Perforce is a much superior SCM system than CVS, and handles the sort of complicated, multi-way merges that are common in the OS world. Microsoft uses a Perforce derivative, including for NT development. Google and Amazon use Perforce. (The Slashdotters got all upset when they found out Google was using Perforce. I’m sure you’re upset too.)

Are you running a computer with a chip made by Intel or AMD? You know, there are open-source chips available. “Free as in freedom,” right?

“In yet another related embodiment, proxy server 170 also supports chunking and keep alive between it and proxy client 115. The viewing of most pages requires many round trips (200 ms each minimum on a modem), such as one for the Domain Name Server (DNS) lookup, one for the HTML content, and another for image information. This could be reduced to one: a request containing the desired URL which is responded to everything required to render the web page corresponding to the desired URL.”

see http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,363,291.PN.&OS=PN/7,363,291&RS=PN/7,363,291

Best.
alain
morpheXchange.com

For mounting a volume read-only on multiple instances, you can do this using snapshots and cloning. I’ve described some ideas around this on my blog at http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/04/13/ and when you think about the scales possible it is really breathtaking.

With the addition of the storage volumes there’s no doubt in my mind anymore: the cloud adopters will have much more computing horsepower and flexibility at their fingertips than those who are still racking their own machines. Cloud computing is going to be as significant for deployment as agile is for software development. You either compute in the cloud or you’ll be left behind by your competitors because they can deploy faster, better, and cheaper than you can.

Sorry I couldn’t get back to you earlier. I’m presenting this tomorrow morning. Here’s the link to a pdf of my poster:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/kf8vjd

Remember, it’s not saving the world or anything, but it’s been fun undergraduate research. Thanks again for your help.

-Billy

Its shameful to think that a so called “security” company will blatantly skip the robots.txt file, then seek the section it should not be indexing to begin with. I bet this company would have me arrested if I disregarded the private property sign on its building and started looking over their documents. My bot trap automatically sends the bot to 403 land upon capture.

The robots.txt file needs to be a legally binding agreement, like a “no trespassers” sign.

When you say size of database I’m assuming you are referring to the images (not full text which is around 13G last time I checked… but don’t quote me on that — large margin of error )

Images… I don’t even have a complete set and I’m at 340G … I would guess I have something like 75% coverage (including all the different sizes for thumbnails…etc)

Also, very cool on presenting your first batch of findings, send me the link as soon as you can, and if you like I would love to get a proof read or help out (anything to get a sneak preview) — I would be totally pumped to be included in the acknowledgments section.

Thanks,
Yousef

I think you should advertise it more clearly as it would avoid any future confusion (as I had).

Looks like an interesting platform, I’ll have to sink my teeth into the trac wiki and get started.

Expect some How-To articles here soon.

Thanks,
Yousef

-Billy

Thanks much for this little tutorial - MLB.com is utterly useless without the latest version of Flash.