As good as qmail is, the official release is so far behind the times it's ridiculous. The unofficial patches, made unofficial by a stubborn refusal on the part of the author to merge them in, have fixed most of these issues, but then what's the point of using qmail if you have to use the untrusted version?
Sadly qmail is a lesson of how you can be correct and completely wrong at the same time.
Imagine a completely secure operating system that only runs on 32-bit systems. Could you actually advocate using it in a serious production capacity?
phpBB 2 was a total security nightmare and anyone running it or version 1 in production should be shot.
They realized how horrible things were and massively cleaned up their act around version 3. No published vulnerabilities issued since 2010, and only a handful for 3.x in general.
It's responsive, has animations when scrolling, pretty color scheme and only small amount of text. Oh, and let's not forget the social buttons. What else can a consumer hope for.
That's the only thing their webpage said to me 'we too!'. I used to enjoy improving the visual qualities of data (Brett Victor and previous inspirations as extrapolation) but nowadays it's more of a fad of form over content.
I know that planes are mostly automated these days but I wouldn't run a large website with N+0 redundancy, let alone get in a plane with the same resilience. Not sure how I feel about this.
> This movement toward the data base is in its infancy. Even so, it appears that there are now between 1,000 and 2,000 true data base management systems installed worldwide.
Imagine what technology right now exists where the numbers are small, which over the next few decades will be so common place. I would love to be an investor with foresight.
Although not mentioned, the elephant in the room is that teens dropping the TV for the Internet. I have three cousins, all between 13 and 17, none watch any tv. Why watch something when you have no choice the the programming. YouTube killed the television star.
