Hey I was searching for this answer, because no one else seemed to know it! Surprising to me because Quova in our own testing is not that much more accurate than Maxmind in many cases, but what Quova does that Maxmind doesn't, is to tell you how trustworthy each record is. That makes a big difference, but only if your software takes advantage of it!
How do you get around the problem with TCP? From what I understand ANYCAST doesn't work as well as with UDP, can't say I understand why, but that is what I have read.
You don't have to access, what you have cached in memory.. If making this change affects performance, then you are hitting the disk too much anyway. The only exception I can think of is where you are server up a massive amount of distinct content, but even then some things get accessed a lot more often and caching can help with those.
Apache is what you *make* of it. If it is heavy look to your sysadmin and cut out the stuff you don't use. The idea that Apache is a bottleneck compared to ANY scripting application is totally misguided nonsense. I can't believe such an ignorant comment got any mod points, even on Slashdot. I can get at least 100Mbs out of a single server pumping out static content with nothing special other than removing unused modules in the compile to save on memory. So guess what, you are WRONG.. I at one point tried using things like thttpd for banner servers, I found with a little work, I could get Apache to run FASTER than those tiny httpd servers and I didn't loose out by having to work with a feature poor server.
The only other story I can find like this is at CNN..
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newst ex/AFX-0013-16392735.htm
But nothing else and certainly not with the whole of IBM's plan for the next year.
They last layed off way more workers than this in 2002, so is this really that big of a deal in fact?
Is Linux has a new and very adept competitor. Solaris has some GNU pains, but they won't last long, and underneath the hood is some amazing work.. It is just just ZFS, and DTRACE either, just take a look at the main page for ifconfig on Solaris vs other systems. There is a lot of depth to Solaris that will start coming out, esp on SMP systems, but on any system really.. The great thing is, Linux will have Solaris to learn from now..
My first thought, OH GOD NO, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!! ARRRRGGGHHHH!!! I wonder if it will replace other lang in popularity, but "not quite" have full support for things like prepared statements in its MySQL driver. Its small "but growing" list of modules and extensions is sure to have that feature soon, meanwhile we are working on an apache module to so we don't have to rely on CGI and.... No, I didn't read TFA and I am closing my eye to yet another attempt to do it all over again..
Yeah, trust them, we have had people in Russia doing scans of our sites with cracked versions of their software. When we contacted them about it, they basically said they gave up trying to protect their OWN SOFTWARE. As far as their software goes, it does ok in terms of giving them a layout a host's website, and looking for possible SQL injection variables. I have NO respect for this kind of fear mongering and therefore it is pretty hard to trust them with something so important, just because it does ONE thing well.
This is a part of what kept me from becoming a scientist. Not that I have strong "religious" beliefs, but I am attracted to how nature works because I would like to know about the universe, and ultimately why? what are we for? can we know? I believe science is the best way to gain insight into those questions in a meaningful way, not just making up stories like most religions do. If you want to get some perspective, just read about creation as told by American Indian tribes http://www.indians.org/welker/firstind.htm , they sound childish, but in fact they are just so far outside of our culture that we see them for what they are, sad attempts by people to feel safe and secure in an otherwise often scary world.
What I hate about the culture of science, is this arrogance towards non scientists. The "Layman" in other words the low life uneducated worker class. I felt this way for a long time, and only recently in my late 30's do I really understand how totally wrong that was. This is one reason why I loved Carl Sagan so much. He at least in his writings was always full of wonder, always humble. In reading countless biographies of scientists, that a lack of humility can wipe out a whole life's work, heading in the wrong direction because of pride and dogma.
Anyway, I don't know who I am even really talking to, but I felt the need to put some of this out..
I would bet the same thing would have happened if you had rewritten all of your code over again, in Perl or any other lang. I think you are confusing the fresh start that a new lang is giving you, with the ability to write more readable code. More and more, when I see any post, no matter how well reasoned at acts like any lang, scripting or otherwise is "BAD" makes me thing the person saying that is just trying to blame their own issues on a source outside of themselves. It is amazing how many otherwise intelligent people make this mistake. I did the same thing with PHP, the attitude of some of its core developers sickens me and there is a lot about it that feels slapdash to me as a result, however, it does make a lot of tasks very easy, and its default performance isn't too bad. But then people expect it to do everything *BE* scalable etc when scalable is ALWAYS a lot of work and effort no matter what lang platform you are using. Try to deny that! In other words you can misuse any tool and blame it on the tool.
As for the topic of this post, what are we talking about shoes? Are you kidding? I, like most people who got into tech, got into it because we appreciate a scientific point of view. We like thinking that way. This subject, "Who The Hell Still Uses Perl" sounds like it could as easily be who still wears red or something.. If you want to talk to the best of us, then don't screw yourself over right away with this kind of obviously emotional tag right off.
A good show like that is BETTER on DVD. I don't have cable anymore, but I can't stand these people who go on about, "I don't own a TV" They are just trying to take on a cause, and a pretty weenie wimpy one as well.
There is NO WAY to write a *short* article on this topic without being a total waste of everyone's time. The sentence that wraped up Zones in the same space as Vservers was misleading and one of several points that didn't have the slightest chance of being explored. But as always on/. the comments will make up the difference. No wonder no one RTFA..
I have to add in my agreement to this as well. It is sad what I could do with a Java applet years ago, and now people using flash act like it is a big deal. It is this lack of memory that allows this constant reinvention.
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Hey I was searching for this answer, because no one else seemed to know it! Surprising to me because Quova in our own testing is not that much more accurate than Maxmind in many cases, but what Quova does that Maxmind doesn't, is to tell you how trustworthy each record is. That makes a big difference, but only if your software takes advantage of it!
Oh man. what would happen then? people might go *outside*
Very well said!
How do you get around the problem with TCP? From what I understand ANYCAST doesn't work as well as with UDP, can't say I understand why, but that is what I have read.
I would second this on ads. I see a lot of very big sites, that are fine, except waiting for the banners...
I just wish it wasn't PHP..
Who reacted with a HA! HA! Nelson is my copilot...
then some other agency is, this is just a bait and switch, hey we are all clean now, look at this hand not that one..
Funny we did almost the same thing with mod_perl under PHP :)
You don't have to access, what you have cached in memory.. If making this change affects performance, then you are hitting the disk too much anyway. The only exception I can think of is where you are server up a massive amount of distinct content, but even then some things get accessed a lot more often and caching can help with those.
Apache is what you *make* of it. If it is heavy look to your sysadmin and cut out the stuff you don't use. The idea that Apache is a bottleneck compared to ANY scripting application is totally misguided nonsense. I can't believe such an ignorant comment got any mod points, even on Slashdot. I can get at least 100Mbs out of a single server pumping out static content with nothing special other than removing unused modules in the compile to save on memory. So guess what, you are WRONG.. I at one point tried using things like thttpd for banner servers, I found with a little work, I could get Apache to run FASTER than those tiny httpd servers and I didn't loose out by having to work with a feature poor server.
Thats what my wife always tells me..
need copycats..
The only other story I can find like this is at CNN.. http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newst ex/AFX-0013-16392735.htm
But nothing else and certainly not with the whole of IBM's plan for the next year.
They last layed off way more workers than this in 2002, so is this really that big of a deal in fact?
Ahh, NO... Setup a Windows Terminal Server and let Mac users use what Windows apps they need through that, like IE for web designers, for example.
I meant Learn != Copy :)
Learn Copy
Is Linux has a new and very adept competitor. Solaris has some GNU pains, but they won't last long, and underneath the hood is some amazing work.. It is just just ZFS, and DTRACE either, just take a look at the main page for ifconfig on Solaris vs other systems. There is a lot of depth to Solaris that will start coming out, esp on SMP systems, but on any system really.. The great thing is, Linux will have Solaris to learn from now..
My first thought, OH GOD NO, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!! ARRRRGGGHHHH!!! I wonder if it will replace other lang in popularity, but "not quite" have full support for things like prepared statements in its MySQL driver. Its small "but growing" list of modules and extensions is sure to have that feature soon, meanwhile we are working on an apache module to so we don't have to rely on CGI and.... No, I didn't read TFA and I am closing my eye to yet another attempt to do it all over again..
Yeah, trust them, we have had people in Russia doing scans of our sites with cracked versions of their software. When we contacted them about it, they basically said they gave up trying to protect their OWN SOFTWARE. As far as their software goes, it does ok in terms of giving them a layout a host's website, and looking for possible SQL injection variables. I have NO respect for this kind of fear mongering and therefore it is pretty hard to trust them with something so important, just because it does ONE thing well.
This is a part of what kept me from becoming a scientist. Not that I have strong "religious" beliefs, but I am attracted to how nature works because I would like to know about the universe, and ultimately why? what are we for? can we know? I believe science is the best way to gain insight into those questions in a meaningful way, not just making up stories like most religions do. If you want to get some perspective, just read about creation as told by American Indian tribes http://www.indians.org/welker/firstind.htm , they sound childish, but in fact they are just so far outside of our culture that we see them for what they are, sad attempts by people to feel safe and secure in an otherwise often scary world.
What I hate about the culture of science, is this arrogance towards non scientists. The "Layman" in other words the low life uneducated worker class. I felt this way for a long time, and only recently in my late 30's do I really understand how totally wrong that was. This is one reason why I loved Carl Sagan so much. He at least in his writings was always full of wonder, always humble. In reading countless biographies of scientists, that a lack of humility can wipe out a whole life's work, heading in the wrong direction because of pride and dogma. Anyway, I don't know who I am even really talking to, but I felt the need to put some of this out..
I would bet the same thing would have happened if you had rewritten all of your code over again, in Perl or any other lang. I think you are confusing the fresh start that a new lang is giving you, with the ability to write more readable code. More and more, when I see any post, no matter how well reasoned at acts like any lang, scripting or otherwise is "BAD" makes me thing the person saying that is just trying to blame their own issues on a source outside of themselves. It is amazing how many otherwise intelligent people make this mistake. I did the same thing with PHP, the attitude of some of its core developers sickens me and there is a lot about it that feels slapdash to me as a result, however, it does make a lot of tasks very easy, and its default performance isn't too bad. But then people expect it to do everything *BE* scalable etc when scalable is ALWAYS a lot of work and effort no matter what lang platform you are using. Try to deny that! In other words you can misuse any tool and blame it on the tool.
As for the topic of this post, what are we talking about shoes? Are you kidding? I, like most people who got into tech, got into it because we appreciate a scientific point of view. We like thinking that way. This subject, "Who The Hell Still Uses Perl" sounds like it could as easily be who still wears red or something.. If you want to talk to the best of us, then don't screw yourself over right away with this kind of obviously emotional tag right off.
A good show like that is BETTER on DVD. I don't have cable anymore, but I can't stand these people who go on about, "I don't own a TV" They are just trying to take on a cause, and a pretty weenie wimpy one as well.
There is NO WAY to write a *short* article on this topic without being a total waste of everyone's time. The sentence that wraped up Zones in the same space as Vservers was misleading and one of several points that didn't have the slightest chance of being explored. But as always on /. the comments will make up the difference. No wonder no one RTFA..
I have to add in my agreement to this as well. It is sad what I could do with a Java applet years ago, and now people using flash act like it is a big deal. It is this lack of memory that allows this constant reinvention.