Ditto. The 2 stations I listened to 95% of the time (I've canceled) were XM82 The System and XM48 Squizz. The System is gone, Area is weak, and Squizz has become 'Octane' and very pussified. It used to be a great place for rock / hard rock and occasionally some metal, and it still has that to a degree, but they've mixed in a lot of pop now, too, and almost never touch on the more hardcore stuff they used to play. On the last trip I took before I canceled, I heard 5 Nickelback songs in as many hours. Fuck. That.
Is there some kind of rule that if it's in a hyperlink, it's spelled 'DCMA', but if it's plain text, it's 'DMCA'?
And good on YouTube for reposting the content.
Yeah, multiple calendars is just something that would be kind of nice for those people who do choose to do it that way (either out of habit or simple preference), but the real killer feature is the sharing aspect. I'm not entirely in agreement with you on the 'real backend' thing, though; I've seen it done without (on an app that unfortunately died with the bubble, despite not being a web app in any way).
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, after spending the better part of a day digging through their site, docs, etc., it looks like it's missing a way to have multiple calendars for one user, and only through workarounds can you hack together calendar sharing. Looks like a promising project, though.
Aside from palm not even being close to all the types of portables, the project has, as you say, been around for a few years now...and it's still not working.
I just wish they could get calendar / mail sync with portables going. That one single thing would be the difference in $GOBS spent on MS Office, Exchange, server hardware / OS, and just using Thunderbird + Sunbird, which (outside of that one feature) everybody here really likes.
Slashdot currently has 16 web servers all of which are running Red Hat 9. Two serve static content: javascript, images, and the front page for non logged-in users. Four serve the front page to logged in users. And the remaining ten handle comment pages. All web servers are Rackable 1U servers with 2 Xeon 2.66Ghz processors, 2GB of RAM, and 2x80GB IDE hard drives. The web servers all NFS mount the NFS server, which is a Rackable 2U with 2 Xeon 2.4Ghz processors, 2GB of RAM, and 4x36GB 15K RPM SCSI drives. (CT: Just as a note, we frequently shuffle these 16 servers from one task to another to handle changes in load or performance. Next week's software story will explain in much more detail exactly what we do with those machines. Also as a note- the NFS is read-only, which was really the only safe way to use NFS around 1999 when we started doing it this way.)
Besides the 16 web servers, we have 7 databases. They currently are all running CentOS 4. They breakdown as follows: 2 Dual Opteron 270's with 16GB RAM, 4x36GB 15K RPM SCSI Drives These are doing multiple-master replication, with one acting as Slashdot's single write-only DB, and the other acting as a reader. We have the ability to swap their functions dynamically at any time, providing an acceptable level of failover.
2 Dual Opteron 270's with 8GB RAM, 4x36GB 15K RPM SCSI Drives These are Slashdot's reader DBs. Each derives data from a specific master database (listed above). The idea is that we can add more reader databases as we need to scale. These boxes are barely a year old now -- and still are plenty fast for our needs.
Lastly, we have 3 Quad P3 Xeon 700Mhz with 4GB RAM, 8x36GB 10K RPM SCSI Drives which are sort of our miscellaneous 'other' boxes. They are used to host our accesslog writer, an accesslog reader, and Slashdot's search database. We need this much for accesslogs because moderation and stats require a lot of CPU time for computation.
I had heard a little bit ago that there had been some heated debate over this, but...a fork? Over resizing a freaking text input area manually or automatically? Holy crap people can be petty some times.
Some people come in expecting that building software like Crysis or MS Office or whatever is going to be more complicated but essentially the same as building a website with Frontpage. There's also an unfortunate number of people who come into it because many (most?) IT jobs ask for a degree in computer science, when they really should be asking for something like MIS or a vocational program / certification. Too many HR departments don't realize that a CS degree has as much relevance to running cable or fixing hardware as a mechanical engineering degree has to detailing a car or changing the oil.
I had read about this yesterday on Reddit, but even taking that into account - all these incidents combined in this short a timespan makes for one hell of an interesting coincidence. Even a sci-fi / fantasy fan like me has to feel their suspension of disbelief getting stretched. I have to say, I'm beginning to wonder the same thing as Bruce:
Is the removal of restrictions from our media really that big a deal?
Oh hell yes it's a big deal. I used to buy lots of music as well as downloading it on P2P networks, but when Napster started getting in real hot water I stopped using P2P. Around, I'd guess, 2003 sometime, maybe 2004 (I can't remember exactly), I pretty much stopped buying music, too. Why? I don't listen to CD's in plain album format. I listen to playlists on my computer and burned mix discs in my car. DRM made this more bother than it's worth, and a disc that I can't rip to mp3 is essentially a 'coaster' as far as I'm concerned. On the rare occasion I bought a CD since then, I looked it up on the internet and made damn sure that I wouldn't have to do anything more involved than holding down 'shift' when I put it in the drive to get it to rip with CDEX.
But - and this is important - I now buy music about as much as I did back in the late '90s (1 - 2 albums a month). What's changed? Amazon's mp3 store. Should Amazon's mp3 store fail and no comparable service move to take it's place, my music purchases will go back to essentially zip.
Haha. Thanks for that. Drives me nuts when somebody tells me, "I got an error that said something about some file, and registering, and I dunno. At any rate, it crashed." One of the first things I try to teach new employees is printscreen, start->programs->accessories->paint, paste, save.:)
Definitely. I love it when a user can tell me what they've already done in the way of troubleshooting. Honestly, I'm happy if they can even describe the problem knowledgeably. It's incredible how many different types of problems I've heard described along the lines of, "My internet is down or something, I don't know, can you just come take a look?"
"The Know-It-All"
It is simply mind-boggling how often a simple reboot fix seemingly unrelated problems. Besides, if you're issue is really so important that I need to come down there personally and look into it, you're probably not getting much work done anyways, so what's the harm in starting a reboot while I start walking to your desk? Worst case scenario, it doesn't help, but you haven't missed out on any productivity.
If I ask a user to reboot their computer (which, by the way, means I think it might help) and they say it's unrelated, their just prolonging the time it takes to get the problem solved, because I'm just gonna reboot it myself when I get to their desk. Why not save us both a little time and just do it now? Who knows, it might even work, and that'll save us both a lot of time.
Here's a video of it, if anybody's curious. The guy with the accent actually got some time to talk (beyond the end of the video); it wasn't as bad as 1UP made it out to be, and everybody except Levine seemed to act like it was a planned thing, so I don't really know what to say about it.
Yeah, the captcha was cool, but most of the pictures I couldn't see the top 1/5 or so of them. I guess 1024x768 is now considered so pathetically low it's no longer worth making your site work properly with it...
is that although the directions clearly tell you to put in the first and last letters of the word the inkblot makes you think of, you can input numbers, common symbols, and even weird symbols ( and f are both considered valid inputs, for instance) and it doesn't even flinch. I suspect these researchers are going to have to sift through a LOT of bad data to get any kind of meaningful results.
Q: I recently had an experience on eBay in which a hacker copied and pasted an exact copy of my selling page with the intention of routing payments to himself. Afterwards, people informed me that such mischief is not uncommon. How can I ensure that it doesn't happen again?
A: You can't. The attack had nothing to do with you. Anyone with a browser can copy your HTML code -- if they couldn't, they couldn't see your page -- and repost it at another URL. Welcome to the Internet.
Poor Bruce must get awful tired of answering questions from people who don't understand how computers, etc. actually work.
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Ditto. The 2 stations I listened to 95% of the time (I've canceled) were XM82 The System and XM48 Squizz. The System is gone, Area is weak, and Squizz has become 'Octane' and very pussified. It used to be a great place for rock / hard rock and occasionally some metal, and it still has that to a degree, but they've mixed in a lot of pop now, too, and almost never touch on the more hardcore stuff they used to play. On the last trip I took before I canceled, I heard 5 Nickelback songs in as many hours. Fuck. That.
Aww, hell. Had my hopes up for a minute.
Is there some kind of rule that if it's in a hyperlink, it's spelled 'DCMA', but if it's plain text, it's 'DMCA'? And good on YouTube for reposting the content.
Yeah, multiple calendars is just something that would be kind of nice for those people who do choose to do it that way (either out of habit or simple preference), but the real killer feature is the sharing aspect. I'm not entirely in agreement with you on the 'real backend' thing, though; I've seen it done without (on an app that unfortunately died with the bubble, despite not being a web app in any way).
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately, after spending the better part of a day digging through their site, docs, etc., it looks like it's missing a way to have multiple calendars for one user, and only through workarounds can you hack together calendar sharing. Looks like a promising project, though.
Aside from palm not even being close to all the types of portables, the project has, as you say, been around for a few years now...and it's still not working.
I just wish they could get calendar / mail sync with portables going. That one single thing would be the difference in $GOBS spent on MS Office, Exchange, server hardware / OS, and just using Thunderbird + Sunbird, which (outside of that one feature) everybody here really likes.
Wish I had mod points...first comment in a good while on /. that actually made me laugh.
5 fewer for me, about 2/3 latency.
I thought that this was all over with. Or was that just some other aspect of it?
I had heard a little bit ago that there had been some heated debate over this, but...a fork? Over resizing a freaking text input area manually or automatically? Holy crap people can be petty some times.
Some people come in expecting that building software like Crysis or MS Office or whatever is going to be more complicated but essentially the same as building a website with Frontpage. There's also an unfortunate number of people who come into it because many (most?) IT jobs ask for a degree in computer science, when they really should be asking for something like MIS or a vocational program / certification. Too many HR departments don't realize that a CS degree has as much relevance to running cable or fixing hardware as a mechanical engineering degree has to detailing a car or changing the oil.
I expected this story to be a dupe of this decade-old article by a guy who figured out the same idea.
I used to buy lots of music as well as downloading it on P2P networks, but when Napster started getting in real hot water I stopped using P2P. Around, I'd guess, 2003 sometime, maybe 2004 (I can't remember exactly), I pretty much stopped buying music, too. Why? I don't listen to CD's in plain album format. I listen to playlists on my computer and burned mix discs in my car. DRM made this more bother than it's worth, and a disc that I can't rip to mp3 is essentially a 'coaster' as far as I'm concerned. On the rare occasion I bought a CD since then, I looked it up on the internet and made damn sure that I wouldn't have to do anything more involved than holding down 'shift' when I put it in the drive to get it to rip with CDEX.
But - and this is important - I now buy music about as much as I did back in the late '90s (1 - 2 albums a month). What's changed? Amazon's mp3 store. Should Amazon's mp3 store fail and no comparable service move to take it's place, my music purchases will go back to essentially zip.
36% seems like a severe lowball estimate, to me. I wouldn't be at all surprised if 1/3 of WAP's still have the manufacturer's default admin login.
Haha. Thanks for that. Drives me nuts when somebody tells me, "I got an error that said something about some file, and registering, and I dunno. At any rate, it crashed." One of the first things I try to teach new employees is printscreen, start->programs->accessories->paint, paste, save. :)
Definitely. I love it when a user can tell me what they've already done in the way of troubleshooting. Honestly, I'm happy if they can even describe the problem knowledgeably. It's incredible how many different types of problems I've heard described along the lines of, "My internet is down or something, I don't know, can you just come take a look?"
"The Know-It-All" It is simply mind-boggling how often a simple reboot fix seemingly unrelated problems. Besides, if you're issue is really so important that I need to come down there personally and look into it, you're probably not getting much work done anyways, so what's the harm in starting a reboot while I start walking to your desk? Worst case scenario, it doesn't help, but you haven't missed out on any productivity.
If I ask a user to reboot their computer (which, by the way, means I think it might help) and they say it's unrelated, their just prolonging the time it takes to get the problem solved, because I'm just gonna reboot it myself when I get to their desk. Why not save us both a little time and just do it now? Who knows, it might even work, and that'll save us both a lot of time.
Here's a video of it, if anybody's curious. The guy with the accent actually got some time to talk (beyond the end of the video); it wasn't as bad as 1UP made it out to be, and everybody except Levine seemed to act like it was a planned thing, so I don't really know what to say about it.
Yeah, the captcha was cool, but most of the pictures I couldn't see the top 1/5 or so of them. I guess 1024x768 is now considered so pathetically low it's no longer worth making your site work properly with it...
Bah. Knew I should've previewed. The odd characters (which slash stripped) were ALT+789 and ALT+159. It also accepts a space character.
is that although the directions clearly tell you to put in the first and last letters of the word the inkblot makes you think of, you can input numbers, common symbols, and even weird symbols ( and f are both considered valid inputs, for instance) and it doesn't even flinch. I suspect these researchers are going to have to sift through a LOT of bad data to get any kind of meaningful results.
Poor Bruce must get awful tired of answering questions from people who don't understand how computers, etc. actually work.