Perl was invented to solve some problems with scripting, specifically text processing and system administration tasks on Unix machines. Perl is mostly a combination of the Bourne shell, sed, and C and it was a huge advance in the field of scripting (the biggest since the Bourne shell).
Then people started trying to do application development with Perl and while Perl's dynamic nature makes some things easy, it isn't a good language for GUIs or for web development. There are many reasons for this, but two of the most common given are its syntax and its poor support for object oriented programming. Both Python and Ruby attempt to address problems in Perl while keeping its strengths.
It is interesting that until Perl, you only saw regular expressions in specialty tools like sed, awk, and grep, but now every new language has Perl inspired regular expression support (sometimes in the language itself, more often in a standard library). It is still the first place I go if I need to do a lot of string mangling.
Copy and paste only seems to be broken once you start typing. If nothing is typed in the reply box, it works fine for me. For what it's worth, I'm using Chrome 6 on Linux.
Based on your use of the word flat instead of apartment, I assume you are from the UK. I've lived in Germany when I was younger and I remember the houses all using radiators. Burnt myself real bad when I first arrived by leaning on one. (It was sitting out in the open in the middle of a store, and I didn't even see it until too late.) However, on this side of the pond we usually blow hot air through ducts instead.
Gas furnaces are the most common (especially in the northern US) because they are both cheap and efficient. Wood stoves are usually used to heat water or to supplement the heat generated from a furnace. They are also common in older houses up north. Heat pumps and other electric heaters are more often used in the southern states. Many apartments here in the Arizona don't have any gas for fire prevention reasons, so electric heat is used instead. Electric heat is less efficient than gas, but I actually run my AC more in the winter, so it doesn't really matter how efficient (or inefficient) an electric heater is.
It reminds me of burning the library in Alexandria a few millennia ago. What a waste of human effort.
There were four burnings of the library (the first by Julius Caesar and the last by Caliph Omar), so which one are you referring to? And it is not known how many books were destroyed in the various burnings. It is known that many of its books were sent to Constantinople before the second burning, and it is possible that no books were burned during the third burning (we only know for certain that various religious artifacts were burned). Given that most books had copies made, I doubt that much was lost.
The burning of books and burying alive of scholars by the first Chinese emperor. It took China a long time to recover from this crime.
Actually, Slashdot on Chrome performs reasonably well. For many sites, the performance difference between Firefox and Chrome is hard to detect, but with Slashdot the difference is almost as big as it is between Firefox and IE.
I agree. There is only so much entropy the human brain can remember, but I can remember phrases quite well. Throw in a few digits and special characters instead of letters and you have the perfect balance between security and ease of use. Unfortunately I keep seeing maximum passwords lengths, which is just stupid. I suspect maximum password lengths are caused by lazy developers and web sites that store passwords instead of hashes of passwords.
Don't know if typing phrases would be better for everyone though. Interested to know how non-touch typists would deal with something like "It w@s the b3st of times, It was the worst of times".
Here in Arizona there is quite a bit of opposition to thermal solar projects because of its high water use. The desert giveth and the desert taketh away.
I have seen Flash die under Chrome and all I had to do was reload the tab in Chrome to get it to restart. I keep seeing people claim that Chrome is unstable, but I have never had any problems with it. Flash used to die quite often, but since the 10.1 update it hasn't died on me once. I'm pretty happy with Chrome + Flash 10.1 on both Windows and Linux.
I wonder what you are doing if you are seeing Flash kill Chrome like that.
Your link points to Sun Java System Message Server. Oddly enough, this is written in Java. It is an implementation of the JMS API that comes with J2EE. There is a C/C++ API for it, but it isn't a full features as the Java API is.
Vista does, but not everyone else does. I have a motherboard where the CD-ROM contains a program that will install the RAID driver onto a disk. This program only accepts floppy drives located at drive A. The CD itself doesn't have the RAID driver only the program that creates the RAID driver. I had to borrow a floppy drive from a coworker to install it.
Of course, once I ran the program to put the RAID driver on the floppy I was able to copy them onto a USB drive for future use.
This was in 2008 and I was amazed with this, especially considering how considerate the manufacturer was to make the program create drivers for XP, 64-bit XP, Vista, and 64-bit Vista. The perfect combination of forward and backwards thinking.
I can't see how this would work with polymorphism. Since you often can't know what type an object is until runtime, how do you decide what "bubble" to open?
That is an unfair exaggeration. To run the fuck-up-my-screen function, you only need M-x fuck-up-my-screen. On my emacs install C-M-x maps to eval-defun, which isn't what you want at all (unless you are trying to debug the fuck-up-my-screen function).
What I have found useful is searching for the MSDN page using Google by appending site:msdn.com to the search. Once I have found the page I wanted, I would then navigate to it using the MSDN help tool and bookmark it there. I agree that the MSDN tool is more convenient than looking at the docs in a web browser, but it's amazing how much better Google is at searching than the MSDN built in search tool is.
Unfortunately not. It appears that the servers were manually hacked, which is far less user friendly than the automated hacks that Windows makes so very easy.
It's kind of funny. On NIPRNET Internet Explorer is the standard and its almost impossible to get Firefox loaded, but on SIPRNET you can use either and on JWICS Firefox is the preferred browser. The higher the classification of the network the more Firefox friendly things are. I suspect this is because non-Windows machines such as Linux, Solaris, and even VMS (almost, but not quite extinct) are much more common at higher classification levels but unheard of at unclassified levels.
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Perl was invented to solve some problems with scripting, specifically text processing and system administration tasks on Unix machines. Perl is mostly a combination of the Bourne shell, sed, and C and it was a huge advance in the field of scripting (the biggest since the Bourne shell).
Then people started trying to do application development with Perl and while Perl's dynamic nature makes some things easy, it isn't a good language for GUIs or for web development. There are many reasons for this, but two of the most common given are its syntax and its poor support for object oriented programming. Both Python and Ruby attempt to address problems in Perl while keeping its strengths.
It is interesting that until Perl, you only saw regular expressions in specialty tools like sed, awk, and grep, but now every new language has Perl inspired regular expression support (sometimes in the language itself, more often in a standard library). It is still the first place I go if I need to do a lot of string mangling.
Copy and paste only seems to be broken once you start typing. If nothing is typed in the reply box, it works fine for me. For what it's worth, I'm using Chrome 6 on Linux.
Apparently this functionality is also missing in the Slashdot reply box! Who knew!
I just copied your text and pasted it into a reply box. Perhaps the problem is with your browser? (FYI, I'm using Chrome on Linux.)
I assume you meant to say that the yellow cake is a lie.
Based on your use of the word flat instead of apartment, I assume you are from the UK. I've lived in Germany when I was younger and I remember the houses all using radiators. Burnt myself real bad when I first arrived by leaning on one. (It was sitting out in the open in the middle of a store, and I didn't even see it until too late.) However, on this side of the pond we usually blow hot air through ducts instead.
Gas furnaces are the most common (especially in the northern US) because they are both cheap and efficient. Wood stoves are usually used to heat water or to supplement the heat generated from a furnace. They are also common in older houses up north. Heat pumps and other electric heaters are more often used in the southern states. Many apartments here in the Arizona don't have any gas for fire prevention reasons, so electric heat is used instead. Electric heat is less efficient than gas, but I actually run my AC more in the winter, so it doesn't really matter how efficient (or inefficient) an electric heater is.
It reminds me of burning the library in Alexandria a few millennia ago. What a waste of human effort.
There were four burnings of the library (the first by Julius Caesar and the last by Caliph Omar), so which one are you referring to? And it is not known how many books were destroyed in the various burnings. It is known that many of its books were sent to Constantinople before the second burning, and it is possible that no books were burned during the third burning (we only know for certain that various religious artifacts were burned). Given that most books had copies made, I doubt that much was lost.
The burning of books and burying alive of scholars by the first Chinese emperor. It took China a long time to recover from this crime.
Actually, Slashdot on Chrome performs reasonably well. For many sites, the performance difference between Firefox and Chrome is hard to detect, but with Slashdot the difference is almost as big as it is between Firefox and IE.
the only things in unix that are file handles are handles to open files.
And directories. And sockets. And pipes. And devices. And probably more that I can't think of at the moment.
It's a shame this story is too old for anyone to read this.
I agree. There is only so much entropy the human brain can remember, but I can remember phrases quite well. Throw in a few digits and special characters instead of letters and you have the perfect balance between security and ease of use. Unfortunately I keep seeing maximum passwords lengths, which is just stupid. I suspect maximum password lengths are caused by lazy developers and web sites that store passwords instead of hashes of passwords.
Don't know if typing phrases would be better for everyone though. Interested to know how non-touch typists would deal with something like "It w@s the b3st of times, It was the worst of times".
Here in Arizona there is quite a bit of opposition to thermal solar projects because of its high water use. The desert giveth and the desert taketh away.
Hey, that's a great idea! I would like to do this also. Could you give me your banks address so I can join up?
I have seen Flash die under Chrome and all I had to do was reload the tab in Chrome to get it to restart. I keep seeing people claim that Chrome is unstable, but I have never had any problems with it. Flash used to die quite often, but since the 10.1 update it hasn't died on me once. I'm pretty happy with Chrome + Flash 10.1 on both Windows and Linux.
I wonder what you are doing if you are seeing Flash kill Chrome like that.
Your link points to Sun Java System Message Server. Oddly enough, this is written in Java. It is an implementation of the JMS API that comes with J2EE. There is a C/C++ API for it, but it isn't a full features as the Java API is.
Vista does, but not everyone else does. I have a motherboard where the CD-ROM contains a program that will install the RAID driver onto a disk. This program only accepts floppy drives located at drive A. The CD itself doesn't have the RAID driver only the program that creates the RAID driver. I had to borrow a floppy drive from a coworker to install it.
Of course, once I ran the program to put the RAID driver on the floppy I was able to copy them onto a USB drive for future use.
This was in 2008 and I was amazed with this, especially considering how considerate the manufacturer was to make the program create drivers for XP, 64-bit XP, Vista, and 64-bit Vista. The perfect combination of forward and backwards thinking.
That only looks at CO2. What about methane or SO2, both powerful greenhouse gases?
I can't see how this would work with polymorphism. Since you often can't know what type an object is until runtime, how do you decide what "bubble" to open?
That is an unfair exaggeration. To run the fuck-up-my-screen function, you only need M-x fuck-up-my-screen. On my emacs install C-M-x maps to eval-defun, which isn't what you want at all (unless you are trying to debug the fuck-up-my-screen function).
What I have found useful is searching for the MSDN page using Google by appending site:msdn.com to the search. Once I have found the page I wanted, I would then navigate to it using the MSDN help tool and bookmark it there. I agree that the MSDN tool is more convenient than looking at the docs in a web browser, but it's amazing how much better Google is at searching than the MSDN built in search tool is.
Or manage your files using a command line. That right there is a deal breaker for me.
I keep hearing this, but I have yet to see closed source software that comes with a warranty.
To be fair, he was awesome in Tropic Thunder. The highlight of the movie really. And his cameo in Austin Powers Goldmember was pretty funny too.
Do you expect the government to bail the NYT out as well?
Yes I do. I also expect the phrase "too big to fail" to be used as justification.
Unfortunately not. It appears that the servers were manually hacked, which is far less user friendly than the automated hacks that Windows makes so very easy.
Linux still has a ways to go, I'm afraid.
It's kind of funny. On NIPRNET Internet Explorer is the standard and its almost impossible to get Firefox loaded, but on SIPRNET you can use either and on JWICS Firefox is the preferred browser. The higher the classification of the network the more Firefox friendly things are. I suspect this is because non-Windows machines such as Linux, Solaris, and even VMS (almost, but not quite extinct) are much more common at higher classification levels but unheard of at unclassified levels.
That's weird. I thought I had something clever to say, but now I can't remember what it was.