that the method that generates your feed would have to make a call to an adsense web-service at google to receive the content of the ad which could then be inserted into the feed.
...if the BSA stepped foot in Zimbabwe and tried to pull any shit, Mr Mugabe and his henchmen would likely have them executed on the spot. Let's hope the BSA try it;o)
Now, I'm not for software piracy (heck, I make my money through writing software) I just think that the sonner the Gestapo-like tactics of the BSA are banished once and for all the better.
However, I would gladly begin using one if there was a broader standard that was accepted and implemented that didn't lock me into one solution forever
iCalendar (link goes to RFC) - it's what Mozilla Sunbird, as well as some non-free calendar apps (Apple's iCal being one) , use. iCalendar is an open, text-based standard that can be parsed very easily.
When it comes to publishing, you've got two real choices, FTP (as you mentioned) and WebDav. There's already a simple PHP based viewer that has a WebDav handler that purports to work with iCal and SunBird.
As for your comments about remembering what you're doing, that's all well and good, but where I work I often need to know what somebody else is doing so I can schedule meetings when nobody has anything planned. I can remember everything I'm doing, just not what all the other people I work with are.
...is still corruption. That's what it's called in most free democracies, why not in the good ol' US of A? OH, that's right, because it's owned, hook barrel and sinker, by the corporations.
...and specifically allowed big news sites (like slashdot) to use their RSS to generate news boxes like those found here. They didn't allow every man and his blog to use it (waste of resources) but looks now like they're going to.
you would know that the mozilla suite will still be developed, but as a 100% community effort separate from the Mozilla Foundation. There are lots of people who love the integration offered by the suite and hence the smaller memory footprint (which will be a moot point once we've got a XUL Runtime Engine (XRE)).
...with the miriad of open source pdf viewers? I've found them to be much faster than the bloated client Adobe provides. Ok, so you don't get some of the niftier features of the latest PDF spec, but for sharing documents (what the format was invented for) it works perfectly.
...I was reviewing the server logs of one of our clients and people were searching in google/yahoo/msn/ask jeeves for the entire domain name, i.e. siteurl.com.
Even when people remember domain names some of them obviously don't know what to do with them (a stupidly large number of people I've met don't know what to do with the address bar and go to pages they regularly visit by typing the name in google, which is set as their homepage (somehow)).
...I've never had a single problem with a recent VIA chipset.
Granted, back in the day they were a steaming P.O.S. but my last two machines (the first of which was assembled ~3 years ago) have had no problems at all.
My current machine has the KT800 pro chipset and I haven't had 1 single BSOD in the 4 months I've had it - even when using unnoficial drivers (I use the kX Project sb-live driver as it gives me low-latency asio for use in cubase).
The real problem was their driver bug with the old 4-in-1's but the hyperion range sorted that out nicely.
...so even though each person would probably only receive $10, add that up x300,000, add on a few mil for the lawyers fees and they might not be so cavalier with other peoples data.
It's fixed in the aviary branch, slated for the next proper point release. In the meantime do what I did, install the SlashFix extension which forces a reflow after any slashdot page has loaded (and only slashdot pages).
...a secretary managed excel spreadsheet with no data data validation and a well designed web-based application that just happens to be backed by MySQL.
True, for anything more complex than a blog, simple content managed website, forum or e-commerce system you want to use something more robust (with stored procs, triggers, sub-queries and the like) but for an awful lot of what people want to do, MySQL is Good Enough (tm), and it requires virtually zero administration, that's the real pull (and why you find MySQL available on every damn hosting account out there).
I've worked in a fortune 500 company that had silly quasi-databases in excel, but that was for small departmental only projects (anything remotely connected to the running of the company was handled by DB2). Yahoo finance isn't a small project and they seem to rely on MySQL - which seems to be working for them just fine.
...if you're frontend is as messed up as your site.
Just tried looking at a product detail and then adding to cart from there in Firefox 1.0.1 and it doesn't work.
Ah! I see now, your database keeps card details secret by never storing them at all, genius!
Seriously, MySQL is a lot of things but insecure on a well firewalled box it isn't. My companies e-commerce package uses postgresql by default but can fall back on MySQL (with a few cludges to get around limitations) if that's all that is available.
And I fail to see why the government should go after firestone tires because they blow up and cause cars to roll over. Why should the burden of producing safe tires fall to Firestone?
Because a car rolling over has the capability of killing someone, stumbling on some porn, whilst robbing a child of innocence (bolloks for soft-porn says I, it's how we come into this world - naked) isn't going to kill violently and prematurely.
Society doesn't have any responsablities to your children, protect them yourselves, it's called parenting.
A child that young should never be left alone on the internet, all usage should be supervised, you wouldn't let your child play in a swimming pool with no adults around, would you?
EDS solutions are costly, always almost run over budget and time constraints, don't do what they're meant to, fall over when trying to do what EDS say they're capable of and don't scale.
Almost every government contract EDS attempted in the UK has gone tits up, it's normally the death knell for a public sector project when EDS wins.:o/
I was working at a company that got rid of their last IBM Mainframe whilst I was there (1998-2001). They used to use a package called "profs" for their various office needs (they've now gone to exchange/outlook and SAP, but that's another story).
Why did mainframes and "dumb" terminals get replaced by PC's? Because of cost. The cost of a support contract with big blue for a beast of a machine that had to sit in a perfectly climate controlled server room is astronomically high. The cost of a Global Workstation Programme (enterprise leasing) from IBM which replaces all desktops and laptops every 4 years is not.
They slowly cut back on their mainframes and replaced them with multi-proc intel based servers, and managed to reduce the size of the data centre by 75%, power usage also dropped.
Several factors have now converged to make networked computing viable: The increased availability of home broadband connections, the overall commoditisation of computer hardware (hard disks and processors have never been cheaper $/GB and $/MFlops) and the rise of companies like Google who make massive data storage on a global scale their business.
Just recently we've also had IBM and Sun announce they will be renting out access to supercomputers to companies who need to crunch large sets of data but don't want the hassle/expenditure of setting up a cluster themselves. There are probably more than a few slashdotters who first got into computers by using hired time on a "supercomputer" located at a remote facility.
Also tie this into the increasing problems of viruses and adware and for the average home user who merely browses the internet, writes emails and chats on IM, a simple box they plugin to the wall and a monitor and never have to worry about going wrong seems like an attractive proposition.
For the more adventurous you could even have a small local buffer for transferring tunes downloaded from the internet to a digital media device.
The real draw for software vendors is that piracy would become a thing of the past. When they control the computer they control what you have access to. That's the problem now (and why Microsoft want their TCA Palladium to become a standard) they don't control the computer or what the user does.
Looking at it like this, networked computing looks pretty inevitable, for the average user at least.
...but before the current government came into power the previous administration was all for kicking microsoft into the middle of next week, when it came time to aportion punishment all MS got was a slap on the wrist.
I don't doubt that Bill Gates is no conservative but the conservative government in place currently has been more than kind to Microsoft, which is not that unfathomable as they do bring a hell of a lot of money into the US.
But all of that doesn't detract from the fact that if mozilla becomes embroiled in internal conflict it can only be a bad thing for further adoption of firefox and the suite.
You think George Bush and Dick Cheney give a damn about Internet Explorer
No, they care about not pissing off Microsoft who bring in a lot of business when the US is looking at a steady decline in their exports and a record budget defecit.
you watch really shitty reality TV shows
Nope, despise them, and Nip/Tuck isn't one of them, it's a drama, and not actually that shoddy (when you hold it up to some of the dross that comes out of the tv these days).
and you think you have more common sense than management types?
No, I know that I have more common sense than management types, my company deals with them everyday, most of them don't know their arse from their elbow.
And when was the last time you even saw a springbok? Don't lie; we know you're an ex-pat.
Not really relevant as I was merely using it as a metaphor, now go back to your cave troll.
Slashdot Mirror
that the method that generates your feed would have to make a call to an adsense web-service at google to receive the content of the ad which could then be inserted into the feed.
...if the BSA stepped foot in Zimbabwe and tried to pull any shit, Mr Mugabe and his henchmen would likely have them executed on the spot. Let's hope the BSA try it ;o)
Now, I'm not for software piracy (heck, I make my money through writing software) I just think that the sonner the Gestapo-like tactics of the BSA are banished once and for all the better.
However, I would gladly begin using one if there was a broader standard that was accepted and implemented that didn't lock me into one solution forever
iCalendar (link goes to RFC) - it's what Mozilla Sunbird, as well as some non-free calendar apps (Apple's iCal being one) , use. iCalendar is an open, text-based standard that can be parsed very easily.
When it comes to publishing, you've got two real choices, FTP (as you mentioned) and WebDav. There's already a simple PHP based viewer that has a WebDav handler that purports to work with iCal and SunBird.
As for your comments about remembering what you're doing, that's all well and good, but where I work I often need to know what somebody else is doing so I can schedule meetings when nobody has anything planned. I can remember everything I'm doing, just not what all the other people I work with are.
Until your OS has a privilege escalation vulnerability and suddenly a buffer overflow allows execution of arbitrary code.
WebDrive by SouthRiver works nicely with sftp and it doesn't really break the bank (~$50).
...make -j2 springs to mind, using two threads to compile, you'd see ~70-80% speedup in compile time.
...is still corruption. That's what it's called in most free democracies, why not in the good ol' US of A? OH, that's right, because it's owned, hook barrel and sinker, by the corporations.
...and specifically allowed big news sites (like slashdot) to use their RSS to generate news boxes like those found here. They didn't allow every man and his blog to use it (waste of resources) but looks now like they're going to.
Purely from memory:
That's all I can think of for the moment.
you would know that the mozilla suite will still be developed, but as a 100% community effort separate from the Mozilla Foundation. There are lots of people who love the integration offered by the suite and hence the smaller memory footprint (which will be a moot point once we've got a XUL Runtime Engine (XRE)).
...with the miriad of open source pdf viewers? I've found them to be much faster than the bloated client Adobe provides. Ok, so you don't get some of the niftier features of the latest PDF spec, but for sharing documents (what the format was invented for) it works perfectly.
...I was reviewing the server logs of one of our clients and people were searching in google/yahoo/msn/ask jeeves for the entire domain name, i.e. siteurl.com.
Even when people remember domain names some of them obviously don't know what to do with them (a stupidly large number of people I've met don't know what to do with the address bar and go to pages they regularly visit by typing the name in google, which is set as their homepage (somehow)).
...I'll just phrase that in legalese and patent it..hehe ;o)
...I've never had a single problem with a recent VIA chipset.
Granted, back in the day they were a steaming P.O.S. but my last two machines (the first of which was assembled ~3 years ago) have had no problems at all.
My current machine has the KT800 pro chipset and I haven't had 1 single BSOD in the 4 months I've had it - even when using unnoficial drivers (I use the kX Project sb-live driver as it gives me low-latency asio for use in cubase).
The real problem was their driver bug with the old 4-in-1's but the hyperion range sorted that out nicely.
...so even though each person would probably only receive $10, add that up x300,000, add on a few mil for the lawyers fees and they might not be so cavalier with other peoples data.
...that's just Bugzilla, anything else on the mozilla site accepts referrals from slashdot.org.
...till he gets dooced? I give it 48 hours ;o)
It's fixed in the aviary branch, slated for the next proper point release. In the meantime do what I did, install the SlashFix extension which forces a reflow after any slashdot page has loaded (and only slashdot pages).
...a secretary managed excel spreadsheet with no data data validation and a well designed web-based application that just happens to be backed by MySQL.
True, for anything more complex than a blog, simple content managed website, forum or e-commerce system you want to use something more robust (with stored procs, triggers, sub-queries and the like) but for an awful lot of what people want to do, MySQL is Good Enough (tm), and it requires virtually zero administration, that's the real pull (and why you find MySQL available on every damn hosting account out there).
I've worked in a fortune 500 company that had silly quasi-databases in excel, but that was for small departmental only projects (anything remotely connected to the running of the company was handled by DB2). Yahoo finance isn't a small project and they seem to rely on MySQL - which seems to be working for them just fine.
...if you're frontend is as messed up as your site.
Just tried looking at a product detail and then adding to cart from there in Firefox 1.0.1 and it doesn't work.
Ah! I see now, your database keeps card details secret by never storing them at all, genius!
Seriously, MySQL is a lot of things but insecure on a well firewalled box it isn't. My companies e-commerce package uses postgresql by default but can fall back on MySQL (with a few cludges to get around limitations) if that's all that is available.
As for mission critical, Yahoo Finance, Associated Press, Lycos, Los Alamos Laboratory, NASA and Suzuki (to name but a few) would disagree with you there.
And I fail to see why the government should go after firestone tires because they blow up and cause cars to roll over. Why should the burden of producing safe tires fall to Firestone?
Because a car rolling over has the capability of killing someone, stumbling on some porn, whilst robbing a child of innocence (bolloks for soft-porn says I, it's how we come into this world - naked) isn't going to kill violently and prematurely.
Society doesn't have any responsablities to your children, protect them yourselves, it's called parenting.
A child that young should never be left alone on the internet, all usage should be supervised, you wouldn't let your child play in a swimming pool with no adults around, would you?
EDS solutions are costly, always almost run over budget and time constraints, don't do what they're meant to, fall over when trying to do what EDS say they're capable of and don't scale.
:o/
Almost every government contract EDS attempted in the UK has gone tits up, it's normally the death knell for a public sector project when EDS wins.
They never really failed, just got superceeded.
I was working at a company that got rid of their last IBM Mainframe whilst I was there (1998-2001). They used to use a package called "profs" for their various office needs (they've now gone to exchange/outlook and SAP, but that's another story).
Why did mainframes and "dumb" terminals get replaced by PC's? Because of cost. The cost of a support contract with big blue for a beast of a machine that had to sit in a perfectly climate controlled server room is astronomically high. The cost of a Global Workstation Programme (enterprise leasing) from IBM which replaces all desktops and laptops every 4 years is not.
They slowly cut back on their mainframes and replaced them with multi-proc intel based servers, and managed to reduce the size of the data centre by 75%, power usage also dropped.
Several factors have now converged to make networked computing viable: The increased availability of home broadband connections, the overall commoditisation of computer hardware (hard disks and processors have never been cheaper $/GB and $/MFlops) and the rise of companies like Google who make massive data storage on a global scale their business.
Just recently we've also had IBM and Sun announce they will be renting out access to supercomputers to companies who need to crunch large sets of data but don't want the hassle/expenditure of setting up a cluster themselves. There are probably more than a few slashdotters who first got into computers by using hired time on a "supercomputer" located at a remote facility.
Also tie this into the increasing problems of viruses and adware and for the average home user who merely browses the internet, writes emails and chats on IM, a simple box they plugin to the wall and a monitor and never have to worry about going wrong seems like an attractive proposition.
For the more adventurous you could even have a small local buffer for transferring tunes downloaded from the internet to a digital media device.
The real draw for software vendors is that piracy would become a thing of the past. When they control the computer they control what you have access to. That's the problem now (and why Microsoft want their TCA Palladium to become a standard) they don't control the computer or what the user does.
Looking at it like this, networked computing looks pretty inevitable, for the average user at least.
...but before the current government came into power the previous administration was all for kicking microsoft into the middle of next week, when it came time to aportion punishment all MS got was a slap on the wrist.
I don't doubt that Bill Gates is no conservative but the conservative government in place currently has been more than kind to Microsoft, which is not that unfathomable as they do bring a hell of a lot of money into the US.
But all of that doesn't detract from the fact that if mozilla becomes embroiled in internal conflict it can only be a bad thing for further adoption of firefox and the suite.
You think George Bush and Dick Cheney give a damn about Internet Explorer
No, they care about not pissing off Microsoft who bring in a lot of business when the US is looking at a steady decline in their exports and a record budget defecit.
you watch really shitty reality TV shows
Nope, despise them, and Nip/Tuck isn't one of them, it's a drama, and not actually that shoddy (when you hold it up to some of the dross that comes out of the tv these days).
and you think you have more common sense than management types?
No, I know that I have more common sense than management types, my company deals with them everyday, most of them don't know their arse from their elbow.
And when was the last time you even saw a springbok? Don't lie; we know you're an ex-pat.
Not really relevant as I was merely using it as a metaphor, now go back to your cave troll.