Don't rush to install it on production servers
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PHP 4.3.0 Released
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As with all PHP.0 releases, be wary about installing this release on production servers, even though this release has gone through a lot more testing than usual. I know of at least a few annoying bugs which were not fixed before the 4.3.0 release, such as a memory leak in a string handling function, and the fact that all PHP error messages are output to the global Apache error log even if they're only supposed to be displayed on the page itself. Also, I noticed that if you have older PHP3 classes lying around which mistakenly redeclare a function, the entire script which uses the class will now fail under 4.3.0, where it would not trigger an error under previous versions. This is not a bug, but beware of it since it could break older applications.
Their MySQL libraries are included because it's one less system library to mess up detection of (there were a lot of newbies coming in with with "MySQL support is broken," etc. when their libraries were just out of whack. GD is somewhat of a different story - it is the full version of the library, with fixes. The GD 2.x series suffered from a lack of maintenance, and now when it's being updated frequently, upstream changed the API which breaks PHP after GD version 2.0.8. Including GD means they get a lot less broken compilation reports, and can easily fix bugs found in PHP as they show up. It can still use the system library if available, like the MySQL libs.
GD 2.x support has been in production PHP since 4.0.6. They just bundle it with the distribution now because upstream isn't really maintained anymore.
Re:Most needed feature for newbies......
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PHP 4.3.0 Released
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That's like saying GTK+ docs are better than PHP docs just because you're used to the format. PHP has some really great documentation with useful examples, and very easy to learn with just the included API docs without even reading the 5-page tutorial. Instead of sheltering you with an abundance of "Hello World" examples, you can start producing real-world pages with PHP minutes after beginning to read some the documentation. That's a lot more than I can say for Java.
The way the DMCA is going, and the way the government treats huge companies like Dell, I wouldn't be surprised at all if in the near future that would be the case. Hell, if the government can be petrified of publishing security changes to software, what's stopping them from coming up with an excuse about modifying your PC? Overclocking, putting features in the motherboard that weren't there originally.. oh the horrors!
Leave it to MSNBC and CNET to print totally uneducated articles about something they have no basis for. From linux-usb.org: People have been using USB 2.0 with usb-storage devices from Linux hosts since June 2001, but it was only in early winter of that year (a short while before Linus created the 2.5 development branch) that other USB 2.0 devices (notably, hubs) began to be available. So while some changes for USB 2.0 were rolling into 2.4 kernels through the year 2001, most of the tricky stuff (the ehci-hcd driver) was separate until the 2.5 kernel branched. Recently, some Linux distributions have begun to include this support.
Maybe I'm alone on this one, but i find Debian's installer to be pretty good. Sure, Red Hat's got that l33t installer, but who gives a crap when it doesn't work right? (Hell, i had to install RH 6.1 manually because the install was messed up.)
Sometimes I do wonder about what kind of motivation goes into some of these articles. Just because it's associated with GNU it has to go into Slashdot? What about another great, lightweight window manager, Blackbox? Does noone who reads Slashdot use anything except GNU/Linux? I would personally take Blackbox alpha over anything made with GTK any day. Just my $0.02.
Well, this is great. I waited and waited to get a power backup for my Linux server, and now I'm kicking myself for not getting one yet. Because I'm in New Jersey, I'm not getting as much of the hurricane as RedHat is, so it's not worth it for me to shut down the server completely 'till the storm is over. But if it does lose power, I'll be pretty pissed.
I feel sorry for all those that insist on buying the deluxe boxed sets for every new version of RH. Now, don't get me wrong. I appreciate the fact that they release new versions so often that they are supposedly up-to-date in the way of stability.. But from what I've seen with 5.2 & 6.0, it doesn't seem to be getting any better. the beta for 6.0 was out for only a couple weeks before the final was released, and half the methods of install never worked (at least when I tried it), such as forgetting to include parallel port modules (?) for install, but saying it's supported? HTTP and FTP install seemed not to want to work at all. And just look at the redhat errata page for 6.0. It's great that they at least update their mistakes and I know RedHat obviously doens't make most of these programs, but perhaps it would be nice to test all these bleeding-edge packages instead of waiting for some security organization to tell them there's another buffer overflow warning in their version of something?
Your house still had the "WIDE LOAD" sign on the back.
Taking your wife on a cruise means circling the Dairy Queen.
You think God looks a lot like Hank Williams, Jr., and heaven looks a lot like Daytona Beach, Florida.
You think the last words to The Star Spangled Banner are "Gentlemen, start your engines."
Your father executes the "pull my finger" trick during Christmas dinner.
You believe dual air bags refer to your wife and mother-in-law.
You've got more than one brother named 'Darryl'.
You think the OJ Trial is a Sunkist and Minutemaid taste test.
You were acquitted for murdering your first wife after she threw out your Elvis 45's.
You think watching professional wrestling is foreplay.
Your front porch collapses and four dogs git killed.
The people on Jerry Springer's show remind you of your neighbors
You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
Your sister is the third generation of women in your family to conceive a baby as a result of an alien abduction.
You carried a fishing pole into Sea World.
You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off it's wheels.
Your huntin dawg had a litter of puppies in the living room and nobody noticed.
You think safe sex is a padded headboard.
You think subdivision is part of a math problem.
You think there's nothin wrong with incest as long as you keep it in the family.
You can get dog hair from out of your belly button.
Re:Could not patch the kernel source on RH 6.0
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Linux 2.2.10
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Well, from what it looks like, as usual, RedHat made their own revisions (they did the same thing as KDE) so it looks like you'll have to d/l the full source, and then work your way from there. D/ling the full source shouldn't cause problems, it's just that patching it saves a lot of bandwidth.
Author's comment about Mac advocacy might hold tru
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Linux Advocacy Hurts
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OK, I don't count on anyone actually reading this at the wayyyy bottom of the page, but I'd just like to add my two cents after I was late in reading this article.
If you read his comment about Mac advocacy in there, I happen to somewhat agree with him on that. In all my years, I've had friends that were die-hard Mac advocates, and I've always been a die-hard Mac basher in favor of Windows. Only now do I realize what a bastard both of us have been. This Linux-NT thing looks like Mac-Windows all over again, except on a "server" side now. It seems every time a test just like this one comes out between Windows and Mac (usually happens to be in favor of Windows when MS publishes it, and in favor of Mac when Apple publishes it, but I won't get into that) and there's another whole argument sparked between both sides. Now, I find myself being on the "underground" side just like the Mac advocates, challenging Microsoft and all those other guys in Silicon Valley..
Anyway, now that you've read all my ramblings, here's the lesson of my story - Perhaps we should take a different offensive? Look what happened to Apple when all their users took up against MS.. They were left behind and bashed by Microsoft, as their arguments only fueled the fire against em. We DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN TO LINUX! It just makes everyone look like fools, and makes us lose our credibility. Hell, I never believed a word Apple said all my life, but I'm starting to really prove myself wrong about everything I've ever said.
Have you ever eaten at "KenTacoHut"?
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SGI Name Change
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Well, if you think about it, they all sell the same thing.. Rat meat, cheese, pepsi. (heh. now I know why they have a million signs that say pepsi in pizza hut:) )
Name Change? This has happened before...many times
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SGI Name Change
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Perhaps some of you remember the changeover that AT&T made (thought it wasn't such a big deal) from AT&T standing for American Telephone & Telegraph to just AT&T, not standing for anything. Obviously this is because they provide more than just telephones & telegraphs (well. not telegraphs) But they want to keep people from getting too confused if they ahd changed their name. This is sort of like what SGI is doing, but SGI is a little more drastic.. Since they apparently don't just make graphical workstations anymore, this should reflect their new image.
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As with all PHP .0 releases, be wary about installing this release on production servers, even though this release has gone through a lot more testing than usual. I know of at least a few annoying bugs which were not fixed before the 4.3.0 release, such as a memory leak in a string handling function, and the fact that all PHP error messages are output to the global Apache error log even if they're only supposed to be displayed on the page itself.
Also, I noticed that if you have older PHP3 classes lying around which mistakenly redeclare a function, the entire script which uses the class will now fail under 4.3.0, where it would not trigger an error under previous versions. This is not a bug, but beware of it since it could break older applications.
Their MySQL libraries are included because it's one less system library to mess up detection of (there were a lot of newbies coming in with with "MySQL support is broken," etc. when their libraries were just out of whack.
GD is somewhat of a different story - it is the full version of the library, with fixes. The GD 2.x series suffered from a lack of maintenance, and now when it's being updated frequently, upstream changed the API which breaks PHP after GD version 2.0.8. Including GD means they get a lot less broken compilation reports, and can easily fix bugs found in PHP as they show up. It can still use the system library if available, like the MySQL libs.
GD 2.x support has been in production PHP since 4.0.6. They just bundle it with the distribution now because upstream isn't really maintained anymore.
That's like saying GTK+ docs are better than PHP docs just because you're used to the format. PHP has some really great documentation with useful examples, and very easy to learn with just the included API docs without even reading the 5-page tutorial. Instead of sheltering you with an abundance of "Hello World" examples, you can start producing real-world pages with PHP minutes after beginning to read some the documentation. That's a lot more than I can say for Java.
Don't forget that in some cases all of his neighbors would be notified that a sexual criminal is in their neighborhood when he gets out of jail.
There's something I never actually expected to read, given the prior settlement of the giant MS lawsuit and the way things were going.
Next up on the list of things to piss off the giant behemoth - making Microsoft include Netscape as its default browser.
The way the DMCA is going, and the way the government treats huge companies like Dell, I wouldn't be surprised at all if in the near future that would be the case. Hell, if the government can be petrified of publishing security changes to software, what's stopping them from coming up with an excuse about modifying your PC? Overclocking, putting features in the motherboard that weren't there originally.. oh the horrors!
Leave it to MSNBC and CNET to print totally uneducated articles about something they have no basis for.
From linux-usb.org:
People have been using USB 2.0 with usb-storage devices from Linux hosts since June 2001, but it was only in early winter of that year (a short while before Linus created the 2.5 development branch) that other USB 2.0 devices (notably, hubs) began to be available. So while some changes for USB 2.0 were rolling into 2.4 kernels through the year 2001, most of the tricky stuff (the ehci-hcd driver) was separate until the 2.5 kernel branched. Recently, some Linux distributions have begun to include this support.
Have you ever taken a look at the sheer number of security bugs in IE, from Windows Update?
Maybe I'm alone on this one, but i find Debian's installer to be pretty good. Sure, Red Hat's got that l33t installer, but who gives a crap when it doesn't work right? (Hell, i had to install RH 6.1 manually because the install was messed up.)
Sometimes I do wonder about what kind of motivation goes into some of these articles. Just because it's associated with GNU it has to go into Slashdot? What about another great, lightweight window manager, Blackbox? Does noone who reads Slashdot use anything except GNU/Linux? I would personally take Blackbox alpha over anything made with GTK any day.
Just my $0.02.
Woo hoo. smbmount will finally work with the kernel automounter.
Technically that wouldn't be TCP, right? A loopback connection doesn't actually go over any network unless for some reason you made it do that.
Well, this is great. I waited and waited to get a power backup for my Linux server, and now I'm kicking myself for not getting one yet. Because I'm in New Jersey, I'm not getting as much of the hurricane as RedHat is, so it's not worth it for me to shut down the server completely 'till the storm is over. But if it does lose power, I'll be pretty pissed.
I feel sorry for all those that insist on buying the deluxe boxed sets for every new version of RH. Now, don't get me wrong. I appreciate the fact that they release new versions so often that they are supposedly up-to-date in the way of stability.. But from what I've seen with 5.2 & 6.0, it doesn't seem to be getting any better. the beta for 6.0 was out for only a couple weeks before the final was released, and half the methods of install never worked (at least when I tried it), such as forgetting to include parallel port modules (?) for install, but saying it's supported? HTTP and FTP install seemed not to want to work at all. And just look at the redhat errata page for 6.0. It's great that they at least update their mistakes and I know RedHat obviously doens't make most of these programs, but perhaps it would be nice to test all these bleeding-edge packages instead of waiting for some security organization to tell them there's another buffer overflow warning in their version of something?
YOU'RE A REDNECK IF..
Your house still had the "WIDE LOAD" sign on the back.
Taking your wife on a cruise means circling the Dairy Queen.
You think God looks a lot like Hank Williams, Jr., and heaven looks a lot like Daytona Beach, Florida.
You think the last words to The Star Spangled Banner are "Gentlemen, start your engines."
Your father executes the "pull my finger" trick during Christmas dinner.
You believe dual air bags refer to your wife and mother-in-law.
You've got more than one brother named 'Darryl'.
You think the OJ Trial is a Sunkist and Minutemaid taste test.
You were acquitted for murdering your first wife after she threw out your Elvis 45's.
You think watching professional wrestling is foreplay.
Your front porch collapses and four dogs git killed.
The people on Jerry Springer's show remind you of your neighbors
You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws.
Your sister is the third generation of women in your family to conceive a baby as a result of an alien abduction.
You carried a fishing pole into Sea World.
You lit a match in the bathroom and your house exploded right off it's wheels.
Your huntin dawg had a litter of puppies in the living room and nobody noticed.
You think safe sex is a padded headboard.
You think subdivision is part of a math problem.
You think there's nothin wrong with incest as long as you keep it in the family.
You can get dog hair from out of your belly button.
Well, from what it looks like, as usual, RedHat made their own revisions (they did the same thing as KDE) so it looks like you'll have to d/l the full source, and then work your way from there. D/ling the full source shouldn't cause problems, it's just that patching it saves a lot of bandwidth.
OK, I don't count on anyone actually reading this at the wayyyy bottom of the page, but I'd just like to add my two cents after I was late in reading this article.
If you read his comment about Mac advocacy in there, I happen to somewhat agree with him on that. In all my years, I've had friends that were die-hard Mac advocates, and I've always been a die-hard Mac basher in favor of Windows. Only now do I realize what a bastard both of us have been. This Linux-NT thing looks like Mac-Windows all over again, except on a "server" side now. It seems every time a test just like this one comes out between Windows and Mac (usually happens to be in favor of Windows when MS publishes it, and in favor of Mac when Apple publishes it, but I won't get into that) and there's another whole argument sparked between both sides. Now, I find myself being on the "underground" side just like the Mac advocates, challenging Microsoft and all those other guys in Silicon Valley..
Anyway, now that you've read all my ramblings, here's the lesson of my story - Perhaps we should take a different offensive? Look what happened to Apple when all their users took up against MS.. They were left behind and bashed by Microsoft, as their arguments only fueled the fire against em. We DON'T WANT THAT TO HAPPEN TO LINUX! It just makes everyone look like fools, and makes us lose our credibility. Hell, I never believed a word Apple said all my life, but I'm starting to really prove myself wrong about everything I've ever said.
Well, if you think about it, they all sell the same thing.. Rat meat, cheese, pepsi. (heh. now I know why they have a million signs that say pepsi in pizza hut :) )
Perhaps some of you remember the changeover that AT&T made (thought it wasn't such a big deal) from AT&T standing for American Telephone & Telegraph to just AT&T, not standing for anything. Obviously this is because they provide more than just telephones & telegraphs (well. not telegraphs) But they want to keep people from getting too confused if they ahd changed their name. This is sort of like what SGI is doing, but SGI is a little more drastic.. Since they apparently don't just make graphical workstations anymore, this should reflect their new image.