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by forkqueue 17y ago
Another vote for xero.com Used GnuCash for 5 years, and whilst it was OK, Xero is a hell of a lot nicer to deal with.
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Actually, not all email passes in plain text - a decent chunk (although doubtless a minority) uses SMTP over TLS. Many servers have it configured, and if it's available on the destination almost all MTAs will use it to send mail to other se
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by forkqueue 17y ago
You already have a couple of clients prepared to pay for your software. If the 'three years ahead' competitor is so great, why aren't they using the competitor's product rather than yours? It sounds to me like your competitor is targeting
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Last time I tried using Asterisk on Amazon EC2 the call quality was pretty bad - presumably because Asterisk's timing was being messed up by the virtualisation.
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Or rather, 30% of sites which already have some other security issue also store passwords in plain text. Frankly, I'm surprised the percentage isn't higher if the sites are badly maintained enough to let this guy in through another exploit.
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by forkqueue 17y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how an online bookstore can be so ahead of all the self-professed hosting providers. I'm excited to see what innovations come out of this. Of course, this will only become really interesting when there are other
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by forkqueue 17y ago
They were sub-allocated 4.3.2.0/24 by Level3. The traffic isn't actually handled by level3, the block is being advertised by Google's AS (15169).
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by forkqueue 17y ago
They weren't even the first to plan to do it, the new Telehouse DC in London does the same: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/15/teleh...
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Interesting to note that the major motivation for them switching to the Amazon 'cloud' was to avoid procurement rather than the technical merits.
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Such as? Using a vendor-supplied kernel means that there are extremely likely to be other people using most of the same stack as you, many of them on the same hardware. If there are problems, it's likely that other people have noticed the
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Funny, I saw an interview with Stelios (of EasyJet, Easy*) and he was saying his motivation was always to prove himself to his father, even after his father died.
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by forkqueue 17y ago
It's pretty clear to me what the thought processes are behind this. Microsoft have seen all the release parties that Free Software projects like Debian and Ubuntu, FreeBSD et al have, and somewhere there's been a meeting that posed the que
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Shameless self promotion, but we're a Django specialist host: http://kutoken.com/
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Did you consider homeplug networking? I have two ZyXEL home plug devices and get ~ 60-70Mbps from them (they're rated at 200Mbps for the whole network you can add them as you go). They're pretty good, but latency is higher than I'd expecte
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by forkqueue 17y ago
And the manufacturer to do this? Nokia. Frankly, if the N97 only ran Android and had a better touch screen it'd do most of what this article recommends.
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by forkqueue 17y ago
I can only assume you didn't read Luke's article, with which I wholeheartedly agree. The crux - what do you do when you need to depend on non-Ruby libraries? Include the binaries of these? What if they depend on glibc (which they probabl
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by forkqueue 17y ago
I mentioned .deb only in passing. The same applies equally to RPM or any other modern packaging system. The package explicitly specifies the dependencies. I agree custom installers are a very bad idea, but you seem to be arguing against t
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by forkqueue 17y ago
I couldn't disagree more with the idea that it's embarrassing that PHP apps tend to run with just a simple untar and Django projects don't. For me, this highlights some of the weaknesses of PHP - that there is a lack of pre-built libraries
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Dependencies are the exact reason a plain tarball isn't good enough. They're why package management was invented. For http://kutoken.com/ , our Django hosting service, we've spent quite a while packaging Django apps into .deb format, so o
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Puppet is written in Ruby too. I've yet to see a compelling reason to use Chef rather than Puppet, but maybe I've just not been looking hard enough. Puppet is great, and we're a Python shop..
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Alternatively: why aren't more Windows MySQL users submitting patches?
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by forkqueue 17y ago
The GPL can't force them to work on getting the code included in the mainline kernel. They did this for one reason plain and simple: competitive advantage over VMWare.
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by forkqueue 17y ago
On the mail servers I run messages marked as spam get a 550 Spam error at SMTP time. The vast majority of users prefer this, as they can't be blamed for missing an email because they didn't look in their 'spam' folder, and the sender knows
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by forkqueue 17y ago
The book of the same name that accompanies the series is well worth reading and is bound by no such regionalism.
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Might want to try Varnish ( http://varnish.projects.linpro.no/ ), which has seriously impressed me with both its performance and flexibility. I'm really interested to see how TrafficServer stacks up compared to Varnish.
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by forkqueue 17y ago
Nagios for alerts, Cacti for reporting.
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by forkqueue 17y ago
I used to be a die-hard Squid aficionado too. Now I used Varnish, and it's awesome. Far more powerful than Squid, and massively better performance too. Want to drop cookies from some requests/replies? Simple. Want to direct some types o
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by forkqueue 17y ago
We're intending to launch our hosting service targeted at Django users shortly. Highlights of our service include a separate MySQL cluster (databases on a VPS don't perform so well) and a proper SLA. More info at http://kutoken.com/
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by forkqueue 17y ago
I realise you're only regurgitating what you saw on a Youtube clip linked to by reddit, but you do realise that standard mobile ('cell') phone conversations don't use satellites don't you? Anyway, RIP Fravia
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by forkqueue 17y ago
I saw this a while ago and my question is the same as before - anyone know a Linux equivalent?

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