The problem with a slashdotting is that often these sites get knocked off the face of the planet for a while by the great behemoth that is the slashdot community.
Often these sites are put on the internet by someone who spends a lot of their hard earned cash getting something they believe in online.
Do you think that these people deserve a slashdotting just because they post something informative or interesting?
I'm not coming from the perspective of not being able to see a site linked to from slashdot, I couldn't give a flying f**k, I'm actually doing something other than being monumentally selfish, I'm thinking about the poor guys who's bandwidth or hosting bill is gonna go through the roof, who's site is gonna get knocked off the internet.
So instead of sitting there flaming, try thinking about it from all perspectives.
And now the slashdot crowd have killed their server >:o(
This is getting beyond a joke, slashdot needs to do something about the effect they have on these small sites, it's not going to get better by ignoring it CmdrTaco...
But of course we all know not putting up a cache is a way to get more money in through the subscriber model.
That little ad that keeps popping up at the top of the homepage should read "If you were a subscriber you could actually get to look at the site we're about to slashdot!"
Hmm...o.k., maybe many orders of magnitude was overstating the point a bit...but it *is* true that the whole megahertz thing is a myth, although personally in the type of work I do (audio stuff with Cubase SX etc) SIMD plays a big part. Cubase SX is one of those few apps that is actually using extensions available in modern processors, and i'll tell ya it *does* make a whole lotta difference. An example, on my old P2 233 Mhz I could run 1 Native Instruments VSTi (say the B4 hammond emulator) and be up at around 80-90% CPU utilisation, now with my new XP 1800+ (running at 1.53 Ghz, which is +- 6.5 x faster) the same virtual instrument uses around 2-5% CPU, and I've got more polyphony...now a quick calculation (I know this isn't very scientific...but it's just to prove a point) and we find that my 1.53 Ghz machine is 20-40% faster.
Modern processors have loads of extensions, MMX, SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) which means that even if you overclocked your old 8088 to 4.7 GHZ (hehe...would LOVE to see the fan required for that!!!) it would still run many orders of magnitude slower.
The problem with this argument...which is oversimplistic...is that I'm sure that there are lots of people who *do* want it.
Example: You run the I.T. for a large company...the company uses M$ products, you don't want pirated software running on your system...rather than having to lock down user accounts palladium will do it all for you.
Come on and wake up people...think of all the large businesses out there which upgrade regularly (one company I used to work for upgraded 30000+ computers every 3 years) why would they stop because of a chip which will actually make software audits etc. an annoyance which no longer has to be dealt with?!?
And then what happens when the latest games require ever faster processors? "Oh no...I want to be able to play doom 12 but it requires a 4 gig processor to play it...hmmm...na, I won't bother upgrading coz then I'll have a palladium system"...don't see that scenario happening.
...if you are in the u.k. then you'll probably not have that many hours...because over here we specialise in one subject. I did AI & CS and had about 20 or so hours most weeks (along with other work).
Now here's the fun part...I ran my own company too! (As well as dj'ing both over here in the U.K. and in Brussels, Belgium) It IS possible, it just requires that you have a timetable and STICK to it.
The worst thing you can do is mix up your social time (and remember university IS about meeting new people) and your work time. Have a set time for uni work, for work work and for play (all work and no play...etc.).
It's possible...just make sure that you give university the same attention that you do your company and socialising and you should be fine.
fair point...sorry...i'd just woken up, gotten into work to find that i'd been moved out of my office for two weeks while the auditors were in...I had a deep loathing of all mankind...;o)
...other than a (rather pointless if you ask me) excercise in adding someone elses algorithm into someone elses game using someone elses levels?
Why not just re-create the original quake levels using the Doom-3 Engine when level editors come out?!?
That at least would have been at least slightly original...recreating all of the old monsters in the new 3D format etc...and I bet ID's code runs a tad faster than this guys...what a waste of time.
Sorry...just need to clear something up...AWT stands for Abstract Windowing Toolkit, not Advanced as you seem to make out...just thought I'd clear that up.
Personally I want the AWT to stay, at least for the time being. I sell a chat solution that uses a Java applet...with my own lightweight components, many people would have to download the java plugin to get swing and this is frowned upon by the kind of sites I work for...the customer shouldn't have to download anything at all to get it to work...it should just..."work".:o) oh...the fun I have!
then maybe you shouldn't hire contractors from oracle but go for someone who does it on his own. If he has survived it means he must be good. Oracle can send you just anyone...it doesn't matter to them one iota how good they are because...hey...you've already paid for the software.
We used a guy called Simon Redfern (in the U.K.) and he got the job done totally and in only a few days.
Don't go for a contractor just because they're approved...that's narrow and short sighted...and as your case pointed out...a little foolhardy.
Go for personal reccomendation over "certification" any day.
I'm developing a project in SQL2K and ASP at the moment (a student staffing system) and from what I've seen it's very fast and stable enough for our needs. Our entire website and databases for departments (through Access linking) is managed by it, a JobZone (student jobs), members, user accounts...the whole lot. There are currently 130+ tables and probably 200k+ of records in there...so far we've had no problems but we're probably not the busiest of sites...probably no more than 50 people using it concurrently.
It's the first time I've used MS sql and IMHO the SQL Server Management console is one of the strong plus-points to it.
Of course...I would rather be using something not from M$ (have you tried getting support off them when you're from a small company?) but it's the system they have in place...and I have to like it or lump it! I've had to learn ASP as well (basic for web servers(tm);o) ) which is a lot easier to make a clutter with, give me PHP any day!:o) ).
Here is some info that might be relevant if you're running it on linux.
Don't know if this affects all versions of MySQL or only 4.0x
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Hmm...silly geeks throwing in oracle?
I worked on a couple of very large sites a few years ago (OK Magazine and Television-X the fantasy channels website - fantasy121.com) and the only databases which would scale to what we wanted with no problems and serious speed problems were MSSQL and Oracle...and not liking M$ stuff (security holes...monopolies yada yada yada) we chose oracle and never looked back.
For huge sites I would heartily reccommend it...and the cross platform java admin/setup tools were a brilliant touch.
O.k. it costs a bomb...but to a certain extent you gets what you pays for (although for free (as in beer) MySQL gives you pretty good bang for your buck).
So what if oracle isn't open source...it's still one of the best.
I've been following the developments very closely and have had it running fine on my development box (P3, Win2K Pro) for over a month without a reboot.
I've also had a test site live to the world running off my broadband connection, so I could test stuff from work etc. and I haven't found any problems yet.
However I don't know how it would scale to a large site (the test site was 34 tables and only around 50k records in total).
I think a lot of the "don't use this on a live site" stuff is just to cover their own asses in case something goes wrong.
*humble cap on* thanks for clearing that up, I was under the impression that they still didn't, hadn't heard anything saying that it's in place...only that they intent to*humble cap off*.
Anyway, I've never tried hacking my phone...still working on those damn pesky stinged cups thingies. I'm sure that if I can change my...oh never mind.
Sorry, also forgot to mention that it you don't even have to change the IMEI number of a stolen phone to use it without being arrested. All you have to do is use it on another network since there is no sharing of stolen phone data between the big 4. I could go out now, steal an orange phone, get it unlocked within 10 minutes at a local shop for £5, get an O2 prepay sim in another 15 and be using the phone within 30 minutes and not be caught and prosecuted.
B.T.W. I'm saying that I could...not that I will (I'm not paranoid, but the MI5 agents reading this are!).
I doubt that the british government will stop people unlocking their phones. This has always been allowed to stop the big four (Orange, VodaFone, O2 (Formerly Cellnet) and T-Mobile (Formlerly One-2-NoOne) from locking customers in to them. Oftel wants consumers to be free to decide to switch networks without having to switch phones...look how they brought legislation in to allow people to keep their phone numbers...the phone companies didn't want this - think about it for a second...do you really want to make it easy for people to leave you? No.
At the end of the day the only reason you would want to change your IMEI number is if you were up to no good.
This is what really gets me down about the U.K. in particular...the whole "id cards/new laws being passed/etc etc etc are infringing my rights"...only if you've got something to hide. I was born and raised in belgium (by British Parents) and had to carry an ID card round there...since I've been in the U.K., before I had a driving license I had to use either my passport or birth certificate as a method of identification for things like opening a bank account and the like. With an I.D. card I could have done this much easier...and if it is lost it's easier to get a new one than say a passport or driving license.
A bit off topic at the end there but I've had my rant cap on all day!;o)
I am sure that if they recieved 100000+ messages through this system, not only would coldfusion throw a spaz attack but they might start getting the message. Slashdot is the best DDoS system I have ever seen.;o)
I've essentially told them to think twice before going after everybody, or they will have trouble on their hands from nations who's premiers aren't president ("tatoo idiot on forehead now") Bush's lapdog. Companies never listen to complaints until you explain to them how their actions will lead to a decrease in profits for them. That's how I get £20 off my mobile phone bill some months...bad reception, I tell them about all the p**sed off people in the area who are thinking of leaving, I get £20 off and am happy until I have to complain again.
The RIAA and MPAA should realise that by walking down this very dangerous path, not only could they lose a lot of business, look bad, but also start an international incident that could have serious ramifications for years to come.
I mean, terrorists already get pissed off by the U.S.A.'s desire to control everything outside their borders...this just gives them more ammunition.
Good luck to the RIAA and MPAA, they're going to need it.
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Well...I saw the joke anyway...and thought it was pretty funny...oh well!
you don't even need a.java file per class...if you are creating a private class (one which may only be accessed by members of its package) then it may go in the same.java file as a public class which may access it...bad project management, trying to find a class only to realise it doesn't have its own file and is in another I agree!
Personally I think java is great for when you have to get something up and running fairly quickly and can't be arsed to look for all those memory leaks you can get in c/c++. Which would you prefer, fast incremental garbage collection or a memory leak and the need for a reboot? I know which one I would go for.
Also with the release or Merlin (j2 v 1.4) and the non-blocking I/O api's (i.e. no need for a thread to be dedicated to each incoming connection as a client handler) java's a good choice for R.A.D. of server code (hell...I wrote a new version of a chat server I sell in seven days...it's been live on a large, ahem, "adult entertainment website" for a couple of months with no problems reported back to me yet (and they know that they can contact me 24/7 on my mobile...how many times do you think I've taken a call, let alone been woken up in the middle of the night? Zip).
Basically I don't think this feat would have been possible using c++.
Dev-shed forums are still where I go for my PHP questions or to browse and post answers...it's a nice moderated forum and a lot more friendly than usenet, abusive users can be banned by moderators.
I used to usenet but not anymore...it's just too anarchic for my tastes...
I've also seen hardly any newbie bashing on dev-shed, the reason? Only people who really want to get/respond to answers seem to frequent the forums...whereas anyone with a chip on his/her shoulder can stumble upon a usenet group...*sigh*...
Maybe it's just that the PHP community is just plain nicer than others...;o)
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The problem with a slashdotting is that often these sites get knocked off the face of the planet for a while by the great behemoth that is the slashdot community.
Often these sites are put on the internet by someone who spends a lot of their hard earned cash getting something they believe in online.
Do you think that these people deserve a slashdotting just because they post something informative or interesting?
I'm not coming from the perspective of not being able to see a site linked to from slashdot, I couldn't give a flying f**k, I'm actually doing something other than being monumentally selfish, I'm thinking about the poor guys who's bandwidth or hosting bill is gonna go through the roof, who's site is gonna get knocked off the internet.
So instead of sitting there flaming, try thinking about it from all perspectives.
Buy bye karma.
And now the slashdot crowd have killed their server >:o(
This is getting beyond a joke, slashdot needs to do something about the effect they have on these small sites, it's not going to get better by ignoring it CmdrTaco...
But of course we all know not putting up a cache is a way to get more money in through the subscriber model.
That little ad that keeps popping up at the top of the homepage should read "If you were a subscriber you could actually get to look at the site we're about to slashdot!"
I think this sums up what the RIAA thinks of its customers and the artists it (in)directly controls.
Damn, just used my last mod point, otherwise I would have modded the parent up as funny! ;o)
Hmm...o.k., maybe many orders of magnitude was overstating the point a bit...but it *is* true that the whole megahertz thing is a myth, although personally in the type of work I do (audio stuff with Cubase SX etc) SIMD plays a big part. Cubase SX is one of those few apps that is actually using extensions available in modern processors, and i'll tell ya it *does* make a whole lotta difference. An example, on my old P2 233 Mhz I could run 1 Native Instruments VSTi (say the B4 hammond emulator) and be up at around 80-90% CPU utilisation, now with my new XP 1800+ (running at 1.53 Ghz, which is +- 6.5 x faster) the same virtual instrument uses around 2-5% CPU, and I've got more polyphony...now a quick calculation (I know this isn't very scientific...but it's just to prove a point) and we find that my 1.53 Ghz machine is 20-40% faster.
Once again...the megahertz myth.
Modern processors have loads of extensions, MMX, SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) which means that even if you overclocked your old 8088 to 4.7 GHZ (hehe...would LOVE to see the fan required for that!!!) it would still run many orders of magnitude slower.
The problem with this argument...which is oversimplistic...is that I'm sure that there are lots of people who *do* want it.
Example: You run the I.T. for a large company...the company uses M$ products, you don't want pirated software running on your system...rather than having to lock down user accounts palladium will do it all for you.
Come on and wake up people...think of all the large businesses out there which upgrade regularly (one company I used to work for upgraded 30000+ computers every 3 years) why would they stop because of a chip which will actually make software audits etc. an annoyance which no longer has to be dealt with?!?
And then what happens when the latest games require ever faster processors? "Oh no...I want to be able to play doom 12 but it requires a 4 gig processor to play it...hmmm...na, I won't bother upgrading coz then I'll have a palladium system"...don't see that scenario happening.
...if you are in the u.k. then you'll probably not have that many hours...because over here we specialise in one subject. I did AI & CS and had about 20 or so hours most weeks (along with other work).
Now here's the fun part...I ran my own company too! (As well as dj'ing both over here in the U.K. and in Brussels, Belgium) It IS possible, it just requires that you have a timetable and STICK to it.
The worst thing you can do is mix up your social time (and remember university IS about meeting new people) and your work time. Have a set time for uni work, for work work and for play (all work and no play...etc.).
It's possible...just make sure that you give university the same attention that you do your company and socialising and you should be fine.
Good Luck! It's hard but rewarding.
fair point...sorry...i'd just woken up, gotten into work to find that i'd been moved out of my office for two weeks while the auditors were in...I had a deep loathing of all mankind... ;o)
...other than a (rather pointless if you ask me) excercise in adding someone elses algorithm into someone elses game using someone elses levels?
Why not just re-create the original quake levels using the Doom-3 Engine when level editors come out?!?
That at least would have been at least slightly original...recreating all of the old monsters in the new 3D format etc...and I bet ID's code runs a tad faster than this guys...what a waste of time.
Got another site for the do_not_cache.txt file... www.riaa.org ;o)
Sorry...just need to clear something up...AWT stands for Abstract Windowing Toolkit, not Advanced as you seem to make out...just thought I'd clear that up.
:o) oh...the fun I have!
Personally I want the AWT to stay, at least for the time being. I sell a chat solution that uses a Java applet...with my own lightweight components, many people would have to download the java plugin to get swing and this is frowned upon by the kind of sites I work for...the customer shouldn't have to download anything at all to get it to work...it should just..."work".
then maybe you shouldn't hire contractors from oracle but go for someone who does it on his own. If he has survived it means he must be good. Oracle can send you just anyone...it doesn't matter to them one iota how good they are because...hey...you've already paid for the software.
We used a guy called Simon Redfern (in the U.K.) and he got the job done totally and in only a few days.
Don't go for a contractor just because they're approved...that's narrow and short sighted...and as your case pointed out...a little foolhardy.
Go for personal reccomendation over "certification" any day.
I'm developing a project in SQL2K and ASP at the moment (a student staffing system) and from what I've seen it's very fast and stable enough for our needs. Our entire website and databases for departments (through Access linking) is managed by it, a JobZone (student jobs), members, user accounts...the whole lot. There are currently 130+ tables and probably 200k+ of records in there...so far we've had no problems but we're probably not the busiest of sites...probably no more than 50 people using it concurrently.
;o) ) which is a lot easier to make a clutter with, give me PHP any day! :o) ).
It's the first time I've used MS sql and IMHO the SQL Server Management console is one of the strong plus-points to it.
Of course...I would rather be using something not from M$ (have you tried getting support off them when you're from a small company?) but it's the system they have in place...and I have to like it or lump it! I've had to learn ASP as well (basic for web servers(tm)
Yes I am! who is this?
Here is some info that might be relevant if you're running it on linux.
Don't know if this affects all versions of MySQL or only 4.0x
Hmm...silly geeks throwing in oracle?
I worked on a couple of very large sites a few years ago (OK Magazine and Television-X the fantasy channels website - fantasy121.com) and the only databases which would scale to what we wanted with no problems and serious speed problems were MSSQL and Oracle...and not liking M$ stuff (security holes...monopolies yada yada yada) we chose oracle and never looked back.
For huge sites I would heartily reccommend it...and the cross platform java admin/setup tools were a brilliant touch.
O.k. it costs a bomb...but to a certain extent you gets what you pays for (although for free (as in beer) MySQL gives you pretty good bang for your buck).
So what if oracle isn't open source...it's still one of the best.
I've been following the developments very closely and have had it running fine on my development box (P3, Win2K Pro) for over a month without a reboot.
I've also had a test site live to the world running off my broadband connection, so I could test stuff from work etc. and I haven't found any problems yet.
However I don't know how it would scale to a large site (the test site was 34 tables and only around 50k records in total).
I think a lot of the "don't use this on a live site" stuff is just to cover their own asses in case something goes wrong.
*humble cap on* thanks for clearing that up, I was under the impression that they still didn't, hadn't heard anything saying that it's in place...only that they intent to*humble cap off*.
Anyway, I've never tried hacking my phone...still working on those damn pesky stinged cups thingies. I'm sure that if I can change my...oh never mind.
Sorry, also forgot to mention that it you don't even have to change the IMEI number of a stolen phone to use it without being arrested. All you have to do is use it on another network since there is no sharing of stolen phone data between the big 4. I could go out now, steal an orange phone, get it unlocked within 10 minutes at a local shop for £5, get an O2 prepay sim in another 15 and be using the phone within 30 minutes and not be caught and prosecuted.
B.T.W. I'm saying that I could...not that I will (I'm not paranoid, but the MI5 agents reading this are!).
I doubt that the british government will stop people unlocking their phones. This has always been allowed to stop the big four (Orange, VodaFone, O2 (Formerly Cellnet) and T-Mobile (Formlerly One-2-NoOne) from locking customers in to them. Oftel wants consumers to be free to decide to switch networks without having to switch phones...look how they brought legislation in to allow people to keep their phone numbers...the phone companies didn't want this - think about it for a second...do you really want to make it easy for people to leave you? No.
;o)
At the end of the day the only reason you would want to change your IMEI number is if you were up to no good.
This is what really gets me down about the U.K. in particular...the whole "id cards/new laws being passed/etc etc etc are infringing my rights"...only if you've got something to hide. I was born and raised in belgium (by British Parents) and had to carry an ID card round there...since I've been in the U.K., before I had a driving license I had to use either my passport or birth certificate as a method of identification for things like opening a bank account and the like. With an I.D. card I could have done this much easier...and if it is lost it's easier to get a new one than say a passport or driving license.
A bit off topic at the end there but I've had my rant cap on all day!
I am sure that if they recieved 100000+ messages through this system, not only would coldfusion throw a spaz attack but they might start getting the message. Slashdot is the best DDoS system I have ever seen. ;o)
I've essentially told them to think twice before going after everybody, or they will have trouble on their hands from nations who's premiers aren't president ("tatoo idiot on forehead now") Bush's lapdog. Companies never listen to complaints until you explain to them how their actions will lead to a decrease in profits for them. That's how I get £20 off my mobile phone bill some months...bad reception, I tell them about all the p**sed off people in the area who are thinking of leaving, I get £20 off and am happy until I have to complain again.
The RIAA and MPAA should realise that by walking down this very dangerous path, not only could they lose a lot of business, look bad, but also start an international incident that could have serious ramifications for years to come.
I mean, terrorists already get pissed off by the U.S.A.'s desire to control everything outside their borders...this just gives them more ammunition.
Good luck to the RIAA and MPAA, they're going to need it.
Well...I saw the joke anyway...and thought it was pretty funny...oh well!
you don't even need a .java file per class...if you are creating a private class (one which may only be accessed by members of its package) then it may go in the same .java file as a public class which may access it...bad project management, trying to find a class only to realise it doesn't have its own file and is in another I agree!
Personally I think java is great for when you have to get something up and running fairly quickly and can't be arsed to look for all those memory leaks you can get in c/c++. Which would you prefer, fast incremental garbage collection or a memory leak and the need for a reboot? I know which one I would go for.
Also with the release or Merlin (j2 v 1.4) and the non-blocking I/O api's (i.e. no need for a thread to be dedicated to each incoming connection as a client handler) java's a good choice for R.A.D. of server code (hell...I wrote a new version of a chat server I sell in seven days...it's been live on a large, ahem, "adult entertainment website" for a couple of months with no problems reported back to me yet (and they know that they can contact me 24/7 on my mobile...how many times do you think I've taken a call, let alone been woken up in the middle of the night? Zip).
Basically I don't think this feat would have been possible using c++.
Dev-shed forums are still where I go for my PHP questions or to browse and post answers...it's a nice moderated forum and a lot more friendly than usenet, abusive users can be banned by moderators.
;o)
I used to usenet but not anymore...it's just too anarchic for my tastes...
I've also seen hardly any newbie bashing on dev-shed, the reason? Only people who really want to get/respond to answers seem to frequent the forums...whereas anyone with a chip on his/her shoulder can stumble upon a usenet group...*sigh*...
Maybe it's just that the PHP community is just plain nicer than others...