Or better yet a set of simple, concise data files and a batch method for converting it to static HTML after updates for display on the web. What's this internet coming to?
Actually, I started out developing my website with every single page being dynamically generated using a cgi script. I did it mostly because it was 'cool' to have a 'dynamic' website. I quickly realized that my pentium 166 mHz (which is my webserver) wasn't doing so hot serving up lots of dynamic pages. So it took a slow computer to make me realize how much easier static pages are in some cases.
As a result of what I've learned doing my personal webpage, I'm doing my next major website using static pages that are dynamically generated by perl scripts. That way, I get the efficiency of having a website with a database backend without the overhead of calling perl scripts (or using mod_perl which is still slower than static pages afaik).
Just my personal experience...
Also, I'm hesitant to do pages like that book teaches (in PHP or Perl) because if the database goes... you're SOL. Using static pages generated from scripts allows you to still serve up content if the database dies.
The magnetic field is perpendicular to both the wire...
Naw, the magentic field lines are found by using the "right hand rule" (or the left hand rule if you're an EE guy). So the field lines wrap around the wire. But he still isn't 'cutting' any of the lines by riding parallel to the wire (aka moving between different potential levels in the field). Just a techincal note.
Agreed. I exclusively use OpenOffice and Mozilla. I'd also be using exclusively linux, but I've got some issues with programs necessary for school (Matlab, Mathematica, etc...) as well as a printer that only does Windows.:-/
Sorry, but very few "normal" people use Mozilla. It's the geek world (including windoze geeks) at this point...
But it is gaining more widespread acceptance. I've converted a couple people in the past few weeks. And I'm sure more will follow. Pop-up blocking is the major selling point so far.
IIRC there was an article about this in one of the linux magazines a couple years ago. It discussed an apartment building that got a single DSL line for the whole building. The guy set up a linux server or two for gateway/email servers and wired most of the aparments with ethernet cable. The cost of the dsl was split between the people who opted in on it.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a link to an online version of the article.
Send $1,000 to P.O. box 324, NY, NY 20002 to get in on the ground floor!!
I'm guessing that with the intelligence of some of the/. crowd, you should be recieving approximately $20,000 in unmarked bills within the next week...
It is official; Netcraft confirms: The World Wide Web is dying
One more crippling
bombshell hit the already beleaguered World Wide Web community when IDC confirmed that World Wide Web market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of
all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states
that The World Wide Web has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The World Wide Web is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by
failing dead last [samag.com]
in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to
be a Kreskin to predict The World Wide Web
future. The hand writing is on the wall: The World Wide Web faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The World Wide Web because The World Wide Web is dying. Things are looking very
bad for The World Wide Web. As many of us are already aware, The World Wide Web continues to lose market share. Red
ink flows like a river of blood.
Internet Explorer is the most endangered of them all, having
lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time
IE developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point
more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Internet Explorer is dying.
Let's
keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Microsoft leader Bill states that there
are 7000 users of Internet Explorer. How many users of Opera are there? Let's see. The number of
Internet Explorer versus Opera posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are
about 7000/5 = 1400 Opera users. Mozilla posts on Usenet are about half of the volume
of Opera posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Netscape. A recent article put
Internet Explorer at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 =
36400 Internet Explorer users. This is consistent with the number of Internet Explorer Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Microsoft, abysmal sales and so on, Internet Explorer went out
of business and was taken over by SGI who sell another troubled OS. Now SGI
is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major
surveys show that The World Wide Web has steadily declined in market share. The World Wide Web is very sick and
its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The World Wide Web is to survive at all it will
be among Internet dilettante dbblers. The World Wide Web continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle
could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The World Wide Web is dead.
I don't think so. You're charging for a service, really. The service of going and getting that information, possibly from many sources. If it weren't for the bandwidth costs, I doubt anyone would even care.
It's ethically ok, as long as you have permission to charge for information 'scraped' from other websites, and as long as you're giving credit.
I'd be unhappy if someone was getting news stories off my site, charging for them and not giving me credit. Because I'm going to all the hard work and not recieving any credit.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt as to this specific incident because I'm not exactly sure of the circumstances, or the copyright issues (there were some posts indicating that the airfaires aren't covered under copyright law).
what right do you have to be angry when someone, *gasp* uses that information?
Well, it's one thing if the people 'using' the information aren't charging for it. I'm not familiar with the circumstances of this particular case. If you are charging for the information you're grabbing then it gets into the grey area...
Well, as nice as it would be to have them prove the security, it is technically impossible to prove that a system is secure. It is only possible to prove that a system is not secure by exposing a flaw.
Slashdot Mirror
Blue Screen of Death in widescreen...
Is that why they took it out of XP? So they could hype it up for a bigscreen release? :)
Or better yet a set of simple, concise data files and a batch method for converting it to static HTML after updates for display on the web. What's this internet coming to?
Actually, I started out developing my website with every single page being dynamically generated using a cgi script. I did it mostly because it was 'cool' to have a 'dynamic' website. I quickly realized that my pentium 166 mHz (which is my webserver) wasn't doing so hot serving up lots of dynamic pages. So it took a slow computer to make me realize how much easier static pages are in some cases.
As a result of what I've learned doing my personal webpage, I'm doing my next major website using static pages that are dynamically generated by perl scripts. That way, I get the efficiency of having a website with a database backend without the overhead of calling perl scripts (or using mod_perl which is still slower than static pages afaik).
Just my personal experience...
Also, I'm hesitant to do pages like that book teaches (in PHP or Perl) because if the database goes... you're SOL. Using static pages generated from scripts allows you to still serve up content if the database dies.
neurostarThe magnetic field is perpendicular to both the wire...
Naw, the magentic field lines are found by using the "right hand rule" (or the left hand rule if you're an EE guy). So the field lines wrap around the wire. But he still isn't 'cutting' any of the lines by riding parallel to the wire (aka moving between different potential levels in the field). Just a techincal note.
neurostarwow, that's a lot of hate...
hehe, it's all good. :D
neurostarOh man, that game was a mistake. I went out and bought it even though all the reviews I saw were less than 5.0/10.0.
:-/
I sure learned my lesson. I quit playing it before I even got to time travel!!!
neurostarBah! So I don't know my numbers... *shurgs*
hehe ;)
One of the biggest hoaxes that site missed:
"News for nerds. Stuff that matters."
Well part of it's a hoax, part of it isn't. Here's the breakdown:
News for nerds. - Definitly not a hoax.
neurostarStuff that matters. - HOAX! HOAX! HOAX!
I think he was joking about "Sin City" being the same as "Vice City"
neurostarhehe, sorry about that. my bad.
neurostarfunny or not funny, thats the question.
Funny to who? I'm sure half of the /. crowd just pissed their pants. It went something like this:
Loads /. ...
:-/
/. hoping to see a 15th dupe, so he can get the "FP - Fifteenth Post"
User: Hey! That story has been on there 5 times!
Scrolls Down...
User: Fifth post?!
Long pause...
User: HA, HAHAHAA! Fifth Post! Like.. Fifth dupe! HAHAAHAH
Looks down to see wet pants...
User:
User starts to feel bad, then realizes he already is ignored by the women folk...
Keeps on pissing...
Continously Reloads
How is this any different from vice city?
Umm... vice city is a real game
Well, I just found out that there is Matlab for linux... I guess I've just got to get this printer working...
neurostarAgreed. I exclusively use OpenOffice and Mozilla. I'd also be using exclusively linux, but I've got some issues with programs necessary for school (Matlab, Mathematica, etc...) as well as a printer that only does Windows. :-/
neurostarSorry, but very few "normal" people use Mozilla. It's the geek world (including windoze geeks) at this point...
But it is gaining more widespread acceptance. I've converted a couple people in the past few weeks. And I'm sure more will follow. Pop-up blocking is the major selling point so far.
neurostarPriceton Computer Science Professor Edward W. Felten...
Can he spell the name of his school better than Roblimo can?
IIRC there was an article about this in one of the linux magazines a couple years ago. It discussed an apartment building that got a single DSL line for the whole building. The guy set up a linux server or two for gateway/email servers and wired most of the aparments with ethernet cable. The cost of the dsl was split between the people who opted in on it.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a link to an online version of the article.
neurostarExactly. Someone should tell congress this before they pass anymore privacy-invading laws!
neurostarSend $1,000 to P.O. box 324, NY, NY 20002 to get in on the ground floor!!
I'm guessing that with the intelligence of some of the /. crowd, you should be recieving approximately $20,000 in unmarked bills within the next week...
;)
neurostarOne more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered World Wide Web community when IDC confirmed that World Wide Web market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that The World Wide Web has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The World Wide Web is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict The World Wide Web future. The hand writing is on the wall: The World Wide Web faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for The World Wide Web because The World Wide Web is dying. Things are looking very bad for The World Wide Web. As many of us are already aware, The World Wide Web continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Internet Explorer is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time IE developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Internet Explorer is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Microsoft leader Bill states that there are 7000 users of Internet Explorer. How many users of Opera are there? Let's see. The number of Internet Explorer versus Opera posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Opera users. Mozilla posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Opera posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Netscape. A recent article put Internet Explorer at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Internet Explorer users. This is consistent with the number of Internet Explorer Usenet posts.
Due to the troubles of Microsoft, abysmal sales and so on, Internet Explorer went out of business and was taken over by SGI who sell another troubled OS. Now SGI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that The World Wide Web has steadily declined in market share. The World Wide Web is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If The World Wide Web is to survive at all it will be among Internet dilettante dbblers. The World Wide Web continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, The World Wide Web is dead.
Fact: The World Wide Web is dying
I don't think so. You're charging for a service, really. The service of going and getting that information, possibly from many sources. If it weren't for the bandwidth costs, I doubt anyone would even care.
It's ethically ok, as long as you have permission to charge for information 'scraped' from other websites, and as long as you're giving credit.
I'd be unhappy if someone was getting news stories off my site, charging for them and not giving me credit. Because I'm going to all the hard work and not recieving any credit.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt as to this specific incident because I'm not exactly sure of the circumstances, or the copyright issues (there were some posts indicating that the airfaires aren't covered under copyright law).
neurostarwhat right do you have to be angry when someone, *gasp* uses that information?
Well, it's one thing if the people 'using' the information aren't charging for it. I'm not familiar with the circumstances of this particular case. If you are charging for the information you're grabbing then it gets into the grey area...
neurostarAhhh ok. Hehe. Whoops!
neurostarTell 'em to prove it.
Well, as nice as it would be to have them prove the security, it is technically impossible to prove that a system is secure. It is only possible to prove that a system is not secure by exposing a flaw.
neurostarI hope you weren't refering to this part of the article: "Those feeling uncomfortable when the concert began, found their mood turning to anger."
Because then the whammo might be a door slamming, or a back-hand slamming ;)