Have been looking for a replacement for my old - and I mean, ***OLD*** apache server - I come across G-Wan

Couldn't find any G-Wan info on Wikipedia nor on /. - all I could locate is stuffs on G-Wan's own site, some mention on wikivs, a few benchmarks done by people I don't know ...

The benchmarks do look impressive

So ... is there any pitfall replacing Apache with G-Wan?

The 22nm Ivy Bridge is delayed again, which may mean Haswell may not the light of day till 2014, or so

But that itself may pose another problem for Intel - their Fab 42, which might come on line in 2013, is designed to manufacture chips using 14nm process

Haswell, on the other hand, would use the same 22nm process as Ivy Bridge

What do you do with a Fab (that costs 5 Billion) that can produce stuff with 14nm rule in 2013 when your next gen chips will only be introduced in 2014 using 22nm rule?

In the age of MAFIAA accusing people of pirating software, I want to report that there are still chances for people to legally downloading commercial softwares

From time to time, commercial software vendors does offer special incentives.

Oh no, don't get me wrong. I do not work for commercial software vendors and I do not endorse their software. I merely want to point out that there are still places, at times, that you can download the commercial software perfectly legal.

Like below:

http://www.daz3d.com/i/0/0/-/

Note to Slashdot editors: If what I did above is wrong, please remove this journal, thank you !

Apology to the Slashdot editors, I do not know where to file a bug report, but I need to tell you guys that I've found a bug in Slashdot

I think it could be a database bug

Here's how I found the bug

On this Slashdot story - http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/02/15/0036242/unauthorized-ios-apps-leak-private-data-less-than-approved-ones - I posted a comment ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2671805&cid=39041681 )

When I am on Slashdot without logging into my Slashdot "Taco Cowboy" account, I can see my comment, and the replies to my comment, among the list of comments to the Slashdot story above

However, if I log into my Slashdot "Taco Cowboy" account, my comment, along with the other comments under it, are gone !

I can duplicate this on the following browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Microsoft IE, Google Chrome, K-Meleon

BTW, this has happened not only to the above Slashdot stories.

I have found that this phenomena happen whenever my comments got modded up.

If my comment had not been modded up, then I can see my comment among the other comments without any problem

Writing this journal only makes me feel very old, but then, what I have to do, I have to do

Back when Internet was still sparking new, we old-timers didn't exactly have a lot of "places of interest" to go, but fortunately for us, even then we had some marvelous places to hang-out, Slashdot was one of those

The first time I visited Slashdot was on its 2nd day of existence - I read about Slashdot in a day-old article on another site - and I registered for this account couple of weeks later

The reason I did not register on Slashdot then and there on my first visit because, at that time, I had yet to have an email address - I didn't even have an Internet access account at that time ( Long stale story, but the short version was, the country I was residing back then just only introduced dial-up service to the Internet and it took weeks - even months - for the authority to process our applications )

Don't get me wrong, I am not stressing my "seniority" on Slashdot or anything just because I have a 4-digit UID - and as I mentioned in the beginning of this journal, talking about this only makes me feel old, very very old ( relatively, in Internet time frame, of course )

Back then, Slashdot was filled with vigor. Geeks from all places came and share information just like the geeks are doing today, but with a marked difference - most of those "ancient Geeks" were open-minded and being very acceptance and very seldom they would criticize others for being "different", unlike many Slashdot visitors today

Most of us who flocked to Slashdot back then also frequented the many usenet newsgroups - if not because of the uncontrollable spam in the usenet newsgroups many would have still stay there - and in Slashdot, we carried on our conversations we had in the Usenet newsgroups, but time took its toll

Of course, there were jerks, even back then, but they are few and far between. Today, however, the jerk-index seemed to have risen quite a bit - from insensitive racist comments to those who come with the "I know everything bow down to me now" attitude

I can't speak for all the old-timers, I know, but generally speaking, most of us old-timers know that we do not know enough. That is why we still ask question and we are not shy to let others know that we don't know

Not the young-ones, however.

To them, asking questions is like exposing your own weaknesses to the world.

What is wrong with asking question? Even when the question is very basic - like the one I asked in this thread ( http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2655637&cid=38940481 ) - the main point is still that I did not know the answer that was why I asked the question.

Another incident that brings about this Journal is this --- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/17/1235204/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-has-passport-confiscated

I read about what happened to Julian Assange, I sensed something was about to happen, I submitted the article, CmdrTaco, aka Rob Malta approved it, and we had this kind of response --- http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1654714&cid=32236268

Perhaps the incident on passport confiscation of Julian Assange was a complete non-story, but perhaps it wasn't. No matter how you look at that incident, the passport thing was the prelude of what was to come.

It's the mindset of the newcomers that Slashdot is attracting today that has changed Slashdot. I don't know if it's for the good or for the bad, suffice to say that Slashdot of today no longer feels like the Slashdot that I first visited, not that long ago

Do I feel sad? Nope. I just feel different

I can't speak for CmdrTaco either, maybe he left Slashdot for the same reason - that the Slashdot he created is no longer the Slashdot he envisoned

Yesterday I did a totally unscientific test on several Window-based browsers.

I came across a page ( http://pastehtml.com/view/bmp0uzp8a.html ) set up by some Ukrainian hackers asking ppl to ddos some Ukrainian government websites in protest of the dns deletion of a Ukrainian file sharing site, or something like that

I used an old Pentium Duo-Core machine, with 4GB of RAM, running WinXP SP3 to test the following browsers:

Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Mozilla Firefox
Opera
Internet Explorer
K-Meleon

Before I ran the test I updated all the above browsers to the latest official version - for IE, I used version 8, which is the last version that XP can run.

For each browser I only ran one tab, with the above page on it, and nothing else.

Before I clicked on the button I used Process Hacker ( http://processhacker.sourceforge.net/ ) to set all the browsers to Realtime Priority â" and for Google Chrome I set all 3 instances of Google Chrome to "Realtime"

Here are the totally unofficial results so far:

Internet Explorer did not permit me to access the page. It told me that that page is dangerous or something.

Opera ran in slow motion. It updated the count once every 20 to 30 seconds, or so

Safari ran slower than Opera, and in about 8 hours Safari froze up.

K-Meleon ran smoothly at first, almost as fast as Mozilla Firefox, but slowed down significantly after 20 hours.

The fastest of the bunch is Mozilla Firefox, about twice the speed of Google Chrome, which came second.

In fact, Mozilla Firefox runs the page so effortlessly that I opened up 3 tabs all running the same thing, they still ran without any hiccup.

Finally, the memory usage, which I checked with Process Hacker -

For Google Chrome, the 3 instances occupied 135 MB of RAM, 80 MB of RAM and 64 MB of RAM respectively.

Mozilla Firefox has only one instance in memory and it used 156 MB of RAM.

All you Apple fanboys prepare to gnash your teeth, rip out your hair and throw tantrums, the Woz has spoken.

Essentially, Android is more versatile and does things better than the iPhone, including Siri which apparently has problems connecting Woz to one of his favorite steak houses. Woz also doesn't like the fact the you need a connection, at all times, to get voice commands to work.

In short, the iPhone seems to be a violation of Rule #1 of the Three Rules of IT That Should Never Be Broken: never let programmers design your applications.

Woz also isn't thrilled about the short battery life, though Android has its own problems with battery life.

There is an inherit problem with democracy. Two wolves and a sheep voting on whats for dinner, inevitably leaves the sheep in a continual state of wanting. However the distribution means of information this characteristic of majority rule will be prevalent in any democratic society. Most obviously the cure is the American solution of representative democracy. This leads to other inherit problems. 5 wolves voting on what to eat for 100 sheep. What is the place of Democracy in the Digital/Information Age?

TODO: Points to address.
blogs. social networking. anonymous. information. digital psychology and its impacts on the political landscape. re-evaluation of individual liberty, at least in regards to the refinment and discussion ( how do you know someone's race,gender,orientation in text that does not explicitly state) an advocate of gay marriage may not be gay.

Howdy All,

I just wanted to give a quick adios-type message. I started my new job at SpaceX about a month ago and am still getting settled in my new home/lifestyle. One thing that is apparent, however, is that working at SpaceX is going to keep me hopping. I've spent a couple weeks working more than 60 hours already, and I think that may be somewhat common. That said, I don't really have time to keep up on news stories as much as I have for the last three years.

So I am posting this mostly to say thanks to all of those who made visiting Slashdot so fun and informative. I will still visit from time to time, mostly looking for space stories probably.

Good luck to you all in your endeavors, whatever they may be. Please feel free to stalk me on G+ or FB (I know ZOMG privacy!!!!!!!) And, as always, you can lurk on my website (though that will not be updated as often either probably.

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Website
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Peace Out Y'all (and remember, don't take this site too seriously, there are a lot of hyperbolic drama queens on here).

Sincerely,
Brady C. Jackson

Apropos my recent post outlining why open source is not very popular.

I've spent some time researching useability, both in computer software and other areas.

The post was necessarily brief - it only outlined 5 general trends and was light on context, explanation, and supporting examples.

A better treatment would explain all the trends that I see (perhaps a dozen) with more explicit explanations for each. Unfortunately that's not appropriate for a blog post [Slashdot] comment.

This is just a talkback point for other contributors.

No, not in the search field. Bing has that sown up quite nicely. I'm talking about getting the version of the software you want.

I had a request to install Google Earth on some machines here at work. Why, don't know considering who will be using it but that's my orders and I carry them out.

So I go to earth.google.com and get the message that I can download Google Earth 6. I select the option and find that 6 is a beta but, and this is key, they do offer the stable 5.2 version.

Obviously I select the stable version because this is a production environment. I also uncheck installing of Chrome and making Chrome my default browser.

I check the "Yes, I Agree" option and right before I click the button to download I notice something. My option for 5.2 is not available. In fact, I am now forced to download the version I didn't want.

Thinking I'm missing something, I go through the entire process again but this time, I watch how the screen changes before my eyes.

Yup, it doesn't matter if I want the 5.2 version, Google is going to force the 6 version on me. In addition, I am forced, yes, forced, to accept that Earth will check for updates automatically. I cannot unselect this option. There was another option I could not unselect but I'm so pissed I can't remember what it was.

So I forgo getting the beta and ask around at work until I find someone who has kept one of the old installers to use.

So there you have it. Google is officially as sucky as Microsoft when it comes down to getting the file you want.

This is precisely why I don't have gmail or signed up for anything Google-related. I don't want them to tell me what I want, I know what I want. Don't tell me otherwise.

Ok, so the title isn't telling you anything you didn't already know. However, this is a somewhat critical issue for those of us who get mod points.

Apparently, even though I have set my threshold to -1, I don't see anything below 1.

Having searched through all the nooks and crannies of the craptacular 2.0 (or is it 3.0 now?) version, there are no other settings to set to see low posters.

Normally this wouldn't be an issue as most people at 0 or -1 are just trolling, but on occasion there is that one comment which is unfairly knocked and I like to upgrade them.

Yeah, I COULD send an email and ask that this be looked into, but what are the chances that this would be given a high priority when one considers how much they listened to people about the new design.

So for now, those of you who get a 0 or -1 mod, sorry, I can't help you.

We all realize that Fox's distortion of reality is well known. We also know that terms such as "homicide bomber" or "homicide shooter" are an attempt to "update" ones vocabulary.

However, it seems that in their effort to widen their distortion field, they have unilaterally removed an entire country from the world map.

I give you (via Minyanville), the new map of the Middle East

*first turn on javascript so I can write in Journal*

Once again we are graced by the sights of young, nubile asian women in what are mostly Hooters outfits. Oh, and there are cars in some of the pictures as well.

Photo link

*turns off javascript when done posting*