This is nothing new. My mouse and keyboard have been nearly impossible to use too. What dumb ass decided that the enter key should be on the right? Microsoft did us all a favor by adding the windows keys on both sides...
Most of the arguments I see about Drupal are something like "I'm an ordinary Joe, and I couldn't make whitehouse.gov". So what? If you know nothing about a complex system, how can you expect to succeed with it immediately? If PBX systems were as popular as CMS systems, everyone would be running around saying "I tried Asterisk for my home phone and I couldn't figure it out, and therefore it sucks". Unfortunately Drupal is in a market where everyone is interested in using it, but not everyone has the skills to use it, or the patience to learn it. If you want easy out of the box, and don't have money to hire someone, use Wordpress... Meanwhile, Drupal is carving out a deep niche of consultants like myself that CAN and DO make it work.
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I'm a Drupal consultant, and I wish you would have called me or one of my colleagues. I would agree that if you attempted to scale Drupal to a moderate to large size with no prior experience, you will probably fall on your face. Drupal has evolved into something that works quite well for small sites on shared hosting. It does work for large sites, but it's not easy. There are dozens of optimizations that you didn't mention trying.
It's not a piece of shit. You just failed to make it work.:)
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I would argue that it only requires hacks if you wish to make it unique, or do something not provided by available modules. I've worked with Drupal for over 3 years and it rarely requires "hacks" once you know your way around. Sharepoint on the other hand is a proprietary and commercial rabbit hole that will cost you some serious bucks once you need to customize it.
I've rolled out sites using Xcart, Squirrelcart, Drupal Ecommerce, Drupal + Ubercart, and even Miva Merchant.
Many of these packages work great "out of the box" for simple stores. Customizing and theming is where things go to hell. The commercial packages always seem to want to sell you the customizations and make it hard (or miserable) to do it yourself. The theming experience ranges from clunky custom template syntax (miva merchant) to logic embedded in the templates (squirrelcart).
I set my projects apart from the competition by not using other people's themes. Every site is custom, which drives this point home...
The Drupal approach to customization and theming is the best I've seen.
Within the Drupal space, I found the Drupal Ecommerce module package covered in this book to be cobbled together and evolving too loosely. Drupal + Ubercart on the other hand is well supported and seems to have a plan moving forward.
As a traveling school district tech, I once visited a school where the local yahoos had installed a 48 port hub under a sink in the kid's bathroom. To keep the little kiddies from pulling the patch cables out, someone had very carefully cut the release tabs off of all of the RJ45 ends.
Right. The specific group doesn't matter. And yes, they've done something positive for someone. But exactly what you said - you question their motives.
I wasn't really trying to be funny about homeless white people. hahaha. That's not really that funny.
The point I wanted to make was - what about all the other kinds of people?
I guess it depends if you like your job or not. If you do, complain until it gets done, or until IT tells you it's impossible. If you don't, just sit back and wait for the IT department to do what you could have done yourself in 5 minutes.
For that matter it could mean "NT Burger King Doctor"...
It's the code that's important, not what it's called. If there is indeed a line of code that compares the length to the number 1, then jumps into the data, I'll be very suspicious. But if the code simply does pointer arithmatic to find a structure member and due to the bogus length, incorrectly falls through to an undefined behavior, then it's a bug.
My question is this...
If the guy is smart enough to know that windows has kicked off a thread and executed his code, and he's smart enough to experiment with buffer-overflow exploits, why hasn't he stepped through the WMF interpreter code?
Could it be that he doesn't want to admit that he has for legal reasons? I know that if I had discovered this problem, that's just what I would do. Call DebugBreak() and you have a call stack. You'd think that the handler for this SetAbortProc function would be pretty identifiable.
So... Who's got the balls (or the time, in my case) to do it? That's our answer.
Chris.
No, I agreee. There are occasionally posts on the front page that I have no idea what they are. Acronyms are the worst... I actually learn about a lot of technologies on slashdot. But before I know about them, I have no grasp of their jargon.
I don't see any problem with HPs. As someone else said, get a dedicated scanner - not an all in one unit. And TWAIN is the way to go. It's a standard that's been around for a while, while WIA is a fairly new, windows-only thing.
I've had a 5300c for years and love it. If you're using the built-in utilities, just remember to override the standard resolution and click the "rescan for higher resolutions" (or something like that) button. Otherwise, it doesn't rescan, and gives you the 150dpi preview as your final image.
I do occasionally have trouble when I haven't used the 5300c for a while. It seems to go to sleep and not want to wake up. So I always unplug the power when i'm done and plug it back in when i'm ready to use it.
I'm a graphic designer and i've had a few bad experiences, so based on those, I would NOT recommend visioneer, microtek or mustek scanners. I have a canon canoscan at work that's pretty good.
I like to search on Grokster (aka kaaza) for an artist I know I like. There is a feature that allows me to search for more files from a given user. This will sometimes turn up a list of music from a like-minded individual. Other times not-so-like-minded.:) Then I can preview a bunch of groups i've never heard of. If you go to Amazon.com you can preview most albums with Real Player.
Amazon.com also has the "people who bought this also bought..." feature. I've found quite a bit of more popular stuff that way.
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Correct spelling and punctuation are generally helpful when making your case.
This photo http://www.mitre.org/about/photo_archives/photos/low_res/whirlwind_f5001.jpg is begging for a larger than life teapot.
This is nothing new. My mouse and keyboard have been nearly impossible to use too. What dumb ass decided that the enter key should be on the right? Microsoft did us all a favor by adding the windows keys on both sides...
No kidding - it just plain will not be useable data. Gotta learn somehow :)
Most of the arguments I see about Drupal are something like "I'm an ordinary Joe, and I couldn't make whitehouse.gov". So what? If you know nothing about a complex system, how can you expect to succeed with it immediately? If PBX systems were as popular as CMS systems, everyone would be running around saying "I tried Asterisk for my home phone and I couldn't figure it out, and therefore it sucks". Unfortunately Drupal is in a market where everyone is interested in using it, but not everyone has the skills to use it, or the patience to learn it. If you want easy out of the box, and don't have money to hire someone, use Wordpress... Meanwhile, Drupal is carving out a deep niche of consultants like myself that CAN and DO make it work.
I'm a Drupal consultant, and I wish you would have called me or one of my colleagues. I would agree that if you attempted to scale Drupal to a moderate to large size with no prior experience, you will probably fall on your face. Drupal has evolved into something that works quite well for small sites on shared hosting. It does work for large sites, but it's not easy. There are dozens of optimizations that you didn't mention trying. It's not a piece of shit. You just failed to make it work. :)
I would argue that it only requires hacks if you wish to make it unique, or do something not provided by available modules. I've worked with Drupal for over 3 years and it rarely requires "hacks" once you know your way around. Sharepoint on the other hand is a proprietary and commercial rabbit hole that will cost you some serious bucks once you need to customize it.
I suspected Elbot was a machine when (s)he responded instantly to every question. No one types that fast.
I've rolled out sites using Xcart, Squirrelcart, Drupal Ecommerce, Drupal + Ubercart, and even Miva Merchant. Many of these packages work great "out of the box" for simple stores. Customizing and theming is where things go to hell. The commercial packages always seem to want to sell you the customizations and make it hard (or miserable) to do it yourself. The theming experience ranges from clunky custom template syntax (miva merchant) to logic embedded in the templates (squirrelcart). I set my projects apart from the competition by not using other people's themes. Every site is custom, which drives this point home... The Drupal approach to customization and theming is the best I've seen. Within the Drupal space, I found the Drupal Ecommerce module package covered in this book to be cobbled together and evolving too loosely. Drupal + Ubercart on the other hand is well supported and seems to have a plan moving forward.
As a traveling school district tech, I once visited a school where the local yahoos had installed a 48 port hub under a sink in the kid's bathroom. To keep the little kiddies from pulling the patch cables out, someone had very carefully cut the release tabs off of all of the RJ45 ends.
Right. The specific group doesn't matter. And yes, they've done something positive for someone. But exactly what you said - you question their motives.
I wasn't really trying to be funny about homeless white people. hahaha. That's not really that funny. The point I wanted to make was - what about all the other kinds of people?
It's like saying, "I'm going to give 200 meals to homeless white people. 200 homeless people fed is better than none, right?"
I guess it depends if you like your job or not. If you do, complain until it gets done, or until IT tells you it's impossible. If you don't, just sit back and wait for the IT department to do what you could have done yourself in 5 minutes.
For that matter it could mean "NT Burger King Doctor"... It's the code that's important, not what it's called. If there is indeed a line of code that compares the length to the number 1, then jumps into the data, I'll be very suspicious. But if the code simply does pointer arithmatic to find a structure member and due to the bogus length, incorrectly falls through to an undefined behavior, then it's a bug.
My question is this... If the guy is smart enough to know that windows has kicked off a thread and executed his code, and he's smart enough to experiment with buffer-overflow exploits, why hasn't he stepped through the WMF interpreter code? Could it be that he doesn't want to admit that he has for legal reasons? I know that if I had discovered this problem, that's just what I would do. Call DebugBreak() and you have a call stack. You'd think that the handler for this SetAbortProc function would be pretty identifiable. So... Who's got the balls (or the time, in my case) to do it? That's our answer. Chris.
No, I agreee. There are occasionally posts on the front page that I have no idea what they are. Acronyms are the worst... I actually learn about a lot of technologies on slashdot. But before I know about them, I have no grasp of their jargon.
Don't forget to hammer their live chat as well.
I don't see any problem with HPs. As someone else said, get a dedicated scanner - not an all in one unit. And TWAIN is the way to go. It's a standard that's been around for a while, while WIA is a fairly new, windows-only thing. I've had a 5300c for years and love it. If you're using the built-in utilities, just remember to override the standard resolution and click the "rescan for higher resolutions" (or something like that) button. Otherwise, it doesn't rescan, and gives you the 150dpi preview as your final image. I do occasionally have trouble when I haven't used the 5300c for a while. It seems to go to sleep and not want to wake up. So I always unplug the power when i'm done and plug it back in when i'm ready to use it. I'm a graphic designer and i've had a few bad experiences, so based on those, I would NOT recommend visioneer, microtek or mustek scanners. I have a canon canoscan at work that's pretty good.
Amazon.com also has the "people who bought this also bought..." feature. I've found quite a bit of more popular stuff that way.
Crizo.