Anything outside the web browser looks complicated to them.
And tackle the major headings of this "report". When I say "you", I refer to the original author of this report.
1. No reliable sound system CI: You're a ninny, set it once and forget it. I haven't had a problem with Linux sound since the 90's
2. X system: CI: OK, I can appreciate this one, but still not a huge hurdle to overcome. There are several well established API's available for those who don't want to redevelop for every new version of GTK or Qt. wxWindows comes to mind, as does FLTK. God forbid an application be written in a portable language like Java. In short, you're a ninny.
3. Problems stemming from the vast number of Linux distributives: CI: pick one, contribute, live it, love it. You're a ninny.
4. It should be possible to configure everything via GUI which is still not a case for too many situations and operations. CI: Configurations that require editing a text file are generally too complex for users who expect GUI applications. It's all because they're ninnies, and so are you.
5. Problems stemming from low linux popularity and open source nature: CI: Linux is popular around here, especially with my customers. They appreciate the stability of the system and while they are incapable of running Linux due to low IQ, they understand that the penguin stands guard over their service and have learned not to fear it. The main problem is fear of change, and ninnies.
6. Poor or almost missing regression testing in Linux kernel (and, alas, in other Open Source software too) leading to a situation when new kernels may become totally unusable for some hardware configurations (software suspend doesn't work, crashes, unable to boot, networking problems, video tearing, etc.) CI: If you weren't a ninny, you'd perform your own testing prior to implementation. When it doesn't work, you roll back and notify the maintainers of a bug.
7. A galore of software bugs across all applications. Just look into KDE or Gnome bugzilla's - some bugs are now ten years old with over several dozens of duplicates and no one is working on them. CI: Lets compare the development models a little. Closed source apps have money dumped on them while FOSS applications are required to beg. In my experience, there isn't a bug that cannot be solved with money. Seriously, try telling a developer that you're a ninny and offering $500 (or, an appropriate amount) directly to him/her and see how fast the bug gets fixed.
8. Poor interoperability between applications and their components. E.g. many kernel features get a decent userspace support years after introduction. CI: Um, yeah....the changes trickle down.
8.1 Most distros don't allow you to easily set up a server with e.g. such a configuration: Samba, SMTP/POP3, Apache HTTP Auth and FTP where all users are virtual. LDAP is a major PITA. Authentication against MySQL/any other DB is also a PITA. CI: I said only major headings, but I must comment on this one - Do we really want to give a ninny the ability to set up servers without proper knowledge? I don't know any system administrators that NEED things to be easy. I, personally, prefer logical to easy.
9. General slowness: just compare load times between e.g. OpenOffice and Microsoft Office. If you don't like this example, try running OpenOffice in Windows and in Linux. In the latter case it will be much slower. CI:Compared to when I began computing as a teen, everything loads faster. Now, relative speeds on the same application in windows vs. linux are probably affected by ninnieness (the users inability to properly configure and operate his computer)
10. CLI (command line interface) errors for user applications (see clause 4.). All GUI applications should have a visible errors presentation. CI: Already available, you just don't know where to look. Don't be a ninny, if you want errors, launch your applicat
In the current configuration, Google must render pages, so those power users are pulling (this is a guesstimate) 70% HTML, CSS and Javascript. Well built applications would retrieve data at appropriate intervals. Refreshing the page on Google Analytics doesn't result in new information displayed until their system posts the next batch of incoming data.
At least for the current method of use (to analyze and visualize your traffic data), their resource requirements should go down.
The clients now perform the rendering and Google need only provide the raw data. It's brilliant and a great move. As applications are written, refined and adopted, Google will benefit from the reduced load of the rendering servers. Their bandwidth usage would probably go down as well.
Our customers were able to buy MaxDB directly from SAP for running SAP applications. From October 2003 to August 2007 they were also able to buy the database from MySQL for running non-SAP applications. SAP owned MaxDB development and IP. SAP provided the development support for users of MaxDB under both SAP applications and non-SAP applications where as MySQL provided primary support for non-SAP applications.
I've always been partial to writing code alfresco, although it takes more preparation. I must use a laptop cooler (upside down) and put a towel on the leather couch.
Perhaps Widenius and the developers will change its name to "OurSQL" (Our as opposed to My) or "MoonSQL" (Moon as opposed to Sun)
Either way, below there are mentions of the InnoDB functionality that is third party, but nobody mentioned the SAP contributions in MAXDB (a MySQL derivative), what will happen to that?
It's happened before with XFree86 (forked by developers and now maintained as Xorg), Mambo CMS (forked by developers and now maintained as Joomla! CMS).
Does anyone else have examples of software that was forked by the developers where the original version became obsolete (or something like it)?
Sun/Oracle had an excellent opportunity to embrace their community, but it seems they're not going to do that.
A webmaster is someone who controls the content of a website.
Adding some ammunition to your statement above, I had a boss that was the "Webmaster" but couldn't have been a dumber blonde. She couldn't write a lick of code, didn't know PHP from HTML from Javascript, yet she was the "Webmaster". She once managed to turn a simple address input into a 9 page form (separate page for first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, etc). I convinced her bosses that I could do it in 1 page and they agreed.
I'm not sure if she was promoted to a position where she could do less damage, but the website she was responsible for (a California TV station) is now nothing but Google ads. Shortly after I quit I was accused of hacking their website. It turned out that her new developer didn't understand an SQL query and told her I was using it to hack in.
I don't call myself a webmaster, because I think the term is used way too often by people below my level of expertise. I don't want to be associated with those guys. When selling a website project, I call myself a "Web Application Developer", partly because it's more descriptive of what I do and because the lesser beings wouldn't dare use it for fear that they might actually be asked to develop a web application.
If you're searching for evidence of fraud, you go to where the subpoena says you can go. It makes no difference if the data resides on a backup tape or a memory stick in the dresser drawer of the CEO.
They obviously believed that he had some evidence on his personal systems (accounting records, perhaps)
I said it in the previous article and I'll say it again here.
I actually know Matthew Simpson (we are not friends) and fraud is right up his alley. This raid couldn't have happened to a more deserving prick!
Information can be as free as it wants. Posting information and running a CMS website are two entirely different things. My mom posts on the internet, she sends email, but she's not capable of running a website. If she wanted one, I'd suggest to her that she find a competent developer.
Yes, I want server technology to be restricted to those of us who are educated in its proper operation.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. What we need is an internet license. Lower level licenses allow surfing and sending email, higher level licenses allow serving content. Got no server license?, bummer, you must be a content author.
If uploading files in Joomla is hard for you, then you are not a Linux Systems Admin. Running xscreensavers from Ubuntu installed on VMWare Workstation to impress your friends does not a Linux Systems Admin make.
Hell, I don't call myself that and I run Linux exclusively and manage over 2500 systems.
Now that you've been called out, back to the original topic...
Personally, I wish the Joomla! developers would make the software more difficult to use. Currently, aside from custom code, anybody can set up and operate Joomla site with little knowledge.
Fortunately, not many are in possession of even tiny fragments of knowledge which allows me to charge hefty fees to build, secure and maintain websites. If they make it any easier, people might be able to get a website online with zero knowledge.
The last thing the world needs is for it to be easy for Joe Sixpack to belch out a website on a whim.
I don't take jobs that don't require custom programming, so my business is safe.
Stealing WiFi and other types of service is pretty easy for a wireless ISP network administrator.
It's fun to memorize mac addresses, wep keys and passwords if I don't already have a backdoor (or combination, or key). I'm then able to connect virtually anywhere in several counties either directly to a tower, through a customers cpe, or dial-up if necessary. DSL subscribers would be fair game as well as most NIDs are found outside the residence.
There would be no way to keep me from getting onto that network with what I know.
If it is found true that by withholding passwords he prevented outage then he might get out of this. I can imagine withholding passwords if I didn't trust my replacement.
If you're virtualizing, you can prepare your extra hardware to host more virtual machines. Even if they're turned off, you can have your infrastructure prepared for rapid expansion.
My first question is, are these cables laying on the floor? If he's got a drop-ceiling he might think about going that route.
I've been working with radio towers for a few years and a few of our installations are on grain elevators. These are rat havens! They once chewed through a bundle of cables to nest in my equipment box!
They don't just chew if it's in their way or stripping it, I've seen chews in hard to reach places like on poles. Perhaps they use it to climb.
We did get over one rat problem by using steel lined flexible conduit. We jammed as many cables as we could into it, then toted it up the tower.
Sure, there is Linux, Windows and Mac for desktops, but I wouldn't consider using any of the Desktop distros for the wireless radios I manage. There are distros for specific tasks.
Just like there are times when Windows is a suitable OS for a specific task, BeOS..ahem...Haiku might be the platform for a specific task.
I remember watching a BeOS demo way back when and I was just AMAZED by the speed of the OS and applications. Granted, they were running it on one of their BeBox hardware platforms, but either way they were outperforming (with multimedia) anything I had seen at the time.
I look forward to playing with Haiku, but not until it's released and has some application support.
I picked up a kit at wal-mart that is designed for car use. It's a nice case with swivel feet (to allow hanging or standing mount) and comes with a remote control. Best of all, it was less than $20
The handy part of this device is that it has 8 memory locations for user-defined messages. Here are my saved messages.
1. Are you my proctologist? GET OUT OF MY ASS! 2. Got Low Beams? You're blinding me! 3. Your left turn signal is STILL on! 4. Your right turn signal is STILL on!
The other 4 slots remain empty until I come up with something witty to add.
You haven't been to CNN recently, have you. Many pages that load quickly at broadband speeds are turtles at dial-up speeds, which cannot exceed 53kbps (even though your modem is labeled 56k) and that's with good copper and being reasonably close to the exchange. Real-world connections are most likely in the 31k-51k range.
Email is another story. I can't tell you how often I have to clean email boxes of messages filled with 4MB images because people don't understand that they are sending full-resolution images when a smaller image would do.
Personally, I'm glad there are some people out there who don't want broadband. These are the people who don't know how to operate their computers anyway. The kind of people who don't update their system because they don't know how, need assistance with the most mundane tasks, and can't seem to resist installing virus-ridden BS aren't welcome on MY internet. Let them infect their own computer and spew out spam at 33kbps instead of 384kbps.
Better yet, give them technology they can handle, like envelopes, paper and stamps.
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I'll expand upon your statement.
Anything outside the web browser looks complicated to them.
And tackle the major headings of this "report". When I say "you", I refer to the original author of this report.
1. No reliable sound system
CI: You're a ninny, set it once and forget it. I haven't had a problem with Linux sound since the 90's
2. X system:
CI: OK, I can appreciate this one, but still not a huge hurdle to overcome. There are several well established API's available for those who don't want to redevelop for every new version of GTK or Qt. wxWindows comes to mind, as does FLTK. God forbid an application be written in a portable language like Java. In short, you're a ninny.
3. Problems stemming from the vast number of Linux distributives:
CI: pick one, contribute, live it, love it. You're a ninny.
4. It should be possible to configure everything via GUI which is still not a case for too many situations and operations.
CI: Configurations that require editing a text file are generally too complex for users who expect GUI applications. It's all because they're ninnies, and so are you.
5. Problems stemming from low linux popularity and open source nature:
CI: Linux is popular around here, especially with my customers. They appreciate the stability of the system and while they are incapable of running Linux due to low IQ, they understand that the penguin stands guard over their service and have learned not to fear it. The main problem is fear of change, and ninnies.
6. Poor or almost missing regression testing in Linux kernel (and, alas, in other Open Source software too) leading to a situation when new kernels may become totally unusable for some hardware configurations (software suspend doesn't work, crashes, unable to boot, networking problems, video tearing, etc.)
CI: If you weren't a ninny, you'd perform your own testing prior to implementation. When it doesn't work, you roll back and notify the maintainers of a bug.
7. A galore of software bugs across all applications. Just look into KDE or Gnome bugzilla's - some bugs are now ten years old with over several dozens of duplicates and no one is working on them.
CI: Lets compare the development models a little. Closed source apps have money dumped on them while FOSS applications are required to beg. In my experience, there isn't a bug that cannot be solved with money. Seriously, try telling a developer that you're a ninny and offering $500 (or, an appropriate amount) directly to him/her and see how fast the bug gets fixed.
8. Poor interoperability between applications and their components. E.g. many kernel features get a decent userspace support years after introduction.
CI: Um, yeah....the changes trickle down.
8.1 Most distros don't allow you to easily set up a server with e.g. such a configuration: Samba, SMTP/POP3, Apache HTTP Auth and FTP where all users are virtual. LDAP is a major PITA. Authentication against MySQL/any other DB is also a PITA.
CI: I said only major headings, but I must comment on this one - Do we really want to give a ninny the ability to set up servers without proper knowledge? I don't know any system administrators that NEED things to be easy. I, personally, prefer logical to easy.
9. General slowness: just compare load times between e.g. OpenOffice and Microsoft Office. If you don't like this example, try running OpenOffice in Windows and in Linux. In the latter case it will be much slower.
CI:Compared to when I began computing as a teen, everything loads faster. Now, relative speeds on the same application in windows vs. linux are probably affected by ninnieness (the users inability to properly configure and operate his computer)
10. CLI (command line interface) errors for user applications (see clause 4.). All GUI applications should have a visible errors presentation.
CI: Already available, you just don't know where to look. Don't be a ninny, if you want errors, launch your applicat
In the current configuration, Google must render pages, so those power users are pulling (this is a guesstimate) 70% HTML, CSS and Javascript. Well built applications would retrieve data at appropriate intervals. Refreshing the page on Google Analytics doesn't result in new information displayed until their system posts the next batch of incoming data.
At least for the current method of use (to analyze and visualize your traffic data), their resource requirements should go down.
They're rendering plenty of HTML.
No way, you're thinking of another app, Google Maps.
The clients now perform the rendering and Google need only provide the raw data. It's brilliant and a great move. As applications are written, refined and adopted, Google will benefit from the reduced load of the rendering servers. Their bandwidth usage would probably go down as well.
Ubuntu would be considered a derivative of Debian. A symbiotic relationship.
Oracle acquired SAP? I believe you are mistaken.
MAXDB is a closed source (formerly GPL'd) and is owned and maintained by SAP AG.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxDB
From the MAXDB Wiki:
Our customers were able to buy MaxDB directly from SAP for running SAP applications. From October 2003 to August 2007 they were also able to buy the database from MySQL for running non-SAP applications. SAP owned MaxDB development and IP. SAP provided the development support for users of MaxDB under both SAP applications and non-SAP applications where as MySQL provided primary support for non-SAP applications.
'The Full Monty DB'
I LIKE IT!
I've always been partial to writing code alfresco, although it takes more preparation. I must use a laptop cooler (upside down) and put a towel on the leather couch.
Perhaps Widenius and the developers will change its name to "OurSQL" (Our as opposed to My) or "MoonSQL" (Moon as opposed to Sun)
Either way, below there are mentions of the InnoDB functionality that is third party, but nobody mentioned the SAP contributions in MAXDB (a MySQL derivative), what will happen to that?
It's happened before with XFree86 (forked by developers and now maintained as Xorg), Mambo CMS (forked by developers and now maintained as Joomla! CMS).
Does anyone else have examples of software that was forked by the developers where the original version became obsolete (or something like it)?
Sun/Oracle had an excellent opportunity to embrace their community, but it seems they're not going to do that.
We could treat spammers like some middle eastern countries treat thieves.
CUT OFF THEIR HANDS!
Without hands, they can't type out spam messages!
At this company, he was called "Director of Marketing"
A webmaster is someone who controls the content of a website.
Adding some ammunition to your statement above, I had a boss that was the "Webmaster" but couldn't have been a dumber blonde. She couldn't write a lick of code, didn't know PHP from HTML from Javascript, yet she was the "Webmaster". She once managed to turn a simple address input into a 9 page form (separate page for first name, last name, address line 1, address line 2, etc). I convinced her bosses that I could do it in 1 page and they agreed.
I'm not sure if she was promoted to a position where she could do less damage, but the website she was responsible for (a California TV station) is now nothing but Google ads. Shortly after I quit I was accused of hacking their website. It turned out that her new developer didn't understand an SQL query and told her I was using it to hack in.
I don't call myself a webmaster, because I think the term is used way too often by people below my level of expertise. I don't want to be associated with those guys. When selling a website project, I call myself a "Web Application Developer", partly because it's more descriptive of what I do and because the lesser beings wouldn't dare use it for fear that they might actually be asked to develop a web application.
Sorry, you're absolutely right. Subpoena'd parties are obliged to comply.
I was thinking warrant....
Either way, I hope they find what they need this time. It would make my day to send him some lingerie in prison.
If you're searching for evidence of fraud, you go to where the subpoena says you can go. It makes no difference if the data resides on a backup tape or a memory stick in the dresser drawer of the CEO.
They obviously believed that he had some evidence on his personal systems (accounting records, perhaps)
I said it in the previous article and I'll say it again here.
I actually know Matthew Simpson (we are not friends) and fraud is right up his alley. This raid couldn't have happened to a more deserving prick!
This isn't his first run-in with the FBI!
I ACTUALLY know this guy!
He IS an actual criminal. This isn't his first run-in with the FBI. Charges weren't filed the first time for lack of usable evidence.
Data theft, identity theft and fraud are well within his moral boundaries.
Information can be as free as it wants. Posting information and running a CMS website are two entirely different things. My mom posts on the internet, she sends email, but she's not capable of running a website. If she wanted one, I'd suggest to her that she find a competent developer.
Yes, I want server technology to be restricted to those of us who are educated in its proper operation.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. What we need is an internet license. Lower level licenses allow surfing and sending email, higher level licenses allow serving content. Got no server license?, bummer, you must be a content author.
If uploading files in Joomla is hard for you, then you are not a Linux Systems Admin. Running xscreensavers from Ubuntu installed on VMWare Workstation to impress your friends does not a Linux Systems Admin make.
Hell, I don't call myself that and I run Linux exclusively and manage over 2500 systems.
Now that you've been called out, back to the original topic...
Personally, I wish the Joomla! developers would make the software more difficult to use. Currently, aside from custom code, anybody can set up and operate Joomla site with little knowledge.
Fortunately, not many are in possession of even tiny fragments of knowledge which allows me to charge hefty fees to build, secure and maintain websites. If they make it any easier, people might be able to get a website online with zero knowledge.
The last thing the world needs is for it to be easy for Joe Sixpack to belch out a website on a whim.
I don't take jobs that don't require custom programming, so my business is safe.
Stealing WiFi and other types of service is pretty easy for a wireless ISP network administrator.
It's fun to memorize mac addresses, wep keys and passwords if I don't already have a backdoor (or combination, or key). I'm then able to connect virtually anywhere in several counties either directly to a tower, through a customers cpe, or dial-up if necessary. DSL subscribers would be fair game as well as most NIDs are found outside the residence.
There would be no way to keep me from getting onto that network with what I know.
If it is found true that by withholding passwords he prevented outage then he might get out of this. I can imagine withholding passwords if I didn't trust my replacement.
There is a point to excessive violence toward an oppressive system.
It worked for the French (Bastille Day) and for the USA (Independence Day)
If judges were in fear for their lives, I bet they'd straighten up and follow the law a little more closely.
If you're virtualizing, you can prepare your extra hardware to host more virtual machines. Even if they're turned off, you can have your infrastructure prepared for rapid expansion.
You are virtualizing, right?
Another thought, eBay.
My first question is, are these cables laying on the floor? If he's got a drop-ceiling he might think about going that route.
I've been working with radio towers for a few years and a few of our installations are on grain elevators. These are rat havens! They once chewed through a bundle of cables to nest in my equipment box!
They don't just chew if it's in their way or stripping it, I've seen chews in hard to reach places like on poles. Perhaps they use it to climb.
We did get over one rat problem by using steel lined flexible conduit. We jammed as many cables as we could into it, then toted it up the tower.
Short answer is, conduit.
A different OS for different tasks.
Sure, there is Linux, Windows and Mac for desktops, but I wouldn't consider using any of the Desktop distros for the wireless radios I manage. There are distros for specific tasks.
Just like there are times when Windows is a suitable OS for a specific task, BeOS..ahem...Haiku might be the platform for a specific task.
I remember watching a BeOS demo way back when and I was just AMAZED by the speed of the OS and applications. Granted, they were running it on one of their BeBox hardware platforms, but either way they were outperforming (with multimedia) anything I had seen at the time.
I look forward to playing with Haiku, but not until it's released and has some application support.
I LIKE IT! #5 is now programmed!
I picked up a kit at wal-mart that is designed for car use. It's a nice case with swivel feet (to allow hanging or standing mount) and comes with a remote control. Best of all, it was less than $20
The handy part of this device is that it has 8 memory locations for user-defined messages. Here are my saved messages.
1. Are you my proctologist? GET OUT OF MY ASS!
2. Got Low Beams? You're blinding me!
3. Your left turn signal is STILL on!
4. Your right turn signal is STILL on!
The other 4 slots remain empty until I come up with something witty to add.
You haven't been to CNN recently, have you. Many pages that load quickly at broadband speeds are turtles at dial-up speeds, which cannot exceed 53kbps (even though your modem is labeled 56k) and that's with good copper and being reasonably close to the exchange. Real-world connections are most likely in the 31k-51k range.
Email is another story. I can't tell you how often I have to clean email boxes of messages filled with 4MB images because people don't understand that they are sending full-resolution images when a smaller image would do.
Personally, I'm glad there are some people out there who don't want broadband. These are the people who don't know how to operate their computers anyway. The kind of people who don't update their system because they don't know how, need assistance with the most mundane tasks, and can't seem to resist installing virus-ridden BS aren't welcome on MY internet. Let them infect their own computer and spew out spam at 33kbps instead of 384kbps.
Better yet, give them technology they can handle, like envelopes, paper and stamps.