This about the average intelligence/skill levels it takes to use a Windows/Linux box. Windows, being easier (And regrettably, less secure) is going to attract your Joe Schmoe users. Linux is a bit less user-friendly (Although the lastest versions of Mandrake are closing the gap). There are a lot more casual users than webserver admins.
However, people who run webservers know things about computers, and security, and speed, and trivial things like that. Therefore, they make an informed decision and choose Apache.
The Apache numbers are higher because the people who actually have computer competency know what to choose. The Windows numbers are higher because people are sheep and take whatever they're fed happily as long as it doesn't interfere with their ability to get their email and write their documents.
Well, there's some newfangled thing like that today. It's called the "Internet" or something like that. Supposedly, anyone can put anything they want on there! Imagine that!
Seriously, though, the Net is a public data repository. Each node is as secure as its sysadmins, and information can be public or private. It's publically accessable, and you can protect whatever you want to protect from the public.
Best of all, it's a network, not a centralized, attackable, censorable entity.
Actually, in my experience, engineers will spend more time, money, and effort developing an easier, faster, more cost-efficient way than if they had just done it the normal way in the first place.:)
There's a better solution. Every time annoying piece of javascript technology X comes out, A little regex magic gets rid of it. Check out The Proxomitron.
Worse yet, our own privacy. I remember seeing something in the "Carnivore Again" story about how maybe spam is a good thing, as it provides "noise" that runs Carnivore in circles.
Maybe they have alterior motives? Dropping the noise level to facilitate their snooping?
A "keylogger" type app would be easy enough to write, as well. Just capture the X-Ys of mouse clicks. Feed that file back through the password protected program/site/etc, and viola, instant access.
Why this will be more secure, I'm at a loss for. More convenient for the intellectually-challanged, perhaps, but as Microsoft so aptly demonstrates, higher convenience means lower security.
I have a mirror that I use that I get over 1200kb/sec with Download Accelerator. They have 8.2, and it's blazing. I'm downloading all 3 CDs at the same time right now, and each download is at about 800kb/sec. It's in the complete opposite corner of the country for me, and I'm still getting these speeds.
Yeehaw!
And if you think I'm gonna tell you about it till I'm done downloading, think again!:D
So put some sort of cooling system in the suit - lower the external temp to <= atmosphere/ground temp, and you're invisible on the thermal spectrum, too.
No, no. You name them #000000, #000001, #000002, all the way to #FFFFFF. Unless you have over 16 million servers, you won't be hitting that cap any time soon:)
Even better would be if you could get custom cases made with colors that match their name, then you could group them all sequentially. You datacenter will definately be colorful, and you could say "Oh, looks like Joe tripped over a power cable in the purple sector again!"
All of our servers are named after mythological/horoscopic characters/creatures, ie Hercules, Athena, Draco, Aries, Phoenix, etc. Works for us. They were originally given names like TTIBDC01, TTIBDC02, etc. Not only more confusing, it doesn't sound as cool in conversation.
"So, did you install that latest patch on Phoenix?" sounds a lot better than "Updated TTIBDC01 lately?"
Of course, with that many servers, you're better off naming them with random character strings. Here, I'll get you started...
Nope, wrong again. The point of college is to suck as much money from you while giving you as little practical knowledge as possible. When all undergrad college courses are taught in Java (An almost nearly useless language, IMO, especially for OS apps.) and the material being taught is either so elementary to so academized that it's useless, you know that there's something wrong.
Schooling as an undergrad sucks. I speak from experience.
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This about the average intelligence/skill levels it takes to use a Windows/Linux box. Windows, being easier (And regrettably, less secure) is going to attract your Joe Schmoe users. Linux is a bit less user-friendly (Although the lastest versions of Mandrake are closing the gap). There are a lot more casual users than webserver admins.
However, people who run webservers know things about computers, and security, and speed, and trivial things like that. Therefore, they make an informed decision and choose Apache.
The Apache numbers are higher because the people who actually have computer competency know what to choose. The Windows numbers are higher because people are sheep and take whatever they're fed happily as long as it doesn't interfere with their ability to get their email and write their documents.
It's all about audience.
...this gives new meaning the the "shoot-em-up" genre.
Just watch, we're going to get drug sims pretty soon. "All the high without the disease!"
What are you suggesting be the new term?
Slashadics?
Ouch, no thank you!
Seriously, though, the Net is a public data repository. Each node is as secure as its sysadmins, and information can be public or private. It's publically accessable, and you can protect whatever you want to protect from the public.
Best of all, it's a network, not a centralized, attackable, censorable entity.
Wheel, re-invent, why?
Straight up! From now on, I'm done with Best Buy! I'm shopping at Fry's, where they don't assume I'm a crim...oh, wait.
The parent of your post is not the fool - but you definitely failed to understand the post.
Who's the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who replies to him?
*shrug*
Too much 3AM Jedi Outcast...
I hearby motion that Brilliant Digital be renamed Not-So-Bright Digital.
All in favor?
Actually, in my experience, engineers will spend more time, money, and effort developing an easier, faster, more cost-efficient way than if they had just done it the normal way in the first place. :)
Because you can.
The motto of all true engineers.
There's a better solution. Every time annoying piece of javascript technology X comes out, A little regex magic gets rid of it. Check out The Proxomitron.
Worse yet, our own privacy. I remember seeing something in the "Carnivore Again" story about how maybe spam is a good thing, as it provides "noise" that runs Carnivore in circles.
Maybe they have alterior motives? Dropping the noise level to facilitate their snooping?
Yeah, yeah, color me paranoid.
...or, at least they would be if I wasn't blocking that information from leaving my computer with my firewall!
Daikatana.
Why not hash it to transmit, and then compare the two hashes...?
A "keylogger" type app would be easy enough to write, as well. Just capture the X-Ys of mouse clicks. Feed that file back through the password protected program/site/etc, and viola, instant access.
Why this will be more secure, I'm at a loss for. More convenient for the intellectually-challanged, perhaps, but as Microsoft so aptly demonstrates, higher convenience means lower security.
If it's channeling millions into Google's hands, and out of the COS's, then why not?
Sure, they get some advertising. Like anyone with half a brain isn't going to laugh them off anyway.
There's a scientology center close to where I go to school. The billboard out front say "Scientology - think for yourself."
First time I drove past that, I was laughing so hard I nearly drove off the road.
Google is really Daedelus. It IS the hub for the Aquinus Protocol. How else do you think it has access to so much information? :)
Hoo...too much Deus Ex. But when the COS is involved, it isn't too hard to believe the conspiracy theories.
Let's just make sure that the COS doesn't try to meld with Google, hmm?
(For the humor impaired - the above is NOT meant to be taken seriously...)
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu
:)
Good stuff - pulled all three CDs down in about 20 minutes.
I have a mirror that I use that I get over 1200kb/sec with Download Accelerator. They have 8.2, and it's blazing. I'm downloading all 3 CDs at the same time right now, and each download is at about 800kb/sec. It's in the complete opposite corner of the country for me, and I'm still getting these speeds.
:D
Yeehaw!
And if you think I'm gonna tell you about it till I'm done downloading, think again!
So put some sort of cooling system in the suit - lower the external temp to <= atmosphere/ground temp, and you're invisible on the thermal spectrum, too.
I'm going to go invest in a hair gel company's stock now...
Even better would be if you could get custom cases made with colors that match their name, then you could group them all sequentially. You datacenter will definately be colorful, and you could say "Oh, looks like Joe tripped over a power cable in the purple sector again!"
All of our servers are named after mythological/horoscopic characters/creatures, ie Hercules, Athena, Draco, Aries, Phoenix, etc. Works for us. They were originally given names like TTIBDC01, TTIBDC02, etc. Not only more confusing, it doesn't sound as cool in conversation.
"So, did you install that latest patch on Phoenix?" sounds a lot better than "Updated TTIBDC01 lately?"
Of course, with that many servers, you're better off naming them with random character strings. Here, I'll get you started...
for($i=0;$i<4000;$i++)
$hostname[] = md5(rand(0,(float) microtime() * 10000000));
:D
Schooling as an undergrad sucks. I speak from experience.