While Slashdotters are often more interested in FiOS internet service, it's cable television services which call the shots. To offer cable in a locality, Verizon must first obtain a license from the city or town.
I guess, then, that Twin Falls, Idaho won't be getting Verizon FiOS, ever. I was rather surprised to find out that my hometown (thank God I've long since left), has an ordinance on the books that establishes an enforced monopoly on cable services: Only one cable company is allowed to operate within the city. Period.
Perhaps Verizon shouldn't bundle their cable service?
Is LtLink still around? About 7 years ago, they were rolling out their own wireless service and Teton came out of nowhere and started competing with them. (Just curious since I got the hell out of that area when I got the chance.)
I saw the injected string yesterday. It seems to be a database server vulnerability, and the code is injected as a hexadecimal string. (I wasn't told whether it was URL-encoded or what, so I'm not sure about the precise vector.)
In any case, this particular vulnerability doesn't seem to be the fault of the web application, but rather the server software.
It's more complex than that. I saw the code for the exploit yesterday. Apparently, it's injected as part of an otherwise normal request as a hexadecimal string. It's probably a similar vulnerability to the Oracle vulnerability a few stories up.
I don't know how, exactly, it's injected, however.
What I want to know is can I run a Postgres DB on a cluster of servers? We want to add some failover capabilities to our server cluster, and our current solution is incapable of five-nines availability. Is there a way to cluster them to provide both load-balancing and redundancy with a single database?
I've heard Oracle has some capability to that end, but I'm not clear on just what it can do.
I would argue that most C++ features are actually pretty uninteresting, once you know the rest of these. All they really do is add to the bloat -- sometimes hurting the syntax because of it. It's been awhile, but I remember a point at which you have to put a space between closing angle brackets in nested template definitions, because together, they'd be a bitwise shift operator.
That's because the C (and C++, among others) parser is greedy. You wouldn't, for example, parse << as < < would you? I agree that it makes template syntax a little awkward when you start nesting, but I hardly see that as hurting the syntax.
In any case, I think you're pointing blame in the wrong directions. C++ does have some flaws (the lack of things like closures in particular bothers me), but that doesn't mean it's not an incredibly powerful tool. (Closures can be simulated to some degree using partially-evaluated templates, and it achieves all of the desirable effects, albeit with slightly verbose syntax... boost::bind<>ing a boost::function<> to a boost::foreach() construct can get messy.) And no matter how long you use C++, you always discover new ways of approaching your problems (sister-class delegation being a good example of some recent epiphanies I've had).
Don't slag it off just because you don't like template syntax.:)
"They were all great within the time the [sic] lived."
Did you ever use NT 3.51? 4.0? 2000? They were terrible. XP is the first MS OS that has actually stayed stable for me for more than a few days. I still get bluescreens, but hey, it is a MS product. The "professional" line was worthless in a variety of ways.
... Really? I used 2000 for several years, even after the release of XP, mostly because it not only met my needs but did so quite stably. I recall only 4 bluescreens in the 3 years that I used it, and each of them were due to a faulty NIC driver. (So, I call it vendor error, not Microsoft's fault... this time.) I still consider 2000 Server to be more stable than XP ever was.
Since then, I've not used Windows at all, save for work computers and friends' PCs, and then, it's only because I have no other real choice.
I'll admit my upgrade path was a little unusual (Windows 95 to 98 to 2000 Server edition), and that I never used XP by conscious choice (didn't need it, already had 2000, thought it looked like shit). But I still pine for the days when Whistler was in Beta. I still think that Whistler's face-lift was far more attractive than the release candidates, and I found it to be far more stable than XP ever was since - until SP2.
Nevermind that the 'christian' church uses intoxicants on a regular basis in their worship; that's different because they're 'christian', not one of those hippy blasphemous un-American cults.
That's overgeneralizing a bit. Only a few denominations use wine for sacrament. Most denominations (mainly the Protestants and Evangelicals, as scary as they are) are much more hard-lined on this: Alkie is bad, so wine at communion doubly so. I've even heard pastors who rail against the Orthodoxy because, ooh, they drink at communion!
Interstingly, the Orthodox church (I'm specifically referring to Eastern Orthodoxy, since I'm not familiar with Western) takes the use of drugs more lightly (and I've met "elders" and "priests" who use) - which is not to say it's OK to do it in church, just that you shouldn't disobey the law.
Hypocritical, I know. But you're still generalizing too much.
I agree, except this one is neither fair nor good.
Current US patent law has caused nothing but heartache and bankruptcy among IT startups - at the very least, boundaries need to be drawn around patents.
Correction: Banks hold money, which is printed and distributed by the Federal Reserve. Paypal is a financial institution, not a bank, because they do not handle money in the same sense.
I've played with Linux a lot and would like to say, it never seems to be about the user experience. Usability should be a top concern for Linux to increase it penetration in the mainstream market.
Would it surprise you to find out that most of the community agrees with that statement?.. With one caveat, however: You're confusing Linux, the opreating system kernel, with the rest of a complete system. If we were discussing one of the *BSDs, I'd not balk, but there is a huge difference between Linux and what you're talking about. Linux runs behind the scenes and has nothing whatsoever to do with usability or even UIs.
I know there are distributions like Ubuntu which are making that a reality by leaps and bounds. But graphic UI's are the future of computing and I think it's high time for a distribution to make it HARD to find the shell in an OS. Let the Linux community do what Apple (NeXT) did for Unix (I'm preparing to be grilled for this comment), at the end of the day all most users care about is getting their work done.
The last thing you want to do is hide functionality - especially necessary functionality - from users. All Apple did was wrap a Mach kernel under a NeXT-ish facade and hide the majority of the more "advanced" features. IMO, there's no reason to make the shell go away, but rather to set it aside in a non-intrusive and logical place - exactly how most current distributions set it up. You can still get to a terminal emulator in OS X - it's harder, sure, but it's still trivial to make it readily accessible - and it uses BASH, a powerful and quite useful shell. By contrast, on Windows, it's not obvious where the shell is right away, and once you know where it is, you quickly find it's limiting and hard to use - if you're an advanced user, it's useless.
Please Linux developers, unify the OS and create something that at least 90% of the computing population can accomplish something on, not just the brainy and overwhelmingly patient.
It's quite unified. There's surprisingly little fragmentation in the community (save for Vim/Emacs and KDE/Gnome zealots), and a lot is accomplished daily. We have, right now, not one but ten (more?) advanced, powerful, and very usable desktop environments (including Gnome and KDE); a constantly improving graphical server that now supports advanced 3D effects, render acceleration, compositing, and multiple pointers (new! for multi-touch displays and the like a la iPhone); powerful multimedia features that audiophiles and videophiles are turning to in droves; multiple complete suites of office-targetted applications (KOffice, AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, and others); and many, many other programs that most users will always find that meet their immediate needs. And that's just in the stable repositories.
My question for you is this: What do you think is missing? We'll get somebody on it.
Mostly indifference, I think. I know a couple former SCO engineers (worked with them, in fact!), and they've told me straight up that to them, it's just a job. They're there to do their work and get paid. It's the ones that realized the company was slowly going bankrupt (or were laid off) that left early on.
I hate that this lady has been held liable to such an absurd extreme, but these laws do need to exist.
Why do they need to exist? What is being protected by these laws? Who is actually being protected by these laws? Why is an artist legally a work for hire when signing on to most publishers (meaning that said artists actually have zero legal right to the music they produce)? More interestingly, why is this not the case with authors of literature?
And, for me, the most important question of all: Why is this important?
I much prefer to do my work in base 2i. And I've given up on the whole Metric/Imperial debate and have instead switched to the Potrzebie measurements system. I'm much happier with it.
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We tried that. The company went out of business and got bought by NVIDIA. (Not that I'm opposed to Glide4.)
So when they go try to confiscate Google's entire infrastructure to root out the "infringer," they get to fight Google's army of lawyers.
Bring back OSS perhaps? It's open again, isn't it?
While Slashdotters are often more interested in FiOS internet service, it's cable television services which call the shots. To offer cable in a locality, Verizon must first obtain a license from the city or town.
I guess, then, that Twin Falls, Idaho won't be getting Verizon FiOS, ever. I was rather surprised to find out that my hometown (thank God I've long since left), has an ordinance on the books that establishes an enforced monopoly on cable services: Only one cable company is allowed to operate within the city. Period.
Perhaps Verizon shouldn't bundle their cable service?
I was gonna vote for Colbert anyway.
Is LtLink still around? About 7 years ago, they were rolling out their own wireless service and Teton came out of nowhere and started competing with them. (Just curious since I got the hell out of that area when I got the chance.)
I was lucky. I got to see him a year and a half ago live. Best $45 I ever spent.
He was very excited about his coming 69th birthday.
Every time one of these greats dies, the real purpose of the joker or fool comes closer to dying itself.
His occupation is spelled foole.Have you actually taken a good look around?
If you're not fucking incensed over western culture, you need a reality check.
I saw the injected string yesterday. It seems to be a database server vulnerability, and the code is injected as a hexadecimal string. (I wasn't told whether it was URL-encoded or what, so I'm not sure about the precise vector.)
In any case, this particular vulnerability doesn't seem to be the fault of the web application, but rather the server software.
It's more complex than that. I saw the code for the exploit yesterday. Apparently, it's injected as part of an otherwise normal request as a hexadecimal string. It's probably a similar vulnerability to the Oracle vulnerability a few stories up.
I don't know how, exactly, it's injected, however.
What I want to know is can I run a Postgres DB on a cluster of servers? We want to add some failover capabilities to our server cluster, and our current solution is incapable of five-nines availability. Is there a way to cluster them to provide both load-balancing and redundancy with a single database?
I've heard Oracle has some capability to that end, but I'm not clear on just what it can do.
That's because the C (and C++, among others) parser is greedy. You wouldn't, for example, parse << as < < would you? I agree that it makes template syntax a little awkward when you start nesting, but I hardly see that as hurting the syntax.
In any case, I think you're pointing blame in the wrong directions. C++ does have some flaws (the lack of things like closures in particular bothers me), but that doesn't mean it's not an incredibly powerful tool. (Closures can be simulated to some degree using partially-evaluated templates, and it achieves all of the desirable effects, albeit with slightly verbose syntax... boost::bind<>ing a boost::function<> to a boost::foreach() construct can get messy.) And no matter how long you use C++, you always discover new ways of approaching your problems (sister-class delegation being a good example of some recent epiphanies I've had).
Don't slag it off just because you don't like template syntax. :)
We've already abandoned it for Linux.
I still have (and occasionally use) my server edition license, though.
... Really? I used 2000 for several years, even after the release of XP, mostly because it not only met my needs but did so quite stably. I recall only 4 bluescreens in the 3 years that I used it, and each of them were due to a faulty NIC driver. (So, I call it vendor error, not Microsoft's fault... this time.) I still consider 2000 Server to be more stable than XP ever was.
Since then, I've not used Windows at all, save for work computers and friends' PCs, and then, it's only because I have no other real choice.
I'll admit my upgrade path was a little unusual (Windows 95 to 98 to 2000 Server edition), and that I never used XP by conscious choice (didn't need it, already had 2000, thought it looked like shit). But I still pine for the days when Whistler was in Beta. I still think that Whistler's face-lift was far more attractive than the release candidates, and I found it to be far more stable than XP ever was since - until SP2.
That's overgeneralizing a bit. Only a few denominations use wine for sacrament. Most denominations (mainly the Protestants and Evangelicals, as scary as they are) are much more hard-lined on this: Alkie is bad, so wine at communion doubly so. I've even heard pastors who rail against the Orthodoxy because, ooh, they drink at communion!
Interstingly, the Orthodox church (I'm specifically referring to Eastern Orthodoxy, since I'm not familiar with Western) takes the use of drugs more lightly (and I've met "elders" and "priests" who use) - which is not to say it's OK to do it in church, just that you shouldn't disobey the law.
Hypocritical, I know. But you're still generalizing too much.
I pay $67/mo (including modem rental) for internet-only "high-speed" cable in Whatcom County, Washington. I get 10Mb/sec down and 900Mb/sec up.
I'd gladly pay $2 less for FiOS. :)
I agree, except this one is neither fair nor good.
Current US patent law has caused nothing but heartache and bankruptcy among IT startups - at the very least, boundaries need to be drawn around patents.
Can't Vonage sue Verizon, Sprint and AT&T for collusion and conspiracy under the RICO act or some other suitable anti-competition law?
Surely there's proof!
Correction: Banks hold money, which is printed and distributed by the Federal Reserve. Paypal is a financial institution, not a bank, because they do not handle money in the same sense.
Would it surprise you to find out that most of the community agrees with that statement? .. With one caveat, however: You're confusing Linux, the opreating system kernel, with the rest of a complete system. If we were discussing one of the *BSDs, I'd not balk, but there is a huge difference between Linux and what you're talking about. Linux runs behind the scenes and has nothing whatsoever to do with usability or even UIs.
The last thing you want to do is hide functionality - especially necessary functionality - from users. All Apple did was wrap a Mach kernel under a NeXT-ish facade and hide the majority of the more "advanced" features. IMO, there's no reason to make the shell go away, but rather to set it aside in a non-intrusive and logical place - exactly how most current distributions set it up. You can still get to a terminal emulator in OS X - it's harder, sure, but it's still trivial to make it readily accessible - and it uses BASH, a powerful and quite useful shell. By contrast, on Windows, it's not obvious where the shell is right away, and once you know where it is, you quickly find it's limiting and hard to use - if you're an advanced user, it's useless.
It's quite unified. There's surprisingly little fragmentation in the community (save for Vim/Emacs and KDE/Gnome zealots), and a lot is accomplished daily. We have, right now, not one but ten (more?) advanced, powerful, and very usable desktop environments (including Gnome and KDE); a constantly improving graphical server that now supports advanced 3D effects, render acceleration, compositing, and multiple pointers (new! for multi-touch displays and the like a la iPhone); powerful multimedia features that audiophiles and videophiles are turning to in droves; multiple complete suites of office-targetted applications (KOffice, AbiWord, OpenOffice.org, and others); and many, many other programs that most users will always find that meet their immediate needs. And that's just in the stable repositories.
My question for you is this: What do you think is missing? We'll get somebody on it.
Mostly indifference, I think. I know a couple former SCO engineers (worked with them, in fact!), and they've told me straight up that to them, it's just a job. They're there to do their work and get paid. It's the ones that realized the company was slowly going bankrupt (or were laid off) that left early on.
Why do they need to exist? What is being protected by these laws? Who is actually being protected by these laws? Why is an artist legally a work for hire when signing on to most publishers (meaning that said artists actually have zero legal right to the music they produce)? More interestingly, why is this not the case with authors of literature?
And, for me, the most important question of all: Why is this important?
Not the engineers, though! Some of them are decent folk. It's the execs that are crooked beyond all comprehension.
I much prefer to do my work in base 2i. And I've given up on the whole Metric/Imperial debate and have instead switched to the Potrzebie measurements system. I'm much happier with it.