The fire was started by a controlled burn that got out of control. However, the people involved were just doing their jobs, and they still have a huge task in front of them.
As big as this fire was, it still did not clear out all the debris lying on the forest floor. New Mexico's forests have been protected for the last 150 years and its only recently that fires have been allowed to burn.
Its only recently that forest managers realized that forest fires are a somewhat regular occurence neccesary to clean out the debris and allow trees to be properly spaced by killing off weaker trees. If you take a look at tree rings from a really old tree you can see a regular pattern of fire and then this big gap when our forest service actively fought forest fires.
Unfortunately, we cant just get rid of the debris overnight, so regular, perhaps even aggressive, controlled burning is necessary. The debris left behind from 150 years of fire control may prove to be a big problem if we continue to have record hot summers(due to global warming, but that's another story).
The Albuquerque Journal is a great reference for donations, BTW, as the entire city of Los Alamos had to be evacuated, about 500 homes were destroyed(out of a population of 11,000) so there are many people are in need.
I think this says it all about the company you work for.
OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market.
- From the Halloween Document(this was written by a Microsoft employee, in case you didn't know). Microsoft management sitting in a room cackling somewhere deciding to make a non-interoperable version.
True to form, this is precisely what they did with kerberos. Since you are not familiar with the kerberos fiasco, I'll explain. Microsoft took an open source authentication protocol, kerberos, and designed it into Windows 2000. They did so because kerberos was superior to NTLM, the authentican protocol used in NT4. They then "embraced and extended" the kerberos protocol. In simple terms, if I have a Linux server and Windows 2000 desktops, I cannot authenticate myself by logging into the Linux server using kerberos. To be authenticated to access resources on the Windows 2000 desktops, I must go through a Windows 2000 server. Microsoft embraced and extended the kerberos protocol specifically to force people to buy a Windows 2000 server.
Even worse, they released the specification in such a manner that everyone would see it, but, due to their copyright, no one would be able to legally design a workaround for the Win2K restriction. When someone published the MS protocol on slashdot they demanded slashdot take it down. Make no mistake, Microsoft is dead serious about making their version of kerberos incompatible with the others. Of course Win2K computers can access Unix or Linux services quite nicely, and why not, the protocols are open. Its just the other way around that doesn't work.
Does it need to be said again? OK, here goes: Microsoft management sitting in a room cackling somewhere, deciding to make a non-interoperable version. I realize Microsoft has some ethical employees. Unfortunately, the unethical ones ruin it for all of you.
I concur. The internet allows the spread of free high quality education to anyone that can access it. I've been thinking for a while of a way computers could be donated to those in need, try to give every community access to computing and the internet through the spread of Linux, old 486's and Pentiums, and free internet service.
The other thing that could be done would be to create a massive database/system to enable people in need to request specific help to those able to provide it. If the information about a town with starving children is on the internet in everyone's face, we'd be more inclined to do something about it
>> Statistics(and common sense) clearly shows that a NO guns policy means that less people get killed
Statistics show that countries where guns are forbidden have incidents like Tinnamen Square where citizens can be ruthlessly slaughtered by their governments. Countries like ours have free citizens and defend the rest of the free world. If Adolph Hitler gained power in your country you'd have no choice but to accept it. Game over, the governent has all the guns, you lose.
I'd be very reluctant to say this in public, but here on/. it looks like most of the geeks have some common sense about the issue. Its our constitutional right to defend ourselves.
I say as soon as kids are old enough(13 or 14, most likely) to handle weapons responsibly, we ought to let them carry if they feel a need to defend themselves. Assuming of course they had proper safety training and no history of unstability. There wouldn't be any geeks getting beat up on a daily basis, and something like Littleton would have never gotten so far out of hand.
There was a time when it was perfectly acceptable to bring a gun to school. Of course, since shootings like Littleton were unheard of it was always for the purpose of hunting after school. If kids could be trusted with guns then, they can be trusted now.
I shall be running many a script through the asp->php converter.
It's not a total loss though. I've programmed in C++ for several years now, and I know a little Perl & some Java. I've got the freedom to convert the code I've written for my job, and I'm guessing my non-technical boss will be relieved not to have to spend so much money on software. I used to think I needed a proprietary database, but really the only thing I need screaming performance on is searches and I understand mySQL is great for that.
I just hope the job market for open source software skills is good.
Jim, don't go away. There are close to 200,000/. users, and there is no way you are going to please them all. Before you get all hurt because you think no one here likes you, look up Signal 11's latest posts and see what the moderators have been doing to him. Now, this is Signal 11, diehard Linux user, and who has posted more times and gained more karma than any other/. user. Now he regularly gets unfairly moderated(well he did, but I think Rob put a stop to it.) There is somewhat of a moderation problem going on now, so if you've been unfairly modded down, point it out to CmdrTaco.
I personally gained lots of karma points while at the same time playing devil's advocate whenever someone stated incorrect information about MS. Intelligent posts are what gain you karma.(actually this shouldn't be a goal)/. is good for keeping your mind sharp, if nothing else.
I disagree with you on your previous post("Microsoft is innovative"), but I don't want you to just disappear. If everyone here was a mindless Linux zealot, it would be a lot less interesting of a place.
Hear, hear. This applies to me exactly. Previously, I did not buy that MS was a monopoly, and I would publicly defend them on/. whenever someone said something untrue about them. I even (almost successfully) contradicted Jeremy Allison, the Samba guy, on a statement he made about SQL Server. I didn't have a bias toward or against MS, and I have to work with both NT and UNIX systems.
I really wanted to see them work towards interoperability and standards compliance, and I thought they were going to move in that direction. I honestly thought we were going to start seeing a "kinder and gentler" Microsoft.
Now I recognize them for the bastards that they are, and I'm not likely to spend any more money on their products for a very long time. It almost makes me sick to think of all the time I wasted learning VB and ASP. I am now looking for a way out, and I totally want to get away from the Microsoft platform. Hopefully I can do this without damaging my career as a web developer/programmer.
Microsoft, you make me sick, and you have lost yourself a good customer. You have lost someone who used to like your products, and who used to recommend them to others. I'm guessing that from me alone, you will lose about $200,000 in both direct business and referals. Now multiply that with every other customer you've managed to alienate. I'm guessing for each of the 1,400 posters on yesterdays story, there are 100 more people that have read it.
What I want to know is, even if you are right about your copyright of your bastardized open source "kerberos", how can you justify your actions, given the massive bad publicity you have generated for yourselves. This is the absolute lowest your public image has ever gone, and it will take something on the order of a public apology from Bill Gates to Rob Malda to fix it. I'm not holding my breath.
- what did the orginal contract state? i.e. who owns the finished product, CompanyX or you?
- what were the terms of dismissing CompanyX? You said they were unable to finish the job. Did you pay them for the work they performed? If not, you can't really use the work they did in your project.
- HTML is not code. I don't think any sort of intellectual property laws apply to HTML. You can read the HTML from any site, even the ones who do lame things like using framesets to hide it. If it was just the HTML, not original content owned by CompanyX, they don't have a leg to stand on. You might be facing different issues if there is Javascript, ASP, or other actual code there. But thats assumming CompanyX copyrighted it and took steps to protect it, a big assumption given their lack of expertise.
I tried to find out the exact licence the kerberos protocol was licenced under. According to MIT, the inventors of the protocol, Kerberos is freely available from MIT, under a copyright permission notice very similar to the one used for the BSD operating and X11 Windowing system. MIT provides Kerberos in source form, so that anyone who wishes to use it may look over the code for themselves and assure themselves that the code is trustworthy. In addition, for those who prefer to rely on a professional supported product, Kerberos is available as a product from many different vendors.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but we were discussing Micros~1's deviation from the kerberos protocol. Most of us did not agree that Micros~1's implementation of kerberos did not fit the standard. Therefore in the context of our discussion, it was legal under fair use principles that we analyse the code.
Not only that, but according to MIT, kerberos is released under a bsd-style licence. Well, this is what a bsd-style licence looks like. Micros~1 totally abused this licence, and MIT should take away their privilege of calling the software kerberos. Kerberos is a MIT copyright, not a Micros~1 copyright. Micros~1 does not have the right to pursue this.
I usually play devils advocate when someone spews misinformation about Micros~1. This time, it is totally obvious that they have left the realm of the clued.
I've not seen such egregious moderator abuse since I started posting to slashdot. See my previous comment about this. I'm restating it since there is some discussion about this in this thread.
So Signal 11 posts a lot. In fact, judging by # of posts and user number, he probably has 5 digit karma. He even proudly proclaims he is the "greatest karma whore of all times"
That DOES NOT give anyone the right to unfairly moderate him down. I happen to read/. because of the good posts and I will not stand to see good posts unfairly modded down. That totally defeats the purpose of/.
I vastly prefer any Signal 11 post to an AC post. The moderator abuse has gotten so bad that now I can't see most of his posts because they are unfairly modded down to 0 or -1.
I bet I'm not the only Linux user who does this - as a personal, single user system, I've given my own account superuser capability. Why? Because I'm the only one using my linux box and its annoying to have to su to root everytime I want to do something with my system.
So someone could easily mail me a perl script that, if I executed it, would trash my system. Granted, I would be dumb to run such a script. But then again, so were the Outlook users who clicked on them. They were mainly corporate users, and thus were probably told repeatedly by their respective sysadmins not to open attachments unless they knew what it was first.
Hmm...someone is obviously abusing their moderation powers at Signal 11's expense.
Take a look at his user info. Most of his latest comments are either 0 or -1.
In particular, I am reposting this comment.
I'd like to remind people that the majority of open source projects DO fail. Remember, even the best baseball player of all time couldn't even hit the ball half the time. Go easy on these people, they're putting real effort into things.. and even if it doesn't turn out they deserve our praise. For every Apache or Linux there's hundreds of lower quality, less-developed programs out there. That doesn't mean sourceforge, or open source, or the authors.. suck. What that means is that you ought to be a smart consumer and not use something that doesn't fit your criteria. Nobody here said you have to use software that sucks - you are a consumer.. act like one: purchase/download the products that best meet your needs.
A perfectly decent comment, certainly not deserving 2 troll and 2 overrated moderation points.
Whoever is beating up on Signal 11, please stop. You are not going to get away with this much longer, you know.
How does it make you feel when so many here blame Microsoft Outlook for the ILOVEYOU virus. The prevailing attitude is "Microsoft should have protected users of Outlook. Instead of calling it Outlook, better call it Lookout", etc.
What they are really suggesting is that Microsoft should bundle anti-virus software with Windows and Outlook. Seems to me that the bundling issue got you guys into a bunch of trouble already.
You can't have it both ways folks. If you are going to split Microsoft in two for bundling software, you can't demand that they bundle more software to protect from virii.
Ugh. Expecting anything but bigoted bullshit about Microsoft from/. is asking too much, it seems.
I've not been able to connect to netscape.com at all today, and I have a T1. What on earth? They're one of the 10 most visited sites. Is this another DDOS or can they not handle the traffic of every netscape browser having netscape.com as the home page?
>> No one who fully understands them is willing to spend enough time in a Window$ Programming Environment to write strong, flexible, and stable clients for Window$
Microsoft charges $150 for its Services for Unix. It includes support for shell commands, perl and NFS.
I don't see how they did much more than convert existing open source code and slapping on the $150 price tag. Why not do the same thing as a way to fund an open source project?
FYI, I have hunted far and wide for a low cost NFS client for Windows. AFAIK, there isn't one. So right there would be something that could be an open source project funded by selling the same thing on the Windows platform.
I probably don't have nearly as much Samba experience as the author but here are a few things I've run into that required me to look beyond the standard documentation.
1) Newer Windows clients probably won't work with the default Samba setup without some tweaking. This is because Win98/NT4 and newer clients send encrypted passwords over the network. You either have to set Samba up to accept encrypted passwords or get into the Windows registry and tell it to enable plain text passwords.
2) If you have an NT domain controller, the default Samba install will probably give you problems. If you don't want Samba to be the domain controller, handle domain logins, perform WINS services, become a browse master, etc., etc. you have to tell it not to do these things explicitly. If you don't, and you have an NT box doing these things, you will likely have problems.
All too many companies are willing to take their venture captital or stock money and use it to undercut prices in order to establish themselves on the net. This is obviously very unhealthy for the economy.
Its my hope that VC's and investors realize that this behavior is insane and will only cause wildly fluctuating stock prices in the long run. If the internet can be a place that a company can set up shop and make a profit, it will continue growing. However, if the environment contiues to exist in such a manner as to totally squeeze profit, then it should be no surprise that the stocks fall and companies like CDNow go out of business.
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>> Oracle may be proprietary, but it hasn't fallen into the kind of rut that MS has in terms of quality
How exactly is Microsoft SQL Server not a quality product? Be specific, I'm not trying to flame you, but rather I'm looking for good information.
Might surprise some of you Oracle gurus to know that your vaunted database platform is no longer the fastest DBMS. Windows 2000/SQL server trounced Oracle running on the heaviest Sun and IBM iron out there. Check out www.tpc.orgfor the results. This was the very test that Oracle used for years to claim it was superior to other database platforms.
Windows 98 being low quality, yes. I would never program on a system that crashed every time I made a programming error. But SQL Server? I can't get the thing to crash, and I've tried.
it is more like a method of communication between server and browser. It allows virtually any scripting language, including Perl and Python, to be used.
Even Microsoft recommends that you move as much code out of your asp pages as possible. Use compiled components. These too can be written in a variety of languages, C++, VB, and Java being the most common. The asp's themselves should be doing little more than reading form or querystring input and passing that along to the components. When the components are finished processing the input, they feed it back to the server and output can be written. In asp you have some choices whether to output everything all at once or just little chunks at a time, via buffering.
I agree with the poster who urged people to separate HTML from code as much as possible. ASP lets you do this. Proper asp coding can result in highly scalable sites that perform as well as anything out there. Its easy to use and its from Microsoft, so there are lots of crappy/slow asp pages as well.
Given that it is not a language in itself, I think its model is a good one for web development and I'd like to see more language independent methods like this in Apache. Has anyone tried Apache::ASP and seen how well it works?
>> Slashdot is getting real slow, and it's not because of bandwidth
Try using/. around lunchtime when everyone and his brother are reading and/or trying to post. Observe how long the pages take to load. Then try it again in the evening when the load is a lot lighter. Same code, same db, same work that the servers have to do, but its much faster. This is because of bandwidth.
Not only that, but you are not really seeing dynamic pages when you visit/. A static page is generated once a minute and thats what you see. So really not much code is being executed when you download either the front page or the individual article pages. I would have to say that slow download times are a result of the bandwidth, not the slow perl code.
You even point out the 64 ms. ping times. Faster code won't get you a faster ping. More bandwidth will.
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well it looks like the whole mySQL vs. "real" RDBMS's has been thoroughly exhausted, so I thought I'd tap the/. collective mind for an answer to a real problem.
Keyword searches. I use MSSQL at work, and before version 7 came out, there was no built in way to handle keyword searches. For example, if I am searching a database of books by the title field, the actual title of the book is 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and I use the words 'Tom Sawyer' in my search, by default I would have to use a very inefficient method: ie "SELECT * FROM Titles WHERE Title LIKE %Tom Sawyer%"(pseudocode here, kids) The LIKE keyword and the % sign mean that the database has to perform a much more exhaustive search than if the individual keywords were indexed.
So thats what I did. I wrote a program to associate each keyword with its primary key. That way, I could have an indexed keyword table. This dramatically sped up my search engine. The only problem with this solution is the SQL I'm using to search both keyword and main tables. It goes something like "SELECT * FROM Titles WHERE Titles.ID IN (SELECT ID FROM Keywords WHERE Keyword='Tom' AND Keyword='Sawyer'). Although this is much faster than the non-indexed way, the nested SELECT statement and the 'IN' clause are not the most efficient SQL statements.
Can anyone tell me a better way to go about this. Also, does mySQL/Postgres have anything like full-text indexing? If not, I might have something to contribute to the open source world.
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As big as this fire was, it still did not clear out all the debris lying on the forest floor. New Mexico's forests have been protected for the last 150 years and its only recently that fires have been allowed to burn.
Its only recently that forest managers realized that forest fires are a somewhat regular occurence neccesary to clean out the debris and allow trees to be properly spaced by killing off weaker trees. If you take a look at tree rings from a really old tree you can see a regular pattern of fire and then this big gap when our forest service actively fought forest fires.
Unfortunately, we cant just get rid of the debris overnight, so regular, perhaps even aggressive, controlled burning is necessary. The debris left behind from 150 years of fire control may prove to be a big problem if we continue to have record hot summers(due to global warming, but that's another story).
The Albuquerque Journal is a great reference for donations, BTW, as the entire city of Los Alamos had to be evacuated, about 500 homes were destroyed(out of a population of 11,000) so there are many people are in need.
OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS projects entry into the market.
- From the Halloween Document(this was written by a Microsoft employee, in case you didn't know). Microsoft management sitting in a room cackling somewhere deciding to make a non-interoperable version.True to form, this is precisely what they did with kerberos. Since you are not familiar with the kerberos fiasco, I'll explain. Microsoft took an open source authentication protocol, kerberos, and designed it into Windows 2000. They did so because kerberos was superior to NTLM, the authentican protocol used in NT4. They then "embraced and extended" the kerberos protocol. In simple terms, if I have a Linux server and Windows 2000 desktops, I cannot authenticate myself by logging into the Linux server using kerberos. To be authenticated to access resources on the Windows 2000 desktops, I must go through a Windows 2000 server. Microsoft embraced and extended the kerberos protocol specifically to force people to buy a Windows 2000 server.
Even worse, they released the specification in such a manner that everyone would see it, but, due to their copyright, no one would be able to legally design a workaround for the Win2K restriction. When someone published the MS protocol on slashdot they demanded slashdot take it down. Make no mistake, Microsoft is dead serious about making their version of kerberos incompatible with the others. Of course Win2K computers can access Unix or Linux services quite nicely, and why not, the protocols are open. Its just the other way around that doesn't work.
Does it need to be said again? OK, here goes: Microsoft management sitting in a room cackling somewhere, deciding to make a non-interoperable version. I realize Microsoft has some ethical employees. Unfortunately, the unethical ones ruin it for all of you.
this is great! does it work? i.e. are you sure this will authenticate access to W2K desktops if I login to a unix terminal using kerberos?
The other thing that could be done would be to create a massive database/system to enable people in need to request specific help to those able to provide it. If the information about a town with starving children is on the internet in everyone's face, we'd be more inclined to do something about it
Statistics show that countries where guns are forbidden have incidents like Tinnamen Square where citizens can be ruthlessly slaughtered by their governments. Countries like ours have free citizens and defend the rest of the free world. If Adolph Hitler gained power in your country you'd have no choice but to accept it. Game over, the governent has all the guns, you lose.
I say as soon as kids are old enough(13 or 14, most likely) to handle weapons responsibly, we ought to let them carry if they feel a need to defend themselves. Assuming of course they had proper safety training and no history of unstability. There wouldn't be any geeks getting beat up on a daily basis, and something like Littleton would have never gotten so far out of hand.
There was a time when it was perfectly acceptable to bring a gun to school. Of course, since shootings like Littleton were unheard of it was always for the purpose of hunting after school. If kids could be trusted with guns then, they can be trusted now.
It's not a total loss though. I've programmed in C++ for several years now, and I know a little Perl & some Java. I've got the freedom to convert the code I've written for my job, and I'm guessing my non-technical boss will be relieved not to have to spend so much money on software. I used to think I needed a proprietary database, but really the only thing I need screaming performance on is searches and I understand mySQL is great for that.
I just hope the job market for open source software skills is good.
I personally gained lots of karma points while at the same time playing devil's advocate whenever someone stated incorrect information about MS. Intelligent posts are what gain you karma.(actually this shouldn't be a goal) /. is good for keeping your mind sharp, if nothing else.
I disagree with you on your previous post("Microsoft is innovative"), but I don't want you to just disappear. If everyone here was a mindless Linux zealot, it would be a lot less interesting of a place.
Hear, hear. This applies to me exactly. Previously, I did not buy that MS was a monopoly, and I would publicly defend them on /. whenever someone said something untrue about them. I even (almost successfully) contradicted Jeremy Allison, the Samba guy, on a statement he made about SQL Server. I didn't have a bias toward or against MS, and I have to work with both NT and UNIX systems.
I really wanted to see them work towards interoperability and standards compliance, and I thought they were going to move in that direction. I honestly thought we were going to start seeing a "kinder and gentler" Microsoft.
Now I recognize them for the bastards that they are, and I'm not likely to spend any more money on their products for a very long time. It almost makes me sick to think of all the time I wasted learning VB and ASP. I am now looking for a way out, and I totally want to get away from the Microsoft platform. Hopefully I can do this without damaging my career as a web developer/programmer.
Microsoft, you make me sick, and you have lost yourself a good customer. You have lost someone who used to like your products, and who used to recommend them to others. I'm guessing that from me alone, you will lose about $200,000 in both direct business and referals. Now multiply that with every other customer you've managed to alienate. I'm guessing for each of the 1,400 posters on yesterdays story, there are 100 more people that have read it.
What I want to know is, even if you are right about your copyright of your bastardized open source "kerberos", how can you justify your actions, given the massive bad publicity you have generated for yourselves. This is the absolute lowest your public image has ever gone, and it will take something on the order of a public apology from Bill Gates to Rob Malda to fix it. I'm not holding my breath.
- what were the terms of dismissing CompanyX? You said they were unable to finish the job. Did you pay them for the work they performed? If not, you can't really use the work they did in your project.
- HTML is not code. I don't think any sort of intellectual property laws apply to HTML. You can read the HTML from any site, even the ones who do lame things like using framesets to hide it. If it was just the HTML, not original content owned by CompanyX, they don't have a leg to stand on. You might be facing different issues if there is Javascript, ASP, or other actual code there. But thats assumming CompanyX copyrighted it and took steps to protect it, a big assumption given their lack of expertise.
Take out one of the "did not"'s out of the sentence, your choice.
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but we were discussing Micros~1's deviation from the kerberos protocol. Most of us did not agree that Micros~1's implementation of kerberos did not fit the standard. Therefore in the context of our discussion, it was legal under fair use principles that we analyse the code.
Not only that, but according to MIT, kerberos is released under a bsd-style licence. Well, this is what a bsd-style licence looks like. Micros~1 totally abused this licence, and MIT should take away their privilege of calling the software kerberos. Kerberos is a MIT copyright, not a Micros~1 copyright. Micros~1 does not have the right to pursue this.
I usually play devils advocate when someone spews misinformation about Micros~1. This time, it is totally obvious that they have left the realm of the clued.
and could you imagine Rush suing Napster?
So Signal 11 posts a lot. In fact, judging by # of posts and user number, he probably has 5 digit karma. He even proudly proclaims he is the "greatest karma whore of all times"
That DOES NOT give anyone the right to unfairly moderate him down. I happen to read /. because of the good posts and I will not stand to see good posts unfairly modded down. That totally defeats the purpose of /.
I vastly prefer any Signal 11 post to an AC post. The moderator abuse has gotten so bad that now I can't see most of his posts because they are unfairly modded down to 0 or -1.
Please stop.
So someone could easily mail me a perl script that, if I executed it, would trash my system. Granted, I would be dumb to run such a script. But then again, so were the Outlook users who clicked on them. They were mainly corporate users, and thus were probably told repeatedly by their respective sysadmins not to open attachments unless they knew what it was first.
Take a look at his user info. Most of his latest comments are either 0 or -1.
In particular, I am reposting this comment.
I'd like to remind people that the majority of open source projects DO fail. Remember, even the best baseball player of all time couldn't even hit the ball half the time. Go easy on these people, they're putting real effort into things.. and even if it doesn't turn out they deserve our praise. For every Apache or Linux there's hundreds of lower quality, less-developed programs out there. That doesn't mean sourceforge, or open source, or the authors.. suck. What that means is that you ought to be a smart consumer and not use something that doesn't fit your criteria. Nobody here said you have to use software that sucks - you are a consumer.. act like one: purchase/download the products that best meet your needs.
A perfectly decent comment, certainly not deserving 2 troll and 2 overrated moderation points.
Whoever is beating up on Signal 11, please stop. You are not going to get away with this much longer, you know.
What they are really suggesting is that Microsoft should bundle anti-virus software with Windows and Outlook. Seems to me that the bundling issue got you guys into a bunch of trouble already.
You can't have it both ways folks. If you are going to split Microsoft in two for bundling software, you can't demand that they bundle more software to protect from virii.
Ugh. Expecting anything but bigoted bullshit about Microsoft from /. is asking too much, it seems.
I've not been able to connect to netscape.com at all today, and I have a T1. What on earth? They're one of the 10 most visited sites. Is this another DDOS or can they not handle the traffic of every netscape browser having netscape.com as the home page?
Microsoft charges $150 for its Services for Unix. It includes support for shell commands, perl and NFS.
I don't see how they did much more than convert existing open source code and slapping on the $150 price tag. Why not do the same thing as a way to fund an open source project?
FYI, I have hunted far and wide for a low cost NFS client for Windows. AFAIK, there isn't one. So right there would be something that could be an open source project funded by selling the same thing on the Windows platform.
1) Newer Windows clients probably won't work with the default Samba setup without some tweaking. This is because Win98/NT4 and newer clients send encrypted passwords over the network. You either have to set Samba up to accept encrypted passwords or get into the Windows registry and tell it to enable plain text passwords.
2) If you have an NT domain controller, the default Samba install will probably give you problems. If you don't want Samba to be the domain controller, handle domain logins, perform WINS services, become a browse master, etc., etc. you have to tell it not to do these things explicitly. If you don't, and you have an NT box doing these things, you will likely have problems.
All too many companies are willing to take their venture captital or stock money and use it to undercut prices in order to establish themselves on the net. This is obviously very unhealthy for the economy.
Its my hope that VC's and investors realize that this behavior is insane and will only cause wildly fluctuating stock prices in the long run. If the internet can be a place that a company can set up shop and make a profit, it will continue growing. However, if the environment contiues to exist in such a manner as to totally squeeze profit, then it should be no surprise that the stocks fall and companies like CDNow go out of business.
How exactly is Microsoft SQL Server not a quality product? Be specific, I'm not trying to flame you, but rather I'm looking for good information.
Might surprise some of you Oracle gurus to know that your vaunted database platform is no longer the fastest DBMS. Windows 2000/SQL server trounced Oracle running on the heaviest Sun and IBM iron out there. Check out www.tpc.orgfor the results. This was the very test that Oracle used for years to claim it was superior to other database platforms.
Windows 98 being low quality, yes. I would never program on a system that crashed every time I made a programming error. But SQL Server? I can't get the thing to crash, and I've tried.
Even Microsoft recommends that you move as much code out of your asp pages as possible. Use compiled components. These too can be written in a variety of languages, C++, VB, and Java being the most common. The asp's themselves should be doing little more than reading form or querystring input and passing that along to the components. When the components are finished processing the input, they feed it back to the server and output can be written. In asp you have some choices whether to output everything all at once or just little chunks at a time, via buffering.
I agree with the poster who urged people to separate HTML from code as much as possible. ASP lets you do this. Proper asp coding can result in highly scalable sites that perform as well as anything out there. Its easy to use and its from Microsoft, so there are lots of crappy/slow asp pages as well.
Given that it is not a language in itself, I think its model is a good one for web development and I'd like to see more language independent methods like this in Apache. Has anyone tried Apache::ASP and seen how well it works?
Try using /. around lunchtime when everyone and his brother are reading and/or trying to post. Observe how long the pages take to load. Then try it again in the evening when the load is a lot lighter. Same code, same db, same work that the servers have to do, but its much faster. This is because of bandwidth.
Not only that, but you are not really seeing dynamic pages when you visit /. A static page is generated once a minute and thats what you see. So really not much code is being executed when you download either the front page or the individual article pages. I would have to say that slow download times are a result of the bandwidth, not the slow perl code.
You even point out the 64 ms. ping times. Faster code won't get you a faster ping. More bandwidth will.
Keyword searches. I use MSSQL at work, and before version 7 came out, there was no built in way to handle keyword searches. For example, if I am searching a database of books by the title field, the actual title of the book is 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and I use the words 'Tom Sawyer' in my search, by default I would have to use a very inefficient method: ie "SELECT * FROM Titles WHERE Title LIKE %Tom Sawyer%"(pseudocode here, kids) The LIKE keyword and the % sign mean that the database has to perform a much more exhaustive search than if the individual keywords were indexed.
So thats what I did. I wrote a program to associate each keyword with its primary key. That way, I could have an indexed keyword table. This dramatically sped up my search engine. The only problem with this solution is the SQL I'm using to search both keyword and main tables. It goes something like "SELECT * FROM Titles WHERE Titles.ID IN (SELECT ID FROM Keywords WHERE Keyword='Tom' AND Keyword='Sawyer'). Although this is much faster than the non-indexed way, the nested SELECT statement and the 'IN' clause are not the most efficient SQL statements.
Can anyone tell me a better way to go about this. Also, does mySQL/Postgres have anything like full-text indexing? If not, I might have something to contribute to the open source world.