Image searching combined with the fantastically bad cameras on all smart phones.
The camera on my phone (a Nokia 6600 slide) takes quite good pictures. I don't know how you define "bad", but the camera is perfectly able to take pictures in which the grass is green and the sky blue, and where you recognise the faces of who you took the picture from. Herearesomepictures, just so that you get the idea (and those are resized).
Anything that uses XML for RPC and has no concept of distributed transactions (Compensation) rightfully deserves to continue its steady march into irrelevent obscurity
SOA does not mean you have to use Web Services or XML over RPC to implement your services. A service is defined (by most people) as a piece of Software that follows some principles, like - be interoperable - having a defined interface - be reusable -... Web Services just happen to be used because they are interoperable, define an interface,... but you could use simple jars, dlls or hell... stored procedures if you want. And, btw, Web Services have a standard for distributed transactions. As for SOA being irrelevant I dont't agree: the theory behind it is nothing really new. It just tries to define some common sense and document one of the many ways you can architect the software you write. It may not be the solution for everything, but for some business cases it's the right tool.
Besides the obvious problems with this that I've already seen posted here...
Couldn't a user install everything from an approved repo and crash the machine by filling up all the disk space? Seems like an attack vector for denial of service attacks.
Sure. But since we are talking about local users that have physical access to the box anyway, why should they DoS it by installing packages? They could just throw it from the 11th floor.
I really don't understand the basis for this move. From a desktop usability perspective, having the gui password prompt for an elevated privilege such as a package install works fine.
The first thing I do on my desktop ubuntu install is %admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Fedora is a desktop distro, and I guess that the user is almost always the admin andyway. And even if that is not the case, becoming root and install stuff on a machine you have physiscal access to is trivial.
Its seemless in Linux and OSX. Not prompting for authentication for signed package installs is insanely insecure and borderline insane.
Why? Personally I don't understand all this paranoia.
To allow a non root user to in essence do root commands without prompting for a password just begs to be exploited.
I don't agree. First, we are talking about a desktop distro, and not a server: on a desktop the admin=the user. Second, if a user with physical access to the machine wants to exploit it, installing a package and searching for something to exploit would be the hard way. Just reboot, enter grub and start with runnlevel 1. There. root.
That's interesting. At the moment we have a loghost, and all logs of all applications go to that syslog server. Now we face the problem of allowing access to those logs to developers. Say you have 50 production apps logging to that logserver, do you know some software (best would be a webapp) that can be configured to let developers login and see the logs for the application they are responsible for? We could simply share the log files with a samba share, but a webapp that has some kind of integrated tail, deep linking to specific lines, color highlighting and stuff like that would be über cool.
The people who should fear clouds are the people who want their data in their own hands, and don't trust third parties to handle it for then. It's that easy, and it's what will make SaaS fail. We write SaaS, and almost all our customers ask us where we store the data, and if it we don't guarantee them it is in the country they are from they back off. And we write software for small firms only. Bigger clients want the software and the data stored in their own datacenter. They will not trust the "cloud" for that (and I wouldn't either). Not in the near future at least.
No. They where not implemented in this version, and the workaround is still the one using contrib/dblink, which allows cross-database queries using function calls. Still, even if I sound like a fanboy, this is a very minor annoyance: PG is the best OSS, Free, Gratis, RDBMS available.
So are we going to require browsers to install with codec packs?
No. The idea is to include the codec in the browser. But to allow that at reasonable conditions, the codec should be Free. The codec proposed for this purpose is Ogg Theora/Vorbis, an OSS codec build specifically trying not to use any patented technology. As you can imagine, Apple, MS and Adobe are not really happy about this, as they obviously would like their patented technology to be used in HTML 5, and because Apple and MS are not only video-codec-makers but browser-makers too, and not small ones, we can not just ignore them and go ahead with Theora. Implement the HTML 5 video tag in Mozilla with Theora looked like a good chance to get the open codec though, but this Javascript stuff post by Mozilla now makes it look like they have other plans.
Some pictures uploaded from my cellphone, some tecnical details I would like to remember, some pictures of stuff I put on ebay, my "real" email, and just a server I use for experiments like configuring virtual hosts with apace, trying out mutual ssl authentication, setting up a mail server and piping the mails to a script that scrapes the attachments from the mail and puts them in the gallery online... stuff like this.
Well, it works well for languages that use lots of vowels. I think it works well for English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Swedish... Maybe it works best with English, but it sure is a valid layout for lots of other languages as well.
but because it saved my writs from the carpal tunnel syndrome. I really started to feel pain in my wrists, after switching to dvorak it vanished. Now, tell me what you want, it may be a placebo effect or whatever, but my fingers move less on the keyboard, I write about 10wpm faster than I did before with qwerty (150 vs 140), and best of all I don't feel any pain any more.
in Europe. If a PS3 costs them $448.73 (317,48â) to make, that means they make almost 80,00â for every console sold in the EU (they sell for 399,00â). A price drop *could* be possible here in the old continent.
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You probably already know that, but as you probably do with linux, you should not use stuff like IE with your Admin account.
So... Y2K+10 would be more correct?
Sure. But 2010 is shorter anyway (same for Y2K10), so why? Just write 2010...
Y2K10 would be 200010. Silly contractions...
Image searching combined with the fantastically bad cameras on all smart phones.
The camera on my phone (a Nokia 6600 slide) takes quite good pictures. I don't know how you define "bad", but the camera is perfectly able to take pictures in which the grass is green and the sky blue, and where you recognise the faces of who you took the picture from.
Here are some pictures, just so that you get the idea (and those are resized).
Anything that uses XML for RPC and has no concept of distributed transactions (Compensation) rightfully deserves to continue its steady march into irrelevent obscurity
SOA does not mean you have to use Web Services or XML over RPC to implement your services. A service is defined (by most people) as a piece of Software that follows some principles, like ... ... but you could use simple jars, dlls or hell... stored procedures if you want.
- be interoperable
- having a defined interface
- be reusable
-
Web Services just happen to be used because they are interoperable, define an interface,
And, btw, Web Services have a standard for distributed transactions.
As for SOA being irrelevant I dont't agree: the theory behind it is nothing really new. It just tries to define some common sense and document one of the many ways you can architect the software you write. It may not be the solution for everything, but for some business cases it's the right tool.
Where's my Amarok on winders, and why does a simple port need all kinds of name changing foolishness?
uhm... here? together with all other available platforms?
Besides the obvious problems with this that I've already seen posted here...
Couldn't a user install everything from an approved repo and crash the machine by filling up all the disk space? Seems like an attack vector for denial of service attacks.
Sure. But since we are talking about local users that have physical access to the box anyway, why should they DoS it by installing packages? They could just throw it from the 11th floor.
I really don't understand the basis for this move. From a desktop usability perspective, having the gui password prompt for an elevated privilege such as a package install works fine.
The first thing I do on my desktop ubuntu install is
%admin ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Fedora is a desktop distro, and I guess that the user is almost always the admin andyway. And even if that is not the case, becoming root and install stuff on a machine you have physiscal access to is trivial.
Its seemless in Linux and OSX. Not prompting for authentication for signed package installs is insanely insecure and borderline insane.
Why? Personally I don't understand all this paranoia.
To allow a non root user to in essence do root commands without prompting for a password just begs to be exploited.
I don't agree. First, we are talking about a desktop distro, and not a server: on a desktop the admin=the user.
Second, if a user with physical access to the machine wants to exploit it, installing a package and searching for something to exploit would be the hard way. Just reboot, enter grub and start with runnlevel 1. There. root.
I want my old Internet back.
ME TOO!
That's interesting. At the moment we have a loghost, and all logs of all applications go to that syslog server. Now we face the problem of allowing access to those logs to developers. Say you have 50 production apps logging to that logserver, do you know some software (best would be a webapp) that can be configured to let developers login and see the logs for the application they are responsible for? We could simply share the log files with a samba share, but a webapp that has some kind of integrated tail, deep linking to specific lines, color highlighting and stuff like that would be über cool.
Is it just me, or does that page return a 404 now?
The people who should fear clouds ...
The people who should fear clouds are the people who want their data in their own hands, and don't trust third parties to handle it for then. It's that easy, and it's what will make SaaS fail.
We write SaaS, and almost all our customers ask us where we store the data, and if it we don't guarantee them it is in the country they are from they back off. And we write software for small firms only. Bigger clients want the software and the data stored in their own datacenter. They will not trust the "cloud" for that (and I wouldn't either). Not in the near future at least.
Can I do a cross database join yet?
No. They where not implemented in this version, and the workaround is still the one using contrib/dblink, which allows cross-database queries using function calls.
Still, even if I sound like a fanboy, this is a very minor annoyance: PG is the best OSS, Free, Gratis, RDBMS available.
So are we going to require browsers to install with codec packs?
No. The idea is to include the codec in the browser. But to allow that at reasonable conditions, the codec should be Free. The codec proposed for this purpose is Ogg Theora/Vorbis, an OSS codec build specifically trying not to use any patented technology. As you can imagine, Apple, MS and Adobe are not really happy about this, as they obviously would like their patented technology to be used in HTML 5, and because Apple and MS are not only video-codec-makers but browser-makers too, and not small ones, we can not just ignore them and go ahead with Theora. Implement the HTML 5 video tag in Mozilla with Theora looked like a good chance to get the open codec though, but this Javascript stuff post by Mozilla now makes it look like they have other plans.
It is really refreshing to see someone, sometimes, who understands the situation and puts it down this clear in an unbiased manner.
we need to be careful that politicians do not get talked into putting legislation in place that, in the end, ends up looking stupid.
or even worse, introduces new problems without solving the intended ones.
Some pictures uploaded from my cellphone, some tecnical details I would like to remember, some pictures of stuff I put on ebay, my "real" email, and just a server I use for experiments like configuring virtual hosts with apace, trying out mutual ssl authentication, setting up a mail server and piping the mails to a script that scrapes the attachments from the mail and puts them in the gallery online... stuff like this.
It is impossible to pick two integers x and y, each in the range 1-5, such that x + y = 12.
It is possible, for very large values of 5 :)
not for less than 300K/year
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Well, it works well for languages that use lots of vowels. I think it works well for English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Swedish...
Maybe it works best with English, but it sure is a valid layout for lots of other languages as well.
hm? I am not a native English speaker. Sorry if I got something wrong.
Try it. Here are some texts you can listen at. It's not that difficult if you train it for a while.
but because it saved my writs from the carpal tunnel syndrome. I really started to feel pain in my wrists, after switching to dvorak it vanished. Now, tell me what you want, it may be a placebo effect or whatever, but my fingers move less on the keyboard, I write about 10wpm faster than I did before with qwerty (150 vs 140), and best of all I don't feel any pain any more.
You are right. So they break almost even.
in Europe. If a PS3 costs them $448.73 (317,48â) to make, that means they make almost 80,00â for every console sold in the EU (they sell for 399,00â). A price drop *could* be possible here in the old continent.