Any summary where Perl scores the best must be deeply questioned. I doubt this is an apples-to-apples comparison. Surely these Perl sites are not doing nearly as much as the sites written in other languages.
I can't speak for all perl sites, but I have a extensive perl-based set of web applications running well over 100,000 lines of perl code. It has a clustered Oracle back-end and is administered under a high level of scrutiny and has never had a security breach in 10 years. It's really easy to write horrible perl code, but well written perl code can be very secure.
In all three of your "examples", you twist the meaning and the tone of Obama's statements to further your own anti-Obama agenda.
> Bump in the Road
His statement was not directly about the embassy murders, but about the violence in general in the Mid-East recently.
> Not Optimal
He was being sarcastic, using Jon Stewart's words back at him in a very sarcastic tone. A transcript of that conversation would be very misleading because Obama's tone is obvious when you listen to it.
> UN Speech
Obama never even mentions the embassy murders in this video! He was only talking about the uprisings over the film and how censorship is bad and does not say word one about the embassy murders.
Yeah, he was so bad that he tried to institute a freeze in the amount of oil the country uses and a push for alternate energy sources in the 1970's. If your buddy Reagan hadn't rolled the whole thing back, we would now be completely free of Mid-East oil and would probably not be in two (three?) wars and paying for the lifestyles of the Saudi kings right now...... and don't get me started on that ridiculous Egypt/Israeli peace treaty that has held for over 30 years, and probably helped lead to the current democracy movement in Egypt...
As many others have answered, it's because the Europeans distort the market (via taxes) even more than we do.
The European counties properly tax gasoline to pay for the subsidies that it requires. Subsidies that the US "hides" in the general budget. Things like the billions expended in military expenses to secure access to oil and the billions spent cleaning up the environmental damage (spills, polution, etc) of oil-based fuels, the billions in health care costs associated with breathing the crap that comes out of exhaust pipes. I could go on...
We use PmWiki for all of our system documentation. It allows for the ease of use and wide accessibility of web based documentation, but it is also dirt simple to install and run (no database to worry about) so that it can be put on a thumb drive or dumped to a PDF for portability. It also has a simple, solid mark-up language that lends itself to importing plain text notes.
It sucks to have your documentation "go down" when you need it. That could happen with a more complex wiki, but would be highly unlikely with PmWiki.
Somehow the fact that their web site requires Silverlight isn't terribly surprising when you see the members of the DNCC Technology Advisory Council...
"As part of its planning process, the DNCC created a Technology Advisory Council, made up of representatives from Qwest, Microsoft, Cisco, Google, AT&T, Level3, Comcast, EchoStar, Hewlett-Packard, Symantec, as well as Denver city officials and Colorado state officials."
Open source Groupwise. It seems so obvious to me I can't believe Novell isn't doing this, they're pretty much in the process of abandoning GW anyway.
Are you crazy? What evidence do you have that Novell is actually abandoning Groupwise? Groupwise has over 35 million users, the vast majority running the latest 2 versions (6.5 and 7.0). Even Exchange's installed base consists of a lot unupgraded older versions.
Groupwise is currently the 3rd largest enterprise groupware system out there (Exchange=1, Lotus=2), but Lotus Notes is seeing very few new installs so it probably won't be long until Groupwise is solidly in the number 2 spot. I know first hand that Groupwise is one of the most heavily pushed Novell products by their sales force and they just came out with a greatly enhanced new version. That doesn't sound like a product being abandoned to me...
For us (as per management), it was either Exchange or a solution by a major vendor that offered all of the features of Exchange. That equals Groupwise. What version did you have trouble with? Beyond us, I know of a couple other companies running GW v7 on SUSE and it's rock solid for all.
Groupwise has an awesome feature set and a very nice Java-based client that runs great on Linux and MacOS-X. It basically has all the features of Exchange and more, without the administration hassles and it runs on Linux servers.
You look like you're at an educational institution, which means you can probably get their ALA pricing (only $5k/year for several hundred users).
Oh, zfs has more cool features than that. One is that it is copy on write, so it's faster and potentially safer than any journalled filesystem. It also has automatic volume identification. Basically, you can build a large, multi-volume filesystem on a machine, pull all the disks out, insert them into another machine in random order, then just tell zfs that it has some new disks and it will find the filesystem and mount it up, no mess, no fuss. The copy on write allows for low-overhead snapshots for clean backups or versioning.
It also has excellent checksum protection on all data blocks, so it can identify failing disk drives early and in some cases heal itself from the problem. Since the LVM support is built in at the filesystem level, if a mirror is broken and then the same disk re-attached, it only has to rebuild changed data, not the whole device as a low-level LVM would.
Lastly, it has very low overhead filesystem creation and resizing. The Sun guys I was talking to said they're normal use pattern for zfs is to give each user on a system their own filesystem. They've built systems with tens of thousands of mounted filesystems and no performance issues.
I can't help but fear that this development might well spell the end of companies like Macromedia supporting netscape-compatible browser plugins.
Most comercial web sites these days usually require some sort of browser, at least to make the site more interesting. It none of those plugins existed for Netscape, it would only further alienate anyone not using IE. For me personally, it would make using Mozilla a lot harder...
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Welcome to the 100-Gb/s club California...
OARnet in Ohio has had this for a while now...
Any summary where Perl scores the best must be deeply questioned. I doubt this is an apples-to-apples comparison. Surely these Perl sites are not doing nearly as much as the sites written in other languages.
I can't speak for all perl sites, but I have a extensive perl-based set of web applications running well over 100,000 lines of perl code. It has a clustered Oracle back-end and is administered under a high level of scrutiny and has never had a security breach in 10 years. It's really easy to write horrible perl code, but well written perl code can be very secure.
In all three of your "examples", you twist the meaning and the tone of Obama's statements to further your own anti-Obama agenda.
> Bump in the Road
His statement was not directly about the embassy murders, but about the violence in general in the Mid-East recently.
> Not Optimal
He was being sarcastic, using Jon Stewart's words back at him in a very sarcastic tone. A transcript of that conversation would be very misleading because Obama's tone is obvious when you listen to it.
> UN Speech
Obama never even mentions the embassy murders in this video! He was only talking about the uprisings over the film and how censorship is bad and does not say word one about the embassy murders.
"Sound may not travel through space, but a supersonic-propagaing sphere of compressed gas from high explosive warheads do."
The term "supersonic" has no meaning in space. You can't go faster than sound in a vacuum...
Yeah, he was so bad that he tried to institute a freeze in the amount of oil the country uses and a push for alternate energy sources in the 1970's. If your buddy Reagan hadn't rolled the whole thing back, we would now be completely free of Mid-East oil and would probably not be in two (three?) wars and paying for the lifestyles of the Saudi kings right now... ... and don't get me started on that ridiculous Egypt/Israeli peace treaty that has held for over 30 years, and probably helped lead to the current democracy movement in Egypt...
As many others have answered, it's because the Europeans distort the market (via taxes) even more than we do.
The European counties properly tax gasoline to pay for the subsidies that it requires. Subsidies that the US "hides" in the general budget. Things like the billions expended in military expenses to secure access to oil and the billions spent cleaning up the environmental damage (spills, polution, etc) of oil-based fuels, the billions in health care costs associated with breathing the crap that comes out of exhaust pipes. I could go on...
We use PmWiki for all of our system documentation. It allows for the ease of use and wide accessibility of web based documentation, but it is also dirt simple to install and run (no database to worry about) so that it can be put on a thumb drive or dumped to a PDF for portability. It also has a simple, solid mark-up language that lends itself to importing plain text notes.
It sucks to have your documentation "go down" when you need it. That could happen with a more complex wiki, but would be highly unlikely with PmWiki.
Somehow the fact that their web site requires Silverlight isn't terribly surprising when you see the members of the DNCC Technology Advisory Council...
Reference: http://mediacircus2.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-wired-tac-on-dncc.html
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Are you crazy? What evidence do you have that Novell is actually abandoning Groupwise? Groupwise has over 35 million users, the vast majority running the latest 2 versions (6.5 and 7.0). Even Exchange's installed base consists of a lot unupgraded older versions.
Groupwise is currently the 3rd largest enterprise groupware system out there (Exchange=1, Lotus=2), but Lotus Notes is seeing very few new installs so it probably won't be long until Groupwise is solidly in the number 2 spot. I know first hand that Groupwise is one of the most heavily pushed Novell products by their sales force and they just came out with a greatly enhanced new version. That doesn't sound like a product being abandoned to me...
For us (as per management), it was either Exchange or a solution by a
major vendor that offered all of the features of Exchange. That
equals Groupwise. What version did you have trouble with? Beyond us, I know of a couple other companies running GW v7 on SUSE and it's rock
solid for all.
Groupwise has an awesome feature set and a very nice Java-based
client that runs great on Linux and MacOS-X. It basically has all
the features of Exchange and more, without the administration
hassles and it runs on Linux servers.
You look like you're at an educational institution, which means you
can probably get their ALA pricing (only $5k/year for several hundred
users).
Oh, zfs has more cool features than that. One is that it is copy on write, so it's faster and potentially safer than any journalled filesystem. It also has automatic volume identification. Basically, you can build a large, multi-volume filesystem on a machine, pull all the disks out, insert them into another machine in random order, then just tell zfs that it has some new disks and it will find the filesystem and mount it up, no mess, no fuss. The copy on write allows for low-overhead snapshots for clean backups or versioning.
It also has excellent checksum protection on all data blocks, so it can identify failing disk drives early and in some cases heal itself from the problem. Since the LVM support is built in at the filesystem level, if a mirror is broken and then the same disk re-attached, it only has to rebuild changed data, not the whole device as a low-level LVM would.
Lastly, it has very low overhead filesystem creation and resizing. The Sun guys I was talking to said they're normal use pattern for zfs is to give each user on a system their own filesystem. They've built systems with tens of thousands of mounted filesystems and no performance issues.
I can't help but fear that this development might well spell the end of companies like Macromedia supporting netscape-compatible browser plugins. Most comercial web sites these days usually require some sort of browser, at least to make the site more interesting. It none of those plugins existed for Netscape, it would only further alienate anyone not using IE. For me personally, it would make using Mozilla a lot harder...
I've been using MoneyDance almost daily for several years now and have never had the database get corrupted.
As extra security, MD can automatically back up the database before each save.
The data file is a single binary file (don't know the format).
- Brian