I guess he should have used a blog...if he really wanted his family to see his personal email.
However, it probably was PERSONAL email. I wouldn't want my family to see that either.
Please don't get me started on the FF series. You almost need someone else to play it for you it's so goddamn boring. The "cut scenes" are meant to be little movies, but if that's what you wanted to see, why not just rent a movie.
(Yes, I also ESC through other "plot" or "cut" scenes in other video games, like Warcraft III, too. Sorry.)
Base-10 sucks. There's a reason we use 60 in time - it can be evenly divided by 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15 and 30. There's a reason we use 24 in time - it can be evenly divided by 2,3,4,6,8 and 12.
For all of the privately held companies who compete against publicly traded companies who pay out stock options like Monopoly money...this rocks.
The surest way you know a company knows what its doing is if it's turning a profit. This should take one more accounting trick away from the pretenders out there.
It's a secure file transfer server. For years we've been using an ActiveX component (IE on Windows only) to offer professional file features like automatic SHA integrity checks, file transfers >4GB via browsers, on-the-fly zipping, etc.
But...our latest version also has a Java component and full integration with the Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape tree on both Windows and Linux.
Sometimes MySQL indexes are bad. For example, if you infrequently do lookups based on an index but you often add or remove many records from a database, an MySQL index can actually hurt performance.
I hope there's something about that in the book...but then again, this is 2004. Who still reads (non-electronic) books about technical topics?
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TSA Drone: "What do you have in that bottle?" You: "Oh, it's just some gasoline for my laptop."
Sure...this technology will be a GREAT laptop power source for travelers...
I'm wondering is if PayPal didn't overrun their bandwidth with new graphics and pages...
I would hope we couldn't blame serving up static content as a cause; there are so many cache servers built for this task in 2004 that one would hope actual web servers never actually see these requests.
If my theory is correct, we can expect the performance to slowly improve as PayPal gets more systems online
Nah...if it's bandwidth-related, performance will take another hit as more systems come online and try to share a saturated pipe.
However, if the problems WERE bandwidth related, it should be easy for eBay to diagnose; just take a meter reading of traffic before the crappy performance and another after. Likewise, it should be easy for eBay to diagnose server performance problems - just look for the spike.
I think what is troubling to every PayPal user is not that PayPal/eBay is having problems, but that they appear to have no idea what is broken and no idea how to fix it.
Just count out the bills and come up short, and tell the guy, geeze, I guess I'll find an ATM and come back tomorrow . . . they say, I'll take what you have.
C'mon. You're flashing cash and you can only get salespeople to drop 10%? I'd start looking for the edgier fellows, the guy who just started chain-smoking because he fell into the bottom quarter this month. If you get lucky, the guy might take the cash, give the product to you for HALF off, and give $20 to the stock boy to report one unit missing next month.
Charging to a checking account is just downright unethical.
Hmmm...ever try online bill pay?
We did get the money back - 3 weeks later.
So what's the problem? If no one helped...how did the money get returned?
I agree anyone who ties their PayPal account to their main checking account is a moron. However, these days free checking accounts are available at almost any bank. Set up a dedicated checking account for PayPal at a local branch of your favorite bank and you're in business. Think of it as your own financial firewall.
I hope that isn't true. That release is 2 years old. As per Apache's web site:
"We consider Apache 1.3.31 to be the best version of Apache 1.3 available and we strongly recommend that users of older versions, especially of the 1.1.x and 1.2.x family, upgrade as soon as possible."
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Yes. I'm that old.
I guess he should have used a blog...if he really wanted his family to see his personal email. However, it probably was PERSONAL email. I wouldn't want my family to see that either.
Nah - more like community opera houses and vaudville acts.
Please don't get me started on the FF series. You almost need someone else to play it for you it's so goddamn boring. The "cut scenes" are meant to be little movies, but if that's what you wanted to see, why not just rent a movie. (Yes, I also ESC through other "plot" or "cut" scenes in other video games, like Warcraft III, too. Sorry.)
It's only a matter of time before movies fade away like Lawrence Welk music and radio variety hours.
I always said the loud talkers were brain damaged.
Base-10 sucks. There's a reason we use 60 in time - it can be evenly divided by 2,3,4,5,6,10,12,15 and 30. There's a reason we use 24 in time - it can be evenly divided by 2,3,4,6,8 and 12.
For all of the privately held companies who compete against publicly traded companies who pay out stock options like Monopoly money...this rocks.
The surest way you know a company knows what its doing is if it's turning a profit. This should take one more accounting trick away from the pretenders out there.
LOL. MySQL rocks because it just isn't that hard to figure out, or tune, or write efficient code for. What takes 802 pages to explain?
I'll ask another question. Who still buys non-electronic books in the year 2004? What good is a textbook without a goddamn search function?
Try implementing a cross-browser JavaScript and/or Java solution. You'll find enough quirks soon enough.
Please allow me to shamelessly self-promote then.
http://www.standardnetworks.com/moveitdmz/
It's a secure file transfer server. For years we've been using an ActiveX component (IE on Windows only) to offer professional file features like automatic SHA integrity checks, file transfers >4GB via browsers, on-the-fly zipping, etc.
But...our latest version also has a Java component and full integration with the Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape tree on both Windows and Linux.
Do they really want to name it Columbia?
Isn't that French for "crash-and-burn"?
Does this mean they might be willing to fix their shit Java support? Ah, I feel much better. Now, back to dealing with Foxfire's shit Java support...
Sometimes MySQL indexes are bad. For example, if you infrequently do lookups based on an index but you often add or remove many records from a database, an MySQL index can actually hurt performance.
I hope there's something about that in the book...but then again, this is 2004. Who still reads (non-electronic) books about technical topics?
TSA Drone: "What do you have in that bottle?"
You: "Oh, it's just some gasoline for my laptop."
Sure...this technology will be a GREAT laptop power source for travelers...
C'mon. "Evil Lord Sir Lucan D'Lere" What is this, EverSmurf?
I would hope we couldn't blame serving up static content as a cause; there are so many cache servers built for this task in 2004 that one would hope actual web servers never actually see these requests.
If my theory is correct, we can expect the performance to slowly improve as PayPal gets more systems online
Nah...if it's bandwidth-related, performance will take another hit as more systems come online and try to share a saturated pipe.
However, if the problems WERE bandwidth related, it should be easy for eBay to diagnose; just take a meter reading of traffic before the crappy performance and another after. Likewise, it should be easy for eBay to diagnose server performance problems - just look for the spike.
I think what is troubling to every PayPal user is not that PayPal/eBay is having problems, but that they appear to have no idea what is broken and no idea how to fix it.
Oooo...I wish I had mod points. That was funny.
Just count out the bills and come up short, and tell the guy, geeze, I guess I'll find an ATM and come back tomorrow . . . they say, I'll take what you have.
C'mon. You're flashing cash and you can only get salespeople to drop 10%? I'd start looking for the edgier fellows, the guy who just started chain-smoking because he fell into the bottom quarter this month. If you get lucky, the guy might take the cash, give the product to you for HALF off, and give $20 to the stock boy to report one unit missing next month.
Where do you keep all your precious cash, in a mattress? Let me know where so I can come by and pick it up...
Hmmm...ever try online bill pay?
We did get the money back - 3 weeks later.
So what's the problem? If no one helped...how did the money get returned?
I agree anyone who ties their PayPal account to their main checking account is a moron. However, these days free checking accounts are available at almost any bank. Set up a dedicated checking account for PayPal at a local branch of your favorite bank and you're in business. Think of it as your own financial firewall.
According to a quick telnet...
I hope that isn't true. That release is 2 years old. As per Apache's web site: "We consider Apache 1.3.31 to be the best version of Apache 1.3 available and we strongly recommend that users of older versions, especially of the 1.1.x and 1.2.x family, upgrade as soon as possible."
See: http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/Announcement.html
Debit cards are for wusses and winos.
1) As soon as someone pays you, move ALL the money out of your PayPal account.
2) To pay someone else, have payment go directly from your associated checking account. There is no need to carry a positive balance on PayPal.
3) Don't get the goddamn DEBIT card.
BTW, it's 8:37PT and it took almost 3 minutes to sign on. My guess is that PayPal will be hiring soon.
Mod the parent entry up; Java under Mac is either old, poorly implemented (yes you, Safari) or both.
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