After all the hype on/. I quite fancy watching Good Eats now, but I can't find any information about whether any UK channels (even satellite) have picked it up. If anyone knows whether it is shown here could they let me know where and when? Cheers!
I work for a Fortune 50 (no, there isn't a 0 missing off that) company and we use PHP quite a bit internally. I also do some freelance web work in my spare time with a friend who is a designer with no coding experience, and even he can get the basics of an interactive site together using PHP (provided I go in afterwards and secure things afterwards - sorry, Joss!):)
PHP is fast, easy to use, feature-rich and well documented. Development of most simple interactive pages almost feels like cheating because there's generally a built-in function for anything you need to do. Now with the availability of database abstraction and templating most of my old complaints about it have been addressed and I find myself working with it more than Perl.
Useful, but not necessary
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As a semi-competent Perl hacker I found PHP very easy to pick up, and I imagine the same would be true for anyone with some degree of coding experience. The only reference I find myself using regularly is the excellent PHP website which provides a pretty decent tutorial and a thorough and searchable command reference. Combine that with the fact that the manual is annotated by PHP users and the only reason for having a dead tree reference is to have something to read in the bath.
Still, buying it does at least give Rasmus some money...
This isn't really meant to be a flame, but if you haven't tried gaming under Linux yourself why are you posting an opinion about how easy or difficult it is? It just seems a bit pointless.
I could say something like "I've never really tried eating human flesh, but I hear that it tastes like pork", but if I were addressing a group of cannibals it would probably be a waste of everyone's time.
No, Beowulf was a human warrior. You're thinking of Grendel, who was slain by Beowulf by having his arm torn off. But he wasn't a giant rat either. So maybe you weren't thinking of him either. Come to think of it, there was a distinct shortage of giant rats in the Beowulf saga.
I think I need a lie down.
Re:I wonder how long it will be...
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Hey how hard can it be? You'd just need to hack gpm to support rats instead of just mice.
LWN report that they got $25,000 of donations and advertising just after they announced their financial problems. While this isn't enough to guarantee their long term survival, it does seem to be keeping them going in the short-term.
From the tone of your mail, it sounds like you're chastising LWN for only accepting PayPal at the moment. I don't think this is especially fair as it appears the reason they've had to fall back to only using PayPal is that their credit card clearing company did the same kind of shitty thing to them as PayPal did to you.
They do say in the article that they're shopping around for a new clearing company. Maybe you'll feel differently about donating when they find one.
I've been sitting here this afternoon reading the various advisories as they've dropped into my mailbox, and it appears that most of the major Linux distros have updated binary packages already.
Most of the time, when a vulnerability is announced through a source like BugTraq the vendor/developer has already been contacted a few weeks previously. In cases like this, the developers will get in contact with distro vendors and give them the patch before the public announcement, allowing the distribution of packages to be coordinated with the announcements.
The bottom line is that I don't see how using binary packages means having to wait a few days. I'm in the process of updating my servers now - if you can't do the same maybe you should find a different distro.
On a more serious note: what's this crap about Linux dying?
There wasn't any crap about it - all the author said was that any slow-down in the uptake of Linux could and probably would be seized upon by MS as an indication of the impending death of Linux. He was speaking purely in terms of marketing, not development, and he may have a point there - as many posts in the earlier article over Microsoft's current views on Linux have already pointed out, MS's days of FUD are far from over.
Well, I'm glad we live in a nice, simple world where there are never any problems identifying who is evil and needs killing. As long as the good guys get to identify and kill them, I'm sure everything will be just fine.
As someone (Asimov? Ellison?) once put it: "The golden age of science fiction is thirteen".
I'd like to modify that slightly and suggest that thirteen is the golden age of bad science fiction. You get the chance then to enjoy the crap without having properly developed critical faculties getting in the way. Damn, I miss that.:)
Finally, why not post the URL for the website here on Slashdot?
That's assuming the website wasn't slashdot in the first place. It's not unknown for folks to post corporate email addresses here when in high dudgeon and suggest that other people make their feelings known. At least when it's done here, though, it's not abuse, but simply sticking it to The Man.:)
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After all the hype on /. I quite fancy watching Good Eats now, but I can't find any information about whether any UK channels (even satellite) have picked it up. If anyone knows whether it is shown here could they let me know where and when? Cheers!
Me too. :)
I work for a Fortune 50 (no, there isn't a 0 missing off that) company and we use PHP quite a bit internally. I also do some freelance web work in my spare time with a friend who is a designer with no coding experience, and even he can get the basics of an interactive site together using PHP (provided I go in afterwards and secure things afterwards - sorry, Joss!) :)
PHP is fast, easy to use, feature-rich and well documented. Development of most simple interactive pages almost feels like cheating because there's generally a built-in function for anything you need to do. Now with the availability of database abstraction and templating most of my old complaints about it have been addressed and I find myself working with it more than Perl.
As a semi-competent Perl hacker I found PHP very easy to pick up, and I imagine the same would be true for anyone with some degree of coding experience. The only reference I find myself using regularly is the excellent PHP website which provides a pretty decent tutorial and a thorough and searchable command reference. Combine that with the fact that the manual is annotated by PHP users and the only reason for having a dead tree reference is to have something to read in the bath.
Still, buying it does at least give Rasmus some money...
I do not think this word means what you think it means. :)
Considering this runs off a single floppy disk, you may have trouble squeezing all those other daemons on it, even if you use bzip.
This isn't really meant to be a flame, but if you haven't tried gaming under Linux yourself why are you posting an opinion about how easy or difficult it is? It just seems a bit pointless.
I could say something like "I've never really tried eating human flesh, but I hear that it tastes like pork", but if I were addressing a group of cannibals it would probably be a waste of everyone's time.
Kill the whales!
From the site:
I seem to remember that CSS support in NS 4 is exceptionally sucky, which may explain your problems. Galeon should work fine.
No, Beowulf was a human warrior. You're thinking of Grendel, who was slain by Beowulf by having his arm torn off. But he wasn't a giant rat either. So maybe you weren't thinking of him either. Come to think of it, there was a distinct shortage of giant rats in the Beowulf saga.
I think I need a lie down.
Hey how hard can it be? You'd just need to hack gpm to support rats instead of just mice.
Spit or swallow?
Good idea. I'm sure the moderators will have no trouble telling the difference between this *ahem* anonymous coward and a sufficiently clever troll. :)
Well, if it's for forecasting, how about the manufacturers of Kleenex?
LWN report that they got $25,000 of donations and advertising just after they announced their financial problems. While this isn't enough to guarantee their long term survival, it does seem to be keeping them going in the short-term.
From the tone of your mail, it sounds like you're chastising LWN for only accepting PayPal at the moment. I don't think this is especially fair as it appears the reason they've had to fall back to only using PayPal is that their credit card clearing company did the same kind of shitty thing to them as PayPal did to you.
They do say in the article that they're shopping around for a new clearing company. Maybe you'll feel differently about donating when they find one.
Does this mean that Outlook will eventually evolve into a secure MUA?
Great, just what I wanted, a disgrunteled postal worker handling all my E-Mail
As opposed to one of us happy, well-balanced sysadmins? :)
I've been sitting here this afternoon reading the various advisories as they've dropped into my mailbox, and it appears that most of the major Linux distros have updated binary packages already.
Most of the time, when a vulnerability is announced through a source like BugTraq the vendor/developer has already been contacted a few weeks previously. In cases like this, the developers will get in contact with distro vendors and give them the patch before the public announcement, allowing the distribution of packages to be coordinated with the announcements.
The bottom line is that I don't see how using binary packages means having to wait a few days. I'm in the process of updating my servers now - if you can't do the same maybe you should find a different distro.
Excellent! The only thing I'd add to this is that anyone who gets $rtbl'ed is made an honourary Discordian.
Now if you'll excuse me, it's Friday and I need to find a hot dog.
Change your ratingsystem to
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religions [...]
Yeah, and watch OSDN get sued into oblivion when everyone with a negative karma is designated a Scientologist.
On a more serious note: what's this crap about Linux dying?
There wasn't any crap about it - all the author said was that any slow-down in the uptake of Linux could and probably would be seized upon by MS as an indication of the impending death of Linux. He was speaking purely in terms of marketing, not development, and he may have a point there - as many posts in the earlier article over Microsoft's current views on Linux have already pointed out, MS's days of FUD are far from over.
No wonder! You do know what the first and second rules of Sketch Club are, right?
I wonder what happens if you are caught stealing Microsoft code?
I would have thought that doing so was its own punishment. :)
Well, I'm glad we live in a nice, simple world where there are never any problems identifying who is evil and needs killing. As long as the good guys get to identify and kill them, I'm sure everything will be just fine.
As someone (Asimov? Ellison?) once put it: "The golden age of science fiction is thirteen".
I'd like to modify that slightly and suggest that thirteen is the golden age of bad science fiction. You get the chance then to enjoy the crap without having properly developed critical faculties getting in the way. Damn, I miss that. :)
Finally, why not post the URL for the website here on Slashdot?
That's assuming the website wasn't slashdot in the first place. It's not unknown for folks to post corporate email addresses here when in high dudgeon and suggest that other people make their feelings known. At least when it's done here, though, it's not abuse, but simply sticking it to The Man. :)