Maybe the person who posted this is just making the problem so complex, they can't find a reasonable solution?
I made it as simple as I could. I work for a Professional Association like the AMA, the APhA, IWA (International Webmaster's Association) - hell, the RIAA is an association too! These associations have members who pay money we call dues. In return they get access to a network of similar professionals, continuing education (which is required to keep your license to practice for people like lawyers and doctors), have conventions with seminars, sell work-related publications and lobby for laws that help make the profession thrive. Since we do so many things for our members that involve little bits of data (how many hours of continuing education did this seminar award per person according to which guidelines, who has paid their dues, who is registered to attend the Sacramento Chapter meeting, who is the president of the Sacramento Chapter, etc...), managing it all get's complex and unweildy. We are non-profit and are involved politically, so we have to be accountable to both state and federal regulations for every bit of what we do and go through an annual audit process. Maybe the person who posted the article (me) actually knows what he said and that other people with the relevant experience know what he said, but the subject itself is a niche that you have never been exposed to the complexities of. Enjoy the cold medicine!
I used to work for a lodging association in Sacramento and we used a vendor over near Rancho Cordova to help us implement a package...Right now I can't remember their name but I've e-mailed someone I used to work with back then to see if they could remember.
Funny that! I'm in Sacramento too. Did that vendor in Rancho support iMIS? If so, then I know who you were talking about. Either way, let me know and thans for responding!
The solutions I've seen that do offer the capabilities you want are lots of $$$. Since I work for an estabilished association, we can offord to look at some of the solutions that do these things (the under $5,000 category). If I run across anything that works for what you need on the cheap, I'll re-respond to your post so you get an e-mail. I feel some of your pain on this one. Most of the responders to my question don't even understand what I'm asking about or what a professional association is. If geeks can't grok what the software is for very well, chances are that not many alternatives will ever be written. Thanks for letting me know I'm sane and make sense to someone
Just run MySQL on a *nix server and take a weekend to learn PHP.
PHP/MySQL was my original idea (I know both), but my employer would rather find a vendor and a support channel. I can't say I blame them after they got really burned by some previous web developers. Their member database is far more mission-critical than their website is. They are worried about the "what if ______ got hit by a truck or became disgruntled" factor.
But software to keep track of your friends and how much they owe you? I'm going to need a little help understanding this concept of 'friend'. What is that?
They aren't friends, they're dues paying members of a professional association. These are business transactions. Let me Google a little for you...;)
Many products, such as iMIS, don't post any pricing information on their site and insist on a rep visiting you for a demo. I happen to have several that do offer a demo installed, as a matter of fact, and have been going through the list at Google. Further, if you have ever used software pitched to associations, you would know that spending time with the demo rarely will give you an idea of the product's long-term usefulness and operability. Thanks for flaming my bad choice of words though. You're a champ.
Maybe being a judge is one of William Shatner's other jobs... He's working under a pseudonym
(Holding his gavel in a very Macbeth way with that half surprised, half constipated melodramatic expression) "Spock... would-you... please... approach-the-bench?"
One acronym my friend: HIPAA. The Federal and State governments would get a little mad at you and fine you lots of money... Then it's the patient's turn to raid your pocketbook.
I was thinking about your situation some more... Would it be too much to just move some of your redundancy off-site? If it's server availability to the internet that you need, it can be done with some work. Rent some space at a colo and put your stuff up there. Traceroute the connection from your current site to whatever colos you check out _and_ as them about their upstream provider.
If it's feeding a customer service center or a bunch of bratty executives or something, well... your fucked;) never mind what I said.
This is what I overheard when the place I worked at years ago was shopping disaster recovery sites. Mind you, this was for a mainframe - this place was supposed to be fully redundant in about 20 other ways as well.
Boss: We need redundant connectivity and power.
Sales-Goof: You can have as many people open browsers on as many computers as you want.
For comparison and not a plug, when my boss asked the IBM guy, he pulled out charts and wiring diagrams to explain what they had.
It would be nice to see lists like this taken as an edit list for a DVD cut. Maybe not the science stuff as much as things that could be digitally fixed (the scar, for instance).
I think the government should sponsor a CA. Sure, their databases are screwy every so often and are the very model of bureaucracy. They are also one of the most "trusted" authorities to most of the neophite users a warning would scare. Besides, they couple probably keep up with Verisign's often weeks long turn around on certificates pretty well. There's some economy and small business stimulation! Unfortunately, maybe some fraud too, but it may also lead to hucksters getting stiffer punishments and/or penalties.
The solution is to teach clients to prefer
vector branding media
So what formats are you using to display vector data on a website then? I haven't found a good solution without resorting to flash trickery.
Thanks in advance.
Now with summer and all, I suspect they'll claim that the weather is just too nice to deal with the judge's demands.
With that inflated stock value that just went away in the last month, I bet someone at SCO bought a boat when their net worth went up enough. Too bad it looks like they'll have to give the boat back when this is all over and their net worth tanks. Might as well get that last hoorah in;)
Marc Modersitzki, SCO's public relations manager, said, "We're pleased with the ruling. We look forward to responding to the court's special damages request." This request gives SCO the chance to amend its complaint against Novell.
So they're pleased they get a chance to clarify their complaint, but the idea of being pleased about the ruling itself makes me think that Darl has been passing the crack pipe around the office. I personally don't think they are going to make the 30 day deadline for filing the special damages request. SCO has been acting like a student that professes to be smart, but never does a bit of their assignments.
instead of a turing test each message, you have a system where the message recipient can cry foul if the system was spam. With an authenticated system, this keeps the spammer from sending any more messages after 10 people have cried foul.
That's an interesting solution. I agree that it's a lot easier and pretty reasonable for me to require a turing test when sending an e-mail message, but I couldn't see how you envisioned it working for IM. I guess you're letting the recipients be the turing test in a way.
Exactly. It's authenticated. Combined with a turing test every time you register an account and the ability for users to "vote" other users off the network temporarily, it limits spam.
An initial turing test won't matter. To a spammer, it's just a moment of user intervention. My website has a Webmail system for registered users. They can use any POP3 server and the web site will help them view their mail and send some. To create an account on my site, you have a turing test whenever you log in. A spammer still created several accounts and started sending. I had to turn the Webmail system off until I can add a turing test for each sent message and implement a limit for the number of recipients - an unrealistic step for IM. My webmaster e-mail address has received 5,000 bounced e-mails from the spammer's efforts in just the past two days. I have no idea how many the spammer actually sent altogether and I shudder to think of it. My logs have plenty of proof that the account creation process is not a problem to the average spammer.
All this patent will accomplish is it will give McAfee legal right to knock everyone else's products in the dirt, while they try to push their own. If their antispam product is anything like their antivirus, their product will suck.
Their spam product does suck. I have to use it at work. By default, it's very obtrusive. It plays a dog bark noise when it traps spam. It makes you basically re-send messages through it's interface to clear them (false positives). The interface displays the full message including images and script exploits - making it pretty ineffectual unless you choose to ignore the spam completely and ignore false positives. It's a very immature product that would never have any market share if it weren't for IT folks that just go with "brand name software". They'll have to pull my Spamassasin from my cold dead mail server before I consider it for personal use...
I hadn't thought of that at all. That's a great idea. Those types are always looking for some kind of stock art. Thanks! I'm going to give that a try along with the other sites mentioned.
You know, it's funny. This Ask Slashdot question sat around for a long time on my account. I even waited for database maintenance at Slashdot (just kidding - but I've never seen it before, posting it now may have been a favor from Cliff). It sat there so long, I thought it was dead. When I originally posted it, I didn't have my website listed in my profile. There isn't a mention of my site in the post either, but I figured that a few intrepid/.ers would figure it out. Ah well... The server is holding up OK. I think my slow ass DSL connection is keeping it at bay... so far...;)
In order for Ford to pull this off, they'd have to (at least) warrant their stock tires for as long as they do their wheel bearings. Anything else would be criminal.
Nah. This is why the manual (in the glove box) says to use approved tires. They told you what you were supposed to do in the manual.
And it reads so much easier than in an EULA. Too bad they can't do that with the loan contract.
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The solutions I've seen that do offer the capabilities you want are lots of $$$. Since I work for an estabilished association, we can offord to look at some of the solutions that do these things (the under $5,000 category). If I run across anything that works for what you need on the cheap, I'll re-respond to your post so you get an e-mail. I feel some of your pain on this one. Most of the responders to my question don't even understand what I'm asking about or what a professional association is. If geeks can't grok what the software is for very well, chances are that not many alternatives will ever be written. Thanks for letting me know I'm sane and make sense to someone
Many products, such as iMIS, don't post any pricing information on their site and insist on a rep visiting you for a demo. I happen to have several that do offer a demo installed, as a matter of fact, and have been going through the list at Google. Further, if you have ever used software pitched to associations, you would know that spending time with the demo rarely will give you an idea of the product's long-term usefulness and operability. Thanks for flaming my bad choice of words though. You're a champ.
(Holding his gavel in a very Macbeth way with that half surprised, half constipated melodramatic expression) "Spock... would-you... please... approach-the-bench?"
If it's feeding a customer service center or a bunch of bratty executives or something, well... your fucked ;) never mind what I said.
We had a Gozilla on top of the mainframe and a poster of dinosaurs next to it. We were running a mainframe in the late 90s, so we got teased a lot ;)
Boss: We need redundant connectivity and power.
Sales-Goof: You can have as many people open browsers on as many computers as you want.
For comparison and not a plug, when my boss asked the IBM guy, he pulled out charts and wiring diagrams to explain what they had.
It would be nice to see lists like this taken as an edit list for a DVD cut. Maybe not the science stuff as much as things that could be digitally fixed (the scar, for instance).
I think the government should sponsor a CA. Sure, their databases are screwy every so often and are the very model of bureaucracy. They are also one of the most "trusted" authorities to most of the neophite users a warning would scare. Besides, they couple probably keep up with Verisign's often weeks long turn around on certificates pretty well. There's some economy and small business stimulation! Unfortunately, maybe some fraud too, but it may also lead to hucksters getting stiffer punishments and/or penalties.
I hadn't thought of that at all. That's a great idea. Those types are always looking for some kind of stock art. Thanks! I'm going to give that a try along with the other sites mentioned.
You know, it's funny. This Ask Slashdot question sat around for a long time on my account. I even waited for database maintenance at Slashdot (just kidding - but I've never seen it before, posting it now may have been a favor from Cliff). It sat there so long, I thought it was dead. When I originally posted it, I didn't have my website listed in my profile. There isn't a mention of my site in the post either, but I figured that a few intrepid /.ers would figure it out. Ah well... The server is holding up OK. I think my slow ass DSL connection is keeping it at bay... so far... ;)
And it reads so much easier than in an EULA. Too bad they can't do that with the loan contract.