Splunk = the log file aggregator you looked at, that you have to pay for, and is not a wiki.
Splunk Base = the free wiki that the/. article is about, that happens to be the brainchild of Splunk.
PS - Splunk is not intended for displaying your logfiles to the world, it is only intended to provide a nicer, Ajax-based website interface for grepping your log files. Ideally it will be used only on the corporate intranet, not the public internet. If SysAdmins or Developers need access to it from outside the internet, they can VPN into the intranet and access it that way. There's no reason to make this available publicly through the firewall.
but what many of them fail to comprehend is that it's not necessarily the iPod that makes Apple successful, but rather its customer service.
What came first, the iPod, or Apple's customer service? Clearly, the iPod. Methinks the author overstates the case for customer service driving Apple's success. But it was otherwise an effective astroturfing.
You'll find it beneath a pier in Atlantic City, NJ, where Tony Soprano threw it into the water with cinderblocks chained to it, after he got fed up and switched to Ruby.
Gather lots of eyeballs from the hip youth demographic, then find ways to sell advertising to them. Or sell the eyeballs to someone who can. $2 billion for Facebook.com is chump change for a ~ $1 Trillion dollar industry.
The point is, the advantages of open algorithms are pretty obvious.
Apologies for not taking the time to read the articles, will have to do that later, but do they address the main cost of opening the algorithms - they become easier to game and manipulate by unscrupulous sites and SEO consultants? Transparency is certainly beneficial, but I couldn't take such a call seriously unless it also addressed the drawbacks.
making your in-game persona as pervasive as an email address.
So is he saying I'll have, like, fifty in-game persona's, most ruined by PK'ers and ID stealers, and only fraction of the working ones I can even remember, and an even smaller fraction of those whose passwords I can remember? Hmmm, cool... I think?
I work at a regional airline with roughly 3000 employees and ~$1 billion total revenue in 2005, > $500 million of which was generated through our own website. IT has 80 people divided between several divisions - Network Engineering (Network Admins), Systems Engineering (Sys Admins), Systems Development (DBAs, Web, App Devs), Support (both IT and company-wide IT support & helpdesk), and IT management. The official 'web team' consists of about 10 Devs and DBAs in the SysDev group, but the de facto web team draws in more from the Network Engineering and Systems Engineering groups. I'd estimate the de facto web team size at about 10 - 20 people, depending on the current state of affairs (humming along, crisis mode, upgrade mode, or wherever else on that continuum). Even so, it's a stretch sometimes to accomplish all of our priorities in a highly competitive market, and we have 15 open reqs throughout all of IT, a good chunk of which are for SysDev, web subgroup.
Hope that helps, and fwiw, sounds to me like you're understaffed.
from looking at the article it sounds like it's at least a year before this device, if it hits daylight, would be coming.
Then how about we wait a year, if ever, before wasting/. frontpage bandwidth such uselessness. Or maybe a create a section http://vaporware.slashdot.org/ for these kinds of submissions.
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Heh, after having previewed the above submission, I see that/. automatically converts http://vaporware.slashdot.org/ to HTML, and clicking the URL directs you to the/. frontpage. Oh, the irony...
I hope the jogo.com that I viewed was just the American version, since it refers to football/futbol/The Beautiful Game as 'soccer'. It's only known by that name in America (where I'm viewing from), so hopefully they have internationalized versions that correctly name the game. Otherwise, they'll get a lot of t'd off anti-fans from all the other countries in the world...
Also, as a rebuttal to the "90 days was an intentional understatement", I'd put forward that it was probably an understatement, and that the 2-year mark is probably beyond design spec. What we're seeing here is a project where everything's gone Very Well. We all know that those are rare gems, so give NASA some share of the glory.
You're right, I attended a presentation by Steven Squyres, Mars Rover PI. During the QA I asked exactly this question and he pretty much said the same thing. Their goal was 90 days, but they overengineered the rovers to counter the uncertainty such a complex mission would entail. They wanted to guarantee 90 days, which they did. They also got really lucky - just as Rover was about to go offline due to dust buildup on its solar array, it crested the ridge of a crater and a gust of wind blew all the dust off, significantly extending its longetivity. Given Mar's thin atmosphere, they got really lucky to be in the right place at the right time for such an event.
MySQL supported Windows much earlier, and quickly became the most well known FOSS db on Windows. Lots of webdevs work for shops that supply Windows PC's and laptops for development work, so since PostgreSQL wasn't on Windows until v8.0, it wasn't an option. All these people found they could download MySQL for free and learn a *cough* rdbms on the cheap and easy. Same way Windows gained prominence - do stuff badly, incorrectly, but good enough, and be cheap, and the masses will adopt you.
GnomeMeeting to Ekiga is quite probably the single worst name change I've ever seen
Granted 'Ekiga' is annoyingly Web2.0-ish, but GnomeMeeting isn't exactly the dog's bollocks. Yes, 'Meeting' gives you an idea of what the software does, but wtf does 'Gnome' tell the average PHB, or even a good business exec who came from Finance, Operations, or elsewhere and who just isn't familiar with hacker culture? If hackers want this stuff to go mainstream, coming up with more mainstream names, even meaningless but neutral monikers like Ekiga, is a better alternative and something we're going to have to get used to.
Then we'll see swift lawmaking action to clamp down on leaks of personal information by merchants and money-handlers.
Unfortunately, no. Rather we will see swift lawmaking action to clamp down on the press when they try to expose the fact that stolen lists of internet porn registrants include elected officials' names...
If by 'beginner' you mean someone who just needs to learn a language to do simple projects for their homework or something, and who has no aspirations of becomming a software engineer or computer scientist, then yes it's probably a decent 'beginner's' language. Lots of free stuff from MS, including their free (for one year) Visual Studio Express IDE's and free (indefinitely) SQL Server 2005 Express edition.
However, if by 'beginner' you mean an aspiring computer scientist or software engineer, then by all means no, it's a terrible beginner's language. In that case, start them out with Assembly, as someone suggested in an earlier thread. Or, if you want them to learn the two fundamental language paradigms, start them with C and LISP (preferably the Scheme dialect for starters). C teaches pointers, LISP/Scheme teaches recursion.
Hell. I would love to see an experiment where an entire corporate network was made, entirely of Open Source products (except for the hardware of course).
Slashdot Mirror
Splunk != Splunk Base
/. article is about, that happens to be the brainchild of Splunk.
Splunk = the log file aggregator you looked at, that you have to pay for, and is not a wiki.
Splunk Base = the free wiki that the
PS - Splunk is not intended for displaying your logfiles to the world, it is only intended to provide a nicer, Ajax-based website interface for grepping your log files. Ideally it will be used only on the corporate intranet, not the public internet. If SysAdmins or Developers need access to it from outside the internet, they can VPN into the intranet and access it that way. There's no reason to make this available publicly through the firewall.
FYI: http://porkbusters.org/
but what many of them fail to comprehend is that it's not necessarily the iPod that makes Apple successful, but rather its customer service.
What came first, the iPod, or Apple's customer service? Clearly, the iPod. Methinks the author overstates the case for customer service driving Apple's success. But it was otherwise an effective astroturfing.
I would really like to know what in particular makes Ruby a better designed language, honest question, not flamebait!
For starters, here's Steve Yegge of Amazon.com on languages, including Ruby.
Stevey Tours (and bashes) C, C++, Lisp, Perl, Ruby, Python.
Stevey on Languages: A Quick Tour of Ruby
And some more non-Ruby-specific, but interesting articles there, like this one.
You'll find it beneath a pier in Atlantic City, NJ, where Tony Soprano threw it into the water with cinderblocks chained to it, after he got fed up and switched to Ruby.
show me the myspace.com business model please
Gather lots of eyeballs from the hip youth demographic, then find ways to sell advertising to them. Or sell the eyeballs to someone who can. $2 billion for Facebook.com is chump change for a ~ $1 Trillion dollar industry.
But can you tell where the bullseye is, by looking at the distribution of darts?
You can approximate it, when each dart is provided additional metadata like user rankings and tags.
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The point is, the advantages of open algorithms are pretty obvious.
Apologies for not taking the time to read the articles, will have to do that later, but do they address the main cost of opening the algorithms - they become easier to game and manipulate by unscrupulous sites and SEO consultants? Transparency is certainly beneficial, but I couldn't take such a call seriously unless it also addressed the drawbacks.
making your in-game persona as pervasive as an email address.
So is he saying I'll have, like, fifty in-game persona's, most ruined by PK'ers and ID stealers, and only fraction of the working ones I can even remember, and an even smaller fraction of those whose passwords I can remember? Hmmm, cool... I think?
I work at a regional airline with roughly 3000 employees and ~$1 billion total revenue in 2005, > $500 million of which was generated through our own website. IT has 80 people divided between several divisions - Network Engineering (Network Admins), Systems Engineering (Sys Admins), Systems Development (DBAs, Web, App Devs), Support (both IT and company-wide IT support & helpdesk), and IT management. The official 'web team' consists of about 10 Devs and DBAs in the SysDev group, but the de facto web team draws in more from the Network Engineering and Systems Engineering groups. I'd estimate the de facto web team size at about 10 - 20 people, depending on the current state of affairs (humming along, crisis mode, upgrade mode, or wherever else on that continuum). Even so, it's a stretch sometimes to accomplish all of our priorities in a highly competitive market, and we have 15 open reqs throughout all of IT, a good chunk of which are for SysDev, web subgroup.
Hope that helps, and fwiw, sounds to me like you're understaffed.
If 4GB is $300, then 32GB is $2400, not $6400. Not that it particularly matters, that's still more than most desktop PCs and lowend servers anyway.
from looking at the article it sounds like it's at least a year before this device, if it hits daylight, would be coming.
/. frontpage bandwidth such uselessness. Or maybe a create a section http://vaporware.slashdot.org/ for these kinds of submissions.
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/. automatically converts http://vaporware.slashdot.org/ to HTML, and clicking the URL directs you to the /. frontpage. Oh, the irony...
Then how about we wait a year, if ever, before wasting
Heh, after having previewed the above submission, I see that
I hope the jogo.com that I viewed was just the American version, since it refers to football/futbol/The Beautiful Game as 'soccer'. It's only known by that name in America (where I'm viewing from), so hopefully they have internationalized versions that correctly name the game. Otherwise, they'll get a lot of t'd off anti-fans from all the other countries in the world...
Also, as a rebuttal to the "90 days was an intentional understatement", I'd put forward that it was probably an understatement, and that the 2-year mark is probably beyond design spec. What we're seeing here is a project where everything's gone Very Well. We all know that those are rare gems, so give NASA some share of the glory.
You're right, I attended a presentation by Steven Squyres, Mars Rover PI. During the QA I asked exactly this question and he pretty much said the same thing. Their goal was 90 days, but they overengineered the rovers to counter the uncertainty such a complex mission would entail. They wanted to guarantee 90 days, which they did. They also got really lucky - just as Rover was about to go offline due to dust buildup on its solar array, it crested the ridge of a crater and a gust of wind blew all the dust off, significantly extending its longetivity. Given Mar's thin atmosphere, they got really lucky to be in the right place at the right time for such an event.
No need to, in Soviet China, games play you!
MySQL supported Windows much earlier, and quickly became the most well known FOSS db on Windows. Lots of webdevs work for shops that supply Windows PC's and laptops for development work, so since PostgreSQL wasn't on Windows until v8.0, it wasn't an option. All these people found they could download MySQL for free and learn a *cough* rdbms on the cheap and easy. Same way Windows gained prominence - do stuff badly, incorrectly, but good enough, and be cheap, and the masses will adopt you.
And here's a guide for setting up Subversion and Tortoise on Windows, really easy.
But when the US government does something, almost nobody says a word.
Pay closer attention, then. And those are just the conservatives who are normally supportive of Bush...
GnomeMeeting to Ekiga is quite probably the single worst name change I've ever seen
Granted 'Ekiga' is annoyingly Web2.0-ish, but GnomeMeeting isn't exactly the dog's bollocks. Yes, 'Meeting' gives you an idea of what the software does, but wtf does 'Gnome' tell the average PHB, or even a good business exec who came from Finance, Operations, or elsewhere and who just isn't familiar with hacker culture? If hackers want this stuff to go mainstream, coming up with more mainstream names, even meaningless but neutral monikers like Ekiga, is a better alternative and something we're going to have to get used to.
Then we'll see swift lawmaking action to clamp down on leaks of personal information by merchants and money-handlers.
Unfortunately, no. Rather we will see swift lawmaking action to clamp down on the press when they try to expose the fact that stolen lists of internet porn registrants include elected officials' names...
There's also MS's free Kid's Programming Language. Based on BASIC, but structured rather than linear.
If by 'beginner' you mean someone who just needs to learn a language to do simple projects for their homework or something, and who has no aspirations of becomming a software engineer or computer scientist, then yes it's probably a decent 'beginner's' language. Lots of free stuff from MS, including their free (for one year) Visual Studio Express IDE's and free (indefinitely) SQL Server 2005 Express edition.
However, if by 'beginner' you mean an aspiring computer scientist or software engineer, then by all means no, it's a terrible beginner's language. In that case, start them out with Assembly, as someone suggested in an earlier thread. Or, if you want them to learn the two fundamental language paradigms, start them with C and LISP (preferably the Scheme dialect for starters). C teaches pointers, LISP/Scheme teaches recursion.
Hell. I would love to see an experiment where an entire corporate network was made, entirely of Open Source products (except for the hardware of course).
And even that may not be out of reach
Also very complicated
Yes, but so were proprietary networks in their infancy. You've gotta start somewhere.
If you decide to track down a copy of "Electrocuting an Elephant" today...
karma whoring... (link to video in External Links section)