mod_perl is probably the single most useful creation for developers dabbling in web design. It gives so much power and is so quick to throw together something which looks impressive.
I myself have used it to prototype some intranet pages and the mainline development team is progressing so slowly that the perl is still in place many months down the line - and the original perl took only a couple of days for myself to throw together.
Not sure if it's a good thing that I'm the only guy who knows perl!
mod_perl for Apache2 is great, it's the single biggest thing stopping me from using Apache2 is the lack of perl support.
But so far, I only feel that what I write gets read when I send it to the Conservative MP in the next constituency over.
Oh well - That's better than nothing.
From what I have heard from friends, Lib Dem MPs also take the time to read letters.
Labour MPs must tow the party line or risk the wrath of the party whip.
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RIP wasn't an inevitable bill - it is a very "big brother" attitude bill. Better bills which have passed in the UK which have had more thought (but still equally misunderstood) include the Data Protection Act...
If one were to take the Data Protection Act as superior to RIP, telco companies must keep customers personal details, such as what numbers they dial, even the content of the calls, secured and secret. It stipulates that companies should take all measures, physical and technological (read encryption), to secure the data so it does not fall in to the wrong hands.
Of course, this needs to be tested in the high court if RIP does pass.
(Apologies for the earlier post, I had a tender nerve)
I wonder how they have solved the problem of decomposition - the body's immune system is a powerful entity. Implant a silicon chip and the body will attack it and erode it. Implant it in a glass capsule and then how to make the electrical connections?
These things have been reported several times in the past but each time, it degrades within months and typically doesn't last even 6 months in the body.
So how "permanent" is this artificial eye? That is the question everyone wants answered. Does it require lots of external hardware to operate (as some older experiements have done). What kind of power source is required?
For all those people out there who voted for Blair at the last general election: THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.
The level of barefaced curruption and sleeze demonstrated by this Labour government makes the antics of the previous Conservative government look like Angels.
The fact is, Blair is a control freek. He has control over the Labour party so that the are all nothing but Blair's Robots... He has control over the press so that they do not report all of what he is doing. He is now seeking control of every single person in the UK.
The parallels which can be drawn against Blair vs Hitler and Blair vs Saddam are astounding.... Compare many of Blair's election speeches to translations of Hitler's. Compare his delivery style to that of Hitler's. Compare his appointment styles with that of Saddam.
Blair is a very dangerous terror in this world.
It is not only the RIP bill to be worried about. There are several other bills which also make the assumption of "Guilty until proven innocent (if we feel bothered to try to find you innocent)".
If you want stable system components, you are using the wrong operating system. Use FreeBSD instead where things only get put in to STABLE which are largely stable. If you want bleeding-edge FreeBSD, then you can always try CURRENT.
In the early 90s, Microsoft did buy software companies which were developing products for OS/2. This was how they kept the number of commercially available OS/2 products down to a minimum.
Because of this, the only pieces of software readily available was of the Free/PD/Shareware genre - and that meant that OS/2 died in the commercial arena.
Microsoft will ensure the same will happen to Linux. Die-hard RMS supporters will not think that commercial software is important - but it is actually vitally important for many who are responsible for choosing software for business because of the CYA aspect (Cover Your Ass).
Be afraid...
Be very afraid.
Corel WordPerfect may be the first victim. There will be more...
Remember in the court case Digital Research bought against them. Microsoft's defense was that they had no version control so they had in effect "lost" all previous versions of Windows and so were unable to present the Windows 3.1 source code to the court as the court had ordered.
The Colossus certainly get's my mark for the first useful computer.
All the predecessors were only glorified calculators which was of use to a very small number of technicians in some university somewhere.
The predecessors were beta tests. Colussus was the result.
I still have the original - complete with it's modifications. It still works!
It was what got me started with computers so I have kept it. A friend also gave me their old ZX81 which is in mint condition.
I also have a Spectrum but I daren't use it often because of their PSU circuits have a design snafu which can fail catastrophically.
I still also have the motherboard to my old IBM PC/XT with a massive 64K on board.
I remember a television interview in the 1980s where Mr Gates tells us where he got the original source code for his BASIC:
From the waste-bins of DEC (now Digitial, bought out by Compaq)
They were the working sources on lineprinter carelessly binned. This is why when Mr Gates tried to stand on the moral high ground when Oracle's CEO paid people to go through dustbins, it made me laugh so hard. At least he paid people to do it and didn't stoop so low as to do it himself!
The source code for the OS/2 version of OpenDOC is already available to DevCon members.
However, it requires SOM/WPS which aren't open source.
I would like to see the source code to SOM and WPS made available to all. It is curious that the last version of SOM was version 3.0 yet OS/2 is still shipping with version 2.4
They did a half-assed port of Word and Excel which were as buggy as hell and then never released any bug-fixes or updates claiming that OS/2 is to blame for all the bugs.
They will do the same to Linux - do a really buggy port which would probably need 500+MB of RAM to run and then claim that it's the limitatons of the OS.
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Does the Crays still use their esoteric emmitter-coupled logic gates?
Thats some weird funky logic with negative power rails etc...
mod_perl is probably the single most useful creation for developers dabbling in web design. It gives so much power and is so quick to throw together something which looks impressive.
I myself have used it to prototype some intranet pages and the mainline development team is progressing so slowly that the perl is still in place many months down the line - and the original perl took only a couple of days for myself to throw together.
Not sure if it's a good thing that I'm the only guy who knows perl!
mod_perl for Apache2 is great, it's the single biggest thing stopping me from using Apache2 is the lack of perl support.
AFAIK, Silicon is a trace-element that we do use somewhere in our body. Even SiO2 can be eroded.
I believe early eye implants used SiO2 but they only lasted on the order of weeks.
The point being - how to make a reliable connection between the artifical electronic and the biological grey matter... which does not degrade.
I do write to MPs.
But so far, I only feel that what I write gets read when I send it to the Conservative MP in the next constituency over.
Oh well - That's better than nothing.
From what I have heard from friends, Lib Dem MPs also take the time to read letters.
Labour MPs must tow the party line or risk the wrath of the party whip.
----
RIP wasn't an inevitable bill - it is a very "big brother" attitude bill. Better bills which have passed in the UK which have had more thought (but still equally misunderstood) include the Data Protection Act...
If one were to take the Data Protection Act as superior to RIP, telco companies must keep customers personal details, such as what numbers they dial, even the content of the calls, secured and secret. It stipulates that companies should take all measures, physical and technological (read encryption), to secure the data so it does not fall in to the wrong hands.
Of course, this needs to be tested in the high court if RIP does pass.
(Apologies for the earlier post, I had a tender nerve)
I wonder how they have solved the problem of decomposition - the body's immune system is a powerful entity. Implant a silicon chip and the body will attack it and erode it. Implant it in a glass capsule and then how to make the electrical connections?
These things have been reported several times in the past but each time, it degrades within months and typically doesn't last even 6 months in the body.
So how "permanent" is this artificial eye? That is the question everyone wants answered. Does it require lots of external hardware to operate (as some older experiements have done). What kind of power source is required?
For all those people out there who voted for Blair at the last general election: THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT.
The level of barefaced curruption and sleeze demonstrated by this Labour government makes the antics of the previous Conservative government look like Angels.
The fact is, Blair is a control freek. He has control over the Labour party so that the are all nothing but Blair's Robots... He has control over the press so that they do not report all of what he is doing. He is now seeking control of every single person in the UK.
The parallels which can be drawn against Blair vs Hitler and Blair vs Saddam are astounding.... Compare many of Blair's election speeches to translations of Hitler's. Compare his delivery style to that of Hitler's. Compare his appointment styles with that of Saddam.
Blair is a very dangerous terror in this world.
It is not only the RIP bill to be worried about. There are several other bills which also make the assumption of "Guilty until proven innocent (if we feel bothered to try to find you innocent)".
Bah!
I can rant all day and night.
I think it is fair to say that the majority of users would not want to spend 26hrs and 6GB disk space to compile OpenOffice....
Binary packages to download are a must for something like this... so that anyone who wants it can do a "pkg_add -r OpenOffice".
If you want stable system components, you are using the wrong operating system. Use FreeBSD instead where things only get put in to STABLE which are largely stable. If you want bleeding-edge FreeBSD, then you can always try CURRENT.
Cool - so 1234567890 is Friday 13 Feb 2009, just before midnight in the UK.
The huge ships hung in the same way that bricks don't.
Or has someone already used that in some great literature?
That is so cool what the Hughes techies did!
If I was involved in doing that, I would be so proud
Kudos to those people... (I don't believe in free lunches)
Because of this, the only pieces of software readily available was of the Free/PD/Shareware genre - and that meant that OS/2 died in the commercial arena.
Microsoft will ensure the same will happen to Linux. Die-hard RMS supporters will not think that commercial software is important - but it is actually vitally important for many who are responsible for choosing software for business because of the CYA aspect (Cover Your Ass).
Be afraid...
Be very afraid.
Corel WordPerfect may be the first victim. There will be more...
Remember in the court case Digital Research bought against them. Microsoft's defense was that they had no version control so they had in effect "lost" all previous versions of Windows and so were unable to present the Windows 3.1 source code to the court as the court had ordered.
The Colossus certainly get's my mark for the first useful computer.
All the predecessors were only glorified calculators which was of use to a very small number of technicians in some university somewhere.
The predecessors were beta tests. Colussus was the result.
I still have the original - complete with it's modifications. It still works!
It was what got me started with computers so I have kept it. A friend also gave me their old ZX81 which is in mint condition.
I also have a Spectrum but I daren't use it often because of their PSU circuits have a design snafu which can fail catastrophically.
I still also have the motherboard to my old IBM PC/XT with a massive 64K on board.
Sigh - nostalgia!
The Collosus and the later Bombe used charged capacitors for it's high speed memory.
The tales of Bill in the dumpster are quite true.
I remember a television interview in the 1980s where Mr Gates tells us where he got the original source code for his BASIC:
From the waste-bins of DEC (now Digitial, bought out by Compaq)
They were the working sources on lineprinter carelessly binned. This is why when Mr Gates tried to stand on the moral high ground when Oracle's CEO paid people to go through dustbins, it made me laugh so hard. At least he paid people to do it and didn't stoop so low as to do it himself!
Actually, OS/2 Warp 3 shipped before Windows 95 was in beta.
It came out of the box with a mail, news, gopher, archie and FTP client...
Also a free 30 day evaluation for IBM's Global Network.
WebExplorer had to be downloaded (free).
(it had a pretty neat feature which allowed web-sites to change the little animation from the default)
All that in around 1993, 94-ish.
Every time - windows is a "me too"
I was writing of the implementation which IBM has opened the source code to - which happens to be the OS/2 version.
IBM has left it to Apple to open the sources to the NT and Mac versions. Something which I don't think they will do.
The way I see it:
And what is so great about these three groups is that they steal code from each other. What is in one will eventually turn up in the other.
Will there be official binaries for OS/2?
Any chance that it can compile with 10.6?
The source code for the OS/2 version of OpenDOC is already available to DevCon members.
However, it requires SOM/WPS which aren't open source.
I would like to see the source code to SOM and WPS made available to all. It is curious that the last version of SOM was version 3.0 yet OS/2 is still shipping with version 2.4
They did a half-assed port of Word and Excel which were as buggy as hell and then never released any bug-fixes or updates claiming that OS/2 is to blame for all the bugs.
They will do the same to Linux - do a really buggy port which would probably need 500+MB of RAM to run and then claim that it's the limitatons of the OS.
Especially when people find out that OutLook for Linux must be run as root.