no. a monopoly is when you have no choice. There is a ton of choice for you online in terms of search. If google owned say the internet and forced their search then we are talking monopoly. (or the os and forced you to use IE or MSN)
just cuz 60% use google does not put them near monopoly status. Any of you are very free to use something else. Thus that argument just doesn't hold.
The fact is that google did the job the best and have won the marketshare.
Besides, we all complain that we aren't using a search engine to find search results. I for one would love for google to get much better and killing these sites from showing up in google's results.
My thoughts on this are that it only ruins the game for yourself. If you buy a max lvl uber character then you have flat out missed 99% of the content in the game. If you want to do this, fine. It doesn't hurt me at all.
As for player economy, it really depends on the implementation. Galaxies had a terrible economy. If you wanted a weapon or armor you had to buy from a player. You couldn't buy it off an NPC and you couldn't find it through loot. Thus when prices skyrocketed, it became a problem for me personally. It meant I had to find a way to make millions of credits to buy armor. Granted, I think they changed this during their nuking of the game but it stands as a good example.
WOW on the other hand is a little different. I for one have participated VERY little in the player-player trading system. It is a direct result of what I liked about Diablo. I played to lvl up and probably primarily to find that better item and better set combo. (i have no idea why I find this fun at all but for some reason this simple formula for a game worked) For me, part of the fun of playing WOW is the prospect of finding the items. I have played WOW now for 3 months and have probably spent less than 100g at the AH.
That said, I look down on gold buying and selling. Its idiotic at best. You seriously need to think about it a minute. You are giving real money for something not real. You are throwing it away on something you can't substantiate. At the same time you are giving CASH $$$ to people in return for in game gold. Gold that most likely goes RIGHT BACK TO THEM when you spend the gold on cool items for sale by the same people selling you the gold. (where else do you think they get the gold) Think about that for one freaking second and ask yourself if that makes sense.
I've tried 3 products and only 1 has accomplished the task of keeping the computer cool.
The first one was from laptopdesk It worked nice on an older laptop but didn't prevent my toshiba from over heating. I then bought this and it stopped my machine from overheating.
When my wife got a laptop I bought her this Was cool that it had a usb hub. However, the fans broke in 5 days.
So, I'm still using the simple one that reminds me of legos. Works great and no moving parts. the angle it puts the keyboard is also quite nice and you can change the height by removing some of the "lego" bricks in the elevation legs.
First, I'm not sure how I feel entirely about all this. But my first thoughts are this. I support the idea of the spying that occurred. In the aftermath of 9-11 you had an Al Qaeda who must have felt very bold and very victorious. You would hope that in their victory they would become a little too comfortable with their "success". To publicly come out at the time and say we are going to step up our eavesdropping may have tipped them off to be more careful.
However, it is time to step back and relook at things so we can move forward. We have all had time to adjust. (in fact IMO many have moved on so much that they are back into the pre 9-11 comfort of thinking things like that don't happen in America) The picture of the hooded students was one of the most effective pictures I have scene in a very long time. Those people deserve a pat on the back for saying everything they needed to without saying anything. So perhaps it is time we step back and rethink our methods and recognize that some of them crossed a line. I don't think anyone should be lambasted over this. Its just time to move wisely forward.
I believe that MLB is in the right here. It is their right to claim copyright on "their" stats. That is the ones collected by their employees. If ESPN makes notes of their own stats, then it should be their copyrighted material. Collecting that data is not a super easy task. Someone does actually have to sit there and enter them in. And with the availability to have live in game stats via the web, it goes a step further into protecting their work.
It is still an interesting question though. How is it "public" domain? You can't go to a game for free. You "can" watch a game via internet game updates. But you can't really watch it free on tv except for those few games on local channels. ESPN pays a boat load of money for the rights to show games. So if someone is making money off of someone elses product, do you allow it?
Take this for example. Say I open a site that completely takes all of slashdot's headlines and I turn it into a subscription service. Aren't I in the wrong? After all, slashdot's own reporting is just links to articles not of their own. (usually) I for one think it would be very wrong to make money off of slashdot's work.
The whole problem with portable video is that it isn't all that practical. Like others point out, audio is great cuz with headphones, you shove the player in your pocket and listen without having to pay attention. Portable video requires your attention. When people get the time to sit down and watch a show, they are most likely to be in front of a tv. so why bother with portable video.
The market for portable video is in the business traveler. My first thought when reading about the video ipod was man, if you could connect to your tivo, transfer some saved shows, and run to the airport....It would be golden. I know of one family member that would absolutely love that as he travels around the US by air at least once every couple of weeks. It would benefit others with long commutes by train or subway too as long as your sitting and waiting time was around 30 minutes. (and recently I read here that a company had produced just such an idea?)
Otherwise it is a novelty. (though conveniently wrapped in an ipod...)
What really excites me about the whole thing though is the potential to change the distribution method for shows. They put the lost episodes up but you have to buy even the first episode. I think it would be better to give the first 3 episodes of the show for free so you can sample the content. Then you can decide if the rest is worth buying. That would be my ideal distribution method. (they should partner with the likes of Blockbuster or something so they can give people the option to buy and download or buy dvds)
Oh, and I suppose there is a market for all the movie makers/video people out there. Didn't I read here that Lord of the Rings were using their ipods for such a purpose of transferring the days shoot? with the video ipod they could simply view it as well as transfer it. Handy tool. How big is that market though?
hopefully I'm not committing a crime here. But one interface that I truly like is that of Dreamweaver. Even though I code by hand, it always seemed to me that it was very easy to use. I really like the property dialogue on the bottom of the screen. It changes depending on the element I have selected. If its an image, I get image options. If its text, I get text formatting options. A table, table options. Etc. Why not create a word processor in this fashion? Just open up dreamweaver or a screenshot of it and picture it. Throw out your ideas that it creates code. pretend it is simply a word processor. The top toolbar has it broken down into very simple groups starting with "common" Theres a text group, a layout group, (and others that aren't really related to a word processor.) Take a moment to think of some groups you would put there for common word processor tasks.
The bottom toolbar has the very nice properties dialogue box.
The right pane has the File structure of a given site. Substitute this idea with that of creating projects that contain word docs. I can create a new project that contains all docs for a given client. (think of a lawyer and all his docs he keeps. Wouldn't it be a nice organization feature? I'll leave that to your imagination.
I for one think this is a really interesting idea for organizing a word processor. Perhaps Adobe saw the same thing? Perhaps the next Acrobat will have a similar interface? Very interesting idea IMO.
not just an article, how about a whole ossbusiness.com site that lists all the choices but takes time to seperate out the best from flock. Perhaps one already exists..if it doesn't, it should. And it should take time out to recognize things like Firefox. It should also not be linux only. Any OSS should apply.
My treo is capable of playing music. So are others. The problem is that the cell phone feature is way more important. And unless I can do both without killing the battery, then no thanks. Until battery life becomes a non issue, I'll reiterate others, Gates is full of it on this one.
(that said, I've been extremely happy with my Treo's battery life. But it wouldn't be near as good if I listened to music all the time)
well, we use linux servers so I just checked some of our keywords. We are #1 at times, on the first page with others, and off the first page with a few more. And this is all without optimizing our pages to try and do better at msn.
So either everyone in our keywords are using linux or this is full of MS hatred gone too far.
it makes our jobs on ecommerce sites a lot more difficult too. I went the route of having the session id in the url all the time which I hate doing.
I had an idea for a "secure" user tracking. I'd like to bounce it off slashdotters. What if the browser itself was responsible for sending a site a unique id. Then, it could create its own id based on the url. This would allow to program around 3rd party's like ads but still give the site you are visiting some method of tracking you. The browser could have settings for how long it sends the same id.
to all those saying how to change your registry or those saying uninstall first.
This is moronic. We are talking about a program that is getting a lot of attention from a lot of people. Hell, my grandparents even use it.
That said, my grandparents SHOULD NOT have to uninstall and then reinstall. It won't make sense to them because it is retarded. An update function should be just that. It shouldn't ask all the same questions it did back when you first installed it. It shouldn't ask if you want firefox as your home page. Those things have already been done. I think when you click update it should just do it. It should download, install, and then pop up a window saying it needs to restart the browser. It should then close the browser, and reopen it. (preferably back to the same url you were at when you got the update message)
Now that I've said that, thanks for the registry edit info. I needed to know that. (the update for Google's Picasa did the same thing)
Does it really matter whether we are causing it or not? If we have any suspicion that we are at least helping to cause it, should we not do everything we can now to try and prevent our making it worse?
I for one think that if there is something we can do to help take us out of the equation, then damnit, we should do it. We should not wait for 50 years and then say, shit, I guess we were wrong..
for those who liked Ender's Game, they are making it a movie.
I'm pretty interested to see how they do all the stunt work with kids. In my mind while reading the book, I thought it would make a good computer animated film.
They have signed some talent to make this a movie. Pretty cool.
I upgraded our production site to php5.0 with Apache 2 a while back. (shameless plug - t-shirtking.com)
We recently had an AP wire article released about a t-shirt of ours. It went on the front page of cnn.com and msnbc.com.
It handled 47,709 unique sessions that day (1,987.88 hourly) on a p4 hyperthreaded server with 2gb of memory. Although it created a slashdot effect, the server stayed alive during the event and many people were suprisingly patient enough to order. (we threw the drive in a dual xeon machine in early afternoon, that helped a bit) I was extremely pleased with how it performed. The server never crashed. (note, the db is on its own machine..MySQL4)
Granted, we don't use pretty much most of the plugins.
Here is my compile settings../configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/lib --disable-debug --with-mysql=/usr --enable-ftp --disable-cgi
Now, what I was suprised with is what I learned that day about apache config. This is what I used../configure --enable-modules=all --enable-ssl --enable-so
Notice that this doesn't disable all the apache mods that you never use. So I could have actually had a leaner apache running on top of everything else.
My opinion, Apache2 and php5 works really well together for us. It allows us to run a site on 2 machines giving us a very low cost. Not to mention I can add a 2nd apache server very quickly with round robin dns to help spread the load in a generic way.
I say who cares. Clinton lied, Bush lied, they learn how to do it from very early on in politics.
Here's what should really be focused on.
The US and the World should have a ZERO tollerance policy towards genocide of any kind. WMD's should never have been the reason that got america to go to war. But for some reason, the US and it's allies (and some partial allies like France) seemed to be fine with this prick ruling a country the way he was. Kerry says he think we should have gone down more of a diplomatic road. Well, I ask what they hell we are supposed to call the entire decade of the 90's. Was that not diplomatic? Time and time again we let him get away with shit and never said enough is enough. EVERY single time we said, "do that again and that will be it"
We can't let countries be ruled by terror. All they do is create environments where terrorists are born and thrive. And terrorist's just love to place blame for their problems on anything but the real cause. Pretty much every country in the Middle east is ruled badly. 9-11 should have made the world say enough is enough.
That brings up other questions though. Was Iraq our biggest threat? Probably not. It is probably North Korea and our friendly allies in Saudia Arabia. The problem facing the US government though was that our more immediate threats were not and are not as easy of a situation as Iraq. We've had a good amount of troops posted in Kuwait for some time to deal with Iraq. Every time in the 90's that Iraq did something that caused us to respond, it cost the US billions of dollars. (every time we redeploy troops to show a show of force costs a hell of a lot) So something had to be done. Oh, must I not forget to mention, that Saddam was a mass murderer.
Iraq was the easiest conflict for the US to choose as a next step in the war on terror that actually could have a result in the entire war. It accomplished several things. It gives the terrorists a battlefield. (and we needed more than just afghanistan) It also got rid of a dictator who caused the middle east and the world a great deal of trouble for many many years. And, even the odds are tough, creating a democratic Arab country, if successfuly, would be a HUGE thing. If Iraq can rise from the ashes, then it will give hope to millions of oppressed Arabs all over the world. Remember, hope is something most Arabs only get when coming to the US. (this being from my conversations with them)
So, put your anti-Bush aside. Focusing on the WMD issue is not only a waste of time but it turns the worlds attention from something greater.
I write this in recognition that the world taking a stance against genocide is going to be a issue where the world turns its back on issues that are to complex for it to deal with. I also write this in recognition of how anti-Bush slashdot is. Please take a minute to put politics aside and truly think about whats going on in the world outside of our own borders.
Anyway, there is much more I can say but I'll leave it at that. This probably won't be modded up anyway to make any difference.
A site I manage which gets about 10k unique sessions per day.
1 year ago Sept 2003 IE 87% Netscape 10% Mozilla 2%
Month of July 2004 IE 92.92% Mozilla 2.92% Netscape 1.99%
Month of September 2004 thus far IE 91.53% Mozilla 4.19% Netscape 1.92%
This is a site that sells tshirts. Very general target audience. My conclusion would be that IE usage increased over the last year as netscape fell. Current trend is IE declining, Netscape declining, and Mozilla increasing.
That said, I love Mozilla. I finally switched after getting completely irked over spyware. I now experience the web the way I remember it.
This is the dumbest thing I think I've read on slashdot in a long time.
I can't believe these idiots would actually think this would be constructive. Slashdot crowd needs to get together as one voice and denounce these clowns. It seems everyday slashdotters are crying about their rights being hindered. If this is allowed then I guarantee you that your rights are going to be hindered even more. And I for one will support the legislation.
Our rights exist on the simple basis that we are free to do so unless harmful to others. And this is flatout harmful to others.
Your biggest way to voice your opinion is to vote.
Apple proved with the iPod that high price doesn't mean poor sales. They completely proved that if done right, it would be a big hit. How many mp3 players existed before iPod came along?
I've never used a tablet pc but always liked the idea. If apple came along and did it right, who knows what could happen.
Of course it could just be a new display for the iPod, or they just want to protect their research on something that they won't actually use.
Ok. I like pc games typically better than console games.
But, the reason I haven't bought a new pc game in over 6 months is because I'm sick and tired of having to upgrade something on my computer. I love consoles. I can get any new games that come out. I can play them without worrying about performance. It is really just that simple. And for the price of a new video card to play the latest pc games, or a new motherboard+cpu, I can quickly buy the latest console and a game or two.
That is the biggest hurdle for pc games. If they could come up with a standard where they say all new games must be playable on this minimum requirements without the minimum moving every 3 months then they might start doing better. They could quite easily control the industry to say the games must work on X until Y date when we upgrade the minimum standards)
Agenda at Once. It is $30 and very easy to use. What I really like about it is the fact that it sits in the system tray. It is the first task manager I actually use. The only feature I wish it had is sharing tasks with others. Even then though, I still use it everyday and open it many many times a day. Small memory footprint is a bonus too. Also has a nice scheduler to remind you of stuff.
Only out of laziness have I not implemented a whitelist approach to my email. I think this is probably the one true way to stop spam. (yes they could fake the addresses on my list but what are the chances of them getting the exact names on my list?)
What I would really like is a very easy to use whitelist manager at the MTA level. I've got norton spam block installed which does a good job but it doesn't bounce those messages back to the pricks who sent them. It does do a whitelist blacklist approach though.
Why not have a really cool plugin to mail programs that can manage your whitelist on the server. Then the only mail I get is the ones that I have purposely asked for. This would require some new standards put in place on the MTA but how hard could this really be? This doesn't work unless I can edit my whitelist from my email program.
This should work just like the phone. The only mail I get should be the ones that I've A) given my address to, and B) allow incoming messages from.
go ahead, bash the idea to the ground. my week isn't complete unless I see YetAnotherAntiSpam idea get pissed on at slashdot.
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no. a monopoly is when you have no choice. There is a ton of choice for you online in terms of search. If google owned say the internet and forced their search then we are talking monopoly. (or the os and forced you to use IE or MSN)
just cuz 60% use google does not put them near monopoly status. Any of you are very free to use something else. Thus that argument just doesn't hold.
The fact is that google did the job the best and have won the marketshare.
Besides, we all complain that we aren't using a search engine to find search results. I for one would love for google to get much better and killing these sites from showing up in google's results.
My thoughts on this are that it only ruins the game for yourself. If you buy a max lvl uber character then you have flat out missed 99% of the content in the game. If you want to do this, fine. It doesn't hurt me at all.
As for player economy, it really depends on the implementation. Galaxies had a terrible economy. If you wanted a weapon or armor you had to buy from a player. You couldn't buy it off an NPC and you couldn't find it through loot. Thus when prices skyrocketed, it became a problem for me personally. It meant I had to find a way to make millions of credits to buy armor. Granted, I think they changed this during their nuking of the game but it stands as a good example.
WOW on the other hand is a little different. I for one have participated VERY little in the player-player trading system. It is a direct result of what I liked about Diablo. I played to lvl up and probably primarily to find that better item and better set combo. (i have no idea why I find this fun at all but for some reason this simple formula for a game worked) For me, part of the fun of playing WOW is the prospect of finding the items. I have played WOW now for 3 months and have probably spent less than 100g at the AH.
That said, I look down on gold buying and selling. Its idiotic at best. You seriously need to think about it a minute. You are giving real money for something not real. You are throwing it away on something you can't substantiate. At the same time you are giving CASH $$$ to people in return for in game gold. Gold that most likely goes RIGHT BACK TO THEM when you spend the gold on cool items for sale by the same people selling you the gold. (where else do you think they get the gold) Think about that for one freaking second and ask yourself if that makes sense.
I've tried 3 products and only 1 has accomplished the task of keeping the computer cool.
The first one was from laptopdesk It worked nice on an older laptop but didn't prevent my toshiba from over heating. I then bought this and it stopped my machine from overheating.
When my wife got a laptop I bought her this Was cool that it had a usb hub. However, the fans broke in 5 days.
So, I'm still using the simple one that reminds me of legos. Works great and no moving parts. the angle it puts the keyboard is also quite nice and you can change the height by removing some of the "lego" bricks in the elevation legs.
First, I'm not sure how I feel entirely about all this. But my first thoughts are this. I support the idea of the spying that occurred. In the aftermath of 9-11 you had an Al Qaeda who must have felt very bold and very victorious. You would hope that in their victory they would become a little too comfortable with their "success". To publicly come out at the time and say we are going to step up our eavesdropping may have tipped them off to be more careful.
However, it is time to step back and relook at things so we can move forward. We have all had time to adjust. (in fact IMO many have moved on so much that they are back into the pre 9-11 comfort of thinking things like that don't happen in America) The picture of the hooded students was one of the most effective pictures I have scene in a very long time. Those people deserve a pat on the back for saying everything they needed to without saying anything. So perhaps it is time we step back and rethink our methods and recognize that some of them crossed a line. I don't think anyone should be lambasted over this. Its just time to move wisely forward.
I believe that MLB is in the right here. It is their right to claim copyright on "their" stats. That is the ones collected by their employees. If ESPN makes notes of their own stats, then it should be their copyrighted material. Collecting that data is not a super easy task. Someone does actually have to sit there and enter them in. And with the availability to have live in game stats via the web, it goes a step further into protecting their work.
It is still an interesting question though. How is it "public" domain? You can't go to a game for free. You "can" watch a game via internet game updates. But you can't really watch it free on tv except for those few games on local channels. ESPN pays a boat load of money for the rights to show games. So if someone is making money off of someone elses product, do you allow it?
Take this for example. Say I open a site that completely takes all of slashdot's headlines and I turn it into a subscription service. Aren't I in the wrong? After all, slashdot's own reporting is just links to articles not of their own. (usually) I for one think it would be very wrong to make money off of slashdot's work.
The whole problem with portable video is that it isn't all that practical. Like others point out, audio is great cuz with headphones, you shove the player in your pocket and listen without having to pay attention. Portable video requires your attention. When people get the time to sit down and watch a show, they are most likely to be in front of a tv. so why bother with portable video.
The market for portable video is in the business traveler. My first thought when reading about the video ipod was man, if you could connect to your tivo, transfer some saved shows, and run to the airport....It would be golden. I know of one family member that would absolutely love that as he travels around the US by air at least once every couple of weeks. It would benefit others with long commutes by train or subway too as long as your sitting and waiting time was around 30 minutes. (and recently I read here that a company had produced just such an idea?)
Otherwise it is a novelty. (though conveniently wrapped in an ipod...)
What really excites me about the whole thing though is the potential to change the distribution method for shows. They put the lost episodes up but you have to buy even the first episode. I think it would be better to give the first 3 episodes of the show for free so you can sample the content. Then you can decide if the rest is worth buying. That would be my ideal distribution method. (they should partner with the likes of Blockbuster or something so they can give people the option to buy and download or buy dvds)
Oh, and I suppose there is a market for all the movie makers/video people out there. Didn't I read here that Lord of the Rings were using their ipods for such a purpose of transferring the days shoot? with the video ipod they could simply view it as well as transfer it. Handy tool. How big is that market though?
hopefully I'm not committing a crime here. But one interface that I truly like is that of Dreamweaver. Even though I code by hand, it always seemed to me that it was very easy to use. I really like the property dialogue on the bottom of the screen. It changes depending on the element I have selected. If its an image, I get image options. If its text, I get text formatting options. A table, table options. Etc. Why not create a word processor in this fashion? Just open up dreamweaver or a screenshot of it and picture it. Throw out your ideas that it creates code. pretend it is simply a word processor. The top toolbar has it broken down into very simple groups starting with "common" Theres a text group, a layout group, (and others that aren't really related to a word processor.) Take a moment to think of some groups you would put there for common word processor tasks.
The bottom toolbar has the very nice properties dialogue box.
The right pane has the File structure of a given site. Substitute this idea with that of creating projects that contain word docs. I can create a new project that contains all docs for a given client. (think of a lawyer and all his docs he keeps. Wouldn't it be a nice organization feature? I'll leave that to your imagination.
I for one think this is a really interesting idea for organizing a word processor. Perhaps Adobe saw the same thing? Perhaps the next Acrobat will have a similar interface? Very interesting idea IMO.
not just an article, how about a whole ossbusiness.com site that lists all the choices but takes time to seperate out the best from flock. Perhaps one already exists..if it doesn't, it should. And it should take time out to recognize things like Firefox. It should also not be linux only. Any OSS should apply.
who in their right mind would post a link to a site with a playboy nude on it to Slashdot???
Talk about asking for a slashdot "effect"
My treo is capable of playing music. So are others. The problem is that the cell phone feature is way more important. And unless I can do both without killing the battery, then no thanks. Until battery life becomes a non issue, I'll reiterate others, Gates is full of it on this one.
(that said, I've been extremely happy with my Treo's battery life. But it wouldn't be near as good if I listened to music all the time)
another thought. try searching "news"
how many news sites are there out there? And Slashdot is numero uno.
bleh. those MS bastards.
well, we use linux servers so I just checked some of our keywords. We are #1 at times, on the first page with others, and off the first page with a few more. And this is all without optimizing our pages to try and do better at msn.
So either everyone in our keywords are using linux or this is full of MS hatred gone too far.
it makes our jobs on ecommerce sites a lot more difficult too. I went the route of having the session id in the url all the time which I hate doing.
I had an idea for a "secure" user tracking. I'd like to bounce it off slashdotters. What if the browser itself was responsible for sending a site a unique id. Then, it could create its own id based on the url. This would allow to program around 3rd party's like ads but still give the site you are visiting some method of tracking you. The browser could have settings for how long it sends the same id.
Does that make sense?
to all those saying how to change your registry or those saying uninstall first.
This is moronic. We are talking about a program that is getting a lot of attention from a lot of people. Hell, my grandparents even use it.
That said, my grandparents SHOULD NOT have to uninstall and then reinstall. It won't make sense to them because it is retarded. An update function should be just that. It shouldn't ask all the same questions it did back when you first installed it. It shouldn't ask if you want firefox as your home page. Those things have already been done. I think when you click update it should just do it. It should download, install, and then pop up a window saying it needs to restart the browser. It should then close the browser, and reopen it. (preferably back to the same url you were at when you got the update message)
Now that I've said that, thanks for the registry edit info. I needed to know that. (the update for Google's Picasa did the same thing)
Does it really matter whether we are causing it or not? If we have any suspicion that we are at least helping to cause it, should we not do everything we can now to try and prevent our making it worse?
I for one think that if there is something we can do to help take us out of the equation, then damnit, we should do it. We should not wait for 50 years and then say, shit, I guess we were wrong..
for those who liked Ender's Game, they are making it a movie.
I'm pretty interested to see how they do all the stunt work with kids. In my mind while reading the book, I thought it would make a good computer animated film.
They have signed some talent to make this a movie. Pretty cool.
For what its worth, here is my 2 cents.
./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/lib --disable-debug --with-mysql=/usr --enable-ftp --disable-cgi
./configure --enable-modules=all --enable-ssl --enable-so
I upgraded our production site to php5.0 with Apache 2 a while back. (shameless plug - t-shirtking.com)
We recently had an AP wire article released about a t-shirt of ours. It went on the front page of cnn.com and msnbc.com.
It handled 47,709 unique sessions that day (1,987.88 hourly) on a p4 hyperthreaded server with 2gb of memory. Although it created a slashdot effect, the server stayed alive during the event and many people were suprisingly patient enough to order. (we threw the drive in a dual xeon machine in early afternoon, that helped a bit) I was extremely pleased with how it performed. The server never crashed. (note, the db is on its own machine..MySQL4)
Granted, we don't use pretty much most of the plugins.
Here is my compile settings.
Now, what I was suprised with is what I learned that day about apache config. This is what I used.
Notice that this doesn't disable all the apache mods that you never use. So I could have actually had a leaner apache running on top of everything else.
My opinion, Apache2 and php5 works really well together for us. It allows us to run a site on 2 machines giving us a very low cost. Not to mention I can add a 2nd apache server very quickly with round robin dns to help spread the load in a generic way.
Anyway, hope that is useful to someone.
Josh
That is a fantastic idea. This as news today that oil went over $50 a barrel.
I say who cares. Clinton lied, Bush lied, they learn how to do it from very early on in politics.
Here's what should really be focused on.
The US and the World should have a ZERO tollerance policy towards genocide of any kind. WMD's should never have been the reason that got america to go to war. But for some reason, the US and it's allies (and some partial allies like France) seemed to be fine with this prick ruling a country the way he was. Kerry says he think we should have gone down more of a diplomatic road. Well, I ask what they hell we are supposed to call the entire decade of the 90's. Was that not diplomatic? Time and time again we let him get away with shit and never said enough is enough. EVERY single time we said, "do that again and that will be it"
We can't let countries be ruled by terror. All they do is create environments where terrorists are born and thrive. And terrorist's just love to place blame for their problems on anything but the real cause. Pretty much every country in the Middle east is ruled badly. 9-11 should have made the world say enough is enough.
That brings up other questions though. Was Iraq our biggest threat? Probably not. It is probably North Korea and our friendly allies in Saudia Arabia. The problem facing the US government though was that our more immediate threats were not and are not as easy of a situation as Iraq. We've had a good amount of troops posted in Kuwait for some time to deal with Iraq. Every time in the 90's that Iraq did something that caused us to respond, it cost the US billions of dollars. (every time we redeploy troops to show a show of force costs a hell of a lot) So something had to be done. Oh, must I not forget to mention, that Saddam was a mass murderer.
Iraq was the easiest conflict for the US to choose as a next step in the war on terror that actually could have a result in the entire war. It accomplished several things. It gives the terrorists a battlefield. (and we needed more than just afghanistan) It also got rid of a dictator who caused the middle east and the world a great deal of trouble for many many years. And, even the odds are tough, creating a democratic Arab country, if successfuly, would be a HUGE thing. If Iraq can rise from the ashes, then it will give hope to millions of oppressed Arabs all over the world. Remember, hope is something most Arabs only get when coming to the US. (this being from my conversations with them)
So, put your anti-Bush aside. Focusing on the WMD issue is not only a waste of time but it turns the worlds attention from something greater.
I write this in recognition that the world taking a stance against genocide is going to be a issue where the world turns its back on issues that are to complex for it to deal with. I also write this in recognition of how anti-Bush slashdot is. Please take a minute to put politics aside and truly think about whats going on in the world outside of our own borders.
Anyway, there is much more I can say but I'll leave it at that. This probably won't be modded up anyway to make any difference.
A site I manage which gets about 10k unique sessions per day.
1 year ago Sept 2003
IE 87%
Netscape 10%
Mozilla 2%
Month of July 2004
IE 92.92%
Mozilla 2.92%
Netscape 1.99%
Month of September 2004 thus far
IE 91.53%
Mozilla 4.19%
Netscape 1.92%
This is a site that sells tshirts. Very general target audience. My conclusion would be that IE usage increased over the last year as netscape fell. Current trend is IE declining, Netscape declining, and Mozilla increasing.
That said, I love Mozilla. I finally switched after getting completely irked over spyware. I now experience the web the way I remember it.
This is the dumbest thing I think I've read on slashdot in a long time.
I can't believe these idiots would actually think this would be constructive. Slashdot crowd needs to get together as one voice and denounce these clowns. It seems everyday slashdotters are crying about their rights being hindered. If this is allowed then I guarantee you that your rights are going to be hindered even more. And I for one will support the legislation.
Our rights exist on the simple basis that we are free to do so unless harmful to others. And this is flatout harmful to others.
Your biggest way to voice your opinion is to vote.
Apple proved with the iPod that high price doesn't mean poor sales. They completely proved that if done right, it would be a big hit. How many mp3 players existed before iPod came along?
I've never used a tablet pc but always liked the idea. If apple came along and did it right, who knows what could happen.
Of course it could just be a new display for the iPod, or they just want to protect their research on something that they won't actually use.
Ok. I like pc games typically better than console games.
But, the reason I haven't bought a new pc game in over 6 months is because I'm sick and tired of having to upgrade something on my computer. I love consoles. I can get any new games that come out. I can play them without worrying about performance. It is really just that simple. And for the price of a new video card to play the latest pc games, or a new motherboard+cpu, I can quickly buy the latest console and a game or two.
That is the biggest hurdle for pc games. If they could come up with a standard where they say all new games must be playable on this minimum requirements without the minimum moving every 3 months then they might start doing better. They could quite easily control the industry to say the games must work on X until Y date when we upgrade the minimum standards)
Just my opinion.
I went through this search recently as well.
I found a brilliant one for Windows.
Agenda at Once. It is $30 and very easy to use. What I really like about it is the fact that it sits in the system tray. It is the first task manager I actually use. The only feature I wish it had is sharing tasks with others. Even then though, I still use it everyday and open it many many times a day. Small memory footprint is a bonus too. Also has a nice scheduler to remind you of stuff.
Oh, it does have a free trial. Go check it out.
Only out of laziness have I not implemented a whitelist approach to my email. I think this is probably the one true way to stop spam. (yes they could fake the addresses on my list but what are the chances of them getting the exact names on my list?)
What I would really like is a very easy to use whitelist manager at the MTA level. I've got norton spam block installed which does a good job but it doesn't bounce those messages back to the pricks who sent them. It does do a whitelist blacklist approach though.
Why not have a really cool plugin to mail programs that can manage your whitelist on the server. Then the only mail I get is the ones that I have purposely asked for. This would require some new standards put in place on the MTA but how hard could this really be? This doesn't work unless I can edit my whitelist from my email program.
This should work just like the phone. The only mail I get should be the ones that I've A) given my address to, and B) allow incoming messages from.
go ahead, bash the idea to the ground. my week isn't complete unless I see YetAnotherAntiSpam idea get pissed on at slashdot.