Search results

It is extremely likely that we will be seeing an open-source Windows at some point - it's going to be a necessity for it to survive in the long run, and Microsoft seems to realize that. They have recently been moving more and more towards selling services and support, rather than software, as...

There's nothing it's particularly good at, and several things it's outright bad at - data integrity being an important one. MongoDB has an extremely poor track record in data integrity - to the point where until fairly recently, it would quietly throw away any data it couldn't store, which would...

Nonsense. The idea that you can even know whether you've been hit by anything is ludicrous - the most profitable malware is that which you don't notice. The idea that "I don't open dodgy things, so I won't get infected" is laughably misguided - you're far more likely to get hit by a drive-by...

Right, that's only listed in the poll question, which I didn't look at because it seemed to repeat the post title (which doesn't say 'web'). I presume the same applies for others. EDIT: Oh, and please, whatever you do, don't use MongoDB. It's terrible.

Good to hear :)

You're missing Node.js in the list. But yes, it depends on what you're trying to do. For web-based and generally network-based stuff, I'd recommend Node.js. For other situations, other options may be better. Just, whatever you do, don't use/learn an unmanaged language (C, C++, ...) unless you...

So, some of my feedback. Please note that all is meant constructively - I'm not looking to just bash, but most of these are pretty serious/big points that really do need to be addressed. Also note that I've only grabbed some excerpts from the code - the same issues may exist in other places...

What makes you believe this is an attack?

That is indeed the correct approach, although I'd recommend having security on a (web) application level where possible, rather than on a HTTPd level. It's really easy to accidentally mess up otherwise.

The (original) MVC model is fundamentally broken for web-based applications. Anyway, the first post still (misleadingly) claims that the panel is "open source". Could @HalfEatenPie also fix that, perhaps?

Blocking useragents is not the correct way to go about that, and will not work. EDIT: I also don't see how any of this adds any "security" at all, other than the PHP bit.

Your definition of 'shady' being what? Such as?

That word probably doesn't mean what you think it means. That you can see the source doesn't make it "open-source", at best you could say something has a "visible source" or "readable source". It's not open-source unless it complies with this definition.

What datacenter(s)?

No, that's not how it works. That's a perfect example of security through obscurity, which isn't actually security. Your code should be secure from a purely technical point of view. If you need to hide your code to keep it 'secure', there is almost certainly something wrong with your code, and...

No idea about Virtualizor, but the code quality of SolusVM is absolutely atrocious - easily some of the worst PHP I've ever seen. The issues with SolusVM largely stem from poor developer habits. If you use a reasonable platform (not PHP), abstract things correctly, are aware of the different...

Nonsense.

FWIW, future advice: http://blog.civiccommons.org/2011/01/be-open-from-day-one/ :)

FYI, that's a better ROI than almost every other project in existence that runs on donations. Most of them don't even have their expenses covered.

I've used Linux and OpenOffice while in school, and I've had zero issues.