You are required to pick a password of 16 characters or less - why? I blogged about maximum password length restrictions before, and I would like to hear a compelling reason why this is needed. Otherwise, I can only assume they are storing them in plaintext.
My assumption that it was completely client side was wrong, of course. There's a python backend that probably handles a lot of the heavy lifting. . . yeah, not going to enter my username/password into this demo, sorry. It does look great, though, and I may look at a self-hosted install.
Not bragging, but I have, many times. If you're serving static files and have enough outgoing bandwidth, you can easily survive a slashdotting if your web servers are properly tuned, apache or nginx.
Why do you need significant server resources if this is completely client side? Static files should fly like the wind on pretty much any respectable host.
I often wonder how many aggregate person-lifetimes are wasted waiting for desktop effects to complete. . . could we, for instance, bring up the designer of the OSX minimize effect on murder charges?
My 11 year old daughter has attended a Waldorf school practically since birth and, while there are definitely uber-hippies and a few anti-vaxxers, her school is nothing like you describe. Waldorf schools reflect their leadership, and if nuts are in charge the school is nutty (like every organization, really). There is none of this deep tissue crap, none of this anti-wifi hysteria - please don't paint all Waldorf schools with the same brush because they aren't all the same. It's been a great education and my daughter does just fine with computers - and has even programmed a little python on an OLPC. For some reason - probably because they end up loving to learn and haven't had creativity beaten out of them - many Waldorf kids end up going into the sciences. They end up fine, because appropriate things are taught at appropriate times.
The play focus in preschool is totally appropriate - and IS learning. At that age, kids need to learn how to interact with each other and solve their own problems as peers, and play (and storytelling, another huge part of early Waldorf education) is one of the best ways of "teaching" that. It lays a foundation for kids that're able to interact in healthy ways and solve problems on their own. How many smart people have you met that're unable to deal with interpersonal problems or even minor conflicts?
Anyway - I am not a blinder wearing Waldorf fanboy. There are some wacky things (Eurythmy? hokay. ..), but the end results of a good Waldorf school are hard to argue with. They end up being well rounded, centered kids who by and large kick ass in high school and end up happy.
Hey dipshits - the "timthumb.php" thing TFA is talking about isn't part of the wordpress core. All the wordpress bashing is pretty much irrelevant because we're talking about vulnerabilities in third-party software.
LOL wut? My asus 1215n has a dual core Intel D525, a gorgeous 12 inch display at 1366x768 and gets a solid six+ hours on the battery. It is the best portable computer I've ever owned, and I've owned many in 15 years. I do wish it had faster mechanical storage, but that can upgraded. Running debian stable, I pretty much never feel like I'm waiting on my hardware.
Perhaps you need to update your knowledge of the current state of netbooks?
I don't know if you're morally opposed to backports, but I've had great luck with: mozilla.debian.net. I just install google chrome straight from the tap, though.
Old, but I'll reply anyway. I am NOT a hardware engineer, forgive any garbled terminology.
Apparently there is something about how Seagate implemented power saving (in some desktop drives) that makes it so that it only works properly under windows. The drive will spin down at odd times while linux thinks it can still write to it, and that'll create a bad sector with a high amount of frequency. Apparently the best fix is to disable the power saving altogether, but that pretty much sucks.
So seagate took a pretty well understood interface and screwed it up to make it windows only. They have also advertised (I'm pretty sure, don't quote me) that these drives with this messed up power management were linux compatible when they clearly weren't.
This seems related, and explains the issue I saw almost exactly. Of course, it could just be that the drives are shit and the click of death would've happened under any OS.
I had at least 4 RMAs on the same drive due to a similar "click of death",
I had a "click of death" on an iomega external HDD that was actually - you guessed it - seagate inside.
I don't get it. Seagate used to be great - WHY did they engineer drives to not work properly under linux? The idea of an HDD that doesn't work under linux is just wrong - like you have to actually try to make something that crappy.
I ended up just replacing the still under warranty Seagate drives with Western Digitals. Problems since then? Zero. LEAVE WESTERN DIGITAL ALONE!
PS: I must be dumb. Slashdot is not styling my bulletted list properly.
One data point: The asus 1215T can be bought without an OS (through newegg.com) - but it's ATI graphics. Yuck.
I just purchased the 1215N even though I don't want windows. . . the nvidia ION chipset + dual core atom has seduced me. I plan to get debian sid running on it. I have been happy - nay, ECSTATIC - with my eeepc 1000, so a larger screen and dual cores should be pretty sweet.
She got in a fight with a retired attorney here, where he calls out her sockpuppetting and claims that "fair use doesn't apply," like just saying it would make it so.
Anyway - she's clearing using an autoblogging plugin like wp-robot (won't link, they are scum) to rip articles from other sites via RSS while stripping attribution in her attempt to extort money from people more ill-informed than her - if they exist. Basically, she is guilty of exactly what she's accusing others of doing.
I love cranks. They really keep the world interesting.
Full disclosure: I sysadmin blogs.law.harvard.edu.
I'm betting they're building this in a framework (though "framework" may be too grand a word) that mixes the presentation and logic layer. All that whitespace represents branches in the code (conditionals, database queries, etc.) that weren't executed for that particular page view - or were executed and nothing was output to the screen in that line number. If you don't write your erb tags correctly in Rails, it'll emit spurious whitespace into the source, too. If you weren't writing your logic in your controllers or models (bad!) and not asking erb to collapse whitespace, yeah, you'd get a ton of empty lines.
Oh god. If that's true, this site is an untemplatted nightmare under the covers. Worst case: "Hey, can we change 'Latest News' to just 'news?'" "Sure - just edit line 6643, but don't throw in a syntax error or you'll break the *entire f'ing site.*"
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You are required to pick a password of 16 characters or less - why? I blogged about maximum password length restrictions before, and I would like to hear a compelling reason why this is needed. Otherwise, I can only assume they are storing them in plaintext.
As long as it's voluntary, compensated and not a long-term thing it can be enjoyable to "batten down the hatches" for an expected surge in demand.
Thanks! Had I looked at the docs that would've been evident.
My assumption that it was completely client side was wrong, of course. There's a python backend that probably handles a lot of the heavy lifting. . . yeah, not going to enter my username/password into this demo, sorry. It does look great, though, and I may look at a self-hosted install.
Not bragging, but I have, many times. If you're serving static files and have enough outgoing bandwidth, you can easily survive a slashdotting if your web servers are properly tuned, apache or nginx.
Why do you need significant server resources if this is completely client side? Static files should fly like the wind on pretty much any respectable host.
Namecheap hasn't been an enom reseller for a while. see here. Not affiliated, just a happy customer.
Just tell your infant to only swallow one at a time. Problem solved!
I often wonder how many aggregate person-lifetimes are wasted waiting for desktop effects to complete. . . could we, for instance, bring up the designer of the OSX minimize effect on murder charges?
And brings to mind one of my favorite onion articles: National Pork Council: Many Americans Suffer From Pork Deficiency.
My 11 year old daughter has attended a Waldorf school practically since birth and, while there are definitely uber-hippies and a few anti-vaxxers, her school is nothing like you describe. Waldorf schools reflect their leadership, and if nuts are in charge the school is nutty (like every organization, really). There is none of this deep tissue crap, none of this anti-wifi hysteria - please don't paint all Waldorf schools with the same brush because they aren't all the same. It's been a great education and my daughter does just fine with computers - and has even programmed a little python on an OLPC. For some reason - probably because they end up loving to learn and haven't had creativity beaten out of them - many Waldorf kids end up going into the sciences. They end up fine, because appropriate things are taught at appropriate times.
The play focus in preschool is totally appropriate - and IS learning. At that age, kids need to learn how to interact with each other and solve their own problems as peers, and play (and storytelling, another huge part of early Waldorf education) is one of the best ways of "teaching" that. It lays a foundation for kids that're able to interact in healthy ways and solve problems on their own. How many smart people have you met that're unable to deal with interpersonal problems or even minor conflicts?
Anyway - I am not a blinder wearing Waldorf fanboy. There are some wacky things (Eurythmy? hokay. . .), but the end results of a good Waldorf school are hard to argue with. They end up being well rounded, centered kids who by and large kick ass in high school and end up happy.
Hey dipshits - the "timthumb.php" thing TFA is talking about isn't part of the wordpress core. All the wordpress bashing is pretty much irrelevant because we're talking about vulnerabilities in third-party software.
LOL wut? My asus 1215n has a dual core Intel D525, a gorgeous 12 inch display at 1366x768 and gets a solid six+ hours on the battery. It is the best portable computer I've ever owned, and I've owned many in 15 years. I do wish it had faster mechanical storage, but that can upgraded. Running debian stable, I pretty much never feel like I'm waiting on my hardware.
Perhaps you need to update your knowledge of the current state of netbooks?
I don't know if you're morally opposed to backports, but I've had great luck with: mozilla.debian.net. I just install google chrome straight from the tap, though.
You can get chlamydia from a koala, those adorable little sluts.
If you're having marital relations with a koala, chlamydia is probably the least of your problems.
Old, but I'll reply anyway. I am NOT a hardware engineer, forgive any garbled terminology.
Apparently there is something about how Seagate implemented power saving (in some desktop drives) that makes it so that it only works properly under windows. The drive will spin down at odd times while linux thinks it can still write to it, and that'll create a bad sector with a high amount of frequency. Apparently the best fix is to disable the power saving altogether, but that pretty much sucks.
So seagate took a pretty well understood interface and screwed it up to make it windows only. They have also advertised (I'm pretty sure, don't quote me) that these drives with this messed up power management were linux compatible when they clearly weren't.
This seems related, and explains the issue I saw almost exactly. Of course, it could just be that the drives are shit and the click of death would've happened under any OS.
Oh god, please no. I have had nothing but horrible experiences with Seagate drives recently under linux:
I don't get it. Seagate used to be great - WHY did they engineer drives to not work properly under linux? The idea of an HDD that doesn't work under linux is just wrong - like you have to actually try to make something that crappy.
I ended up just replacing the still under warranty Seagate drives with Western Digitals. Problems since then? Zero. LEAVE WESTERN DIGITAL ALONE!
PS: I must be dumb. Slashdot is not styling my bulletted list properly.
Perhaps it's my colorblindness, but I have to strain like hell to see links embedded in text. They are practically invisible.
Would we be hearing about this report if it hadn't come out with a conclusion favorable to its funders? Doubtful.
this EMC Celerra NS model 120-121-122-123-124-125-126-127-128-129-130 NAS I just bought off craigslist.
My parents are dead, you insensitive clod!
One data point: The asus 1215T can be bought without an OS (through newegg.com) - but it's ATI graphics. Yuck.
I just purchased the 1215N even though I don't want windows. . . the nvidia ION chipset + dual core atom has seduced me. I plan to get debian sid running on it. I have been happy - nay, ECSTATIC - with my eeepc 1000, so a larger screen and dual cores should be pretty sweet.
She got in a fight with a retired attorney here, where he calls out her sockpuppetting and claims that "fair use doesn't apply," like just saying it would make it so.
Anyway - she's clearing using an autoblogging plugin like wp-robot (won't link, they are scum) to rip articles from other sites via RSS while stripping attribution in her attempt to extort money from people more ill-informed than her - if they exist. Basically, she is guilty of exactly what she's accusing others of doing.
I love cranks. They really keep the world interesting.
Full disclosure: I sysadmin blogs.law.harvard.edu.
I'm betting they're building this in a framework (though "framework" may be too grand a word) that mixes the presentation and logic layer. All that whitespace represents branches in the code (conditionals, database queries, etc.) that weren't executed for that particular page view - or were executed and nothing was output to the screen in that line number. If you don't write your erb tags correctly in Rails, it'll emit spurious whitespace into the source, too. If you weren't writing your logic in your controllers or models (bad!) and not asking erb to collapse whitespace, yeah, you'd get a ton of empty lines.
Oh god. If that's true, this site is an untemplatted nightmare under the covers. Worst case: "Hey, can we change 'Latest News' to just 'news?'" "Sure - just edit line 6643, but don't throw in a syntax error or you'll break the *entire f'ing site.*"
I'm glad this exists but will probably never visit it.