If you are using Windows for Coldfusion you can get all sorts of extensions that make the program useful.
Most of those extentions do not exist for Solaris.
I do not intend to have to move to an unstable platform to get a few features.
Besides, PHP give me much of the functionality of Perl without having to add in the security problems of Perl.
As for the language syntax, if you have a Perl and C background, it is a no-brainer. I knwo that it is alot to ask to insist that people have a programming background to write applications. I guess that is what seperates the professional programmers from the web wannabies and Visual Basic coders.
I currently use Cold Fusion at work. I may not have to for long. For months I tried to convince my boss that Linux and PHP was a much better solution than Solaris and Cold Fusion. (And *much* more cost effective.)
Then I installed RedHat 6.2 on his Sparc 2.
He has changed his mind.
Now that he has seen what it can do on his home machine, he is more than impressed. PHP runs rings are ound Cold Fusion when it comes to features and timeliness of updates. I am *still* waiting for our 4.5.1 bug fix release for Solaris. I will probably have to call them and scream until I am blue in the face to get it, even though we have a paid subscription for the software.
Linux and PHP are just a better choice all around.
As long as these programs return valid data, they will be a danger to themselves and others.
Why not just feed their database with bogus data?
Just write a perl script to change the ID number for doubleclick and all the other ad sites to some random value. Change it early and often. Soon, the data will be worth little to nothing.
Screwing with the data is the only way to be sure!
Another interesting point is that in the "real world" you can have a word that is trademarked multiple times to cover different spheres of product useage. For example, the same trademark could be used in plumbing supplies and in shoes without overlap. But now that everyone if fighting for their place on the web, you have trademarks collapsing into the same namespace.
And the one with the most lawyers win. (Who cares who was there first.)
We are now seeing a net where some have greater rights than others. Where certain feudal lords are allowed dominion over the lesser peons. Ask yourself why a "trademark" should have more validity for a domain name than a slang term, a common name or some other usage? Yet that assumption is made in all of these cases.
Programmers and techs built the net. Afterwards the marketing and corporate slime came in and said "thank you. We now own this." We are being treated as serfs in our own land. Creating value for the landowners and then kicked off the land when they find it has value.
It would be more useful if you could modify the code. Then someone could fix the CE posix routines to actually be posix compliant. (For example, actually have them return error codes on opening of a socket.)
If you can't use it to get the bugs fixed, it is not of much use other than to point and laugh.
I have a friend who recieved a beta version of the LinuxPPC 2000. His experience is that it is a much nicer install than the 1999 version.
I have installed the 1999 versions and I hope so. I really hate to say it, but it was the most painful Linux install I have ever had to do. (And I have been using Linux since the 0.96 days.)
pdisk is a tool that fits its name. (And just what your dirty mind though of it the first time you saw that name.) It takes all of the power of fdisk and hides it by changing most everything and making the most simple tasks difficult. Want to make a 100 meg partition for swap? Better get out that calculator because you will need to figure out the number of blocks yourself. None of those wimpy shortcuts here!
If it was hard for me to get working, you can imagine what this must be like for the average Mac user. I was brough in to do the install because the normally clued Mac consultant could not get it to work properly.
The PowerPC is almost an afterthought in the Linux world and it should not be. Mac users are just as captive to proprietary OSes as Intel users. Maybe even more so. Hopefully that will change. Hopefully, the LinuxPPC 2000 version is that step.
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I am just wondering how they keep the guests from shooting up the place before the ceremony is done.
Walking through the archway of rockets and grenades as they walk down the aisle...
There is always someone out there predicting the "End of the Domanant Way of Doing Things(tm) as We Know It". Usually it boils down to "this thing that I am selling will overshadow all else until nothing is left".
Yeah right!
Network Computers have alot of hurdles to overcome. The biggest one is that Quake III Arena does not play on it. (As well as being able to buy a complete system for less than the price of a network computer.)
These pundits are missing the main thing that people want from computers. They don't want to just surf the web or buy stuff on-line, they want to play games. None of these boxes do very well at that. (Unless you consider a Playstation a "network computer".)
This is the fourth or fifth prediction in the last few years I have seen of the "Death of the PC". (I have seen more if you go back 10 years.) It is almost like the continual predictions of the End of the World. I will believe it when I see it.
Just mix in the names of INS managers into the Green Card list. Make them have the risk of being deported if the applications are not handled in a timely manner.
Of course the delays are probably due to the INS using Windows or some proprietary system written by the lowest bidder.
Soon after my wife and daughter got a chance to play it, they demanded accounts on my Linux box.
After playing Quake III Arena, she wants Linux on HER box!
A seriously adicting game. I would enjoy it more if they fixed the AI player bug involving regenerating armies... But even then, it is still a hell of a lot of fun to play and worth the money. (Loki did a fantastic job on the port.)
I can't wait to see what they do with Alpha Centari.
I am sitting here at Stream right now. They still have staffing problems, but most of it is hiring people with NO computer experience, giving them a week of training, and then throwing them on the phones.
I know of people getting less training than that at Stream. Kind of sad because that model of support could work very well.
The big question is: Do they still support Netscape or did that change in the AOL takeover?
When Mosaic Communications Corp (AKA Netscape) first went public, they outsourced their support to a company called Corporate Software (now known as "Stream" (as in "What end of the Stream are you one?").
There were six of us back then, supporting the PC, Mac and about 9 flavors of Unix. I lasted the longest, until the 2.0 betas. (In fact, I still have my Mosaic Communications t-shirt (with the angry Mozilla) and a brochure from the first few months.)
There were some good times and alot of bad. Since we were in Oregon and they were in California, they were willing to ignore us at times. It took a bit to get them to deal with the bugs we and our customers uncovered. (Leading to some very strange calls.)
And then there were the staffing issues. Because many of the original team left for other jobs, we were whittled down to TWO people at one point. (Doing 70 calls a day for a while.) When 1.2 was released to Egghead stores, we had FOUR people on the phones. (And the typos and bugs were bad enough that we got lots and lots of calls.) The staffing problems were not all Netscape's fault though. Corporate Software did not staff for the load that they expected out of a weird power play trying to keep Netscape current on their bills. (Which they were holding back on because Corporate Software was playing these games.)
There are a whole lot more stories I could tell. It was an interesting time in my life. Not certain if I would want to do it again...
And, yes, as far as I know, Stream is still doing support for Netscape. (At least since I talked to any Stream employees, but it has been a while.)
One of the funniest things I have seen in a while. (I laughed hard enough to disturb my co-workers. (As if I do not disturb them as it is...)) I especially liked the model in black latex with the banana holder. Is that a banana or are you just happy to view our web site?
Little to nothing about the technology and everything to do with the clothing. ("Mmmmm! Shiny!" - Homer Simpson)
Someone using the current technology hype to show off bad future fashions of the '70s.
"And remember my friends: Future events, such as these, will happen to YOU in the future!" - Criswell
Getting rid of Linux partitions is easy in DOS. I have done it a number of times on test drives.
Ever try to get rid of an NTFS partition in Win95? It requires major surgery to remove it. (The last time I used Linux fdisk. It could actually kill the beast.)
Microsoft also seems to hate boot managers. They seem to think that it is some sort of plot against them. Ever try to get a version of DOS and Windows to coexist? The only way I have found to do it involved Partition Manager and a lot of patience. When I "upgraded" the machine to Win98, it claimed that it found boot manager and it would not work after the install. Just changing the active flag back on the boot manager partition fixed it.
Sometimes I think that these press releases are written by closet Linux supporters. I have a real hard time believing that people are that clueless and misinformed. (Until I wander across the building to marketing.)
You were not the only one to find out about it late. I got the advert in the mail and went "Oh, this looks cool". Then realized it was later that week.
I watched alot of spy films as a kid. James Bond never stuck in my mind back then. Only Q and Derek Flint seemed to do that. I enjoyed the creative use of technology and the glee that he enjoyed showing off all of his cool toys. (And his displeasure when they were not taken care of or mishandled.) One of the people who made me want to get into lasers and computers at an early age. (About 9-10. And that was the early 70s!)
Probably only the second death of a public figure to affect me emotionally. (The other was William Gaines, the publisher of Mad magazine.)
It shows you just how well he did when he had as big a following as the lead character.
Having read the code for RSAREF1 and RSAREF2, refuse to use either. RSAREF2 seems to just be a minor patch release for RSAREF1 (do the diffs and see for yourself.). The code is pretty ugly, it is not 64bit clean code, and is a pain to compile.
With much better RSA libraries out there, why use it, other than the legal threats from RSA.
I am glad to see the hack (though he could have used a spell checker). I doubt it will make a dent in the clueless moralists who want to rule the hearts and minds of Australia though.
Control freaks are everywhere. Right now, they are just looking for an excuse. In Australia, the excuse in porn. Now how they figure that pictures of nekid people having sex is "harmful" is beyond me. Maybe if you believe that it will cause you to burn in Hell from the threats of an Angry God. (Personaly I believe that that God is more of an overactive imagination and neurotic pychosis than any actual being.) But those who confuse their religion with reality will take it at face value and go along with it, no matter how absurd the rule set.
What it comes down to it that the "problem" of porn gives them an excuse to control the views of others. Directly by requiring preapproval of what they can and cannot say, or indirectly by hiding other viewpoints from them. (Note that this excuse could be "bomb making materials", "drug information", or "crush videos". It does not matter. It just has to be a threat that people react emotionally to. (Because when emotion is involved, people stop thinking rationally.))
It is too bad that the average person in Australia does not see through this smoke screen. Just goes to show how passive people have become.
This type of survelience is starting to remind me of Norman Spinrad's _Agent of Chaos_.
In the future the hegemony controls everything. In most public places there is installed an "eye and a beam". This is a camera and a radioactive source with a lead plug. If an unauthorized act occurs in range of the camera, the lead plug is popped and everyone in range is killed. (The idea is better that 1,000 subjects be killed than an unpermitted act go unpunished.) It turns out that the computers that monitored the cameras could not catch everything, so they were programmed to go off at random on occasion just to keep people afraid of possibly commiting an "unpermitted act".
We are moving quickly towards that sort of society. The police are looking for more and more "unpermitted acts". Any sort of deviation from the norm is evidence of a possible "crime". (And we all know that anything deemed a "crime" needs to be punished.)
An additional "benifit" to these cameras (to the rulers) is that you have a means to get dirt on anyone. Your political enemies not have to worry about doing ANYTHING in public that might get noticed. Being that cautious 24 hours a day is a terrible stress and will help break the most fervent opposition member.
But remember that this is all being done for your own safety and public good. Go back to watching TV and reading your government provided newspaper.
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If you are using Windows for Coldfusion you can get all sorts of extensions that make the program useful.
Most of those extentions do not exist for Solaris.
I do not intend to have to move to an unstable platform to get a few features.
Besides, PHP give me much of the functionality of Perl without having to add in the security problems of Perl.
As for the language syntax, if you have a Perl and C background, it is a no-brainer. I knwo that it is alot to ask to insist that people have a programming background to write applications. I guess that is what seperates the professional programmers from the web wannabies and Visual Basic coders.
I currently use Cold Fusion at work. I may not have to for long. For months I tried to convince my boss that Linux and PHP was a much better solution than Solaris and Cold Fusion. (And *much* more cost effective.)
Then I installed RedHat 6.2 on his Sparc 2.
He has changed his mind.
Now that he has seen what it can do on his home machine, he is more than impressed. PHP runs rings are ound Cold Fusion when it comes to features and timeliness of updates. I am *still* waiting for our 4.5.1 bug fix release for Solaris. I will probably have to call them and scream until I am blue in the face to get it, even though we have a paid subscription for the software.
Linux and PHP are just a better choice all around.
Was the babelfish meant to be a futuristic herring-aid?
As long as these programs return valid data, they will be a danger to themselves and others.
Why not just feed their database with bogus data?
Just write a perl script to change the ID number for doubleclick and all the other ad sites to some random value. Change it early and often. Soon, the data will be worth little to nothing.
Screwing with the data is the only way to be sure!
Another interesting point is that in the "real world" you can have a word that is trademarked multiple times to cover different spheres of product useage. For example, the same trademark could be used in plumbing supplies and in shoes without overlap. But now that everyone if fighting for their place on the web, you have trademarks collapsing into the same namespace.
And the one with the most lawyers win. (Who cares who was there first.)
We are now seeing a net where some have greater rights than others. Where certain feudal lords are allowed dominion over the lesser peons. Ask yourself why a "trademark" should have more validity for a domain name than a slang term, a common name or some other usage? Yet that assumption is made in all of these cases.
Programmers and techs built the net. Afterwards the marketing and corporate slime came in and said "thank you. We now own this." We are being treated as serfs in our own land. Creating value for the landowners and then kicked off the land when they find it has value.
Maybe it is time to build something else...
Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism.
It would be more useful if you could modify the code. Then someone could fix the CE posix routines to actually be posix compliant. (For example, actually have them return error codes on opening of a socket.)
If you can't use it to get the bugs fixed, it is not of much use other than to point and laugh.
"Is it true you treat women like objects?"
(And I will avoid the comments about references to private parts...)
I have a friend who recieved a beta version of the LinuxPPC 2000. His experience is that it is a much nicer install than the 1999 version.
I have installed the 1999 versions and I hope so. I really hate to say it, but it was the most painful Linux install I have ever had to do. (And I have been using Linux since the 0.96 days.)
pdisk is a tool that fits its name. (And just what your dirty mind though of it the first time you saw that name.) It takes all of the power of fdisk and hides it by changing most everything and making the most simple tasks difficult. Want to make a 100 meg partition for swap? Better get out that calculator because you will need to figure out the number of blocks yourself. None of those wimpy shortcuts here!
If it was hard for me to get working, you can imagine what this must be like for the average Mac user. I was brough in to do the install because the normally clued Mac consultant could not get it to work properly.
The PowerPC is almost an afterthought in the Linux world and it should not be. Mac users are just as captive to proprietary OSes as Intel users. Maybe even more so. Hopefully that will change. Hopefully, the LinuxPPC 2000 version is that step.
I am just wondering how they keep the guests from shooting up the place before the ceremony is done.
Walking through the archway of rockets and grenades as they walk down the aisle...
I wonder what they have to do to get a divorce?
Just the thing to play Alan Parson Project albums on!
Bwahahaha!
There is always someone out there predicting the "End of the Domanant Way of Doing Things(tm) as We Know It". Usually it boils down to "this thing that I am selling will overshadow all else until nothing is left".
Yeah right!
Network Computers have alot of hurdles to overcome. The biggest one is that Quake III Arena does not play on it. (As well as being able to buy a complete system for less than the price of a network computer.)
These pundits are missing the main thing that people want from computers. They don't want to just surf the web or buy stuff on-line, they want to play games. None of these boxes do very well at that. (Unless you consider a Playstation a "network computer".)
This is the fourth or fifth prediction in the last few years I have seen of the "Death of the PC". (I have seen more if you go back 10 years.) It is almost like the continual predictions of the End of the World. I will believe it when I see it.
Just mix in the names of INS managers into the Green Card list. Make them have the risk of being deported if the applications are not handled in a timely manner.
Of course the delays are probably due to the INS using Windows or some proprietary system written by the lowest bidder.
I recieved a copy of Heroes 3 for Christmas.
Soon after my wife and daughter got a chance to play it, they demanded accounts on my Linux box.
After playing Quake III Arena, she wants Linux on HER box!
A seriously adicting game. I would enjoy it more if they fixed the AI player bug involving regenerating armies... But even then, it is still a hell of a lot of fun to play and worth the money. (Loki did a fantastic job on the port.)
I can't wait to see what they do with Alpha Centari.
And in other news...
President Clinton has proclaimed the One Billionth web page to belong to a young Bosnian orphan of indeterminate gender.
I know of people getting less training than that at Stream. Kind of sad because that model of support could work very well.
The big question is: Do they still support Netscape or did that change in the AOL takeover?
When Mosaic Communications Corp (AKA Netscape) first went public, they outsourced their support to a company called Corporate Software (now known as "Stream" (as in "What end of the Stream are you one?").
There were six of us back then, supporting the PC, Mac and about 9 flavors of Unix. I lasted the longest, until the 2.0 betas. (In fact, I still have my Mosaic Communications t-shirt (with the angry Mozilla) and a brochure from the first few months.)
There were some good times and alot of bad. Since we were in Oregon and they were in California, they were willing to ignore us at times. It took a bit to get them to deal with the bugs we and our customers uncovered. (Leading to some very strange calls.)
And then there were the staffing issues. Because many of the original team left for other jobs, we were whittled down to TWO people at one point. (Doing 70 calls a day for a while.) When 1.2 was released to Egghead stores, we had FOUR people on the phones. (And the typos and bugs were bad enough that we got lots and lots of calls.) The staffing problems were not all Netscape's fault though. Corporate Software did not staff for the load that they expected out of a weird power play trying to keep Netscape current on their bills. (Which they were holding back on because Corporate Software was playing these games.)
There are a whole lot more stories I could tell. It was an interesting time in my life. Not certain if I would want to do it again...
And, yes, as far as I know, Stream is still doing support for Netscape. (At least since I talked to any Stream employees, but it has been a while.)
Little to nothing about the technology and everything to do with the clothing. ("Mmmmm! Shiny!" - Homer Simpson)
Someone using the current technology hype to show off bad future fashions of the '70s.
"And remember my friends: Future events, such as these, will happen to YOU in the future!" - Criswell
Getting rid of Linux partitions is easy in DOS. I have done it a number of times on test drives.
Ever try to get rid of an NTFS partition in Win95? It requires major surgery to remove it. (The last time I used Linux fdisk. It could actually kill the beast.)
Microsoft also seems to hate boot managers. They seem to think that it is some sort of plot against them. Ever try to get a version of DOS and Windows to coexist? The only way I have found to do it involved Partition Manager and a lot of patience. When I "upgraded" the machine to Win98, it claimed that it found boot manager and it would not work after the install. Just changing the active flag back on the boot manager partition fixed it.
Sometimes I think that these press releases are written by closet Linux supporters. I have a real hard time believing that people are that clueless and misinformed. (Until I wander across the building to marketing.)
You were not the only one to find out about it late. I got the advert in the mail and went "Oh, this looks cool". Then realized it was later that week.
Maybe next time...
Evidently Desmond Llywellen finished the movie "Escape 2000" shortly before his death. Evidently _HE_ gets to save the world in this one!
Hopefully it will make it to this part of the world.
I watched alot of spy films as a kid. James Bond never stuck in my mind back then. Only Q and Derek Flint seemed to do that. I enjoyed the creative use of technology and the glee that he enjoyed showing off all of his cool toys. (And his displeasure when they were not taken care of or mishandled.) One of the people who made me want to get into lasers and computers at an early age. (About 9-10. And that was the early 70s!)
Probably only the second death of a public figure to affect me emotionally. (The other was William Gaines, the publisher of Mad magazine.)
It shows you just how well he did when he had as big a following as the lead character.
He will be missed.
Having read the code for RSAREF1 and RSAREF2, refuse to use either. RSAREF2 seems to just be a minor patch release for RSAREF1 (do the diffs and see for yourself.). The code is pretty ugly, it is not 64bit clean code, and is a pain to compile.
With much better RSA libraries out there, why use it, other than the legal threats from RSA.
I am glad to see the hack (though he could have used a spell checker). I doubt it will make a dent in the clueless moralists who want to rule the hearts and minds of Australia though.
Control freaks are everywhere. Right now, they are just looking for an excuse. In Australia, the excuse in porn. Now how they figure that pictures of nekid people having sex is "harmful" is beyond me. Maybe if you believe that it will cause you to burn in Hell from the threats of an Angry God. (Personaly I believe that that God is more of an overactive imagination and neurotic pychosis than any actual being.) But those who confuse their religion with reality will take it at face value and go along with it, no matter how absurd the rule set.
What it comes down to it that the "problem" of porn gives them an excuse to control the views of others. Directly by requiring preapproval of what they can and cannot say, or indirectly by hiding other viewpoints from them. (Note that this excuse could be "bomb making materials", "drug information", or "crush videos". It does not matter. It just has to be a threat that people react emotionally to. (Because when emotion is involved, people stop thinking rationally.))
It is too bad that the average person in Australia does not see through this smoke screen. Just goes to show how passive people have become.
This type of survelience is starting to remind me of Norman Spinrad's _Agent of Chaos_.
In the future the hegemony controls everything. In most public places there is installed an "eye and a beam". This is a camera and a radioactive source with a lead plug. If an unauthorized act occurs in range of the camera, the lead plug is popped and everyone in range is killed. (The idea is better that 1,000 subjects be killed than an unpermitted act go unpunished.) It turns out that the computers that monitored the cameras could not catch everything, so they were programmed to go off at random on occasion just to keep people afraid of possibly commiting an "unpermitted act".
We are moving quickly towards that sort of society. The police are looking for more and more "unpermitted acts". Any sort of deviation from the norm is evidence of a possible "crime". (And we all know that anything deemed a "crime" needs to be punished.)
An additional "benifit" to these cameras (to the rulers) is that you have a means to get dirt on anyone. Your political enemies not have to worry about doing ANYTHING in public that might get noticed. Being that cautious 24 hours a day is a terrible stress and will help break the most fervent opposition member.
But remember that this is all being done for your own safety and public good. Go back to watching TV and reading your government provided newspaper.