There are several nice wiki solutions, but Confluence wiki does the best job of meeting our corporate standards, and we are in the process of migrating all our documentation to it.
The key points for us:
Supports page level access controls
Integrates with external authentication system (LDAP/Active Directory)
Where do I find a cushy job on a payroll to come up with answers like his?
>>"10% of the population of the planet will be androids... in 10-15 years."
How does he come up with this?
"So I apply some basic common sense - I know that Sony's not stupid, and neither is Honda, and they wouldn't be doing this if they had not done some very thorough analysis of the marketplace. Even without doing that myself, I can use their professionalism, as it were, to conclude that they have probably not got it that far wrong, and that there probably is a market for this kind of thing, and we probably will see these little androids all over the place."
So he is saying that in 10 years we will have roughly 600 million android people running around? So, to take a simple, linear model, starting in 4 years we will be building roughly 100 million androids a year?
Based upon his predictions, I suspect that they will be looking for a replacement to take over this guys job, in 10-15 years, tops!
Parent says: How much demand will there really be from corporate users? I would assume that most would be nervous about this sort of application environment due to the failure of ASPs (application service providers)... here are some of the risks....:
* Loss of control of corporate data
* Loss of control of corporate image
* Insufficient ASP security to counter risks
* Exposure of corporate data to other ASP customers
* Compromise of corporate data
Hmm... I guess Google has not thought of that!
But wait, perhaps they might load the Google apps into something like this... and then all of these issues would go away.
They might even call it something like the "Google OneBox", as it would do Search and "Other Stuff" (tm).
"Despite our notions of the robed Jedi masters walking around, in real life the lightsaber would probably be more useful in construction or manufacturing than on the battlefield."
"In fact, no one is complaining about cell signals, which are broadcast like wifi. Does this mean that, because it is jutting out and striking me, so to speak, that I should be privy to your conversation(after all, your voice on this side isn't encrypted at all)."
Yes it does mean that I have the right to listen in on your phone calls.
The Supreme Court of the US decided that you have an expectation of privacy when using a land-line phone, and a court order is required to allow people to violate that right of privacy.
But they ruled that you have no expectation of privacy when using a cordless phone (and by implication a cell-phone). As it is a transmitter, using the public airwaves. (IANAL - so may be missing some important legal points about this.)
So, my understanding of the law of the land in the US is that if you are broadcasting a signal onto my property, I am within my rights to listen in / use it.
(NOTE: This "law" thing might have been changed by whim of the President, but you are not on a need-to-know list for that information.)
Question:
Does Microsoft even have a shipping product that does this?
Yes Microsoft offers the "Indexing Service" as of Windows 2000.
About the Windows Indexing Service
At our company we found this to provide amazingly, mind-bogglingly bad search results.
Just last month we ripped the Microsoft solution and replaced it with a Google Mini, and are in the process of evaluating an upgrade to the Google Onebox.
We are much happier with the Google system's search results.
(FYI: Even the Mini allows for you to add NTLM (Windows) user-ID's and passwords so that it can search Sharepoint sites, and other restricted access content.)
Actually, I think that using your (US Defense Dept's) definition of terrorism, George, Bush, the NSA and CIA can be classified as "Terrorists", as the grandparent post posits.
" Terrorism is defined by the U.S. Department of Defense as "the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives."
>"The criteria of unlawfulness would generally rule out the prospect
> of terrorism being practiced by a government as it is the government that
> makes the laws. It may be practiced by individuals or groups within
> the government, if their actions are unlawful. Likewise you may believe that
> the laws enacted by your government are immoral or "evil"; however it does
> not fit the definition of terrorism."
I think that is the point in identifying the NSA, CIA and George Bush as "terrorists" - in that they are engaging in actions that are NOT legal when engaging in domestic spying without a warrant, torturing prisoners, etc. as these activities are not within the law.
The government has the theoretical power to make the activities legal, but Bush and Co. have specifically acted to prevent the larger government from reviewing their actions, and Congress from amending laws to clarify the bounds of legality: According to Bush, EVERYTHING they do is legal, even if it against the written law. According to them, Bush as wartime president supercedes the "law".
For those who interpret the law and American Costitution as written, what they are doing IS NOT legal, therefore it fits under the definition of terrorism.
To sum up - just because a "government" does something, it does NOT make the action "legal". To be legal, it must be done in accordance with the laws written by the legislative branch and reviewed and approved by the judical branch.
Hmm... now curing cancer is nice and all, but if/when applied to humans, does this mean they can smoke cigarettes w/o ill effect, clean up nuclear waste with their bare hands, or travel in space for extended duration w/o ill effect?
It runs on the Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS/2, and Unix and imports Quicken files cleanly. You can write your own extensions (using python) and it is easy enough to use that my (non-techy) significant other happily uses it.
I migrated from a Quicken a few years ago - and am thrilled with the application, and the support.
It's worth at least considering before beating your head against the wall again dealing with another Quicken upgrade.
My only association with this company is as a happy customer.
- Robert
But they only show a subset of CMS's. According ot the site:
"There are a number of reasons why many CMS's aren't featured at opensourceCMS.com. The main reason being we only deal with php/mysql systems. If it's not php/mysql it won't be featured here. Also, if the system requires php5 it won't be featured here, yet. " (OpenSourceCMS
So the name is misleading, as there are several excellent/powerful Open source CMS options that are not listed here becuase they are not written with PHP. Things like Plone or Liferay.
These are examples of robust, high-quality, Open Source CMS's that you will not find at that site. And it is seems a mistake for most people, when asking the question "What is the best Open Source CMS" to only consider "the best Open Source CMS's written in PHP 4."
"the first alternative that came to my mind was an intranet knowledge-base."
"Took you long enough. Anyway, the one thing lacking from Wikis in that area is group-page access control. TWiki is the only Wiki which claims to sort of have it, but also warns vigorously that it doesn't work securely."
Actually, the Confluence wiki says it has page level access control tied to groups and individuals.
We are currently evaluating it for use for our Intranet system. Confluence is not open source, but features like these might make it worth paying for.
I am curious if anyone has any experience with the Confluence wiki?
quote: "When we were in the 1960s, a family of 4 paid about 20% of their income to government at every level. 1 parent could afford to stay home. In 2005, a family of 4 pays over 50% of their income to government at every level. This is 250% higher, causing both parents to have to work just to get by. Don't blame the parents for what you voted for."
Well, you are are wrong there. This family of 4 pays around 35% of our income to "government at every level." Including Federal, state and local.
I am not sure what you are basing your argument on, but facts don't seem to be a part of it: Do you happen to work for the Bush administration?:)
Real time books: "Livebook" from Sourcebeat
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Are you familiar with Sourcebeat? They provide a "12-month book subscription" for open-source related technical manuals.
From the site:
"At SourceBeat, we believe the traditional publishing model does not work in rapidly changing environments such as open source software. Traditional books take too long to go from author to bookshelf, and many times the books are outdated soon after release. Until now. SourceBeat is the first publisher to create always updated open source technology books, written by expert authors such as James Goodwill, Bill Dudney, Matt Raible and many others. Utilizing our "LiveBook(TM)" process, readers and subscribers are always sure of getting the most current information on each open source project.
How it works differently than the traditional publishing model is that instead of buying a static book, readers subscribe to a particular book for 12 months. The expert authors provide updates on their respective topics, ensuring the most relevant and current information on a project. No more buying multiple books on the same topic in order to cover the areas you need. In addition, as a subscriber you can interact with the author through list servers and weblogs. This way you can let them know your thoughts on current items and also what you would like to see in future updates."
Seems like a good model - I am planning on subscribing to Plone Live myself.
"The problem with humans is that we've created a society for ourselves where we no longer have to fight to survive and pass on our genes like the rest of nature does. The weak don't die young, and are able to reproduce. So basically we've overridden natural selection. With that, any arguments comparing humans to herds, extinction, etc. are all moot, since these things simply don't apply to us any more."
That has concerned me too. But there is still evolution in action.
I think that Joel Spolsky addresses software design docs well. Among other things, at one time he was responsible for writing the software spec for Microsoft Excel.
Summary: This series of articles is about functional specifications, not technical specifications. People get these mixed up. I don't know if there's any standard terminology, but here's what I mean when I use these terms.
A functional specification describes how a product will work entirely from the user's perspective. It doesn't care how the thing is implemented. It talks about features. It specifies screens, menus, dialogs, and so on.
A technical specification describes the internal implementation of the program. It talks about data structures, relational database models, choice of programming languages and tools, algorithms, etc.
When you design a product, inside and out, the most important thing is to nail down the user experience. What are the screens, how do they work, what do they do. Later, you worry about how to get from here to there. There's no use arguing about what programming language to use before you've decided what your product is going to do. In this series, I'm only talking about functional specifications."
"Just take a look at this, which, as you'll notice, isn't getting any mention in the media, because it's GOP-bashing season right now (well, all the time really). If it was claimed to be a Democratic memo, the media would be describing it as a Republican "Rove-esque" trick...."
You are complaining that the anonymous Terry Schiavo Republican Talking Points memo was faked by the Democratcs. Because, of course, any reporting on criticism of the Republicans is a partisan trick and an indication of media bias?
Actually, no. The Terry Schiavo memo is true - this morning the Washington Post is reporting that a Republican Senator fired a his staffer who admitted writing it.
Look I hate to break it to you, but the all the evidence and actions of the Republicans in Washington (Schiavo, Delay, lies about cost of Medicare, Social Security "Crisis", WMD's, torture policy, Clinton Impeachment, budget busting deficits and concurrent tax cuts for the hyper-rich, media consolidation, "nuclear-option" of taking away the filibuster option from the minority party, lack of any sort of investigation of White House actions) demonstrate that the Republicans in Washington are acting like amoral, unethical, hacks who will do anything for power and their party, in contrast to acting for the benefit of the country.
There are some principled Republicans in the country, I know some. But what are the core values that the ones in Washington are demonstrating? Why is it "media bias" to report on their actions?
Reporting on unethical actions is not media bias - and not reporting on false speculation that the Democrats "faked it" without any evidence suggesting that they did is not "media bias". Because, again, the Republican Senate staff DID write the Terry Schiavo Talking points memo. And it is good that people reported it, and that people be held accountable for it.
I have voted Republican, and will again for the right people. But this crop's willingess to lie, and to tolerate lies for their own benefit and to the long-term detriment of the country and our democracy is shameful and disturbing. I don't care if you vote Republican or Democrat - but vote for someone better than the current schmucks in power. There are some candidates our there who care more about what is good for the country than for their personal short-term gain, and who can still tell the difference between the two. We deserve, and need, better leaders than are currently running the show in Washington.
A Fire Department is not a "right" either but most people have figured that if your neighbor's house is burning down and nobody puts the fire out there is good chance that your house will get damaged too. So it is worth it to society to invest in appropriate public goods.
At the most personal level, the benefit of universal health care is that your society, your neighbors, will be more healthy. For example, the person making your BigMac is less likely to have tuberculosis - and therefore you are less likely to catch it from him, or from some random person sharing an elevator or the mall.
From a business perspective, if individual companies do not need to take on the burden of insuring their workers then they will have a lower total cost and will be better able to compete with companies that do not provide health benefits.
This works because the total cost to society of practicing preventative medicine is lower than the cost of increased illness, lower productivity and treating the poor in expensive Hospital Emergency rooms.
So no, "Free health care is not a right" - but publicly subsized health care for all is a good investment for society.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes.
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The key points for us:
- Supports page level access controls
- Integrates with external authentication system (LDAP/Active Directory)
- Runs on a Java Application Server
Good luck!>>"10% of the population of the planet will be androids ... in 10-15 years."
How does he come up with this?
"So I apply some basic common sense - I know that Sony's not stupid, and neither is Honda, and they wouldn't be doing this if they had not done some very thorough analysis of the marketplace. Even without doing that myself, I can use their professionalism, as it were, to conclude that they have probably not got it that far wrong, and that there probably is a market for this kind of thing, and we probably will see these little androids all over the place."
So he is saying that in 10 years we will have roughly 600 million android people running around? So, to take a simple, linear model, starting in 4 years we will be building roughly 100 million androids a year?
Based upon his predictions, I suspect that they will be looking for a replacement to take over this guys job, in 10-15 years, tops!
* Loss of control of corporate data
* Loss of control of corporate image
* Insufficient ASP security to counter risks
* Exposure of corporate data to other ASP customers
* Compromise of corporate data
Hmm... I guess Google has not thought of that!
But wait, perhaps they might load the Google apps into something like this... and then all of these issues would go away.
They might even call it something like the "Google OneBox", as it would do Search and "Other Stuff" (tm).
But no, that would be silly.
I am now in the proces of rolling our several more Plone sites on my own, with the help of a large and helpful Plone commmunity.
Designed to scale well, themable (CSS-based), and good caching options (squid and the new CacheFu).
I have found Plone to provide a great foundation to build upon.
And in mouse traps.
"Diebold?... Diebold?... Diebold?..."
"Anyone?... Anyone?... Anyone?..."
Yes it does mean that I have the right to listen in on your phone calls.
The Supreme Court of the US decided that you have an expectation of privacy when using a land-line phone, and a court order is required to allow people to violate that right of privacy.
But they ruled that you have no expectation of privacy when using a cordless phone (and by implication a cell-phone). As it is a transmitter, using the public airwaves. (IANAL - so may be missing some important legal points about this.)
So, my understanding of the law of the land in the US is that if you are broadcasting a signal onto my property, I am within my rights to listen in / use it.
(NOTE: This "law" thing might have been changed by whim of the President, but you are not on a need-to-know list for that information.)
Does Microsoft even have a shipping product that does this?
Yes Microsoft offers the "Indexing Service" as of Windows 2000.
About the Windows Indexing Service
At our company we found this to provide amazingly, mind-bogglingly bad search results.
Just last month we ripped the Microsoft solution and replaced it with a Google Mini, and are in the process of evaluating an upgrade to the Google Onebox.
We are much happier with the Google system's search results.
(FYI: Even the Mini allows for you to add NTLM (Windows) user-ID's and passwords so that it can search Sharepoint sites, and other restricted access content.)
" Terrorism is defined by the U.S. Department of Defense as "the unlawful use of -- or threatened use of -- force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives."
>"The criteria of unlawfulness would generally rule out the prospect
> of terrorism being practiced by a government as it is the government that
> makes the laws. It may be practiced by individuals or groups within
> the government, if their actions are unlawful. Likewise you may believe that
> the laws enacted by your government are immoral or "evil"; however it does
> not fit the definition of terrorism."
I think that is the point in identifying the NSA, CIA and George Bush as "terrorists" - in that they are engaging in actions that are NOT legal when engaging in domestic spying without a warrant, torturing prisoners, etc. as these activities are not within the law.
The government has the theoretical power to make the activities legal, but Bush and Co. have specifically acted to prevent the larger government from reviewing their actions, and Congress from amending laws to clarify the bounds of legality: According to Bush, EVERYTHING they do is legal, even if it against the written law. According to them, Bush as wartime president supercedes the "law".
For those who interpret the law and American Costitution as written, what they are doing IS NOT legal, therefore it fits under the definition of terrorism.
To sum up - just because a "government" does something, it does NOT make the action "legal". To be legal, it must be done in accordance with the laws written by the legislative branch and reviewed and approved by the judical branch.
Capisce?
test
How good is this really?
(Assuming this is true, it is a wonderful step.)
I recommend MoneyDance in place of Quicken.
It runs on the Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris, OS/2, and Unix and imports Quicken files cleanly. You can write your own extensions (using python) and it is easy enough to use that my (non-techy) significant other happily uses it. I migrated from a Quicken a few years ago - and am thrilled with the application, and the support.
It's worth at least considering before beating your head against the wall again dealing with another Quicken upgrade.
My only association with this company is as a happy customer. - Robert
But they only show a subset of CMS's. According ot the site:
"There are a number of reasons why many CMS's aren't featured at opensourceCMS.com. The main reason being we only deal with php/mysql systems. If it's not php/mysql it won't be featured here. Also, if the system requires php5 it won't be featured here, yet. " (OpenSourceCMS
So the name is misleading, as there are several excellent/powerful Open source CMS options that are not listed here becuase they are not written with PHP. Things like Plone or Liferay.
These are examples of robust, high-quality, Open Source CMS's that you will not find at that site. And it is seems a mistake for most people, when asking the question "What is the best Open Source CMS" to only consider "the best Open Source CMS's written in PHP 4."
IMHO
"Took you long enough. Anyway, the one thing lacking from Wikis in that area is group-page access control. TWiki is the only Wiki which claims to sort of have it, but also warns vigorously that it doesn't work securely."
Actually, the Confluence wiki says it has page level access control tied to groups and individuals.
We are currently evaluating it for use for our Intranet system. Confluence is not open source, but features like these might make it worth paying for.
I am curious if anyone has any experience with the Confluence wiki?
Well, you are are wrong there. This family of 4 pays around 35% of our income to "government at every level." Including Federal, state and local.
I am not sure what you are basing your argument on, but facts don't seem to be a part of it: Do you happen to work for the Bush administration? :)
"At SourceBeat, we believe the traditional publishing model does not work in rapidly changing environments such as open source software. Traditional books take too long to go from author to bookshelf, and many times the books are outdated soon after release. Until now. SourceBeat is the first publisher to create always updated open source technology books, written by expert authors such as James Goodwill, Bill Dudney, Matt Raible and many others. Utilizing our "LiveBook(TM)" process, readers and subscribers are always sure of getting the most current information on each open source project.
How it works differently than the traditional publishing model is that instead of buying a static book, readers subscribe to a particular book for 12 months. The expert authors provide updates on their respective topics, ensuring the most relevant and current information on a project. No more buying multiple books on the same topic in order to cover the areas you need. In addition, as a subscriber you can interact with the author through list servers and weblogs. This way you can let them know your thoughts on current items and also what you would like to see in future updates."
Seems like a good model - I am planning on subscribing to Plone Live myself.
That has concerned me too. But there is still evolution in action.
These days there are generally more rewards for intelligence (so more breeding opportunities :), and there is still some culling out some of the folks at the bottom of the intelligence spectrum.
Summary:
This series of articles is about functional specifications, not technical specifications. People get these mixed up. I don't know if there's any standard terminology, but here's what I mean when I use these terms.
- A functional specification describes how a product will work entirely from the user's perspective. It doesn't care how the thing is implemented. It talks about features. It specifies screens, menus, dialogs, and so on.
- A technical specification describes the internal implementation of the program. It talks about data structures, relational database models, choice of programming languages and tools, algorithms, etc.
When you design a product, inside and out, the most important thing is to nail down the user experience. What are the screens, how do they work, what do they do. Later, you worry about how to get from here to there. There's no use arguing about what programming language to use before you've decided what your product is going to do. In this series, I'm only talking about functional specifications."One of his books: Joel on software
His blog: What's a Spec?
Highly recommended!
You are complaining that the anonymous Terry Schiavo Republican Talking Points memo was faked by the Democratcs. Because, of course, any reporting on criticism of the Republicans is a partisan trick and an indication of media bias?
Actually, no. The Terry Schiavo memo is true - this morning the Washington Post is reporting that a Republican Senator fired a his staffer who admitted writing it.
Look I hate to break it to you, but the all the evidence and actions of the Republicans in Washington (Schiavo, Delay, lies about cost of Medicare, Social Security "Crisis", WMD's, torture policy, Clinton Impeachment, budget busting deficits and concurrent tax cuts for the hyper-rich, media consolidation, "nuclear-option" of taking away the filibuster option from the minority party, lack of any sort of investigation of White House actions) demonstrate that the Republicans in Washington are acting like amoral, unethical, hacks who will do anything for power and their party, in contrast to acting for the benefit of the country.
There are some principled Republicans in the country, I know some. But what are the core values that the ones in Washington are demonstrating? Why is it "media bias" to report on their actions?
Reporting on unethical actions is not media bias - and not reporting on false speculation that the Democrats "faked it" without any evidence suggesting that they did is not "media bias". Because, again, the Republican Senate staff DID write the Terry Schiavo Talking points memo. And it is good that people reported it, and that people be held accountable for it.
I have voted Republican, and will again for the right people. But this crop's willingess to lie, and to tolerate lies for their own benefit and to the long-term detriment of the country and our democracy is shameful and disturbing. I don't care if you vote Republican or Democrat - but vote for someone better than the current schmucks in power. There are some candidates our there who care more about what is good for the country than for their personal short-term gain, and who can still tell the difference between the two. We deserve, and need, better leaders than are currently running the show in Washington.
"Free health care is not a right."
No, it is not. But it is a public good.
A Fire Department is not a "right" either but most people have figured that if your neighbor's house is burning down and nobody puts the fire out there is good chance that your house will get damaged too. So it is worth it to society to invest in appropriate public goods.
At the most personal level, the benefit of universal health care is that your society, your neighbors, will be more healthy. For example, the person making your BigMac is less likely to have tuberculosis - and therefore you are less likely to catch it from him, or from some random person sharing an elevator or the mall.
From a business perspective, if individual companies do not need to take on the burden of insuring their workers then they will have a lower total cost and will be better able to compete with companies that do not provide health benefits.
This works because the total cost to society of practicing preventative medicine is lower than the cost of increased illness, lower productivity and treating the poor in expensive Hospital Emergency rooms.
So no, "Free health care is not a right" - but publicly subsized health care for all is a good investment for society.
You can now easily get VOIP on the Mac - The free Skype VOIP service recently added OSX support.