I think humans have lost the technology of hosting web sites. Here is a fucker who submits his own article for posting on Slashdot, and doesn't even prepare for the inevitable tens of thousands of concurrent connections. Let's examine the situation:
http://www.linuxlookup.com/modules.php?
The website is using dynamic content with PHP. Already we know the site isn't setup for high concurrency.
op=modload&name=News
Looks like the programmer decided to possibly load and compile some code on every request. Not good.
file=article&sid=381
It also appears that the main content is being loaded from a database by ID number. News flash: RDBMS do not scale.
Call me a relic, but I do miss the days of static content. Your PHP page is probably a spiffy blend of database connections, but nobody can see it. Try generating your content to a static file and serving that. Even Ye Olde Apache 1.3 can serve tens of thousands of static files per second.
Wow that is an interesting and... completely unsupported tidbit about the Audi defect. In 1996 Audi recalled all 1990 and 1991 V8 models with a defect in the cruise control that could cause the throttle to not return to its full idle position. Is this what you are talking about?
It is odd how all the worlds secrets are known only to a few impossibly inarticulate jackasses. Probably the same effect causes UFOs to only appear to drunken cowboys and tornados to only hit trailer parks.
Great, Bechtel. If the budget is $800M, Bechtel will blow $4B for evaluation and planning, never build the thing, then punt the project off to the next biggest bribery outfit. Bechtel's main accomplishments have been building a massively overpriced and non-standard rail system in the Bay Area, screwing up the water distribution systems of several nations, ripping off Malta, and repeatedly gassing the residents around the Carquinez Strait.
I love a review that starts off by parroting some incorrect preconception. There are plenty of good SCSI optical drives. Yamaha makes a 44/24/44 CD-RW, Plextor makes a 40/12/40 CD-RW. Pioneer makes 10X DVD-ROM drives, and there are also DVD-RAM and DVD-/+R for SCSI.
If the program was any good in the first place, it wouldn't let you set the clock. There is no legitimate multiuser system where a normal user can diddle the clock.
I don't know where you are from, but here in San Francisco, you can forget law enforcement caring about your little Internet fraud case. They don't even investigate Grand Theft here: when my motorcycle was stolen, I was given a case number and nobody was ever assigned. Oftentimes, they don't investigate rapes, assualts, etc. There was a flap recently when the local paper reported the police department's pathetic record on major crimes including homicide.
I think if you approached the SFPD with a minor case like $3000 fraud, you would be dismissed with a chuckle.
In related news, the Egyptians are on the cusp of discovering Construction, which will allow them to build Aqueduct and Coliseum. However, this is not expected to improve the odds of their feared Chariot against invading Mechanized Infantry.
I waited to switch to mutt for a long time because in mutt it is not obvious at all what you have to do to get it to actually read your mail. I had to read a lot of docs, manuals, howtos, and mailing lists to make mutt send and recieve mail in the desired fashion. In contrast Pine was always very easy to configure.
But, I am now much happier with mutt than I was with pine. The only thing mutt lacks from pine is 'zoom'. Is there a mutt analog?
In fact there doesn't even seem to be a next-tagged-message keystroke...
Why? Do you think the Atlantic crossing had a 100% success rate before Europeans started colonizing North America? Why are people intolerable pussies these days? I'd like to return to the days when America was a nation full of people who had already done a lot of dangerous risky shit, and were sitting around thinking of how they could risk their hides one more time. I'd like to visit the age of space exploration when people thought astronauts were cool not because they grew earthworms in zero-gravity, but because they had the balls to climb up on top of a fucking rocket and light it.
They produce the content of a weekly magazine every day. This is why they lose so much money. Even terrific magazines with 100s of 1000s of subscribers like the New Yorker lose money, I don't see why Salon would expect to profit.
When I was four years old I got a Commodore 64 with a tape drive, a modem, a programming manual, and NO software. Best computer I could possibly have hoped for.
The best computer you can give to your kids is one that powers on, boots, and doesn't do much else. Kids are really, really smart.
3000 hours is actually a very good rating for an electrolytic capacitor. This rating means that the capacitor will operating within specs after being subjected to its maximum ripple current at maximum working voltage and maximum operating temperature. Electrolytic capacitor lifetime is most directly related to temperature. Panasonic TS-HA types for example will last 3000 hours at 105C but will last 200000 hours at 45C. So, keep the case temperatures down for high reliability.
It is easy enough to check this before you buy. Go up to the display case at your local computer parts retailer and ask to see XYZ motherboard that you are thinking of buying. Jot down all the markings on the electrolytic caps. Now go home and look up the datasheet for those caps. A good computer grade capacitor will have longevity of 2000 to 3000 hours or more at maximum ripple current and a temperature of 105 or 125C. Reputable brands are Panasonic HA or NHG, Rubycon, etc.
Forget case mods, maybe we need to start modding our mainboards with better caps.
You are making a false assumption that home prices are normally distributed. They are not. There is a steep drop right of the median, and a long tail left of the median. For example, take all the homes and condos listed in the San Francisco Chronicle, for sale in San Francisco county. The cheapest one is $265,000. There are no $100,000 condos, as you claim. This $265,000 place is a 900-square-foot two bedroom in a poor and dangerous district (Bayview). The next cheapest place is $335,000. As you can see, there is no opportunity to be frugal and by a $200,000 or even a $300,000 house here.
The main thing you should take away from this is that it is not always true that renting is a good substitute for buying. For people in this area, even people pulling down six-figure salaries, buying a house is simply not an option.
See, you misunderstand the housing market in the SF Bay Area. You can get an apartment for $650 in your area? In SF, you cannot get ANY apartment, of ANY size or condition, fo that amount of money. You could perhaps rent a studio for $1000, but people won't let a couple rent a studio, so you are looking at a noe bedroom place. $1400 and up, generally speaking. Oh, you have a family? $2500 and up for two bedroom places. A house? Two bedroom? $4500/month on a 30-year for a place that probably needs a new foundation.
$5-10k, eh? That would be a sown payment for a nice car perhaps, but not a house. Median home prices in my area are running near $500,000. A down payment on that is $100,000.
I remember that I registered my/. account for some particular reason. There was some feature I wanted, that I could only get if I had an account. I don't remember what it was that made me register, though I'm glad to sport a 4-digit UID now:) I too would like to have a copy of my first registered Slashdot post.
If only a I could linearly derate a comment's score based on the magnitude of the UID...
You are right about protecting your investment in Nikkor lenses, but haven't you noticed that the new Kodak and Fuji cameras are all F-mount bodies? You can keep your lenses and still get one of these spiffy cameras. Also there is no officer waiting to impound your film equipment just because you buy a digital body. Keep them both and use them when appropriate. You can buy digital bodies from Nikon too, of course. Life is good for Nikon owners.
(p.s. I don't have any lenses from the 1970s, but I'm still glad that my modest investment in recent af nikkor lenses will not be wasted when i move to digital)
What you said is actually inverted, since my system is way faster than spamassassin. I can do 15 mails/second with my Perl code. My half-implemented C code does over 600/second. Spamassassin seems to take about 5 seconds per mail on the same hardware.
I hacked it together in Perl, to make use of the Berkeley DB interfaces and the MIME parsing modules. Took about 30 minutes. I'm working on a C library that could be linked into mutt or pine or whatever, but I'm finding the available MIME code in C cumbersome.
You can grab the source here, but it is specific to the exact way that my mail gets delivered (via offlineimap into maildirs).
I'd like to head the results of anyone who has implemented one of these probabilistic filtering systems. I implemented a modifed version of Paul Graham's system and so far it kicks ass. So far it has trapped over 600 spams without any false positives. I receive almost 100 spams a day and over the last week I have generally only had to delete one or two by hand. The rest go directly to jail.
I'd like to hear about modifications to this system. I removed Graham's doubling of "good" word frequencies, and I trained my filter using digrams. I also tried all the various methods supplied by the program "rainbow", with good results, but the implmentation was too slow and klunky to place in the middle of my email delivery system. What are other possible modifications?
Yep, it's good to check the state law too. As I alluded to in my earlier post, if you want something, you'd better spell it out in the contract. If the photographer tells you he will not assign copyright under any circumstances, he is a liar. Just offer him more money.
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I think humans have lost the technology of hosting web sites. Here is a fucker who submits his own article for posting on Slashdot, and doesn't even prepare for the inevitable tens of thousands of concurrent connections. Let's examine the situation:
http://www.linuxlookup.com/modules.php?
The website is using dynamic content with PHP. Already we know the site isn't setup for high concurrency.
op=modload&name=News
Looks like the programmer decided to possibly load and compile some code on every request. Not good.
file=article&sid=381
It also appears that the main content is being loaded from a database by ID number. News flash: RDBMS do not scale.
Call me a relic, but I do miss the days of static content. Your PHP page is probably a spiffy blend of database connections, but nobody can see it. Try generating your content to a static file and serving that. Even Ye Olde Apache 1.3 can serve tens of thousands of static files per second.
Of course, Bechtel usually doesn't build anything. They just go way, way, way over budget in the planning, design, and bribery phase.
It is odd how all the worlds secrets are known only to a few impossibly inarticulate jackasses. Probably the same effect causes UFOs to only appear to drunken cowboys and tornados to only hit trailer parks.
Great, Bechtel. If the budget is $800M, Bechtel will blow $4B for evaluation and planning, never build the thing, then punt the project off to the next biggest bribery outfit. Bechtel's main accomplishments have been building a massively overpriced and non-standard rail system in the Bay Area, screwing up the water distribution systems of several nations, ripping off Malta, and repeatedly gassing the residents around the Carquinez Strait.
I love a review that starts off by parroting some incorrect preconception. There are plenty of good SCSI optical drives. Yamaha makes a 44/24/44 CD-RW, Plextor makes a 40/12/40 CD-RW. Pioneer makes 10X DVD-ROM drives, and there are also DVD-RAM and DVD-/+R for SCSI.
If the program was any good in the first place, it wouldn't let you set the clock. There is no legitimate multiuser system where a normal user can diddle the clock.
I don't know where you are from, but here in San Francisco, you can forget law enforcement caring about your little Internet fraud case. They don't even investigate Grand Theft here: when my motorcycle was stolen, I was given a case number and nobody was ever assigned. Oftentimes, they don't investigate rapes, assualts, etc. There was a flap recently when the local paper reported the police department's pathetic record on major crimes including homicide. I think if you approached the SFPD with a minor case like $3000 fraud, you would be dismissed with a chuckle.
In related news, the Egyptians are on the cusp of discovering Construction, which will allow them to build Aqueduct and Coliseum. However, this is not expected to improve the odds of their feared Chariot against invading Mechanized Infantry.
But, I am now much happier with mutt than I was with pine. The only thing mutt lacks from pine is 'zoom'. Is there a mutt analog?
In fact there doesn't even seem to be a next-tagged-message keystroke...
Why? Do you think the Atlantic crossing had a 100% success rate before Europeans started colonizing North America? Why are people intolerable pussies these days? I'd like to return to the days when America was a nation full of people who had already done a lot of dangerous risky shit, and were sitting around thinking of how they could risk their hides one more time. I'd like to visit the age of space exploration when people thought astronauts were cool not because they grew earthworms in zero-gravity, but because they had the balls to climb up on top of a fucking rocket and light it.
They produce the content of a weekly magazine every day. This is why they lose so much money. Even terrific magazines with 100s of 1000s of subscribers like the New Yorker lose money, I don't see why Salon would expect to profit.
The best computer you can give to your kids is one that powers on, boots, and doesn't do much else. Kids are really, really smart.
3000 hours is actually a very good rating for an electrolytic capacitor. This rating means that the capacitor will operating within specs after being subjected to its maximum ripple current at maximum working voltage and maximum operating temperature. Electrolytic capacitor lifetime is most directly related to temperature. Panasonic TS-HA types for example will last 3000 hours at 105C but will last 200000 hours at 45C. So, keep the case temperatures down for high reliability.
Forget case mods, maybe we need to start modding our mainboards with better caps.
The main thing you should take away from this is that it is not always true that renting is a good substitute for buying. For people in this area, even people pulling down six-figure salaries, buying a house is simply not an option.
See, you misunderstand the housing market in the SF Bay Area. You can get an apartment for $650 in your area? In SF, you cannot get ANY apartment, of ANY size or condition, fo that amount of money. You could perhaps rent a studio for $1000, but people won't let a couple rent a studio, so you are looking at a noe bedroom place. $1400 and up, generally speaking. Oh, you have a family? $2500 and up for two bedroom places. A house? Two bedroom? $4500/month on a 30-year for a place that probably needs a new foundation.
$5-10k, eh? That would be a sown payment for a nice car perhaps, but not a house. Median home prices in my area are running near $500,000. A down payment on that is $100,000.
If only a I could linearly derate a comment's score based on the magnitude of the UID...
I saw one for $9 at a local store.
(p.s. I don't have any lenses from the 1970s, but I'm still glad that my modest investment in recent af nikkor lenses will not be wasted when i move to digital)
What you said is actually inverted, since my system is way faster than spamassassin. I can do 15 mails/second with my Perl code. My half-implemented C code does over 600/second. Spamassassin seems to take about 5 seconds per mail on the same hardware.
You can grab the source here, but it is specific to the exact way that my mail gets delivered (via offlineimap into maildirs).
Details! My training set was 300 spams and 3500 not-spams. With digrams, my filter traps 618 out of 621 spams in my spam folder, which is 99.5%
I'd like to hear about modifications to this system. I removed Graham's doubling of "good" word frequencies, and I trained my filter using digrams. I also tried all the various methods supplied by the program "rainbow", with good results, but the implmentation was too slow and klunky to place in the middle of my email delivery system. What are other possible modifications?
Yep, it's good to check the state law too. As I alluded to in my earlier post, if you want something, you'd better spell it out in the contract. If the photographer tells you he will not assign copyright under any circumstances, he is a liar. Just offer him more money.