That SearchKing just forwards a search to Google, parses the output and makes it look like a different search engine?
I entered the name of the company I work for into Google and did the same for SearchKing. Lo and behold, the results were identical. (The only differences being a few links returned by Google were to PDFs -- SearchKing stripped them out.)
HuCards, actually. Hudson Soft was one of the main companies involved in the system's design, hence the "Hu". They were actually only called HuCards outside of North America, where they were called TurboChips.
Uh, the "web" isn't a language at all, let alone a scripting language. It's more of a concept.
Or did you mean HTML? It isn't a scripting language either, it's a markup language. It doesn't have any processing instructions, it just describes data. Or did you mean DHTML...?
And the differences between a "programming language" and a "scripting language" have always been murky. What's the difference? That one can be compiled and the other is interpreted? Is one strongly typed and the other not?
I'm probably not saying anything you don't already know, but it's hard to know what you're getting at.
Then you just go ahead and set up your statement handle and go nuts...
my $sth = $dbi->prepare("select * from mytable");
$sth->execute;
etc. To change database drivers, you just replace DBI:Pg: to DBI:MySQL or whatever. One little change, barring any SQL changes, which would be less of a problem if you use SQL92-compliant SQL.
In PHP, everything changes with each database: functions have different naming conventions, take different parameters, etc. (which is being cleaned up, actually). For instance, with the MySQL extension, you have a function called mysql_db_name(), the Postgres extension has a function called pg_dbname(), without the extra underscore. Somewhat annoying.
With PHP, multiple changes would be needed. I suppose you could use variable functions and such and just change them once and be done with it, but in the end, Perl's DBI is easier to work with than PHP's multiple database extensions.
ODBC would be nice, but after having many issues with it while working with it through Postgres and Access, it's more trouble than it's worth.
Not that I'm harping on PHP. I like PHP and I stick to Postgres almost exclusively, but in the end, there's a part of me that wants platform neutrality that Perl's DBI sort of has. DBI isn't perfect, but it's easier to remember and use it's unified interface than 15 separate PHP interfaces. Naturally, there's more to keeping your code easily portable across multiple database platforms than the language's interface, but it's a step in the right direction.
Re: great database hooks: while the individual database extensions for PHP are dandy, the fact that there's no real database abstraction layer (yet) for PHP is a bit of a pain in the arse. Yes, there is the dbx extension, it isn't terribly roboust, and yes, there is the PEAR DB abstraction classes, but I would much rather see a true compiled extension. I have written a fairly decent abstraction layer which essentially mimics Perl's DBI (hasn't everybody), but it's just a stepping stone.
Hopefully in PHP 5 we'll see some sort of DBI-like interface for PHP, as I see no indiction of it happening in 4.x, and unfortunately I have no time to even attempt it myself. (Hell, I still need to look into writing a generic crypto interface for PHP 5...)
Stan Lee created or co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, a bunch of Marvel superheroes. Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created Superman for DC Comics. And at that, the word "superman" was an actual word before Shuster and Siegel created Superman -- it was a translation of the German word "ubermensch", litterally a "super-man".
J
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I believe Capcom let out some of their ROMs a few years back. There was company that put out some high-quality PC joysticks called HotRods or something that basically gave the user Street Fighter-style joysticks complete with cherry buttons in a 2x3 configuration. Packaged with the joysticks were copies of MAME and a bunch of legal Capcom ROMs, like 1941, Commando, Strider and UN Squadron. Pretty cool. (Although most of the games ran better on Callus...)
I have somewhat of a stake in Canada's crypto laws, as I've been writting and maintaining a strong cryptography extension for PHP which uses the Crypto++ library. Of course, my code itself contains absolutely no cryptographic code, it just links to the aforementioned library, but still...
FWIW, PHP now has a pretty complete sockets extension, complete with INET and UNIX sockets and even a call to select(). The extension is still labelled "experimental", but I've been using it for almost a year now without much of a problem. I believe the extension should be marked as stable with the next release of PHP.
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I seem to remember seeing some news stories on this, and one of the reasons they seemed to have lost so much was a change in some of the generally accepted accounting methods used. That's apparently why a lot of businesses are seeming to posting larger losses than you'd expect to see. According to the same news broadcasts, the anamoly should fix itself up within a quarter or two.
Of course, IANAAccountant, but I seem to remember seeing at least one or two stories on this, and I believe AOL was mentioned. FWIW.
The swears are also in the VHS cassette that's been out in North America for years. I never saw the movie in the theatre, but I'm told the "shit" line made it in in this hemisphere.
Surely you've already contacted Gibson Research to help protect you against script kiddies, armed with the raw sockets in Windows XP, from taking over not only your servers, but the entire internet!
Just so all you people who don't bother to read the articles know (and before you start losing your minds over the anti-linux stuff) the original article doesn't mention linux at all. So mod the previous post up as funny or troll or something, not informative, you crazy mods.
As it happens, I was once in a little branch of the military for a few years. I even thought about joining the ROTC for a time in my final year at high school, but it didn't pan out.
And don't confuse my remarks with being unamerican or not thankful to the government, it's just that I believe that the government should have less control over us, not more. Setting up a system like the one proposed is just begging for censorship, which is never a good thing. (Well, maybe if they could block out goatse.cx, that would be cool -- then I won't have to muddle with the hosts file on every single system I've ever put together.)
By establishing such a system, you're practically inviting the government to abuse it. While initially, the purpose of the system might be to keep bad people out, it will undoubtedly be twisted to keep people in.
Do you really want to give any more control over the Internet to the government?
If you're having problems with the SSL support in Jabber itself, you might want to look at stunnel. Set up stunnel on the server to pipe the Jabber ports to SSL, then set up stunnel on each client and connect to the server through the tunnel. Not the most elegant of solutions, but it works in a pinch. (There's a chance you wouldn't even need to set up stunnel on the clients if the Jabber clients themselves had SSL support built-in.)
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That SearchKing just forwards a search to Google, parses the output and makes it look like a different search engine?
I entered the name of the company I work for into Google and did the same for SearchKing. Lo and behold, the results were identical. (The only differences being a few links returned by Google were to PDFs -- SearchKing stripped them out.)
Try it yourself:
Google search for "slashdot"
SearchKing search for "slashdot"
There is a slight discrepancy with the first link returned, but other than that, they're the same.
Nice... sue the company that powers your rip-off business...
J
Way ahead of you...
a n.html
http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/virusm
Well, close enough.
J
HuCards, actually. Hudson Soft was one of the main companies involved in the system's design, hence the "Hu". They were actually only called HuCards outside of North America, where they were called TurboChips.
J
... the master-control for involuntary functions...
Maybe it's just me, but when you hear "master-control" and "computer" together, don't you just picture this?
J
Uh, the "web" isn't a language at all, let alone a scripting language. It's more of a concept.
Or did you mean HTML? It isn't a scripting language either, it's a markup language. It doesn't have any processing instructions, it just describes data. Or did you mean DHTML...?
And the differences between a "programming language" and a "scripting language" have always been murky. What's the difference? That one can be compiled and the other is interpreted? Is one strongly typed and the other not?
I'm probably not saying anything you don't already know, but it's hard to know what you're getting at.
J
And thus we have GNU Hello, a Hello World program which includes, amoung other things, a frickin' mail reader.
(Although it's main purpose is as an example of GNU coding style, it's still pretty nuts...)
J
With Perl's DBI, you'd say something like
my $dbi = DBI->connect("DBI:Pg:dbname=mydb...");
Then you just go ahead and set up your statement handle and go nuts...
my $sth = $dbi->prepare("select * from mytable");
$sth->execute;
etc. To change database drivers, you just replace DBI:Pg: to DBI:MySQL or whatever. One little change, barring any SQL changes, which would be less of a problem if you use SQL92-compliant SQL.
In PHP, everything changes with each database: functions have different naming conventions, take different parameters, etc. (which is being cleaned up, actually). For instance, with the MySQL extension, you have a function called mysql_db_name(), the Postgres extension has a function called pg_dbname(), without the extra underscore. Somewhat annoying.
Anyway, with PHP, you do something like...
$pg = pg_connect(...);
$pgQuery = pg_query($, "select...");
$mysql = mysql_connect(...);
$mysqlQuery = mysql_query($mysql, "select...");
With PHP, multiple changes would be needed. I suppose you could use variable functions and such and just change them once and be done with it, but in the end, Perl's DBI is easier to work with than PHP's multiple database extensions.
ODBC would be nice, but after having many issues with it while working with it through Postgres and Access, it's more trouble than it's worth.
Not that I'm harping on PHP. I like PHP and I stick to Postgres almost exclusively, but in the end, there's a part of me that wants platform neutrality that Perl's DBI sort of has. DBI isn't perfect, but it's easier to remember and use it's unified interface than 15 separate PHP interfaces. Naturally, there's more to keeping your code easily portable across multiple database platforms than the language's interface, but it's a step in the right direction.
J
Re: great database hooks: while the individual database extensions for PHP are dandy, the fact that there's no real database abstraction layer (yet) for PHP is a bit of a pain in the arse. Yes, there is the dbx extension, it isn't terribly roboust, and yes, there is the PEAR DB abstraction classes, but I would much rather see a true compiled extension. I have written a fairly decent abstraction layer which essentially mimics Perl's DBI (hasn't everybody), but it's just a stepping stone.
Hopefully in PHP 5 we'll see some sort of DBI-like interface for PHP, as I see no indiction of it happening in 4.x, and unfortunately I have no time to even attempt it myself. (Hell, I still need to look into writing a generic crypto interface for PHP 5...)
J
Is there *decent* website we can go to in order to publish our own faux tech news?
You're reading one now.
J
Stan Lee created or co-created Spider-Man, the Hulk, a bunch of Marvel superheroes. Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel created Superman for DC Comics. And at that, the word "superman" was an actual word before Shuster and Siegel created Superman -- it was a translation of the German word "ubermensch", litterally a "super-man".
J
I believe Capcom let out some of their ROMs a few years back. There was company that put out some high-quality PC joysticks called HotRods or something that basically gave the user Street Fighter-style joysticks complete with cherry buttons in a 2x3 configuration. Packaged with the joysticks were copies of MAME and a bunch of legal Capcom ROMs, like 1941, Commando, Strider and UN Squadron. Pretty cool. (Although most of the games ran better on Callus...)
J
Bart: When you want grease, go to the source. Good old Krusty Burger.
Homer: Oh, I'll say. Look at that red-headed kid. There must be twenty dollars worth of grease on his forehead alone.
Bart: I was thinking more of the deep-fryer.
Homer: All right, we'll try it your way.
J
Some links to info on Canadian crypto laws:
Electronic Frontier Canada's Crypto Page
A Notice to Exporters, part of the Canadian Export and Import Permits Act: "Export Controls on Cryptographic Goods"
A speech by John Manley from 1998, then the Minister of Industry: Canada's Cryptography Policy
The Canadian government's cryptography website: Cryptography/Cryptographie
I have somewhat of a stake in Canada's crypto laws, as I've been writting and maintaining a strong cryptography extension for PHP which uses the Crypto++ library. Of course, my code itself contains absolutely no cryptographic code, it just links to the aforementioned library, but still...
J
FWIW, PHP now has a pretty complete sockets extension, complete with INET and UNIX sockets and even a call to select(). The extension is still labelled "experimental", but I've been using it for almost a year now without much of a problem. I believe the extension should be marked as stable with the next release of PHP.
J
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I seem to remember seeing some news stories on this, and one of the reasons they seemed to have lost so much was a change in some of the generally accepted accounting methods used. That's apparently why a lot of businesses are seeming to posting larger losses than you'd expect to see. According to the same news broadcasts, the anamoly should fix itself up within a quarter or two.
Of course, IANAAccountant, but I seem to remember seeing at least one or two stories on this, and I believe AOL was mentioned. FWIW.
J
Remember the famous quote:
"Judge not, lest thou be judged"
<snip>
If you are really somebody, show us your stuffs, and let the rest of us judge your worth.
J
I've released some stuff covered under a BSD-style license. I don't think it was a stupid move. I don't care who uses the code.
And I don't consider it theft. I knew what the license meant when I decided to use it. If I thought otherwise, maybe I would've used the GPL.
J
The swears are also in the VHS cassette that's been out in North America for years. I never saw the movie in the theatre, but I'm told the "shit" line made it in in this hemisphere.
J
Surely you've already contacted Gibson Research to help protect you against script kiddies, armed with the raw sockets in Windows XP, from taking over not only your servers, but the entire internet!
www.grc.com
J
Try setting your comments threshold lower. It's still there.
J
Just so all you people who don't bother to read the articles know (and before you start losing your minds over the anti-linux stuff) the original article doesn't mention linux at all. So mod the previous post up as funny or troll or something, not informative, you crazy mods.
J
As it happens, I was once in a little branch of the military for a few years. I even thought about joining the ROTC for a time in my final year at high school, but it didn't pan out.
And don't confuse my remarks with being unamerican or not thankful to the government, it's just that I believe that the government should have less control over us, not more. Setting up a system like the one proposed is just begging for censorship, which is never a good thing. (Well, maybe if they could block out goatse.cx, that would be cool -- then I won't have to muddle with the hosts file on every single system I've ever put together.)
J
By establishing such a system, you're practically inviting the government to abuse it. While initially, the purpose of the system might be to keep bad people out, it will undoubtedly be twisted to keep people in.
Do you really want to give any more control over the Internet to the government?
J
Well, the changelog between 4.0.4pl1 and 4.2.0 is over 670 lines long. So obviously there have been a few changes since you last checked.
J
If you're having problems with the SSL support in Jabber itself, you might want to look at stunnel. Set up stunnel on the server to pipe the Jabber ports to SSL, then set up stunnel on each client and connect to the server through the tunnel. Not the most elegant of solutions, but it works in a pinch. (There's a chance you wouldn't even need to set up stunnel on the clients if the Jabber clients themselves had SSL support built-in.)
J