just as a note to this posting, i agree about 80% to it. There is a big poorly drawn fuzzy line where quality and accessability are seperated. Problem is where people fall and this is why areguments between the qualities arise.
90% of my mp3's sound poor to me because of warvling, distortion and the such. As time passes, I am buying the CD's for them. Maybe I'm one of those that fall on the border of what sounds shouldnt' be thrown out for 'acceptable' quality.
I would think that be a bad way to show your boss what you should be doing. If you want to convince him/her, setup a demo. Setup various httpd's (apache, roxen, fhttpd, iis) on various os's, write up a report and submit it. Not only will you show some competance on what's right and wrong, you'll help the company make a better decission.
If you don't have 20 machines to test this on, test it on one. It takes a day to install an OS and an httpd to confiugre it with some rudamentary tests such as cgi/serverside-language on just one. A database is just as easy to setup. Spam it to hell and see what numbers you get.
The week of testing is surely worth the year or two minimum of usage.
I think a good conclusion is if it works, regardless of its operating system (NT and various BSD's), regardless of the distribution (for you Linux guys), regardless of the software used, if it's working fine, without a hitch, don't break it.
Now now, I didn't say which OS's and which softwares work best. But to each his own.
Considering the advantage Apple has/had, I wouldn't be surprised if they did buy them. But we all learn that for some odd reason, Apple is like this big humungous boulder on an open field. It just sorta sits there, moves a little at times of an earth quake.
--- Ok.. the Austin Powers spoof for 'groovy linux boxes' is going too far
Does it make it libellous? If you are the authority of what constitutes it so. But enough about philosophy. As for law, I find it funny that any abuse of system causes people to look for a specific person, but in the case of this posting, the service is liable? Something sounds a bit backwards about this. Until there are percise laws about this, it is all open to interpretation by those judging.
Demon is trying to take action by having the 'bad guys' sign statements that they will not act as such again. Until there are more percise laws written up about this type of thing, it can go either way. Not guilty because Demon tried or guilty because Demon didn't want to take off the 'bad post'.
Notice that the offended don't go directly after them, if not including Demon.
--- To Bugs: "He does have to shoot me now!" To Elmer: "So shoot me now!"
You are absolutely right. I remember a while back the port 43 trojan'ed tcpwrappers. If that was not a trojan, i don't know what is. It was uploaded to the official site that distributes it, no?
Because it is 'opensource', it is only easier to find the problem in the source and see how it works since we have source. Other than that, Windows compiled code is just gobldygook.
Makes you wonder if that little line on the bottom of/. really is worth anything. Does this actually protect the post carrier?
One could argue that it's the responsibility of the host. If it provides the service, shouldn't it manage it? Parent's are responsible for their child's actions until a certain age.
On the other hand, can it be considered abuse of a system such as a prank call using the phone companies lines? In that case, it is like a teen who is tried as an adult. The authority owning the service is bypassed and is tried directly.
I would hope that it goes case by case in terms of how often the host lets it pass without some sort of delegation. To each his own...
Linux IMHO is a great desktop OS. It's the '95 of Unicies without the crashing. It has a lot of software and hardware support. Nice for some development, but then again, nice for development of Linux applications.
For a server, I would give FreeBSD (just like yahoo does) a try. Nice threading, nice SMP, nice performance. Easy security to setup (as most of it is pre-setup) and not ridden with scritps like the Linux distro's.
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just as a note to this posting, i agree about 80% to it. There is a big poorly drawn fuzzy line where quality and accessability are seperated. Problem is where people fall and this is why areguments between the qualities arise.
90% of my mp3's sound poor to me because of warvling, distortion and the such. As time passes, I am buying the CD's for them. Maybe I'm one of those that fall on the border of what sounds shouldnt' be thrown out for 'acceptable' quality.
I would think that be a bad way to show your boss what you should be doing. If you want to convince him/her, setup a demo. Setup various httpd's (apache, roxen, fhttpd, iis) on various os's, write up a report and submit it. Not only will you show some competance on what's right and wrong, you'll help the company make a better decission.
If you don't have 20 machines to test this on, test it on one. It takes a day to install an OS and an httpd to confiugre it with some rudamentary tests such as cgi/serverside-language on just one. A database is just as easy to setup. Spam it to hell and see what numbers you get.
The week of testing is surely worth the year or two minimum of usage.
I think a good conclusion is if it works, regardless of its operating system (NT and various BSD's), regardless of the distribution (for you Linux guys), regardless of the software used, if it's working fine, without a hitch, don't break it.
Now now, I didn't say which OS's and which softwares work best. But to each his own.
BSD has it setup correctly usually off the bat, but I don't know about Linux. What distrib are you running? Kernel ver?
Considering the multimedia advantage.. surprised if disney did buy.
I should really use that preview button.
Considering the advantage Apple has/had, I wouldn't be surprised if they did buy them. But we all learn that for some odd reason, Apple is like this big humungous boulder on an open field. It just sorta sits there, moves a little at times of an earth quake.
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Ok.. the Austin Powers spoof for 'groovy linux boxes' is going too far
if (nt == unstable) { switchTo.linux() }
becomes
switchTo.linux();
that's after a -O. after a -O2 you get FreeBSD using SMP
Does it make it libellous? If you are the authority of what constitutes it so. But enough about philosophy.
As for law, I find it funny that any abuse of system causes people to look for a specific person, but in the case of this posting, the service is liable? Something sounds a bit backwards about this. Until there are percise laws about this, it is all open to interpretation by those judging.
Demon is trying to take action by having the 'bad guys' sign statements that they will not act as such again. Until there are more percise laws written up about this type of thing, it can go either way. Not guilty because Demon tried or guilty because Demon didn't want to take off the 'bad post'.
Notice that the offended don't go directly after them, if not including Demon.
---
To Bugs: "He does have to shoot me now!"
To Elmer: "So shoot me now!"
You are absolutely right. I remember a while back the port 43 trojan'ed tcpwrappers. If that was not a trojan, i don't know what is. It was uploaded to the official site that distributes it, no?
Because it is 'opensource', it is only easier to find the problem in the source and see how it works since we have source. Other than that, Windows compiled code is just gobldygook.
One could argue that it's the responsibility of the host. If it provides the service, shouldn't it manage it? Parent's are responsible for their child's actions until a certain age.
On the other hand, can it be considered abuse of a system such as a prank call using the phone companies lines? In that case, it is like a teen who is tried as an adult. The authority owning the service is bypassed and is tried directly.
I would hope that it goes case by case in terms of how often the host lets it pass without some sort of delegation. To each his own...
Anyone wanna buy this post? Maybe I can sell it to Rob....
Some are men trying to be something they aren't. Some are men they aren't trying to be something.
I'm just a man trying to be me
I hope the "sort" men out there won't feel inadequate going through these things.
damnit.. what about freebsd reporting. people actually do use it.
just curious...
Linux IMHO is a great desktop OS. It's the '95 of Unicies without the crashing. It has a lot of software and hardware support. Nice for some development, but then again, nice for development of Linux applications.
For a server, I would give FreeBSD (just like yahoo does) a try. Nice threading, nice SMP, nice performance. Easy security to setup (as most of it is pre-setup) and not ridden with scritps like the Linux distro's.
-spencer p