1. Your IP address is mostly irrelevant. All dialup users are on some form of DHCP so their IP address is not fixed. On a corporated WAN, laundromat or coffeeshop, one router can service hundreds of clients but to the web servers out there, they see one IP address only (NAT, look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about). In addition, people can use proxy servers to mask their IP address if they are trying to hide their real IP address. High anonymity proxy servers are the best. It's a great tool too use if certain web sites keep banning you.
2. Your browser can be configured to tell the web server it is something that it is not. Opera browsers can tell the web server that they are Internet Explorer or Mozilla. So your browser identity is irrelevant as well. There are mini-proxy programs that you can install on your computer that will also scrub out your browser identity if you so desire.
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Well, good for you.
There's nothing I hate and despise more than a web site that utilizes javascript (or client-side vbscript). By default I turn off scripting in Firefox and Opera. It is truly annoying and incredibly irritating that some web sites are heavily into javascript. Having a website heavily loaded with javascript (that drags the performance of my 1.8 ghz CPU into the toilet and causes it to perform like a Pentium I 60mhz) makes me want to choke the shit out of the imbeciles that created that site.
What so many of those infactuated with javascript fail to understand is that the web is about getting information out. Not creating a site that is formatted like a fancy textbook with flying windows, music playing in the background and garbage that follows my mouse pointer around the screen.
"InnoDB may be much more problematical....but isn't MaxDB a totally separate product that is equivalent to MySQLDB, but with built-in B+Tree? (This *is* a serious question, as I've only been peripherally following this issue...but I thought that I had heard that it wasn't really anything serious.)"
I wouldn't worry about Oracle buying Sleepycat or Innobase. Yes, MySQL did acquire SapDB (formerly known as Adabase, now known as MaxDB) which is a direct competitor with Oracle although SapDB/MaxDB is not deployed in the numbers that Oracle, DB2 or SQLServer is. MaxDB (aka SapDB, Adabase) is an enterprise level app whereas MySQL is a much lighter and simpler database.
Based on the notion that the express versions are approx 50 megs and the enterprise versions pack in at 250megs++, you can count on missing documentation, missing help files, missing APIs, missing source libraries, missing interfaces, crippled database connectivity, missing redistribution components, etc. Some of this can be gotten from the MSDN CDs, and some of it can be had by digging around on http://msdn.microsoft.com/
For a beginner learning OOP, buying an intermediate book from O'Reilly on C# would probably fill in the missing pieces since Microsoft's MSDN has sucked donkey balls since VS6.
"I have to say, I haven't heard near the hype about Ruby and Python that I heard about Java. Although I must admit, the Java hype has died down quite a bit."
Well I read the article and the article was primarily a Ruby vs. Python debate. Java was mostly a side issue. But the author did have one interesting line in there, which is: "I'm going to find something drop-dead simple to solve my drop-dead simple problems. Probably PHP5, which actually includes most of Java and C++ syntax, amazingly enough, and I wonder if that isn't what made IBM adopt it."
Based on the article, I tend to think that a number of the Perl users will gravitate towards Ruby, much in the same way that a number of VB users made the switch to C#. After downloading and reviewing Ruby on Rails, I can't imagine that C/C++/PHP (and maybe Java) developers will be migrating to Ruby.
"How is this article generating all this Ruby-anti-Ruby nonsense when it's a question of Rail implementation? More importantly, why isn't there a PHPoR?"
Obviously, you fail to understand the relationship of Warner-Chappell and the songwriters that they represent. Warner-Chappell is in the business of making sure that the songwriters that they represent are fairly and justly compensated for their works. It is the job of Warner-Chappell to ensure that the songwriters that they represent are not taken advantage of or denied fair compensation.
As long as pearLyrics adheres to the spirit of informing listeners to what the songwriters have written, I am sure that the songwriters that Warner-Chappell represent have no problems with what pearLyrics is doing. It is when an entity tries to profit at the expense of the songwriters in question that Warner-Chappell has to step in and flex its muscles.
Warner-Chappell's lawyers probably overreacted when it first saw what Walter Ritter had done. Odds are, some songwriters that Warner-Chappell represent told them to lighten up and back off.
Win2K was supposed to have the restart without reboot. WinXP was supposed to have the restart without reboot feature.
The only way I can see Vista as having this feature is if Microsoft finally includes signalling (ala Unix/Linux and most other professional operating systems).
People don't really need an exact clone of Outlook. Most people I work with (real estate management types) prefer Outlook Express over the full-blown Outlook.
Send e-mail, write e-mail, respond to e-mail, set up an autoresponder, manage contacts, set up groups, spell checker, spam filter, antivirus filter. That covers 99% of my userbase.
I have seen a couple of users who wanted the fullblown Outlook so that they could set up a calender, tasks and journal entries. But only one of them followed through and used those features.
This IDE has a buffer to disk speed of 93.5 megs/sec. Interestingly enough, the article fails to mention what the CPU load is.
For all important items, I use a SCSI, usually Ultra160 since U320 is still quite expensive. IDE is what I use for secondary storage since IDEs do chew up CPU cycles.
"Windows Server 2003 & SQL Server 2000 (both fully patched/up-to-date) " ---- That is clearly the problem. All it takes is for one person to drop a Sony audio CD with the DRM rootkit and your system is fully haxxored.
Secure Windows development will always be an oxymoron until Microsoft fixes their OS so that Administrator privileges are not required to do the most mundane tasks.
Sorry, dude, but there are no good or great Midi only songs out there. 99.5% of the techno (which is 90% midi) sucks.
All the bands making big bucks at concerts are real musicians playing real instruments and doing so live (i.e. real time, not some played back midi sequencing).
To be fair and honest, midi does have its place in music. Not at the forefront of a composition but in the rhythm section. Wave tables of percussion does a reasonable facsimile of "real" drums and percussion instruments. In that regard I see a role for midi. But midi as the key voice has not and will not happen unless you happen to like music that sucks.
Everyone knows that capacitors are essentially batteries with extremely high discharge rates. The capacitor in a camera's flash unit is a prime example of this.
The OP was merely having a little bit of engineering prankster fun.
There is no bubble when it comes to open source investment. The amount of money sunk into open source is a mere fractional pittance compared to closed source projects.
From what I have read, companies may "sponsor" one or a few open source developers to allow them to focus on the open source project. But there is no scores of millions of dollars being sunk into dubious projects like there was during the dot-bomb days. During the dot-bomb peak (1999ish), venture capital firms would sink 30, 40, 50 or more millions of dollars into dot-bombs that has nothing more than a Macromedia Flash home page, a bunch of technical gibberish and nothing more than vaporware on that home page.
And I occasionally have trouble getting WMV videos to play on my Win2k machine. M$'s WMV codecs are absolutely atrocious. Seeking in WMV encoded videos is problematic at best. I have been forced to re-encode some WMV encoded videos into MPG1/2 or DIVX formats in order to make them playable. Playing back a WMV file burned onto a CD or DVD is like playing Russian Roulette.
Let's see, according to their version 5.0.13 release candidate notes on stored procedures: MySQL follows the SQL:2003 syntax for stored procedures, which is also used by IBM's DB2.
that uses MySQL, like Slashdot, doesn't sometimes result in complete garbage (e.g. the other day I posted a comment, and on the comment posted page, my comment appeared with somebody else's sig attached
Wheew!!! I'm glad you're blaming MySQL. I'd hate to see you suggest server environment variables, connection pooling, session variables, mod_perl, or/dev/shm (not that anyone uses that anywhere on/.).
Yes, and more importantly, has anyone ever seen a workaround for DRM?
Nothing annoys me more than when I get my hands on a DRM enabled file, I try to play the file only to find out whoever authored it is no longer in business or the URL for the DRM license acquisition server is no longer valid.
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1. Your IP address is mostly irrelevant. All dialup users are on some form of DHCP so their IP address is not fixed. On a corporated WAN, laundromat or coffeeshop, one router can service hundreds of clients but to the web servers out there, they see one IP address only (NAT, look it up if you don't know what I'm talking about). In addition, people can use proxy servers to mask their IP address if they are trying to hide their real IP address. High anonymity proxy servers are the best. It's a great tool too use if certain web sites keep banning you.
2. Your browser can be configured to tell the web server it is something that it is not. Opera browsers can tell the web server that they are Internet Explorer or Mozilla. So your browser identity is irrelevant as well. There are mini-proxy programs that you can install on your computer that will also scrub out your browser identity if you so desire.
Well, good for you.
There's nothing I hate and despise more than a web site that utilizes javascript (or client-side vbscript). By default I turn off scripting in Firefox and Opera. It is truly annoying and incredibly irritating that some web sites are heavily into javascript. Having a website heavily loaded with javascript (that drags the performance of my 1.8 ghz CPU into the toilet and causes it to perform like a Pentium I 60mhz) makes me want to choke the shit out of the imbeciles that created that site.
What so many of those infactuated with javascript fail to understand is that the web is about getting information out. Not creating a site that is formatted like a fancy textbook with flying windows, music playing in the background and garbage that follows my mouse pointer around the screen.
"InnoDB may be much more problematical....but isn't MaxDB a totally separate product that is equivalent to MySQLDB, but with built-in B+Tree? (This *is* a serious question, as I've only been peripherally following this issue...but I thought that I had heard that it wasn't really anything serious.)"
I wouldn't worry about Oracle buying Sleepycat or Innobase. Yes, MySQL did acquire SapDB (formerly known as Adabase, now known as MaxDB) which is a direct competitor with Oracle although SapDB/MaxDB is not deployed in the numbers that Oracle, DB2 or SQLServer is. MaxDB (aka SapDB, Adabase) is an enterprise level app whereas MySQL is a much lighter and simpler database.
Based on the notion that the express versions are approx 50 megs and the enterprise versions pack in at 250megs++, you can count on missing documentation, missing help files, missing APIs, missing source libraries, missing interfaces, crippled database connectivity, missing redistribution components, etc. Some of this can be gotten from the MSDN CDs, and some of it can be had by digging around on http://msdn.microsoft.com/
For a beginner learning OOP, buying an intermediate book from O'Reilly on C# would probably fill in the missing pieces since Microsoft's MSDN has sucked donkey balls since VS6.
"I have to say, I haven't heard near the hype about Ruby and Python that I heard about Java. Although I must admit, the Java hype has died down quite a bit."
Well I read the article and the article was primarily a Ruby vs. Python debate. Java was mostly a side issue. But the author did have one interesting line in there, which is: "I'm going to find something drop-dead simple to solve my drop-dead simple problems. Probably PHP5, which actually includes most of Java and C++ syntax, amazingly enough, and I wonder if that isn't what made IBM adopt it."
Based on the article, I tend to think that a number of the Perl users will gravitate towards Ruby, much in the same way that a number of VB users made the switch to C#. After downloading and reviewing Ruby on Rails, I can't imagine that C/C++/PHP (and maybe Java) developers will be migrating to Ruby.
"How is this article generating all this Ruby-anti-Ruby nonsense when it's a question of Rail implementation? More importantly, why isn't there a PHPoR?"
Not that this matters, but according to http://www.netcraft.com/ http://www.rubyforge.org/ is running *GASP* "66.92.150.242 Linux Apache/1.3.33 Unix mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.4.1 13-Dec-2005"?!
Like I said, not that it matters that the site pushing Ruby on Rails is running on PHP. I downloaded RoR anyways. We'll see if it runs on FreeBSD 5.4.
Obviously, you fail to understand the relationship of Warner-Chappell and the songwriters that they represent. Warner-Chappell is in the business of making sure that the songwriters that they represent are fairly and justly compensated for their works. It is the job of Warner-Chappell to ensure that the songwriters that they represent are not taken advantage of or denied fair compensation.
As long as pearLyrics adheres to the spirit of informing listeners to what the songwriters have written, I am sure that the songwriters that Warner-Chappell represent have no problems with what pearLyrics is doing. It is when an entity tries to profit at the expense of the songwriters in question that Warner-Chappell has to step in and flex its muscles.
Warner-Chappell's lawyers probably overreacted when it first saw what Walter Ritter had done. Odds are, some songwriters that Warner-Chappell represent told them to lighten up and back off.
.NET? hah hah blah hah!
Java? hah ha heh blah!
LAMP? hah hah blah ha!
PHP and C/C++ for me. Anything else is uncivilized.
As the old saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Win2K was supposed to have the restart without reboot.
WinXP was supposed to have the restart without reboot feature.
The only way I can see Vista as having this feature is if Microsoft finally includes signalling (ala Unix/Linux and most other professional operating systems).
Slashdot is still running "Apache/1.3.33 Unix mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_perl/1.29"
In the meantime, you should upgrade to 2.2, post a link, tell us what happens to your server.
People don't really need an exact clone of Outlook. Most people I work with (real estate management types) prefer Outlook Express over the full-blown Outlook.
Send e-mail, write e-mail, respond to e-mail, set up an autoresponder, manage contacts, set up groups, spell checker, spam filter, antivirus filter. That covers 99% of my userbase.
I have seen a couple of users who wanted the fullblown Outlook so that they could set up a calender, tasks and journal entries. But only one of them followed through and used those features.
SCSI has always held the top spot.
This IDE has a buffer to disk speed of 93.5 megs/sec. Interestingly enough, the article fails to mention what the CPU load is.
For all important items, I use a SCSI, usually Ultra160 since U320 is still quite expensive. IDE is what I use for secondary storage since IDEs do chew up CPU cycles.
"Windows Server 2003 & SQL Server 2000 (both fully patched/up-to-date) " ---- That is clearly the problem. All it takes is for one person to drop a Sony audio CD with the DRM rootkit and your system is fully haxxored.
Secure Windows development will always be an oxymoron until Microsoft fixes their OS so that Administrator privileges are not required to do the most mundane tasks.
Sorry, dude, but there are no good or great Midi only songs out there. 99.5% of the techno (which is 90% midi) sucks.
All the bands making big bucks at concerts are real musicians playing real instruments and doing so live (i.e. real time, not some played back midi sequencing).
To be fair and honest, midi does have its place in music. Not at the forefront of a composition but in the rhythm section. Wave tables of percussion does a reasonable facsimile of "real" drums and percussion instruments. In that regard I see a role for midi. But midi as the key voice has not and will not happen unless you happen to like music that sucks.
Everyone knows that capacitors are essentially batteries with extremely high discharge rates. The capacitor in a camera's flash unit is a prime example of this.
The OP was merely having a little bit of engineering prankster fun.
For the most part, you're right.
There is no bubble when it comes to open source investment. The amount of money sunk into open source is a mere fractional pittance compared to closed source projects.
From what I have read, companies may "sponsor" one or a few open source developers to allow them to focus on the open source project. But there is no scores of millions of dollars being sunk into dubious projects like there was during the dot-bomb days. During the dot-bomb peak (1999ish), venture capital firms would sink 30, 40, 50 or more millions of dollars into dot-bombs that has nothing more than a Macromedia Flash home page, a bunch of technical gibberish and nothing more than vaporware on that home page.
What other file sharing (free) are still left?
You can't open a bank account unless you have a SSN number or a federal taxpayer id number.
I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release.
Does this mean I have to rebuild my kernel?
(all seven of them, that is) should upgrade right now!!!
Seriously!
And I occasionally have trouble getting WMV videos to play on my Win2k machine.
M$'s WMV codecs are absolutely atrocious. Seeking in WMV encoded videos is problematic at best. I have been forced to re-encode some WMV encoded videos into MPG1/2 or DIVX formats in order to make them playable. Playing back a WMV file burned onto a CD or DVD is like playing Russian Roulette.
MS Access has a 2 GB database limit. So, it's 1/2 the database that Oracle 10g is.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/stored-procedure s.html
Let's see, according to their version 5.0.13 release candidate notes on stored procedures:
MySQL follows the SQL:2003 syntax for stored procedures, which is also used by IBM's DB2.
that uses MySQL, like Slashdot, doesn't sometimes result in complete garbage (e.g. the other day I posted a comment, and on the comment posted page, my comment appeared with somebody else's sig attached
/dev/shm (not that anyone uses that anywhere on /.).
Wheew!!! I'm glad you're blaming MySQL. I'd hate to see you suggest server environment variables, connection pooling, session variables, mod_perl, or
Yes, and more importantly, has anyone ever seen a workaround for DRM?
Nothing annoys me more than when I get my hands on a DRM enabled file, I try to play the file only to find out whoever authored it is no longer in business or the URL for the DRM license acquisition server is no longer valid.