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That is why the Squeak license still mentions Apple

More over I like python - it has win32com which is damn easy to use, at least with Excel objects. Writing the script took me less than a day, while entering the bugs manually would have taken me over a week (imagine 2200 bugs of varying severity, and descriptions). The real challenge was to convert the OLE objects into attachements (screenshots, logs..). Truly they were idiots for maintaining all this in a SINGLE EXCEL File !!.

Python is an average general purpose language. It's not fast like C++, doesn't have something like CPAN , nor is it very complicated or interesting. But it is often easy to write, read and throw away (or upload to your hacks/).

USB Overdrive is a replacement USB driver and from the website, it still looks like it's supported (just not as active as before since family comes first). If you have a Logitech mouse, you can also tweak it to do something similar.

This wiki misses the fact that RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 are competing formats, not progressive versions of the same standard.

RSS 1.0 is RDF-based like the original Netscape version of RSS, and is more extensible and structured than RSS 2.0 or Atom.

Annoyingly, neither camp wants to let go of the name "RSS" because they both lay claim to it, but it does actually stand for different things ("RDF Site Summary" / "Really Simple Syndication").

Readers would get more value from pages such as these:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/23/rssone.html
http://www.burningdoor.com/eric/archives/000239.ht ml
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2000/08/25 /magazine/rss_tut.html
http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/

Here's my challenge to the computing world: Find me a DOS version that supports USB hardware, and a USB storage device that can talk to DOS over said hardware, AND that I can boot DOS from if I need to, and I will consider giving up floppies.

Google search string: "dos boot usb"
http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm
http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusb stick.php
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5735
http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=141064
to post a few...

I do this all the time in the engineering lab to run DOS utilities without floppies or hard drives and still have enough room for a decent sized log file collection.

Where should I send the consulting service fee invoice? ;^)

That takes all the fun out of programming for the 2600. http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/4849

duh...

The availability of high quality and freely available map data and maps over the internet along with open source software (and some creative minds) has finally been the catalyst to unleash a true revolution in the use of digital spatial data. As the recent O'Reilly book "Mapping Hacks" (http://mappinghacks.com/ documents and the Where 2.0 conference (http://conferences.oreillynet.com/where/) demonstrated, you don't need expensive GIS software licenses or exclusive geospatial technical training to make effective use of online mapping.

Noticed how many academic or professional "geographers", "cartographers" or "certified spatial analysts" are involved in any of these projects? Nada. Oh, a few see the light but leave it to the true hackers to truly push the boundaries (no pun intended) of the art.

As a recent ZDNET review of the Where 2.0 conference stated, "Hackers are teaching the industry what to do."

It's not totally a dupe, it was in fact "launched" at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference today.

Receiving no attention is the news that Yahoo also released their maps API today as well. You can read a ranty blogpost from a Yahoo developer about the differences.

I pilfered all of the above links from rc3.org

I think we should be able to make SOAP calls from javascript directly - that would solve all these stupid XSD schemas and SDKs for each and every REST webservice they use with AJAX.

I wrote a mozilla based application about 3 years ago that used simple javascript SOAP calls.
As far as I could tell at the time, this wasn't supported by IE. I don't know if it is yet or not.

Here is an O'reilly article from 2002 talking about how to do it.

Wasn't Nostradamus the guy who said 640k should be enough for anyone ?

they keep electing Orrin Hatch. That alone speaks volumes. Among other things, he's the proud author of the DMCA, the INDUCE act, the PIRATE act (Porno Is Really Awesome To Endorse, apparently), he advocated the destruction of PCs belonging to software pirates with some vaporware virus, and then was caught red handed using pirated software. He claimed that was a mistake made by his staff. When he was caught with stolen Democratic party memos, he claimed that (you guessed it) it was a mistake made by his staff. At best, he's a clueless old grandpa that has no business writing copyright legislation.

But it's a vexed issue, and yet another of those differences between British and American English (although in this case, apparently it's the British who changed).

Did you notice that Mono supports numerious languages?

Did you notice that Mono is primarily an implementation of .NET, and thus subject to patent claims by Microsoft? Microsoft has stated that these patents will be avilable on a "royalty free and otherwise reasonable and non-discriminatory basis", but short of an irrevocable legally-binding release worded in such a way that it's unambiguously clear these patents can not be used against open-source software, I am unwilling to trust to their good will.

Statements like "Furthermore, our release of the Rotor source code base with a specific license on its use gives wide use to our patents for a particular (non-commercial) purpose, and as we explicitly state we are open to additional licenses for other purposes." -- Microsoft applies for .NET patent are less than encouraging.

In Europe, Microsoft are already showing their true colors: "If developers want to build the protocols into their products, they must agree not to distribute that product in source-code form, or to subject it to licenses that require source-code disclosure, a formula that excludes many open source licenses."

And they have other tricks up their sleeve, "At every release the focus of Microsoft's tools that provide a compelling Linux development environment could break or prevent mono-compatibility the same way Microsoft's J++ broke Java compatibility by replacing JavaBeans, RMI,and JNI with COM, DCOM, Direct/J. At that point, you would face the choice of either forking the API's or forking over some royalty payments." --Mono developer meeting

With Mono you can hitch your wagon to Microsoft's oxen, never knowing just where they're going to go.

I had done this once using wmctrl to move, shade windows around, binding CTRL~ in xfce to a script i wrote either brought up the terminal window or shaded and moved it back down below my panel. check either oreilly for a short article on wmctrl: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6014

He started the engadget Podcast, hackaday, and now MAKE.

it seems like he's really good at getting cool stuff off the ground and then he leaves it to other people once its up and running

http://flashenabled.com/ is his site

http://www.oreillynet.com/oreilly/make/

If you read the actual blog, it doesn't really contain any information or opinion or whatever. One of the comments on the blog provides more useful information - for older and more informative papers go here: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/security/2004/08/0 3/symbiot.html and http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/security/2004/03/10/sy mbiot.html

linking to a site called p2pnet.net doesn't really prove your point.

Did you even click the link provided? Try actually looking at it sometime before deciding you already know what it is.

By the way, I do live in the real world, thank you. The world is full of cynics like you too, you're proof of that. But if you have facts that show the music industry is losing money--as opposed to just releasing fewer titles so it can blame p2p for a "loss in sales"--why don't you provide these? Someone might consider taking your argument seriously.

If this were the case, all stores would have all items for free with a place to send your money "if it was worth it" or the customer would have to return it. This doesn't happen because any store that did this would go out of business within the first week

True, duh. That's cause stores are selling objects. Music is not an object that can be picked up and carried off. (A CD is. But we're not talking about "stealing music" as in people stealing CDs. That's something else entirely.) Music and the software files that package it is incorporeal, can be duplicated indefinitely without harm to the original, and can be broadcast worldwide, using the existing digital infrastructure, without the cost of shipping or logistics management. Apples, meet oranges. Your point about the Steven King book was more germane, but again, books are not music. Books take hours to read and are rarely re-read once the reader is finished. Music is meant to be enjoyed many times, and the effort required by the listener is nil, whereas a book requires the reader's primary attention. Apples, meet pineapples. Do better.

performance != scalability.

The original point was 'jsp doesn't seem to scale as well as php', and none of the reams of text you've pasted here comes close to disproving that.

What would are some very large sites using jsp, which for all the links you posted, you haven't been able to show.

More and larger sites use php than jsp. I pointed out ebay, which is still using dlls for much of it's heavy load. You brought up playboy, which seems to be mostly a static site running some cgi scripts: http://cyber.playboy.com/cgi/ab.cgi.

The proof is in the implementation, we know php scales and jsp, well there are plenty of fanboys who will post endless scholarly diatribes about how great it would be if someone would listen too you, but you don't seem to be able to produce any very high load sites to back up your case.

So I'll ask again, what are the largest sites running jsp? If you are going to post benchmarks again (b/c you can't find any jsp sites of major size), please try to stay on topic: benchmarks showing how java/jsp handles thousands of concurrent users, how it compares to apache/p* in a high performance cluster, etc.

Not sure of the legalities, but it doesn't seem to be all that difficult - and you get to eat a whole can of pringles guilt free...

http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/448

Uche Ogbuji says: "Wha'? Muh dick."

She calls herserlf a journalist but she is so obviously biased. Her writings deal with facts such as court documents but they are primarily opinion piecies. There is so much biased speculation in them. Which is fine, but don't write on your website you're a journalist.

She doesn't write much about non SCO issues, but when she does it seem to be aimed at IBM's rivals. She's voiced her opinion regarding a few of Sun's actions recently helping to grow the ill feelings some of the F/OSS community have against them. This is one example http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4776 another is the whole "Sun funded SCO's Lawsuit" thing. If Sun paid SCO for Unix IP wouldn't like 90% of that go to Novell anyway and SCO only gets a 10% commion. I forget the exact numbers but that was the crx of the contract Novell had with SCO. Novell retains Unix IP and SCO is the salesman.

Meanwhile, IBM's in other legal proceedings and Groklaw doesn't cover those. Some of which wouldn't paint the open source defender in a very good light.

I don't see the big deal about Groklaw. If you ever sat and read the comments you'd realize they are even worse then the ones on slashdot. People can't even seem to remember basic facts in the history of the case but as soon as someone says something everyone just cheers if it's anti sco, microsoft or sun whether it's right or wrong.

I don't even see the site as that important. It's a PR thing for the anti sco side. IBM has more than enough money, lawyers and big company evil powers to win this onn their own. Reading Groklaw is like watching the michael jackson trial show on E! Its so obviously biased.

I don't thnk PJ is a paid shill for IBM though it wouldn't surprise me if she was. On the same token, I don't think MOG is a paid shill for SCO either. Again, it wouldn't surpise me if she was.

I thinnk what we have here is a case of two women, whose daddies' probably didn't hug them enough as kids, that both got involved in the same big event and found a level of recognition and popularity in but were at opposite ends. They wound up throwing inuendos at each other and from what i've seen it's been happening on both sides. They're both taking it way too personally because it's become their mission in life (that probably more for PJ) and it got out of hand.

PJ's on the good side so of course she was right and everyone comes to her defense but in my opinion both of them needed a reality check a long time ago. And not to mention the DoS attacks against Sys-con. That's TOTALLY not the type of response people talkinng about freedom, ethics, morality, etc should have. You wouldn't want to hire someone that does something like that whenn things don't go their way, nor would you want to rely o ntheir software, even if it was free.

And why is it such a crime to try and find out who PJ is? or who she was before Groklaw? All the people she rights about have executive bios onlien as well as interviews and other well documented histories. Like it or not, PJ has made hersellf a public figure by giving out facts heavily laced with her opinions and letting everyone read and participate online. People are going to want to know who she is and how much credibility to assign to her. People can pretend to be anyone online, it's like when some horny jerk from india im's you randomly and asks you if you're a woman and if you want to have "sex talk" so you tell him you're a pakistani hooker and try and see how many chickens he's willing to trade for you.

Groklaw has been trying to make some waves regarding the case and public opinion. It's bad enough when the media gets involved in cases but now we'r

That reminds me of the rumors in 1996 that Sun should/would buy Apple. See Sunworld or oreilly links for example. We know that Sun is in trouble and that Apple is doing well today. If MS does not recast ifself in a game company, I would not be surprised that RedHat will fare as well as Apple did, and that MS will dwindle.

Look at the O'Reilly article referred to by wargolem above, comparing Bonjour with UPnP. Reading between the lines, it's pretty clear that one reason Apple developed Bonjour is to avoid the risk of being locked out by Microsoft somewhere down the line. For this to work, Bonjour will have to be nearly universally adopted, so of course it has to be free. Add to that the fact that Bonjour is easy to develop for and is not patented (unlike Microsoft's monolithic standard), and the prospects look good that Bonjour will be widely adopted.

Here's a good comparison of UPnP and Zeroconf. Zeroconf is the base of Apple's Bonjour.

A couple of weeks, during the recent Ubuntu release, ago on Veronica Mars two of the computer experts got in a very cute argument over it's release. It was very timely, happening the week after the story hit slashdot. It was very timely and surprising. Oreilly talks about it some @ http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6863

Would you like fries with that?

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5125

That's not a 0-day exploit. You have to already be root to read the swap files. Explain to me how this exploit would happen on an average home users computer? Much less over the internet...

Go back to your bridge, fucking troll.

Would you like fries with that?

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5125

After the party and the hangover please realize that you are BIG and RESPONSIBLE now. So please get back to work and make sure that there are no security issues.

I decided to make a search on google for "just works"...seems its everyone's sales pitch at some stage or another:

- http://www.artima.com/spontaneous/upnp_digihome.ht ml
- http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2002/0715mustha ler.html
- http://www.apple.com/switch/whyswitch/
- http://bashburn.sourceforge.net/
- http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6037

... just to name a few.

Also here is a page with an interesting write-up about "It Just Works": http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ItJustWorks

If this doesn't wilt your willy, who may actually be RMS.

A picture and a short bio from O'Reilly...
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1909
A series of articles she wrote...
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3 496046

She actually sounds like the kind of person I like to work with. Someone who learned things hands on.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3533

Doing the shorter clips was the hardest part, though I know it applies to very few people, hopefully you'll find it useful.

Also see this news story: "And MySQL's popularity seems to be growing. Yahoo and Google use the software to run many parts of their Web sites"

Unless, of course, (shamelss plug for all things /.) they re-align the show to be the Premier Expo of all things FOSS.

Don't we already have one of those?

You should come; at the very least, it's undeniable that merlyn throws great parties (no more live animals, though - got in trouble for the alpacas in '03). Lots of vendors giving away free stuff ("free as in lunch"), an open computer lab and WiFi from Apple, 20% discount to convention-goers from Powell's Technical Books, and I'd be surprised if Linus Torvalds didn't at least show up this year (since he lives in town now). Not to mention all the presentations and stuff - the reason you're supposed to come.

Oh, and don't forget the Perl Foundation auction - in '03, they auctioned off the color scheme of search.cpan.org (over $1000 was paid to keep it the existing blue), Andy Lester ate part of his book (well, not really his book, he just updated it...), and somebody's underwear changed hands... Unfortunately the '04 auction was at the Stonehenge party, so nobody could really hear anything, but '05 should be great.

Mac OS also keeps information like your password in the swap file. If a box is rooted, it's rooted. Swap is not encrypted.

This is not a windows problem.

sudo strings -8 /var/vm/swapfile0 |grep -A 4 -i longname

Reference this o'reilly article

Do you have a link to "vcn2swf"? I googled it and turned up nothing.

Also, SWF is not Flash, and is not an entirely-open format although Macromedia makes the standard available to interested developers. So, AFAIK, my initial criticism still stands, although, I'm *far* from knowledgeable about Flash, SWF, etc. development...

A few of these people are extremely well-regarded experts in the field of Mac OS X security.

Something tells me these "experts" are also mathematicians from MIT.

Jack Cambell is another Darl McBride, except he lacks Darl's credibility

Be sure to use linux tools like apm to configure power consumption on your laptop -- often if you're running a standard distribution these tools are not configured properly for laptop use. More information here.

This should help put a face to the name.

Note that if you get these audio books from audible.com, you will be lumbered with yet another pathetic DRM system. Derrick Story on O'Reilly already found out how restrictive it was
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/wlg/2522

Miguel and Novell legal staff are currently conducting a formal patent review of mono, and the team had already split up the components of mono into separate ECMA-based and non-ECMA components (WinForms, ADO.NET, etc) to clearly define what RedHat and others could make use of. Importantly, Miguel also said that Ximian had a letter from Microsoft, Intel and HP stating that they would offer *royalty-free* RAND licensing to the ECMA-submitted components of .NET.

Parent is being honest, it really is a joke. She is NOT a fox.

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Groove started out supporting Microsoft products, like so many new companies, simply because of their market dominance (so far as I could tell--I didn't confirm this impression with the Ozzies or anyone else). They started in pre-.NET days.

But they quickly found, as .NET ramped up, that they could develop components very quickly and meld them with Office pretty seamlessly.

So .NET paid off for them, and their contributions to Office made them attractive first for Microsoft collaboration, then Microsoft investment, and now...this.

I think open source advocates had better learn (although I won't say you should necessarily do what the Mono team is doing) from what .NET's has achieved. It makes Microsoft more flexible, and in its own unique way, to some extent open. See my article on the O'Reilly Network on the topic: Applications, User Interfaces, and Servers in the Soup .

• use Perl; is a good place, but very informal and tends to get sidetracked into politics :)
• Your local Perl mongers group may be a great place
• YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) and the Perl conference (now part of the Open Source conference) usually have many good presentations by the truly great Perl programmers
• I have the impression that Perlmonks is pretty good, though I don't tend to use it much
• Finally, the Perl5 Porters mailing list is the real original heart of the Perl community, though I think nowadays many of those guys have moved onto Perl6 work

A list of names is also useful: material by Damian Conway, Larry Wall, Randal Schwartz, Mark Jason Dominus, Simon Cozens (Perl involvement now minimal due to career change), and persons associated with them is going to be top notch. Plug their names into Google and see what they have to say. Catch a presentation or read a book by one of them if you can. Meanwhile, there is truly a lot of junk out there. There's an article out there somewhere about "how to tell a good Perl book from a bad Perl book," which I thought was by Mark Jason Dominus, but I can't seem to find it at the moment.

Finally, 90% of the useful modules you'll see recommended for use from CPAN are written by the intelligent lights in the Perl community. The time-tested modules that are now standard solutions are those that were written with high quality by good programmers.

There's a thread started over at O'Reilley, it's a rebuttal to the original article. It has all the usual counter-arguments.

I can't post there (not registered, no time). Could somebody take a couple of minutes to calmly tear his arguments apart, please?

In particular, I'd like to ask him how much it costs to obtain a patent...

O'Reilly has an article (appropriately titled "Not linking is not security") which includes a link to the detailed instructions for this "hack".

Basically, you scan the source of the page after login for your ID number and the security hash. Then you append that to your URL. The process is a whole seven steps and in the realm of nefarious hacks it's... neither.

I'm catching a slow boat to China !