Exactly. The figures presented in the summary assume that gas stays at around $2/gallon, and that everyone just drives 15,000 miles/year.
In the first 12 months I owned my present car--and I got laid off in early November--I put about 21,000 miles on it, and for a good chunk of that year gas was $4/gallon.
Articles like this are best used to examine one's particular circumstances.
Oh, and the nearest public transit I could have taken to work is almost 30 minutes away, and my car gets 40 miles per gallon, and I carpooled 90% of the time I was working at that job.
You make me laugh. The town, Wilson, NC, mentioned in The Fine Article, did exactly this. They laid fiber, approached TW and Embarq, and said, "You want to use this infrastructure we just put in for your lazy butts?"
The 2 big losers refused. THAT is why the city gov't decided to do it themselves.
Government run by corps? Of course. But there's no such thing as a free market. The entire system is broken. Deal with it.
Red Hat 7.3 on a Packard Bell pizza tower. I becamed amazed at how weird the hardware was. My favorite thing was USB: I had a USB Ethernet adapter (no free PCI slots) that used the pegasus module, and a simple modprobe pegasus just worked. I had never had anything like that happen in Windows. Oh, and when my soundcard would be unusable, I would just tell XMMS to use my USB speakers directly. My Digital Sound System 80 is my favorite Microsoft product.
The pegasus module is still present in my stock 64-bit Fedora 10 install, BTW.
Of course the article doesn't say. Bad for business. But if you read between the lines:
...scientists from Spain analysed two apiaries and found evidence of honey bee colony depopulation syndrome (also known as colony collapse disorder in the USA). They found no evidence of any other cause of the disease (such as the Varroa destructor, IAPV or pesticides), other than infection with Nosema ceranae. The researchers then treated the infected surviving under-populated colonies with the antibiotic drug, flumagillin and demonstrated complete recovery of all infected colonies.
In other words, they didn't think Nosema ceranae was the cause at first. After they ran out of "top ten" suspects, they started going after the more "ordinary" organisms inside the bees one by one.
I'm not so sure about that. The Hebrew lunar calendar was 360 days, but had leap years 7 times in 19 years wherein an extra lunar month was added. This indicates that even 3000 years ago, the solar year was still around 365 days.
Don't get me wrong; solar drift is an issue, but it's just not changing the year as quickly as you might think. As far as the cause, some think it is because the earth's rotation about its axis is slowing. This makes sense when you take into account: 1) the Moon's gravitational drag and associated tides; 2) that Earth is getting heavier (est. 400 tons of meteors land every year).
Ah, a fellow Fit owner. Good choice. I routinely carry my keyboard (you know, the musical kind) and passengers with their stuff. 40 MPG on the freeway, and that's with the automatic.
Yes, I was getting errors. My turn to feel like an idiot for not checking the logs. I put in the other parenthesis in, and now it has no problem with the syntax, but now the log says: an unknown filter was not added: PHP. Still zero bytes.
Well, I found that referencing the php page in my.htaccess makes all 404's go there now. Unfortunately, I still get the 0-byte page on all 404's, whether for my domain or from redirected ones, as well as referencing the file directly. The echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; did its job, but only when it was the only text in the file, apparently.
Using FF on Fedora 10. Going directly to the 404.php page get me a page with 0-byte source. That may have something to do with why Apache isn't using it for the 404 page.
I'm afraid I don't know PHP well enough to get it to echo that variable. Maybe
Yes, I'm using Apache. I did forget to rename it to.php (d'oh!). It is now.php and I updated the httpd.conf to redirect to it. I am using the server both internally and web-facing. I put every address in there:
Well, the trouble is that I have a custom 404 page, which has the unfortunate side effect of cluttering up the browser window when 9 banners on the page suddenly point to localhost.
How can I get around that? I don't want to point to a dead IP address, I want to point to a live but blocking IP address. I already tried my router, and my other machines are usually offline.
I've tried to use that for certain obnoxious websites (doubleclick, esomniture, etc.), but I'm running a webserver, which just causes weird behavior and long page-load times. How do I use a hosts file in this case?
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Did you post that link as AC below? If so, I hate you.
I got all 100 "achievements".
I can't believe I actually played that game...and got some achievements in it...
...all 100...
I hate you.
Obligatory link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdZC5LJswFE
*Badeep badoop!* Achievement Unlocked!
My favorite style of narration involves phrases like "What you say!!" and "You have no chance to survive make your time".
For great justice.
My car was used for the carpooling, since it's far more efficient than my coworkers' cars, and because it's CRAZY fun to drive.
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!
Exactly. The figures presented in the summary assume that gas stays at around $2/gallon, and that everyone just drives 15,000 miles/year.
In the first 12 months I owned my present car--and I got laid off in early November--I put about 21,000 miles on it, and for a good chunk of that year gas was $4/gallon.
Articles like this are best used to examine one's particular circumstances.
Oh, and the nearest public transit I could have taken to work is almost 30 minutes away, and my car gets 40 miles per gallon, and I carpooled 90% of the time I was working at that job.
That is, until the bubble bursts. Then almost everyone gets poorer.
You make me laugh. The town, Wilson, NC, mentioned in The Fine Article, did exactly this. They laid fiber, approached TW and Embarq, and said, "You want to use this infrastructure we just put in for your lazy butts?"
The 2 big losers refused. THAT is why the city gov't decided to do it themselves.
Government run by corps? Of course. But there's no such thing as a free market. The entire system is broken. Deal with it.
Red Hat 7.3 on a Packard Bell pizza tower. I becamed amazed at how weird the hardware was. My favorite thing was USB: I had a USB Ethernet adapter (no free PCI slots) that used the pegasus module, and a simple modprobe pegasus just worked. I had never had anything like that happen in Windows. Oh, and when my soundcard would be unusable, I would just tell XMMS to use my USB speakers directly. My Digital Sound System 80 is my favorite Microsoft product.
The pegasus module is still present in my stock 64-bit Fedora 10 install, BTW.
Well played.
Just goes to prove the old adage: "For every study, there is an equal and opposite study."
In other words, they didn't think Nosema ceranae was the cause at first. After they ran out of "top ten" suspects, they started going after the more "ordinary" organisms inside the bees one by one.
Must also insert reference to Tux.
Now imagine if someone could get Windows to run on it. That would be funny.
I'm not so sure about that. The Hebrew lunar calendar was 360 days, but had leap years 7 times in 19 years wherein an extra lunar month was added. This indicates that even 3000 years ago, the solar year was still around 365 days.
Don't get me wrong; solar drift is an issue, but it's just not changing the year as quickly as you might think. As far as the cause, some think it is because the earth's rotation about its axis is slowing. This makes sense when you take into account: 1) the Moon's gravitational drag and associated tides; 2) that Earth is getting heavier (est. 400 tons of meteors land every year).
Ah, a fellow Fit owner. Good choice. I routinely carry my keyboard (you know, the musical kind) and passengers with their stuff. 40 MPG on the freeway, and that's with the automatic.
Yes, I was getting errors. My turn to feel like an idiot for not checking the logs. I put in the other parenthesis in, and now it has no problem with the syntax, but now the log says: an unknown filter was not added: PHP. Still zero bytes.
Makes me want to start from scratch on this.
Yes, it was.
Well, I found that referencing the php page in my .htaccess makes all 404's go there now. Unfortunately, I still get the 0-byte page on all 404's, whether for my domain or from redirected ones, as well as referencing the file directly. The echo $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; did its job, but only when it was the only text in the file, apparently.
Using FF on Fedora 10. Going directly to the 404.php page get me a page with 0-byte source. That may have something to do with why Apache isn't using it for the 404 page.
I'm afraid I don't know PHP well enough to get it to echo that variable. Maybe
<?php echo $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR']?>
Is that right?
It now gives me a regular 404 error (not my PHP page) on every invalid URL.
Excellent idea. Unfortunately, I don't know PHP very well. I did that, but I just get the 404 page with
true, $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] => true, "127.0.0.1" => true, "localhost" => true); if (!isset($valid_hosts[$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']]) exit; ?>
at the top. Did I do it wrong, or is it my PHP setup?
Well, the trouble is that I have a custom 404 page, which has the unfortunate side effect of cluttering up the browser window when 9 banners on the page suddenly point to localhost.
How can I get around that? I don't want to point to a dead IP address, I want to point to a live but blocking IP address. I already tried my router, and my other machines are usually offline.
True, but I'm running the server on the same computer that I use for normal web surfing, etc.
I've tried to use that for certain obnoxious websites (doubleclick, esomniture, etc.), but I'm running a webserver, which just causes weird behavior and long page-load times. How do I use a hosts file in this case?