Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

2014-07-26 Thread Stephen Ronan
Slashdot discussion re: Verizon Fios customer's experience: "However, his Netflix video streams were limping along at just 375kbps (0.375mbps), equivalent to 0.5 percent of the speed he's paying for. On a hunch, he decided to connect to a VPN service, which in theory should actually make thing

[Discuss] Fwd: Meet LibreOffice in Boston this weekend!

2014-07-26 Thread John Abreau
Begin forwarded message: > From: "A. Richard Miller" > Date: July 23, 2014, 9:21:42 PM EDT > To: "Boston Linux Unix User Group/John Abreau, Ex.Dir." , > Boston Linux and Unix Users Group/Jerry Feldman , "Boston Linux > Unix User Group/Will Rico, Beginners Group" , Boston User > Groups/John R

[Discuss] BLU Desktop GNU/Linux SIG Meeting - Build a GNU/Linux Super Desktop on a Budget - Weds, Aug 6, 2014

2014-07-26 Thread Will Rico
When: Wednesday, Aug 6, 2014 6:30PM Location: Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Directions http://www.akamai.com/html/about/driving_directions.html Also easily accessibly by T. Notes 1) Please note the location is different from BLU's standard MIT meeting location. 2) Akam

[Discuss] php dev's code with warnings and notices

2014-07-26 Thread Eric Chadbourne
Hi All, I've recently been asked to work with a team of PHP developers on a pretty large and complex project. The code they have submitted works, but it has a bunch of warnings and notices in the logs. I personally think this is sloppy coding. My question is, how strong a stand should I ta

Re: [Discuss] php dev's code with warnings and notices

2014-07-26 Thread Bill Horne
On 7/26/2014 5:56 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote: Hi All, I've recently been asked to work with a team of PHP developers on a pretty large and complex project. The code they have submitted works, but it has a bunch of warnings and notices in the logs. I personally think this is sloppy coding. M

Re: [Discuss] php dev's code with warnings and notices

2014-07-26 Thread John Abreau
I've had too many experiences where some sloppy coder was flooding the logs with pointless warnings to the point that the logs were useless for diagnosing actual problems. The clues I needed in order to diagnose a real problem were lost in all the noise. Sloppy coding has a high maintenance cost,

Re: [Discuss] php dev's code with warnings and notices

2014-07-26 Thread markw
Web development is a ghetto or even, still, the wild wild west. A properly configured and developed web site with no warning would probably only serve static web pages. If you log nothing, you miss important errors and warnings, if you log more, you will get stupid errors and warnings. The real is

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

2014-07-26 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss- > bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Ronan > > Slashdot discussion re: Verizon Fios customer's experience: > "However, his Netflix video streams were limping along at just > 375kbps (0.375mbps), equivalent to 0

Re: [Discuss] Https - the solution to net neutrality and ISP monopolies

2014-07-26 Thread Richard Pieri
On 7/26/2014 10:57 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > Yup, but remember there are two possible explanations why: Neither of which are at all relevant. All Netflix traffic is encrypted but this did not prevent Comcast from intentionally degrading Netflix traffic throughput. All Netflix traffic is