I hate Republican hate blogs that are out there and focus on half of one side of a story to make it look as bad as possible for anyone other than themselves.
The worst part, is that they link to themselves over and over and over and over and over and over worse than a hick family tree were all the grandmas grandpas, children and grand children descended fromt he same 2 people.
In my experience, most blogs that espouse a particular worldview tend to end up like that. It doesn't even have to be politics or religion. I notice this in blogs related to programming languages/preferences (which admittedly are treated like religion by a great many). One blog entry is posted with a very warped perception of reality, then someone else posts and entry about what the first guy said. Then it explodes out from there until you see things like "everyone knows how the internet is all abuzz about all the foo programmers ditching foo for the new bar paradigm", when in fact the only buzz is the fake one created by the "hick family tree" you speak of. Quite often the people making the blog postings just happen to have some sort of financial (or otherwise) interest in their warped perception becoming actual reality (like for example, having just published a book about the subject at hand). It's just astroturfing, but the nature of blogs seems to make it easier to project a false image of hype/buzz/interest, especially when the bloggers do not allow comments or are selective in which they approve and which they ignore.
Anyway, I find it highly annoying as well but I just wanted to point out that Republican bloggers do not have a monopoly on this approach.
Lord knows that I have no love for PHP, and I agree that it is an abomination. However, I feel compelled to point out the existence of the array_unique() function, which would considerably shorten your PHP version.
Well yes, the lazy packagers at Red Hat, SuSE, on the Fedora project, etc... It doesn't help that you can do something if none of the official packages actually do it.
Debian is the same way, though it provides a (rather hard to use) workaround of "fake" packages.
Rather hard to use? Download the Java binary from java.sun.com and then:
To the mods: that was a joke. I know Microsoft's tools are highly regarded (and probably with good reason), that was just the way it read to me at first and I thought it was funny...
Indeed, many credit Microsoft's success to its highly regarded programming tools, which make it easier for developers to write software that run on Windows.
Am I the only one who read the above as "highly retarded"?:)
...or maybe they will, and they'll finally invent the Blipvert! I'd tolerate blipverts if it meant that less time per show was spent on ads. Currently it's about 15-19 minutes per hour.
It's that whole "electrically charged exploding dude" side-effect that kinda worries me..
Oooh, nice obscure reference there. I wonder how many people will catch it. Lifetime: The network that puts you right... where they want you to be.;)
Music is legal to own , posses and in some situations distribute and sell
Yeah, it breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it and, if you're the proprietor of a music store, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause -- get a load of this -- if the cops stop you, it's illegal for them to search you.
I know what you mean. I have a coworker who looks at my code and always whines like "Waaaa, this is too complicated!" and "Ho ho ho, what is this crazy stuff, I can't follow what you're doing here..." and so forth. He's much more of a straight ahead procedural guy and I tend towards the OO style. He agrees that my approach is probably more maintainable as requirements are later added to our programs (we work in a company where our initial specs are often scribbled on a cocktail napkin, if they exist at all), but he thinks it's a problem that my code isn't immediately transparent to him the first time he looks at it. To which I always respond "Reading code is hard!"
I think it's also a skill you can improve, somewhat separately from writing good code (although they do go hand in hand). I started out mainly by modifying and supporting existing code written by others, and it always takes me a while to wrap my brain around someone else's stuff, but the more I did it the easier it became. But even still, it always requires effort. I guess that's why they call it "work".:)
It's widely recognized that enabling the "magic quotes" feature in PHP makes the Baby Jesus cry. If you read the archives of the PHP internals list you'll see that even the PHP devs themselves recognize that it was a huge mistake that has caused more headaches than it has solved...
You must think outside the box to realize that this paradigm shift is only possible with our Enterprise Solution.
BTW, just so everyone knows, my friends and I have decided that the new "thinking outside the box" for 2005 is actually "thinking inside the box". Actually "thinking outside the box" is so...2004.:)
There's this thing....it's sooooo freaking cool....I'm sure you've heard of this thing but just in case you haven't......it's called.....a SENSE OF HUMOR.....you really should go get one simply because they are so damn cool!
As a newishbie sys admin, what is the best policy in this situation, hiding apache behind a firewall or shutting it down till the fixed debian version hits the repository, or risk waiting for it to hit without shutting down?
Do the following:
Check the Debian changelog (zless/usr/share/doc/apache/changelog.Debian.gz). Frequently fixes are backported but the version number isn't necessarily bumped. One of the vulnerabilities fixed in Apache 1.3.33 (CAN-2004-0492) has already been backported to Sarge in version 1.3.31-2.
Assess the risk to your installation. The other vulnerability (CAN-2004-0940) requires local access AND requires that mod_include be installed. If I'm not mistaken, mod_include is not enabled by default in Sarge. If you don't have untrusted local users or you're not using mod_include you don't have to worry.
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Brilliant! And me without mod points... :)
In my experience, most blogs that espouse a particular worldview tend to end up like that. It doesn't even have to be politics or religion. I notice this in blogs related to programming languages/preferences (which admittedly are treated like religion by a great many). One blog entry is posted with a very warped perception of reality, then someone else posts and entry about what the first guy said. Then it explodes out from there until you see things like "everyone knows how the internet is all abuzz about all the foo programmers ditching foo for the new bar paradigm", when in fact the only buzz is the fake one created by the "hick family tree" you speak of. Quite often the people making the blog postings just happen to have some sort of financial (or otherwise) interest in their warped perception becoming actual reality (like for example, having just published a book about the subject at hand). It's just astroturfing, but the nature of blogs seems to make it easier to project a false image of hype/buzz/interest, especially when the bloggers do not allow comments or are selective in which they approve and which they ignore. Anyway, I find it highly annoying as well but I just wanted to point out that Republican bloggers do not have a monopoly on this approach.
Lord knows that I have no love for PHP, and I agree that it is an abomination. However, I feel compelled to point out the existence of the array_unique() function, which would considerably shorten your PHP version.
:)
Ick, you made me defend PHP. I feel dirty now.
Well yes, the lazy packagers at Red Hat, SuSE, on the Fedora project, etc... It doesn't help that you can do something if none of the official packages actually do it.
n stallation_with_java-package.
Debian is the same way, though it provides a (rather hard to use) workaround of "fake" packages.
Rather hard to use? Download the Java binary from java.sun.com and then:
# apt-get install java-package
$ fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin
# dpkg -i sun-j2re1.5_1.5.0+update06_i386.deb
Seems really easy to me...
See http://wiki.serios.net/wiki/Debian_Java_JRE/JDK_i
The less unfortunate get all the breaks!
What? Too soon...?
To the mods: that was a joke. I know Microsoft's tools are highly regarded (and probably with good reason), that was just the way it read to me at first and I thought it was funny...
Music is legal to own , posses and in some situations distribute and sell
Yeah, it breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it and, if you're the proprietor of a music store, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause -- get a load of this -- if the cops stop you, it's illegal for them to search you.
I know what you mean. I have a coworker who looks at my code and always whines like "Waaaa, this is too complicated!" and "Ho ho ho, what is this crazy stuff, I can't follow what you're doing here..." and so forth. He's much more of a straight ahead procedural guy and I tend towards the OO style. He agrees that my approach is probably more maintainable as requirements are later added to our programs (we work in a company where our initial specs are often scribbled on a cocktail napkin, if they exist at all), but he thinks it's a problem that my code isn't immediately transparent to him the first time he looks at it. To which I always respond "Reading code is hard!"
:)
I think it's also a skill you can improve, somewhat separately from writing good code (although they do go hand in hand). I started out mainly by modifying and supporting existing code written by others, and it always takes me a while to wrap my brain around someone else's stuff, but the more I did it the easier it became. But even still, it always requires effort. I guess that's why they call it "work".
That's funny. :) Damn, I wish I had mod points...
As Project Managers play such an important role in keeping things running smoothly and efficiently, you have been selected to go on the first ship!
Don't forget to take the advertising execs and telephone sanitizers with you! Oh yeah, and also Rosie Odonnell and Tom Arnold, too...
And the HTML-Kit team is very responsive to bug reports and patches too. HTML-Kit is a very nice program, but since when did it become open source?
It's widely recognized that enabling the "magic quotes" feature in PHP makes the Baby Jesus cry. If you read the archives of the PHP internals list you'll see that even the PHP devs themselves recognize that it was a huge mistake that has caused more headaches than it has solved...
BTW, just so everyone knows, my friends and I have decided that the new "thinking outside the box" for 2005 is actually "thinking inside the box". Actually "thinking outside the box" is so...2004. :)
I can't seem to find any information on what this problem may be. No release notes or anything. Any clues?
If you don't upgrade Zend Optimizer you may run into some strange foreach() behavior. See: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=31134
Do the following: