Seems to me it means Linus understands tradeoffs in security and isn't willing to throw extra CPU time at a very narrow theoretical hole (sha1 gets broken without sha2 being broken as well)
If I didn't need more throughput than a single CPU can provide, I'd still be on OpenVPN for everything. It's easier to configure, significantly easier to manage, and rock fricking solid in the face of network unreliability - none of which I can say for IPSEC.
You've described non-technical management there... presuming that you're allowing said non-technical management to tell you what you should be putting the effort into, and micromangaing your design.
If you don't have the soft skills to understand where and why the things you code fits in to the greater scheme of things, you're building grand castles in the air. Whoopdy-yay.
Maybe we're talking at cross purposes. I don't necessarily mean "become a great sales droid" or "learn to seduce investors". I mean learn how to talk to the people who do and understand where they're coming from, so you can see how your work fits in, and know what to do and how to do it.
Otherwise you'll never be valuable for anything other than small, well scoped tasks that someone else can spec out for you.
Yeah, because no tech job is every about working with other people.
Smart Gets things done
That's a nice couple of points, but it's missing the most important. Gets the RIGHT things done. You find out what the right things are through soft skills. Technically right is worthless if you don't have a sales channel for it, or the whole problem you're trying to solve could be avoided by doing something else somewhere else.
I did, and I've passed the user's contact details on to the engineers at Apple so they can talk to them directly. I've also re-enabled the account, and I'm just keeping an eye on the server that the user is on and moving some other users off so we can afford the disk space for a bit.
Distributed fuckup very possible. Any one hosting provider can roll out a breaking change to their entire system, or have a handy single point of failure, or be 0wned on a central command host with acces to everything...
Sorry, I'm not quite sure where you're getting your information about what Mail.App does. I'm getting mine from the server telemetry logs where the client first identifies itself as:
"name" "Mac OS X Mail" "version" "7.0 (1816)"
And then proceeds to issue a COPY command:
UID COPY 3360991:3361069 "INBOX.Junk Mail"
See the "COPY" in there. I am the author of the blog post, and I think my credentials in this particular case trump yours, even if you're the author of Mail.App.
It appears to only be that one user so far - I've seen a few isolated "copy into same folder and expunge the old ones" in the logs (now that I log that) but not enough to be a pattern.
Oh, there are plenty of new RFCs coming out all the time. The most interesting bugs in mail clients tend to be trying to support new RFCs and not getting it right.
We de-duplicate on COPY, so there was only one copy of each email on disk. We don't de-dulplicate metadata though, because it's usually so small, and generally in the cache file of a different folder, where de-duplication isn't possible.
Have you tried FastMail? We updated the web UI today to make it work more efficiently on small screens (phones and the like), and it has a fairly complete keyboard shortcut set.
Honestly, we won't support 2.2 or earlier any more. 2.3 was released in 2005. There comes a point when you have to move on.
2.3 is still supported for security issues, but it's not going to see much more development.
2.4 is supported just fine, and has been out since 2010. I really object to the characterisation of the mailing list and the IRC channel, since I'm on both and I try pretty hard to deal with any problems, though if you're on 2.2 or 2.3 I will often say "that's fixed in 2.4, and is not really fixable in earlier versions due to massive architectural changes which were required to make the behaviour consistent in the first place".
Poor documentation is a problem, and using berkeley DB was a really stupid idea. The upgrading problems are always due to berkeley version incompatibility. It sucks so bad that transitioning everything away from berkeley is an important goal for 2.5.
Plenty of people still use it, though Dovecot is kinda eating our lunch.
Well, this is going to be an extra-large shit for us, where me spending 2 years in Norway at head office was significantly easier than bringing people over here for 6 months at a time for skills exchange. HR tells me that Australia is the hardest country in the world they've tried to give people "bridge the world" temporary transfers to. Insular much?
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Yeah, and those soldiers who go to war so the people back home can live in peace. What's with that?
Seems to me it means Linus understands tradeoffs in security and isn't willing to throw extra CPU time at a very narrow theoretical hole (sha1 gets broken without sha2 being broken as well)
If I didn't need more throughput than a single CPU can provide, I'd still be on OpenVPN for everything. It's easier to configure, significantly easier to manage, and rock fricking solid in the face of network unreliability - none of which I can say for IPSEC.
What the serious fuck?
You've described non-technical management there... presuming that you're allowing said non-technical management to tell you what you should be putting the effort into, and micromangaing your design.
If you don't have the soft skills to understand where and why the things you code fits in to the greater scheme of things, you're building grand castles in the air. Whoopdy-yay.
Maybe we're talking at cross purposes. I don't necessarily mean "become a great sales droid" or "learn to seduce investors". I mean learn how to talk to the people who do and understand where they're coming from, so you can see how your work fits in, and know what to do and how to do it.
Otherwise you'll never be valuable for anything other than small, well scoped tasks that someone else can spec out for you.
(maybe substitute "the RIGHT things" => "worthwhile things")
Yeah, because no tech job is every about working with other people.
Smart
Gets things done
That's a nice couple of points, but it's missing the most important. Gets the RIGHT things done. You find out what the right things are through soft skills. Technically right is worthless if you don't have a sales channel for it, or the whole problem you're trying to solve could be avoided by doing something else somewhere else.
I did, and I've passed the user's contact details on to the engineers at Apple so they can talk to them directly. I've also re-enabled the account, and I'm just keeping an eye on the server that the user is on and moving some other users off so we can afford the disk space for a bit.
Distributed fuckup very possible. Any one hosting provider can roll out a breaking change to their entire system, or have a handy single point of failure, or be 0wned on a central command host with acces to everything...
Sorry, I'm not quite sure where you're getting your information about what Mail.App does. I'm getting mine from the server telemetry logs where the client first identifies itself as:
"name" "Mac OS X Mail" "version" "7.0 (1816)"
And then proceeds to issue a COPY command:
UID COPY 3360991:3361069 "INBOX.Junk Mail"
See the "COPY" in there. I am the author of the blog post, and I think my credentials in this particular case trump yours, even if you're the author of Mail.App.
It appears to only be that one user so far - I've seen a few isolated "copy into same folder and expunge the old ones" in the logs (now that I log that) but not enough to be a pattern.
Oh, there are plenty of new RFCs coming out all the time. The most interesting bugs in mail clients tend to be trying to support new RFCs and not getting it right.
We de-duplicate on COPY, so there was only one copy of each email on disk. We don't de-dulplicate metadata though, because it's usually so small, and generally in the cache file of a different folder, where de-duplication isn't possible.
Have you tried FastMail? We updated the web UI today to make it work more efficiently on small screens (phones and the like), and it has a fairly complete keyboard shortcut set.
http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/21/faster-than-native-introducing-fastmails-new-mobile-web-interface/
Free trial, but definitely paid. You're the customer with us, not the product.
Java moto: Write once, fuck you.
i was going all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzkRVzciAZg on the post I replied to...
You could also do it in Visual Basic, with the added advantage that you could create a GUI to trace their IP address.
*fewer
(thanks, I'll be here all... nah, screw it - I'll be getting a beer)
try turning off your screen and trying again...
Yeah, fair enough. The failure to package new versions is a real problem. Thanks for the honest feedback!
Honestly, we won't support 2.2 or earlier any more. 2.3 was released in 2005. There comes a point when you have to move on.
2.3 is still supported for security issues, but it's not going to see much more development.
2.4 is supported just fine, and has been out since 2010. I really object to the characterisation of the mailing list and the IRC channel, since I'm on both and I try pretty hard to deal with any problems, though if you're on 2.2 or 2.3 I will often say "that's fixed in 2.4, and is not really fixable in earlier versions due to massive architectural changes which were required to make the behaviour consistent in the first place".
Poor documentation is a problem, and using berkeley DB was a really stupid idea. The upgrading problems are always due to berkeley version incompatibility. It sucks so bad that transitioning everything away from berkeley is an important goal for 2.5.
Plenty of people still use it, though Dovecot is kinda eating our lunch.
I'm interested in your reasons for avoiding Cyrus. Which version are you looking at?
Not saying it's impossible, just that it's bloody hard.
Well, this is going to be an extra-large shit for us, where me spending 2 years in Norway at head office was significantly easier than bringing people over here for 6 months at a time for skills exchange. HR tells me that Australia is the hardest country in the world they've tried to give people "bridge the world" temporary transfers to. Insular much?
I think the onion summed it up well:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-takes-out-romney-with-middebate-drone-attack,30055/
What do you think happens to those books? They don't magically disappear into thin air. They can be put in a box and sent to a store again.