It appears to me that the IIPA's own web site is hosted on the Open Source Apache web server. It's a little hard to tell because the Server header has been customised and there may be some sort of hardware loadbalancer in front of the server. Anyway the 404 page and the directory listings certainly look like Apache.
ACTA is a treaty on copyrights and trademarks, which are totally different than patents.
How can you possibly know what is contained in the ACTA treaty? While the actual contents remain secret (and they're likely to remain so until passed into law in the signatory countries) we have nothing to go on but leaked documents. Documents leaked already suggest the treaty aims to go well beyond simply protecting copyrights and trademarks. But of course all the countries involved in the negotiations already have laws to protect copyrights and trademarks so if the treaty didn't go beyond that there would be no reason for it to exist.
Compare, say, setting up apache on a typical Linux distribution with configuring IIS on Windows.
Having developed, deployed and supported apps on both servers, I can say without reservation the Apache way is *much* better.
In theory, the IIS way is better for someone who doesn't know what they're doing - they can hunt and peck in dialog boxes and toggle options until they get it going. In practice, many of those dialog boxes are harder to find and understand than the equivalent config entry for Apache.
With Apache, I can take a config file that works and one that doesn't, run them through diff and get a meaningful comparison. Or I can keep my Apache config in a revision control system, enabling me to roll back to a previous version very quickly. Or I can develop a config change as a patch file and be confident that it will be applied correctly as my code progresses through testing, staging and into production. Some of these things are possible with IIS but they are harder, they are poorly documented and they are completely different for every major release of IIS.
I'm guessing some of the people you'll be talking to are spreadsheet junkies. Often such people have requirements that can't be met easily by a spreadsheet but would be easy to do in a script (eg: munging data from text files into CSV so they can get it into a spreadsheet).
My Sprog project is targetted at exactly that type of user, the project catch phrase is "Scripting for the GUI Guys". It's a friendly GUI environment in which a user can drag and drop reusable components to 'build' a script rather than 'write' a script.
This article gives some hint of what's possible (and has pictures too).
At this point, a GNOME desktop on Linux would be the best demo platform, but Windows support is coming.
There's no option to right click in a text field and delete everything in it without highlighting the text that is already there.
Partial solution... I recently learned of the Ctrl-Backspace key combo, which deletes a word at a time. Works in OpenOffice.org too.
As another poster said, pressing Ctrl-L will Move the focus to the URL entry box and highlight all the text (without copying it on the X-Selection) so a simple backspace or delete will erase it all. Of course if you want to paste a URL, then the simplest thing is just to middle click in the browser window.
So let me get this right. Your 'corporate firewall' makes it difficult for you to access CPAN and this means "CPAN SUCKS" ?
The first step in using CPAN from behind a firewall is to install the latest version of CPAN.pm. This might involve manually downloading the tarball and running 'make install', but it will be well worth that small effort.
The next step depends on your preference. I'd recommend installing wget. It works nicely with 'corporate firewalls' and CPAN.pm works nicely with wget.
Then you can use
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Some::Module'
and sit back and watch the dependecies resolve themselves - works for me:-)
Everyone likes Mozilla's tabbed browsing, right? Well, that's just another form of MDI. It's windows-within-windows, but done right.
Well actually, no I don't like Mozilla's tabbed browsing at all. I like each web page to appear in a different window so that Alt-Tab works between all open documents whether they be word processor, spreadsheet, web pages etc.
Despite the fact that our countries (Australia and NZ) are geographically close
Geographically close? The distance between Auckland and Sydney is considerably more than say London to Rome, or New York to Miami. And there is nothing between the two countries except water. It'd be a hell of a long swim.
Oh and in response to the earlier "
They do have kangaroos in New Zealand, don't they?", no we don't, but Wallabies are a somewhat similar species (albeit smaller) that was introduced here a long time ago.
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What you're looking at there is one possible representation of an XML document.
I couldn't agree less. In fact, XML is one possible representation of the abstract hierarchical data structure you described. Furthermore, XML is in fact a text representation. There are many other ways you could represent that data structure (eg: a custom binary format, records in a relational or hierarchical database, a object serialised to a binary stream etc) but none of them are XML.
The W3C themselves say that "XML is text" and then go on to point out that advantages of being a text format include:
you can look at data without needing the program that produced it
you can read it with you favourite text editor
it's easier for developers to debug
They also say: "Like HTML, XML files are text files that people shouldn't have to read, but may when the need arises".
In parallel with the development of XML, our notion of the definition of 'text' has also moved forward. Through the adoption of standards like Unicode and bridging facilities like encoding declarations, we have moved past 7-bit ASCII as being the one true text.
To claim that an XML file is not "editable in emacs (or vi), grep-able, diff-able or understandable to the naked eye" is demonstrably untrue. You'll obviously need a text editor that understands whichever encoding the file uses (both emacs and vim fit that bill) but a text editor is a perfectly servicable tool for viewing and editing XML (obviously not the best tool in many cases, but acceptable nontheless)
Who is the loser who keeps moderating this shit as funny?
I can't answer your question but I can say that if you saw the episode of Southpark this was lifted from (the business plan involved the theft of underpants I believe) then you might find it an amusing meme.
Ok, 19 megabits per second is a little over 2 megabytes per second.
And your phone company charges you say 1 cent per megabyte (I wish!).
10 minutes (600 seconds) online could cost you $14.00
Remember, this is Sun the people who released Solaris 2.0 which:
- was the first version of Solaris
- declared itself to be SunOS 5.0
- was an implementation of System V Release 4.0
Obviously being able to count is not a prerequisite for getting a job in Sun's marketing department.
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I use gvim all day every day with the added convenience of bcvi for editing files on remote servers. Thanks Bram!
It appears to me that the IIPA's own web site is hosted on the Open Source Apache web server. It's a little hard to tell because the Server header has been customised and there may be some sort of hardware loadbalancer in front of the server. Anyway the 404 page and the directory listings certainly look like Apache.
How can you possibly know what is contained in the ACTA treaty? While the actual contents remain secret (and they're likely to remain so until passed into law in the signatory countries) we have nothing to go on but leaked documents. Documents leaked already suggest the treaty aims to go well beyond simply protecting copyrights and trademarks. But of course all the countries involved in the negotiations already have laws to protect copyrights and trademarks so if the treaty didn't go beyond that there would be no reason for it to exist.
... how to overclock.
Having developed, deployed and supported apps on both servers, I can say without reservation the Apache way is *much* better.
In theory, the IIS way is better for someone who doesn't know what they're doing - they can hunt and peck in dialog boxes and toggle options until they get it going. In practice, many of those dialog boxes are harder to find and understand than the equivalent config entry for Apache.
With Apache, I can take a config file that works and one that doesn't, run them through diff and get a meaningful comparison. Or I can keep my Apache config in a revision control system, enabling me to roll back to a previous version very quickly. Or I can develop a config change as a patch file and be confident that it will be applied correctly as my code progresses through testing, staging and into production. Some of these things are possible with IIS but they are harder, they are poorly documented and they are completely different for every major release of IIS.
I'm guessing some of the people you'll be talking to are spreadsheet junkies. Often such people have requirements that can't be met easily by a spreadsheet but would be easy to do in a script (eg: munging data from text files into CSV so they can get it into a spreadsheet).
My Sprog project is targetted at exactly that type of user, the project catch phrase is "Scripting for the GUI Guys". It's a friendly GUI environment in which a user can drag and drop reusable components to 'build' a script rather than 'write' a script.
This article gives some hint of what's possible (and has pictures too).
At this point, a GNOME desktop on Linux would be the best demo platform, but Windows support is coming.
Partial solution ... I recently learned of the Ctrl-Backspace key combo, which deletes a word at a time. Works in OpenOffice.org too.
As another poster said, pressing Ctrl-L will Move the focus to the URL entry box and highlight all the text (without copying it on the X-Selection) so a simple backspace or delete will erase it all. Of course if you want to paste a URL, then the simplest thing is just to middle click in the browser window.
Yeah if only those extensions weren't so damn hard to find
So let me get this right. Your 'corporate firewall' makes it difficult for you to access CPAN and this means "CPAN SUCKS" ?
The first step in using CPAN from behind a firewall is to install the latest version of CPAN.pm. This might involve manually downloading the tarball and running 'make install', but it will be well worth that small effort.
The next step depends on your preference. I'd recommend installing wget. It works nicely with 'corporate firewalls' and CPAN.pm works nicely with wget.
Then you can use
and sit back and watch the dependecies resolve themselves - works for meWell actually, no I don't like Mozilla's tabbed browsing at all. I like each web page to appear in a different window so that Alt-Tab works between all open documents whether they be word processor, spreadsheet, web pages etc.
Geographically close? The distance between Auckland and Sydney is considerably more than say London to Rome, or New York to Miami. And there is nothing between the two countries except water. It'd be a hell of a long swim.
Oh and in response to the earlier " They do have kangaroos in New Zealand, don't they?", no we don't, but Wallabies are a somewhat similar species (albeit smaller) that was introduced here a long time ago.
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I couldn't agree less. In fact, XML is one possible representation of the abstract hierarchical data structure you described. Furthermore, XML is in fact a text representation. There are many other ways you could represent that data structure (eg: a custom binary format, records in a relational or hierarchical database, a object serialised to a binary stream etc) but none of them are XML.
The W3C themselves say that "XML is text" and then go on to point out that advantages of being a text format include:
They also say: "Like HTML, XML files are text files that people shouldn't have to read, but may when the need arises".
In parallel with the development of XML, our notion of the definition of 'text' has also moved forward. Through the adoption of standards like Unicode and bridging facilities like encoding declarations, we have moved past 7-bit ASCII as being the one true text.
To claim that an XML file is not "editable in emacs (or vi), grep-able, diff-able or understandable to the naked eye" is demonstrably untrue. You'll obviously need a text editor that understands whichever encoding the file uses (both emacs and vim fit that bill) but a text editor is a perfectly servicable tool for viewing and editing XML (obviously not the best tool in many cases, but acceptable nontheless)
Microsoft's sales and marketing people actually make heavy use of VMware in their demo suites.
I can't answer your question but I can say that if you saw the episode of Southpark this was lifted from (the business plan involved the theft of underpants I believe) then you might find it an amusing meme.
Ok, 19 megabits per second is a little over 2 megabytes per second.
And your phone company charges you say 1 cent per megabyte (I wish!).
10 minutes (600 seconds) online could cost you $14.00
Remember, this is Sun the people who released Solaris 2.0 which:
- was the first version of Solaris
- declared itself to be SunOS 5.0
- was an implementation of System V Release 4.0
Obviously being able to count is not a prerequisite for getting a job in Sun's marketing department.