i lost ``touch'' with php so to speak about a year ago. i gave php up for perl a while ago. does the pear db now come with a conveniant way to install it, or does it come with the main php disto? one of the nifty things about cpan is how easy it is to install perl modules. cpan also represnets a unified development arena for the perl community. pear was trying to do this but i dont think it was having the same effect. that was one of the really frustrating things about php.
which db abstraction layer should i use?
there were quite a few to choose from at the time, and none of them were as mature as dbi.
where should i go to find pre defined modules for php?
there was no central location for this.
the lack of uniformity in the php community can be very disheartening for someone like myself. this might have changed in the last year or so, but when i switched from php to perl it really lacked momentum.
actually according to the *LAW* it's copyright infringement i believe and not theft. there is a distinction in the eyes of the law. the gnu folks talk about this and it makes sense to me.
To continue your analogy, "Windows 2000 is a software layer between applications and hardware, and Unix is a layer between applications and hardware, so...Unix is Windows!"
actually they are both operating systems.
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a simple interface for running external programs, software or gateways under an information server in a platform-independent manner. Currently, the supported information servers are HTTP servers.
php may be more intuitive at first, but it seriously lacks alot of the functionality that comes with other languages like perl and python. while i can only speak for perl, i understand python has a similar component base. perl has cpan which makes php look like a screwdriver in a workshop full of tools. if you only plan on making a web page to take form variables and email them to someone, sure php is great. if you want to make a serious web-based application and you dont want to make everything from scratch then php is really inadiquate.
i speak from expirence here. about a year ago i made the switch from php to perl and i haven't been happier. at the time of leaving the only database abstraction layer was in beta while perl had dbi in a quite stable form.
while i realize the parent was probably a troll, i would strongly encourage people considering php vs (perl, python, etc.) to consider the amount of code already available outside of the base distribution of the scripting language.
yes they are trailers. sorry to suggest otherwise. i figured they (the trailers) would be what is slowing down the site, so i provided a quick link to those.
pdf and postscript were released as open standards as a result we have many tools which can read and write these formats. the only problem i can see with pdf and ps is that they are not really ment for editing. while you can edit a pdf, i wouldnt really recommend it. i think xml would be better for long term storage.
can i use remote assistance to export display's from unix-to-windows, or unix-to-unix? i dont think the parent really wants to export displays from windows-to-windows. i believe the unix display export functionality is what he is going for.
bill clinton, check out michael moore's book stupid white men. read the chapter entitled ``democratic party.. doa'' or something like that. the democrats are no more innocent than the republicans. they get their funding from the same people-the citizens who think there is a difference are just lying to themselves.
Between the new high-grade discoveries and the mine's modernized facilities, Red Lake is finally performing along the lines that McEwen had envisioned. In 1996, Red Lake was producing at an annual rate of 53,000 ounces at $360 an ounce. By 2001, the mine was producing 504,000 ounces at $59 an ounce. On the open market, gold currently trades for about $307 an ounce. The grade of the ore at McEwen's mine is extraordinarily high, confirming his suspicion that the vein that ran through the neighboring mine continues through Red Lake.
is this a typo?
53000*360 = $19,080,000 504000*59 = $29,736,000
while the second number is larger than the first i find it hard to believe the price dropped from 360 to 59 in 5 years. if it was 60 in 1996 it would make more sense.
i've been looking for a while, but haven't been able to find one. can someone point me to som documentation on how to install/configure openafs for linux?
if you want a relational storage solution for you photographs, i've been working on something you might find useful. currently it use's a web based front end, and generates thumbnails. it supports grouping files, but no real export functionality has been written yet.
Standards are a pipe-dream. Today distributions might adhere to LSB and proudly state so. But they turn around and add many proprietary (i.e. non-LSB) features. These features in turn become depended on by developers simply because of convenience. These features then become de facto standards and then LSB becomes irrelavant. Today you might as well simply say Red Hat is the Linux standard.
then the lsb would adopt this standard. standards evolve, that's quite natural. the lsb will be a nice place for someone who wants to implement something for linux to go
They have more momentum than the other distributions (especially in corporate America where it really counts). I use Slackware myself and it is very sad to see all the Red Hat-isms introduced. I used Slack 3.2 and then switched to 7. It was quite a shock to see RPM integrated into Slack. Think of it as Israel and Palestine calling a truce.
i think peace between israel and palestine would be a nice thing. just like i think standards in linux would be nice. i've used quite a few dist's and i would much rather them be coherant. it's a pain in the ass to figure out how to configure the network in debian, redhat, slack, etc. i think that standards are the only way to bring piece to linux.
is the right thing. pay for binaries, get source for free. isn't this what all the major linux vendors do anyhow?
i cannot speak for all of them but redhat, mandrake, sackware, and debian all allow you to download iso's of binaries (at least mandrake and slack used to). redhat also allows you to download the sources if you so desire. so not that's not how all the linux vendors do it. if you want you can check out for your self. my mirror of fresh rpm's mirror can be found here: rpm's and source rpms You can also find the iso's here which i sucked down from red hat: iso's
i'm not saying this is how all vendors should do it, but it's the one i prefer.
apt is package independent. i use rpm and apt on redhat, and it works very well. it may not be specified on united linux's page, but rpm is the package management system specified in the lsb i believe. since united will probably try to comply with the lsb, i would expect them to use rpm also.
I'm really glad they're pushing for LSB compliance, but RH has promised they will be releasing a LSB 1.1 compliant distro this year. Since 7.3 isn't it, that means it'll have to be what will undoubtably be called RH 8.0 and will probably be released this Fall/early Winter, at least based on their past release patterns.
i believe the lsb 1.1 requires gcc 3.1, and the redhat 7.x stuff uses the broken 2.9x version of gcc. redhat increments the major version number (7-->8) when they break binary compatability, so the earliest version with lsb 1.1 compatability would have to be 8.
As an aside, the GNOME/KDE thing is about to get very interesting... GNOME 2 is like a couple weeks from release, and it's going to be the default desktop for Solaris, HP-UX, and (of course) Red Hat.
i'm not sure what you mean here. when you install redhat it asks you which default desktop to use. i'm using kickstart, so i have it set as an option, but i dont know how it will be set as the default for red hat when that is the choice of the user.
i like kde, but i'm not rooting for anyone. i think they all have nice stuff to offer, and should be persued.
after the users have aquired the software (if it's gpl'ed), they are free (as in speech) to do whatever they want with it. if they want to put it on their webserver and give it away for free then it's their perogative.
Now, I'm most productive on Slackware. Because I know the system so well that doing stuff from scratch is _easier_ and _faster_ than using tools like rpm and linuxconf. (overall, of course, some things are still faster with linuxconf).
i'll admit that i use redhat, and have for about 4 years... i didnt realize it had been so lon until i typed it. now wrt linuxconf. you dont have to use linuxconf in redhat. it's basically a graphical front end to all the stuff in/etc. i've used linuxconf a couple times when i was bored and playing around. you can always edit the configuration files by restart services, kill processes, etc. by hand. in this manner you have just as much freedom.
similarly, you can compile your own programs, and roll your own rpm's. you have pretty much the same freedom in redhat as you do in the other distros. the only difference is that they have extra stuff for those who dont want to take advantage of that freedom. to me this is rather ideal. from what i've read about suse, it has really good configuration tools also. i'm not rushing out to change though-i'm pretty satisfied with redhat.
the only dist's i've been tempted to try out are gentoo and sourcemage which have been mentioned before. the're the ones doing things in a different manner which i think sets them apart from the rest.
Slashdot Mirror
i lost ``touch'' with php so to speak about a year ago. i gave php up for perl a while ago. does the pear db now come with a conveniant way to install it, or does it come with the main php disto? one of the nifty things about cpan is how easy it is to install perl modules. cpan also represnets a unified development arena for the perl community. pear was trying to do this but i dont think it was having the same effect. that was one of the really frustrating things about php.
which db abstraction layer should i use?
there were quite a few to choose from at the time, and none of them were as mature as dbi.
where should i go to find pre defined modules for php?
there was no central location for this.
the lack of uniformity in the php community can be very disheartening for someone like myself. this might have changed in the last year or so, but when i switched from php to perl it really lacked momentum.
i tend to agree with you. i stared out using php and gave it up for all the stuff in cpan. i commented on it recently here:
comment
if someone posts a link to pear, keep in mind it's nowhere near as polished and feature rich as cpan.
actually according to the *LAW* it's copyright infringement i believe and not theft. there is a distinction in the eyes of the law. the gnu folks talk about this and it makes sense to me.
while i prefer perl. i believe you can get alot of the same flexability from python.
To continue your analogy, "Windows 2000 is a software layer between applications and hardware, and Unix is a layer between applications and hardware, so...Unix is Windows!"
actually they are both operating systems.
The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a simple interface for running external programs, software or gateways under an information server in a platform-independent manner. Currently, the supported information servers are HTTP servers.
php may be more intuitive at first, but it seriously lacks alot of the functionality that comes with other languages like perl and python. while i can only speak for perl, i understand python has a similar component base. perl has cpan which makes php look like a screwdriver in a workshop full of tools. if you only plan on making a web page to take form variables and email them to someone, sure php is great. if you want to make a serious web-based application and you dont want to make everything from scratch then php is really inadiquate.
i speak from expirence here. about a year ago i made the switch from php to perl and i haven't been happier. at the time of leaving the only database abstraction layer was in beta while perl had dbi in a quite stable form.
while i realize the parent was probably a troll, i would strongly encourage people considering php vs (perl, python, etc.) to consider the amount of code already available outside of the base distribution of the scripting language.
mine is here
yes they are trailers. sorry to suggest otherwise. i figured they (the trailers) would be what is slowing down the site, so i provided a quick link to those.
hey.
i've got a mirror going:
mirror
the movies are here:
movies
have fun.
nope it would make it biased. for people with a similar bias, this review would be fairly useful.
it's pretty amazing isn't it. it's a real shame they will only sell posters for the movie on the website. i would love to get a video cd.
pdf and postscript were released as open standards as a result we have many tools which can read and write these formats. the only problem i can see with pdf and ps is that they are not really ment for editing. while you can edit a pdf, i wouldnt really recommend it. i think xml would be better for long term storage.
can i use remote assistance to export display's from unix-to-windows, or unix-to-unix? i dont think the parent really wants to export displays from windows-to-windows. i believe the unix display export functionality is what he is going for.
bill clinton, check out michael moore's book stupid white men. read the chapter entitled ``democratic party.. doa'' or something like that. the democrats are no more innocent than the republicans. they get their funding from the same people-the citizens who think there is a difference are just lying to themselves.
ah.. i see. that makes more sense. thanks for clearing that up.
Between the new high-grade discoveries and the mine's modernized facilities, Red Lake is finally performing along the lines that McEwen had envisioned. In 1996, Red Lake was producing at an annual rate of 53,000 ounces at $360 an ounce. By 2001, the mine was producing 504,000 ounces at $59 an ounce. On the open market, gold currently trades for about $307 an ounce. The grade of the ore at McEwen's mine is extraordinarily high, confirming his suspicion that the vein that ran through the neighboring mine continues through Red Lake.
is this a typo?
53000*360 = $19,080,000
504000*59 = $29,736,000
while the second number is larger than the first i find it hard to believe the price dropped from 360 to 59 in 5 years. if it was 60 in 1996 it would make more sense.
especially since the hello kitty thing has already been seen here.
i've been looking for a while, but haven't been able to find one. can someone point me to som documentation on how to install/configure openafs for linux?
if you want a relational storage solution for you photographs, i've been working on something you might find useful. currently it use's a web based front end, and generates thumbnails. it supports grouping files, but no real export functionality has been written yet.
you can check it out here:
dbpack
login with user/pw = admin/happy
Standards are a pipe-dream. Today distributions might adhere to LSB and proudly state so. But they turn around and add many proprietary (i.e. non-LSB) features. These features in turn become depended on by developers simply because of convenience. These features then become de facto standards and then LSB becomes irrelavant. Today you might as well simply say Red Hat is the Linux standard.
then the lsb would adopt this standard. standards evolve, that's quite natural. the lsb will be a nice place for someone who wants to implement something for linux to go
They have more momentum than the other distributions (especially in corporate America where it really counts). I use Slackware myself and it is very sad to see all the Red Hat-isms introduced. I used Slack 3.2 and then switched to 7. It was quite a shock to see RPM
integrated into Slack. Think of it as Israel and Palestine calling a truce.
i think peace between israel and palestine would be a nice thing. just like i think standards in linux would be nice. i've used quite a few dist's and i would much rather them be coherant. it's a pain in the ass to figure out how to configure the network in debian, redhat, slack, etc. i think that standards are the only way to bring piece to linux.
is the right thing. pay for binaries, get source for free. isn't this what all the major linux vendors do anyhow?
i cannot speak for all of them but redhat, mandrake, sackware, and debian all allow you to download iso's of binaries (at least mandrake and slack used to). redhat also allows you to download the sources if you so desire. so not that's not how all the linux vendors do it. if you want you can check out for your self. my mirror of fresh rpm's mirror can be found here:
rpm's and source rpms
You can also find the iso's here which i sucked down from red hat:
iso's
i'm not saying this is how all vendors should do it, but it's the one i prefer.
apt is package independent. i use rpm and apt on redhat, and it works very well. it may not be specified on united linux's page, but rpm is the package management system specified in the lsb i believe. since united will probably try to comply with the lsb, i would expect them to use rpm also.
I'm really glad they're pushing for LSB compliance, but RH has promised they will be releasing a LSB 1.1 compliant distro this year. Since 7.3 isn't it, that means it'll have to be what will undoubtably be called RH 8.0 and will probably be released this Fall/early Winter, at least based on their past release patterns.
i believe the lsb 1.1 requires gcc 3.1, and the redhat 7.x stuff uses the broken 2.9x version of gcc. redhat increments the major version number (7-->8) when they break binary compatability, so the earliest version with lsb 1.1 compatability would have to be 8.
As an aside, the GNOME/KDE thing is about to get very interesting... GNOME 2 is like a couple weeks from release, and it's going to be the default desktop for Solaris, HP-UX, and (of course) Red Hat.
i'm not sure what you mean here. when you install redhat it asks you which default desktop to use. i'm using kickstart, so i have it set as an option, but i dont know how it will be set as the default for red hat when that is the choice of the user.
i like kde, but i'm not rooting for anyone. i think they all have nice stuff to offer, and should be persued.
after the users have aquired the software (if it's gpl'ed), they are free (as in speech) to do whatever they want with it. if they want to put it on their webserver and give it away for free then it's their perogative.
Now, I'm most productive on Slackware. Because I know the system so well that doing stuff from scratch is _easier_ and _faster_ than using tools like rpm and linuxconf. (overall, of course, some things are still faster with linuxconf).
i'll admit that i use redhat, and have for about 4 years... i didnt realize it had been so lon until i typed it. now wrt linuxconf. you dont have to use linuxconf in redhat. it's basically a graphical front end to all the stuff in
similarly, you can compile your own programs, and roll your own rpm's. you have pretty much the same freedom in redhat as you do in the other distros. the only difference is that they have extra stuff for those who dont want to take advantage of that freedom. to me this is rather ideal. from what i've read about suse, it has really good configuration tools also. i'm not rushing out to change though-i'm pretty satisfied with redhat.
the only dist's i've been tempted to try out are gentoo and sourcemage which have been mentioned before. the're the ones doing things in a different manner which i think sets them apart from the rest.