It's important to note that Newsday.com is provided free of charge to Newsday print customers as well as customers of Cablevision's Optimum Online internet service - which (according to statistics in TFA) accounts for over 75% of Newsday's demographic: Long Island residents.
Most everyone I know uses Cablevision's internet (it's a local company), it's the cheapest and fastest. They've been laying fiber all over Long Island for *years*.
The poster did not include this important fact, which pretty much explains the low number of subscriptions as well as the quote: "That's 35 more than I would have thought it would have been,'"
to abandond the entire "but we want to be compatible with all databases" whine, and decide on ONE database, which they use CORRECTLY and EFFICIENTLY. I'm sorry, but nearly a hundred queries for a single pageview is not acceptable. Please decide on an optimum technology stack and use it efficiently; and publish both the optimum stack and a fully patched, efficient version of the code specifically for large-scale deployments.
Check out Pressflow, a mysql-optimized "fork" (more like a "distro", really) of Drupal, created and supported by a reputable and widely-known Drupal consulting firm..
This has always been a debated topic. Depending on the needs of your client, or yourself, sometimes it is best just to make a custom CMS. Some non-developer types out there might scoff at this, but think of it this way. You could literally make your own CMS after learning some basic functions of PHP and MySQL.
Seriously? You think it's better to rely on *your* own experience to handle every aspect of what should be a large and complex piece of software? Don't you know what we talk about here on Slashdot?
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The box-with-a-category, I also gave up on. Apparently, the "solution" is to dig into PHP in your theme (why themes are chock full of code is beyond me) and edit the files. Well, except that then when a new version of the theme comes out, you have to port your changes forward. blah blah blah
Or, you could keep your business logic where it belongs, in a module. This is modern programming here, not Joe's PHP cms.
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You're right, Drupal is amazingly powerful. However I think it's deceptive to compare Drupal with other CMS's like Joomla. There's a reason Drupal's learning curve is so steep - it's so different from your standard CMS.
My point is: I don't think you have to be a PHP ninja to "get the most" from it. I think you have to be a Drupal ninja to do that, and the bare-minimum requirement to start down that path is deep experience with PHP.
So yeah, that's why I say it appeals to people who like to work from scratch: It's like learning a PHP framework from scratch - more like that than learning to use a standard CMS is, anyway.
You just need to be an experienced developer to understand Drupal; it uses idioms that beginners just do not understand. I am not a 'deeply experienced' php dev, not by any stretch of the imagination, yet I thoroughly grok Drupal (after a period of learning,m of course).
The real problem, IMO, is that Google Voice voicemails are world-readable to begin with. The only security is the URL scheme. If that can be reverse engineered, the privacy of all google voice users will be in danger.
(fyi I have tested this myself. The url scheme is "https://www.google.com/voice/fm/20-digit account id/long b64 encoded binary string", and these urls can be viewed by unauthenticated users. Note the use of https; while no man in the middle will read my voicemail, the man on one end can;)
It's not exploiting a bug in Skype's software; it just inserts a hook into Windows' audio api and records whatever runs through it when Skype is running.
The hothardware review indicates that it has a 9400M, which is on the vpdau supported platform list...
I would def. like to see how something like myth or boxee performs on this board. it could make a killer nix htpc.
The problem is that none of the other commercial readers work as well as Adobe's.
Of the three (IMO) main required features of a commercial pdf app (pdf create/edit; in-browser viewing; virtual pdf printer), only Adobe does all three of them well.
I am currently using Foxit for the first two, and PDFCreator for the third, and I am not pleased.
Or, maybe they've been laying fiber everywhere on Long Island since forever.
They beat the pants off Dish Network and Verizon here on LI for a reason...
That "shady" capping was for shady people. I've had my u/l capped by Cablevision several times, always for seeding too heavily (and I don't mean the latest distro dvd...)
Boost upload cap is about 5Mbit/sec.
I usually get about 22u/4.5d in my condo complex (western Suffolk County), even with the 2% line loss that Cablevision techs say that I have.
I *cannot* wait to get my hands on this new service!
My new 64-bit Vista business laptop with R2 and 4 gigs of ram SCREAMS. I run mostly linux boxes, but I frickin love that laptop. If only cygwin was an acceptable replacement for the terminal...:(
It's necessarily being exploited from the WAN; I've seen poc code that, guessing the gateway's internal ip (typically 192.168.1.1 class c), uses javascript or html trickery to attempt a GET request that modifies that router's config.
ex:, on some webpage) img src='192.168.1.1/allow-external-connections.cgi'
You get the idea.
Dont remember where I saw it, maybe ha.ckers/sla.ckers.org..
I am a paid consultant for a company, and I develop an in-house application. I have no contract whatsoever (family friend), and I would like to use the business knowledge that I've gained to develop a similar application, perhaps for general sale or SaS or for another company.
What are my rights?
This is not an official mcaffee site. (checked whois).
When I visited one of the links, it did something csrf-y with my gmail; now I am changing my password.
Yes, soon we'll need some new routers, but the problem isn't permanent, and it isn't something that we should trust a salesman to deal with. Salesman? The man started ARPANET.
Netbios shared printers and (especially) folders are frequently the cause of long boot-up times for Windows PCs; there's lots o money to be made 'magically' decreasing boot-time delays when this is the cause.
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It's important to note that Newsday.com is provided free of charge to Newsday print customers as well as customers of Cablevision's Optimum Online internet service - which (according to statistics in TFA) accounts for over 75% of Newsday's demographic: Long Island residents. Most everyone I know uses Cablevision's internet (it's a local company), it's the cheapest and fastest. They've been laying fiber all over Long Island for *years*. The poster did not include this important fact, which pretty much explains the low number of subscriptions as well as the quote: "That's 35 more than I would have thought it would have been,'"
to abandond the entire "but we want to be compatible with all databases" whine, and decide on ONE database, which they use CORRECTLY and EFFICIENTLY. I'm sorry, but nearly a hundred queries for a single pageview is not acceptable. Please decide on an optimum technology stack and use it efficiently; and publish both the optimum stack and a fully patched, efficient version of the code specifically for large-scale deployments.
Check out Pressflow, a mysql-optimized "fork" (more like a "distro", really) of Drupal, created and supported by a reputable and widely-known Drupal consulting firm..
This has always been a debated topic. Depending on the needs of your client, or yourself, sometimes it is best just to make a custom CMS. Some non-developer types out there might scoff at this, but think of it this way. You could literally make your own CMS after learning some basic functions of PHP and MySQL.
Seriously? You think it's better to rely on *your* own experience to handle every aspect of what should be a large and complex piece of software? Don't you know what we talk about here on Slashdot?
The box-with-a-category, I also gave up on. Apparently, the "solution" is to dig into PHP in your theme (why themes are chock full of code is beyond me) and edit the files. Well, except that then when a new version of the theme comes out, you have to port your changes forward. blah blah blah
Or, you could keep your business logic where it belongs, in a module. This is modern programming here, not Joe's PHP cms.
You're right, Drupal is amazingly powerful. However I think it's deceptive to compare Drupal with other CMS's like Joomla. There's a reason Drupal's learning curve is so steep - it's so different from your standard CMS. My point is: I don't think you have to be a PHP ninja to "get the most" from it. I think you have to be a Drupal ninja to do that, and the bare-minimum requirement to start down that path is deep experience with PHP. So yeah, that's why I say it appeals to people who like to work from scratch: It's like learning a PHP framework from scratch - more like that than learning to use a standard CMS is, anyway.
You just need to be an experienced developer to understand Drupal; it uses idioms that beginners just do not understand. I am not a 'deeply experienced' php dev, not by any stretch of the imagination, yet I thoroughly grok Drupal (after a period of learning,m of course).
The real problem, IMO, is that Google Voice voicemails are world-readable to begin with. The only security is the URL scheme. If that can be reverse engineered, the privacy of all google voice users will be in danger. (fyi I have tested this myself. The url scheme is "https://www.google.com/voice/fm/20-digit account id/long b64 encoded binary string", and these urls can be viewed by unauthenticated users. Note the use of https; while no man in the middle will read my voicemail, the man on one end can ;)
It's not exploiting a bug in Skype's software; it just inserts a hook into Windows' audio api and records whatever runs through it when Skype is running.
The hothardware review indicates that it has a 9400M, which is on the vpdau supported platform list... I would def. like to see how something like myth or boxee performs on this board. it could make a killer nix htpc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdbQyW7eXfs
The problem is that none of the other commercial readers work as well as Adobe's. Of the three (IMO) main required features of a commercial pdf app (pdf create/edit; in-browser viewing; virtual pdf printer), only Adobe does all three of them well. I am currently using Foxit for the first two, and PDFCreator for the third, and I am not pleased.
Or, maybe they've been laying fiber everywhere on Long Island since forever. They beat the pants off Dish Network and Verizon here on LI for a reason...
"IP WHOIS requests" == ARP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_Resolution_Protocol)
That "shady" capping was for shady people. I've had my u/l capped by Cablevision several times, always for seeding too heavily (and I don't mean the latest distro dvd...)
Boost upload cap is about 5Mbit/sec. I usually get about 22u/4.5d in my condo complex (western Suffolk County), even with the 2% line loss that Cablevision techs say that I have. I *cannot* wait to get my hands on this new service!
My new 64-bit Vista business laptop with R2 and 4 gigs of ram SCREAMS. I run mostly linux boxes, but I frickin love that laptop. If only cygwin was an acceptable replacement for the terminal ... :(
more info please!
It's necessarily being exploited from the WAN; I've seen poc code that, guessing the gateway's internal ip (typically 192.168.1.1 class c), uses javascript or html trickery to attempt a GET request that modifies that router's config. ex:, on some webpage) img src='192.168.1.1/allow-external-connections.cgi' You get the idea. Dont remember where I saw it, maybe ha.ckers/sla.ckers.org..
fwiw, http://search.dhgate.com/search.do?act=search&dkp=1&searchkey=itunes&catalog=
Anders Hejlsberg, is that you? ;)
If so, Unfair! It's like Sophocles engaged in discourse with monkeys.
I am a paid consultant for a company, and I develop an in-house application. I have no contract whatsoever (family friend), and I would like to use the business knowledge that I've gained to develop a similar application, perhaps for general sale or SaS or for another company. What are my rights?
This is not an official mcaffee site. (checked whois). When I visited one of the links, it did something csrf-y with my gmail; now I am changing my password.
Netbios shared printers and (especially) folders are frequently the cause of long boot-up times for Windows PCs; there's lots o money to be made 'magically' decreasing boot-time delays when this is the cause.
racist.
well, it runs apache 1.3.27...several vulnerabilities were found in that version ...