I'll second Dreamhost (if I'm really qualified to after only being with them a few weeks). I moved four domains over there and have been pretty happy with the results. You get multiple domain hosting, huge numbers of mailboxes, shell access, and more.
I'm impressed by their support as well. I e-mailed support asking if it would be possible to get gnutls3 installed so I could use IMAP over TLS/SSL in Mutt from my shell account there. I got a response back within the hour telling me it had been installed and the support tech was going to recommend it for installation on all their shell servers. Not bad.
I do wish their mailing lists were set up a little better, but I suppose that's more a limitation of Mailman than anything else.
Not a difficult feat, I'd imagine. I spent about a year fighting with that PoS at a former job and nearly quit over it a number of times. Slow as hell plus the worst interface I've ever seen on a web app.
Yeah, I loved the one about the Brady Bunch house.
Seriously, what the fuck? After not watching for a few years I tuned in just before the end of the final season after hearing about David Duchovny's return to tie up loose ends in a two hour finale. While the conclusion was passable, that second to last episode was the stupidest thing I have ever seen.
Plus Linux is the native platform for PostgreSQL. I think it may be the native platform for Apache also.
Sure, if by "Linux" you mean "Unix".
Of course you also have to keep in mind that OS X is just as much Unix as Linux is (ie, not officially, but for all intents and purposes). Anyway, I'm not sure what your point is, as no one mentioned native platforms, running PostgreSQL on OS X, or Apache at all.
[1] Assuming we're talking about a desktop machine. For servers, I still disagree, but only because the Linux servers I admin don't have X installed, much less KDE.
You can unzip Portable Firefox into a subfolder of your Windows profile directory and run it from there, with no installation required. I did this at my last job when I found myself stuck behind a locked-down XP machine and it worked great.
That's a terrible idea: a) Top-level domains have nothing to do with content, and b) the web != the internet. A top-level domain just for some specialized web content does nothing but display a clear misunderstanding of how DNS and naming works. That's the same kind of thinking that got us.mobi.
Seattle, Portland... I knew it was somewhere up there. It's all Pacific Northwest to me. I think I knew it was Portland, but had forgotten or gotten the two cities confused somewhow.
I wonder if they're going to relocate their server farm down here in SF or just manage everything from here. Either way sounds like a major project. I assume they'll move everything to a SF datacenter piecemeal over time. That's not a operation I'd look forward to.
On the other hand, I wonder if they'll be hiring...
I'm surprised to see that Internap's main servers are back up. It's pretty irresponsible to bring up your corporate servers before those of your clients.
Not really. Internap has multiple data centers, so it's likely that the two sites are hosted in two different locations. LJ is based in Seattle, so I assume their servers are hosted there, while Internap's corporate HQ is in Atlanta, where they have another facility.
Compare traceroutes to www.livejournal.com and www.internap.com. They're on opposite ends of the country.
Perhaps you're new here, but italicized text in Slashdot stories is written by the story submitter. Editorial comments, if any, are not in italics. In other words, Michael didn't say anything at all in this story.
That said, the story submitter is clearly trolling himself, as neither 6A's nor LJ's staff had anything to do with the massive power failure at their co-lo.
The best thing about PHPNuke is that, thanks to SQL injection, you can submit your own stories whether you're allowed to or not!
Seriously, PHPNuke is known for nothing so much as its security problems. If you need the style/functionality of PHPNuke, look at some of the other suggestions here for something similar.
Typo3 is very full-features, but it's a major pain in the ass to use. Admittedly, I spent very little time with it (thankfully!), but it was a struggle to do things as simple as inserting text links with accompanying icons into an alreay existing page. Likewise, adding a new page requires the jumping through of many hoops as you have to decide what type of template to use, and which "objects" should be available. And forget about just adding straight HTML, none of the site's styles will be applied to it.
Another problem, in my eyes, is that the HTML generated by the system is complete crap. Imaging making an unordered list:
foo
bar
etc
Now, instead of using standard list tags, imagine that list put into a two-column table, each row consisting of a GIF image of a dot (instead of the nearly identical HTML list item marker) in the first cell, and regular text (full of <font> tags, of course) in the second cell. And it only gets worse from there.
The two most frustrating days of my life were spent dealing with this POS a few weeks ago.
In my experience, most web application developers could use a good course or two on usability and interface design. After that, you may not be so eager to interfere with the normal, expected behavior of your users' browsers.
The ability to capture context menu events is non-existant.
And good thing, too.
Context menus are part of my computer UI, not a part of your web site. Web sites should never be able to change client UI elements. This includes CSS styling of scrollbars (which is thankfully IE-only) and mouse pointers (which, unfortunately, isn't).
Anything within the window area is yours. Anything outside of that, including controls that may appear to be inside the window (eg, scrollbars, cursors, menus, etc) is mine.
Spam is bad, and warezing can be arguably destructive in a white collar IP society, but I think it's ridiculous to mix child porn in with those
I'm not the original poster, but I assume these examples were given because they are all bad things that can get you in trouble if someone else uses your AP for them. I'm pretty sure no one was claiming that they were equal in severity.
Tell that to the Texas parks department. Also to the hundreds of coffee shops and other businesses that provide free wireless internet access to their customers.
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I'll be sure to skip bathing in honor of it.
I'll second Dreamhost (if I'm really qualified to after only being with them a few weeks). I moved four domains over there and have been pretty happy with the results. You get multiple domain hosting, huge numbers of mailboxes, shell access, and more.
I'm impressed by their support as well. I e-mailed support asking if it would be possible to get gnutls3 installed so I could use IMAP over TLS/SSL in Mutt from my shell account there. I got a response back within the hour telling me it had been installed and the support tech was going to recommend it for installation on all their shell servers. Not bad.
I do wish their mailing lists were set up a little better, but I suppose that's more a limitation of Mailman than anything else.
twice as fast as Remedy's own client
Not a difficult feat, I'd imagine. I spent about a year fighting with that PoS at a former job and nearly quit over it a number of times. Slow as hell plus the worst interface I've ever seen on a web app.
Yeah, I loved the one about the Brady Bunch house.
Seriously, what the fuck? After not watching for a few years I tuned in just before the end of the final season after hearing about David Duchovny's return to tie up loose ends in a two hour finale. While the conclusion was passable, that second to last episode was the stupidest thing I have ever seen.
BBEdit, the preferred text editor of most Mac users who do dev work in text-based environments, is fairly cheap
One better: TextWranger -- basically BBEdit without a few things -- is now free.
The HP includes shipping, the Apple does not.
Actually, it does. Take a look at the bright red type about a half inch below the price.
Linux + KDE is better.
I disagree.[1] Isn't it funny how opinions work?
Plus Linux is the native platform for PostgreSQL. I think it may be the native platform for Apache also.
Sure, if by "Linux" you mean "Unix".
Of course you also have to keep in mind that OS X is just as much Unix as Linux is (ie, not officially, but for all intents and purposes). Anyway, I'm not sure what your point is, as no one mentioned native platforms, running PostgreSQL on OS X, or Apache at all.
[1] Assuming we're talking about a desktop machine. For servers, I still disagree, but only because the Linux servers I admin don't have X installed, much less KDE.
Better that than LARP.
You can unzip Portable Firefox into a subfolder of your Windows profile directory and run it from there, with no installation required. I did this at my last job when I found myself stuck behind a locked-down XP machine and it worked great.
Are you kidding? If anything, that'll get you modded up as "insightful" around here. I'd do it myself if I had mod points.
I say that for now on, we pledge to never mod up people with this bullcrap in their sigs.
.sig.
I go one step further. See
That's a terrible idea: a) Top-level domains have nothing to do with content, and b) the web != the internet. A top-level domain just for some specialized web content does nothing but display a clear misunderstanding of how DNS and naming works. That's the same kind of thinking that got us .mobi.
Seattle, Portland... I knew it was somewhere up there. It's all Pacific Northwest to me. I think I knew it was Portland, but had forgotten or gotten the two cities confused somewhow.
I wonder if they're going to relocate their server farm down here in SF or just manage everything from here. Either way sounds like a major project. I assume they'll move everything to a SF datacenter piecemeal over time. That's not a operation I'd look forward to.
On the other hand, I wonder if they'll be hiring...
I'm surprised to see that Internap's main servers are back up. It's pretty irresponsible to bring up your corporate servers before those of your clients.
Not really. Internap has multiple data centers, so it's likely that the two sites are hosted in two different locations. LJ is based in Seattle, so I assume their servers are hosted there, while Internap's corporate HQ is in Atlanta, where they have another facility.
Compare traceroutes to www.livejournal.com and www.internap.com. They're on opposite ends of the country.
Perhaps you're new here, but italicized text in Slashdot stories is written by the story submitter. Editorial comments, if any, are not in italics. In other words, Michael didn't say anything at all in this story.
That said, the story submitter is clearly trolling himself, as neither 6A's nor LJ's staff had anything to do with the massive power failure at their co-lo.
No one's breakfast journal could beat LJ user liza31337's. Unfortunately, she stopped updating it a while back after doing it for a full year.
That link isn't going to work right now, obviously.
The best thing about PHPNuke is that, thanks to SQL injection, you can submit your own stories whether you're allowed to or not!
Seriously, PHPNuke is known for nothing so much as its security problems. If you need the style/functionality of PHPNuke, look at some of the other suggestions here for something similar.
Another problem, in my eyes, is that the HTML generated by the system is complete crap. Imaging making an unordered list:
Now, instead of using standard list tags, imagine that list put into a two-column table, each row consisting of a GIF image of a dot (instead of the nearly identical HTML list item marker) in the first cell, and regular text (full of <font> tags, of course) in the second cell. And it only gets worse from there.
The two most frustrating days of my life were spent dealing with this POS a few weeks ago.
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No, that would be the Gnome implementation.
(yes, I know I'm comparing hardware to software, thx)
In my experience, most web application developers could use a good course or two on usability and interface design. After that, you may not be so eager to interfere with the normal, expected behavior of your users' browsers.
it just means that you cannot prosecute a war against terrorism while ignoring one of the biggest supporters of international terrorism.
Super! When do we invade Saudi Arabia?
Yep. You can even get a plush red panda from the Mozilla store.
Mine lives on top of the bookcase in my living room.
The ability to capture context menu events is non-existant.
And good thing, too.
Context menus are part of my computer UI, not a part of your web site. Web sites should never be able to change client UI elements. This includes CSS styling of scrollbars (which is thankfully IE-only) and mouse pointers (which, unfortunately, isn't).
Anything within the window area is yours. Anything outside of that, including controls that may appear to be inside the window (eg, scrollbars, cursors, menus, etc) is mine.
Spam is bad, and warezing can be arguably destructive in a white collar IP society, but I think it's ridiculous to mix child porn in with those
I'm not the original poster, but I assume these examples were given because they are all bad things that can get you in trouble if someone else uses your AP for them. I'm pretty sure no one was claiming that they were equal in severity.
Tell that to the Texas parks department. Also to the hundreds of coffee shops and other businesses that provide free wireless internet access to their customers.