DSL providers present a similiar phenomenon -- if DSL isn't available in your area, it's always three months away. Some of my friends have been waiting these for these three months to pass for years.
The next time a DSL provider tells you "three months," ask which three months. They probably mean three months in 2010.
Exactly. What these newbie Slashbots fail to realize is that, unlike Slashdot, most nontrivial websites have bigger concerns that serving up static pages and CGI. You have to worry about scripting frameworks involved (ASP/JSP/PHP/etc), raw speed for HTTP requests, vendor support, third-party tools (CF, etc) software porting, administrative software porting, training/hiring administrators, training/hiring developers...
You mention COM, and that's another good point. Many web applications are merely parts of larger distributed applications using COM/COM+ and DCOM. How do you reconcile this? There are no parallels to DCOM in the *nix world; the closest thing you'll find are some proprietary CORBA-based frameworks, and porting thus requires design changes.
Are we using an application server? Now we have to worry about the performance of HTTP connectors, resource pooling...
Are we going to change our database platform, as well? That complicates things further, even if you aren't changing vendors -- the cost and performance of Oracle, for instance, vary between OS and hardware architceture. You have to worry about the availabilty of drivers, et cetera, and possibly have to train/hire DBAs...
Slashdot is replete with 15yo kids with no experience other that installing Red Hat on their l337 Linux box. For a real business, it isn't as simple as saying "A duh, slobber, Windows is sucks and Linux is l337!" and reformatting all of your webservers some weekend. My particular office uses both NT and AIX boxes, and while we weren't affected by CR/Nimba/whatever, I bet that if we were, the cost to our business would be insignificant compared to the cost of porting to a new platform.
Theo "The Rat" de Raadt lives in a hut in the Canadian wilderness, a hut constructed with wooden planks and pieces of car doors from the junkyard in Ontario. (He calls the junkyard the "No-dollar Store" and giggles when he does.)
His only companion is a large, black dog named Farmer. Farmer chases away the young boys who come to the hut to perform rites of passage. If Farmer is a good dog and kills a boy, Theo rewards him with "no bum-hurt tonight." (Farmer doesn't like the bum-hurt, as he can only lay on his side for days afterward, and so avoiding the bum-hurt is always in his canine mind.)
His main box is a 33MHz Pentium which he stole from an office-supply store. He also has a SPARCstation 2, which is the main OpenBSD webserver.
He can't code very well, and mainly spends his days downloading NetBSD source, replacing the names of NetBSD developers with his own, and performing his "wiggly goodgood dance," an elaborate ritual which involves running around in his dooryard, throwing himseld in a pile of mulch, and then writhing on the ground for hours.
He spends his nights working with Osama bin Laden (or, as Theo calls him, "Sneaky-Oh"), planning to destroy the United States. He concocts detailed plans and stores them on his Pentium box, encrypting them with software that he stole from US companies.
Theo "writes" OpenBSD. He takes the aforementioned NetBSD source code, adds in some security features "borrowed" from secure Linux distributions, and then copy-and-pastes every piece of stolen crypto code he can find. The only original work in a OpenBSD distribution is the fish art -- Theo is quite the artist, and is a master fecal painter. (Note: Theo's art is located on the installation media. The package art is actually drawn by Theo's cousin Deo, leader the infamous "Gay Deo and his Faggy Friends" variety troupe.)
Once a month, Theo ventures into the "big city." (Toronto.) He loves to sit on the curb, stare up at the big lights, as people if their name is George, and stuff the pockets of his overalls with objects d'art found in dumpsters. (His "smell-treasure," he calls it.) On these visits, Theo sometimes drops off new versions of OpenBSD at the Calgary Computer Shoppe of Greater Faggotsburg, a quaint little store which manages distribution of OpenBSD in the same way that Walnut Creek managed FreeBSD before they went bankrupt due to crappy outdated code and were bought by BSDi, purveryors of even crappier, more outdated code ("SysV? What's that? What do you mean that BSD UNIX died ten years ago?"), who were bought by Wind River, an unknown company consisting of two farm-league professional Mexican wrestlers named "Muchas Death" and "El Pinto Scario."
Theo, The Rat as he would be called by his friends if he had any friends, is a dirty little bitch. No one likes him because he's an asshole. He sticks his fingers up his ass and then wipes his fingers on the jungle-gyms at preschools.
The incorporation procedure varies from state to state. Deleware makes it fast, inexpensive, and exceedingly easy to incorporate, and because you don't have to be based in a state to incorporate a business in it, many people choose Delaware. Other popular states are Nevada, California, New York, and Florida -- but Deleware is the best.
Hi, buddy. I guess you forgot that Slashdot is hosted on Exodus servers, and once we grabbed your IP address from the weblog, it was only a matter of time before Skeletor was made aware of your treachery. Release the Exodus hellhounds, Skeletor! Death to the traitor!
To the Slashdot "editorial" staff, that is example of decent language, my friend. Most of these "editors" can't manage to write two sentences without spelling "the" incorrectly, and they misuse "your" so often that I almost suspect they are mocking the literate few.
You guys overestimate Slashdot's traffic. Sure, they're busy -- for a FUD weblog. But in the league of major news and portal sites, Slashdot's traffic is nothing. As for the dreaded "Slashdot Effect," notice how it only affects smaller sites. Notice that Slashdot has never DOSed the New York Times, and they link to NYT every day... to NYT, Slashdot's traffic is insignificant.
Trust me, I've seen real traffic -- if you ever have a chance, check out the access logs for major newspapers' sites. WashingtonPost.com gets more traffic in the wee hours of the morning than Slashdot got on Nimba Day (based on Malda's notes about hits/second). Jokes about Slashdot's "huge traffic" may be amusing to newbies, but really, come on -- Slashdot doesn't even rate an Akamaization.
I can tell you one thing, do not go with Interland. I tried them out on a friend's recommendation, right before they bought Hostpro. Hostpro, if you didn't know, are cocksuckers. Now, the Hostpro cocksuckers are Interland cocksuckers, and the QOS has dropped through the floor. Customers are running away like Frenchmen.
I feel sorry for Micron (who bought Interland); Crucial RAM rocks. However, Interland is no longer a viable alternative for real webhosting. I recommend that current customers book ASAP.
I moved to Verio. Not the cheapest, but their service reps are fast as hell -- my sites were up and running within four hours of submitting the order form (!!). And because they will do monthly billing (unlike Interland, whose minimum is three months), they're a good interim service provider until you find someone you want to stay with.
I haven't seen the show, but I've seen the pics, and I don't think she's that great. In my eyes, no one is hotter than Troi -- her lucious body combined with those fucking one-piece uniforms drives me insane. If I were ever in the same room with her, her empathetic brain would explode and I would get slapped before I could even say a word.
*Wacka*wacka*wacka*wacka* AAAAUUUUGGHHH... oh, shit, another week of sticky keys...
AMD isn't stable. I've owned several AMD systems, and built many others. Ditto with Intel boxes. I've also done consulting for large (>10,000 emloyees) corporations with a mix of both. AMD systems ARE less stable. And after seeing the recent results of Tom's heatsink tests, I'm afraid to leave AMD systems running unattended.
Users don't want AMD systems. Every user I've talked to sees them as the "value" solution, like even worse than Celerons. It may not be the truth, but AMD inherited the Cyrix stigma.
Pricing does suck for AMD parts. They may be cheaper to the consumer, but AMD mainboards can be expensive due to lower demand, and when you're competing to buy parts in a much smaller market (AMD produces less CPUs than Intel), OEMs can end up paying out the ass for those bulk orders that really matter.
Grow up. Just because AMD is a loser underdog like GNU/Itsux doen't mean that they deserve our support for their crappy product. The Athlon is good for gamers and that's about it.
FWIW, OEMs (remember them? over 99% of the market for Intel and AMD, and thus the only people who matter?) have easy access to P4-specific cases. Just because some 15-year-old script kiddie who builds his own b0X0r to impress his l337 friends has to ask mommy for a new case becase the P4 mobo needs EATX doesn't mean shit to anyone. Buy an OEM PC, or at least realize that homebrew PCs don't make enough money to matter. Sort of like ToyOS^H^H^H^H^HGNU/Linux.
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This "Aladin" fellow sounds like a terrorist to me.
Well, I'm not -- I'm running Office XP --"i7 0wns j00r s0rry a$$." Have fun with your lousy Cheap Software.
Oh, yeah. That's just Mae Ling Mak. No worries.
No! Then scientists would be forced to come to grips with the fact that they can't do anything.
The next time a DSL provider tells you "three months," ask which three months. They probably mean three months in 2010.
You mention COM, and that's another good point. Many web applications are merely parts of larger distributed applications using COM/COM+ and DCOM. How do you reconcile this? There are no parallels to DCOM in the *nix world; the closest thing you'll find are some proprietary CORBA-based frameworks, and porting thus requires design changes.
Are we using an application server? Now we have to worry about the performance of HTTP connectors, resource pooling...
Are we going to change our database platform, as well? That complicates things further, even if you aren't changing vendors -- the cost and performance of Oracle, for instance, vary between OS and hardware architceture. You have to worry about the availabilty of drivers, et cetera, and possibly have to train/hire DBAs...
Slashdot is replete with 15yo kids with no experience other that installing Red Hat on their l337 Linux box. For a real business, it isn't as simple as saying "A duh, slobber, Windows is sucks and Linux is l337!" and reformatting all of your webservers some weekend. My particular office uses both NT and AIX boxes, and while we weren't affected by CR/Nimba/whatever, I bet that if we were, the cost to our business would be insignificant compared to the cost of porting to a new platform.
Newbie scum...
But Mozilla is fucking gay!
664.32MHz -- Speed of the Beast's CPU.
His only companion is a large, black dog named Farmer. Farmer chases away the young boys who come to the hut to perform rites of passage. If Farmer is a good dog and kills a boy, Theo rewards him with "no bum-hurt tonight." (Farmer doesn't like the bum-hurt, as he can only lay on his side for days afterward, and so avoiding the bum-hurt is always in his canine mind.)
His main box is a 33MHz Pentium which he stole from an office-supply store. He also has a SPARCstation 2, which is the main OpenBSD webserver.
He can't code very well, and mainly spends his days downloading NetBSD source, replacing the names of NetBSD developers with his own, and performing his "wiggly goodgood dance," an elaborate ritual which involves running around in his dooryard, throwing himseld in a pile of mulch, and then writhing on the ground for hours.
He spends his nights working with Osama bin Laden (or, as Theo calls him, "Sneaky-Oh"), planning to destroy the United States. He concocts detailed plans and stores them on his Pentium box, encrypting them with software that he stole from US companies.
Theo "writes" OpenBSD. He takes the aforementioned NetBSD source code, adds in some security features "borrowed" from secure Linux distributions, and then copy-and-pastes every piece of stolen crypto code he can find. The only original work in a OpenBSD distribution is the fish art -- Theo is quite the artist, and is a master fecal painter. (Note: Theo's art is located on the installation media. The package art is actually drawn by Theo's cousin Deo, leader the infamous "Gay Deo and his Faggy Friends" variety troupe.)
Once a month, Theo ventures into the "big city." (Toronto.) He loves to sit on the curb, stare up at the big lights, as people if their name is George, and stuff the pockets of his overalls with objects d'art found in dumpsters. (His "smell-treasure," he calls it.) On these visits, Theo sometimes drops off new versions of OpenBSD at the Calgary Computer Shoppe of Greater Faggotsburg, a quaint little store which manages distribution of OpenBSD in the same way that Walnut Creek managed FreeBSD before they went bankrupt due to crappy outdated code and were bought by BSDi, purveryors of even crappier, more outdated code ("SysV? What's that? What do you mean that BSD UNIX died ten years ago?"), who were bought by Wind River, an unknown company consisting of two farm-league professional Mexican wrestlers named "Muchas Death" and "El Pinto Scario."
Theo, The Rat as he would be called by his friends if he had any friends, is a dirty little bitch. No one likes him because he's an asshole. He sticks his fingers up his ass and then wipes his fingers on the jungle-gyms at preschools.
Thank you.
Check out Delaware's incorporation page or a Google search for details.
She'd look good with cum on her glasses. I guess I'll find out next week.
Thanks for the wackoff material, chum.
Hi, buddy. I guess you forgot that Slashdot is hosted on Exodus servers, and once we grabbed your IP address from the weblog, it was only a matter of time before Skeletor was made aware of your treachery. Release the Exodus hellhounds, Skeletor! Death to the traitor!
To the Slashdot "editorial" staff, that is example of decent language, my friend. Most of these "editors" can't manage to write two sentences without spelling "the" incorrectly, and they misuse "your" so often that I almost suspect they are mocking the literate few.
"Um, those YT-sized cages are for rackmount servers. No, really!"
Trust me, I've seen real traffic -- if you ever have a chance, check out the access logs for major newspapers' sites. WashingtonPost.com gets more traffic in the wee hours of the morning than Slashdot got on Nimba Day (based on Malda's notes about hits/second). Jokes about Slashdot's "huge traffic" may be amusing to newbies, but really, come on -- Slashdot doesn't even rate an Akamaization.
I moved to Verio. Not the cheapest, but their service reps are fast as hell -- my sites were up and running within four hours of submitting the order form (!!). And because they will do monthly billing (unlike Interland, whose minimum is three months), they're a good interim service provider until you find someone you want to stay with.
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You know you want it. I certainly do.
*Wacka*wacka*wacka*wacka* AAAAUUUUGGHHH... oh, shit, another week of sticky keys...
Let me introduce you to my friend Hemos...
While I applaud your anti-AMD sentiment, I urge you so shut the fuck up until you hit puberty. Thanks, cocksucker.
SUCK.
AMD isn't stable. I've owned several AMD systems, and built many others. Ditto with Intel boxes. I've also done consulting for large (>10,000 emloyees) corporations with a mix of both. AMD systems ARE less stable. And after seeing the recent results of Tom's heatsink tests, I'm afraid to leave AMD systems running unattended.
Users don't want AMD systems. Every user I've talked to sees them as the "value" solution, like even worse than Celerons. It may not be the truth, but AMD inherited the Cyrix stigma.
Pricing does suck for AMD parts. They may be cheaper to the consumer, but AMD mainboards can be expensive due to lower demand, and when you're competing to buy parts in a much smaller market (AMD produces less CPUs than Intel), OEMs can end up paying out the ass for those bulk orders that really matter.
Grow up. Just because AMD is a loser underdog like GNU/Itsux doen't mean that they deserve our support for their crappy product. The Athlon is good for gamers and that's about it.
FWIW, OEMs (remember them? over 99% of the market for Intel and AMD, and thus the only people who matter?) have easy access to P4-specific cases. Just because some 15-year-old script kiddie who builds his own b0X0r to impress his l337 friends has to ask mommy for a new case becase the P4 mobo needs EATX doesn't mean shit to anyone. Buy an OEM PC, or at least realize that homebrew PCs don't make enough money to matter. Sort of like ToyOS^H^H^H^H^HGNU/Linux.