They're looking for the hobbyist who doesn't really care about all the underpinnings. For them, it's enough of a server, with enough server features.
Indeed. Macs running OS X server make decent file servers (for a tiny shop) and single domain web servers (again, for a tiny shop) . Use them for anything more sophisticated and things go to shit quickly. Their configuration screens give novice server admins the false impression that they are actually capable of everything they claim to be.
In my opinion, Mac OS X is an _excellent_ client OS, but a horrendous server OS. At my previous place of employment, my boss wanted to use Mac OS X for everything: DNS, Mail, web application servers, etc. They're just not cut out for it. I fought tooth and nail to replace Mac OS X with Debian every time one of the Mac servers failed (or failed to do what it was supposed to) and my life as the primary sysadmin at the time (i've since left for greener pastures) was much better for it. I should note that I was also the lead software engineer of a very small team, I was much more productive not having to deal with Mac OS X's idiosyncrasies. For servers, Debian "just works." Not so with Mac OS X.
I was under the impression that, for a while, expert sexchange was allowing the google bot to crawl their whole site, but not allowing users who came from google to actually view the answers. My understanding was that google removed them from their indexer for that, and that they then allowed people who clicked on the link from google (getting the google.com referrer headers) to see the results by scrolling all the way down. Wikipedia, however, is saying that as of Dec. 18, 2010 this is no longer the case, but they appear to be incorrect. A search on google (with site:experts-exchange.com appended to it) shows (to me, anyway) that this is still how they operate. Pasting the same url returned by the google results in a new tab makes the actual results unavailable (and not in the source of the page, at least from my cursory glance at it).
I've never payed a dime to expert sexchange, but I have, on occasion, gotten good answers (they're batting about.133, for me) from their site. You don't have to pay to view the answers (as long as your referrer header is google.com) you just have to scroll all the way down.
Well said. I've just noticed that Pioneer One has finally released the second episode of their series, and am torrenting the mkvs of episodes 1 and 2 as we speak. I've already seen the first episode, but it's been so long I need to see it again to be caught up.
While it's admittedly been a couple of years (and OS revisions) since I've seen it - I have seen both Mac OS X Server (10.4.11) and Linux (specifically CentOS, forget the version) machines with rootkits on them that were put there by a remote exploit (ab)used by an automated attack (in smb, in the case of the mac server - yes, the machine had the smb port open to the wild. I'm not sure how the linux box got exploited; again though, it had more services exposed to the open web than it should have). They were both part of the C&C network for two different botnets (at least, that's my guess, judging by the IRC bot artifacts I found). So while there may not be any _viruses_ for those platforms, the security track record is far from perfect. Interestingly enough, the exploit pack that was used to attack the Mac server was a dual-platform toolkit, targeting both BSD (not entirely sure which flavor) and Darwin.
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Swype didn't autocorrect "sm" to "am"? That one seems like a no brainer - the only other reasonable word it could be is "em", and aside from web designers and people who like to spell letters, it has a low probability of being anything other than "am". Personally, I was more amused by "pidt", but that's primarily because I didn't immediately auto-correct it in my head; it took a sec.
Speaking of auto-correcting in one's head, am I the only one who still, on occasion, reads the word "of" in a text message as "me" (regardless of context)? If I am, I guess I can thank T9 for breaking my brain.
Like many other laws, intent is key. It's clear that Dan Lyons' intent has no malice. He would therefore be in the clear (if he decides to restore his FSJ mantle should RSJ return).
Agreed - a password manager like Password Safe, or my personal favorite 1Password is the answer to the password problem. Knowing only how to get a password, rather than the password itself, is also less vulnerable to a certain class of social engineering attacks (noticing that your password manager is suddenly unable to autofill the password on a site that looks just like your bank's site might clue in even the dullest people on the internet).
the integral of 4sin(x)/x has to be solved with Taylor series, and I only got those in the second semester of university calculus
Fortunately (as is mentioned in the blog post), (working) knowledge of college level calculus is not actually required. You can pretty much plug and chug with wolfram alpha - it's got Mathematica baked into it.
Regardless of how long it takes, there is no reason to search laptops at the border. Anyone truly interested in slyly transmitting data across the US border would never be foolish enough to accompany said data on the trip. It is _trivial_ to transmit data undetected into the US (nice to meet you, internet. how long have you been there?); what justification is there for searching laptops in the first place?
Well really - on the space station, everything is falling at the same rate and in the same direction, thereby neutralizing the iPad's greatest enemy, a 9.8 m/s/s acceleration vector pointed at a concrete floor.
Fragmentation is something that can be handled with proper spec'ing and testing, but equating the fragmentation between exactly 9 different iOS devices (well, 11, if you split the 3G/no 3G ipad, and count the Apple TV), and the veritable cornucopia of hardware that runs Android seems a bit cavalier. The strategies for managing those two markets (and the volumes of capital required for proper testing) are quite distinct, in my opinion.
Strictly speaking, they weren't in the same sentence. At any rate, the iPad's greatest weakness (in terms of durability, at least) is damage from falling, which isn't really an issue on the space station.
Firstly, you don't need to use the iTunes store to distribute in house, custom apps. Secondly, the "proprietary and difficult toolchain" is largely based on "the free one that loads of people have been using for ages to program x86 general purpose PCs." Try building an iOS app without gcc. I'm not arguing that NASA shift their entire operation to an iOS workflow (that would be absurd), but devices like the iPad are _very_ well suited to the efficient consumption of information, and I think would fair well in a microgravity environment. Android would likely be a better OS choice, but that's no reason to use bad information.
An iPad, or any one-piece touchscreen tablet running a modern operating system with an absolute minimum of moving/removable parts would be ideally suited to the space station environment. Light, small, durable and very unlikely to break, it would be much better than anything with many small moving parts (laptop with a keyboard, e.g.), and it would have 100% solid state storage. What's with the hate?
Google's Preview is an order of magnitude (probably more, even) faster for visually sifting through a large number of sites. It's actually a good feature, much better than "Instant Search."
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But that's just testament to the fact that their products look better than their competitors, and film and TV companies want things that look good.
Indeed, I've seen a lot of Apple "product placement" where they've placed circular silver stickers over the Apple logo on the back of the screens.
They're looking for the hobbyist who doesn't really care about all the underpinnings. For them, it's enough of a server, with enough server features.
Indeed. Macs running OS X server make decent file servers (for a tiny shop) and single domain web servers (again, for a tiny shop) . Use them for anything more sophisticated and things go to shit quickly. Their configuration screens give novice server admins the false impression that they are actually capable of everything they claim to be.
In my opinion, Mac OS X is an _excellent_ client OS, but a horrendous server OS. At my previous place of employment, my boss wanted to use Mac OS X for everything: DNS, Mail, web application servers, etc. They're just not cut out for it. I fought tooth and nail to replace Mac OS X with Debian every time one of the Mac servers failed (or failed to do what it was supposed to) and my life as the primary sysadmin at the time (i've since left for greener pastures) was much better for it. I should note that I was also the lead software engineer of a very small team, I was much more productive not having to deal with Mac OS X's idiosyncrasies. For servers, Debian "just works." Not so with Mac OS X.
search and rescue applications [...] I thought this was developed as a way to kill ejected pilots.
It seems ideally suited to both tasks...
We use BCC all the time at my work, any time someone sends an email that remotely effects the entire (small, startup company) everyone@ gets BCC'ed.
I was under the impression that, for a while, expert sexchange was allowing the google bot to crawl their whole site, but not allowing users who came from google to actually view the answers. My understanding was that google removed them from their indexer for that, and that they then allowed people who clicked on the link from google (getting the google.com referrer headers) to see the results by scrolling all the way down. Wikipedia, however, is saying that as of Dec. 18, 2010 this is no longer the case, but they appear to be incorrect. A search on google (with site:experts-exchange.com appended to it) shows (to me, anyway) that this is still how they operate. Pasting the same url returned by the google results in a new tab makes the actual results unavailable (and not in the source of the page, at least from my cursory glance at it).
I've never payed a dime to expert sexchange, but I have, on occasion, gotten good answers (they're batting about .133, for me) from their site. You don't have to pay to view the answers (as long as your referrer header is google.com) you just have to scroll all the way down.
Well said. I've just noticed that Pioneer One has finally released the second episode of their series, and am torrenting the mkvs of episodes 1 and 2 as we speak. I've already seen the first episode, but it's been so long I need to see it again to be caught up.
With a Dremel, you could turn a pentalobular screw into a slot head screw. Although, given the size of those screws, it wouldn't be particularly easy.
While it's admittedly been a couple of years (and OS revisions) since I've seen it - I have seen both Mac OS X Server (10.4.11) and Linux (specifically CentOS, forget the version) machines with rootkits on them that were put there by a remote exploit (ab)used by an automated attack (in smb, in the case of the mac server - yes, the machine had the smb port open to the wild. I'm not sure how the linux box got exploited; again though, it had more services exposed to the open web than it should have). They were both part of the C&C network for two different botnets (at least, that's my guess, judging by the IRC bot artifacts I found). So while there may not be any _viruses_ for those platforms, the security track record is far from perfect. Interestingly enough, the exploit pack that was used to attack the Mac server was a dual-platform toolkit, targeting both BSD (not entirely sure which flavor) and Darwin.
Swype didn't autocorrect "sm" to "am"? That one seems like a no brainer - the only other reasonable word it could be is "em", and aside from web designers and people who like to spell letters, it has a low probability of being anything other than "am". Personally, I was more amused by "pidt", but that's primarily because I didn't immediately auto-correct it in my head; it took a sec.
Speaking of auto-correcting in one's head, am I the only one who still, on occasion, reads the word "of" in a text message as "me" (regardless of context)? If I am, I guess I can thank T9 for breaking my brain.
Like many other laws, intent is key. It's clear that Dan Lyons' intent has no malice. He would therefore be in the clear (if he decides to restore his FSJ mantle should RSJ return).
Because a fan-less computer is such an unreasonable goal...
With AMD CPUs left and right, how is AMD posting a loss?
Does the same apply to these guys?
Agreed - a password manager like Password Safe, or my personal favorite 1Password is the answer to the password problem. Knowing only how to get a password, rather than the password itself, is also less vulnerable to a certain class of social engineering attacks (noticing that your password manager is suddenly unable to autofill the password on a site that looks just like your bank's site might clue in even the dullest people on the internet).
the integral of 4sin(x)/x has to be solved with Taylor series, and I only got those in the second semester of university calculus
Fortunately (as is mentioned in the blog post), (working) knowledge of college level calculus is not actually required. You can pretty much plug and chug with wolfram alpha - it's got Mathematica baked into it.
Regardless of how long it takes, there is no reason to search laptops at the border. Anyone truly interested in slyly transmitting data across the US border would never be foolish enough to accompany said data on the trip. It is _trivial_ to transmit data undetected into the US (nice to meet you, internet. how long have you been there?); what justification is there for searching laptops in the first place?
Well really - on the space station, everything is falling at the same rate and in the same direction, thereby neutralizing the iPad's greatest enemy, a 9.8 m/s/s acceleration vector pointed at a concrete floor.
Fragmentation is something that can be handled with proper spec'ing and testing, but equating the fragmentation between exactly 9 different iOS devices (well, 11, if you split the 3G/no 3G ipad, and count the Apple TV), and the veritable cornucopia of hardware that runs Android seems a bit cavalier. The strategies for managing those two markets (and the volumes of capital required for proper testing) are quite distinct, in my opinion.
Strictly speaking, they weren't in the same sentence. At any rate, the iPad's greatest weakness (in terms of durability, at least) is damage from falling, which isn't really an issue on the space station.
Firstly, you don't need to use the iTunes store to distribute in house, custom apps. Secondly, the "proprietary and difficult toolchain" is largely based on "the free one that loads of people have been using for ages to program x86 general purpose PCs." Try building an iOS app without gcc. I'm not arguing that NASA shift their entire operation to an iOS workflow (that would be absurd), but devices like the iPad are _very_ well suited to the efficient consumption of information, and I think would fair well in a microgravity environment. Android would likely be a better OS choice, but that's no reason to use bad information.
An iPad, or any one-piece touchscreen tablet running a modern operating system with an absolute minimum of moving/removable parts would be ideally suited to the space station environment. Light, small, durable and very unlikely to break, it would be much better than anything with many small moving parts (laptop with a keyboard, e.g.), and it would have 100% solid state storage. What's with the hate?
While I agree svn isn't bad to work with
SVN is barely tolerable. I'm never going back - git is so much better it's not even fair to consider it in the same league as SVN.
Google's Preview is an order of magnitude (probably more, even) faster for visually sifting through a large number of sites. It's actually a good feature, much better than "Instant Search."
defending a poor individual being persecuted by big business is a pretty good jumping off point for public office.
And if they keep taking this stance when they get to public office, maybe that's a good thing.
They probably won't, though.