If the information would be encrypted on the servers, and only readable by me on my devices (with the right certificate), I could probably use such a service.
If you're writing a large application I suggest you don't use a scripting language. Why don't you write it in C/C++? Works on any platform with a compiler... If you have a big app, at some point you'll notice that you need more power than Perl can provide. But for smaller tasks Perl is tha king!
"C/C++ does not cut it for me - it is simply too easy to make mistakes and I find myself using half of my time hunting bugs unrelated to the problem at hand."
If you know the language, you might maybe write code that isn't full of simple code related bugs. If you want simple, go with Visual Basic...
I like Mozilla and use it every day. And I have to agree with the article that what really makes Mozilla great is Gecko. Mozilla has made a great standards compliant rendering engine. I've used Gecko for my own customized projects and it really is a great tool for anyone making customized browsers.
"For example, you might want to run a known good version of postgreSQL on you machine to look after you accounts database (don't want to loose that) but be willing to run a cute KDE3 based database access tool to view that data, on the assumption that if it crashes, it probably won't have chance to ask postgreSQL to do anything too bad --- your choice, go right ahead. apt-get will even keep track of that, adn continue to upgrade postgeSQL from the stable branch, and kdata (or whatever) from unstable, or even http://freds.kde.emporium.com/debian/ say."
Ah, that I didn't know. I thought Debain was more static than that. Now I might have a reason to install it on a rainy day. Thanks =)
"For the first time, Debian comes with the K Desktop Environment 2.2 (KDE). The GNOME desktop environment is upgraded to version 1.4, and X itself is upgraded to the much improved XFree86 4.1. With the addition of several full-featured free graphical web browsers in the form of Mozilla, Galeon, and Konqueror, Debian's desktop offerings have radically improved."
Why does Debian always come with such old stuff? Fine, maybe KDE 2.2 is more stable than 3 but still... The only thing keeping me from not using Debian is the oldish software... I'm talking about my workstation, for servers Debian is great.
This is already happening in Europe. I live in Finland and watch Viasat. They have annoying popups coming every know and then, blocking 25% of the screen, asking to click OK to get more info. Truly annoying, and the technology isn't apparently ready cause the sound stops for a few seconds after the popup has dissapeared.
Actually up2date can be a very nice program, and if you have several systems you'll get them all listed on the redhat network page where you can easily update them all without logging in on them. I really like the up2date program RedHat offers.
From the article: Features: "For Businesses with Heavy Traffic Loads"
Seriously, if you are a business and have a heavy traffic load or really need a good connection, you don't use broadband... That's good if you have a medium traffic load or need a somewhat reliable connection. I would never trust a broadband connection to be fully reliable, unless it's a dedicated pipe.
And I guess that router is only for normal surfing, no servers. If it constantly switches between two connections, the IP must switch too, right?! I guess one could have a DNS set up with the two IPs but if one of the connections go down, the dns lookup will find the invalid IP every now and then, making the web-site or whatever being run a bit unstable. So this is not a solution if you want to run a service behind it, only several clients using a lot of bandwidth that needs to be load-balanced.
"Will I still have to keep an ancient copy of photoshop running on windows98/2000/XP just to look at my circa 1996 pictures in 2025?"
No, just write a small script that opens up your gallery directory and converts every file from jpeg -> format x. Then after 25 more years, repeate the process... =)
"Equipped with Longhorn, your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours--making all those things easier."
That's nice and all, but can't they already fix the annoying Flash plugin bug that tries to open the sound device without any checks of any kind?! It's so simple and annoys everyone, but they can't make that one simple patch!?
I'm a KPNQwest customer and I've always paid on time. I think the problem is/was that KPNQwest built a huge network, something truly amazing. But that costs a lot and they had tons of extra bandwidth. It's really quite simple economics, the supply was there, the demand however was not as big as expected.
traceroute to www.microsoft.akadns.net (207.46.197.113), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.489 ms 0.282 ms 0.125 ms
2 ip212-226-*-*.adsl.kpnqwest.fi (212.226.*.*) 0.941 ms 0.924 ms 0.875 ms
3 co1-Fa0-0-KQ1.Hel.FI.KPNQwest.net (212.226.253.1) 7.655 ms 7.773 ms 8.015 ms
4 r2-Ge1-2-0-100-KQ1.Hel.FI.KPNQwest.net (212.226.253.14) 8.109 ms 9.383 ms 8.097 ms
5 r3-Se1-0-0-0.Sthm-KQ1.SE.KPNQwest.net (134.222.119.234) 15.505 ms 16.291 ms 16.217 ms
6 r1-Se1-1-0.0.hmbg-KQ1.DE.kpnqwest.net (134.222.230.149) 33.069 ms 33.293 ms 32.848 ms
7 r1-Se0-2-0.0.ffm-KQ1.DE.kpnqwest.net (134.222.230.109) 41.762 ms 41.708 ms 40.848 ms
8 r1-Se0-3-0.0.ledn-KQ1.NL.kpnqwest.net (134.222.230.13) 44.251 ms 43.529 ms 43.273 ms
9 r20-Gi0-0-0.Asd-KQ6.NL.KPNQwest.net (134.222.96.110) 43.892 ms 45.664 ms 43.990 ms 10 UNKNOWN.KPNQwest.net (134.222.249.118) 45.033 ms 45.174 ms 45.007 ms 11 zcr2-ge-2-0-0.Amsterdamamt.cw.net (208.173.220.130) 44.583 ms * 47.331 ms 12 bcr2-so-2-0-0.Amsterdam.cw.net (208.173.209.197) 46.189 ms 43.965 ms 46.527 ms 13 dcr1-loopback.Washington.cw.net (206.24.226.99) 149.072 ms 133.766 ms 133.792 ms 14 agr4-so-0-0-0.Washington.cw.net (206.24.238.62) 133.727 ms 133.032 ms * 15 acr1-loopback.Seattle.cw.net (208.172.82.61) 197.099 ms 217.579 ms 195.529 ms 16 bpr1.SeattleSwitchDesign.cw.net (208.172.82.7) 197.339 ms 197.426 ms 195.313 ms etc...
Still going through the good old EuroRings network. I'm a little suspicious about the UNKNOWN.KPNQwest.net, but my connection is fully functional.
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"This is being done so that we can manage the size of the community"
He can code a little universe but making a simple homepage with a form that collects the info he needs is too difficult?
Then again, looking at the screenshots I'm not surprised;-)
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If the information would be encrypted on the servers, and only readable by me on my devices (with the right certificate), I could probably use such a service.
If you're writing a large application I suggest you don't use a scripting language. Why don't you write it in C/C++? Works on any platform with a compiler... If you have a big app, at some point you'll notice that you need more power than Perl can provide. But for smaller tasks Perl is tha king!
http://twiki.org/
A few other Wiki solutions
Nuff said! =)
"C/C++ does not cut it for me - it is simply too easy to make mistakes and I find myself using half of my time hunting bugs unrelated to the problem at hand."
If you know the language, you might maybe write code that isn't full of simple code related bugs. If you want simple, go with Visual Basic...
I like Mozilla and use it every day. And I have to agree with the article that what really makes Mozilla great is Gecko. Mozilla has made a great standards compliant rendering engine. I've used Gecko for my own customized projects and it really is a great tool for anyone making customized browsers.
Here's last months version...
Anyway, if you haven't tried it out please do so, as it is really amazing (if u have a 3D accelerator)!
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_SL in /local/Web/sites/phpweb/downloads.php on line 81
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Huh??! Bad karma
"For example, you might want to run a known good version of postgreSQL on you machine to look after you accounts database (don't want to loose that) but be willing to run a cute KDE3 based database access tool to view that data, on the assumption that if it crashes, it probably won't have chance to ask postgreSQL to do anything too bad --- your choice, go right ahead. apt-get will even keep track of that, adn continue to upgrade postgeSQL from the stable branch, and kdata (or whatever) from unstable, or even http://freds.kde.emporium.com/debian/ say."
Ah, that I didn't know. I thought Debain was more static than that. Now I might have a reason to install it on a rainy day. Thanks =)
Wouldn't it be just easier to install Linux/Wine/OpenOffice?
"For the first time, Debian comes with the K Desktop Environment 2.2 (KDE). The GNOME desktop environment is upgraded to version 1.4, and X itself is upgraded to the much improved XFree86 4.1. With the addition of several full-featured free graphical web browsers in the form of Mozilla, Galeon, and Konqueror, Debian's desktop offerings have radically improved."
Why does Debian always come with such old stuff? Fine, maybe KDE 2.2 is more stable than 3 but still...
The only thing keeping me from not using Debian is the oldish software... I'm talking about my workstation, for servers Debian is great.
This is already happening in Europe. I live in Finland and watch Viasat. They have annoying popups coming every know and then, blocking 25% of the screen, asking to click OK to get more info. Truly annoying, and the technology isn't apparently ready cause the sound stops for a few seconds after the popup has dissapeared.
Actually up2date can be a very nice program, and if you have several systems you'll get them all listed on the redhat network page where you can easily update them all without logging in on them. I really like the up2date program RedHat offers.
That's the most stupid name I've ever heard.
From the article: Features: "For Businesses with Heavy Traffic Loads"
Seriously, if you are a business and have a heavy traffic load or really need a good connection, you don't use broadband... That's good if you have a medium traffic load or need a somewhat reliable connection. I would never trust a broadband connection to be fully reliable, unless it's a dedicated pipe.
And I guess that router is only for normal surfing, no servers. If it constantly switches between two connections, the IP must switch too, right?! I guess one could have a DNS set up with the two IPs but if one of the connections go down, the dns lookup will find the invalid IP every now and then, making the web-site or whatever being run a bit unstable. So this is not a solution if you want to run a service behind it, only several clients using a lot of bandwidth that needs to be load-balanced.
"Will I still have to keep an ancient copy of photoshop running on windows98/2000/XP just to look at my circa 1996 pictures in 2025?"
No, just write a small script that opens up your gallery directory and converts every file from jpeg -> format x. Then after 25 more years, repeate the process... =)
This is the first time I try the Crossover Plugin, and it actually works! Wow, great work on that one. Anyone who hasn't tried it, I suggest you do!
"Equipped with Longhorn, your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours--making all those things easier."
And that's supposed to be a good thing?!
One of the great features about Linux is that it has nothing to do with Windows. I'm not even gonna touch Lindows with a stick!
That's nice and all, but can't they already fix the annoying Flash plugin bug that tries to open the sound device without any checks of any kind?! It's so simple and annoys everyone, but they can't make that one simple patch!?
http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://s lashdot.org/
This is one week old "news"!?
I'm a KPNQwest customer and I've always paid on time.
I think the problem is/was that KPNQwest built a huge network, something truly amazing. But that costs a lot and they had tons of extra bandwidth. It's really quite simple economics, the supply was there, the demand however was not as big as expected.
traceroute to www.microsoft.akadns.net (207.46.197.113), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.489 ms 0.282 ms 0.125 ms
2 ip212-226-*-*.adsl.kpnqwest.fi (212.226.*.*) 0.941 ms 0.924 ms 0.875 ms
3 co1-Fa0-0-KQ1.Hel.FI.KPNQwest.net (212.226.253.1) 7.655 ms 7.773 ms 8.015 ms
4 r2-Ge1-2-0-100-KQ1.Hel.FI.KPNQwest.net (212.226.253.14) 8.109 ms 9.383 ms 8.097 ms
5 r3-Se1-0-0-0.Sthm-KQ1.SE.KPNQwest.net (134.222.119.234) 15.505 ms 16.291 ms 16.217 ms
6 r1-Se1-1-0.0.hmbg-KQ1.DE.kpnqwest.net (134.222.230.149) 33.069 ms 33.293 ms 32.848 ms
7 r1-Se0-2-0.0.ffm-KQ1.DE.kpnqwest.net (134.222.230.109) 41.762 ms 41.708 ms 40.848 ms
8 r1-Se0-3-0.0.ledn-KQ1.NL.kpnqwest.net (134.222.230.13) 44.251 ms 43.529 ms 43.273 ms
9 r20-Gi0-0-0.Asd-KQ6.NL.KPNQwest.net (134.222.96.110) 43.892 ms 45.664 ms 43.990 ms
10 UNKNOWN.KPNQwest.net (134.222.249.118) 45.033 ms 45.174 ms 45.007 ms
11 zcr2-ge-2-0-0.Amsterdamamt.cw.net (208.173.220.130) 44.583 ms * 47.331 ms
12 bcr2-so-2-0-0.Amsterdam.cw.net (208.173.209.197) 46.189 ms 43.965 ms 46.527 ms
13 dcr1-loopback.Washington.cw.net (206.24.226.99) 149.072 ms 133.766 ms 133.792 ms
14 agr4-so-0-0-0.Washington.cw.net (206.24.238.62) 133.727 ms 133.032 ms *
15 acr1-loopback.Seattle.cw.net (208.172.82.61) 197.099 ms 217.579 ms 195.529 ms
16 bpr1.SeattleSwitchDesign.cw.net (208.172.82.7) 197.339 ms 197.426 ms 195.313 ms
etc...
Still going through the good old EuroRings network. I'm a little suspicious about the UNKNOWN.KPNQwest.net, but my connection is fully functional.
"This is being done so that we can manage the size of the community"
;-)
He can code a little universe but making a simple homepage with a form that collects the info he needs is too difficult?
Then again, looking at the screenshots I'm not surprised