Re:Breaking MySQL support - what *sses
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PHP 5 Beta 1
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They haven't broken the MySQL extension, and it won't be any more difficult to support. All distributions will still be able to ship binary packages that link with MySQL. You won't need to compile or link anything yourself, unless compiling PHP is something you like to do anyway.
If there was some way that you could allow the user to have multiple PHP versions all being used as Apache modules where the user could select the one they want using their.htaccess file, that would be a possible solution.
To my knowledge this is easily doable, and often done. Although I've never properly looked into it (I keep as far away as possible from virtual hosted environments where this would make sense), I believe the idea would be to compile apache modules for each different version of php you wanted to support, LoadModule each one in in your httpd.conf, then bind each one to a specific file extension (.php3,.php4, etc).
Re:That's why English is a "living" language.
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Isn't It Ironic?
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Indeed the dictionary is not supposed to be so much the dictator of what is correct and acceptable word usage, but as a reference of current and common usage.
If we invent a new word that becomes part of common use, then the dictionary compilers do not say "this is not a word", they say "we have a new word". Same goes for definitions of current words.
Although having said that, I don't know that watering down a charming wee word like irony is really something we should be aiming towards:)
Except that the recent article about the talks with independant labels said that encoding was left up to the label. So the quality of encoding will be dependant purely on the label's attention to detail.
Spamassassin doesn't require training though, because it doesn't do baysian filtering.
When I was still using Spamassassin on the client side, I just setup an Evolution filter to pipe the email through Spamassassin, then move/delete the email based on Spamassassin's exit code.
There's a few client side baysian filtering solutions out there though. Someone else mentioned POPFile, which seems to be a popular solution.
Often in the corporate world they'll favour going with well integrated brand name products over expensive admins or admin education to deal with a disparate array of technologies.
Nat was talking about OS X in corporate environments.
So whilst it sounds like you've managed to get a sweet setup for little cost, it doesn't really have much bearing on what Nat was saying or where Ximian is trying to go.
And as an aside: Ximian quite neatly solve those software update issues you complain about, with their Red Carpet package manager.
I believe the plan was to use the 1.4 release as a way to shift to the Gnome 2 framework whilst maintaining feature parity with Evolution 1.2.
So now that that's done, I guess the Evolution team will go into feature add mode again. Unless of course they're going to let Evolution sit for a while, and shift onto a new project.
But yea, my vote would go towards baysian filtering too. I've been finding Spamassassin has been fallen behind in the spam war lately. Baysian filtering might be the answer.
But to take this tangent further: Is the client really the right place for spam filtering? There's plenty of server side baysian filtering solutions out there. Although I guess that's largely dependent on your environment. If you've got no control over the mail server, then the client's your only option.
Hah. The box I tried it on was a Win98 thing going through a LAN link. I figured it was just poorly tested Win98 specific stuff, but it's obviously a more general fuck up;)
connection dialogue box says: "You are currently not connected to the Internet. Please take the appropriate steps and try again."
Welp, that was a short lived experiment. I guess they need to do a bit of work on their network code. Odd, in that it's supposedly an intelligent networking application.
fyi: i got the download manager to work just fine on a debian unstable box. of course, that doesn't excuse the fact that the app is a buggy and just generally dodgy otherwise.
all he would do, I presume, is to limit this neat but useless [snip] thing out of mainstream for a long time
no offense, but i call bullshit. this idea gets overused far too much on slashdot.
people patent their ideas to protect their possible income. whilst frivolous and trivial patents are undoubtably a bad thing, patenting something truely unique and new is a perfectly valid protective measure to take. and i'm sure most inventors would much rather license their patents out at reasonable rates than to hold them forever without gaining any income from them at all.
although whether this is a valid patent or not, i'm not going to touch on. that's an argument that should be happening at the patent offices.
It is absolutely and completely correct. I'll find some cases to cite in a moment, but the precedent is clearly against for profit fair use. You will always have a much easier case if your parody/fair use situation is non profit.
Here's my list of internet fair use bookmarks that I've collected, having dealt with being attacked in similar situations before:
I stand corrected. Looks like newer versions of MoodLogic are providing music suggestions based on your tastes. Good shit. MoogLogic's definitely a quality app, as long as you're running windows.
MoodLogic, whilst an excellent app, is aiming to provide something slightly different.
MoodLogic is all about helping you organise your music collection. It provides extensive metadata on your tracks, and allows you to create playlists based on artist, genre, mood, etc.
If I'm reading right, Audioscrobbler is about providing you with suggestions of new artists based on your current listening preferences. Something that (last time i checked) MoogLogic doesn't do.
smarty has been shown to be faster than FastTemplate (can't find the benchmarks just at the moment. smarty.php.net isn't responding). Smarty's caching can also massively increase speed, especially with pages requiring hefty database work.
Re:PHP is good but TAL is the next generation of S
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TAL looks interesting, but it does get tiring reading people say over and over things like this:
"Yet all these SSI technologies have in common that they still don't manage to really split Design from content."
Any web scripting language worth its salt has at least one templating system available for it. For PHP I prefer smarty.
"The sales! Look at the sales! I am so HARD for this project!"
dodgy Amiga Mozilla user agent string
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PPC Amigas Go On Sale
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Somewhat off topic, but I've been getting a charmingly interesting user agent string in my apache logs lately, (which has the magical ability to segfault my stats engine, webalizer).
that string would be: tSi Mozilla/5_EXPERIMENTAL (AOS4.1 ALPHA; PPC)
Amiga OS 4.1 Alpha? hrm. Is this string fake? 4.1 when 4.0 isn't out yet?
But now I'd like to know why you think a "session ID" is just fine
because session cookies are set by the session handling of the scripting language, to handle single session variables, rather than return visit information.
looking through my cookies now, i can't find the freedom cookie. which would suggest it had a pretty brief expiry limit.
Your conspiracy theory auto-detector-and-refuter threshold is set too low
perhaps. i certainly have a few conspiracy theories of my own with regards to the american government. but malicious use of cookies is not one of them;)
this functionality (http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=%s etc) is included in the powertoys/tools for ie6 as well. concerned parties please do your own microsoft downloads searching.
Speaking of Google, here's a bigger flaw in the pay-for-surf model: How do you find stuff you are looking for? Sites that require a subscription to reference obviously aren't going to be indexed, so even if the site had something I wanted and would pay for, how am I going to find it?
easy. just have a bit of code in your subscription only pages that lets them be viewable if it's googlebot, but not otherwise. of course this opens up the exploit of people adjusting their browsers to pretend to be googlebot. but, nothing's perfect
mozilla still has its quirks that disqualify it as a day to day browser for me. but don't fret - i check every release, and the latest has come very close to replacing netcaptor. there's more to netcaptor than just tabbed browsing though.
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They haven't broken the MySQL extension, and it won't be any more difficult to support. All distributions will still be able to ship binary packages that link with MySQL. You won't need to compile or link anything yourself, unless compiling PHP is something you like to do anyway.
Stop being so dramatic.
If there was some way that you could allow the user to have multiple PHP versions all being used as Apache modules where the user could select the one they want using their .htaccess file, that would be a possible solution.
.php4, etc).
To my knowledge this is easily doable, and often done. Although I've never properly looked into it (I keep as far away as possible from virtual hosted environments where this would make sense), I believe the idea would be to compile apache modules for each different version of php you wanted to support, LoadModule each one in in your httpd.conf, then bind each one to a specific file extension (.php3,
Indeed the dictionary is not supposed to be so much the dictator of what is correct and acceptable word usage, but as a reference of current and common usage.
:)
If we invent a new word that becomes part of common use, then the dictionary compilers do not say "this is not a word", they say "we have a new word". Same goes for definitions of current words.
Although having said that, I don't know that watering down a charming wee word like irony is really something we should be aiming towards
Except that the recent article about the talks with independant labels said that encoding was left up to the label. So the quality of encoding will be dependant purely on the label's attention to detail.
Spamassassin doesn't require training though, because it doesn't do baysian filtering.
When I was still using Spamassassin on the client side, I just setup an Evolution filter to pipe the email through Spamassassin, then move/delete the email based on Spamassassin's exit code.
There's a few client side baysian filtering solutions out there though. Someone else mentioned POPFile, which seems to be a popular solution.
Your knowledge is expensive.
Often in the corporate world they'll favour going with well integrated brand name products over expensive admins or admin education to deal with a disparate array of technologies.
Nat was talking about OS X in corporate environments.
So whilst it sounds like you've managed to get a sweet setup for little cost, it doesn't really have much bearing on what Nat was saying or where Ximian is trying to go.
And as an aside: Ximian quite neatly solve those software update issues you complain about, with their Red Carpet package manager.
I believe the plan was to use the 1.4 release as a way to shift to the Gnome 2 framework whilst maintaining feature parity with Evolution 1.2.
So now that that's done, I guess the Evolution team will go into feature add mode again. Unless of course they're going to let Evolution sit for a while, and shift onto a new project.
But yea, my vote would go towards baysian filtering too. I've been finding Spamassassin has been fallen behind in the spam war lately. Baysian filtering might be the answer.
But to take this tangent further: Is the client really the right place for spam filtering? There's plenty of server side baysian filtering solutions out there. Although I guess that's largely dependent on your environment. If you've got no control over the mail server, then the client's your only option.
Hah. The box I tried it on was a Win98 thing going through a LAN link. I figured it was just poorly tested Win98 specific stuff, but it's obviously a more general fuck up ;)
connection dialogue box says: "You are currently not connected to the Internet. Please take the appropriate steps and try again."
Welp, that was a short lived experiment. I guess they need to do a bit of work on their network code. Odd, in that it's supposedly an intelligent networking application.
fyi: i got the download manager to work just fine on a debian unstable box. of course, that doesn't excuse the fact that the app is a buggy and just generally dodgy otherwise.
all he would do, I presume, is to limit this neat but useless [snip] thing out of mainstream for a long time
no offense, but i call bullshit. this idea gets overused far too much on slashdot.
people patent their ideas to protect their possible income. whilst frivolous and trivial patents are undoubtably a bad thing, patenting something truely unique and new is a perfectly valid protective measure to take. and i'm sure most inventors would much rather license their patents out at reasonable rates than to hold them forever without gaining any income from them at all.
although whether this is a valid patent or not, i'm not going to touch on. that's an argument that should be happening at the patent offices.
"parody is diffrent from fair use"
:)
No it's not
It is absolutely and completely correct. I'll find some cases to cite in a moment, but the precedent is clearly against for profit fair use. You will always have a much easier case if your parody/fair use situation is non profit.
Here's my list of internet fair use bookmarks that I've collected, having dealt with being attacked in similar situations before:
The fair use clauses of the law in question
an EFF intellectual property law primer for internet peoples [take note of this quote: "The courts are most likely to find fair use where the use is for noncommercial purposes"]
Arr hell, the rest of my bookmarks are too specific to be of much use here. Those two will suffice.
I stand corrected. Looks like newer versions of MoodLogic are providing music suggestions based on your tastes. Good shit. MoogLogic's definitely a quality app, as long as you're running windows.
MoodLogic, whilst an excellent app, is aiming to provide something slightly different.
MoodLogic is all about helping you organise your music collection. It provides extensive metadata on your tracks, and allows you to create playlists based on artist, genre, mood, etc.
If I'm reading right, Audioscrobbler is about providing you with suggestions of new artists based on your current listening preferences. Something that (last time i checked) MoogLogic doesn't do.
smarty has been shown to be faster than FastTemplate (can't find the benchmarks just at the moment. smarty.php.net isn't responding). Smarty's caching can also massively increase speed, especially with pages requiring hefty database work.
TAL looks interesting, but it does get tiring reading people say over and over things like this:
"Yet all these SSI technologies have in common that they still don't manage to really split Design from content."
Any web scripting language worth its salt has at least one templating system available for it. For PHP I prefer smarty.
"The sales! Look at the sales! I am so HARD for this project!"
Somewhat off topic, but I've been getting a charmingly interesting user agent string in my apache logs lately, (which has the magical ability to segfault my stats engine, webalizer).
that string would be:
tSi Mozilla/5_EXPERIMENTAL (AOS4.1 ALPHA; PPC)
Amiga OS 4.1 Alpha? hrm. Is this string fake? 4.1 when 4.0 isn't out yet?
But now I'd like to know why you think a "session ID" is just fine
;)
because session cookies are set by the session handling of the scripting language, to handle single session variables, rather than return visit information.
looking through my cookies now, i can't find the freedom cookie. which would suggest it had a pretty brief expiry limit.
Your conspiracy theory auto-detector-and-refuter threshold is set too low
perhaps. i certainly have a few conspiracy theories of my own with regards to the american government. but malicious use of cookies is not one of them
as others have stated, it's just a session ID. check the cookie yourself.
nothing to see here, move along.
this functionality (http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=%s etc) is included in the powertoys/tools for ie6 as well. concerned parties please do your own microsoft downloads searching.
Speaking of Google, here's a bigger flaw in the pay-for-surf model: How do you find stuff you are looking for? Sites that require a subscription to reference obviously aren't going to be indexed, so even if the site had something I wanted and would pay for, how am I going to find it?
easy. just have a bit of code in your subscription only pages that lets them be viewable if it's googlebot, but not otherwise. of course this opens up the exploit of people adjusting their browsers to pretend to be googlebot. but, nothing's perfect
mozilla still has its quirks that disqualify it as a day to day browser for me. but don't fret - i check every release, and the latest has come very close to replacing netcaptor. there's more to netcaptor than just tabbed browsing though.