Except in the Equifax case the patch was to struts, so the issue is likely with the development team not the sys admins.
I'm on the process of documenting all opensource components being utilised in a software project I've inherited. One of the first things I did was to inventory all the components, and create an archive of all the packages required to build. However this is rarely done in many companies which was one of the points of the article.
The jibe about companies contributing is a bit of though. What is worrying about companies contributing, if the code is good that's a great thing.
I have more time than this wasted in meetings . Currently it's a BA with a bee in their bonnet about edge case scenarios who wants endless meetings to discuss them...
It's different in that if a vulnerability is discovered in the underlaying library an new release of PHP is required to fix it. Note you will need to convince the hosting provider/infrastructure team to test and deploy the latest release. This is the reason the cryptography library for Python (and requests) don't want to be made part of the core so they can be agile and respond quickly to security problems.
I'd largely put these products in the snake oil category, I few years ago after a day in front of my computer at work I'd be completely exhausted turns out I needed glasses (to correct the changing shape of the cornea) but I got that advice from an optometrist. An interesting side note was that they advised that if you take regular breaks (easy to get a cuppa or take a walk) monitors don't have any real negative effects themselves. However, what can have a detrimental effect is a lack of sunlight. So get out of your cave and get some fresh air and sunlight your eyes will thank you.
A rip from the MASTERS (I assume you mean final mix) is only sometimes a good thing, after hearing my own bands recordings before and after mastering I want a mastered version please. Mastering is an important step in the recording process, of course we master for quality ensuring there is no clipping or un-necessary compression, however some compression can be necessary to get a good result.
FLAC rips from vinyl do not come close. When a track has been mixed it is mastered for the different media that it will be delivered for. A vinyl master has a shelving filter to remove low frequencies (leaving them in will cause the needle to skip or bounce on the LP), vinyl also has a much smaller dynamic range than a CD and a high noise floor. Next the sound of vinyl is actually very tinny and lacks bass (put your ear near the needle to hear this), this is made up by boosting base frequencies either in the player (or via an LP input that some older stereo's included), so the sound has already been heavily messed with before it's even gotten to your A to D converters.
The expensive part is the microphone capable of picking up those frequencies and amps/converters designed for those frequencies. Equipment to record outside our hearing range isn't really in great demand and hence the high cost.
Storage of the data however has never been a problem.
I'd advocate for Python, gives you all the flexibility of allowing OO etc, and the same time has the wonderful interactive interpreter.
As a side not Python is starting to become common as an introductory language in universities (as stated by a professor who runs the introductory course at a local university and attends the same users group I attend).
I'd agree with that, with a smaller company your more likely to be interviewing with somebody who is also an engineer, or knows what they are talking about. Pretty much all of the jobs I have got have been from simply having a conversation with the software development manager. Talking to HR is always far more difficult as you often have to explain to them that what is on your CV does actually much their criteria I've had interviews where my skill set perfectly matched what they wanted, but the HR people couldn't match it up.
We are also paid to make sites work on IE (and every other browser), I wouldn't get much work if I told a client sorry it doesn't work, tell your client to get a better browser.
That said I build using Firefox (thanks to the brilliant development plugins available) and that covers most other browsers and then using the conditional includes support IE. All this really makes for developers that know what they are doing, is less work in the add support for IE stage.
Unfortunately most projects specify IE6 as a minimum spec as a large group of internet users still use it.
I bought an eeepc because of the size and battery life (something that has hardly been mentioned thus far) price wasn't a factor in any way. It's portable and can still run the development software I need.
The only influence with the price is buying the Linux version over the Windows version. Of the non technical people I know who have one, none have bought the Windows version and all have found the Linux desktop easy to use.
In the case of a business with many users or even just a flat with several people sharing a common connection are you going to start getting ads based on what other people on the connection have been doing, what if one of those people likes their dodgy porn sites?
Many Australian and New Zealand ISP's do that also. Although mine also provides a "Freezone" service where traffic to and from certain sites isn't counted towards your bandwidth limit, usefully they include an up to date debian mirror on their FTP servers.
For the EPIA-MII VIA supply a "fastboot" BIOS, there are seperate BIOS images depending on what device you want to boot off. Using their BIOS along with a compact flash->IDE adapter and a little kernel optimisation you can have a command prompt in around 4 seconds from power on. My aim was to have the system in a gui (using DirectFB) in under 10 seconds but at present I'm looking at around 6-7.
The system was using grub, a custom built kernel and Busybox.
If you guitar keeps coming out of tune you might want to get it serviced. If you look after it, use decent strings (my current favourites are Ernie Ball Regular Slinky's), keep the guitar dry (put in a couple of those silica moisture absorbing packs in your guitar case) and put it back in it's case when your done it should stay in tune just fine. The other option is a guitar with a locking nut/tremolo, that will keep the guitar in tune provided the strings have been properly stretched.
Linux is just a kernel, sure it can be used with software stacks that are not GNU, but there are not many distributions of GNU/Linux that don't use at least a few of their packages. A quick look at the GNU packages listed on http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/ comes up with a fairly large number of core packages (bash, coreutils, glib, grub, fileutils, gcc, libc, shellutils, etc) without which your system isn't really very useful.
The article claims that some school districts are making money from on-leasing their unused spectrum. I would have thought that keeping your licenses up to date for something that provides you with income is just good sense.
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Except in the Equifax case the patch was to struts, so the issue is likely with the development team not the sys admins.
I'm on the process of documenting all opensource components being utilised in a software project I've inherited. One of the first things I did was to inventory all the components, and create an archive of all the packages required to build. However this is rarely done in many companies which was one of the points of the article.
The jibe about companies contributing is a bit of though. What is worrying about companies contributing, if the code is good that's a great thing.
I have more time than this wasted in meetings . Currently it's a BA with a bee in their bonnet about edge case scenarios who wants endless meetings to discuss them...
It's different in that if a vulnerability is discovered in the underlaying library an new release of PHP is required to fix it. Note you will need to convince the hosting provider/infrastructure team to test and deploy the latest release. This is the reason the cryptography library for Python (and requests) don't want to be made part of the core so they can be agile and respond quickly to security problems.
I'd largely put these products in the snake oil category, I few years ago after a day in front of my computer at work I'd be completely exhausted turns out I needed glasses (to correct the changing shape of the cornea) but I got that advice from an optometrist. An interesting side note was that they advised that if you take regular breaks (easy to get a cuppa or take a walk) monitors don't have any real negative effects themselves. However, what can have a detrimental effect is a lack of sunlight. So get out of your cave and get some fresh air and sunlight your eyes will thank you.
A rip from the MASTERS (I assume you mean final mix) is only sometimes a good thing, after hearing my own bands recordings before and after mastering I want a mastered version please. Mastering is an important step in the recording process, of course we master for quality ensuring there is no clipping or un-necessary compression, however some compression can be necessary to get a good result.
FLAC rips from vinyl do not come close. When a track has been mixed it is mastered for the different media that it will be delivered for. A vinyl master has a shelving filter to remove low frequencies (leaving them in will cause the needle to skip or bounce on the LP), vinyl also has a much smaller dynamic range than a CD and a high noise floor. Next the sound of vinyl is actually very tinny and lacks bass (put your ear near the needle to hear this), this is made up by boosting base frequencies either in the player (or via an LP input that some older stereo's included), so the sound has already been heavily messed with before it's even gotten to your A to D converters.
The expensive part is the microphone capable of picking up those frequencies and amps/converters designed for those frequencies. Equipment to record outside our hearing range isn't really in great demand and hence the high cost.
Storage of the data however has never been a problem.
They are a UK based company with a logo that the designer obviously didn't think carefully about... http://www.itouch.co.uk/
A company I used to work for was acquired by them.
I'd advocate for Python, gives you all the flexibility of allowing OO etc, and the same time has the wonderful interactive interpreter.
As a side not Python is starting to become common as an introductory language in universities (as stated by a professor who runs the introductory course at a local university and attends the same users group I attend).
I'd agree with that, with a smaller company your more likely to be interviewing with somebody who is also an engineer, or knows what they are talking about. Pretty much all of the jobs I have got have been from simply having a conversation with the software development manager.
Talking to HR is always far more difficult as you often have to explain to them that what is on your CV does actually much their criteria I've had interviews where my skill set perfectly matched what they wanted, but the HR people couldn't match it up.
We are also paid to make sites work on IE (and every other browser), I wouldn't get much work if I told a client sorry it doesn't work, tell your client to get a better browser.
That said I build using Firefox (thanks to the brilliant development plugins available) and that covers most other browsers and then using the conditional includes support IE. All this really makes for developers that know what they are doing, is less work in the add support for IE stage.
Unfortunately most projects specify IE6 as a minimum spec as a large group of internet users still use it.
Yes we all know the country that operates Guantanamo is a shining example for standing up for human rights.
Unless you don't live in the US, which of course covers MOST people.
You should check your OpenDNS settings, there is an option to disable the search feature or if you don't like it use another service.
I bought an eeepc because of the size and battery life (something that has hardly been mentioned thus far) price wasn't a factor in any way. It's portable and can still run the development software I need.
The only influence with the price is buying the Linux version over the Windows version. Of the non technical people I know who have one, none have bought the Windows version and all have found the Linux desktop easy to use.
In the case of a business with many users or even just a flat with several people sharing a common connection are you going to start getting ads based on what other people on the connection have been doing, what if one of those people likes their dodgy porn sites?
Many Australian and New Zealand ISP's do that also. Although mine also provides a "Freezone" service where traffic to and from certain sites isn't counted towards your bandwidth limit, usefully they include an up to date debian mirror on their FTP servers.
For the EPIA-MII VIA supply a "fastboot" BIOS, there are seperate BIOS images depending on what device you want to boot off. Using their BIOS along with a compact flash->IDE adapter and a little kernel optimisation you can have a command prompt in around 4 seconds from power on. My aim was to have the system in a gui (using DirectFB) in under 10 seconds but at present I'm looking at around 6-7.
The system was using grub, a custom built kernel and Busybox.
If you guitar keeps coming out of tune you might want to get it serviced. If you look after it, use decent strings (my current favourites are Ernie Ball Regular Slinky's), keep the guitar dry (put in a couple of those silica moisture absorbing packs in your guitar case) and put it back in it's case when your done it should stay in tune just fine. The other option is a guitar with a locking nut/tremolo, that will keep the guitar in tune provided the strings have been properly stretched.
Swappable on the fly maybe not, but you can in any case run a GNU/NetBSD (http://www.debian.org/ports/netbsd/) system for example.
Linux is just a kernel, sure it can be used with software stacks that are not GNU, but there are not many distributions of GNU/Linux that don't use at least a few of their packages. A quick look at the GNU packages listed on http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/ comes up with a fairly large number of core packages (bash, coreutils, glib, grub, fileutils, gcc, libc, shellutils, etc) without which your system isn't really very useful.
I've been very impressed with madwifi's atheros support. I am running a number of cards based on their chipsets for various purposes.
They also have a large list of supported hardware on their site http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
Closer to the US, if we where that low down I'd be very unhappy. As a note we don't photograph and fingerprint all foreigners that enter our country.
Tortoise SVN registers svn: which makes connecting to SVN repositories easier (mainly on our local network).
But why don't you think of the (MY) children!
They did, WWII. They where of course on the same side.
The article claims that some school districts are making money from on-leasing their unused spectrum. I would have thought that keeping your licenses up to date for something that provides you with income is just good sense.