The one product that I am familiar with is Barracuda, as we run that where I work. They claim that Barracuda doesn't support SSL for management, which is dead wrong. In fact it's very simple to _force_ the Barracuda to use SSL for this purpose.
It's only one point, but they make a fairly big deal out of it.
- Support for Apple's DNS based service discovery.
Oh please please please let this be configurable (as in, I want to toggle it OFF) so those of us who used "company.local" for our Active Directory domains can still browse them from KDE.
heh, and here's the standard OCR problem. I looked up my birthday and here was the exceprt:
AT THE HOSPITAL Mlltlrad 115 Clav Mrs Ronald 1 Mrs Cora 1020 and Tom Bradli'v Hamilton ucra admlltrd yo'lerdav lo the Chilli colhe hospital AT WASSMANN RESIDENCE Mr pnd frccl of this n'y iveie iliuner yupsls lasl evening of Mr intl Mrs R O of Ulica lliE occasion
There is a very nice picture I could download if I wanted to, though.
Certainly something I've considered, but the only virtual cd-rw driver I've found so far was a $90 commercial app. Don't remember the name of it, but $90 buys a lot of CDRs.
For iTunes, burning to CD is actually fairly important. When you buy music off the store, the only way to back it up is by burning it off to CD, and since it's DRM-enabled, you _have_ to use iTunes' burning software.
Then I usually re-rip the tracks as DRM-free MP3 files.
They solved the problem by keeping the basket on the SQL server and passing a reference to it in a session cookie. Initially this created a bottleneck at the SQL server level, but our SQL DBA's were able to fix that (Don't ask me how, though:-)
Another note on stateless design. Be sure all your app coders understand the goal there, and understand the security risk in doing it wrong. At one of my former jobs they were working hard to make their code (an e-commerce app) stateless and ended up putting all the shopping cart details into cookies. Including the price of the items in the basket.
A few weeks later they discovered things were being bought for a dime instead of $30. They fixed it then, but that shouldn't have made it off the design board and into code, but it was a small shop and they didn't follow any sort of standard coding procedure.
The parent is probably the best answer I've read so far, but I thought I could add a few things.
If your app relies on heavy database usage, you either need to invest the time to make yourself a decent SQL coder / administrator or invest the money to hire one for awhile. Having a farm of webservers capable of handling a million hits an hour doesn't do any good if the application locks the table each of those hits is trying read. This is an oversimplification, but a good SQL admin will be able to watch your databse as you loadtest and tell you where the hotspots are going to be.
Regarding rule 6 - Load testing is not something you do after your app is done and you want to find out how many people can acccess it at the same time. That's a common misconception that my boss certainly shares. Load testing is an iterative process. It should be performed throughout the life of the coding project. Each time you do it, you're going to hopefully find a new bottleneck, which you must either decide to live with or re-engineer. For products, look at OpenSTA (free, but you need a really large number of machines to generate the test traffic) or Red Gate Software's ANTS (not free, but much cheaper than the alternatives, such as Mercury)
Hey, you directed people to an obviously biased accounting of the media's faults. I'm just pointing out that the link was questionable.
Wow, what an explicitly non-response response -- virtually un-differentiable from a rant that the media isn't liberal enough.
uh... yeah, that's exactly what I want. Biased information so I can feel good about all those pre-concieved notions I have about other people.
Oh, wait. I was thinking of someone else.
I'm not going to presume to excuse them for their selection process, but by all means the falsified Bush Memo's presented by CBS is the hands down winner of disinformative journalism.
to quote John Stewart in his 60 Minutes interview: "I can't believe that the National Guard memo scandal is the only scandal in four years that has gotten elevated to the status of having a gate attached to it," says Stewart. "Rather-gate. For God's sake, we launched a war based on forged documents. That doesn't get a gate. How do you not get a gate outta that?"
And sure, that one belongs on their list. But so did the treatment of the Abu Garib scandal and the linking of Saddam and Osama.
I bring you The Top Ten Media Distortions of Campaign 2004.
I suppose it's not really worth pointing out that, while the name "Center for Media Research" sounds terribly unbiased and scientific, it's just a shill group looking to discredit any media organization that dares to print something that sounds even vaguely liberal.
From their website:
"The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility to the news media. Leaders of America's conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public's understanding of critical issues. On October 1, 1987, a group of young determined conservatives set out to not only prove - through sound scientific research - that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values, but also to neutralize its impact on the American political scene."
Additionally, their methods are exactly the kind of thing that the linked article complains about. They count instances of supposed bias by determining if both sides of an argument were presented.
But it's hard to blame them, really, since they are funded by groups such as The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc., the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Castle Rock Foundation
I'll second. I actually serve my content to XBMC from Samba shares on a box running ArchLinux.
No AAC support, but then, everything I buy from iTunes I immediately burn to CD and re-rip as MP3 anyway... I've had to rebuild my desktops too often to not burn a physical copy of anything I buy electronicly.
I tried SuSE 9.1 on my workstation and immediately noticed a problem integrating it into our windows environment.
We named our domain mt.local, because that's what our MCSE-trained consultants told us to do, ignoring the fact that Rendezvous uses that tld for local domain browsing.
Our Macs using osX broke immediately, of course, but there's a patch to their DNS resolver that fixes it, so we patched them and stopped worrying about it.
Apparently SuSE 9.1 supports Rendezvous, as the exact same behavior cropped up when I installed it.
So to bring this post back to topic, I wonder if this had anything to do with their problems converting?
The symptom is dastardly: nslookups or digs work and return the ip addresses you'd expect, but ping fails to resolve the name. Rendezvous is rude.
But those games won't ever be playable over XBox Live.
It won't be long until you see MS move it's card/board/casino games from MSN to the Xbox, and until consoles were able do online stuff, those card/board/casino games were the most-played online games out there.
It works, I'm using the connector with both the 1.4 Evolution client and the 2.0 client.
The 1.4 client is running on my workstation in the office, Fedora Core 2, connects to our exchange 2003 servers without an issue. Everything seems to be available: contacts, schedules, free/busy times, public folder, etc.
I just set up the 2.0 client tonight on my home machine, Fedora Core 3 Test 2, connecting to the same Exchange server. Seems to work just fine as well.
It uses WebDAV and the Outlook Web Access services, but provides a far better experience than webmail would:-)
One of the things that constantly amazes me about some of the "in the wild" windows installations is how much people do with them while knowing absolutely nothing about the underlying OS.
We all have stories about setting up a perfectly usable Linux installation for a complete neophyte that can let do the basics, but until the OS has matured to the point that it can be dropped on without configuration and there's a wide enough base of easy-to-find / easy-to-install / easy-to-use software available to people with no clue how to find it, Linux distributions will face an uphill battle.
I'll agree with you on one point, though... 98? phew. what a stinker.
Besides, the typical "mod parent up" post, can I recommend creating a BartPE boot CD with those tools you mention on it. Then you can skip the step of mounting the hosed drive in another machine.
I used a generic BartPE disk this last weekend to copy a friend's data off a system that was so badly hosed it wouldn't let me log in.
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The one product that I am familiar with is Barracuda, as we run that where I work. They claim that Barracuda doesn't support SSL for management, which is dead wrong. In fact it's very simple to _force_ the Barracuda to use SSL for this purpose.
It's only one point, but they make a fairly big deal out of it.
Firefox is currently ripping IE a new one, and that's a good thing. From what I've heard of the Windows version, it's as good as the Linux version.
Here's the best praise I can give Firefox: I cannot tell which OS I'm using it on until I start downloading a file.
They did a terrific job.
- Support for Apple's DNS based service discovery.
Oh please please please let this be configurable (as in, I want to toggle it OFF) so those of us who used "company.local" for our Active Directory domains can still browse them from KDE.
I thought the only level higher than Blackwatch Plaid was the cover of Rush's seminal album _Moving_Pictures_
Oh, and I've played with this software, Xbox Media Center is still a better option, even if you have to go buy and mod an Xbox to get it.
heh, and here's the standard OCR problem. I looked up my birthday and here was the exceprt:
AT THE HOSPITAL Mlltlrad 115 Clav Mrs Ronald 1 Mrs Cora 1020 and Tom Bradli'v Hamilton ucra admlltrd yo'lerdav lo the Chilli colhe hospital AT WASSMANN RESIDENCE Mr pnd frccl of this n'y iveie iliuner yupsls lasl evening of Mr intl Mrs R O of Ulica lliE occasion
There is a very nice picture I could download if I wanted to, though.
Certainly something I've considered, but the only virtual cd-rw driver I've found so far was a $90 commercial app. Don't remember the name of it, but $90 buys a lot of CDRs.
For iTunes, burning to CD is actually fairly important. When you buy music off the store, the only way to back it up is by burning it off to CD, and since it's DRM-enabled, you _have_ to use iTunes' burning software.
Then I usually re-rip the tracks as DRM-free MP3 files.
They solved the problem by keeping the basket on the SQL server and passing a reference to it in a session cookie. Initially this created a bottleneck at the SQL server level, but our SQL DBA's were able to fix that (Don't ask me how, though :-)
Another note on stateless design. Be sure all your app coders understand the goal there, and understand the security risk in doing it wrong. At one of my former jobs they were working hard to make their code (an e-commerce app) stateless and ended up putting all the shopping cart details into cookies. Including the price of the items in the basket.
A few weeks later they discovered things were being bought for a dime instead of $30. They fixed it then, but that shouldn't have made it off the design board and into code, but it was a small shop and they didn't follow any sort of standard coding procedure.
The parent is probably the best answer I've read so far, but I thought I could add a few things.
If your app relies on heavy database usage, you either need to invest the time to make yourself a decent SQL coder / administrator or invest the money to hire one for awhile. Having a farm of webservers capable of handling a million hits an hour doesn't do any good if the application locks the table each of those hits is trying read. This is an oversimplification, but a good SQL admin will be able to watch your databse as you loadtest and tell you where the hotspots are going to be.
Regarding rule 6 - Load testing is not something you do after your app is done and you want to find out how many people can acccess it at the same time. That's a common misconception that my boss certainly shares. Load testing is an iterative process. It should be performed throughout the life of the coding project. Each time you do it, you're going to hopefully find a new bottleneck, which you must either decide to live with or re-engineer. For products, look at OpenSTA (free, but you need a really large number of machines to generate the test traffic) or Red Gate Software's ANTS (not free, but much cheaper than the alternatives, such as Mercury)
What about the little R2D2 in the "contents of the kit" picture :-)
Hopefully Monad will fit the bill for a highly unix-like CLI
:-)
developer.com article here
I fully expect a rash of complaints about how it won't be "unix-y" enough, though
And if word count is that important to you, you can always add it to the toolbar. Then it's just a matter of hitting "Alt-C"
Re:Stop Ringing the Liberal Sycophant Cowbell
Hey, you directed people to an obviously biased accounting of the media's faults. I'm just pointing out that the link was questionable.
Wow, what an explicitly non-response response -- virtually un-differentiable from a rant that the media isn't liberal enough.
uh... yeah, that's exactly what I want. Biased information so I can feel good about all those pre-concieved notions I have about other people.
Oh, wait. I was thinking of someone else.
I'm not going to presume to excuse them for their selection process, but by all means the falsified Bush Memo's presented by CBS is the hands down winner of disinformative journalism.
to quote John Stewart in his 60 Minutes interview: "I can't believe that the National Guard memo scandal is the only scandal in four years that has gotten elevated to the status of having a gate attached to it," says Stewart. "Rather-gate. For God's sake, we launched a war based on forged documents. That doesn't get a gate. How do you not get a gate outta that?"
And sure, that one belongs on their list. But so did the treatment of the Abu Garib scandal and the linking of Saddam and Osama.
I bring you The Top Ten Media Distortions of Campaign 2004.
I suppose it's not really worth pointing out that, while the name "Center for Media Research" sounds terribly unbiased and scientific, it's just a shill group looking to discredit any media organization that dares to print something that sounds even vaguely liberal.
From their website:
"The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility to the news media. Leaders of America's conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public's understanding of critical issues. On October 1, 1987, a group of young determined conservatives set out to not only prove - through sound scientific research - that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values, but also to neutralize its impact on the American political scene."
Additionally, their methods are exactly the kind of thing that the linked article complains about. They count instances of supposed bias by determining if both sides of an argument were presented.
But it's hard to blame them, really, since they are funded by groups such as The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc., the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Castle Rock Foundation
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I'll second. I actually serve my content to XBMC from Samba shares on a box running ArchLinux.
No AAC support, but then, everything I buy from iTunes I immediately burn to CD and re-rip as MP3 anyway... I've had to rebuild my desktops too often to not burn a physical copy of anything I buy electronicly.
I tried SuSE 9.1 on my workstation and immediately noticed a problem integrating it into our windows environment.
We named our domain mt.local, because that's what our MCSE-trained consultants told us to do, ignoring the fact that Rendezvous uses that tld for local domain browsing.
Our Macs using osX broke immediately, of course, but there's a patch to their DNS resolver that fixes it, so we patched them and stopped worrying about it.
Apparently SuSE 9.1 supports Rendezvous, as the exact same behavior cropped up when I installed it.
So to bring this post back to topic, I wonder if this had anything to do with their problems converting?
The symptom is dastardly: nslookups or digs work and return the ip addresses you'd expect, but ping fails to resolve the name. Rendezvous is rude.
Woot VB PRAWN!
Hot shrimping action in KDE at last.
I'm positive they are aware of those games.
But those games won't ever be playable over XBox Live.
It won't be long until you see MS move it's card/board/casino games from MSN to the Xbox, and until consoles were able do online stuff, those card/board/casino games were the most-played online games out there.
It works, I'm using the connector with both the 1.4 Evolution client and the 2.0 client.
:-)
The 1.4 client is running on my workstation in the office, Fedora Core 2, connects to our exchange 2003 servers without an issue. Everything seems to be available: contacts, schedules, free/busy times, public folder, etc.
I just set up the 2.0 client tonight on my home machine, Fedora Core 3 Test 2, connecting to the same Exchange server. Seems to work just fine as well.
It uses WebDAV and the Outlook Web Access services, but provides a far better experience than webmail would
Chris: What software did you end up using? I've been thing about doing this with the little freebie 128MB keychains Dell hands out.
One of the things that constantly amazes me about some of the "in the wild" windows installations is how much people do with them while knowing absolutely nothing about the underlying OS.
We all have stories about setting up a perfectly usable Linux installation for a complete neophyte that can let do the basics, but until the OS has matured to the point that it can be dropped on without configuration and there's a wide enough base of easy-to-find / easy-to-install / easy-to-use software available to people with no clue how to find it, Linux distributions will face an uphill battle.
I'll agree with you on one point, though... 98? phew. what a stinker.
Besides, the typical "mod parent up" post, can I recommend creating a BartPE boot CD with those tools you mention on it. Then you can skip the step of mounting the hosed drive in another machine.
I used a generic BartPE disk this last weekend to copy a friend's data off a system that was so badly hosed it wouldn't let me log in.
Nice stuff.
OMG you just just (re-)invented PointCast!
My CDDB queries and usenet posts always use NoOne@home.com, because I like how that sounds when you say it.
I'm not the only one, either.