If you want to write fast perl on apache, or write Apache modules in C, get "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C" by Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachern.
However, wait for version 2 unless you can beg, borrow or steal it, 'cos despite the review above, I reckon quite a few things might change.
You know Marvin, the paranoid android, from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? What would happen if they used his "personality"?
"It's no use checking all the bits are there before you start, because you're bound to lose some, everybody does."
"You need to tighten it harder. You need to tighten it harder." (SNAP!) "I knew that was going to happen, it always does".
"Brain the size of a planet, and what do they get me to do? Make sure this moron that can barely string a sentence together can screw this table together. I ask you! Brain the size of a planet!"
I am so upset. I hold a degree in flatpack furniture assembly from IKEA university.
This modern technology will allow anyone to do what I can, yet I had to endure months of training (how and when to swear, how to hide mistakes from the significant other, etc). My degree is worthless.
Flame me if you like, or mod me down. but I'd like to say that I've often contacted OS authors for one reason or another. Most have helped out, sometimes being a little short, but they've helped out.
Twice, I've contacted KDE developers about some issue or other, and also tried to post on KDE developers mailing lists asking for help, and I've got nothing back. These guys are the grumpiest (or busiest) developers in the OS world, if you ask me. Of course, I have no right to a reply, but it's a remarkable coincidence that I've never got anything from KDE developers.
Perl guys are the best, IMHO, I have found Lincoln Stein especially helpful and courteous.
have to wonder how this will affect the culture of both areas.
Well, Scotland and England are joined by land but still have their own cultures. At times the natives hate each other (like whenever England play football, most of Scotland supports the other team, no matter who it is).
If this is true, then there will be a rise in the popularity of the small label/radio station/local seller. You'll listen to artists from the same label that publishes your favourite artists. You'll listen to the radio stations that your friends recommend, visit the local music store where you like the owners taste in music, or at least listen to his views.
There will be less "big money" music (fleetwood mac spending 2 years, and millions of dollars in the studio, etc). Smaller artists will not have the funding for huge production efforts. Quality will be less - if they're only selling tens of thousands of copies, every penny has to be counted. Forget a real piano - use a synth. Arrange brass and strings too costly - use a synth. I'm listening to Van Morrison just now, beautifully produced, but I wonder how much it cost for the studio, engineers, musicians, etc. Even the big bands may have to cut back. Some big bands may put their hands in their own pockets or fund from live performances, but not all will be willing or able to do this.
Enjoy the quality of today's music, this may be a golden age for popular music
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Up and coming silicon replacements? But they've been around for decades! [breast-imp...ations.com] I thought saline was the newest thing? But hey, if they can get 'em to run quake, I'm all for it. Oh the wonders of technology!
In this case, anything that gets you closer to the hardware will give a better gaming experience.
I would have to agree, there is some serious computer and electronic skills that you must understand before hacking those cards. I haven't even figured it out yet. Or put another way.... I can't do it, and I know I'm clever, so they must be really clever.
... the amiga is so old that a HDD would be the size of a small suitcase. Yet this dude says that it's the smallest drive.
Don't ask me, I was too skint to have an Amiga with a hard drive, or even an amiga with a floppy for that matter, I had to stick to the spectrum (and the tops-20 machine at college - only 3 people allowed to use emacs at once otherwise it'd kill the machine!), but maybe this is a typo or this is a little bogus.
As an experienced developer under NT/2000, in C++, perl and Java, there is no way on earth that I could be productive in such an environment. It may be feasible to work, but certainly not to be productive.
Those of you who read The Register will be aware of the Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH). His mission is to thwart users from actually using the computer systems. He would be in his element. Developers constantly wanting to install patches, competitive products, tools, new IDEs and utilities - any sys admin in such a role could get almost anything he wanted in bribes, when a dozen developers compete to get a myriad of different products/patches installed. A rich man indeed! (Yes, my wife is free on Saturday - if you install the netbeans 3.3 release for me.)
Sheez! To even think about it! I would never accept this, I'd work on my own laptop, then copy the work acrosss via CD-R,floppy,zip (install the drivers? No chance mate!)/external disk ~(ditto)/punched cards/IR.
There is no way I could develop software without constant access to all the machine.
I do not know where you hail from, but in the vast majority of the world, especially in Virginia, acquiring a motor vehicle license is just slightly harder than maintain a pulse and breathing fairly regularly. It is of absolutely now value in determining that someone is capable of operating and maintaining a vehicle without causes severe damage to it.
I really doubt that this is the case anywhere outside North America. In the UK, for example, you have to sit an (admittedly fairly easy) exam, then pass a half-hour test driving on normal roads, with the tester present. The route for the test is not pre-arranged, they can take you anywhere feasible during the test.
It is so hard to pass the test that some people fail many times (I passed first time, of course), and some were paying friends to sit the test for them - one of the reasons why we now have photos on our driving licences over here.
I have no doubt that it is the same high standard in most of Western Europe.
India, China (lots of people there) I don't know about. But we in the UK laugh at the incredibly easy US driving test.
(When I hire a car in the US, the Avis employees laugh when they see that my licence expires in 2037 - when I am 60.)
This isn't for the SDK/tools, which you can get via the MSDN, if not for free online.
This is to be hosted/linked/use the core.net services such as passport. If you're developing an in-house app that doesn't touch the microsoft.net website (damn, the terminology is all wrong) then you don't need to pay your 10K USD.
The internet lag times on each leg vary from moment to moment, so there's not the same degree of certainty that the speed of sound in water has. This probably wouldn't work. Plus, we've got asymetric crypto, which works very well, thank you.
Also, in the sonar field, would it be possible to guess at the location of a recipient by catching some of the signals? One wouldn't want to give away the location of your subs, would one?
Well, this shows that Apache and mod_perl have the speed, performance, configurability, etc, to get the job done. Why do we see so many Microsoft/ASP web sites?
I think that it's due to marketing. If the open source movement paid for advertising, publicity, etc, then a lot more people would consider the open source alternative, but they opt for the large company with marketing, and reps, and so on....
Unless you mean British English, in which case ASCII is not sufficient to produce a £ sign...
Well, soon we won't need that pound currency symbol either. It'll be the Euro...
Do you think a million users around the world are staring at their screens at a (hash | square | # | £ | some other symbol) and wondering what the hell we're talking about?
How many 75 year old senior citizens do you know that run a webserver?
Well, they may not know that they are.
For example, I bought a laptop from Dell, came with Win2K installed. I was gobsmacked when I discovered that (1) IIS was installed and running and (2) Exchange was too! On a laptop!!!
And Nimda isn't just HTTP-bourne anyway. Although everyone should practise safe email-attachments, the defaults aren't good. And a 75-year old keeping in touch with their grandchildren may not understand the procedure to secure the very nice email reader that came with their PC.
Hmm, I seem to be arguing from the other side than my last comment.
Why is it an ISPs job to have any concern over what's passing across the wires? They are just packets and that should be that. If users wish to run systems which are configured to respond in a particular way to particular requests on port 80, that's the users' business.
Well, compare it to driving a car without insurance or licence. If you don't have an accident (get infected), then it's OK. But if you do, an innocent third party could suffer loss as a result.
Well, we have police to check drivers, and a court system to punish offenders, so the analogy ends there, but I think that we should be stopping users who cannot keep a machine clean from spoiling the net for others.
Most of these shmucks that had code red probably didn't realise that they were running IIS. Similarly a lot of others with Nimda don't know that they're infected. Unless you can admin a PC, get off the net. Use a taxi service (back to that analogy) such as your work PC (in the ideal world, corporate PCs would beadministered properly, I know that in real life they are not;-) or a cybercafe.
What is really needed is someone to release a standard for form field naming (i.e. name_first) then when confronted with a form you can select to fill all recognized form fields from an encrypted password protected database kept on your computer.
What's the point in encrypting your name? Or address? The only useful stuff to keep encrypted would be passwords to web sites. Possibly credit card numbers, if you're paranoid. Remember that to be really secure you'd have to protect this stash with a long and secure passphrase. If you worked in an office, you should not cache this passphrase, so you type it in each time. Is it really worthwhile?
Having a standard name for the fields and auto-fill is a good idea, but it will never happen in reality. Can you really see all an Italian web sites having visitor-book scripts with labels in english? A web site may start out as local but end up as global. I'm sure many do.
Opera has auto-completion of name, address, etc which I have found to be useful. I never put my email address in any app such as a newsreader or a browser, btw.
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If you want to write fast perl on apache, or write Apache modules in C, get "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C" by Lincoln Stein, Doug MacEachern.
However, wait for version 2 unless you can beg, borrow or steal it, 'cos despite the review above, I reckon quite a few things might change.
Also check out perl.apache.org, especially the mod_perl guide.
My God, it's full of Tux!
You know Marvin, the paranoid android, from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? What would happen if they used his "personality"?
"It's no use checking all the bits are there before you start, because you're bound to lose some, everybody does."
"You need to tighten it harder. You need to tighten it harder." (SNAP!) "I knew that was going to happen, it always does".
"Brain the size of a planet, and what do they get me to do? Make sure this moron that can barely string a sentence together can screw this table together. I ask you! Brain the size of a planet!"
I am so upset. I hold a degree in flatpack furniture assembly from IKEA university.
This modern technology will allow anyone to do what I can, yet I had to endure months of training (how and when to swear, how to hide mistakes from the significant other, etc). My degree is worthless.
Technology? Bah, humbug!
Flame me if you like, or mod me down. but I'd like to say that I've often contacted OS authors for one reason or another. Most have helped out, sometimes being a little short, but they've helped out.
Twice, I've contacted KDE developers about some issue or other, and also tried to post on KDE developers mailing lists asking for help, and I've got nothing back. These guys are the grumpiest (or busiest) developers in the OS world, if you ask me. Of course, I have no right to a reply, but it's a remarkable coincidence that I've never got anything from KDE developers.
Perl guys are the best, IMHO, I have found Lincoln Stein especially helpful and courteous.
When I visit the site to check out the story, I see a banner ad for - EnGarde Secure Linux!
(I'd do the same, of course)
Well, Scotland and England are joined by land but still have their own cultures. At times the natives hate each other (like whenever England play football, most of Scotland supports the other team, no matter who it is).
Not a Suspension bridge, though.
If this is true, then there will be a rise in the popularity of the small label/radio station/local seller. You'll listen to artists from the same label that publishes your favourite artists. You'll listen to the radio stations that your friends recommend, visit the local music store where you like the owners taste in music, or at least listen to his views.
There will be less "big money" music (fleetwood mac spending 2 years, and millions of dollars in the studio, etc). Smaller artists will not have the funding for huge production efforts. Quality will be less - if they're only selling tens of thousands of copies, every penny has to be counted. Forget a real piano - use a synth. Arrange brass and strings too costly - use a synth. I'm listening to Van Morrison just now, beautifully produced, but I wonder how much it cost for the studio, engineers, musicians, etc. Even the big bands may have to cut back. Some big bands may put their hands in their own pockets or fund from live performances, but not all will be willing or able to do this.
Enjoy the quality of today's music, this may be a golden age for popular music
I thought saline was the newest thing? But hey, if they can get 'em to run quake, I'm all for it. Oh the wonders of technology!
In this case, anything that gets you closer to the hardware will give a better gaming experience.
Whatever next ... force feedback?
I would have to agree, there is some serious computer and electronic skills that you must understand before hacking those cards. I haven't even figured it out yet.
Or put another way.... I can't do it, and I know I'm clever, so they must be really clever.
... the amiga is so old that a HDD would be the size of a small suitcase. Yet this dude says that it's the smallest drive.
Don't ask me, I was too skint to have an Amiga with a hard drive, or even an amiga with a floppy for that matter, I had to stick to the spectrum (and the tops-20 machine at college - only 3 people allowed to use emacs at once otherwise it'd kill the machine!), but maybe this is a typo or this is a little bogus.
So: how big WAS the amiga hard drive?
As an experienced developer under NT/2000, in C++, perl and Java, there is no way on earth that I could be productive in such an environment. It may be feasible to work, but certainly not to be productive.
Those of you who read The Register will be aware of the Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH). His mission is to thwart users from actually using the computer systems. He would be in his element. Developers constantly wanting to install patches, competitive products, tools, new IDEs and utilities - any sys admin in such a role could get almost anything he wanted in bribes, when a dozen developers compete to get a myriad of different products/patches installed. A rich man indeed! (Yes, my wife is free on Saturday - if you install the netbeans 3.3 release for me.)
Sheez! To even think about it! I would never accept this, I'd work on my own laptop, then copy the work acrosss via CD-R,floppy,zip (install the drivers? No chance mate!)/external disk ~(ditto)/punched cards/IR.
There is no way I could develop software without constant access to all the machine.
Just my take, of course
I do not know where you hail from, but in the vast majority of the world, especially in Virginia, acquiring a motor vehicle license is just slightly harder than maintain a pulse and breathing fairly regularly. It is of absolutely now value in determining that someone is capable of operating and maintaining a vehicle without causes severe damage to it.
I really doubt that this is the case anywhere outside North America. In the UK, for example, you have to sit an (admittedly fairly easy) exam, then pass a half-hour test driving on normal roads, with the tester present. The route for the test is not pre-arranged, they can take you anywhere feasible during the test.
It is so hard to pass the test that some people fail many times (I passed first time, of course), and some were paying friends to sit the test for them - one of the reasons why we now have photos on our driving licences over here.
I have no doubt that it is the same high standard in most of Western Europe.
India, China (lots of people there) I don't know about. But we in the UK laugh at the incredibly easy US driving test.
(When I hire a car in the US, the Avis employees laugh when they see that my licence expires in 2037 - when I am 60.)
This isn't for the SDK/tools, which you can get via the MSDN, if not for free online.
.net services such as passport. If you're developing an in-house app that doesn't touch the microsoft .net website (damn, the terminology is all wrong) then you don't need to pay your 10K USD.
This is to be hosted/linked/use the core
The internet lag times on each leg vary from moment to moment, so there's not the same degree of certainty that the speed of sound in water has. This probably wouldn't work. Plus, we've got asymetric crypto, which works very well, thank you.
Also, in the sonar field, would it be possible to guess at the location of a recipient by catching some of the signals? One wouldn't want to give away the location of your subs, would one?
Well, this shows that Apache and mod_perl have the speed, performance, configurability, etc, to get the job done. Why do we see so many Microsoft/ASP web sites?
I think that it's due to marketing. If the open source movement paid for advertising, publicity, etc, then a lot more people would consider the open source alternative, but they opt for the large company with marketing, and reps, and so on....
Well, if I were sitting down, you wouldn't hear me properly, would you?
What you need is Apache, mod_perl, and Apache::mp3 (Lincoln Stein).
If you are a perl programmer, you can subclass to get whatever playlist/navigation functionality you need
OK, I'm off-topic!
Well, soon we won't need that pound currency symbol either. It'll be the Euro...
Do you think a million users around the world are staring at their screens at a (hash | square | # | £ | some other symbol) and wondering what the hell we're talking about?
Well, DOH! What should you expect, apart from a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and punctuation characters?
Well, they may not know that they are.
For example, I bought a laptop from Dell, came with Win2K installed. I was gobsmacked when I discovered that (1) IIS was installed and running and (2) Exchange was too! On a laptop!!!
And Nimda isn't just HTTP-bourne anyway. Although everyone should practise safe email-attachments, the defaults aren't good. And a 75-year old keeping in touch with their grandchildren may not understand the procedure to secure the very nice email reader that came with their PC.
Hmm, I seem to be arguing from the other side than my last comment.
Well, compare it to driving a car without insurance or licence. If you don't have an accident (get infected), then it's OK. But if you do, an innocent third party could suffer loss as a result.
Well, we have police to check drivers, and a court system to punish offenders, so the analogy ends there, but I think that we should be stopping users who cannot keep a machine clean from spoiling the net for others.
Most of these shmucks that had code red probably didn't realise that they were running IIS. Similarly a lot of others with Nimda don't know that they're infected. Unless you can admin a PC, get off the net. Use a taxi service (back to that analogy) such as your work PC (in the ideal world, corporate PCs would beadministered properly, I know that in real life they are not ;-) or a cybercafe.
What's the point in encrypting your name? Or address? The only useful stuff to keep encrypted would be passwords to web sites. Possibly credit card numbers, if you're paranoid. Remember that to be really secure you'd have to protect this stash with a long and secure passphrase. If you worked in an office, you should not cache this passphrase, so you type it in each time. Is it really worthwhile?
Having a standard name for the fields and auto-fill is a good idea, but it will never happen in reality. Can you really see all an Italian web sites having visitor-book scripts with labels in english? A web site may start out as local but end up as global. I'm sure many do.
Opera has auto-completion of name, address, etc which I have found to be useful. I never put my email address in any app such as a newsreader or a browser, btw.
bLanark
Standards are great! There are so many to choose from!