I'm following the Slashcode project for the creation of the next version of Slash (the software running Slashdot, more or less) and I have to admit that it's very very far from being optimized.
In fact, there are no mod_perl handlers but just regular CGI scripts (the.pl files you find in a Slashdot URL); it's far to use the full power of mod_perl
Hi, I am from Italy and in the general elections of 1996 I was in charge with running the website for the coalition than ended up winning. Pretty basic stuff up then, but the most difficult task I faced was to provide in a coherent way a lot of different contents (or even sub-sites) provided by political allies that we could not dare to ignore.
My question is: is Al Gore's web service completely "centralized" and run from the main campaign organization or there are section assigned to supporters, groups, regional organizations, etc.? In the latter case, how do you manage to keep everything in synch?
First, he only tries to write a "flaming column", he a quite bored man after all.
Second, he invented Ethernet (mainly used in LANs) while looking for a wireless radio application, se we may call him the "Christopher Columbus of the network":-)
Dear Bob, I was in the audience at the Web Conference at Santa Clara (Spring 1997) when you had to eat your column which had predicted the collapse of the Internet in a few months. Beware, a Transmeta chip is little, but harder to swallow...
I really hope that all those other sites have done as this site claims, or else there is the question of selectivity. As in "Anyone can create a Linux distribution, and call it xyz Linux or whatever, but should you wish to market it, you need Linus' approval?"
Ofcourse not, since you received the software under the GPL, which is a valid legal contract. That's a whole different story, and LinuxOne are fine until they stick to the GPL, for example.
I emailed them two days ago, and this is the answer I received a few minutes ago:
From: "Danny Sterne" <danny@mp3.com> To: <alessio@albourne.com> Subject: RE: Beam it for Linux Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:10:23 -0800
Dear Alessio, Thank you for your feedback, however at this time we have no plans for a Linux port of our Beam-it (TM) software.
Regards, Danny Sterne Customer Service MP3.com - The Premier Music Service Provider Put your CD Collection Online in Minutes!
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-----Original Message----- From: alessio@albourne.com [mailto:alessio@albourne.com] Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 6:51 AM To: beamitsupport@mp3.com Subject: Beam it for Linux Dear MP3.com team, I was very thrilled reading your new service, but I discovered that on my Linux system I have not even a chance to try it. I believe there are many Linux users willing to use your service, and therefore I'm asking you to think about plans for it!
> AFAIK there is nothing illegal about making a copy of CDs you own.
In Italy it is, or at least that's what the local copyright-enforcement-agency (SIAE) suggested. More exactly in the 80s they said that it was illegal to buy a record (think about vinyl here) and to record a tape from it to listen in *your own car*. We never knew if it was true or not, since it was never enforced and never brought to any court, but technically I think they still have the same position.
One record company tried at that time to sell a "bundle" set containing one LP and one tape of the same record but it did't work well thanks God.:-)
Even if it's false, it's an interesting item to discuss. Let's think about it: we have a major country with huge population, under-developed (by Western standards) and trying to catch up fastly. It has a non-Western culture, complicated writing system, strong traditions, an enourmous talented set of students.
What you would pick as computer systems? Something that is highly configurable for a non-Western world, low cost and redistributable, solid, without any unresolvable dependence on foreign technology. Software that can be adapted to a so-different world. We're talking about the basic values of OpenSource software against closed, American company-owned software.
So, the world has to admit that in any complicated, not-out-of-the-box situation OpenSource is better, more configurable, more easy to adapt to different needs, and more secure since you can look at the source. This is the bottom line of the story, that big organizations/government are getting tired to rely on software that they cannot check/control/adapt. Even if this story isn't true, it may be true in year 2000.
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What about large-scale IT support? There is at least something here. Having to piece together a set of apps to form your company's entire working platform is formidable, and having an organization like Helix Code to hold your hand and help you make changes, etc would be useful. But this market isn't that big.
I don't think so. It is big. It's the market of big consulting companies (AC to name one) and they get big paychecks from bigger companies. Or look at what happens with courses, formation and the like: you pay twice the price you paid for your software to learn to use the software, and if you have a "damn big problem" you call the big consultant.
If people pay to get courses of M$ Excel (not to mention Oracle), they can surely pay for courses for GNUmeric or other tools.
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I'm following the Slashcode project for the creation of the next version of Slash (the software running Slashdot, more or less) and I have to admit that it's very very far from being optimized.
In fact, there are no mod_perl handlers but just regular CGI scripts (the .pl files you find in a Slashdot URL); it's far to use the full power of mod_perl
ARGHHHH!!!!
Hi, I am from Italy and in the general elections of 1996 I was in charge with running the website for the coalition than ended up winning. Pretty basic stuff up then, but the most difficult task I faced was to provide in a coherent way a lot of different contents (or even sub-sites) provided by political allies that we could not dare to ignore.
My question is: is Al Gore's web service completely "centralized" and run from the main campaign organization or there are section assigned to supporters, groups, regional organizations, etc.? In the latter case, how do you manage to keep everything in synch?
First, he only tries to write a "flaming column", he a quite bored man after all.
:-)
Second, he invented Ethernet (mainly used in LANs) while looking for a wireless radio application, se we may call him the "Christopher Columbus of the network"
Dear Bob, I was in the audience at the Web Conference at Santa Clara (Spring 1997) when you had to eat your column which had predicted the collapse of the Internet in a few months. Beware, a Transmeta chip is little, but harder to swallow...
How many slashdotters use tools like JunkBuster, SleezeBall or others to cut banners and don't see any advertisment *at all*?
:-)
Maybe time for a poll?
> a linux version is definatly coming
I emailed them two days ago, and this is the answer I received a few minutes ago:
From: "Danny Sterne" <danny@mp3.com>To: <alessio@albourne.com>
Subject: RE: Beam it for Linux
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 14:10:23 -0800
Dear Alessio,
Thank you for your feedback, however at this time we have no plans for a Linux port of our Beam-it (TM) software.
Regards,
Danny Sterne
Customer Service
MP3.com - The Premier Music Service Provider Put your CD Collection Online in Minutes!
http://click.mp3.com/ct/o_sigmymp3/u_my.mp3.com
-----Original Message-----
From: alessio@albourne.com
[mailto:alessio@albourne.com]
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 6:51 AM
To: beamitsupport@mp3.com
Subject: Beam it for Linux
Dear MP3.com team,
I was very thrilled reading your new service, but I discovered that on my Linux system I have not even a chance to try it.
I believe there are many Linux users willing to use your service, and therefore I'm asking you to think about plans for it!
Thanks for your attention.
--
Alessio F. Bragadini alessio@post.com
> AFAIK there is nothing illegal about making a copy of CDs you own.
:-)
In Italy it is, or at least that's what the local copyright-enforcement-agency (SIAE) suggested. More exactly in the 80s they said that it was illegal to buy a record (think about vinyl here) and to record a tape from it to listen in *your own car*. We never knew if it was true or not, since it was never enforced and never brought to any court, but technically I think they still have the same position.
One record company tried at that time to sell a "bundle" set containing one LP and one tape of the same record but it did't work well thanks God.
Even if it's false, it's an interesting item to discuss. Let's think about it: we have a major country with huge population, under-developed (by Western standards) and trying to catch up fastly. It has a non-Western culture, complicated writing system, strong traditions, an enourmous talented set of students.
What you would pick as computer systems? Something that is highly configurable for a non-Western world, low cost and redistributable, solid, without any unresolvable dependence on foreign technology. Software that can be adapted to a so-different world. We're talking about the basic values of OpenSource software against closed, American company-owned software.
So, the world has to admit that in any complicated, not-out-of-the-box situation OpenSource is better, more configurable, more easy to adapt to different needs, and more secure since you can look at the source. This is the bottom line of the story, that big organizations/government are getting tired to rely on software that they cannot check/control/adapt. Even if this story isn't true, it may be true in year 2000.
...so, what's new?! :-/
I don't think so. It is big. It's the market of big consulting companies (AC to name one) and they get big paychecks from bigger companies. Or look at what happens with courses, formation and the like: you pay twice the price you paid for your software to learn to use the software, and if you have a "damn big problem" you call the big consultant.
If people pay to get courses of M$ Excel (not to mention Oracle), they can surely pay for courses for GNUmeric or other tools.