This point was significant enough that you thought it was worth mentioning twice?
They put in the development time to produce their own comprehensive control panel, one that they believe is beneficial to their customers. They saw a void/opportunity in the market and filled it. Web hosting is so easy now with web frameworks like rails many people can run everything they need themselves from 'bare' hosting accounts cutting out the need for pretty services from their host. So developing something that makes using these frameworks even easier, glueing lots of solutions together, puts them at an, even if slight, advantage in the market. Nothing to be sniffed at in the web hosting/server market.
Whether or not they are totally ripping you off depends on the value you need from a provider, if you want someone to go the extra mile then maybe they are excellent value?
It seems to me they just aren't targetting the cheap dedi market. I'm not qualified to justify their pricing model but I don't quite think you are either.
Sure, to us web geeks the functionality demo'd in the screencast just shows how the control panel generates a simple htaccess / web server configuration to keep your code out of your actual public html directory (uses mod_rewrite?) but this is still quite a useful feature to incoporate into a control panel.
Not everyone wants to deal with.htaccess files or web server config, otherwise they wouldn't be using frameworks like rails or django or control panels like WebFaction to start with. I think the point being made is that organisation of various framework powered websites on a single domain or server has always been a bit of a pain, needing hand crafted attention.
Oh and since the summary seems to be pretty heavy with the commercial linkage, here's my vote for DirectAdmin which has much more reasonable licensing than CPanel.
...there are websites on the net offering Windows boot disk images that are sufficient to do that. That is the environment most BIOS updates are tested under anyway
Driver issues are most likely to blame for your poor Vista experience.
I have a AMD64 3500, 960MB of RAM (integrated 64MB graphics) and can just about scrape a 'performance rating' of 3. I upgraded from 512MB to 1GB of RAM YESTERDAY and the difference it made to Vista is like comparing apples to goats.
Out of the box Vista surps up 300-400MB of RAM on a fresh boot (I haven't taken an exact measurement). My Gnome/Linux desktop uses about 115-140MB and XP x64 is about 165MB (Gnome starts lower than XP x64 but generally increases with a little use of the UI, I think it loads more stuff into RAM on demand than Windows Explorer). I would hope this huge memory requirement is reduced when Redmond cannabalise Vista Ultimate into it's various flavours but I doubt it. There seems to be alot of processes and services running out of the box in Beta 2, but I haven't had time to see what they are all about.
I noticed my boot time in Vista is very slow, but the performance control panel applet reports this is due to a bad driver.
Interestingly the full Aero interface is more responsive than Windows Classic! It's a shame it's so damn ugly...
My experience with Vista is therefore best summarised as: It's just as responsive as XP but guzzles more RAM, it's ugly and has alot of bugs and driver issues to work out before it goes RTM, personally haven't seen enough yet to turn me back from Linux but I think Vista will be a success.
The problem with this scheme (there may be others, I'm not claiming to be an expert on content distribution) is that most of the BitTorrent traffic at the moment is due to illegal downloads.
Spot on, but that said, most of the binary newsgroups these days are loaded with copyright infringing material too. The ISP's don't tend to care and turn a blind eye to the fact they are hosting this material 'directly'. My ISP for instance offers access to most of these groups and the files therein, albeit with *horrible* post retention.
To solve the retention issue and get access to all that lovely pirate goodness most people turn to 3rd party newsgroup providers (paying $30/month or so) and therefore increase the level of Internet traffic 'at large' anyway.
BitTorrent exists because people after their piratey downloads know its reasonable difficult to shutdown and therefore 'safe' just like a well designed P2P network (trackers are cheap, and there are distributed tracking methods out there).
The legal content providers like Warner are just cashing in on the BitTorrent brand name, which in reality probably recoups all the loses from BitTorrent piracy (although i'll leave that debate open).
unfortunately live streams are only available for the core schedule....supposedly, they all seem to be slashdotted atm. What timezone is the schedule using?
Python can be 'compiled' to bytecode files (using the py_compile module), there are also ways to pack python and your application into single Windows.exe files's. Details
That depends, if that 25GB is a solid 25 GB file, to get it on DVD you have to split it, in which case you're likely to lose that data when a DVD bites to dust anyway. Unless you feel like 'wasting' space with extra redundant volumes.
Why wouldn't they give you a 'sudo password' on YOUR dedicated box? Or do you mean a shared account? I'm not really sure I would want an account on a host that gives out root access willy nilly...even to those asking politely.
That said I already have a Dreamhost account, cost me $10 for a whole year for their crazy domain insane plan, so it it's almost worth it for the laughs if they turn out to be total shizzle. So far no probs though...
Maybe i'm completely wrong, but aren't Java applets just Java programs thrown into a browser window in a secure context? I agree with you, in my opinion it *is* rather disturbing that people are trying to make Javascript do just that, as AJAX, without any standard mechanism for doing so in place (Hence all these AJAX frameworks popping up).
The problem with Java applets (as far as I'm aware) is they don't integrate smoothly into the DOM, play nicely with stylesheets and can't be extended as easily to access all that juicy browser functionality. What people want from AJAX is the best of both worlds. Java can't do that (yet?) but, although it's distusting and ugly, Javascript can to a degree at the moment
This is why standards like XSLT, 'Web Applications 1.0' and new versions of Javascript are coming into existance, there is now an apparent need for smoother and more standardised integration between a user's interaction with a client side document, client side data or state, and the server side (database backend).
Of course the side effect of doing more work on the client side is you have less and less data hitting the server you cannot trust and XSS, SQL injection attacks and God knows what other vulnerabilities are going to play and larger and larger role in 'Web 2.0'
The solution to this problem would appear to be to whitelist what is *allowed*, rather than filtering out what is not. If you only need a simple commenting system then only allow plain text, convert double line breaks to
and wrap the whole thing in
... </p>
This is made alot more difficult with unicode/multibyte input however.
As a university student in the UK having just finished my first year of electronic engineering, and thinking about specialising in processor architecture myself, I find your post both immensely insightful and immensely frightening.
Would you by any chance have any added insight to offer for someone in my position?
On occasion the authors of Maxthon have hacked in third party protection against zero day exploits. I can't be arsed finding the reference, but I thought i'd mention it since this is such an uninteresting news post.
There is a great interview with the Singularity guys on Channel 9 which details just how much of Singularity is written in 'unsafe' C# and how much is written in safe C# and other languages.
They also mention some benchmarks against the current Windows line up with some surprising results.
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Somebody should work on getting User Mode Linux entirely encapsulated in a single one-click install Firefox extension...then we could run Firefox on it.
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s/SSL/HTTPS/;
This point was significant enough that you thought it was worth mentioning twice?
They put in the development time to produce their own comprehensive control panel, one that they believe is beneficial to their customers. They saw a void/opportunity in the market and filled it. Web hosting is so easy now with web frameworks like rails many people can run everything they need themselves from 'bare' hosting accounts cutting out the need for pretty services from their host. So developing something that makes using these frameworks even easier, glueing lots of solutions together, puts them at an, even if slight, advantage in the market. Nothing to be sniffed at in the web hosting/server market.
Whether or not they are totally ripping you off depends on the value you need from a provider, if you want someone to go the extra mile then maybe they are excellent value?
It seems to me they just aren't targetting the cheap dedi market. I'm not qualified to justify their pricing model but I don't quite think you are either.
Sure, to us web geeks the functionality demo'd in the screencast just shows how the control panel generates a simple htaccess / web server configuration to keep your code out of your actual public html directory (uses mod_rewrite?) but this is still quite a useful feature to incoporate into a control panel.
.htaccess files or web server config, otherwise they wouldn't be using frameworks like rails or django or control panels like WebFaction to start with. I think the point being made is that organisation of various framework powered websites on a single domain or server has always been a bit of a pain, needing hand crafted attention.
Not everyone wants to deal with
Oh and since the summary seems to be pretty heavy with the commercial linkage, here's my vote for DirectAdmin which has much more reasonable licensing than CPanel.
...there are websites on the net offering Windows boot disk images that are sufficient to do that. That is the environment most BIOS updates are tested under anyway
s/FreeDOS/Wine;
..except all the blue links are actually on the white backdrop provided by the page like image?
In Soviet Russia achievement diminish you!
And when will microsoft realise that "Taking full advantage of a processor's power" is *NOT* something you want an operating system to DO?
..Right?
A clever statement but we all know what they really meant is 'allow applications to take full advantage of a processor's power'.
Driver issues are most likely to blame for your poor Vista experience.
I have a AMD64 3500, 960MB of RAM (integrated 64MB graphics) and can just about scrape a 'performance rating' of 3. I upgraded from 512MB to 1GB of RAM YESTERDAY and the difference it made to Vista is like comparing apples to goats.
Out of the box Vista surps up 300-400MB of RAM on a fresh boot (I haven't taken an exact measurement).
My Gnome/Linux desktop uses about 115-140MB and XP x64 is about 165MB (Gnome starts lower than XP x64 but generally increases with a little use of the UI, I think it loads more stuff into RAM on demand than Windows Explorer). I would hope this huge memory requirement is reduced when Redmond cannabalise Vista Ultimate into it's various flavours but I doubt it. There seems to be alot of processes and services running out of the box in Beta 2, but I haven't had time to see what they are all about.
I noticed my boot time in Vista is very slow, but the performance control panel applet reports this is due to a bad driver.
Interestingly the full Aero interface is more responsive than Windows Classic! It's a shame it's so damn ugly...
My experience with Vista is therefore best summarised as: It's just as responsive as XP but guzzles more RAM, it's ugly and has alot of bugs and driver issues to work out before it goes RTM, personally haven't seen enough yet to turn me back from Linux but I think Vista will be a success.
The problem with this scheme (there may be others, I'm not claiming to be an expert on content distribution) is that most of the BitTorrent traffic at the moment is due to illegal downloads.
Spot on, but that said, most of the binary newsgroups these days are loaded with copyright infringing material too. The ISP's don't tend to care and turn a blind eye to the fact they are hosting this material 'directly'. My ISP for instance offers access to most of these groups and the files therein, albeit with *horrible* post retention.
To solve the retention issue and get access to all that lovely pirate goodness most people turn to 3rd party newsgroup providers (paying $30/month or so) and therefore increase the level of Internet traffic 'at large' anyway.
BitTorrent exists because people after their piratey downloads know its reasonable difficult to shutdown and therefore 'safe' just like a well designed P2P network (trackers are cheap, and there are distributed tracking methods out there).
The legal content providers like Warner are just cashing in on the BitTorrent brand name, which in reality probably recoups all the loses from BitTorrent piracy (although i'll leave that debate open).
presumeably if they suspect child porn, they'll go bust some doors and collect *actual evidence*...
unfortunately live streams are only available for the core schedule. ...supposedly, they all seem to be slashdotted atm. What timezone is the schedule using?
I can think of several more effective ways of applying pressure than a 10 minute time limit.
Python can be 'compiled' to bytecode files (using the py_compile module), there are also ways to pack python and your application into single Windows .exe files's. Details
That depends, if that 25GB is a solid 25 GB file, to get it on DVD you have to split it, in which case you're likely to lose that data when a DVD bites to dust anyway. Unless you feel like 'wasting' space with extra redundant volumes.
Why wouldn't they give you a 'sudo password' on YOUR dedicated box? Or do you mean a shared account? I'm not really sure I would want an account on a host that gives out root access willy nilly...even to those asking politely.
That said I already have a Dreamhost account, cost me $10 for a whole year for their crazy domain insane plan, so it it's almost worth it for the laughs if they turn out to be total shizzle. So far no probs though...
Maybe i'm completely wrong, but aren't Java applets just Java programs thrown into a browser window in a secure context? I agree with you, in my opinion it *is* rather disturbing that people are trying to make Javascript do just that, as AJAX, without any standard mechanism for doing so in place (Hence all these AJAX frameworks popping up).
The problem with Java applets (as far as I'm aware) is they don't integrate smoothly into the DOM, play nicely with stylesheets and can't be extended as easily to access all that juicy browser functionality. What people want from AJAX is the best of both worlds. Java can't do that (yet?) but, although it's distusting and ugly, Javascript can to a degree at the moment
This is why standards like XSLT, 'Web Applications 1.0' and new versions of Javascript are coming into existance, there is now an apparent need for smoother and more standardised integration between a user's interaction with a client side document, client side data or state, and the server side (database backend).
Of course the side effect of doing more work on the client side is you have less and less data hitting the server you cannot trust and XSS, SQL injection attacks and God knows what other vulnerabilities are going to play and larger and larger role in 'Web 2.0'
and wrap the whole thing in
This is made alot more difficult with unicode/multibyte input however.
how many years does it take to learn properly using your/you're?
Correction:
how many years does it take to learn proper use of your/you're?
The difference is you dont need to sit there and change the discs, the same could be said for floppies vs CD's.
As a university student in the UK having just finished my first year of electronic engineering, and thinking about specialising in processor architecture myself, I find your post both immensely insightful and immensely frightening.
Would you by any chance have any added insight to offer for someone in my position?
Microsoft make the IE engine extremely integration friendly, why on Earth would they want to prevent people from using their web engine?
There probably isn't an engine as easy to integrate into your application as IE, although there is a drop in compatible Mozilla/Gecko ActiveX control.
On occasion the authors of Maxthon have hacked in third party protection against zero day exploits. I can't be arsed finding the reference, but I thought i'd mention it since this is such an uninteresting news post.
There is a great interview with the Singularity guys on Channel 9 which details just how much of Singularity is written in 'unsafe' C# and how much is written in safe C# and other languages.
They also mention some benchmarks against the current Windows line up with some surprising results.
Somebody should work on getting User Mode Linux entirely encapsulated in a single one-click install Firefox extension...then we could run Firefox on it.