I think they changed their internal DNS config, screwed it up, and when their front facing webservers tried to lookup their database servers and failed, they tried the backup/rollover db servers, failed... these cascading errors caused their internal DNS servers to melt down.
After they'd been down for a while, because it spun down slowly over about half an hour, somebody in charge asked "WHY ARE WE DOWN" and was told "DNS error" and then changed the front facing webservers to spit up HTML that said "DNS ERROR", a simple web page communicating something is better than dead air.
Pedants will note that when http://facebook.com/ says "DNS error" clearly it isn't a DNS error - it was able to use the DNS to find facebook.com, no? Therefore it had to be an internal DNS error.
Facebook's own explanation of the fault speaks vaguely of cached and persistant data. Classic DNS screwup.
Where are you seeing this? I just looked the the html source for the results of a google search and the target url is the target hfre with no google middleman. Am I missing something?
If I were Google I'd start exploring a drop in replacement for everything Oracle made, and making it open source.
Google actually made something out of Java. Nobody else put it in the hands of so many consumers; they may as well change the spec for Java to what Google produces.
What goog did splinters Java in the same way Apache splintered the NCSA web server or Linux splintered Unix sys III; this is just leechy Larry's money grab in a world where small databases are diminishing the need for big database iron and the reason they bought Sun - just so they could do this.
The orthomolecular biochemists have a unified theory of cancer and it's reversible now. Salvesterols exploit the CYPB1P1 metabolic pathway; the Cytochrome P450-1 enzyme converts them to picotannins which selectively, in vivo and in vitro, kill only tumor cells. I've met end stage lung cancer patients whose cancer has been rerversed.
I'm not interested in any nay sayers or claims of quckery. I'm just not interested.
Contact me directly if you need more information or sources; I can point you to (free) biochemists who can explain this much better than I can and offer guidance. It's extremely important to avoid sugar; whereas our cells use atp for energy, cancer cells use sugars directly. And not just HFCS as was reported in the news (presumably by the $2B/yr sucrose industry)
"When coupled with the malabsoprtion syndrome that accompanies it, since an inflamed, damaged intestinal system absorbs poorly, vitamin deficiencies (especially vitamins E, D and K) gluten allergies cause real illness in many people."
There are some far reaching implications of this. Nerotransmitters are made in the gut, some of these (ie, GABA) regulate mood. If the gut is compromised enough so few are made that mental problems can be the result. Some parents of autistic children have found that withholding gluten can cause a cessation of symptoms. You may also notice too that people that you know with mental problems often gave gut problems or eat a lot of sugar (which promotes candida growth which compromises the villi in the gut thus again preventing absorption of nutrients).
One of the standard nutritional medicine protocols is to stop sugar, push yourt to repopulate the gut and take large doses of supplements so the inefficient gut actually absorbs enough to actually do the body some good.
The lack of, say B3 can induce schizophrenia. google "pellagra"; this is the reason all white flour is enriched - to prevent insanity.
Abram Hoffer asserted that 80% of schizophrenics could be cured with vitamins and diet based on his empirical observations over 50 years.
"Not trolling, I'm trying to figure out what practical benefit Opera has for its users."
I've used only Opera since version 3 or so. What I find when I try to use any other browser now is that just doing my work takes longer because of all the refinements Opera has.
Let me be the first to call bullshit. If the guy that wrote this had.sex or.xxx he woudldn't jave bothered. Sour grapes.
I was there when this was tossed around in the very beginning and it was a rush to see who could convince other people they had the good tlds and sex and xxx went fast. Notice they were never challenged in 15 years?
I was also there when *cough* alt.sex was created; it took all the sex off mainstream usenet and put it in one tidy place..xxx will do the same over time notwithstanding all the whining about the domain ecosystem, which, yes is ugly, but nobody wanted any alternatives, you swine bought into this madness, be careful what you wish for.
Go look at the literature. Pauling showed that the mechanism virii use to transport glucose also transport C and that very high doses of C (100G/d IV) kill virii and do not harm the patient.
This represented a significant threat to big pharma who then spent the rest of his life "discrediting" him by doing stupid shit like giving *oral* doses of C, finding it didn't work they calling him a quack.
You'll notice, if you look hard enough they were able to reverse polio in the 50s with this technique that supposedly works on *any* virus.
Don't even mention quackwatch.com - it's funded by big pharma.
Pauling is the only guy that ever got two nobel prizes in two different areas unshared.
Don't believe me, go look at what he did and the troubles he had and follow the money.
In Suzanne Somers' book 'Knockout' Dr Russell Blaylock says on p157 "The problem is that is has gotten to be such big business. If we found the cure for cancer there would be a terrible economic impact. Hospitals would have to get rid of all their mammogram units; they would get rid of a lot of the CT scanners and MRI scanners. Oncologists would be out of their jobs, radiology units would close. The impact would be hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. The pharmaceutical companies would lose major revenuesand that is what keeps research from following a course that would lead to truly curing patients."
I've met people whose cancer has been reversed by this stuff.
Not also that the mechanism by which cancer transports glucose into the cell also transports ascorbic acid the same way. Linus Pauling reversed cancer in some poeple with huge doses of C (~ 60-100G/day) given intravenously. Big pharma spent millions "proving" he was a quack and discredited him the same way they did to Abram Hoffer - yet these guys cured thousand of poeple from various disorders just by giving the right molucules in the right doses.
It's not quite that simple but it would help. Until cows make fatty acids we still need to ingest OM-3 and OM-6 in proportion or the COX-I reaction doesn't work right.
Anyway. The Mayo clinic (or equiv) tested oregano oil and found it worked as well as bleach in killing MRSA in the halls, and less offensive to the respiratory tract. The stuff is well known in naturopathic cicrles, is a very strong bacteriacide and powerful anti oxidant.
They need to run tests to confirm we a lot of people already know. But watch, if big pharma runs the tests, it'll be shown not to work. It's happened before.
I had a $3000 UPS to keep a big Sun alive. After a couple of years they're $99 on ebay with dead batteries. But they have some of the cleanest pure sine wave power you ever saw. Best. Inverters. Ever. Capish?
The batteries last 5 years then you replace them, period. They're "Sealed lead acid" or "SLA", in plastic cases with two tabs. They come in various sizes. Get the same ones. Be careful where you get them. $8 batteries off ebay tend to be $40 in the wrong store, for example, one is the same as a chair lift, and the medical devices store that have them in stock want $40 ea. Of course shipping LEAD acid batteries ain't cheap.
The batteries for the UPC2200, just as an example, are $150 new for the pair plus shipping. $99 for the chassis (plus shipping and they're ungodly heavy without the batteries) and you have a $3000 UPS.
That'll keep a small server running for a while if you give them one each. But you'd have to be a bit of a dick to have a dozen of these running a dozen servers, what you want is a one ton 12V battery, the kind your phone CO might use, a huge ass inverter and some panic circuit to cut power over to battery when the line goes down. That's the proper way to do it. Once a year they come out and recharge your battery for a small fee. These batteries cost a grand or two but last a long time. Refurbs are fine.
The other nice thing about big batteries is if you get wind or solar stuff added on the to the building you can just wire that power in to the battery with no charge controller. Cause, uh, there's no fear your solar panels are gonna overcharge a ONE TON battery.
When I was in Uni in the late 70s I went out one day to buy a cereal bowl. One of my housemates was along for the ride and was rather shocked I'd paid $3.50 for a bowl. "But it's Corelle, it's unbreakable" was my reply and I threw it up in the air to let it land in the parking lot.
It broke. I could have bought 4 china bowls for the same place.
Corelle is "unbreakable" like the 60's watch I'm wearing is "waterproof". It's really water resistant and Corelle is actually shatter resistant.
Dude, he whacked the "unbreakable" phone against a glass aquarium.
Now granted he hit it on the plastic trim. But it's still glass under there leading me to conclude in a collision with glass and the unbreakable phone, the phone was more fragile.
Of course from an f=ma standpoint whacking it hard like this may be more force than the 20 foot drop it was spec'd for.
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We've known this for a while. Here's *how* they do it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2003/dec/07/health.businessofresearch
I think they changed their internal DNS config, screwed it up, and when their front facing webservers tried to lookup their database servers and failed, they tried the backup/rollover db servers, failed... these cascading errors caused their internal DNS servers to melt down.
After they'd been down for a while, because it spun down slowly over about half an hour, somebody in charge asked "WHY ARE WE DOWN" and was told "DNS error" and then changed the front facing webservers to spit up HTML that said "DNS ERROR", a simple web page communicating something is better than dead air.
Pedants will note that when http://facebook.com/ says "DNS error" clearly it isn't a DNS error - it was able to use the DNS to find facebook.com, no? Therefore it had to be an internal DNS error.
Facebook's own explanation of the fault speaks vaguely of cached and persistant data. Classic DNS screwup.
http://rs79.vrx.net/works/photoblog/2010/Sep/23/
Notice the page, being served from facebook.com, saying "bad DNS". Think about that
for a second.
Where are you seeing this? I just looked the the html source for the results of a google search and the target url is the target hfre with no google middleman. Am I missing something?
If I were Google I'd start exploring a drop in replacement for everything Oracle made, and making it open source.
Google actually made something out of Java. Nobody else put it in the hands of so many consumers; they may as well change the spec for Java to what Google produces.
What goog did splinters Java in the same way Apache splintered the NCSA web server or Linux splintered Unix sys III; this is just leechy Larry's money grab in a world where small databases are diminishing the need for big database iron and the reason they bought Sun - just so they could do this.
This is just SCO all over again.
The orthomolecular biochemists have a unified theory of cancer and it's reversible now. Salvesterols exploit the CYPB1P1 metabolic pathway; the Cytochrome P450-1 enzyme converts them to picotannins which selectively, in vivo and in vitro, kill only tumor cells. I've met end stage lung cancer patients whose cancer has been rerversed.
I'm not interested in any nay sayers or claims of quckery. I'm just not interested.
Contact me directly if you need more information or sources; I can point you to (free) biochemists who can explain this much better than I can and offer guidance. It's extremely important to avoid sugar; whereas our cells use atp for energy, cancer cells use sugars directly. And not just HFCS as was reported in the news (presumably by the $2B/yr sucrose industry)
Here's a better graph of sea ice. It's actually greater now than it has been than in the past 30 years.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
"When coupled with the malabsoprtion syndrome that accompanies it, since an inflamed, damaged intestinal system absorbs poorly, vitamin deficiencies (especially vitamins E, D and K) gluten allergies cause real illness in many people."
There are some far reaching implications of this. Nerotransmitters are made in the gut, some of these (ie, GABA) regulate mood. If the gut is compromised enough so few are made that mental problems can be the result. Some parents of autistic children have found that withholding gluten can cause a cessation of symptoms. You may also notice too that people that you know with mental problems often gave gut problems or eat a lot of sugar (which promotes candida growth which compromises the villi in the gut thus again preventing absorption of nutrients).
One of the standard nutritional medicine protocols is to stop sugar, push yourt to repopulate the gut and take large doses of supplements so the inefficient gut actually absorbs enough to actually do the body some good.
The lack of, say B3 can induce schizophrenia. google "pellagra"; this is the reason all white flour is enriched - to prevent insanity.
Abram Hoffer asserted that 80% of schizophrenics could be cured with vitamins and diet based on his empirical observations over 50 years.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/global.daily.ice.area.withtrend.jpg
the global ice levels are above normal (where "normal" is defined as the
average over the last 30-40 years of actual observation).
I do the same thing for tropical fish and wrote a shitload of C code. If this is an old DOS program it should port to C/UNIX really stupid easy.
Drop me a line if you want to and I'll ask you to send me some sample data. This might be really easy.
http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/observations/significant/2010/environment/
"Not trolling, I'm trying to figure out what practical benefit Opera has for its users."
I've used only Opera since version 3 or so. What I find when I try to use any other browser now is that just doing my work takes longer because of all the refinements Opera has.
"All it says, as far as I can tell, is that it should be indented."
It used to be indented on both sides in earlier versions of Opera.
"read RFC 3675: .sex Considered Dangerous"
Let me be the first to call bullshit. If the guy that wrote this had .sex or .xxx he woudldn't jave bothered. Sour grapes.
I was there when this was tossed around in the very beginning and it was a rush to see who could convince other people they had the good tlds and sex and xxx went fast. Notice they were never challenged in 15 years?
I was also there when *cough* alt.sex was created; it took all the sex off mainstream usenet and put it in one tidy place. .xxx will do the same over time notwithstanding all the whining about the domain ecosystem, which, yes is ugly, but nobody wanted any alternatives, you swine bought into this madness, be careful what you wish for.
Pass the popcorn.
Go look at the literature. Pauling showed that the mechanism virii use to transport glucose also transport C and that very high doses of C (100G/d IV) kill virii and do not harm the patient.
This represented a significant threat to big pharma who then spent the rest of his life "discrediting" him by doing stupid shit like giving *oral* doses of C, finding it didn't work they calling him a quack.
You'll notice, if you look hard enough they were able to reverse polio in the 50s with this technique that supposedly works on *any* virus.
Don't even mention quackwatch.com - it's funded by big pharma.
Pauling is the only guy that ever got two nobel prizes in two different areas unshared.
Don't believe me, go look at what he did and the troubles he had and follow the money.
"There is no money in a cure...."
Truer words were never spoken.
In Suzanne Somers' book 'Knockout' Dr Russell Blaylock says on p157 "The problem is that is has gotten to be such big business. If we found the cure for cancer there would be a terrible economic impact. Hospitals would have to get rid of all their mammogram units; they would get rid of a lot of the CT scanners and MRI scanners. Oncologists would be out of their jobs, radiology units would close. The impact would be hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars. The pharmaceutical companies would lose major revenuesand that is what keeps research from following a course that would lead to truly curing patients."
To get an idea of how corrupt big pharma is see: http://rs79.vrx.net/opinions/observations/ghosts/
Then watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq63CZNYw6I
I've met people whose cancer has been reversed by this stuff.
Not also that the mechanism by which cancer transports glucose into the cell also transports ascorbic acid the same way. Linus Pauling reversed cancer in some poeple with huge doses of C (~ 60-100G/day) given intravenously. Big pharma spent millions "proving" he was a quack and discredited him the same way they did to Abram Hoffer - yet these guys cured thousand of poeple from various disorders just by giving the right molucules in the right doses.
Read everything here: http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/
There will be a book coming out later this year called "What really causes breast cancer" by H.D. Foster. Pay attention to it.
See also salvestrols.ca and fosterhealth.ca
Big pharma is not even close to being your friend.
(no affiliation with any of these)
but if you're going to suggest that the human race is about to start getting stupider then you'd better have some damn good evidence to support that."
Texas. Australian Internet regulators. ICANN.
It's not quite that simple but it would help. Until cows make fatty acids we still need to ingest OM-3 and OM-6 in proportion or the COX-I reaction doesn't work right.
Anyway. The Mayo clinic (or equiv) tested oregano oil and found it worked as well as bleach in killing MRSA in the halls, and less offensive to the respiratory tract. The stuff is well known in naturopathic cicrles, is a very strong bacteriacide and powerful anti oxidant.
They need to run tests to confirm we a lot of people already know. But watch, if big pharma runs the tests, it'll be shown not to work. It's happened before.
I had a $3000 UPS to keep a big Sun alive. After a couple of years they're $99 on ebay with dead batteries. But they have some of the cleanest pure sine wave power you ever saw. Best. Inverters. Ever. Capish?
The batteries last 5 years then you replace them, period. They're "Sealed lead acid" or "SLA", in plastic cases with two tabs. They come in various sizes. Get the same ones. Be careful where you get them. $8 batteries off ebay tend to be $40 in the wrong store, for example, one is the same as a chair lift, and the medical devices store that have them in stock want $40 ea. Of course shipping LEAD acid batteries ain't cheap.
The batteries for the UPC2200, just as an example, are $150 new for the pair plus shipping. $99 for the chassis (plus shipping and they're ungodly heavy without the batteries) and you have a $3000 UPS.
That'll keep a small server running for a while if you give them one each. But you'd have to be a bit of a dick to have a dozen of these running a dozen servers, what you want is a one ton 12V battery, the kind your phone CO might use, a huge ass inverter and some panic circuit to cut power over to battery when the line goes down. That's the proper way to do it. Once a year they come out and recharge your battery for a small fee. These batteries cost a grand or two but last a long time. Refurbs are fine.
The other nice thing about big batteries is if you get wind or solar stuff added on the to the
building you can just wire that power in to the battery with no charge controller. Cause, uh, there's no fear your solar panels are gonna overcharge a ONE TON battery.
Did the wiskey makers stop making wiskey?
If it's open, why do I have to buy the book?
Can I trade for my postscript manuals, in red blue and green? I'm sure I can get the Reid brothers to sign theirs.
When I was in Uni in the late 70s I went out one day to buy a cereal bowl. One of my housemates was along for the ride and was rather shocked I'd paid $3.50 for a bowl. "But it's Corelle, it's unbreakable" was my reply and I threw it up in the air to let it land in the parking lot.
It broke. I could have bought 4 china bowls for the same place.
Corelle is "unbreakable" like the 60's watch I'm wearing is "waterproof". It's really water resistant and Corelle is actually shatter resistant.
Dude, he whacked the "unbreakable" phone against a glass aquarium.
Now granted he hit it on the plastic trim. But it's still glass under there leading me to conclude in a collision with glass and the unbreakable phone, the phone was more fragile.
Of course from an f=ma standpoint whacking it hard like this may be more force than the 20 foot drop it was spec'd for.
Look at the criticisms google staffers noted: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/yt-mZo69JQoLb8/google_ipv6_conference_2008_what_will_the_ipv6_internet_look_like/
I don't expect to ever use v6. There's just no need and won't work for a very very very long time if at all.
If you haven't seen this yet you might want to read it: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/ipv6mess.html