If you want to fill up on legal media files then check out all the state and federal court websites. Should be plenty of transcripts to fill up that 150gb drive! Billions of pages of legalese! What more could one ask for?
I've never heard of this one before... Anyone got some backup for this story? Sounds like a good troll--you got me. I'll have to look in the school labs on Monday (no IE at home).
Sears and whatever Homelife rematerializes into will never see a dime of my or my family's cash, and I wouldn't urinate on former employees of the Homelife store near me if they were on fire (and if they jaywalk in front of me they'd better pray to god that I don't recognize them).
So if a company you work for does something immoral you believe that everyone else has the right to treat you as subhuman?
Well it has been on/. before. Unless there are a number of wifi geeks in Egypt putting up pages with similar templates. Not that I care all that much about yearly repeats.
Sounds like a great deal but there are a couple downsides. The contrast ratio on this one is 200:1 while new models are 500:1. The typical response time is 50ms while good new models are 20-25ms. This is less than optimal for games and DVD viewing (the high response time = screen tearing). I'd be happy to have it but I can't afford any of them! I can't wait for the prices to drop more over the next couple days.
Forgot to say: I just think the combo would be interesting. I don't find anything particularly wrong with the FreeBSD kernel--far from it, it works excellently.
Does it really? Does Gentoo keep the base system on cvsup or at least make sure it all plays nice? Or do they just toss in the latest versions of everything and hope the haystack doesn't blow away? I know that is a loaded assumption, but I'm still curious. Unfortunately I'm bandwidth challenged at the momemnt--otherwise I would have tried Gentoo again.
What I absolutely *love* about FreeBSD is the ease of upgrading a remote system. Built into that is a well-maintained base system and a sensible upgrade route. When I say FreeBSD + linux kernel, I mean absolutely that. I wonder how much work it would be...
I would be the happiest man alive if debian would use the FreeBSD kernel.
I'd be the happiest man if a decent distribution was put together with the FreeBSD world and the linux kernel. Why would you want the opposite? I guess I can see it, but not really. make world + linux kernel == wahooO!
You could also look at underclocking Intel CPUs by running them at a lower voltage and megahertz (for example, run the 133mhz FSB CPUs at 100mhz and take the voltage down a bit). Then you can simply put a decent chunk 'o metal heat sink on there without a fan. Open up the power supply and replace the cheapie (or even spendy) but loud fan with a good low Db one. Buy 5400 RPM drives instead of 7200 RPM. Use a decent case that dampens the noise level.
Or you could just put your server in another room.
It's a pity, really. I think Opera deserves more attention on/. than Mozilla as an MS browser alternative. Zealousy abounds I guess. I say that because the only ding I can see against Opera is that it's Ad-supported. I'd care except they show cartoons in that banner window. Heh.
Wait... Wait... DING! DING! DING! Must be that open source ding making itself known. But who would expect it on/.?
Personally I have Opera loaded, and used it for a couple websites when Mozilla wasn't working with them, but these days Mozilla doesn't seem to have nearly as many problems and, to boot, it has been getting faster. The speed difference was apparent when I upgraded from my month old nightly build to 2002112008. The speed feel is about 1/2 between Phoenix (fast) and the month old Mozilla (sluggish). Sweet...
Doh! I think the total amount of GE soybeans is 74%, corn is lower, somewhere around 25-30% but I don't have recent statistics. So the odds of eating GE corn are lower but I'll bet most of us eat it at least once a week.
Then start growing your own corn or buying all organic. Something like 75% of all the corn grown in the US is genetically modified. Eat at Taco Bell? GE corn in those taco shells.
Actually the FDA has said that the genetically modified crops aren't much different from none-GM crops. I agree that the article is bleak but so far I don't think the battle over GMO has a clear winner.
There was at least one performance bug with Mandrake 8 that resulted in extremely slow X performance. I don't remember the details but maybe someone will share them...
Yeah, because we all know mailbots will have a hissy fit on the style of the email when managing your list subscription. Seriously, I'm on tons of mailing lists and Mozilla's little subject helper is just plain annoying. I put a subject in every damn email I send except those sent to bots--does that make me some sort of freak? I don't think so. The subject thing is dumb and, at the very least, should be an option.
If you don't need the database then why not just use a tool like w3mir that will spider your website and save it to disk. Then put the resulting static HTML on your server.
Phoenix: Not sufficiently faster to make up for the fact that I can't search google straight out of the address bar.
Try typing something like "linux rocks" in the address bar and hit enter. You should be redirected to a google search page with those terms. I noticed there are some problems. If you try to search for "xxx.yyy zzz" then it assumes xxx.yyy is server address. Due to the use of private DNS inside corporations, I don't see how they could get around that. But if there are spaces in there, you would think one could enable a setting that says, "if spaces, it's a google search."
Or they could copy Konqueror, making it possible to use gg:google.search stuff.
Doh! webdav:// does work. The odd thing is that fish:// doesn't. Maybe it is something to do with the release of KDE 3.0.3 I have. The odd thing is that webdav:// didn't work in Konqueror right away. I had to do a Run command... "webdav://webdav.enabled.server" and then it started working in Konqueror too.
What is up with the odd names? I assume "fish" is the name of the KPart that implements SSH. Is there any plan to use more intuitive names? Like "ssh://" for ssh?
While we're on the topic - can Konqueror do WebDAV via a KPart? If so, what is the name of the KPart that implements WebDAV?
Well where do you plan on putting all these boxes? Are you going to serve your pages over a DSL connection? Or colocate? If you are planning on colocating, you'll be investigating smaller sized servers, like 1U or 2U size, unless you have money to blow. To be honest, you should just setup one server and get some page hits. Then think about how you'll survive the hordes of people that may come in the future. Unless you're serving porn. I would imagine the loads are always fairly high on porn servers. Someone here can surely offer suggestions if porn is involved.
The original poster was pointing out that it was interesting that the page author _knew_ he was going to get slashdoted and thus was prepared with mirrors. Unlike most stories where the one existance of a page has to be mirrored by groovy/.'ites.
I wonder if the story submitter tipped the page author off or something. Or maybe the submitter is really the page author hiding behind a hotmail account. Who cares...
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If you want to fill up on legal media files then check out all the state and federal court websites. Should be plenty of transcripts to fill up that 150gb drive! Billions of pages of legalese! What more could one ask for?
I've never heard of this one before... Anyone got some backup for this story? Sounds like a good troll--you got me. I'll have to look in the school labs on Monday (no IE at home).
Sears and whatever Homelife rematerializes into will never see a dime of my or my family's cash, and I wouldn't urinate on former employees of the Homelife store near me if they were on fire (and if they jaywalk in front of me they'd better pray to god that I don't recognize them).
So if a company you work for does something immoral you believe that everyone else has the right to treat you as subhuman?
Well it has been on /. before. Unless there are a number of wifi geeks in Egypt putting up pages with similar templates. Not that I care all that much about yearly repeats.
Sounds like a great deal but there are a couple downsides. The contrast ratio on this one is 200:1 while new models are 500:1. The typical response time is 50ms while good new models are 20-25ms. This is less than optimal for games and DVD viewing (the high response time = screen tearing). I'd be happy to have it but I can't afford any of them! I can't wait for the prices to drop more over the next couple days.
Forgot to say: I just think the combo would be interesting. I don't find anything particularly wrong with the FreeBSD kernel--far from it, it works excellently.
Does it really? Does Gentoo keep the base system on cvsup or at least make sure it all plays nice? Or do they just toss in the latest versions of everything and hope the haystack doesn't blow away? I know that is a loaded assumption, but I'm still curious. Unfortunately I'm bandwidth challenged at the momemnt--otherwise I would have tried Gentoo again.
What I absolutely *love* about FreeBSD is the ease of upgrading a remote system. Built into that is a well-maintained base system and a sensible upgrade route. When I say FreeBSD + linux kernel, I mean absolutely that. I wonder how much work it would be...
I would be the happiest man alive if debian would use the FreeBSD kernel.
I'd be the happiest man if a decent distribution was put together with the FreeBSD world and the linux kernel. Why would you want the opposite? I guess I can see it, but not really. make world + linux kernel == wahooO!
You could also look at underclocking Intel CPUs by running them at a lower voltage and megahertz (for example, run the 133mhz FSB CPUs at 100mhz and take the voltage down a bit). Then you can simply put a decent chunk 'o metal heat sink on there without a fan. Open up the power supply and replace the cheapie (or even spendy) but loud fan with a good low Db one. Buy 5400 RPM drives instead of 7200 RPM. Use a decent case that dampens the noise level.
Or you could just put your server in another room.
Wait... Wait... DING! DING! DING! Must be that open source ding making itself known. But who would expect it on
Personally I have Opera loaded, and used it for a couple websites when Mozilla wasn't working with them, but these days Mozilla doesn't seem to have nearly as many problems and, to boot, it has been getting faster. The speed difference was apparent when I upgraded from my month old nightly build to 2002112008. The speed feel is about 1/2 between Phoenix (fast) and the month old Mozilla (sluggish). Sweet...
Also we had a /. story on Opera's "make it tiny" for the portable display a while back. I don't feel like hunting anything down either...
Doh! I think the total amount of GE soybeans is 74%, corn is lower, somewhere around 25-30% but I don't have recent statistics. So the odds of eating GE corn are lower but I'll bet most of us eat it at least once a week.
Then start growing your own corn or buying all organic. Something like 75% of all the corn grown in the US is genetically modified. Eat at Taco Bell? GE corn in those taco shells.
Actually the FDA has said that the genetically modified crops aren't much different from none-GM crops. I agree that the article is bleak but so far I don't think the battle over GMO has a clear winner.
There was at least one performance bug with Mandrake 8 that resulted in extremely slow X performance. I don't remember the details but maybe someone will share them...
Yeah, because we all know mailbots will have a hissy fit on the style of the email when managing your list subscription. Seriously, I'm on tons of mailing lists and Mozilla's little subject helper is just plain annoying. I put a subject in every damn email I send except those sent to bots--does that make me some sort of freak? I don't think so. The subject thing is dumb and, at the very least, should be an option.
If you don't need the database then why not just use a tool like w3mir that will spider your website and save it to disk. Then put the resulting static HTML on your server.
I understand what he's talking about. Maybe because I like (some) techno. Those programs are all music editors or something similar.
Funny thing is my last name is Vig. Maybe I should become a professional enforcer in Vegas?
Sweet... I'm so used to hitting tab to move down the list that I didn't even look for an alternative. But this is great. Thanks.
Phoenix: Not sufficiently faster to make up for the fact that I can't search google straight out of the address bar.
Try typing something like "linux rocks" in the address bar and hit enter. You should be redirected to a google search page with those terms. I noticed there are some problems. If you try to search for "xxx.yyy zzz" then it assumes xxx.yyy is server address. Due to the use of private DNS inside corporations, I don't see how they could get around that. But if there are spaces in there, you would think one could enable a setting that says, "if spaces, it's a google search."
Or they could copy Konqueror, making it possible to use gg:google.search stuff.
Doh! webdav:// does work. The odd thing is that fish:// doesn't. Maybe it is something to do with the release of KDE 3.0.3 I have. The odd thing is that webdav:// didn't work in Konqueror right away. I had to do a Run command... "webdav://webdav.enabled.server" and then it started working in Konqueror too.
:). Thanks.
Maybe I'm just going crazy
What is up with the odd names? I assume "fish" is the name of the KPart that implements SSH. Is there any plan to use more intuitive names? Like "ssh://" for ssh?
While we're on the topic - can Konqueror do WebDAV via a KPart? If so, what is the name of the KPart that implements WebDAV?
Well where do you plan on putting all these boxes? Are you going to serve your pages over a DSL connection? Or colocate? If you are planning on colocating, you'll be investigating smaller sized servers, like 1U or 2U size, unless you have money to blow. To be honest, you should just setup one server and get some page hits. Then think about how you'll survive the hordes of people that may come in the future. Unless you're serving porn. I would imagine the loads are always fairly high on porn servers. Someone here can surely offer suggestions if porn is involved.
Pepsi is for the new generation, Coke is for the classic folk.
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Arizona is for the old folks. Texas is for the fat cattle.
When circled, crop planes, flight path delayed.
Scrappled butter with spamified egg root is deadly.
Sense is lost.
On.
The original poster was pointing out that it was interesting that the page author _knew_ he was going to get slashdoted and thus was prepared with mirrors. Unlike most stories where the one existance of a page has to be mirrored by groovy /.'ites.
I wonder if the story submitter tipped the page author off or something. Or maybe the submitter is really the page author hiding behind a hotmail account. Who cares...