I would suggest having a look at Learning Perl and Programming Perl before lumping Perl into the poorly-documented category.
Of course, if what you're after is "Become a Perl Guru in 21 Minutes" in the manner of the huge hordes of crummy VB books you might be disappointed, but I think we have enough software-by-cookbook already.
I had the best example of this working for BT (the telco) in their *ahem* delighteful customer service centre. We were taught to use a system called SMART, which was a huge graphical front-end to an older command-line system, whose name I forget. It was lovely to use, but after about a week or so, which system were those of us with clues using?
And of course, once you disable the backdoor, the tech can't get in either - so what was the argument for them? They *will* get found and exploited (especially if you leave the password in an unencoded string, duh!) and then your mission-critical control system has worse problems than maybe losing six hours work.
Backdoors are *evil*, sick and wrong. No two ways about it.
No, I really don't agree - "censorship-resistant" is not a gloss. While the current generation of these programs is used for sharing mp3s (not all of them illegal - musicians who do music because they like it, rather than as a business, might quite like free global distribution:-) this doesn't mean that the design concepts don't hold up for other types of data.
Imagine, for instance, a napsteresque newswire system, distributing new reports automatically and reliably... The argument that most people are using an instance of an idea to do alleged Bad Things, therefore the idea itself is a Bad Thing is pretty clearly bogus and I for one will watch the future of distributed filesystems of this sort with great interest.
I presume the reasoning is that UltraSparc hardware will eventually be too slow for current Solaris, just as the Sparcs tend to be now, and one might as well have a distro ready in advance...
Also, one might surmise that there's a good deal of "because it was there" going on too, as so often.
I'm fairly certain there was also a good write-up of this in Operating Systems, Design and Implementation, author Andrew Tannenbaum. It should be reasonably easy to find.
To be fair about the Mig29 thing - this may not actually have been an attempt to mislead. Many aircraft (and indeed other military vehicle) types start their production without the sophistications that were planned in the original design - these are retrofitted later.
For a really gross example of this, see the RAF's Tornado aircraft, which flew with the "Blue Circle" (lump of concrete) radar to replace the Blue Fox radar, which was going to be introduced Real Soon Now.
Not really the case - the Mindcraft benchamrks demonstrate that Apache is quite fast enough to saturate a very large pipe indeed. Unless you have a single-server, multiple-T3 and static pages configuration (ie pr0n), you won't notice much of a difference between Linux/Apache and NT/IIS.
Except you won't have to reboot the Apache box constantly.
I seem to recall that there's a slug (quite a small one) that behaves in a rather Exocet-tastic manner - following the slime trail of the victim slug at high (for a slug) speed until it reaches its prey.
A robot clone of this might be a good project for the nanotech bods.
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Of course, if what you're after is "Become a Perl Guru in 21 Minutes" in the manner of the huge hordes of crummy VB books you might be disappointed, but I think we have enough software-by-cookbook already.
Steff
This is why in the Global address book at $ORKPLACE, the first fifty addresses are _MellisaCatcher00 to 49...
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Backdoors are *evil*, sick and wrong. No two ways about it.
Steff
Imagine, for instance, a napsteresque newswire system, distributing new reports automatically and reliably... The argument that most people are using an instance of an idea to do alleged Bad Things, therefore the idea itself is a Bad Thing is pretty clearly bogus and I for one will watch the future of distributed filesystems of this sort with great interest.
Steff
Also, one might surmise that there's a good deal of "because it was there" going on too, as so often.
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To be fair about the Mig29 thing - this may not actually have been an attempt to mislead. Many aircraft (and indeed other military vehicle) types start their production without the sophistications that were planned in the original design - these are retrofitted later.
For a really gross example of this, see the RAF's Tornado aircraft, which flew with the "Blue Circle" (lump of concrete) radar to replace the Blue Fox radar, which was going to be introduced Real Soon Now.
Steff
Not really the case - the Mindcraft benchamrks demonstrate that Apache is quite fast enough to saturate a very large pipe indeed. Unless you have a single-server, multiple-T3 and static pages configuration (ie pr0n), you won't notice much of a difference between Linux/Apache and NT/IIS.
Except you won't have to reboot the Apache box constantly.
Steff
Quite. When I have to serve lots of static pages (porn?) over a very fast link, I'll use NT for it.
This benchmark says nothing about real-world performance, much less the usability of the platform.
Steff
I seem to recall that there's a slug (quite a small one) that behaves in a rather Exocet-tastic manner - following the slime trail of the victim slug at high (for a slug) speed until it reaches its prey.
A robot clone of this might be a good project for the nanotech bods.
Steff
Or Busta Rhymes. Or the Apex Twin. Or Atari Teenage Riot.
Fine music, all of it.
Steff
...since my old Slackware 3 box had an X Server
that crashed quite frequently, but never brought
the OS down.
Steff