In the future, you might consider making the "HTML Light" mode the default mode under heavy load.
Granted, it doesn't alleviate the DB problem, but it does limit the images sent down the pipe.
(more ideas pulled out of the ass) Perhaps another Apache instance or a Perl script (horrors!) to watch traffic and to ratchet the options down as traffic increases, based on a weighted system (level 1: no sigs, level 2: drop journals, level 3: no search,... level N serve only static HTML)
This is an interesting problem, and I'm impressed with y'all ability to handle it.
On another note (we really need to be able to edit comments...)
The Linksys is supported by almost all of the Dynamic DNS scripts available. I use ipcheck with the custom domain option. It works fantastic -- stick it in the crontab, run it every 5 minutes.
Useful if you plan to do anything interesting with your phat broadband.
That 486 in the corner gathering dust is also a huge amperage sink, and is more likely to have bizarro hardware that has really crummy driver support.
Plus, you now have to learn the intricacies of firewalling -- and if you get rooted, you now have to spend some more time trying to figure out what went wrong.
I'd rather pay some company $100 or so and let them figure it out -- all I have to do is keep the firmware updated.
I have the BEFSR41, which is the router plus a 4-port 10/100 switch. It was about $100 from CompUSA.
Dislikes: the web-based interface is a bit wonky with Netscape 4.7 on *nix. It works, but has some weird errors on occasion.
Likes: it works as advertised. I fought with PPPoE on an OpenBSD box for several hours -- I could not figure out why it wasn't working, and none of the so-called "How-tos" helped.
HOW-TO -- a definition
A cruel on-going joke between free unix-alike "documentation" writers that is mostly filled with "it worked for me, maybe you're stupid" insinuations and "this important part of the configuration is terribly, terribly important, but it's beyond the scope of this shitty How-To. Perhaps you are stupid?" notes.
So, I went and bought the Linksys, and within one hour (including the time it took to buy the thing), I was passing bits around the Internet.
The web-based interface does work somewhat with Lynx, but is very cantankerous when used so. I have ssh'ed into my server and then used Lynx to reconfigure the router.
You can forward ports to particular internal IPs, i.e. "all requests for port 80 goes to the computer at 192.168.1.100", and can even put one computer (one IP address) in a "DMZ", where it is completely open (all ports are available to answer).
If you want to do complex filtering or firewalling, it doesn't do such. If your needs aren't really complicated, it will work for you.
Very, very unlikely. Israel has the might, the ability, and the will to turn everything from the Mediteranean to the Indian sea into a big sheet of glass. They don't need to be so circumspect.
Remember, the Islamic world is derived from the lineage of Ishmael, and the Jewish world from Isaac -- the sons of Abraham. No hate is worse than the hate between blood.
I'll second this -- another advantage to Myst is its age -- you can run it on old computers just fine, like a 1993 Mac Quadra series, which could be had for $100 or less from ebay.
The gameplay won't appeal to everybody -- it's a bit too slowpaced for our ADHD society -- but for those who really get into it, they can turn around and reproduce their own Myst-alike using HyperCard, the best introduction to programming I can think of. Hypercard is one of those Apple technologies that has been inexcusably ignored...
You'd prefer science slaughtering babies? Make no mistake -- "fetal stem cells" means "killing a baby" to me, and millions of others, regardless of the unproven, theorized benefits.
-Irresponsibly cutting taxes and using it to blatently curry favor with the Nascar sect of American society.
I love liberals -- they're all for "the people" in an abstract sense, but scratch a liberal and you get an elitist.
First, cutting taxes is a fantastic thing -- a government with no money is a government that can't oppress you.
Second, I find it hard to believe that you can't find cars whizzing around at 200+ MPH at least a little bit interesting.
- Environmental destruction in favor of short-term corporate gains (Alaska, Kyoto).
The Kyoto Accords can be summarized thus: "America, give us a dollar". It was a piece of junk that attempted to rachet our lifestyle down to the level of other countries. This is fundamentally insane.
Drilling for oil in Alaska isn't going to turn the moose homeless -- it will hardly affect them at all. Plus, more and cheaper oil will help corporations, sure, but will also help us. You know, "the people". There are poor minorities who can't heat their houses -- will you take that heating oil away from them? (two can play at this bleeding-heart stuff)
BTW, railing against the Evil Corporations is so 1990 -- catch up with the rest of us.
- Doing his best to restart the good 'ol cold war (ABM treaty breaking, trying to isolate China).
...and thank God, too. Do you think it's likely that we will launch our missles? Not very. It is likely that some yahoo in a funny hat will fling at us the first air-worthy missle he builds to Punish the Imperialist Running Pig-Dog Great Satan. I'm not thrilled with vaporization, so a missle shield is a pretty cool thing for us to have.
You're such an idiot, I hesitated in replying, but figured "what the hell". I don't think it'll change your mind -- your mind is too feeble to contain more than one thought at a time -- but I can't let stupidity go unchallenged.
3) Make it as close to Office as possible in look and feel, at least for a while. If people feel they know how to use it already, they will be much
more inclined to switch. It doesn't matter if the interface to Office stinks, it is what people are used to.
I'm seriously happy about one thing -- Enterprise won't have that god-awful writer's trick, the Holodeck. That damn thing ruined many a TNG and Voyager episode (it wasn't relied upon so heavily in DS9, thank goodness)
It has 2 requirements : (1) It must reach from one side to the other and (2) it must not fall down. You may have noticed that software is not like that;-)
Shit, software is even easier! A word processor has only one requirement:
(1) Allow me to produce documents.
That's half the requirements, it should take half the time!
Jesus, this is the same complaint programmers make about managers, vis. "If I don't understand it, it must be easy to do." Building bridges is immensely complicated and must meet thousands of niggly requirements, which you've managed to ignore completely in your reduction to two requirements in your attempt to make a clever point.
If there is any truth to your statement, it might be found in that there are thousands of niggly requirements that engineers, governments, public boards, and hundreds of others have gotten together over the years to produce a uniform building code (or at least a localized building code) that all projects must meet. Are they completely correct (or even sane)? No -- but the tend to build buildings that stand up and bridges that don't sink into the bay.
However, if you get more than 2 programmers in a room, they'll end up in some stupid religious war over editors or indentation style (or, God forbid, operating systems). Why? Because a lot of programmers are arrogant (most without reason), and will refuse to compromise their own "standards".
There's a guy on the corner what can measure out quarter and half ounces with amazing consistancy... dunno why they have to go to all that trouble, when they could hire this guy cheaper.
Betcha if scientists were wont to shoot NIST people if their measurement vehicle was wonky because NIST's dumbell was off, you'd see some pretty accurate measuring going on over there...
Well, the intent has always been "what Rob thinks is interesting". In a real sense, it's similar to talk radio -- the host talks about what he thinks is interesting, and the callers comment: discussions ensue therewith.
I agree that I wish they editors took their job a bit more seriously and made the attempt to clean up the errors, spelling/grammar and otherwise, but they are at least honest about what they do. Taco doesn't put on airs like a "journalist", but rather just a lucky-ass nerd who's site managed to become something of a cult-icon, and who managed to drag along a few friends. Good work if you can get it.
But I think they put forth more effort than 15 minutes a day.
I don't think the Founders were thinking of assault rifles when
the Bill of Rights was written.
You're kidding, right? ALL rifles were assault rifles when the Bill of Rights was written. What handguns there were were assault handguns (they certainly didn't use them to hunt with -- they were too squirrelly for hunting. Their only use was for personal defense against biped animals)
Slashdot broke stories way before any other sites covered them.
Huh? Slashdot is a glorified posting of somebody's (Taco's) bookmarks. Almost everything originates from some other site (most often mainstream sites).
Slashdot doesn't "break" stories -- they are a place that gathers interesting stories (breaking, or otherwise) in one place. They produce maybe 5-10% original content -- the rest is user contributed or completely external.
I read the Hobbit because I had gone through everything else that looked interesting on my sister's bookshelf. I loved it, simply loved it. Later I discovered the other Tolkein books, and read them (I was 10 or so at the time). I didn't like them as well -- my 10 year old imagination wanted faster action.
Coming back to the books when I was in my late teens, however, the texture was completely different. I loved the complexity, the background, the depth the books had.
If you've read a bunch of people who say "Tolkein changed my life, he's my God", I'm afraid the books may not live up to your expectations... very little can with a build-up like that.
If you intend to watch the movies, I recommend reading the books first, so you won't be colored by the movies' take on Tolkein's vision.
One tidbit I read somewhere was that Tolkein's reading of Beowulf in it's original dialect was always a well-attended event, too, even though he was not known as a good speaker (seems he usually kept his pipe in his mouth while talking or lecturing)
I preferred the little wrench to knawing a 1x4 from a 2x4 (did all of your Legos have teeth marks too?), and I liked building giant towers and such to little cars and boats.
If you want a good toy set for the young neice or nephew, or even to keep on your coffee table for a diversion, you need to try the Kapla blocks. They are a set of identical wood planks that you can build almost anything with. Because they're machined carefully, you can stack them pretty high before the natural defects dump them over. I first saw them at Miner's Toy Store.
Well, if you read the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton explains what the militia is.
The Fathers did not intend for us to have standing armies in times of peace -- it's one of the reasons we rebelled against the king of England -- and all men of fighting age would be expected to muster and drill according to the rules of their state, not of the Federal government.
In a very real sense, all men of fighting age should be required to own an automatic assault rifle, and be expected to drill and practice with it. The ACLU is wrong, the Supreme Court is wrong. One has taken your freedom away, and the other is complicit in that action.
Remind me why I should support the ACLU again?
I think even many of their detractors would admit that the ACLU has no problem defending unpopular viewpoints, i.e. flag burning or the anti-death penalty movement.
If they were intellectually consistant, they would support concealed-carry laws and such as well -- equally "unpopular" and equally a "civil liberty". Instead, they support things that get them on TV and agree with their agenda. The ACLU is a Hollywood leftist organization, period.
Science is fact. Learning science is learning how to determine facts and separate them from speculation.
I just couldn't let this stand...
Science is mostly opinion, as the flat-earthers and leechers will testify. Even things like the "law of thermodynamics" are really only theories.
Science is a quest, a journey of discovery. It is a continuously updated model of how our universe works. To teach it as "fact" is wrong, wrong, wrong. It is a "best guess" to explain the whys and hows.
Actually, I don't believe our cars have a major impact on "the envrionment", in terms of greenhouse gases, that is. I think the big greenhouse gas culprits are volcanoes and such.
Your point it well taken, though. Would you rather die of lung cancer at 80 or typhoid fever at 9?
I just used the envrionment to deflate the original poster's pompous ego.
Nonsense! All the literature in the world will not make your automobile run or help you understand environmental issues or your health!
Oh, too funny! It's those scientists who invented the automobile that are the reason why we have to care about the environment! Ye gods, what a biting stroke!
First, you make a faulty assumption -- nobody cares how their cars work, only that they do. The same can be said about the environment and health -- we want a good environment and good health, but would rather let others do the thinking for us.
The difference is that science has vast impact on social policy and the technology which we depend upon. Literature may give us great insights into human behavior (although I would contend history is better), but it is not particularly relevant to the major issues of the day.
I'll admit that the physicists who thought up the atomic bomb had a massive impact on social policy, but wouldn't you rather have had Feynman playing the bongos instead of splitting atoms?
Second, we didn't depend on technology more complicated than the stone axe for thousands of years, and life was simple (if short). I've read that in hunter/gatherer days, we spend less than 4 hours a day on neccesities (food/shelter). Now we spend 8 or more. This is progress?
Third, if you think history is in any way accurate, you're a pretty shitty historian. History is written by the winners.
Furthermore, it is better that one be able to produce understandable writings than to produce elegant or even grammatically correct ones.
Elegant and grammatically correct writings are the only understandable writings.
and this non-sentunce is ungramtikal and filled with bad spelled words, but I bet you understand what I am commmunicatin!
d00d, that p235 r000xxxxx0rs for fi5550ning! make me wanna go b00m! wh4t's yer st4tUs on th 4cc3l3r-0-m4t0r! gonn4 sm45h th0s3 j4PS! w00t!
I would not lauch a bomb built by that fucker... would you?
$9000 a year per student is a lot of money? You must be joking. Private colleges often cost students more than $20,000 per year and that only covers half the cost. The other half comes out of interest generated by the colleges' endowments.
That's funny! So, you think a higher education really costs $40K a year? Or does it cost so much because people are willing to pay it (or, actually, let the government pay it with a gov't backed student loan, that you get to pay off for 30 years (or just stiff the govn't))
If you think that colleges and universities are there to educate students, you obviously haven't gone to college yet.
Slashdot Mirror
In the future, you might consider making the "HTML Light" mode the default mode under heavy load.
Granted, it doesn't alleviate the DB problem, but it does limit the images sent down the pipe.
(more ideas pulled out of the ass) Perhaps another Apache instance or a Perl script (horrors!) to watch traffic and to ratchet the options down as traffic increases, based on a weighted system (level 1: no sigs, level 2: drop journals, level 3: no search, ... level N serve only static HTML)
This is an interesting problem, and I'm impressed with y'all ability to handle it.
On another note (we really need to be able to edit comments...)
The Linksys is supported by almost all of the Dynamic DNS scripts available. I use ipcheck with the custom domain option. It works fantastic -- stick it in the crontab, run it every 5 minutes.
Useful if you plan to do anything interesting with your phat broadband.
That 486 in the corner gathering dust is also a huge amperage sink, and is more likely to have bizarro hardware that has really crummy driver support.
Plus, you now have to learn the intricacies of firewalling -- and if you get rooted, you now have to spend some more time trying to figure out what went wrong.
I'd rather pay some company $100 or so and let them figure it out -- all I have to do is keep the firmware updated.
I have the BEFSR41, which is the router plus a 4-port 10/100 switch. It was about $100 from CompUSA.
Dislikes: the web-based interface is a bit wonky with Netscape 4.7 on *nix. It works, but has some weird errors on occasion.
Likes: it works as advertised. I fought with PPPoE on an OpenBSD box for several hours -- I could not figure out why it wasn't working, and none of the so-called "How-tos" helped.
So, I went and bought the Linksys, and within one hour (including the time it took to buy the thing), I was passing bits around the Internet.
The web-based interface does work somewhat with Lynx, but is very cantankerous when used so. I have ssh'ed into my server and then used Lynx to reconfigure the router.
You can forward ports to particular internal IPs, i.e. "all requests for port 80 goes to the computer at 192.168.1.100", and can even put one computer (one IP address) in a "DMZ", where it is completely open (all ports are available to answer).
If you want to do complex filtering or firewalling, it doesn't do such. If your needs aren't really complicated, it will work for you.
There is no Palestine. That's why the Palestinians are so mad. They believe that God gave Jerusalem to Ishmael, not Isaac.
Very, very unlikely. Israel has the might, the ability, and the will to turn everything from the Mediteranean to the Indian sea into a big sheet of glass. They don't need to be so circumspect.
Remember, the Islamic world is derived from the lineage of Ishmael, and the Jewish world from Isaac -- the sons of Abraham. No hate is worse than the hate between blood.
I'll second this -- another advantage to Myst is its age -- you can run it on old computers just fine, like a 1993 Mac Quadra series, which could be had for $100 or less from ebay.
The gameplay won't appeal to everybody -- it's a bit too slowpaced for our ADHD society -- but for those who really get into it, they can turn around and reproduce their own Myst-alike using HyperCard, the best introduction to programming I can think of. Hypercard is one of those Apple technologies that has been inexcusably ignored...
What a tool...
-Allowing religion to limit science.
You'd prefer science slaughtering babies? Make no mistake -- "fetal stem cells" means "killing a baby" to me, and millions of others, regardless of the unproven, theorized benefits.
-Irresponsibly cutting taxes and using it to blatently curry favor with the Nascar sect of American society.
I love liberals -- they're all for "the people" in an abstract sense, but scratch a liberal and you get an elitist.
First, cutting taxes is a fantastic thing -- a government with no money is a government that can't oppress you.
Second, I find it hard to believe that you can't find cars whizzing around at 200+ MPH at least a little bit interesting.
- Environmental destruction in favor of short-term corporate gains (Alaska, Kyoto).
The Kyoto Accords can be summarized thus: "America, give us a dollar". It was a piece of junk that attempted to rachet our lifestyle down to the level of other countries. This is fundamentally insane.
Drilling for oil in Alaska isn't going to turn the moose homeless -- it will hardly affect them at all. Plus, more and cheaper oil will help corporations, sure, but will also help us. You know, "the people". There are poor minorities who can't heat their houses -- will you take that heating oil away from them? (two can play at this bleeding-heart stuff)
BTW, railing against the Evil Corporations is so 1990 -- catch up with the rest of us.
- Doing his best to restart the good 'ol cold war (ABM treaty breaking, trying to isolate China).
...and thank God, too. Do you think it's likely that we will launch our missles? Not very. It is likely that some yahoo in a funny hat will fling at us the first air-worthy missle he builds to Punish the Imperialist Running Pig-Dog Great Satan. I'm not thrilled with vaporization, so a missle shield is a pretty cool thing for us to have.
You're such an idiot, I hesitated in replying, but figured "what the hell". I don't think it'll change your mind -- your mind is too feeble to contain more than one thought at a time -- but I can't let stupidity go unchallenged.
How I love the perpetuation of mediocrity...
I'm seriously happy about one thing -- Enterprise won't have that god-awful writer's trick, the Holodeck. That damn thing ruined many a TNG and Voyager episode (it wasn't relied upon so heavily in DS9, thank goodness)
Rayguns! Aliens! Rocketships! I love it!
Shit, software is even easier! A word processor has only one requirement:
(1) Allow me to produce documents.
That's half the requirements, it should take half the time!
Jesus, this is the same complaint programmers make about managers, vis. "If I don't understand it, it must be easy to do." Building bridges is immensely complicated and must meet thousands of niggly requirements, which you've managed to ignore completely in your reduction to two requirements in your attempt to make a clever point.
If there is any truth to your statement, it might be found in that there are thousands of niggly requirements that engineers, governments, public boards, and hundreds of others have gotten together over the years to produce a uniform building code (or at least a localized building code) that all projects must meet. Are they completely correct (or even sane)? No -- but the tend to build buildings that stand up and bridges that don't sink into the bay.
However, if you get more than 2 programmers in a room, they'll end up in some stupid religious war over editors or indentation style (or, God forbid, operating systems). Why? Because a lot of programmers are arrogant (most without reason), and will refuse to compromise their own "standards".
There's a guy on the corner what can measure out quarter and half ounces with amazing consistancy... dunno why they have to go to all that trouble, when they could hire this guy cheaper.
Betcha if scientists were wont to shoot NIST people if their measurement vehicle was wonky because NIST's dumbell was off, you'd see some pretty accurate measuring going on over there...
Well, the intent has always been "what Rob thinks is interesting". In a real sense, it's similar to talk radio -- the host talks about what he thinks is interesting, and the callers comment: discussions ensue therewith.
I agree that I wish they editors took their job a bit more seriously and made the attempt to clean up the errors, spelling/grammar and otherwise, but they are at least honest about what they do. Taco doesn't put on airs like a "journalist", but rather just a lucky-ass nerd who's site managed to become something of a cult-icon, and who managed to drag along a few friends. Good work if you can get it.
But I think they put forth more effort than 15 minutes a day.
You're kidding, right? ALL rifles were assault rifles when the Bill of Rights was written. What handguns there were were assault handguns (they certainly didn't use them to hunt with -- they were too squirrelly for hunting. Their only use was for personal defense against biped animals)
Huh? Slashdot is a glorified posting of somebody's (Taco's) bookmarks. Almost everything originates from some other site (most often mainstream sites).
Slashdot doesn't "break" stories -- they are a place that gathers interesting stories (breaking, or otherwise) in one place. They produce maybe 5-10% original content -- the rest is user contributed or completely external.
I read the Hobbit because I had gone through everything else that looked interesting on my sister's bookshelf. I loved it, simply loved it. Later I discovered the other Tolkein books, and read them (I was 10 or so at the time). I didn't like them as well -- my 10 year old imagination wanted faster action.
Coming back to the books when I was in my late teens, however, the texture was completely different. I loved the complexity, the background, the depth the books had.
If you've read a bunch of people who say "Tolkein changed my life, he's my God", I'm afraid the books may not live up to your expectations... very little can with a build-up like that.
If you intend to watch the movies, I recommend reading the books first, so you won't be colored by the movies' take on Tolkein's vision.
One tidbit I read somewhere was that Tolkein's reading of Beowulf in it's original dialect was always a well-attended event, too, even though he was not known as a good speaker (seems he usually kept his pipe in his mouth while talking or lecturing)
I preferred Erector sets to Lego...
I preferred the little wrench to knawing a 1x4 from a 2x4 (did all of your Legos have teeth marks too?), and I liked building giant towers and such to little cars and boats.
If you want a good toy set for the young neice or nephew, or even to keep on your coffee table for a diversion, you need to try the Kapla blocks. They are a set of identical wood planks that you can build almost anything with. Because they're machined carefully, you can stack them pretty high before the natural defects dump them over. I first saw them at Miner's Toy Store.
Well, if you read the Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton explains what the militia is.
The Fathers did not intend for us to have standing armies in times of peace -- it's one of the reasons we rebelled against the king of England -- and all men of fighting age would be expected to muster and drill according to the rules of their state, not of the Federal government.
In a very real sense, all men of fighting age should be required to own an automatic assault rifle, and be expected to drill and practice with it. The ACLU is wrong, the Supreme Court is wrong. One has taken your freedom away, and the other is complicit in that action.
Remind me why I should support the ACLU again?
I think even many of their detractors would admit that the ACLU has no problem defending unpopular viewpoints, i.e. flag burning or the anti-death penalty movement.
If they were intellectually consistant, they would support concealed-carry laws and such as well -- equally "unpopular" and equally a "civil liberty". Instead, they support things that get them on TV and agree with their agenda. The ACLU is a Hollywood leftist organization, period.
Do you have a direction in mind as to where Forth/colorForth and the 25x could go? e.g. do you see them in handhelds, set-top boxes, etc?
I just couldn't let this stand ...
Science is mostly opinion, as the flat-earthers and leechers will testify. Even things like the "law of thermodynamics" are really only theories.
Science is a quest, a journey of discovery. It is a continuously updated model of how our universe works. To teach it as "fact" is wrong, wrong, wrong. It is a "best guess" to explain the whys and hows.
Actually, I don't believe our cars have a major impact on "the envrionment", in terms of greenhouse gases, that is. I think the big greenhouse gas culprits are volcanoes and such.
Your point it well taken, though. Would you rather die of lung cancer at 80 or typhoid fever at 9?
I just used the envrionment to deflate the original poster's pompous ego.
Oh, too funny! It's those scientists who invented the automobile that are the reason why we have to care about the environment! Ye gods, what a biting stroke!
First, you make a faulty assumption -- nobody cares how their cars work, only that they do. The same can be said about the environment and health -- we want a good environment and good health, but would rather let others do the thinking for us.
The difference is that science has vast impact on social policy and the technology which we depend upon. Literature may give us great insights into human behavior (although I would contend history is better), but it is not particularly relevant to the major issues of the day.
I'll admit that the physicists who thought up the atomic bomb had a massive impact on social policy, but wouldn't you rather have had Feynman playing the bongos instead of splitting atoms?
Second, we didn't depend on technology more complicated than the stone axe for thousands of years, and life was simple (if short). I've read that in hunter/gatherer days, we spend less than 4 hours a day on neccesities (food/shelter). Now we spend 8 or more. This is progress?
Third, if you think history is in any way accurate, you're a pretty shitty historian. History is written by the winners.
Furthermore, it is better that one be able to produce understandable writings than to produce elegant or even grammatically correct ones.
Elegant and grammatically correct writings are the only understandable writings.
and this non-sentunce is ungramtikal and filled with bad spelled words, but I bet you understand what I am commmunicatin!
d00d, that p235 r000xxxxx0rs for fi5550ning! make me wanna go b00m! wh4t's yer st4tUs on th 4cc3l3r-0-m4t0r! gonn4 sm45h th0s3 j4PS! w00t!
I would not lauch a bomb built by that fucker... would you?
That's funny! So, you think a higher education really costs $40K a year? Or does it cost so much because people are willing to pay it (or, actually, let the government pay it with a gov't backed student loan, that you get to pay off for 30 years (or just stiff the govn't))
If you think that colleges and universities are there to educate students, you obviously haven't gone to college yet.
Funny thing, though... we, as a species, lived for quite a long time without anything much happening in "science".
But the first time we came to a blank cave wall with a burnt stick, we were making pictures.
So tell me, by nature are we scientists, or artists? Why aren't we *requiring* drawing classes in school?