Software engineering involving multiple people is the kind of thing that requires teamwork and good communication. Have all the documentation you want, even use a development process like XP, but you're sure to find there is still a tremendous benifit in having the team work in close proximity.
I suppose it's just the way the world works, but it's hard to get the match the random hallway converstations. They often result in avoiding massive problems or substantial enhancements. It's also very benificial for your engineers to be able to stroll over and ask another developer a quick question (ideally with a whiteboard in near proximity).
ts that the CEOs and the board members were all in the same frats in college, hang out at the same exclusive clubs, and have an unspoken agreement to keep each other at the top by standing on the people who do the real work.
You have a very skewed few of the world. If this were the case they company wouldn't be able to pay the SIXTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLAR salaries mentioned. There are the frat-boy clubs, but they are pretty much exclusive to the doing-well companies.
For one, the salaries you mentioned aren't that common. But even in the cases where they are, the companies feel they are producing value worth that amount over the term of their contracts. The company doesn't have to pay it, but if it is that calibur of CEO, another company will. Just like sports salary's. You don't *have* to pay a given player $20 million, but if you don't there is another team that will. What's wrong with that?
Are you saying you would stay at your job out of loyalty, even if they were paying you $25,000 and another offered you $75,000?
I thought about going that route. However, there's a few things missing:
1) I don't want to watch TV on my monitor. My TV is nicer. My TV is in front of the couch. My TV has a better picture. My TV has sound through my stero.
2) Season Passes. To be honest, I don't know when half of what I watch is one. I just look at at my Tivo list & watch one of them.
3) Searching by category. Everyone so often, I like to go look at say, all the movies, coming up & Tivo the ones I've wanted to see.
4) The interface. Any way you cut it, Tivo did a great job here.
is Maddie's signature worth an extra USD49 over the standard iPod?
Well, considering one can by a pretty run of mill shirt for $15.00 at Target, or $185 at Neiman Marcus, I would say yes, to many consumers it's worth paying more simply for status.
I think it's a really smart move on Apple's part & plays perfectly into their geek chic motif.
Are you using DHCP in Windows? That's the only thing I can think of that would cause all the applications to change at once.
Linux side, I believe if you have 'domain' configured properly in/etc/resolve.conf you should be good to go. You mentioned nslookup works correctly, but does 'telnet www 80' take you to your originial site as well?
A few other things:
- Consider using keywords instead of relying upon DNS to do magic for you. Create a bookmark w/ your company's website & give it the keyword 'www'. That should fix you up. (Keywords are the most currently underrated feature in the browser. Especially in regards to their ability to do searches.)
- You want to consider the above not only for convience, but also so your companies tracking doesn't get screwed up a little. When you hit the site with just 'www' (instead of 'www.foo.com') you drop your cookies. Most sites use cookies at least to track unique visitors if nothing else, and you're probably causing a minor bit of unintended cookie churn.
- Another poster mentioned how browsers require neither 'http://', nor the trailing slash (e.g. on http://www.slashdot.org/). Defaulting to http probably isn't that bad. Especially inside a web browser. After all, it's highly unlikely the user intended gopher://. There is a difference on the trailing slash & it's better to include. If you try to hit a server w/o the trailing slash, you'll simply get a redirect from the server to the version *with* a slash. On broadband, it's totally trival, but for narrowband users, it is noticable. Something to worth keeping in mind for the URLs your link to.
It's simply going to be too hard/impractical and, frankly, useless to make an intelligent machine that mimicked every hormonal reaction and instinctual mechanism.
Funny. Similar things were said about creating GUIs.
The same thing happened to the author of Word Freak. He started out investigating the world of competive Scrabble playing & ended up becoming totally hooked. If I remember correctly, he ends up being ranked over 1600.
A pretty good read if you're looking for something over holiday travel.
Probably wouldn't be quite what you would expect it to be there. Fraternies at the U of C are... well, still at the U of C.
Not that that's bad. It's just instead instead of sitting up drinking until 4 am talking about Red Wings, etc., we'd stay up drinking until 4am talking about if Socrates had a death wish at his trial, and how closely Calvin & Hobbes represented their respective namesakes, 17th century philosphers, John Calvin & Thomas Hobbes.
I should know: I was item #153 (complete with flock of sheep) for the 1993 Hunt. Got us (Snell-Hitchcock) 165 points, the win, & my picture in the Chicago Sun-Times.:-)
(Of course, I was glad my mother couldn't make out what exactly the picture was supposed to be off or what was going on.)
Out of curosity, I wonder if any of the many sites who have stood up to a slashdotting would be interested in sharing their page view stats. In particular, roughly how many page views/sec is a slashdot'ing comprised of, and how does it vary over time?
As a server admin, can I distinguish prefetch requests from normal requests?
Yes, we send the following header along with each prefetch request:
X-moz: prefetch
Of course, this request header is not at all standardized, and it may change in future Mozilla releases.
Most sites (wisely) do *not* log every piece of the header request, and even if they did, due to the newness of the feature, most log analysis tools don't check for it either.
Meaning that, yes, most likely this could inflate Mozilla stats for the shortterm. (Not that that's a Bad Thing.;-)
but the pine code is written in a very insecure style and the FreeBSD Security Officer believes there are likely to be other undiscovered vulnerabilities
What is it about the coding sytle that makes it very insecure?
Everyone is screaming "SEND THEM A BILL!!". While that's appropiate in some cases, it's not always. If it's a small matter (e.g., like 15 minutes) every once in a blue moon, what's the big deal. Just help them out.
Remember building a network (the people kind, not the OSI 7 layer kind;-) is important part of building a career. Former employeers and coworkers are key in that. Getting a recommendation from a former employeer, one who'd say they'd hire you again, is a strong testmentant to your abilities and attitude; one that will mean a lot to future employeers. So building good will with people, etc. is not only nice, but smart as well.
At the same time, there's a balance. If it's bigger than that, something requiring you to go in for a couple hours, then sure, ask for compenstation [1]. Almost anyone in the buisness world will realize you're doing more than a trival amount of work & be willing to pay you for your time.
-Bill
[1] IMPORTANT: work out the arrangement (which you will charge, roughly how long, etc.) *beforehand*. That will make it a lot easier on you both.
The user is prompted for an administrator password to use upon installation. Some dumbass administrators were entering blank passwords. This has nothing to do with Microsoft.
Allowing a user to enter a blank password w/o any warnings, etc. has EVERYTHING to do with Microsoft.
As long as the SQL Server ports are blocked, and the webserver is kept secure/patched, this should not be a problem.
The problem was that this was often not the case. This was probably 3-4 years back, when it wasn't uncommon to simply have a router and no firewall at all.
I'd agree that this one in particular has nothing to do w/ MS, but I would still strongly assert the first one does.
I'm no Microsoft-lover, but SQL Server is THE BEST product they produce.
I always thought that was Excel. I always found Excel rock-solid, flexible and robust.
Have you actually used it?
I've used it. Compared to Oracle, *helluva* lot easier to run.
It's list of features is amazing.
I haven't used it since 6.5, but I did wish it supported using outer-joins in the context of inner joins as well, as opposed to forcing the user to temporary tables. Can you see actual output in the middle of T-SQL stored procedure w/o having to wait for it complete? Is it any easier to integrate extended stored procedures?
In terms of features, it did surprise me oracle was short in a few areas (e.g. some of the limitations oracle had in update statements that MS SQL didn't).
On the flip side, Perl integration was rough at the time. I wish it was officially supported by MS. Also, it's replication was **AWFUL**.
It's security record is not too bad.
That's a matter of perspective. With a default administration account, a common name by default, no password by default, the admin port open and running by default, and a *lot* of folks running sql server on the same box as their web server, hackers quickly figured out they just had to point their own version of the ms admin tool at any webserver they saw servering ASP pages and *boom* full access to all data. Scary. I belive several sources carried an AP story about the problem, including CNN & Slashdot. (This was before Timothy & Michael made a habit of posting pictures of cats on the home page.)
So, all-in-all, MS SQL isn't a bad product by just about any standard, but it's far from perfect.
Slashdot Mirror
Daboo!
'nuff said.
-Bill
Now if only computer manufacturers could make equipment even remotely this sturdy.
I'm sure if you're willing to pay $350 million, most PC makers would be willing to work with you on that.
Considering I paid roughly 0.00000228% of that, I'm willing to deal with a reboot every month or so.
-Bill
Software engineering involving multiple people is the kind of thing that requires teamwork and good communication. Have all the documentation you want, even use a development process like XP, but you're sure to find there is still a tremendous benifit in having the team work in close proximity.
I suppose it's just the way the world works, but it's hard to get the match the random hallway converstations. They often result in avoiding massive problems or substantial enhancements. It's also very benificial for your engineers to be able to stroll over and ask another developer a quick question (ideally with a whiteboard in near proximity).
My two cents.
-Bill
ts that the CEOs and the board members were all in the same frats in college, hang out at the same exclusive clubs, and have an unspoken agreement to keep each other at the top by standing on the people who do the real work.
You have a very skewed few of the world. If this were the case they company wouldn't be able to pay the SIXTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLAR salaries mentioned. There are the frat-boy clubs, but they are pretty much exclusive to the doing-well companies.
-Bill
Why should s/he?
For one, the salaries you mentioned aren't that common. But even in the cases where they are, the companies feel they are producing value worth that amount over the term of their contracts. The company doesn't have to pay it, but if it is that calibur of CEO, another company will. Just like sports salary's. You don't *have* to pay a given player $20 million, but if you don't there is another team that will. What's wrong with that?
Are you saying you would stay at your job out of loyalty, even if they were paying you $25,000 and another offered you $75,000?
-Bill
Yes, I'm VERY lazy when watching TV. That's the point! ;-)
-Bill
I thought about going that route. However, there's a few things missing:
1) I don't want to watch TV on my monitor. My TV is nicer. My TV is in front of the couch. My TV has a better picture. My TV has sound through my stero.
2) Season Passes. To be honest, I don't know when half of what I watch is one. I just look at at my Tivo list & watch one of them.
3) Searching by category. Everyone so often, I like to go look at say, all the movies, coming up & Tivo the ones I've wanted to see.
4) The interface. Any way you cut it, Tivo did a great job here.
Viva La Tivolution!
-Bill
is Maddie's signature worth an extra USD49 over the standard iPod?
Well, considering one can by a pretty run of mill shirt for $15.00 at Target, or $185 at Neiman Marcus, I would say yes, to many consumers it's worth paying more simply for status.
I think it's a really smart move on Apple's part & plays perfectly into their geek chic motif.
-Bill
Damn. I saw the subject line & thought you were going to link us to an RIAA version of the iPod!
-Bill
Are you using DHCP in Windows? That's the only thing I can think of that would cause all the applications to change at once.
/etc/resolve.conf you should be good to go. You mentioned nslookup works correctly, but does 'telnet www 80' take you to your originial site as well?
Linux side, I believe if you have 'domain' configured properly in
A few other things:
- Consider using keywords instead of relying upon DNS to do magic for you. Create a bookmark w/ your company's website & give it the keyword 'www'. That should fix you up. (Keywords are the most currently underrated feature in the browser. Especially in regards to their ability to do searches.)
- You want to consider the above not only for convience, but also so your companies tracking doesn't get screwed up a little. When you hit the site with just 'www' (instead of 'www.foo.com') you drop your cookies. Most sites use cookies at least to track unique visitors if nothing else, and you're probably causing a minor bit of unintended cookie churn.
- Another poster mentioned how browsers require neither 'http://', nor the trailing slash (e.g. on http://www.slashdot.org/). Defaulting to http probably isn't that bad. Especially inside a web browser. After all, it's highly unlikely the user intended gopher://. There is a difference on the trailing slash & it's better to include. If you try to hit a server w/o the trailing slash, you'll simply get a redirect from the server to the version *with* a slash. On broadband, it's totally trival, but for narrowband users, it is noticable. Something to worth keeping in mind for the URLs your link to.
-Bill
The skepiticism wasn't in making it intutitive... it was that machines would have horsepower to do even a primitive GUI.
-Bill
[ hateful rant snipped ]
timothy, that was totally inappropriate.
-Bill
You dolts! Rob got married! NOT Hemos. Hemos just posted the story.
-Bill
It's simply going to be too hard/impractical and, frankly, useless to make an intelligent machine that mimicked every hormonal reaction and instinctual mechanism.
Funny. Similar things were said about creating GUIs.
-Bill
Funny.
The same thing happened to the author of Word Freak. He started out investigating the world of competive Scrabble playing & ended up becoming totally hooked. If I remember correctly, he ends up being ranked over 1600.
A pretty good read if you're looking for something over holiday travel.
-Bill
Use MS Word to save it as HTML, then run it though lynx -dump to save it as text.
Although, you may want to give strong consideration to another poster's recomendation of using PDF. (Particularly since you care about formatting.)
-Bill
Ahh, misread that (the town part)... thx for the clarification!
-Bill
Probably wouldn't be quite what you would expect it to be there. Fraternies at the U of C are... well, still at the U of C.
:-)
Not that that's bad. It's just instead instead of sitting up drinking until 4 am talking about Red Wings, etc., we'd stay up drinking until 4am talking about if Socrates had a death wish at his trial, and how closely Calvin & Hobbes represented their respective namesakes, 17th century philosphers, John Calvin & Thomas Hobbes.
I should know: I was item #153 (complete with flock of sheep) for the 1993 Hunt. Got us (Snell-Hitchcock) 165 points, the win, & my picture in the Chicago Sun-Times.
(Of course, I was glad my mother couldn't make out what exactly the picture was supposed to be off or what was going on.)
-Bill
Out of curosity, I wonder if any of the many sites who have stood up to a slashdotting would be interested in sharing their page view stats. In particular, roughly how many page views/sec is a slashdot'ing comprised of, and how does it vary over time?
That would be pretty interesting to know.
-Bill
As a server admin, can I distinguish prefetch requests from normal requests?
Yes, we send the following header along with each prefetch request:
X-moz: prefetch
Of course, this request header is not at all standardized, and it may change in future Mozilla releases.
Most sites (wisely) do *not* log every piece of the header request, and even if they did, due to the newness of the feature, most log analysis tools don't check for it either.
Meaning that, yes, most likely this could inflate Mozilla stats for the shortterm. (Not that that's a Bad Thing.
-Bill
but the pine code is written in a very insecure style and the FreeBSD Security Officer believes there are likely to be other undiscovered vulnerabilities
What is it about the coding sytle that makes it very insecure?
-Bill
pico!
why the f*** would it need an EDITOR to *build*??
-Bill
Everyone is screaming "SEND THEM A BILL!!". While that's appropiate in some cases, it's not always. If it's a small matter (e.g., like 15 minutes) every once in a blue moon, what's the big deal. Just help them out.
;-) is important part of building a career. Former employeers and coworkers are key in that. Getting a recommendation from a former employeer, one who'd say they'd hire you again, is a strong testmentant to your abilities and attitude; one that will mean a lot to future employeers. So building good will with people, etc. is not only nice, but smart as well.
Remember building a network (the people kind, not the OSI 7 layer kind
At the same time, there's a balance. If it's bigger than that, something requiring you to go in for a couple hours, then sure, ask for compenstation [1]. Almost anyone in the buisness world will realize you're doing more than a trival amount of work & be willing to pay you for your time.
-Bill
[1] IMPORTANT: work out the arrangement (which you will charge, roughly how long, etc.) *beforehand*. That will make it a lot easier on you both.
The user is prompted for an administrator password to use upon installation. Some dumbass administrators were entering blank passwords. This has nothing to do with Microsoft.
Allowing a user to enter a blank password w/o any warnings, etc. has EVERYTHING to do with Microsoft.
As long as the SQL Server ports are blocked, and the webserver is kept secure/patched, this should not be a problem.
The problem was that this was often not the case. This was probably 3-4 years back, when it wasn't uncommon to simply have a router and no firewall at all.
I'd agree that this one in particular has nothing to do w/ MS, but I would still strongly assert the first one does.
-Bill
I'm no Microsoft-lover, but SQL Server is THE BEST product they produce.
I always thought that was Excel. I always found Excel rock-solid, flexible and robust.
Have you actually used it?
I've used it. Compared to Oracle, *helluva* lot easier to run.
It's list of features is amazing.
I haven't used it since 6.5, but I did wish it supported using outer-joins in the context of inner joins as well, as opposed to forcing the user to temporary tables. Can you see actual output in the middle of T-SQL stored procedure w/o having to wait for it complete? Is it any easier to integrate extended stored procedures?
In terms of features, it did surprise me oracle was short in a few areas (e.g. some of the limitations oracle had in update statements that MS SQL didn't).
On the flip side, Perl integration was rough at the time. I wish it was officially supported by MS. Also, it's replication was **AWFUL**.
It's security record is not too bad.
That's a matter of perspective. With a default administration account, a common name by default, no password by default, the admin port open and running by default, and a *lot* of folks running sql server on the same box as their web server, hackers quickly figured out they just had to point their own version of the ms admin tool at any webserver they saw servering ASP pages and *boom* full access to all data. Scary. I belive several sources carried an AP story about the problem, including CNN & Slashdot. (This was before Timothy & Michael made a habit of posting pictures of cats on the home page.)
So, all-in-all, MS SQL isn't a bad product by just about any standard, but it's far from perfect.
-Bill