But isn't it also important to improve the signal to noise ratio? I don't particularly care about grammatical errors and I can skim over them. What annoys me is to read the comments and the first 20 are complaints about your grammar and then all the follow-up posts about how the complaint post has 10 errors of its own.
Yeah the moderation system works to limit the problem but it seems that an even a quick check with automatted tools prevent much of the problem in the first place.
I've been seeing requests for some of these URLs for 6 months now. I figured it was a worm but I know I'm patched and I don't run any of that stuff anyway. Amazing to me that people get owned by this sort of thing.
Between this and the SSH worm, maybe its time to investigate using Windows ME with Personal Web Server.:-D
It happened two years ago. The site is still up (linked in my sig), we did remove the offending phrase, being poor I didn't want to risk being sued over a particular order of two words even though they had no case. Just a friendly rant to get other Slashdotters to boycott the site, maybe it will make a small dent in their wallets. A small dent in theirs is better than a big dent in mine.
I can just grab a CD with the programs I want, run the installers right off the CD and they work.
Really? The XP machine I tried to install a new (ATI) video card disagrees with you. Or how about when I don't have the correct version of SafeDisk and my brand new video game refuses to run. Or how some needed apps I have that were made for Windows 98. XP is backwards compatable right? Apparently not for everything. DLL hell is better than it used to be but there are still tons of programs that just find a DLL by the same name on install and they just overwrite it.
"But those are all third party apps!" so? So are most open source programs, except with linux, a lot of stuff has distro support. Windows "just works" with Office and Internet Explorer provided you're only using one version of those programs!
Or, I can even create my own installer that will install everything I want to the XP machine correctly, the first time, in the way I want to, and have it all set up in the identical settings I want the first time, with the lovely methods of executing the programs appearing exactly where I want them in an applications menu. Why the hell can't I do that in Linux?
'dd' is included with every distro I've ever heard of. There are also plenty of programs that do it more effeciently than dd.
It doesn't seem to me that rpms are flawless. I download a RPM, try to install, and I have a dependency issue. That is something that simply doesn't happen (some exceptions apply, just as some RPMs work great the first time) under Windows
RPMs are distro specific, so why would you just expect it to install if you didn't get it for your distro? Dependencies are why 'yum' (Fedora, CentOS), YaST (SuSE), and Up2date (Redhat, though I think the newest version uses yum as a backend) were invented. A standard way to install everything, and yum doesn't overwrite your libraries willy-nilly. Most of those tools have shiney GUI programs as well. If there is a program that you can't get from some source its certainly possible to use Yum or apt-get to install the dependencies! Either way, if you're getting it from some website somewhere its a third party vender so complain to them that they don't provide an installer, doing so is certainly possible.
Naked News are the asshats that send cease and desist letters if you happen to get a higher google rating than them. My site Naked: People in Car Chases got such a letter because we had a section titled 'Naked News', I'd never even heard of them before.
I code PHP for a living and I agree with everything you say. For logic/presentation seperation there is Smarty, but its definately not something a lot of PHP developers know about.
I haven't seen a whole lot of PHP 5 either, but from what i have seen they mostly concentrated on fixed a lot of the OO problems. Which is good but I was hoping they would address some of the more serious (IMHO) problems with the underlying language (adopting a standard naming scheme for functions, maybe creating some namespaces, having real arrays... etc.)
Maybe other areas aren't so good but here in the DFW area jobs are picking up. I've already gotten a raise this year (about 25%, yes thats 25, not 2.5) and I'm soon to getting a promotion and a raise along with that.
Work for smaller (but growing) companies. Work hard. There are rewards out there. And as someone else has said: its not the 90s anymore, knowing HTML is not enough.
Mods, Come-on!!! Informative? How about 'Offtopic'? We're talking about the servers in the workplace here! There are no games in the workplace.. let alone on the servers.
I suppose I should tip my hat to the troll for getting modded up.
I find it rather interesting that often-times, these so-called evangelical conservatives continue to support this kind of legislation. Unfortunately, the removal of creativity will turn the United States into the Biblical Babylon the Whore.
The list posted at the beginning of this thread is about 50/50 Dem and Republican. I don't think people understand the implications, "evangelical" or otherwise. People don't care, and they tend to believe whatever the media is telling them.
Full blown IDEs like Eclipse are really worth the power, especially since they are able to semantically understand source code.
So can vim, and it does it better. About the only thing Eclipse can do that vim can't (as far as i know) is context help (like hover over a function and get an annoying pop-up as to what it does), an annoying and useless "feature" for someone like me who's been programming enough years to know what most of the functions are by now, and by the time Eclipse's help finally stops causing my harddrive to help I can have it looked up in the man page or Google or whatever.
I have a ton of other problems with Eclipse but I won't get into it here. I just wish someone could tell me why I need some huge bloated thing that takes over my entire screen and needs a gig of RAM to do the same thing I've been doing for nearly 10 years with a program that typically uses less than 100k.
But that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that if the trademark isn't defended MS (or anyone) could release something that isn't Linux. They could take Windows and call it Linux, it would be perfectly legal and it would confuse people.
I'm all for Microsoft releasing a real version of Linux, and no I don't think it should conform to some standard of Linus's. But Linus isn't saying that, he's pointing out that trademark isn't covered by the GPL and just like the code he wants to protect it as well.
Trademarks have to be defended. Say in 10 years, Linux is more insanely popular than it is now and Microsoft's marketshare is declining. If the trademark isn't defended. What do you think MS is going to do? They're going to release something very broken and call it Linux. While not destroying anything we've done, it would certainly set back further growth.
Linus wants to protect the name so someone can't pull a bait and switch. He's a smart guy, and I don't think he has any evil intentions.
Besides you seem to think that you can't take Linux and name it whatever you want. Which isn't true, you can certainly do that under the GPL. What you're not allowed to do is use the same name for your own fork or for a completely different product.
RMS is blowing smoke as usual. It may not matter to him, but he didn't create it. RMS has done a lot of good but he's almost completely lost all his credibility with this stupid name thing. Drop it already (if it isn't already too late).
In a focus-follows-mouse setup (Default on WMs like Blackbox) GIMP works pretty well on a single monitor.
Maybe is just because I started with GIMP and have always used it, but I find the Photoshop interface more awkward, sometimes I just want the toolbar to get out of my way! I haven't tried the new CS so I can't really comment on it.
For that reason I hope if they do make interface changes that they leave the old one in as an option.
And there you have it. Society is divided on an issue, the two controlling parties politicize, the media parrots each side's position over and over again and demonizes those who dare to disagree and we end up with idiots and distraction from both sides which the government uses to remove more of everyone's real rights, and give more of our money to corporations.
Your point is valid, but if you want to be heard please try not to take pot-shots at the other side, someone my actually be inclined to listen to you if you aren't insulting.
Ruby as a language look pretty nice but I have the same problem with RoR as I do with PHP. It tries to do too much for you. Its probably great for specific things but a mess when someone needs finer control.
To be fair I've not used it in production. Hopefully its better than what I've played with/seen in the demo.
I disagree with the assertion that Perl takes months where PHP takes days in anything. I didn't say that the reverse was true. Language shouldn't matter in the hands of a good programmer.
As for PHP including the bathroom sink, my biggest beef with it is that it does it by default. With Perl I can get just what I need and it stays out of my way, whereis PHP is a monolithic mess.
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But isn't it also important to improve the signal to noise ratio? I don't particularly care about grammatical errors and I can skim over them. What annoys me is to read the comments and the first 20 are complaints about your grammar and then all the follow-up posts about how the complaint post has 10 errors of its own.
Yeah the moderation system works to limit the problem but it seems that an even a quick check with automatted tools prevent much of the problem in the first place.
And who kicked and screamed until DRM was added?
The RIAA of course.
And if you don't know why, search this site for "RIAA"
I've been seeing requests for some of these URLs for 6 months now. I figured it was a worm but I know I'm patched and I don't run any of that stuff anyway. Amazing to me that people get owned by this sort of thing.
:-D
Between this and the SSH worm, maybe its time to investigate using Windows ME with Personal Web Server.
It happened two years ago. The site is still up (linked in my sig), we did remove the offending phrase, being poor I didn't want to risk being sued over a particular order of two words even though they had no case. Just a friendly rant to get other Slashdotters to boycott the site, maybe it will make a small dent in their wallets. A small dent in theirs is better than a big dent in mine.
:).
Thanks for the offer though
I can just grab a CD with the programs I want, run the installers right off the CD and they work.
Really? The XP machine I tried to install a new (ATI) video card disagrees with you. Or how about when I don't have the correct version of SafeDisk and my brand new video game refuses to run. Or how some needed apps I have that were made for Windows 98. XP is backwards compatable right? Apparently not for everything. DLL hell is better than it used to be but there are still tons of programs that just find a DLL by the same name on install and they just overwrite it.
"But those are all third party apps!" so? So are most open source programs, except with linux, a lot of stuff has distro support. Windows "just works" with Office and Internet Explorer provided you're only using one version of those programs!
Or, I can even create my own installer that will install everything I want to the XP machine correctly, the first time, in the way I want to, and have it all set up in the identical settings I want the first time, with the lovely methods of executing the programs appearing exactly where I want them in an applications menu. Why the hell can't I do that in Linux?
'dd' is included with every distro I've ever heard of. There are also plenty of programs that do it more effeciently than dd.
It doesn't seem to me that rpms are flawless. I download a RPM, try to install, and I have a dependency issue. That is something that simply doesn't happen (some exceptions apply, just as some RPMs work great the first time) under Windows
RPMs are distro specific, so why would you just expect it to install if you didn't get it for your distro? Dependencies are why 'yum' (Fedora, CentOS), YaST (SuSE), and Up2date (Redhat, though I think the newest version uses yum as a backend) were invented. A standard way to install everything, and yum doesn't overwrite your libraries willy-nilly. Most of those tools have shiney GUI programs as well. If there is a program that you can't get from some source its certainly possible to use Yum or apt-get to install the dependencies! Either way, if you're getting it from some website somewhere its a third party vender so complain to them that they don't provide an installer, doing so is certainly possible.
Offtopic rant:
Naked News are the asshats that send cease and desist letters if you happen to get a higher google rating than them. My site Naked: People in Car Chases got such a letter because we had a section titled 'Naked News', I'd never even heard of them before.
I code PHP for a living and I agree with everything you say. For logic/presentation seperation there is Smarty, but its definately not something a lot of PHP developers know about.
... etc.)
I haven't seen a whole lot of PHP 5 either, but from what i have seen they mostly concentrated on fixed a lot of the OO problems. Which is good but I was hoping they would address some of the more serious (IMHO) problems with the underlying language (adopting a standard naming scheme for functions, maybe creating some namespaces, having real arrays
Maybe other areas aren't so good but here in the DFW area jobs are picking up. I've already gotten a raise this year (about 25%, yes thats 25, not 2.5) and I'm soon to getting a promotion and a raise along with that.
Work for smaller (but growing) companies. Work hard. There are rewards out there. And as someone else has said: its not the 90s anymore, knowing HTML is not enough.
Glad to see that Tier 1 ISPs are joing the ranks of BSD and Apple.
Mods, Come-on!!! Informative? How about 'Offtopic'? We're talking about the servers in the workplace here! There are no games in the workplace .. let alone on the servers.
I suppose I should tip my hat to the troll for getting modded up.
I find it rather interesting that often-times, these so-called evangelical conservatives continue to support this kind of legislation. Unfortunately, the removal of creativity will turn the United States into the Biblical Babylon the Whore.
The list posted at the beginning of this thread is about 50/50 Dem and Republican. I don't think people understand the implications, "evangelical" or otherwise. People don't care, and they tend to believe whatever the media is telling them.
Good grief, every other article is about how Google is now evil or about how insecure Firefox is and that we should all switch back to IE.
How much did Bill offer you Taco? Was it a lump sum or is he putting you on the payroll to keep spreading the FUD.
Full blown IDEs like Eclipse are really worth the power, especially since they are able to semantically understand source code.
So can vim, and it does it better. About the only thing Eclipse can do that vim can't (as far as i know) is context help (like hover over a function and get an annoying pop-up as to what it does), an annoying and useless "feature" for someone like me who's been programming enough years to know what most of the functions are by now, and by the time Eclipse's help finally stops causing my harddrive to help I can have it looked up in the man page or Google or whatever.
I have a ton of other problems with Eclipse but I won't get into it here. I just wish someone could tell me why I need some huge bloated thing that takes over my entire screen and needs a gig of RAM to do the same thing I've been doing for nearly 10 years with a program that typically uses less than 100k.
but, like programmers using vi to edit CSS
I use vi(m) to edit CSS because its better!!!
What do you use? Emacs????
The problem is that AIM (especially with an alternative client) isn't so bad. They can (and will) screw that up I'm sure.
Firefox on Linux here,
works fine for me
/ something random here while I wait for the lameness filter to let me post my comment. Oh lameness filter, why are you so lame?
You have some good points but some of these are in the default Firefox as well:
# Control-D. This does a "Paste and Go". Instead of taking two steps, pasting in a url and going to it only takes one.
Middle click or scroll wheel click does this in FF.
# Built in search bar that supports Google, Amazon, Ebay and others.
Firefox supports all of those by default (and more)
# Can view a page in "user view". Good if a page is hard to read because of poorly choosen background colors.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean but Firefox can by default use custom stylesheets which I would think, accomplishes the same thing.
Some people like extensions, that doesn't make them bad. All of the things you mentioned are available with one.
But that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that if the trademark isn't defended MS (or anyone) could release something that isn't Linux. They could take Windows and call it Linux, it would be perfectly legal and it would confuse people.
I'm all for Microsoft releasing a real version of Linux, and no I don't think it should conform to some standard of Linus's. But Linus isn't saying that, he's pointing out that trademark isn't covered by the GPL and just like the code he wants to protect it as well.
Trademarks have to be defended. Say in 10 years, Linux is more insanely popular than it is now and Microsoft's marketshare is declining. If the trademark isn't defended. What do you think MS is going to do? They're going to release something very broken and call it Linux. While not destroying anything we've done, it would certainly set back further growth.
Linus wants to protect the name so someone can't pull a bait and switch. He's a smart guy, and I don't think he has any evil intentions.
Besides you seem to think that you can't take Linux and name it whatever you want. Which isn't true, you can certainly do that under the GPL. What you're not allowed to do is use the same name for your own fork or for a completely different product.
RMS is blowing smoke as usual. It may not matter to him, but he didn't create it. RMS has done a lot of good but he's almost completely lost all his credibility with this stupid name thing. Drop it already (if it isn't already too late).
In a focus-follows-mouse setup (Default on WMs like Blackbox) GIMP works pretty well on a single monitor.
Maybe is just because I started with GIMP and have always used it, but I find the Photoshop interface more awkward, sometimes I just want the toolbar to get out of my way! I haven't tried the new CS so I can't really comment on it.
For that reason I hope if they do make interface changes that they leave the old one in as an option.
My thoughts exactly. I remember when /. reported on the news after it had happened. Now every article is sensationalized, spun, and speculated.
Taco if I wanted that I'd go to foxnews.com
Otherwise, in the vocabulary of the Anti-Choicers
And there you have it. Society is divided on an issue, the two controlling parties politicize, the media parrots each side's position over and over again and demonizes those who dare to disagree and we end up with idiots and distraction from both sides which the government uses to remove more of everyone's real rights, and give more of our money to corporations.
Your point is valid, but if you want to be heard please try not to take pot-shots at the other side, someone my actually be inclined to listen to you if you aren't insulting.
Ruby as a language look pretty nice but I have the same problem with RoR as I do with PHP. It tries to do too much for you. Its probably great for specific things but a mess when someone needs finer control.
To be fair I've not used it in production. Hopefully its better than what I've played with/seen in the demo.
I disagree with the assertion that Perl takes months where PHP takes days in anything. I didn't say that the reverse was true. Language shouldn't matter in the hands of a good programmer.
As for PHP including the bathroom sink, my biggest beef with it is that it does it by default. With Perl I can get just what I need and it stays out of my way, whereis PHP is a monolithic mess.