I don't know the details of this issue, but it is common knowledge that Gmail doesn't follow the standards for IMAP and similar protocols. Many makers of IMAP software have to scramble to get Gmail working in their mail clients. Apparently it is defective by design.
Memory is only used during a request. When a request is done, you get your free memory back. When a request is dealt with faster, you get more free memory in total (or you can handle more requests).
This case seems to be quite clear a shakedown case.
I do feel though that Linux developers are quite on the other extreme with almost no litigation. For years, even untill now, the grey area of NVidia drivers could exist. If the GPL is enforcable, those drivers should be disallowed, or be made GPL. The case is even worse in the ARM ecosystem, where GPL drivers get copied into closed source drivers. That is really bad for users. That situation just continues on for years, with no end in sight. I am siding more and more with the somewhat more idealistic stance of the FSF, instead of the lax 'pragmatism' of Linux, which is just a free for all.
This new standard will only cause confusion. The big parties like Google are already trying to rid the world of RSS, or relegate it to a niche, since there is no advertising money in it. There is all kinds of things wrong with XML, but not in the context or RSS Feeds. The format is simple, easy to create and easy to read. Adding a new standard will not make RSS Feeds suddenly popular, quite the opposite. Let's unite behind RSS and the XML format.
People often complained that RSS was too difficult and only for techies. But with a simple explanation and an "Aha" moment people would enjoy it.
What I think the real reason is, is that it doesn't make the advertisers money. They want clicks and eyeballs, not RSS refreshes. Google Chrome doesn't support RSS feeds anymore, not in the standard build. Google Reader is gone. So you can guess where the advertisers are not wanting to go... My local newspaper just recently stopped providing RSS feeds. I quit reading it, but they probably won't care.
Recently someone here described the formula as: You have 3 guys, of which 2 are constantly forming a team to play on the third person. They are switching teams continuously, so each of the 3 is 2/3 of the time part of the winning team. The cars are just dressing on the cake of this dynamics between the 3 guys.
In the new episodes they changed it to American style, probably under pressure from Amazon. Jeremy Clark plays the role of the winner, James May has the loser role. Richard Hammond is supporting for the winner. It is very much an American TV cliche.
They destroyed the dynamics that there was, and thus the show. We will see how it lasts, but it has definitely changed.
And I respect PHP very much for that focus. But as soon as you go beyond the very basics, I think the learning curve there is steeper. Rails simply has so many answers to so many questions, and it introduces those answers in a pretty progressive way. You don't even have to learn what SQL injection is if you're using the preferred query methods. You SHOULD learn what that is, but you don't have to to get started. If you don't know what SQL injection is and you use the MySQL db query functions with a string-interpolated query in PHP, well, you're going to be in trouble.
Probably he knows the difference:). But he seems to just try to make a point where there is none. He is making a wrong comparison. Ruby on Rails is a framework and should have classes/methods to handle SQL queries, just like any proper framework. Ruby and PHP are languages and shouldn't do that. If you use a framework in PHP, or even a CMS as WordPress or Drupal, you have classes/methods for doing SQL queries.
Thanks for responding properly. This is my take on this situation as well.
My anecdote: I have been on dating websites. Sometimes you come accross a profile of a woman, where the flow and feeling of the text is all off. It feels really off, like "what is going on here?". Then I see that somebody listed themselves as transgender. And then I understand where it is coming from.
Not to start another discussion, but the use of language of a transgender who is now a woman, still has many male patterns .
If you've ever read a fake female profile, where you knew it was written by a man, you would know that same feeling. Something is off and odd.
If people are migrating to FreeBSD, why are there no stats that supports this claim?
When you look at BuiltWith: BuiltWith OS statistics
I don't see a big upsurge of FreeBSD, at least not what I would expect. Around October 2015 it was gaining users/servers, but it is now slowly declining.
In fact, I don't think people are migrating that much to FreeBSD. I think Debian is slowly losing ground. The rock-solid reputation of Debian is no longer true. I don't know what happened, but I think they didn't gain the quality that other distro's gained the last years. Their migration to systemd was quite a disaster.
If you'd run RedHat you will have quite a different experience. I run Mageia now, and systemd is not really a problem here. They seem to have handled that migration quite well.
This is about the reCAPTCHA service, where you load a JavaScript from a Google server, and only when you fill it in correctly you get through.
This is just another cloud service, and you would be silly to use this. In my mind: always use a CAPTCHA service locally, where everything is local, the generation of the image, the check, etc.
For a while I maintained a WordPress plugin with reCAPTCHA, but sometimes users would report a time-out connectin with the Google servers. There would be no information, nothing. Filing a bug report got no response. Also I don't see the point in loading JavaScript from Google. Why would you want to load that from an advertising company.
For most (any) CMS or Framework there are local CAPTCHA's available. A CAPTCHA isn't good usability, but many website owners seem to think they need just that.
For anti-spam I much prefer a Honeypot (empty input field that should be left empty) or a Nonce. Akismet is quite nice too, but still an external service (that will degrade well if it goes down). Even a custom anti-spam question (quiz) is better than a CAPTCHA.
Claws Mail is what I have been using for years. It's a fork of Sylpheed, with many good plugins. IMAP-support has really improved the last few years. The team that works on it are quite nice guys. There is a Windows port, but I haven't used that in a while.
You only need this if you use WordPress on a public website ofcourse...
Make sure to have an uptodate WordPress install. That means that the current major version of 4.3 is okay, but also the minor security update of 4.2.4 (which is an update for 4.2), or even 3.7.10 (which is an update for 3.7). Any major version before 3.7 is not supported and a security risk.
About plugins, only use plugins that are maintained, and use the latest version from the author. If you use plugins that haven't had an update in a year or even in 2 years, check if the maintainer is still active, and plan to switch to something else.
If you use commercial plugins, stay away from illegal downloads. They will have malware inside them. Only use commercial plugins in their current version, and keep them updated (which mostly means, pay your yearly fee).
If you are a developer that builds websites for customers, you will have customers that won't click on Update. You could consider offering a service where you update the software regularly for a reasonale fee.
Do you have a solution for Android devices that still use Linux 3.4? Most devices (all) use closed source drivers, often in quite grey area, legally wise. Linux is maybe about freedom for the user, but most Android users will never see updated kernels and updated Android versions.
You could point the finger at Google, or the OEM's, and you might:). But isn't this also because of the practical vision, instead of the ideological vision of people like RMS? That practical approach seems to bite Linux here in the bottom. How do you feel about that?
Nope, not here. Using Android 4.2 with current Skype. I don't have a Microsoft account, only a Skyp account. Maybe MS expects everybody just to get an MS account.
Can you even change your profile picture in this one? Sometimes the easiest things are the hardest. Afaik you still can do that only in Skype for Windows. Not on Android, not on the website, not anywhere else.
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I don't know the details of this issue, but it is common knowledge that Gmail doesn't follow the standards for IMAP and similar protocols. Many makers of IMAP software have to scramble to get Gmail working in their mail clients. Apparently it is defective by design.
So what? So wat? :)
Are you from Murica?
I thought Dutch people were rude, but muricans on slashdot are quite something too.
Memory is only used during a request. When a request is done, you get your free memory back. When a request is dealt with faster, you get more free memory in total (or you can handle more requests).
How do you recognize an extrovert Fin?
When he looks at your shoes, instead of his own.
This case seems to be quite clear a shakedown case.
I do feel though that Linux developers are quite on the other extreme with almost no litigation.
For years, even untill now, the grey area of NVidia drivers could exist. If the GPL is enforcable, those drivers should be disallowed, or be made GPL.
The case is even worse in the ARM ecosystem, where GPL drivers get copied into closed source drivers. That is really bad for users. That situation just continues on for years, with no end in sight.
I am siding more and more with the somewhat more idealistic stance of the FSF, instead of the lax 'pragmatism' of Linux, which is just a free for all.
...And... , you're on the hook.
Google is now just as much about power as companies like Microsoft, Apple and Oracle. You should not get into bed with them that easily.
This new standard will only cause confusion.
The big parties like Google are already trying to rid the world of RSS, or relegate it to a niche, since there is no advertising money in it.
There is all kinds of things wrong with XML, but not in the context or RSS Feeds. The format is simple, easy to create and easy to read. Adding a new standard will not make RSS Feeds suddenly popular, quite the opposite.
Let's unite behind RSS and the XML format.
People often complained that RSS was too difficult and only for techies. But with a simple explanation and an "Aha" moment people would enjoy it.
What I think the real reason is, is that it doesn't make the advertisers money. They want clicks and eyeballs, not RSS refreshes.
Google Chrome doesn't support RSS feeds anymore, not in the standard build. Google Reader is gone. So you can guess where the advertisers are not wanting to go...
My local newspaper just recently stopped providing RSS feeds. I quit reading it, but they probably won't care.
To me it doesn't feel like Top Gear was.
Recently someone here described the formula as: You have 3 guys, of which 2 are constantly forming a team to play on the third person. They are switching teams continuously, so each of the 3 is 2/3 of the time part of the winning team.
The cars are just dressing on the cake of this dynamics between the 3 guys.
In the new episodes they changed it to American style, probably under pressure from Amazon. Jeremy Clark plays the role of the winner, James May has the loser role. Richard Hammond is supporting for the winner. It is very much an American TV cliche.
They destroyed the dynamics that there was, and thus the show. We will see how it lasts, but it has definitely changed.
Probably he knows the difference :). But he seems to just try to make a point where there is none. He is making a wrong comparison. Ruby on Rails is a framework and should have classes/methods to handle SQL queries, just like any proper framework. Ruby and PHP are languages and shouldn't do that. If you use a framework in PHP, or even a CMS as WordPress or Drupal, you have classes/methods for doing SQL queries.
Thanks for responding properly. This is my take on this situation as well.
My anecdote: I have been on dating websites. Sometimes you come accross a profile of a woman, where the flow and feeling of the text is all off. It feels really off, like "what is going on here?". Then I see that somebody listed themselves as transgender. And then I understand where it is coming from.
Not to start another discussion, but the use of language of a transgender who is now a woman, still has many male patterns .
If you've ever read a fake female profile, where you knew it was written by a man, you would know that same feeling. Something is off and odd.
That means that the only users that will use Facebook are people that want videos.
People that do not want videos will not use Facebook anymore.
If people are migrating to FreeBSD, why are there no stats that supports this claim?
When you look at BuiltWith:
BuiltWith OS statistics
I don't see a big upsurge of FreeBSD, at least not what I would expect. Around October 2015 it was gaining users/servers, but it is now slowly declining.
In fact, I don't think people are migrating that much to FreeBSD. I think Debian is slowly losing ground. The rock-solid reputation of Debian is no longer true. I don't know what happened, but I think they didn't gain the quality that other distro's gained the last years. Their migration to systemd was quite a disaster.
If you'd run RedHat you will have quite a different experience. I run Mageia now, and systemd is not really a problem here. They seem to have handled that migration quite well.
This is about the reCAPTCHA service, where you load a JavaScript from a Google server, and only when you fill it in correctly you get through.
This is just another cloud service, and you would be silly to use this. In my mind: always use a CAPTCHA service locally, where everything is local, the generation of the image, the check, etc.
For a while I maintained a WordPress plugin with reCAPTCHA, but sometimes users would report a time-out connectin with the Google servers. There would be no information, nothing. Filing a bug report got no response.
Also I don't see the point in loading JavaScript from Google. Why would you want to load that from an advertising company.
For most (any) CMS or Framework there are local CAPTCHA's available.
A CAPTCHA isn't good usability, but many website owners seem to think they need just that.
For anti-spam I much prefer a Honeypot (empty input field that should be left empty) or a Nonce. Akismet is quite nice too, but still an external service (that will degrade well if it goes down).
Even a custom anti-spam question (quiz) is better than a CAPTCHA.
Claws Mail is what I have been using for years.
It's a fork of Sylpheed, with many good plugins.
IMAP-support has really improved the last few years. The team that works on it are quite nice guys.
There is a Windows port, but I haven't used that in a while.
Wow, someone being nice on Slashdot. :).
My hat is off to you, sir
And that is why we don't do Nuclear.
How is that relevant for Open Source? You can only use it on a closed platform.
Can you use it on GNUstep yet?
If that is the question, then it's just the same as any other hacked website or ad network.
You only need this if you use WordPress on a public website ofcourse...
Make sure to have an uptodate WordPress install. That means that the current major version of 4.3 is okay, but also the minor security update of 4.2.4 (which is an update for 4.2), or even 3.7.10 (which is an update for 3.7).
Any major version before 3.7 is not supported and a security risk.
About plugins, only use plugins that are maintained, and use the latest version from the author.
If you use plugins that haven't had an update in a year or even in 2 years, check if the maintainer is still active, and plan to switch to something else.
If you use commercial plugins, stay away from illegal downloads. They will have malware inside them.
Only use commercial plugins in their current version, and keep them updated (which mostly means, pay your yearly fee).
If you are a developer that builds websites for customers, you will have customers that won't click on Update. You could consider offering a service where you update the software regularly for a reasonale fee.
> that going with 3.16 means Mint may be the ideal distro if you want to avoid systemd.
What does that even mean? Does Linux 3.17 require systemd? You're better off with 3.16?
That would be really strange.
> I tried restoring a backup but chrome just resynched and erased it again.
What about unplugging the network cable, restoring your backup, and not having it resync.
Do you have a solution for Android devices that still use Linux 3.4?
Most devices (all) use closed source drivers, often in quite grey area, legally wise. Linux is maybe about freedom for the user, but most Android users will never see updated kernels and updated Android versions.
You could point the finger at Google, or the OEM's, and you might :). But isn't this also because of the practical vision, instead of the ideological vision of people like RMS? That practical approach seems to bite Linux here in the bottom.
How do you feel about that?
Nope, not here. Using Android 4.2 with current Skype.
I don't have a Microsoft account, only a Skyp account. Maybe MS expects everybody just to get an MS account.
Can you even change your profile picture in this one?
Sometimes the easiest things are the hardest.
Afaik you still can do that only in Skype for Windows. Not on Android, not on the website, not anywhere else.