"Software should be free..everything should be free, including the BIOS". Nice concept, but reality is we live in what's called a zero-sum game. We as humanity have a finite amount of resources, which means that if I'm going to expend resources by writing software I need to get something in return, in order to provide for my family.
Open up the architecture and you'll never have to write a BIOS again.
"and guess what ? YOU CAN'T DO IT. If you're used to a unix environment and all the seamless integration between tools and the ability to tune the server there is absolutely NO WAY you are going to port any major web application over to Windows in any form"
"I just want the best environment for my application to be built on"
The build environment is not the same as the deployment environment.
If your Web application is so tied to one Unix environment that it is impossible to move then I suggest you have problems of your own making.
If it is tuning the server you are worrying about then one wonders how Ebay manages ?
% telnet cgi.ebay.co.uk 80 Trying 66.135.217.11... Connected to cgi.ebay.co.uk. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=27947&item=713 6571813&rd=1 HTTP/1.1 host: cgi.ebay.co.uk
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:43:07 GMT Content-Length: 80399 Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Server: WebSphere Application Server/4.0
That said, wouldn't it be better if Firefox came bundled with a Flash player, etc., or its installer detected a need for customary extensions and could install at the same time? There's no technical reason why it couldn't happen.
please, leave it on a menu somewhere and off by default, I don't even want a flash player auto-compiled in the package or downloaded during browser install unless I ask it to.
if you try this : new battery reported to have 100% of the power of current batteries, the answer should then become obvious that 300% of the power is 200% more.
well, the patent lawyers must love it - every slashdot reader is now liable for triple damages for knowing infringement if they should ever implement anything similar!
You think this is where developers come for their news?
Slashdot Mirror
An open source CPU to go with your open source Motherboard and open source Video Card.
that would be great, when can you deliver ?
"Software should be free..everything should be free, including the BIOS". Nice concept, but reality is we live in what's called a zero-sum game. We as humanity have a finite amount of resources, which means that if I'm going to expend resources by writing software I need to get something in return, in order to provide for my family.
Open up the architecture and you'll never have to write a BIOS again.
or being forced to submit to the idea (shouldn't happen in a free society).
I think that the idea that microcode from the items in our house should be forcibly Open Source is very congruent with a Free Society.
but "Lieutnant Skat: is a bit blatant ?
If you won't read the instructions, what's the point of complaining ?
fuck off, idiot
/packages-stable/All/lynx-2.8.5.tgz' | tr -d ' '`
why would I link to a binary !
and, on top of it all, why bother linking for YOUR modus operandi ?
why not
wget -n `echo 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386
getting lynx installed is a real pain
/usr/ports/www/lynx
a ges-stable/All/lynx-2.8.5.tgz
# cd
# make install
or perhaps you'd prefer a pre-compiled binary
# pkg_add ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/pack
n.b. you'll have to remove your own spaces though =)
OpenBSD installs quickest, and that includes X & Apache
"and guess what ? YOU CAN'T DO IT. If you're used to a unix environment and all the seamless integration between tools and the ability to tune the server there is absolutely NO WAY you are going to port any major web application over to Windows in any form"
/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=27947&item=713 6571813&rd=1 HTTP/1.1
"I just want the best environment for my application to be built on"
The build environment is not the same as the deployment environment.
If your Web application is so tied to one Unix environment that it is impossible to move then I suggest you have problems of your own making.
If it is tuning the server you are worrying about then one wonders how Ebay manages ?
% telnet cgi.ebay.co.uk 80
Trying 66.135.217.11...
Connected to cgi.ebay.co.uk.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD
host: cgi.ebay.co.uk
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:43:07 GMT
Content-Length: 80399
Content-Type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Server: WebSphere Application Server/4.0
Sounds like the halting problem to me.
Are you sure it's not the WindowsUpdate ActiveX control one runs to be able to acess WindowsUpdate ?
ranting about how you'd have to be a complete fuckwit to use php or mysql
With modern GUIs, installation is foolproof!
I'm with you.
I've been coding in PHP every day for that last 5 years.
PHP is a mature macro langauge. Like something you would have on your calculator.
if(array_key_exists($array, $key))
rather than something akin to
if ($key in $array)
for me, marks it out as something to avoid getting too defensive about
That said, wouldn't it be better if Firefox came bundled with a Flash player, etc., or its installer detected a need for customary extensions and could install at the same time? There's no technical reason why it couldn't happen.
please, leave it on a menu somewhere and off by default, I don't even want a flash player auto-compiled in the package or downloaded during browser install unless I ask it to.
thanks
if you try this : new battery reported to have 100% of the power of current batteries, the answer should then become obvious that 300% of the power is 200% more.
well, the patent lawyers must love it - every slashdot reader is now liable for triple damages for knowing infringement if they should ever implement anything similar!
You think this is where developers come for their news?
Are you new here?
hammer, meet nailhead
there are *two* hemispheres, you insensitive clod!
What are these "sentances" of which you speak?
"Him I like" is still in common usage in the UK, particularly about DrSkwid =)
fuck off and don't come back, tnx
some birds and some primates use tools
been done
it look prescriptive. passe is Grammar up
sure You ? are
GNU is not unix