Along with the big other reply the whole point is that just downloading and saving a local copy isn't going to help an ISP with users who want to use the simple Windows Update system. Transparent caching is what everyone wants. Having to direct users to updates, keep those updates up to date, and deal with users complaints/suggestions/whatever about the updates is just too much work to justify when the adoption rate will be very small (IMHO) as users continue to just start Windows Update.
No, it is not worthy of a/. article in my opinion (but my opinion doesn't matter as I'm not in @slashdot.org.corp), this is just a lame script.
No new techniques and code that almost any person with a day of PHP experience would have already written. The only reason I checked it out was that I wanted to see if they figured out how to grab column names or tables names via ODBC. I'd love to be able to grab meta-data about the databases themselves. If this isn't part of the SQL ANSI standard...
Here is 50 cents. Buy some reading comprehension classes.
The parent poster is obviously asking why nobody even uses those libraries or projects with Linux itself--not why don't they use them with OpenBSD. Asking why the OpenBSD project doesn't use a (probably) GPL solution to this problem is like asking why the Pope doesn't buy dungeon porn.
Until then, please shut the jiziont up, because you seem to have jack shat for reading comprehension.
And besides, they are talking about 2010, who among you will be around to tell them if they got it wrong?
You are absolutely right! I was talking with CmdrTaco about the demographics of the/. readership and the most surprising fact was that 73.852% of the readers are 63 or older! The numbers get even interesting when we consider that 23.82% are 74 or older. Considering how unhealthy the typical/. geek is these elderly monks are living on borrowed time. 10 years from now is practically an infinite time to them and they will surely be buried with their Happy Hacker keyboards, fingers still clenched on the home row, pressing Ctrl-D one final time.
You're post brings a tear to my eye with the degree of it's relevancy to our community. The age of our readers here is rarely discussed and these demographics have not been shared with our regular readers, who seem to assume the typical/.'er is 17-35, but it is time that the truth comes out. You are a shining light, a beacon of hope, to those that will not make it another 10 years. Please spend your time with the/.'ers as they will surely have little more but your kinds words to live for in these dark days.
You're assuming that the reverse DNS test is made to actually confirm the domain on the mail header matches the reverse DNS. Sometimes the reverse DNS test is just done to make sure any reverse address is set. Apparently this cuts down on a significant amount of spam sources.
I can't relay the mail through our ISP - we host our own domain on our own server.
Hosting your own domain on your own server doesn't necessarily mean that you can't relay your outoing SMTP through your ISP. Does your ISP block relayed email with a FROM that doesn't match domains they typically service? If not, what is holding you back?
I think it all comes down to taking a step back, looking at your body, and picking what's right for you -- not some predetermined plan that you get off of a website.
And we all magically know what our options our, what choices are good, what are bad, yadda yadda?
Can I get a hit off that jizoint?
People with a few neurons firing can take other people's plans and use them to find out what works for them. Not everyone is born with an innate ability to analyze diets.
Whatever, dude! How many hours of exercising will it take to burn 10,000 calories? Hrm, more than I would spend working a full time job each day? Just exercising isn't the right answer for people who no longer know when they are hungry and just eat when they feel like eating.
Careful with Atkins. All protein and no carbs is a great way to send your body into ketosis (shuttling energy between organs as keto acids rather than glucose = not healty). You are basically starving yourself with Atkins. Also, the Atlkins diet can skew your dietary intake towards high cholesterol and fat, while lowering intake of dietary fiber.
The whole point is to send your body into ketosis. Ketosis isn't always unhealthy. Some diabetics have problems with excessive ketosis but this is not the same as ketosis == bad! If you pop "what.is.ketosis" into google and click on the cached link of the third item, the one from cornell.edu, things should become clearer.
I would hardly call articles that don't have up to date research backing their claims as "nails in the coffin" of the Atkins die/low carb. Most of the pieces are no better than the pro-Atkins stories. A modern study of the low carb diet would be interesting but Aktin's didn't want to fund such a project himself and apparently he couldn't interest anyone else in doing it. I don't remember all the details but plenty of backing on the research aspect out on the net.
I'm curious how dynamism's prices compare to buying direct in Japan. Going back to the first post in this subthread, the idea is to save a few bucks and get an awesome machine. Somehow dynamism, while cool, just isn't very attractive to me because of the added cost for that warranty and the language work. Maybe when I'm making the big bucks I'll be swayed by the warranty and the ease of ordering.
I don't think it is much cheaper but the point is you can get a super small notebook that simply isn't available here. My first, and current, laptop is a Dell i4000. It is heavy. The specs only say maybe 6.5-7.5 pounds but with all the crap in the bag it is just a lead weight. I'm a big guy too but I'd toss this baby for something that weighed 3-4 pounds anyday...
Have you tried debugging the problem from the Samba side? There are a number of helpful configuration documents and mailing lists.
In one of the installations of Samba, as a replacement to Novell, I ran into a file locking/corruption problem. The problematic application was an ancient DOS scheduling program with multiple users. The solution turned out to be:
[DOS_SHARE_NAME] oplocks = no
There are a couple of other options for file locking but that was the one that fixed our problem.
Other locking options:
strict locking = yes kernel oplocks = no level2 oplocks = no
Buy a nice tiny unreleased in the US model in Japan. That is what I would do if I were going there myself. For the girlfriend maybe this wouldn't work as her geek factor might not be up there. But if it is, why not consider this? Some people here buy the latest laptops from Japan to use in the US. Remember to check into the warranty situation.
"...because SiSoft Sandra rated the Via CPU at about Pentium II 300 Mhz levels."
We are going around in circles, aren't we? Furthermore this is for an 800 Mhz CPU. 1 Ghz is out now and 1 Ghz with full speed FPU and enhanced core is out soon.
Given all of that isn't it somewhat amazing that the thing even had the abililty to be 1/4 as fast as a 2 Ghz P4?
I agree on the "open in new tab" menu change. My brain had that menu memorized so I never had to look at the menu. Little changes like these are annoying -- the last one is new tab opening the home page instead of blank like normal. I sometimes wonder if these little annoyances aren't the result of political infighting among the Mozilla team. I might be dead wrong but I find it hard to imagine any other explanation.
I always buy a the price/performance break. I could care less about the top end Mhz:$ ratio. It doesn't really matter. The hot deals can be about at around 1.7 - 1.8 Ghz where the AMDs weigh in at $50-$65 and the Intels at $100-$130. That is the band that I choose to highlight and it really can be done from either side but in most cases AMD obviously has an advantage.
The funny thing is that I haven't upgraded any of my computers in years. I'm perfectly happy with my Celeron 800 laptop and Celeron 850 desktops. A little more speed would be great but I can't justify the cost when it simply isn't needed. But, if I were to upgraded, I'd definately be buying a 1.7 or 1.8 Ghz AMD cpu at the moment. Maybe spending $200 on a USR 14.4k Sportser or a Mitsumi 4x CD-ROM when I first got into computers has made me a little more jaded about bleeding edge prices.
Given that the current market C3 has a slow FPU it holds up pretty well for the amount of power it uses, the cost, and the form factor it allows. It is nowhere near as slow as a PII 300 Mhz in any of the benchmarks I glanced at. Feel free to point out some ultra-FPU bound benchmark that I missed and you're using to backup your comment.
The C3 is in no way a powerhouse but given that it can be easily used in small form factors like mITX and it is cheap ($50-$120 for motherboard and CPU) it deserves a little respect. I don't even own one but I can't wait for the next C3 that is coming out with full speed FPU and other benefits.
Mini-ITX.com keeps me informed of changes in the mITX world. Their front page has a link to a review of the Nehemiah core C3 by SilentPCReview. Hopefully the new core will be out soon if review sites have it in hand.
I think part of the problem is that some developers just don't know when they should stop reading their user mailing lists or at least stop replying. I'm sure flaming people lowers the stress level but, even though they may be right, it simply isn't very productive when plenty of other people could do the flaming or the helping without the programmers being involved. Theo, from OpenBSD, is (or was) definately in the category of "can't let go" so his current reputation isn't all that surprising.
Yeah, because we all know all protestors for a cause only protest because they are guilty of something and want to be free. Come on already. Open up your brain cavity and insert a friggin clue.
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Along with the big other reply the whole point is that just downloading and saving a local copy isn't going to help an ISP with users who want to use the simple Windows Update system. Transparent caching is what everyone wants. Having to direct users to updates, keep those updates up to date, and deal with users complaints/suggestions/whatever about the updates is just too much work to justify when the adoption rate will be very small (IMHO) as users continue to just start Windows Update.
Except if that compressed binary is stored out on an overloaded student file server it might actually help!
No, it is not worthy of a /. article in my opinion (but my opinion doesn't matter as I'm not in @slashdot.org.corp), this is just a lame script.
No new techniques and code that almost any person with a day of PHP experience would have already written. The only reason I checked it out was that I wanted to see if they figured out how to grab column names or tables names via ODBC. I'd love to be able to grab meta-data about the databases themselves. If this isn't part of the SQL ANSI standard...
Here is 50 cents. Buy some reading comprehension classes.
The parent poster is obviously asking why nobody even uses those libraries or projects with Linux itself--not why don't they use them with OpenBSD. Asking why the OpenBSD project doesn't use a (probably) GPL solution to this problem is like asking why the Pope doesn't buy dungeon porn.
Until then, please shut the jiziont up, because you seem to have jack shat for reading comprehension.
And besides, they are talking about 2010, who among you will be around to tell them if they got it wrong?
/. readership and the most surprising fact was that 73.852% of the readers are 63 or older! The numbers get even interesting when we consider that 23.82% are 74 or older. Considering how unhealthy the typical /. geek is these elderly monks are living on borrowed time. 10 years from now is practically an infinite time to them and they will surely be buried with their Happy Hacker keyboards, fingers still clenched on the home row, pressing Ctrl-D one final time.
/.'er is 17-35, but it is time that the truth comes out. You are a shining light, a beacon of hope, to those that will not make it another 10 years. Please spend your time with the /.'ers as they will surely have little more but your kinds words to live for in these dark days.
You are absolutely right! I was talking with CmdrTaco about the demographics of the
You're post brings a tear to my eye with the degree of it's relevancy to our community. The age of our readers here is rarely discussed and these demographics have not been shared with our regular readers, who seem to assume the typical
You're assuming that the reverse DNS test is made to actually confirm the domain on the mail header matches the reverse DNS. Sometimes the reverse DNS test is just done to make sure any reverse address is set. Apparently this cuts down on a significant amount of spam sources.
I can't relay the mail through our ISP - we host our own domain on our own server.
Hosting your own domain on your own server doesn't necessarily mean that you can't relay your outoing SMTP through your ISP. Does your ISP block relayed email with a FROM that doesn't match domains they typically service? If not, what is holding you back?
I think it all comes down to taking a step back, looking at your body, and picking what's right for you -- not some predetermined plan that you get off of a website.
And we all magically know what our options our, what choices are good, what are bad, yadda yadda?
Can I get a hit off that jizoint?
People with a few neurons firing can take other people's plans and use them to find out what works for them. Not everyone is born with an innate ability to analyze diets.
Whatever, dude! How many hours of exercising will it take to burn 10,000 calories? Hrm, more than I would spend working a full time job each day? Just exercising isn't the right answer for people who no longer know when they are hungry and just eat when they feel like eating.
Careful with Atkins. All protein and no carbs is a great way to send your body into ketosis (shuttling energy between organs as keto acids rather than glucose = not healty). You are basically starving yourself with Atkins. Also, the Atlkins diet can skew your dietary intake towards high cholesterol and fat, while lowering intake of dietary fiber.
The whole point is to send your body into ketosis. Ketosis isn't always unhealthy. Some diabetics have problems with excessive ketosis but this is not the same as ketosis == bad! If you pop "what.is.ketosis" into google and click on the cached link of the third item, the one from cornell.edu, things should become clearer.
I would hardly call articles that don't have up to date research backing their claims as "nails in the coffin" of the Atkins die/low carb. Most of the pieces are no better than the pro-Atkins stories. A modern study of the low carb diet would be interesting but Aktin's didn't want to fund such a project himself and apparently he couldn't interest anyone else in doing it. I don't remember all the details but plenty of backing on the research aspect out on the net.
I'm curious how dynamism's prices compare to buying direct in Japan. Going back to the first post in this subthread, the idea is to save a few bucks and get an awesome machine. Somehow dynamism, while cool, just isn't very attractive to me because of the added cost for that warranty and the language work. Maybe when I'm making the big bucks I'll be swayed by the warranty and the ease of ordering.
I don't think it is much cheaper but the point is you can get a super small notebook that simply isn't available here. My first, and current, laptop is a Dell i4000. It is heavy. The specs only say maybe 6.5-7.5 pounds but with all the crap in the bag it is just a lead weight. I'm a big guy too but I'd toss this baby for something that weighed 3-4 pounds anyday...
Have you tried debugging the problem from the Samba side? There are a number of helpful configuration documents and mailing lists.
In one of the installations of Samba, as a replacement to Novell, I ran into a file locking/corruption problem. The problematic application was an ancient DOS scheduling program with multiple users. The solution turned out to be:
[DOS_SHARE_NAME]
oplocks = no
There are a couple of other options for file locking but that was the one that fixed our problem.
Other locking options:
strict locking = yes
kernel oplocks = no
level2 oplocks = no
the handy groups.google search
smb.conf man page
The Unofficial Samba HOWTO
Buy a nice tiny unreleased in the US model in Japan. That is what I would do if I were going there myself. For the girlfriend maybe this wouldn't work as her geek factor might not be up there. But if it is, why not consider this? Some people here buy the latest laptops from Japan to use in the US. Remember to check into the warranty situation.
"...because SiSoft Sandra rated the Via CPU at about Pentium II 300 Mhz levels."
We are going around in circles, aren't we? Furthermore this is for an 800 Mhz CPU. 1 Ghz is out now and 1 Ghz with full speed FPU and enhanced core is out soon.
Given all of that isn't it somewhat amazing that the thing even had the abililty to be 1/4 as fast as a 2 Ghz P4?
I agree on the "open in new tab" menu change. My brain had that menu memorized so I never had to look at the menu. Little changes like these are annoying -- the last one is new tab opening the home page instead of blank like normal. I sometimes wonder if these little annoyances aren't the result of political infighting among the Mozilla team. I might be dead wrong but I find it hard to imagine any other explanation.
I always buy a the price/performance break. I could care less about the top end Mhz:$ ratio. It doesn't really matter. The hot deals can be about at around 1.7 - 1.8 Ghz where the AMDs weigh in at $50-$65 and the Intels at $100-$130. That is the band that I choose to highlight and it really can be done from either side but in most cases AMD obviously has an advantage.
;).
The funny thing is that I haven't upgraded any of my computers in years. I'm perfectly happy with my Celeron 800 laptop and Celeron 850 desktops. A little more speed would be great but I can't justify the cost when it simply isn't needed. But, if I were to upgraded, I'd definately be buying a 1.7 or 1.8 Ghz AMD cpu at the moment. Maybe spending $200 on a USR 14.4k Sportser or a Mitsumi 4x CD-ROM when I first got into computers has made me a little more jaded about bleeding edge prices.
My 8 cents
"...without using any wierd half perl, half c languages."
This is somewhat ironic considering Tcl's own syntax. Maybe it's just me...
Benchmarks:
Via C3 vs Transmeta CPU
Via C3 vs Celeon 1300 Mhz and 667 Mhz
Given that the current market C3 has a slow FPU it holds up pretty well for the amount of power it uses, the cost, and the form factor it allows. It is nowhere near as slow as a PII 300 Mhz in any of the benchmarks I glanced at. Feel free to point out some ultra-FPU bound benchmark that I missed and you're using to backup your comment.
The C3 is in no way a powerhouse but given that it can be easily used in small form factors like mITX and it is cheap ($50-$120 for motherboard and CPU) it deserves a little respect. I don't even own one but I can't wait for the next C3 that is coming out with full speed FPU and other benefits.
Mini-ITX.com keeps me informed of changes in the mITX world. Their front page has a link to a review of the Nehemiah core C3 by SilentPCReview. Hopefully the new core will be out soon if review sites have it in hand.
I think part of the problem is that some developers just don't know when they should stop reading their user mailing lists or at least stop replying. I'm sure flaming people lowers the stress level but, even though they may be right, it simply isn't very productive when plenty of other people could do the flaming or the helping without the programmers being involved. Theo, from OpenBSD, is (or was) definately in the category of "can't let go" so his current reputation isn't all that surprising.
You have a fridge, right? Chuck it in there or the freezer (not too long with that LCD) and see how it works after a good cooling.
Yeah, because we all know all protestors for a cause only protest because they are guilty of something and want to be free. Come on already. Open up your brain cavity and insert a friggin clue.
No, he's Ratslovian.
But why, why must he be American?