thanks to Bytemark for sorting it out, we now have 450MB of RAM, up from 128 this morning. It is serving up over three thousand hits per hour, about one hit per second on average, and they are complicated pages. I think I will probably install wp-cache or something, but right now it is working and I don't want to touch it!
as soon as I can get it up for a few minutes I will install that.
whilst the server is rebooting, a small correction
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on the site at the moment are the 3492 (ECMA say there are 3522, not sure where the extra ones came from) comments from the.zip file of.doc files of the country comments. About 750 or so (I would tell you exactly if I could see my site) have been classified. I think in my inbox there is a mail with a leak of the 622 responses, I would tell you for certain if my email server hadn't just been slashdotted. I will identify the 622 comments as soon as I can and we can all laugh at them together. I think the general format is "we agree . . . blah blah blah . . . we are not going to do anything about it"
the site is a Wordpress blog on Apache and MySQL with Debian as the operating system. It is on a fairly well occupied server, it is actually running in a xen virtual machine. It has loads of bandwidth available, it is in a big datacentre in London. At the moment I can't SSH into the box, I am doing a reboot from the xen admin console (just saw it switch to runlevel 0 - it is running still, but very very slowly.)
What settings should I tweak to help it stay up under the impressive load of a slashdot effect? I am going to get more of the host resources allocated to it later (more RAM for a start) but I am not sure what else I can do. I might turn off some of the logging (although I would like to see the logs for today).
just woke up to find the server not responding, checked slashdot whilst starting to fix it . . . OH SHIT, now I know why it is down! I will try to keep it up.
in the mean time I am using webcalendar which works great. Lotus Domino runs on Linux and would be my preferred choice of proprietary solution, I am trying to get IBM to make Domino a CalDAV server, anyone who has an IBM rep is encouraged to beat them up about CalDAV support.
www.bedework.org looks quite good now. Might have to re-evaluate that one.
here they are:
http://www.dis29500.org/category/countries/france/
nearly as much as the UK and more than twice the USA total. Raw totals of comments can be a bit missleading, but the UK, France and the USA were the top three in terms of numbers of comments. That kind of indicates the level of detail with which they looked at the standard, not the depth of feeling they have about it and how resistant they will be to MS lobbying during March (they have 30 days after the BRM to change their votes - it will be a crazy amount of lobbying and no doubt there will be more corruption/allegations of corruption)
not sure I understand your point. I am pretty confident that 3489 is the right total number of comments submitted. The comments vary in significance, and some national bodies may have made errors in the comments they submitted. Some comments might not need to be addressed. This doesn't alter the total number of comments that were submitted. Personally I think the easiest thing would be to scrap the whole mess and for Microsoft to start work on supporting native ODF if they want to compete in the marketplace. I don't really care if they do or not, I won't use their stuff either way.
The comments were submitted in a particular format in a table in a word document. One row=one comment. There was variety in the data entry quality, but that seems the fairest way to count them. Incidentally I will tag the comments you mentioned. Feel free to comment on the site and help me tag them.
I imported all the comments from all the word documents in the big zip file and put them into a wordpress blog template at http://dis29500.org/ By my count there are 3489, I guess there could be some late comments I didn't see or perhaps ECMA split some of the narative comments into their individual comments. Either way it is a lot of comments. I am trying to tag and sort them into categories, I need some help. Can anyone reading slashdot spot dupes?:-)
I was.
In truth it was a very mild attempt at humor. I am sorry if it whistled over anyone's head. Actually I have never used Photoshop (I have worked closely with artists who do use it though) I am mostly a programmer and I use the Gimp a lot. Generally I am doing stuff for screen so RGB is fine for me and I quite like the Gimp UI. I would like the Gimp to have CMYK so I can convert more print and media targeting Photoshop users to the joys of Free software.
How about a huge impact somewhere in the south Pacific west of Chili, this caused a shockwave rippling out from there around the world. The shockwave ripples then reconverged on the opposite side of the world in India, causing the Deccan Traps to go pop. I figured out the likely location using the wonderful Earth Sandwich tool http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/tool.html
it just exposes the more fundamental flaws. I am working on a website to de-duplicate and sort out the comments as a collaborative effort. I hereby invite the slashdot hordes to come and have a look at dis29500.org.
my kids aged 3,5 and 7 all use Linux and have never used Windows. None of them have managed to grow a beard. I don't have one myself. Neither does my wife.
I have a Polycom communicator, it is brilliant, but it needs some software echo canceling. Skype does this perfectly and the windows drivers for the Polycom work just fine, but when using it under other VOIP applications on Linux I get feedback. I have been using the rather superb OSLEC echo canceler for Asterisk which runs as a kernel module and gets used by the drivers for the Zircom telephone line card. It would be fantastic to have a more general place to put OSLEC, possibly as a driver for the polycom, or it might sit more generally in the ALSA area. I am thinking that you could feed playback channels into OSLEC and the microphone channel and tell it to subtract echos of the playback from the recording. This would mean that with any sound card, speakers and microphone you could have perfect VOIP with no feedback, or you could record yourself playing an instrument then play it back whilst recording the next instrument and only record the new one, the first recording would effectively not be picked up by the microphone because it would be echo canceled away.
it is based on OOo 1.1, just like the productivity editors in Notes 8 are at the moment. The point of Symphony is that it is OOo inside an Eclipse framework. If you have other stuff running in the Eclipse framework then you can run it together with the Symphony stuff in the same framework and talk to it like it was just another Eclipse plugin (which it is - roughly speaking, there is the IBM Expeditor framework around it, but it is effectively running within Eclipse).
If you want to have your Office suite inside Eclipse with your other stuff then you can play with Symphony now and figure out what you are going to do with it. At, or shortly after Lotusphere 2008 (end of January) the next version of Notes 8 will come out with a fresh cut of OpenOffice.org with the LGPL code (SISL vs LGPL was roughly the reason why it is using 1.1 today but they have got over that) I expect Symphony with the OOo 2.3 code to be released in Febuary (why release at the same time as Notes 8.1 when you can release a month later and get two loads of headlines?). If Symphony is still unusable at that point I will join you in lambasting it.
I am not an IBMer this is just moderately informed speculation.
I see more and more documents being passed as.odt files (well I am an IBM business partner so not totally typical) it is much more reasonable to expect the recipient to use one of many free ODF compliant products or they might have Notes 8 with the productivity editors than it is for someone to send a.docx file and expect the recipient to pay to upgrade to read and work with the file.
windows boxes in botnets are mostly going to be home computers on dynamic IP addresses. Linux boxes are more likely to have a static IP address, lots of bandwidth and they don't crash much or get turned off.
I do understand their point about the JCA. Linux can probably never move to GPLv3 (or GPLv4) even if Linus wanted to because there are far too many people with a copyright interest in the code, some of whome will be deceased. The JCA allows SUN to do two things, act as owner of the full code (for license changes or other legal issues) and also release the code in StarOffice. The price of the first is the second. On balance I would not have a problem with the JCA. It does allow SUN some special rights, they also have some special responsibilities. In the distinctly possible scenario that Microsoft start to pick a legal fight with OpenOffice.org then we all get to sit back with popcorn and watch SUN (and probably IBM) slug it out. Linux does not have a corporate backer, which in itself is a pretty robust strategy for avoiding litigation. The JCA is an alternative strategy. Sun are gambling that the revenue they get from StarOffice will be greater than the probablity*cost of lawsuits.
It does not look like there was much communication with Kohei about the issue, that is probably a shared problem (poor communications are almost always on both ends). I can understand SUN not wanting to make an exception to their strategy, but it does not look like they explained their point of view very well, and they don't seem to have explored all the options for structuring the code as a plugin (a plugin model for things like the solver could be quite interesting).
in fact, if I may reply to my own post, there is another bit worth quoting from that page where they discuss the reasons why they didn't initially have wifi:
We can't find a WiFi Chipset with GPL'ed drivers -- We know
this has been discussed (to death) on this list, but as we're
beginning work on the next summer hardware refresh we still can't seem
to find a vendor that meets our strict requirements: Namely, we refuse
to put anything binary in the kernel.
so until they found the Atheros AR6K 802.11 b/g. they were willing to compromise the spec in order not to compromise their principals. I like that.
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yes, I asked them to help. Bytemark are great!
thanks to Bytemark for sorting it out, we now have 450MB of RAM, up from 128 this morning. It is serving up over three thousand hits per hour, about one hit per second on average, and they are complicated pages. I think I will probably install wp-cache or something, but right now it is working and I don't want to touch it!
as soon as I can get it up for a few minutes I will install that.
on the site at the moment are the 3492 (ECMA say there are 3522, not sure where the extra ones came from) comments from the .zip file of .doc files of the country comments. About 750 or so (I would tell you exactly if I could see my site) have been classified. I think in my inbox there is a mail with a leak of the 622 responses, I would tell you for certain if my email server hadn't just been slashdotted. I will identify the 622 comments as soon as I can and we can all laugh at them together. I think the general format is "we agree . . . blah blah blah . . . we are not going to do anything about it"
the site is a Wordpress blog on Apache and MySQL with Debian as the operating system. It is on a fairly well occupied server, it is actually running in a xen virtual machine. It has loads of bandwidth available, it is in a big datacentre in London. At the moment I can't SSH into the box, I am doing a reboot from the xen admin console (just saw it switch to runlevel 0 - it is running still, but very very slowly.) What settings should I tweak to help it stay up under the impressive load of a slashdot effect? I am going to get more of the host resources allocated to it later (more RAM for a start) but I am not sure what else I can do. I might turn off some of the logging (although I would like to see the logs for today).
just woke up to find the server not responding, checked slashdot whilst starting to fix it . . . OH SHIT, now I know why it is down! I will try to keep it up.
in the mean time I am using webcalendar which works great. Lotus Domino runs on Linux and would be my preferred choice of proprietary solution, I am trying to get IBM to make Domino a CalDAV server, anyone who has an IBM rep is encouraged to beat them up about CalDAV support. www.bedework.org looks quite good now. Might have to re-evaluate that one.
here they are: http://www.dis29500.org/category/countries/france/ nearly as much as the UK and more than twice the USA total. Raw totals of comments can be a bit missleading, but the UK, France and the USA were the top three in terms of numbers of comments. That kind of indicates the level of detail with which they looked at the standard, not the depth of feeling they have about it and how resistant they will be to MS lobbying during March (they have 30 days after the BRM to change their votes - it will be a crazy amount of lobbying and no doubt there will be more corruption/allegations of corruption)
I am just glad that the American administration is looking after them. What? Rumsfeld is gone?? now we are in trouble.
not sure I understand your point. I am pretty confident that 3489 is the right total number of comments submitted. The comments vary in significance, and some national bodies may have made errors in the comments they submitted. Some comments might not need to be addressed. This doesn't alter the total number of comments that were submitted. Personally I think the easiest thing would be to scrap the whole mess and for Microsoft to start work on supporting native ODF if they want to compete in the marketplace. I don't really care if they do or not, I won't use their stuff either way.
The comments were submitted in a particular format in a table in a word document. One row=one comment. There was variety in the data entry quality, but that seems the fairest way to count them. Incidentally I will tag the comments you mentioned. Feel free to comment on the site and help me tag them.
check out http://dis29500.org/ I make the count 3489.
I imported all the comments from all the word documents in the big zip file and put them into a wordpress blog template at http://dis29500.org/ By my count there are 3489, I guess there could be some late comments I didn't see or perhaps ECMA split some of the narative comments into their individual comments. Either way it is a lot of comments. I am trying to tag and sort them into categories, I need some help. Can anyone reading slashdot spot dupes? :-)
perhaps if you recalibrate your meter to the "British humor" setting the joke might work?
In truth it was a very mild attempt at humor. I am sorry if it whistled over anyone's head. Actually I have never used Photoshop (I have worked closely with artists who do use it though) I am mostly a programmer and I use the Gimp a lot. Generally I am doing stuff for screen so RGB is fine for me and I quite like the Gimp UI. I would like the Gimp to have CMYK so I can convert more print and media targeting Photoshop users to the joys of Free software.
the Photoshop UI always confuses folk like me. They should drop CMYK support while they are at it.
How about a huge impact somewhere in the south Pacific west of Chili, this caused a shockwave rippling out from there around the world. The shockwave ripples then reconverged on the opposite side of the world in India, causing the Deccan Traps to go pop. I figured out the likely location using the wonderful Earth Sandwich tool http://www.zefrank.com/sandwich/tool.html
it just exposes the more fundamental flaws. I am working on a website to de-duplicate and sort out the comments as a collaborative effort. I hereby invite the slashdot hordes to come and have a look at dis29500.org.
my kids aged 3,5 and 7 all use Linux and have never used Windows. None of them have managed to grow a beard. I don't have one myself. Neither does my wife.
I have a Polycom communicator, it is brilliant, but it needs some software echo canceling. Skype does this perfectly and the windows drivers for the Polycom work just fine, but when using it under other VOIP applications on Linux I get feedback. I have been using the rather superb OSLEC echo canceler for Asterisk which runs as a kernel module and gets used by the drivers for the Zircom telephone line card. It would be fantastic to have a more general place to put OSLEC, possibly as a driver for the polycom, or it might sit more generally in the ALSA area. I am thinking that you could feed playback channels into OSLEC and the microphone channel and tell it to subtract echos of the playback from the recording. This would mean that with any sound card, speakers and microphone you could have perfect VOIP with no feedback, or you could record yourself playing an instrument then play it back whilst recording the next instrument and only record the new one, the first recording would effectively not be picked up by the microphone because it would be echo canceled away.
it is based on OOo 1.1, just like the productivity editors in Notes 8 are at the moment. The point of Symphony is that it is OOo inside an Eclipse framework. If you have other stuff running in the Eclipse framework then you can run it together with the Symphony stuff in the same framework and talk to it like it was just another Eclipse plugin (which it is - roughly speaking, there is the IBM Expeditor framework around it, but it is effectively running within Eclipse). If you want to have your Office suite inside Eclipse with your other stuff then you can play with Symphony now and figure out what you are going to do with it. At, or shortly after Lotusphere 2008 (end of January) the next version of Notes 8 will come out with a fresh cut of OpenOffice.org with the LGPL code (SISL vs LGPL was roughly the reason why it is using 1.1 today but they have got over that) I expect Symphony with the OOo 2.3 code to be released in Febuary (why release at the same time as Notes 8.1 when you can release a month later and get two loads of headlines?). If Symphony is still unusable at that point I will join you in lambasting it. I am not an IBMer this is just moderately informed speculation.
I see more and more documents being passed as .odt files (well I am an IBM business partner so not totally typical) it is much more reasonable to expect the recipient to use one of many free ODF compliant products or they might have Notes 8 with the productivity editors than it is for someone to send a .docx file and expect the recipient to pay to upgrade to read and work with the file.
windows boxes in botnets are mostly going to be home computers on dynamic IP addresses. Linux boxes are more likely to have a static IP address, lots of bandwidth and they don't crash much or get turned off.
I do understand their point about the JCA. Linux can probably never move to GPLv3 (or GPLv4) even if Linus wanted to because there are far too many people with a copyright interest in the code, some of whome will be deceased. The JCA allows SUN to do two things, act as owner of the full code (for license changes or other legal issues) and also release the code in StarOffice. The price of the first is the second. On balance I would not have a problem with the JCA. It does allow SUN some special rights, they also have some special responsibilities. In the distinctly possible scenario that Microsoft start to pick a legal fight with OpenOffice.org then we all get to sit back with popcorn and watch SUN (and probably IBM) slug it out. Linux does not have a corporate backer, which in itself is a pretty robust strategy for avoiding litigation. The JCA is an alternative strategy. Sun are gambling that the revenue they get from StarOffice will be greater than the probablity*cost of lawsuits. It does not look like there was much communication with Kohei about the issue, that is probably a shared problem (poor communications are almost always on both ends). I can understand SUN not wanting to make an exception to their strategy, but it does not look like they explained their point of view very well, and they don't seem to have explored all the options for structuring the code as a plugin (a plugin model for things like the solver could be quite interesting).