...not suprised at all? This isn't intended to be a troll, but back when blaster was "new" and I was formatting, I was hit three times within two minutes of booting, which gave me a whopping 3 minutes to download (not an issue) and install (BIG issue) the corresponding patch.
In the end I had to swap some CD burners around, download+burn the patch, and then unplug the box from the internet while booting.
Okay then, re-phrase. Too few people will use it for it to stay up for long at all, unless given massive funding by the RIAA/someone.
You can take it however you want to, but if you look at the growth of networks that don't care for copyrights (note I said "care", not "honor", since it's ultimately up to the person on the other end, not the means of obtaining it) compared to say, napster (really? does anyone you know use napster?)...what I said is more or less an educated guess on the future of it.
Linux has gained an irreversible hold in behind-the-scenes corporate computing centers, where some 67 percent of corporate Web servers are Linux machines running open-source software.
Nothing is irreversible. If linux can, in the coming years, get a good grip on the desktop, what's to say that microsoft won't be able to get a good grip on the servers?
I'm not trying to troll here, but you could apply that to anything (well, most anything, pervert). Who really knows? Maybe Apple will be the desktop leader in a few years.
I am very well likely re-stating the obvious here, but so incredible many people think that they're getting web browser popups it's sick.
"According to the FTC, the pop-ups sent by D Squared could appear even when a user was not actively web browsing."
No crap? All that does in the article is confuse the user. At one point in time, because the box is labeled "Messenger", the MSN messenger site said that they were "looking into claims of users using the Messenger Sevice for advertisments." It may still be on there, but I can't find it.
Am I the only one who's annoyed by people's ignorance?
This is kinda off-topic (?), but I have this urge to start a debate.
I'll say that for large networks of computers, a microsoft solution is the best solution out there. Why? Because it enables me to provide secure network logins, and each login carries all user prefrences/data with it. In addition, group policy enables me to update all software on several hundred computers within minutes. A distributed file system (DFS) with File Replication Somethingiforget (FRS) provides the ability to have several file servers all accessed on a single load-balanced location. This also provides fallover support, in case one server goes down, a client will switch to the next automagically without issues, without the client noticing.
Now I don't want a typical/. response, I really want to see what some *nix gurus can come up with here. More or less, provide me with ways that I can setup a linux server that..
A) Provides logins, universal across a network, and that carries user data with it. An added plus would be that all user data is kept on a DFS root and synced with the client computer, meaning that the files are on the local client for speeds, and kept in sync with those on the server. B) A way to update (or remove, or install new) a specific piece of software on many many computers at once, limited only by the physical data transfer limits C) The method described above, with the DFS/FRS system and total transparent fallover support.
Now, see, this is where I see that linux isn't "up to par" with windows yet. Also, these are some serious selling points for microsoft.
Hopefully, thought...someone can come along and do the same with linux....;)
Right-click My Computer, hit Manage. Choose "Disk Managment" from the pane on the left, select your second drive partition. Right-click, and use the change/add drive letter.
Am I the only one, who after reading the doubleclick DoS article here found that their usage of the term 'hackers' was really rather....stupid? Something to that point? After reading the Great Hackers article, anyways...
Surely I can't be the only one who was bugged by this.
Sure. Take it from someone who has an entire forum running on IIS + PHP + MSSQL on a networked server. (26k posts, 1.4k threads)
Here's a basis as to how I compare MySQL, MSSQL, and Oracle: MySQL: General feature lax, but incredibly fast. Free. MSSQL: Feature rich, but MySQL beats it in the basics (SELECT). Mildly expensive. Oracle: Feature rich, blazing fast. Also, it costs...a lot. Yes, I like my understatments.
Likewise, due to expense and because most web developers like (relatively) cheap stuff, Oracle isn't really deployed for web applications. Likewise, there aren't that many Oracle "how to" sites out there (compared to MSSQL/MySQL).
So for web apps where speed is a MUST? Oracle or MySQL. For real applications where some processing time is allowed, and it needs all the advanced features possible? Oracle or MSSQL. (Would be interesting to see how fast MySQL came without all of the 'features', however.) For an enviroment where the budget is somewhat lacking: MySQL or MSSQL.
The hardware that the servers are on are not Xeons or anything special. Rather, it's regular desktop hardware, basically.
Consequently we're trying to switch over to linux+apache+php asap. We have an old code base running, and likewise we're writing a new one. We have 2 main people writing it. One is the general coder, the other is the database back-end coder.
And I'll tell you this: the database coder has 2 choices for databases. MySQL, and MSSQL.
He chose, MSSQL, against my advice.
However, he did for a reason: for ANY page, the MOST queries used PERIOD will be ~4. That's right. Picture a complete forum thread. Not like slashdot, but rather phpbb. In 3 queries, it does: -Auths user, selects style, general page layout, if you've got messages, the works. (1 query) -Generals the side menu (categories with links as a sub level), and the links in it can be visible/invisible due to group membership/per-user basis/logged in or out/anything. So it's also checking many, many 'if' statments per link. (1 query). -In the example of a forum thread, we have the username, userid, posts, forum rank (dependant on number of posts), thread title, post title, the post itself, and the works. To grab ALL user data, ALL posts per user, ALL posts in the thread, EVERYTHING. (1 query)
So, 3 queries for a thead. This thread could have 60000 posts in it and 2626 different posters, it'd still be 3 queries to generate the page. All of the 'logic' for the menu is in the SQL query. It's ALL being done via MSSQL.
This is, in my opinion, the ONLY way that MSSQL can beat out MySQL in terms of speed. Through insanely complex and long (half-page to full page, 12pt font, 1600x1200 resolution) queries.
I have yet to see how well it scales vs MySQL, but as a rule of thumb: if you do know enough about MSSQL to use those features, by all means do. If you don't want to spend your entire time debugging a query, use MySQL.
This is in refrence to a post of mine up there some, here, and someone suggested that I repost it in the main thread. So, here goes.
I swear, why didn't anyone else think of it before...
<email>
With the recent AOL and Intel merger, that you've all got an e-mail about before, I'm sure, both AOL and Intel (hereby refered to as Antel), have issued several warnings about your web browser, Internet Explorer.
With Bill Gates tracking all of these e-mails, he's been able to prove that there's about 96% of the world (that has a computer) using Internet Explorer. However, for the first time, Bill Gates may be wrong!
There have been several recent attacks against Internet Explorer, and these are not limited to:
If you click a link in your e-mail, IT MAY ERASE YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER!
Just by opening up a webpage, without your knowledge, IE could install several harmful programs that read your e-mail and send your credit card number, name, and all other personal information to hackers across the internet!
Because of these possibilites, Antel has issued several warnings to stay away from Internet Explorer, and instead use Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera.
Now go spread the word to all of your friends!!one1!
Prove the power of e-mail! Forward this to everyone in your address book asap!
IF YOU DO, ANTEL WILL REWARD YOU WITH A $20 ANTEL GIFT CERTIFICATE!
</email>
I swear, why didn't anyone else think of it before...
<email>
With the recent AOL and Intel merger, that you've all got an e-mail about before, I'm sure, both AOL and Intel (hereby refered to as Antel), have issued several warnings about your web browser, Internet Explorer.
With Bill Gates tracking all of these e-mails, he's been able to prove that there's about 96% of the world (that has a computer) using Internet Explorer. However, for the first time, Bill Gates may be wrong!
There have been several recent attacks against Internet Explorer, and these are not limited to:
If you click a link in your e-mail, IT MAY ERASE YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER!
Just by opening up a webpage, without your knowledge, IE could install several harmful programs that read your e-mail and send your credit card number, name, and all other personal information to hackers across the internet!
Slashdot Mirror
...not suprised at all? This isn't intended to be a troll, but back when blaster was "new" and I was formatting, I was hit three times within two minutes of booting, which gave me a whopping 3 minutes to download (not an issue) and install (BIG issue) the corresponding patch.
In the end I had to swap some CD burners around, download+burn the patch, and then unplug the box from the internet while booting.
I've come to the following conclusion: /. members ('geeks') are not used to bright colors that resemble the sun, for reasons I have yet to find.
Okay then, re-phrase. Too few people will use it for it to stay up for long at all, unless given massive funding by the RIAA/someone.
You can take it however you want to, but if you look at the growth of networks that don't care for copyrights (note I said "care", not "honor", since it's ultimately up to the person on the other end, not the means of obtaining it) compared to say, napster (really? does anyone you know use napster?)...what I said is more or less an educated guess on the future of it.
http://www.bitmunk.com/images/tutorial/payment.png <-- That sums if all up right there.
/. geek in the bottom right-corner, left out.
=(
Note the
Because here's a hint: make the protocol open, and people will re-write it to exclude the copyrights.
:P
Oh, it's server-based and not 'true' P2P...my mistake.
No one will use it
Linux has gained an irreversible hold in behind-the-scenes corporate computing centers, where some 67 percent of corporate Web servers are Linux machines running open-source software.
Nothing is irreversible. If linux can, in the coming years, get a good grip on the desktop, what's to say that microsoft won't be able to get a good grip on the servers?
I'm not trying to troll here, but you could apply that to anything (well, most anything, pervert). Who really knows? Maybe Apple will be the desktop leader in a few years.
Die IT theme.
I am very well likely re-stating the obvious here, but so incredible many people think that they're getting web browser popups it's sick.
"According to the FTC, the pop-ups sent by D Squared could appear even when a user was not actively web browsing."
No crap? All that does in the article is confuse the user. At one point in time, because the box is labeled "Messenger", the MSN messenger site said that they were "looking into claims of users using the Messenger Sevice for advertisments." It may still be on there, but I can't find it.
Am I the only one who's annoyed by people's ignorance?
Mind, uh, telling me how? Or maybe a place where I could RTFM?
This is kinda off-topic (?), but I have this urge to start a debate.
/. response, I really want to see what some *nix gurus can come up with here. More or less, provide me with ways that I can setup a linux server that..
I'll say that for large networks of computers, a microsoft solution is the best solution out there. Why? Because it enables me to provide secure network logins, and each login carries all user prefrences/data with it. In addition, group policy enables me to update all software on several hundred computers within minutes. A distributed file system (DFS) with File Replication Somethingiforget (FRS) provides the ability to have several file servers all accessed on a single load-balanced location. This also provides fallover support, in case one server goes down, a client will switch to the next automagically without issues, without the client noticing.
Now I don't want a typical
A) Provides logins, universal across a network, and that carries user data with it. An added plus would be that all user data is kept on a DFS root and synced with the client computer, meaning that the files are on the local client for speeds, and kept in sync with those on the server.
B) A way to update (or remove, or install new) a specific piece of software on many many computers at once, limited only by the physical data transfer limits
C) The method described above, with the DFS/FRS system and total transparent fallover support.
Now, see, this is where I see that linux isn't "up to par" with windows yet. Also, these are some serious selling points for microsoft.
Hopefully, thought...someone can come along and do the same with linux....;)
"assume that because the program is from a corporation, then it's major use must be legal."
Yay for another dose of retardism.
Right-click My Computer, hit Manage. Choose "Disk Managment" from the pane on the left, select your second drive partition. Right-click, and use the change/add drive letter.
Tada.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/05/174222 4&tid=201&tid=109
It's called "lawsuits". Doing this would make VMWare essential useless. Anti-competition.
MS would be screwed if that did that.
To be completly ignorant of timezones, and other coutries (and timezones) than mine...
on Saturday July 31, @06:48AM
Yeah, looks like they're asleep indeed.
Am I the only one, who after reading the doubleclick DoS article here found that their usage of the term 'hackers' was really rather....stupid? Something to that point? After reading the Great Hackers article, anyways... Surely I can't be the only one who was bugged by this.
Wow, slashdot controversial? I never would have imagined such a thing...
(sarcasm, mind you)
Then perhaps you should read the second paragraph to the question.
No, it really really does. I swear, I can't count the times I read that as "HTTP" giving me 30mbps.
Sure. Take it from someone who has an entire forum running on IIS + PHP + MSSQL on a networked server. (26k posts, 1.4k threads)
Here's a basis as to how I compare MySQL, MSSQL, and Oracle:
MySQL: General feature lax, but incredibly fast. Free.
MSSQL: Feature rich, but MySQL beats it in the basics (SELECT). Mildly expensive.
Oracle: Feature rich, blazing fast. Also, it costs...a lot. Yes, I like my understatments.
Likewise, due to expense and because most web developers like (relatively) cheap stuff, Oracle isn't really deployed for web applications. Likewise, there aren't that many Oracle "how to" sites out there (compared to MSSQL/MySQL).
So for web apps where speed is a MUST? Oracle or MySQL.
For real applications where some processing time is allowed, and it needs all the advanced features possible? Oracle or MSSQL. (Would be interesting to see how fast MySQL came without all of the 'features', however.)
For an enviroment where the budget is somewhat lacking: MySQL or MSSQL.
The hardware that the servers are on are not Xeons or anything special. Rather, it's regular desktop hardware, basically.
Consequently we're trying to switch over to linux+apache+php asap. We have an old code base running, and likewise we're writing a new one. We have 2 main people writing it. One is the general coder, the other is the database back-end coder.
And I'll tell you this: the database coder has 2 choices for databases. MySQL, and MSSQL.
He chose, MSSQL, against my advice.
However, he did for a reason: for ANY page, the MOST queries used PERIOD will be ~4. That's right. Picture a complete forum thread. Not like slashdot, but rather phpbb. In 3 queries, it does:
-Auths user, selects style, general page layout, if you've got messages, the works. (1 query)
-Generals the side menu (categories with links as a sub level), and the links in it can be visible/invisible due to group membership/per-user basis/logged in or out/anything. So it's also checking many, many 'if' statments per link. (1 query).
-In the example of a forum thread, we have the username, userid, posts, forum rank (dependant on number of posts), thread title, post title, the post itself, and the works. To grab ALL user data, ALL posts per user, ALL posts in the thread, EVERYTHING. (1 query)
So, 3 queries for a thead. This thread could have 60000 posts in it and 2626 different posters, it'd still be 3 queries to generate the page. All of the 'logic' for the menu is in the SQL query. It's ALL being done via MSSQL.
This is, in my opinion, the ONLY way that MSSQL can beat out MySQL in terms of speed. Through insanely complex and long (half-page to full page, 12pt font, 1600x1200 resolution) queries.
I have yet to see how well it scales vs MySQL, but as a rule of thumb: if you do know enough about MSSQL to use those features, by all means do. If you don't want to spend your entire time debugging a query, use MySQL.
Repost in the main thread? Yeah, that way I could do it in one post so that way it wouldn't look like I was trolling for points :P
So, here it is, reposted in the main thread.
I swear, why didn't anyone else think of it before...
<email>
With the recent AOL and Intel merger, that you've all got an e-mail about before, I'm sure, both AOL and Intel (hereby refered to as Antel), have issued several warnings about your web browser, Internet Explorer.
With Bill Gates tracking all of these e-mails, he's been able to prove that there's about 96% of the world (that has a computer) using Internet Explorer. However, for the first time, Bill Gates may be wrong!
There have been several recent attacks against Internet Explorer, and these are not limited to:
If you click a link in your e-mail, IT MAY ERASE YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER!
Just by opening up a webpage, without your knowledge, IE could install several harmful programs that read your e-mail and send your credit card number, name, and all other personal information to hackers across the internet!
Because of these possibilites, Antel has issued several warnings to stay away from Internet Explorer, and instead use Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera.
Now go spread the word to all of your friends!!one1!
Prove the power of e-mail! Forward this to everyone in your address book asap!
IF YOU DO, ANTEL WILL REWARD YOU WITH A $20 ANTEL GIFT CERTIFICATE!
</email>
Doh, hit submit instead of preview, so I'll just finish this up...
Because of these possibilites, Antel has issued several warnings to stay away from Internet Explorer, and instead use Mozilla, Firefox, or Opera.
Now go spread the word to all of your friends!!one1!
Prove the power of e-mail! Forward this to everyone in your address book asap!
IF YOU DO, ANTEL WILL REWARD YOU WITH A $20 ANTEL GIFT CERTIFICATE!
</email>
k I'm done now.
YOU'RE GENIUS!
I swear, why didn't anyone else think of it before...
<email>
With the recent AOL and Intel merger, that you've all got an e-mail about before, I'm sure, both AOL and Intel (hereby refered to as Antel), have issued several warnings about your web browser, Internet Explorer.
With Bill Gates tracking all of these e-mails, he's been able to prove that there's about 96% of the world (that has a computer) using Internet Explorer. However, for the first time, Bill Gates may be wrong!
There have been several recent attacks against Internet Explorer, and these are not limited to:
If you click a link in your e-mail, IT MAY ERASE YOUR ENTIRE COMPUTER!
Just by opening up a webpage, without your knowledge, IE could install several harmful programs that read your e-mail and send your credit card number, name, and all other personal information to hackers across the internet!
Fun stats on the BT tracker --> http://torrent.linux.duke.edu:6969/