Theory of Evolution was proven? I clearly need to get out more. I didn't know that it is Theorem of Evolution now. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory "Theories are abstract and conceptual, and to this end they are never considered right or wrong. Instead, they are supported or challenged by observations in the world"
GeoTrust sells low assurance SSL certificates. The only thing they validate is that you "control" the domain (which usually means that they just send you "confirmation" email to whois address. Anyone with stolen credit card can register a domain, and get the certificate, while staying untracable.
Most other CA sell High Assurance certificates, that require validation of entity ownership of the domain the fact that person ordering ssl for the domain has the right to do so. This is done via checking bunch of details, such as departement of state database, whois record, company records, etc, etc, etc. You have to be officer of the company or have notirized permission from the officer of the company to request ssl certificate for the domain. The whois record for the domain must match details from the state database. When taken all thouse checks together - it alows to prevent fraudster in most cases (you cannot prevent them all the time, not in real time).
GeoTrust "pioneered" low assurance certificates (and basically destroyed credibility of padlock), that bypass all thouse checks and go after domain control only. It created this mess. The "give away" that certificate is low assurance is that "Organization" field of the certificate holds domain name instead of company name. No real bank would go for that. This is one of the reasons opera displays the company from the certificate field right next to the URL. This is also the reason microsoft plans to differentiate between "high assurance" and "low assurance" certificates http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/11/21/495507 .aspx
How did you get it? On their website they have only Windows options available. Do you have to call them up?
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I think it is a greate idea. That way, they can sell the software to corporations that are geared toward corporations, yet still run open sourced version just for the comunity. This way there an income from sales, advertisement & training through open source community. This is a win/win situation for company.
I wish more companies would do that.
Does it means that babelfish should not be allowed? Do you license to use your website only with one browser that renders it the way you want to? Do you force user to expand images by default?
Do you require user to view it 800x600? With the fonts types and sizes you specified?...
As much as I don't like M$... I have to say that the same thing (SmartTags) comming from some different source would be considered as a 'huge advance', 'useful feature' or 'revolutionary step'.
Bunch of companies were working on similar things. Highliting words, allowing you to go to relevant sites, dictionaries...
No one was talking about making sure that "publisher" can control if such thing would be done on their content, it was always an option of user, to have such feature, or not to have.
The problem is that M$ is a monopoly and most of the users might be considered ignorant... Yet I have to agree that SmartTags are a good idea, and the only problem with them - they are provided/controled by M$
Check out the latest prices for the 9i. And I am not talking in simple Oracle setup (for that you can install PostgreSQL and be as happy), but about clustered, or parallel servers setup. The prices really goes through the roof there.
I timed XML parsing few days ago using java/xerces - it takes around.3-.5 seconds to create a DOM tree from 1K XML document, and thats on PIII 866. SAX is not much faster.
I don't know if it is Java, or bad implementation, but XML everywhere does not sound good to me anylonger.
I don't think they are going after enterprise market. But the whole idea that they provide an enterprise support, and they are a big company, will be a major plus for any database they would promote. Latest version of Oracle costs about $40k per CPU. DB2 & SQL Server are not much cheaper. If you want a disent "comercial grade" database, for a reasonable price, with an option to get support "latter on", there is almost no way to go.
There are some good opensource databases. Yet they all lack clustering (even that MySQL has some rudimentary form of it). If RedHad would come up with some solution that has clustering (even for an extra $), and if RedHad would throw its name behind the product - there is a posiblity of success. No, they will not get to the enterprise market, but they might get bunch of smaller accounts that were going to MS SQL before that.
You can get tape backup for about $100 per 70GB tape, and even cheaper (especially in volume).
It is not write once media, but it would take less storage, and cost less. And with today's robotic systems that could write to multiple tapes/automatically rotate libraries, it should be easy to do.
Also shell life is not that long, but I believe for some tapes it is up to 10 years.
I tried extreme programming, and loved it. Yet it is quite different from what is done in Open
Source computer community, often an opposite.
The idea of "four" eyes looking constantly and together at the code that is written, and constant
testing using automated tests, are the heart of EP. It cannot be substituted by "distributed"
programming, or mass testing by the whole community.
They can do it, and it is easier than it looks.
All they have to do, is block everything, but few (can be few thousands) sites.
Perfect censoship. Anything outside thouse few trusted doesn't even exists.
And if you have control over the gateways - there is no problem to do that.
As of monitory content inside this thing, it is
more difficult, but much easier to enforce on the physical level.
I hear this every 6 month for the last year and a half, that Mir will be "ditched in a controlled descent", and then someone else comes up with the money. Will the history repeat itself?
> But you can't outrun native code, no matter how good your universal language is.
TowerJ comples java for the bunch of platforms. And let me tell you the compiled code flyes. I had 5 times performance increase over the bytecode.
The SQL was created to query relational databases. And relational databases were created to manage tabular data. Such databases basically are not built to handle hierarchical (tree-like) structures, and as such they handle it purly. Oracles solutions (proprietrary, not addopted by other), is just a shortcut, but it has unessesary high performace hit, comparing to what can be done with the hierarchical (or object) databases.
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Theory of Evolution was proven? I clearly need to get out more. I didn't know that it is Theorem of Evolution now.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory
"Theories are abstract and conceptual, and to this end they are never considered right or wrong. Instead, they are supported or challenged by observations in the world"
GeoTrust sells low assurance SSL certificates. The only thing they validate is that you "control" the domain (which usually means that they just send you "confirmation" email to whois address. Anyone with stolen credit card can register a domain, and get the certificate, while staying untracable.
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Most other CA sell High Assurance certificates, that require validation of
entity ownership of the domain
the fact that person ordering ssl for the domain has the right to do so.
This is done via checking bunch of details, such as departement of state database, whois record, company records, etc, etc, etc. You have to be officer of the company or have notirized permission from the officer of the company to request ssl certificate for the domain. The whois record for the domain must match details from the state database.
When taken all thouse checks together - it alows to prevent fraudster in most cases (you cannot prevent them all the time, not in real time).
GeoTrust "pioneered" low assurance certificates (and basically destroyed credibility of padlock), that bypass all thouse checks and go after domain control only. It created this mess. The "give away" that certificate is low assurance is that "Organization" field of the certificate holds domain name instead of company name. No real bank would go for that.
This is one of the reasons opera displays the company from the certificate field right next to the URL.
This is also the reason microsoft plans to differentiate between "high assurance" and "low assurance" certificates
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/11/21/49550
Yeah, how evil concentrations camps are. It is just a group of people build roads.
EXT3 is nowhere near being stable. I seen large number of webservers loosing data randomly under high load on ext3 filesystem.
And windows is rip-off of X-Windows... so what?
Better yet, make it shock activated
How did you get it? On their website they have only Windows options available. Do you have to call them up?
I think it is a greate idea. That way, they can sell the software to corporations that are geared toward corporations, yet still run open sourced version just for the comunity. This way there an income from sales, advertisement & training through open source community. This is a win/win situation for company.
I wish more companies would do that.
Where did you saw a router that was easy to use?
Wow, I heard completly different argument about 5 years ago, regarding the reason why RISC is faster (MhZ wise) than CISC.
I will miss thouse messages, without them linux will loose some of its charm for me ;-)
Well, if they can make money that way, and provide a good alternative to the windows in the long run. Hell with it, I will even pay for it.
Does it means that babelfish should not be allowed? Do you license to use your website only with one browser that renders it the way you want to? Do you force user to expand images by default? Do you require user to view it 800x600? With the fonts types and sizes you specified? ...
As much as I don't like M$... I have to say that the same thing (SmartTags) comming from some different source would be considered as a 'huge advance', 'useful feature' or 'revolutionary step'.
Bunch of companies were working on similar things. Highliting words, allowing you to go to relevant sites, dictionaries...
No one was talking about making sure that "publisher" can control if such thing would be done on their content, it was always an option of user, to have such feature, or not to have.
The problem is that M$ is a monopoly and most of the users might be considered ignorant... Yet I have to agree that SmartTags are a good idea, and the only problem with them - they are provided/controled by M$
Tried SAX with xerces the speed is almost the same. Never thought about libxml - xerces is kind of a standard now.
Check out the latest prices for the 9i. And I am not talking in simple Oracle setup (for that you can install PostgreSQL and be as happy), but about clustered, or parallel servers setup. The prices really goes through the roof there.
I timed XML parsing few days ago using java/xerces - it takes around .3-.5 seconds to create a DOM tree from 1K XML document, and thats on PIII 866. SAX is not much faster.
I don't know if it is Java, or bad implementation, but XML everywhere does not sound good to me anylonger.
I don't think they are going after enterprise market. But the whole idea that they provide an enterprise support, and they are a big company, will be a major plus for any database they would promote. Latest version of Oracle costs about $40k per CPU. DB2 & SQL Server are not much cheaper. If you want a disent "comercial grade" database, for a reasonable price, with an option to get support "latter on", there is almost no way to go.
There are some good opensource databases. Yet they all lack clustering (even that MySQL has some rudimentary form of it). If RedHad would come up with some solution that has clustering (even for an extra $), and if RedHad would throw its name behind the product - there is a posiblity of success. No, they will not get to the enterprise market, but they might get bunch of smaller accounts that were going to MS SQL before that.
You can get tape backup for about $100 per 70GB tape, and even cheaper (especially in volume). It is not write once media, but it would take less storage, and cost less. And with today's robotic systems that could write to multiple tapes/automatically rotate libraries, it should be easy to do. Also shell life is not that long, but I believe for some tapes it is up to 10 years.
I tried extreme programming, and loved it. Yet it is quite different from what is done in Open
Source computer community, often an opposite.
The idea of "four" eyes looking constantly and together at the code that is written, and constant
testing using automated tests, are the heart of EP. It cannot be substituted by "distributed"
programming, or mass testing by the whole community.
They can do it, and it is easier than it looks.
All they have to do, is block everything, but few (can be few thousands) sites.
Perfect censoship. Anything outside thouse few trusted doesn't even exists.
And if you have control over the gateways - there is no problem to do that.
As of monitory content inside this thing, it is
more difficult, but much easier to enforce on the physical level.
Mir translated from russian means Peace. It does not look decent to me to burn Peace either.
I hear this every 6 month for the last year and a half, that Mir will be "ditched in a controlled descent", and then someone else comes up with the money. Will the history repeat itself?
> But you can't outrun native code, no matter how good your universal language is.
TowerJ comples java for the bunch of platforms. And let me tell you the compiled code flyes. I had 5 times performance increase over the bytecode.
The SQL was created to query relational databases. And relational databases were created to manage tabular data. Such databases basically are not built to handle hierarchical (tree-like) structures, and as such they handle it purly. Oracles solutions (proprietrary, not addopted by other), is just a shortcut, but it has unessesary high performace hit, comparing to what can be done with the hierarchical (or object) databases.