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Stupidfilter‘s a project to create a bayesian filter to solve the spam and idiocy that’s becoming a serious problem with the internet these days. I’d love to see the general intelligence and maturity of the internet grow through projects like this, filtering people and things that are a waste of time.

Refactormycode is yet another Web2.0 site, this time for people to post code snippets and ask for help with making them better. I’ve been trawling through the rather infrequent posts of late and found something to help with!

Warm fuzzy feeling: [Check]
Weirded out that I helped with JavaScript: [CheckCheckCheckCheck]

“Koichiro Tsujikawa’s dreamy music video to Cornelius’s “Fit Song” spends its entire time in the confines of a house, where CGI brings everyday items to a strange sort of life.”

I found this on an animation site called Frames Per Second - check out the vid, then the site – very cool

I really should know better than to trust sales people, I keep getting messed around, but I go back for more. This was a conversation I had with one of the reps at The Planet tonight.

Please wait while we find an agent to assist you…
You have been connected to Brian J.

• Brian J: Hello, how may I help you?
• Customer: Hi, I was just wondering what the different backup solutions offered with the dedicated servers actually were
• Customer: you list network backup or discsync, what’s the difference?
• Brian J: Disksync is automated and much more user friendly.
• Brian J: You can set it up to automatically run as frequent as you prefer.
• Brian J: NAS is space in a seperate storage array you would have to copy and send the data to when you would like to save.
• Customer: so the network backup is nas space allocated to us, disksync uses an automated agent?
• Brian J: Correct
• Customer: and what does disksync require on the server, a username/password setup on ftp or ssh?
• Brian J: Neither its a GUI agent installed on the user console
• Customer: I’m a little lost
• Brian J: Using a simple GUI interface, you can manage all aspects of your backup and recovery including data retention periods, backup schedules, and data restoration.
• Customer: yes, but how does it access the server assuming I’m going to change firewall rules and services running on the server I intend to setup?
• Customer: (I’m looking at a bare bsd/centos box)
• Brian J: The firewall rules would have no effect on Discsync
• Customer: how does it access the server?
• Customer: assuming it doesn’t traverse the network (which you seem to be implying by saying the firewall rules will not effect it)
• Brian J: Through the agent console installed on the box
• Customer: never mind, found the information
• Customer: you’re incorrect by the way – firewall rules would actually cause problems if they weren’t correct
• Customer: refer to your company’s faq on http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=83882
• Customer: goodbye.

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