agreed, however lens flare is cool when you actually have lens in the game : when you are using a binocular... interesiignly lens flare is everywhere but in binoculars:)
I was super interested about high res playback as I have native 800x600 or scaled 1024x768 on my screen, but my xbox gracefully craps out even on rescaling to 720p...
there are kits do upgrade the proc, I am not sure if they need any soldering, and I think some older games behave like 386 games running super fast on a pentium....
as being a fixed hardware, some programmers do not care about timing issues and processing speed (actually why would I care if I had everyone running the same hardware, so no pu intended)
Interesting, all I hear online while in game lobbies between the games on XBC and KAI is how much people would run and buy it on the first day.
I have only 2 consoles (ps/2 & xbox) and only play a few hours a week, however I decided that I had to wait for PS3, see their relase titles first as I'm absolutely unhappy what I see about the xbox, and the games list leaves me uninterested.... there is only one title that would interest me: the new Ghost Recon, but I won't buy a console for one game, and I am really pissed about all the crap I have to buy again to have a usable console...
AV pack (again), hdd, wireless (if you want), remote control.... and i think the old headset won't work either....
Games: OK, they look good, but these screenshots are not as nice compared to what I saw on the sony presentation... OK, now 100s jump on me that they weren't playable demos, etc....
I was really about getting one on the first week, but I started looking at all that, and just stepped back.....
I wait at least half a year and see who wins, I really do not want to end-up with 2 consoles like now, because one will be just sitting there untouched, now it is my ps2, next time it might be my 360, and it is 2x as much $$ to waste,,,
agreed, XBMC kicks butt as a media center. DVD playback hs it's quirks though, but for that you can use the default player (that by the way puts vertical bars into my screen only when watched on my prjecter -> looks like crap)
If medai playback is your priority, I would wait for PS3. I just decided that yesterday that I'll wait for ps3 as I am sick of all the peripherials I would have to buy for the xbox 360 to make it usable... HDD and remote is OK, but when I sav that I will nedd some $50 cable again to connecto to any decent AMP or TV I just decided: screw it, it is an ugly box anyway I do not want to see, so I better wait for the silver cigar....
hmm besides: why can't they just make a version that is a box, like standard A/V component size, instead of stupid curver crap...
I just brought it up as you were looking at AV capability, so you might care if you want a a cigar or an hour-glass....
Agree, I will eat myself thru that guide, but I am too tired to do anything that requires me to stare into a monitor for now....
On the patch issue I completely agree, that those who do not patch might fall, however when a software is not for commercial/company use you might end up being on vacation (or away for a few days) - as opposed to a company where you have 24hrs people administrating, and watching security forums/news etc....
It happened to me that someone placed things on my server thru a common CMS, before any advisory came out (they were precompiled linux (and even windows) binaries, and did not run on the BSD box)...
hmm i feel it also has to do with "let's attack what is most common", so at the end even running bsd provided "security thru obscurity" even though BSD is OSS....
I agree with you mostly, that it should not be the first barrier or defence, or should not be treated as a "security measure".
My argument was about commonly used systems and the way they attract more attackers in todays internet community.
I think we do not have to argue on the fact, that if you crack 1 of many thousand systems running the same code, you technically have a good chance of being able to crack those systems.
Now if you code your own, you are at least not exposed to widely known exploits, and don't fall with the rest of the sites.
That is all I meant by posting the wikipedia article, I won't run OS/2 on a bank system because no one is usung it anymore, especially not as a security measure,
but I might want to develop a custom application because I do not want to run the same stuff 1000 crackers are testing day by day to be able to attack multiple sites when they find something.
I was also mentioning "coding what you need" and not using someone else's function-stuffed unneeded modules add to security. (e.g. you don't run telnet ona box if you do not need it).
In a way it is security by obscurity and in a way on certain systems or in certain situatins it will add to the security of your system....
I did not work in a "large financial institute" but worked at quite a few places where security was super important,
Sometimes we ended up developing this and that just to avoid running on software that repeatedly got exploited....
And in my interpretation it is "security thru obscurity" and if you write it right it will make a difference.
And again: I won't plug in a 10 year old unpatched cisco firewall PIX just because no one hacks it it's so old....
Am I completely wrong if I think that it is less secure to run a software that is tested for holes by hundreds day-by-day to hijack computers by the numbers? Especially when it is not needed? When I can sit down and write my own, following my own taste and sense of security?
Especially with such a small application what we are talking about?
I would kindly appreciate if you did not call me an "asshat".
Besides that, it would be also reasonble from you to actually let the rest of us know if there is any reasoning why you think that 1million computers running the same software isn't more of an inviting for people with bad intention as opposed to one site running some super simple stuff, stuff that only one person might have access to, stuff that has no more functionality that the certain individual needs to establish (e.g. a blog for some might be a list of item title,short description, link to full post)
"In cryptography and computer security, security through obscurity (sometimes security by obscurity) is to some a controversial principle in security engineering, which attempts to use secrecy (of design, implementation, etc.) to ensure security. A system relying on security through obscurity may have theoretical or actual security vulnerabilities, but its owners or designers believe that the flaws are not known, and that attackers are unlikely to find them."
As you can see (if you actually read it) that some people prefer this theory as an added layer of security to their different systems.
On the other hand I am not sure that it is worth my valuable time to discuss my security theories with someone who is called "anonymous" and who is repeatedly calling me somehting I did not know existed before....
Linux, well you should not reinvent the wheel, someone did that for you before, and as I see you are quite happy with that and so am I.
Oh, too bad it did not appear to me that I was the ignorant asshat...
It appears to me that besides liking to be an ass behind an "anonymous" you are quite familiar with wheels, well tires.
Actually some people reinvented the tire with quite a success and many times, just because someone or something was constantly puncturing it.
There came the tubeless, the self inflating tire solutions, and finally some people started hacking their tires and there came a solution of multiple inner tubes or multiple inner tube bubbles in a tire (for quads and bikes)..
I am sure, that reinventing the actual wheel or tire is also a totally useless thing.
I appreciate your completely reasonless attack on my comment, it servers as good entertainment, and makes me understand more why I enjoy using my reinvented wheel without a "comment on" feature.
I agree with you, but don't forget this: I wrote - if you can - and I meant, if you cared, if you could write one, if you had the time, if you wanted to (random challange, too much time, self entertainment or just learning e.g. php&mysql a fun way)..
Running your own stuff does not mean more insecure, there are millions of virii out for windows not just because there are security problems, but because there is one potentional target on most office and home desks...... a good virii can hit millons of targets, as a common CMS can be exploited on thousands of machines.
I also meant (maybe did not mention) that a blog software, when single user, can be satisfactory with an entry box, no fancy editor or spellchecker, no calendar or comment option... in that case any IT student in first grade could write his own software as a homework project, and if written well, could be satisfactory and safer than tons of modules that are just there to exploit, but not even in use...
besides it is/. "news for nerds" and it is nerdy enough to hack a weblog together and say "I wrote that crap, it's ugly, has few functions, but I wrote it because i enjoyed it"
I also did not say: hey don't use blogger, or whichever else, they are cool I am sure, they were cool the last time I checked them..... but I choose to run stuff on my server I can see thru, even if it looks like poo or works like poo...
But peace, I understand your concern, and you are not forced to write your own... I cannot write my own op system, so I use the one I can do the most with, and still would say : you need a simple OS (mean simple_os for e.g a microcontroller) and have pleasure in writing one; go for it....
It's like I can take my bike to the mechanic for an oil change, but I do it myself so I am sure the thread is not ripped out of the oil plug screw by someone who cares less than me.... so I say it to my friends all the time : it takes 15 minutes and then you know how to do it.... so if you can (want) I sugggest you do it.....
"Someone might flatten your tires, so its best to reinvent your own wheel... fucking asshat"
Wow... besides NOT being a moron, you should also take notice of the fact TIRE != WHEEL
Must be my english, but I am not familiar with the expression "ASSHAT", where I came from there is no such device being used for our bottom parts.
On the other hand if reinventing the weel was not sometimes the right choice and done by many serious and respected programmers or big corporations, probably you would be typing that on VMS on a text terminal, Dos 1.0, or punching holes into a card..... (your choice where you think writing something different became "reinventing the wheel" in the history of OP systems.)
Oh did you forget that slashdot runs on a CMS (a blog system as well) and was written in the need of not having anything satisfactory at the time?
"Gosh, if I had only known that in four years it would have been such a big deal I would have finished it and made it public."
ohh yess, the usual feeling:) if someone would have told me that instead of working at an ISP for nothing 10 years ago
1. I should have just contacted a "Herbal Viagra" shaman and opened a store, 2. should have written a blog software and wait till 3 years before 3. should have started my own porn site 4. should have started a dating service 5. should have done something someone thought about before me:) 6. should have started google 7. should have invented Napster
I would be sitting on tons of money and would just sit scratching my balls in peace:)
but hey... it can still happen:) just keep coding all day, and maybe a millionaire walks up to you and wants to share his dotcom-bubble-earned-cash 50/50:)
Too bad nowadays whatever you think of doing; your content, your idea, your whatever - gets copied in 2 seconds by a HUGE company who has 1000x the resources you caould affor all thru your life, or just scrubbed and duplicated
OK, I wasn't completely serious:)
Actually it happened that I gave up on something and went with postnuke, but after rewriting almost everything I used, I had to realise, that 90% of the stuff is things I do not need, and just started writing something less of a bloat with what I really need....
Oh did I have to mention that the PnPhpbb got hit by some warm adn there was a proxy running on my server in a very short time? Thanks to firewalling they could not send SPAM thru.... but it made me think and start to migrate on my own creation...
More on that: whatever crappy code someone writes, when it comes to breaking into a website it might turn out that most go for the well-known CMS systems because you have to find one hole and you get 10k bots, while figuring my messed up code (without seeing it) might get you as many as I have -> maximum a few servers.
pretty much enough for a weblog (did not read the whole thing as my eyes are falling out after 10 hours in front of 4 monitors) but it seems it has what a blog editor needs...
An other thing I might implement later, is to upload full html, and I haven't seen it in other softwares...
I mean if I want to use an editor to make the html and just upload it.... because when you hit post and your cookie expires, you might bang your head to the wall (depending on redirects, browser, and stuff, a logout might permanently wipe out what you wrote)...
When you run on the same software as 2 zillion others, there will be someone smart to find a hole, than there will be 1.5zillion script kiddies and automated bots trying to exploit that hole ON YOUR SERVER.
I respect Postnuke, PHPBB, Mambo and the rest, but sooner or later some internet shitstorm is going to hit your machine and that might cost you a lot of work, your hosting, money, lost data, upset customers... etc..etc...etc...
When talking about your blog, you need something that displays your data, a search function and maybe a calendar. If you write it for yourself, you might not want a fancy editor, and maybe you do not care about a bunch of other things the Ready-to-Run softwares offer.
Besides, in regular CMS systems I usually see very small support for custom keywords, meta tags and description, and linking methods are standardized in a way that is not very good for search engine optimization, and if you want fame, you need traffic. and traffic comes from search engines. Yes content is king, but some engines still use your meta tags, and care about a list of things most CMS systems (including blogging ones) do not.
It sounds super easy, but when you start doing your own CMS you can easily spend a lot of time and still being nowhere. I am writing my own (not blogging) product oriented community site, and while it is not that big of a challange, it is extremely time consuming.
If you make backups and run on someone else's server you might ignore all that crap, but uf you value your server you might want to use something simple, but something that is not a software 100000s are testing for vulnerabilities...
I know it sounds a little like contra open source, and I do not mean it that way, I am just scared to use some systems that proved to be containing the same old bugs over and over, and then get exploited on a big scale.
hmm interesting views.... however I do not hink it is that much of a chaos here that you would get shot, or maybe not in s different manner than in the states....
I am sure if you go against a tobacco company or a government agency they would find their ways to hire some nice guys to look after me in the states as well...
or I could have mentioned any other big business.... maybe even the one with the chair throwing CEO:) the one that wants to "kill and bury" competetion....
But point taken, I am scared:) now enough to walk a different path.....
Still thinking of an environmental site with the same content, but I might suppress company names or something.... we'll see
I mostly ride public dirt roads. Sure there is damage cased by it, but these roads are maintained to "recover" from vehicle traffic...
I know that off orading causes damage, but it is not track damage, not even single track, it is the people who would ride onto open areas in hordes where there is no beaten path...
my dog and me was almost hit today by a damn bus... I started shouting at a driver if he actually had eyes, and if he did he should maybe used it to look...
answer : "didn't you see I was backing up?" all that on a dirt road, middle of nowhere... Costa Rica.. hahh completely off topic but I really felt like letting my 2 rotweilers on the bus to do some bloodbath out of the driver's ass...
hmm you are right.. now i feel better about living in the midle of a coffe field, working alone from home, and being as antisocial as I could be....
but : how many people do meet the milkman, postman, how many people meet you local small grocery store, how many kids meet my wife who works as a scoolteacher....
I mean I better die than movi in a 'black box' with only internet coming in, and food supplies stacked to the floor for 10 years in case shit hits the fan...
it is pretty much unavoidable, if it vomes it comes than we die or survive.... at that point I won't care...
it is not like zombies taking the city over so I can just get food and a sniper rifle and camp on the roof. You will meet people who will meet peoplt and it will be a good chance of getting at and death of survival...
on the other hand i think t is still just fear mongering
burn me and throw me in the sea.... no need for family to spit chewing gum out and come on the "day of the dead" once a year...
if i manage to be a good person, they will remember me without having to pay for the place for my bones to lay at, and will think of me enough....
otherwise i'll be just dust in the sea... "dust to dust" - back to the source ?
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hmm that makes me wonder if I have a better start as I never received a FLU shot (refused it), and refuse antibiotics unless absolutely necessary..
my doctor always started " take XXX... ohh no, you are the guy who never takes antibiotics.... so take this and this (not antibiotivs) and that if you do not get better in a week, take this and that (antibiotics) ":) haha.... he really respected that, and it always turned out that I could fight all the crap wist just something that kills fewer, and vitamise other than flu shots and antibiotics:)
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I grew up in communism, and every time I hear equal share, central distribution, or "everyone gets it who needs it" I think of people being left out of the circle, and nothing is available when people really need it....
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i feel, the government control means : where it is needed by the companies who drive governments...
more explanations: I am sure wll government officials and the peple who can afford it will have their tamiflu )or other alternative) while "disposable" or "collateral damage" parts of the populations will be wiped out in case the scare is real....
that is sad IMHO... if I think my family is in danger, and I am willing to pay the price for the medications I should be able to buy it, and do not rely on ANY government to supply it when the poo hits the fan...
I still believed it is a panic other tahn realistic threat, but I am bothered by the fact that people cannot buy the meds if they are scared and would like to have a stick for their family....
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Being somwhat affiliated with a few online pharmacies, I know, that Tamiflu (possibly a cure, or at least a good suport medicine to avoid getting any flu) has been withdrawn form public pharmacies and are stocked by the government.
Why is that happening ? Is this flu propaganda for the drug companies, and fear mongerin ?
These questions came up almost every day looking at searches for that medication, and many claim that this flue, when getting ins a country with decent medical practices/health services has a very small fatality rate. Most people get it in developing countries, and get it in agricultural professions (e.g. farmers being exposed to chickens)....
Before you start trolling on online pharmacies, I never send spam, or sell dangerous meds such as hydrocodone, so don't bother......
Anyway I am exposed to medication news because it became part of my revenue, and dunno what to think anymore about that flu panic....
Most people I know say, that it is just a panic by the drug mob to boost sales, but the stocking of flu meds by governments send me a different message....
My wife and me, her being a conservation biologist, me just your regular treehugger, were planning on making a site here ins Costa Rica, based on photos we would take riding around the country, me on my bike, her on her quad (both silenced, small bore, so don;t flame about exhaust fumes and saving the earth....
There are a bunch of local and foreign companies making serious damage, and we want to give it some exposure, besides riding around on our vehicles....
quite honestly that news piece made us think about how many companies would want to sue our asses if we get noticed.... so not we are re-thinking our strategy...
Our plan was to sneak around various industrial installations with a GPS and a digicam, and then post it blog-style with the help of goolge maps api........ but now we are really reconsidering....
oooh, uuuh.... the prices of their projectors.... I did not even want to know...
I was interested in consumer devices... you know in the $100-$1500 range somewhere,
I think current technology - such as a nice dual output VGA card and cheap lcd displays in a thin goggle - might comfortably allow creation of such 3d devices.....
I mean 2x 800x600 LCDs and some cheap optics mounted to a dual Nvidia would satisfy most gamers for a little driving, flying or a fragfest.......
Just think of those "video glasses" on google, or your choice of search, starting from $150... now tripple that with better RES and I would still buy it if I can set my renderer to render from 2 viewpoints on 2 heads of a video card.
Technically the old shutter glasses did that, and they worked well in lots of games without direct support built into the game.
If you are a call center with 200 employees, go the Voip standards or Voice over frame relay way....
if you are a company of 10, making 10 overseas calls a day, and having a few partners of the same size; skype is a good solution for saving on outgoing calls, equipment and similar...
Besides: in a company where users use their favourite programs? Usears should not be able to install ANYTHING themselves, so your idea is dead from the beginning....
Now on to explorer: you sure can fetch pages from webservers, but sometimes it is just pure luck if they show up the same way as in any other "standards compliant" browser, unless it has been tested on IE fr workarounds, and have several lines like
if($browser == "IExplorer") do_something_of_a_nasy_hack_to_appear_normally();..in your choice of webpage creation language
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agreed, however lens flare is cool when you actually have lens in the game : when you are using a binocular ... interesiignly lens flare is everywhere but in binoculars :)
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I was super interested about high res playback as I have native 800x600 or scaled 1024x768 on my screen, but my xbox gracefully craps out even on rescaling to 720p
there are kits do upgrade the proc, I am not sure if they need any soldering, and I think some older games behave like 386 games running super fast on a pentium
as being a fixed hardware, some programmers do not care about timing issues and processing speed (actually why would I care if I had everyone running the same hardware, so no pu intended)
Interesting, all I hear online while in game lobbies between the games on XBC and KAI is how much people would run and buy it on the first day.
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I have only 2 consoles (ps/2 & xbox) and only play a few hours a week, however I decided that I had to wait for PS3, see their relase titles first as I'm absolutely unhappy what I see about the xbox, and the games list leaves me uninterested
there is only one title that would interest me: the new Ghost Recon, but I won't buy a console for one game, and I am really pissed about all the crap I have to buy again to have a usable console
AV pack (again), hdd, wireless (if you want), remote control
Games: OK, they look good, but these screenshots are not as nice compared to what I saw on the sony presentation... OK, now 100s jump on me that they weren't playable demos, etc
I was really about getting one on the first week, but I started looking at all that, and just stepped back
I wait at least half a year and see who wins, I really do not want to end-up with 2 consoles like now, because one will be just sitting there untouched, now it is my ps2, next time it might be my 360, and it is 2x as much $$ to waste
agreed, XBMC kicks butt as a media center. DVD playback hs it's quirks though, but for that you can use the default player (that by the way puts vertical bars into my screen only when watched on my prjecter -> looks like crap)
... HDD and remote is OK, but when I sav that I will nedd some $50 cable again to connecto to any decent AMP or TV I just decided: screw it, it is an ugly box anyway I do not want to see, so I better wait for the silver cigar ....
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If medai playback is your priority, I would wait for PS3. I just decided that yesterday that I'll wait for ps3 as I am sick of all the peripherials I would have to buy for the xbox 360 to make it usable
hmm besides: why can't they just make a version that is a box, like standard A/V component size, instead of stupid curver crap
I just brought it up as you were looking at AV capability, so you might care if you want a a cigar or an hour-glass
Agree, I will eat myself thru that guide, but I am too tired to do anything that requires me to stare into a monitor for now....
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On the patch issue I completely agree, that those who do not patch might fall,
however when a software is not for commercial/company use you might end up being on vacation (or away for a few days) - as opposed to a company where you have 24hrs people administrating, and watching security forums/news etc
It happened to me that someone placed things on my server thru a common CMS, before any advisory came out (they were precompiled linux (and even windows) binaries, and did not run on the BSD box)
hmm i feel it also has to do with "let's attack what is most common", so at the end even running bsd provided "security thru obscurity" even though BSD is OSS....
anyway I am falling asleep, so goodnight
I agree with you mostly, that it should not be the first barrier or defence, or should not be treated as a "security measure".
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My argument was about commonly used systems and the way they attract more attackers in todays internet community.
I think we do not have to argue on the fact, that if you crack 1 of many thousand systems running the same code, you technically have a good chance of being able to crack those systems.
Now if you code your own, you are at least not exposed to widely known exploits, and don't fall with the rest of the sites.
That is all I meant by posting the wikipedia article, I won't run OS/2 on a bank system because no one is usung it anymore, especially not as a security measure,
but I might want to develop a custom application because I do not want to run the same stuff 1000 crackers are testing day by day to be able to attack multiple sites when they find something.
I was also mentioning "coding what you need" and not using someone else's function-stuffed unneeded modules add to security. (e.g. you don't run telnet ona box if you do not need it).
In a way it is security by obscurity and in a way on certain systems or in certain situatins it will add to the security of your system....
I did not work in a "large financial institute" but worked at quite a few places where security was super important,
Sometimes we ended up developing this and that just to avoid running on software that repeatedly got exploited
And in my interpretation it is "security thru obscurity" and if you write it right it will make a difference.
And again: I won't plug in a 10 year old unpatched cisco firewall PIX just because no one hacks it it's so old
Am I completely wrong if I think that it is less secure to run a software that is tested for holes by hundreds day-by-day to hijack computers by the numbers? Especially when it is not needed? When I can sit down and write my own, following my own taste and sense of security?
Especially with such a small application what we are talking about?
I would kindly appreciate if you did not call me an "asshat".
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Besides that, it would be also reasonble from you to actually let the rest of us know if there is any reasoning why you think that 1million computers running the same software isn't more of an inviting for people with bad intention as opposed to one site running some super simple stuff, stuff that only one person might have access to, stuff that has no more functionality that the certain individual needs to establish (e.g. a blog for some might be a list of item title,short description, link to full post)
Here is a brief summary of "security through obscurity" form Wikipedia
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"In cryptography and computer security, security through obscurity (sometimes security by obscurity) is to some a controversial principle in security engineering, which attempts to use secrecy (of design, implementation, etc.) to ensure security. A system relying on security through obscurity may have theoretical or actual security vulnerabilities, but its owners or designers believe that the flaws are not known, and that attackers are unlikely to find them."
As you can see (if you actually read it) that some people prefer this theory as an added layer of security to their different systems.
On the other hand I am not sure that it is worth my valuable time to discuss my security theories with someone who is called "anonymous" and who is repeatedly calling me somehting I did not know existed before
Linux, well you should not reinvent the wheel, someone did that for you before, and as I see you are quite happy with that and so am I.
Oh, too bad it did not appear to me that I was the ignorant asshat...
It appears to me that besides liking to be an ass behind an "anonymous" you are quite familiar with wheels, well tires.
Actually some people reinvented the tire with quite a success and many times, just because someone or something was constantly puncturing it.
There came the tubeless, the self inflating tire solutions, and finally some people started hacking their tires and there came a solution of multiple inner tubes or multiple inner tube bubbles in a tire (for quads and bikes)..
I am sure, that reinventing the actual wheel or tire is also a totally useless thing.
I appreciate your completely reasonless attack on my comment, it servers as good entertainment, and makes me understand more why I enjoy using my reinvented wheel without a "comment on" feature.
I agree with you, but don't forget this:
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I wrote - if you can - and I meant, if you cared, if you could write one, if you had the time, if you wanted to (random challange, too much time, self entertainment or just learning e.g. php&mysql a fun way)..
Running your own stuff does not mean more insecure, there are millions of virii out for windows not just because there are security problems, but because there is one potentional target on most office and home desks...... a good virii can hit millons of targets, as a common CMS can be exploited on thousands of machines.
I also meant (maybe did not mention) that a blog software, when single user, can be satisfactory with an entry box, no fancy editor or spellchecker, no calendar or comment option... in that case any IT student in first grade could write his own software as a homework project, and if written well, could be satisfactory and safer than tons of modules that are just there to exploit, but not even in use
besides it is
I also did not say: hey don't use blogger, or whichever else, they are cool I am sure, they were cool the last time I checked them..... but I choose to run stuff on my server I can see thru, even if it looks like poo or works like poo
But peace, I understand your concern, and you are not forced to write your own
you need a simple OS (mean simple_os for e.g a microcontroller) and have pleasure in writing one; go for it
It's like I can take my bike to the mechanic for an oil change, but I do it myself so I am sure the thread is not ripped out of the oil plug screw by someone who cares less than me
so I say it to my friends all the time : it takes 15 minutes and then you know how to do it.... so if you can (want) I sugggest you do it
"Someone might flatten your tires, so its best to reinvent your own wheel... fucking asshat"
... besides NOT being a moron, you should also take notice of the fact TIRE != WHEEL
..... (your choice where you think writing something different became "reinventing the wheel" in the history of OP systems.)
Wow
Must be my english, but I am not familiar with the expression "ASSHAT", where I came from there is no such device being used for our bottom parts.
On the other hand if reinventing the weel was not sometimes the right choice and done by many serious and respected programmers or big corporations, probably you would be typing that on VMS on a text terminal, Dos 1.0, or punching holes into a card
Oh did you forget that slashdot runs on a CMS (a blog system as well) and was written in the need of not having anything satisfactory at the time?
"Gosh, if I had only known that in four years it would have been such a big deal I would have finished it and made it public."
:) if someone would have told me that instead of working at an ISP for nothing 10 years ago
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... it can still happen :) just keep coding all day, and maybe a millionaire walks up to you and wants to share his dotcom-bubble-earned-cash 50/50 :)
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ohh yess, the usual feeling
1. I should have just contacted a "Herbal Viagra" shaman and opened a store,
2. should have written a blog software and wait till 3 years before
3. should have started my own porn site
4. should have started a dating service
5. should have done something someone thought about before me
6. should have started google
7. should have invented Napster
I would be sitting on tons of money and would just sit scratching my balls in peace:)
but hey
Too bad nowadays whatever you think of doing; your content, your idea, your whatever - gets copied in 2 seconds by a HUGE company who has 1000x the resources you caould affor all thru your life, or just scrubbed and duplicated
OK, I wasn't completely serious
Actually it happened that I gave up on something and went with postnuke, but after rewriting almost everything I used, I had to realise, that 90% of the stuff is things I do not need, and just started writing something less of a bloat with what I really need
Oh did I have to mention that the PnPhpbb got hit by some warm adn there was a proxy running on my server in a very short time? Thanks to firewalling they could not send SPAM thru.... but it made me think and start to migrate on my own creation
More on that: whatever crappy code someone writes, when it comes to breaking into a website it might turn out that most go for the well-known CMS systems because you have to find one hole and you get 10k bots, while figuring my messed up code (without seeing it) might get you as many as I have -> maximum a few servers.
pretty much enough for a weblog (did not read the whole thing as my eyes are falling out after 10 hours in front of 4 monitors) but it seems it has what a blog editor needs ...
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.... because when you hit post and your cookie expires, you might bang your head to the wall (depending on redirects, browser, and stuff, a logout might permanently wipe out what you wrote) ...
An other thing I might implement later, is to upload full html, and I haven't seen it in other softwares
I mean if I want to use an editor to make the html and just upload it
When you run on the same software as 2 zillion others, there will be someone smart to find a hole, than there will be 1.5zillion script kiddies and automated bots trying to exploit that hole ON YOUR SERVER.
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I respect Postnuke, PHPBB, Mambo and the rest, but sooner or later some internet shitstorm is going to hit your machine and that might cost you a lot of work, your hosting, money, lost data, upset customers
When talking about your blog, you need something that displays your data, a search function and maybe a calendar. If you write it for yourself, you might not want a fancy editor, and maybe you do not care about a bunch of other things the Ready-to-Run softwares offer.
Besides, in regular CMS systems I usually see very small support for custom keywords, meta tags and description, and linking methods are standardized in a way that is not very good for search engine optimization, and if you want fame, you need traffic. and traffic comes from search engines.
Yes content is king, but some engines still use your meta tags, and care about a list of things most CMS systems (including blogging ones) do not.
It sounds super easy, but when you start doing your own CMS you can easily spend a lot of time and still being nowhere. I am writing my own (not blogging) product oriented community site, and while it is not that big of a challange, it is extremely time consuming.
If you make backups and run on someone else's server you might ignore all that crap, but uf you value your server you might want to use something simple, but something that is not a software 100000s are testing for vulnerabilities...
I know it sounds a little like contra open source, and I do not mean it that way, I am just scared to use some systems that proved to be containing the same old bugs over and over, and then get exploited on a big scale.
hmm interesting views.... however I do not hink it is that much of a chaos here that you would get shot, or maybe not in s different manner than in the states ....
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.... maybe even the one with the chair throwing CEO :) the one that wants to "kill and bury" competetion ....
:) now enough to walk a different path.....
.... we'll see
I am sure if you go against a tobacco company or a government agency they would find their ways to hire some nice guys to look after me in the states as well
or I could have mentioned any other big business
But point taken, I am scared
Still thinking of an environmental site with the same content, but I might suppress company names or something
I mostly ride public dirt roads. Sure there is damage cased by it, but these roads are maintained to "recover" from vehicle traffic ...
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I know that off orading causes damage, but it is not track damage, not even single track, it is the people who would ride onto open areas in hordes where there is no beaten path
I avoid it
"The busdrivers here are insane."
... I started shouting at a driver if he actually had eyes, and if he did he should maybe used it to look ...
.. hahh completely off topic but I really felt like letting my 2 rotweilers on the bus to do some bloodbath out of the driver's ass ...
my dog and me was almost hit today by a damn bus
answer : "didn't you see I was backing up?" all that on a dirt road, middle of nowhere... Costa Rica
hmm you are right .. now i feel better about living in the midle of a coffe field, working alone from home, and being as antisocial as I could be ....
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but : how many people do meet the milkman, postman, how many people meet you local small grocery store, how many kids meet my wife who works as a scoolteacher
I mean I better die than movi in a 'black box' with only internet coming in, and food supplies stacked to the floor for 10 years in case shit hits the fan
it is pretty much unavoidable, if it vomes it comes than we die or survive.... at that point I won't care
it is not like zombies taking the city over so I can just get food and a sniper rifle and camp on the roof. You will meet people who will meet peoplt and it will be a good chance of getting at and death of survival
on the other hand i think t is still just fear mongering
"Better make sure your cemetery plot is paid up."
.... no need for family to spit chewing gum out and come on the "day of the dead" once a year ...
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... "dust to dust" - back to the source ?
burn me and throw me in the sea
if i manage to be a good person, they will remember me without having to pay for the place for my bones to lay at, and will think of me enough
otherwise i'll be just dust in the sea
"the immune system has to be reactive"
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... ohh no, you are the guy who never takes antibiotics .... so take this and this (not antibiotivs) and that if you do not get better in a week, take this and that (antibiotics) " :) haha .... :)
hmm that makes me wonder if I have a better start as I never received a FLU shot (refused it), and refuse antibiotics unless absolutely necessary
my doctor always started " take XXX
he really respected that, and it always turned out that I could fight all the crap wist just something that kills fewer, and vitamise other than flu shots and antibiotics
you are right on that ...
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I grew up in communism, and every time I hear equal share, central distribution, or "everyone gets it who needs it" I think of people being left out of the circle, and nothing is available when people really need it
i feel, the government control means : where it is needed by the companies who drive governments...
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... if I think my family is in danger, and I am willing to pay the price for the medications I should be able to buy it, and do not rely on ANY government to supply it when the poo hits the fan ...
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more explanations: I am sure wll government officials and the peple who can afford it will have their tamiflu )or other alternative) while "disposable" or "collateral damage" parts of the populations will be wiped out in case the scare is real
that is sad IMHO
I still believed it is a panic other tahn realistic threat, but I am bothered by the fact that people cannot buy the meds if they are scared and would like to have a stick for their family
Being somwhat affiliated with a few online pharmacies, I know, that Tamiflu (possibly a cure, or at least a good suport medicine to avoid getting any flu) has been withdrawn form public pharmacies and are stocked by the government.
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Why is that happening ?
Is this flu propaganda for the drug companies, and fear mongerin ?
These questions came up almost every day looking at searches for that medication, and many claim that this flue, when getting ins a country with decent medical practices/health services has a very small fatality rate. Most people get it in developing countries, and get it in agricultural professions (e.g. farmers being exposed to chickens)....
Before you start trolling on online pharmacies, I never send spam, or sell dangerous meds such as hydrocodone, so don't bother.
Anyway I am exposed to medication news because it became part of my revenue, and dunno what to think anymore about that flu panic....
Most people I know say, that it is just a panic by the drug mob to boost sales, but the stocking of flu meds by governments send me a different message....
My wife and me, her being a conservation biologist, me just your regular treehugger, were planning on making a site here ins Costa Rica, based on photos we would take riding around the country, me on my bike, her on her quad (both silenced, small bore, so don;t flame about exhaust fumes and saving the earth ....
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.... so not we are re-thinking our strategy ...
........ but now we are really reconsidering ....
There are a bunch of local and foreign companies making serious damage, and we want to give it some exposure, besides riding around on our vehicles
quite honestly that news piece made us think about how many companies would want to sue our asses if we get noticed
Our plan was to sneak around various industrial installations with a GPS and a digicam, and then post it blog-style with the help of goolge maps api
Would YOU have the balls?
oooh, uuuh .... the prices of their projectors .... I did not even want to know...
... you know in the $100-$1500 range somewhere,
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I was interested in consumer devices
I think current technology - such as a nice dual output VGA card and cheap lcd displays in a thin goggle - might comfortably allow creation of such 3d devices
I mean 2x 800x600 LCDs and some cheap optics mounted to a dual Nvidia would satisfy most gamers for a little driving, flying or a fragfest.......
Just think of those "video glasses" on google, or your choice of search, starting from $150
now tripple that with better RES and I would still buy it if I can set my renderer to render from 2 viewpoints on 2 heads of a video card.
Technically the old shutter glasses did that, and they worked well in lots of games without direct support built into the game.
You are half right ..
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..in your choice of webpage creation language
If you are a call center with 200 employees, go the Voip standards or Voice over frame relay way....
if you are a company of 10, making 10 overseas calls a day, and having a few partners of the same size; skype is a good solution for saving on outgoing calls, equipment and similar
Besides: in a company where users use their favourite programs? Usears should not be able to install ANYTHING themselves, so your idea is dead from the beginning....
Now on to explorer: you sure can fetch pages from webservers, but sometimes it is just pure luck if they show up the same way as in any other "standards compliant" browser,
unless it has been tested on IE fr workarounds, and have several lines like
if($browser == "IExplorer") do_something_of_a_nasy_hack_to_appear_normally();