I once listened in on a conversation by some digital typographers about their work set-ups, and unlike linux-heads they were genuinely interested in the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of solving the same problem, instead of arguing over whether which was best.
This is something I've come to notice at the companies I've worked for. At my previous job I had to colaborate a lot with designer-types, and while some of them can be very precise about their workflow, most of them are actually quite interested in how you (and more generally "things") work and how you can get a really productive workflow.
This may sound like a lot of marketing speak, but take for instance a webdesigner who's used to some form of template system for webpages with forms. It's often very interesting to listen to how they've optimized their own workflow, and most of them will gladly listen to you when you have some useful tips for them. The thing is though, that this has to come from both ways. You can't expect someone to adjust their entire way of working simply because it's easier for you. Find a good middle ground and you'll have a really positive experience.
Developers on the other hand... There are a lot of developers so convinced that their workflow is the best, and the ONLY viable way of doing things. You'll still find a few who are willing to find a common ground, but it's far less common than with designers. Again it's a two-way street.
It just seems that with developers you're more likely to get this "I'm right, and you're wrong" situation followed by 3 hours of pointless bickering until one of them finally grudgingly gives in.
Having said that though, I've enjoyed working together with a lot of people over the years and it's been both a frustrating and very enjoyable experience at times. Whatever the experience was however, I've never missed the opportunity to learn from other people which I think is very important, and I hope that some people have picked up something from me at some point.
Or do I get the 'common carrier' type protection if I'm just running content through the server?
I could write a very long and frustrating comment about "common carriers", but I'll just summarize it : You don't have enough cash nor do you provide enough of a useful service to become a common carrier.
an OpenGL programmer and law student during the day time
That has to be by far the most bizarre combination I've heard in a long while. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just... very atypical.
The best way to organize your serverroom for web 2.0 compliance is by stacking the servers diagonally. This way, air can float freely between racks, improving the flow of the system administrator gas based bowel attacks.
Don't bother with those 10Gb switches, just hook it all up on wireless. Wireless network, wireless fibre storage, wireless power! Your megaflops (the rate at which a million projects per second will turn out to be a flop) will increase by a factor of 213% per watt.
Web 2.0, the best thing to happen to your serverroom since buttered toast and angry system administrators, can be yours now only for $ 9999,95 per diagonal server! Why go for a 1U server when you can have a 2U for three times the price. Call now, and receive a free "My other server is a web 3.0" bumpersticker which will be applied by an angry salesman who'll also slash your tires for FREE!
Warning: servers may not be stacked diagonally on top of eachother, rather rammed into your rack repetetively by an angry monkey (which we've nicknamed "Bob the technician"). Aforementioned technician may or may not leave presents in your servers. Do not feed Bob during the installation process, nor introduce Bob to small children and pets.
TBH given that restriction I'm really surprised web hosts still ship it, as they're opening themselves up to all sorts of liability issues if one of their customers uses/builds a non-gpl app using it.
Actually webhosts don't open themselves up to anything. One of their customers can develop whatever they want, and the webhost isn't liable for it. As a customer, you can still develop whatever you want as long as it's GPL, and if you don't distribute your application you don't have to provide source. Not distributing your application sort of makes the whole licensing thing a moot point anyway.
I'd be scared to be a webhoster if I were to be held responsible for any content my customers put online. I'd be forced to check the content of every file on a system, which then conflicts with local privacy laws, trade laws, and would probably piss off my customer.
Postgresql is basically mysql without all the silly politics.
Most people don't care about "open-source politics". If someone writes a webapp that uses MySQL and wants to sell it to his customer, they'll gladly include the amount for the MySQL licenses, and the customer will happily fork over the money if they really want it that much. Otherwise they'd 've sticked to an open source application anyway.
Having said that, postgres is a really nice database and most experiences I've had with it have been pleasant. It's just that it doesn't get installed very much on cheap hosting environments, and usually mysql will do.
Come on, guys. There's no chance in hell that the licensing terms will be pro open source and we all know it. Can we please stop propagating false hope?
Wow, I guess I'm the only idiot left who still uses those
4. SCSI
The death of SCSI predicted once again. Everyone keeps predicting it's death, but I can't seem to get rid of it in my serverroom. Guess what the last letter in SAS stands for?
5. SCART
Amazingly they still have those on recent television sets. Guess I wasted my money on that TV then
9. Kryten's groin (from Red Dwarf)
They ran out of ports they could deprecate? Good thing I didn't waste my time reading the article
Personally I'm still waiting for someone to come up with Battlefield Tycoon, and cash in on both
Man, Battlefield Tycoon... It'll be awesome! You'll be put in the chair of the CEO of EA Games, and forced to come up with new excuses for releasing the same formula over and over. Then you'll have to do some clever marketing, so that the public will keep on buying your overpriced rehashed goodies, while at the same time keeping eye on your profit, and pushing your staff in 24/7 crunch time.
It'll be so awesome, they'll have to make a sequel, Battlefield Tycoon 2. Twice the options in the marketing department, three times the excuses, and a killer crunch time mode.
After a couple of sequels, we'll try and be original again. We'll release Battlefield Tycoon Tycoon. You get to sit in the chair of the CEO of EA games, forced to come up with new excuses for releasing the same formula over and over...
Well, from my experience (not trolling), but they historically have sucked somewhat less than the ATI drivers
After all the trouble I had with my last ATI card and linux, I swore never to buy an ATI card again. The nvidia drivers worked like a charm for me. As for the open source part, as soon as the open source drivers are at an acceptable level for my personal use I'll be happy to switch to those (in fact, more than happy), but at the moment it's just not feasible.
I'd gladly trade off a couple of FPS for a card that was rock solid stable.
Rock solid stable doesn't rake in the $$$ for them, so they'll be focussing on the extra couple of FPS. Once the stability becomes enough of an issue, they'll shift focus to that.
They must be, after all you've gone out of your way to post about 10 replies where you praise MIT (and the army up to some point) as the creme de la creme of the higher education you can get. I have this feeling that the way you're defending MIT, you are being a little too overzaelous.
At my previous workplace we had a rule "your degree and where it came from don't matter". I've seen a guy with a university degree in CS be outsmarted on a technical matter by someone who studied history but had a passion for what he was doing. We had a guy fresh out of high school who wanted to work a couple of years to earn some money before heading off to his higher education, and he was better at programming than some "educated" people I've had the "pleasure" to work with.
My point is that while many companies have a tendency to focus on a degree, a lot of companies don't. If you have a talent and you're willing to put that to good use, you'll be presented with enough opportunities. Yes, a degree is important, but 10 years from when you have obtained that degree your experience and achievements are much more important.
Not really relevant, your whois is just showing replies for domains with a "similar" name (when it really shouldn't be doing that). You'll get varying results depending on what whois server you're asking.
YOUTUBE.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM resolves to a (lol) "hacking" and warez site of some sort. It's just someone having fun with DNS and whois.
Why are you doing a whois when you can't reach youtube? For all intents and purposes, whois is completely useless these days.
As for youtube being down... Meh, probably some routing problem, or some ship accidentally dragging their anchors over googles datacenters.
Don't worry, they'll come up with a standard to describe the exact kind of limitations soon. It'll be awesome, and have 12 namespaces, schemas that'll take forever to validate while using most available memory, a 2500 page introduction manual and the best of all is that you can extend it further to suit your own needs.
This markup language however will have its own limitations, but don't worry, they're going to come up with a standard for that too. It'll be awesome, and have 24 namespaces, schemas that'll take forever to validate while using all available memory, a 5000 page introduction manual, and the best of all is that you can extend it further to suit your own needs...
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This is something I've come to notice at the companies I've worked for. At my previous job I had to colaborate a lot with designer-types, and while some of them can be very precise about their workflow, most of them are actually quite interested in how you (and more generally "things") work and how you can get a really productive workflow.
This may sound like a lot of marketing speak, but take for instance a webdesigner who's used to some form of template system for webpages with forms. It's often very interesting to listen to how they've optimized their own workflow, and most of them will gladly listen to you when you have some useful tips for them. The thing is though, that this has to come from both ways. You can't expect someone to adjust their entire way of working simply because it's easier for you. Find a good middle ground and you'll have a really positive experience.
Developers on the other hand... There are a lot of developers so convinced that their workflow is the best, and the ONLY viable way of doing things. You'll still find a few who are willing to find a common ground, but it's far less common than with designers. Again it's a two-way street.
It just seems that with developers you're more likely to get this "I'm right, and you're wrong" situation followed by 3 hours of pointless bickering until one of them finally grudgingly gives in.
Having said that though, I've enjoyed working together with a lot of people over the years and it's been both a frustrating and very enjoyable experience at times. Whatever the experience was however, I've never missed the opportunity to learn from other people which I think is very important, and I hope that some people have picked up something from me at some point.
Eve Online releases it's expansions free of charge, and it has been doing that for a lot longer than Blizzard has been running WoW.
I could write a very long and frustrating comment about "common carriers", but I'll just summarize it : You don't have enough cash nor do you provide enough of a useful service to become a common carrier.
That's basicly the gist of it.
Oh trust me, the rest of Europe isn't too keen on him either
Download Metallica albums and play them to cats.
Maybe she's really bad at GTA ;)
That has to be by far the most bizarre combination I've heard in a long while. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just... very atypical.
The best way to organize your serverroom for web 2.0 compliance is by stacking the servers diagonally. This way, air can float freely between racks, improving the flow of the system administrator gas based bowel attacks.
Don't bother with those 10Gb switches, just hook it all up on wireless. Wireless network, wireless fibre storage, wireless power! Your megaflops (the rate at which a million projects per second will turn out to be a flop) will increase by a factor of 213% per watt.
Web 2.0, the best thing to happen to your serverroom since buttered toast and angry system administrators, can be yours now only for $ 9999,95 per diagonal server! Why go for a 1U server when you can have a 2U for three times the price. Call now, and receive a free "My other server is a web 3.0" bumpersticker which will be applied by an angry salesman who'll also slash your tires for FREE!
Warning: servers may not be stacked diagonally on top of eachother, rather rammed into your rack repetetively by an angry monkey (which we've nicknamed "Bob the technician"). Aforementioned technician may or may not leave presents in your servers. Do not feed Bob during the installation process, nor introduce Bob to small children and pets.
Now now, don't give us too much credit
It's like ext2 times two, stupid.
I could make a remark here about testing your unit, but that would be wrong
Actually webhosts don't open themselves up to anything. One of their customers can develop whatever they want, and the webhost isn't liable for it. As a customer, you can still develop whatever you want as long as it's GPL, and if you don't distribute your application you don't have to provide source. Not distributing your application sort of makes the whole licensing thing a moot point anyway.
I'd be scared to be a webhoster if I were to be held responsible for any content my customers put online. I'd be forced to check the content of every file on a system, which then conflicts with local privacy laws, trade laws, and would probably piss off my customer.
Most people don't care about "open-source politics". If someone writes a webapp that uses MySQL and wants to sell it to his customer, they'll gladly include the amount for the MySQL licenses, and the customer will happily fork over the money if they really want it that much. Otherwise they'd 've sticked to an open source application anyway.
Having said that, postgres is a really nice database and most experiences I've had with it have been pleasant. It's just that it doesn't get installed very much on cheap hosting environments, and usually mysql will do.
And here I was thinking that was sarcasm
I hear firefox 4 will come with a built-in lawn
Wow, I guess I'm the only idiot left who still uses those
The death of SCSI predicted once again. Everyone keeps predicting it's death, but I can't seem to get rid of it in my serverroom. Guess what the last letter in SAS stands for?
Amazingly they still have those on recent television sets. Guess I wasted my money on that TV then
They ran out of ports they could deprecate? Good thing I didn't waste my time reading the article
Man, Battlefield Tycoon... It'll be awesome! You'll be put in the chair of the CEO of EA Games, and forced to come up with new excuses for releasing the same formula over and over. Then you'll have to do some clever marketing, so that the public will keep on buying your overpriced rehashed goodies, while at the same time keeping eye on your profit, and pushing your staff in 24/7 crunch time.
It'll be so awesome, they'll have to make a sequel, Battlefield Tycoon 2. Twice the options in the marketing department, three times the excuses, and a killer crunch time mode.
After a couple of sequels, we'll try and be original again. We'll release Battlefield Tycoon Tycoon. You get to sit in the chair of the CEO of EA games, forced to come up with new excuses for releasing the same formula over and over ...
That sounded better in my head...
After all the trouble I had with my last ATI card and linux, I swore never to buy an ATI card again. The nvidia drivers worked like a charm for me. As for the open source part, as soon as the open source drivers are at an acceptable level for my personal use I'll be happy to switch to those (in fact, more than happy), but at the moment it's just not feasible.
Rock solid stable doesn't rake in the $$$ for them, so they'll be focussing on the extra couple of FPS. Once the stability becomes enough of an issue, they'll shift focus to that.
No, but if enough people at nvidia get modpoints, it'll be at +5 Funny in no time.
Fixed that for you
They must be, after all you've gone out of your way to post about 10 replies where you praise MIT (and the army up to some point) as the creme de la creme of the higher education you can get. I have this feeling that the way you're defending MIT, you are being a little too overzaelous.
At my previous workplace we had a rule "your degree and where it came from don't matter". I've seen a guy with a university degree in CS be outsmarted on a technical matter by someone who studied history but had a passion for what he was doing. We had a guy fresh out of high school who wanted to work a couple of years to earn some money before heading off to his higher education, and he was better at programming than some "educated" people I've had the "pleasure" to work with.
My point is that while many companies have a tendency to focus on a degree, a lot of companies don't. If you have a talent and you're willing to put that to good use, you'll be presented with enough opportunities. Yes, a degree is important, but 10 years from when you have obtained that degree your experience and achievements are much more important.
Disclaimer for the parent: we don't read your disclaimers anyway. We'll be meeting soon.
I wouldn't destroy it... with my own hands. I'd build a waterproof robot and show that piece of trash!
Oh, wait, they used to have a show on that sort of thing, and it wasn't very entertaining.
$IPTABLES -A INPUT -s $TERRORISTS -j DROP
$IPTABLES -A FORWARD -s $TERRORISTS -j DROP
That should clear things up :)
Not really relevant, your whois is just showing replies for domains with a "similar" name (when it really shouldn't be doing that). You'll get varying results depending on what whois server you're asking.
YOUTUBE.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM resolves to a (lol) "hacking" and warez site of some sort. It's just someone having fun with DNS and whois.
Why are you doing a whois when you can't reach youtube? For all intents and purposes, whois is completely useless these days.
As for youtube being down... Meh, probably some routing problem, or some ship accidentally dragging their anchors over googles datacenters.
And Adobe would care how exactly? Rest assured, Adobe doesn't mind you working on windows.
Don't worry, they'll come up with a standard to describe the exact kind of limitations soon. It'll be awesome, and have 12 namespaces, schemas that'll take forever to validate while using most available memory, a 2500 page introduction manual and the best of all is that you can extend it further to suit your own needs.
This markup language however will have its own limitations, but don't worry, they're going to come up with a standard for that too. It'll be awesome, and have 24 namespaces, schemas that'll take forever to validate while using all available memory, a 5000 page introduction manual, and the best of all is that you can extend it further to suit your own needs...
Oh... Wait...