When I installed Ubuntu it was a minor annoyance and nothing more. The first time I tried to do something as root, I discovered I first had to do "sudo passwd root" and everything worked fine after that.
Re:Sudo insecure if same account used for email
on
Sudo vs. Root
·
· Score: 1
sure, if they are dumb enough to use the same password for email as they do for their account...
This guy seems to have a very odd perception of ugly. While I will grant that Plenty of Fish may not be the most attractive page ever, I would have to take issue with many of the other sites listed in the article. Craig's list is most certainly not ugly, and neither is Google (he doesn't outright call Google ugly, but he certainly implies it). And while I do see room for improvement on imdb, I see nothing wrong with their choice (or rather, lack thereof) of font. He seems to associate simplicity and functionality with ugliness, which is many times the opposite of the truth. Unfortunate, because he makes good points about functionality and targetting the right audience and then throws it all away when he calls sites that do these things "ugly".
To borrow a thought from a previous thread here, he probably thinks Microsoft's redesigned iPod package is prettier than the original as well.
After having read the actual article, I am left with the distasteful impression that this article is nothing more than a cleverly disguised ad for an ad supported dating website.
The decoding speed of a codec on an Intel x86 processor probably has only minimal bearing on the power usage on another unrelated processor (or even necessarily on that processor) for a variety of reasons, even assuming they use the same decoders. The two codecs would use completely different combinations of instructions for the decoding, and without knowing what those instructions are, how they translate between the 2 ISAs, and how many cycles they take, correlations between speed and processing power on different ISAs is almost meaningless, especially when you consider that many hardware MP3 players implement some or all of their supported audio codecs in hardware as ASICs.
Capsaicin is like garlic, or tea. You can't get too much of it and it does great things for you.
Much as I like garlic, you most certainly can eat too much of it. It won't affect your health, mind you, but it can have affects on your social life. Unlike most other foods, the garlic odor can be both absorbed and excreted through your skin. I discovered this after one particulary garlicy meal, when my skin and clothes smelled like garlic for almost two days afterwards, and neither showering nor changing clothes had any affect.
Re:Thank you very much for Gnome Terminal improv.
on
Gnome 2.14 Review
·
· Score: 1
What I want to know is does gnome-terminal support 256 colors yet?
The second way unfortunately doesn't work, as you can upload a PHP file as a.gif file and the server will execute it just fine.
Not true, at least with Apache- I just tested it. Perhaps for other servers... Unless you havemod_mime_magic enabled apache determines file type by extension, so unless for some bizarre reason you have configured Apache to parse *.gif as a PHP file, this is not an issue.
At any rate, any time you allow anonymous users to upload arbitrary files to a webserver, you have to be careful. And if you are allowing them to upload to a directory in the web root, you need to be doubly careful.
And this is why I hate web programming and web programming languages:
It provides resources for developers and admins adopting PHP and tackling advanced topics such as building extensions and writing secure code.
Why is this considered an advanced topic? Security should be the first thing anyone writing software for the web learns. And web programing languages need to make it easy to write secure code by default. *Sigh*
It didn't look to me like he was complaining that the F-18 was a bad plane. It looks to me that his comments were more along the lines of "Why does my government keep buying planes that aren't capable of doing the jobs we need to do?" And while I'm not too familiar with the US/AUS weapons deals, I would say that if I went to buy a car from a car dealer, and he sold me completely the wrong car for the job I told him I needed to do, then I would think twice about going back to the same dealer the second time. (On the other hand, if I didn't tell him what I needed the car for, or told him the wrong thing, then I suppose I have no one but myself to blame.)
Many of them do behave preferably in that one respect, however none of them work well together with the gnome panel, nautilus, etc, all of which I use and like. I suspect that it is probably still possible to get Sawfish to work the way that I want, as I did have a highly customized Sawmill setup long ago, but I have neither the time nor the inclination to do the necessary LISP hacking nowadays.
Perhaps if E17 ever sees the light of day, I'll like it enough to switch, but in the meantime, I think I will continue to bitch every time a new GNOME version comes out about how they are systematically removing every single feature that once made it a good desktop environment. At least they haven't removed mouse-focus as an option. Yet...
No, but my previous employer used WISP (Windows, IIS, SQL Server, PHP), and my was that painful.
Personally, I currently use FAPP, although I detest PHP*. Maybe one of these days I'll give FRAP a try, if I can ever find an example of Ruby on Rails being used for something less trivial than a CRUD editor.
*I just detest PHP slightly less than any other language commonly used in web programming.
As someone who has worked fairly extensively with all three databases, I have a fe comments to add to that.
Postgres may not have quite all of the features of Oracle, but it has the ones that most people need. On top of that, it is orders of magnitude easier to maintain. I have setup and maintained a number of Postgres databases with little trouble, but I would rather pull my teeth out than have to ever set up or configure Oracle ever again. Oracle seems to have a vested interest in maintaining the job market for highly paid Oracle DBA's. In my experiene, the only companies that need Oracle are the ones that have enough critical data that it is worth spending $100K+/year just to have somebody babysit your database full time.
MySQL is a good database when you use it for it's strengths and recognize its weaknesses. In my experience, it is far faster than Oracle. The one company that I worked for that really used MySQL appropriately used MySQL servers to log all of the transactions (about 6 billion/month if I remember correctly) and various associated data, because Oracle was far too slow to keep up. The transactions were then aggregated accross all the MySQL servers to two big Oragle databases for long term record keeping, billing, etc. When the MySQL servers inevitably corrupted themselves (about once a week or so) we would just truncate the bad table and lose at most a few minutes of transactions from one of the MySQL servers. MySQL is great when you need super fast access to non-critical data, but for anything else you would be beter off with a different database, whether it be Oracle, Postgres, or something else.
That's a recent 'feature'. Linux never used to be that way, but in copying all of Windows not-so-goodies, that one crept in there somewhere as well, and it drives me crazy.
And to the responder who said that your version of GNOME doesn't do this, what version are using and what configuration setting did you have to change to get that behavior? Either you are using an older version of GNOME than me, or you have found a configuration option that I have not. To me that is the single most infuriating feature of my current GNOME desktop.
Regardless of one's ability to draw meaningful conclusions from one datapoint, they also left out another key figure.
Ne-Yo's CD In My Own Words sold 301,000 copies using this method. Chris Brown's Run It, that was in the itunes store, sold 154,000 copies in its first week. Ne-Yo's So Sick was downloaded approximately 3.4 million times on the peer to peer networks during the week of his album release while the album Run It! was downloaded approximately 5.3 million times in the same release period.
OK, so how many downloads from "Run It" were sold in the ITunes store during that time period? If it was only about 50-100K songs, then they may have a point, but if it was something along the lines of 500K songs, then all they did was to give up some profits on CDs to make the same money on downloads. So, yeah, Duh, people are going to buy less CDs if they have the option to buy a CD or buy from iTunes than they will if they only have the choice to buy CDs.
It's like a deli that sells both ham and roast beef sandwiches complaining that they don't sell as many ham sandwiches as the deli down the street that only sells ham sandwiches. Big deal...
they're going into a well-established arena and trying to do things in what seems to be a very unique way, an arena which is largely satisfied with the way things work.
Actually, this is not very unique at all. There are a large number of well established and well regarded companies on Wall Street that do the same thing as Google. You can find numerous examples listed in other comments but Coca-Cola and Berkshire Hathaway are some that are particularly notable. It may be somewhat unique in the technology sector, but I'm not sure about that. I suspect that the reason Google is catching so much heat for this right now is that, unlike many of the other companies that behave the same way, Google is young, and I suspect many veteran analysts expect that they can push Larry and Sergei around a bit more easily than, say, Warren Buffet. The other reason is that Google is a hot name right, something of a stock fad, and the analysts are most likely eager to try and cash in on some of the more casual investors.
Not that Google wasn't pulling a fast one the little guys who did invest in their company. The stock Google sold was "diluted voting rights stock". That's right, the original owners get special super duper voting power over you clowns with 100 shares.
That is indeed what they sold, but I fail to see how that is "pulling a fast one". They have been very forthright about their stock all along. Anyone who didn't know what they were getting either wasn't paying attention or shouldn't be investing in the stock market to start out with.
I think you misunderstand their complaint. Their complaint is basically "what the fuck happened to all those taxes I paid, how come people in Turkey and Greece get free drugs and I can't. Why doesn't a person in Australia or New Zealand have to worry about going bankrupt because they broke a hip and I do?".
Well, then maybe somebody should point out to them that if they would rather give a couple thousand dollars a year more in taxes to their government than pay $10 a week for their drug copays, then they are free to move to one of those countries.
Everyone knows that the real double-double is possibly the finest fast-food cheeseburger that money can buy. Everything else is just a pretender to the name.
Slashdot Mirror
When I installed Ubuntu it was a minor annoyance and nothing more. The first time I tried to do something as root, I discovered I first had to do "sudo passwd root" and everything worked fine after that.
sure, if they are dumb enough to use the same password for email as they do for their account...
This guy seems to have a very odd perception of ugly. While I will grant that Plenty of Fish may not be the most attractive page ever, I would have to take issue with many of the other sites listed in the article. Craig's list is most certainly not ugly, and neither is Google (he doesn't outright call Google ugly, but he certainly implies it). And while I do see room for improvement on imdb, I see nothing wrong with their choice (or rather, lack thereof) of font. He seems to associate simplicity and functionality with ugliness, which is many times the opposite of the truth. Unfortunate, because he makes good points about functionality and targetting the right audience and then throws it all away when he calls sites that do these things "ugly".
To borrow a thought from a previous thread here, he probably thinks Microsoft's redesigned iPod package is prettier than the original as well.
After having read the actual article, I am left with the distasteful impression that this article is nothing more than a cleverly disguised ad for an ad supported dating website.
Of course, somebody at Microsoft already figured out how to kill the iPod over a year ago:a 8932
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/12/19.html#
It's so simple-
1) start a blog
2) pay out the *ss for big name music stars and podcasters to design it.
How could the top brass have ignored this foolproof plan for so long?
The decoding speed of a codec on an Intel x86 processor probably has only minimal bearing on the power usage on another unrelated processor (or even necessarily on that processor) for a variety of reasons, even assuming they use the same decoders. The two codecs would use completely different combinations of instructions for the decoding, and without knowing what those instructions are, how they translate between the 2 ISAs, and how many cycles they take, correlations between speed and processing power on different ISAs is almost meaningless, especially when you consider that many hardware MP3 players implement some or all of their supported audio codecs in hardware as ASICs.
Capsaicin is like garlic, or tea. You can't get too much of it and it does great things for you.
Much as I like garlic, you most certainly can eat too much of it. It won't affect your health, mind you, but it can have affects on your social life. Unlike most other foods, the garlic odor can be both absorbed and excreted through your skin. I discovered this after one particulary garlicy meal, when my skin and clothes smelled like garlic for almost two days afterwards, and neither showering nor changing clothes had any affect.
What I want to know is does gnome-terminal support 256 colors yet?
The second way unfortunately doesn't work, as you can upload a PHP file as a .gif file and the server will execute it just fine.
Not true, at least with Apache- I just tested it. Perhaps for other servers... Unless you havemod_mime_magic enabled apache determines file type by extension, so unless for some bizarre reason you have configured Apache to parse *.gif as a PHP file, this is not an issue.
At any rate, any time you allow anonymous users to upload arbitrary files to a webserver, you have to be careful. And if you are allowing them to upload to a directory in the web root, you need to be doubly careful.
And this is why I hate web programming and web programming languages:
It provides resources for developers and admins adopting PHP and tackling advanced topics such as building extensions and writing secure code.
Why is this considered an advanced topic? Security should be the first thing anyone writing software for the web learns. And web programing languages need to make it easy to write secure code by default. *Sigh*
It didn't look to me like he was complaining that the F-18 was a bad plane. It looks to me that his comments were more along the lines of "Why does my government keep buying planes that aren't capable of doing the jobs we need to do?" And while I'm not too familiar with the US/AUS weapons deals, I would say that if I went to buy a car from a car dealer, and he sold me completely the wrong car for the job I told him I needed to do, then I would think twice about going back to the same dealer the second time. (On the other hand, if I didn't tell him what I needed the car for, or told him the wrong thing, then I suppose I have no one but myself to blame.)
Many of them do behave preferably in that one respect, however none of them work well together with the gnome panel, nautilus, etc, all of which I use and like. I suspect that it is probably still possible to get Sawfish to work the way that I want, as I did have a highly customized Sawmill setup long ago, but I have neither the time nor the inclination to do the necessary LISP hacking nowadays.
Perhaps if E17 ever sees the light of day, I'll like it enough to switch, but in the meantime, I think I will continue to bitch every time a new GNOME version comes out about how they are systematically removing every single feature that once made it a good desktop environment. At least they haven't removed mouse-focus as an option. Yet...
No, but my previous employer used WISP (Windows, IIS, SQL Server, PHP), and my was that painful.
Personally, I currently use FAPP, although I detest PHP*. Maybe one of these days I'll give FRAP a try, if I can ever find an example of Ruby on Rails being used for something less trivial than a CRUD editor.
*I just detest PHP slightly less than any other language commonly used in web programming.
My personal favorite was the number of people I went to college with who told me that they edited their web pages in (Microsoft Visual) C++.
MySQL and PHP have been quite the dynamic duo of the internet.
Funny, I've always thought MySQL and PHP were more like the "ambiguously gay duo".
Ah yes, success through mediocrity...
As someone who has worked fairly extensively with all three databases, I have a fe comments to add to that.
Postgres may not have quite all of the features of Oracle, but it has the ones that most people need. On top of that, it is orders of magnitude easier to maintain. I have setup and maintained a number of Postgres databases with little trouble, but I would rather pull my teeth out than have to ever set up or configure Oracle ever again. Oracle seems to have a vested interest in maintaining the job market for highly paid Oracle DBA's. In my experiene, the only companies that need Oracle are the ones that have enough critical data that it is worth spending $100K+/year just to have somebody babysit your database full time.
MySQL is a good database when you use it for it's strengths and recognize its weaknesses. In my experience, it is far faster than Oracle. The one company that I worked for that really used MySQL appropriately used MySQL servers to log all of the transactions (about 6 billion/month if I remember correctly) and various associated data, because Oracle was far too slow to keep up. The transactions were then aggregated accross all the MySQL servers to two big Oragle databases for long term record keeping, billing, etc. When the MySQL servers inevitably corrupted themselves (about once a week or so) we would just truncate the bad table and lose at most a few minutes of transactions from one of the MySQL servers. MySQL is great when you need super fast access to non-critical data, but for anything else you would be beter off with a different database, whether it be Oracle, Postgres, or something else.
And you mean to say that you can tell from this rather low quality photo what resultion is being displayed on the screen?
That's a recent 'feature'. Linux never used to be that way, but in copying all of Windows not-so-goodies, that one crept in there somewhere as well, and it drives me crazy.
And to the responder who said that your version of GNOME doesn't do this, what version are using and what configuration setting did you have to change to get that behavior? Either you are using an older version of GNOME than me, or you have found a configuration option that I have not. To me that is the single most infuriating feature of my current GNOME desktop.
Regardless of one's ability to draw meaningful conclusions from one datapoint, they also left out another key figure.
Ne-Yo's CD In My Own Words sold 301,000 copies using this method. Chris Brown's Run It, that was in the itunes store, sold 154,000 copies in its first week. Ne-Yo's So Sick was downloaded approximately 3.4 million times on the peer to peer networks during the week of his album release while the album Run It! was downloaded approximately 5.3 million times in the same release period.
OK, so how many downloads from "Run It" were sold in the ITunes store during that time period? If it was only about 50-100K songs, then they may have a point, but if it was something along the lines of 500K songs, then all they did was to give up some profits on CDs to make the same money on downloads. So, yeah, Duh, people are going to buy less CDs if they have the option to buy a CD or buy from iTunes than they will if they only have the choice to buy CDs.
It's like a deli that sells both ham and roast beef sandwiches complaining that they don't sell as many ham sandwiches as the deli down the street that only sells ham sandwiches. Big deal...
he prefers people call him Tim, for brevity
Is he, by chance, an Enchanter?
they're going into a well-established arena and trying to do things in what seems to be a very unique way, an arena which is largely satisfied with the way things work.
Actually, this is not very unique at all. There are a large number of well established and well regarded companies on Wall Street that do the same thing as Google. You can find numerous examples listed in other comments but Coca-Cola and Berkshire Hathaway are some that are particularly notable. It may be somewhat unique in the technology sector, but I'm not sure about that. I suspect that the reason Google is catching so much heat for this right now is that, unlike many of the other companies that behave the same way, Google is young, and I suspect many veteran analysts expect that they can push Larry and Sergei around a bit more easily than, say, Warren Buffet. The other reason is that Google is a hot name right, something of a stock fad, and the analysts are most likely eager to try and cash in on some of the more casual investors.
Not that Google wasn't pulling a fast one the little guys who did invest in their company. The stock Google sold was "diluted voting rights stock". That's right, the original owners get special super duper voting power over you clowns with 100 shares.
That is indeed what they sold, but I fail to see how that is "pulling a fast one". They have been very forthright about their stock all along. Anyone who didn't know what they were getting either wasn't paying attention or shouldn't be investing in the stock market to start out with.
Further down, somebody posted an extract from the original research paper. It included this statement:
These are believed to be record temperatures for a magnetically confined plasma.
Perhaps the author of this article paraphrased...
I think you misunderstand their complaint. Their complaint is basically "what the fuck happened to all those taxes I paid, how come people in Turkey and Greece get free drugs and I can't. Why doesn't a person in Australia or New Zealand have to worry about going bankrupt because they broke a hip and I do?".
Well, then maybe somebody should point out to them that if they would rather give a couple thousand dollars a year more in taxes to their government than pay $10 a week for their drug copays, then they are free to move to one of those countries.
Well, yes, except that in that case...
(*** minor spoiler if you haven't read beyond the first book ***)
The bacteria were deliberately introduced into the Ringworld environment with that specific intention, so it wasn't an unintended side-effect.
You Crazy Canucks!!
Everyone knows that the real double-double is possibly the finest fast-food cheeseburger that money can buy. Everything else is just a pretender to the name.