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Down again this morning for us, at 8AM we lost connection and (at 12:50) still haven't got it back. Routing our connection through our DR site.

Edit @ 13:50, back up, but so slow it's making doing anything impossible, still routing through DR site

There are a few issues, particularly with LDAP, but that wasn't what I meant. Lion is the latest version and it's running fine (minus the bugs present on every system) on 4 year old hardware.

99.999% of the software we can run on our servers can be run on a Mac, it's (arguably) more user friendly than Linux. They're also pretty decent spec'd computers that take a while to go out of date (My 4 year old MBP runs Lion with no problems).

Not of the top of my head, if you look back far enough through @PhillyD's twitter feed you'll probably see him ranting about how he doesn't make anywhere near that much.

Both, some partners have external syndication or promotion deals. A lot of partners are now using services like Blip.tv and Revision3 alongside Youtube. Other's sell products, do advertising and other things on the side, all because they are popular on Youtube, but not related to their viewcount (Rhett & Link is a good example, they now have a successful TV show). Some have lower CPC/CPV values due to their audience and content. Some don't even use adds. This report was put together under the logic of "The average CPV is $0.001 so every 1k views = $1", rather than doing any actual research

/sigh/

This is completely inaccurate based off incorrect assumptions and statistics. Though not a youtube partner myself, I work with quite a few. This article has been dismissed by nearly all of the people it mentions

Tumblr already does this, why take it external?

>school time is not that scarce

For students, no, for teachers, yes. And for the budgets? Picture yourself as a financer at a school, you have to fund more teachers, introduce a new subject and overall you're getting less money per student.

Yes, Welsh is pretty much useless, but we're talking about introducing a new subject.

Maths is useful in a lot more situations than programming would be, I bet most people don't realize how often they use maths without realizing. Things like algebra are about logic, deducing things, figuring things out. French is, again, a subject that can be dropped at 16 and not a core subject. I didn't study French at school (Technically I should have done Spanish but that was the same time I had my SLS instead)

Yes there are many subjects that do not lead to jobs, but it was suggested that programming should be taught as a fundimental subject, allongside english and maths. Most subjects you can drop when you're 16 and take the things that not only intrest you, but should be relevant to your job. When I was 15, we did 1 hour a week of history, and 3 hours a week of maths.

Being a lawer is well payed, I'd never do it and it isn't getting taught in school. And they only attract jobs now because not many people can do it, if every graduate could program to a reasonable level, salleries would go down and the number of people unemployed with these skills would go up.

While I'm aware this may get downvoted to the depths, I feel I have to say it.

Why should kids be taught programming instead of reading, writing, language and maths?

If the curriculum was changed to include programming, it would almost certainly reduce the funding and time put into other, more important subjects. While a good understanding of computers will help with almost any job in the future, unless you're going into computing as a career, learning specifically programming will be absolutely no help. Programming has many benefits, but seeing as there are going to be cuts to educational funding, increases in class sizes etc. adding an extra topic that will only be useful to a small number of people would be wasteful. I agree that 'IT' taught in schools needs to take a step back and look at the bigger picture, rather than saying "this is how to use Powerpoint", it should be teaching kids how to find things out for themselves. But that is the same with nearly every other subject.

If you took a random person you passed on a busy London street at lunch time, how much better do you think they would be able to do their job if they knew how to program? I'd guess that for the majority of people it would make little to no difference. If someone wants to learn to program they can take it upon themselves to learn, like if someone wants to learn how to cook, or ride a bike, or play piano.

Am I looking at this the wrong way? Is there something I've missed?

Post; All the above being taken into account, their response was not acceptable. I'm sure they have to put up with a lot of nuts but that was a well thought out, well written email that made some valid points.

If you're running a recent version of OpenSSH, you can add the 'ForceCommand' param to sshd_config to add it for all users. The only downside to this is it is for all users, so if you run something that needs to use key based login without the two factor method you'll need to validate that yourself within the script.

Having a quick read through the code (so I might have missed something) but the URL is generated from a substring of an SHA hash, does this not mean, at least in theory, URLs could be duplicated?

With a hex hash at 6 chars, there are a possible 16,777,216 unique URLs (Probably not an issue, unless you're bit.ly). But when there have been 1,677,721 URLs generated, there is a 10% chance a URL will be duplicated, at 8,388,608 there is a 50% chance, and so on. While those numbers are very high and probably not an issue, it's worth considering this probably wouldn't work on a large scale (Though I'm sure it wasn't designed too)

Not really a criticism, I still think this is a great example of how simple Node is, just an observation

Yeah like that, I really wanted one till I read the reviews. If they could do it properly (I.E. make it bright and accurate) it has the potential to be really cool but maybe keep it on the drawing board for a few more years.

I know they're only computer generated graphics, but maybe it's a bit miss-leading as to how it will actually look. Particularly like this

http://thesupergoodlife.com/2011/09/08/light-touch-projector...

Assuming the projector is mounted in the shelf, there would be quite a large shadow under where she is touching the wall. I guess the implications of this on such a small screen would be you'd have to pretty much figure out what you were going to press before you put your hand in front of the beam.

We have Promethean IWB's and short throw projectors at school, trying to use them with your finger for precise menu operations is a nightmare. I think there used to be a keyboard that did something similar but it had terrible reviews

Interesting, are there any user limits on the purchased version?

Also, do you have any data on hardware requirements? The software requirements are only PHP and MySQL so I'm guessing it's not doing anything like in-memory caching and it'll need to hit MySQL quite a bit to generate the chat. How does it perform under 100 users? Or 1000? or more?

From the comments

> i would like to work in PHP command line code

Just, just no. PHP has many uses, but the command line isn't one of them.

Also I don't think pulling in a script over HTTP is such a great idea, I know it was done for simplicity but why not tell people to download the script first and save it alongside their main script, then just use an 'import filename'.

Now what would be useful, and could probably justify pulling in a module from remote, is if it kept up with Facebook API changes.

I'd say the right, it looks nicer and fits the style of the other elements better.

Also remember, the styling of the left dropdown is based on what Mac OS/X shows a dropdown to be, if you look at it on Windows/Gnome/KDE etc. it will most likely look different (Unless the images of the Mac default select are hard coded in, which would be a lot of extra effort, if you were going to do that you might as well do a custom dropdown)

Post; If you're interested in doing something like the right hand one on your own site check out https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen

OVH do quite a good hosted Exchange solution, they're quite big in Europe and have a fair reputation for what they do. There's even the option for a dedicated server which they manage if you're worried about security

An interesting one might be Reddit, although OSS isn't their formost product, their site is 100% open source (on GitHub). I think that must have posed some very interesting challenges for the devs, I'd be interested to know how/if it improved their coding standards and security, if you're going to let the whole world look at your source code, you need to be confident there isn't anything in there you wouldn't want the world to see.

I wish there was a Minecraft <=> Arduino mod, like mapping Arduino inputs to blocks in Minecraft and blocks to Arduino outputs. Someone needs to make this happen =)

If you set up his router with OpenDNS, they provide filter categories for porn/adult content etc.

I think CPanel/WebHostManager should have been included, whether you like or dislike it, it's by far the most popular web interface on hosted servers

I'd guess Android is the most well known one but that depends on what you consider 'linux'.

I think the difference between tablets and desktops is such that the underlying distro probably doesn't matter that much, it's more down to the frontend (I.E. Gnome looks pretty much the same whatever distro you run it on). I assume Gnome3 would run pretty well on a tablet although it's probably down to personal opinion

I'm guessing they added an affiliate tag to all the Amazon links so they could make some money from it, wonder how successful it has been. Is it a popular extension?

I'm not sure if it's just me, but there seem to have been a few very similar sites/ideas posted here over the last few days.

Well done for making it work in IE though =)

Push to a GIT server, we have a branch called 'live', then we run a script on the servers that pull down the deploy branch. We also have a branch called 'development' for our dev boxes

"We're sorry for the issues you've had with your server today, but we're not responsible for looking after your hardware."

A drive failed in a RAID1 array so I contacted their support to get broken the drive replaced, they removed the working drive and destoryed it then insisted it wasn't their fault, I even gave them the serial number of the failed drive before they removed it. I do have my own offsite backups of everything, but it was still annoying to have to restore the entire server

>Advertising that gives back

From an end users perspective, there won't be any difference to normal advertising. Unless they know that the money is being donated to charity it will make no difference to them.

I think the core of the idea is great and anything to help charity should be promoted as much as possible, but if you're not making anything from the ad impressions how do you plan to fund your infastructure, staff and other things you need to run successfully?

Tornado (web.py)