I have a project I'm working on and need a Perl based CMS.
Basically, my problem is: I have a bunch of Perl scripts that do various things. I need to be able to control access to those scripts to registered (paying) users and I need to be able to pass some kind of userID to my Perl scripts so that what one user does is separated from what another user does - and so they can maintain their own data. The system needs to be able to display a bunch of HTML forms so the users can select options to feed to the scripts, and then display both text and graphical results. My scripts are pretty flexible, all built in Perl and very easy for me to maintain. I don't really want to bother writing and maintaining my own web gui, user management, advertising management, user account management system. I figured a CMS would do the job. Also, on this site, I'd like to be able to house a bunch of articles, but I'm pretty sure all the CMS options can handle that.
I'm tinkering with WebGUI, Scoop and Twiki at the moment to see if they might fit the bill. Does Slashdot have any other suggestions for me? Is there a Perl CMS guru out there who can help?
Anybody think the BlackMacBook will be called the BlackBook (like the TiBook?) Looks like Apple is settling on a trend: glossy black or white, and brushed metal. I wonder if they scratch as easily as the Nanos?
Would also like to see the new glossy screens on the 15" and 17" BTO models.
I've always liked the fact that sectional content was largely missed by the wider readership: this fact acted as a filter of sorts. The problem with Slashdot is that the signal to noise ratio of comments has been getting worse and worse. I like the fact that only a few power users had figured out how to comingle all the content on the main page, or that only people interested in a topic would routinely read the sectional stuff. This meant that those non-frontpage stories generally had better comment quality. I think this will suffer under the new system.
The problem is we're simply not designed to process the amount of sugar in the average north american diet (sugar, sucrose, fructose or othewise).
Apparently the average american consumes around 150 pounds of sugar per year. That's a whole person worth of sugar each year. Now I'm sure that includes lots of sugar alternatives, but the point remains that sweetners have invaded almost all mass produced processed foods in the western diet.
You can see the problem when you consider the diet of pre-industrial man. For the majority of our evolution, sweet things have been very few and far between. We didn't have access to fruit in the kind of abundance we do today, let alone sugar! If ancient man wanted something sweet, he'd either have to find a bee-hive (not an every day event), or - if he lived where sugar cane is indigineous (very few did) he might be able to chop down some of that and chew on it. Otherwise, he was out of luck. Nothing sweet in the diet. Nothing at all.
We simply have not evolved the metabolism capable of processing the vast volumes of sugar we ingest every year. Something to think about over the holidays as you chew on your candy canes, ginger bread, cookies, cake and whatever else comes your way!
(disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about this topic) Does anybody know whether we could use asteroids to transport probes around space? Wouldn't an asteroid potential provide a fast and free transportation system? Wouldn't they provide rudmentary protection against space radaition somewhat? If you ask me, NASA and other space agencies should be firing out probes like crazy. Small, inexpensive ones. Do lots of them. And make it so they can communicate with each other. Sort of like a mesh network in space: so one far away could communicate back via other ones. We seem to spend a lot of time and money fussing about with silly low gravity science on ISS when we could be exploring the galaxy with probes. I've been very impressed with the Mars probes and would like to see more of that sort of thing.
The guys who researched this article are idiots. Anybody can tell you that it only takes two people to tip a cow: one guys sneaks up and kneels behind it before the other guy runs up and pushes it over.
Thanks for clarifying. My Apple chip provider nomenclature is a bit dated. Freescale is a spin off from Motorola is it not? Again, not that it matters to the consumer.
A lot of ink has been spilled on why Apple chose Intel over AMD. I think it's all a bit of a waste of time.
Unless Apple uses some proprietary Intel instruction set, it can add AMD offerings to its lineup whenever it feels like.
My guess is that Apple chose Intel for their arch switch because: 1) It was easier to pick a single chip partner to do the switch with. 2) Intel likely offered incentives to go with them alone. There may be contracts involved in this, but they won't last forever. 3) Like it or not, Intel is the x86 brand with mindshare in the public eye. 4) AMD probably can't handle the volume of bringing all of Apple's products over to them at the moment.
The fact is that as soon as OS X is x86 it can benefit from the Intel/AMD competition in the same way that Windows and Linux users do today.
The hurdle is converting from PPC to x86. Going from Intel to AMD later on may not even be noticeable. In fact, if you think of the G4/G5 branding in the current Apple world, most consumers don't even know that their G4 is a Motorola chip and their G5 is IBM. They don't care, so long as there's an Apple on the side of the box.
Parent makes a good point. There's nothing to see here. Move along.
Sure we could all talk about the evolution of blogging, but framing the discussion in terms of a "decline" of geek blogging, and that blogging by technical people is something that must be "saved' is simply a ridiculous form of spin.
Oh, I remember the good old days when a blog was a.plan file. I remember typing "finger johnc@idsoftware.com" to find out the latest dirt on Quake. It wasn't called blogging at the time. It was just the Internet. The Internet back then was pretty new to most people.
Nowadays, blogging is more an online way of sharing stuff with your friends. The average blog is probably only read by a dozen people who know the blogger. It's a way of posting your digital photos and yakking about your life. A substitute for an email mailing list. Big deal.
Much has been made of blogging. The Howard Dean phenomenon. The blogosphere. It's all pretty retarded. Lo and behold, people are posting their thoughts and opinions on web pages. How novel.
Does anybody know how the video is downloaded on this app? I'm running it now and can't tell. If they could combine it with bittorrent, it would be an incredibly powerful distribution model.
I'm very impressed. (and very pleased to see it come out for the Mac first!)
Good: * chip production economies of scale * intel / AMD competition * low-power chips good for future of the powerbook * WINE or equivalent should allow for running Windows apps * more games! (either through WINE or native OS X)
Bad: * what happens between now and 2006 to Apple sales? * I have a PB. I need a G5 to run multi-way iChat AV video conferencing. WTF am I supposed to do between now and next year? * even with rosetta, PPC apps are likely to run slower - and you'd WANT to upgrade to x86. this is going to cost customers money (the good news here, is that a LOT of apps people use on their macs come bundled: iApps, etc).
I've never used a console before, but since I'm now a Mac user (I love my Mac), I've been thinking more and more about getting a console so I can play some of the games that I can't get for my Mac (HL2 for instance).
I'm a longtime PC gamer and am very used to the keyboard+mouse combo for FPS in particular. I don't see how the Xbox controller can compare. It has far fewer buttons for one, and I don't like using my thumbs for movement.
Can you hookup a keyboard+mouse or some kind of third party controller to consoles like Xbox?
What have other people found when switching from PC gaming to consoles?
Does anyone know if Tiger will run on Cherry OS? Has anyone tried the developer releases on that platform?
I know Mac hardware is cool, but I'm a big fan of Cherry OS. I like that they've open sourced some of their code. I think people should support the open source community like they do.
Seems to me that Motorola can complain all they want about Apple. If they delay their product out of annoyace at Steve, they're the ones who will lose revenue, not Apple. Apple is going to continue to sell iPods with or without Motorola.
I don't get why they would even whine about this. They should concentrate on launching their phones and spend a little less time criticizing someone who has been an extremely successful businessman and might know a thing or two about consumer marketing.
From the Apple site the poster linked to:
"The Open Directory architecture makes it easy to integrate Mac OS X client and server systems to into your existing network infrastructure. It's compatible with other standards-based LDAP servers, and can even plug into environments that use proprietary services such as Microsoft's Active Directory"
So it looks pretty straight forward. If Apple says it can be done, chances are: (1) they've done it, (2) they've got documentation telling you how to do it, (3) it is possible.
I'd start by checking the white papers on that Apple page. Then browse through the Apple knowledge base. They use groups.google.com to see what other people are saying about it.
1) People install Kazaa because they want to pirate music, pictures, video and software from the Internet 2) Kazaa puts spyware crap in their product 3) Users think this is unfair 4) Kazaa is in court because of what they did
Am I crazy? Is there someone out there forcing people to install Kazaa? How many people were installing it for legit legal use?
You don't want spyware crap? Don't install shady programs.
This is like sueing a drug addict because he let you share his needle and you contracted HIV. I really don't get what all the fuss is about.
oss needs clarity. think about the mac. everything is immediately obvious to the end user. apps are sensibly named, things make sense. look at.net on windows. again, this is an easy to understand system.
oss is great, but since it's a voluntary collaboration, things are named after inside jokes or poor conventions. the "k"rap naming of kde stuff for example. or "vi", "gawk", "sed" etc. come on.
I know this will be flamed, but I think some kind of clarity council should be setup to provide consistency and simplicity across applications, tools and platforms. with a bit of this kind of organization, linux could really make a dent on the desktop, and new developers and users wouldn't face such a high barrier to entry.
Whoever you chose to go with (I'm partial to Apple, but that's just me - and just because they have sexy hardware), see if you can get them to give you either more for your money, or free implementation/consulting help, or something like that in exchange for using your implementation as a success story. I think Virginia Tech got a bunch of free stuff from Apple when they decided to build their supercomputer.
All these vendors want to be able to talk about their work. Letting them use you for marketing may help you get more for your money.
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Thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. I have no problem hosting my site on Debian (or some derivative).
I have a project I'm working on and need a Perl based CMS.
Basically, my problem is:
I have a bunch of Perl scripts that do various things. I need to be able to control access to those scripts to registered (paying) users and I need to be able to pass some kind of userID to my Perl scripts so that what one user does is separated from what another user does - and so they can maintain their own data.
The system needs to be able to display a bunch of HTML forms so the users can select options to feed to the scripts, and then display both text and graphical results.
My scripts are pretty flexible, all built in Perl and very easy for me to maintain. I don't really want to bother writing and maintaining my own web gui, user management, advertising management, user account management system. I figured a CMS would do the job.
Also, on this site, I'd like to be able to house a bunch of articles, but I'm pretty sure all the CMS options can handle that.
I'm tinkering with WebGUI, Scoop and Twiki at the moment to see if they might fit the bill. Does Slashdot have any other suggestions for me? Is there a Perl CMS guru out there who can help?
Thanks!
Apple in the console space is very plausible. This blog was discussing the same idea last week.
This guy has an interesting blog entry speculating that Apple will go after the console gaming market. This sounds pretty plausible: if they do build a PVR (and Front Row is SO BEGGING for it), then they'd be in the living room. How hard would it be to add some bluetooth controllers and take a bite out of the XBox360 pie?
Anybody think the BlackMacBook will be called the BlackBook (like the TiBook?)
Looks like Apple is settling on a trend: glossy black or white, and brushed metal.
I wonder if they scratch as easily as the Nanos?
Would also like to see the new glossy screens on the 15" and 17" BTO models.
Great. Now Duke Nukem Forever will have to do ANOTHER engine change and their game will be delayed again!
I've always liked the fact that sectional content was largely missed by the wider readership: this fact acted as a filter of sorts. The problem with Slashdot is that the signal to noise ratio of comments has been getting worse and worse. I like the fact that only a few power users had figured out how to comingle all the content on the main page, or that only people interested in a topic would routinely read the sectional stuff. This meant that those non-frontpage stories generally had better comment quality. I think this will suffer under the new system.
The problem is we're simply not designed to process the amount of sugar in the average north american diet (sugar, sucrose, fructose or othewise).
Apparently the average american consumes around 150 pounds of sugar per year. That's a whole person worth of sugar each year. Now I'm sure that includes lots of sugar alternatives, but the point remains that sweetners have invaded almost all mass produced processed foods in the western diet.
You can see the problem when you consider the diet of pre-industrial man. For the majority of our evolution, sweet things have been very few and far between. We didn't have access to fruit in the kind of abundance we do today, let alone sugar! If ancient man wanted something sweet, he'd either have to find a bee-hive (not an every day event), or - if he lived where sugar cane is indigineous (very few did) he might be able to chop down some of that and chew on it. Otherwise, he was out of luck. Nothing sweet in the diet. Nothing at all.
We simply have not evolved the metabolism capable of processing the vast volumes of sugar we ingest every year. Something to think about over the holidays as you chew on your candy canes, ginger bread, cookies, cake and whatever else comes your way!
(disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about this topic)
Does anybody know whether we could use asteroids to transport probes around space?
Wouldn't an asteroid potential provide a fast and free transportation system? Wouldn't they provide rudmentary protection against space radaition somewhat?
If you ask me, NASA and other space agencies should be firing out probes like crazy. Small, inexpensive ones. Do lots of them. And make it so they can communicate with each other. Sort of like a mesh network in space: so one far away could communicate back via other ones.
We seem to spend a lot of time and money fussing about with silly low gravity science on ISS when we could be exploring the galaxy with probes. I've been very impressed with the Mars probes and would like to see more of that sort of thing.
Why does this story not have a department?
The guys who researched this article are idiots. Anybody can tell you that it only takes two people to tip a cow: one guys sneaks up and kneels behind it before the other guy runs up and pushes it over.
Thanks for clarifying. My Apple chip provider nomenclature is a bit dated. Freescale is a spin off from Motorola is it not? Again, not that it matters to the consumer.
A lot of ink has been spilled on why Apple chose Intel over AMD. I think it's all a bit of a waste of time.
Unless Apple uses some proprietary Intel instruction set, it can add AMD offerings to its lineup whenever it feels like.
My guess is that Apple chose Intel for their arch switch because:
1) It was easier to pick a single chip partner to do the switch with.
2) Intel likely offered incentives to go with them alone. There may be contracts involved in this, but they won't last forever.
3) Like it or not, Intel is the x86 brand with mindshare in the public eye.
4) AMD probably can't handle the volume of bringing all of Apple's products over to them at the moment.
The fact is that as soon as OS X is x86 it can benefit from the Intel/AMD competition in the same way that Windows and Linux users do today.
The hurdle is converting from PPC to x86. Going from Intel to AMD later on may not even be noticeable. In fact, if you think of the G4/G5 branding in the current Apple world, most consumers don't even know that their G4 is a Motorola chip and their G5 is IBM. They don't care, so long as there's an Apple on the side of the box.
Parent makes a good point. There's nothing to see here. Move along.
.plan file. I remember typing "finger johnc@idsoftware.com" to find out the latest dirt on Quake. It wasn't called blogging at the time. It was just the Internet. The Internet back then was pretty new to most people.
Sure we could all talk about the evolution of blogging, but framing the discussion in terms of a "decline" of geek blogging, and that blogging by technical people is something that must be "saved' is simply a ridiculous form of spin.
Oh, I remember the good old days when a blog was a
Nowadays, blogging is more an online way of sharing stuff with your friends. The average blog is probably only read by a dozen people who know the blogger. It's a way of posting your digital photos and yakking about your life. A substitute for an email mailing list. Big deal.
Much has been made of blogging. The Howard Dean phenomenon. The blogosphere. It's all pretty retarded. Lo and behold, people are posting their thoughts and opinions on web pages. How novel.
Does anybody know how the video is downloaded on this app? I'm running it now and can't tell. If they could combine it with bittorrent, it would be an incredibly powerful distribution model.
I'm very impressed. (and very pleased to see it come out for the Mac first!)
Good:
* chip production economies of scale
* intel / AMD competition
* low-power chips good for future of the powerbook
* WINE or equivalent should allow for running Windows apps
* more games! (either through WINE or native OS X)
Bad:
* what happens between now and 2006 to Apple sales?
* I have a PB. I need a G5 to run multi-way iChat AV video conferencing. WTF am I supposed to do between now and next year?
* even with rosetta, PPC apps are likely to run slower - and you'd WANT to upgrade to x86. this is going to cost customers money (the good news here, is that a LOT of apps people use on their macs come bundled: iApps, etc).
but I'm living off grid at the moment.
I've never used a console before, but since I'm now a Mac user (I love my Mac), I've been thinking more and more about getting a console so I can play some of the games that I can't get for my Mac (HL2 for instance).
I'm a longtime PC gamer and am very used to the keyboard+mouse combo for FPS in particular. I don't see how the Xbox controller can compare. It has far fewer buttons for one, and I don't like using my thumbs for movement.
Can you hookup a keyboard+mouse or some kind of third party controller to consoles like Xbox?
What have other people found when switching from PC gaming to consoles?
Does anyone know if Tiger will run on Cherry OS? Has anyone tried the developer releases on that platform?
I know Mac hardware is cool, but I'm a big fan of Cherry OS. I like that they've open sourced some of their code. I think people should support the open source community like they do.
Seems to me that Motorola can complain all they want about Apple. If they delay their product out of annoyace at Steve, they're the ones who will lose revenue, not Apple. Apple is going to continue to sell iPods with or without Motorola.
I don't get why they would even whine about this. They should concentrate on launching their phones and spend a little less time criticizing someone who has been an extremely successful businessman and might know a thing or two about consumer marketing.
From the Apple site the poster linked to:
"The Open Directory architecture makes it easy to integrate Mac OS X client and server systems to into your existing network infrastructure. It's compatible with other standards-based LDAP servers, and can even plug into environments that use proprietary services such as Microsoft's Active Directory"
So it looks pretty straight forward. If Apple says it can be done, chances are: (1) they've done it, (2) they've got documentation telling you how to do it, (3) it is possible.
I'd start by checking the white papers on that Apple page. Then browse through the Apple knowledge base. They use groups.google.com to see what other people are saying about it.
Hold down COMMAND+T when you boot for "target disk mode". Makes your computer into a firewire drive.
This is great if you want to use the HDD of your Powerbook G4 on your friend's G5 tower. I think you can even set it to be the boot disk.
Macs rule.
1) People install Kazaa because they want to pirate music, pictures, video and software from the Internet
2) Kazaa puts spyware crap in their product
3) Users think this is unfair
4) Kazaa is in court because of what they did
Am I crazy? Is there someone out there forcing people to install Kazaa? How many people were installing it for legit legal use?
You don't want spyware crap? Don't install shady programs.
This is like sueing a drug addict because he let you share his needle and you contracted HIV. I really don't get what all the fuss is about.
oss needs clarity. think about the mac. everything is immediately obvious to the end user. apps are sensibly named, things make sense. look at .net on windows. again, this is an easy to understand system.
oss is great, but since it's a voluntary collaboration, things are named after inside jokes or poor conventions. the "k"rap naming of kde stuff for example. or "vi", "gawk", "sed" etc. come on.
I know this will be flamed, but I think some kind of clarity council should be setup to provide consistency and simplicity across applications, tools and platforms. with a bit of this kind of organization, linux could really make a dent on the desktop, and new developers and users wouldn't face such a high barrier to entry.
Whoever you chose to go with (I'm partial to Apple, but that's just me - and just because they have sexy hardware), see if you can get them to give you either more for your money, or free implementation/consulting help, or something like that in exchange for using your implementation as a success story. I think Virginia Tech got a bunch of free stuff from Apple when they decided to build their supercomputer.
All these vendors want to be able to talk about their work. Letting them use you for marketing may help you get more for your money.