OT: PHX added to Google Street View

2007-10-09 Thread Joshua Zeidner
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1009biz-google1009.html Today, the Phoenix area joins a handful of U.S. cities that people around the globe can tour - virtually - via a controversial new program known as Street View. -- .. communication. .0001. development. .0010.

RE: OT: Mock Terrorist Attack

2007-10-09 Thread Dan Lund
Babelfish.altavista.com (the grandad of almost all translators on the net) said the same thing. Dan Lund skype id: situationalawareness “Obviously the answer is drilling for oil in Alaska. Only through a unilateral coordinated effort between both democrats and republicans can we end this

Re: OT: Mock Terrorist Attack

2007-10-09 Thread der.hans
Am 09. Oct, 2007 schwätzte Mike Schwartz so: Google's free translation of Schließlich verteidigt Amerika Freiheit. Und Freiheit beginnt mit dem Wort. In the end, the US defends freedom. Freedom starts with speech. As I recall the context he was talking about the US being an important

Re: OT - Server spec's, need opinion.

2007-10-09 Thread Jason Hiller
One way to approach this is to baseline your application on hardware that you already have. You can use a load generating program like Jmeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/) to create load that would be similar to what you experience during your peak times. It is pretty easy to record a

What GPL is NOT

2007-10-09 Thread Dazed_75
this is a really interesting listen. It is an mp3 file containing a talk by James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center. Apparently he was one of the lawyers involved in crafting GPLv3. What makes it really interesting is where he talks about what GPL does not do, common misconceptions, and

Re: OT - Server spec's, need opinion.

2007-10-09 Thread Mike Garfias
One thing I've done in the past is to grab the various URL paths that are getting hit by my webserver, and dump those to a text file. Next step is to load up siege and have it replay those against the target webserver. On Oct 9, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Jason Hiller wrote: One way to approach

Wireless: the new barrier for desktop Linux

2007-10-09 Thread fouldragon
Years ago, I assumed that Linux would falter on the desktop as long as there was no AOL client. Fortunately, AOL has withered against cheap, omnipresent broadband, but it seems like we're back at square one on getting to usable systems for customers. Now, linux is going to falter as long as