Slightly off-topic response to your slightly off-topic post, but why do you need software updates to your 3G Ipod? It works and it doesn't need to be updated. I don't get it. You have software update envy?
* Change the Key monthly or otherwise periodically. * Even with all this, run encrypted protocols as much as possible SSH, SSL, etc. No clear text protocols * Run a monitor on your access point to monitor against your MAC Address filtering list, send a trap when an unkown Mac address connects. By definition if you have a Mac address allow list you should be able to do this easily.
i'm sorry you're having a rough week. Actually, the grass is not greener on the other side of the hill. I worked at one of the biggest.com's (profitable, established, etc) and no one ever got fired for screwing up, just promoted or moved into management.
I know it sounds cynical, but it's the honest truth. Don't feel bad and get some sleep.
I'm not the one who built 13 starbucks locations within one mile of each other, so I would say, no I'm not insane. I think at some point in the future someone is going to need to look back at this and realize that our entire society was insane.
I spent a while surfing his site which suprisingly wasn't/.'d into oblivion. After about 5 minutes I was convinced the guy is brilliant.
This is an amazing and important piece of work. The sheer volume of pictures, the sheer enormity of this effort is so impressive that I think this has to go down as one of those pieces of art/documentary/social commentary/lark that if it's preserved, people will look back on in 50 or 100 years (maybe less , maybe more) and just find terribly facinating.
First of all, just the pictures of all the architecture of locations in all 50 states alone is amazing. It's absolutely insane once you realize how much revenue and commerce Starbucks generates (all politics and love and hate of the company aside, it's just amazing when you see them all in one web site). Thes buildings had to be constructure, outfitted, opened, etc. The record of all these buildings, all these locations is like a mini snapshot of the whole U.S. from coast to coast and then world wide as well. It's an amazing piece of compare and contrast, and an amazing document.
Coming at it from the other side, I think the guy is a great artist also. This definitely qualifies as art in my mind, bordering on journalism, bordering on madness which is where a lot of great art comes from. Think of how many stories each state/city/area of a city/district tell about this experience, picture him going from store to store documenting this, etc. It's an endless story, he could write a book about it. Others have mentioned on here how comedians like Lewis Black have also seized on the sheer crazyness of the Starbucks phenomenon. Artists bring these issues into focus for people and the number of people critizing him here make me feel even stronger about the fact that he's doing something cool.
Winter is alright in my book. I don't think he's ruining the environment by travelling , I don't think he's a nut and don't think it's a waste of time. It's actually quite an important piece of work. Congratulations man.
That's true, but try doing some of the more complex proxing/redirecting/tunneling with IIS. I've managed farms of dozens of apache servers all serving a combined several thousand hits per second to application servers running tomcat. IIS was never able to keep up with that type of traffic. But if you prefer IIS , more power to you.
First of all, to the people who wonder what's so great about Apache 2.x you should take some time to understand that Apache 2 is a completely new way of thinking about the HTTP server paradigm. Apache 2.x is now no longer simply an HTTP server but a protocol server that can serve anything you can write, FTP, SMTP whatever. In fact Apache 2.x FTP server has been darn stable.
Besides the threaded model and the above paradigm shift, there is also the great improvements in the build system, the API and IPv6 support. You can read all about it here: New Features 2.0 . Do yourself a favor and start learning Apache 2.x now, you will not regret it down the line.
Finally, I believe that with the 2.0.50 release the contributors have solved some of the most serious bugs and have delivered one of the most stable releases of Apache to date. Of course time will tell if there are significant bugs, I wouldn't go upgrading your production environment tomorrow. But the folks there have worked really hard on the big bugs and I have to give them a big thank you.
The full change list is here: Changes 2.0.50 . They have fixed a very serious stderr bug, several annoying ldap bugs, addressed various other security and performance issues and generally done a great job.
Nope. In fact they are trying to sell the CD on tv advertisements on daytime and late-night TV, very obviously marketing towards an aging fan base that now works and has disposable income.
I think they were selling the CD for around $15 plus $5 shipping and handling. Yeah, $20 for a CD with a bunch fo two minute songs. NOT!!!!!!
I was already highly suspicious of them after seeing the late night tv ads for their cd, but this DRM crap solidifies that the beastie boys have lost it.
Your arguments are idealistic and you don't touch on the deeper complexities involved here. Your comparison of our civil liberties to the rearing of a child is completely off-base. Searching your child is not an illegal search. The citizens of the United States are not the government's children.
There is no such thing as the "lesser of two evils" here. You can't PICK, it's not that easy. "I don't want terrorism, so therefore I choose to let the government completely invade the privacy of every citizen."
There is a concept of the slippery slope and unthethered and unchecked power in one wing of our government. The basis of the entire US system is the idea of checks-and-balances, that no wing of the government will act without another doing a sanity check. Where is this sanity check coming from in this instance? Never forget that absolute power corrupts absoultely.
So the government knows I went to Hawaii, big deal right? But what if they track where I go every day on my way to work, then, track my grocery shopping, then my spending habits, etc etc. What if they put this in a database and constantly monitor all our rights. Who is sanity checking their use of all this information?
The point here is that by analyzing these very issues we are keeping the people in office honest. And do you really believe that the people we voted into office have anything to do with this? Your local congressman is not the wing of government collecting your flight information from NWA. That's the whole problem here!
I just bought Franz Ferdinand last night from iTunes and I know they have the White Stripes. I think what you're seeing is the same thing as we saw in the US, it took a few months for the library to grow and become more inclusive.
So, I wouldn't say the independent labels are not signing up, they're there, it's just an issue of providing the same library we get in the US to you guys across the pond.
I agree with the original poster. Waiting a week and a half is totally useless is a corporate environment. It's kind of silly to wait a week and half, as everyone is doing this more and more basically you wind up finding all the same problems a week and a half later.
You're assuming that someone out there in the world is going to install, test and have somewhat of a similiar environment to yours. In other words, you're hoping someone else will do the work for you.
I think a better rule of thumb is to have a testing mechanism where you can install the patch, test it and then release it for yourself. Like the original poster says, use the IT dept as guinea pigs or whatever.
They take all the joy out of life! It makes me so depressed. One of the finest experiences I've had in the last year is getting a DiscLive CD right after the Pixies show in Spokane. The artists got a cut, I didn't have to lug around recording requipment and the DiscLive guys are AWESOME.
You can read more about them on the "All around the world - Pixies live" forum on frankblack.net for one. There service is a GOOD THING and it hurts no one but the greedy bastards at Clear Channel. You should have seen the smiles on the 1000 or so people who go CDs that night. Everyone was HAPPY.
In our corporate run world soon we will all be slaves to the patents and morals of a handful of monopolistic companies. We can line up and listen to whatever clear channel wants us to listen to and pay them a hefty sum to do so.
It just makes me sick to my stomach. Every GOOD THING in the world gets taken away. Call me a whiner, but this just depresses the SHIT out of me.
I miss that place. Can't even remember what it's called now, but they were HUGE. I think they set the guinness world record for largest burrito in fact.
I'd say there's a definite revival on the west coast. In San Francisco the new main library was a huge success and up in Seattle the new main library is being opened in less than a month. It's a really interesting architectural design as well.
Back then nothing, as late as 1988 I was still working with real estate companies that were using line printers to get real estate reports through BBS connections. Going through a BBS on a line printer is an amazing waste of paper.
It makes me wonder what is a more giant waste, all the electricity monitors use or all the paper that was wated printing out the same menu 10 billion times at every real estate office around the country.
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You're right. I see what you're saying.
:-) That's one thing that really does bug me as well.
But then how would they get you to buy a new Ipod?
Slightly off-topic response to your slightly off-topic post, but why do you need software updates to your 3G Ipod? It works and it doesn't need to be updated. I don't get it. You have software update envy?
Yes, a few things:
* Change the Key monthly or otherwise periodically.
* Even with all this, run encrypted protocols as much as possible SSH, SSL, etc. No clear text protocols
* Run a monitor on your access point to monitor against your MAC Address filtering list, send a trap when an unkown Mac address connects. By definition if you have a Mac address allow list you should be able to do this easily.
i'm sorry you're having a rough week. Actually, the grass is not greener on the other side of the hill. I worked at one of the biggest .com's (profitable, established, etc) and no one ever got fired for screwing up, just promoted or moved into management.
I know it sounds cynical, but it's the honest truth. Don't feel bad and get some sleep.
I'm not the one who built 13 starbucks locations within one mile of each other, so I would say, no I'm not insane. I think at some point in the future someone is going to need to look back at this and realize that our entire society was insane.
I spent a while surfing his site which suprisingly wasn't /.'d into oblivion. After about 5 minutes I was convinced the guy is brilliant.
This is an amazing and important piece of work. The sheer volume of pictures, the sheer enormity of this effort is so impressive that I think this has to go down as one of those pieces of art/documentary/social commentary/lark that if it's preserved, people will look back on in 50 or 100 years (maybe less , maybe more) and just find terribly facinating.
First of all, just the pictures of all the architecture of locations in all 50 states alone is amazing. It's absolutely insane once you realize how much revenue and commerce Starbucks generates (all politics and love and hate of the company aside, it's just amazing when you see them all in one web site). Thes buildings had to be constructure, outfitted, opened, etc. The record of all these buildings, all these locations is like a mini snapshot of the whole U.S. from coast to coast and then world wide as well. It's an amazing piece of compare and contrast, and an amazing document.
Coming at it from the other side, I think the guy is a great artist also. This definitely qualifies as art in my mind, bordering on journalism, bordering on madness which is where a lot of great art comes from. Think of how many stories each state/city/area of a city/district tell about this experience, picture him going from store to store documenting this, etc. It's an endless story, he could write a book about it. Others have mentioned on here how comedians like Lewis Black have also seized on the sheer crazyness of the Starbucks phenomenon. Artists bring these issues into focus for people and the number of people critizing him here make me feel even stronger about the fact that he's doing something cool.
Winter is alright in my book. I don't think he's ruining the environment by travelling , I don't think he's a nut and don't think it's a waste of time. It's actually quite an important piece of work. Congratulations man.
For future reference, not saying it was even around or could have helped out. But maybe next time
That's true, but try doing some of the more complex proxing/redirecting/tunneling with IIS. I've managed farms of dozens of apache servers all serving a combined several thousand hits per second to application servers running tomcat. IIS was never able to keep up with that type of traffic. But if you prefer IIS , more power to you.
Hey , Apache has been very good to me and my friends. It's made my entire career. And I'm proud to have contributed what little I've been able to.
First of all, to the people who wonder what's so great about Apache 2.x you should take some time to understand that Apache 2 is a completely new way of thinking about the HTTP server paradigm. Apache 2.x is now no longer simply an HTTP server but a protocol server that can serve anything you can write, FTP, SMTP whatever. In fact Apache 2.x FTP server has been darn stable.
Besides the threaded model and the above paradigm shift, there is also the great improvements in the build system, the API and IPv6 support. You can read all about it here: New Features 2.0 . Do yourself a favor and start learning Apache 2.x now, you will not regret it down the line.
Finally, I believe that with the 2.0.50 release the contributors have solved some of the most serious bugs and have delivered one of the most stable releases of Apache to date. Of course time will tell if there are significant bugs, I wouldn't go upgrading your production environment tomorrow. But the folks there have worked really hard on the big bugs and I have to give them a big thank you.
The full change list is here: Changes 2.0.50 . They have fixed a very serious stderr bug, several annoying ldap bugs, addressed various other security and performance issues and generally done a great job.
Way to go folks. Thank you!!!
Nope. In fact they are trying to sell the CD on tv advertisements on daytime and late-night TV, very obviously marketing towards an aging fan base that now works and has disposable income.
I think they were selling the CD for around $15 plus $5 shipping and handling. Yeah, $20 for a CD with a bunch fo two minute songs. NOT!!!!!!
I was already highly suspicious of them after seeing the late night tv ads for their cd, but this DRM crap solidifies that the beastie boys have lost it.
Your arguments are idealistic and you don't touch on the deeper complexities involved here. Your comparison of our civil liberties to the rearing of a child is completely off-base. Searching your child is not an illegal search. The citizens of the United States are not the government's children.
There is no such thing as the "lesser of two evils" here. You can't PICK, it's not that easy. "I don't want terrorism, so therefore I choose to let the government completely invade the privacy of every citizen."
There is a concept of the slippery slope and unthethered and unchecked power in one wing of our government. The basis of the entire US system is the idea of checks-and-balances, that no wing of the government will act without another doing a sanity check. Where is this sanity check coming from in this instance? Never forget that absolute power corrupts absoultely.
So the government knows I went to Hawaii, big deal right? But what if they track where I go every day on my way to work, then, track my grocery shopping, then my spending habits, etc etc. What if they put this in a database and constantly monitor all our rights. Who is sanity checking their use of all this information?
The point here is that by analyzing these very issues we are keeping the people in office honest. And do you really believe that the people we voted into office have anything to do with this? Your local congressman is not the wing of government collecting your flight information from NWA. That's the whole problem here!
I just bought Franz Ferdinand last night from iTunes and I know they have the White Stripes. I think what you're seeing is the same thing as we saw in the US, it took a few months for the library to grow and become more inclusive.
So, I wouldn't say the independent labels are not signing up, they're there, it's just an issue of providing the same library we get in the US to you guys across the pond.
i'm sure you didn't mean it to sound that way.... but I'm really happy for you that your kids are really helping you with your tax bill! woo hoo!!!
LOL
I agree with the original poster. Waiting a week and a half is totally useless is a corporate environment. It's kind of silly to wait a week and half, as everyone is doing this more and more basically you wind up finding all the same problems a week and a half later.
You're assuming that someone out there in the world is going to install, test and have somewhat of a similiar environment to yours. In other words, you're hoping someone else will do the work for you.
I think a better rule of thumb is to have a testing mechanism where you can install the patch, test it and then release it for yourself. Like the original poster says, use the IT dept as guinea pigs or whatever.
Apparently you never read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
They take all the joy out of life! It makes me so depressed. One of the finest experiences I've had in the last year is getting a DiscLive CD right after the Pixies show in Spokane. The artists got a cut, I didn't have to lug around recording requipment and the DiscLive guys are AWESOME.
You can read more about them on the "All around the world - Pixies live" forum on frankblack.net for one. There service is a GOOD THING and it hurts no one but the greedy bastards at Clear Channel. You should have seen the smiles on the 1000 or so people who go CDs that night. Everyone was HAPPY.
In our corporate run world soon we will all be slaves to the patents and morals of a handful of monopolistic companies. We can line up and listen to whatever clear channel wants us to listen to and pay them a hefty sum to do so.
It just makes me sick to my stomach. Every GOOD THING in the world gets taken away. Call me a whiner, but this just depresses the SHIT out of me.
....as I know lawyers love to do, but PJ is a grokParaLegal I believe and not a grokLawyer. Regardless, great work and great site.
It must feel really nice to know you are largely responsible for the ongoing education of millions of readers.
I miss that place. Can't even remember what it's called now, but they were HUGE. I think they set the guinness world record for largest burrito in fact.
Ah....christ. that sucks.
Has anyone WarDriven China? That would be cool, I wonder how many open APs there are ... makes the whole concept of an Internet Cafe sort of moot.
...got a make a living right?
I'd say there's a definite revival on the west coast. In San Francisco the new main library was a huge success and up in Seattle the new main library is being opened in less than a month. It's a really interesting architectural design as well.
Can't wait to hang out in the new library!
Nice!
Back then nothing, as late as 1988 I was still working with real estate companies that were using line printers to get real estate reports through BBS connections. Going through a BBS on a line printer is an amazing waste of paper.
It makes me wonder what is a more giant waste, all the electricity monitors use or all the paper that was wated printing out the same menu 10 billion times at every real estate office around the country.