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Когда новоиспечённый пользователь ПК показывает своё чудо, обычно видишь стандартную картину: ОС Windows XP Professional, которую установил продавец или друг (или друг-продавец), на ней пользователь под именем “User”, этот user, вопреки своему названию, имеет полные права администратора компьютера.

И с этим полным набором прав наш “юзер”, не подозревая об опасности вирусов, троянских коней и рут-китов, бродит по просторам Интернет, запускает программы с “базарных” компакт-дисков, принимает непонятную электронную почту…

Этот риск неоправдан и, самое главное, необязателен.

Простой приём позволит пользователю снять с себя ответственность администратора при работе с подозрительными файлами, программами и сайтами, не отказываясь от удобства привилегированного режима.
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Of course, it is supposed to speed up disk access. But long passed the times when absence of disk cache made computers literally unusable. These days cache is largely for mere user convenience - it reduces continual annoying small waits during operator activities. However…
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As you know, UNIX time is counted in seconds since Thursday, January 1 1970 Midnight (called the Epoch).

For the last three years admins around the world have been watching double-ones in logs’ timestamps, like in

1123456789

Today it’s all different.

The 1200000000th second since the “epoch” was reached on Thu Jan 10 21:20:00 2008.
For a few more hours to come the nice sight of “12000″ can be observed in your logs. Have a look.

Note that we are ultimately heading towards the 2147483647th second (2 power 31 less 1), on which the time counters of 32-bit computers will overflow on Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 and the time will start over from Thu Jan 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT (or from Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901, depending on whom you ask).

Every time I upgraded an HDD or otherwise needed to move directory trees between disks, I faced an annoying MS Windows “feature”: timestamps get updated to current time on the copies of directories.
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(or old mail in the Inbox for that matter)

I have outlived a good number of different web browsers already: Netscape Navigator 3.0, Netscape Communicator 4.0, Mozilla, Opera etc. Sometimes I’d transfer the bulk of bookmarks over to a new browser, other times I’d … just forget. And you know what? I never cared.
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Did you ever wonder at the Linux “distros” sprouting wildly? They are countless already; nobody knows the exact number: Knoppix, CentOS, Ubuntu, Kubuntu… The most surprising part is they compete. Not with Microsoft - MS is and probably will for a looong time to come enjoy their monopoly - with each other! Every distro’s outlet boasts about its market share.

Now, which “market share”? If it’s free, where’s the market?

Well, it’s not really free, wonder it not, you - users - pay for “free” Linux. Here’s how.
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If the monitor you’re using right now is LCD display, chances are it’s got 300 dpi of resolution, potentially exploitable.

Yes, typography quality for on-screen reading can be available for no additional cost. Sounds bold? Take a look:

Five years ago, I paid $25 for my first (ever!) memory module for my own workstation. It was a 256 MB unit. A week ago a 1 GB module cost me virtually the same: $26.50 (count the inflation?)

A good approximation of the Moore’s Law, isn’t it? According to a variation (slackened one) of the law, the number of electronic device’s microelements per dollar doubles every two years. Therefore, I should be getting (2 power (5/2)) times more memory, or 1513 MB, while I got (2 power (4/2)). However, for the inflation accounted more accurately, the equation would probably match perfectly.

Apparently, same goes with hard disk drives.

My first HDD was the slowest (read “economic”, but also the most cold & quiet available in the market) 40 GB in 2002, having been accompanied by a quicker & bigger 120 GB in 2004 and being substituted by 200 GB in 2005 and 500 GB in 2007. The last three being of basically the same price.

Here’s the summarizing graph:

For the sake of cleanness CPU transistor counts were omitted from the graph, yet they’d be right in the middle between RAM and Disk curves with 37.5 million transistors in the processor purchased in October’02 vs. 221 million 5 years later. Again, all that for essentially the same money. The criterion for processor selection was “the cheapest in the top-line”.

Another coincidence not reflected in the chart: after my first 256 MB module I bought the second one in just a month. This time I am also planning to purchase an additional 1 GB as soon as in coming January…

What’s all the excitement about dividing a hard disk drive into several smaller virtual “disks”?
Nobody seems to be able to provide an intelligible explanation why they went to partition their nice big drives.

A quick web search on a topic makes up for some good laugh. One adviser e.g. went as far as this:

If you purchase a computer with a partitioned hard drive, you should send a letter of thanks to the manufacturer. The manufacturer was aware of the many benefits of partitioning, including organizational flexibility and storage efficiency, and divided the drive into partitions before loading it with an OS and all of the other free software that comes bundled with a typical PC. This presents a huge advantage for you, as anyone who has ever had to partition a drive can attest.

(emphasis mine)
(BTW notice the original article has become paid content - what an illustration to the idea of decline of paid content!)
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GnuCash team has been famous in the past for their harshness towards anything “Windows”. No wonder - the 1st version of GC was written in 1997 in Motif for X Window System which was (and still is?) light years ahead of substandard Microsoft Windows GUI in terms of professional usability.

It seemed nobody expected them (GnuCash) to release a Windows port. Me wasn’t exception either. So when I had to move from X to MS Windows I also had to keep a subsidiary UNIX machine (thank God, virtual computer was OK) special for UNIX applications, most notably for GnuCash.
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The two most common approaches in Web analytics are:

1. Web server logfile analysis
2. Page tagging

Page tagging is the method of choice from the commercial standpoint. However, it’s got its characteristic drawbacks:

• changes to the web application are needed
• vendor lock-in of some sort takes place (regardless whether you use a subscription-based solution or acquire a hosted one).

On the other hand there is one nice web stats tool operating in the old good logfile analysis realm, which is AWStats. Until recently it was a reliable work horse for many webmasters delivering quite useful reports about origin breakdown, sessions (visits duration), lists of landing pages (”entry”) & exit pages - categories commonly associated with the more complex page tagging statistics systems.

What happened to it?
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Ever wanted to set up a weekly or monthly mailing list for your blog?

FeedBurner is good for a daily email dispatch which is attainable by just “burning” your feed and activating mail service for it.

But how about less frequent mailings?
And how about selecting only the best articles to include in those rare mails?

It’s easy. Better yet, it can be automated with standard components for your WordPress installation.

To set up a Weekly (or Monthly) Top Posts mailing list just follow these 5 simple steps:
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