March 2004

File Sharing HELPS music sales?

Apparently so according to w draft working paper Koleman Strumpf’s on the effect of file sharing and music sales Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero, despite rather precise estimates. Moreover, these estimates are of moderate economic significance and are inconsistent with claims that file sharing is the primary reason […]

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MLS Rule Changes 2004

Just under two weeks before the new MLS season and HQ just announced some rule changes for 2003. First, overtime is gone to stay in line with recent FIFA mandates that golden goal overtimes can’t be used. This brings league games in line with how they are played in the rest of the world. While

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Bayesian filter in PHP

Bayesian filtering has come to the fore for being exceedingly good at identifying spam. The Mozilla email clients use it and they are excellent, once trained, in separating real spam from false positives. IBM Developer works shows how to implement Bayesian inference in PHP.

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IM Hydras

We use AIM at work, most of the time its pretty useful. Except at times like this afternoon when I feel like Hercules fighting the Hydra. As soon as I get answer someone’s question, two more pop up for me to deal with.

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Running PHP4 and 5 together

Runnigng PHP4 and PHP5 together using apache proxying. To solve this problem, I used Apache’s mod_proxy module and two apache servers… My primary server runs PHP 5 as an Apache module and a second apache server runs PHP 4.3.5 as a module. My configuration requires that you can setup multiple virtual servers and run Apache

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