Specific details are about 600 visitors a day, 4000 hits on the aforementioned server and about 40,000 on the photo server which is hosted over at Hurricane Electric. The Penguin server is a really nice system, extremely fast with the dual 600Mhz PIIIs and all that memory combined with a snazzy SCSI HD. Compared to the old 233Mhz server I used to use there is a huge difference. Even after a bit of slashdot traffic there isn't any degradation on the new server, and if there was it's because of the limited bandwidth more than processing. Ohh yes, the new server is also hosting about 6 other sites so we'll peg the total hits a day at about 7000, but keep in mind every one of these hits is generating a dynamic (ASP based) page...
Computer Geek: The Slashdot Effect is the sudden, relatively temporary surge in traffic to a Web site that occurs when a high-traffic Web site or other source posts a story that refers visitors to another Web site.
Yoda: Pales it does to the Dark Side
Yoda: Fear is the path of the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Computer Geek: But the slashdot effect is cool!
Yoda: Zapht! [Yoda cuts Computer Geek in half with light saber.] Weak in the force was that one.
When you stumble out of a club with your "crew" it is quite fun calling a cab company and trying to remember where it is your going so you can tell them... Then as you wait for your cab to get there, you can hang out and take pictures and such. When the cab does make it there you can wave your hands, jump in that puppy and have even more fun, maybe you'll even find out your cab drivers name is Fuzzy. Once you make it back to the hotel you can watch an amazing animal planet where crocidiles and cheetahs battle each other. Anyway, that's how it worked this weekend in Champaign IL after the Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival (13 conversations and Sometimes Charlotte were awesome!) You just have to check out the Highdive dance club, that's where we were getting a cab from after they closed for the night (checkout the 3d virtual tours to get an idea how pimporific the place is.) What I'm trying to say is that drunken tasks are sometime hillarious, and technology might make it too easy:-)
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Higher-res is desireable, even for porn. Suze.net is an approriate example, they keep bumping their film-scan resolutions up due to customer demands. Granted Suze Randall is an awesome photographer and makes her models look great, but I've never been disappointed with too much resolution for any purpose.
My family lives way out in the woods (no phone, solar for electricity.) For the past couple years we've had Starband. It is really solid and can get 300kps+ download speeds, uploads won't come close to what you're wanting, probably 20kps max. However, they offer a more expensive (monthly fee) for businesses that need more badnwidth (probably 400kps downloads 100kps uploads), I think instead of the $79 we pay it is about $149 for the higher speed and they may call this "Plus" service. You also get a dedicated IP address... Definitley worth checking out, good luck to you!
Huh, that's really weird. Hopefully this was just a single screwed up Burger King, a lot of them seem pretty flexible (I haven't tried what you said though.)
Taco Bell is really good about being flexible, you can get their grilled stuft burrito minus meat and it is super tasty.
I have a Inno3D GeForce 2MX and last year the fan on it started making a weird noise. The first time I started the computer each mornign the fan would groan. If I rebooted the noise would quit. Then it started taking two or three reboots. Eventually the fan gave out so I rigged up a radio shack fan, now the same thing is happening. Anybody have any ideas what is up with my fan?
You're right. I misread the article, assuming the dummy phones had electronic advertising, versus a simple label.
Good call, I stand corrected:-)
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Let's see, WAP "281-bc2" is northbound while WAP "192-kee" is southbound... With some pretty advanced signal strength metering combined with directions (electronic interfaces to compasses are cheap, some cars already have them) might negate the need for GPS.
Boy wouldn't that be something, to take the light from and convert it into something else?!
Boy too bad instead of moving small springs we can't convert light into something immediately useful like electricity.
Written in Colorado at 10,500ft elevation in a home powered by solar electricity (8 of our panels are older than me and have lost less than 25% or so of their original capacity during the last 20 years.) Transmitted via two way Starband satellite internet.
"Other components of the promotional campaign are more commonly used buzz initiatives. One involves "Phone Finds," in which the company will place dummy phones around cities so that consumers can accidentally stumble on them. The screen on the phone will direct the finders to a special Web site, where they will be able to enter a contest to win a free phone. The new phone with camera attachment, priced between $300 and $400, will hit stores next week." I can see these phone ending up a pawn shops or wherever, it seems like Sony could just scatter real phones instead of spending the moolah to build fakes ones. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, I'd rather have folks "find" a free phone and sign up for a service plan (and don't you think everyone would tell their friends about the new phone they found) rather than putting out dummy phones that only advertise.
That is a great application (thanks for the URL) I may have to add something similar to my blog but I am really surprised by the lack of activity on this post. There seem to be many possible uses for this API and hopefully others will follow Google and Amazon's lead.
The post below about eBay is particularly interesting, any other sites out there that you would like to see with a publicly accessible API? Pricewatch might be my vote.
(If blogs aren't your style, maybe swimsuits are?)
Last year at Drury U in Springfield MO I had a Palm Vx ($199) with a Minstrel CDPD modem (off eBay for $40.) With that you have a dedicated IP anywhere in town and actually in the downstairs below the Commons (cafeteria.) We used to post log entries from the Palm during live band performances downstairs, anyhoo, we also had a web server on the Palm and it was pretty pimp.
According to their FAQ you can just burn the image to CD and it's bootable (like the floppy version was.) Handy for newer systems with no floppy, or for a bit more reliability.
We have one of the Mimio's in our class and I'm not too impressed by it.
It's fine for just advancing a slide in a presentation, but for clicking it's kinda cumbersome. Best analogy I can think of is the touchpads on laptop, the tap and wait or double tap is too slwo for my tastes.
What does work well for us is a nice LCD display for the presenter to use in conjuction with the projected image and a wireless mouse.
Finally, we had to get new marker boards which were very expensive (the regular dry erase boards glare pretty badly.) The new one's do the trick with little glare but they were at least a couple grand.
Here's hoping soon I won't have to leave my dorm and go to those darn classrooms, today is the start of spring break for us anyway though:-)
I'm in college in MO (3rd year there) and work for a local Catholic School maintaining their computers. There are lot's of computer problems to deal with, but I really look forward to going to work because of the people.
People really make or break a job (and life), in my little pursuit of happiness my family, girlfriend, friends and co-workers all make life a joy. Without them things wouldn't be nearly so bright. Working with good people can turn a bad job into a fun experience, and not-so-good people can turn a great job into something you dread.
The next time your bummed at work, be thankful and please appreciate the good folks and try to help the other folks see the bright side of things. I have to say the absolute best part of my job is helping kids, they are so amazing! I was showing a class the inside of a PC and answering their questions, before long we were talking about supercomputers and Deep Blue. Next I had a sweet little kid ask me, "are there brother-boards in computers?" after I had told them about the motherboard. I am astounded by people and the potential we all have.
We are all very fortunate to be alive in this amazing world, let's try to appreciate it and do our best to keep it wonderful for our future generations.
Man after a whole afternoon of screwing with a WAP11 and a BEFW11s4 (router with 802.11b and 4 port switch) trying to get the WAP to connect in client mode to a BEFW11S4 I never could get it and I don't know when linksys is gonna fix it.
Thankfully Slashdot came to the resuce with something fun for me to try, anybody out there had any luck making a BEFW11S4 more capable? They kinda suck compared to a WAP11 since the WAP11 can be an AP, Client, or Bridge. I've read about using TFTP to download WAP11 firmware onto a BEFW11S4 but I'm a little hesitant... Any advice?
Slashdot Mirror
If you look at the live HTTP headers, you'll see where the requests go to:u e&qu=slashdot
:-)
http://www.google.com/complete/search?hl=en&js=tr
You can easily parse the return results...
To illustrate:
http://www.jdhodges.com/tools/suggest/
It gives you the suggestions even if your browser doesn't have JacaScript
Enjoy, and please post here if you make any cool suggestion tools!
Specific details are about 600 visitors a day, 4000 hits on the aforementioned server and about 40,000 on the photo server which is hosted over at Hurricane Electric. The Penguin server is a really nice system, extremely fast with the dual 600Mhz PIIIs and all that memory combined with a snazzy SCSI HD. Compared to the old 233Mhz server I used to use there is a huge difference. Even after a bit of slashdot traffic there isn't any degradation on the new server, and if there was it's because of the limited bandwidth more than processing. Ohh yes, the new server is also hosting about 6 other sites so we'll peg the total hits a day at about 7000, but keep in mind every one of these hits is generating a dynamic (ASP based) page...
I just got this puppy w/1GB ECC memory and it is doing a fine job even with the high demand for college party pics you owe it to yuorself to checkout the elevated horizontal body shot and the wet-fun-fountain photos :-)
Offtopic -2, Lovely Ladies +5
Computer Geek: The Slashdot Effect is the sudden, relatively temporary surge in traffic to a Web site that occurs when a high-traffic Web site or other source posts a story that refers visitors to another Web site.
Yoda: Pales it does to the Dark Side
Yoda: Fear is the path of the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Computer Geek: But the slashdot effect is cool!
Yoda: Zapht! [Yoda cuts Computer Geek in half with light saber.] Weak in the force was that one.
Sig: Hot girls and girls with alcohol on my homepage.
When you stumble out of a club with your "crew" it is quite fun calling a cab company and trying to remember where it is your going so you can tell them... Then as you wait for your cab to get there, you can hang out and take pictures and such. When the cab does make it there you can wave your hands, jump in that puppy and have even more fun, maybe you'll even find out your cab drivers name is Fuzzy. Once you make it back to the hotel you can watch an amazing animal planet where crocidiles and cheetahs battle each other. :-)
Anyway, that's how it worked this weekend in Champaign IL after the Roger Ebert Overlooked Film Festival (13 conversations and Sometimes Charlotte were awesome!) You just have to check out the Highdive dance club, that's where we were getting a cab from after they closed for the night (checkout the 3d virtual tours to get an idea how pimporific the place is.)
What I'm trying to say is that drunken tasks are sometime hillarious, and technology might make it too easy
Higher-res is desireable, even for porn. Suze.net is an approriate example, they keep bumping their film-scan resolutions up due to customer demands. Granted Suze Randall is an awesome photographer and makes her models look great, but I've never been disappointed with too much resolution for any purpose.
Is SimFarm close enough?
My family lives way out in the woods (no phone, solar for electricity.) For the past couple years we've had Starband. It is really solid and can get 300kps+ download speeds, uploads won't come close to what you're wanting, probably 20kps max. However, they offer a more expensive (monthly fee) for businesses that need more badnwidth (probably 400kps downloads 100kps uploads), I think instead of the $79 we pay it is about $149 for the higher speed and they may call this "Plus" service. You also get a dedicated IP address... Definitley worth checking out, good luck to you!
Huh, that's really weird. Hopefully this was just a single screwed up Burger King, a lot of them seem pretty flexible (I haven't tried what you said though.)
Taco Bell is really good about being flexible, you can get their grilled stuft burrito minus meat and it is super tasty.
Since Burger King already has BK Veggies, they seem more likely to be the first space "soy" based fast-food franchise ;-)
P.S. Does anybody remember Space Quest, Roger Wilco and the integalactic fast food place?
I have a Inno3D GeForce 2MX and last year the fan on it started making a weird noise. The first time I started the computer each mornign the fan would groan. If I rebooted the noise would quit. Then it started taking two or three reboots.
Eventually the fan gave out so I rigged up a radio shack fan, now the same thing is happening. Anybody have any ideas what is up with my fan?
You're right. I misread the article, assuming the dummy phones had electronic advertising, versus a simple label.
:-)
Good call, I stand corrected
Let's see, WAP "281-bc2" is northbound while WAP "192-kee" is southbound... With some pretty advanced signal strength metering combined with directions (electronic interfaces to compasses are cheap, some cars already have them) might negate the need for GPS.
Boy wouldn't that be something, to take the light from and convert it into something else?!
Boy too bad instead of moving small springs we can't convert light into something immediately useful like electricity.
Written in Colorado at 10,500ft elevation in a home powered by solar electricity (8 of our panels are older than me and have lost less than 25% or so of their original capacity during the last 20 years.) Transmitted via two way Starband satellite internet.
"Other components of the promotional campaign are more commonly used buzz initiatives. One involves "Phone Finds," in which the company will place dummy phones around cities so that consumers can accidentally stumble on them. The screen on the phone will direct the finders to a special Web site, where they will be able to enter a contest to win a free phone. The new phone with camera attachment, priced between $300 and $400, will hit stores next week." I can see these phone ending up a pawn shops or wherever, it seems like Sony could just scatter real phones instead of spending the moolah to build fakes ones. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, I'd rather have folks "find" a free phone and sign up for a service plan (and don't you think everyone would tell their friends about the new phone they found) rather than putting out dummy phones that only advertise.
That is a great application (thanks for the URL) I may have to add something similar to my blog but I am really surprised by the lack of activity on this post. There seem to be many possible uses for this API and hopefully others will follow Google and Amazon's lead. The post below about eBay is particularly interesting, any other sites out there that you would like to see with a publicly accessible API? Pricewatch might be my vote. (If blogs aren't your style, maybe swimsuits are?)
Last year at Drury U in Springfield MO I had a Palm Vx ($199) with a Minstrel CDPD modem (off eBay for $40.) With that you have a dedicated IP anywhere in town and actually in the downstairs below the Commons (cafeteria.) We used to post log entries from the Palm during live band performances downstairs, anyhoo, we also had a web server on the Palm and it was pretty pimp.
Here are some photos of the setup:
Pimp Palm Vx with Minstrel Wireless Modem
Shot of the Palm Vx serving web pages through httpd application (wirelessly!)
"until someone actually sends a mission with equipment on board, it's all speculation as to what designs might conceivably be used."
Been there, done that. You can too.
Both cameras (4 megapixel and 5 megapixel respectively) have time lapse features. You can set the time from 1 minute to 24 hours.
J.D. Hodges
According to their FAQ you can just burn the image to CD and it's bootable (like the floppy version was.) Handy for newer systems with no floppy, or for a bit more reliability.
We have one of the Mimio's in our class and I'm not too impressed by it.
:-)
It's fine for just advancing a slide in a presentation, but for clicking it's kinda cumbersome. Best analogy I can think of is the touchpads on laptop, the tap and wait or double tap is too slwo for my tastes.
What does work well for us is a nice LCD display for the presenter to use in conjuction with the projected image and a wireless mouse.
Finally, we had to get new marker boards which were very expensive (the regular dry erase boards glare pretty badly.) The new one's do the trick with little glare but they were at least a couple grand.
Here's hoping soon I won't have to leave my dorm and go to those darn classrooms, today is the start of spring break for us anyway though
I'm in college in MO (3rd year there) and work for a local Catholic School maintaining their computers. There are lot's of computer problems to deal with, but I really look forward to going to work because of the people.
People really make or break a job (and life), in my little pursuit of happiness my family, girlfriend, friends and co-workers all make life a joy. Without them things wouldn't be nearly so bright. Working with good people can turn a bad job into a fun experience, and not-so-good people can turn a great job into something you dread.
The next time your bummed at work, be thankful and please appreciate the good folks and try to help the other folks see the bright side of things. I have to say the absolute best part of my job is helping kids, they are so amazing! I was showing a class the inside of a PC and answering their questions, before long we were talking about supercomputers and Deep Blue. Next I had a sweet little kid ask me, "are there brother-boards in computers?" after I had told them about the motherboard. I am astounded by people and the potential we all have.
We are all very fortunate to be alive in this amazing world, let's try to appreciate it and do our best to keep it wonderful for our future generations.
What's your story?
You do the math.
Man after a whole afternoon of screwing with a WAP11 and a BEFW11s4 (router with 802.11b and 4 port switch) trying to get the WAP to connect in client mode to a BEFW11S4 I never could get it and I don't know when linksys is gonna fix it.
Thankfully Slashdot came to the resuce with something fun for me to try, anybody out there had any luck making a BEFW11S4 more capable? They kinda suck compared to a WAP11 since the WAP11 can be an AP, Client, or Bridge. I've read about using TFTP to download WAP11 firmware onto a BEFW11S4 but I'm a little hesitant... Any advice?
You do the math.