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schestowitzLOL http://www.appelbaum.net/Apr 13 00:12
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schestowitz> It's still too large for this crappy wireless network, weighing inApr 13 08:58
schestowitz> at 47MB:Apr 13 08:58
schestowitz> Apr 13 08:58
schestowitz> $ time curl -o tb.mp3 http://techrights.org/TechBytes/techbytes0038.mp3Apr 13 08:58
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schestowitz>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed Time  Time  Time  CurrentApr 13 08:58
schestowitz>                                  Dload  Upload Total Spent Left  SpeedApr 13 08:58
schestowitz>  49 46.8M   49 23.2M    0     0  40480     0 0:20:14 0:10:02  0:10:12 13045Apr 13 08:58
schestowitz> curl: (56) Failure when receiving data from the peerApr 13 08:58
schestowitz> Apr 13 08:59
schestowitz> real10m2.581sApr 13 08:59
schestowitz> user0m0.262sApr 13 08:59
schestowitz> sys0m1.148sApr 13 08:59
schestowitzOnly future shows will be smaller in size. Tim has given me permissionApr 13 08:59
schestowitzto do so (last night)Apr 13 08:59
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schestowitz> Have there been any softers that have really come in out of the cold andApr 13 09:24
schestowitz> escewed all aspects of their former employer?Apr 13 09:24
schestowitz> Apr 13 09:24
schestowitz> Stutz came close with critique:Apr 13 09:24
schestowitz>  http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/biztech/02/20/outgoing.exec/Apr 13 09:24
schestowitz> Apr 13 09:24
schestowitz> However, eight years on, M$ is still perceived as a paranoid,Apr 13 09:24
schestowitz> untrustworthy, greedy, petty, and politically inept organization.Apr 13 09:24
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*roy_ is now known as schestowitzApr 13 10:39
schestowitz> Hi, Roy,Apr 13 14:41
schestowitz> Apr 13 14:42
schestowitz> Can you modify the Techrights site so that old posts are available inApr 13 14:42
schestowitz> reverse chronological order?  Right now the latest 15 or so are shown,Apr 13 14:42
schestowitz> but there's no way to scroll back to last week's or last month's posts.Apr 13 14:42
schestowitz>  Being able to browse the old posts would help greatly increase theApr 13 14:42
schestowitz> value of the collection.Apr 13 14:42
schestowitzI'll check what wordpress extensions are available.Apr 13 14:42
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schestowitz> Give me a day or two to think of something.  There have been a fewApr 13 16:48
schestowitz> comments, but only a few, about making a fork.  A fork of GroklawApr 13 16:48
schestowitz> obviously can't be centered around one person.  But a lesser versionApr 13 16:48
schestowitz> could be centered around some of the key people.Apr 13 16:48
schestowitz>> I'll check what wordpress extensions are available.Apr 13 16:49
schestowitz> Apr 13 16:49
schestowitz> Thanks.  One thing that I am looking for specifically is a fast and easyApr 13 16:49
schestowitz> way to browse through the titles of posts in reverse chronological.Apr 13 16:49
schestowitz> Currently one gets part of the posts, too, not just the titles:Apr 13 16:49
schestowitz> http://techrights.org/2009/04/Apr 13 16:49
schestowitz> Apr 13 16:49
TechrightsBotTitle: 2009  April | Techrights .::. Size~: 162 KBApr 13 16:49
schestowitz> A less pressing need is a full text search of just the posts and not theApr 13 16:49
schestowitz> rest of the site.Apr 13 16:49
schestowitz>> The archive plugins still have the same problem I've had with them sinceApr 13 17:03
schestowitz>> 2005. They don't scale and they slaughter the server (CPU and RAM). IApr 13 17:03
schestowitz>> can apply them to static pages though.Apr 13 17:03
schestowitz>>  http://techrights.org/archive-by-page/Apr 13 17:03
schestowitz> Apr 13 17:03
TechrightsBotTitle: Pages Archive | Techrights .::. Size~: 80.94 KBApr 13 17:03
schestowitz> The merits of static pages are often understated.Apr 13 17:03
schestowitz> Isn't there an easy way to run those URLs through a reverse proxyApr 13 17:03
schestowitz> (cache)?  Something between Varnish and Wordpress?Apr 13 17:03
schestowitzThat's what I'm trying at the moment.Apr 13 17:03
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