There seems to be some performance issues going on - the active tabs/main pages are empty, things are intermittantly loading and not loading, and.. well.. the sites arn't running like clockwork like they usually do. I'm seeing blank front pages here, SU, SF and on Ask Ubuntu at least.
i have a feeling that one of the politicians running for public office in my state is having his site intentionally DDoS'ed by political competitors to prevent him from getting his message out
I don't particularly support this guy but it's just unfortunate that politicians have to be so low about it
One of the local ISPs tried to block the homepage of another ISP here. -_- They goofed and picked too wide of a range, covering our servers with public IPs leased by the blocked ISP. That was an... awkward phone call to make.
I have several tab groups (~ 20) in Firefox. I can start the browser without any problems. However, as soon as I …
click at the "Group tabs" icon in the toolbar, or
right-click on a tab and hover over "Move to tab group",
… Firefox becomes unresponsible/freezes for a rather long time (more th...
@MatthewWong 3rd party app support is generally on-topic for superuser, particularly when it's either a user error, or if they don't know whether or not it is a user error
the more dubious questions are like, "I found this bug, and..." (off topic)
but then again, even questions like that sometimes have workarounds
but if the "question" is how to fix the bug, well, that much is off topic, since actually fixing a bug requires source access, knowledge, etc
(1) people who distribute interpreted code are expected to already assume that the user has the source code, and are supposed to "hide" anything they don't want the user to see behind an opaque server. For example, every single web application on the internet has its client-side HTML/JavaScript "source code" available. This guy makes it seem like a problem.
(2) binaries aren't any less susceptible to modification, just less susceptible to people understanding them enough to hack them and successfully modify the functionality without it crashing. that doesn't make binaries more secure; it just increases the time it takes before the user can bend them to their will.
this is why you use things like strong encryption and networking to do things where you'd really care if the user were tampering with it. as it stands, tampering with some HTML code in a Win8 app you download is hardly a problem for the developer; the worst you can do is break your own local copy of the app, and the best you can do is improve the app for yourself by adding features the original devs hadn't thought of.
if changing the JS or HTML sources can potentially affect any financial transactions or decide whether or not you have the full version of an app, that is a flaw -- but it's completely orthogonal whether or not the language is interpreted a la JS, or compiled into native code a la binaries
but then some things just have to be run client side. at which point the developer should just make sure their prices are reasonable, and hopefully remove some incentive to pirate
@Bob For the trial logic? Simple: don't include certain parts of the app functionality at all in the distribution you give to people who haven't yet purchased.
If the functionality being sold is the client-side functionality and not the server-side, then you can't even give the user the entire app until they have paid you
Rejected:
File rbpitch_2.97-0ppa1.tar.gz already exists in rbpitch-release, but uploaded version has different contents. See more information about this error in help.launchpad.net/Packaging/UploadErrors.
Files specified in DSC are broken or missing, skipping package unpack verification.
attacks LaunchPad and dpkg with a sharpened tuning fork
@jokerdino, I hate our distribution tools :/
this is supposed to be easy, not a royal pain in the ass
I'm guessing plop loaded the USB drive - not the bios, and that's where the problem was.
You will probably want to try to make the drive bootable using the hp drive format tool - it flips the bootable property - which windows format often dosen't, and try unetbootin again.
it should be literally as easy as: step 1: write code step 2: make sure build works step 3: tell ubuntu the name of the dependency packages step 4: type one command and send it to the PPA for building/uploading
Windows 8 has a hybrid shutdown that has some (perhaps minor) downsides.
Hybrid shutdown is faster, so I do not want to turn it off permanently.
However, when I am sure that I am about to leave the stationary computer for a considerable amount of time, I would like to shut it down in a way that...
yeah i know, and you wouldn't think much of anything by installing Windows from 2008, since it basically can run the same shit as windows 8, minus modern ui
what's really annoying is that extremely conservative, change-allergic companies that use RHEL for the full 7 years in the first place, are very reluctant to adopt RHEL when it first releases
and yet, in order to get the most value out of it, you're supposed to start (at least in a testing/staging environment) deploying on the new platform ASAP once it goes final
because stable RHEL, even the initial release, is bloody stable... no further testing needed
the stupid companies don't end up using the "new" RHEL until a year or three after it comes out
@JourneymanGeek that's the worst thing, at least for public internet-facing boxes... the potential for unpatched, unsupported distros that do not get any security patches at all
There seems to be some performance issues going on - the active tabs/main pages are empty, things are intermittantly loading and not loading, and.. well.. the sites arn't running like clockwork like they usually do. I'm seeing blank front pages here, SU, SF and on Ask Ubuntu at least.
No. This is not a built in feature of Windows 8.
Windows 8 has a hybrid shutdown that has some (perhaps minor) downsides.
Hybrid shutdown is faster, so I do not want to turn it off permanently.
However, when I am sure that I am about to leave the stationary computer for a considerable amount of time, I would like to shut it down in a way that...
