We in Georgia enjoy the fruits of all of your USF payments in the form of outstanding rural DSL availability.
As for those of you comparing T1 to 5Mbps keep in mind that the T's only real advantage is the guaranteed speed and uptime. Let's face it, it's slower down and as for the up speed, what do I care how fast my request for porn gets to the server as long as it's delivered at a decent rate.
Am I the only one who was right there with Jobs up until he announced the specs and...........no tuner card???!!! So basically it's an airport extreme for video. I'm first in line for the phone, but Apple TV? meh
Obvious shill? Shouldn't I be getting a check or something? Seriously, we have been running Xen on quad xeon boxes with CentOS in a testing environment for about a month now and have been very impressed. Sure, the initial build and config were a pain, but it looks like it's going to cut down on the amount of hardware we are going to have to deploy and support. I am disappointed but not surprised that since my opinion doesn't jibe with yours that, in your opinion, I must be a shill but hey, no skin off my nose.
While it pains me to say anything good about Novell in their current incarnation, Xen absolutely rocks. What RedHat's mouthy VP should have said, and could have reasonably said is: "WE have not fully tested Xen and WE are not ready to support it in the enterprise." That is a completely reasonable statement and probably better reflects reality.
See what happens when you have VPs snooping around the engineering cubes and trying to redeliver what they thought they heard.
One does not have anything to do with the other. Admittedly, DHH and crew could have handled the announcement better, but there is no major framework or application or OS for that matter that does not have security updates and vulnerabilities. I believe that Tomcat 3.2.1 and 3.1.1 were both security releases. This was the first event of this type for Rails, there will be others just as there have been for PHP, Struts, Django, etc. Everyone just needs to take a breath, patch and move forward.
French is one of several languages that the planet/world could do without. Arabic and Hebrew are other. None of them provides capabilities beyond English, Esperanto, German or Swahili. Don't be tempted to use them. They simply divert effort that would be better applied elsewhere.
More to the point, Skype did not copyright the technology.
Re:sometimes configuration isn't a bad thing...
on
Ruby For Rails
·
· Score: 1
This is where we are going to have to agree to disagree. In the scenario you describe it would seem to me that convention and not configuration would be the big winner. If I can go into code knowing where everything should be then I am already several steps ahead of the game in maintaining or porting that code. You don't need to dive very deeply into rails to find out what the standard conventions are. This was a big reason that we chose to make this move.
The problem with conf files is that they tend not to be simple.
Re:Slashdot - Where Rails gets the hype.
on
Ruby For Rails
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
Having just come off of a review of these exact frameworks for adoption at our firm I have to take exception with some of your statements. I will absolutely give you performance for all of these exceeding that of rails, however, ease of deployment (Capistrano for comparison),ease of use (have you really looked at Zope/Plone and tried to do anything really useful with it?), and, oddly enough, other than Zope, there is more documentation for rails than for either of the other two frameworks. I am including the three ruby/rails books that are currently available as rough cuts through O'Reilly's safari service.
We settled on rails because it was faster to iterate and develop, the whole MVC design pattern just screams out to be used in database driven website design, and rails is just flat out more fun to work in than PHP ever was. Even if it turns out not to be the wave of the future, having worked in ruby using rails has already begun to teach our developers to think in terms of convention over configuration, standards and object orientation.
Really, it's been a win for us. Also, the ruby for rails book is an outstanding read, I would also recommend enterprise integration with ruby as a good next step.
Actually, if you are looking for a rails IDE I strongly suggest that you check out http://radrails.org/ available both as stand alone and as an eclipse plugin.
I work for a regional hosting provider and a pretty decent percentage of our business comes from within 100 miles of our location. We probably have one or two potential clients dropping by per week to talk to our tech staff and see what we have to offer. Are we more than $12.95 a month for hosting? You bet we are. Do we provide better service? You bet we do.
You can come take a look at my big honkin UPS system, my generator backup, and I'll be happy to sit you down and walk you through our multihomed, multiredundant systems.
So, back to my point, how about cracking open your local phonebook and seeing if there is a hosting company right in your community that will work with you, answer your phone calls, and let you come look at their stuff.
Yep, he has my vote, tabbed all three and his is both readable and feels open and accessable. I thought Peter Lada's design was too claustrophobic (yeah, I know, my adjectives make me sound like a damn wine critic, but that's how it seemed to me.) and while Michael Johnson's design stuck me as the best looking at first, it was also the least readable and I think that was due to having no clear separation between items for my eye to follow. Oh well, just my.02
While I do agree with the general consensus that this is BS, your assertion that M$ does not work via aquisition is way off base. There were something like 58 aquisition and a couple hundred major investments in the last 10 years. You can see them here.
I would agree with you if you were unable to decouple content production from distribution.
NPR will continue to purchase this excellent content from it's producers and affiliates that can offer this type of local programming will still be able to attract listeners whether it be via airwaves, podcast or technology X. It's the affiliates that do nothing but redistribute the content created by others that would be doomed.
Yes, it is a new era, yes we need to face these challenges. Since NPR is our radio station, they owe more to the people than they do to their affiliates. If you look at their 2003 Annual Report you can see that they derive less than 3% of their annual revenue from members and that their internet initiatives account for 5% of their annual expenses. I say it's time for a paradigm shift in radio and let's see public radio lead that charge. Is there a chance that the affiliates will go under? Absolutely. Are we required to support those affiliates even as the world changes around them? No. Sure, my grandmother may not be able to listen to Prairie Home Companion until I come over and set her up with the podcast, but she is in the minority at this point in my opinion and that minority is getting smaller by attrition every year.
Find a good remarketer and stick with them
on
Tech on the Cheap?
·
· Score: 2, Informative
I have a great relationship with mine. They get off lease equipment from Dell and others which means that a lot of gear is two to five years old, but, for example, we just purchased some blade servers at 80% off of their new price. Make sure to find a good one and stick with them. My rep gives me calls when good deals come in and we get first whack. Not to advertise but my remarketer is Stallard Technologies http://www.stikc.com/.
I admit it, I'm guilty, I didn't read the refering article. Whoever submitted this must have had english as a second language. From the original article:
"In a question-and-answer period in front of the keynote audience, Martin said that "I do think the commission has the authority necessary" to enforce network neutrality violations, noting that the FCC had in fact done so in the case last year involving Madison River's blocking of Vonage's VoIP service.
"We've already demonstrated we'll take action if necessary," Martin said."
Clearly, the FCC chief is saying that they have and will continue to enforce network neutrality.
I honestly believe that all this will do is lose customer base for those providers that go along and tier their internet service. I for one will be switching providers if my current ISP institutes this type of highway robbery.
Hopefully this will be an opportunity for ambitious ISPs to increase their customer base by providing the entire internet, not just the parts they can squeeze revenue from.
Just out of curiosity, I cruised over to ebay and searched for real estate in Buffalo. Surprise, surprise, a 'Mr. Burt' is listing a fixer upper for a very low price. Coincidence? I don't think so. I was going to insert something here about not buying sight unseen, but then I sat back and thought about it and realized that I might very well have done the same thing. Dropping 3K to own a bit of real estate doesn't seem like a bad flyer. How bad could you get hurt? This was actually a wake up call for me.
I agree with you completely, as long as you don't need customization in the business logic then OSCommerce is a fine product, it's in custom implementations that you will have issues.
Unfortunately it hasn't. There is really no concept of MVC in OSCommerce or it's branches like ZenCart. We tried to use both for a client project and ended up using Miva because of our inability to fix one area without breaking another. It's a bit hard to comprehend how a book can abstracts OSCommerce from php and mysql and still be relevant.
Oh man that brings back memories, what ever happend to Infocom? They had THE best games, freefall, Hitchhiker's Guide, Planetfall, Suspended. Thank you for that giant wave of Nostalgia. Oh, btw, first machine was a TRS-80 Model 1 lvl2 with the 64K expansion interface. Kept that machine for years, I still remember hand typing Basic games and saving them to cassette.
Slashdot Mirror
We in Georgia enjoy the fruits of all of your USF payments in the form of outstanding rural DSL availability. As for those of you comparing T1 to 5Mbps keep in mind that the T's only real advantage is the guaranteed speed and uptime. Let's face it, it's slower down and as for the up speed, what do I care how fast my request for porn gets to the server as long as it's delivered at a decent rate.
Am I the only one who was right there with Jobs up until he announced the specs and ...........no tuner card???!!! So basically it's an airport extreme for video. I'm first in line for the phone, but Apple TV? meh
Obvious shill? Shouldn't I be getting a check or something? Seriously, we have been running Xen on quad xeon boxes with CentOS in a testing environment for about a month now and have been very impressed. Sure, the initial build and config were a pain, but it looks like it's going to cut down on the amount of hardware we are going to have to deploy and support. I am disappointed but not surprised that since my opinion doesn't jibe with yours that, in your opinion, I must be a shill but hey, no skin off my nose.
See what happens when you have VPs snooping around the engineering cubes and trying to redeliver what they thought they heard.
One does not have anything to do with the other. Admittedly, DHH and crew could have handled the announcement better, but there is no major framework or application or OS for that matter that does not have security updates and vulnerabilities. I believe that Tomcat 3.2.1 and 3.1.1 were both security releases. This was the first event of this type for Rails, there will be others just as there have been for PHP, Struts, Django, etc. Everyone just needs to take a breath, patch and move forward.
French is one of several languages that the planet/world could do without. Arabic and Hebrew are other. None of them provides capabilities beyond English, Esperanto, German or Swahili. Don't be tempted to use them. They simply divert effort that would be better applied elsewhere.
More to the point, Skype did not copyright the technology.
This is where we are going to have to agree to disagree. In the scenario you describe it would seem to me that convention and not configuration would be the big winner. If I can go into code knowing where everything should be then I am already several steps ahead of the game in maintaining or porting that code. You don't need to dive very deeply into rails to find out what the standard conventions are. This was a big reason that we chose to make this move.
The problem with conf files is that they tend not to be simple.
Having just come off of a review of these exact frameworks for adoption at our firm I have to take exception with some of your statements. I will absolutely give you performance for all of these exceeding that of rails, however, ease of deployment (Capistrano for comparison),ease of use (have you really looked at Zope/Plone and tried to do anything really useful with it?), and, oddly enough, other than Zope, there is more documentation for rails than for either of the other two frameworks. I am including the three ruby/rails books that are currently available as rough cuts through O'Reilly's safari service.
We settled on rails because it was faster to iterate and develop, the whole MVC design pattern just screams out to be used in database driven website design, and rails is just flat out more fun to work in than PHP ever was. Even if it turns out not to be the wave of the future, having worked in ruby using rails has already begun to teach our developers to think in terms of convention over configuration, standards and object orientation.
Really, it's been a win for us. Also, the ruby for rails book is an outstanding read, I would also recommend enterprise integration with ruby as a good next step.
Actually, if you are looking for a rails IDE I strongly suggest that you check out http://radrails.org/ available both as stand alone and as an eclipse plugin.
I work for a regional hosting provider and a pretty decent percentage of our business comes from within 100 miles of our location. We probably have one or two potential clients dropping by per week to talk to our tech staff and see what we have to offer. Are we more than $12.95 a month for hosting? You bet we are. Do we provide better service? You bet we do.
You can come take a look at my big honkin UPS system, my generator backup, and I'll be happy to sit you down and walk you through our multihomed, multiredundant systems.
So, back to my point, how about cracking open your local phonebook and seeing if there is a hosting company right in your community that will work with you, answer your phone calls, and let you come look at their stuff.
Yep, he has my vote, tabbed all three and his is both readable and feels open and accessable. I thought Peter Lada's design was too claustrophobic (yeah, I know, my adjectives make me sound like a damn wine critic, but that's how it seemed to me.) and while Michael Johnson's design stuck me as the best looking at first, it was also the least readable and I think that was due to having no clear separation between items for my eye to follow. Oh well, just my .02
I believe it is more of an 'IGN cash for traffic' scheme. Zonk obviously has a boat payment coming up.
We want our stock picks back.
While I do agree with the general consensus that this is BS, your assertion that M$ does not work via aquisition is way off base. There were something like 58 aquisition and a couple hundred major investments in the last 10 years. You can see them here.
NPR will continue to purchase this excellent content from it's producers and affiliates that can offer this type of local programming will still be able to attract listeners whether it be via airwaves, podcast or technology X. It's the affiliates that do nothing but redistribute the content created by others that would be doomed.
Yes, it is a new era, yes we need to face these challenges. Since NPR is our radio station, they owe more to the people than they do to their affiliates. If you look at their 2003 Annual Report you can see that they derive less than 3% of their annual revenue from members and that their internet initiatives account for 5% of their annual expenses. I say it's time for a paradigm shift in radio and let's see public radio lead that charge. Is there a chance that the affiliates will go under? Absolutely. Are we required to support those affiliates even as the world changes around them? No. Sure, my grandmother may not be able to listen to Prairie Home Companion until I come over and set her up with the podcast, but she is in the minority at this point in my opinion and that minority is getting smaller by attrition every year.
I have a great relationship with mine. They get off lease equipment from Dell and others which means that a lot of gear is two to five years old, but, for example, we just purchased some blade servers at 80% off of their new price. Make sure to find a good one and stick with them. My rep gives me calls when good deals come in and we get first whack. Not to advertise but my remarketer is Stallard Technologies http://www.stikc.com/.
I admit it, I'm guilty, I didn't read the refering article. Whoever submitted this must have had english as a second language. From the original article:
"In a question-and-answer period in front of the keynote audience, Martin said that "I do think the commission has the authority necessary" to enforce network neutrality violations, noting that the FCC had in fact done so in the case last year involving Madison River's blocking of Vonage's VoIP service.
"We've already demonstrated we'll take action if necessary," Martin said."
Clearly, the FCC chief is saying that they have and will continue to enforce network neutrality.
Nothing to see here, move along.
I honestly believe that all this will do is lose customer base for those providers that go along and tier their internet service. I for one will be switching providers if my current ISP institutes this type of highway robbery.
Hopefully this will be an opportunity for ambitious ISPs to increase their customer base by providing the entire internet, not just the parts they can squeeze revenue from.
Just out of curiosity, I cruised over to ebay and searched for real estate in Buffalo. Surprise, surprise, a 'Mr. Burt' is listing a fixer upper for a very low price. Coincidence? I don't think so. I was going to insert something here about not buying sight unseen, but then I sat back and thought about it and realized that I might very well have done the same thing. Dropping 3K to own a bit of real estate doesn't seem like a bad flyer. How bad could you get hurt? This was actually a wake up call for me.
I agree with you completely, as long as you don't need customization in the business logic then OSCommerce is a fine product, it's in custom implementations that you will have issues.
Unfortunately it hasn't. There is really no concept of MVC in OSCommerce or it's branches like ZenCart. We tried to use both for a client project and ended up using Miva because of our inability to fix one area without breaking another. It's a bit hard to comprehend how a book can abstracts OSCommerce from php and mysql and still be relevant.
Actually, you can order the 'rough cuts' version of the book now and download additional content as the author writes it.
Oh man that brings back memories, what ever happend to Infocom? They had THE best games, freefall, Hitchhiker's Guide, Planetfall, Suspended. Thank you for that giant wave of Nostalgia. Oh, btw, first machine was a TRS-80 Model 1 lvl2 with the 64K expansion interface. Kept that machine for years, I still remember hand typing Basic games and saving them to cassette.