The Nashville, TN (my home city) government should have a grant program to provide these for every street musician. There is nothing more detrimantal to our downtown commerce than all of the out-of-tune, drunk singer/songwriters playing on the street.
The main difference is in the server admin functionality not the actual data management.
For instance, when something seems a little slow I start watching the mysql process list using mysqlcc. I set it to refresh every 5 seconds (but I could set it lower). That is the kind of thing you can not do with phpMyAdmin (last time I checked).
I am hosting one of my business sites on Linode.com (platostn.com).
It has been great to me. I love having a cheap web account that I can use emerge on (I am a Gentoo fan).
You get to pick your distro with Linode.
Also, I should say that I was using hub.org (freebsd setup). They had HORRIBLE reliability. There was too much "scheduled downtime" and way too much unscheduled downtime.
+1 linode
-Jackson
I switched to Gentoo from Slackware a few months ago (I had been a slackware user for years).
I moved to Gentoo for the package management. I really miss the simplicity of Slackware's init scripts. Maybe it is just because I used it for years, but they are really easy and simple. However, I mostly only use one runlevel on my laptop (and who cares about init scripts on my servers since they never get rebooted).
I heard portage is getting ported to Slackware. I may have to go back to slackware.
Anyone who has ever sipped some coffee at Cafe Du Monde in new Orleans has to love Community Coffee.
Granted, if you are a local in New Orleans then you know Cafe Du Monde is not the best place in town (though it is the most famous), but you have to agree that Community Coffee is the best coffee in town.
I used to have Comcast. Then I forgot to pay the bill. They un-hooked my cable and I hooked it back. they never sent me another bill. (ah the good ole days).
Then I bought a house. Since I was going to have to pay if I wanted cable/satelitte in my new house, I looked into my options.
I got a great deal from DirecTV (including TiVo). I get tons of channels for under $100 a month (all the movie channels, digital chanels, etc). To get the same kind of package with Comcast would cost me at least $140 (and no TiVo).
Rain and wind have never affected my signal. It may happen one day, but I have had a tree knock out my cable before too.
-Jackson
Since we sell these brands we are allowed to use the brand names. This does not give us the right to use the trademark. In order to use the brands in print we have to make sure they are distinctively different from the registered trademarks. So we can use "GAP" but not "Gap" (though "gAP" would probably be fine).
We are allowed to use other brand names like GAP and OLD NAVY in our advertising, but we must use all capital letters so that we are referencing a brand and not violating a trademark.
From my understanding, Mike Rowe was neither referencing their brand nor using their trademark. And since the capitalization is different he is not violating their trademark.
However, none of this means a damn since the lawsuit is for copyright infringement. I am not quite sure how they made that leap.
It seems like I may be the only one who actually read the link.
The actual sentencing guidlines are already set.
The criminal penalty for a violation of section 5(d)(1) of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 is a fine or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both.
Basically they are wondering if the penalties should be stiffened when the spam overlaps with other illegal activity like child pornography. They are also trying to figure out what chapter in the book should hold the guidlines.
"The Commission requests comment on how it should incorporate this new offense into the guidelines. Should the Commission reference this offense in Appendix A to 2G2.2, the guideline covering the transmission of child pornography, and/or 2G3.1, the guideline covering the transmission of obscene matter? Are there enhancements that should be added to either of these guidelines to cover such conduct adequately?"
I use feedster to search for Nashville (where I live). It has become part of my daily browsing. I learn all kinds of things about what is going on in my area this way.
Hint: Add a google news feed of a search for your local to feedster and you get all the google news stories too. Don't know how to get a RSS feed of Google News? Check out gnews2rss.
I would be really interested to see a study seeking to find a link between internet usage and awareness/involvement in current events.
Many of my friends who aren't on the internet very much are always asking me what's going on in the world. Though I am not sure if it is internet users or memigo users.
I think it would VERY appealing if an applicant fresh out of college had some experience in how to develop/maintain software in a group. This would only apply to the software development track, but a course that gave an overview of several team programming methodologies would be great. To many college software projects seem to be stand-alone apps developed by a single programmer, and that is not very "real world".
Along the same lines I think that both tracks should have a course in project management (not a course in MS Project). Every self respecting geek always has a project going on (or two or twelve).
The problem with this technology is that it is going to further tax the receiving mail servers. With the amount of email that comes in (much of which is spam) mail servers are taking longer and longer to accept/deliver messages.
I have to say the SPF sounds like a good idea since it can be cached, but processing keys is a whole other beast.
Granted, I am assuming that there is some validation process to the keys that is based on IP or something, but if there isn't then the whole idea is worthless anyway.
Yeah, it is a great price for an IT conference, but travel costs, not conference price (and definitely not content) are why I would go to Vancouver over Amsterdam.
Besides, aren't conferences just a lame alternative for those of us who weren't invited to go camping
I was very excited to get a book that covers PHP5. However, since PHP5 is still changing the book leaves a lot to be desired.
There is no information at all on SimpleXML, which will probably be the prefered XML handler once PHP5 is released.
When I bought the book I was expecting it to be one of those books that gets worn out from use. However, I haven't touched it in over a month (and I probably bought it 6 weeks ago).
I would wait to buy books on PHP5 until PHP5 is out.
-Jackson
The $3000 fee for a working opt-out list is a small expense. (not to mention a one-time expense).
What is going to be the real cost to him is reduced "email deliverability". By having to NOT falsify headers and provide a contact phone number and a link to his opt-out system, filtering/blocking his emails will be trivial. That means many less people will get the emails and he will less return for the dollar.
-Jackson
P.S. visit myemma.com for email marketing done the right way.
There is a lot of content on my personal site. So much that people usually don't read the stuff, they just say "Wow, if his personal site is this good he must really be a good developer".
My 3 most recent employers (including my current one) have all seen my website before we have met. The flip side of this is that since I only give them my CV (resume) via the website, I know every time they look at it and can guage their interest. Pretty good trade off if you ask me.
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The Nashville, TN (my home city) government should have a grant program to provide these for every street musician. There is nothing more detrimantal to our downtown commerce than all of the out-of-tune, drunk singer/songwriters playing on the street.
At least we can now fix the out-of-tune part!
I hope Mono really will allow me to use .NET assemblies from within open source languages that I am more familiar with.
.NET application, but I am very likely to use .NET assemblies from within PHP5 thanks to Mono and the PHP Mono Extension.
I may never write a
-Jackson
I currently use mysqlcc and phpMyAdmin.
The main difference is in the server admin functionality not the actual data management.
For instance, when something seems a little slow I start watching the mysql process list using mysqlcc. I set it to refresh every 5 seconds (but I could set it lower). That is the kind of thing you can not do with phpMyAdmin (last time I checked).
-Jackson
I hate that whoever stole my Zaurus 2 years ago has a free way to put an OS back on the device!
Argh!
But, I will probably install OPIE when I save up enough cash to but the next Zaurus.
-Jackson support the cause
I am hosting one of my business sites on Linode.com (platostn.com).
It has been great to me. I love having a cheap web account that I can use emerge on (I am a Gentoo fan).
You get to pick your distro with Linode.
Also, I should say that I was using hub.org (freebsd setup). They had HORRIBLE reliability. There was too much "scheduled downtime" and way too much unscheduled downtime.
+1 linode
-Jackson
I switched to Gentoo from Slackware a few months ago (I had been a slackware user for years).
I moved to Gentoo for the package management. I really miss the simplicity of Slackware's init scripts. Maybe it is just because I used it for years, but they are really easy and simple. However, I mostly only use one runlevel on my laptop (and who cares about init scripts on my servers since they never get rebooted).
I heard portage is getting ported to Slackware. I may have to go back to slackware.
I keep hoping that they will create PHP bindings for QT. They have been created for Python, they have been created for Perl, when is PHP's turn?
Maybe with the new object model in Zend Engine 2, PHP5 will be deemed worthy.
-Jackson
Anyone who has ever sipped some coffee at Cafe Du Monde in new Orleans has to love Community Coffee.
Granted, if you are a local in New Orleans then you know Cafe Du Monde is not the best place in town (though it is the most famous), but you have to agree that Community Coffee is the best coffee in town.
-Jackson
I used to have Comcast. Then I forgot to pay the bill. They un-hooked my cable and I hooked it back. they never sent me another bill. (ah the good ole days). Then I bought a house. Since I was going to have to pay if I wanted cable/satelitte in my new house, I looked into my options. I got a great deal from DirecTV (including TiVo). I get tons of channels for under $100 a month (all the movie channels, digital chanels, etc). To get the same kind of package with Comcast would cost me at least $140 (and no TiVo). Rain and wind have never affected my signal. It may happen one day, but I have had a tree knock out my cable before too. -Jackson
When I was in the market for my first house (9 months ago), I thought I had found the perfect house.
Then I searched Google for the address and learned that the previous owner had died in the house.
He was in the attic working on the electrical when a small fire broke out. He got the fire out but died from the smoke.
His father was selling the house.
It was all a little too much for me.
-Jackson
KDE had said the KOffice 1.3 would not be a part of the KDE 3.2 release because KOffice would not be ready in time.
Now KOffice 1.3 is released and KDE 3.2 is on the first (and hopefully last) release candidate of the 3.2.0 branch.
-Jackson
What escapes me is why there is no actual database access.
pgadmin provides both the admin tools as well as database access.
I would hate to have to use MySQL Admin and mysqlcc.
-Jackson
Since we sell these brands we are allowed to use the brand names. This does not give us the right to use the trademark. In order to use the brands in print we have to make sure they are distinctively different from the registered trademarks. So we can use "GAP" but not "Gap" (though "gAP" would probably be fine).
Sorry if I wasn't clear the first time.
-Jackson
It is not a trademark issue because of the capitalization MikeRoweSoft as opposed to MicroSoft.
I know this because I own a retail franchise that sells teenage clothing (Plato's Closet of Cool Springs).
We are allowed to use other brand names like GAP and OLD NAVY in our advertising, but we must use all capital letters so that we are referencing a brand and not violating a trademark.
From my understanding, Mike Rowe was neither referencing their brand nor using their trademark. And since the capitalization is different he is not violating their trademark.
However, none of this means a damn since the lawsuit is for copyright infringement. I am not quite sure how they made that leap.
-Jackson
The actual sentencing guidlines are already set.
Basically they are wondering if the penalties should be stiffened when the spam overlaps with other illegal activity like child pornography. They are also trying to figure out what chapter in the book should hold the guidlines.
-Jackson
I use feedster to search for Nashville (where I live). It has become part of my daily browsing. I learn all kinds of things about what is going on in my area this way.
Hint: Add a google news feed of a search for your local to feedster and you get all the google news stories too. Don't know how to get a RSS feed of Google News? Check out gnews2rss.
-Jackson
I would be really interested to see a study seeking to find a link between internet usage and awareness/involvement in current events.
Many of my friends who aren't on the internet very much are always asking me what's going on in the world. Though I am not sure if it is internet users or memigo users.
-Jackson
I think it would VERY appealing if an applicant fresh out of college had some experience in how to develop/maintain software in a group. This would only apply to the software development track, but a course that gave an overview of several team programming methodologies would be great. To many college software projects seem to be stand-alone apps developed by a single programmer, and that is not very "real world".
Along the same lines I think that both tracks should have a course in project management (not a course in MS Project). Every self respecting geek always has a project going on (or two or twelve).
-Jackson
The problem with this technology is that it is going to further tax the receiving mail servers. With the amount of email that comes in (much of which is spam) mail servers are taking longer and longer to accept/deliver messages.
I have to say the SPF sounds like a good idea since it can be cached, but processing keys is a whole other beast.
Granted, I am assuming that there is some validation process to the keys that is based on IP or something, but if there isn't then the whole idea is worthless anyway.
-Jackson
Yeah, it is a great price for an IT conference, but travel costs, not conference price (and definitely not content) are why I would go to Vancouver over Amsterdam.
Besides, aren't conferences just a lame alternative for those of us who weren't invited to go camping
-TekZen
I was very excited to get a book that covers PHP5. However, since PHP5 is still changing the book leaves a lot to be desired. There is no information at all on SimpleXML, which will probably be the prefered XML handler once PHP5 is released. When I bought the book I was expecting it to be one of those books that gets worn out from use. However, I haven't touched it in over a month (and I probably bought it 6 weeks ago). I would wait to buy books on PHP5 until PHP5 is out. -Jackson
The $3000 fee for a working opt-out list is a small expense. (not to mention a one-time expense).
What is going to be the real cost to him is reduced "email deliverability". By having to NOT falsify headers and provide a contact phone number and a link to his opt-out system, filtering/blocking his emails will be trivial. That means many less people will get the emails and he will less return for the dollar.
-Jackson
P.S. visit myemma.com for email marketing done the right way.
I have used this to my advantage.
There is a lot of content on my personal site. So much that people usually don't read the stuff, they just say "Wow, if his personal site is this good he must really be a good developer".
My 3 most recent employers (including my current one) have all seen my website before we have met. The flip side of this is that since I only give them my CV (resume) via the website, I know every time they look at it and can guage their interest. Pretty good trade off if you ask me.
-Jackson
Have you used a desktop Linux distro recently?
They practically force you to run as a user other than root (and who would rather login as "root" instead of "your_name").
-Jackson
The tite should read: "One of the many problems with spam blacklists" -Jaxn