How is it that a simple five-digit ZIP code provides any insight into who you are? After reading my recent article on how stores often ask for our ZIP codes to build marketing profiles, Michael Romanovsky wondered how it all works. “There may be more than one person with the same name in a particular ZIP code; thus the store may market to the wrong person,” he wrote. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
In recent weeks I’ve written about how companies and data brokers are growing ever more sophisticated in gathering and using our personal data for marketing. Stores mine our ZIP code to learn our identity; follow our change of address filings to the post office to find us when we move, and companies such as Acxiom keep consumer dossiers on almost everyone which they sell to many of the world’s most prominent companies. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
By pjeedu2247
I just build an AIX 7.1 box. I’m trying to install the following packages:
BASH
APACHE
CVS
ZIP
I tired to download them searching on google, but unfortunately I dint find any packages concerned with aix7.1. I got stuck at this point and dont know where to download those packages and there dependencies.
Please guide me further.
Thank you.
By Morgan Housel, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
They call economics “the dismal science.” We got a good example why this week.
Three years ago, Harvard economists Ken Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart published a paper based on solid history and rigorous statistics showing that when a country’s debt-to-GDP ratio breaches 90%, its growth plunges into negative territory. As highly respected economists, the paper influenced policymakers around the world.
“[I]t is widely acknowledged, based on serious research, that when public debt levels rise about 90% they tend to have a negative economic dynamism, which translates into low growth for many years,” said EU Commissioner Olli Rehn in 2010.
“Economists who have studied sovereign debt tell us that letting total debt rise above 90 percent of GDP creates a drag on economic growth and intensifies the risk of a debt-fueled economic crisis,” said Congressman Paul Ryan in 2011.
“It’s an excellent study,” said former Treasury secretary Tim Geithner two years ago.
But it wasn’t an excellent study. A separate group of economists tried replicating Rogoff and Reinhart’s results, and couldn’t. Stumped, they asked for the actual spreadsheet used in the seminal study, and found it littered with data omissions and Excel coding errors. Rogoff and Reinhart showed economies with debt-to-GDP above 90% experience average GDP growth of negative 0.2%. Fix the math errors, and the real figure is positive 2.2%. Oops.
Economists and pundits have been floored at the discovery all week. As they should; it was a flagrant error.
But these kind of “now-you-know-it-now-you-don’t” moments are more common than people think in economics.
Take the monthly jobs report. Almost every initial report is revised in subsequent months, often by a lot.
In September 2011, the initial report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed zero jobs were created that August. “Zero Job Growth Latest Bleak Sign for U.S. Economy” wrote The New York Times. “Hiring Grinds to a Halt” wrote CNNMoney. “President Zero.” Wrote the Republican National Committee. “THE ECONOMY ADDED ZERO, ZIP, NADA JOBS IN AUGUST.”
Except that, yes it did. Revisions later showed the economy added 132,000 jobs in August 2011, not zero. It was actually the third-best August jobs report in the previous decade. Few seemed to care about the revisions, or even notice. By then, the damage had been done.
Or take productivity. For most of the last decade, it was assumed that the American manufacturing sector became more productive, as employment shrank by output grew. “The decline in U.S. manufacturing employment is explained by rapid growth in manufacturing productivity over the past 50 years,” said Columbia Business School dean Glenn Hubbard.
But maybe not. As The Washington Post pointed out, many economists now think the productivity numbers are grossly inflated, since determining whether, say, a car assembled in Ohio with Japanese parts should be counted as domestic or foreign manufacturing is a messy subject. Cost savings from outsourcing can mistakenly show up as domestic output. Adjust for that bias, and as much as half of manufacturing output growth between 1997 and 2007 melts
From: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/04/18/admit-it-no-one-has-any-idea-whats-going-on/
With all the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth about Google killing Reader, I figured I’d blog something productive. Rather than piss and moan, here is a valid solution you can build for at most two bucks, using entirely Free Software, running on your own server, under your control. The solution is to install Tiny Tiny RSS on your own server, and if you have an Android smartphone, the official Tiny Tiny RSS app ($2 for the unlock key (support the developer- this stuff rocks)). Here are the step-by-step installation directions that should get you an up-and-running Reader replacement in less than 30 minutes.
First, create a directory on your webserver where you will install Tiny Tiny RSS. You will need Apache, lighttpd, Cherokee, or some other web server, PHP with the necessary modules as well as the PHP CLI interpreter, and either MySQL or PostgreSQL as prerequisites.:
# mkdir /var/www/rss # wget https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS/archive/1.7.4.tar.gz # tar -xf 1.7.4.tar.gz -C /var/www/rss/ # chown -R root.www-data /var/www/rss/ # chmod -R g+w,o+ /var/www/rss/
Pull up the web interface by navigating to http://example.com/rss/ (replace “example.com” with your domain name). The default login credentials are “admin” and “password”. Make sure to change the default password. Also, Tiny Tiny RSS uses a multiuser setup by default. You can add additional users, including one for yourself that isn’t “admin”, or you can change it to single user mode in the preferences.
After the setup is the way you want it, you’ll want to get your Google Reader feeds into Tiny Tiny RSS. Navigate to Reader, and export your data. This will take you to Google Takeout, and you’ll download a massive ZIP archive, that contains an OPML file, as well as a ton of other data. Grab your “subscriptions.xml” from that ZIP file, and import them into your Tiny Tiny RSS installation.
One awesome benefit of Tiny Tiny RSS, is that it has a built-in mobile version, if browsing the install from a mobile browser. It looks good too.
The only thing left to do, is navigate to the preferences, and enable the external API. There are additional 3rd party desktop-based readers that have Tiny Tiny RSS support, such as Liferea and Newsbeuter. Even the official Android app will need the option enabled. This will give you full synchronization between the web interface, your Android app, and your desktop RSS reader.
Unfortunately, Tiny Tiny RSS doesn’t update the feeds by default. You need to setup a script that manages this for you. The best solution is to write a proper init script that starts and stops the updating daemon. I didn’t do this. Instead, I did the next best thing. I put the following into my /etc/rc.local configuration file:
#!/bin/sh -e # # rc.local # # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel. # Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other # value on error. # # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution # bits. # # By default this script does nothing. sudo -u www-data php /var/www/rss/update_daemon2.php > /dev/null& exit 0
A couple …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu
By Anders Bylund, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Netflix is notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to the costs of producing fresh content for its own exclusive use. But third parties are spilling the beans.
A self-described “super agent” at a major Hollywood talent agency just provided detailed estimates on what Netflix pays per episode of this year’s new in-house shows. And the company isn’t skimping on budgets: The “cheapest” show on deck would be prison dramedy Orange Is the New Black, which costs about $3.8 million per episode.
The numbers, please
Here’s the cost per show, according to Creative Artists Agency agent Peter Micelli, by way of a report in Variety :
|
Show |
Genre |
Cost Per Episode |
Cost Per Season |
|---|---|---|---|
|
House of Cards |
Political drama |
“Way above” $4.5 million |
More than $60 million |
|
Hemlock Grove |
Werewolf horror |
About $4 million |
$52 million |
|
Orange Is the New Black |
Prison drama/comedy |
Just under $4 million |
$49 million |
These are not hard numbers straight from the source, but Micelli’s estimates presumably based on discussions with Netflix and other stakeholders. CAA is one of the “big four” talent agencies, and even though Netflix seems to have chosen actors from other agencies in most cases, you can safely assume that CAA sat at every show’s negotiating table.
Agents certainly have a clue what the going rate for acting services is, and you can’t consider a 13-episode role without knowing something about the production values surrounding the cast as well. Moreover, CAA knows plenty about the television industry, managing big names such as David Letterman and Ryan Seacrest when it isn’t busy launching the Oprah Winfrey Network or hit shows such as House and American Idol. That’s why I think Micelli should have a better view of Netflix’s production budgets than most of us mere mortals.
Whoa, doggie! Will production costs eat Netflix alive?
Isn’t that a bit high, though?
These figures are a bit higher than the rumors you’ve seen elsewhere. House of Cards was supposed to be the big-ticket title at roughly $100 million for two seasons, but Micelli’s figure is at least 20% higher. And all three of the shows he discussed broadly match the oft-guessed figures for House of Cards. If this agent is anywhere near the real figures, Netflix is spending way more on these shows that analysts and pundits have been assuming so far.
Micelli reminded his audience — about 500 entertainment lawyers at a symposium hosted by UCLA — that the costs are much higher than your regular, run-of-the-mill hour of serialized TV drama. HBO flagship Game of Thrones reportedly plays in the same budget ZIP code. That show is a huge selling point when Time Warner peddles its premium HBO service and has collected eight Emmy Awards in just two seasons. Quality production pays off. Sometimes you get what you paid for.
Micelli also noted that a significant chunk of these costs would account for global …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
In our everyday lives, we use a number of different programs to edit the various file types we work with. There’s Word for DOC files, Excel for XLS files, PowerPoint for presentations, image editors, video and music players, PDF viewers, Hex editors, ZIP expanders, and the list goes on. Most of us use a separate program for each one of these purposes and never stop to think about it. Free Editor claims to open for viewing and editing all the aforementioned file types, and more, all by itself.
Free Editor, as you can gather from the name, is completely free to use, and according to its support pages, can open and edit 75 different file types, including Microsoft Office files, other document files, image files, Windows files and coding files. I chose to start my tests with simple DOCX and XLSX files, and took Free Editor through its paces. I was immediately impressed by how lightweight and responsive it felt; there was no hanging and no waiting, and aside from a weird but harmless error message which appeared every time I opened a Word 2007 file, I could edit any file I chose to.
For Word documents, Free Editor supports all the basic editing functions such as formatting, images, links, tables, numbered or bullet lists, find and replace, and more. The table toolbar is especially easy to use, and surpasses even Word’s native table tools. The editor also includes a spellchecker, which is a nice touch. While Free Editor managed to show any DOC and DOCX file I fed to it, it failed to show figures and images that were already in the document.
With Excel files, things get a bit trickier, as Free Editor does not include Excel’s formula bar, which makes it next to impossible to use formulas. While you can insert any formula you wish, there are no helpful suggestions to help you along, and after entering a formula and getting a result, there’s no easy way to know which formula is written in the cell. Surprisingly, Free Editor does include more advanced editing options, such as conditional formatting—but with an oversight as big as the missing formula bar, it’s just not enough.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld
By Indalecio
I am therefore exploring the possibility to send them a zipx archive instead, as they are convinced they would be able to handle this volume of files in this format, however I can’t find anything on the internet showing zipx support for Redhat? I know zipx is quite a new format, but I´m surprised I can’t find any library on the internet that I could test on my machine. Any advice?
Thanks & Regards
Yann
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at The UNIX and Linux Forums
I have few lines like
A20120101.ANU.ZIP
A20120401.ABC.ZIP
A20120105.KJK.ZIP
A20120809.JUG.ZIP
A20120101.MAT.ZIP
B20120301.ANU.XIP
I want to filter by
1. Files starting with A and Ending With Z ( ^A.*.ZIP$)
2. And either ANU, or KJK or MAT in the file name.
Hope my requirement is clear. Please help.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at The UNIX and Linux Forums
If you like the idea behind DropIt but are after a more robust, commercial tool, you should take a look at RoboBasket. At its core, this $20 utility works in a very similar way to free DropIt: You configure file handling rules, and set it loose to enforce them on your messy folders and create order.
The biggest difference between the two (other than the price) is that RoboBasket has a much nicer interface for configuring filters, allowing for fine-grained control. File conditions and actions are shown as a vertical bar on the right side of the window. If you want your file to apply to all ZIP files, just drag the “Extension” condition onto the filter, and set it to “ZIP“. If you want it to only apply to old ZIP files, drag the “Date Created” condition onto the filter and set it accordingly. In this way you can build very fine-grained conditions that apply to specific files, but the filters remain easily readable and manageable. The same goes for operations: You can both move files and rename them, for example.
The only point of confusion I had with RoboBasket had to do with recursive operations: You can have RoboBasket apply a set of filters to a folder and all of its subfolders. I had it move all Zip files in my Downloads folder into a Zip subfolder (so, DownloadsZip). I then ran it again on the Downloads folder, but recursion made it do something silly: It created DownloadsZipZip, and put all the zip files there. Every time it ran, it buried my Zip files one level deeper in the file hierarchy. This is because recursion isn’t set on a per-filter basis (as would have been sensible), but on a per-folder basis.
There’s a workaround, though: You can create two sorting profile for the same folder, and set just one of them as recursive. So you put all of your recursive rules in one profile, and all of the others (say, file moving operations) in another. It’s not elegant, but it’s workable.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld
AMESBURY, Mass., Jan. 9 (UPI) — A Massachusetts couple said they decided to have their wedding Wednesday because the date matches the numbers of their ZIP code.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at UPI Odd News
Couples often hold weddings on significant dates, but a Massachusetts couple has come up with a new way of remembering their ceremony.
Cheryl Bennett and Steven DeLong, longtime residents of Amesbury, are getting married Wednesday, the same date as the town’s ZIP code of 01913.
Forty-five-year-old mechanic DeLong and 31-year-old medical receptionist Bennett will hold a short outdoor ceremony at the town gazebo with their children from previous marriages.
Bennett tells The Daily News of Newburyport (http://bit.ly/13ijO2d ) that she is fascinated by numbers and that the ZIP code wedding idea was hers.
Her favorite numbers are 11 and 22, and her husband-to-be’s birthday is Nov. 22.
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Information from: The Daily News of Newburyport (Mass.), http://www.newburyportnews.com
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DropIt is a free, open-source utility that processes collections of files according to rules you define. For example, you can set it loose at your Downloads folder, and telling it to sort all of the JPG and PNG files into an images subfolder, but only if they’re larger than 30KB (so you don’t have to save small images). It would then take all the ZIP files and put them in another folder, and delete all of the TMP files. In other words, you just configure a bunch of rules, and DropIt does the rest.
You can use DropIt by dragging and dropping files onto its desktop overlay (hence the name), or have DropIt sit in the background and constantly monitor one or more folders for any changes. Once you have a solid set of rules, that latter option offers a distraction-free way to get rid of file clutter, but only after you make some tweaks to the way DropIt works. By default, DropIt shows a progress bar whenever it’s processing files, and also prompts you when it stumbles upon a file it doesn’t know what to do with.
These behaviors make sense when you manually trigger DropIt, but when you have it running in the background, they can be maddening (imagine seeing a progress bar streak across your desktop every 60 seconds, 15 minutes, or however long the automatic scanning interval you set is). Fortunately, both of these features can be disabled in DropIt’s Options dialog.
For DropIt to be useful, you have to spend time carefully configuring it for your own use. After all, only you know how you like your files to be organized. But with time, it can become a useful file management assistant, sorting and removing needless files in ways that make sense to you.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld
ENVIROMENT
Linux: Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow)
iPlanet: iPlanet-WebServer-Enterprise/6.0SP1
Log Path: /usr/iplanet/servers/https-company/logs
I have iPlanet log rotation enabled rotating files on a daily basis.
The rotated logs are NOT compressed & are taking up too much space.
I need a script that will run daily that will do 3 things:
1. Check the folder for uncompressed log files, compress them into a ZIP file
2. Delete the uncompressed log files after they are compressed
3. Check the folder & delete the ZIP log files that are OLDER than 12 months.
Source: The UNIX and Linux Forums
