I'm not sure I want porn from a site that spends an entire day out of the year devoted to pink ponies and the other 364 days devoted to things ranging from angry tube-talking politicians, sharp pieces of plastic and metal hardware, giant, horrible and ever-looming bugs, and operating systems with kinkier names than half the devices found in your local sex shop.
It also depends on how the power is used. If it's being used in the CPU, it's going to kick out a lot of heat, which can't be ignored, either, although can be hard to quantify. If your system is using less power, it's also probably kicking off less heat. If you're in Florida like me, you should pay attention to that, considering most Floridians air condition for 10-11 months out of the year.
Ours runs usually about 600 or so before finally dying, but I also have a script that kills them and restarts them after about 50 conversions to help curb memory usage. We occasionally run documents through with large tables and large images, which seem to bog OOo down a bit, but overall the memory usage is surprisingly small. We run four simultaneous headless OOo and the scripts are smart enough to try a different instance if it isn't responding. I tried using the OOo Daemon but it didn't seem to play nicely.
And for more information, each web server runs its own OOo processes and the Django-based (Python) front end communicates directly with OOo over the PyUNO bindings.
As a slight rebuff to your comment that rendering was completely different. We run OOo in Windows in the office to create documents and insert placeholder text, then run them through an automatic python script that decompresses and alters the document (mail merge, basically, but slightly more complex), then automatically generates PDFs hundreds or thousands of times per day. The only difference between Windows and Linux (RHEL4) that I have really seen are sentences breaking at different words and fonts in general appearing slightly larger, but not horribly obvious unless you're an anal retentive perfectionist.
I've been extremely happy with the 2.1 version of OOo, and I can't wait to try out 2.2.
I do wish their revision log were better written, though...
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Correct, it was simply an example. For some unexplicable reason, my profile originally had a value of over 60,000 (default, not user set). Far, far more than the default values. Setting it back to what the default should have been fixed most of my insane memory issues (2GB, Win32).
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You can help curb it by adjusting "browser.cache.memory.capacity" in about:config. It's in KB, so a value of 30000 means 30,000KB or roughly 29MB.
View: about:cache to see your current cache/memory status (click the links for further details).
Also note that the setting doesn't entirely stop the "runaway RAM", but it can greatly curb it. If you only view a few pages a day and use your back/forward a lot, I don't recommend changing it. However, if you, for instance, do a lot of Google searches and visit hundreds of different sites a day, dropping that setting can greatly reduce your memory usage. If you are restricted to only a few sites, your RAM shouldn't go too high anyway.
Most of them aren't leaks. Although I think there have been a few leaks regarding plugins, but I'm too lazy to go look it up.
Except when the company goes out of business, or starts adjusting the value of the money themselves for capital gain, or is hacked, or is ruled illegal, etc. I don't trust governments to handle money very efficiently, I expect even less of corporations.
Almost no corporations are built to benefit the people, they are built to benefit the managers and owners.
I think it's because the Slashdot crowd likes the idea more than the game itself. Not necessarily the advertising and sex chat (well, maybe...) aspects, but the idea that a user-generated world opens a new avenue of the expression of information.
I think the overall problem with Second Life is that the largely negative, undesired crowds got into it first, and that society in general isn't quite ready, nor are computers. As an example, I know that the furries exist, but on the regular Internet, I can avoid them easily just by never searching for them. In Second Life, though, you can't just avoid their island or whatever they have. They are, well, everywhere. Same with everyone else--flying penises included. Don't want to see X-rate content? Too bad. The community has far too big of an ego, too.
Well, that an Linden seems to only want to make a buck, and they'll sell whatever they can to do it. Maybe sometime in the future.
It won't make up all the lost value, no. However, your site traffic can be a powerful bargaining chip, particularly in local markets, e.g., local television o local newspapers. While your paper may be selling the same 300,000 impressions for about the same cost as local competitors, you can use your higher server traffic as a "wow" factor. As in, "Wow, you guys get how many millions of hits a month? That's three times as many as the other paper...".
Which makes them a perfect advertiser in my books. They are easy to block. Their ad spaces on client websites generally collapse very neatly, too.
That said, I wonder what Microsoft could bring to DoubleClick. I'd hate to see Microsoft add various "stealth" techniques that other advertisers use, e.g., frequently rotating hostnames, formats, etc.
If customers are going to block your ads, at least make it easy. They're going to do it either way. The easier you make it, the more those people will remain on those websites, which at least brings you minimal value as an advertiser. When I worked in media, we typically gave clients two different sets of stats for this exact purpose. You don't disclose your traffic count based on your advertising banners/etc, instead you tell them your server stats traffic, which is always higher. Of course, you're selling impressions/clicks/referrals, so the advertiser doesn't actually care if the site users are blocking their ad as long as they get what they paid for. The website, of course, may or may not care, depending on who they are.
Anyone can make a language or framework insecure. PHP just makes it easier than most.
Are you subscribed to the Secunia security mailing list? A good 1/3 - 1/2 of them are flaws in PHP applications with widespread installation bases. That says something about the language, whether it is the language itself or the prominent users of the language, but I suspect it is a combination of both.
Because it saves them market share, which is still valuable. If you're going to lose someone to Linux, you can at least keep them partially on your platform. This makes it easy, or sometimes desirable, to switch back to Windows (for integration into other Windows software, etc).
Furthermore, if you keep them on.NET, you may also keep them on SQL Server and Exchange, which are very very pricey and I'm sure turns a nice profit.
Visual Studio is also very nice to work in, and Visual Studio isn't cheap, either. As you use Mono you can reuse those same components on Windows, too (ideally).
So to defend against botnets, Trend Micro will make a massive spidering botnet capable of indexing and cataloging 100 million domains. If Morissette were available, I'd quiz her if this situation qualifies as ironic.
If you are using Firefox with Java and having ridiculous applet startup times, you need to disable your Java Cache. This is Java's fault, not Firefox's (supposedly).
Under the Java control applet, under the General tab, click "Settings..." under "Temporary Internet Files". Then click "View Applets...". It will take a moment to load (or in my case, 2-3 minutes). Then UNcheck "Enable Caching". Firefox now starts my applets almost instantly. This doesn't affect downloaded Java applications such as Azureus or Eclipse (both of which I use extensively).
Most of what I posted was based off of the very stupid BrightHouse Networks phone reps. The service may be grand, but their reps certainly talk out of their ass about it and generally have no clue whatsoever.
There are a few home-user grade routers out there that will do all of this just fine. I'm extremely impressed with the D-Link Gamer Lounge router, for instance. I didn't have to configure anything, but I can play WoW with 100 latency, be talking on Vonage, while running a.torrent at full speed and be saturating both my upload/download (for instance, OpenOffice, which was downloading at over 2MB/s on a residential line). There were no problems on the Vonage end, either. And instead of spending $175 for each NIC card in the house, I only had to spend $XX for the router.
I suspect there are a few other similar routers out there now, too. They aren't the cheap $30 D-Links, though. I upgraded from a terrible AT&T Wireless Router. Yech.
There's no reason for a.xxx TLD. If you are worried about your kids seeing porn, maybe you should examine your parenting, or why your children have unsupervised access to computers to begin with, or perhaps, you should learn to trust and let go. If you can't trust them, examine why.
Do not thrust your desire for someone else to do your baby sitting and force the creation of even more bureaucracy around the domain system, that, by definition, cannot work. Porn is on the Internet, you cannot regulate it away, no matter how hard you try.
It's everyone's fault. Users distrust software because there is a lot of untrustworthy software.
My users do the same. Before I verify a report is accurate, I make them go back and verify the data they entered is correct. Oftentimes, its user error, a missing field, or in my last case, a slight change in business practices, where a field used to be required, but now wasn't, which the report somewhat expected to be there. After they think they've verified the data, I'll go into the database and verify it by hand. Sometimes the report is wrong, but usually it's just displaying something different than what the user expects. 90% user error, 10% system error -- if you don't let anyone report problems, you'll never catch those 10%.
I try to give my users as many reports as possible and encourage them to pull multiple reports and cross-reference themselves. I don't hesitate to add reports, either, since they really take little time to adapt from other reports, even if it is just to help out that 55-year-old sales guy on the third floor that doesn't sell much but everyone likes because he's been there for 20 years. It gets me major kudos (and free lunches) from other staff who see a new report, run it, and realize that they could use it, too. "You're reading my mind, man! You just saved me 3 hours of work a week! How's about some lunch on me?!"
Brighthouse certainly doesn't compete on price OR features. I pay about $30.15 a month with Vonage for unlimited nationwide (and some other countries that I don't care about). Bright House, for Tampa, is $39.95 *plus* fees, which according to a BHN rep, are about $8/month on $40, or around $48/month. You can get "Florida-wide" coverage for $11 less, but you have to pay another $4 for simple voice mail. Bright house, according to reps, doesn't allow simultaneous rings, e-mailed voicemail messages. According to a friend, the BHN system doesn't play nice unless you use the BHN home router package (which is free, but crap, compared to regular consumer-grade routers).
Hardly something that I'd like to "upgrade" to. I hate giving Bright House what I already give them, let alone even more...
And, on the Florida-calling only plan, its 5/minute for outside of Florida.
Probably about as effective as the American Family Association's boycott of Disney. The only way they actually generate any publicity is changing their position every few months.
"Everyone look at us! We're boycotting Disney again!"... "Everyone look at us! We've stopped boycotting Disney!"
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I'm not sure I want porn from a site that spends an entire day out of the year devoted to pink ponies and the other 364 days devoted to things ranging from angry tube-talking politicians, sharp pieces of plastic and metal hardware, giant, horrible and ever-looming bugs, and operating systems with kinkier names than half the devices found in your local sex shop.
Then again, maybe I do...
Are you listening, CmdrTaco?
It also depends on how the power is used. If it's being used in the CPU, it's going to kick out a lot of heat, which can't be ignored, either, although can be hard to quantify. If your system is using less power, it's also probably kicking off less heat. If you're in Florida like me, you should pay attention to that, considering most Floridians air condition for 10-11 months out of the year.
Ditto. I wish there were cheats so you could see just how the hell they manage to do so well. It's crazy!
Ours runs usually about 600 or so before finally dying, but I also have a script that kills them and restarts them after about 50 conversions to help curb memory usage. We occasionally run documents through with large tables and large images, which seem to bog OOo down a bit, but overall the memory usage is surprisingly small. We run four simultaneous headless OOo and the scripts are smart enough to try a different instance if it isn't responding. I tried using the OOo Daemon but it didn't seem to play nicely.
And for more information, each web server runs its own OOo processes and the Django-based (Python) front end communicates directly with OOo over the PyUNO bindings.
As a slight rebuff to your comment that rendering was completely different. We run OOo in Windows in the office to create documents and insert placeholder text, then run them through an automatic python script that decompresses and alters the document (mail merge, basically, but slightly more complex), then automatically generates PDFs hundreds or thousands of times per day. The only difference between Windows and Linux (RHEL4) that I have really seen are sentences breaking at different words and fonts in general appearing slightly larger, but not horribly obvious unless you're an anal retentive perfectionist.
I've been extremely happy with the 2.1 version of OOo, and I can't wait to try out 2.2.
I do wish their revision log were better written, though...
Correct, it was simply an example. For some unexplicable reason, my profile originally had a value of over 60,000 (default, not user set). Far, far more than the default values. Setting it back to what the default should have been fixed most of my insane memory issues (2GB, Win32).
You can help curb it by adjusting "browser.cache.memory.capacity" in about:config. It's in KB, so a value of 30000 means 30,000KB or roughly 29MB.
View: about:cache to see your current cache/memory status (click the links for further details).
Also note that the setting doesn't entirely stop the "runaway RAM", but it can greatly curb it. If you only view a few pages a day and use your back/forward a lot, I don't recommend changing it. However, if you, for instance, do a lot of Google searches and visit hundreds of different sites a day, dropping that setting can greatly reduce your memory usage. If you are restricted to only a few sites, your RAM shouldn't go too high anyway.
Most of them aren't leaks. Although I think there have been a few leaks regarding plugins, but I'm too lazy to go look it up.
Except when the company goes out of business, or starts adjusting the value of the money themselves for capital gain, or is hacked, or is ruled illegal, etc. I don't trust governments to handle money very efficiently, I expect even less of corporations.
Almost no corporations are built to benefit the people, they are built to benefit the managers and owners.
Someone, at some point, will get greedy.
I think it's because the Slashdot crowd likes the idea more than the game itself. Not necessarily the advertising and sex chat (well, maybe...) aspects, but the idea that a user-generated world opens a new avenue of the expression of information.
I think the overall problem with Second Life is that the largely negative, undesired crowds got into it first, and that society in general isn't quite ready, nor are computers. As an example, I know that the furries exist, but on the regular Internet, I can avoid them easily just by never searching for them. In Second Life, though, you can't just avoid their island or whatever they have. They are, well, everywhere. Same with everyone else--flying penises included. Don't want to see X-rate content? Too bad. The community has far too big of an ego, too.
Well, that an Linden seems to only want to make a buck, and they'll sell whatever they can to do it. Maybe sometime in the future.
A robot that cleans and delivers porn? Since when are we trying to replace the other sex with a robot?
It won't make up all the lost value, no. However, your site traffic can be a powerful bargaining chip, particularly in local markets, e.g., local television o local newspapers. While your paper may be selling the same 300,000 impressions for about the same cost as local competitors, you can use your higher server traffic as a "wow" factor. As in, "Wow, you guys get how many millions of hits a month? That's three times as many as the other paper...".
Which makes them a perfect advertiser in my books. They are easy to block. Their ad spaces on client websites generally collapse very neatly, too.
That said, I wonder what Microsoft could bring to DoubleClick. I'd hate to see Microsoft add various "stealth" techniques that other advertisers use, e.g., frequently rotating hostnames, formats, etc.
If customers are going to block your ads, at least make it easy. They're going to do it either way. The easier you make it, the more those people will remain on those websites, which at least brings you minimal value as an advertiser. When I worked in media, we typically gave clients two different sets of stats for this exact purpose. You don't disclose your traffic count based on your advertising banners/etc, instead you tell them your server stats traffic, which is always higher. Of course, you're selling impressions/clicks/referrals, so the advertiser doesn't actually care if the site users are blocking their ad as long as they get what they paid for. The website, of course, may or may not care, depending on who they are.
Democracy? But they allow the descendants of ex-criminals to vote! That isn't democracy!
Anyone can make a language or framework insecure. PHP just makes it easier than most.
Are you subscribed to the Secunia security mailing list? A good 1/3 - 1/2 of them are flaws in PHP applications with widespread installation bases. That says something about the language, whether it is the language itself or the prominent users of the language, but I suspect it is a combination of both.
Because it saves them market share, which is still valuable. If you're going to lose someone to Linux, you can at least keep them partially on your platform. This makes it easy, or sometimes desirable, to switch back to Windows (for integration into other Windows software, etc).
.NET, you may also keep them on SQL Server and Exchange, which are very very pricey and I'm sure turns a nice profit.
Furthermore, if you keep them on
Visual Studio is also very nice to work in, and Visual Studio isn't cheap, either. As you use Mono you can reuse those same components on Windows, too (ideally).
So to defend against botnets, Trend Micro will make a massive spidering botnet capable of indexing and cataloging 100 million domains. If Morissette were available, I'd quiz her if this situation qualifies as ironic.
So help me if they don't honor robots.txt.
If you are using Firefox with Java and having ridiculous applet startup times, you need to disable your Java Cache. This is Java's fault, not Firefox's (supposedly).
Under the Java control applet, under the General tab, click "Settings..." under "Temporary Internet Files". Then click "View Applets...". It will take a moment to load (or in my case, 2-3 minutes). Then UNcheck "Enable Caching". Firefox now starts my applets almost instantly. This doesn't affect downloaded Java applications such as Azureus or Eclipse (both of which I use extensively).
Hope this helps.
Most of what I posted was based off of the very stupid BrightHouse Networks phone reps. The service may be grand, but their reps certainly talk out of their ass about it and generally have no clue whatsoever.
There are a few home-user grade routers out there that will do all of this just fine. I'm extremely impressed with the D-Link Gamer Lounge router, for instance. I didn't have to configure anything, but I can play WoW with 100 latency, be talking on Vonage, while running a .torrent at full speed and be saturating both my upload/download (for instance, OpenOffice, which was downloading at over 2MB/s on a residential line). There were no problems on the Vonage end, either. And instead of spending $175 for each NIC card in the house, I only had to spend $XX for the router.
I suspect there are a few other similar routers out there now, too. They aren't the cheap $30 D-Links, though. I upgraded from a terrible AT&T Wireless Router. Yech.
There's no reason for a .xxx TLD. If you are worried about your kids seeing porn, maybe you should examine your parenting, or why your children have unsupervised access to computers to begin with, or perhaps, you should learn to trust and let go. If you can't trust them, examine why.
Do not thrust your desire for someone else to do your baby sitting and force the creation of even more bureaucracy around the domain system, that, by definition, cannot work. Porn is on the Internet, you cannot regulate it away, no matter how hard you try.
It's everyone's fault. Users distrust software because there is a lot of untrustworthy software.
My users do the same. Before I verify a report is accurate, I make them go back and verify the data they entered is correct. Oftentimes, its user error, a missing field, or in my last case, a slight change in business practices, where a field used to be required, but now wasn't, which the report somewhat expected to be there. After they think they've verified the data, I'll go into the database and verify it by hand. Sometimes the report is wrong, but usually it's just displaying something different than what the user expects. 90% user error, 10% system error -- if you don't let anyone report problems, you'll never catch those 10%.
I try to give my users as many reports as possible and encourage them to pull multiple reports and cross-reference themselves. I don't hesitate to add reports, either, since they really take little time to adapt from other reports, even if it is just to help out that 55-year-old sales guy on the third floor that doesn't sell much but everyone likes because he's been there for 20 years. It gets me major kudos (and free lunches) from other staff who see a new report, run it, and realize that they could use it, too. "You're reading my mind, man! You just saved me 3 hours of work a week! How's about some lunch on me?!"
In other words: it's your job, now STFU & GBTW.
Brighthouse certainly doesn't compete on price OR features. I pay about $30.15 a month with Vonage for unlimited nationwide (and some other countries that I don't care about). Bright House, for Tampa, is $39.95 *plus* fees, which according to a BHN rep, are about $8/month on $40, or around $48/month. You can get "Florida-wide" coverage for $11 less, but you have to pay another $4 for simple voice mail. Bright house, according to reps, doesn't allow simultaneous rings, e-mailed voicemail messages. According to a friend, the BHN system doesn't play nice unless you use the BHN home router package (which is free, but crap, compared to regular consumer-grade routers).
Hardly something that I'd like to "upgrade" to. I hate giving Bright House what I already give them, let alone even more...
And, on the Florida-calling only plan, its 5/minute for outside of Florida.
Probably about as effective as the American Family Association's boycott of Disney. The only way they actually generate any publicity is changing their position every few months.
... "Everyone look at us! We've stopped boycotting Disney!"
"Everyone look at us! We're boycotting Disney again!"