James Robertson suggests that
Orlowski mis-reports it again and says that the Register
report is a "fairly nasty bit of selective quoting"
and was referenced in the DIGG commentary that
Google's not full.
With hardware (and bandwidth) getting cheaper, I find it hard to
believe that Google has actually run out of space.
But certainly the explosion in
the number of web pages is an issue, especially with auto-generated pages.
One current example is the
V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO contest (white-hat celiac charity site I'm supporting) - that
nonsense phrase returned zero results on January 15th, 2006...
but now returns almost 5,000,000... of which I gotta believe the
vast majority were NOT typed in by humans.
So maybe it's more that the techniques/algorithms used to
spider and index are struggling with the bazillions of web pages out there. Or it could just be disgruntled
webmasters PO'ed that their web site isn't listed!
While there's some validity behind what the article says (althought the 10x is ridiculously high IMHO), he fails to mention the other side of the equation which is multiple visitors from the same IP address. Your home network is almost certainly NAT'ed... and Corporations are using proxies more and more for outbound connections. I.e. I know of one Fortune-50 company with a couple of hundred thousand employees that has a total of SIX (!) web proxies. You also see this with cache servers, especially stuff like AOL.
I agree you don't REALLY know for sure what the ratio of unique IP's to actual human visitors are (even assuming you filter out the BOTS)... but my guess is that it is actually pretty close to 1:1... and in fact, unique IP's may actually undercount the number of unique visitors.
Was kinda interesting hearing the description... but yea, no footage of giant squid on video - too bad as that would be cool. Here is a live video feed showing another type of sealife - although not as big/interesting as a giant squid;-)
1. Admins who don't have a clue and don't know about sudo so they just login as root. However, if you tell them to use sudo, they are mallable enough that they will listen and do so.
2. Admins who haven't been around a while, but think they know a lot, and therefore insist that sudo is OK for them for a variety of reasons. These folks often won't listen to 'ya. Dangerous!
3. Admins who have been around for a while and insist on using sudo. If you bring 'em into a new environment, it's the first thing they will install if it doesn't exist. They realize it's a good thing and want to have everything they have done logged... plus all the other reasons enumerated elsewhere.
The BW article is entirely based on Ben's work - read the source.
Queensland Univ is running the HyShot program
on
New Jet Engine Tested
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· Score: 5, Informative
Here's the
main page about the University of Queensland (Australia) Centre
for Hypersonics program that is running this program. The BBC article
mentioned is pulled from their
press release.
First application for Mach 7+ won't be passenger travel,
but military (if not already used) where it will not only be fast, but louder
than heck - after all
Jet Noise is the
Sound of Freedom!;-)
Email scrapers probably like this ...
on
Google Pages Launches
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· Score: 4, Interesting
USERNAME@gmail.com can be obtained from USERNAME.googlepages.com and a list of the later can be pulled by using Google to search for site: googlepages.com
TONS more info on main sudo page
on
Sudo vs. Root
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· Score: 1
Go check out the main sudo page which has tons more info. Also consider making a donation to Todd so he can continue work on this long-time incredibly useful Unix Tool. Or consider helping out with code - my feeble contribution some misc. sudo-tools.
I'm surprised this article made the front page of/. as it arguably confuses the issue more IMHO.
Read how Anil Dash got a picture of himself in the New York Times wearing a GOATSE T-shirt - he doesn't seem to have done so bad for himself...;-)
Appears to be scrapes from local media sources ...
on
Yahoo! Launches Local News
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· Score: 2, Informative
From a brief look at Colorado, it appears they've compiled a list of local media sources (I saw both print and TV) and are scraping the contest, showing the headline/first paragraph, with link (including click tracker) to the story on the original site.
The satellite pictures of my house were shot in the summer/2002 - quite easy to tell since we had a major drought that year.
Sure, real-time satellite imagery would be cool, but realistically, I doubt the government is going to share that... plus allow you to task one of their birds for an overflight of your house/crater/etc.
The bands website is short on technical details... but earlier today, the streaming video (and audio)seemed to be fairly snappy - anyone know how the heck they are handling the load streaming to these thousands of people at once?
Also, the frame rate appeared to be pretty good and decent image quality - compare to watching paint dry webcam - gotta be a decent webcam - anyone know what is being used.
Hilarious - no mod points, otherwise I'd toss 'em your way.
Yea, better headline would have been "How Do You Measure Up?" since this is/. and everyone would have known you were talking about your personal data center...
Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot has dupes.
Slashdot has trolls and flamers.
Non-subscribers entitled to a full refund if they aren't satisfied.
With hardware (and bandwidth) getting cheaper, I find it hard to believe that Google has actually run out of space. But certainly the explosion in the number of web pages is an issue, especially with auto-generated pages. One current example is the V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO contest (white-hat celiac charity site I'm supporting) - that nonsense phrase returned zero results on January 15th, 2006 ...
but now returns almost 5,000,000 ... of which I gotta believe the
vast majority were NOT typed in by humans.
So maybe it's more that the techniques/algorithms used to spider and index are struggling with the bazillions of web pages out there. Or it could just be disgruntled webmasters PO'ed that their web site isn't listed!
Quote from Anil Dash, VP of Six Apart
I didn't see Slashdot, DIGG, Fark, etc. listed - why not?!? ;-)
nmap is very, very cool ... and a great opportunity to hack on the best network scanner around ... plus you could be famous! ;-)
I agree you don't REALLY know for sure what the ratio of unique IP's to actual human visitors are (even assuming you filter out the BOTS) ... but my guess is that it is actually pretty close to 1:1 ... and in fact, unique IP's may actually undercount the number of unique visitors.
Was kinda interesting hearing the description ... but yea, no footage of giant squid on video - too bad as that would be cool. Here is a live video feed showing another type of sealife - although not as big/interesting as a giant squid ;-)
Nice writeup submitter as you presented an excellent balanced example rather than the often one-sided point of view.
I thought I read recently where Microsoft announced some anti-phishing tool that flagged slight mis-spellings of domain names (?)
Somebody did this nifty Enterprise model - would look good integrated in Google Earth ... or Google Mars ...
Just so we complete the circle, here's a DIGG on this /. story ... ;-)
1. Admins who don't have a clue and don't know about sudo so they just login as root. However, if you tell them to use sudo, they are mallable enough that they will listen and do so.
2. Admins who haven't been around a while, but think they know a lot, and therefore insist that sudo is OK for them for a variety of reasons. These folks often won't listen to 'ya. Dangerous!
3. Admins who have been around for a while and insist on using sudo. If you bring 'em into a new environment, it's the first thing they will install if it doesn't exist. They realize it's a good thing and want to have everything they have done logged ... plus all the other reasons enumerated elsewhere.
BTW, Todd Miller has graciousely maintained sudo for years - consider tossing him a few dollars to continue working on it.
The BW article is entirely based on Ben's work - read the source.
First application for Mach 7+ won't be passenger travel, but military (if not already used) where it will not only be fast, but louder than heck - after all Jet Noise is the Sound of Freedom! ;-)
USERNAME@gmail.com can be obtained from USERNAME.googlepages.com and a list of the later can be pulled by using Google to search for site: googlepages.com
I'm surprised this article made the front page of /. as it arguably confuses the issue more IMHO.
Slashdot discussed Google Calendar over a year ago - wonder what is the holdup for them ...
Read how Anil Dash got a picture of himself in the New York Times wearing a GOATSE T-shirt - he doesn't seem to have done so bad for himself ... ;-)
From a brief look at Colorado, it appears they've compiled a list of local media sources (I saw both print and TV) and are scraping the contest, showing the headline/first paragraph, with link (including click tracker) to the story on the original site.
Sure, real-time satellite imagery would be cool, but realistically, I doubt the government is going to share that ... plus allow you to task one of their birds for an overflight of your house/crater/etc.
SpaceFlightNow has the play-by-play - more exciting than watching grass grow ;-)
The guy extensively quoted in the NYT piece chimes in with his two cents here - good reading IF you want to hear the their side of the story.
Also, the frame rate appeared to be pretty good and decent image quality - compare to watching paint dry webcam - gotta be a decent webcam - anyone know what is being used.
Hilarious - no mod points, otherwise I'd toss 'em your way. Yea, better headline would have been "How Do You Measure Up?" since this is /. and everyone would have known you were talking about your personal data center ...
... if any at all?!? ;-)