Ok, which one of these links is the story? This is ridiculous. Half of the time the text within the link doesn't tell you what the link will be about in these slashdot blurbs. Maybe the links should just be at the bottom and a each have a short description of where it goes.
They seemed to do it right though. I'm surprised they can figure out the original failure point whenever something like this happens. It's definitely worth it to ground the Shuttle after a disaster. Nice negative use of the word 'administrators'. I don't think administrators pieced back the puzzle of the 2 shuttle failures. They figure out the problem and fix it as best as they can. As others said, NASA does MUCH MORE than just Shuttle flights.
There's a decent chance they might die so what's wrong with a nice glass of wine in the O&C Building astronaut's quarters before walking out the Astro-Bus?
PS. I just read some about HTTP compression and I guess it's just zipping the website's files so they transfer faster, then the client's browser unzips it. That makes sense. I guess I know what it is now:)
It seems a simple concept. I'm not going to worry about figuring out how to implement it at this point though. I am working on higher priority things.
I probably would like them too. I generally like to go to the source to learn something like for APIs. Whenever I looked something up I was unsure of how to use some things, where things went in the textfile, the order of things... basically the structure of the file. Hopefully it will be obvious to me eventually.
by your own admission, you have never configured a moderately complex website. I would consider the fact that you do not know what http compression is a sore spot in your CV
That sounded kind of mean. I am in my first job related to my degree (BS CS) and have been there since August 21st so I don't yet have a year experience. Also, I am at a small company so I'm the only one there doing what I am. None of my classes were about websites/webservers so I guess technically I am a beginner. I have learned a lot so far, believe me!
but just imagine having to manage tens of different web applications developed by different people
It sounds like in your story, my role would correspond to the person developing the web app. However since it's a small company, I am performing your role as well. I'd rather stick to developing. Configuring this stuff annoys the hell out of me and after I've put so much into my app, I'd just like to deploy it and have it work. I'm trying to do server clustering now, woooo. I've managed to figure everything out before so I guess I'll get this too, but it seems pretty iffy.
where the file containing the db credentials - in clear was set to be world-readable... I was NOT pleased
I'm guessing it was in a plain text file and not something interpreted or compiled? Mine is in Java classfiles (and I don't deploy the source files:) ).
-I did read the apache documentation. I did that first. It didn't help much with what I wanted to do. Also, I've always found that their documentation isn't as easy to follow for a beginner like me. A step by step description helped much more. Did you read the apache documentation and see how not easy it is to learn how to do some things?
-I did not add logfiles. I do not know how to make a custom http request header or maybe I don't know the term.
-I have not made different logs generate for different virtual hosts etc.
-I have not used a text editor for config/backup for IIS but obviously I have for apache. I wasn't possible with IIS pre version 6? so?
-I haven't used an ldap authentication before. I have used Windows authentication though with IIS.
-I have set access permissions in IIS with a huge tree of folders. I try to keep it simple so I just set the parent.
-I don't even know what http compression is. what the hell.
-I haven't done reverse proxy or load balancing proxy stuff at all. I know the general idea of load balancing but I don't really know what those are.
You are probably right about configurability and sheer number of features, but in my experience not ease of use. In my post above, it was very far from obvious to me how to make those changes in apache.
Some people like talk story Some go on fo' days I listen dem and I learn lotta 'tings And I learn new words fo' say I practice da local lingo And mostly I do fine But one 'ting, bra, I just don't get What dey mean wen dey say "Da Kine"
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Kimo wen work in da morning sun Loading up da mac nut shells All of a sudden he wen jump in da air And he geev one terrible yell I say "Kimo, what's da mattah? What happen dis friend of mine? He say "One mongoose wen jump out of dis bush And he wen bite me een da kine!!!
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Lani is sure some ono girl She work een da department store I'm takin her out on da town one night I'm waitin by da exit door She say "Try wait just one minute!" I ask what is on her mind She say "Don't worry, George, I be back soon. Just as soon as I can find da kine!"
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Just one moah 'ting boddah me Maybe you can explain it, bra What did Lani mean last night wen she made me stop da cah? She wen move up right beside me She wen put her hand in mine She wen kiss my lips, and den she say Dat she wanna check out my da kine
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Some people like talk story Some go on fo' days I listen dem and I learn lotta 'tings And I learn new words fo' say I practice da local lingo And mostly I do fine But one 'ting, bra, I just don't get What dey mean wen dey say "Da Kine"
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Kimo wen work in da morning sun Loading up da mac nut shells All of a sudden he wen jump in da air And he geev one terrible yell I say "Kimo, what's da mattah? What happen dis friend of mine? He say "One mongoose wen jump out of dis bush And he wen bite me een da kine!!!
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Lani is sure some ono girl She work een da department store I'm takin her out on da town one night I'm waitin by da exit door She say "Try wait just one minute!" I ask what is on her mind She say "Don't worry, George, I be back soon. Just as soon as I can find da kine!"
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Just one moah 'ting boddah me Maybe you can explain it, bra What did Lani mean last night wen she made me stop da cah? She wen move up right beside me She wen put her hand in mine She wen kiss my lips, and den she say Dat she wanna check out my da kine
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
I always hated that they didn't show the link on hover. That's just not nice. Another thing I hate is that for some Google ads, a huge amount of whitespace around it is also the ad link. I click on them sometimes when I'm trying to click empty space. That's just more deception there. If they want to be the nice guy company they supposedly are they shouldn't deceive users like that. Maybe this will convince them to change a bit.
It sounds like you have an agenda. Thanks for the belittling remarks. Dude, I'm using Apache and my OpenSSL certificate, I don't dislike it. Actually I want to like it better than IIS. IIS just seems easier.
This whole MS ecosystem means that mostly everyone takes mediocrity for granted and clueless companies keep hiring monkeys holding MSCE certificate.
I'm not a monkey. I don't have an MSCE. I am not a sysadmin or an IT guy or a hosting company. I am an entry level developer (yes they do exist... I worked my butt off in school and worked hard to get my first job). I have a CS degree from a solid CS Department/Engineering College/public university. I don't use the MS ecosystem at all and I'm actually moving my company away from it now. I use Apache httpd, Tomcat, Java, PHP, MySQL, blah blah blah. I grew up with Windows so that's what I'm using for my OS. I will be trying Linux soon on my next computer certainly.
I'm not responsible for our current production IIS installation but it is always on and has been for freaking long time. It's never been down since I worked here. It's on Windows Server 2003.
Thanks for that. I have used both for a while now too. Like I said in a reply to someone else, I am a developer (entry level too how about that!) and not a sysadmin or IT person or hosting company. I use the webserver for developing and testing so I guess that is why IIS seems easier to me. I am using Tomcat through Apache httpd (and moving my company that way) since I am doing a lot of Java stuff so it frustrates me a little to see how much easier IIS is. The boss says do this interesting thing, it takes a few minutes in IIS in our current configuration and maybe a whole day in Apache. Maybe eventually I'll know everything and can make changes more quickly. I hope so.
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You just ruined your argument because you are using human history to infer alien behavior. They're alien.
Hell, I would be happy with 750,000 subs, either the kind from Jimmy Johns or the nuclear variety.
I bet you can find a good recommendation at zombo.com. You can do anything at zombo.com.
Another recommendation is to try Zecco http://www.zecco.com./ Trades are free and it's for real. My buddy has been using it quite a while now.
That wasn't me. Only about half of my written blurb is there but it's still cool that I got a story accepted.
XP doesn't have IIS installed by default, even with XP Pro.
That's generally how it works in the construction world. Duh.
Ok, which one of these links is the story? This is ridiculous. Half of the time the text within the link doesn't tell you what the link will be about in these slashdot blurbs. Maybe the links should just be at the bottom and a each have a short description of where it goes.
They seemed to do it right though. I'm surprised they can figure out the original failure point whenever something like this happens. It's definitely worth it to ground the Shuttle after a disaster. Nice negative use of the word 'administrators'. I don't think administrators pieced back the puzzle of the 2 shuttle failures. They figure out the problem and fix it as best as they can. As others said, NASA does MUCH MORE than just Shuttle flights.
I was on the phone with a guy in India for 2 hours and it still didn't fix my problem. I finally had to say sorry and just hang up.
Damn, that's what happened to US Robotics? They made good modems.
I knew they were owned by Cisco but they didn't used to have the "A Division of Cisco" with the Cisco bridge logo on them.
There's a decent chance they might die so what's wrong with a nice glass of wine in the O&C Building astronaut's quarters before walking out the Astro-Bus?
torrent clients already have encryption to prevent ISP blocking.
http://www.utorrent.com/
LEAPING from tree to tree as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia!
PS. I just read some about HTTP compression and I guess it's just zipping the website's files so they transfer faster, then the client's browser unzips it. That makes sense. I guess I know what it is now :)
It seems a simple concept. I'm not going to worry about figuring out how to implement it at this point though. I am working on higher priority things.
-I did read the apache documentation. I did that first. It didn't help much with what I wanted to do. Also, I've always found that their documentation isn't as easy to follow for a beginner like me. A step by step description helped much more. Did you read the apache documentation and see how not easy it is to learn how to do some things?
-I did not add logfiles. I do not know how to make a custom http request header or maybe I don't know the term.
-I have not made different logs generate for different virtual hosts etc.
-I have not used a text editor for config/backup for IIS but obviously I have for apache. I wasn't possible with IIS pre version 6? so?
-I haven't used an ldap authentication before. I have used Windows authentication though with IIS.
-I have set access permissions in IIS with a huge tree of folders. I try to keep it simple so I just set the parent.
-I don't even know what http compression is. what the hell.
-I haven't done reverse proxy or load balancing proxy stuff at all. I know the general idea of load balancing but I don't really know what those are.
You are probably right about configurability and sheer number of features, but in my experience not ease of use. In my post above, it was very far from obvious to me how to make those changes in apache.
Some people like talk story
Some go on fo' days
I listen dem and I learn lotta 'tings
And I learn new words fo' say
I practice da local lingo
And mostly I do fine
But one 'ting, bra, I just don't get
What dey mean wen dey say "Da Kine"
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time
You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Kimo wen work in da morning sun
Loading up da mac nut shells
All of a sudden he wen jump in da air
And he geev one terrible yell
I say "Kimo, what's da mattah?
What happen dis friend of mine?
He say "One mongoose wen jump out of dis bush
And he wen bite me een da kine!!!
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time
You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Lani is sure some ono girl
She work een da department store
I'm takin her out on da town one night
I'm waitin by da exit door
She say "Try wait just one minute!"
I ask what is on her mind
She say "Don't worry, George, I be back soon.
Just as soon as I can find da kine!"
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time
You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Just one moah 'ting boddah me
Maybe you can explain it, bra
What did Lani mean last night wen she made me stop da cah?
She wen move up right beside me
She wen put her hand in mine
She wen kiss my lips, and den she say
Dat she wanna check out my da kine
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time
You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
hehehehe
Some people like talk story
Some go on fo' days
I listen dem and I learn lotta 'tings
And I learn new words fo' say
I practice da local lingo
And mostly I do fine
But one 'ting, bra, I just don't get
What dey mean wen dey say "Da Kine"
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time
You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Kimo wen work in da morning sun
Loading up da mac nut shells
All of a sudden he wen jump in da air
And he geev one terrible yell
I say "Kimo, what's da mattah?
What happen dis friend of mine?
He say "One mongoose wen jump out of dis bush
And he wen bite me een da kine!!!
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time
You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Lani is sure some ono girl
She work een da department store
I'm takin her out on da town one night
I'm waitin by da exit door
She say "Try wait just one minute!"
I ask what is on her mind
She say "Don't worry, George, I be back soon.
Just as soon as I can find da kine!"
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time
You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Just one moah 'ting boddah me
Maybe you can explain it, bra
What did Lani mean last night wen she made me stop da cah?
She wen move up right beside me
She wen put her hand in mine
She wen kiss my lips, and den she say
Dat she wanna check out my da kine
You get da kine, I get da kine, everybody want a piece of my time
You get da kine, I get da kine, all I wanna know is wheah da kine?
Oooh that sounds cool. Is it open as if editing a text file on your computer? Then click save and it saves?
Actually that reminds me of editing files on Microsoft Sharepoint, you click on a word doc, if you have rights you can edit it and just click save.
I always hated that they didn't show the link on hover. That's just not nice. Another thing I hate is that for some Google ads, a huge amount of whitespace around it is also the ad link. I click on them sometimes when I'm trying to click empty space. That's just more deception there. If they want to be the nice guy company they supposedly are they shouldn't deceive users like that. Maybe this will convince them to change a bit.
Maybe look into Foldera
http://www.foldera.com/
It is supposedly going to be released soon. It includes a calendar but has way more than that and sounds pretty cool from what I've read.
Calendar page: http://www.foldera.com/calendar.htm
Maybe look into Foldera
http://www.foldera.com/
It is supposedly going to be released soon. It includes a calendar but has way more than that and sounds pretty cool from what I've read.
Calendar page: http://www.foldera.com/calendar.htm
I'm not responsible for our current production IIS installation but it is always on and has been for freaking long time. It's never been down since I worked here. It's on Windows Server 2003.
PS. My desktop PCs are not plagued by malware
Thanks for that. I have used both for a while now too. Like I said in a reply to someone else, I am a developer (entry level too how about that!) and not a sysadmin or IT person or hosting company. I use the webserver for developing and testing so I guess that is why IIS seems easier to me. I am using Tomcat through Apache httpd (and moving my company that way) since I am doing a lot of Java stuff so it frustrates me a little to see how much easier IIS is. The boss says do this interesting thing, it takes a few minutes in IIS in our current configuration and maybe a whole day in Apache. Maybe eventually I'll know everything and can make changes more quickly. I hope so.