I use a cutom box from Red Barn Computers in Binghamton, NY. It has dual Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.9 GHz (32 threads), 51 TB configured raid 6 data disk using 16 WD 4001 4 TB RE SAS hot-swap 6Bg/s disks, 256 GB DDR3 ECC ram, two 600 GB WD6000 OS disks in a raid 0 config, one 256 GB SSD as swap space, hot-swap dual power, 10 Gb/s networking, and runs CentOS 6. Current uptime is 901 days (since Hurricane Sandy). I use it as my "desktop" over vnc from work or home. It is a mostly lightly-used node in an SGE cluster of 8 others like it, plus 16 more of slightly lower spec. I designed the cluster for massive single-node-based computation (avoiding network traffic and external fileservers), but all the boxes can work together if needed too. The application is mainly DNA analysis for scientific research purposes.
I download the zone files about once per month for my surf engine, and noticed that this month the.info zone file shrank by ~30%... Is this past month the anniversary (1-5 year) of the.info TLD setup (ie bulk pre-registrations expiring)? What happened to info for the number of domains to go from 3.7M to 2.7M in one month?
The goal of the republicans is not to revamp social security. The goal is to abolish it entirely, along with medicaid. The easiest way to do so is to completely break it by privatizing it, while at the same time bankrupting the government. Then, of course, the private managers will be to blame. Something will have to go to balance the budget... and then they will eliminate social security. Now the tax cuts and war start to make sense. Expect a budget crisis shortly!
I own a number of domains, and all the email addresses point to my inbox, after being run by the trained bayesian spam filter I wrote. I just tried Yelp, listing some of my aliases as friends, and the emails went straight into my spam directory. So I suppose most people with bayesian filters will never see a Yelp message (unless they have whitelists). I am happy I will never see one again.
Want a whole bunch (most) registered domain names in the world? You'll need to fill out some forms and wait maybe a week (except edu), but it's worth it. Click for biz, edu, int, info,
org,
com, net. These files are whoppers for the most part. Perl would not read the com file under redhat 6 its' so big. I use them for my surf engine, iconsurf.com.
Microsoft released a security advisory that recommends temporarilly installing and using Linux as the simplest way to prevent the latest nasty internet worm. The windowsupdate.com website now redirects to debian.org, a sure sign that the two-year-long "Security Initiative" at Microsoft is finally being taken seriously. Company insiders say a patch will likely be out "in a few weeks tops" so that customers will be able to return to using Microsofts' superior product. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, the fact that you will be able to seamlessly continue your work using OpenOffice, Firefox and WINE is proof of the company's committment to standards conformance and interopability.
My laptop fell on its' back, landed on the AC power plug and the AC power connector broke off the motherboard. I disassembled the laptop (not knowing how), soldered it up, and it has been working ever since. The repair took about 2 hours total. HP quoted me $650 for the repair - they would have replaced the motherboard on a 2.5 year old laptop. No way. I got it all back together fine, if you don't count that single screw that I could not seem to find a place for.
Then a few days ago I was moving some files to a subdirectory as root. By accident I was in the / directory and I did a "mv */somedir". I moved (almost) my whole filesystem to/somedir, so suddenly no programs could be found. It's hard to undo a move when the mv command is missing. When I tried to use/somedir/bin/mv to correct the problem some libraries could not be linked. Luckily I had Knoppix available so I was able to fix it all within a few minutes
I wrote a website that displays 250 or more favicon.ico website icons at a time, and the difference in loading speed/rendering quality between Firefox and MSIE is amazing. The icons are small, but each is loaded from a different website around the world, so it is a good test of loading speed for many small items. It's ironic that the icons are usually of type "microsoft icon resource" and MSIE fails to display more than half of them.
If you have Firefox, make sure to get the Linky plugin (I'm not responsible for that one, but it is a very useful plugin) if you like to open multiple links at once from a given webpage.
Pointless flamebait response: Thanks for the analysis of my comment. You're right about the "direct-X" vs "active-X" error. I guess I am not up on the latest microsoft-marketing-speak-jargon. For the rest of my problems using windows, I guess I must have been imagining the errors. Sure I logged on to windows update - or at least I clicked the windows update icon and went through the procedure. But maybe the crashes and weird window behavior and suddenly malfunctioning games were my fault. Sure. And if you read my post you would have seen that I do not use IE except to test websites for IE quirks. Remember, just because IE is used by most people does not mean it is in any way standard or well-behaving. And the last thing - I doubt you have my laptop model, or the exact same set of programs installed, so there's really no way you can say "these problems didn't happen to me, therefore they can't happen to you". Go ahead, you keep using windows and being paid by MS, I'll stay on Linux. let's agree to disagree and I'll keep my competitive advantage.
A couple of months ago I finally made the switch off of windows xp and onto Fedora Linux on my home machine.
For years now, I have been using my home computer as a thin-client, doing most of my work via VNC and SSH on
a remote server connected to a T1.
That way, wherever I am my real desktop is available and stable and right how I left it with
dozens of my windows open for various applications for months at a time.
So I was already using Linux for most things.
I would use windows on my home machine only for web surfing (firefox),
gaming, digital camera hookup and its ability to suspend.
Then I made the mistake of connecting to windows update... Suddenly all my programs started crashing,
the windows on the desktop would pick a stacking order and not be convinced to alter it, and the new and improved
active-X made all of my favorite games (diablo) unusable. So I said screw it, and made linux my default boot.
I no longer game, and only need to reboot to windows when I have to upload pictures from my digital camera.
And when I do boot to windows once a month, I make sure I am offline. My
next laptop will have linux pre-installed so I guess USB support will be
there and my need for windows will be gone.
Oh yeah, I occasionally boot windows to see how crappy my various websites render under IE.
So final answer: I keep off windows because it sucks. Also I do not want to support an abusive monopoly.
My reason for limiting tlds is that there is too much to keep track of already. Has anyone ever tried to get lists of domain names for each tld? It is a daunting problem. More tlds means more hassle for those people trying to set up search engines. I recently did a recursive "dig axfr" on all open nameservers to get lists of domain names to scan, and having more tlds would only complicate matters. Now I am faced with filling out hundreds of arcane online forms to get the definitive lists of domain names from the root registrars. What a hassle, and all to stop spammers/hackers from getting the lists. The internet is NOT open.
I'd have to say that google deliberately alters certain rankings.
The proof is when you do a google search for
search engine.
By almost any measure of page rank google would have to be listed first, but it is not.
This means that google deliberately lowered their rankings. It makes sense that
if you searched for a search engine on google, they've already got you and it doesn't really
matter at what position they rank themselves. But by doing so they can potentially
shield themselves from antitrust issues, and help hide the likely fact that for other categories
they do alter the rankings for their advantage. Up and coming competitors in other arenas than search
can be quietly disposed of if no-one can find them.
I wonder if google will start up a web-hosting business? I bet you can't beat their uptime guarantees. They could provide sql, cgi, etc, and build in multi-machine redundancy for your data just like they do for theirs. It'll be the google server platform, just one more step to replacing Microsoft as the evil monopoly.
Not at all. I don't take it personally, and I hope you don't either. Thanks for pointing out my stupidity, assuming I'm responding to the previous AC - and I really mean that. What's worked for me in the past for back and wrist problems (excersie) may not be a good idea for all. I just hope the guy does consult his doctor, although from my own experience and his experiences so far it will not be fun. Sorry for my previous flamebait response to your flamebait, but I couldn't resist agreeing with you.
A bunch of posters pointed out just how bad my advice may be, and I do not disagree. The point about anti-inflamatory drugs made by mr. "Jerk City Troll" above is certainly valid, and my list of alternate activities can probably use some improvement. But I still think adding a variety of alternate excersise is the way to avoid carpal-tunnel, although in retrospect I agree it may tend to aggravate a pre-existing condition.
As for the AC who asked "are you really that dumb, or just being an asshole?" and said "fucking idiot", I agree with you wholeheartedly. Although I was trying to be helpful, clearly I cannot compete with an intellect such as yours. Slashdot needs more posters like you. Thanks for your comments.
I get a ton of spam, check out some of my
recent spams
and a frequency plot.
starting from when I began saving and filtering them.
Many thanks to Paul Graham for his
plan for spam,
or I would be buried by 350 spams per day by now.
It is only going to get worse!
Based upon how many I get, the probability is more like 95% percent of my email is spam.
IANAD, but I suggest that you take up some hobbies that involve using your hands.
Ride a bike, play some tennis, throw a frisbee, surf for pron. Do anything you can to
stimulate your muscles in a way that doesn't involve clicking a mouse. While you're at it,
get a laptop or some type of trackball or touchpad, so you can work half the time with a non-mouse pointer. I feel variety is the key to avoiding these types of maladies and I wish you luck. Take care of this problem using common-sense techniques like mentioned above, as going to the doctor for carpal-tunnel will likely not help at all. Dealing with HR and irrationalhealth care requirements will only lead you to a need for psyciatric treatment, it seems, and how will that look on your job application.
Those of you with older parents or grandparents will understand. Have you ever suggested an obvious improvement in any area to someone twice your age? Then you will understand. I'm sure a majority of these people are older folk whose kids or work forced a computer on them in the first place. Some people are just resistant to change of any kind, and those of us who are young now will likely be resisting the modernizing influence of our children in 30 years time.
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I use a cutom box from Red Barn Computers in Binghamton, NY. It has dual Xeon E5-2690 @ 2.9 GHz (32 threads), 51 TB configured raid 6 data disk using 16 WD 4001 4 TB RE SAS hot-swap 6Bg/s disks, 256 GB DDR3 ECC ram, two 600 GB WD6000 OS disks in a raid 0 config, one 256 GB SSD as swap space, hot-swap dual power, 10 Gb/s networking, and runs CentOS 6. Current uptime is 901 days (since Hurricane Sandy). I use it as my "desktop" over vnc from work or home. It is a mostly lightly-used node in an SGE cluster of 8 others like it, plus 16 more of slightly lower spec. I designed the cluster for massive single-node-based computation (avoiding network traffic and external fileservers), but all the boxes can work together if needed too. The application is mainly DNA analysis for scientific research purposes.
I download the zone files about once per month for my surf engine, and noticed that this month the .info zone file shrank by ~30%... Is this past month the anniversary (1-5 year) of the .info TLD setup (ie bulk pre-registrations expiring)? What happened to info for the number of domains to go from 3.7M to 2.7M in one month?
Then see my site iconsurf.com where hundreds of thousands of icons are displayed to help you surf the internet.
I haven't contibuted at all, if that helps with your calculations.
The goal of the republicans is not to revamp social security. The goal is to abolish it entirely, along with medicaid. The easiest way to do so is to completely break it by privatizing it, while at the same time bankrupting the government. Then, of course, the private managers will be to blame. Something will have to go to balance the budget... and then they will eliminate social security. Now the tax cuts and war start to make sense. Expect a budget crisis shortly!
Try comparing my site iconsurf.com using Firefox and IE. The difference is striking both in download speed and icon rendering.
I own a number of domains, and all the email addresses point to my inbox, after being run by the trained bayesian spam filter I wrote. I just tried Yelp, listing some of my aliases as friends, and the emails went straight into my spam directory. So I suppose most people with bayesian filters will never see a Yelp message (unless they have whitelists). I am happy I will never see one again.
Want a whole bunch (most) registered domain names in the world? You'll need to fill out some forms and wait maybe a week (except edu), but it's worth it. Click for biz, edu, int, info, org, com, net. These files are whoppers for the most part. Perl would not read the com file under redhat 6 its' so big. I use them for my surf engine, iconsurf.com.
Microsoft released a security advisory that recommends temporarilly installing and using Linux as the simplest way to prevent the latest nasty internet worm. The windowsupdate.com website now redirects to debian.org, a sure sign that the two-year-long "Security Initiative" at Microsoft is finally being taken seriously. Company insiders say a patch will likely be out "in a few weeks tops" so that customers will be able to return to using Microsofts' superior product. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, the fact that you will be able to seamlessly continue your work using OpenOffice, Firefox and WINE is proof of the company's committment to standards conformance and interopability.
Then a few days ago I was moving some files to a subdirectory as root. By accident I was in the / directory and I did a "mv * /somedir". I moved (almost) my whole filesystem to /somedir, so suddenly no programs could be found. It's hard to undo a move when the mv command is missing. When I tried to use /somedir/bin/mv to correct the problem some libraries could not be linked. Luckily I had Knoppix available so I was able to fix it all within a few minutes
I wrote a website that displays 250 or more favicon.ico website icons at a time, and the difference in loading speed/rendering quality between Firefox and MSIE is amazing. The icons are small, but each is loaded from a different website around the world, so it is a good test of loading speed for many small items. It's ironic that the icons are usually of type "microsoft icon resource" and MSIE fails to display more than half of them.
If you have Firefox, make sure to get the Linky plugin (I'm not responsible for that one, but it is a very useful plugin) if you like to open multiple links at once from a given webpage.
Pointless flamebait response: Thanks for the analysis of my comment. You're right about the "direct-X" vs "active-X" error. I guess I am not up on the latest microsoft-marketing-speak-jargon. For the rest of my problems using windows, I guess I must have been imagining the errors. Sure I logged on to windows update - or at least I clicked the windows update icon and went through the procedure. But maybe the crashes and weird window behavior and suddenly malfunctioning games were my fault. Sure. And if you read my post you would have seen that I do not use IE except to test websites for IE quirks. Remember, just because IE is used by most people does not mean it is in any way standard or well-behaving. And the last thing - I doubt you have my laptop model, or the exact same set of programs installed, so there's really no way you can say "these problems didn't happen to me, therefore they can't happen to you". Go ahead, you keep using windows and being paid by MS, I'll stay on Linux. let's agree to disagree and I'll keep my competitive advantage.
A couple of months ago I finally made the switch off of windows xp and onto Fedora Linux on my home machine. For years now, I have been using my home computer as a thin-client, doing most of my work via VNC and SSH on a remote server connected to a T1. That way, wherever I am my real desktop is available and stable and right how I left it with dozens of my windows open for various applications for months at a time. So I was already using Linux for most things. I would use windows on my home machine only for web surfing (firefox), gaming, digital camera hookup and its ability to suspend. Then I made the mistake of connecting to windows update... Suddenly all my programs started crashing, the windows on the desktop would pick a stacking order and not be convinced to alter it, and the new and improved active-X made all of my favorite games (diablo) unusable. So I said screw it, and made linux my default boot. I no longer game, and only need to reboot to windows when I have to upload pictures from my digital camera. And when I do boot to windows once a month, I make sure I am offline. My next laptop will have linux pre-installed so I guess USB support will be there and my need for windows will be gone. Oh yeah, I occasionally boot windows to see how crappy my various websites render under IE. So final answer: I keep off windows because it sucks. Also I do not want to support an abusive monopoly.
My reason for limiting tlds is that there is too much to keep track of already. Has anyone ever tried to get lists of domain names for each tld? It is a daunting problem. More tlds means more hassle for those people trying to set up search engines. I recently did a recursive "dig axfr" on all open nameservers to get lists of domain names to scan, and having more tlds would only complicate matters. Now I am faced with filling out hundreds of arcane online forms to get the definitive lists of domain names from the root registrars. What a hassle, and all to stop spammers/hackers from getting the lists. The internet is NOT open.
And the most coveted award: the best non-entrant, banned for copyright abuse and hot-linking iconsurf.com.
Good point. Time to start taking my anti-paranoid medication again...
I'd have to say that google deliberately alters certain rankings. The proof is when you do a google search for search engine. By almost any measure of page rank google would have to be listed first, but it is not. This means that google deliberately lowered their rankings. It makes sense that if you searched for a search engine on google, they've already got you and it doesn't really matter at what position they rank themselves. But by doing so they can potentially shield themselves from antitrust issues, and help hide the likely fact that for other categories they do alter the rankings for their advantage. Up and coming competitors in other arenas than search can be quietly disposed of if no-one can find them.
Comes with a bottle of spf 45 sunscreen and a pair of sunglasses as well.
I wonder if google will start up a web-hosting business? I bet you can't beat their uptime guarantees. They could provide sql, cgi, etc, and build in multi-machine redundancy for your data just like they do for theirs. It'll be the google server platform, just one more step to replacing Microsoft as the evil monopoly.
Fear, uncertainty, doubt.
Not at all. I don't take it personally, and I hope you don't either. Thanks for pointing out my stupidity, assuming I'm responding to the previous AC - and I really mean that. What's worked for me in the past for back and wrist problems (excersie) may not be a good idea for all. I just hope the guy does consult his doctor, although from my own experience and his experiences so far it will not be fun. Sorry for my previous flamebait response to your flamebait, but I couldn't resist agreeing with you.
As for the AC who asked "are you really that dumb, or just being an asshole?" and said "fucking idiot", I agree with you wholeheartedly. Although I was trying to be helpful, clearly I cannot compete with an intellect such as yours. Slashdot needs more posters like you. Thanks for your comments.
I get a ton of spam, check out some of my recent spams and a frequency plot. starting from when I began saving and filtering them. Many thanks to Paul Graham for his plan for spam, or I would be buried by 350 spams per day by now. It is only going to get worse! Based upon how many I get, the probability is more like 95% percent of my email is spam.
IANAD, but I suggest that you take up some hobbies that involve using your hands. Ride a bike, play some tennis, throw a frisbee, surf for pron. Do anything you can to stimulate your muscles in a way that doesn't involve clicking a mouse. While you're at it, get a laptop or some type of trackball or touchpad, so you can work half the time with a non-mouse pointer. I feel variety is the key to avoiding these types of maladies and I wish you luck. Take care of this problem using common-sense techniques like mentioned above, as going to the doctor for carpal-tunnel will likely not help at all. Dealing with HR and irrationalhealth care requirements will only lead you to a need for psyciatric treatment, it seems, and how will that look on your job application.
Those of you with older parents or grandparents will understand. Have you ever suggested an obvious improvement in any area to someone twice your age? Then you will understand. I'm sure a majority of these people are older folk whose kids or work forced a computer on them in the first place. Some people are just resistant to change of any kind, and those of us who are young now will likely be resisting the modernizing influence of our children in 30 years time.