Since the mid 90's I've been a user of FOSS projects and products for business use - contributing where and when I can - and I've been a long time customer of Rackspace since 2001 and an employee since Jan 2007... I must say I'm thrilled by the moves my company has been making to not only be a major consumer of Open Source products but also now a major contributor to such projects. From open Cloud architecture APIs and API specifications (enabling anyone to build their own Cloud hosting systems) to big-data focused projects like Cassandra and, of course, Drizzle.
Sorry to gush here...it's just that so many companies tend to nominally use Open Source to gain market share and free development help initially and then begin to restrict documentation, support and even access to new features in a dual licensing scheme. The list of names of those that "SCO-ify" their Open Source strategy is too long and sad to mention. So, please cut me some slack as I revel in the direction we're heading at Rackspace -- I hope more companies will jump on this trend to raise the sea level for us all.
To the Drizzle team: welcome! Very happy to have you onboard and look forward to your continued contributions to the community.
I agree. For more than 1 year and after contacting them directly and receiving unfulfilled assurances of better behavior I added the following insult to my iptables rules:
-A INPUT -s 64.1.215.160/255.255.255.224 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
This is hilarious. I purposefully ignore vmail. It's too time consuming. If I'm interested in the caller (via callerid), I'll return the call. Otherwise, I ignore it. It's crap to me. I don't care how noble you think the cause to be -- it's crap.
When I attended college in Arlington, TX (UTA) in the early 90's I already knew people ignored car alarms. Across the street from where I lived was one of the largest parking lots (at the time) for the University. Whenever a thunderstorm rolled through...yeah...often...the thunder of nearby lightning strikes would set those bad boys off en masse. VERY annoying.
I've never met anyone who's had their car NOT stolen due to a car alarm. Although I have known people to have their car found before trashed due to LowJack.
of course for the sake of contamination, remember to image the drive first, that way if you screw it up, your just messing up a copy:) Very important point.
Recently upgraded to Hardy Heron and pidgin's little text area doesn't have an adjustment handle...futzed with it off and on and was annoyed but didn't look at preferences or Google to see the why and wherefore of how to get it back.
Now, thanks to/., I know.
Pidgin developers have their reasons, I'm sure, but it is very annoying to me, someone used to using that handle to make the text area to a comfortable size. Unwillingness to budge and at least make it an option to enable the resizing... ridiculous.
Instead of removing features, how about a little time to provide a way to sort groups automatically. My company uses a XAMMP server for internal communication -- we're about 2,500 strong -- and each department is grouped. With Spark and other clients I can sort alphanumerically. Not with Pidgin.
You'll just invite delay and trouble by contacting service providers. Instead, change his laptop's root password (it's easy: at grub edit the default stanza and set init=/bin/bash and then boot; once in, use "passwd" to change the root passwd; next use "passwd username" to change his user's password; using the rescue environment is slightly more complicated). This assumes he is not using an encrypted FS, which is likely.
Once you can boot into his user account, run the mail client(s) he has setup. They likely have the passwords stored. Voila, no need to contact the service providers.
Ethical? Well, you'll want to check with his heirs, first, but assuming there is no resistance on that front, go for it. It's called archeology when we do it to the Pharaohs.
Unless one were to abstract property into say, non-real estate entities...like...oh....intellectual property...or holding of ephemeral property such as Internet holdings.
Not only is Ethanol shortsighted it is exactly the wrong direction for us to take. Ethanol is taken from food sources and results in local, regional and, as it increases in popularity, global increases in food prices as well as predictable food shortages.
Besides the inefficiencies of transporting the raw materials, the finished product CANNOT be piped due to the inherent water in the ethanol rusting/corroding the pipes. So, the only means of transportation is truck, train or barge -- fossil fuel transportation systems.
Why kick against the goads of commerce and progress? Why complain about that which you cannot change? You are flotsam on the sea of technology...
Besides, my MacBook is pretty and trendy and makes me look smart.
Actually, I've come to like the wide-screen format for placing my IM buddy list on the left and OSX dock on the right. It works nicely. Code? Yeah, that's mainly what I look at all day. The center area for content and side areas for BS is the Slashdot model!
Actually... that's the point. Since Slashdot began its been begging for a wide screen monitor. The OEMs are finally giving into the Slashdot imperator by providing Slashdot-optimized widescreen monitors!
Mr. Novick, your YouTube presence has attracted a lot of attention -- even mine. I find your ads pithy, sharp, witty.
When Senator Hillary Clinton ran for the open Senate seat in New York everyone knew it was but a springboard to the US President campaign trail. When Senator Obama left the State Senate for the US Senate, many people dreamed -- and more, probably, feared -- it was but a springboard for the top national office.
What is your opinion on candidates who use a limited election to project a national campaign? Who, while denying the charge, are seen as using an office for personal gain rather than determinedly seeking to serve in the very office they fight to obtain?
Lastly...what makes your beyond-the-borders campaign different than those (named and not named) others whose State-representing Senatorial campaign have reached national (and international) attention?
These story elements (Japan, WWII, Allied bombing and nuclear technology) usually have a different theme than protecting the world from the hazards of nuclear fission gone awry.
Ron Paul & Lyndon LaRouche
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The more I watch Ron Paul and his followers, especially, the more I think about Lyndon LaRouche, who was the first presidential candidate that made a campaign organization scarier than Jim Jones' People Temple, the Moonies, Hare Krishna and Scientology combined.
Perhaps now Ron will join with LaRouche as a running mate. If not Lyndon himself, then an non-felon appointee.
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Since the mid 90's I've been a user of FOSS projects and products for business use - contributing where and when I can - and I've been a long time customer of Rackspace since 2001 and an employee since Jan 2007... I must say I'm thrilled by the moves my company has been making to not only be a major consumer of Open Source products but also now a major contributor to such projects. From open Cloud architecture APIs and API specifications (enabling anyone to build their own Cloud hosting systems) to big-data focused projects like Cassandra and, of course, Drizzle.
Sorry to gush here...it's just that so many companies tend to nominally use Open Source to gain market share and free development help initially and then begin to restrict documentation, support and even access to new features in a dual licensing scheme. The list of names of those that "SCO-ify" their Open Source strategy is too long and sad to mention. So, please cut me some slack as I revel in the direction we're heading at Rackspace -- I hope more companies will jump on this trend to raise the sea level for us all.
To the Drizzle team: welcome! Very happy to have you onboard and look forward to your continued contributions to the community.
Note: my comments and gushing are my own!
On a development project we banned LOL and insisted on the more accurate LIMH - laughing in my head. No one LOLs online.
nm, title says it all.
I agree. For more than 1 year and after contacting them directly and receiving unfulfilled assurances of better behavior I added the following insult to my iptables rules:
-A INPUT -s 64.1.215.160/255.255.255.224 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
Buh-bye losers!
-A INPUT -s 64.1.215.160/255.255.255.224 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
whois returns:
network:Organization;I:CUILL, INC. (259492-1)
network:IP-Network:64.1.215.160/27
Why? because despite multiple attempts to prevent the aggressive spidering of my sites by this abuser they did not stop.
Buh-bye, losers.
This is hilarious. I purposefully ignore vmail. It's too time consuming. If I'm interested in the caller (via callerid), I'll return the call. Otherwise, I ignore it. It's crap to me. I don't care how noble you think the cause to be -- it's crap.
good catch -- I did that on purpose to see if anyone was paying attention.
When I attended college in Arlington, TX (UTA) in the early 90's I already knew people ignored car alarms. Across the street from where I lived was one of the largest parking lots (at the time) for the University. Whenever a thunderstorm rolled through...yeah...often...the thunder of nearby lightning strikes would set those bad boys off en masse. VERY annoying.
I've never met anyone who's had their car NOT stolen due to a car alarm. Although I have known people to have their car found before trashed due to LowJack.
+! Right-On-The-Mark
I hate "upgrading" iTunes and QuickTime (and the requisite reboot!)
In the US, we censor thing, too: through the DCMA. How does one reconcile these two US laws (assuming this one is passed)?
Recently upgraded to Hardy Heron and pidgin's little text area doesn't have an adjustment handle...futzed with it off and on and was annoyed but didn't look at preferences or Google to see the why and wherefore of how to get it back.
/., I know.
Now, thanks to
Pidgin developers have their reasons, I'm sure, but it is very annoying to me, someone used to using that handle to make the text area to a comfortable size. Unwillingness to budge and at least make it an option to enable the resizing... ridiculous.
Instead of removing features, how about a little time to provide a way to sort groups automatically. My company uses a XAMMP server for internal communication -- we're about 2,500 strong -- and each department is grouped. With Spark and other clients I can sort alphanumerically. Not with Pidgin.
Just whining...
Good point as well. In practice, though, the risk is low. Would suck that this would be that exception, though.
this is true; thanks for pointing out that step!
You'll just invite delay and trouble by contacting service providers. Instead, change his laptop's root password (it's easy: at grub edit the default stanza and set init=/bin/bash and then boot; once in, use "passwd" to change the root passwd; next use "passwd username" to change his user's password; using the rescue environment is slightly more complicated). This assumes he is not using an encrypted FS, which is likely.
Once you can boot into his user account, run the mail client(s) he has setup. They likely have the passwords stored. Voila, no need to contact the service providers.
Ethical? Well, you'll want to check with his heirs, first, but assuming there is no resistance on that front, go for it. It's called archeology when we do it to the Pharaohs.
Unless one were to abstract property into say, non-real estate entities...like...oh....intellectual property...or holding of ephemeral property such as Internet holdings.
Yeah, those things will never fly.
Not only is Ethanol shortsighted it is exactly the wrong direction for us to take. Ethanol is taken from food sources and results in local, regional and, as it increases in popularity, global increases in food prices as well as predictable food shortages.
Besides the inefficiencies of transporting the raw materials, the finished product CANNOT be piped due to the inherent water in the ethanol rusting/corroding the pipes. So, the only means of transportation is truck, train or barge -- fossil fuel transportation systems.
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Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Why kick against the goads of commerce and progress? Why complain about that which you cannot change? You are flotsam on the sea of technology...
Besides, my MacBook is pretty and trendy and makes me look smart.
Actually, I've come to like the wide-screen format for placing my IM buddy list on the left and OSX dock on the right. It works nicely. Code? Yeah, that's mainly what I look at all day. The center area for content and side areas for BS is the Slashdot model!
Actually... that's the point. Since Slashdot began its been begging for a wide screen monitor. The OEMs are finally giving into the Slashdot imperator by providing Slashdot-optimized widescreen monitors!
Sadly.
Mr. Novick, your YouTube presence has attracted a lot of attention -- even mine. I find your ads pithy, sharp, witty.
When Senator Hillary Clinton ran for the open Senate seat in New York everyone knew it was but a springboard to the US President campaign trail. When Senator Obama left the State Senate for the US Senate, many people dreamed -- and more, probably, feared -- it was but a springboard for the top national office.
What is your opinion on candidates who use a limited election to project a national campaign? Who, while denying the charge, are seen as using an office for personal gain rather than determinedly seeking to serve in the very office they fight to obtain?
Lastly...what makes your beyond-the-borders campaign different than those (named and not named) others whose State-representing Senatorial campaign have reached national (and international) attention?
These story elements (Japan, WWII, Allied bombing and nuclear technology) usually have a different theme than protecting the world from the hazards of nuclear fission gone awry.
+1 Ironic
Agreed. Games are boring. Learning, creating, heck -- breaking! That's fun.
definitely appropriate but not new.
I lol'ed when I saw it in TFA.
Sorry, Matt!
The more I watch Ron Paul and his followers, especially, the more I think about Lyndon LaRouche, who was the first presidential candidate that made a campaign organization scarier than Jim Jones' People Temple, the Moonies, Hare Krishna and Scientology combined.
Perhaps now Ron will join with LaRouche as a running mate. If not Lyndon himself, then an non-felon appointee.