No, fuck Microsoft. I'll do my part by buying a CD here and shipping it to the Asian pirates.
Why would you want to do this? You're only feeding the Beast. If you want to do a real job advertise a local evening lecture on how to stopp viruses and trojans. Explain how Windows is the source of it all and that there are 2 alternatives: Linux and OS X
Unfortunately, for the last 50 years or so the Art world hasn't been able to distinguish between a Rembrandt and a pile of shit thrown into a "space". Everything is "post-modern" (yeuch!) now so a piece of rubbish lying in the gutter can become something equal to a Picasso creation if it is simply given a new context in an exhibition. Sad but true.
My home network has a dual 2Ghz G5 (2 x 160Gb drives, 256Mb video card and 3Gb RAM) and 2 Athlon XP 2800+ machines (2 x 160Gb disks, 1Gb RAM and Radeon 9800s) running Fedora 3 and XP Pro. I also have an "old" 1.2Ghz Athlon (2 x 120Gb drives, 768Mb RAM) and and older 600Mhz Athlon lying around doing nothing most of the time. These run Linux and Windows 2003 server. Someone tell me why, when my landlady threw out an old Celeron 333Mhz (32Mb RAM, 4.3Gb disk, broken CD-ROM) I derived immense pleasure loading FreeBSD 5.3 onto it via 2 floppies and a base install via ftp then forwarded port 22 on it to my router before speeding off to my mate's to impress him by SSH-ing into my "new server". It's madess. After the novelty wears off it'll just keep the others company filling-up my tiny studio flat. Hey, wait a minute - IPCop firewall. Now, all I need is 2 more NICs. (Races off to find nearby skip, frothing at the mouth).
Around 10.0 Mandrake's networking went down the pan. Cards which worked with 9 suddenly didn't work and lost their settings. At other times the same cards couldn't be detected. Mandrake's Control Centre's display config tool was also terrible. I switched to Fedora and never looked back. One thing Fedora has over Mandrake is the option to install everything. This makes installation a breeze as it's much easier to remove stuff later than plough through Mandrake's maze of sub-menus at install time.
I have a dual 2Ghz G5 and a 1.5Ghz PowerBook. While Panther is great for multimedia I still prefer my £600 Acer laptop with Fedora Core 3 simply because the full install comes with nearly everything I could want and more, easily installed in around 30mins. OS X has no development tools out of the box to match the range of GNU that comes with Fedora 3. Yes, you can install Fink and enable XCode but I haven't found this to be such a smooth ride. Compiling open source software on OS X can lead down many blind alleys due to what I consider to be a schizophrenic OS. The marriage of the Apple system and the BSD internals is uncomfortable and results in a hybrid system. Why did OS X have so many Perl problems for years? Often it's hard to get a Mac version of what you want because development isn't a priority (OpenOffice.org). For development and server-related work I still prefer Fedora.
Did you actually read the review? If you did you'd have to conclude that this is a book for advanced PHP programmers, not the "Learn x in 24 hours" you keep carping on about. The 2 authors are actually the leading developers of PHP and PEAR so what has this got to do with beginners' books? The book's title, in case you didn't care to note it, is "PHP5 Power Programming" not "Beginners Guide to PHP5". Every other review of this book I've read says there is very little in it for PHP beginners and that the book jumps straight into advanced topics....... so there!
I agree in part. ALL Gecko-based browsers are insanely crippled on Mac OS X. Whether it's Firefox, Mozilla or Camino as soon as I hit a page with a bit of Flash or dynamic content 'top' shows the Gecko browser hogging 98% CPU and the my G5 starts revving -up its engines.
"Advanced PHP Programming" by Schlossnagle has been out for quite a while. "PHP5 and MySQL E-Commerce" is also quite advanced. "Professional PHP5" (Apress). I don't see a lack of advanced PHP5 books.
Get off yer high horse fer chreissake. So you're a REAL PROGRAMMER who probably drinks REAL ALE, wears a DEBIAN t-shirt and can recite LORD OF THE RINGS backwards. Some of us, meanwhile, are trying to learn to programme and this book, in case you didn't read the review, is considered best of breed.
Since IE7 is only for XP/SP2 the vast majority of XP users and those who decided SP2 was flawed will continue with IE6 and the release will have no impact on web development. Unless IE7 is available for Win2000/XP/XPSP1 you can forget improved CSS support for the majority.
... Soon all Nokia phones will be infested with spyware, adware, trojans, virii and all the other Windows bestiary. Some learn the hard way. Some never learn (throws hands in air).
... it was revealed that Aronld Schwarzeneger is a woman and Afghanistan is the leading world economy.
Micrsoft's formula for press releases lately seems to:
1. Take a flaw in a M$ product
2. Compare with Linux/OSS
3. Assert the opposite of what you find
4. Profit
... to see Longhorn die the death it inevitably will. A DRM OS on which old apps won't run and it requires high spec hardware. Seems like a non-starter in the face of cost-saving open source alternatives. Be assured it won't offer much extra security if it comes outta Redmond. Bring on Longhorn. Time to slay The Beast once and for all.
Microsoft are so bankrupt that their only recourse, these days, seems to be complete denial. I mean, come on, M$ aren't even on the map when it comes to security. The closest analogy I can think of when it comes to M$ spouting about security is Hitler preaching Christianity. This is so ridiculous it isn't worth the fart that set the thought in motion.
Of course they must be freeing-up resources for the GREAT LONGHORN RELEASE. Yes, that long-awaited piece of vapourware whose feature list is still a mystery. I rub my hands each time I hear "news" about Longhorn as I'm convinced it'll be the nail in Microsoft's coffin. Let's see, it'll probably be another 2 years before it's out the door and considering each OS release takes an exponentially longer time to attract upgraders I'd say it could be 2010 at the earliest before we see significant numbers. BUT, that's only if they keep their grubby DRM fingers from Fritzing it with Intel's co-operation and don't you know they just can't resist that one. However, once they tie the OS to DRM it'll be curtains for M$. So, go on Billy, make my day.
As many on the Perl lists will ask, why re-invent the wheel? Every Perl newbie tries to create his own CGI.pm before discovering it exists. Likewise with templating systems. Template Toolkit has more than anyone could ask for.
Dreamweaver squashed the 'WYSIWYG tools generate crappy non-standards compliant code' misnomer quite some time ago.
Really. Until MX 2004 DW could only handle a subset of CSS reliably. Ever tried designing a page with CSS floats? DW MX 2004 still can't render them properly. As far as CSS layouts are concerned DW isn't even fully WYSIWYG!
Add to that record-breaking bloat, the code view that doesn't receive focus until you click it and a dozen other 'features', I'll stick with Template Toolkit.
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The poster said he needed XP to run Photoshop. How is FreeBSD relevant?
No, fuck Microsoft. I'll do my part by buying a CD here and shipping it to the Asian pirates.
Why would you want to do this? You're only feeding the Beast. If you want to do a real job advertise a local evening lecture on how to stopp viruses and trojans. Explain how Windows is the source of it all and that there are 2 alternatives: Linux and OS X
I still need -- thanks mostly to Adobe -- to dual boot.
Ever heard of OS X?
Add to that list the recent decree from on high that SP2 WILL be installed via Automatic Updates whether you like it or not.
Unfortunately, for the last 50 years or so the Art world hasn't been able to distinguish between a Rembrandt and a pile of shit thrown into a "space". Everything is "post-modern" (yeuch!) now so a piece of rubbish lying in the gutter can become something equal to a Picasso creation if it is simply given a new context in an exhibition. Sad but true.
My home network has a dual 2Ghz G5 (2 x 160Gb drives, 256Mb video card and 3Gb RAM) and 2 Athlon XP 2800+ machines (2 x 160Gb disks, 1Gb RAM and Radeon 9800s) running Fedora 3 and XP Pro. I also have an "old" 1.2Ghz Athlon (2 x 120Gb drives, 768Mb RAM) and and older 600Mhz Athlon lying around doing nothing most of the time. These run Linux and Windows 2003 server. Someone tell me why, when my landlady threw out an old Celeron 333Mhz (32Mb RAM, 4.3Gb disk, broken CD-ROM) I derived immense pleasure loading FreeBSD 5.3 onto it via 2 floppies and a base install via ftp then forwarded port 22 on it to my router before speeding off to my mate's to impress him by SSH-ing into my "new server". It's madess. After the novelty wears off it'll just keep the others company filling-up my tiny studio flat. Hey, wait a minute - IPCop firewall. Now, all I need is 2 more NICs. (Races off to find nearby skip, frothing at the mouth).
Maybe a new distro once in 3 years might help kindle a little enthusiasm.
Didn't stop O'Reilly.
Around 10.0 Mandrake's networking went down the pan. Cards which worked with 9 suddenly didn't work and lost their settings. At other times the same cards couldn't be detected. Mandrake's Control Centre's display config tool was also terrible. I switched to Fedora and never looked back. One thing Fedora has over Mandrake is the option to install everything. This makes installation a breeze as it's much easier to remove stuff later than plough through Mandrake's maze of sub-menus at install time.
I have a dual 2Ghz G5 and a 1.5Ghz PowerBook. While Panther is great for multimedia I still prefer my £600 Acer laptop with Fedora Core 3 simply because the full install comes with nearly everything I could want and more, easily installed in around 30mins. OS X has no development tools out of the box to match the range of GNU that comes with Fedora 3. Yes, you can install Fink and enable XCode but I haven't found this to be such a smooth ride. Compiling open source software on OS X can lead down many blind alleys due to what I consider to be a schizophrenic OS. The marriage of the Apple system and the BSD internals is uncomfortable and results in a hybrid system. Why did OS X have so many Perl problems for years? Often it's hard to get a Mac version of what you want because development isn't a priority (OpenOffice.org). For development and server-related work I still prefer Fedora.
Did you actually read the review? If you did you'd have to conclude that this is a book for advanced PHP programmers, not the "Learn x in 24 hours" you keep carping on about. The 2 authors are actually the leading developers of PHP and PEAR so what has this got to do with beginners' books? The book's title, in case you didn't care to note it, is "PHP5 Power Programming" not "Beginners Guide to PHP5". Every other review of this book I've read says there is very little in it for PHP beginners and that the book jumps straight into advanced topics ....... so there!
I agree in part. ALL Gecko-based browsers are insanely crippled on Mac OS X. Whether it's Firefox, Mozilla or Camino as soon as I hit a page with a bit of Flash or dynamic content 'top' shows the Gecko browser hogging 98% CPU and the my G5 starts revving -up its engines.
"Advanced PHP Programming" by Schlossnagle has been out for quite a while. "PHP5 and MySQL E-Commerce" is also quite advanced. "Professional PHP5" (Apress). I don't see a lack of advanced PHP5 books.
Get off yer high horse fer chreissake. So you're a REAL PROGRAMMER who probably drinks REAL ALE, wears a DEBIAN t-shirt and can recite LORD OF THE RINGS backwards. Some of us, meanwhile, are trying to learn to programme and this book, in case you didn't read the review, is considered best of breed.
Isn't that what Debian is all about - waiting ..... and waiting ..... and waiting?
Since IE7 is only for XP/SP2 the vast majority of XP users and those who decided SP2 was flawed will continue with IE6 and the release will have no impact on web development. Unless IE7 is available for Win2000/XP/XPSP1 you can forget improved CSS support for the majority.
... Soon all Nokia phones will be infested with spyware, adware, trojans, virii and all the other Windows bestiary. Some learn the hard way. Some never learn (throws hands in air).
... it was revealed that Aronld Schwarzeneger is a woman and Afghanistan is the leading world economy.
Micrsoft's formula for press releases lately seems to:
1. Take a flaw in a M$ product
2. Compare with Linux/OSS
3. Assert the opposite of what you find
4. Profit
... to see Longhorn die the death it inevitably will. A DRM OS on which old apps won't run and it requires high spec hardware. Seems like a non-starter in the face of cost-saving open source alternatives. Be assured it won't offer much extra security if it comes outta Redmond. Bring on Longhorn. Time to slay The Beast once and for all.
Since Bill Gates pioneered proprietary non-interoperability, he's the man.
Microsoft are so bankrupt that their only recourse, these days, seems to be complete denial. I mean, come on, M$ aren't even on the map when it comes to security. The closest analogy I can think of when it comes to M$ spouting about security is Hitler preaching Christianity. This is so ridiculous it isn't worth the fart that set the thought in motion.
Still no chance. Unless it's bolted to the floor there's nothing to stop Billy Swag half-inching it, lock, stock 'n bleedin barrel.
"You know, I'm sure there was a darned 'pooter over in that corner when I left this morning."
Of course they must be freeing-up resources for the GREAT LONGHORN RELEASE. Yes, that long-awaited piece of vapourware whose feature list is still a mystery. I rub my hands each time I hear "news" about Longhorn as I'm convinced it'll be the nail in Microsoft's coffin. Let's see, it'll probably be another 2 years before it's out the door and considering each OS release takes an exponentially longer time to attract upgraders I'd say it could be 2010 at the earliest before we see significant numbers. BUT, that's only if they keep their grubby DRM fingers from Fritzing it with Intel's co-operation and don't you know they just can't resist that one. However, once they tie the OS to DRM it'll be curtains for M$. So, go on Billy, make my day.
As many on the Perl lists will ask, why re-invent the wheel? Every Perl newbie tries to create his own CGI.pm before discovering it exists. Likewise with templating systems. Template Toolkit has more than anyone could ask for.
Dreamweaver squashed the 'WYSIWYG tools generate crappy non-standards compliant code' misnomer quite some time ago.
Really. Until MX 2004 DW could only handle a subset of CSS reliably. Ever tried designing a page with CSS floats? DW MX 2004 still can't render them properly. As far as CSS layouts are concerned DW isn't even fully WYSIWYG!
Add to that record-breaking bloat, the code view that doesn't receive focus until you click it and a dozen other 'features', I'll stick with Template Toolkit.