First off, who cares? The topic of this story has nothing to do with FTP. It has to do with finding a webserver which allows an easy setup of WebDAV.
That said, this is different from FTP as it uses HTTP extensions to operate. Let's remind ourselves what FTP does -- tranfers files. That's it. In order to edit remote files, you would have to download the file locally, make your changes, and upload it again. The FTP protocol does not allow the same functionality as WebDAV, until you start using an FTP client which has features that automate this process -- you select a file to edit, it downloads it to a temporary location, opens your default editor for the file type, and allows you to send back the edited file when complete. Most GUI FTP clients do this, which is probably how the confusion around "Isn't this just FTP?" has arrisen.
Note that I'm not advocating the use of WebDAV, and for that matter, I have never used it myself and have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW IT DOES WHAT IT DOES. All that I originally intented to show was that a simple Goole search returned the above cited article (context) as the second result, once again proving that another Ask Slashdot question could have been answered by simply typing "google.com" instead of "slashdot.org" into one's browser.
Reading the link, sounds a lot like (groan) FrontPage... Since I know this can not be the case, could one of the learned Slashdotters explain to me what WebDAV means?
Reading the link provides the following explaination:
In order to simplify the way you update websites, WebDAV was invented. Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) uses extensions to the existing HTTP protocol to enable multiple users to manage and modify the files in a remote system. Using suitably enabled clients you can view, open, edit and save files directly into the filesystem of the Web site as it were of a remote website.
FrontPage does has WebDAV capabilities built-in, but I (and probably you) doubt this is the main reason someone would use FrontPage.
Bottom line: The purpose of WebDAV is to give multiple people the ability to edit and publish remote content.
Not to mention the ONE REASON video games make so much more money: THEY COST MORE MONEY TO SEE (play).
Compare $100 million in the first day from an item that costs around $50, to $100 in the first weekend that costs $15. I'm not denying $100 in a single day isn't amazing (how much of this income is generated from pre-ordering though?). What I am saying, is that movies are experienced by a much larger audience than video games.
That's not to say that the "struggling" movie industry should raise ticket prices to $50, it's just showing that a successful business model for a DIFFERENT FORM OF MEDIA can exist with a SMALLER consumer base, and a LARGER entry price.
1. Obtain Microsoft Windows XP Corporate (Volume Licensing), as it does nto Activate.
2. Generate (either programatically, or through the use of Social Engineering) a proper-looking Microsoft Windows XP Corporate (Volume Licensing) key that has not been blacklisted by Microsoft.
3. Install Windows using this key. If already using a blacklisted key, perform the operations to change it (STFW. This involves tricking Activation into thinking that you received the key while Activating by phone).
4....
5. Profit! (Assuming, of course, you can prove your now illegal version of Windows was pre-installed by an OEM, and that you paid for it)
Unless they are still living in their 60-year old parent's basement, since they devoted their entire life to munching pills in the dark, blaring their techno music.
In an ideal world, this is how all programming projects would operate.
However, we live in a world where deadlines are very real, very important beasts which will gladly destroy us if we ignore them.
Upper management, shareholders, customers, or whoever expects the product by a certain time, not because they are fucking inconsiderate pricks, but because without the program, they cannot do whatever it actually is, that they do.
It's not unethical at all. The prices listed in stores is public information. There's nothing stopping you from walking into the store, checking the price on an item, going home, and comparing to places you find on the Internet (such as Amazon, or other competition).
In fact, this very practice is performed by competing stores -- employees of Store A are hired to check the prices at Store B. The catch is to not let employees at Store B catch you checking their prices (usually you need to record the prices some how), otherwise they will remove you from their premises. I've heard all sorts of stories about this practice from family members who work in the retail industry, and was also informed of this practice by department managers at one of the popular discount retailer. The joke was that they were expected to "research" the competitor's prices during their own time (since they were expected to be at work during their shift). Obviously none of them did any research at all.
Why on earth would you be a Sun shareholder, and have no faith in the business? If you're some sort of masochist with your money, then please, by all means, give it to me instead of Sun, and I will kick you in the crotch whenever you're in the mood for some pain.
If my speelings is going to be called into question, then I will proceed to cite the entire Internet as a whole. Maybe if there were no spelling errors there, then perhaps the entire contents could fit under 230 TB.
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Do you realise the volume of items Wal-Mart stores WORLD WIDE sell?
If anything, 460 TB seems like an understatement. Not to mention the claim that the Internet contains less than half of that. I alone have over a terrabyte of shit downloaded from the Internet. I seriously doubt there is only 229 more terrabytes to download.
Weird. I bought the HL Platinum Collection, and each came can in its own jewel case.
In fact, every game I have ever bought in a box, has had the game held within a jewel case inside, with TWO exceptions: Mafia, and Starsky and Hutch. I feel the reasoning in both cases was to save money, sincle clearly, both were very cheap productions (that's not to say Mafia wasn't a great game. S&H was sub-par, especially since the default controls had you driving your car with the arrow keys, and SHOOTING A GUN with your mouse)
You can probably pick up a DVD-ROM for $30. In fact, now that I think about it, I don't think I've seen one for sale in a long time. A lot of CD burners seem to have DVD reading capabilities, and most DVD burners are well under $100.
I picked up a spindle of 100 DVDs for $8 a month or so ago during an in-store promotion at one of the local computer store chains. Yes, EIGHT dollars. I think I picked up a spindle of 100 CDs at the smae time, for more like $15 or so, but I only use CDs to burn audio for full-length albums.
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But how is this different that FTP???
First off, who cares? The topic of this story has nothing to do with FTP. It has to do with finding a webserver which allows an easy setup of WebDAV.
That said, this is different from FTP as it uses HTTP extensions to operate. Let's remind ourselves what FTP does -- tranfers files. That's it. In order to edit remote files, you would have to download the file locally, make your changes, and upload it again. The FTP protocol does not allow the same functionality as WebDAV, until you start using an FTP client which has features that automate this process -- you select a file to edit, it downloads it to a temporary location, opens your default editor for the file type, and allows you to send back the edited file when complete. Most GUI FTP clients do this, which is probably how the confusion around "Isn't this just FTP?" has arrisen.
Note that I'm not advocating the use of WebDAV, and for that matter, I have never used it myself and have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA HOW IT DOES WHAT IT DOES. All that I originally intented to show was that a simple Goole search returned the above cited article (context) as the second result, once again proving that another Ask Slashdot question could have been answered by simply typing "google.com" instead of "slashdot.org" into one's browser.
Reading the link provides the following explaination:
FrontPage does has WebDAV capabilities built-in, but I (and probably you) doubt this is the main reason someone would use FrontPage.
Bottom line: The purpose of WebDAV is to give multiple people the ability to edit and publish remote content.
This article details adding WebDAV functionality to Apache. I'm not quit sure what is so hard about it. Works in Windows, Linux, and OS X.
Not to mention the ONE REASON video games make so much more money: THEY COST MORE MONEY TO SEE (play).
Compare $100 million in the first day from an item that costs around $50, to $100 in the first weekend that costs $15. I'm not denying $100 in a single day isn't amazing (how much of this income is generated from pre-ordering though?). What I am saying, is that movies are experienced by a much larger audience than video games.
That's not to say that the "struggling" movie industry should raise ticket prices to $50, it's just showing that a successful business model for a DIFFERENT FORM OF MEDIA can exist with a SMALLER consumer base, and a LARGER entry price.
Yes.
...
1. Obtain Microsoft Windows XP Corporate (Volume Licensing), as it does nto Activate.
2. Generate (either programatically, or through the use of Social Engineering) a proper-looking Microsoft Windows XP Corporate (Volume Licensing) key that has not been blacklisted by Microsoft.
3. Install Windows using this key. If already using a blacklisted key, perform the operations to change it (STFW. This involves tricking Activation into thinking that you received the key while Activating by phone).
4.
5. Profit! (Assuming, of course, you can prove your now illegal version of Windows was pre-installed by an OEM, and that you paid for it)
Unless they are still living in their 60-year old parent's basement, since they devoted their entire life to munching pills in the dark, blaring their techno music.
In an ideal world, this is how all programming projects would operate.
However, we live in a world where deadlines are very real, very important beasts which will gladly destroy us if we ignore them.
Upper management, shareholders, customers, or whoever expects the product by a certain time, not because they are fucking inconsiderate pricks, but because without the program, they cannot do whatever it actually is, that they do.
For the sake of humanity, don't pull a DNF.
It's not unethical at all. The prices listed in stores is public information. There's nothing stopping you from walking into the store, checking the price on an item, going home, and comparing to places you find on the Internet (such as Amazon, or other competition).
In fact, this very practice is performed by competing stores -- employees of Store A are hired to check the prices at Store B. The catch is to not let employees at Store B catch you checking their prices (usually you need to record the prices some how), otherwise they will remove you from their premises. I've heard all sorts of stories about this practice from family members who work in the retail industry, and was also informed of this practice by department managers at one of the popular discount retailer. The joke was that they were expected to "research" the competitor's prices during their own time (since they were expected to be at work during their shift). Obviously none of them did any research at all.
Can I still kick you in the crotch? You don't have to pay me, since clealy you have no more money.
I personally don't even use the extension. All it supposedly does it reloads pages from /.
When the issue happens with me (which is rarely), I just refresh it anyways. You can also increase/decrease the font.
I don't know, but surely Google does.
This is easy. Pornographic movies go in the /vids directory, while pornographic images go in the /pics directory.
SlashFix Firefox Extension.
Don't get your hopes up.
Deregulation isn't all it's cracked up to be.
The secret is to turn JavaScript OFF.
Why on earth would you be a Sun shareholder, and have no faith in the business? If you're some sort of masochist with your money, then please, by all means, give it to me instead of Sun, and I will kick you in the crotch whenever you're in the mood for some pain.
I can't find information about Anonymous Coward on IMDB, but I did find this.
Sure it does. It's in my public_html/stuff/ directory.
Obviously me, the Self Proclaimed King of the Public.
Neither do I, and it's not like it came from the article, since it clearly states it as $125,000.
If my speelings is going to be called into question, then I will proceed to cite the entire Internet as a whole. Maybe if there were no spelling errors there, then perhaps the entire contents could fit under 230 TB.
Do you realise the volume of items Wal-Mart stores WORLD WIDE sell?
If anything, 460 TB seems like an understatement. Not to mention the claim that the Internet contains less than half of that. I alone have over a terrabyte of shit downloaded from the Internet. I seriously doubt there is only 229 more terrabytes to download.
Weird. I bought the HL Platinum Collection, and each came can in its own jewel case.
In fact, every game I have ever bought in a box, has had the game held within a jewel case inside, with TWO exceptions: Mafia, and Starsky and Hutch. I feel the reasoning in both cases was to save money, sincle clearly, both were very cheap productions (that's not to say Mafia wasn't a great game. S&H was sub-par, especially since the default controls had you driving your car with the arrow keys, and SHOOTING A GUN with your mouse)
You can probably pick up a DVD-ROM for $30. In fact, now that I think about it, I don't think I've seen one for sale in a long time. A lot of CD burners seem to have DVD reading capabilities, and most DVD burners are well under $100.
I picked up a spindle of 100 DVDs for $8 a month or so ago during an in-store promotion at one of the local computer store chains. Yes, EIGHT dollars. I think I picked up a spindle of 100 CDs at the smae time, for more like $15 or so, but I only use CDs to burn audio for full-length albums.
Perhaps you have just discovered my ulterior motives.