What I can tell you for sure is what kerning is: adjusting distance (usually by pulling them closer together) between letters so that the perceived distance between one glyph and the other is constant.
> My primary interest in visiting your Web site is to examine every page on the site before I finally find your hours of operation and phone number in illegible type in a graphical footer.
> I am assured by insiders that as far as the user interface goes, the work is being done. Windows 8 (or whatever it ends up being called) will include a new shell, apparently known as "Modern Shell" or "MoSh," that will bring touch friendliness and modern elegance to the Windows platform.
Assuming you have a dedicated server explicitly for database functions -- how much memory should you reserve for the operating system?
I realize this will probably vary somewhat depending on the specific OS, the specific database software, and so forth. But, as memory is so important to database...
Yeah, I was thinking that too. 256MB but if you get up to 64gb then 1/32 isn't a huge amount to lose, and it gaurantees the OS room to spare, so you can avoid using a /swap ;)
Assuming Linux, if you turn off swap and the kernel keeps killing your DB process because it's out of memory, that's a good indicator you're starving the OS for memory. Back off until that stops happening.
I'm running that heartbeat thing on a VPS with 512MB of RAM, if I gave the OS even 256MB that's half the memory gone. Linux is fine with a couple dozen megs.
You can leverage Amazon's experience running thousands of customers' database servers here: Their default parameters for Amazon Relational Database Service is to set the innodb buffer pool to 3/4 of the system's memory. Add in up to a couple megs per connection for various query buffers, and they...
Are "fix my SQL query" questions now valid on both SO and DBA? hmm
The Area 51 page is using the median over the last 14 days. This site hasn't been in existence for 14 days, so there are a few days with a value of 0 that are bringing down the numbers a significant.
The formula for what the site itself says is described by Kevin in an answer on MSO.
Area51 visits/day count is different from main site. In fact, it changed from the last time this question was raised, but then the number on Area51 was lower, and now it's been higher for some days now (1478/day vs 1540/day).
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I just accepted the UELA for being a diamond mod on the site that I moderate.
I think this is a great move, especially the bullet points regarding what you can and can't do with the information, and that we're not SO employees.
I even read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy as required. But wo...
Meme: Waffles.
Originator: Eric
Cultural Height: Late August and Early September, 2009
Background: Eric just really likes waffles, and apparently so does everyone else who has even a shred of decent humanity. Those who do not like waffles may also be Vampires and hat...
Does anyone find this odd that this is a book from mid 2010 on a pretty popular topic and there is no "see inside" but even worse no reviews!?!?!
I want to buy it but this extremely odd that for such a popular topic there isn't at least 2 or more reviews. I'd expect a ton of reviews on a book o...
In the Introduction to General Paper lecture today, the teacher brought up some (cough cough) classical lines from some of the ones he marked. The best one was "... famous WWII war criminal Nelson Mandela..."
What I mean is the act of "coughing" something that you don't actually want to (or rather dare) say outright. So instead of writing, say, "Miss Parker", you'd write "*cough*Ms Parker*cough*" or fake a cough that sounds very much like "Miss Parker".
Written and spoken differ in that of course, w...
I took another stab at creating a simple GUI using Linux tools. That ended in frustration. I'm going to have to actually dig deep and learn the fundamentals, instead of just figuring it out as I go along.
Since, you know, the good folks at SAS think that it's cool to store all numbers as IBM floating point...which leads to errors when converting to IEEE. Their solution is just to round after a certain point, heh.
They use a base-16 exponent and a 56 bit mantissa.
So the conversion bit (while somewhat of a pain in the ass) is taken care of reliably. It's just when I divide the data, I can't be sure how the result was formatted to know if the two numbers are equal.
General Paper is an H1 academic subject at A Level in the Singapore education system. All students in Junior Colleges and Millennia Institute in Singapore have to study this subject, with the exception of those studying Knowledge and Inquiry. The examination for General Paper consists of 2 parts: Paper 1 - Essay Writing and Paper 2 - Comprehension.
References
* http://www.seab.gov.sg/SEAB/aLevel/syllabusSchool_Info.html
I don't know how the guy that runs the site does it
one person and he goes through like 300TB bandwidth per day, only revenue is if you go to the imgur page instead of hotlinking the image, and he doesn't run ads against nsfw images
(that was a joke): but "As long as images are getting at least 1 view every 3 months, they will stick around forever. After that, your image may be removed to create more space for newer images. "
@radp, often difficult to know, there are an increasing number here too. I don't mind buskers much - even not very talented ones - but people just sitting/kneeling there with their hands out is a bit... disconcerting.
@radp Reminds me of in Hong Kong. All of the beggars magically had the same raincoats during typhoon season...I found out later their was a syndicate of them, and they had bank accounts where they deposited what they got from begging, heh.
The only small thing on Unix that jumps in my eye is that the letter spacing in "/Questions" "/Tags" etc. is very narrow on my Windows 7. Other than that, I think it's perfect
Requesting additional copy editors for github.com/BonsaiDen/JavaScript-Garden contact Ivo in the JavaScript room if you're interested in adding content or doing reviews on the English used
@Benjol It's a single, combined document on the quirks in JavaScript. Quirksmode works (mostly) like a blog. The only useful thing which I find there is the reference tables - some of the information is wildly out of date, and usually presented in a very disjointed manner
The Area 51 page is using the median over the last 14 days. This site hasn't been in existence for 14 days, so there are a few days with a value of 0 that are bringing down the numbers a significant.
The formula for what the site itself says is described by Kevin in an answer on MSO.
Area51 visits/day count is different from main site. In fact, it changed from the last time this question was raised, but then the number on Area51 was lower, and now it's been higher for some days now (1478/day vs 1540/day).
I just accepted the UELA for being a diamond mod on the site that I moderate.
I think this is a great move, especially the bullet points regarding what you can and can't do with the information, and that we're not SO employees.
I even read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy as required. But wo...
Meme: Waffles.
Originator: Eric
Cultural Height: Late August and Early September, 2009
Background: Eric just really likes waffles, and apparently so does everyone else who has even a shred of decent humanity. Those who do not like waffles may also be Vampires and hat...
What I mean is the act of "coughing" something that you don't actually want to (or rather dare) say outright. So instead of writing, say, "Miss Parker", you'd write "*cough*Ms Parker*cough*" or fake a cough that sounds very much like "Miss Parker".
Written and spoken differ in that of course, w...
