Holy shit that would suck. I run a useful website that users love, and without the HTTP_REFERER there would be *no way* to know where your website traffic is coming from. There would be no way to know whether a drop or jump in traffic is from a search engine change that you should be worried about, or press coverage, or whether you're getting or losing links from popular websites. Websites would get Slashdotted and never even know where the traffic came from. Or they would get banned by search engines in China and not even know why their traffic dropped.
That would be like trying to run a website in the dark, with no clue at all whether you're doing the right thing or not. I seriously hope HTTP_REFERER is one bit of good technology we don't lose.
I remember hearing when I worked at NBCi.com that our #1 search term with our search engine was "yahoo". Besides the utter stupidity of searching for yahoo because they couldn't remember the URL, it was a bit of a slap in the face that people on NBCi.com were searching for Yahoo, since our goal was to be a better portal than Yahoo and they were considered to be our biggest competitor.
From the article.. Because standing waves are not sharply focussed at one spot but always also slightly excite membrane zones nearby, and because after a loud noise after- vibrations (resounds) persist on the membrane for a short duration, the hearing processor fields of the brain contain very finely co-ordinated compensation circuits
By the time the sound reaches your ears, whether it's an MP3 or a live band, there will be plenty of that imperceivable resonance in the sound as it bounces around your room and inside your eardrum.
The Origonian?? Tech people don't read those ads. A paper newspaper is a pain and thier website is crap. Portland techs get their jobs from http://portland.craigslist.org these days.
If a decent percent of the hundreds of thousands of people who read slashdot acutally did these things, we might actually make a different.
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Why are so many people foolish enough to think that life elsewhere must be so similar to earth life? Why do we assuming that our temperature range, our H2O, our atmosphere, etc, are required for life?? Maybe there are non-cellular, non-DNA-based, non-protein-based living things in the center of the sun taking in hydrogen and expelling helium. How can we be so narrow minded. Duh.
You should be using FastTemplates. It's a nice way to do this with Perl. But then, why haven't you switched to PHP anyway? It's so much less painful than web programming in Perl.
For templates for PHP, see my other reply "Your Answer - TEMPLATES", posted in reply to the original slashdot question. dave.
Basically what you're asking for is templates. PHP is designed to be an HTML-embedded language, but for people who want to separate the PHP from the HTML and text, you can use templates. Once you're using templates, it's easy to create scripts that choose a template for whichever language is currently selected.
There are two routes you can go for using templates with PHP, FastTemplates and the PHP Base Library's ("PHPLIB") Template.
So how are they different? FastTemplates was originally a Perl library that was ported to PHP. FastTemplates works well for Perl programs, but it's not ideal for PHP. Kristian Koehntopp wrote PHPLIB Template from the ground up as a pure PHP library to better take advantage of the capabilities of PHP. One advantage to Kristian's design is that it parses templates with preg_replace(), which is said to be faster than FastTemplate's reliance on ereg_replace(). Another advantage of PHPLIB Template is it allows dynamic blocks to be nested, unlike FastTemplates.
For those reasons I prefer to use PHPLIB Template, but you do have a choice of the two libraries.
It may be worth also mentioning the XML approach. XLT is an XML based format for templates, so you might want to look into that. PHP4 can parse XML, but there isn't code to specifically parse XLT as far as I know. XML or XLT are options if you need them, but they're probably more involved then you would need for most PHP projects that really just need templates.
And for a nice tutorial on PHPLIB Template, look for my article on phpbuilder.net sometime soon (assuming the editor over there decides he wants to publish it). But even if my article doesn't get put online there, it is a very nice site for PHP info.
If anyone actually can download BeOS, you'll probably want to find out more about it. I'm not affiliated with this site but www.benews.com is the place to find out the latest info about BeOS. It's inspired by slashdot and its a lot more useful than the www.be.com site.
There's always talk about what some expert thinks will everyone will want to have in the future. Here is a place to check out if you're wondering what's available right now. There's no info on that site, but it has links to every home automation and home networking site that exists (pretty much). There's a whole home automation community thriving out there right now.
Back when I was in college (three months ago), I remember a course on OSs that mentioned this "security problem" of using resources as data channels. Any enlightened souls care to explain what the bid deal is? How is this a security risk in a UNIX-ish environment? Can't processes talk to each other as much as they want anyway?? dave.
After Jon's review of his troubles installing Linux, I suggested that he try BeOS and post a comparison. He agreed, but it never happened.
So Jon, are you a hopeless Linux zealot to the point that you won't even try anything else in fear it might be better? Linux has it's place, and it's open source and all, but there is another free OS that's worth a partition too.
I think a lot of us would really like to see what kind of experience he has when he tries to install BeOS.
We want to share one DSL line, but the phone company says we would have to pay for 6 different lines. Can we all just get Ethernet cards and connect through one computer?
Certainly, you can do this. When the telco guy comes to hook up your Linux box, take the existing ethernet card out and pretend you don't have any other computers. He'll install the modem and the ethernet card into your PC and set it up for you.
Ok... but the catch is I often use my machine for BeOS too, so I wouldn't want my machine to be the server with the DSL modem in it. So this means I would get one of my roomies to be the server. But they only run Windows. Can a Windows machine be setup to be the "gateway" server?
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It's a two seater. There is a second seat behind the driver for a passenger.
Holy shit that would suck. I run a useful website that users love, and without the HTTP_REFERER there would be *no way* to know where your website traffic is coming from. There would be no way to know whether a drop or jump in traffic is from a search engine change that you should be worried about, or press coverage, or whether you're getting or losing links from popular websites. Websites would get Slashdotted and never even know where the traffic came from. Or they would get banned by search engines in China and not even know why their traffic dropped.
That would be like trying to run a website in the dark, with no clue at all whether you're doing the right thing or not. I seriously hope HTTP_REFERER is one bit of good technology we don't lose.
The ultimate geek destination... the filming locations for The Goonies.
Somewhat related, if you're on a budget you're probably staying in hostels, so check out the hostel reviews first.
I remember hearing when I worked at NBCi.com that our #1 search term with our search engine was "yahoo". Besides the utter stupidity of searching for yahoo because they couldn't remember the URL, it was a bit of a slap in the face that people on NBCi.com were searching for Yahoo, since our goal was to be a better portal than Yahoo and they were considered to be our biggest competitor.
Because standing waves are not sharply focussed at one spot but always also slightly excite membrane zones nearby, and because after a loud noise after- vibrations (resounds) persist on the membrane for a short duration, the hearing processor fields of the brain contain very finely co-ordinated compensation circuits
By the time the sound reaches your ears, whether it's an MP3 or a live band, there will be plenty of that imperceivable resonance in the sound as it bounces around your room and inside your eardrum.
The Origonian?? Tech people don't read those ads. A paper newspaper is a pain and thier website is crap. Portland techs get their jobs from http://portland.craigslist.org these days.
Lots of people have had setups like this for years. A lot of them use HomeSeer, but there are a lot of ways to hook your toaster up to the internet.
The plug-in only works with Outlook? Who still uses Outlook?? What about The Bat?
Oops. I few typos in that. Where is that delete post button...
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If a decent percent of the hundreds of thousands of people who read slashdot acutally did these things, we might actually make a difference.
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Combine that with the roll-up keyboard mentioned early... chills.
I'd love to buy one of these... but will it run BeOS?? If anyone buys one, I'd love to know if it runs Be.
Oops. Make that "XSLT", not "XLT" in the last couple paragraphs.
For templates for PHP, see my other reply "Your Answer - TEMPLATES", posted in reply to the original slashdot question. dave.
There are two routes you can go for using templates with PHP, FastTemplates and the PHP Base Library's ("PHPLIB") Template.
So how are they different? FastTemplates was originally a Perl library that was ported to PHP. FastTemplates works well for Perl programs, but it's not ideal for PHP. Kristian Koehntopp wrote PHPLIB Template from the ground up as a pure PHP library to better take advantage of the capabilities of PHP. One advantage to Kristian's design is that it parses templates with preg_replace(), which is said to be faster than FastTemplate's reliance on ereg_replace(). Another advantage of PHPLIB Template is it allows dynamic blocks to be nested, unlike FastTemplates.
For those reasons I prefer to use PHPLIB Template, but you do have a choice of the two libraries.
It may be worth also mentioning the XML approach. XLT is an XML based format for templates, so you might want to look into that. PHP4 can parse XML, but there isn't code to specifically parse XLT as far as I know. XML or XLT are options if you need them, but they're probably more involved then you would need for most PHP projects that really just need templates.
And for a nice tutorial on PHPLIB Template, look for my article on phpbuilder.net sometime soon (assuming the editor over there decides he wants to publish it). But even if my article doesn't get put online there, it is a very nice site for PHP info.
Forget free.be.com, just click here.
If anyone actually can download BeOS, you'll probably want to find out more about it. I'm not affiliated with this site but www.benews.com is the place to find out the latest info about BeOS. It's inspired by slashdot and its a lot more useful than the www.be.com site.
I've been searching with Napster for these new Wrapster encoded files, but I haven't found any at all. Has anyone else had any luck with this? dave. p.s. There are far better programs for doing the same thing. is one that allows you to download any kind of media file. There are also others.
Oh, and there's a Linux/BSD/UNIX-flavor category in the software section. Most of it is X-10 related, but its worth looking at.
There's always talk about what some expert thinks will everyone will want to have in the future. Here is a place to check out if you're wondering what's available right now. There's no info on that site, but it has links to every home automation and home networking site that exists (pretty much). There's a whole home automation community thriving out there right now.
Back when I was in college (three months ago), I remember a course on OSs that mentioned this "security problem" of using resources as data channels. Any enlightened souls care to explain what the bid deal is? How is this a security risk in a UNIX-ish environment? Can't processes talk to each other as much as they want anyway?? dave.
So Jon, are you a hopeless Linux zealot to the point that you won't even try anything else in fear it might be better? Linux has it's place, and it's open source and all, but there is another free OS that's worth a partition too.
I think a lot of us would really like to see what kind of experience he has when he tries to install BeOS.
Certainly, you can do this. When the telco guy comes to hook up your Linux box, take the existing ethernet card out and pretend you don't have any other computers. He'll install the modem and the ethernet card into your PC and set it up for you.
Ok... but the catch is I often use my machine for BeOS too, so I wouldn't want my machine to be the server with the DSL modem in it. So this means I would get one of my roomies to be the server. But they only run Windows. Can a Windows machine be setup to be the "gateway" server?