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Forums Rankings – website ranking by posts
I like looking at the server backend information on this site.
The top server, Gaia Online, has 80+ web servers, 11 database servers (4 dedicated to forums), 3 session database servers, 1 memory cache server.
Reefcentral.com has 3 web servers, 1 database server.
I clicked on this from the bottom of reefcentral.com which is ranked 73.
I changed the permissions in the Spamassassin Bayesian database so that the database can now be accessed. I also registered Razor. I did a test with the command
spamassassin -D < testemail.txt and I verified that these tests were being run. I have the spam threshold at 5.0 since I think all the tests should easily push spam above the threshold level. All this work because of the huge amount of spam that gets sent out.
Two girls in bed reading Stephen Donaldson’s Lord Foul’s Bane. I could never get through that turgid mass of a book, so it’s funny to see these two actually read it, and others re-enact scenes from the book in this low-budget public access cable show from San Francisco.
It’s interesting to see Heatherly loses weight over the course of the episodes and Julie’s pretty hot.
macosxhints – Run a caching-only name server
Using the article above, I set up a caching only name server so that the mailserver, the rbl checks, and spamassassin network checks could use a local dns server. Instead of using the version of BIND that shipped with OS X 10.3, I downloaded the latest version of BIND, 9.3.1, and installed it with the instructions above.
With some web browsing and running Dig through the Terminal, the local caching server appears to run very quickly.
The history of the Gianduja confection is not well documented and in fact contains some contradictions. Some sources claim that the idea of mixing chocolate and hazelnuts came during Napoleon’s reign (early 1800s) when the Mediterranean was blockaded and left Turin’s chocolate industry short of cacao beans. Hazelnuts were plentiful in the Piedmont region of Italy so grinding and combining a hazelnut paste with the cocoa was a way to make a more affordable confection.
Other references claim that Gianduja was born in the mid-1800s when Michele Prochet or Pierre Paul Caffael first figured out how to mix sugar, cocoa and hazelnut paste. The mixture was first called “givu,” dialect for “stub,” which was the shape the confection was originally rolled into. The name “Gianduja” is actually from the Piedmont region’s famous carnival mask because Prochet and his pastry assistants first made the product during Carnival season.
The most popularized form of Gianduja is Nutella, which European children eat for breakfast and lunch.
The combination of roasted hazelnuts and chocolate, for whatever reason it first came to be, is a very pleasing flavor. It has been used in European confections for more than a hundred years, but hazelnuts have never been terribly popular in the United States.
The Scharffen Berger Gianduja differs from the traditional Italian Gianduja in several ways. Most European Giandujas are made with milk chocolate and are very sweet. Our Gianduja is made with our 68% Semisweet chocolate and contains no dairy. The flavor, however, is quite creamy, a consistency which is the result of the hazelnut paste.
We searched the world for the most flavorful hazelnuts and we use Turkish hazelnuts for this product. Hazelnuts have been grown in Turkey since 300 B. C. Turkey is the world’s largest hazelnut producer.
Hazelnuts are also called filberts. They have a sweet, nutty flavor.
Sounds tasty
On Sunday evening, when I was coming home from San Franciso on BART, the inside part of my right arm started getting very itchy. I noticed it was all red, and I was concerned it was the effects of brushing against some poison oak on my Saturday morning ride which involved a downhill section through Alpine road which was overgrown with brush. The problem with poison oak is that the nasty effects don’t start appearing until a day after exposure, and by then, it’s too late to wash off the oils that cause the skin to blister up (According to Tecnu, “If used within two to eight hours from exposure, Tecnu removes urushiol before the rash begins. Of course, it’s not always clear that exposure has occurred until a rash has already started.”) It’s Wednesday now, and 3″ x 8″ area of my arm which I’ve applied Aveeno cortisone cream to and covered with non-stick bandage pads. The oozing is bad in some areas, and I had to wake up last night to apply more cream in order to alleviate the itching which woke me up. I just have to get through the next few days of itchiness and oozing and then I should be okay, but I know from past experience that my arm’s going to look a lot worse before it looks better.
I also have small areas of irritation on my left arm and knees which must have experienced some exposure to poison oak. To be safe, I’m going to throroughly wash my shoes and gloves and my bike to make sure none of the uroshiol oils can cause me more pain and suffering.
Hopefully, this upgrade helps remove more spam since spam levels have been creeping up again. There’s a new plug-in architecture for some of the tests such as Vipul’s Razor and a whole bunch of other improvements. I just installed it this morning, and I’ve already noticed a big decrease in the amount of spam that’s getting past the server.
Slashdot | Blackout Shows Net’s Fragility
Since Cogent and Level 3 are having some issues as described above, I’ve switched our websites over to our backup Sonic.net DSL connection until Cogent and Level 3 can work things out.
I voted for Arnold in the recall election although I’m a registered Democrat (Gray seemed so weak – especially with his proposal just before he left office to provide driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, and Arnold seemed like he would stir up things), but after his veto of AB 748, no more support for Arnie:
Arnie, if you leave office soon, there still may be time to make True Lies 2.
I’m editing this on 10/18/2005. I can understand how Arnie vetoed the bill since it would inappropriately usurp control from the district’s governing board. Now, the district governing board has to be convinced not to put a tool on bikers or pedestrians.
Sun, Google in software distribution pact
It would be interesting if OpenOffice and other web apps snuck in through the Google toolbar. I’m not sure to what extent this will happen, since I think with certain apps, people would prefer the processing to occur on their own machine – particularly for security reasons.