I switched to DigiCert a few months ago and they are much more "rapid" than rapidssl was ever for us.
Our original account with Rapid was under one company name. We subsequently changed the holding company's name on a later request and apparently our account was flagged for manual validation 100% of the time. Each time we renewed it would take 4 or 5 days of faxing forms, confirmations, phone calls from hell, etc.
The nice thing was, at the time, they were one of the few SSL providers to allow unlimited re-issuance. Digicert does too, and has even better prices AFAIK.
(Note: I don't work for them or have any financial interest in them)
Did you actually use MS's implementation of web fonts? They made some proprietary font for no reason at all. They are trying to open it as a W3C standard now but that will hopefully fail completely. We already have enough font standards without introducing yet another format.
The community and fleet of developers available to PHP is far and away the more vulnerable than register_globals could ever be.
Modern code bases, books, and examples are STILL being written using string concatenation to build SQL! These examples are teaching these dated, insecure methods to novices, thus guaranteeing these horrible practices will propagate for a long, long time.
I run a single windows server. I hate that an IIS update requires me to reboot the machine. Why can't I just restart IIS?! The only consistent update that never requires a reboot is the smart filters update. Very annoying.
The problem is, MySQL hasn't had a stable, crash-free release in MANY years. The version you think is stable is only stable with your data set and queries.
Firefox 3.1 is introducing some preferences where you can, IIRC, disable sources of information AwesomeBar queries. I think you could tune it to remove those results. There are addons as well that pre-prioritize the results to be more like Firefox 2.
How much of the server growth is due to capacity, though? I'd like to see some numbers comparing how many users a Windows Server host for a web application can support versus, say, BSD, for the same application. I looked around a bit but couldn't find any.
That analogy is a bit off. Opening the hood of your car is a common operation. Easter eggs should be uncommon to the point that most users will never locate them.
And you know, some of us in management like when people stand up to us. I don't know everything, and never will, nor do I want to. That's why I hired you (I hope). If I have to dictate everything to you and you bow to my every whim, (a) you're more worthless than your interview hinted at, and (b) you're never going to get anywhere.
Sometimes you have to ignore the bigger picture to make progress in the short term. Very few problems are solved trying to solve the macro picture without focus on the micro, IMO, and most macro problems are solved only after a shit-ton of micro problem solving. [Note: macro/micro doesn't refer to physical scale]
It's also bad, in my opinion, to incentivize something that requires brand new ideas. I would prefer to give incentive for producing more with existing products and equipment or even producing more with less.
I am planning on doing something similar with the staff I'm bringing on over the next year. The company is approximately doubling each year and our web user base is growing at about 140% per year. I want to keep the same number of servers (or less). I have the hardware budget set to double each year. Any money in the hardware/software that goes unspent (with performance, requests per second, latency, and uptime remaining the same or better) will get paid back at the end of each quarter as a bonus.
The same applies to help desk and other administrative staff. Find ways to keep our service level the same or better without needing new staff.
(Some of it, anyway. Some of the unspent money will be used to get better equipment, more screens, better hardware, etc for the developers to (a) make them more happy and (b) make them more productive.)
In other words, if my employees help keep my costs down, I'm not going to return all those funds to the company.. they should earn some of the money the company would have spent on outside vendors.
The bigger problem is that you will fight different battles. If you're fighting a sales rep that sold your clients to a competitor, you want as much ammunition as possible. If a client is suing you for incorrect information relayed 8 years ago and you're probably guilty, you want as little information as possible.
Skip the chicks, the pickings are better on the other side of the fence.
My geek cooks, cleans, helps with outside chores and house maintenance, and lets me kick his ass in various multi-player games AND doesn't require expensive flowers.
The goal is to create for downloads the same kind of interoperability that's been true for physical products, such as CDs and DVDs.
No, the goal sounds like being able to charge outrageous licensing fees for "certified" devices, thus helping to extinguish DRM-free players, music sources, etc.
It is unlikely any open source, unencumbered device or software would receive the certification blessing.
For other senators, maybe. Look at Khol's record, though, and you'll see he's generally far more pro-consumer protection than nearly any other Senator.
I switch -- I answer the phone for two hours and then put it on do not disturb for two. I only check e-mail about once every 30 minutes and make sure my inbox has 0 items. If I am not responding to something immediately, it gets flagged for follow up, categorized, and moved. I delete 90% of e-mail -- most of it is useless. Anything that won't be taken care of within a day or two gets put on a TODO/task list or delegated out.
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I switched to DigiCert a few months ago and they are much more "rapid" than rapidssl was ever for us.
Our original account with Rapid was under one company name. We subsequently changed the holding company's name on a later request and apparently our account was flagged for manual validation 100% of the time. Each time we renewed it would take 4 or 5 days of faxing forms, confirmations, phone calls from hell, etc.
The nice thing was, at the time, they were one of the few SSL providers to allow unlimited re-issuance. Digicert does too, and has even better prices AFAIK.
(Note: I don't work for them or have any financial interest in them)
Did you actually use MS's implementation of web fonts? They made some proprietary font for no reason at all. They are trying to open it as a W3C standard now but that will hopefully fail completely. We already have enough font standards without introducing yet another format.
Uh, 3.1 has web fonts.
The community and fleet of developers available to PHP is far and away the more vulnerable than register_globals could ever be.
Modern code bases, books, and examples are STILL being written using string concatenation to build SQL! These examples are teaching these dated, insecure methods to novices, thus guaranteeing these horrible practices will propagate for a long, long time.
Mildly toxic? Just edit Wikipedia.
I run a single windows server. I hate that an IIS update requires me to reboot the machine. Why can't I just restart IIS?! The only consistent update that never requires a reboot is the smart filters update. Very annoying.
The problem is, MySQL hasn't had a stable, crash-free release in MANY years. The version you think is stable is only stable with your data set and queries.
Couldn't you extract just that library from an RPM and stick it in a path that Firefox would find it?
Firefox 3.1 is introducing some preferences where you can, IIRC, disable sources of information AwesomeBar queries. I think you could tune it to remove those results. There are addons as well that pre-prioritize the results to be more like Firefox 2.
Firefox 3 does not tell Google which sites you are visiting. It downloads a local version of the blacklist and queries it locally.
If you're talking about on Linux, 3.1 is fixing some of the fsync issues that made it slow on some boxes.
How much of the server growth is due to capacity, though? I'd like to see some numbers comparing how many users a Windows Server host for a web application can support versus, say, BSD, for the same application. I looked around a bit but couldn't find any.
That analogy is a bit off. Opening the hood of your car is a common operation. Easter eggs should be uncommon to the point that most users will never locate them.
And you know, some of us in management like when people stand up to us. I don't know everything, and never will, nor do I want to. That's why I hired you (I hope). If I have to dictate everything to you and you bow to my every whim, (a) you're more worthless than your interview hinted at, and (b) you're never going to get anywhere.
If you think those things are limited to inner city schools you are sadly mistaken.
Sometimes you have to ignore the bigger picture to make progress in the short term. Very few problems are solved trying to solve the macro picture without focus on the micro, IMO, and most macro problems are solved only after a shit-ton of micro problem solving. [Note: macro/micro doesn't refer to physical scale]
Well, to be fair, their discussion took place on Wiki pages, so it was either Ubuntu 8.04 or HAHAHHAYOUSUCKCOCKS.
(Archive the archive (the archive (the archive (the archive))))
It's also bad, in my opinion, to incentivize something that requires brand new ideas. I would prefer to give incentive for producing more with existing products and equipment or even producing more with less.
I am planning on doing something similar with the staff I'm bringing on over the next year. The company is approximately doubling each year and our web user base is growing at about 140% per year. I want to keep the same number of servers (or less). I have the hardware budget set to double each year. Any money in the hardware/software that goes unspent (with performance, requests per second, latency, and uptime remaining the same or better) will get paid back at the end of each quarter as a bonus.
The same applies to help desk and other administrative staff. Find ways to keep our service level the same or better without needing new staff.
(Some of it, anyway. Some of the unspent money will be used to get better equipment, more screens, better hardware, etc for the developers to (a) make them more happy and (b) make them more productive.)
In other words, if my employees help keep my costs down, I'm not going to return all those funds to the company.. they should earn some of the money the company would have spent on outside vendors.
The bigger problem is that you will fight different battles. If you're fighting a sales rep that sold your clients to a competitor, you want as much ammunition as possible. If a client is suing you for incorrect information relayed 8 years ago and you're probably guilty, you want as little information as possible.
Skip the chicks, the pickings are better on the other side of the fence.
My geek cooks, cleans, helps with outside chores and house maintenance, and lets me kick his ass in various multi-player games AND doesn't require expensive flowers.
The goal is to create for downloads the same kind of interoperability that's been true for physical products, such as CDs and DVDs.
No, the goal sounds like being able to charge outrageous licensing fees for "certified" devices, thus helping to extinguish DRM-free players, music sources, etc.
It is unlikely any open source, unencumbered device or software would receive the certification blessing.
For other senators, maybe. Look at Khol's record, though, and you'll see he's generally far more pro-consumer protection than nearly any other Senator.
I switch -- I answer the phone for two hours and then put it on do not disturb for two. I only check e-mail about once every 30 minutes and make sure my inbox has 0 items. If I am not responding to something immediately, it gets flagged for follow up, categorized, and moved. I delete 90% of e-mail -- most of it is useless. Anything that won't be taken care of within a day or two gets put on a TODO/task list or delegated out.
Works great for me.