Pro Gamers having absolutely nothing on Pro atheletes! You wanna talk about burning out on a game after playing it non-stop for a few years?
Ask Karl Malone if he's burnt out on playing basketball for more than 20 YEARS! Him and other athletes of his caliber have been playing professional sports 2-3-4-5 times longer than most of these platforms for gaming have even existed.
Don't get upset at Walmart over this, get upset at your bank/credit card company.
Know why this happens? Credit Card companies make money in 2 ways; 1) You get charged interest on purchases you make if you don't pay off the charge in a certian amount of time and 2) Whenever you use your credit card, the merchant has to ALSO pay a percentage of your total bill to the credit card company (anwhere up to 5,6 percent of the total charge)
That's right, not only are the credit card companies sometimes making as much as 20% APR off of willing victims, but they are also charging the merchant a percentage as well.
This sucks, and Walmart recognized it as such and said - hey this is stupid. Even if they were only paying 1 percent per year off of every transaction we're still talking a couple of billion dollars.
If you want it to change, be pissed at your bank, not at Walmart. Expect more stores to start doing this in the future (alot have, not just Walmart).
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To add to this, Postix is not just for small to medium sized servers. It actually scales extremely well because of it's design philosophy (bunch of small programs that each do one thing and do it well communicating w/each other).
I would actually argue the opposite of parent - use Sendmail if it came preconfigured on your box, but otherwise if you're running a large server or hub, migrate over to Postfix if you want to wring every ounce possible outta your mailserver.
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Having worked at a hosting company for years, we actually migrated to Postfix (from Sendmail) way back in the day, when Postfix was still called VMailer (actually joined the beta before it even had a name).
Simply put, Postfix is designed from the ground up with security in mind as well as the KISS philosophy of software design. Postfix has a bunch of little programs that all do one thing and do it very well, is realitively easy to chroot and even if you opt to not do that is still much more secure than Sendmail (esp its out of the box config). It's author Wietse Venema (sp?) was the same guy that wrote TCP Wrappers which is a stock part of almost every BSD/Linux distro today.
Postfix was engineered from the groupd up to be a Secure MTA and was able to take immediate advantage of all the lessons that had been learned by Sendmail w/o having to hang on to a legacy codebase.
Postfix is also extremely easy to configure, using straight non-cryptic ini style conf files and doesn't require a 1300 page manual to get the best out of it. Couple this with the fact that connecting it to a MySQL/Postgres/Oracle database for map lookups (forwarding, alias, transport, etc) and you've got this beast that scales very well for hosting environments (you can also used virtual passwd databases enabling you to create mailbox accounts that do not actually exist in the systems passwd db). When we deployed it at said hosting company, we were delivering close to a million messages a day and saw lookup times, delivery times, queue times, pretty much everything drop to about 1/4 of their levels w/Sendmail. Postfix is blazingly fast.
Postfix isn't for everyone tho. If you're only running a few domains and/or Sendmail came preconfigured on the box you're running it on then you're probably fine sticking w/Sendmail. We actually only used Postfix as a hub and used Sendmail on all our severs in a relay only mode. If you know Sendmail back and forth and can make it jump through flaming hoops I wouldn't necessarily advise switching to Postfix unless you're looking to wring more out of your MTA and want to do it relatively easily and securely.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Postfix has even had any remote exploits (it doesn't run as root out of the box)?
Well I let my money do the talking for me - I cancelled a long time ago for a bunch of different reasons. And now if I had been playing I'd be even more pissed if I had to shell out more $$$ for this expansion.
Now here is the 100 million dollar question, can I go out and just buy the expansion and play that without having bought the original?
If the answer is no, then fuck them. $70 for the original.. 6 months of play for over $15 a month (or whatever it was), now another 50-70 for an *EXPANSION* and two new classes that I have to pay for to be able to play?!?
I hate this business model - I despise it. And that is why I stopped giving up my hard earned a long time ago. I'd love to wait a year, get everything for dirt cheap and see how it all works out, but by then it'll be impossible to get anywhere in the game due to the old ages over everyone else.
BSD has a lot to learn from GNU/Linux regarding security. There have been less exploits found in the BSDs, but we all know that more eyes leads to a more secure product. And I really refuse to believe that most people do not hack the source code. Every mum and dad has dreams every night of helping to further the GNU/Linux cause. If they dont, then they are teh sux0r and are lusers.
I honestly can't figure out if you're a troll, illinformated, or what... but nonetheless you really need to check out OpenBSD.
Know why the BSD's have a pretty good track record? It's not because people aren't hacking it (BSDs use alot of the same software and thus have the same exploits that Linux does), but rather it's due in large part to OpenBSD and their line by line code security audit.
Yup that's right, the OpenBSD guys audit all code before it's released, specifically looking for things like buffer exploits and the likes. When they're found, the results are shared w/the other BSDs and fixed.
is a license required if you are driving on your own land?
Nope. A license is only required if you will be driving a vehicle on shared roads (roads maintained by the gov). If you are on private property, you can do whatever the hell you want w/the vehicle. No registration or license required.
Farm equipment, tractors, construction equipment - licenses not required to use any of it unless you decide to take it on Main Street.
So the driving is a privledge, not a right statement should be changed to driving on roads that we (government) build and maintain and own, with other drivers, is a privledge.
Well I'm not too familiar with Apachetoolbox, but if you just compile Postgres with default options it will pretty much generate a.so that it places under $PREFIX/lib/plpgsql.so
PHP's content accelerator (Zend) is free. And if you don't want to use it, there are plenty of other accelerators that have been designed that you can drop into your php.ini and have working in minutes.
That said, a company following the model of PHP/Zend actually gives me some peace of mind. These guys have the right balanace of OpenSource/Business that I think alot more projects/companies need to realize.
While existing in a pure OS world would be great, it's not pratical now. And if you wanna use PHP now, fine no problem. You can download it and the entire source for free. However if you are a business and want to take advantage of load balancing, development environments, and other advanced features then hey - you're making money as a business and can afford to drop a few duckets to further the development of the project.
I can't take PHP seriously for one reason alone: No built in suid mechanism.
You gotta be kidding, right? I mean this isn't even a concern if you aren't running in a shared hosting environment. Seems a bit premature to toss out an entire programming language that could potentially be beneficial because you don't agree with how it's implemented in one particular situation.
That said, it is entirely possible to get PHP working w/Apache suExec and to automatically have it execute php scripts as the User/Group specified in an Apache VirtualHost block.
http://www.localhost.nl/patches/phpsuexec_howto. ht ml
I mean, let's get serious, Perl allows GUI apps with Tk, writing your own custom servers, parsing local files via command prompt and what not
PHP GTK - http://gtk.php.net/ Sockets for PHP - http://php.net/manual/sv/ref.sockets.php PHP Process Control Functions (fork, etc) - http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php PHP Functions to Parse Conf/Ini Files - http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.p hp
PHP also builds a CLI (command line interface) everytime you compile it enabling you to do perl style #/usr/bin/php and writing command line scripts (even full argc/argv support).
I'm a PHP developer - I do not think "Perl sucks" but I do think developing web applications on PHP is quicker and easier (for me) than in Perl, especially since I'm a native C coder.
Even if PHP were 100% threadsafe, it generally uses too many libraries for it to be practical to make sure they're ALL threadsafe.
Actually the PHP core is 100 percent threadsafe now, it is only specifically the external libraries which aren't.
If you use PHP w/FastCGI support you wont run into these issues. If you only compile MySQL or Postgres support into your PHP you wouldn't either. But many users frequently also compile in other external libs for things like graphics generation, url manipulation, etc and its these libraries which aren't thread safe and specifically can cause problems in high use environments.
While you could specifically use PHP and Apache2 in total prefork mode, this basically makes it run exactly like the 1.3 series, so then the real question is what's the point of upgrading at all and not just sticking w/1.3?
I'm an LA based house DJ and been using Final Scratch for about 6 months now... the benefits of it far outweight the drawbacks.
1) FinalScratch will play any mp3 (vbr, 320k, etc) not just uncompressed wavs 2) The millisecond delay you're talking about is EASILY compensated for. Ever played on a large system w/no monitors - same type of situation. Any DJ worth even 1/10th of his booking price will be able to deal with this w/o even thinking about it 3) If you encode all your mp3s at 320k, it sounds fine on a large club system. Not as good as a brand new record, but sounds about 1 million times better than a record that you've been playing out for years
The zone data could even be generated dynamically, directly from a database, with the serial set to the last time the database was updated.
Check out Power DNS. Basically it's an authorative only nameserver that gets its results directly from a database (mySQL, Postgres, Oracle). Wanna update info for a zone, it's as simple as issuing an SQL UPDATE statement and viola, your changes are live.
I do the same as well and have for years. Every now and then I see people hop onto my network and as I travel alot I do the same. Never abusing anyone elses connection most of the time all I am really doing is checking email and browsing web pages.
One thing to add: I use Secure IMAP, SSH, SCP, and SSL for accessing most things work related. No cleartext passwords being transmitted by me for this exact reason that I'm always on other peoples networks.
And the point that you all are completely missing is that this scam is designed by people alot more smarter than you are who have been doing this for much longer than you could possibly imagine.
The scam is designed to target people. In the same way that a magician is able to use sleight of hand to make everyone think a tiger on stage has dissapeared, these guys have had decades to perfect this scam. If given the chance, they could probably fool anyone (think about it: if you got an email/phone call saying that some distant relative had left no will but cash and some lawyer had been searching years for you and finally found you and wanted to turn the money over to you, you wouldn't be as quick to dismiss it, in the end the story and players can always be changed to the point that you wouldn't recognize it as a 419 scam anymore).
In my friends instance, he was a sysadmin who had been contacted by another friend (his friend was the one who had originally been taken). Because he believed his buddy (someone he had known since childhood) he went to Nigeria to check things out. The people he met, everyone he dealt with, he compared it to doing business w/a bank. There were bankers, lawyers, so much money was being thrown around by everyone that he just fell into it. Expensive lunches (they paid for some), cabs and hotel rooms, it never ended.
I told him one thing, if you do believe this and give them money and they come up with an excuse and ask for more, run like hell. They did and he did, but not before being taken for a few grand.
They knew he was a computer person, probably figured he was a very logical person, and used that to formulate their plan of attack. The scam is about fooling people, and if you're given enough time and practice, you can fool anyone.
Just look at the guys from Tyco, Enron, etc. They gobbled billions from people all over the world and squandered it away. And they fooled people much smarter than the majority of Slashdot readers.
Don't be so quick to dismiss someone as being stupid for falling for a scam. Anyone can be fooled and most of us have been at some point or another (by scams legal and illegal) and never even realized it.
Right, but I just wondering if there was any liability. It seems like if everyone had public access, then whenever someone wanted to do something illegal they could just get on someone else's public WAP.
Well I think the liability question is a good one, but I say look at it this way. There are a number of companies (McDonalds, Starbucks, Borders) that provide free Internet access for their customers. You just show up w/a laptop, goto a webpage where you agree to some conditions, and sign on. In these same places someone could theoretically do something illegal but the companies aren't held liable for their users actions either.
IANAL but I guess it's in the same way that ISPs aren't liable for their users actions. I dunno but I definetely am not a lawyer.
How do you keep people from sending spam or doing other nasty things with your connection?
Well, contrary to popular belief most people that use the internet aren't spammers, aren't child pornographers, and aren't interested in doing anything other than browsing the web and checking mail.
My WAP comes with enough logging that if someone did become a problem, I could figure it out and act accordingly. But I've had my wap (and had it wide open) for 3-4 years now and never had a problem. I'd like to be the optimist in this situation and only lock things down if it does become a problem - but so far that hasn't happened.
As earlier mentioned, most people are only interested in web browsing and checking Email. Whenever I hop on other peoples networks that's pretty much all I do as well.
Think about it this way, if everyone opened up their wifi networks and you blanketed a city in coverage, sure you'd be paying for your DSL connection, but you'd be able to go anywhere in the city and still be online (cause you would just jump on someone elses open connection).
It's basically like WAP opensource (for lack of a better term).
For a second I thought I might be in there but I'm pretty close to LAX so doubt they could have done a flyover and picked me up without getting in the way of a 747.
But I'm all for free wifi access everywhere. I leave my WAP wide open. Some of my neighbors use it, I don't care. I travel alot and do consulting in the area and am always hopping on and off other peoples networks whereever I go - I love it!
There really is no reason why we should not have free wifi access everywhere.
Tons of people pay attention to the paid results on Google. I use them to advertise two companies that I do business with and the results we have been getting from them are excellent.
To all those people complaining, I say pony up some cash and use Google Adwords if your business is really that dependent on search results.
What happens more oft than not, are the companies willing to spend money on advertising for certain key phrases, are also usually the better choice for purchasing whatever you're looking for.
I've already seen it twice. I saw it the first time and was so dissapointed, upset, pissed, angry, whatever that I vowed never to give the WB another cent. Then of course, some friends went to see it again the next night so I tagged along deciding that I needed to give it another chance and to see if I missed anything.
After seeing it twice, yeah there was some stuff I missed. Yes I liked it better/hated it less the second time around. I see so many people commenting that "if you didn't like it you didn't get it" and I'm here to say that I didn't like it, but I sure as hell got it.
I just think it could have been so much better. The Matrix Trilogy could have been the sickiest Sci-Fi of all times. Serious. It had that much potential. The first Matrix was already in my top lists of movies. It totally got me by surprise (as it did to everyone) and made me leave the theater in pure wonder. I remember walking down the street and just wondering - "Can I run a little faster than I think I can? Or jump just a little higher?"
This launched me into a quest where I bought tons of philosophy books and read tons of stuff online and I was happy.
With the announcement of the trilogy (and sorry but if anyone believes that this was always a trilogy from the beggining you're smoking crack) I figured that we were going to go from Matrix 1/Philosophy 101 to Matrix 2 and 3 and Philosophy 405! Instead I was dissapointed.. because Matrix 2 and 3 were basically just stories. They kind of hinted at going deeper (think Plato and his cave analogy and the Matrix in Matrix which everyone was expecting) but really only skimmed the surface.
I'm not mad that the machine war ended, I kind of expected that. But I also expected the Matrix in a Matrix theory. And if it had ended like that, the ending would have been more open than it is now! Imagine a Neo telling everyone that they're still in the Matrix. Imagine them getting out of that Matrix. Then imagine them asking "How do we know we're not still in the Matrix" and then just ending it! That's about as open ended as you can get! So saying that I didn't like the movie because it wasn't wrapped up all nicely is weak.
Going from that, the whole scene with the Trainman...it could have led to a whole slew of new ideas but instead it didn't fit the movie at all and had it been removed no one would have noticed or missed it. That scene could and should have talked more about what it is exactly to be a machine and to be human. Maybe we are exactly the same things. Maybe we do work in exactly the same way. Maybe we find out that the machines had been integrating biological components in themselves for years and thus became more "human." Maybe we find out that humans had been integrating more mechanical components in themselves for years and become more "machine."
Maybe we find out that once you leave this Matrix and go a level up to the level of Zion and go a level up past that we find out that the Oracle, Architect, etc all of them were actually just players in the game. They didn't create the Matrix either but just existed in it just like us and just added another level to it and they don't know how far up it goes either. Maybe we find out that the more levels up you go, the wackier the story gets and it just never ends.
The WB gave me months for my mind to wander with ideas. They had years while they were building this. I just expected a whole lot more and got a whole lot less. Did I expect to much - yup. Should I have set my sights lower - yup. But in all honesty I think they just lost sight. Someone said it before, they got all this money this time around and completely lost the art of story telling in the process.
Go watch Bound if you don't know what I mean. That movie had the lowest budget out of anything they've ever done and I still think it was completely SICK and love it and would put it right below Matrix. It's just a story but the way it's told is awesome.
Start off the demo by showing them a simple game (pac-man, whatever). Then show them how a programmer modifies code to make the games they love. Then show them a few other examples. Throw in some Nintendo, PS2, and other references.
You'll have the kids hanging off the edges of their chairs. Always get their attention by starting off with what they already know and what they can identify with.
Doesn't matter if you're not a game programmer per se, just use that as an intro to what a programmer actually does. Then you can branch from there and site other examples that aren't game related.
Sorry to double reply but here's another point. If we were talking about a guy working for a tobacco company who found out the company was deliberately making their product more addictive while running a PR campaign saying the cigarette smoking was safe, would we even be having this debate?
Huge difference tho, there are no laws dictating that a company that says its software is secure have to be secure, but there are laws governing the safety of consumer products (like tobacco, alcohol, food, etc). And secure is such a vague term as well, any piece of software can be compromised, especially if you worked on said particular piece of software.
I agree that the guy's actions sounded malicious, but when it comes down to it, he was a whistle blower. He demonstrated that the company continued to advertise its services as secure even while they knew about a blatant security flaw which they did nothing to fix for six months.
Whistle blower? You're kidding right? We're talking about an exploit here. You think a MIcrosoft employee that decided to come forward and reveal a flaw in Outlook or Office would be treated any differently than this guy was? By agreeing to work for said company, he is also agreeing to keep trade secrets confidential, even if those boil down to exploits.
It doesn't matter that he may be trying to do this for the greater good, you cannot do something like this, using information gained while working for said company. And contacting all of the companys customers? THat was just malicious. He could have just as easy sent a single anonymous email to any number of security organizations if that was his true goal and been done with it.
And to top all that off, how the hell did he get a list of all the companys customers? My guess - he jacked it while he worked there. And that's just as illegal as anything else he did.
IANAL and am not exactly sure all the rules behind what seperates a civil state case from a Federal one, but corporate cases (for almost anything) usually fall under Federal jurisdiction.
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Pro Gamers having absolutely nothing on Pro atheletes! You wanna talk about burning out on a game after playing it non-stop for a few years?
Ask Karl Malone if he's burnt out on playing basketball for more than 20 YEARS! Him and other athletes of his caliber have been playing professional sports 2-3-4-5 times longer than most of these platforms for gaming have even existed.
Don't get upset at Walmart over this, get upset at your bank/credit card company.
Know why this happens? Credit Card companies make money in 2 ways; 1) You get charged interest on purchases you make if you don't pay off the charge in a certian amount of time and 2) Whenever you use your credit card, the merchant has to ALSO pay a percentage of your total bill to the credit card company (anwhere up to 5,6 percent of the total charge)
That's right, not only are the credit card companies sometimes making as much as 20% APR off of willing victims, but they are also charging the merchant a percentage as well.
This sucks, and Walmart recognized it as such and said - hey this is stupid. Even if they were only paying 1 percent per year off of every transaction we're still talking a couple of billion dollars.
If you want it to change, be pissed at your bank, not at Walmart. Expect more stores to start doing this in the future (alot have, not just Walmart).
To add to this, Postix is not just for small to medium sized servers. It actually scales extremely well because of it's design philosophy (bunch of small programs that each do one thing and do it well communicating w/each other).
I would actually argue the opposite of parent - use Sendmail if it came preconfigured on your box, but otherwise if you're running a large server or hub, migrate over to Postfix if you want to wring every ounce possible outta your mailserver.
Having worked at a hosting company for years, we actually migrated to Postfix (from Sendmail) way back in the day, when Postfix was still called VMailer (actually joined the beta before it even had a name).
Simply put, Postfix is designed from the ground up with security in mind as well as the KISS philosophy of software design. Postfix has a bunch of little programs that all do one thing and do it very well, is realitively easy to chroot and even if you opt to not do that is still much more secure than Sendmail (esp its out of the box config). It's author Wietse Venema (sp?) was the same guy that wrote TCP Wrappers which is a stock part of almost every BSD/Linux distro today.
Postfix was engineered from the groupd up to be a Secure MTA and was able to take immediate advantage of all the lessons that had been learned by Sendmail w/o having to hang on to a legacy codebase.
Postfix is also extremely easy to configure, using straight non-cryptic ini style conf files and doesn't require a 1300 page manual to get the best out of it. Couple this with the fact that connecting it to a MySQL/Postgres/Oracle database for map lookups (forwarding, alias, transport, etc) and you've got this beast that scales very well for hosting environments (you can also used virtual passwd databases enabling you to create mailbox accounts that do not actually exist in the systems passwd db). When we deployed it at said hosting company, we were delivering close to a million messages a day and saw lookup times, delivery times, queue times, pretty much everything drop to about 1/4 of their levels w/Sendmail. Postfix is blazingly fast.
Postfix isn't for everyone tho. If you're only running a few domains and/or Sendmail came preconfigured on the box you're running it on then you're probably fine sticking w/Sendmail. We actually only used Postfix as a hub and used Sendmail on all our severs in a relay only mode. If you know Sendmail back and forth and can make it jump through flaming hoops I wouldn't necessarily advise switching to Postfix unless you're looking to wring more out of your MTA and want to do it relatively easily and securely.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Postfix has even had any remote exploits (it doesn't run as root out of the box)?
Well I let my money do the talking for me - I cancelled a long time ago for a bunch of different reasons. And now if I had been playing I'd be even more pissed if I had to shell out more $$$ for this expansion.
Now here is the 100 million dollar question, can I go out and just buy the expansion and play that without having bought the original?
If the answer is no, then fuck them. $70 for the original.. 6 months of play for over $15 a month (or whatever it was), now another 50-70 for an *EXPANSION* and two new classes that I have to pay for to be able to play?!?
I hate this business model - I despise it. And that is why I stopped giving up my hard earned a long time ago. I'd love to wait a year, get everything for dirt cheap and see how it all works out, but by then it'll be impossible to get anywhere in the game due to the old ages over everyone else.
BSD has a lot to learn from GNU/Linux regarding security. There have been less exploits found in the BSDs, but we all know that more eyes leads to a more secure product. And I really refuse to believe that most people do not hack the source code. Every mum and dad has dreams every night of helping to further the GNU/Linux cause. If they dont, then they are teh sux0r and are lusers.
I honestly can't figure out if you're a troll, illinformated, or what... but nonetheless you really need to check out OpenBSD.
Know why the BSD's have a pretty good track record? It's not because people aren't hacking it (BSDs use alot of the same software and thus have the same exploits that Linux does), but rather it's due in large part to OpenBSD and their line by line code security audit.
Yup that's right, the OpenBSD guys audit all code before it's released, specifically looking for things like buffer exploits and the likes. When they're found, the results are shared w/the other BSDs and fixed.
is a license required if you are driving on your own land?
Nope. A license is only required if you will be driving a vehicle on shared roads (roads maintained by the gov). If you are on private property, you can do whatever the hell you want w/the vehicle. No registration or license required.
Farm equipment, tractors, construction equipment - licenses not required to use any of it unless you decide to take it on Main Street.
So the driving is a privledge, not a right statement should be changed to driving on roads that we (government) build and maintain and own, with other drivers, is a privledge.
Well I'm not too familiar with Apachetoolbox, but if you just compile Postgres with default options it will pretty much generate a .so that it places under $PREFIX/lib/plpgsql.so
PHP's content accelerator (Zend) is free. And if you don't want to use it, there are plenty of other accelerators that have been designed that you can drop into your php.ini and have working in minutes.
IonCube - http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/
MMCache - http://turck-mmcache.sourceforge.net/
That said, a company following the model of PHP/Zend actually gives me some peace of mind. These guys have the right balanace of OpenSource/Business that I think alot more projects/companies need to realize.
While existing in a pure OS world would be great, it's not pratical now. And if you wanna use PHP now, fine no problem. You can download it and the entire source for free. However if you are a business and want to take advantage of load balancing, development environments, and other advanced features then hey - you're making money as a business and can afford to drop a few duckets to further the development of the project.
What's wrong w/that?
I can't take PHP seriously for one reason alone: No built in suid mechanism.
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You gotta be kidding, right? I mean this isn't even a concern if you aren't running in a shared hosting environment. Seems a bit premature to toss out an entire programming language that could potentially be beneficial because you don't agree with how it's implemented in one particular situation.
That said, it is entirely possible to get PHP working w/Apache suExec and to automatically have it execute php scripts as the User/Group specified in an Apache VirtualHost block.
http://www.localhost.nl/patches/phpsuexec_howto
I mean, let's get serious, Perl allows GUI apps with Tk, writing your own custom servers, parsing local files via command prompt and what not
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PHP GTK - http://gtk.php.net/
Sockets for PHP - http://php.net/manual/sv/ref.sockets.php
PHP Process Control Functions (fork, etc) - http://php.net/manual/en/ref.pcntl.php
PHP Functions to Parse Conf/Ini Files - http://php.net/manual/en/function.parse-ini-file.
PHP also builds a CLI (command line interface) everytime you compile it enabling you to do perl style #/usr/bin/php and writing command line scripts (even full argc/argv support).
I'm a PHP developer - I do not think "Perl sucks" but I do think developing web applications on PHP is quicker and easier (for me) than in Perl, especially since I'm a native C coder.
To each is own.
Even if PHP were 100% threadsafe, it generally uses too many libraries for it to be practical to make sure they're ALL threadsafe.
Actually the PHP core is 100 percent threadsafe now, it is only specifically the external libraries which aren't.
If you use PHP w/FastCGI support you wont run into these issues. If you only compile MySQL or Postgres support into your PHP you wouldn't either. But many users frequently also compile in other external libs for things like graphics generation, url manipulation, etc and its these libraries which aren't thread safe and specifically can cause problems in high use environments.
While you could specifically use PHP and Apache2 in total prefork mode, this basically makes it run exactly like the 1.3 series, so then the real question is what's the point of upgrading at all and not just sticking w/1.3?
I'm an LA based house DJ and been using Final Scratch for about 6 months now... the benefits of it far outweight the drawbacks.
1) FinalScratch will play any mp3 (vbr, 320k, etc) not just uncompressed wavs
2) The millisecond delay you're talking about is EASILY compensated for. Ever played on a large system w/no monitors - same type of situation. Any DJ worth even 1/10th of his booking price will be able to deal with this w/o even thinking about it
3) If you encode all your mp3s at 320k, it sounds fine on a large club system. Not as good as a brand new record, but sounds about 1 million times better than a record that you've been playing out for years
The zone data could even be generated dynamically, directly from a database, with the serial set to the last time the database was updated.
Check out Power DNS. Basically it's an authorative only nameserver that gets its results directly from a database (mySQL, Postgres, Oracle). Wanna update info for a zone, it's as simple as issuing an SQL UPDATE statement and viola, your changes are live.
I do the same as well and have for years. Every now and then I see people hop onto my network and as I travel alot I do the same. Never abusing anyone elses connection most of the time all I am really doing is checking email and browsing web pages.
One thing to add: I use Secure IMAP, SSH, SCP, and SSL for accessing most things work related. No cleartext passwords being transmitted by me for this exact reason that I'm always on other peoples networks.
And the point that you all are completely missing is that this scam is designed by people alot more smarter than you are who have been doing this for much longer than you could possibly imagine.
The scam is designed to target people. In the same way that a magician is able to use sleight of hand to make everyone think a tiger on stage has dissapeared, these guys have had decades to perfect this scam. If given the chance, they could probably fool anyone (think about it: if you got an email/phone call saying that some distant relative had left no will but cash and some lawyer had been searching years for you and finally found you and wanted to turn the money over to you, you wouldn't be as quick to dismiss it, in the end the story and players can always be changed to the point that you wouldn't recognize it as a 419 scam anymore).
In my friends instance, he was a sysadmin who had been contacted by another friend (his friend was the one who had originally been taken). Because he believed his buddy (someone he had known since childhood) he went to Nigeria to check things out. The people he met, everyone he dealt with, he compared it to doing business w/a bank. There were bankers, lawyers, so much money was being thrown around by everyone that he just fell into it. Expensive lunches (they paid for some), cabs and hotel rooms, it never ended.
I told him one thing, if you do believe this and give them money and they come up with an excuse and ask for more, run like hell. They did and he did, but not before being taken for a few grand.
They knew he was a computer person, probably figured he was a very logical person, and used that to formulate their plan of attack. The scam is about fooling people, and if you're given enough time and practice, you can fool anyone.
Just look at the guys from Tyco, Enron, etc. They gobbled billions from people all over the world and squandered it away. And they fooled people much smarter than the majority of Slashdot readers.
Don't be so quick to dismiss someone as being stupid for falling for a scam. Anyone can be fooled and most of us have been at some point or another (by scams legal and illegal) and never even realized it.
Right, but I just wondering if there was any liability. It seems like if everyone had public access, then whenever someone wanted to do something illegal they could just get on someone else's public WAP.
Well I think the liability question is a good one, but I say look at it this way. There are a number of companies (McDonalds, Starbucks, Borders) that provide free Internet access for their customers. You just show up w/a laptop, goto a webpage where you agree to some conditions, and sign on. In these same places someone could theoretically do something illegal but the companies aren't held liable for their users actions either.
IANAL but I guess it's in the same way that ISPs aren't liable for their users actions. I dunno but I definetely am not a lawyer.
How do you keep people from sending spam or doing other nasty things with your connection?
Well, contrary to popular belief most people that use the internet aren't spammers, aren't child pornographers, and aren't interested in doing anything other than browsing the web and checking mail.
My WAP comes with enough logging that if someone did become a problem, I could figure it out and act accordingly. But I've had my wap (and had it wide open) for 3-4 years now and never had a problem. I'd like to be the optimist in this situation and only lock things down if it does become a problem - but so far that hasn't happened.
As earlier mentioned, most people are only interested in web browsing and checking Email. Whenever I hop on other peoples networks that's pretty much all I do as well.
Uh, how 'bout: "because bandwidth costs money"?
Think about it this way, if everyone opened up their wifi networks and you blanketed a city in coverage, sure you'd be paying for your DSL connection, but you'd be able to go anywhere in the city and still be online (cause you would just jump on someone elses open connection).
It's basically like WAP opensource (for lack of a better term).
For a second I thought I might be in there but I'm pretty close to LAX so doubt they could have done a flyover and picked me up without getting in the way of a 747.
But I'm all for free wifi access everywhere. I leave my WAP wide open. Some of my neighbors use it, I don't care. I travel alot and do consulting in the area and am always hopping on and off other peoples networks whereever I go - I love it!
There really is no reason why we should not have free wifi access everywhere.
Tons of people pay attention to the paid results on Google. I use them to advertise two companies that I do business with and the results we have been getting from them are excellent.
To all those people complaining, I say pony up some cash and use Google Adwords if your business is really that dependent on search results.
What happens more oft than not, are the companies willing to spend money on advertising for certain key phrases, are also usually the better choice for purchasing whatever you're looking for.
Not to my knowledge.. I just said that to illustrate a point. My bad. :)
I've already seen it twice. I saw it the first time and was so dissapointed, upset, pissed, angry, whatever that I vowed never to give the WB another cent. Then of course, some friends went to see it again the next night so I tagged along deciding that I needed to give it another chance and to see if I missed anything.
After seeing it twice, yeah there was some stuff I missed. Yes I liked it better/hated it less the second time around. I see so many people commenting that "if you didn't like it you didn't get it" and I'm here to say that I didn't like it, but I sure as hell got it.
I just think it could have been so much better. The Matrix Trilogy could have been the sickiest Sci-Fi of all times. Serious. It had that much potential. The first Matrix was already in my top lists of movies. It totally got me by surprise (as it did to everyone) and made me leave the theater in pure wonder. I remember walking down the street and just wondering - "Can I run a little faster than I think I can? Or jump just a little higher?"
This launched me into a quest where I bought tons of philosophy books and read tons of stuff online and I was happy.
With the announcement of the trilogy (and sorry but if anyone believes that this was always a trilogy from the beggining you're smoking crack) I figured that we were going to go from Matrix 1/Philosophy 101 to Matrix 2 and 3 and Philosophy 405! Instead I was dissapointed.. because Matrix 2 and 3 were basically just stories. They kind of hinted at going deeper (think Plato and his cave analogy and the Matrix in Matrix which everyone was expecting) but really only skimmed the surface.
I'm not mad that the machine war ended, I kind of expected that. But I also expected the Matrix in a Matrix theory. And if it had ended like that, the ending would have been more open than it is now! Imagine a Neo telling everyone that they're still in the Matrix. Imagine them getting out of that Matrix. Then imagine them asking "How do we know we're not still in the Matrix" and then just ending it! That's about as open ended as you can get! So saying that I didn't like the movie because it wasn't wrapped up all nicely is weak.
Going from that, the whole scene with the Trainman...it could have led to a whole slew of new ideas but instead it didn't fit the movie at all and had it been removed no one would have noticed or missed it. That scene could and should have talked more about what it is exactly to be a machine and to be human. Maybe we are exactly the same things. Maybe we do work in exactly the same way. Maybe we find out that the machines had been integrating biological components in themselves for years and thus became more "human." Maybe we find out that humans had been integrating more mechanical components in themselves for years and become more "machine."
Maybe we find out that once you leave this Matrix and go a level up to the level of Zion and go a level up past that we find out that the Oracle, Architect, etc all of them were actually just players in the game. They didn't create the Matrix either but just existed in it just like us and just added another level to it and they don't know how far up it goes either. Maybe we find out that the more levels up you go, the wackier the story gets and it just never ends.
The WB gave me months for my mind to wander with ideas. They had years while they were building this. I just expected a whole lot more and got a whole lot less. Did I expect to much - yup. Should I have set my sights lower - yup. But in all honesty I think they just lost sight. Someone said it before, they got all this money this time around and completely lost the art of story telling in the process.
Go watch Bound if you don't know what I mean. That movie had the lowest budget out of anything they've ever done and I still think it was completely SICK and love it and would put it right below Matrix. It's just a story but the way it's told is awesome.
Now lets examine the huge p
Start off the demo by showing them a simple game (pac-man, whatever). Then show them how a programmer modifies code to make the games they love. Then show them a few other examples. Throw in some Nintendo, PS2, and other references.
You'll have the kids hanging off the edges of their chairs. Always get their attention by starting off with what they already know and what they can identify with.
Doesn't matter if you're not a game programmer per se, just use that as an intro to what a programmer actually does. Then you can branch from there and site other examples that aren't game related.
Sorry to double reply but here's another point. If we were talking about a guy working for a tobacco company who found out the company was deliberately making their product more addictive while running a PR campaign saying the cigarette smoking was safe, would we even be having this debate?
Huge difference tho, there are no laws dictating that a company that says its software is secure have to be secure, but there are laws governing the safety of consumer products (like tobacco, alcohol, food, etc). And secure is such a vague term as well, any piece of software can be compromised, especially if you worked on said particular piece of software.
I agree that the guy's actions sounded malicious, but when it comes down to it, he was a whistle blower. He demonstrated that the company continued to advertise its services as secure even while they knew about a blatant security flaw which they did nothing to fix for six months.
Whistle blower? You're kidding right? We're talking about an exploit here. You think a MIcrosoft employee that decided to come forward and reveal a flaw in Outlook or Office would be treated any differently than this guy was? By agreeing to work for said company, he is also agreeing to keep trade secrets confidential, even if those boil down to exploits.
It doesn't matter that he may be trying to do this for the greater good, you cannot do something like this, using information gained while working for said company. And contacting all of the companys customers? THat was just malicious. He could have just as easy sent a single anonymous email to any number of security organizations if that was his true goal and been done with it.
And to top all that off, how the hell did he get a list of all the companys customers? My guess - he jacked it while he worked there. And that's just as illegal as anything else he did.
IANAL and am not exactly sure all the rules behind what seperates a civil state case from a Federal one, but corporate cases (for almost anything) usually fall under Federal jurisdiction.