Look, if Lafayette, LA can start putting in FTTH, and there are estimates that it will cost somewhere between $1k-$4k, why are richer neighborhoods not laying it down now? Bonkers.
Archive for September, 2005
OK, reading deeper into my backlog of Isen’s posts, there’s the fat wasteband humor/scary scenario that anyone who likes Internet innovation should read and shudder…
So here we are with the software equivalent of nuclear terrorism - no cost-effective way to secure every target and only a few have to get hit to be profitable for the crooks. There are ways around this issue, but it takes far longer to roll out new features into established systems than it is to hack the current features. To clear this up would require concerted effort and expenditures on the part of the customer - who really isn’t interested in security and doesn’t want to spend their money on that but would rather decry the institutions and say it isn’t their problem.
Or maybe I’m too cynical. I think there are people out there who care enough to spend money on a solution (say like me) but are there enough? And how would we find out?
What do you know, people are different!
So I can’t decide if this article is moronic or if manager-types are moronic since they need to be reminded of it with articles like this… to synopsize in one sentence, People are different and want different things, and you have to ask them what they want to find out.
So why is this a surprise?
Time for us to find a real leader and respond to the catastrophic triumph of politics so evident these last couple of weeks.
Our story so far, 30 hours after installation… Bad Behaviour 191, Spammers 1. Now that’s a winner!
OK, so I’ve been fighting comment spam here for the last 2 days… 7981 comments deleted and a number of options tried - but hey, I found that three people actually submitted real comments and I didn’t know it! Worse, it’s frustrating my wife (3800 spams on hers). I didn’t want to use a captcha because I find them annoying. However, I will resort to that if necessary and these next steps don’t work. So now it’s time for the heavy artillery.
Enter Bad Behaviour (plus the addon add-on log reader). I’m hoping this will resolve it, but if you have any trouble, let me know. If you don’t know how to get me, guess! Odds are you’re smart enough to figure out my email.
Even if this works, then I have to figure out the trackback issue. Pesky Vikings…
So I’ve upgraded to 1.0.6 and now there’s a problem with conflicting extensions. I finally found out that the crashes I was seeing were related to Live HTTP Headers and SessionSaver conflicting so that I couldn’t upload files. However, I was using both on earlier versions and it didn’t seem to conflict.
So now we see the Eclipse problem - an application based on plugins can’t efficiently test interactions between them, and clearly the sandboxing is incomplete in FF. In addition, who can take responsibility for the fix - the core team, the SessionSaver people, the Live HTTP Headers, or does it take a village to fix this bug?
I love Firefox, but this is driving me nuts. I use both extensions regularly and want to keep them active since it is a pain to restart the browser every time I want them - so now I’m reduced to using IE to upload files! Talk about counterproductive…
And sadly I’m not in practice enough to be able to suss out the issue myself. Sigh.
mysql> SHOW COLUMNS FROM mytable FROM mydb;
mysql> SHOW COLUMNS FROM mydb.mytable;
