Remember the first time you installed Apache?
It was secure by default because you had to learn what the heck you were doing,
What ARE you talking about? Aside from those who are CLI impaired, httpd.conf (for typical tasks) is just as easy as the IIS MMC. After having 3 years of experience with IIS (from IIS3.0... yuck), and NONE with Apache, one of our boxes at work required Apache to be installed. This was, of course, after our layoffs and we laid off our only full time linux guy. Everyone else (incuding myself) was mainly Windows. So, we needed to config an apache box to host over 1,000 domain names, and we needed our web application (running Cold Fusion on Windows) to automagically create the domain/website in both Bind and Apache. It litterally took me about a DAY to write a couple of perl scripts (this is with MINIMAL experience with Perl as well!) that built the zone file for bind, updated the named.boot, and updated the httpd.conf.
I had to do something similar for IIS once, and it took 3 times as much VBScript since I had to traverse "ADSI". The code runs slow, and it took about a week to complete (and I have experience dealing with the IIS Metabase). (aside... Thankfully, all of the Microsoft.NET config is in well formed XML. It's not in the registry, and not in some proprietary format that requires knowledge of a clumsy API).
Apache is easy for certain setups. Personally, I still like IIS (hold the security holes) for non-static sites. I could go on regarding IIS vs Apache - that's another discussion altogether. I just don't think you have to have much of a clue to use Apache, and you can have the same idiot admins screw up an Apache config as you can an IIS config.
No this isn't. Microsoft has always tried to make everything so easy, that they just install and enable everything so you can do anything with minimal work. They're finally realising the implications. There IS a fundamental change in their strategy - shipped locked down instead of opened up. Yes, I've already mentioned (as others) that ISAPI.DLL needs to be rewritten as it's obviously got some serious security flaws. However, if IIS doesn't have tons of insecurely executable scripts installed and activated by default it lessons the issue dramatically.
Well, they're just repeating the Gartner report. Many of us closer to the issue agree that what needs a complete rewrite is ISAPI.DLL. This is not nearly as big of a task as rewriting IIS!
How about with this, an increase in the Microsoft Certification program?
Actually, the Microsoft Certification program for 2000 is quite impressive (disclaimer: I don't have one or plan on getting one). The problem is an MCSE can not be looked at exclusively. It just says that you (potentially) have a good understanding about Windows Servers and architectures. What it doesn't do is give somebody the equivilent of a few years of solid experience. That's the real issue here, experienced vs. inexperienced (but certified) admins.
Actually, I think he's talking about the fact that even if Windows was slower, if it was more usable it wouldn't matter. It's the whole "human centered computing" vs. "machine centered computing". The prior doesn't assume inefficient code, just more work for the machine to make the humans life easier (in theory).
My info is from planetxbox.com. Also, the "contending" for memory bandwidth will most likely increase overall performance because of how they architected it. The chipset may have the same bandwidth as a GF2Pro, but from what I've seen it supports a LOT on the hardware level (DX8.1 or DX9 I don't know). It's a little hard to do a direct comparison. One just has to look at the graphics to see that it blows away anything on any platform. Of course, as usual, in 3-6months the PC will be king when games come out to take advantage of the GF3+ video cards.
There's a great way to boycott it. Buy the CD, and RETURN it, so the number of returns go up. The reason you returned it? It wouldn't play on your computer.
bzzz wrong, the XBOX's GPU is actually faster than the GF3.
Graphics Processing Unit:
300MHz custom 3D graphics processor by nVidia
300 million micropolygons/particles per second
150 million transformed and lit polygons per second
100+ million polygons per second sustained performance (shading, texturing)
4 simultaneous textures
Compressed textures available at 8:1 compression
Full-scene anti-aliasing
That's because WMA has VERY TIGHT compression which requires a LOT of work to decompress. It's definatly not a "hog" in the sense that it was poorly designed.
WMA wouldn't be so bad if it was submitted to a standards body. It's NOT windows only - hence why most modern digital music players have full WMA support. The only problem is that there's nothing for Linux, or MAC AFAIK.
It's impossible for the human brain to be an expert in everything. Why isn't 13 years (K-12) of education enough for "well-rounding". Why can't there be just 11 years, and then spend four years (roughly ages 16-20) on more specific topics. It's not education, it's boredom. Did you know that most of the H1B's (that are VERY smart) that come from India to take "our" (used loosly) IT jobs get their BSCS or BSEE by the time they're 20! Why is our education system so slow? Because America want's to be Jack of all trades, master of none!:)
Ya, there's a bunch of companies investing millions of dollars in "reabilitating" child rapers and murders. True, American law is so messed up it costs millions to execute someone, but at least they don't come back and rape my kids. Don't get me wrong, even the evilist of evil people dying is a sad thing, but innocent lives must be saved. Some people think that we haven't morally evolved yet, and that's why we still practice these "barbaric" punishments. I simply state: A grape vine wouldn't live if it held on to it's diseased branches. Sad, but true.
...as long as they continue to elect the make use of the plain-text design of the display protocol and open architecture of the transport, they get what they deserve.
So when you buy a CD, because it is an open standard (no encryption, etc.), it's OK for you to make copies of the CD for your friends? No, that's called stealing. This about the law and ethics not about technical countermeasures. The RIAA adopts rights-infringing copyright protection on their CD's because of people like you. You think, "if it's technically easy to get, then it's mine". This philosophy warrents serious self examination.
...steals *my* bandwidth and even attempts to identify *me* with their stupid cookies?
How is YOU CHOOSING to visit their site them stealing from you? It's more like you STEALING content from them without paying the price(ads). And without cookies, the web would be one boring, static world (yes, I know there's URL session mangement but that has it's own problems).
Banner ads worsen the user experience; print ads do not. Regular banner ads take up my bandwidth and worsen my browser's responsivenss... Stop annoying the user...
Then go back to your newspaper - no ones forcing you view the annoying content.
Not by selling advertising space, and providing freebies or sausage sizzles or other methods to attract eyeballs.
These people are targeting the wrong customers.
Just like the TV networks. I just don't know how they stay in business with this "free public TV with advertising" model.
Stuff like this gotta break some rule of "personal preferences"
Ya. I went into the CD store and told the cashier that it was my "personal preference" not to pay for the content on the CD. She said that it'd be illigal if I left the store without paying for them. It's like our rights are being stripped away from us online AND offline.
The securty expenses like bulletproof glass, and especially biometric security, probably don't add up to all that much relative to the size of the business. Besides the marketing advantage that everyone taunts it for, I believe they are necessary. I live 20minutes from MSN's biggest Co-lo, which is about 50% of a 3 story Exodus building. If I'm a terrorist and want to disrupt the economny, I can take out over 1/3rd of MSN, plus tons of other companies lifeblood with a bomb or a few armed men. But with 500 pound doors, that's not going to happen.
When is the last time you heard about someone storming into a datacenter and stealing, for example, one of Best Buy's Web servers?
How ignorant! You've never heard about the sabatoge because the physicall security is too high. It's easier to penetrate the systems from a network level. If they had lax security it'd be easier to bust in and rip their servers out. I can't believe you got modded +4.
Interesting assumption. Let's be reasonable and stick to the facts that we know to be true. Agreed?
First. Every argument you used against Fileplanet has nothing to do with my statement. I don't care if they ask for your SSN or for a fingerprint ID - you don't HAVE to use them (read: mirrors).
Second, what cdrom.com is doing is generally freeware. What they've been doing for years is offering tons of Demo's (Future Crew, etc), and MODS/S3M's/XM's, etc. So although bandwith was much more expensive 5-6 years ago, most of the files they served barely hit 200K (on average). Even now the files aren't that big. I don't see cdrom.com offering the latest 80MB Deer Hunter demo or the 430MB Motor City Online demo (to tens of thousands of people in a week, nevertheless). You're comparing apples to oranges.
The arm-twist you? They spend MILLIONS so they can server over 20TB in a week (yes, that's a big T) and you get it for FREE? Go download somewhere else if you think your name is none of their business. Personally, I don't like the waits, so I got a personal server. What arrogance to assume that you have the right to consume massive amounts of bandwidth for free.
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Remember the first time you installed Apache?
It was secure by default because you had to learn what the heck you were doing,
What ARE you talking about? Aside from those who are CLI impaired, httpd.conf (for typical tasks) is just as easy as the IIS MMC. After having 3 years of experience with IIS (from IIS3.0... yuck), and NONE with Apache, one of our boxes at work required Apache to be installed. This was, of course, after our layoffs and we laid off our only full time linux guy. Everyone else (incuding myself) was mainly Windows. So, we needed to config an apache box to host over 1,000 domain names, and we needed our web application (running Cold Fusion on Windows) to automagically create the domain/website in both Bind and Apache. It litterally took me about a DAY to write a couple of perl scripts (this is with MINIMAL experience with Perl as well!) that built the zone file for bind, updated the named.boot, and updated the httpd.conf.
I had to do something similar for IIS once, and it took 3 times as much VBScript since I had to traverse "ADSI". The code runs slow, and it took about a week to complete (and I have experience dealing with the IIS Metabase). (aside... Thankfully, all of the Microsoft.NET config is in well formed XML. It's not in the registry, and not in some proprietary format that requires knowledge of a clumsy API).
Apache is easy for certain setups. Personally, I still like IIS (hold the security holes) for non-static sites. I could go on regarding IIS vs Apache - that's another discussion altogether. I just don't think you have to have much of a clue to use Apache, and you can have the same idiot admins screw up an Apache config as you can an IIS config.
No this isn't. Microsoft has always tried to make everything so easy, that they just install and enable everything so you can do anything with minimal work. They're finally realising the implications. There IS a fundamental change in their strategy - shipped locked down instead of opened up. Yes, I've already mentioned (as others) that ISAPI.DLL needs to be rewritten as it's obviously got some serious security flaws. However, if IIS doesn't have tons of insecurely executable scripts installed and activated by default it lessons the issue dramatically.
Well, they're just repeating the Gartner report. Many of us closer to the issue agree that what needs a complete rewrite is ISAPI.DLL. This is not nearly as big of a task as rewriting IIS!
How about with this, an increase in the Microsoft Certification program?
Actually, the Microsoft Certification program for 2000 is quite impressive (disclaimer: I don't have one or plan on getting one). The problem is an MCSE can not be looked at exclusively. It just says that you (potentially) have a good understanding about Windows Servers and architectures. What it doesn't do is give somebody the equivilent of a few years of solid experience. That's the real issue here, experienced vs. inexperienced (but certified) admins.
Actually, I think he's talking about the fact that even if Windows was slower, if it was more usable it wouldn't matter. It's the whole "human centered computing" vs. "machine centered computing". The prior doesn't assume inefficient code, just more work for the machine to make the humans life easier (in theory).
Actually, most of our .NET web services will run on port 443 :)
Except, at least in IE, when you mouse over the link it give you the full URL in the status bar.
My info is from planetxbox.com. Also, the "contending" for memory bandwidth will most likely increase overall performance because of how they architected it. The chipset may have the same bandwidth as a GF2Pro, but from what I've seen it supports a LOT on the hardware level (DX8.1 or DX9 I don't know). It's a little hard to do a direct comparison. One just has to look at the graphics to see that it blows away anything on any platform. Of course, as usual, in 3-6months the PC will be king when games come out to take advantage of the GF3+ video cards.
Now, if you had a pro audio CD player with a digital out, and a nice soundcard with a digital in, it would be a different story.
:)
I do...
There's a great way to boycott it. Buy the CD, and RETURN it, so the number of returns go up. The reason you returned it? It wouldn't play on your computer.
bzzz wrong, the XBOX's GPU is actually faster than the GF3.
Graphics Processing Unit:
300MHz custom 3D graphics processor by nVidia
300 million micropolygons/particles per second
150 million transformed and lit polygons per second
100+ million polygons per second sustained performance (shading, texturing)
4 simultaneous textures
Compressed textures available at 8:1 compression
Full-scene anti-aliasing
Memory:
64 MB of RAM (unified memory architecture)
6.4GB/sec memory bandwidth
That's because WMA has VERY TIGHT compression which requires a LOT of work to decompress. It's definatly not a "hog" in the sense that it was poorly designed.
WMA wouldn't be so bad if it was submitted to a standards body. It's NOT windows only - hence why most modern digital music players have full WMA support. The only problem is that there's nothing for Linux, or MAC AFAIK.
Part Jest, Part True:
:)
It's impossible for the human brain to be an expert in everything. Why isn't 13 years (K-12) of education enough for "well-rounding". Why can't there be just 11 years, and then spend four years (roughly ages 16-20) on more specific topics. It's not education, it's boredom. Did you know that most of the H1B's (that are VERY smart) that come from India to take "our" (used loosly) IT jobs get their BSCS or BSEE by the time they're 20! Why is our education system so slow? Because America want's to be Jack of all trades, master of none!
See something wrong with that list?
Ya, there's a bunch of companies investing millions of dollars in "reabilitating" child rapers and murders. True, American law is so messed up it costs millions to execute someone, but at least they don't come back and rape my kids. Don't get me wrong, even the evilist of evil people dying is a sad thing, but innocent lives must be saved. Some people think that we haven't morally evolved yet, and that's why we still practice these "barbaric" punishments. I simply state: A grape vine wouldn't live if it held on to it's diseased branches. Sad, but true.
Yikes! That's the worst unintentional Freudian Slip that I've made yet! Yes, you're right, I meant NCSA Mosaic 1.0, NOT Mozilla 1.0 :).
If you're too well rounded then you're not very sharp.
...as long as they continue to elect the make use of the plain-text design of the display protocol and open architecture of the transport, they get what they deserve.
So when you buy a CD, because it is an open standard (no encryption, etc.), it's OK for you to make copies of the CD for your friends? No, that's called stealing. This about the law and ethics not about technical countermeasures. The RIAA adopts rights-infringing copyright protection on their CD's because of people like you. You think, "if it's technically easy to get, then it's mine". This philosophy warrents serious self examination.
...steals *my* bandwidth and even attempts to identify *me* with their stupid cookies?
How is YOU CHOOSING to visit their site them stealing from you? It's more like you STEALING content from them without paying the price(ads). And without cookies, the web would be one boring, static world (yes, I know there's URL session mangement but that has it's own problems).
Banner ads worsen the user experience; print ads do not. Regular banner ads take up my bandwidth and worsen my browser's responsivenss... Stop annoying the user...
Then go back to your newspaper - no ones forcing you view the annoying content.
What if you simply disabled image downloading all together? Or use Lynx? Or disable whatever technology they are using...
Why don't we just go back to the web "stone ages" and use Mozilla 1.0? So much for the evolving web.
Not by selling advertising space, and providing freebies or sausage sizzles or other methods to attract eyeballs.
These people are targeting the wrong customers.
Just like the TV networks. I just don't know how they stay in business with this "free public TV with advertising" model.
Stuff like this gotta break some rule of "personal preferences"
Ya. I went into the CD store and told the cashier that it was my "personal preference" not to pay for the content on the CD. She said that it'd be illigal if I left the store without paying for them. It's like our rights are being stripped away from us online AND offline.
The securty expenses like bulletproof glass, and especially biometric security, probably don't add up to all that much relative to the size of the business. Besides the marketing advantage that everyone taunts it for, I believe they are necessary. I live 20minutes from MSN's biggest Co-lo, which is about 50% of a 3 story Exodus building. If I'm a terrorist and want to disrupt the economny, I can take out over 1/3rd of MSN, plus tons of other companies lifeblood with a bomb or a few armed men. But with 500 pound doors, that's not going to happen.
When is the last time you heard about someone storming into a datacenter and stealing, for example, one of Best Buy's Web servers?
How ignorant! You've never heard about the sabatoge because the physicall security is too high. It's easier to penetrate the systems from a network level. If they had lax security it'd be easier to bust in and rip their servers out. I can't believe you got modded +4.
You young whippersnapper...
Interesting assumption. Let's be reasonable and stick to the facts that we know to be true. Agreed?
First. Every argument you used against Fileplanet has nothing to do with my statement. I don't care if they ask for your SSN or for a fingerprint ID - you don't HAVE to use them (read: mirrors).
Second, what cdrom.com is doing is generally freeware. What they've been doing for years is offering tons of Demo's (Future Crew, etc), and MODS/S3M's/XM's, etc. So although bandwith was much more expensive 5-6 years ago, most of the files they served barely hit 200K (on average). Even now the files aren't that big. I don't see cdrom.com offering the latest 80MB Deer Hunter demo or the 430MB Motor City Online demo (to tens of thousands of people in a week, nevertheless). You're comparing apples to oranges.
The arm-twist you? They spend MILLIONS so they can server over 20TB in a week (yes, that's a big T) and you get it for FREE? Go download somewhere else if you think your name is none of their business. Personally, I don't like the waits, so I got a personal server. What arrogance to assume that you have the right to consume massive amounts of bandwidth for free.