If I remember correctly they used similar tech to locate Kevin Mitnick in that bad book (and movie).. Though this would not fly in the US as people would freak out if they knew someone could track them anywhere they were. So paranoid are people..
I have seen more phpmyadmin pages wide open on google that anything else.. Not putting things like that under htaccess at least is pure laziness and stupidity.
Also it seems people put mysql dumps on their webservers as well.. search for ' "SELECT * FROM credit" + "###" ' and you will see.
This has been going on since google introduced the site cache.
I find that it is difficult to get work done when I have "no" interest in what I am working on..
I will read cnn, read this page, look up some obscure shit and then end up working on something else until I force myself to slog through whatever it is that I need to finish but don't want to.
If you are programming, then start reading books and articles and pages about the thing you are working on, try out examples and sort of work "around" the problem until you have come up with a solution instead of just jumping into a project blind.
People here with ADD and ADHD love to tell everyone else they have the same thing, but in the real world the doctors get kickbacks for prescribing drugs for those things and if you talk to anyone who works in primary education or daycare they will tell you that almost every child is on something these days because parents turn to drugs to 'fix' the problem of kids being hyper.
Don't assume you have a problem, that is a very defeatist attitude, you don't, so just knock that off. The real issue here is "time management" and "interest" and I hate to say it but, if I have jumped into something over my head, I get the same way..just take things in manageable chunks, not everything here in this industry is "fun" and exciting.. (i.e. data entry, html, answering questions from lost clients, building help systems etc..)
Take a day off, bring a pad of paper and a pencil and write out in a flowchart what you want to do. Turn of Instant messaging, turn off your email client, put on headphones with nothing playing and get down in it..
okay, linux being an effort of many many volunteers around the globe is the issue here.
So what, move servers offshore to europe whatever..
I now vehemently hate SCO and am doing everything in my power to make sure that they never receive a dime from any customer of mine.
However, They can't "kill" it.. It will just evolve like everything else and they will sit and look stupid holding a worthless licensing scheme and slowly rot away because nobody will touch them with a ten foot pole after that bullshit.
I remember similar tales of "doom and gloom" over the.gif thing.. and now we have png.. Did they make any money off that, no not really.. They just managed to piss of the community at large and so shot themselves in the foot..
I had just thought it was moronic until I read the "warning to linux shops" ( http://sco.com/scosource/gartner_warning.html ) and afterwards have since filed every complaint form I can find about that company..
yea, they are all bluster and think they *have* something.. but look what happened with the.gif thing, they are just shooting themselves in the stomach to slowly bleed to death..
I will *never* allow this company or any others I work for to have any dealings with them now, and further I will urge any customer of mine to drop any dealings with them. That is power of Linux users I bet they never thought they would see..
I have purchasing power and you SCO will never see it. (I hope your stockholders read this)
I wrote a little SMTP server that has a plugin to do exactly this.. It is just skeletoned out in PHP at present, but if you are interested it is on my site here: http://lucifer.intercosmos.net/index.php?di sp=hone ymail
You can use the metaphone algorithm (I use PHP so, http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.metaphone.ph p) which has come in handy.. Just strip all HTML and de-urlencode then run this on the msg, it totally ignores numbers and punctuation and any letters that are not in (a-z A-Z). You will need to have a database pre-made full of metaphone values from a dictionary then start a comparision and you can get a general feel for the msg.
I took all the words used in a product called spamassassin and used that to do a comparison.. Coupled with bayes filtering I imagine this would be pretty much the best way to filter mail.
It is kind of an interesting approach based on what mail "sounds" like vs what it actually contains.. If you filter on the straight contents these guys will just keep coming up with different ways of encoding and generally being twitchy.
However, their mail will *always* have that "buy this!" kind of sound.
I built a system a while back that was processing all double bounces from three servers and handled around 50k/day spams and came up with some interesting results.
If anyone is interested I'll dig up the code and place it on my site with the rest of the stuff there.
DHTML and CSS are probably your best option.
you can specify exact screen coordinates which DHTML and place pixels.
All the display crunching is done on client side and the layout is done on your side.
I have used this same thing for doing placements on a map of the world.
I run the site listbid.com and can tell you with certainty that most of the people signing up and bidding on jobs are from eastern block countries. I don't have a huge Asian group, only around 30 or 40 but the majority are from Russia and the Ukraine. And these guys will do large jobs for cheap.
They actually, are the primary reason I added in a IP-To-Country part of the site, you can view where people "say" they come from VS. where their IP block is located geographically.
I will be adding some charts soon on the site to show the statistical breakdowns.
I have helped build a large company with MySql and I get tired of the constant drone of people who have read a few articles in magazines state with utter and complete belief that a database "needs transactions"
I am of the personal camp that like a gun used in warfare, the fewest moving parts needed to get the job done 'exactly as you need it' the better. If I wanted floof I would go and spend money on licensing something that I will never have any true need of using most of it's "features" that in reality are there only because a middle manager read an article somewhere and picked up some jargon.
As for a filesystem, I think the usual idea is speed, so taking our previous example, why would you want to introduce another layer into the mix which would serve no true purpose other than slowing the thing down?
As a Gentoo user I feel that this sounds like something on the forums that somehow spindled out of control onto slashdot.
It is GPL, fork away and shut up.
IF they wanted to make money in "the untapped oil reserve" which is embedded (yes I read the article in full) then would it not make sense to bring along the best person for the job, I would assume that would be the guy who has been in charge.
By the fact that he is now *out* I am going to assume that:
1) he is hard to work with.
2) does not work well.
3) is so money hungry he wants to charge an "emerge tax".
4) complains too much
So, he is fully free to fork to whatever he wants, start his own company like others of us.. However, I don't understand his bitching, just suck it up and move on buddy..
I am an avid Gentoo geek and he is talking smack abut my baby.
I am kind of disillusioned with apple..
they seem to be all huff an no blow oftentimes..
i.e. their webservers that were going to "revolutionize web serving" or whatever..
oh well, they at least "look" nice for the ladies and men who read cosmo.
Guess we will see.. I won't totally give up them yet... they at least have a unix'ish core for the OS now, which is really what has brought me back to apple...
and just what would stop me from writing a bot to dig through a zone file and email every site on the net and make sure to include a link I want googlebombed?
This sounds like a very strange thing indeed..
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given the benchmarks at
http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/
straight mysql is still faster.
though I can see this as a boon to developers coming the microsoft side of things and trying to get asp code ported to php.
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dude..
native XML support, it is enabled by default. (see http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php) .NET is really only useful/meaningful in MS licenced environment.
If you want database integration, there are 50 packages you can download (not including PEAR) which can handle all of that for you.
consistent functions? give me a break. single/double quotes? if you having problems with those in php then you have a long way to go before using the language for anything practical. Granted, I have seen some (array functions in php) which could use a little bit of work on getting them more consistent, but overall things are worlds ahead of asp (which I can say as I used to actually be an asp developer, three years ago before I discovered php and switched everything to linux)
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you could (see/. navigation) "submit story" on something (i.e PHP/GTK) or write an article about PHP5 implementation and new features and submit it..
I helped out on the PHP-ncurses stuff (see zend.com in tutorials) and submitted that, but it was rejected.. I believe it was passed over in favor of a PHP book review (professional PHP or whatever).. but worth a shot.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.rackspace.com/aboutus/awards/cve.php?CM P=BAC-9P115W302611
.. fanatical support.. (insane/fanatical.. same diff)..
actually
But.. the point being, these guys seem to have done it right..
But that report says it is getting worse every day.
This does not surprise me at all..
I have heard more clients talk of choosing a product based entirely on the service offered.
look at the Rackspace "insane support" model, they are doing well because of that.
with wonderful "paid" ads on the side that appeal to all the "proverts" by declaring
"FREE porn ALL day long!"
yes.. just what I always wanted!
aww come on.. pychologists have come up with more classifications that that..
Preverts, Perverts and Proverts..
which are you?
buying an SCO license with monopoly money..
:)
*gaaah* I almost fell out of my chair..
That just killed me.. I gotta buy one with some monopoly money..
thought, I only have the simpson version and might need that money later for the "save the SCO" foundation for when they declare bankruptcy
If I remember correctly they used similar tech to locate Kevin Mitnick in that bad book (and movie).. Though this would not fly in the US as people would freak out if they knew someone could track them anywhere they were.
So paranoid are people..
actually it popped back up.. they have been in steady decline recently, so I suppose the "like mad" portion might be more like "dropped today"
it is currently at
101.37 -0.11 / -0.11%
I hope that the other cases against eBay are not bolstered by this win.
a y&submit3.x=0&submit3.y=0
o &submit3.x=0&submit3.y=0 )
eBay has hundreds of lawsuits against them currently.
Their stock dropped like mad after this as well http://quote.money.cnn.com/quote/quote?symbols=eb
But.. on the good front, so did SCO's ( http://quote.money.cnn.com/quote/quote?symbols=sc
I have seen more phpmyadmin pages wide open on google that anything else.. Not putting things like that under htaccess at least is pure laziness and stupidity.
Also it seems people put mysql dumps on their webservers as well..
search for ' "SELECT * FROM credit" + "###" ' and you will see.
This has been going on since google introduced the site cache.
The real question here is.
..just take things in manageable chunks, not everything here in this industry is "fun" and exciting.. (i.e. data entry, html, answering questions from lost clients, building help systems etc..)
"What are you doing?"
I find that it is difficult to get work done when I have "no" interest in what I am working on..
I will read cnn, read this page, look up some obscure shit and then end up working on something else until I force myself to slog through whatever it is that I need to finish but don't want to.
If you are programming, then start reading books and articles and pages about the thing you are working on, try out examples and sort of work "around" the problem until you have come up with a solution instead of just jumping into a project blind.
People here with ADD and ADHD love to tell everyone else they have the same thing, but in the real world the doctors get kickbacks for prescribing drugs for those things and if you talk to anyone who works in primary education or daycare they will tell you that almost every child is on something these days because parents turn to drugs to 'fix' the problem of kids being hyper.
Don't assume you have a problem, that is a very defeatist attitude, you don't, so just knock that off. The real issue here is "time management" and "interest" and I hate to say it but, if I have jumped into something over my head, I get the same way
Take a day off, bring a pad of paper and a pencil and write out in a flowchart what you want to do. Turn of Instant messaging, turn off your email client, put on headphones with nothing playing and get down in it..
-cheers
baaaa..
.gif thing.. and now we have png.. Did they make any money off that, no not really.. They just managed to piss of the community at large and so shot themselves in the foot..
okay, linux being an effort of many many volunteers around the globe is the issue here.
So what, move servers offshore to europe whatever..
I now vehemently hate SCO and am doing everything in my power to make sure that they never receive a dime from any customer of mine.
However, They can't "kill" it..
It will just evolve like everything else and they will sit and look stupid holding a worthless licensing scheme and slowly rot away because nobody will touch them with a ten foot pole after that bullshit.
I remember similar tales of "doom and gloom" over the
At least that is my thinking..
I had just thought it was moronic until I read the "warning to linux shops" ( http://sco.com/scosource/gartner_warning.html ) and afterwards have since filed every complaint form I can find about that company..
.gif thing, they are just shooting themselves in the stomach to slowly bleed to death..
yea, they are all bluster and think they *have* something.. but look what happened with the
I will *never* allow this company or any others I work for to have any dealings with them now, and further I will urge any customer of mine to drop any dealings with them. That is power of Linux users I bet they never thought they would see..
I have purchasing power and you SCO will never see it. (I hope your stockholders read this)
I wrote a little SMTP server that has a plugin to do exactly this..i sp=hone ymail
It is just skeletoned out in PHP at present, but if you are interested it is on my site here:
http://lucifer.intercosmos.net/index.php?d
You can use the metaphone algorithm (I use PHP so, http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.metaphone.ph p) which has come in handy.. Just strip all HTML and de-urlencode then run this on the msg, it totally ignores numbers and punctuation and any letters that are not in (a-z A-Z). You will need to have a database pre-made full of metaphone values from a dictionary then start a comparision and you can get a general feel for the msg.
I took all the words used in a product called spamassassin and used that to do a comparison.. Coupled with bayes filtering I imagine this would be pretty much the best way to filter mail.
It is kind of an interesting approach based on what mail "sounds" like vs what it actually contains.. If you filter on the straight contents these guys will just keep coming up with different ways of encoding and generally being twitchy.
However, their mail will *always* have that "buy this!" kind of sound.
I built a system a while back that was processing all double bounces from three servers and handled around 50k/day spams and came up with some interesting results.
If anyone is interested I'll dig up the code and place it on my site with the rest of the stuff there.
DHTML and CSS are probably your best option. you can specify exact screen coordinates which DHTML and place pixels. All the display crunching is done on client side and the layout is done on your side. I have used this same thing for doing placements on a map of the world.
oops.. hit refresh.. :)
I run the site listbid.com and can tell you with certainty that most of the people signing up and bidding on jobs are from eastern block countries. I don't have a huge Asian group, only around 30 or 40 but the majority are from Russia and the Ukraine. And these guys will do large jobs for cheap.
They actually, are the primary reason I added in a IP-To-Country part of the site, you can view where people "say" they come from VS. where their IP block is located geographically.
I will be adding some charts soon on the site to show the statistical breakdowns.
I could not be in *more* agreement with you.
I have helped build a large company with MySql and I get tired of the constant drone of people who have read a few articles in magazines state with utter and complete belief that a database "needs transactions"
I am of the personal camp that like a gun used in warfare, the fewest moving parts needed to get the job done 'exactly as you need it' the better. If I wanted floof I would go and spend money on licensing something that I will never have any true need of using most of it's "features" that in reality are there only because a middle manager read an article somewhere and picked up some jargon.
As for a filesystem, I think the usual idea is speed, so taking our previous example, why would you want to introduce another layer into the mix which would serve no true purpose other than slowing the thing down?
Cheers on your post, that made my morning.
why would I want to *read* about a bug when I am sitting here all damn day long trying to get rid of them?
fun fun..
As a Gentoo user I feel that this sounds like something on the forums that somehow spindled out of control onto slashdot.
It is GPL, fork away and shut up.
IF they wanted to make money in "the untapped oil reserve" which is embedded (yes I read the article in full) then would it not make sense to bring along the best person for the job, I would assume that would be the guy who has been in charge. By the fact that he is now *out* I am going to assume that:
1) he is hard to work with.
2) does not work well.
3) is so money hungry he wants to charge an "emerge tax".
4) complains too much
So, he is fully free to fork to whatever he wants, start his own company like others of us.. However, I don't understand his bitching, just suck it up and move on buddy..
I am an avid Gentoo geek and he is talking smack abut my baby.
I am kind of disillusioned with apple.. they seem to be all huff an no blow oftentimes.. i.e. their webservers that were going to "revolutionize web serving" or whatever.. oh well, they at least "look" nice for the ladies and men who read cosmo. Guess we will see.. I won't totally give up them yet... they at least have a unix'ish core for the OS now, which is really what has brought me back to apple...
and just what would stop me from writing a bot to dig through a zone file and email every site on the net and make sure to include a link I want googlebombed? This sounds like a very strange thing indeed..
given the benchmarks at http://phplens.com/lens/adodb/ straight mysql is still faster.
though I can see this as a boon to developers coming the microsoft side of things and trying to get asp code ported to php.
dude..
.NET is really only useful/meaningful in MS licenced environment.
native XML support, it is enabled by default. (see http://us4.php.net/manual/en/ref.xml.php)
If you want database integration, there are 50 packages you can download (not including PEAR) which can handle all of that for you.
consistent functions? give me a break. single/double quotes? if you having problems with those in php then you have a long way to go before using the language for anything practical.
Granted, I have seen some (array functions in php) which could use a little bit of work on getting them more consistent, but overall things are worlds ahead of asp (which I can say as I used to actually be an asp developer, three years ago before I discovered php and switched everything to linux)
you could (see /. navigation) "submit story" on something (i.e PHP/GTK) or write an article about PHP5 implementation and new features and submit it..
I helped out on the PHP-ncurses stuff (see zend.com in tutorials) and submitted that, but it was rejected.. I believe it was passed over in favor of a PHP book review (professional PHP or whatever).. but worth a shot.