I develop web apps in C (and postgresql on freebsd), including a forum for a site called tuxforums (shutdown a couple of years ago)... and they are just as fast as that forum... you hardly even have to try. GCC takes care of most of the optimizations.. you just have to avoid doing anything really stupid (as far as resources go)
You're assuming that Samsung is full of retards. There's a chance that you are right, but more likely they: if they think their OS is any good, they will launch phones with their OS __ IN ADDITION TO __ their Android phones.
If people like SamsungOS (fat chance.. but just go along with it).. Samsung will have 1 more advantage over other manufacturers. Right now they can only differentiate themselves using the hardware.. with their own OS they'll have hardware + software.
No. did you actually read the link you provided? That is a cease-fire. It is not a peace treaty. It does not end the war. (It is true that South Korea never signed the cease fire.)
I completely agree.. but I was responding to someone who took Microsoft's failures as evidence that Microsoft could not pull off a project (like a tablet), but Google --despite their own list of failures-- somehow could.
VCs only expect one in a dozen to be successful... yet somehow Google and Microsoft should have some kind of golden touch... they don't. Microsoft and Google should have long lists of failures.
It's a failure on two points: 1) no one uses it.. which is why google kept changing it (name and api) repeatedly (at least 3 times IIRC), and
2) google has killed google shopping. It is now a minor extension to adwords (in only the vaguest sense... google will let you display ads for product attributes that you upload (ISBN #s for example).. which is nothing like google shopping.)
None of those projects lived up to Google's hype. Google+ was supposed to defeat facebook. Orkut was supposed to be the new social media platform for the world--not just brazil.
sorry... starting a project called voice search, discontinuing it, and then starting a new project called voice search does not make the first one a success.
Google voice search was in 2002.. it died a short while later (nothing worked.. the whole backend for the project was removed).. and then google picked it back up again in 2008.
Google pulled something off? They have a near monopoly with their search engine. Let's see.. what else... oh.. a few people use gmail... and... ????
Stuff that has failed: Google+ Google X (google rebranded with an OSX theme.. it lasted a day) Google catalog web accelerator Google Video (this was going to whip YouTube... planb was apparently to just buy youtube) google answers - pay us $10 to answer a question for you researched using google google wave wiki search google audio ads google dodgeball (like foursquare) jaiku (like twitter) google notebook google pagecreator google buzz froogle google coupons voice search google viewer (instead of search results page... display them like a slideshow) google checkout print ads realtime search google labs google lively orkut friend connect google latitude knol google health igoogle google click-to-call google sidewiki goog-411 google tv google radio ads google shared stuff (bookmarking site) searchmash google search timeline google bookmark lists google desktop fast flip google pack google web security image labeler subscribed links app inventor City Tours Google Breadcrumb Google News Timeline Google Sets Google Squared Google Talk Guru Image Swirl Places Directory Realtime Mytracks Script Converter Sputnik.
OK.. that's enough for now. There's more... that's just what I could remember + what i could find in 5 mintues.
Why would anyone count on google to pull off *ANY* project over Microsoft. At least Microsoft has more than 1 profitable project.
Second: Turn off remote root login, typically found in sshd_config. This'll stop much of the probing.
Instead of disallowing root logins, turn off password-based authentication and use certificates instead. Also move your ssh port from 22 to a high unused port. Then install fail2ban (as the parent post suggested) or a set of iptables rules to ban excessive ssh connections.
Have we all forgotten the server is IN HIS HOME. Why have SSH enabled at all? (I'll second your suggestions for a remote server)
FreeBSD daily security log does not include OS vulnerabilities discovered. You can though setup:
portaudit - to keep up with application vulnerabilities, and freebsd-update - to keep up with the OS vulnerabilities
portaudit will run with the daily security log. freebsd-update needs to be added to cron.
you still won't know what freebsd-update is patching, and you won't know about any holes until a patch is released. For the actual security announcements, you have to subscribe the freebsd mailing list.
true.. but I think the real difference between soldiers (computer techs or otherwise) and the mujaheddin is that they are US citizens. It would be very difficult for the mujaheddin to operate if the US gov knew their names, SS #s, etc, and could raid their homes right now and toss them in prison for the rest of their lives. The US gov has that ability with US citizens.. it doesn't with the mujaheddin.
I never was able to find a good shared hosting company.. just kept moving from one to another to another. Seems like they all have problems. Eventually you learn that it's a waste of time, and you should just lease a server. Here are my recommendations:
Softlayer - if you want a server to yourself (was there 7 years, can only think of one problem -- when an NTT router failed and blocked autorize.net for about a day) Rackspace cloud servers - starts @ 12.50/mo Amazon EC2
nokia only pulled in about 30 billion in revenue in 2010. Are you really going to say to me that Nokia's failure is massive, yet Enron's (with 100 billion in revenue) was not? Don't be stupid. Enron was larger than Nokia, even at it's high point.
Washington Mutual was the largest savings and loan association until 2008. S&L is a market. You cannot redefine their market to make it more general just to fit a point you're trying to make. You would not put Nokia, Microsoft, IBM, and a thousand others into a sector called "computing", yet that's what you're trying to do with banking.
sort of, yes.. but the amounts they pretended to have were a small portion of the total. worldcom for example inflated its assets by 11 billion. A lot.. but a small part of their total assets.
Not just Enron.. another 5 minutes, remembered several more examples:
WorldCom (largest bankruptcy in american history at the time), Lehman Brothers (4th largest investment company), Washington Mutual (large savings and loan association)
If you can't think of bigger failures than Nokia, then you either have a terrible memory, or you're just not trying.
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from samsungs point of view it's a huge problem. No lock in == low profit margins (or at least lowER).
D is based on C...
I develop web apps in C (and postgresql on freebsd), including a forum for a site called tuxforums (shutdown a couple of years ago)... and they are just as fast as that forum... you hardly even have to try. GCC takes care of most of the optimizations.. you just have to avoid doing anything really stupid (as far as resources go)
http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/index.html
Average page generation time for that page: 17ms
Average page gen time for the entire site: 58ms
The downsides of using C are that it's C.
and there's the lock-in part... if consumers prefer SamsungOS, they can't just go to another manufacturer like they can with Android.
You're assuming that Samsung is full of retards. There's a chance that you are right, but more likely they: if they think their OS is any good, they will launch phones with their OS __ IN ADDITION TO __ their Android phones.
If people like SamsungOS (fat chance.. but just go along with it).. Samsung will have 1 more advantage over other manufacturers. Right now they can only differentiate themselves using the hardware.. with their own OS they'll have hardware + software.
That is SO insightful. I'm glad the mods agreed with you.
RIM used to be the most profitable, biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world.
They followed your advice, and now they are even bigger than before.
Oh wait...
No. did you actually read the link you provided? That is a cease-fire. It is not a peace treaty. It does not end the war. (It is true that South Korea never signed the cease fire.)
here's a longer explanation.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2009/05/are_we_at_war_with_north_korea.html
I completely agree.. but I was responding to someone who took Microsoft's failures as evidence that Microsoft could not pull off a project (like a tablet), but Google --despite their own list of failures-- somehow could.
VCs only expect one in a dozen to be successful... yet somehow Google and Microsoft should have some kind of golden touch... they don't. Microsoft and Google should have long lists of failures.
Knol was killed by Google, though it didn't really fail.
I love it!
Even their dead products are really successes!
google wave wasn't killed???... google says otherwise:
http://support.google.com/wave/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1083134
Google Wave will be shut down in April 2012. This page details the implication of the turn down process for Google Wave.
It's a failure on two points: 1) no one uses it.. which is why google kept changing it (name and api) repeatedly (at least 3 times IIRC), and
2) google has killed google shopping. It is now a minor extension to adwords (in only the vaguest sense... google will let you display ads for product attributes that you upload (ISBN #s for example).. which is nothing like google shopping.)
None of those projects lived up to Google's hype. Google+ was supposed to defeat facebook. Orkut was supposed to be the new social media platform for the world--not just brazil.
sorry... starting a project called voice search, discontinuing it, and then starting a new project called voice search does not make the first one a success.
Google voice search was in 2002.. it died a short while later (nothing worked.. the whole backend for the project was removed).. and then google picked it back up again in 2008.
so doesn't count.. still a failure.
Google pulled something off? They have a near monopoly with their search engine. Let's see.. what else... oh.. a few people use gmail... and... ????
Stuff that has failed:
Google+
Google X (google rebranded with an OSX theme.. it lasted a day)
Google catalog
web accelerator
Google Video (this was going to whip YouTube... planb was apparently to just buy youtube)
google answers - pay us $10 to answer a question for you researched using google
google wave
wiki search
google audio ads
google dodgeball (like foursquare)
jaiku (like twitter)
google notebook
google pagecreator
google buzz
froogle
google coupons
voice search
google viewer (instead of search results page... display them like a slideshow)
google checkout
print ads
realtime search
google labs
google lively
orkut
friend connect
google latitude
knol
google health
igoogle
google click-to-call
google sidewiki
goog-411
google tv
google radio ads
google shared stuff (bookmarking site)
searchmash
google search timeline
google bookmark lists
google desktop
fast flip
google pack
google web security
image labeler
subscribed links
app inventor
City Tours
Google Breadcrumb
Google News Timeline
Google Sets
Google Squared
Google Talk Guru
Image Swirl
Places Directory
Realtime Mytracks
Script Converter
Sputnik.
OK.. that's enough for now. There's more... that's just what I could remember + what i could find in 5 mintues.
Why would anyone count on google to pull off *ANY* project over Microsoft. At least Microsoft has more than 1 profitable project.
Instead of disallowing root logins, turn off password-based authentication and use certificates instead. Also move your ssh port from 22 to a high unused port. Then install fail2ban (as the parent post suggested) or a set of iptables rules to ban excessive ssh connections.
Have we all forgotten the server is IN HIS HOME. Why have SSH enabled at all? (I'll second your suggestions for a remote server)
FreeBSD daily security log does not include OS vulnerabilities discovered. You can though setup:
portaudit - to keep up with application vulnerabilities, and
freebsd-update - to keep up with the OS vulnerabilities
portaudit will run with the daily security log. freebsd-update needs to be added to cron.
you still won't know what freebsd-update is patching, and you won't know about any holes until a patch is released. For the actual security announcements, you have to subscribe the freebsd mailing list.
true.. but I think the real difference between soldiers (computer techs or otherwise) and the mujaheddin is that they are US citizens. It would be very difficult for the mujaheddin to operate if the US gov knew their names, SS #s, etc, and could raid their homes right now and toss them in prison for the rest of their lives. The US gov has that ability with US citizens.. it doesn't with the mujaheddin.
and to actually add something to the topic....
I never was able to find a good shared hosting company.. just kept moving from one to another to another. Seems like they all have problems. Eventually you learn that it's a waste of time, and you should just lease a server. Here are my recommendations:
Softlayer - if you want a server to yourself (was there 7 years, can only think of one problem -- when an NTT router failed and blocked autorize.net for about a day)
Rackspace cloud servers - starts @ 12.50/mo
Amazon EC2
you've used pghoster too? I had an account about 8 years ago. they were unreliable back then.. I see they haven't changed anything.
I don't need to explain why training terrorists might not be the best idea for our long term interest, right?
Yes! Why didn't the pentagon think of this? Training hackers is a terrible idea.
Oh no.. it's worse than that. It looks like they are also training people how to use guns, fly airplanes, and use armed ships
What?! Dodd, as head of an organization than wants a DMCA law in Canada, lobbied the Canadians for a DMCA law? You don't say
I've never heard of such a ridiculous thing... It's like he was doing his job or something. Who the hell does that?!
not 30 billion... actually 42 billion.. but point still stands.
nokia only pulled in about 30 billion in revenue in 2010. Are you really going to say to me that Nokia's failure is massive, yet Enron's (with 100 billion in revenue) was not? Don't be stupid. Enron was larger than Nokia, even at it's high point.
Washington Mutual was the largest savings and loan association until 2008. S&L is a market. You cannot redefine their market to make it more general just to fit a point you're trying to make. You would not put Nokia, Microsoft, IBM, and a thousand others into a sector called "computing", yet that's what you're trying to do with banking.
sort of, yes.. but the amounts they pretended to have were a small portion of the total. worldcom for example inflated its assets by 11 billion. A lot.. but a small part of their total assets.
Not just Enron.. another 5 minutes, remembered several more examples:
WorldCom (largest bankruptcy in american history at the time),
Lehman Brothers (4th largest investment company),
Washington Mutual (large savings and loan association)
If you can't think of bigger failures than Nokia, then you either have a terrible memory, or you're just not trying.