, and makes me laugh.
Pascal -> Delphi -> Kylix
Perhaps had they just kept right on calling it Pascal, and incremented versions they would have some "brand awareness" for that language.
I guess the marketing department decided that a IDE justified a language name change. hehe
I'm almost tired of hearing stories about this sort of thing. Is it an Amercian "we are better" additude or what? Check out the policy that AT&T has regarding SMS, turns out they log 3 months worth... ala, the Amercians monitor it too.
However, because its written in black and white in the agreement it's no news... ahh yahh..
Wireless Security Cameras
Traditionally, the Linux kernel has used 8KB kernel stacks on most architectures. That stack must suffice for any sequence of calls that may result from a system call - plus the needs of any (hard or soft) interrupt handlers that may be invoked at the same time. In practice, stack overflows are pretty much unheard of in stable kernels; the kernel developers have long since learned to avoid large automatic variables, recursive functions, and other things which can use large amounts of stack space.
There have been patches circulating for some time now which reduce the kernel stack to 4KB. It is generally understood that the switch to smaller stacks will happen at some point; as a result, much work has recently gone into finding code paths in the kernel which are overly stack-hungry. Part of that effort is simply lots of testing; for that reason, recent -mm kernels no longer even offer an 8KB stack option. The hope is that, if enough people try out the smaller stacks and shake out the bugs, 4KB stacks can be merged into 2.6 in the near future.
The smaller stacks are scary to some people; it is hard to be certain that all of the possible paths through the kernel have actually been tested. 4KB stacks also break binary modules, and the nVidia drivers in particular. So there is a certain amount of pressure to defer this change into 2.7.
One might well wonder why the kernel hackers are trying to put this sort of change into a stable kernel series. The problem with 8KB stacks is that they require an "order 1" memory allocation: two pages which are contiguous in physical memory. Order 1 allocations can be very hard to satisfy once the system has been running for a while; physical memory can become so fragmented that two adjacent free pages simply do not exist. The kernel will try hard to free up pages to satisfy larger allocations; the result can be a slow, painful, thrashing system.
Each process on the system has its own kernel stack, which is used whenever the system goes into kernel mode while that process is running. Since each process requires a kernel stack, the creation of a new process requires an order 1 allocation. So the two-page kernel stacks can limit the creation of new processes, even though the system as a whole is not particularly short of resources. Shrinking kernel stacks to a single page eliminates this problem and makes it easy for Linux systems to handle far more processes at any given time.
Arjan van de Ven also made the interesting claim that the 4KB stacks are actually safer. His reasoning has to do with one other aspect of the 4KB stack patch: it moves interrupt handling onto a separate, dedicated stack. Software interrupts also get their own stack. Since interrupt handling has been moved away from the per-process kernel stack, the amount of space for system call handling remains about the same, and the stack space for interrupts has been increased.
The final decision on the integration of 4KB stacks has not yet been made; there are, seemingly, a few problems which still need to be tracked down. If things settle out, however, this fairly significant change could yet be merged into 2.6.
This is a fairly common issue in other industries as well... In the food packaging industry they use what is called a DSS number; in addition to the generic serial number we've all known to grown and hate. This DSS number is sort of an industry number which allows the manufactures to more accurately tracking where the product what packed / shipped to, etc. The system is at it's witts ends, as these DSS numbers are appended depending on the number of destinations... Turns out when they designed the system food was only being shipped to many 3 or 4 places at the most --- now it's common for food to be shipped to upwards of a dozen places BEFORE it is even shipped to the grocery store.
all in all, same story, boo hoo, it'll cost them a bunch of money to upgrade
This is called reposting. Many gateways and providers do this... this isn't new, and I think you missed the point. This technology isn't about 1 site being able to do it over and over... as we've seen preloaded account concepts for years
This is about being able to pay a single vendor $0.05 CCTV Solutions
As much as I like it, I also fear it. I fear the end to the vast amount of free resources the internet has to provide. Yes I'd be great to be able to easily tip and contribute to projects and good resources... but, what will a day of surfing cost when everyone is asking for $0.25 ?
Lets hope this can cut into the Visa / Mastercard Manopoly???
Yahh right... If it catches on to any extent they will be there to dominate it..
All I can say is, as a Canadian I've notice a HUGE, yes HUGE increase in the number of unsolicited calls from Americain; phone numbers, companys, and states solicity me!
I fear that if the FCC is able to effectively 'crack' down on this, we Canadians will get further attention from a dieing industry...
Our Canadian counterpart the CRTC will make steps to protect us, but its going to be a shitty couple years while the beaucrats / legalities get worked out about cross country issues..
On the origional forum, I was saying something of the similair (except not nearly as well written!! hehe)
DSPAM, IMHO, provides far better results than this report was leading too. A properly trained Bayes filter, but a somewhat intellegent person provides simply amazing results. I swear I can go weeks on end without a single spam getting through, no false positives -- and between 20 and 100 SPAM in my "spam" box per day!
DSpam using Bayes algorithm is by far the best filtering method i've used. And I've used alot! (From SpamAssassin to SpamProbe and all the inbetweens). The only setback, DSpam takes a couple weeks to train...
It's unforchunately that DSPAM was left out of this very good quality report. I have personally used SpamAssassin, SpamProbe and DSPAM
After using each for a couple months at a time, I found DSPAM to be by far the most effective (after it was properly trained)
DSPAMS claim "DSPAM (as in De-Spam) is an extremely scalable, open-source statistical hybrid anti-spam filter. While most commercial solutions only provide a mere 95% accuracy (1 error in 20), a majority of DSPAM users frequently see between 99.95% (1 error in 2000) all the way up to 99.991% (2 errors in 22,786). DSPAM is currently effective as both a server-side agent for UNIX email servers and a developer's library for mail clients, other anti-spam tools, and similar projects requiring drop-in spam filtering. DSPAM has been implemented on many large and small scale systems with the largest systems being reported at about 125,000 mailboxes." was quite accurate for me
This is great, now can anyone tell me where I find the 'shitty' doctors list? Ohh wait, I'll get sued for slander or defamation...
The US is grand.......
Mike
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Geeze, who is the author of this lame article. Should I start writing articles about my trip to the grocery store? I wounder if I could get published, well at least I could get slashdotted...
*sigh* this articles so lame, it just makes me laugh to hard.
This has to be by far one of the worst things i've seen posted on slashdot. Really, the fact that someone even took the time to write this article amazing me.
How many ways can I destroy a computer... yahh
Maybe if there were good gory pictures or something
I guess Akamai never heard of Syn Cookies? Yes you need to build them into your kernel, and for whatever reason, there not enabled by default... but seriously, Akamai...
Security Cameras
This is really quite a silly review, IMHO
Perhaps comparing a Tivo to a Pioneer DVR or the one that DirecTV is offering would have been a better topic! (-;
Windows Media Center, would be better compared against MythTV (or one of the other OS like / software PVR's).
Personally I think my MythTV box with 121 days of uptime blows both Tivo and Windows Media Center out of the water, but that niether here nor there.
CCTV Video Cameras
This will make hosptials even more scary for an 8 year olds. I hope they make special effort to make the robots look cute!
At least there still calling it Java, Borland comes to mind, and makes me laugh.
Pascal -> Delphi -> Kylix
Perhaps had they just kept right on calling it Pascal, and incremented versions they would have some "brand awareness" for that language.
I guess the marketing department decided that a IDE justified a language name change. hehe
Wireless Cameras
Archive.org has something from 2003, it's not the exactly link posted, but if your interested you can at least see there normal website.
Arhive.org Rokits.org
Complete CCTV
Man ohh man am I ever excited! Finally a easy way to get tunes, and support the artist; all without leaving my home!
... that'd be sweet!
Ohh wait, who are these guys, ewwwwww, have you tried the "free sample" yuk..
Gosh I hope my favorite artist Justin Timberlake starts doing this
Security Cameras
You are more nieve than my 8 year old daughter.
Anyone catch the daily show, the episode where 7 senators where at a Sun Yung Moon corination cerimony?
I cannot leave the patriot act.
No differents as far as I'm concerned
Wireless Cameras
I'm almost tired of hearing stories about this sort of thing. Is it an Amercian "we are better" additude or what? Check out the policy that AT&T has regarding SMS, turns out they log 3 months worth ... ala, the Amercians monitor it too.
However, because its written in black and white in the agreement it's no news... ahh yahh..
Wireless Security Cameras
Traditionally, the Linux kernel has used 8KB kernel stacks on most architectures. That stack must suffice for any sequence of calls that may result from a system call - plus the needs of any (hard or soft) interrupt handlers that may be invoked at the same time. In practice, stack overflows are pretty much unheard of in stable kernels; the kernel developers have long since learned to avoid large automatic variables, recursive functions, and other things which can use large amounts of stack space.
There have been patches circulating for some time now which reduce the kernel stack to 4KB. It is generally understood that the switch to smaller stacks will happen at some point; as a result, much work has recently gone into finding code paths in the kernel which are overly stack-hungry. Part of that effort is simply lots of testing; for that reason, recent -mm kernels no longer even offer an 8KB stack option. The hope is that, if enough people try out the smaller stacks and shake out the bugs, 4KB stacks can be merged into 2.6 in the near future.
The smaller stacks are scary to some people; it is hard to be certain that all of the possible paths through the kernel have actually been tested. 4KB stacks also break binary modules, and the nVidia drivers in particular. So there is a certain amount of pressure to defer this change into 2.7.
One might well wonder why the kernel hackers are trying to put this sort of change into a stable kernel series. The problem with 8KB stacks is that they require an "order 1" memory allocation: two pages which are contiguous in physical memory. Order 1 allocations can be very hard to satisfy once the system has been running for a while; physical memory can become so fragmented that two adjacent free pages simply do not exist. The kernel will try hard to free up pages to satisfy larger allocations; the result can be a slow, painful, thrashing system.
Each process on the system has its own kernel stack, which is used whenever the system goes into kernel mode while that process is running. Since each process requires a kernel stack, the creation of a new process requires an order 1 allocation. So the two-page kernel stacks can limit the creation of new processes, even though the system as a whole is not particularly short of resources. Shrinking kernel stacks to a single page eliminates this problem and makes it easy for Linux systems to handle far more processes at any given time.
Arjan van de Ven also made the interesting claim that the 4KB stacks are actually safer. His reasoning has to do with one other aspect of the 4KB stack patch: it moves interrupt handling onto a separate, dedicated stack. Software interrupts also get their own stack. Since interrupt handling has been moved away from the per-process kernel stack, the amount of space for system call handling remains about the same, and the stack space for interrupts has been increased.
The final decision on the integration of 4KB stacks has not yet been made; there are, seemingly, a few problems which still need to be tracked down. If things settle out, however, this fairly significant change could yet be merged into 2.6.
Complete CCTV
This is a fairly common issue in other industries as well... In the food packaging industry they use what is called a DSS number; in addition to the generic serial number we've all known to grown and hate. This DSS number is sort of an industry number which allows the manufactures to more accurately tracking where the product what packed / shipped to, etc. The system is at it's witts ends, as these DSS numbers are appended depending on the number of destinations... Turns out when they designed the system food was only being shipped to many 3 or 4 places at the most --- now it's common for food to be shipped to upwards of a dozen places BEFORE it is even shipped to the grocery store.
all in all, same story, boo hoo, it'll cost them a bunch of money to upgrade
CCTV Systems
I am pretty sure Helix is 100% open source and does the same damn thing... why no press on that?
Complete CCTV
This is called reposting. Many gateways and providers do this ... this isn't new, and I think you missed the point. This technology isn't about 1 site being able to do it over and over ... as we've seen preloaded account concepts for years
This is about being able to pay a single vendor $0.05
CCTV Solutions
As much as I like it, I also fear it. I fear the end to the vast amount of free resources the internet has to provide. Yes I'd be great to be able to easily tip and contribute to projects and good resources ... but, what will a day of surfing cost when everyone is asking for $0.25 ?
... If it catches on to any extent they will be there to dominate it..
Lets hope this can cut into the Visa / Mastercard Manopoly???
Yahh right
Security Cameras
It's certainly better than
.. hah
Windows XP Warez Edition
Security Cameras
Doesn't this give you a feeling of nostalga for the dotcom era? Working all night, weekends; sweeting code, and then --- the axe...
Lets admit it people, it wasn't all about "lay offs" there were tons and tons of churn and burns then, and ESPECIALLY now (-;
Ahh... to be a middle manager... *sign*
Complete CCTV
All I can say is, as a Canadian I've notice a HUGE, yes HUGE increase in the number of unsolicited calls from Americain; phone numbers, companys, and states solicity me! ...
I fear that if the FCC is able to effectively 'crack' down on this, we Canadians will get further attention from a dieing industry
Our Canadian counterpart the CRTC will make steps to protect us, but its going to be a shitty couple years while the beaucrats / legalities get worked out about cross country issues..
CCTV Cameras
Funny Photos
I tend to get sloppy when forced to type in a box that is 2 inches wide... hehe
On the origional forum, I was saying something of the similair (except not nearly as well written!! hehe)
DSPAM, IMHO, provides far better results than this report was leading too. A properly trained Bayes filter, but a somewhat intellegent person provides simply amazing results. I swear I can go weeks on end without a single spam getting through, no false positives -- and between 20 and 100 SPAM in my "spam" box per day!
DSpam using Bayes algorithm is by far the best filtering method i've used. And I've used alot! (From SpamAssassin to SpamProbe and all the inbetweens). The only setback, DSpam takes a couple weeks to train...
Priceless Photos
It's unforchunately that DSPAM was left out of this very good quality report. I have personally used SpamAssassin, SpamProbe and DSPAM
After using each for a couple months at a time, I found DSPAM to be by far the most effective (after it was properly trained)
DSPAMS claim "DSPAM (as in De-Spam) is an extremely scalable, open-source statistical hybrid anti-spam filter. While most commercial solutions only provide a mere 95% accuracy (1 error in 20), a majority of DSPAM users frequently see between 99.95% (1 error in 2000) all the way up to 99.991% (2 errors in 22,786). DSPAM is currently effective as both a server-side agent for UNIX email servers and a developer's library for mail clients, other anti-spam tools, and similar projects requiring drop-in spam filtering. DSPAM has been implemented on many large and small scale systems with the largest systems being reported at about 125,000 mailboxes." was quite accurate for me
Also check out some priceless photos Priceless Photos
Funny how this bunk as service that easily gets slashdotted makes it up here;
mean while there is a great service, which has been around for years. it also does 8 pages of depth. silly silly
http://www.majorads.com
MajorAds Marketing
I can't seem to find there modified source code
This is not the first time Isaac at MythTV has had to deal with this. There are two other rip offs floating around...
*sigh*
I'm personally quite happy with my homemade version, and it was a hell of alot cheaper. Can anyone say Knoppmyth (-;
This is great, now can anyone tell me where I find the 'shitty' doctors list? Ohh wait, I'll get sued for slander or defamation... The US is grand....... Mike