Joomla does have a plugin for versioning. It is called ERM Version Control. Marketed in the US by anything-digital.com. It works really nice, though I wish it had better merge capability, where I could easier choose what updates I want to keep and what I would like to backout. All in all I am happy. I have a Joomla site with about 2000 pages with maybe two dozen people who have edit rights.
No, I don't really think you are correct. Look at the situation. We are already fighting a war over oil. Was that mentioned in econ101?
I think that really the best scenario we have is one where we gracefully run out of oil in 20 years. I don't personally think it is going to be that pretty though. 70% of the remaining oil in the world is located in places where the people don't reallly like americans all that much. At the same time america is totally, and single mindedly, fixated on changing nothing about how they live.
Yes, I agree with one point that you make. Americans have been hearing for years that oil is going to run out. Another old sage of a/. poster talked about first hearing it when he was six, and now in the wisdom of his thirties knew that it was all bullshit. I can't help but ask, after hearing about it for all these years, is he still going to have the audacity to be surprised if he can't get any food at his local big box food store?
America is totally based on not just on petroleum products, but,...and this is key, CHEAP petroleum products. Look how we have organized the urban sprawl we call our suburbs. Those places that don't even have sidewalks if you wanted to walk. And where to walk? The concept and infrastructure of the corner grocery store has been killed by the Walmart mentality. Everything is miles from a house in a suburb....everything except a gas station of course. Those are everywhere. Why did we never build a public transportation system?
Sure, you can get lettuce in Wisconsin in February, but will you still be able to if gas spikes to $10 a gallon? I don't think so. It just doesn't work anymore. But with gas here at $2.75 I am still seeing plenty of Hummers on the road. Do these people care about gas prices? Not really. They have money to burn. The trouble is they are burning it at a rate that is going to really piss off a lot of poor people, who are becoming more poor when they can't get to work in their cars anymore. No, they can't afford gas, but bullets might not cost much more than they do now. How is that for a thought?
America should have been planning ahead. Should have been spending it's billions of military dollars on planning it's long term future. Instead, we have postured to steal when we have been too stupid to think our way out of dependancy. We have no public transportation system, our rail system has fallen to disrepair, our agricultural system in most of the country depends on petroleum based fertilizer, and petroleum based irrigation systems.
I think the next few years will be ones of great change. Like I said toward the begining, I do hope you are correct, I do hope we spiral down. I just happen to doubt it.
The trouble with diesel of any kind is not the CO2, as you point out, but the particulant matter. PM2.5 is basically just dust, but it is really fine dust. or particulant matter less than two point five microns in size are a the next real problem in cities. In Minneapolis in the last year there have been more air polllution warnings (where people with breathing problems already should not go outside) for PM2.5 than all the other pollutants combined.
Check out http://aqi.pca.state.mn.us if you are at all interested in this type of stuff.
I have not read this book but I have taken Ed's SANS Track 4, Hacker Exploits, while it was in Minneapolis. He is an amazing guy. I got more information in that five days than I think I ever have in any other five day period in my life. It was pretty much an eight hour day of Ed talking (very fast) in the front of the class. The information presented kept the whole thing really interesting. If my book budget was a little bigger I would buy the book with hopes of more of the same.
One thing the review didn't mention, how many times can he reference the Matrix in 647 pages?
My question is, where will the power come from? Yeah, sure, you press down on the excelerator and it doesn't put out any carbon monoxide but that doesn't mean that it is truly a pollution free car. The electricity used to charge the batteries might have come from a coal burning power plant. This is just a matter of shifting the pollution from the inner city out to the country side where the power plants sit.
Additionally, every summer we hear about power blackouts because the U.S.A. is near or at our power generating capacity. This gets back to my first question, where is the electricity going to come from if a significant number of the population suddenly decides to buy electric cars? I realize Dubya wants to fund the building of a nuclear power plant on every street corner but is this really wise? Why can't we just bite the bullet and develop a real public transportation system in this country?
Look at it this way: Frontpage(dead) replace with Dreamweaver.Net(Weak) will be stronger when CF phased out Liquid(dead) replace with Flash
Adobe is a strong company now but MS already has come out with a rolled in MS version of PDF. If they market Macromedia's graphical tools well they should be able to buy adobe in a couple more years.
I think this is pretty bad news for Cold Fusion programmers. I bet the $25k I spent on Cold Fusion Linux servers won't have any more upgrades.
I suppose hoping for any sort of anti-trust to block this is beyond hope?
You seem to have trouble thinking in more than one time frame. Sure, now Americans live in enlightened times. What about other times and other places? What happens if encryption is outlawed and the govenment changes to one that really doesn't like what you do in your spare time? Are you going to just figure you are too small to take up jail space? Or are you going to start looking for real black helicopters?
I had some eyesight troubles and really thought I needed glasses. Soft vision, tired strained eyes, etc. When I went to the doctor however he told me that many of the moisture ducts around my eyelid were plugged. He said that is a result of staring for long periods of time at a monitor. He said I could clean them myself by repeatedly holding a hot wash cloth over my eyes for about 15-20 minutes. Make the water on the wash cloth as hot as you can stand it. He offered to clean them while I was there....next time I will pass on that bit of fun. It was quick but not pleasent. Anyway, instant cure. They were better right away. Now, each time I get feeling this way I do the hot wash cloth treatment and it feels much better.
There is one really great open source solution to doing GIS on the web, mapserver, written by Steve Lime, http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu It uses Freetype, proj, and has a perl module, mapscript. I have used it for small projects and it works very well, much, much better than ESRI's ArcIMS. Mapserver is much faster at drawing maps, easier for the end user because you can configure custom interfaces.
That all being said, is GIS the future? For the web, I don't think it is. Maybe the distant future. I mean the concept is good. Put in your address, get a map, turn on layers of data to see the things you want to see. But when you actually try doing something like this you find out it is really hard. I work with an organization which has some GIS data. The data is not real clean - getting good clean data with well-built shape files is hard. Most of the data they have is point source data - really ideally suited to having some static maps drawn up. Instead this coming Tuesday I have a meeting with my boss and others because there is a huge push in my company to do a full-blown web/GIS front-end for every bit of data in the house. It's nuts!...But I tell you, nothing sells to suites better than those dopey zoomable-layered maps. I can show her simple text query forms that return text data and a map at the end all day long, she couldn't care in the least. I tell you what at an ESRI demo her eyes lite right up! She has no concept of the idea we as a company are years and million$ away from having enough good, correct data to do GIS right. Getting good data is very hard. Storing, organizing, moving around, making available to employees, good data is also very hard. GIS chews up megabytes of storage almost as good as video production!:-)
Does the public want some graphic map they have to figure out, click on multiple times and zoom around in just to find out there are three toxic waste dumps within ten miles of their house? Really, I think the public wants a list. A list is easy to understand, it is not critically dependent on having a perfect set of UTMs and perfect GIS data and it doesn't use multi-hundred meg shape files so queries that produce lists seem much faster.
Who knows, maybe someday we will all have really big pipes coming into our houses and thanks to Mr. Moore, servers will be even faster and maybe GIS will be a practical front end to a data heavy web site. I just don't think that time has come yet - and won't for a while.
I work two different places. I work for a state pollution control agency running Exchange. I worked as backup Exchange admin. My second job, I work part time for a small ISP. Here are the two setups.
ISP: GW2K Pentium 333 with two 6gig drives and 128M Ram. 6000 pop accounts and a few mailing lists running majordomo and sendmail on FreeBSD. It suffers almost no user complaints and we had to reboot it last year to move it to a new UPS. The uptime before that was 800+ days.
State Agency: Exchange running on three Compaq dual processer boxes. 860 total employees, one of the boxes acts as primary domain controller. Each box has a 25 gig raid array plugged into it. The raid holds the mail, the internal drive holds the diff files that should be able to be used to reconstruct the database in case of a problem.
User complaints are moderate. Exhchange sometimes runs slow and we don't really know why. It is much better now that we added second processors to all the machines. We are thinking if we buy another machine to act as the domain controller perhaps we can reduce that load.
Then there are problems. The exchange admin went on vacation for a week. Two days into her vacation, mid day, I detected prarie dogging people saying "Is exchange down?" I was in charge of going down to the server room and discovering what was wrong. The server had been running for a couple of weeks with no reboots (somewhat rare) and it was all hosed up. I shut down everything and rebooted. When the machine came back up the exchange database was corrupt. Exchange would not start. The corruption had occured sometime before the last two weeks and exchange will run fine on a corrupt database. At that time the agency was on a two week backup rotation (yeah, I know stupid but it wasn't really my job) The backups were backups of the corrupt data and the first of the month backup had a bad tape and was un-restorable also. The mail database had grown to 16 gig - the maximum database size for exchange. The diff files could not be applied because the database would have to at least temporarly go over the 16 gig mark. A data recovery firm was brought in but it took months and bukoo bucks to mostly only recover document attachments. Email was down for over a week and I was sweating blood spending days on the phone to microsoft.
OK, many hard lessons were learned here. We did many things the wrong way and we have tried to change as many of them as we can. The setup we now have makes one of the compaq mail servers a backup machine. The backup tapes which are made every night are automatically restored to the backup machine and this process is tested every few days.
And the really important thing to me, I shed that job and now work in a department with a fleet of unix boxes. Life is good.
Microsoft has a very powerful marketing machine aimed at the suits. You are in a tough position right now because Microsoft has convinced your boss he is behind the times. That's a bad place to be. Life for you is really simple now. Simple and stable. I would fight hard to not change. Good luck!
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Apple confirms what I have thought for years. All kids look alike.
I noticed they collected "Research" on Donald Trump and not intelligence.
Its because it takes like 300 lines of cobal to write a decent bug.
Joomla does have a plugin for versioning. It is called ERM Version Control. Marketed in the US by anything-digital.com. It works really nice, though I wish it had better merge capability, where I could easier choose what updates I want to keep and what I would like to backout. All in all I am happy. I have a Joomla site with about 2000 pages with maybe two dozen people who have edit rights.
No, I don't really think you are correct. Look at the situation. We are already fighting a war over oil. Was that mentioned in econ101?
/. poster talked about first hearing it when he was six, and now in the wisdom of his thirties knew that it was all bullshit. I can't help but ask, after hearing about it for all these years, is he still going to have the audacity to be surprised if he can't get any food at his local big box food store?
...and this is key, CHEAP petroleum products. Look how we have organized the urban sprawl we call our suburbs. Those places that don't even have sidewalks if you wanted to walk. And where to walk? The concept and infrastructure of the corner grocery store has been killed by the Walmart mentality. Everything is miles from a house in a suburb. ...everything except a gas station of course. Those are everywhere. Why did we never build a public transportation system?
I think that really the best scenario we have is one where we gracefully run out of oil in 20 years. I don't personally think it is going to be that pretty though. 70% of the remaining oil in the world is located in places where the people don't reallly like americans all that much. At the same time america is totally, and single mindedly, fixated on changing nothing about how they live.
Yes, I agree with one point that you make. Americans have been hearing for years that oil is going to run out. Another old sage of a
America is totally based on not just on petroleum products, but,
Sure, you can get lettuce in Wisconsin in February, but will you still be able to if gas spikes to $10 a gallon? I don't think so. It just doesn't work anymore. But with gas here at $2.75 I am still seeing plenty of Hummers on the road. Do these people care about gas prices? Not really. They have money to burn. The trouble is they are burning it at a rate that is going to really piss off a lot of poor people, who are becoming more poor when they can't get to work in their cars anymore. No, they can't afford gas, but bullets might not cost much more than they do now. How is that for a thought?
America should have been planning ahead. Should have been spending it's billions of military dollars on planning it's long term future. Instead, we have postured to steal when we have been too stupid to think our way out of dependancy. We have no public transportation system, our rail system has fallen to disrepair, our agricultural system in most of the country depends on petroleum based fertilizer, and petroleum based irrigation systems.
I think the next few years will be ones of great change. Like I said toward the begining, I do hope you are correct, I do hope we spiral down. I just happen to doubt it.
--rainbird
http://www.iburncorn.com
The trouble with diesel of any kind is not the CO2, as you point out, but the particulant matter. PM2.5 is basically just dust, but it is really fine dust. or particulant matter less than two point five microns in size are a the next real problem in cities. In Minneapolis in the last year there have been more air polllution warnings (where people with breathing problems already should not go outside) for PM2.5 than all the other pollutants combined. Check out http://aqi.pca.state.mn.us if you are at all interested in this type of stuff.
I have not read this book but I have taken Ed's SANS Track 4, Hacker Exploits, while it was in Minneapolis. He is an amazing guy. I got more information in that five days than I think I ever have in any other five day period in my life. It was pretty much an eight hour day of Ed talking (very fast) in the front of the class. The information presented kept the whole thing really interesting. If my book budget was a little bigger I would buy the book with hopes of more of the same.
One thing the review didn't mention, how many times can he reference the Matrix in 647 pages?
My question is, where will the power come from? Yeah, sure, you press down on the excelerator and it doesn't put out any carbon monoxide but that doesn't mean that it is truly a pollution free car. The electricity used to charge the batteries might have come from a coal burning power plant. This is just a matter of shifting the pollution from the inner city out to the country side where the power plants sit.
Additionally, every summer we hear about power blackouts because the U.S.A. is near or at our power generating capacity. This gets back to my first question, where is the electricity going to come from if a significant number of the population suddenly decides to buy electric cars? I realize Dubya wants to fund the building of a nuclear power plant on every street corner but is this really wise? Why can't we just bite the bullet and develop a real public transportation system in this country?
Look at it this way:
Frontpage(dead) replace with Dreamweaver
Liquid(dead) replace with Flash
Adobe is a strong company now but MS already has come out with a rolled in MS version of PDF. If they market Macromedia's graphical tools well they should be able to buy adobe in a couple more years.
I think this is pretty bad news for Cold Fusion programmers. I bet the $25k I spent on Cold Fusion Linux servers won't have any more upgrades.
I suppose hoping for any sort of anti-trust to block this is beyond hope?
You seem to have trouble thinking in more than one time frame. Sure, now Americans live in enlightened times. What about other times and other places? What happens if encryption is outlawed and the govenment changes to one that really doesn't like what you do in your spare time? Are you going to just figure you are too small to take up jail space? Or are you going to start looking for real black helicopters?
I had some eyesight troubles and really thought I needed glasses. Soft vision, tired strained eyes, etc. When I went to the doctor however he told me that many of the moisture ducts around my eyelid were plugged. He said that is a result of staring for long periods of time at a monitor. He said I could clean them myself by repeatedly holding a hot wash cloth over my eyes for about 15-20 minutes. Make the water on the wash cloth as hot as you can stand it. He offered to clean them while I was there. ...next time I will pass on that bit of fun. It was quick but not pleasent. Anyway, instant cure. They were better right away. Now, each time I get feeling this way I do the hot wash cloth treatment and it feels much better.
That all being said, is GIS the future? For the web, I don't think it is. Maybe the distant future. I mean the concept is good. Put in your address, get a map, turn on layers of data to see the things you want to see. But when you actually try doing something like this you find out it is really hard. I work with an organization which has some GIS data. The data is not real clean - getting good clean data with well-built shape files is hard. Most of the data they have is point source data - really ideally suited to having some static maps drawn up. Instead this coming Tuesday I have a meeting with my boss and others because there is a huge push in my company to do a full-blown web/GIS front-end for every bit of data in the house. It's nuts! ...But I tell you, nothing sells to suites better than those dopey zoomable-layered maps. I can show her simple text query forms that return text data and a map at the end all day long, she couldn't care in the least. I tell you what at an ESRI demo her eyes lite right up! She has no concept of the idea we as a company are years and million$ away from having enough good, correct data to do GIS right. Getting good data is very hard. Storing, organizing, moving around, making available to employees, good data is also very hard. GIS chews up megabytes of storage almost as good as video production! :-)
Does the public want some graphic map they have to figure out, click on multiple times and zoom around in just to find out there are three toxic waste dumps within ten miles of their house? Really, I think the public wants a list. A list is easy to understand, it is not critically dependent on having a perfect set of UTMs and perfect GIS data and it doesn't use multi-hundred meg shape files so queries that produce lists seem much faster.
Who knows, maybe someday we will all have really big pipes coming into our houses and thanks to Mr. Moore, servers will be even faster and maybe GIS will be a practical front end to a data heavy web site. I just don't think that time has come yet - and won't for a while.
Mapserver, written by Steve Lime, Minnesota DNR
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/
Excellent program!
I work two different places. I work for a state pollution control agency running Exchange. I worked as backup Exchange admin. My second job, I work part time for a small ISP. Here are the two setups.
ISP: GW2K Pentium 333 with two 6gig drives and 128M Ram. 6000 pop accounts and a few mailing lists running majordomo and sendmail on FreeBSD. It suffers almost no user complaints and we had to reboot it last year to move it to a new UPS. The uptime before that was 800+ days.
State Agency: Exchange running on three Compaq dual processer boxes. 860 total employees, one of the boxes acts as primary domain controller. Each box has a 25 gig raid array plugged into it. The raid holds the mail, the internal drive holds the diff files that should be able to be used to reconstruct the database in case of a problem.
User complaints are moderate. Exhchange sometimes runs slow and we don't really know why. It is much better now that we added second processors to all the machines. We are thinking if we buy another machine to act as the domain controller perhaps we can reduce that load.
Then there are problems. The exchange admin went on vacation for a week. Two days into her vacation, mid day, I detected prarie dogging people saying "Is exchange down?" I was in charge of going down to the server room and discovering what was wrong. The server had been running for a couple of weeks with no reboots (somewhat rare) and it was all hosed up. I shut down everything and rebooted. When the machine came back up the exchange database was corrupt. Exchange would not start. The corruption had occured sometime before the last two weeks and exchange will run fine on a corrupt database. At that time the agency was on a two week backup rotation (yeah, I know stupid but it wasn't really my job) The backups were backups of the corrupt data and the first of the month backup had a bad tape and was un-restorable also. The mail database had grown to 16 gig - the maximum database size for exchange. The diff files could not be applied because the database would have to at least temporarly go over the 16 gig mark. A data recovery firm was brought in but it took months and bukoo bucks to mostly only recover document attachments. Email was down for over a week and I was sweating blood spending days on the phone to microsoft.
OK, many hard lessons were learned here. We did many things the wrong way and we have tried to change as many of them as we can. The setup we now have makes one of the compaq mail servers a backup machine. The backup tapes which are made every night are automatically restored to the backup machine and this process is tested every few days.
And the really important thing to me, I shed that job and now work in a department with a fleet of unix boxes. Life is good.
Microsoft has a very powerful marketing machine aimed at the suits. You are in a tough position right now because Microsoft has convinced your boss he is behind the times. That's a bad place to be. Life for you is really simple now. Simple and stable. I would fight hard to not change. Good luck!