This is great news for all the developers out there. Google by doing this has proved once again that smart business practices and investments make a company, now how much software they patent and lock down.
They specfically say that you can create applications like Google Maps and Gmail using their framework. Is someone gonna create a new Gmail or seach engine and take over Google? Prolly not, but Google has shown that not only can it develop high power applications and set the footprints for following developers, but they can also help the community advance just as they have.
Just one of the many reasons I love Google.
I have long supported the Linux move but unless you have the time to install packages for yourself and tweak all the software to get it to run the way you want, new users are going to have one hell of a time. Things such as installing VLC Media Player and chasing the dependencies is one heck of a task if you don't know what your doing. Thats the hardest part I found and why I keep with XP is becuase of the trouble and time it takes to get the wireless and simple video playback to work right.
It has come a long way but still has a long way to go before it can be come a big player in the desktop market.
A lot of university file sharing networks are on public ips and that is why many have gotten caught. Schools such as my own have a firewall and no external connections can be made to our internal network (including ftp servers and the file sharing network) without either the vpn client or being on campus. our wireless is locked down too with our university logins.
In campus network policy, running a hub, server, etc is still in violation, however, the point was made above with a student ratting them out and being in trouble for catching packets and running unauthorized (RIAA) software on the network to catch traffic. I dont think anything would be in voilation of the university code to state that a person is however running the network and allowing the RIAA to suponea the university on that account alone.
Hell. For a good chunk of change I will turn in the people running our file sharing hub here at school. Got to be worth my while tho since our school is blocked by all outside connections.
S o this is what all these judges do in their free time. It was my impression that they should be more intrested in the case, not working on secret codes.
Yes. You really need to consider if you have low level techs or employees with that much access to a machine. Would a compromised system still be vaunerable after a reformat or would the attacker need to reapply the exploit to get admin priviliges again?
I have played with my Google Pages account. It is a nice little project for them and anyone intrested in basic web layouts and design but the customizeable of it is far from the needs of what a true web designer/developer needs.
Anyone on the way to GooglePage hacks?
It really comes down to is how much the company will benifit from the user signing up versus a fraudlant signup.
Personal i take anything I get with my personal info on it and rip it in many different angles but they card will still get sent to you and you would need more information than whats on the paper to activate it. At least my Chase card did.
So Google was built on technology and creating a new way of indexing sites is not forced to turn over their information to the government?
Thats pretty sad how a company invested so much to build a massive index of websites for better searching and now forced to give them to the government so they can chase people down.
It seems like a false hope really, I mean how many serious groups are posting terror plans on the internet? Would having the Taliban's website helped prevent 9/11? The answer is no. In relaity the government should invest more of its time looking into its creditable resources and not hounding a monster search engine to give up its company data.
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The direct connect protocol basically does that and I belive even has SSL support now. Files are checked for integrety by hash values and the central server running the "hub" doesn't host any files or even index. All sharing and searching is done peer-to-peer.
What I have done in the past is if I am developing an application and have a function file that performs a specific task, I save the classes as say, Upload.php and then later in programming if I need to have an upload function, just copy the php file to the core folder and import the function.
Keeps track of some common functions and helps you in the long run esp. if you are doing lots of programming that deals with the same type of functions.
I remember when I used to use thunderbird, I would always send email from teh wrong smtp server.
Did they find a way to better organize them and possible, send mail from the same domain as it was recieved?
this is just another flaw of the xbox 360 that m$ failed to check up on to make sure that its product was all taken care of becuase it shipped before xmas.
it now shows that there is a way to load and boot non signed dvds which will enable custom code and eventually softmodding. team Pi just opened the door even further from breaking the encryption and filesystem on the dvds to now finding another xpolit in the dvd.
it will only be a matter of time before the first gen mods are out.
I recently got an email from citibank.com asking for information about my bank account and asked to go to a website. The email from was from the citibank website and looked like it checked out, except, I dont have a citibank account...not now or ever in my life. Not even a citibank credit card, etc.
Looking into things such as this in my free time, there is alot of loopholes and exploits that people can use to genereate a legit looking web pages. We expierements with DNS poisoning and also setting routes into test systems that even when the person would go to say, yourbank.com, it would redirect to our own server, but still show up yourbank.com.
This asks a whole new set of questions such as how much are you protected? Using the internet to communicate information has made it easier but easier to break into. For everyone who is looking to make something easier, there is just as many people looking for ways to exploit it.
Me personally have all my serious bank information is not over the information. Yes, i ahe my own logins with usernames on my bank and credit card sites that dont require me to enter my account number but any information that needs to be submitted nowadays is over the phone by my bank.
I have always used KDE from the moment I began to use linux however, many older (25+) system administators who use linux on a daily basis I have found are very strongly supporting GNOME. Why? I personally have no idea. I perfer KDE since I mainly am a desktop user and perfer is eye candy interface over the boring GNOME one but as for functionality, I still perfer the KDE interface as its menus are very customizable.
Does anyone else besides me how Microsoft spends money to release reports on how bad their biggest competition is? Personally I am pretty entertained and its actions like this that doesnt suprise me how Microsofts Vista release could be the biggest waste of money.
I could have told you that Linux is a more difficult to manage out of the box becuase its a NEW. This is the first big shift to linux that corporations and government agencies have seen and it takes time to get used to the linux interface, more than just a one week survey since most people have been using Windows based systems their whole life.
It wouldnt suprise me if Microsofts research groups just couldnt find the start button and gave up.
The IT staff is responsible not only for their computers but also the property of the company. Personally, as an IT worker, the government building used cubicles for IT staff, however, at night, the area locked so only IT personel can get into the cubicle area. There is alot of personal employee property and information in there. Notes on the desk, computers, users computers that are in the office, among other things.
With todays day and age of security on esp. corporate networks, I belive this is a really poor choice by allowing IT workers, at least the upper level ones, to be in cubicles and not have the security of their own office.
I think its better performance wise to have more rows than columns. I develop a lot of PHP/MySQL applications, comerically and OSS and I find that using multiple small tables with more rows seems to load and run smoother than tables with a large number of columns.
Maybe something with the indexing but I have no actual proof of what works better.
On the original topic, I believe that MySQL has its downfalls compared to other database systems but for me personally, I find that I can work around the problems with it to build highly deployable PHP/MySQL web applications very cheaply.
Hey, when its free, I can deal with it.
Speaking as a developer, IRC has helped me expand learning and also help find members of projects willing to share their knowledge and work toward a common goal.
Speaking as the channel is now publically posted, I don't believe the expierence level of it will be as high but for people who truely use IRC, there is a lot of other very good channels out there for anything you need.
Yes. You make a valid point on the OS part. My Google OS statment was more of a joking matter as I am waiting in anticipation of the coming decades as Google becomes more powerful and expands into more and more markets as we are already seeing now with Google hiring the former Gaim developer.
As for the search engine technology that Microsoft announced to chance, I believe that is a far fethced goal that Microsoft is chasing as Google has really changed the way the world searches and seems to have a very high control on that market.
I vote this: NO CHANCE
Microsoft missed the search engine technology and google took off on its quest to control the world. Microsoft is way behind and its chances of catching Google are slim to none. It will be only a short time before Google releases its own operating system.
Plus, I remember MSN's scaled searches where if you typed anything about open source or linux, their results were still microsoft pages.
At home and in my office I run SuSE linux. I can adapt it to run any application stable to perform the business needs and also it can be adapted to virtually any working environment. Also, the user interface is very friendly with Yast but I think that the true distro that would excel the others is the one that will provide large deployments with the support for their users while they learn the new software and help them work the software into their existing operations, which from the article, Novell seems to provide pretty well.
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This is great news for all the developers out there. Google by doing this has proved once again that smart business practices and investments make a company, now how much software they patent and lock down. They specfically say that you can create applications like Google Maps and Gmail using their framework. Is someone gonna create a new Gmail or seach engine and take over Google? Prolly not, but Google has shown that not only can it develop high power applications and set the footprints for following developers, but they can also help the community advance just as they have. Just one of the many reasons I love Google.
OMG! Its the RIAA taking it into their own hands!
I have long supported the Linux move but unless you have the time to install packages for yourself and tweak all the software to get it to run the way you want, new users are going to have one hell of a time. Things such as installing VLC Media Player and chasing the dependencies is one heck of a task if you don't know what your doing. Thats the hardest part I found and why I keep with XP is becuase of the trouble and time it takes to get the wireless and simple video playback to work right.
It has come a long way but still has a long way to go before it can be come a big player in the desktop market.
A lot of university file sharing networks are on public ips and that is why many have gotten caught. Schools such as my own have a firewall and no external connections can be made to our internal network (including ftp servers and the file sharing network) without either the vpn client or being on campus. our wireless is locked down too with our university logins. In campus network policy, running a hub, server, etc is still in violation, however, the point was made above with a student ratting them out and being in trouble for catching packets and running unauthorized (RIAA) software on the network to catch traffic. I dont think anything would be in voilation of the university code to state that a person is however running the network and allowing the RIAA to suponea the university on that account alone.
Hell. For a good chunk of change I will turn in the people running our file sharing hub here at school. Got to be worth my while tho since our school is blocked by all outside connections.
S o this is what al l these judges do in their free time. It was my impression th a t they sh oul d be more intrested in the case, n o t working on secre t codes.
Yes. You really need to consider if you have low level techs or employees with that much access to a machine. Would a compromised system still be vaunerable after a reformat or would the attacker need to reapply the exploit to get admin priviliges again?
I have played with my Google Pages account. It is a nice little project for them and anyone intrested in basic web layouts and design but the customizeable of it is far from the needs of what a true web designer/developer needs. Anyone on the way to GooglePage hacks?
I would have to say I love it. Great interface and another great technology by Google.
Man, their picking fights with MSN and now YAHOO! Whos next?
It really comes down to is how much the company will benifit from the user signing up versus a fraudlant signup. Personal i take anything I get with my personal info on it and rip it in many different angles but they card will still get sent to you and you would need more information than whats on the paper to activate it. At least my Chase card did.
So Google was built on technology and creating a new way of indexing sites is not forced to turn over their information to the government? Thats pretty sad how a company invested so much to build a massive index of websites for better searching and now forced to give them to the government so they can chase people down. It seems like a false hope really, I mean how many serious groups are posting terror plans on the internet? Would having the Taliban's website helped prevent 9/11? The answer is no. In relaity the government should invest more of its time looking into its creditable resources and not hounding a monster search engine to give up its company data.
The direct connect protocol basically does that and I belive even has SSL support now. Files are checked for integrety by hash values and the central server running the "hub" doesn't host any files or even index. All sharing and searching is done peer-to-peer.
What I have done in the past is if I am developing an application and have a function file that performs a specific task, I save the classes as say, Upload.php and then later in programming if I need to have an upload function, just copy the php file to the core folder and import the function.
Keeps track of some common functions and helps you in the long run esp. if you are doing lots of programming that deals with the same type of functions.
I remember when I used to use thunderbird, I would always send email from teh wrong smtp server. Did they find a way to better organize them and possible, send mail from the same domain as it was recieved?
Wasnt this rumored a few months back that Google was planning to make a M$ Office and Windows version of their own and they denied it?
It seems like this rumor keeps coming up. Has Google made any news themselves about this?
this is just another flaw of the xbox 360 that m$ failed to check up on to make sure that its product was all taken care of becuase it shipped before xmas. it now shows that there is a way to load and boot non signed dvds which will enable custom code and eventually softmodding. team Pi just opened the door even further from breaking the encryption and filesystem on the dvds to now finding another xpolit in the dvd. it will only be a matter of time before the first gen mods are out.
I recently got an email from citibank.com asking for information about my bank account and asked to go to a website. The email from was from the citibank website and looked like it checked out, except, I dont have a citibank account...not now or ever in my life. Not even a citibank credit card, etc. Looking into things such as this in my free time, there is alot of loopholes and exploits that people can use to genereate a legit looking web pages. We expierements with DNS poisoning and also setting routes into test systems that even when the person would go to say, yourbank.com, it would redirect to our own server, but still show up yourbank.com. This asks a whole new set of questions such as how much are you protected? Using the internet to communicate information has made it easier but easier to break into. For everyone who is looking to make something easier, there is just as many people looking for ways to exploit it. Me personally have all my serious bank information is not over the information. Yes, i ahe my own logins with usernames on my bank and credit card sites that dont require me to enter my account number but any information that needs to be submitted nowadays is over the phone by my bank.
I have always used KDE from the moment I began to use linux however, many older (25+) system administators who use linux on a daily basis I have found are very strongly supporting GNOME. Why? I personally have no idea. I perfer KDE since I mainly am a desktop user and perfer is eye candy interface over the boring GNOME one but as for functionality, I still perfer the KDE interface as its menus are very customizable.
Does anyone else besides me how Microsoft spends money to release reports on how bad their biggest competition is? Personally I am pretty entertained and its actions like this that doesnt suprise me how Microsofts Vista release could be the biggest waste of money. I could have told you that Linux is a more difficult to manage out of the box becuase its a NEW. This is the first big shift to linux that corporations and government agencies have seen and it takes time to get used to the linux interface, more than just a one week survey since most people have been using Windows based systems their whole life. It wouldnt suprise me if Microsofts research groups just couldnt find the start button and gave up.
The IT staff is responsible not only for their computers but also the property of the company. Personally, as an IT worker, the government building used cubicles for IT staff, however, at night, the area locked so only IT personel can get into the cubicle area. There is alot of personal employee property and information in there. Notes on the desk, computers, users computers that are in the office, among other things. With todays day and age of security on esp. corporate networks, I belive this is a really poor choice by allowing IT workers, at least the upper level ones, to be in cubicles and not have the security of their own office.
I think its better performance wise to have more rows than columns. I develop a lot of PHP/MySQL applications, comerically and OSS and I find that using multiple small tables with more rows seems to load and run smoother than tables with a large number of columns. Maybe something with the indexing but I have no actual proof of what works better. On the original topic, I believe that MySQL has its downfalls compared to other database systems but for me personally, I find that I can work around the problems with it to build highly deployable PHP/MySQL web applications very cheaply. Hey, when its free, I can deal with it.
Speaking as a developer, IRC has helped me expand learning and also help find members of projects willing to share their knowledge and work toward a common goal. Speaking as the channel is now publically posted, I don't believe the expierence level of it will be as high but for people who truely use IRC, there is a lot of other very good channels out there for anything you need.
Yes. You make a valid point on the OS part. My Google OS statment was more of a joking matter as I am waiting in anticipation of the coming decades as Google becomes more powerful and expands into more and more markets as we are already seeing now with Google hiring the former Gaim developer. As for the search engine technology that Microsoft announced to chance, I believe that is a far fethced goal that Microsoft is chasing as Google has really changed the way the world searches and seems to have a very high control on that market.
I vote this: NO CHANCE Microsoft missed the search engine technology and google took off on its quest to control the world. Microsoft is way behind and its chances of catching Google are slim to none. It will be only a short time before Google releases its own operating system. Plus, I remember MSN's scaled searches where if you typed anything about open source or linux, their results were still microsoft pages.
At home and in my office I run SuSE linux. I can adapt it to run any application stable to perform the business needs and also it can be adapted to virtually any working environment. Also, the user interface is very friendly with Yast but I think that the true distro that would excel the others is the one that will provide large deployments with the support for their users while they learn the new software and help them work the software into their existing operations, which from the article, Novell seems to provide pretty well.