Random guess, but I think in the answer to question 18 he was saying that he wouldn't give anybody commit access to the CVS repository he might export from question #4. Of course, I'd know for sure if he was a little more verbose...
> (sorry I don't have that funny looking G on it..
> I'm too lazy to hit my character map to copy and
> paste it)
Actually, it's the E that is the funny looking character (it's accented, not really funny looking... kinda like resume is supposed to be [I'm also too lazy:) ])
I don't know if you were serious or not, but I found myself in a similar prediciment... I was just plain getting sick of going to work day in and day out. So on Friday, September 7, 2001 I went down to Lansing and joined the Army Reserves. I haven't gone to boot camp yet, so I'm still partaking in this daily life I'm sick of, but almost every day I'm a little happier that I made the decision to get out of here. The best part is, the Army is gonna give me some money to go to college where I'll get some more education (possible in CS, maybe Criminal Justice (maybe both)). And because It's just the reserves, I'll have plenty of time to spend going to college (and with the government's money coming in, I won't need to work quite so much to afford to live while I'm there:)
The Army (or any military orginization) may not be for everybody, but I thought it'd be something completly different than what I'm doing now (I'm going to be an MP... don't think you can get much different than that from a Network Administator:).
The one thing I really like [well, maybe liked is a better term:( ] about the Yahoo calendar was the fact that I could sync it with my Visor. Unfortunataly, this part of the service has been broke for more than a month and Yahoo doesn't seem to be in any hurry to fix it. I've been looking for something to replace it, but have been failing myserably. If the calendar in Mozilla provided the functionality to sync w/a palm and an online service [such as maybe calendar.netscape.com:) ] I'd use it in a heartbeat!
To me, SOAP is something I use every morning in the shower... guess I should read up and see what SOAP is and how it works... right now the Bugzilla logic and interface are tied together pretty tightly. There is work being do to seperate the two, but until that is done, adding another interface is quite difficult.
The actual bugzilla database schema is a mixture of both. Where the is only one possible value/bug, the information is stored in the bugs table. Where there is a potentially unlimted amount of values/bug, there's a seperate table. Keep in mind that the Bugzilla database also handles things such as Users and all their prefs (ie, mail filtering, saved queries, etc.). All things considered, I think Terry did the open source community a great service when he wrote Bugzilla and another great service by allowing others to hack on it (in fact, Terry's current involvement in the project is limited to advice delivered via IRC and the occational comment in a bug:)
If you really want to make Microsoft squirm write the best piece of software ever, and then make sure that it is released under the GPL.
That's already been done... it's called Linux. And it irks Microsoft to no end, which incidentally, is why they are using the word 'viral' so much. The are hoping to make people think of Linux (and anything that runs on linux) to be nothing more than a glorified virus.
Truth be told, it's Windows that is the 'viral' software. As soon as you install it on one machine, you suddenly have to have it on all your workstation, all your servers, all your PDA's, all your... or you aren't living up to the "full potential" of Microsoft. OTOH, Linux (and other Free Software) strives to be compatible with whatever you want to use and however you want to use it.
This is in responce to the bookmarklet?? How is that unfair to the webmaster? It's no different than copying a word to the clipboard and going to http://www.everything2.com and pasting it in their search engine. It's just less clicks/keystrokes, but it still requires that the user actually do something.
On the other hand, SmartTags seem to change the words themselves into links to other sites... With or without user interaction (sure, it can be turned off, but it's not by default). Is it possible for a user to even tell the difference between a SmartTag link and a link that you (as the content author) put on the page?
DISCAIMER: I haven't tried the bookmarklet in question nor have I used or done a lot of reading about SmartTags.
Think about that one for 1/2 a second... Microsoft writes a proxy server... what will the call it? I know!! Microsoft Proxy Server (did anyone else get it?)...
Seriously though, in NS 6 and Moz 0.6 there was a bug (45747) where Mozilla wouldn't work with MS Proxy 2.0 if NTLM was enabled (if you're interested in why, all the info is in the linked bug). This has since been fixed (it's been fixed in the nightlies for quite a while).
So it's saying that I need +w in the install directory when I install Mozilla? No way!
It's saying that you have to have write access when you copy the binaries (obvious, I know) and the first time you run it... Read Only is fine for the second time (even if it's a different user).
The real question is, who is it exciting for? The aformentioned "marketdroid" is probably thinking about how much his Christmas bonus will grow and found that to be pretty darned exciting...
99% of people who develop for the web dont follow the rules
First of all, I think 99% is a bit high, but we'll run with it...
So because 99% of the people on the road, don't stop completely at stop signs we should take 'em all out? Or should there be no speed limit ('cause I'm sure more than 99% of the people have broken that one).
The rules exist for a reason. It's so I can design a page and know it will look right, on Windows using IE; on Mac, using MacIE; on Linux Mozilla; on my Cell Phone and/or PDA using an embeded form of Mozilla... whatever, wherever.
Both Netscape and IE handle non-standard HTML different. I know, before I realized what a standard was I spent hours going back and forth from Netscape to IE trying to get the page to look right in both.
I'm sure once Netscape 6 is out, there will be a Navigator only install (or Install Minimal, as it often called).
mozilla-win32-installer.exe is 6.75 meg today. That includes Navagator Mail/News, IRC, and Composer. It also includes support for more far more W3C standards than IE (standard that MS helped to right). Once ompitmized, Mozilla will be much smaller, faster, and stable than it is today (and being that it's not that much worse than IE right now (in it's Alpha stage), I guess we can assume it will be much better than IE by year-end).
I'm not a fan of the Internet Exploiter, but at least it sticks with the HTML specs better than Netscrape.
My friend, you really need to learn what the term specs means. Mozilla (Netscape 6) is the only APP currently in existance that actually adhears to the W3C's HTML and XML and CSS specs. (Specs which MS helped to create, BTW).
Admitadly, Mozilla doesn't handle non-standard HTML the same way as IE and Netscape 4, but if you coded a simple page to the 3.2 HTML specs, it would look similar (if not identical) in all three browsers. The only time you're going to have problems is when you start using propritary extensions (either NS or MS).
He also used the My Network Places icon from Win2K... maybe MS could sue him and try to make back some of the money they've lost...
Seriously, though... I agree with some of the other posters that web design isn't something easily copyrighted. Images, logos, and certain content, can be, but not design. Of course, that doesn't mean you should just take someones hard work and place it on your site and call it your own. If you want to emulate someone, great... just give them at least partial credit. Even book authors will give credit to people who helped out (knowingly or otherwise), so why shouldn't a web designer?
It's burned into the hardware and passed on by the software. All you have to do is modify the passing on routine. Because this is so commonly done, it can normally be done with a config file.
I seem to remember not too long ago, Intel treid to put a unique serial number into every processor they made so it could be used to identify a machine to software. Well, I'm sure you remember how well that turn out (see below if you don't). Do you really think that a unique keyboard will go over any better? And of course that still leaves us with all the other aformentioned problems (my keyboard broke, I'm at the office, I own 5 different PC's, etc.).
I guess what we really need to do is make a device that anylizes urine. Would'nt that be perfect at the office... network authentication and drug test all in one!
Below: Intel did infact put the serial numbers into their processesors, but by default, that functionality is turned off.
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Random guess, but I think in the answer to question 18 he was saying that he wouldn't give anybody commit access to the CVS repository he might export from question #4. Of course, I'd know for sure if he was a little more verbose...
> (sorry I don't have that funny looking G on it..
:) ])
> I'm too lazy to hit my character map to copy and
> paste it)
Actually, it's the E that is the funny looking character (it's accented, not really funny looking... kinda like resume is supposed to be [I'm also too lazy
I don't know if you were serious or not, but I found myself in a similar prediciment... I was just plain getting sick of going to work day in and day out. So on Friday, September 7, 2001 I went down to Lansing and joined the Army Reserves. I haven't gone to boot camp yet, so I'm still partaking in this daily life I'm sick of, but almost every day I'm a little happier that I made the decision to get out of here. The best part is, the Army is gonna give me some money to go to college where I'll get some more education (possible in CS, maybe Criminal Justice (maybe both)). And because It's just the reserves, I'll have plenty of time to spend going to college (and with the government's money coming in, I won't need to work quite so much to afford to live while I'm there :)
:).
The Army (or any military orginization) may not be for everybody, but I thought it'd be something completly different than what I'm doing now (I'm going to be an MP... don't think you can get much different than that from a Network Administator
The one thing I really like [well, maybe liked is a better term :( ] about the Yahoo calendar was the fact that I could sync it with my Visor. Unfortunataly, this part of the service has been broke for more than a month and Yahoo doesn't seem to be in any hurry to fix it. I've been looking for something to replace it, but have been failing myserably. If the calendar in Mozilla provided the functionality to sync w/a palm and an online service [such as maybe calendar.netscape.com :) ] I'd use it in a heartbeat!
Just remember that XPCOM (as well as most every other XP in Mozilla) existed long before Microsoft chose the name Windows (or Office) XP.
Makes you wonder if they didn't choose the name just to dilute the "marketing hype" of their biggest comepetitor (AOLTW/Netscape)...
To me, SOAP is something I use every morning in the shower... guess I should read up and see what SOAP is and how it works... right now the Bugzilla logic and interface are tied together pretty tightly. There is work being do to seperate the two, but until that is done, adding another interface is quite difficult.
The actual bugzilla database schema is a mixture of both. Where the is only one possible value/bug, the information is stored in the bugs table. Where there is a potentially unlimted amount of values/bug, there's a seperate table. Keep in mind that the Bugzilla database also handles things such as Users and all their prefs (ie, mail filtering, saved queries, etc.). All things considered, I think Terry did the open source community a great service when he wrote Bugzilla and another great service by allowing others to hack on it (in fact, Terry's current involvement in the project is limited to advice delivered via IRC and the occational comment in a bug :)
That's already been done... it's called Linux. And it irks Microsoft to no end, which incidentally, is why they are using the word 'viral' so much. The are hoping to make people think of Linux (and anything that runs on linux) to be nothing more than a glorified virus.
Truth be told, it's Windows that is the 'viral' software. As soon as you install it on one machine, you suddenly have to have it on all your workstation, all your servers, all your PDA's, all your ... or you aren't living up to the "full potential" of Microsoft. OTOH, Linux (and other Free Software) strives to be compatible with whatever you want to use and however you want to use it.
On the other hand, SmartTags seem to change the words themselves into links to other sites... With or without user interaction (sure, it can be turned off, but it's not by default). Is it possible for a user to even tell the difference between a SmartTag link and a link that you (as the content author) put on the page?
DISCAIMER: I haven't tried the bookmarklet in question nor have I used or done a lot of reading about SmartTags.
http://www.microsoft.com/BUSINESS/licensing/shared source/faq.asp
Q: What is Microsoft's concern with the GNU General Public License?
Reading that section reminded me of when the sentient program was explaining his views of the human race to Morphias (sp?) in the Matrix.
Seriously though, in NS 6 and Moz 0.6 there was a bug (45747) where Mozilla wouldn't work with MS Proxy 2.0 if NTLM was enabled (if you're interested in why, all the info is in the linked bug). This has since been fixed (it's been fixed in the nightlies for quite a while).
It's saying that you have to have write access when you copy the binaries (obvious, I know) and the first time you run it... Read Only is fine for the second time (even if it's a different user).
The real question is, who is it exciting for? The aformentioned "marketdroid" is probably thinking about how much his Christmas bonus will grow and found that to be pretty darned exciting...
First of all, I think 99% is a bit high, but we'll run with it...
So because 99% of the people on the road, don't stop completely at stop signs we should take 'em all out? Or should there be no speed limit ('cause I'm sure more than 99% of the people have broken that one).
The rules exist for a reason. It's so I can design a page and know it will look right, on Windows using IE; on Mac, using MacIE; on Linux Mozilla; on my Cell Phone and/or PDA using an embeded form of Mozilla... whatever, wherever.
Both Netscape and IE handle non-standard HTML different. I know, before I realized what a standard was I spent hours going back and forth from Netscape to IE trying to get the page to look right in both.
mozilla-win32-installer.exe is 6.75 meg today. That includes Navagator Mail/News, IRC, and Composer. It also includes support for more far more W3C standards than IE (standard that MS helped to right). Once ompitmized, Mozilla will be much smaller, faster, and stable than it is today (and being that it's not that much worse than IE right now (in it's Alpha stage), I guess we can assume it will be much better than IE by year-end).
My friend, you really need to learn what the term specs means. Mozilla (Netscape 6) is the only APP currently in existance that actually adhears to the W3C's HTML and XML and CSS specs. (Specs which MS helped to create, BTW). Admitadly, Mozilla doesn't handle non-standard HTML the same way as IE and Netscape 4, but if you coded a simple page to the 3.2 HTML specs, it would look similar (if not identical) in all three browsers. The only time you're going to have problems is when you start using propritary extensions (either NS or MS).
He also used the My Network Places icon from Win2K... maybe MS could sue him and try to make back some of the money they've lost... Seriously, though... I agree with some of the other posters that web design isn't something easily copyrighted. Images, logos, and certain content, can be, but not design. Of course, that doesn't mean you should just take someones hard work and place it on your site and call it your own. If you want to emulate someone, great... just give them at least partial credit. Even book authors will give credit to people who helped out (knowingly or otherwise), so why shouldn't a web designer?
It's burned into the hardware and passed on by the software. All you have to do is modify the passing on routine. Because this is so commonly done, it can normally be done with a config file.
I seem to remember not too long ago, Intel treid to put a unique serial number into every processor they made so it could be used to identify a machine to software. Well, I'm sure you remember how well that turn out (see below if you don't). Do you really think that a unique keyboard will go over any better? And of course that still leaves us with all the other aformentioned problems (my keyboard broke, I'm at the office, I own 5 different PC's, etc.).
I guess what we really need to do is make a device that anylizes urine. Would'nt that be perfect at the office... network authentication and drug test all in one!
Below:
Intel did infact put the serial numbers into their processesors, but by default, that functionality is turned off.