Twitter clients (including the default web interface) auto-tinyURL every URL put into it. Clicking on the link involves not one but *2* HTTP GETs and one extra roundtrip.
How long before tinyurl (and bit.ly, ti.ny, wht.evr...) are cached across the internet, just like DNS?
Hindi, is a pure phonetic language. What you say is exactly what you write. Try thinking how your favourite voicerecog software processes "rendezvous" or "bourgeois" - you'll understand that what you're saying is the exact opposite of the truth.
NIIT, a private IT training company in India set up a roadside PC for streetchildren that had a joystick and a keyboard as input. These children picked up how to use Paintbrush themselves and tought each other how to write their names using the joystick. Since someof the kids new little english, the PC was a place to use it, and so they learnt more english in the process.
You're literate. So you think IT is only to manage words and text. People at simputer are going beyond that - they're using it to create literacy.
Buy 1 copy of Education and get a lifetime's supply of Ignorance completely FREE!!!
...when you use IBM's proprietary technology, they charge you money. But when they use Jabber, it's free for them.
Not fair, I think.
In my view since IBM charges for it's work, IBM should also pay for the great work the Jabber folks have done. A donation to the Jabber people would be easy for IBM, and a VERY cool thing for the Jabfolks.
In other news, TimepassTown placed signs outside Redmond stating that it urgently needed shorthand writers, who would work for about a year of two in twelve hour shifts.
Jon Katz seen in Shrink's Office,New system blamed
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from a very trusted news source: /. personality Jon Katz was seen exiting the psychiatrist's office by fellow slashdotters, late this evening. He looked disturbed and highly strung.
The psychiatrist refused to comment on the case, but his secretary told the press "It was really wierd. Like I was sitting there, and this guy comes in and goes, 'Everybody hates me!!'. Then he starts blabbering about some foes of his and stuff. Really wierd."
"Mr. Katz present condition is quite obvious;" says our inhouse psychiatrist Dr. Kurosh. "Seeing so many people put him on their foes list was just too much for his persona to handle."
Some people are saying that this special new feature at Slashdot is actually a conspiracy - Eyewitnesses are willing to swear they saw Mr. Rob Malda at the Psychiatrist's convention last month. "I'll solve all your economic problems, don't worry"; Rob was heard announcing.
Whether or not this feature was added for this we do not know, but psychiatrists' offices are suddenly seeing a spurt in patients suffering from inferiority complex - all reporting something about "the world not liking them" or something close to that.
A really cool use of P2P
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The folks at OpenCola have thought up a really cool use of P2P - to Save a website's Bandwidth Problems.
The technology allows websites to send parts of a large file to individual users, and then each user uses P2P to get the rest of the file.
I think it's a really cool way to stop net congestion. No wonder they're one of Fortune's 25 cool companies of 2001.
me and a few friends have made DBX - a DB system in PHP that uses SQL as the query lang., and XML files as the storage format at the backend... tediuous, yes; wierd, yes; but beautiful, and FAR FAR easier to install/use than MySQL/anything else if all you've got is a guestbook running.
It's available here.
me and a few friends have made DBX - a DB system in PHP that uses SQL as the query lang., and XML files as the storage format at the backend... tediuous, yes; wierd, yes; but beautiful, and FAR FAR easier to install/use than MySQL/anything else if all you've got is a guestbook running.
It's available here.
me and a few friends have made DBX - a DB system in PHP that uses SQL as the query lang., and XML files as the storage format at the backend... tediuous, yes; wierd, yes; but beautiful, and FAR FAR easier to install/use than MySQL/anything else if all you've got is a guestbook running.
It's available here
Trinergy just came out with "DBX - XML Database System in PHP".
Pretty cool concept, It's a DBMS in the form of a simple header file in PHP that allows SQL queries on data stored in XML... The alpha version's available, and you have to register using a script that uses DBX itself- pretty cute.
Tell me, how often has a language completely developed by a single institution ever been unanimously accepted?
I dont think ever.
That's where Curl is wrong. It's not open, it's paid for, it's politically strong.
If MIT's money people were to make a new HUGE language, they could have simply developed a framework to unify things.
Face it. Monolithic Concepts never work. Physics doesnt allow it, neither will Compsc. Look at VB. Why doesnt MS write its apps in VB? coz its ONE concept.
Look at PHP+Perl+Unix+etc - see? many things.... stable, compatible, used by every one. I'm not a MS lawyer, but this is what I think:
Time to dump those CURL books and pickup the.NET Packages.
A site called TimepassTown reportedly runs off a stack of fuel cells powered by methanol by products. Though the site doesn't have much info about fuel cells, the speed of the site is awesome.
Slashdot Mirror
Twitter clients (including the default web interface) auto-tinyURL every URL put into it. Clicking on the link involves not one but *2* HTTP GETs and one extra roundtrip.
How long before tinyurl (and bit.ly, ti.ny, wht.evr...) are cached across the internet, just like DNS?
define:loon
I wonder why an entire state in the US wants a lazy, worthless person incapable on serious thought for identification purposes!
:) Ce'est La vie
Cool!
I used to believe that I would marry someone just like her....
It's been many years, but that dream is still alive.... (sigh)
Hindi, is a pure phonetic language. What you say is exactly what you write. Try thinking how your favourite voicerecog software processes "rendezvous" or "bourgeois" - you'll understand that what you're saying is the exact opposite of the truth.
NIIT, a private IT training company in India set up a roadside PC for streetchildren that had a joystick and a keyboard as input.
These children picked up how to use Paintbrush themselves and tought each other how to write their names using the joystick. Since someof the kids new little english, the PC was a place to use it, and so they learnt more english in the process.
You're literate. So you think IT is only to manage words and text. People at simputer are going beyond that - they're using it to create literacy.
Buy 1 copy of Education and get a lifetime's supply of Ignorance completely FREE!!!
...when you use IBM's proprietary technology, they charge you money. But when they use Jabber, it's free for them.
Not fair, I think.
In my view since IBM charges for it's work, IBM should also pay for the great work the Jabber folks have done. A donation to the Jabber people would be easy for IBM, and a VERY cool thing for the Jabfolks.
If I had a webcam, I'd post a link to a photo.
:)
I'm running Win 98 on a Cyrix M2 233MHz overclocked to 300MHz (came when I bought it).
I paid 2500 rupees for the processor, [ 1 US$ = 48 Rupees - do your math], and thus don't really care much about it.
Anyway, it's 40 degrees here in Delhi, I don't have an AC, and my CPU Fan's bust for *over a week*. And it's happened several times before.
What do I do? I take off the Hood, Put my ceiling fan to "Maximum" and keep on Photoshopping.
I'm a comp Sc student, and I know what I'm doing is insane.
but, Hey, As long as it's running, Who cares?
In other news, TimepassTown placed signs outside Redmond stating that it urgently needed shorthand writers, who would work for about a year of two in twelve hour shifts.
from a very trusted news source:
/. personality Jon Katz was seen exiting the psychiatrist's office by fellow slashdotters, late this evening. He looked disturbed and highly strung.
The psychiatrist refused to comment on the case, but his secretary told the press "It was really wierd. Like I was sitting there, and this guy comes in and goes, 'Everybody hates me!!'. Then he starts blabbering about some foes of his and stuff. Really wierd."
"Mr. Katz present condition is quite obvious;" says our inhouse psychiatrist Dr. Kurosh. "Seeing so many people put him on their foes list was just too much for his persona to handle."
Some people are saying that this special new feature at Slashdot is actually a conspiracy - Eyewitnesses are willing to swear they saw Mr. Rob Malda at the Psychiatrist's convention last month. "I'll solve all your economic problems, don't worry"; Rob was heard announcing.
Whether or not this feature was added for this we do not know, but psychiatrists' offices are suddenly seeing a spurt in patients suffering from inferiority complex - all reporting something about "the world not liking them" or something close to that.
visit me, will ya?
The folks at OpenCola have thought up a really cool use of P2P - to Save a website's Bandwidth Problems. The technology allows websites to send parts of a large file to individual users, and then each user uses P2P to get the rest of the file. I think it's a really cool way to stop net congestion. No wonder they're one of Fortune's 25 cool companies of 2001.
see this reply...
me and a few friends have made DBX - a DB system in PHP that uses SQL as the query lang., and XML files as the storage format at the backend... tediuous, yes; wierd, yes; but beautiful, and FAR FAR easier to install/use than MySQL/anything else if all you've got is a guestbook running. It's available here.
me and a few friends have made DBX - a DB system in PHP that uses SQL as the query lang., and XML files as the storage format at the backend... tediuous, yes; wierd, yes; but beautiful, and FAR FAR easier to install/use than MySQL/anything else if all you've got is a guestbook running. It's available here.
me and a few friends have made DBX - a DB system in PHP that uses SQL as the query lang., and XML files as the storage format at the backend... tediuous, yes; wierd, yes; but beautiful, and FAR FAR easier to install/use than MySQL/anything else if all you've got is a guestbook running.
It's available here
Pretty cool concept, It's a DBMS in the form of a simple header file in PHP that allows SQL queries on data stored in XML... The alpha version's available, and you have to register using a script that uses DBX itself- pretty cute.
The site is here.
jeesh. thanx buddy, I was going to write the exact same thing :)
i belive the planes had XP beta versions running on them. This was probably the first reported "crash".
I dont think ever.
That's where Curl is wrong. It's not open, it's paid for, it's politically strong.
If MIT's money people were to make a new HUGE language, they could have simply developed a framework to unify things.
Face it. Monolithic Concepts never work. Physics doesnt allow it, neither will Compsc.
Look at VB. Why doesnt MS write its apps in VB? coz its ONE concept.
Look at PHP+Perl+Unix+etc - see? many things.... stable, compatible, used by every one.
I'm not a MS lawyer, but this is what I think:
Time to dump those CURL books and pickup the .NET Packages.
If anyone's noticed, TimepassTown just got screwed too. All that's left of it is the Radio. At least that can keep me alive....
TimepassTown is still down, but thanx to the wireless box, the radio is still alive....
If anyone's noticed, TimepassTown just got screwed too. All that's left of it is the Radio. At least that can keep me alive....
A site called TimepassTown reportedly runs off a stack of fuel cells powered by methanol by products. Though the site doesn't have much info about fuel cells, the speed of the site is awesome.
yah, MacOSX and all...
read all about it at Timepasstown
farmers faxing their wishes to have alien impregnated babycorn on their fields...
hello mulder, i think we have a case here....
for more of stupidity, get to Timepasstown