No kidding. I find it amazing that javascript-- that abortion of a compromise of a hack is what holds the web together.
There was a moment when they could have had java....but no. They picked js because it would be quicker to download a browser with a js engine. And instead every web page has 800K of hacky js scripts attached to it.
Even past the hardware and cost issues: How many people out there can they turn to for help?
For every XAMP (xserve..apache..?) setup, there have to be 5000 ubuntu/debian/redhat/whatever LAMP installs.
When you run into problems, you don't want to be the only admin dealing with that problem--you want there to be thousands of other admins dealing with the same issue. With luck, one of them has already solved whatever problem you have.
An optional secret ballot is the same as no secret ballot. When the union guys come around "I'm using the secret ballot" is the same as "I'm voting against the union."
There's no reason to have card check except it allows union organizers to bring the integrity of an ACORN voter registration drive to a union election.
You know, you don't have to be a rabid Republican to say "hey wait a second..." when something like card check comes up. Eliminate the secret ballot? Are you nuts?
This is actually really good advice. Guess a dozen times or wait for customer service. Or better yet, guess while waiting for customer service. You would be in before Bangalore even started ignoring the ticket.
You are supposed to rag on it without understanding what it is or what it does. Then turn immediately and gobble down some press release from Google as the greatest thing ever.
meaning: Release your software with less features than your customers want. Users who ask for features are assholes. We know what you need. You don't.//Why we stopped using basecamp
They just don't teach anything about security in schools. We interviewed an intern candidate this spring and asked her how one would avoid a SQL injection attack.
Her response: "Don't use Microsoft products."
Swing and a miss!
The candidate's sample code had a big 'ol SQL injection vulnerability. Yet the instructor raved over his project.
Simple. Configure your mailserver to block all bounce messages unless they originate from a server that you've sent a mail to in the past 12 hours. Then you'll only get legit bounces.
One would think this easy, but some hosts--AppRiver, I'm looking at you--just can't handle this either.
...Or that's just what you say whenever some reporter asks you a vague question relating to a presentation that the reporter didn't actually understand. Sounds like a standard line to me.
I always run VS2008 with admin privs because I'm constantly doing admin-ish things with it. UAC, for all the mountain of bitching and moaning, is just sudo. Deal.
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No kidding. I find it amazing that javascript-- that abortion of a compromise of a hack is what holds the web together.
There was a moment when they could have had java....but no. They picked js because it would be quicker to download a browser with a js engine. And instead every web page has 800K of hacky js scripts attached to it.
Even past the hardware and cost issues: How many people out there can they turn to for help?
For every XAMP (xserve..apache..?) setup, there have to be 5000 ubuntu/debian/redhat/whatever LAMP installs.
When you run into problems, you don't want to be the only admin dealing with that problem--you want there to be thousands of other admins dealing with the same issue. With luck, one of them has already solved whatever problem you have.
uuh.... event log anyone?
Wait, are you suggesting that someone on slashdot who bashes a microsoft product is talking out their ass?
Get a damn certificate for your software.
No joke. They cost what? $250?
and the most common graphics drivers,
the key word being "common."
I'm with the "ship just enough to get online so you can download the latest" school of thought here.
An optional secret ballot is the same as no secret ballot. When the union guys come around "I'm using the secret ballot" is the same as "I'm voting against the union."
There's no reason to have card check except it allows union organizers to bring the integrity of an ACORN voter registration drive to a union election.
You know, you don't have to be a rabid Republican to say "hey wait a second..." when something like card check comes up. Eliminate the secret ballot? Are you nuts?
This is actually really good advice. Guess a dozen times or wait for customer service. Or better yet, guess while waiting for customer service. You would be in before Bangalore even started ignoring the ticket.
javascript is an order of magnitude more annoying.
Is there *anything* you can do in javascript that isn't an order of magnitude more annoying than doing the same thing in [insert language]?
Um, you're doing it wrong. This is slashdot.
You are supposed to rag on it without understanding what it is or what it does. Then turn immediately and gobble down some press release from Google as the greatest thing ever.
These are the guys who say: "Get Real"
meaning: Release your software with less features than your customers want. Users who ask for features are assholes. We know what you need. You don't. //Why we stopped using basecamp
It's called corporate totalitarianism.
It's called shrieking hyperbole.
I'm not sure why Apple has gone so long without selling a middle-of-the-road headless tower in the $1k-$2k range.
Because people keep giving them $3000 for $800 worth of parts.
If you could use commodity hardware, you could buy that midrange machine for $700.
Everybody bitches and moans about the fact that Office costs $400 but somehow nobody minds getting completely raped by the Adobe monopoly.
>to allow you and other nerds to debate yesterday's news.
No, the point of Slashdot is to rag on Microsoft--sorry Micro$oft--without actually knowing anything about the subject at hand.
Wow. Sort of right by accident I guess. I was still hoping to get "parametrize your queries."
They just don't teach anything about security in schools. We interviewed an intern candidate this spring and asked her how one would avoid a SQL injection attack.
Her response: "Don't use Microsoft products."
Swing and a miss!
The candidate's sample code had a big 'ol SQL injection vulnerability. Yet the instructor raved over his project.
2 full length movies per day basically...
Or about 0.5 HD movies per day, or around 0.2 if you torrent.
Get off the couch and go outside!
Solution: Use a roundabout instead of a 4-way stop.
Uh.. I have driven in roundabouts and I'll take a stop sign any day of the week.
Simple. Configure your mailserver to block all bounce messages unless they originate from a server that you've sent a mail to in the past 12 hours. Then you'll only get legit bounces.
One would think this easy, but some hosts--AppRiver, I'm looking at you--just can't handle this either.
How do you keep track of all the different passwords of all the different websites which you sign into?
Use keypass or another key storage system.
Now, if it had an automagical firefox plugin that would let me create a strong password for a site and store it in my key database, that would rock.
This just in: slashdot editors watch the history channel for their science news.
...Or that's just what you say whenever some reporter asks you a vague question relating to a presentation that the reporter didn't actually understand. Sounds like a standard line to me.
I always run VS2008 with admin privs because I'm constantly doing admin-ish things with it. UAC, for all the mountain of bitching and moaning, is just sudo. Deal.