Server in a sentence as a noun

They treat AdSense users much as they do servers.

"We called it "speed" and deployed it to the app server.

They're trying to replace a smart server with one that's dumb as a doorstop.

They will also hack into other people's private mail servers.

I mean if privacy is your reason not to use Gmail, then I hope for your sake your mail server is secure.

> Nobody uses Windows as a server OS,This is the problem with getting tech news only from HN.

"Until I broke their server they were all laughing at my 'testing' then they were pissed when they had to fix the bug I found.

It looks like as we were performing server upgrades last week a handful of jobs didn't run as normal.

They will hire people, experts, who will find new ways of breaking in to servers they detect as having mail servers running on them.

To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops.

But the point is - I only ran a mailserver to get email delivered to me on my personal domain.

Version control and a staging server are the most basic necessities for a scalable dev project.

Fascinating that IBM's entire lower-end server business is worth about two thirds of Snapchat.

Likewise, there is no canonical, authoritative state of the store, since the server doesn't "think", only the clients do.

When we do fix bugs we will try to get to users as fast as possible.> 8. Replication was lackluster on busy serversThis simply sounds like a case of an overloaded server.

SRP is better than Dragonfly; it's designed to make it hard for an attacker who seizes a server to collect a database of passwords.

It doesn't matter that the app you lost was the testing instance of a status dashboard with no real data in it, because the exploit coughs up shell access on that server.

I believe that this application actually does connect to Apple's servers from the phone, but it doesn't then interpret the protocol on the device.

Every single goddamn thing I try to accomplish while setting up a server involves a minimum of 1 hour of googling and tinkering.

"The biggest problem was they didn't allow the developers to have staging or testing servers -- they deployed on the production servers on the first go-around...

After installing Postfix and jumping through all the hoops to get my emails whitelisted by Gmail and making sure I didn't have an open relay on my mail server, you know what happened?

If you try to add capacity to a system at 100% utilization, it is not going to work.> 5. mongos is unreliable> The mongod/config server/mongos architecture is actually pretty reasonable and clever.

This came about because of the long-obsolete notion that Internet access is a difficult and expensive commodity that requires that the client must keep a mirror of what's on the server.

Instead bad people could not only sit there and read all my incoming mail - but they could use my server to spam people and get me blacklisted and blocked from so many other services I worked so hard to be trusted by.

But when your service says "oh yes, I'm fine", it may well be the case that the only thing still functioning in the server is the little component that knows how to say "I'm fine, roger roger, over and out" in a cheery droid voice.

I also included a list of the compromised hostnames at their university and the IRC server's information so their networking people could look for other compromised hosts connected to the IRC server if they wanted to.

Maybe you don't need them, but Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail enable hundreds of millions of people to communicate _for free_ with other people around the world that otherwise wouldn't be technically competent enough to buy a domain name and set up a local mail server.

][edit: It also occurred to me to verify the other direction: in fact, if you go to send a message, first the client sends something to the developer's server, which then returns a packet which, along with again the exactly 7 extra bytes, is sent to Apple's server.

[edit: The more I stare at this, the more confident I am in this analysis; specifically, the packets that are "about" and "almost exactly" the same size are very deterministic: the packets to/from Apple are precisely 7 bytes larger than the corresponding packets to/from the Chinese server.

Oh, that's in there too... they ship a 'configuration profile' which adds a new email account, so your password is leaving the device in cleartext and being used to create the profile server-side which is then shipped back to the phone and installed, how exactly?This just gets worse and worse if I understand correctly... I'm surprised that configuration profiles can be shipped to an arbitrary device from a third party this way without the user manually installing LinkedIn's certificate as trusted.

Server definitions

noun

a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)

See also: waiter

noun

(court games) the player who serves to start a point

noun

(computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network

See also: host

noun

utensil used in serving food or drink