Very nice! Actually, I had thought about snipping the HTML response, but left it in there after much soul-searching. But I'll use that Lynx trick from now on.
[tom@hal tom]$ telnet www.rpv.org 80 Trying 205.147.245.156... Connected to www.rpv.org. Escape character is '^]'. get / http/1.0
HTTP/1.1 501 Method Not Implemented Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 17:23:16 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>501 Method Not Implemented</TITLE> </HEAD><BODY> <H1>Meth od Not Implemented</H1> get to/index.shtml not supported.<P> Invalid method in request get / http/1.0<P> <HR> <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.28 Server at www.vagop.com Port 80</ADDRESS> </BODY></HTML> Connecti on closed by foreign host. [tom@hal tom]$
Yup, that's because gforge.org just hosts the GForge project itself - it doesn't host other folks' projects. Check out that "list of GForge sites" link in the parent post; lots of people and lots of projects are out there using GForge.
The big deal about this particular release was that the source code for this large DARPA-sponsored project is now accessible for browsing or for checking out with anonymous CVS.
More information on Vietnam open source efforts...
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· Score: 5, Informative
A nit on the "dead white males" section...
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....this line:
"Moreover, the substantially greater demands of parenthood upon women make achievement harder."
The problem is that it's difficult to quantify the contribution of a stay-at-home Mom to her childrens' education, welfare, development, etc. It's very significant; it's just difficult to measure with numbers. "Achievement" means different things to different people.
One of the most memorable parts of that evening was when my Linux NFS [Network File System] server died, to the point that the console seemed completely dead (the load of all those Doom WAD files obviously got to it). I was about to press reset when Linus stepped in and said he wanted to work out why it had crashed, so he could fix it. I then watched in complete amazement as Linus exploited a remote file truncation bug he knew about in the NFS server I was running which allowed him to peek into the proc filesystem on the apparently dead server and work out enough to find the bug. Up till then I had considered myself to be a pretty good programmer, and quite good at debugging system crashes, but that incident taught me that I would always be an also-ran who just isn't in the same league as people like Linus.
> Let's say that we want to add a request > to our application from the web.
You can do that using SOAP. Set up a SOAP service using NuSOAP that exports whatever operations you want, then use a Java Swing client that uses Axis to talk to the server. Or you can just use a Ruby command line script on the client. You can use complex types, faults, whatever.
"Prior to ICANN's October 3 directive to shut down the service, Site Finder had been used more than 48 million times by Internet users to get where they want to go online."
"...has been used more than 48 million times...". Makes it sound like folks are eagerly flocking to the Verizon web site to 'use' this service. It's as if the highway administration shut down all lanes of I-95 and then celebrated the increased HOV usage.
"You're proposing to build a box with a light on top of it. The light is supposed to go off when you carry the box into a room that has a Unicorn in it. How do you show that it works?"
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> and they're even up to date!
Well, they're one version behind now that 1.3.29 is out... but they're pretty close.
> lynx --dump --head http://www.site.com
Very nice! Actually, I had thought about snipping the HTML response, but left it in there after much soul-searching. But I'll use that Lynx trick from now on.
> gforge looks like it has some potention
Yup, Tim's done a great job with it.
> it only has 2 projects.
Yup, that's because gforge.org just hosts the GForge project itself - it doesn't host other folks' projects. Check out that "list of GForge sites" link in the parent post; lots of people and lots of projects are out there using GForge.
...to manage its projects - right here.
Seems like GForge is all over the place... here is a list of some known sites, and of course - shameless plug - RubyForge.
> under extreme load.Piece of cake.
> this is a bugfix release of an obscure package
The big deal about this particular release was that the source code for this large DARPA-sponsored project is now accessible for browsing or for checking out with anonymous CVS.
...can be found on the AsiaOSC Vietnam page.
There's a interesting presentation linked to from there also.
....this line:
"Moreover, the substantially greater demands of parenthood upon women make achievement harder."
The problem is that it's difficult to quantify the contribution of a stay-at-home Mom to her childrens' education, welfare, development, etc. It's very significant; it's just difficult to measure with numbers. "Achievement" means different things to different people.
...can be found here.
Fair warning - the linked-to page contains an applet, so be prepared for the usual "computer freezes for 10 seconds" effect if you're running Windows.
...about Linus Torvalds:
One of the most memorable parts of that evening was when my Linux NFS [Network File System] server died, to the point that the console seemed completely dead (the load of all those Doom WAD files obviously got to it). I was about to press reset when Linus stepped in and said he wanted to work out why it had crashed, so he could fix it. I then watched in complete amazement as Linus exploited a remote file truncation bug he knew about in the NFS server I was running which allowed him to peek into the proc filesystem on the apparently dead server and work out enough to find the bug. Up till then I had considered myself to be a pretty good programmer, and quite good at debugging system crashes, but that incident taught me that I would always be an also-ran who just isn't in the same league as
people like Linus.
This is from an interview here.
...like Mitsubishi's Wakamura.
Hey, Montavista's hiring...
Yup, you can script Open Office using Python.
...from the distant past, there's this Slashdot thread from way back in 1999.
There's a "Summary of Points" post a ways down that page that nicely encapsulates most of the discussion.
> Let's say that we want to add a request
> to our application from the web.
You can do that using SOAP. Set up a SOAP service using NuSOAP that exports whatever operations you want, then use a Java Swing client that uses Axis to talk to the server. Or you can just use a Ruby command line script on the client. You can use complex types, faults, whatever.
We do this on GForge; it's not a problem.
+1, Better Analogy.
Oops, right you are, thanks.
From the Verizon site article:
"Prior to ICANN's October 3 directive to shut down the service, Site Finder had
been used more than 48 million times by Internet users to get where they want to go online."
"...has been used more than 48 million times...". Makes it sound like folks are eagerly flocking to the Verizon web site to 'use' this service. It's as if the highway administration shut down all lanes of I-95 and then celebrated the increased HOV usage.
> But I have a lot of mailboxes (~30)
Yeah, I agree, that's a pretty tedious operation. It'd be nice if there was a command line script to drive that import process....
Hm. Are they just mbox files - or can you export them to mbox files? Evolution can handle importing those...
...you'll find Outport very handy (here's a screenshot).
It works quite well; I was able to convert most of my data with it.
...but "winning" seems to be accurate if the stats at thecounter.com and W3Schools are at all trustworthy.
On the other hand, I'm not sure if, in these numbers, "Netscape" includes "Mozilla".
P.S. This HTTP POST request sent by Mozilla.
> I am encouraged [for once] at the level
:-)
> of discourse we engaged in here
Likewise! Best regards; see you in future discussions
Oops! I misread that part of the review. Thanks for the note.
....can be found here. My favorite:
"You're proposing to build a box with a light on top of it. The light is supposed to go off when you carry the box into a room that has a Unicorn in it. How do you show that it works?"