Montreal is scandalous? Who knew? All I ever hear about from Canada these days is how the Toronto mayor manages to surpass a former Washington DC mayor for being able to overcome his disabilities.
Why is the Boston Big Dig so 'bad'? I ask this honestly, because I don't know much about the big dig at all, and since I know very well in Holland there are many, many tunnels for both rail and cars that are more or less equal to the engineering required in Boston IMHO. Amsterdam for example has 2 or 3 such tunnels for cars, and at least 2 more for trains & subways. And Amsterdam is only a fraction of The soggy below sea-level Netherlands. In my mind, if the Dutch can pull it off handily enough, why can't the Bostonian's do it? Is the underwater engineering soooo different, or is this yet again politics and lowest-cost bidder? Maybe in Boston they have more, difficult rocks to clear. I simply don't know.
FWIW, and I sincerely don't mean to troll, the Amsterdam Ajax football stadium was built for a pittance compared to American stadiums, and how that came about and was financed was sheer genius, and (as I understand) is worthy study for other similar civic projects. disclaimer: linked document comes from The Amsterdam Arena. http://www.amsterdamarena.nl/w...
Your comments are the strongest reasons for you to have switched to something like Ubuntu and its open-source databases like MySQL/MariaDB or Postgres long ago. Bite the bullet buddy, and you'll be glad you did, and don't look back. Seriously.
I could give several examples of my working on-site as a consultant and with the ability and knowledge to just download whatever software I wanted to do my job with, without need for license over budget-approval. And everytime I was more valuable to the client's need at the time than someone that would have needed to get a purchase order approved, along with the delay of shipping or some such, just to get a tool with which to deliver a project. And time is money too.
Windows 2000 was pretty good for MS, but its over. Very much. It is time to move on and consider the new *technology* available.
Known for reliable oscillators and calculators, and then they made a line of laser printers that lasted for a while; great engineers behind all that stuff too. Yes, I remember them. How are they doing now post-Carley? (HP's calculators put Rockwell's to shame. I can still remember the Rockwell jingle from over the radio, "big green numbers, and little rubber feet.").
That 'truth in advertising' thing working is against you. This is another classic example of the marketing department working against the engineering department, with the %$#@! marketeers winning, again, sadly.
Just to back up my point, don't those things flip over when on 45 MPH curves? (/flame) Sorry about trying to make that last point. Please drive responsible and always most-carefully. Live long and prosper.
Only slightly offtopic: Here's a similar use-case and how I solved it. The problem is 'collecting' job ads efficiently to spend my time applying for.
Requirement: Avoid redundant re-reading of the same stupids ads over and over, (so alway view ads boards by date, most recent ads first; and maybe use 'email search by date filters' too). Also, I want to avoid applying with recruiters as much as possible by applying only directly to firms whenever possible, etc.
The Scrapbook extension allows me to quickly select html verbatum from any web page and save it locally to disk with my notes, while a right-click takes me to the original web page. I save these in 'dated' folders, at least initially to save time, so I can stay focused to the task at-hand. Even when the original webpage is gone, I still have a copy of it, (and I didn't print or save any paper either).
Scrapbook allows me to save these pages locally to disk in folders, *and* the extension appears in the sidebar, *and* allows me to prioritize the ads worth applying to simply by re-ordering them up and down, using the mouse; and also move them to other folders
This is the best solution I've found so far, and if anyone knows something better I'm eager to read.
Well yeah, but since total, absolute crap such as your posting and all the others like it pollutes the otherwise useful commentary, *someone* has to moderate in the interests of keeping this site readable for others, right?
That truly is interesting. One use case would be functioning as a router/firewall, and I wonder to what extent the Open Switch folks will support this level of hardware. I have no real background in that area, but it seems to me it would not be too much extra effort to add support for this level. Then the/. folks could replace their Open/DD-WRTs & Tomatos, while adding neat features like IDS.
What with the Anonymous/NSA nonsense and all, I'd prefer more frequent updates than the DD-WRTs & Tomatos provide, (I can't speak about OpenWRT, and maybe they are more frequent).
Here's a thought: Maybe the Angels are so loathsome to fire everyone's favorite Mike Scioscia after his World Series win waaay back in 2002, even if maybe his time has come and gone, the management is considering analytics to micromanage Mike's calls?
For example, player X at bat against Pitcher Y, 2 men on, no outs, count is 2 and 2. Mike says to bunt for the sacrifice, but what do you say DAVE?
Western Digital's hopes of turning the hard drive industry into a duopoly have been dashed as the US Federal Trade Commission demands it sells its desktop hard drive manufacturing facilities to a competitor.
Western Digital had previously hoped to purchase Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, manufacturer of previously IBM-made hard drives, in a deal valued at $4.5 billion. While the FTC is allowing the deal to go ahead, it has a major caveat attached.
The revised terms of the acquisition require Western Digital to sell selected Hitachi desktop hard drive-related sales and manufacturing assets to rival Toshiba within 15 days of the acquisition.
Dutch language review follows. I had to copy paste into Google Translate but this person gives the drives a thumbs up at review-time, and wrote if it failed they'd update the review, which hasn't happened. And they wrote specifically with 'green' NAS requirements. https://tweakers.net/productre...
Now, how to tell if their 3Tb drive is from the former Hitachi Fab?
Except statistics have shown, especially with WD acquiring Hitachi, WD makes the best hard drives. Your only other option is Seagate, and those same recently published stats show you better now.
Now you may have a point about their consumer cloud DNS traversal services (i.e. keeping their own cloud up), but they kinda own the HD market right now.
Poaching and wanting H1-B rules relaxed means I.T. workers whose knowledge is perishable in the marketplace as technology evolves are getting screwed from the tech billionaires. Been that way for decades, and if that's not enough to make you puke, young Zuckerberg and his buddies even started a PAC to lobby on their behalf.
Shouldn't feed trolls but I've been using Skype for years with a big buddy list I can't just walk away from. You don't exist as far as I am concerned AC *and* Google Hangouts user. Disclaimer, Skype sucks. It used to suck less than everything else, until Microsoft owned it. Yes, I am one unhappy camper, whose use of business services has been opted by an evil corporation; (but don't think for a moment I don't know the score, nor stopped keeping track of it).
Yo, wait Geezer. The Point was it was done in FORTRAN, back in the day, while you go on whining about, "sentence structure, capitalization and grammar".
Do you think someone that could adhere to your standards of, "sentence structure, capitalization,[*] and grammar" could have made this FORTRAN achievement back in the day, and also make the point now for the Slashdot public to learn from?
* The comma is my editorial contribution to your original text; should I have used [sic]? instead?.
Um, ok, but can I still use zfs (like the FreeNAS), or perhaps ext4, or can I even use linux for this archival application using such ancient hardware?
Any suggestions for the parity errors I'm likely to endure sooner or later? Of course knowing how to deal with those in-advance would be a God-send right about now.
Good point although I notice your citation is to version 5 of Drupal which is no longer supported. But it was simple for me to see that the same pingback module also exists in Drupal core version 6, but not in the current Drupal version 7, (or upcoming version 8).
So upon reading your comment and considering the matter a little further, methinks this is simply an old-tech issue and folks need to keep their systems modern, especially in light of today's DDOS news.
The post alludes to a flaw in xml-rpc, but it seems to me this is a Wordpress-exclusive vulnerability being reported on today. Drupal uses xml-rpc for example, and all is quiet for those folks it seems.
I know a fair amount of work has been spent beefing up Drupal's xml-rpc implementation, so maybe that's working now, whereas the implementation used by Wordpress is vulnerable and failing. TFA is a little light on details as to the technical source being manipulated and abused.
Like, right now, for too long already, I have been trying to figure out how to make something work. And when/if I am successful I have a carrot to look forward to maybe possibly, and otherwise a stick which is a known fact and I hope to turn around, eventually. I hate the stick so much and I never get a carrot, for reals.
But there is no one that can teach me at least given my resources, although no doubt Other People know. My boss cast me aside to search for those other fish (arrogant privileged fool he is. First-developer-turned project-manager btw; who obviously couldn't deliver the functional requirements himself), is that a stick or what?
If there is no first option, and you're motivated enough, then you might as well do what you can with option #2. How else will you learn anything?
Did I mention I am using open-source software? So if I ever get a carrot, at minimum, at least I gotta follow through with documentation for others to follow. Or there's that karma thing, maybe for reals too. Did you ever see the movie Groundhog's day?
Option #2 is really hard, and you can hope to avoid it all you want, but sometimes, it just smacks you in the face like a ton of bricks.
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Montreal is scandalous? Who knew? All I ever hear about from Canada these days is how the Toronto mayor manages to surpass a former Washington DC mayor for being able to overcome his disabilities.
Why is the Boston Big Dig so 'bad'? I ask this honestly, because I don't know much about the big dig at all, and since I know very well in Holland there are many, many tunnels for both rail and cars that are more or less equal to the engineering required in Boston IMHO. Amsterdam for example has 2 or 3 such tunnels for cars, and at least 2 more for trains & subways. And Amsterdam is only a fraction of The soggy below sea-level Netherlands. In my mind, if the Dutch can pull it off handily enough, why can't the Bostonian's do it? Is the underwater engineering soooo different, or is this yet again politics and lowest-cost bidder? Maybe in Boston they have more, difficult rocks to clear. I simply don't know.
FWIW, and I sincerely don't mean to troll, the Amsterdam Ajax football stadium was built for a pittance compared to American stadiums, and how that came about and was financed was sheer genius, and (as I understand) is worthy study for other similar civic projects. disclaimer: linked document comes from The Amsterdam Arena. http://www.amsterdamarena.nl/w...
Your comments are the strongest reasons for you to have switched to something like Ubuntu and its open-source databases like MySQL/MariaDB or Postgres long ago. Bite the bullet buddy, and you'll be glad you did, and don't look back. Seriously.
I could give several examples of my working on-site as a consultant and with the ability and knowledge to just download whatever software I wanted to do my job with, without need for license over budget-approval. And everytime I was more valuable to the client's need at the time than someone that would have needed to get a purchase order approved, along with the delay of shipping or some such, just to get a tool with which to deliver a project. And time is money too.
Windows 2000 was pretty good for MS, but its over. Very much. It is time to move on and consider the new *technology* available.
Known for reliable oscillators and calculators, and then they made a line of laser printers that lasted for a while; great engineers behind all that stuff too. Yes, I remember them. How are they doing now post-Carley? (HP's calculators put Rockwell's to shame. I can still remember the Rockwell jingle from over the radio, "big green numbers, and little rubber feet.").
That 'truth in advertising' thing working is against you. This is another classic example of the marketing department working against the engineering department, with the %$#@! marketeers winning, again, sadly.
Just to back up my point, don't those things flip over when on 45 MPH curves? (/flame) Sorry about trying to make that last point. Please drive responsible and always most-carefully. Live long and prosper.
The money quote (at the very end) from that excellent article that should've been part of TFA:
Only slightly offtopic: Here's a similar use-case and how I solved it. The problem is 'collecting' job ads efficiently to spend my time applying for.
Requirement: Avoid redundant re-reading of the same stupids ads over and over, (so alway view ads boards by date, most recent ads first; and maybe use 'email search by date filters' too). Also, I want to avoid applying with recruiters as much as possible by applying only directly to firms whenever possible, etc.
The Scrapbook extension allows me to quickly select html verbatum from any web page and save it locally to disk with my notes, while a right-click takes me to the original web page. I save these in 'dated' folders, at least initially to save time, so I can stay focused to the task at-hand. Even when the original webpage is gone, I still have a copy of it, (and I didn't print or save any paper either).
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
Scrapbook allows me to save these pages locally to disk in folders, *and* the extension appears in the sidebar, *and* allows me to prioritize the ads worth applying to simply by re-ordering them up and down, using the mouse; and also move them to other folders
This is the best solution I've found so far, and if anyone knows something better I'm eager to read.
Well yeah, but since total, absolute crap such as your posting and all the others like it pollutes the otherwise useful commentary, *someone* has to moderate in the interests of keeping this site readable for others, right?
That truly is interesting. One use case would be functioning as a router/firewall, and I wonder to what extent the Open Switch folks will support this level of hardware. I have no real background in that area, but it seems to me it would not be too much extra effort to add support for this level. Then the /. folks could replace their Open/DD-WRTs & Tomatos, while adding neat features like IDS.
What with the Anonymous/NSA nonsense and all, I'd prefer more frequent updates than the DD-WRTs & Tomatos provide, (I can't speak about OpenWRT, and maybe they are more frequent).
Here's a thought: Maybe the Angels are so loathsome to fire everyone's favorite Mike Scioscia after his World Series win waaay back in 2002, even if maybe his time has come and gone, the management is considering analytics to micromanage Mike's calls?
For example, player X at bat against Pitcher Y, 2 men on, no outs, count is 2 and 2. Mike says to bunt for the sacrifice, but what do you say DAVE?
Thank you AC. And, I never ever thought I'd write that.
This is good nerdy news to know! I googled futher, and attached citations. Thanks!
"Tom's Hardware" writes they had to sell off a lot of their facitiies:
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/h...
Dutch language review follows. I had to copy paste into Google Translate but this person gives the drives a thumbs up at review-time, and wrote if it failed they'd update the review, which hasn't happened. And they wrote specifically with 'green' NAS requirements.
https://tweakers.net/productre...
Now, how to tell if their 3Tb drive is from the former Hitachi Fab?
to better clarify what I wrote and am replying to, stats say you better not buy Seagate drives.
http://arstechnica.com/informa...
Except statistics have shown, especially with WD acquiring Hitachi, WD makes the best hard drives. Your only other option is Seagate, and those same recently published stats show you better now.
Now you may have a point about their consumer cloud DNS traversal services (i.e. keeping their own cloud up), but they kinda own the HD market right now.
As an alternative to Synology, how about FreeNAS running on an ITX platform:
http://www.ixsystems.com/stora...
Because the software is better supported via the FreeNAS community?
Poaching and wanting H1-B rules relaxed means I.T. workers whose knowledge is perishable in the marketplace as technology evolves are getting screwed from the tech billionaires. Been that way for decades, and if that's not enough to make you puke, young Zuckerberg and his buddies even started a PAC to lobby on their behalf.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innov...
Where is the mod for 'duh'?
Shouldn't feed trolls but I've been using Skype for years with a big buddy list I can't just walk away from. You don't exist as far as I am concerned AC *and* Google Hangouts user. Disclaimer, Skype sucks. It used to suck less than everything else, until Microsoft owned it. Yes, I am one unhappy camper, whose use of business services has been opted by an evil corporation; (but don't think for a moment I don't know the score, nor stopped keeping track of it).
good point.
Yo, wait Geezer. The Point was it was done in FORTRAN, back in the day, while you go on whining about, "sentence structure, capitalization and grammar".
Do you think someone that could adhere to your standards of, "sentence structure, capitalization,[*] and grammar" could have made this FORTRAN achievement back in the day, and also make the point now for the Slashdot public to learn from?
* The comma is my editorial contribution to your original text; should I have used [sic]? instead?.
For a punctual citation reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So please lighten up while not digressing on the whole point, ok?
Um, ok, but can I still use zfs (like the FreeNAS), or perhaps ext4, or can I even use linux for this archival application using such ancient hardware?
Any suggestions for the parity errors I'm likely to endure sooner or later? Of course knowing how to deal with those in-advance would be a God-send right about now.
Not to mention the sheer bandwidth of those 162,000 *** SERVERS ***!
Low-budget data-centers and co-hosts must be shitting bricks right about now when/if they max out their wholesale bandwidth contracts.
We're possibly talkin' about more bandwidth than the proverbial Volvo station wagon full of hard disks and tape screamin' down the freeway at 55mph.
Good point although I notice your citation is to version 5 of Drupal which is no longer supported. But it was simple for me to see that the same pingback module also exists in Drupal core version 6, but not in the current Drupal version 7, (or upcoming version 8).
So upon reading your comment and considering the matter a little further, methinks this is simply an old-tech issue and folks need to keep their systems modern, especially in light of today's DDOS news.
The post alludes to a flaw in xml-rpc, but it seems to me this is a Wordpress-exclusive vulnerability being reported on today. Drupal uses xml-rpc for example, and all is quiet for those folks it seems.
I know a fair amount of work has been spent beefing up Drupal's xml-rpc implementation, so maybe that's working now, whereas the implementation used by Wordpress is vulnerable and failing. TFA is a little light on details as to the technical source being manipulated and abused.
Like, right now, for too long already, I have been trying to figure out how to make something work. And when/if I am successful I have a carrot to look forward to maybe possibly, and otherwise a stick which is a known fact and I hope to turn around, eventually. I hate the stick so much and I never get a carrot, for reals.
But there is no one that can teach me at least given my resources, although no doubt Other People know. My boss cast me aside to search for those other fish (arrogant privileged fool he is. First-developer-turned project-manager btw; who obviously couldn't deliver the functional requirements himself), is that a stick or what?
If there is no first option, and you're motivated enough, then you might as well do what you can with option #2. How else will you learn anything?
Did I mention I am using open-source software? So if I ever get a carrot, at minimum, at least I gotta follow through with documentation for others to follow. Or there's that karma thing, maybe for reals too. Did you ever see the movie Groundhog's day?
Option #2 is really hard, and you can hope to avoid it all you want, but sometimes, it just smacks you in the face like a ton of bricks.