There are basically two problems. (1) Nobody will sell me high-reliability webhosting on low-end hardware. The only way to get energy-efficient hardware is to get cheap webhosting. I've tried cheap webhosting. Cheap webhosts have low reliability and nonexistent customer service. (2) Sometimes you get spikes in demand, and you want some excess capacity to be able to handle it without crashing the server. Maybe you get slashdotted. Actually, in my case one thing that has been a problem is that some people apparently run IE plugins that are supposed to accelerate large downloads, by opening multiple connections with the server. When these people hit my server and download a large PDF, the effect is very much like a DOS attack. My logs show one IP address using 300 Mb of throughput to download a 3 Mb PDF. I've written scripts that lock these bozos out ASAP, but on a low-end machine, these events would bring my server to its knees instantly.
Have you taken a look at Amazon EC2, S3, and their other services? Post a question on their forums or on stackexchange and describe your situation, and I bet they can give you a solution that is cheaper and more reliable.
It's not a silver bullet, but lack of a test environment is sure to eventually cause disaster. It's by far the biggest problem mentioned above, even more of a problem than lack of version control.
I would start with a versioning system. That's a lot easier to get working. You could get that working in one day. And it doesn't need a test environment. Yes it should, but it's not a requirement. You can use the trunk as the production codebase. The big advantage is that you can rollback easily. You can even code on the server itself, and then update the codebase from there. No, not the wisest thing to do, but it's possible and probably a lot wiser than coding on the server without versioning. And use comments for each version update!
That's what you make of it. It has everything to do with creationism, neo-cons, anti-government or anti-anything groups who only want to mess things up because probably someone gets better, most probably financially, when things get messy.
this is quite true. but those who know that the Islamic faith have always responed thusly to any slights to faith or their Prophet. previous slights were very very minor, an insulting cartoon, some burned Quar'ans. but making a movie calling Mohammed a child molester?@!?!!#$!^!^!%% they are going to KILL PEOPLE (and have)
this screams Israel, even though it was proven that this movie was created by Egyptian Copts living abroad. there is no way in hell that israel didn't partially fund this.
before i get trolled, Israel and Zionism does not necessarily equal Jewish or Hebrew, okay?
Israel doesn't even equal Israel. What is Israel? I don't think this is funded by the Israeli government. And most of the time when we speak of "Israel" in a context like this, we mean the government.
Movies like this are probably funded by christian and jewish extremists, or better: anti-islam extremists, and maybe even anti-Obama extremists, or anti-anything extremists. Groups like these are as big a problem as the groups they pretend to fight. I don't even believe that they are really fighting against Islam. They are fighting to fight, for whatever reason.
I don't generally like the idea of giving DNA samples to anyone. However, if the authorities are very direct and up-front about it, and provide me with a signed statement that the records will be destroyed after each sample is "cleared", then I'd do it in this case.
I'll always trust the entity who asks for something over the entity which does the same thing in secret without permission.
Even so, I sincerely doubt that this will lead to the perpetrator, for obvious reasons.
If I were the killer, I would certainly not give my DNA. They probably expect this. Those who refuse will of course receive special attention. Then the DNA might rule out those who are suspects now, and have a different profile. What they hope for is a match for family. They can see if the person is a blood relative, and that will limit the scope of the search.
It's crazy, working 12 or 16 hours a day, and that five days or maybe six a week? If you have no social life, earn $10k+ a month, if your work is your hobby, if it's your own business - maybe. I cannot imagine doing this, but I know people who live like that. I prefer a 32 hour workweek, all year, and here (in the Netherlands) this is very common. We do also have 25 holidays a year (for a fulltime 40 hour workweek).
If know that my performance will go down when working 10+ hours a day. I even think that 7.5 hours work would be more productive.
Please remember that when people talk about a "war" on religion, this is the kind of stuff they're referring to. Nobody credible is trying to prevent anyone from worshiping the god of your choice. However, there is a sizable contingent of religious people out there who think that religious "freedom" means the freedom for everyone to be Christian, and anything that interferes with that goal is (or should) violate the First Amendment.
I never cease to be frustrated at people who wave the Constitution around and cry about how our freedom is being oppressed when it suits their ideological viewpoint, but then they pull stuff like this without seeing how much worse a violation of our liberty it is.
Jefferson is still right. Separation of church and state, it's the only reasonable way to ensure our freedom. That includes keeping creationism in churches where it belongs and out of our schools.
The same is happening here in the Netherlands (that is in Europe if anyone from Kentucky is reading this). We have Geert Wilders here, and he has exactly the same tactics. He is the one and only defender of the freedom of speech, but if anyone criticises him, his rights are violated. I think it's not about religion, it's about stupidity and ignorance.
The last time that this happened Sony gave me two free games. Now that it appears to have happened again my initial thoughts are regarding more free games. Somehow I don't think that this response is intentional on Sony's part.
It's the new marketing strategy. You are conditioned now. The hack is a hoax. You want games. Sony wins! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Even if this is true, and PSN was compromised, what's the point? This benefits no good cause, and Sony isn't even the one being exposed here -- its users are.
Anonymous is repeating the mistakes of Cablegate; releasing private information of parties who didn't ask to be involved. That's bullying, not hacktivism.
It depends. If this is the only way to show that Sony doesn't give shit about security, then this is the way. They released 3000 credentials. If they release the 10 million, that's another case. But anyhow, Anonymous is not about going the diplomatic way.
there's lots of things which harm only some kinds of life.
.....
Lots of things are harmful to one organism and not another.
Take Arsenic. We know it as a deadly poison. We all eat or drink a few micrograms of arsenic each day. If you take that away and make 100% free arsenic food, test that on rats, it turns out that they die more quickly. Is this the same for humans? Nobody knows that, but this is the same with most food research. So let's assume that it works the same for humans.
It simply shows that like most things, too little is not good, too much neither. Drink four liters of water each day, and you will probably die.
the dude is probably thinking of tampering with the device's firmware settings and increasing his own pulse so he can go on a rampage around town like in that movie "Crank"
I would argue that the biggest benefit of using free services (like GMail) is they offer no or crap phone support! Thus making it very difficult for a hacker to social engineer their way into your account.
We were hacked several months ago, and our Amazon EC2 account was hijacked. How did they do this? We host our domain names at a local provider, and somehow they got control over that account. Then they changed the DNS for the mail to their own service. We had two-factor logins at Amazon (normal login + generated key). They tricked Amazon into believing that the key was broken, that they were the rightful owner (with control over the mail), and Amazon removed it. We still wonder how they did all this.
Slashdot Mirror
There are basically two problems. (1) Nobody will sell me high-reliability webhosting on low-end hardware. The only way to get energy-efficient hardware is to get cheap webhosting. I've tried cheap webhosting. Cheap webhosts have low reliability and nonexistent customer service. (2) Sometimes you get spikes in demand, and you want some excess capacity to be able to handle it without crashing the server. Maybe you get slashdotted. Actually, in my case one thing that has been a problem is that some people apparently run IE plugins that are supposed to accelerate large downloads, by opening multiple connections with the server. When these people hit my server and download a large PDF, the effect is very much like a DOS attack. My logs show one IP address using 300 Mb of throughput to download a 3 Mb PDF. I've written scripts that lock these bozos out ASAP, but on a low-end machine, these events would bring my server to its knees instantly.
Have you taken a look at Amazon EC2, S3, and their other services? Post a question on their forums or on stackexchange and describe your situation, and I bet they can give you a solution that is cheaper and more reliable.
It's not a silver bullet, but lack of a test environment is sure to eventually cause disaster. It's by far the biggest problem mentioned above, even more of a problem than lack of version control.
I would start with a versioning system. That's a lot easier to get working. You could get that working in one day. And it doesn't need a test environment. Yes it should, but it's not a requirement. You can use the trunk as the production codebase. The big advantage is that you can rollback easily. You can even code on the server itself, and then update the codebase from there. No, not the wisest thing to do, but it's possible and probably a lot wiser than coding on the server without versioning. And use comments for each version update!
What has Southern USA got to do with this?
That's what you make of it. It has everything to do with creationism, neo-cons, anti-government or anti-anything groups who only want to mess things up because probably someone gets better, most probably financially, when things get messy.
this is quite true. but those who know that the Islamic faith have always responed thusly to any slights to faith or their Prophet. previous slights were very very minor, an insulting cartoon, some burned Quar'ans. but making a movie calling Mohammed a child molester?@!?!!#$!^!^!%% they are going to KILL PEOPLE (and have)
this screams Israel, even though it was proven that this movie was created by Egyptian Copts living abroad. there is no way in hell that israel didn't partially fund this.
before i get trolled, Israel and Zionism does not necessarily equal Jewish or Hebrew, okay?
Israel doesn't even equal Israel. What is Israel? I don't think this is funded by the Israeli government. And most of the time when we speak of "Israel" in a context like this, we mean the government.
Movies like this are probably funded by christian and jewish extremists, or better: anti-islam extremists, and maybe even anti-Obama extremists, or anti-anything extremists. Groups like these are as big a problem as the groups they pretend to fight. I don't even believe that they are really fighting against Islam. They are fighting to fight, for whatever reason.
Please, notify the European Commission.
I am positively sure they will not like this.
(I don't have any appropriate channels, otherwise I would have done it)
Twitter Neelie: @NeelieKroesEU
Why not just use IPv9
RFC 1606: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1606.txt
Oh no! Is the IETF on the same updating scheme as Mozilla?
I don't generally like the idea of giving DNA samples to anyone. However, if the authorities are very direct and up-front about it, and provide me with a signed statement that the records will be destroyed after each sample is "cleared", then I'd do it in this case.
I'll always trust the entity who asks for something over the entity which does the same thing in secret without permission.
Even so, I sincerely doubt that this will lead to the perpetrator, for obvious reasons.
If I were the killer, I would certainly not give my DNA. They probably expect this. Those who refuse will of course receive special attention. Then the DNA might rule out those who are suspects now, and have a different profile. What they hope for is a match for family. They can see if the person is a blood relative, and that will limit the scope of the search.
Maybe it's time to ditch Java altogether!
Can I keep LibreOffice if I remove Java completely?
Calm down... You can keep it - sure. ;-)
(Whether it still works is another question.
Should have previewed first. Meant to say Gnome 2. I definitely DIDN'T mean Gnome 3 is better than Unity. Gah!
You're the real thing! You don't even read your own post before posting. Is this Slashdot 3.0?
Is it allowed through the drive-thru?
Only when the girl at the counter needs a hairdo.
It's crazy, working 12 or 16 hours a day, and that five days or maybe six a week? If you have no social life, earn $10k+ a month, if your work is your hobby, if it's your own business - maybe. I cannot imagine doing this, but I know people who live like that. I prefer a 32 hour workweek, all year, and here (in the Netherlands) this is very common. We do also have 25 holidays a year (for a fulltime 40 hour workweek).
If know that my performance will go down when working 10+ hours a day. I even think that 7.5 hours work would be more productive.
Please remember that when people talk about a "war" on religion, this is the kind of stuff they're referring to. Nobody credible is trying to prevent anyone from worshiping the god of your choice. However, there is a sizable contingent of religious people out there who think that religious "freedom" means the freedom for everyone to be Christian, and anything that interferes with that goal is (or should) violate the First Amendment.
I never cease to be frustrated at people who wave the Constitution around and cry about how our freedom is being oppressed when it suits their ideological viewpoint, but then they pull stuff like this without seeing how much worse a violation of our liberty it is.
Jefferson is still right. Separation of church and state, it's the only reasonable way to ensure our freedom. That includes keeping creationism in churches where it belongs and out of our schools.
The same is happening here in the Netherlands (that is in Europe if anyone from Kentucky is reading this). We have Geert Wilders here, and he has exactly the same tactics. He is the one and only defender of the freedom of speech, but if anyone criticises him, his rights are violated. I think it's not about religion, it's about stupidity and ignorance.
The last time that this happened Sony gave me two free games. Now that it appears to have happened again my initial thoughts are regarding more free games. Somehow I don't think that this response is intentional on Sony's part.
It's the new marketing strategy. You are conditioned now. The hack is a hoax. You want games. Sony wins! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Its becoming like finding holes in a fishnet.
A hole in a fishnet is a feature, and I'm not kidding. Without those holes, it would become useless. So better find a car analogy!
Even if this is true, and PSN was compromised, what's the point? This benefits no good cause, and Sony isn't even the one being exposed here -- its users are.
Anonymous is repeating the mistakes of Cablegate; releasing private information of parties who didn't ask to be involved. That's bullying, not hacktivism.
It depends. If this is the only way to show that Sony doesn't give shit about security, then this is the way. They released 3000 credentials. If they release the 10 million, that's another case. But anyhow, Anonymous is not about going the diplomatic way.
Exactly what evil has Sony done pretty please?
They invented My First Pony!
there's lots of things which harm only some kinds of life.
.....
Lots of things are harmful to one organism and not another.
Take Arsenic. We know it as a deadly poison. We all eat or drink a few micrograms of arsenic each day. If you take that away and make 100% free arsenic food, test that on rats, it turns out that they die more quickly. Is this the same for humans? Nobody knows that, but this is the same with most food research. So let's assume that it works the same for humans.
It simply shows that like most things, too little is not good, too much neither. Drink four liters of water each day, and you will probably die.
the dude is probably thinking of tampering with the device's firmware settings and increasing his own pulse so he can go on a rampage around town like in that movie "Crank"
Computer says no.
"Only wimps use tape[*] backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"
Linus Torvalds (1996) http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
(Isn't that prescience of "The Cloud"?)
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* replace this with your favorite backup media of today ;-)
"Only wimps use ftp[*] backup: real men just upload their important stuff to the iCloud, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"
An Amazon support employee (2012)
There's so much to do at Burning Man. Don't read a book, go volunteer at the post office or get into some crazy shit.
Plus ebooks don't burn that nice. Bring a book if you need a break and burn it at the end!
Using his company's CodeSuite forensic software,
Alternate summary: CodeSuite found not to work as forensic software!
Alternate headline: Microsoft acquires new research software suite
In post-Soviet Russia, operating system boots you!
In post-Soviet Russia, Putin boots you!
This is Russia we're talking about - the driver likely just chain-smokes while driving.
More likely he was driving while drinking and chain smoking.
I would argue that the biggest benefit of using free services (like GMail) is they offer no or crap phone support! Thus making it very difficult for a hacker to social engineer their way into your account.
We were hacked several months ago, and our Amazon EC2 account was hijacked. How did they do this? We host our domain names at a local provider, and somehow they got control over that account. Then they changed the DNS for the mail to their own service. We had two-factor logins at Amazon (normal login + generated key). They tricked Amazon into believing that the key was broken, that they were the rightful owner (with control over the mail), and Amazon removed it. We still wonder how they did all this.
Nothing gnu here. Move along.
FTFY
Nothing not UNIX - absolutely right! ;-)