If you have only just outgrown notepad, why not use XML? There are some nice tools to create and query the files, it is cross platform, tools are available for every language, and you can import it straight into a real database when you feel you need to upgrade.
One of my friends collects video games and old computers, he has just over 100 now.
Off the top of my head: Amiga 500 Amiga 600 Amiga CDTV Amiga 1200 Amiga CD32 Amstrad CPC464 Amstrad GX4000 Atari 2600 Atari 4800 Atari Falcon Atari Lynx Atari STE Apple Mac Classic BBC Model B BBC Master System Coleco Vision Commodore 64 Commodore 128 Commodore Vic20 Neo Geo Neo Geo Pocket Nintento Famicom Nintendo NES (PAL) Nintendo NES (NTSC) Nintendo Super Famicom Nintendo SNES (NTSC) Nintendo SNES (PAL) Nintendo N64 Nintendo Gameboy Nintendo Gameboy Color Nintendo Gameboy Advance Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP Nintendo Virtual Boy Nintendo Gamecube PC Engine Panasonic 3D0 Panasonic 3D0 (Goldstar Version) Philips CDi Sega Master System Sega Game Gear Sega Mega Drive Sega Genesis Sega Mega CD Sega 32x Sega Saturn Sega Dreamcast Sinclair ZX80 Sinclair ZX81 Sinclair Spectrum Sinclair Spectrum 48K Sinclair Spectrum 48K+ Sinclair Spectrum 128+2 Sony PSX Sony Playstation Sony Playstation 2 Tiger Game.com
This is only arond 75% of what he has, the rest is too obscure for my memory. He also has some really rare stuff like a SNES CD Rom drive that Nintendo succeeded in having banned, the power glove and other fun things.
The effect of the ice pushing down and displacing water at the north pole is already being felt at the equator, this force will not change when the ice melts and becomes water.
This is a slightly simplified view but imagine a big bowl of waterslowly rotating so that it is deeper at the edges than the middle, and put some ice cubes into the exact centre. They would already be pushing the water outwards, and them melting would not make a difference.
So you are saying that drug companies will only make drugs if there is a profit motive there. This means that when the AIDS problem dies down in the rich countries (with good education and available precautions that could happen in 10 years) the drug companies will give up on the search for a cure, leaving the poorer countries swinging in the wind.
Malaria drugs are no longer developed because Malaria is only a problem in poor countries, this will happen to AIDS as well. The drug companies do not care about the people on the streets of Brazil so why should Brazil care about Roche?
Are there any books on Postgres in the pipeline? A brief search on Amazon does not list any publications in print at the moment. Postgres is (in my opinion) a far more capable and much more complicated database and "needs" some dead tree documentation.
It is also properly free (last time I looked, MySQL cost money if you made money with it, or used it on Windows), Postgres on the other handis free beer and speech.
Phil, Arsdigita's slogan was once "we don't have venture capital, we have money". You now seem to have both (in plentiful abundance), does this mean you are going down the IPO road, and if so, can we buy into it (gotta do something with all that cash we made shorting Microsoft shares, right?)
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The difficulty I find with Text::Template and it's ilk is handling includes. Many designers (rightly) use server side includes to handle incorporation of form elements that are used reptitively into their documnents. The template modules that I have looked at do not parse the SSI include directives resulting in an incomplete output file. If anyone knows of a template module that correctly handles SSI virtual and file, I'd be quite interested.
If you are using this in conjunction with mod_perl (which you should), you should be able to chain the mod_include content handler onto the output from your module, but then again mod_perl makes adding SSI to pages pretty easy anyway... It should not be too difficult to knock an SSI parser together for a CGI application, and it would be extremely reusable so check CPAN.
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I want first dibs on sperm.banc (actually that has conjured up bizarre wondering about how online sperm banking would actually work...).
BTW, does anyone know why it is banc not bank? Someone mentioned internationalisation but it seems pretty late to try that now (.net,.com and.org all being English derivatives).
Maybe one of the myriad monkeys-on-typewriters that seem to handle domain transfers at NSI got promoted to "tld strategist" (or somesuch) and is "leveraging" his spelling skills.
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write in C or C++, and compile server loadable modules and you will be measurably 10x faster. Don't take my word for it, do the testing yourself. Modperl? 5x slower, without even trying hard.
So what if its 5x slower. CPUs and Memory is cheap, web developers are not. I would rather have a slightly slower site in a month than a lightning fast site in 6 months that slowly leaks memory because someone forgot to unallocate a buffer somewhere. Perl (VB, Python etc) are muchmuch faster to develop, easier to debug and less likely to have memory holes than a C/C++ module. For most applications the server is waiting for a database far more than it is crunching data in the module, and for the sort of processing most web apps do there is not much benefit from using C (its not like many people are calculating Pi to n places on a website, its mostly text processing and database accessing).
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The most important single thing you can do on a big website project is separate presentation and business logic. This means no server side include type languages (ASP, PHP, EmbPerl) and no traditional style CGI programs (with print "" type code). Of course there is a problem abstracting the code from the HTML, one way is to use PHP/ASP/Whatever and simply include variable or function references, pulling in the logic from an external file, this produces non-standard html and *will* confuse your designers (sooner or later). The best solution is to house code in a separate file and use the DOM (or a similar method) of directly manipulating the HTML tags in the document, but this is slow (work is being done however) so currently you are pretty shafted.
Whatever you do, do not mix all code and logic in a single file the way traditional ASP and PHP is done, it is nice to start with but when it comes to redesigning or recoding it can be an absolute nightmare.
-- ...in fact msot serious hacking is done by UNIX, and UNIX based systems such as Linux or C++...
A most grievious situation has recently come to my attention, through an article on slashdot.org. The situation, as it has been related to me, is that the Pink Paper has engaged in a most disreputable and plainly assinine attempt to have outcast effectively shutdown by filing a preemptive complaint.
The absurdity of the situation boggles my mind in all directions. To the ISP who was hosting outcast, shame on you. I know you're simply making a business of providing web access and it's 'cheaper and easier' to do it this way, but the proper response to the Pink Paper request was to, after research to determine if any wrong-doing had occured or was likely to occur, send a reply to their lawyers politely stating that they are abusing laws, and that they can bugger off until they have a leg to stand on.
To the Pink Paper. I'm appalled, astounded and just... confused. What's wrong with competition? What did they do to hurt you? What reasonable justification is there for this action other than a lawyer noting in the middle of a business meeting 'i know how to get their website shut down.' I hope that this is a case of a lawyer acting without proper authority, or of a manager who acted against the will of the company as a whole. If this is the type of action which you propose is appropriate for them, perhaps you should stop claiming to be a voice for the gay community as your actions demonstrate that you don't believe in equal rights, fairness or good faith, even within the gay community.
To the parties who believe that the law is being used in it's proper sense, allow me to state that abuses like this can end in only one inevitable conclusion. Websites will no longer exist in Britain. If you believe that this law makes sense, and that it's being used reasonably, then allow me to note that the sun now sets on the British Empire. When a situation is made rediculous, a solution is always found. Perhaps the most logical solution is to decide that no websites should be hosted in Britain as they might be subject to costly, illogical and frivolous abuse.
Good luck, outcast magazine, Good luck, Britain,
I would not normally post spelling/grammar corrections, but this may be copied by lots of people and emailed so it may as well be correct. It is asinine, not assinine. Its ridiculous, not rediculous. Its grievous not grievious. Finally (really), its occurred not occured. Apologies if anything I corrected is an acceptable American spelling, and srry for posting what may appear to be a spelling flame, but as its a letter, it may as well be correct.
Slashdot Mirror
Just adding my voice to the masses to say thanks.
If you have only just outgrown notepad, why not use XML? There are some nice tools to create and query the files, it is cross platform, tools are available for every language, and you can import it straight into a real database when you feel you need to upgrade.
How many records are we talking about anyway?
I love the power glove - it's so bad
drink(new Beer()) until $unconcious;
telnet: www.permits.gov: Name or service not known
www.permits.gov: Unknown host
I don't get it
One of my friends collects video games and old computers, he has just over 100 now.
Off the top of my head:
Amiga 500
Amiga 600
Amiga CDTV
Amiga 1200
Amiga CD32
Amstrad CPC464
Amstrad GX4000
Atari 2600
Atari 4800
Atari Falcon
Atari Lynx
Atari STE
Apple Mac Classic
BBC Model B
BBC Master System
Coleco Vision
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Commodore Vic20
Neo Geo
Neo Geo Pocket
Nintento Famicom
Nintendo NES (PAL)
Nintendo NES (NTSC)
Nintendo Super Famicom
Nintendo SNES (NTSC)
Nintendo SNES (PAL)
Nintendo N64
Nintendo Gameboy
Nintendo Gameboy Color
Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Nintendo Gamecube
PC Engine
Panasonic 3D0
Panasonic 3D0 (Goldstar Version)
Philips CDi
Sega Master System
Sega Game Gear
Sega Mega Drive
Sega Genesis
Sega Mega CD
Sega 32x
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum
Sinclair Spectrum 48K
Sinclair Spectrum 48K+
Sinclair Spectrum 128+2
Sony PSX
Sony Playstation
Sony Playstation 2
Tiger Game.com
This is only arond 75% of what he has, the rest is too obscure for my memory. He also has some really rare stuff like a SNES CD Rom drive that Nintendo succeeded in having banned, the power glove and other fun things.
He is mad
No, you are tripping :)
The effect of the ice pushing down and displacing water at the north pole is already being felt at the equator, this force will not change when the ice melts and becomes water.
This is a slightly simplified view but imagine a big bowl of waterslowly rotating so that it is deeper at the edges than the middle, and put some ice cubes into the exact centre. They would already be pushing the water outwards, and them melting would not make a difference.
Hope that helps,
Cheers,
Ed
Scratchy: Kill
Humans: Do not hurt
No Stairway?
Denied
Annoying little girl picks up cellphone, hotly pursued by dinosaurs:
"This is a Nokia System, I know this!"
I call it "Billy and the Cloneasaurus"
3. Libertarian theories do not say that a voluntary national id system would be a bad thing.
Unles those people who do not volunteer are marginalised by their choice (like, being unable to fly on domestic flights for example).
They have not banned "Never be rude to an Arab" by Monty Python :)
So you are saying that drug companies will only make drugs if there is a profit motive there. This means that when the AIDS problem dies down in the rich countries (with good education and available precautions that could happen in 10 years) the drug companies will give up on the search for a cure, leaving the poorer countries swinging in the wind.
Malaria drugs are no longer developed because Malaria is only a problem in poor countries, this will happen to AIDS as well. The drug companies do not care about the people on the streets of Brazil so why should Brazil care about Roche?
Who is willing to bet that it will have some sort of opening roof that will suck in nearby spy planes.
:)
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You know its true
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HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO GET SOFTWARE TO THESE THINGS?!
Tar the required files into one big file, Base64 encode it so it is a nice long text string, copy it into your clipboard, then in telnet, type:
cat > filename.tar.base64
paste the file from the clipboard into your telnet window, unencode it and untar it. Voila, you have your napster client on the testdrive server.
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Umm, Photo.net appears to be slashdotted, that cannot be good :(
...in fact msot serious hacking is done by UNIX, and UNIX based systems such as Linux or C++...
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Mmmmmmm... meta-beowulf cluster :)
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It is also properly free (last time I looked, MySQL cost money if you made money with it, or used it on Windows), Postgres on the other handis free beer and speech.
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Phil, Arsdigita's slogan was once "we don't have venture capital, we have money". You now seem to have both (in plentiful abundance), does this mean you are going down the IPO road, and if so, can we buy into it (gotta do something with all that cash we made shorting Microsoft shares, right?)
...in fact msot serious hacking is done by UNIX, and UNIX based systems such as Linux or C++...
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If you are using this in conjunction with mod_perl (which you should), you should be able to chain the mod_include content handler onto the output from your module, but then again mod_perl makes adding SSI to pages pretty easy anyway... It should not be too difficult to knock an SSI parser together for a CGI application, and it would be extremely reusable so check CPAN.
...in fact msot serious hacking is done by UNIX, and UNIX based systems such as Linux or C++...
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BTW, does anyone know why it is banc not bank? Someone mentioned internationalisation but it seems pretty late to try that now (.net, .com and .org all being English derivatives).
Maybe one of the myriad monkeys-on-typewriters that seem to handle domain transfers at NSI got promoted to "tld strategist" (or somesuch) and is "leveraging" his spelling skills.
...in fact msot serious hacking is done by UNIX, and UNIX based systems such as Linux or C++...
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So what if its 5x slower. CPUs and Memory is cheap, web developers are not. I would rather have a slightly slower site in a month than a lightning fast site in 6 months that slowly leaks memory because someone forgot to unallocate a buffer somewhere. Perl (VB, Python etc) are muchmuch faster to develop, easier to debug and less likely to have memory holes than a C/C++ module. For most applications the server is waiting for a database far more than it is crunching data in the module, and for the sort of processing most web apps do there is not much benefit from using C (its not like many people are calculating Pi to n places on a website, its mostly text processing and database accessing).
...in fact msot serious hacking is done by UNIX, and UNIX based systems such as Linux or C++...
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Whatever you do, do not mix all code and logic in a single file the way traditional ASP and PHP is done, it is nice to start with but when it comes to redesigning or recoding it can be an absolute nightmare.
...in fact msot serious hacking is done by UNIX, and UNIX based systems such as Linux or C++...
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The absurdity of the situation boggles my mind in all directions. To the ISP who was hosting outcast, shame on you. I know you're simply making a business of providing web access and it's 'cheaper and easier' to do it this way, but the proper response to the Pink Paper request was to, after research to determine if any wrong-doing had occured or was likely to occur, send a reply to their lawyers politely stating that they are abusing laws, and that they can bugger off until they have a leg to stand on.
To the Pink Paper. I'm appalled, astounded and just... confused. What's wrong with competition? What did they do to hurt you? What reasonable justification is there for this action other than a lawyer noting in the middle of a business meeting 'i know how to get their website shut down.' I hope that this is a case of a lawyer acting without proper authority, or of a manager who acted against the will of the company as a whole. If this is the type of action which you propose is appropriate for them, perhaps you should stop claiming to be a voice for the gay community as your actions demonstrate that you don't believe in equal rights, fairness or good faith, even within the gay community.
To the parties who believe that the law is being used in it's proper sense, allow me to state that abuses like this can end in only one inevitable conclusion. Websites will no longer exist in Britain. If you believe that this law makes sense, and that it's being used reasonably, then allow me to note that the sun now sets on the British Empire. When a situation is made rediculous, a solution is always found. Perhaps the most logical solution is to decide that no websites should be hosted in Britain as they might be subject to costly, illogical and frivolous abuse.
Good luck, outcast magazine, Good luck, Britain,
I would not normally post spelling/grammar corrections, but this may be copied by lots of people and emailed so it may as well be correct. It is asinine, not assinine. Its ridiculous, not rediculous. Its grievous not grievious. Finally (really), its occurred not occured. Apologies if anything I corrected is an acceptable American spelling, and srry for posting what may appear to be a spelling flame, but as its a letter, it may as well be correct.
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The processor was finished six months ago, it has just taken this long for Linus to learn enough HTML to do the site :)
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