I second all the people on this board who say that it's always something stupid and preventable and the users don't want to learn how to avoid it. Of the many home computers I have fixed for people about 95% of all the issues could have been prevented with a little "don't click that" common sense.
I always tell people what they did wrong and what to look-out for while they are surfing the series of tubes. But I almost always, with few exceptions, have repeat customers over the exact crap on a different date. It seems to go in one ear and out the other with "Joe AOL User".
My point was all about the adoption of Apache vs. IIS. As is apparent with the people who replied to my post, different admins are comfortable with different server apps. Hence their adoption of their favored app.
With the proliferation of Windows UI, I would be willing to say that most newcomers would feel more comfortable setting-up IIS with some sort of Wizard than typing things in command line. It's all about your comfort zone.
BTW, Apache is still ahead according to the numbers. With the improvements being made with UI configuration, Apache isn't for just the 1337 anymore. I just wonder how many newbies know that.
n 2006, U.S. data centers consumed an estimated 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy, which accounted for about 1.5% of the total electricity consumed in the U.S. that year.
I think sites like MySpace and some of the others need to focus more on user security before they go all "Facebook". I can't tell you how many people who have come to me with complaints that their accounts got haxor'd because they didn't take precautions and got phished. A good social networking website will be genuinely foolproof before moving on to third party apps.
People (I.T. guys included) will almost always go with what they are comfortable with. IIS is very easy to configure and you could have a Windows Server up and running in no time. With Apache, it's not so simple. Modifying text files gives the admins great control over nearly everything; but it's not so simple. And some n00b admin couldn't exactly master Apache in a weekend like they could IIS.
I personally use Apache on my servers. But I could also take my good old time configuring them because I'm not planning on making any money from them.
I think I lost all faith in/. peer moderation. I drop a Star Trek reference and get modded-down while some other guy talks about titties and beer and gets praised. *shakes head* [/whining]
Nicola Tesla would be proud. This sounds like all the electrical field tuning he did back in the 1800's only on a smaller scale and for different purposes.
Modulating fields like this seems to me to be some sort of thrusting action although they don't come out and say it.
As if the U.S. Congress, arguably the most powerful legislative body in the world, didn't have enough stuff to do, now they're actually hearing the whining from the MAFIAA! Only in America my friends...
But that will all blow over in a matter of months. Americans are easily distracted by other things. To really understand how to build a bridge though, look no further than Ancient Rome. Now those guys knew a bridge from a hole in the ground!
What we do know about Earth's core and mantle (if such a thing exists) and how gravity works and all of that is, at best, speculative. I'm not going to just believe that the Earth's core is iron just because that's the commonly held belief. I kinda put that up there with the Earth being flat hooey from centuries past. I am neither correct nor incorrect with my statements as are you.
A complex heat exchanging structure planted in the Earth deep enough could provide adequate steam to turn a turbine much like a nuclear reactor. Except the pressure vessel in this case would be the Earth itself. I'm not saying drill clear down to magma; but close. Harnessing the power that is beneath our feet is something we should have done and proliferated greatly a long time ago.
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Might I direct your attention here The use of "mastery" was a bit of a poor choice.
I second all the people on this board who say that it's always something stupid and preventable and the users don't want to learn how to avoid it. Of the many home computers I have fixed for people about 95% of all the issues could have been prevented with a little "don't click that" common sense.
I always tell people what they did wrong and what to look-out for while they are surfing the series of tubes. But I almost always, with few exceptions, have repeat customers over the exact crap on a different date. It seems to go in one ear and out the other with "Joe AOL User".
...but they should at least fix the widely-known linking exploitsMy point was all about the adoption of Apache vs. IIS. As is apparent with the people who replied to my post, different admins are comfortable with different server apps. Hence their adoption of their favored app.
With the proliferation of Windows UI, I would be willing to say that most newcomers would feel more comfortable setting-up IIS with some sort of Wizard than typing things in command line. It's all about your comfort zone.
BTW, Apache is still ahead according to the numbers. With the improvements being made with UI configuration, Apache isn't for just the 1337 anymore. I just wonder how many newbies know that.
Is that it? Seems like small potatoes to me.
Oracle on an MS box... I'm sorry. I think I just had something crazy in my ear. Could you repeat that?
I think sites like MySpace and some of the others need to focus more on user security before they go all "Facebook". I can't tell you how many people who have come to me with complaints that their accounts got haxor'd because they didn't take precautions and got phished. A good social networking website will be genuinely foolproof before moving on to third party apps.
Might I direct your attention to my reply to the above post.
Agreed. Maybe "master" was a poor choice of a word. Maybe "become familiar enough to do useful things with" would be better.
People (I.T. guys included) will almost always go with what they are comfortable with. IIS is very easy to configure and you could have a Windows Server up and running in no time. With Apache, it's not so simple. Modifying text files gives the admins great control over nearly everything; but it's not so simple. And some n00b admin couldn't exactly master Apache in a weekend like they could IIS.
I personally use Apache on my servers. But I could also take my good old time configuring them because I'm not planning on making any money from them.
I think I lost all faith in /. peer moderation. I drop a Star Trek reference and get modded-down while some other guy talks about titties and beer and gets praised. *shakes head* [/whining]
Dr. McCoy, eat your heart out at your own pace.
Touche! And lol! But would John Q. Public even know about that?
Nicola Tesla would be proud. This sounds like all the electrical field tuning he did back in the 1800's only on a smaller scale and for different purposes.
Modulating fields like this seems to me to be some sort of thrusting action although they don't come out and say it.
As if the U.S. Congress, arguably the most powerful legislative body in the world, didn't have enough stuff to do, now they're actually hearing the whining from the MAFIAA! Only in America my friends...
But that will all blow over in a matter of months. Americans are easily distracted by other things. To really understand how to build a bridge though, look no further than Ancient Rome. Now those guys knew a bridge from a hole in the ground!
What we do know about Earth's core and mantle (if such a thing exists) and how gravity works and all of that is, at best, speculative. I'm not going to just believe that the Earth's core is iron just because that's the commonly held belief. I kinda put that up there with the Earth being flat hooey from centuries past. I am neither correct nor incorrect with my statements as are you.
Guinness in the bottle doesn't hold a candle to Guinness on tap... warm!
Puny humans... minds not open enough to consider binary stars...
Isn't there something more worth while that scientists could be researching?
A complex heat exchanging structure planted in the Earth deep enough could provide adequate steam to turn a turbine much like a nuclear reactor. Except the pressure vessel in this case would be the Earth itself. I'm not saying drill clear down to magma; but close. Harnessing the power that is beneath our feet is something we should have done and proliferated greatly a long time ago.
But I don't see what the big deal is here.
Unsprung weight is the problem.
The only time I don't drive within the confines of State and Federal law, or "like a jackass", in a street legal vehicle is when I'm on the track.
Wasn't there a story on this yesterday?