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  1. The text in question on RTLinux Patents: Issue Closed? · · Score: 1

    6. You will keep complete and accurate records of all commercial uses of the Patented Process and all commercial distributions of the Patented Process whether that distribution occurs directly or as part of your products or services. You will also provide copies of all such records upon request from Licensor.

  2. GIMPS - pull a Blosser on Code Red III · · Score: 1

    I'm still wondering what I should do with the hundreds of IPs in my desktop's apache log trying hopelessly to overflow my buffer.

    AB explains how to install GIMPS here. I'm not a proficient enough nt scripter to do this to comprimised machines, but I have a nice big list of ip's I'd love to install GIMPS on!

  3. For Development Practices on Computer Books For A Library? · · Score: 1

    Code Complete
    Rapid Development

    Both books are written by Steve McConnell and printed by Microsoft Press

  4. No one seemed to care? on Lossy Music Formats Compared · · Score: 1

    http://etree.org cares a lot.

  5. Who posted this? on The Presidents Technical Advisor · · Score: 3

    Upon reading the summary here, I was astonished to see it wasn't Katz that posted this.

  6. Re:Win32 ODBC Drivers? on PostgreSQL 7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Yea, I'm using the odbc to log ms VSS checkins to SourceForge running a beta of 7.1.

  7. Flash Movie Archive on Searching for Exceptional Multimedia Productions? · · Score: 1

    http://www.bantv.com has an archive of flash movies....the Pink Floyd is particularly impressive.

  8. The judges are right on "Nuremberg Files" Decision Overturned · · Score: 2

    As much as I disagree with the reason for the web site and as much as I am pro-choice, I feel the judges are right....I would not want to be charged for anything because of actions of someone else based on my words.

    Having my cake, but not eating it.

  9. Rimmer should check this out on New Holographic Storage Medium Doesn't Shrink · · Score: 4

    It may help boost his self confidence

  10. Supermans Hangout on World's Largest Crystals · · Score: 1

    I always thought it was at the North Pole...

  11. A real world use for this on MySQL FS · · Score: 2

    Many people like to store binaries in the mysql databases, such as images. This would really help improve their ability to code this.

    As PHP is used in conjunction with MySQL a lot, the functions like move_uploaded_file could be used to store blobs in the database rather than an insert into a blob field making your code much easier to read, but, of course, making the server setup a lot more complicated.

    Without row level locking, however, you will face bottlenecks if you try to do anything besides a mostly read-only file system.

  12. Re:Correction of Utah Residents on HR 46: Wiretapping, Forfeiture, Crypto Penalties · · Score: 1

    I hold Pie cooks in reverence...that's some good stuff!

    As for Utavians being 'scared' of the net, please remember that UT used to be one of the top IT places in the US. With companies such as Novell and WordPerfect, the majority of Utahns have no problem with it.

    I'm positive there is no difference in the percent of internet fearing individuals in any other state.

  13. My Website Dilema on On Handling Web Site Legalities? · · Score: 1

    I run http://db.etree.org

    The legal issues I often wonder about are right along these lines. My web site allows people to list boolegs of concerts they own so others can contact them if interested in a trade.

    My legal problem is: other people have artists listed that do now allow trading of their music. I have a flag that specifies whether a user owned show is tradable, and this is up to the user to control.

    If I run into problems, I intend on flagging my artists table with tradable-non-tradable flags and forcing all non-tradable bands to not be displayed.

    This is a backup plan, so, in short, I plan on keeping my site free to people to use as they see fit for as long as I can, and if I get shit from some corp., I've got a plan in place.

  14. Ruling from Supreme Court Today on House To Hold Hearing On Napster · · Score: 1

    "It is rare that a regulation restricting speech because of its content will ever be permissible. Indeed, were we to give the Government the benefit of the doubt when it attempted to restrict speech, we would risk leaving regulations in place that sought to shape our unique personalities or to silence dissenting ideas," Kennedy wrote.

  15. Re:PHP Coding -> print <<"HER on What Are Good Web Coding Practices? · · Score: 1

    PHP 4 has here docs but it uses <<< Besides the extra <, syntax is the same Example <<< END_TAG lots of 'junk' and "junk" and junk END_TAG

  16. Re:Can PHP do external code modules? [off-topic] on What Are Good Web Coding Practices? · · Score: 1

    Of course. include, require, include_once and require_once are all supported by php4.

  17. Re:3-Tiered Architecture on What Are Good Web Coding Practices? · · Score: 1

    I disagree.

    Although I don't know about ASP, PHP4 compiles the scripts before executing them. Zend has been working on a compiler for php4 and although this doesn't solve the problem today, it will help a lot in the future.

    Stored procedures are good if you like to write your applications in propriatary code. They are fast, but, I've found, are very hard to maintain.

    It's no harder to maintain business logic in a PHP or ASP script than it is a C script. It's just code.

  18. PHP Coding on What Are Good Web Coding Practices? · · Score: 5

    I am a professional PHP developer and I personally put quite a bit of thought into the code as I write it. I think a very good set of articles which help with the problem you mentioned, at least from one angle, are the Cached Dynamic Module articles at php builder.