Right. As if believers wouldn't. As if Al Gore didn't exist. As if warmists didn't have extreme position on climate change. As if the climate-gate emails never existed. As if nobody pretended that Himalaya glaciers would melt within 50 years when they are in fact expanding. As if...
Come on, make a list of what "skeptics" made as famous mistake, and try to compare with the list above, then you tell me who's selecting "bits and pieces that serve their goal".
Shit, got to loose what I moderated for that one...
really... do you have any scientific evidence that the earth isn't undergoing global warming?
How about... the last 10 years of temperature records? Isn't this scientific evidence? I'm not saying that CO2 has no impact (nobody is fool enough to say that), but at least it hasn't been enough to warm the earth over the past decade.
and no, saying that "CO2 isn't a pollutant" is neither evidence or scientific
It's a mater of views, I guess. You could say that CO2 is a pollutant, but plants and trees wont agree with you. To many organisms, O2 would be a pollutant too. With half a brain, this leads us to say that CO2 isn't more a pollutant than water.
of course its a pollutant because its a product of combustion, retards...
That's reverse thinking. If you burn Dy-hidrogen, then the product of this combustion is water and oxygen. Would you still say that because water and oxygen are products of combustion, therefore they are pollutants? Of course, this doesn't make sense, neither it does to say that CO2 is a pollutant. What makes sense is to say that an excess of CO2 might be bad for the earth (but we aren't even sure of that, it's subject to a huge controversy, and there's less and less consensus about it).
GANDI? What about them? You must be one of these stupid French thinking that Gandi save everyone. Come on, they are a bunch of greedy people with domain names more expensive than everyone else. It's been almost a decade that this is the case. At current rate, they are at USD18.91 (VAT included) for a domain name. I hardly know any serious registrar with a price that high (of course, not including scammers like registrar of America), most of them being lower than USD10. Even old owner of Gandi said himself he was a crook: http://www.chemla.org/textes/voleur.html. And currently, the company has *nothing* to do with the 4 original people at Gandi, it has been sold for few million Euros. The reason why there's still some silly French people thinking that Gandi is/was a savior is a total mystery to me (or is it that you have shares in this company?).
Well, there's Switzerland and Iceland if you want to hear about real democracy. If you care less and just need a domain name, you can try the small island kind of ccTLD, like.tv and so on. These ccTLD holders care more about the money they get from reselling domains, than they care about freedom, IMO, and I see no reason why they would follow the orders of big US corps (no, I'm not pointing fingers at the *aa).
At least, USA wont be able to control it, like the.com TLD, which also prevents them from ceasing. The only issue here is price, which makes it impossible to buy if you're not either very rich, or a big company. Aaaah... how good it was at the beginning, when getting a new domain name up didn't cost a dime...
If so, please explain to me why someone that does a single song could live out of it all of his life. That's not fair, IMO. Stallman (and others) are proposing date of publication + 10 years. THAT seems more fair to many, and I even think that's quite long. Originally, the first copyright laws were about publication + 14 years.
What would you do, if copyright were so strongly time-limited?
I'd do a big party and enjoy free music! Does the above implies that we should care about {RI,MP}AA? Hell, we don't and they should die. For once, USA should follow the Chinese example.
At the mean time, internet users from Guangdong province, Fujian Province, and big city like Shanghai and Beijing are able to access YouTube by using HTTP secure method.
Well, it's you who made the choice of locking yourself for 24 months, IMO. Also, you may consider that having the server you are on being hacked is a greater cost than choosing to willingly move to a better host, even if the later cost you money.
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You think every time a SECURITY update comes out I should modify my code for every app I've ever written.
That's absolutely not what I wrote. I just think that you should keep your apps being able to run with CURRENT version of PHP, because one day, the old one will be EOL. This means, make sure that it will fit the next major PHP release. This is truth with absolutely all languages (look at python for example). We know well in advance what type of change will happen, and it's easy to prepare things well in advance. Also, distributions (well, at least Debian) maintain older versions of PHP for quite some time after a new version of PHP is available (PHP 5.3 will continue to be supported for at least 1 year and a half). PHP itself (the language) is also maintained for a while. So you really do have time to adapt, and there is nothing to rush for, you should just do the work in a reasonable time frame (that is, in less than a year). Again, the changes are really trivial!
consider someone hosting on CentOS and then a new CentOS comes out. Suddenly they're 2 major releases ahead. Nothing works.. the sysadmin didn't tell the programmers he was updating CentOS. Now the company website is down.
That's a really stupid scenario that has absolutely NOTHING to do with what I wrote. Of course, the programmers and the administrators should talk to each others, and the programmer should prepare well in advance an upgrade, and make sure his application has been tested to run with the new version of PHP. It's the administrator's job to make sure he has confirmation from the programmer that it will work. And that doesn't invalidate my argument that the code should move forward and stay current...
You can put blame at various levels here. The sys admin who didn't test first. The programmers who used an API that Zend killed. The architect that made the mistake to use PHP to begin with.
No, here, I blame the manager who's job is to have both teams (sysadmin and programmers) to talk to each other.
The shit storm comes down on the programmers because the site was down and they had to do things to fix it.
Really? Who exactly took the decision to upgrade? Shouldn't it be the one who destroyed (eg: the sys-admin) that should fix?
Btw Zend actually says "Zend: The PHP Company". They want to be known as PHP so I give it to them.
Put it the way you want, the company called Zend isn't driving PHP which is open source, and developed as such. Zend is mainly focused on the Zend framework, even though they also contribute to the language itself. I know that from an actual Zend employee living in Israel, who is doing some packaging work for them who also is a Debian developer, and who I talked with at last debconf and through the PKG-PHP Debian mailing list (Zend has its own packages of PHP). So I think it's a quite reliable source here.
I did read it, and I did use 1.3. I even wrote a package and would have like to upload it in Debian SID, if it is worth a try, and maybe run it on all the Debian archive to make sure everything is correctly updated for PHP 5.4. But see the above, it's not usable. It seems to me that you were using explode with a dot instead of a coma around that line 328. If you can, please get in touch with me (my IDs are available here: http://www.gplhost.com/gplhost-contact.html) so we can discuss the mater.
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If you think that PHP === Zend, then you are mistaking. Zend aren't the ones behind the language itself, which is made in an open source way. As for compatibility, there's not much that changed, and it's very easy to fix. If people can't maintain their code, then it's not worse using what they do.
I just tried it, and however I put it, I always got loads of "Spaces must be used to indent lines; tabs are not allowed" or "Line indented incorrectly; expected at least 4 spaces, found 1". How do I tell phpcs to behave as it should, and only warn about important things (eg, in my case, only check 5.4 compatibility)? I tried "phpcs --standard=PHPCS --sniffs=PHP.", but then I get: PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in/usr/share/php/PHP/CodeSniffer/CLI.php on line 328, PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in/usr/share/php/PHP/CodeSniffer/CLI.php on line 328. What I am doing wrong?
Hi. This is a very good tip. Do you think it'd be a good idea to include this in Debian, and run it on all the archive? I'm currently making it as a Debian package, and will consider uploading it to SID.
Then you aren't hosted by someone serious. PHP 5.2 is EOL, and has no security support, plus there has been some security issues recently on it. You're at risk, move away.
A good host will have a system in place so that you can choose what version you want to use, as well as chroot in all vhosts and such security protections. If your current host doesn't have this, move away...
It's because of such examples that people are saying that PHP is a security nightmare. Truth is, if you know what you are doing, it isn't worse than anything else. As for the language itself, compare it to the Java virtual machine from SUN, which many think (IMO, wrongly) that is a much more professional language. Now count last year's CVE against Java, and compare them to the ones of PHP, then make your own idea...
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Simply start using another email address, then use fetchmail to grab the content of the old mailbox. After a year or so, all your contacts will have seen at least once the new email address. Then grab all the addresses of whoever is still writing to you to the old address over the last 6 months (it should be easy to do with a nice mail filter), and send them a mail telling that you'd like them to stop using the old email address.
Later on, if you can keep the old email address that's nice, but not mandatory, because all of your usual contacts will already know and use the new one. Only people writing you less often (which probably you care less as well) will have only the old address in their address book.
As an hypervisor, Hyper-V isn't too bad. As for functionalities, I really don't know. Bug for ESXi, it's just a Linux domain starting instances just like KVM would, the model is flowed by concept. I would encourage you to read the "why Xen" pdf document written by one of the Xen contributors, and you'll see what I mean.
That's an 8 million people city that we're talking about here, the way you put it it seems like Foxcon would be the only factory they'd have. There's already quite few factories there. According to wikipedia, there's already: Electronics Assembly & Manufacturing, Telecommunications Equipment, Trading and Distribution, Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals, Instruments & Industrial Equipment Production, Medical Equipment and Supplies, Shipping/Warehousing/Logistics and Heavy Industry. So no, Foxconn wont be a "godsend" thing, it's only going to be yet-another-puluting-factory. That doesn't mean that people don't need jobs, and the company making iProduct probably has a good image, even with the known bad working conditions seen in Shengzhen.
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Right. As if believers wouldn't. As if Al Gore didn't exist. As if warmists didn't have extreme position on climate change. As if the climate-gate emails never existed. As if nobody pretended that Himalaya glaciers would melt within 50 years when they are in fact expanding. As if ...
Come on, make a list of what "skeptics" made as famous mistake, and try to compare with the list above, then you tell me who's selecting "bits and pieces that serve their goal".
really... do you have any scientific evidence that the earth isn't undergoing global warming?
How about ... the last 10 years of temperature records? Isn't this scientific evidence? I'm not saying that CO2 has no impact (nobody is fool enough to say that), but at least it hasn't been enough to warm the earth over the past decade.
and no, saying that "CO2 isn't a pollutant" is neither evidence or scientific
It's a mater of views, I guess. You could say that CO2 is a pollutant, but plants and trees wont agree with you. To many organisms, O2 would be a pollutant too. With half a brain, this leads us to say that CO2 isn't more a pollutant than water.
of course its a pollutant because its a product of combustion, retards...
That's reverse thinking. If you burn Dy-hidrogen, then the product of this combustion is water and oxygen. Would you still say that because water and oxygen are products of combustion, therefore they are pollutants? Of course, this doesn't make sense, neither it does to say that CO2 is a pollutant. What makes sense is to say that an excess of CO2 might be bad for the earth (but we aren't even sure of that, it's subject to a huge controversy, and there's less and less consensus about it).
Which really doesn't apply to "the last decade" ...
GANDI? What about them? You must be one of these stupid French thinking that Gandi save everyone. Come on, they are a bunch of greedy people with domain names more expensive than everyone else. It's been almost a decade that this is the case. At current rate, they are at USD18.91 (VAT included) for a domain name. I hardly know any serious registrar with a price that high (of course, not including scammers like registrar of America), most of them being lower than USD10. Even old owner of Gandi said himself he was a crook: http://www.chemla.org/textes/voleur.html. And currently, the company has *nothing* to do with the 4 original people at Gandi, it has been sold for few million Euros. The reason why there's still some silly French people thinking that Gandi is/was a savior is a total mystery to me (or is it that you have shares in this company?).
Well, there's Switzerland and Iceland if you want to hear about real democracy. If you care less and just need a domain name, you can try the small island kind of ccTLD, like .tv and so on. These ccTLD holders care more about the money they get from reselling domains, than they care about freedom, IMO, and I see no reason why they would follow the orders of big US corps (no, I'm not pointing fingers at the *aa).
At least, USA wont be able to control it, like the .com TLD, which also prevents them from ceasing. The only issue here is price, which makes it impossible to buy if you're not either very rich, or a big company. Aaaah... how good it was at the beginning, when getting a new domain name up didn't cost a dime...
Yeah! And I also noticed that USA is building-up troops in Japan, Australia, and the south of China sea (and knowing that freaks me out...).
Something like author's lifetime + 20 years.
If so, please explain to me why someone that does a single song could live out of it all of his life. That's not fair, IMO. Stallman (and others) are proposing date of publication + 10 years. THAT seems more fair to many, and I even think that's quite long. Originally, the first copyright laws were about publication + 14 years.
What would you do, if copyright were so strongly time-limited?
I'd do a big party and enjoy free music! Does the above implies that we should care about {RI,MP}AA? Hell, we don't and they should die. For once, USA should follow the Chinese example.
At the mean time, internet users from Guangdong province, Fujian Province, and big city like Shanghai and Beijing are able to access YouTube by using HTTP secure method.
Which is simply plain wrong...
Well, it's you who made the choice of locking yourself for 24 months, IMO. Also, you may consider that having the server you are on being hacked is a greater cost than choosing to willingly move to a better host, even if the later cost you money.
You think every time a SECURITY update comes out I should modify my code for every app I've ever written.
That's absolutely not what I wrote. I just think that you should keep your apps being able to run with CURRENT version of PHP, because one day, the old one will be EOL. This means, make sure that it will fit the next major PHP release. This is truth with absolutely all languages (look at python for example). We know well in advance what type of change will happen, and it's easy to prepare things well in advance. Also, distributions (well, at least Debian) maintain older versions of PHP for quite some time after a new version of PHP is available (PHP 5.3 will continue to be supported for at least 1 year and a half). PHP itself (the language) is also maintained for a while. So you really do have time to adapt, and there is nothing to rush for, you should just do the work in a reasonable time frame (that is, in less than a year). Again, the changes are really trivial!
consider someone hosting on CentOS and then a new CentOS comes out. Suddenly they're 2 major releases ahead. Nothing works.. the sysadmin didn't tell the programmers he was updating CentOS. Now the company website is down.
That's a really stupid scenario that has absolutely NOTHING to do with what I wrote. Of course, the programmers and the administrators should talk to each others, and the programmer should prepare well in advance an upgrade, and make sure his application has been tested to run with the new version of PHP. It's the administrator's job to make sure he has confirmation from the programmer that it will work. And that doesn't invalidate my argument that the code should move forward and stay current...
You can put blame at various levels here. The sys admin who didn't test first. The programmers who used an API that Zend killed. The architect that made the mistake to use PHP to begin with.
No, here, I blame the manager who's job is to have both teams (sysadmin and programmers) to talk to each other.
The shit storm comes down on the programmers because the site was down and they had to do things to fix it.
Really? Who exactly took the decision to upgrade? Shouldn't it be the one who destroyed (eg: the sys-admin) that should fix?
Btw Zend actually says "Zend: The PHP Company". They want to be known as PHP so I give it to them.
Put it the way you want, the company called Zend isn't driving PHP which is open source, and developed as such. Zend is mainly focused on the Zend framework, even though they also contribute to the language itself. I know that from an actual Zend employee living in Israel, who is doing some packaging work for them who also is a Debian developer, and who I talked with at last debconf and through the PKG-PHP Debian mailing list (Zend has its own packages of PHP). So I think it's a quite reliable source here.
I did read it, and I did use 1.3. I even wrote a package and would have like to upload it in Debian SID, if it is worth a try, and maybe run it on all the Debian archive to make sure everything is correctly updated for PHP 5.4. But see the above, it's not usable. It seems to me that you were using explode with a dot instead of a coma around that line 328. If you can, please get in touch with me (my IDs are available here: http://www.gplhost.com/gplhost-contact.html) so we can discuss the mater.
If you think that PHP === Zend, then you are mistaking. Zend aren't the ones behind the language itself, which is made in an open source way. As for compatibility, there's not much that changed, and it's very easy to fix. If people can't maintain their code, then it's not worse using what they do.
I just tried it, and however I put it, I always got loads of "Spaces must be used to indent lines; tabs are not allowed" or "Line indented incorrectly; expected at least 4 spaces, found 1". How do I tell phpcs to behave as it should, and only warn about important things (eg, in my case, only check 5.4 compatibility)? I tried "phpcs --standard=PHPCS --sniffs=PHP .", but then I get: PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /usr/share/php/PHP/CodeSniffer/CLI.php on line 328, PHP Notice: Undefined offset: 2 in /usr/share/php/PHP/CodeSniffer/CLI.php on line 328. What I am doing wrong?
Hi. This is a very good tip. Do you think it'd be a good idea to include this in Debian, and run it on all the archive? I'm currently making it as a Debian package, and will consider uploading it to SID.
It isn't working, and has security issues, so please upgrade...
Then you aren't hosted by someone serious. PHP 5.2 is EOL, and has no security support, plus there has been some security issues recently on it. You're at risk, move away.
A good host will have a system in place so that you can choose what version you want to use, as well as chroot in all vhosts and such security protections. If your current host doesn't have this, move away...
It's because of such examples that people are saying that PHP is a security nightmare. Truth is, if you know what you are doing, it isn't worse than anything else. As for the language itself, compare it to the Java virtual machine from SUN, which many think (IMO, wrongly) that is a much more professional language. Now count last year's CVE against Java, and compare them to the ones of PHP, then make your own idea...
GOTO is never unsafe
So, there's no safe assembly code? Silly...
Gosh, you're good! You can actually SEE sound. Are you Vulcan?
Simply start using another email address, then use fetchmail to grab the content of the old mailbox. After a year or so, all your contacts will have seen at least once the new email address. Then grab all the addresses of whoever is still writing to you to the old address over the last 6 months (it should be easy to do with a nice mail filter), and send them a mail telling that you'd like them to stop using the old email address. Later on, if you can keep the old email address that's nice, but not mandatory, because all of your usual contacts will already know and use the new one. Only people writing you less often (which probably you care less as well) will have only the old address in their address book.
As an hypervisor, Hyper-V isn't too bad. As for functionalities, I really don't know. Bug for ESXi, it's just a Linux domain starting instances just like KVM would, the model is flowed by concept. I would encourage you to read the "why Xen" pdf document written by one of the Xen contributors, and you'll see what I mean.
That's an 8 million people city that we're talking about here, the way you put it it seems like Foxcon would be the only factory they'd have. There's already quite few factories there. According to wikipedia, there's already: Electronics Assembly & Manufacturing, Telecommunications Equipment, Trading and Distribution, Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals, Instruments & Industrial Equipment Production, Medical Equipment and Supplies, Shipping/Warehousing/Logistics and Heavy Industry. So no, Foxconn wont be a "godsend" thing, it's only going to be yet-another-puluting-factory. That doesn't mean that people don't need jobs, and the company making iProduct probably has a good image, even with the known bad working conditions seen in Shengzhen.