for my corp IT group. Its more wiki-centric but the idea is the same. Its used to help document and communicate.
I released the first hack on freshmeat a while ago and have been using it in its current ugly form and need to keep refining it, but the ideas are there.
This is the scary part. Whether true or not, is it becoming the accepted view that the only way any technology can survive in this system is with the backing of large, wealthy corporations and expert legal teams?
Why has the technology product space become that type of a commodity? In other areas a product cant do well without massive marketing budgets but legal budgets seem to be a smaller share of teh pie.
Thats interesting, I have thought the same thing. It takes the best of both systems, competition and darwinian evolution of products, communal good, maximization of profits, etc.
I think the one thing it lacks as a good survivable, transportable model is that it is enabled by a system that, effectively, lacks scarcity. The internet and software are not reflective of other systems in that regard.
actually they will make it an approachable commodity for all people, not just the rich and large corporations in the same way that has happened with cars, electricty, telephones, textiles, etc. The net effect of this is that everyone gets richer as they can devote more resources to new and better competitive advantages. The other side effect is that research and development will improve as well as quality. study a little econ man..
Why would we list more babblings of ADTI as news? I personally had a run-in with them over their last "whitepaper" about the evils and perils of open source in use by the government.
They are unreasonably biased either because of the funding they receive from microsoft (which I beleive funded that last paper) or due to outdated views and limited understanding of competition and capatilism as it relates to software.
Sadly, this topic is pertinent but less from IBM and more from Microsoft and their slew of patents surrounding Longhorn. SCO's case will die but MS has figured out that they can beat OS through the legal system rather than through competition.
So in 10 years we will be the technology have-nots still running IPV4 and Windows. While coutntries that barely have net access and other developed countries will use our patent system against us by flooding it with more patents than we do while they are less encumbered by them? They will capitalize on the off-shoring trend in technology to build their own innovation ecosystems and become less reliant on the US.
Sounds pretty bleak. While I am reluctant to say that it wont happen I have heard these groupings of fears before (electronics and cars with the Japanese, etc.). I still remain, personally, alarmed by all of these trends but I suspect that a few other areas may become the US's next "gorilla" markets..
One of the earlier posts had a few suggestions that may have been worthwhile that would require a bit of customization.
What, in addition to public access to shared sigs, are you really trying to get at? Would a moderation/voting/popularity function be desired, a wiki-style public read/write forum where they could evolve, better search and classification capabilities, etc.?
By the way, its not a bad idea, but it would have helped to be more descriptive in your vision for it and maybe better tool selection.
If you would like I have a generic PHP framework and database interaction page that you could use, the real issue would be the schema and then the search/browse/vote/classify UI.
$40k is a median for coprorate IT entry level. Maybe $50k if it is heavy tech oriented company and you have good skills. That is a bit above the norm for worthless business and other liberal arts degrees and very easy to live off (but no Mercedes yet).
In DC, New York, and SF you should add on maybe $10k.
Yeah, they are pricey but since my setup sits in my living room I was looking for silent, low heat, very small footprint.
There are even smaller form factors that I have seen. I have thought also about an extended KVM cable and putting equipment in closet and just monitor, keyboard, mouse sitting out.
No, they would call the default browser properly just like other non-MS apps have to, that would not preclude them from shipping it with IE so that by default there would be an engine but it should call the correct default engine.
The other option is to _NOT_ make it html based help. How about.rtf or just a plain VB app calling system fonts. I would lean towards.txt.rtf as it would have less test cycles to deploy additions, easier third-party exposure, smaller, etc.
The third option would be an extremely stripped down engine that only processes hyperlinks and.png images. Yes that would be extra work but it would be cheap and easier to secure (less complex). I say this because hyperlinks are helpfull for navigation but I dont agree with binding OS level functions to an application.
I think his original assertion is valid, but the analogy is bad.
The security world is like an arms race and, just like in the real world, its helpfull to buy better weapons from allies then to spend all your productivity just on weapons (please lets not digress into politics here).
Sysadmins have limited time and many problems to deal with. These tools allow them not only to address more problems but are also helpful in lobbying for management support ($) to fix problems. By being able to document and demonstrate problems and their solutions they can more effectively guide infrastructure spending and development.
By saying their are lazy and/or undecuated sysadmins out there and that we should push towards the lowest common denominator you would do more harm then good in the macro sense..
I have been tinkering with a/. emergency kit for my servers. A college department actually posted a research study on how to survive a slashdot with an underpowered server. Some geology department that got slashdotted and tried to figure out what happened to them. There was also a joke product description that someone published that was a/. toolkit.
I agree. The assumption that many people make is that sysadmins have the time to focus on keeping up with the wide array of security flaws out there and that they are more knowledgable than the college/high school kids who spend their relatively vast amounts of free time just looking at exploits.
A tool like this is great. Every tech-ops/sysadmin guy I know is way overworked and has way too many problem spaces to address (versus most developers which struggle with just learning a different language much less different OSes, vendor packages, server software suites, etc.). They can use the help.
However, to be honest, I dont know that this should cause any controversy. As someone alluded to the naive should have gotten over it when SATAN hit the scene and the uneducated can be ignored regardless. Perhaps by calling it "controversy" the author is getting a little more readership? Or is my tin foil hat showing?..
I agree that the goal is a stable, production system but I disagree that packages are always the best solution.
I build my production, internet exposed servcies from source (albeit with a script that automates the whole process). The reason is that security fixes can often take days or weeks to propogate out from package vendors. As well, for security, performance, and functionality reasons, I strip out or add in a lot of options and tweaks.
I use packages for less critical items and for things that are not core to my production systems and services.
I build a package that is a bundle of my production applications and a script to build them from source, I just drop in the new source tar ball and propogate to all my production systems. It takes about 15 minutes to build everything from scratch.
So I guess I do a hybrid approach with my own packages as well as vendor packages.
and haven't missed it a bit. I am 30 now so from 25-30 no TV.
As other posters have mentioned, I will download or rent the items I am interested in on my schedule, not the networks, avoid the damn commercials (their only revenue stream), and often save it for future viewing.
As for information (news, research, reference), well, I had no idea broadcasters deluded themselves into thinking they had any market share of delivering anything other then entertainment. In either case their lies and delusions are worthless for my information needs and always have been. The Net just makes things easier.
One thing I expect to come of this ratings shift (along with the associated revenue shift) is more embedded plugs. I know about this because my girlfriend is in the audio recording industry which does most of its work in advertisement. But what is happening is products are paying top dollar for face time inside shows. They will have to shift to this type of revenue model as we all start finding ways to skip the captive audience ads. The other is online advertising is booming (mentioned here a while back) and may supplant pr0n as the new technology test-bed as they start dumping money into it.
So as we stop viewing the TV ads we will start getting more inside the shows and movies we watch and see more online.
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I would say that that was the design of that site, not something fundamentally wrong with CSS.
A light, simple, standards-compliant CSS sheet can render well in 98% of the browsers and add quite a bit to readability.
I am surprised there is this much debate around such a simple thing. CSS can save bandwidth and development time and add quite a bit to user experience. Yes, use it.
Thats a good question, but I would say that because in general (arguably because SQL is so limited) there has been a seperation of data storage and application logic paradigm. Its similar to why filesystems dont have lots of complex logic constructs built in to them.
You might question the eveolution of how much we push into the platform level though. For instance the hot libraries/tools people are playing with are things like object serialization packages, cheap DB replication, etc. These are places where application space is trying to address lack of evolution in data storage space and might be good candidates for new storage interfaces.
That was exactly what was said about radio and then television in their days by techno-philes of the time. After all it was cheaper to mass communicate over airwaves then print and mail a bunch of fliers or to travel door-to-door.
And just like radio and television the internet "channels" are being consolidated and becoming more regulated. As more people use it, there will be less choice, greater regulation, and less focus on information and more on entertainment.
The internet will be no more of an enlightening influence on the common man or a revolution in egalitarian politics than television or radio were.
Its cool that a security firm discovered a flaw, wow, they told the effected vendors and they fixed it, wow. Now its filtered, wow.
So the flaw existed and, previously, IE5.5 users could have had Bad Things happen to them, however, it was a flaw in the online filtering service. We all new IE sucks and if you are dumb enough to use it you could get compromised by any number of methods. OK, so why is this news again?
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for my corp IT group. Its more wiki-centric but the idea is the same. Its used to help document and communicate.
I released the first hack on freshmeat a while ago and have been using it in its current ugly form and need to keep refining it, but the ideas are there.
This is the scary part. Whether true or not, is it becoming the accepted view that the only way any technology can survive in this system is with the backing of large, wealthy corporations and expert legal teams?
Why has the technology product space become that type of a commodity? In other areas a product cant do well without massive marketing budgets but legal budgets seem to be a smaller share of teh pie.
Thats interesting, I have thought the same thing. It takes the best of both systems, competition and darwinian evolution of products, communal good, maximization of profits, etc.
I think the one thing it lacks as a good survivable, transportable model is that it is enabled by a system that, effectively, lacks scarcity. The internet and software are not reflective of other systems in that regard.
actually they will make it an approachable commodity for all people, not just the rich and large corporations in the same way that has happened with cars, electricty, telephones, textiles, etc. The net effect of this is that everyone gets richer as they can devote more resources to new and better competitive advantages. The other side effect is that research and development will improve as well as quality. study a little econ man..
To the Pat Buchanan Institute for Terror Confusion and Hate.. hmm.. pBITCH..
Their grasp of economics, capitalism, and technology is more pathetic then their attempts at feigning objectivity...
Why would we list more babblings of ADTI as news? I personally had a run-in with them over their last "whitepaper" about the evils and perils of open source in use by the government.
They are unreasonably biased either because of the funding they receive from microsoft (which I beleive funded that last paper) or due to outdated views and limited understanding of competition and capatilism as it relates to software.
Sadly, this topic is pertinent but less from IBM and more from Microsoft and their slew of patents surrounding Longhorn. SCO's case will die but MS has figured out that they can beat OS through the legal system rather than through competition.
So in 10 years we will be the technology have-nots still running IPV4 and Windows. While coutntries that barely have net access and other developed countries will use our patent system against us by flooding it with more patents than we do while they are less encumbered by them? They will capitalize on the off-shoring trend in technology to build their own innovation ecosystems and become less reliant on the US.
Sounds pretty bleak. While I am reluctant to say that it wont happen I have heard these groupings of fears before (electronics and cars with the Japanese, etc.). I still remain, personally, alarmed by all of these trends but I suspect that a few other areas may become the US's next "gorilla" markets..
you in chicago also?.. i have 4 tickets for aragon as well.. couldnt wait so did road trip to canada and saw them in winnipeg and regina..
One of the earlier posts had a few suggestions that may have been worthwhile that would require a bit of customization.
What, in addition to public access to shared sigs, are you really trying to get at? Would a moderation/voting/popularity function be desired, a wiki-style public read/write forum where they could evolve, better search and classification capabilities, etc.?
By the way, its not a bad idea, but it would have helped to be more descriptive in your vision for it and maybe better tool selection.
If you would like I have a generic PHP framework and database interaction page that you could use, the real issue would be the schema and then the search/browse/vote/classify UI.
I saw a few of the Pixies shows recently and purchased the CDs at the venue. Got home and they were already in CDDB.
It was a beautifull thing.
Hmm.. interesting. I am still getting calls from recruiters weekly, my company is hiring, as is many others I know.
Yes mostly they are looking for experienced people but there is always a need for entry level people.
Last I checked there were still an awfull lot of large corporates with IT needs in the area.
$40k is a median for coprorate IT entry level. Maybe $50k if it is heavy tech oriented company and you have good skills. That is a bit above the norm for worthless business and other liberal arts degrees and very easy to live off (but no Mercedes yet).
In DC, New York, and SF you should add on maybe $10k.
Yeah, they are pricey but since my setup sits in my living room I was looking for silent, low heat, very small footprint.
There are even smaller form factors that I have seen. I have thought also about an extended KVM cable and putting equipment in closet and just monitor, keyboard, mouse sitting out.
Along the same lines as parent you might consider brick form factors that fit in 5" bays and have one tower with multiple nodes. Check out:
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http://www.openbrick.org/
and
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/briQ
No, they would call the default browser properly just like other non-MS apps have to, that would not preclude them from shipping it with IE so that by default there would be an engine but it should call the correct default engine. The other option is to _NOT_ make it html based help. How about .rtf or just a plain VB app calling system fonts. I would lean towards .txt .rtf as it would have less test cycles to deploy additions, easier third-party exposure, smaller, etc.
The third option would be an extremely stripped down engine that only processes hyperlinks and .png images. Yes that would be extra work but it would be cheap and easier to secure (less complex). I say this because hyperlinks are helpfull for navigation but I dont agree with binding OS level functions to an application.
I think his original assertion is valid, but the analogy is bad.
The security world is like an arms race and, just like in the real world, its helpfull to buy better weapons from allies then to spend all your productivity just on weapons (please lets not digress into politics here).
Sysadmins have limited time and many problems to deal with. These tools allow them not only to address more problems but are also helpful in lobbying for management support ($) to fix problems. By being able to document and demonstrate problems and their solutions they can more effectively guide infrastructure spending and development.
By saying their are lazy and/or undecuated sysadmins out there and that we should push towards the lowest common denominator you would do more harm then good in the macro sense..
I have been tinkering with a /. emergency kit for my servers. A college department actually posted a research study on how to survive a slashdot with an underpowered server. Some geology department that got slashdotted and tried to figure out what happened to them. There was also a joke product description that someone published that was a /. toolkit.
I agree. The assumption that many people make is that sysadmins have the time to focus on keeping up with the wide array of security flaws out there and that they are more knowledgable than the college/high school kids who spend their relatively vast amounts of free time just looking at exploits.
A tool like this is great. Every tech-ops/sysadmin guy I know is way overworked and has way too many problem spaces to address (versus most developers which struggle with just learning a different language much less different OSes, vendor packages, server software suites, etc.). They can use the help.
However, to be honest, I dont know that this should cause any controversy. As someone alluded to the naive should have gotten over it when SATAN hit the scene and the uneducated can be ignored regardless. Perhaps by calling it "controversy" the author is getting a little more readership? Or is my tin foil hat showing?..
I agree that the goal is a stable, production system but I disagree that packages are always the best solution.
I build my production, internet exposed servcies from source (albeit with a script that automates the whole process). The reason is that security fixes can often take days or weeks to propogate out from package vendors. As well, for security, performance, and functionality reasons, I strip out or add in a lot of options and tweaks.
I use packages for less critical items and for things that are not core to my production systems and services.
I build a package that is a bundle of my production applications and a script to build them from source, I just drop in the new source tar ball and propogate to all my production systems. It takes about 15 minutes to build everything from scratch.
So I guess I do a hybrid approach with my own packages as well as vendor packages.
and haven't missed it a bit. I am 30 now so from 25-30 no TV.
As other posters have mentioned, I will download or rent the items I am interested in on my schedule, not the networks, avoid the damn commercials (their only revenue stream), and often save it for future viewing.
As for information (news, research, reference), well, I had no idea broadcasters deluded themselves into thinking they had any market share of delivering anything other then entertainment. In either case their lies and delusions are worthless for my information needs and always have been. The Net just makes things easier.
One thing I expect to come of this ratings shift (along with the associated revenue shift) is more embedded plugs. I know about this because my girlfriend is in the audio recording industry which does most of its work in advertisement. But what is happening is products are paying top dollar for face time inside shows. They will have to shift to this type of revenue model as we all start finding ways to skip the captive audience ads. The other is online advertising is booming (mentioned here a while back) and may supplant pr0n as the new technology test-bed as they start dumping money into it.
So as we stop viewing the TV ads we will start getting more inside the shows and movies we watch and see more online.
I would say that that was the design of that site, not something fundamentally wrong with CSS.
A light, simple, standards-compliant CSS sheet can render well in 98% of the browsers and add quite a bit to readability.
I am surprised there is this much debate around such a simple thing. CSS can save bandwidth and development time and add quite a bit to user experience. Yes, use it.
Thats a good question, but I would say that because in general (arguably because SQL is so limited) there has been a seperation of data storage and application logic paradigm. Its similar to why filesystems dont have lots of complex logic constructs built in to them.
You might question the eveolution of how much we push into the platform level though. For instance the hot libraries/tools people are playing with are things like object serialization packages, cheap DB replication, etc. These are places where application space is trying to address lack of evolution in data storage space and might be good candidates for new storage interfaces.
Just a thought..
That was exactly what was said about radio and then television in their days by techno-philes of the time. After all it was cheaper to mass communicate over airwaves then print and mail a bunch of fliers or to travel door-to-door.
And just like radio and television the internet "channels" are being consolidated and becoming more regulated. As more people use it, there will be less choice, greater regulation, and less focus on information and more on entertainment.
The internet will be no more of an enlightening influence on the common man or a revolution in egalitarian politics than television or radio were.
I was just going to say the same thing. The net didn't "make" Dean and surely didn't "break" Kerry or Bush.
Journalists just love to sensationalize. Damn dot.com mentality.
Its cool that a security firm discovered a flaw, wow, they told the effected vendors and they fixed it, wow. Now its filtered, wow.
So the flaw existed and, previously, IE5.5 users could have had Bad Things happen to them, however, it was a flaw in the online filtering service. We all new IE sucks and if you are dumb enough to use it you could get compromised by any number of methods. OK, so why is this news again?