Since I don't need emoticons and speak in complete words (are and you are three letter words, abreviating them only makes you look stupid) I've stuck to ICQ. I have a copy of 2000b on cd with other apps I use frequently so that when I wipe my hard drive (about once a year) I don't have to hunt them down. Why use such an older client? Simple, my database is stored locally and not on some AOLTW server.
As for the ads on ICQ, just use ICQ+. The skins kill any ads you are supposed to see and there are currently thousands of skins on various sites.
Good luck finding some of these thanks to the though police and overly sensative politically correct. The classic "mammy" voice on Tom & Jerry has been replaced with that of what appears to be a harvard graduate. Certain era aged cartoons such as Nip the Nips (a Bugs Bunny from the World War II days) are no where to be found. While I may or may not agree with the socio-political message of said cartoons it is a real shame that some network will alter history to apease the poor feelings of someone or a group of someones who wasn't probably alive at the time this was made.
I've begun looking for these online and in older stores. Hopefully I can teach my daughter what really happened, and not some candy coated and PC version of history.
Why is it every time I hear someone talking about addresses in this regard they always praise DSL? Sure my cable modem is dynamic, but if you are truly running a server then the machine won't be offline anyway and will pick up the same IP from the DHCP server when the lease expires. Odd that I have managed to keep this address for over a year with TimeWarner, kept the same one with AT&T in MA for the six months I lived there and had one for over 3 years under Comcast in FL.
There are also plans for static addresses which are roughly $20 more per month. Why this is such a big deal I have no idea other than they are now marketing broadband to AOL users (and no, that's not a flame but merely a description of the mom and grandma type users they want on now) who will turn off their machines when they aren't in use.
You actually gave them legitimate information? I always kludge something on those apps (usually the name) just to see who else they are selling the data to. Next time some forty-something jaundiced manager pushes the application for a supermarket "bonus program" into your face kindly accept it, and then give completely false information except for your address. Then duplicate that info for your own records. Sit back a month or two and see who else starts sending you "bonus buys" as well.
In contrast, are the savings you've racked up really worth the information and privacy you've given them? Perhaps, if you buy ice cream bars by the truckload.;)
Outstanding database support. PHP supports virtually every DB under the sun (although Berkeley DB is missing, oddly enough.) Perl seems limited to MySQL and PostgreSQL, and its really a kludge for the later. I've heard that this will be fixed in upcoming versions of Perl though.
Portability. I can take PHP code off my Linux box and plop it onto an IIS server, or even one of those new Macintosh servers and have it run without having to change a single line of code. Try doing this with Perl! Its as though it was written in assembly, Perl requires that much rewriting.
Graphics. PHP comes with a nice little graphics library. While I wouldn't use its to code the new Doom (VB would be a better choice) its adequate for most web pages, and should be considered as a substitute for Flash for certain things. Perl lacks a graphics library of any kind.
I'll just use 3 of your reasons for now. Perl's DBI supports every database I've ever encountered, from the aforementioned MySQL to Oracle to Cache. Sorry, but no points there.
Other than any odd system calls where I shell out the only line of code I ever need change when moving from Linux to a Windows server (note I said Windows and not IIS.. the webserver is irrelevant) is the first line (the shebang). This is considerably easier when everything is a module but my earlier work requires less than a minute to update as well.
Perl has ImageMagick for graphics manipulation. Available in most flavors I've had great success with it in many areas. I was looking for an image gallery script and saw millions of php ones that were horrid and decided to write my own. Took less than 15 minutes to get everything downloaded and installed and a few more to write the scripts.
This isn't meant as a flame but your priase of php seems more likely to be a lack of understanding of Perl or just laziness.
Agreed, when I lived there we had it too. Then I moved to bumblefuck NC and they have it (before NY which amazes me). This isn't news really.. most places have it now (unless it is news as to how slow NY is to adopting new things).
When I worked for the clerk's office in Charlotte County FL they stored the inmates fingerprints that the Sherrif's office took in tiff format. It was standard operating proceudre for us to house the fingerprints, mug shots, and images of any tattoos/scars for each incident along with all the underlying data from said incident.
It originally went before the local district court and passed quite easily if I remember correctly. The judges love having access to all the records via a laptop as the defendant stands before them.
Sure, let's just drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator on all levels, not just education. Granted this sounds harsh and I honestly don't advocate the blinding, muting, and deafening of everyone (ok, perhaps muting that son-of-a-bitch that does the Orange Clean commercials might not be so bad) as it is inhumane. I'm sick of this level of equality talk. I understand physical/mental issues and empathise with them but I've said it before and it does bear repeating, there are viable alternatives to the internet (holy shit.. really??) that are still around.
I'll most likely go blind in my old age from diabetes and when I do I'll move on to another medium in which to gather information.
But still, as evil and sucky as the cable company is, there is only a finite amount of bandwidth available, and if they want to get more, of course they have to pay.
Then perhaps they should stop overselling the bandwidth they have. Cry me a river about not having enough bandwidth but when the cable company is aggressively marketing _everyone_ and getting a fair amount of those people to subscribe then there's less bandwidth for everyone. I was among the fortunate ones to beta test Comcast's (then @home) service when they rolled it out and it was like being in the building when I worked for an ISP. A year later however there was a very noticable difference in speeds as the Marketards had been spamming the radio, tv, and phone lines with ads tauting "100 times dialup" speeds (nevermind the fact they are claiming this against 28.8, and wtf still has that?).
Don't get me wrong, I know they laid out $500M in fibre to upgrade the next county in order to offer digital cable and broadband but the same thing is going to happen to the people there as well.
Lesson? Only sell what you can afford to give and maybe you'll keep some of your customers happy.
Then move to England. They pay exhorbant rates for exactly what you describe and it's a fucking joke. I haven't done enough research on the subject but you can damn well bet I'm looking into fractional T1's atm and I have RoadRunner.
Maybe if AOL and MSN weren't trying to get everyone onto their broadband connections (and thus double chanrging them) there'd be more room. Then again, I've walked through the marketing department for Comcast and they could care less if they over sell their service.
I'm honored you were able to come up with such wit on your own. Did mommy help you?
Oh, I added the second part as an afterthought _after_ I posted the original reply. See, you might have caught that if you weren't busy beating your girlfriend or trying to find a pig to molest.
Forgot to mention, if the remote host wishes to make a similar connection before allowing your packets through just close the connection and move on to a new (and hopefully more willing) host.
That's because you are flat out penetrating her network through the back door. Do some probing first man. You have to find out if there are any ports or services receptive to your connection before you attempt to dive right in and exploit any weaknesses.
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Which group of programmers would you hire, a room full of suit wearing 9-5r's or a room full of cheesy-poof eating coffee drinking work around the clock for 3 days straight types (wearing god knows what)
At my last job a returning client we were pitching to laughed at the new IT director who showed up to the meeting in a blazer and turtleneck sweater. It didn't help that he had no clue about anything he was talking about but they couldn't take him seriously in that outfit.
If the trend is to revert back into a 1950's era IBM "Big Blue" mindset of suits then I'd rather work in retail again to be honest.
I was reading my current book whilst "indisposed", Masters of Deception, the Gang That Ruled Cyberspace by Slatall and Quittner and saw Koper's name. I had forgotten that he created Lotus 1-2-3. Was cool to see that he's still active.
Jesus fucking christ, I expected the crowd here to have a grasp of the English language beyond the quagmire of technological acronyms... then again I didn't expect a former coke monkey who couldn't find oil in Texas to become the president either.
From m-w.com:
Main Entry: cas-ti-gate Date: 1607 : to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism synonym see PUNISH
One entry found for castrate. Main Entry: cas-trate Date: 1609 1 a : to deprive of the testes : GELD 1 b : to deprive of the ovaries : SPAY 2 : to render impotent or deprive of vitality especially by psychological means
Just a huge FYI but AOL/TW doesn't own the 24.x.x.x network. RoadRunner uses it just as @Home and any other cable modem service. It was the original set of IP addresses for such service.
AT&T uses 3Com which is compatible with ComCast.
ComCast: uses a model which is only compatible with ComCast.
Not true. I have ComCast and currently have a Motorola modem. However they also have issued 3Com, Com21, and ?NextBus? in my area (my wife issues the boxes to the installation tecs).
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Since I don't need emoticons and speak in complete words (are and you are three letter words, abreviating them only makes you look stupid) I've stuck to ICQ. I have a copy of 2000b on cd with other apps I use frequently so that when I wipe my hard drive (about once a year) I don't have to hunt them down. Why use such an older client? Simple, my database is stored locally and not on some AOLTW server.
As for the ads on ICQ, just use ICQ+. The skins kill any ads you are supposed to see and there are currently thousands of skins on various sites.
Good luck finding some of these thanks to the though police and overly sensative politically correct. The classic "mammy" voice on Tom & Jerry has been replaced with that of what appears to be a harvard graduate. Certain era aged cartoons such as Nip the Nips (a Bugs Bunny from the World War II days) are no where to be found. While I may or may not agree with the socio-political message of said cartoons it is a real shame that some network will alter history to apease the poor feelings of someone or a group of someones who wasn't probably alive at the time this was made.
I've begun looking for these online and in older stores. Hopefully I can teach my daughter what really happened, and not some candy coated and PC version of history.
Why is it every time I hear someone talking about addresses in this regard they always praise DSL? Sure my cable modem is dynamic, but if you are truly running a server then the machine won't be offline anyway and will pick up the same IP from the DHCP server when the lease expires. Odd that I have managed to keep this address for over a year with TimeWarner, kept the same one with AT&T in MA for the six months I lived there and had one for over 3 years under Comcast in FL.
There are also plans for static addresses which are roughly $20 more per month. Why this is such a big deal I have no idea other than they are now marketing broadband to AOL users (and no, that's not a flame but merely a description of the mom and grandma type users they want on now) who will turn off their machines when they aren't in use.
You actually gave them legitimate information? I always kludge something on those apps (usually the name) just to see who else they are selling the data to. Next time some forty-something jaundiced manager pushes the application for a supermarket "bonus program" into your face kindly accept it, and then give completely false information except for your address. Then duplicate that info for your own records. Sit back a month or two and see who else starts sending you "bonus buys" as well.
;)
In contrast, are the savings you've racked up really worth the information and privacy you've given them? Perhaps, if you buy ice cream bars by the truckload.
http://cpan.azc.uam.mx/modules/by-category/15_Worl d_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI/WWW/JOHANVDB/
May whatever you hold holy bless Google. =)
I'll just use 3 of your reasons for now. Perl's DBI supports every database I've ever encountered, from the aforementioned MySQL to Oracle to Cache. Sorry, but no points there.
Other than any odd system calls where I shell out the only line of code I ever need change when moving from Linux to a Windows server (note I said Windows and not IIS.. the webserver is irrelevant) is the first line (the shebang). This is considerably easier when everything is a module but my earlier work requires less than a minute to update as well.
Perl has ImageMagick for graphics manipulation. Available in most flavors I've had great success with it in many areas. I was looking for an image gallery script and saw millions of php ones that were horrid and decided to write my own. Took less than 15 minutes to get everything downloaded and installed and a few more to write the scripts.
This isn't meant as a flame but your priase of php seems more likely to be a lack of understanding of Perl or just laziness.
I'm running it without any problems.d e_w=on&site=kalos.ath.cx&submit=Examine
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?mode_u=off&mo
to be exact. =)
Agreed, when I lived there we had it too. Then I moved to bumblefuck NC and they have it (before NY which amazes me). This isn't news really.. most places have it now (unless it is news as to how slow NY is to adopting new things).
Both links are now dead unfortunately. Anyone else have mirrors?
Was my first thought as I got halfway through the first sentence on the main page.
When I worked for the clerk's office in Charlotte County FL they stored the inmates fingerprints that the Sherrif's office took in tiff format. It was standard operating proceudre for us to house the fingerprints, mug shots, and images of any tattoos/scars for each incident along with all the underlying data from said incident.
It originally went before the local district court and passed quite easily if I remember correctly. The judges love having access to all the records via a laptop as the defendant stands before them.
Sure, let's just drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator on all levels, not just education. Granted this sounds harsh and I honestly don't advocate the blinding, muting, and deafening of everyone (ok, perhaps muting that son-of-a-bitch that does the Orange Clean commercials might not be so bad) as it is inhumane. I'm sick of this level of equality talk. I understand physical/mental issues and empathise with them but I've said it before and it does bear repeating, there are viable alternatives to the internet (holy shit.. really??) that are still around.
I'll most likely go blind in my old age from diabetes and when I do I'll move on to another medium in which to gather information.
Then move to England. They pay exhorbant rates for exactly what you describe and it's a fucking joke. I haven't done enough research on the subject but you can damn well bet I'm looking into fractional T1's atm and I have RoadRunner.
Maybe if AOL and MSN weren't trying to get everyone onto their broadband connections (and thus double chanrging them) there'd be more room. Then again, I've walked through the marketing department for Comcast and they could care less if they over sell their service.
I'm honored you were able to come up with such wit on your own. Did mommy help you?
Oh, I added the second part as an afterthought _after_ I posted the original reply. See, you might have caught that if you weren't busy beating your girlfriend or trying to find a pig to molest.
Forgot to mention, if the remote host wishes to make a similar connection before allowing your packets through just close the connection and move on to a new (and hopefully more willing) host.
That's because you are flat out penetrating her network through the back door. Do some probing first man. You have to find out if there are any ports or services receptive to your connection before you attempt to dive right in and exploit any weaknesses.
Amen to that.
Which group of programmers would you hire, a room full of suit wearing 9-5r's or a room full of cheesy-poof eating coffee drinking work around the clock for 3 days straight types (wearing god knows what)
At my last job a returning client we were pitching to laughed at the new IT director who showed up to the meeting in a blazer and turtleneck sweater. It didn't help that he had no clue about anything he was talking about but they couldn't take him seriously in that outfit.
If the trend is to revert back into a 1950's era IBM "Big Blue" mindset of suits then I'd rather work in retail again to be honest.
... beware. There's something worse out tonight?
I was reading my current book whilst "indisposed", Masters of Deception, the Gang That Ruled Cyberspace by Slatall and Quittner and saw Koper's name. I had forgotten that he created Lotus 1-2-3. Was cool to see that he's still active.
Jesus fucking christ, I expected the crowd here to have a grasp of the English language beyond the quagmire of technological acronyms... then again I didn't expect a former coke monkey who couldn't find oil in Texas to become the president either.
From m-w.com:
Main Entry: cas-ti-gate
Date: 1607
: to subject to severe punishment, reproof, or criticism
synonym see PUNISH
One entry found for castrate.
Main Entry: cas-trate
Date: 1609
1 a : to deprive of the testes : GELD
1 b : to deprive of the ovaries : SPAY
2 : to render impotent or deprive of vitality especially by psychological means
Just a huge FYI but AOL/TW doesn't own the 24.x.x.x network. RoadRunner uses it just as @Home and any other cable modem service. It was the original set of IP addresses for such service.
AT&T uses 3Com which is compatible with ComCast.
ComCast: uses a model which is only compatible with ComCast.
Not true. I have ComCast and currently have a Motorola modem. However they also have issued 3Com, Com21, and ?NextBus? in my area (my wife issues the boxes to the installation tecs).
Maybe this is true in your area, but not in all.
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