Random XML is not very useful on the web, since the web's supposed to be multi-platform. Just how exactly is a search engine, or a screenreader, or a braile browser, or whatever, supposed to work out how to display your lovely, but rather meaningless collection of tags in your custom XML doctype?
Are you going to encode *all* that in your CSS? Really? For every XML document you might want to publish? No, of course not.
Much easier to standardise on one main XML doctype which will always have some basic structure which a UA can apply style to, even if you don't bother.
The architecture might support that, in that the timings and whatnot could theoretically reach that speed without falling over, it's still an awful lot of work to get manufacturing processes which can match it while having decent yields, and at the same time providing incremental bugfixes and improvements to reduce heat output, increase signal strength, etc.
It tends to rely on blocklists, many of which have demonstrated unfair practices in the past.
I've turned them off; it's still 95% effective.
The more SpamAssassin is used, the more spammers will specifically avoid doing things SpamAssassin checks for.
As spam changes, so does SpamAssassin. It includes phrase frequency checks etc, too.
It's a gigantic heap of perl, the Write-Only (tm) language. I hate the fact that every perl program demands I mess up the package manager on my system by blindly downloading a half-dozen new modules. And it's slow!
Oh, hell, yes. It's really quite nasty code, badly speghettified and relying on things like looped evals.
Look at SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm -- it performs (body regep rules * body message lines) regexp matches per message. It doesn't take long to see how nasty that'll get on a large message with over 200 rules:)
Yes, but it's still not stealing; copyright infringement, yes, but it doesn't involve depriving anyone else of the car. Unauthorised cloning and copying are not the same as stealing and thieft.
Think more along the lines of, say, you own the raw materials that can make up a Ferrari; you also have a matter reorganisation machine. You borrow a Ferrari and tell your matter reorganiser to clone the original using your raw materials.
Me: "So, how many frames/sec does your video card do now on those games?"
Him: "120."
Me: "Ah.. and the advantage to that is.. what? I mean, even the best monitors only have a vertical refresh rate of like 85Hz.. thats only 85 frames/sec that your *monitor* can display."
Uhm.
In UT2k3 I get between 30 and 140FPS. That 30FPS is the important bit; it's about as low as you want to go. My average framerate is about 60FPS, but it's the lows that are important, not the average or the highs (which are typically lopped off by vsync anyway, which, *gasp*, leaves CPU and memory bandwidth for background tasks).
However, if I wanted to play in 1600*1200, or use AA or high level ansio, I'd be totally boned. That 30FPS would drop to 20, or 10FPS, and that is definately not desirable on a fast game like UT.
If I want to run Tenebrae Quake at anything over 640*480, I can relive the days of playing Quake on my Amiga at 15FPS, just at a slightly higher resolution and slightly nicer visuals. Hell, even stuff like MoH isn't always super smooth.
If you think being able to hit FPS's higher than monitor refresh rate is stupid, then you seriously need to fetch yourself a clue. Are you going to complain that your CPU is 98% idle most of the time? After all, what's the point of all that power when it's not being used?
FreeBSD users will know what a mess/usr/local/bin becomes with a reasonable load of software, and how annoying it'd be to install a homebuilt binary there and forget about it.
echo "LOCALBASE =/usr/pkg" >>/etc/make.conf
Just be prepared to uncover the odd LOCALBASE cleanliness bug.
Nope. Well, they certainly didn't seem to know this; the languages I talked about were mostly part of larger modules (Java == Object Orientation, Assm == System Architecture, B notation == Formal Systems, etc), but they really did just end up being courses on the basics of the languages.
CS coders produce elegant, well-thought out, and easily maintainable code
And plenty produce unmaintainable ugly piles of crap. This is much more down to attitude and experience than education.
I did try to go for the higher end stuff, but choice was limited, and at least one interesting looking module was canceled entirely due to lack of, um, interest.
I blame the students too; most had absolutely zero clue, and the course catered to their needs. Sigh.
I turned the XP 2100+ into a nifty 1.73 GHz keychain
Heh, I have a nice fried 1.2GHz AXIA in my cupboard; it's got a stupid sticker on the back which burnt through.
The annoying thing is, I'm pretty sure it was DoA; they pre-test all their chips, and I suspect their mass-testing results in a few dead ones when they get careless. I sent it back and got a report along the lines of "cracked core, chip in corner, improper installation"; the thing is, I used a shim and installed the heatsink flat, just like I've done many times over.
Not done anything with it yet; any chance of some more details on your keychain?:)
That's the GOOD thing about a degree, it makes you learn some important stuff you did not want to learn. It also makes you solve problems, not just read the books for pleasure.
This is what I thought.
Unfortunately, after two years doing Computer Science, it didn't turn out like that; the most expensive book I was expected to buy was "Learning to Program in Visual Basic 5"; ok, so it's a book I wouldn't have bought myself, but it certainly didn't teach me anything.
C: two semesters of writing tools to read in tsv's and calculate averages from the values, and another semester doing a RPN calculator. No look at libraries, no dynamic allocation, very little on pointers -- the second semester was effectively a clone of the first, only we were "allowed" to use * and &.
Java: we did a bit of UML, and proceeded to use it to develop a Counter class with methods increment(), decrement(), reset() and getValue(). We then got some C&P code to plug a GUI into it.
Web development: we did some old-sk00l tag-soup, and got told to write our own site using frames. Nobody came out of it with the slightest clue that HTML was actually specified anywhere or followed any significant rules.
Databases: The week before, I'd designed a (normalised) database with over 20 tables. It took me a few hours. The semester involved creating a database from a pre-written specification which had about four.
Assembler: Something I'd never normally look at, but through the semester we never got past a few loops and conditionals.
I did enjoy a couple of the modules (the math ones, and B Notation of all things, even assm was quite fun when we actually moved on), but most of it was slow, slow, slow and ultra basic. Even my A-level computing went into more detail.
Needless to say, I was on anti-depressants by the time I dropped out:)
XML+XSLT would be ideal, XHTML+CSS would be easier on the browser
Hum? What do you mean? How is XSLT in any way a replacement for CSS? You might use XSLT to get from XML to XHTML, but it's not for adding style.
If you meant XML:FO, well, that's horrible for the web. Most XML documents have no real meaning to a UA; they're just an arbitary collection of nodes, so unless your FO's cover every possible media type, the web becomes conciderably less accessable.
The problem is, SP1 now has XP sending your serial number and hardware ID to MS, so if they start working on a whitelisting system, the pirates are going to have to get more creative.
Previously this information wasn't sent, so the option of blocking like this wasn't available.
Still, at £240 a pop (yay, half a grand to get XP on both my desktops), there's plenty of reasons for the crackers to do something about it. I *really* do hope MS have the sense not to start an arms race that's just going to waste a lot of people's time, just for a handful more legitimate copies of Windows. If they make it too hard to crack, alternative OS's will just become the path of least resistance, Office apps and games or not.
FreeBSD 5 will ship with UFS snapshots which will do what you want; it's also used to freeze the disk state for background fsck's, among other things. They're even stackable.
Does phpNuke support version control? Workflow? Arbitary access controls? Having a large community of newbies and a charismatic (but apparantly naive) lead developer do not make for "the best CMS in the world" unless you have a very anemic concept of what a CMS is.
I don't see phpNuke 6 on their site; 5.6, however, is as full of magic numbers, spaghetti code, raw HTML and next to zero design as it has always been (although 5 is certainly miles better than previous versions I've seen).
Yes, phpNuke has a horrible track record for security issues; it's like IIS, it may look secure once it's fully patched, but you just KNOW there's space for practically limitless new holes.
There's nothing stupid about OO. Performance is not a primary requirement for 99% of websites (if it were, you'd probably use Java) anyway, and that's the market eZPublish is targeting. OO does not automatically make for massive performance issues though; you just need to solve the problems better. The huge amount of extremely high perfoming OO Java web applications would seem to suggest this is not in any way impossible.
Pfft, the least secure PHP application on earth (and one of the worst written), and another app based on the least secure and worst written PHP app? No thanks:)
Personally I've found that pretty much all systems like this turn out to be messy, badly written, poorly designed, and have URI's that would make TBL gag.
Case in point: phpNuke, long, long history of major security holes, with a hugely speghettified codebase.
Scoop, with embedded Perl and HTML thrown about everywhere in the database.
Drupal, with raw HTML everywhere in the PHP.
This pattern repeats just about everywhere. The closest I've found to an open source web application which doesn't make me want to hit something is ezPublish, which at least makes an effort to have reasonable URI's, and has a decent attempt at making itself OO (although sadly at a significant cost of performance).
Developers: mod_rewrite is your friend. Go read Cool URI's Don't Change, and maybe TBL's other Hypertext Style Guide stuff, it'll be good for you even if you don't agree with all of it.
Uh, I was pointing at the first WD I saw, and I was not referencing any of the draft itself, just the CSS it uses (reletive positioning and CSS counters mostly), which is perfectly normal CSS2.
DOM is not CSS, DOM is a way of accessing the document (and styles) through scripting. The CSS support itself is fine aside from a few rough edges.
Yes, they've spent the last 18 months rewriting the engine rather than hacking DOM support into the old engine, rather like what Mozilla's spent the last 4 years or so doing for NS4.
The CSS support is largely on par with Mozilla, and in some places better (ever notice the CSS3 WD's work better in Opera?).
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Random XML is not very useful on the web, since the web's supposed to be multi-platform. Just how exactly is a search engine, or a screenreader, or a braile browser, or whatever, supposed to work out how to display your lovely, but rather meaningless collection of tags in your custom XML doctype?
Are you going to encode *all* that in your CSS? Really? For every XML document you might want to publish? No, of course not.
Much easier to standardise on one main XML doctype which will always have some basic structure which a UA can apply style to, even if you don't bother.
The architecture might support that, in that the timings and whatnot could theoretically reach that speed without falling over, it's still an awful lot of work to get manufacturing processes which can match it while having decent yields, and at the same time providing incremental bugfixes and improvements to reduce heat output, increase signal strength, etc.
I've turned them off; it's still 95% effective.
As spam changes, so does SpamAssassin. It includes phrase frequency checks etc, too.
Oh, hell, yes. It's really quite nasty code, badly speghettified and relying on things like looped evals.
Look at SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm -- it performs (body regep rules * body message lines) regexp matches per message. It doesn't take long to see how nasty that'll get on a large message with over 200 rules
Mmm, might have a look at that, thanks.
Yes, but it's still not stealing; copyright infringement, yes, but it doesn't involve depriving anyone else of the car. Unauthorised cloning and copying are not the same as stealing and thieft.
Bad analogy.
Think more along the lines of, say, you own the raw materials that can make up a Ferrari; you also have a matter reorganisation machine. You borrow a Ferrari and tell your matter reorganiser to clone the original using your raw materials.
Uhm.
In UT2k3 I get between 30 and 140FPS. That 30FPS is the important bit; it's about as low as you want to go. My average framerate is about 60FPS, but it's the lows that are important, not the average or the highs (which are typically lopped off by vsync anyway, which, *gasp*, leaves CPU and memory bandwidth for background tasks).
However, if I wanted to play in 1600*1200, or use AA or high level ansio, I'd be totally boned. That 30FPS would drop to 20, or 10FPS, and that is definately not desirable on a fast game like UT.
If I want to run Tenebrae Quake at anything over 640*480, I can relive the days of playing Quake on my Amiga at 15FPS, just at a slightly higher resolution and slightly nicer visuals. Hell, even stuff like MoH isn't always super smooth.
If you think being able to hit FPS's higher than monitor refresh rate is stupid, then you seriously need to fetch yourself a clue. Are you going to complain that your CPU is 98% idle most of the time? After all, what's the point of all that power when it's not being used?
A friend of mine runs XP on his 224MB P200; he thinks it's great. Indeed, it's perfectly usable, even if his benchmark system was a P75 running '98 :)
32 Athlons? Nice, I'll be interested to see how you handle the 2300w or so of heat :)
Steve Gibson
;)
And what are you doing posting off-topic with a +1 bonus?
echo "LOCALBASE =
Just be prepared to uncover the odd LOCALBASE cleanliness bug.
Look out for the movie(s) based on Greg Bear's Forge of God and Anvil of Stars books.
They might not suck, even if I can think of 10 much better books-that-should-be-films off the top of my head.
Nope. Well, they certainly didn't seem to know this; the languages I talked about were mostly part of larger modules (Java == Object Orientation, Assm == System Architecture, B notation == Formal Systems, etc), but they really did just end up being courses on the basics of the languages.
And plenty produce unmaintainable ugly piles of crap. This is much more down to attitude and experience than education.
University of Teesside
I did try to go for the higher end stuff, but choice was limited, and at least one interesting looking module was canceled entirely due to lack of, um, interest.
I blame the students too; most had absolutely zero clue, and the course catered to their needs. Sigh.
Heh, I have a nice fried 1.2GHz AXIA in my cupboard; it's got a stupid sticker on the back which burnt through.
The annoying thing is, I'm pretty sure it was DoA; they pre-test all their chips, and I suspect their mass-testing results in a few dead ones when they get careless. I sent it back and got a report along the lines of "cracked core, chip in corner, improper installation"; the thing is, I used a shim and installed the heatsink flat, just like I've done many times over.
Not done anything with it yet; any chance of some more details on your keychain?
This is what I thought.
Unfortunately, after two years doing Computer Science, it didn't turn out like that; the most expensive book I was expected to buy was "Learning to Program in Visual Basic 5"; ok, so it's a book I wouldn't have bought myself, but it certainly didn't teach me anything.
C: two semesters of writing tools to read in tsv's and calculate averages from the values, and another semester doing a RPN calculator. No look at libraries, no dynamic allocation, very little on pointers -- the second semester was effectively a clone of the first, only we were "allowed" to use * and &.
Java: we did a bit of UML, and proceeded to use it to develop a Counter class with methods increment(), decrement(), reset() and getValue(). We then got some C&P code to plug a GUI into it.
Web development: we did some old-sk00l tag-soup, and got told to write our own site using frames. Nobody came out of it with the slightest clue that HTML was actually specified anywhere or followed any significant rules.
Databases: The week before, I'd designed a (normalised) database with over 20 tables. It took me a few hours. The semester involved creating a database from a pre-written specification which had about four.
Assembler: Something I'd never normally look at, but through the semester we never got past a few loops and conditionals.
I did enjoy a couple of the modules (the math ones, and B Notation of all things, even assm was quite fun when we actually moved on), but most of it was slow, slow, slow and ultra basic. Even my A-level computing went into more detail.
Needless to say, I was on anti-depressants by the time I dropped out
Hum? What do you mean? How is XSLT in any way a replacement for CSS? You might use XSLT to get from XML to XHTML, but it's not for adding style.
If you meant XML:FO, well, that's horrible for the web. Most XML documents have no real meaning to a UA; they're just an arbitary collection of nodes, so unless your FO's cover every possible media type, the web becomes conciderably less accessable.
Amazon UK; £239.99, not including postage.
eBuyer; £257.17, inc postage.
Oh, at Scam they do OEM copies for £115.74, which is rather more sane, but still about £30 more than your quoted figure, and legally questionable.
The problem is, SP1 now has XP sending your serial number and hardware ID to MS, so if they start working on a whitelisting system, the pirates are going to have to get more creative.
Previously this information wasn't sent, so the option of blocking like this wasn't available.
Still, at £240 a pop (yay, half a grand to get XP on both my desktops), there's plenty of reasons for the crackers to do something about it. I *really* do hope MS have the sense not to start an arms race that's just going to waste a lot of people's time, just for a handful more legitimate copies of Windows. If they make it too hard to crack, alternative OS's will just become the path of least resistance, Office apps and games or not.
FreeBSD 5 will ship with UFS snapshots which will do what you want; it's also used to freeze the disk state for background fsck's, among other things. They're even stackable.
Um, I dunno about you, but I kinda expect stars and planets to live a bit longer than a century or so ;)
NS rewrote because their entire browser had reached the end of it's realistic design lifespan.
:)
Opera rewrote because their engine has reached the end of it's realistic design lifespan.
I said "rather like", and gee, it is, because this is one of the main reasons for rewriting
Does phpNuke support version control? Workflow? Arbitary access controls? Having a large community of newbies and a charismatic (but apparantly naive) lead developer do not make for "the best CMS in the world" unless you have a very anemic concept of what a CMS is.
I don't see phpNuke 6 on their site; 5.6, however, is as full of magic numbers, spaghetti code, raw HTML and next to zero design as it has always been (although 5 is certainly miles better than previous versions I've seen).
Yes, phpNuke has a horrible track record for security issues; it's like IIS, it may look secure once it's fully patched, but you just KNOW there's space for practically limitless new holes.
There's nothing stupid about OO. Performance is not a primary requirement for 99% of websites (if it were, you'd probably use Java) anyway, and that's the market eZPublish is targeting. OO does not automatically make for massive performance issues though; you just need to solve the problems better. The huge amount of extremely high perfoming OO Java web applications would seem to suggest this is not in any way impossible.
Pfft, the least secure PHP application on earth (and one of the worst written), and another app based on the least secure and worst written PHP app? No thanks :)
Personally I've found that pretty much all systems like this turn out to be messy, badly written, poorly designed, and have URI's that would make TBL gag.
Case in point: phpNuke, long, long history of major security holes, with a hugely speghettified codebase.
Scoop, with embedded Perl and HTML thrown about everywhere in the database.
Drupal, with raw HTML everywhere in the PHP.
This pattern repeats just about everywhere. The closest I've found to an open source web application which doesn't make me want to hit something is ezPublish, which at least makes an effort to have reasonable URI's, and has a decent attempt at making itself OO (although sadly at a significant cost of performance).
Developers: mod_rewrite is your friend. Go read Cool URI's Don't Change, and maybe TBL's other Hypertext Style Guide stuff, it'll be good for you even if you don't agree with all of it.
Uh, I was pointing at the first WD I saw, and I was not referencing any of the draft itself, just the CSS it uses (reletive positioning and CSS counters mostly), which is perfectly normal CSS2.
DOM is not CSS, DOM is a way of accessing the document (and styles) through scripting. The CSS support itself is fine aside from a few rough edges.
Yes, they've spent the last 18 months rewriting the engine rather than hacking DOM support into the old engine, rather like what Mozilla's spent the last 4 years or so doing for NS4.
The CSS support is largely on par with Mozilla, and in some places better (ever notice the CSS3 WD's work better in Opera?).