I don't think I get what you are saying. On Linux that will clear all the pesky dot-files and -dirs (not including..) just as you would want. On what OSes does this kill you, and in what way?
Rsync IS efficient with the bare transfer the data. I suspect his problem is with the time rsync can take to find all of the changed files in a large set of directories and files. I mitigate this somewhat by rsyncing sets of subdirectories.
And don't forget the massive memory usage of rsync either. I've seen it at over 1GB when syncing large trees of files.
In general, the prices of car models don't drop much. The 'economies of scale' that works in consumer electronics is pretty much a non-starter in the automotive industry.
Yeah, that's why the Miata and the Lotus Elise are so close in price.
You depended on a free service that had limitations for a critical function of your web and email. I am not sure why you decided to use the DynamicDNS service instead of CustomDNS unless you did not want to pay for your own domain. I can understand not wanting to spend any money but you got exactly what the service offers. DynamicDNS has always had the 30 day rule. That is what the word dynamic means. An update client could have been used; the IP address does not have to change but the record needs to be refreshed. You needed to upgrade to the premium level in order to remove the auto expire, and the upgrade was a onetime fee many years ago. Did you not read the account details before signing up?
The old ml.org asked for donations, which did not work out too well. The premium level is how DynDNS was going to make some cash in the begining because it actually costs money to host servers.
I understand what you are saying, but it doesn't change the problem in any way. If they suspend an account like this and say "you won't have to deal with suspensions if you help us out a little", that is one thing. When they just delete it completely, as if it never existed and then say "tough, you were relying on our goodness and we ain't that good mister", then I say I'll never give you money.:)
Actually I have had two accounts 'vanished' by DynDNS now and would never use them again, including one that has been with them for about 8 years first using their dyndns service and more lately (over the last few years) using their staticdns service. Both appear to have been clobbered by their 'stuff must get updated at least every 30 days' policy [1]. Which of course makes utterly no sense for a staticdns service. The staticdns account was for a domain with a PR of about 5 (it was on the air and highly linked-to for over seven years...), so I was understandably upset to see it suddenly vanish off the air one day with no warning whatsoever.
Totally unimpressed, I would never, ever touch them for things I cared about again.
This is absolutely true... and they don't just suspend it with a warning, they just flat out and immediately delete. Giving everyone your IP address would be less painful than dealing with those people.
Looks fake to me. The screenshots on the article's websites show the cars on the exactly same positions, so it's obviously the same square, photoshopped.
That makes me angry. They go through all the trouble of handing out yellow capes to hundreds of people. They tell them where to stand, and they probably have to wait there for quite a time while the satellite passes over. They have to block traffic, and business, etc. Then some humourless drone down at Google goes and photoshops all that work away. It was probably done by the same sourpuss person who got rid of the "Swim across the Atlantic" instruction you used to get when asking for directions from New York to London, England.
I think you have missed the point. Google is not the one doing the photoshopping here, the people claming to have done this are.
Out of all the top 10 pages of supposed "tech forums" listed on Google where this issue had been encountered, the responses are overrun with cockroaches with nothing more constructive to say than "use Firefox". [...] Lets hope this sit might finally do away with the egotism and spam that the fanbois pollute everything with, and we might just find an anwser to the question we were asking (but somehow I doubt it).
I've been using the site for a few weeks now, and I can confirm your doubts. Its a fairly nice site with some usefulness, but unfortunately the reputation system can actually get in the way on some of the hard questions (such as the ones that you mention). If you ask something really hard that almost noone there is likely to know, you tend to get the following:
1. People ignore it for a few hours 2. Others realize that noone is likely to give a valid answer, so hoping for rep, they type something that might sound good to the average schmuck. Eg, "use firebug to figure out whats wrong with your code". It gets one or two up votes and one or two down votes, netting them a gain in rep.
There are lots of great answers for how to write a singleton in Java, though! sigh
Raw IO power, in our case. With the number of transactions we process per day (financial services - clearing, trade matching, reconciliation, etc) nothing beats the System-i in terms of raw IO in getting the data in, massaging it and spitting it out...and far easier to manage than a server farm, at least for our use. The same vendor that provides our software also provides a JAVA version, but it's not going to handle the 2 billion+ transactions we do in a quarter.
That's about 250 txns/sec. There are Java apps that do that (admittedly on very big hardware... probably including mainframes).
It it a lot easier to demonstrate a need for software such as flash (make things look really pretty) than it would be demonstrate a need for a piece of software that would result very little change for the user.
A more accurate wording of that (which no longer makes sense) would be:
It it a lot easier to demonstrate a need for software such as flash (make things look really pretty) than it would be demonstrate a need for an HTML canvas (make things look really pretty) that would result very little change for the user.
While canvas isn't as powerful as flash atm, plans are to make it pretty close. Of course, getting any plugin by just for "making things pretty" isn't always easy either.:)
It isn't. The point is that adding more 9s to your uptime tends to be very expensive, and most companies are completely unwilling to shell out the money for adequate hardware and administrative resources to achieve 99.999% uptime for their mail server. For those people, the few outages at Google are far lower than the outages that they would have running it on their own.
Nevertheless, for various reasons, I suspect that ultimately the market will demand 99.999% reliability out of Google for paid hosting services. I also expect they will be able to deliver it.
Or you just don't run them on an OS that isn't designed for that. Man! I love car analogies tonight. I can take my wife's (really, she won't let me replace it) 1988 Honda Accord off the road and go into the woods of Maine with it. Or, instead, I can take my SUV out and actually enjoy myself and do so safely. (Sorry but, well, it seemed fitting.) The idea is that you don't use a server or workstation platform as a general home OS. Err, I do tend to like Microsoft products but I'm afraid your alternative is Ubuntu or sticking with XP if you can't stomach Vista. Those rules? As a retired (sort of) admin? I likes 'em. Not allowing people to install random stuff they found online and "needed?" I like that too.
A better analogy would be hummer vs. humvee. Which would you rather take into the woods? The humvee may not be as refined (pretty) for your everyday desktop (or woods excursion), but depending on the type of workload you are throwing at it, it may be the best tool for the job. And he's right... Win2003 is a better desktop than XP.
To be able to create a function that could only be called from a certian other function.
This is a good place to use a privately declared function (closure) in javascript. Actually, Javascript makes dealing with circumstances like this really easy. Unfortunately, it doesn't handle your scoping issue as variables declared within a function in javascript are scoped through the whole block (accessible before and after "declaration") and in most cases cannot be deleted (there is a delete function, but it only works for implicit global variables, which are pure evil anyway).
I believe that Python has both of the features that you seek, though.
"This is actually 83,843,501 votes AGAINST the current MSFT offer."
Uhm, no. it's 1 vote. 1 vote which happens to have a 6% share of the total, or 83,843,501 shares. That doesn't make it 83,843,501 votes.
As much fun as movies make it to say that somebody has 1 million reasons (dollars) to kill somebody, you shouldn't apply that to general life. If nothing else, the U.S. electoral college should have taught you that.
This is the weirdest argument that I have seen on the internet in a while, and that's a difficult feat to accomplish.
Nevertheless, I shall jump in and point out that each share gets a vote. Thus it is more like 83,843,501 votes.
No, Sharepoint is marketing brand name, notable for being refreshingly brief.
The technologies, on the other hand, are actually ASP.NET applications, which are served using IIS and use a SQL Server database as data storage backend.
Thank you for pointing this out. On a related note, Firefox and OpenOffice are not products either! They are merely marking names, notable for being refreshingly brief.
The technologies, on the other hand, are actually c++ applications, which are able to run on a variety of platforms.;)
1. They quit talking about accepting advertising every other week. I'm not a huge fan of donating to an organization which keeps saying they are going to make my donation unnecessary and silly.
2. They quit deleting articles because they aren't encyclopedic enough. The value that wikipedia provides is largely based on being able to provide a lot of information on things that don't have enough "encyclopedic value" for a traditional encyclopedia. This isn't just true for the obscure sci-fi stuff. Even detailed articles on math contain far more information than would ever make it's way into the "Brittanica's" of the world.
3. Better Reporting of fund drives - Please just use a simple bar at the top of each page with your goal and time remaining. It works.
You think you're joking, but you haven't lived until you've helped someone deploy their Java-on-AS/400-based webserver (itself a front-end to their RPG-based database).
(And no, AS/400 is not the name of an obscure Linux distro, and RPG does not mean "role playing game" or even "rocket propelled grenade"--it's much worse than that...):-(
You say all of this as if it is difficult. Java on the iSeries is a great platform (ok, the pricing is not:)).
Seriously, its impressive how easy it is to get cross-platform java code running on the 400.
Somewhat a flawed argument, since now that ndiswrapper exists there is no incentive to write a linux driver. I would have preferred ndiswrapper didn't exist, allowing linux developers to push for open drivers and specificiations.
Somewhat [of] a flawed, since now that native broadcom drivers exist, there is no longer and incentive to keep using an ndiswrapper driver.
(seriously... ndiswrapper is great for folks who need it, and it has demonstrably _NOT_ stopped native drivers from appearing)
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Absolutely untrue, and this is straight from Dell.
That's a fine thing to say, but where are the AMD machines on dell's website? If they haven't gone away completely, they've certainly dropped in prominence.
Will they be back? Maybe one day.
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Of course, not all applications depend on number crunching. If you have a network router or database server, for instance you will not need number crunching. But for *desktop* systems, audio, still images, and video processing are most likely to be the applications that will strangle your CPU. Intel made the right choice, IMHO, to focus on that, instead of on a more efficient instruction pipeline like AMD did.
Thank you Mr. Intel Information Minister for letting us know that the P4 w/ Netburst was really the right architecture after all, and that those Core 2 Duo chips that run at slower clocks than the P4 while getting dramatically better performance are really lying about their true clockspeeds in order to keep up with AMDs blimey marketting. Clearly Netburst was the superior architecture and clock-rates are all that matters.
Or not.
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Dell is finally selling PC's with AMD processors right along the Intel offerings.
Not really... trying finding an AMD desktop at Dell's site right now, and you'll have a very hard time. As far as I can tell, that is going away quickly.
Hurr hurr. The Microsoft implementation of Java wasn't buggy: far from it, it was actually superior to the Sun implementation. It was faster and integrated better with Windows.
Among other issues, borderlayoutmanager did not behave properly in MS's implementation. It was buggy in incompatible ways, but your right, that in and of itself wasn't the big problem. The big problem was their insistence on both not fixing the bugs, and not going along with major initiatives (such as JFC/Swing).
But back in the day, the Microsoft J++ development environment was far superior to anything Sun had to offer. We're talking a good 10 years ago. Sun has finally managed to catch up in the past two or three years, but still, Sun's problem wasn't that the Microsoft implementation was worse: their problem was that it was better.
If by "2 or 3 years" you mean about 5 years, then I'd agree. Java development tools didn't really reach maturity until things like Eclipse came onto the scene about 5 years ago.
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I don't think I get what you are saying. On Linux that will clear all the pesky dot-files and -dirs (not including ..) just as you would want. On what OSes does this kill you, and in what way?
And don't forget the massive memory usage of rsync either. I've seen it at over 1GB when syncing large trees of files.
Yeah, that's why the Miata and the Lotus Elise are so close in price.
You depended on a free service that had limitations for a critical function of your web and email. I am not sure why you decided to use the DynamicDNS service instead of CustomDNS unless you did not want to pay for your own domain. I can understand not wanting to spend any money but you got exactly what the service offers. DynamicDNS has always had the 30 day rule. That is what the word dynamic means. An update client could have been used; the IP address does not have to change but the record needs to be refreshed. You needed to upgrade to the premium level in order to remove the auto expire, and the upgrade was a onetime fee many years ago. Did you not read the account details before signing up?
The old ml.org asked for donations, which did not work out too well. The premium level is how DynDNS was going to make some cash in the begining because it actually costs money to host servers.
I understand what you are saying, but it doesn't change the problem in any way. If they suspend an account like this and say "you won't have to deal with suspensions if you help us out a little", that is one thing. When they just delete it completely, as if it never existed and then say "tough, you were relying on our goodness and we ain't that good mister", then I say I'll never give you money. :)
Actually I have had two accounts 'vanished' by DynDNS now and would never use them again, including one that has been with them for about 8 years first using their dyndns service and more lately (over the last few years) using their staticdns service. Both appear to have been clobbered by their 'stuff must get updated at least every 30 days' policy [1]. Which of course makes utterly no sense for a staticdns service. The staticdns account was for a domain with a PR of about 5 (it was on the air and highly linked-to for over seven years...), so I was understandably upset to see it suddenly vanish off the air one day with no warning whatsoever.
Totally unimpressed, I would never, ever touch them for things I cared about again.
[1] Read the first couple of sentences of the second paragraph on this page:
https://www.dyndns.com/account/resetpass/index.html
This is absolutely true... and they don't just suspend it with a warning, they just flat out and immediately delete. Giving everyone your IP address would be less painful than dealing with those people.
Looks fake to me. The screenshots on the article's websites show the cars on the exactly same positions, so it's obviously the same square, photoshopped.
That makes me angry. They go through all the trouble of handing out yellow capes to hundreds of people. They tell them where to stand, and they probably have to wait there for quite a time while the satellite passes over. They have to block traffic, and business, etc. Then some humourless drone down at Google goes and photoshops all that work away. It was probably done by the same sourpuss person who got rid of the "Swim across the Atlantic" instruction you used to get when asking for directions from New York to London, England.
I think you have missed the point. Google is not the one doing the photoshopping here, the people claming to have done this are.
This is the first time in quite a few years that I've heard someone mention the (defunct) Amazon Auctions service as if it were active.
I've been using the site for a few weeks now, and I can confirm your doubts. Its a fairly nice site with some usefulness, but unfortunately the reputation system can actually get in the way on some of the hard questions (such as the ones that you mention). If you ask something really hard that almost noone there is likely to know, you tend to get the following:
1. People ignore it for a few hours
2. Others realize that noone is likely to give a valid answer, so hoping for rep, they type something that might sound good to the average schmuck. Eg, "use firebug to figure out whats wrong with your code". It gets one or two up votes and one or two down votes, netting them a gain in rep.
There are lots of great answers for how to write a singleton in Java, though! sigh
Except in really new versions of windows where /console is silently ignored, and therefore you must use /admin. :)
That's about 250 txns/sec. There are Java apps that do that (admittedly on very big hardware... probably including mainframes).
I was with you until this:
A more accurate wording of that (which no longer makes sense) would be:
While canvas isn't as powerful as flash atm, plans are to make it pretty close. Of course, getting any plugin by just for "making things pretty" isn't always easy either. :)
It isn't. The point is that adding more 9s to your uptime tends to be very expensive, and most companies are completely unwilling to shell out the money for adequate hardware and administrative resources to achieve 99.999% uptime for their mail server. For those people, the few outages at Google are far lower than the outages that they would have running it on their own.
Nevertheless, for various reasons, I suspect that ultimately the market will demand 99.999% reliability out of Google for paid hosting services. I also expect they will be able to deliver it.
A bit more than 5 years ago, and not for long.
Or you just don't run them on an OS that isn't designed for that. Man! I love car analogies tonight. I can take my wife's (really, she won't let me replace it) 1988 Honda Accord off the road and go into the woods of Maine with it. Or, instead, I can take my SUV out and actually enjoy myself and do so safely. (Sorry but, well, it seemed fitting.) The idea is that you don't use a server or workstation platform as a general home OS. Err, I do tend to like Microsoft products but I'm afraid your alternative is Ubuntu or sticking with XP if you can't stomach Vista. Those rules? As a retired (sort of) admin? I likes 'em. Not allowing people to install random stuff they found online and "needed?" I like that too.
A better analogy would be hummer vs. humvee. Which would you rather take into the woods? The humvee may not be as refined (pretty) for your everyday desktop (or woods excursion), but depending on the type of workload you are throwing at it, it may be the best tool for the job. And he's right... Win2003 is a better desktop than XP.
The the last time you checked was a really long time ago.
This is a good place to use a privately declared function (closure) in javascript. Actually, Javascript makes dealing with circumstances like this really easy. Unfortunately, it doesn't handle your scoping issue as variables declared within a function in javascript are scoped through the whole block (accessible before and after "declaration") and in most cases cannot be deleted (there is a delete function, but it only works for implicit global variables, which are pure evil anyway).
I believe that Python has both of the features that you seek, though.
This is the weirdest argument that I have seen on the internet in a while, and that's a difficult feat to accomplish.
Nevertheless, I shall jump in and point out that each share gets a vote. Thus it is more like 83,843,501 votes.
Thank you for pointing this out. On a related note, Firefox and OpenOffice are not products either! They are merely marking names, notable for being refreshingly brief.
The technologies, on the other hand, are actually c++ applications, which are able to run on a variety of platforms.
1. They quit talking about accepting advertising every other week. I'm not a huge fan of donating to an organization which keeps saying they are going to make my donation unnecessary and silly.
2. They quit deleting articles because they aren't encyclopedic enough. The value that wikipedia provides is largely based on being able to provide a lot of information on things that don't have enough "encyclopedic value" for a traditional encyclopedia. This isn't just true for the obscure sci-fi stuff. Even detailed articles on math contain far more information than would ever make it's way into the "Brittanica's" of the world.
3. Better Reporting of fund drives - Please just use a simple bar at the top of each page with your goal and time remaining. It works.
You say all of this as if it is difficult. Java on the iSeries is a great platform (ok, the pricing is not:)).
Seriously, its impressive how easy it is to get cross-platform java code running on the 400.
Somewhat [of] a flawed, since now that native broadcom drivers exist, there is no longer and incentive to keep using an ndiswrapper driver.
(seriously... ndiswrapper is great for folks who need it, and it has demonstrably _NOT_ stopped native drivers from appearing)
That's a fine thing to say, but where are the AMD machines on dell's website? If they haven't gone away completely, they've certainly dropped in prominence.
Will they be back? Maybe one day.
Thank you Mr. Intel Information Minister for letting us know that the P4 w/ Netburst was really the right architecture after all, and that those Core 2 Duo chips that run at slower clocks than the P4 while getting dramatically better performance are really lying about their true clockspeeds in order to keep up with AMDs blimey marketting. Clearly Netburst was the superior architecture and clock-rates are all that matters.
Or not.
Not really... trying finding an AMD desktop at Dell's site right now, and you'll have a very hard time. As far as I can tell, that is going away quickly.
Among other issues, borderlayoutmanager did not behave properly in MS's implementation. It was buggy in incompatible ways, but your right, that in and of itself wasn't the big problem. The big problem was their insistence on both not fixing the bugs, and not going along with major initiatives (such as JFC/Swing).
If by "2 or 3 years" you mean about 5 years, then I'd agree. Java development tools didn't really reach maturity until things like Eclipse came onto the scene about 5 years ago.