HM Treasury got massive web site usage on Budget Day

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Site usage update

Site usage update 06/17/2005 05:03 PM

Due to excessive CPU usage, no article submissions will be published until the end of this week. All articles more than a year old will be removed from the database over the next few days and archived as static pages to reduce the database size and MySQL load.

Site note: heavy usage

Site note: heavy usage 06/17/2005 05:03 PM

DreamHost reports that this site is using excessive CPU time, so I've added some usage limits. When the load is too high, some content may be unavailable. I will continue to monitor the usage over the next few days to determine if any permanent limits will be needed.

Usage quadruples for Clinical Governance
Support Team web site

Usage quadruples for Clinical Governance
Support Team web site 01/05/2004 03:38 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jan 5 2004 3:11AM ET

Massive Price Cuts on Much Anticipate
New Ligo Site: BT Phones, Panasonic
Cordless Phones and Many other Dect
Telephones

Massive Price Cuts on Much Anticipate
New Ligo Site: BT Phones, Panasonic
Cordless Phones and Many other Dect
Telephones 02/01/2005 08:46 PM
The much talked about new liGo Electonics site, www.cordless-phones.uk.com, featuring an array of fantastic new products such as dect cordless phones, business phones, headsets, fax machines and much more, has been launched. With massive price cuts, the site is expected to be very popular with consumers. [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Brief: Treasury hires new CIO

Brief: Treasury hires new CIO 05/28/2004 04:55 PM
Ira Hobbs, deputy CIO for the past seven years at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, replaces Drew Ladner, who left the Treasury Department at the end of April.

Treasury takes on Microsoft

Treasury takes on Microsoft 12/24/2003 11:37 PM
Haaretz Dec 24 2003 10:26PM ET

AT&T's Treasury deal in doubt

AT&T's Treasury deal in doubt 03/22/2005 03:35 PM
Federal overseers say bid should be reopened after upholding protests.

HM Treasury board gets two new non execs

HM Treasury board gets two new non execs 04/04/2005 01:39 AM
PublicTechnology.net Apr 4 2005 6:02AM GMT

Author likens Treasury to 'mafia'

Author likens Treasury to 'mafia' 07/13/2004 07:06 AM
Tony Blair's ex-adviser accuses the Treasury of over-reacting to his upcoming insider's book on New Labour.

AT&T's $1B Treasury deal called into
question

AT&T's $1B Treasury deal called into
question 03/19/2005 03:27 AM
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has told the U.S. Treasury Department to reopen negotiations on a $1 billion telecommunications contract it awarded to AT&T Corp. in December.

Treasury cuts estimate of U.S. borrowing

Treasury cuts estimate of U.S. borrowing 05/03/2004 04:33 PM

"BUSH BURNED: FORMER TREASURY SEC
UNLEASHED IN BOOK"

"BUSH BURNED: FORMER TREASURY SEC
UNLEASHED IN BOOK" 01/11/2004 03:46 PM

AT&T's $1 billion Treasury deal called
into question

AT&T's $1 billion Treasury deal called
into question 03/19/2005 02:23 AM
The Treasury Department must reopen negotiations for a $1 billion telecommunications contract that the agency awarded to AT&T in December, the Government Accountability Office has ruled.

AP: Treasury Agents Track Bin Laden
Money (AP)

AP: Treasury Agents Track Bin Laden
Money (AP) 04/29/2004 02:02 AM
AP - The Treasury Department agency entrusted with blocking the financial resources of terrorists told Congress that at the end of last year it had just four full-time employees dedicated to investigating Osama bin Laden's and Saddam Hussein's wealth while nearly two dozen were working on Cuban embargo violations.

Ex US-Treasury Chief: Saw No Evidence of
Iraq WMDs (Reuters)

Ex US-Treasury Chief: Saw No Evidence of
Iraq WMDs (Reuters) 01/11/2004 10:27 PM
Reuters - Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said he never saw any evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction -- President Bush's main justification for going to war -- and was told "deficits don't matter" when he warned of a looming fiscal crisis.

Treasury Department Breaks Privacy
Promise Because It's Too Inconvenient

Treasury Department Breaks Privacy
Promise Because It's Too Inconvenient 01/08/2004 08:42 PM
Generally speaking, if you make a promise to keep someone's information private, and then reveal it, you could get in a lot of trouble. That's apparently not the case if you're a government agency yourself, though. The Treasury Department recently asked for comments on a proposal, which would be posted on a website, but promised to keep personal information (street address, email addresses) private. However, when they received more than the expected number of comments, they simpl y changed the policy and decided to post the comments with full info. Apparently, they're telling the world that you only have to obey privacy promises if it's convenient.

HM Treasury appoints Computershare as
registrar for gov't bonds

HM Treasury appoints Computershare as
registrar for gov't bonds 07/19/2004 02:49 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jul 19 2004 7:16AM GMT

US Treasury to Post Previously Private
Email Addresses Online

US Treasury to Post Previously Private
Email Addresses Online 01/09/2004 09:50 PM

Treasury breaks word on e-mail anonymity
| CNET News.com

Treasury breaks word on e-mail anonymity
| CNET News.com 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
decided to post email addresses of those who commented online .. Treasury Dept. About To Break Can Spam Law .. Treasury breaks word on e-mail anonymity .. according to an article on news.com

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Treasury Releases Technical
Clarification Relating to U.S.-Japan
Income Tax Treaty

Treasury Releases Technical
Clarification Relating to U.S.-Japan
Income Tax Treaty 05/21/2004 08:33 AM
U.S. Treasury May 21 2004 12:39PM GMT

U.S. Treasury plans survey on proposed
move to electronic savings bonds

U.S. Treasury plans survey on proposed
move to electronic savings bonds 01/02/2004 03:43 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 2 2004 2:49PM ET

Selkirk to Launch First Global
Browser-Based Treasury Management
Solution

Selkirk to Launch First Global
Browser-Based Treasury Management
Solution 06/17/2004 09:18 PM
BC Technology Jun 18 2004 1:01AM GMT

Daily Tax Update: Treasury and IRS Issue
Proposed Regulations on Adjustments to
Net Unrealized Built-In Gain o

Daily Tax Update: Treasury and IRS Issue
Proposed Regulations on Adjustments to
Net Unrealized Built-In Gain o 06/25/2004 05:11 PM
Mondaq Jun 25 2004 8:34PM GMT

Configuring Site Systems and Site to
Site Communications with Advanced
Security

Configuring Site Systems and Site to
Site Communications with Advanced
Security 08/16/2004 10:22 AM

Reduce CPU Usage

Reduce CPU Usage 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
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UK WAP usage skyrockets

UK WAP usage skyrockets 06/03/2004 02:04 PM
Telecoms.com Jun 3 2004 5:10PM GMT

How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much?

How Much Broadband Usage is Too Much? 01/08/2004 07:43 PM
Semprini2k asks: "I just came home from work to find a letter waiting in the old snail mail box from my Broadband ISP. It has very nice titling on it: 'Notice ...

Wap usage rises again

Wap usage rises again 03/06/2004 02:05 AM
Web-User Mar 5 2004 10:52AM GMT

Creative usage of SMS

Creative usage of SMS 05/15/2004 03:49 PM
(for those of you who have trouble with the norwegian language, the board says “Border Control? Do you want...

for a massive trend

for a massive trend 11/02/2003 03:12 AM
Michael J. Totten

michaeltotten.com/archives/000137.html
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The MASSIVE database

The MASSIVE database 12/28/2004 11:37 AM
Massive is a math and science song database that also offers a streaming radio station .. MASSIVE

science-groove.org/MASSIVE
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Massive aid effort gets under way

Massive aid effort gets under way 12/28/2004 05:08 AM
International relief begins to arrive in Asia following the quake that has killed tens of thousands of people.

Wap usage continues to soar

Wap usage continues to soar 01/08/2004 08:38 PM
Web-User Jan 8 2004 6:24AM ET

Feed usage and copyright

Feed usage and copyright 02/01/2005 09:34 PM

Martin Schwimmer, a trademark lawyer, has asked Bloglines to remove his feed from their service, partly on the grounds that Bloglines plans on eventually selling advertising on their site. Scoble&# 8217;s got a number of links to reactions to the news.

The complaint is that his feed is licensed under a “no commercial use” Creative Commons license and he claims that Bloglines, being a commercial service, is violating that license by allowing their users to subscribe to his feed.

There are a number of products and services that are advertising supported and rely on content generated by others. Although search listings contain only excerpts of web pages, search engines regularly place advertisements alongside those excerpts. Gmail puts ads next to email created by other people. Eudora does the same. Opera puts their own ads next to every page I view.

Would Mr. Schwimmer demand that Google block Gmail addresses from receiving his email? Or that Opera refuse to display the pages on his web site?

RSS is designed to to allow for easy republication and consumption of content. Bloglines isn’t taking a feed and claiming that content as their own. They’re only showing feeds to people in direct response to their request. I’d have to subscribe to Mr. Schwimmer’s feed in order to see it in Bloglines. Is this a commercial use?

This is a sticky question. Bloglines is providing a product to consumers and they have to make money somewhere. Feeds are designed to allow people to read the content of the site without visiting the actual site. So the Bloglines service is letting people use the feed that Schwimmer is publishing in the way that it was intended to be used. A product like MyRSS that scrapes sites, turning them into feeds and inserting ads is a much more clear issue. They’re re-purposing content, republishing it in a way that it wasn’t intended to be used, and inserting their own ads into it.

The question is where do we draw the line? Is reading the feed in a reader like FeedDemon a commercial use? I had to buy a copy. What about an aggregated list of posts on a site? Mt-Plugins.org used to have the latest posts from a number of plugin authors (including me) on their site. Would this be an acceptable use? Syndic8 publishes a list of random feed items as RSS. Is that okay? Would your answer change if Syndic8 started selling ads in that feed? There are a number of services that will send you feed contents by email. If I subscribed to Schwimmer’s feed with such a service and had those emails go to my Gmail address, is that a commercial use of his content and who is responsible for it?

I don’t have an easy answer to any of those questions. Up until now when faced with the question of commercial use of my feed (which I also prohibit), I’ve treated it on a case by case basis. I know a commercial use when I see it but I’d be hard pressed to offer up a definition of it.

A side note: Schwimmer is concerned that Bloglines doesn’t display his contact information alongside his feed. That’s because he doesn’t provide it in the feed. Feed readers can only display what he actually publishes. He also doesn’t include his Creative Commons license (or any other) in his feed, simply stating “Copyright 2005 Martin Schwimmer.”

Broadband usage jumps 38%

Broadband usage jumps 38% 12/24/2004 12:36 PM

Harry Fuecks: About PHP usage

Harry Fuecks: About PHP usage 05/19/2004 01:30 AM
Another (guess) big user group which is largely ignored is those employing PHP on corporate Intranets / Extranets (that includes me so I've got opinions). I would hazard a guess that of the top 1000 companies in the world, 80%+ have PHP in action somewhere (although probably also unaware of the fact at a managerial level).

This group faces an entirely different set of problems - performance is often less important, traffic being relatively low. Being able to integrate PHP with a whole range of "back office" systems as well as desktop applications is the biggest issue for this group, integration with Windows being the #1 problem.

Great post, Harry. Most of my PHP work is on corporate Intranets/Extranets. Integration with MS Office is the biggest desktop hurdle we had to face. For reports and document generation, this can be solved by generating MS-Word files in RTF format or Excel format. There are several such document libraries available (both commercial and open source).

PHP allows you to call COM objects. However if integration to COM objects is required, then writing XML-RPC stubs that communicate with servers running COM objects is definitely more robust than calling COM from PHP.

I must admit performance is still an issue, especially if you are rolling out web applications that are used by large numbers of users, eg. for online transaction processing. Fortunately, bandwidth is normally not a problem, except for Extranets that allow connection via modem.

Usage Notes on Mail.app

Usage Notes on Mail.app 01/07/2004 03:14 PM
Now that I'm on Mail.app, I'm noticing things which aren't there (or which I haven't figured out how to do) or which don't work the way I want. Mark outgoing mail as high priority Compose a bulleted list Integrate an HTML page (cut and paste almost works, but doesn't preserve...

PHP Usage Survey Results

PHP Usage Survey Results 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Check out the results of the PHP Usage Survey conducted by Zend Technologies, including feedback from thousands of PHP users around the world. Thanks for all who contributed!

UK WAP usage doubles in 12 months

UK WAP usage doubles in 12 months 08/09/2004 11:59 PM
Builder AU Aug 10 2004 2:36AM GMT
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