Part of the benefit of using a credit card is that by law the card issuer cannot hold you liable for more then $50 of unauthorized purchases. I know $50 isn't chump change (at least for me) but if you look at it from the issuer point of view
they needed someway to discourage false unauthorized purchase claims.
In the end it is a risk, just like ordering pizza over the phone. Not quite the same scale but you don't really know how trustworthy the other end is.
If the convenience isn't worth $50 of risk to you then don't use them.
disclaimer: I'm not 100% familair with the details, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Maximum size for a database? unlimited (60GB databases exist)
Maximum size for a table? 16 TB
Maximum size for a row? unlimited in 7.1 and later
Maximum size for a field? 1GB in 7.1 and later
Maximum number of rows in a table? unlimited
Maximum number of columns in a table? 250-1600 depending on column types
Maximum number of indexes on a table? unlimited
If you couldn't tell I like postgres but as a business you should get what you think is best. From what I've heard Oracle on Solaris is where it's at if you can afford it. (I can't)
Cringley says that the battery will be intergrated into the stamping procedure. This could be _really_ bad in my opinion becuase once the battery runs out so would the "computer".
Lets say you pay for this month's Wired and comes via a wafer-computer. You read it and enjoy the interactive articles and eyecandy. Life seems that much cooler.
Next month you want to re-read that artice. Too bad the battery is dead. Now you gotta pay for last months issue again.
This seem like too much control over content I paid for. We are already bitching about DVD region encoding. At least DVD's don't expire.
I've seen "portable" hot sync cables which were just the plug that connected to the palm. I don't know if these cables work across palm versions but it may work.
If you have scripts to pull the config to a file then you've got all you need. Why add a dependency to the reliability / uptime to your web server? My database back end works very well but I really enjoy the fact that I can stop the database and still serve web pages (except the ones that pull from a DB) or I can stop sendmail and people can still check their existing mail. Anyway my point is that you have a good solution that sounds reliable and seems that it will work well and rather fail-safe. No need to mess up a good thing.
First, who said you need a big budget for "proper software"?
I don't know how many people think of it but I've become very comfortable editing html over a telnet session with vi[m]. SSH with compression turned on is even better then telnet.
Get vim and force yourself to learn what seems to be a weird interface, once you learn it it is very powerful: http://www.vim.org
If your using php and have more cpu cycles then bandwidth then my gzip code is a quick fix: http://Leknor.com/code/
Also, sed, ps, find, grep are great little utils. I recently relized I could write quick shell scripts on the command line like this:
$ for x in `ls *.html`; do echo $x; done
I know that is very simple but it gives you an idea where to start.
Your not describing anything new. People have harvested email addresses for a while. Just describe how to harvest email addresses and then s/email address/screen name/g and bam your post.
AOL is not as evil as most people like think. With their AIM serivce they provide all the tools to have none/some/all privacy and still chat. People just don't used them and then get their panties in a wad.
What I disagree with is the warning system which I think is an agressive action and not defensive like they claim. Blocking a user is defensive. Warning actually effect the other screen name's abiliy to use the service which I think is wrong even if I don't agree on how they are useing or taking advantage of it.
I'm using Clear Blue Media for most all ads at my personal site, Leknor.com. I find them to be reasonable, but not great. I don't know enough about advertizing if 'reasonable' is actually top of the line so it may be good.
I was going to switch away from them but at the time they had the best payouts I could find. They've since lower rates so it may be time for me to start looking.
I've never heard of L2TP before your post but here is the vpn I've recently setup.
I got vpnd and put it on two boxes on the internet. Each box was on the edge of a company network providing ip_masq and basic firewalling. The biggest problem I had was a conceptual problem with vpn'ing and it was that was you are effectivly creating one big network not two networks connected together. Maybe this is obivous to others but it wasn't on any web site I've read and networking isn't common enought for me to pay for a class or something.
Before I go any further the vpnd setup has been semi-reliable. This doesn't bother me because we have taken two average connections to the internet and created a convient, non-critical link for dirt cheap. If you need a reliable link put the money into it until it is as reliable as you need it. Open source and GNU/Linux are good but not the answer to everything... yet.:-)
Here is the info that would have saved me a few hours. I'm assuming you've read the readme and faq from vpnd. You have two private networks, we'll call them 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.127.0/24 . Choose one to be the client and one the server. In our case one had a changing IP addr so we made that one the client. Then setup all the config options in vpnd.conf like it should be. Here's what got me, when you setup the route1 option the netmask needs to be a netmask that includes both sub-networks. In my case I used 255.255.0.0
Other then mp3.com here is one, I think. I'm not sure what the laws are on karaoke but this is result of two drunks singing "you've lost that lovin' feeling": http://thecity.eu.org/That_Lovin_Fee lin.mp3. It is bad and shouldn't be let near a computer with speakers. The best part is it has been downloaded 2294 times. note: that is limited to 30kps of bandwidth.
How do you know that they are lying? How do you know a ad company isn't reporting your actual click through? Do you have scripts that track that stuff on your own server? Some ad services use an iframe which would make it hard for you to know what they load in that ad space. I'm just wondering.
I'm not a crypto person but why not something like this:
Each file is encrypted with a key that is then encrypted with the public keys for the user and group and maybe unencrypted if everybody has privilages.
Then when a user logs in his private key is decrypted and the private keys for the groups he belongs to is decrypted with his private user key.
Then with all the private keys the user can decrypt the keys that decrypt the files.
I'm sure there are holes in this, so please tell me. All I know is what i've learned from reading about PGP, SSH, and CSS (hope I don't get sued for learning) and that isn't much. The only drawback I see is maybe a file could be out of the reach of root, but that isn't a drawback IMO.
I don't care if they puts ads in space. but if you think about it they would use lower orbiting ads so they wouldn't have to be as large.
Besides night swimming I'm usually not far enought away from the city lights to see stars and stuff so I wouldn't care. But I would take the time to see some of my (least) favorite company's space ads burn as they fell back into the atmosphere.
The sad thing about space ads are if history repeats itself the fist space ads will be for p0rn. Sex in it's various forms have always been the first to move into new forms of media.
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Part of the benefit of using a credit card is that by law the card issuer cannot hold you liable for more then $50 of unauthorized purchases. I know $50 isn't chump change (at least for me) but if you look at it from the issuer point of view they needed someway to discourage false unauthorized purchase claims.
In the end it is a risk, just like ordering pizza over the phone. Not quite the same scale but you don't really know how trustworthy the other end is.
If the convenience isn't worth $50 of risk to you then don't use them.
disclaimer: I'm not 100% familair with the details, please correct me if I'm wrong.
Leknor
since no one has mentioned it I thought I'd dig up a few links I remember reading.
From the PostgreSQL FAQ, linked above:
If you couldn't tell I like postgres but as a business you should get what you think is best. From what I've heard Oracle on Solaris is where it's at if you can afford it. (I can't)
Leknor
- Read printed materials, aka: a book, newspaper, magizine.
- Get some friends together and play basketball or tag football.
- Go to your local museum.
- Do chairty stuff.
You can turn off lights/computers/etc and turn down your AC for all of the above activities and as an added bonus most will make you a better person.Leknor
Cringley says that the battery will be intergrated into the stamping procedure. This could be _really_ bad in my opinion becuase once the battery runs out so would the "computer".
Lets say you pay for this month's Wired and comes via a wafer-computer. You read it and enjoy the interactive articles and eyecandy. Life seems that much cooler.
Next month you want to re-read that artice. Too bad the battery is dead. Now you gotta pay for last months issue again.
This seem like too much control over content I paid for. We are already bitching about DVD region encoding. At least DVD's don't expire.
Leknor
Leknor
Leknor
well if your scripts work then it isn't a problem.
Anyway, this is an issue of admin style and in the end I don't want others telling me how to run my boxes so I'll drop the argument here.
Leknor
Leknor
First, who said you need a big budget for "proper software"?
I don't know how many people think of it but I've become very comfortable editing html over a telnet session with vi[m]. SSH with compression turned on is even better then telnet.
Also, sed, ps, find, grep are great little utils. I recently relized I could write quick shell scripts on the command line like this:
$ for x in `ls *.html`; do echo $x; done
I know that is very simple but it gives you an idea where to start.
Leknor
Your not describing anything new. People have harvested email addresses for a while. Just describe how to harvest email addresses and then s/email address/screen name/g and bam your post.
AOL is not as evil as most people like think. With their AIM serivce they provide all the tools to have none/some/all privacy and still chat. People just don't used them and then get their panties in a wad.
What I disagree with is the warning system which I think is an agressive action and not defensive like they claim. Blocking a user is defensive. Warning actually effect the other screen name's abiliy to use the service which I think is wrong even if I don't agree on how they are useing or taking advantage of it.
Sorry it turned into a rant.
Leknor
I'm using Clear Blue Media for most all ads at my personal site, Leknor.com. I find them to be reasonable, but not great. I don't know enough about advertizing if 'reasonable' is actually top of the line so it may be good.
I was going to switch away from them but at the time they had the best payouts I could find. They've since lower rates so it may be time for me to start looking.
Leknor
I've never heard of L2TP before your post but here is the vpn I've recently setup.
I got vpnd and put it on two boxes on the internet. Each box was on the edge of a company network providing ip_masq and basic firewalling. The biggest problem I had was a conceptual problem with vpn'ing and it was that was you are effectivly creating one big network not two networks connected together. Maybe this is obivous to others but it wasn't on any web site I've read and networking isn't common enought for me to pay for a class or something.
Before I go any further the vpnd setup has been semi-reliable. This doesn't bother me because we have taken two average connections to the internet and created a convient, non-critical link for dirt cheap. If you need a reliable link put the money into it until it is as reliable as you need it. Open source and GNU/Linux are good but not the answer to everything ... yet. :-)
Here is the info that would have saved me a few hours. I'm assuming you've read the readme and faq from vpnd. You have two private networks, we'll call them 192.168.0.0/24 and 192.168.127.0/24 . Choose one to be the client and one the server. In our case one had a changing IP addr so we made that one the client. Then setup all the config options in vpnd.conf like it should be. Here's what got me, when you setup the route1 option the netmask needs to be a netmask that includes both sub-networks. In my case I used 255.255.0.0
If you need more help feel free to email me.
Leknor
Leknor
Leknor
Each file is encrypted with a key that is then encrypted with the public keys for the user and group and maybe unencrypted if everybody has privilages.
Then when a user logs in his private key is decrypted and the private keys for the groups he belongs to is decrypted with his private user key.
Then with all the private keys the user can decrypt the keys that decrypt the files.
I'm sure there are holes in this, so please tell me. All I know is what i've learned from reading about PGP, SSH, and CSS (hope I don't get sued for learning) and that isn't much. The only drawback I see is maybe a file could be out of the reach of root, but that isn't a drawback IMO.
Leknor
I don't care if they puts ads in space. but if you think about it they would use lower orbiting ads so they wouldn't have to be as large.
Besides night swimming I'm usually not far enought away from the city lights to see stars and stuff so I wouldn't care. But I would take the time to see some of my (least) favorite company's space ads burn as they fell back into the atmosphere.
I can imagine the flaming Windows logo now :~)
Leknor
The sad thing about space ads are if history repeats itself the fist space ads will be for p0rn. Sex in it's various forms have always been the first to move into new forms of media.
Leknor