So I went to activebuddy and tried it out. Transcript follows: ===== ME Tell me about some games.
SmarterChild Let's have fun! I know some great games and I can show you some cool ASCII art: 1 Hangman 2 Trivia 3 Word scrambles 4 Blackjack 5 Manicdotes 6 Rate Yourself 7 ASCII artWhat would you like to do?
ME How old are you?
SmarterChild I was born on June 19th, 2001, so I'm still real young!Can you believe this? Couple Tests Water Beds in After-Hours Romp (from Reuters.com) ===== [Emphasis Mine]
Interesting headline to be feeding to children, no?
Slashdot isn't helping spread news like this when it slashdots the server to the point where the admins TAKE THE PAGES OFF THE 'NET.
I managed to read the first four or so pages of the story from the text that people have posted, but not the ending (i.e. the damn conclusion!).
The site got nuked 5 minutes after/. posted the story.
It's be nice if slashdot would mirror the site "just in case". Since now the damn article has been taken off the web and I can't finish reading it.
It's nice that/. provides the space to comment on articles such as this, but when the article itself is eradicated, I mean, WTF? Does this seem right to you? The original news is gone! Granted it *may* be back up in a few days if the server admin hasn't gone broke paying for the sudden surge in bandwidth this month, but still. I wonder how much of a service/. is sometimes when it nukes the content that it tells us we should look at.
Anyhoo... if someone knows of a mirror of the second half (page 5+?) of the article please post or send me an email. I'm interested to see how it turned out.
This is just one example. What if somebody else doesn't give you the choice to turn of those components?
His point, I think, is that we need full disclosure about what the software install on your computer that is above and beyond the corse software function.
Sure most people will never read that crap, but it should be available for those of us who want to know what all that extra shit it they've installed on the computer just so you could, for instance, dump songs from your harddrive to you MP3 player.
When you install something for FREE from the internet, you can't assume it will work as you want it to. Also, just because it works on your machine does't mean it works on everyone elses. this is pretty redundant IMO.
NEW.NET is only a component. You could also find NEW.NET in commerical software that you pay for.
In that case you've PAYED for something. Do you still assume is will work as you want it to?
Second, gas is subsidized. Many products are; I am not making a value judgement. The government subsidizes gas by paying for, among other things, diplomatic and military missions to insure a continuos and reliable flow of crude and maintaining a strategic reserve(which was tapped when gas prices were politically high).
The government subsidizes housing for the poor. A subsidy is providing money for an enterprise that is in the public interest, or financial assistance to a person or group.
By your definintion of subsidy it would seem that everything in America was subsidized. We have trade relations with countries to ensure the importation of many products. Is your Sony Walkman subsidized because the government pays for diplomatic missions to Japan?
The government did release some reserves when the prices were high to keep the cost reasonable. However the government purchased the reserves at a low price, and gave them back to the public at an equivalent low price. They didn't give us *free* gas. They gave us gas that they bought with *our* money when the price was low.
Okay, I haven't been keeping up with/. things for a bit, but please tell me, WTF is Banjo? Is slashcode finally going down the tubes and they are moving to something PHP based (muhahaha, perl will know it's dead for web scripting when/. switches to PHP;-)
Anyway, 1 link to something banjo releated (that doesn't have anything to do with musical instruments or "Deliverance") would be apperciated.
I work for a large networking company and we are currently moving all of our documentation out of proprietary Frame and Word to XML.
The sooner you get away from proprietary binary file formats the better, especially if your company is growing.
There are a couple great XML editors out there (Arbortext's Epic and Softquad's XMetal), and the both interface with Documentum, Xyvision, Oracle (their iFS component is XML aware and does version control), plus a crapload of other tools. Epic also can convert from Word to XML.
Of course the leap into the XML-nether is not an easy one, and requires a *lot* of time, effot and $$ before you see results, but in the long run it works. Plus, once you have everyting in XML you arent tied to any evil tool vendors like M$ who update their file formats every few years.
At least look into an XML solution before you decide to shell out a lot of time and effort on trying to manage a bunch of Word documents...
A little PHP script that generates 3 random hat color per reload. Totally useless for any scientific purposes, but fun or those of us who nead a little visualization to help understand the concept.
Personally I like to pretend that I am Hat2, and that the other two hats always pass. If Hat1 and Hat3 have the same color, and my hat is the opposite color, I win (since that's how myself and the other hats worked it out ahead of time). Woo Hoo.
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Wow, is this a troll or an idiot (or both), we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and just call him an idiot. Are you one of those people that praise Gnome and curse KDE (or vice versa). They are both good a different things.
Since PHP is much more common than mod_perl, it's easy for people to write embedded pages, rather than use a slow perl CGI.
Nobody said this was the Perl killer, or even said that it was better than Perl/TK.
Fist you say use something that was built from the ground for [GUI development], then you say: If you want to create an interactive database driven website (and you don't know perl) use PHP. .
If I recall, PERL was *not* built from the ground up for creating interactive database-driven web sites. PHP was. Perl was no built from the ground up to even support Databases, hence Perl::DBI.
As I was reading this thread, my computer started having problems getting host names.
I have RoadRunner cable (with a router on it) so I fiddled with the router a bit but couldn't see anything wrong. Then I decided to ping the nameservers (Road Runner's). No reply..
Hmm..> So I call up Tech Schlupport at AT&T, and after 10 minutes of wrestling with those damn phone prompts. After another 5 minutes of veryifying myself, I tell the tech support dude that I think the Nameservers are down. He says they are. He also says that AOL (as well as M$) also have nameserver problems at the moment. Widespread problems? Can any other Road Runner or *shiver* AOL people confirm this? I'm near Boston, and the problem may just be local.
Luckily I have a linux box sitting next to this windows piece of crap and was able to whip up a quick caching name server, so I could query the root servers myself and have internet access again. I think I'll keep it turned on and use it exclusively now. SCrew them other clowns for not keeping their DNS servers running...
Re:The DNS response is pretty funny actually
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Stop moding these posts up. It has nothing to do with the DNS problem. Anyone can register a domain name with subdomains tacked on. For instance taco can register MICROSOFT.SUCK.SLASHDOT.ORG
The only part that matters is the last 2 (for.coms ans.orgs anyway...)
Unfortunately, the *New Economy* is full of certified Windows 98 Technical Support Specialists who love their new careers and can't get enough of Microsoft, good or bad.
Why are you busting on these people? If they weren't fixing MS boxes they'd probably be flipping burgers some place. Not everyone can be a *nix guru. Because they can't handle *nix does that mean they can't work in the tech industry? (Hmm, wait a second, that actually sounds like a *good* idea:)
I think he's making the argument that it probably means no player for linux:-)
Look at the DVD/DECSS fiasco. If the DVD ebcryption had been broken before all the hardware was on the market, then they would have made the encrytption *much* more difficult to decode. Maybe to the point that it couldn't be done for quite a few years. FOr those few years there would have been no player on Linux.
Mr. katz writes... The Clinton administration had a spotty record on copyright and certain free speech issues, but was more sophisticated. If nothing else, they grasped the business implications of the Net and Web, and decided to do nothing to impede the new global economy they envisioned and benefited from politically.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said they Did Nothing. But did they do nothing because they understood it? Or is it really because they don't understand it any better than how you portray the current administration not understanding it?
It's very easy to look back at an administration in hindsight and say "Hey, they didn't screw it up. Yay!", and also to look forward at another administration, who hasn't even had the chance to prove themselves up to the task, and say "We're F**ked".
Your article reeeeeeks of your political bias. I'm sure that 4 or 8 years down the road, after Bush has left office, you'll reprimand him for his lack of action (or intervention) in the 'net, even if he has done the same as Clinton and decided to do nothing.
Poo on you Mr. Katz. Give the man a chance. At least let him screw up before you start spouting your drivel.
I just hope you always have your $27K to count on because if GW gets elected and you lose your job or become disabled, you won't be living so comfortably on what the post-tax-cut-for-the-rich government will provide you.
So GW is going to take away Unemployment Benefits? Medecaid Benefits? And the like?
Number 1) He's giving back some of the SURPLUS. Number 2) They rich's tax rate is going UP according to his plan.
And incidentally I seldom go out to eat, as if that has anything to do with the price of tea in china.
When people are trying to budget their money, the experts usually say an easy thing to do to save money is to cut down on going out to eat. My point was that I can *afford* to go out to eat often.
Your numbers are way off, plus you seemed to have forgotten utilities.
$1000 for rent with utilities (heat, electric)
$169.92 Car Payment
$70.00 Car Insurance
$100.00 Gas
$50.00 School Loan (I went to state college)
$75.00 Groceries
$100.00 Cable, Phone
$200.00 Groceries
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$1764.92
Thats $485.08 left over for savings.
After the car was paid off and collision insurance was taken off that's another $203.25 to throw in the pot. Taken care of, the car should last another 7 years with only normal maintenance.
Investing the savings wisely should land me a few mil for retirement.
Oh yeah, and that's 30 minutes North of Boston (when I-93 isn't backed up of course)
You can live a comfortable life if you know what you are doing with your money. You won't be driving a BMW and living in a Million dollar home, but then again, that's not a Right that the government provides.
Let's face it. If a person making $1 million per year has to pay $500,000 in taxes, they still have $500,000 left. They can live a very nice life on that much money. On the other hand, a person making $30,000 who has to pay $3,000 in taxes only has $27,000 left. They can survive, but not comfortably.
I have lived VERY comfortably on 27k after taxes. But you probably don't know about the real value of money and how to spend it wisely because you are up in 1% land.
It may not be the same comfort you enjoy with your 500k take home pay, but I like it. You would probably consider it to be a prision sentence to have to live in my modest 2 bedroom apartment in the nicer area of town (not the BEST area of town). And it would probably kill you to have to only go out to eat 2 or 3 nights a week.
Hey, if you want to give half of YOUR money to the government then fine. I don't want to do that when (if ever) I'm making a million a year.
Slashdot Mirror
That's what happens when you set up your web server to allow for more HTTP connections than database connections.
In the case of MySQL the max connections should be set 1 MORE than the number of HTTP connections you have configured in your Apache's conf file.
So I went to activebuddy and tried it out. Transcript follows:
=====
ME Tell me about some games.
SmarterChild Let's have fun! I know some great games and I can show you some cool ASCII art: 1 Hangman 2 Trivia 3 Word scrambles 4 Blackjack 5 Manicdotes 6 Rate Yourself 7 ASCII artWhat would you like to do?
ME How old are you?
SmarterChild I was born on June 19th, 2001, so I'm still real young!Can you believe this? Couple Tests Water Beds in After-Hours Romp (from Reuters.com)
=====
[Emphasis Mine]
Interesting headline to be feeding to children, no?
Offtopic and a bit ranty, I know, but...
/. posted the story.
/. provides the space to comment on articles such as this, but when the article itself is eradicated, I mean, WTF? Does this seem right to you? The original news is gone! Granted it *may* be back up in a few days if the server admin hasn't gone broke paying for the sudden surge in bandwidth this month, but still. I wonder how much of a service /. is sometimes when it nukes the content that it tells us we should look at.
Slashdot isn't helping spread news like this when it slashdots the server to the point where the admins TAKE THE PAGES OFF THE 'NET.
I managed to read the first four or so pages of the story from the text that people have posted, but not the ending (i.e. the damn conclusion!).
The site got nuked 5 minutes after
It's be nice if slashdot would mirror the site "just in case". Since now the damn article has been taken off the web and I can't finish reading it.
It's nice that
Anyhoo... if someone knows of a mirror of the second half (page 5+?) of the article please post or send me an email. I'm interested to see how it turned out.
damnit... I should preview once in a while. Forgive the typos above please :-(
This is just one example. What if somebody else doesn't give you the choice to turn of those components?
His point, I think, is that we need full disclosure about what the software install on your computer that is above and beyond the corse software function.
Sure most people will never read that crap, but it should be available for those of us who want to know what all that extra shit it they've installed on the computer just so you could, for instance, dump songs from your harddrive to you MP3 player.
When you install something for FREE from the internet, you can't assume it will work as you want it to. Also, just because it works on your machine does't mean it works on everyone elses. this is pretty redundant IMO.
NEW.NET is only a component. You could also find NEW.NET in commerical software that you pay for.
In that case you've PAYED for something. Do you still assume is will work as you want it to?
What a day to be without moderation points...
Second, gas is subsidized. Many products are; I am not making a value judgement. The government subsidizes gas by paying for, among other things, diplomatic and military missions to insure a continuos and reliable flow of crude and maintaining a strategic reserve(which was tapped when gas prices were politically high).
The government subsidizes housing for the poor. A subsidy is providing money for an enterprise that is in the public interest, or financial assistance to a person or group.
By your definintion of subsidy it would seem that everything in America was subsidized. We have trade relations with countries to ensure the importation of many products. Is your Sony Walkman subsidized because the government pays for diplomatic missions to Japan?
The government did release some reserves when the prices were high to keep the cost reasonable. However the government purchased the reserves at a low price, and gave them back to the public at an equivalent low price. They didn't give us *free* gas. They gave us gas that they bought with *our* money when the price was low.
Gas is not subsidized.
Okay, I haven't been keeping up with /. things for a bit, but please tell me, WTF is Banjo? Is slashcode finally going down the tubes and they are moving to something PHP based (muhahaha, perl will know it's dead for web scripting when /. switches to PHP ;-)
Anyway, 1 link to something banjo releated (that doesn't have anything to do with musical instruments or "Deliverance") would be apperciated.
Word to yer_mom,
~Manse
I work for a large networking company and we are currently moving all of our documentation out of proprietary Frame and Word to XML.
The sooner you get away from proprietary binary file formats the better, especially if your company is growing.
There are a couple great XML editors out there (Arbortext's Epic and Softquad's XMetal), and the both interface with Documentum, Xyvision, Oracle (their iFS component is XML aware and does version control), plus a crapload of other tools. Epic also can convert from Word to XML.
Of course the leap into the XML-nether is not an easy one, and requires a *lot* of time, effot and $$ before you see results, but in the long run it works. Plus, once you have everyting in XML you arent tied to any evil tool vendors like M$ who update their file formats every few years.
At least look into an XML solution before you decide to shell out a lot of time and effort on trying to manage a bunch of Word documents...
http://digital-salvage.net/3hats.php
A little PHP script that generates 3 random hat color per reload. Totally useless for any scientific purposes, but fun or those of us who nead a little visualization to help understand the concept.
Personally I like to pretend that I am Hat2, and that the other two hats always pass. If Hat1 and Hat3 have the same color, and my hat is the opposite color, I win (since that's how myself and the other hats worked it out ahead of time). Woo Hoo.
Wow, is this a troll or an idiot (or both), we'll give him the benefit of the doubt and just call him an idiot. Are you one of those people that praise Gnome and curse KDE (or vice versa). They are both good a different things.
Since PHP is much more common than mod_perl, it's easy for people to write embedded pages, rather than use a slow perl CGI.
Nobody said this was the Perl killer, or even said that it was better than Perl/TK.
Fist you say use something that was built from the ground for [GUI development], then you say: If you want to create an interactive database driven website (and you don't know perl) use PHP. .
If I recall, PERL was *not* built from the ground up for creating interactive database-driven web sites. PHP was. Perl was no built from the ground up to even support Databases, hence Perl::DBI.
As I was reading this thread, my computer started having problems getting host names.
I have RoadRunner cable (with a router on it) so I fiddled with the router a bit but couldn't see anything wrong. Then I decided to ping the nameservers (Road Runner's). No reply..
Hmm..> So I call up Tech Schlupport at AT&T, and after 10 minutes of wrestling with those damn phone prompts. After another 5 minutes of veryifying myself, I tell the tech support dude that I think the Nameservers are down. He says they are. He also says that AOL (as well as M$) also have nameserver problems at the moment. Widespread problems? Can any other Road Runner or *shiver* AOL people confirm this? I'm near Boston, and the problem may just be local.
Luckily I have a linux box sitting next to this windows piece of crap and was able to whip up a quick caching name server, so I could query the root servers myself and have internet access again. I think I'll keep it turned on and use it exclusively now. SCrew them other clowns for not keeping their DNS servers running...
Stop moding these posts up. It has nothing to do with the DNS problem. Anyone can register a domain name with subdomains tacked on. For instance taco can register MICROSOFT.SUCK.SLASHDOT.ORG
.coms ans .orgs anyway...)
The only part that matters is the last 2 (for
This has NOTHING to do with the DNS problem.
Anyone can register a server with multiple sub-domains (such as the ones criticizing M$).
You could register a server called microsoft.sucks.slashdot.org and that has nothing to do with Microsoft.com.
The only part that matters is the last two parts.... i.e. slashdot.org.
So why is that post informative? It's idiotic.
Unfortunately, the *New Economy* is full of certified Windows 98 Technical Support Specialists who love their new careers and can't get enough of Microsoft, good or bad.
:)
Why are you busting on these people? If they weren't fixing MS boxes they'd probably be flipping burgers some place. Not everyone can be a *nix guru. Because they can't handle *nix does that mean they can't work in the tech industry? (Hmm, wait a second, that actually sounds like a *good* idea
I think he's making the argument that it probably means no player for linux :-)
Look at the DVD/DECSS fiasco. If the DVD ebcryption had been broken before all the hardware was on the market, then they would have made the encrytption *much* more difficult to decode. Maybe to the point that it couldn't be done for quite a few years. FOr those few years there would have been no player on Linux.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said they Did Nothing. But did they do nothing because they understood it? Or is it really because they don't understand it any better than how you portray the current administration not understanding it?
It's very easy to look back at an administration in hindsight and say "Hey, they didn't screw it up. Yay!", and also to look forward at another administration, who hasn't even had the chance to prove themselves up to the task, and say "We're F**ked".
Your article reeeeeeks of your political bias. I'm sure that 4 or 8 years down the road, after Bush has left office, you'll reprimand him for his lack of action (or intervention) in the 'net, even if he has done the same as Clinton and decided to do nothing.
Poo on you Mr. Katz. Give the man a chance. At least let him screw up before you start spouting your drivel.
Dammit... Missed it by Mere SECONDS :(
Someone troll this looser before more people waste their time replying.
How the heck does sticking a brick to a mailing label "increase the amount of waste in the world"?
How dows it harm the environment?
They both existed beforehand. All one does is add them together and send them someplace else.
So GW is going to take away Unemployment Benefits? Medecaid Benefits? And the like?
Number 1) He's giving back some of the SURPLUS. Number 2) They rich's tax rate is going UP according to his plan.
And incidentally I seldom go out to eat, as if that has anything to do with the price of tea in china.
When people are trying to budget their money, the experts usually say an easy thing to do to save money is to cut down on going out to eat. My point was that I can *afford* to go out to eat often.
Your numbers are way off, plus you seemed to have forgotten utilities.
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$1764.92
Thats $485.08 left over for savings.
After the car was paid off and collision insurance was taken off that's another $203.25 to throw in the pot. Taken care of, the car should last another 7 years with only normal maintenance.
Investing the savings wisely should land me a few mil for retirement.
Oh yeah, and that's 30 minutes North of Boston (when I-93 isn't backed up of course)
You can live a comfortable life if you know what you are doing with your money. You won't be driving a BMW and living in a Million dollar home, but then again, that's not a Right that the government provides.
Hmm, If I had any moderation points, I think I'd nail the above post for flagrant FlameBait.
:(
Then I thik I'd log in with another userid who had some moderatation points and moderate the above post down for its utter stupidity.
But I don't have any moderation points
Let's face it. If a person making $1 million per year has to pay $500,000 in taxes, they still have $500,000 left. They can live a very nice life on that much money. On the other hand, a person making $30,000 who has to pay $3,000 in taxes only has $27,000 left. They can survive, but not comfortably.
I have lived VERY comfortably on 27k after taxes. But you probably don't know about the real value of money and how to spend it wisely because you are up in 1% land.
It may not be the same comfort you enjoy with your 500k take home pay, but I like it. You would probably consider it to be a prision sentence to have to live in my modest 2 bedroom apartment in the nicer area of town (not the BEST area of town). And it would probably kill you to have to only go out to eat 2 or 3 nights a week.
Hey, if you want to give half of YOUR money to the government then fine. I don't want to do that when (if ever) I'm making a million a year.
The Lottery:
Taxes for people who can't do the math.