Comment Re:203ms - With Fibre connection and not in space (Score 1) 558
158ms (Brazil/DOCSIS) in 16 hops.
Comment Re:Streinsad Effect? (Score 2) 131
Maybe not a datacenter, but here on NET Virtua in Rio de Janeiro, YouTube videos are served from what appears to be a cache colocated at my ISP:
# tcptraceroute o-o---preferred---sn-oxunxg8pjvn-bpbe---v17---lscache7.c.youtube.com
Selected device eth0, address 192.168.1.5, port 46521 for outgoing packets
Tracing the path to o-o---preferred---sn-oxunxg8pjvn-bpbe---v17---lscache7.c.youtube.com (201.17.31.76) on TCP port 80 (http), 30 hops max
1 192.168.1.1 1.308 ms 1.173 ms 1.091 ms
2 * * *
3 201.17.0.4 10.131 ms 10.221 ms 10.847 ms
4 192.168.248.11 8.933 ms 13.197 ms 10.367 ms
5 10.10.10.2 18.908 ms 8.914 ms 8.657 ms
6 192.168.248.4 8.981 ms 10.196 ms 9.387 ms
7 c9111f4c.virtua.com.br (201.17.31.76) [open] 9.948 ms 9.289 ms 21.583 ms
Comment Re:There already is an HTTP code (Score 1) 369
504 Gateway Timeout
The server was acting as a gateway or proxy and did not receive a timely response from the upstream server.
This what Squid returns when it cannot contact the upstream server and is what I would use it in this situation if I *had* to use HTTP codes. However, a 302 redirect to a local page explaining why it was necessary to hijack your http connection (and how it was done) is a much better idea.
The server was acting as a gateway or proxy and did not receive a timely response from the upstream server.
This what Squid returns when it cannot contact the upstream server and is what I would use it in this situation if I *had* to use HTTP codes. However, a 302 redirect to a local page explaining why it was necessary to hijack your http connection (and how it was done) is a much better idea.
Comment Re:"Get the Facts" (Score 1) 290
[citation needed]. It's 1.65% according to Wikimedia's stats (includes wikipedia.org traffic - a top 6 site), 5.22% if you include Android.
Comment Re:I call B.S. (Score 1) 305
Citation needed. If Wikimedia's "OS version, non mobile" stats are any indication, Windows market share has fallen to about 84% on desktops.
Comment Re:Excellent! (Score 1) 445
Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, three of the nine Ulster counties, are in the Republic of Ireland.
Jurisdictionally, it's Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Jurisdictionally, it's Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
20 Years of Commander Keen 152
angry tapir writes "This week marks the 20th anniversary of the release of the first Commander Keen game. For those too young to remember, Commander Keen was a series of shareware 2D platform games for the PC released by Apogee Software (aka 3D Realms) developed by no less than id Software — the developers of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Quake."
Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat 155
Meshach writes "A study out of Canada claims that seeing meat actually calms a person down. From the article: 'Contrary to expectations, a McGill University researcher has discovered that seeing meat makes people significantly less aggressive. Frank Kachanoff, who studies evolution at the university’s department of psychology, had initially thought the presence of meat would provoke bloodlust, believing the response would have helped our primate ancestors hunt. But in fact, his research showed the reverse is true.'" I can see all the "Make Steak, Not War!" protest signs already.
Comment Re:Surely (Score 1) 106
I would of thought
California local government sites were regular victims (I ran into this one). I suspect the brief deletion of ca.gov was frustration and not so inadvertent.
Submission + - Hard-to-read fonts improve learning (bbc.co.uk)
arkenian writes: Difficult-to-read fonts make for better learning, according to scientists. The finding is about to be published in the international journal Cognition. Researchers at Princeton University employed volunteers to learn made-up information about different types of aliens — and found that those reading harder fonts recalled more when tested 15 minutes later.
The article goes on to note a second test in a real school environment: "Keen to see if their findings actually worked in practice, the Princeton University team then tested their results on 222 students aged between 15 and 18 at a secondary school in Chesterfield, Ohio."... "Students given the harder-to-read materials scored higher in their classroom assessments than those in the control group. This was the case across a range of subjects — from English, to Physics to History."
The article goes on to note a second test in a real school environment: "Keen to see if their findings actually worked in practice, the Princeton University team then tested their results on 222 students aged between 15 and 18 at a secondary school in Chesterfield, Ohio."... "Students given the harder-to-read materials scored higher in their classroom assessments than those in the control group. This was the case across a range of subjects — from English, to Physics to History."
Comment Re:A better PC health idea (Score 1) 413
Today, one of my servers was under attack. I sent complaints to vsnl.in and their abuse and postmaster accounts bounce. No one is at the switch... or perhaps they're sleeping.
VSNL changed their name to Tata Communications Ltd. in 2007. The abuse account at tatacommunications.com should be operational (it's registered with whois.abuse.net).
Comment Re:LINUX rounds numbers fine (Score 1) 764
Wikimedia (June): iPhone 1.78%, Linux 1.88%
Comment Re:2010: Year of the Linux Desktop (Score 1) 105
Comment Re:Not to side with Microsoft, but... (Score 1) 246
Adding a couple of lines to check the return code of MPC::HexToNum() should not need a shitload of regression testing and QA.
Comment Re:Not just that (Score 1) 460
Then there's the ever present library hell. E.g., you can't just download and install Winamp like on Windows. Downloading and trying to compile, say, XMMS off Freshmeat quickly runs into the fact that the libraries aren't the versions it expects, and the ones it expects don't seem to compile on an x64 system without some editing. Sorry, but that's one aspect that Windows got a lot better.
You might think that if you didn't know about external repositories. Add a Packman repo in YaST, then install the xmms package. No compiling required. mplayer, vlc, and other interesting software are in Packman.
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