two identical setups, one that uses mod_php and the other that uses PHP CGI will run identically.
If they are identical setups, sure.
I've run into minor/annoying problems when upgrading PHP on hosts though. The defaults of the language will change (eg. RegisterGlobals), and the available extensions can get broken in upgrades.
There are a lot of times when taking a working PHP script from one host to another will result in errors and require a fiddle to get sorted. By contrast perl is simpler to use since the defaults rarely change, and installing dependency modules is usually simple.
Personally most of my code is written in Perl with Danga's Memcached used to cache database results.
I too have one of those chairs, not so much because I need one, just because I saw one on a sale a few years ago and thought it looked cute enough to be worth trying!
I'm onto my second one now and find it very comfortable and much preferable to a normal office chair. The only downside is that my first one broke and it was very hard to find a replacement here in the UK, since a lot of places that used to sell them (Argos +Ikea) no longer do so. In the end I got one online from furniture at work (Cost about £30 quid)
Still I find them very comfortable, and as a nice bonus you can push them right under the desk to keep your place looking neat and tidy. (I work at home so that is a consideration.)
Oh, and you can be born with allergies. I'm allergic to penicillin - given some as a newborn and developed a rash (apparently a common allergic reaction to it).
Yeah that is a common one, but apparently many people "grow out of it" when they're older.
I had a bad reaction to penicillin the first time I was given any, aged around 7, and whilst I it could have gone away by now I figure why risk it?
I've been surrounded by cats, dogs, and outdoor life from 0-18 and I'm allergy-free apart from that...
There are software drivers which try to silently install themselves.
Raymond Chen has covered them several times in his blog (great reading if you're interested in some of the behind the scenes stuff; even if you don't run windows anymore.)
A destroyed installation of Windows does not serve much...
But imagine if security updates couldn't be applied to "pirated" installations of Windows. Suddenly by trashing the legitimacy of a machine they could prevent security holes from being patched - making further/future exploits easier to conduct.
As an American, it's incredible, to me, what the UK will not allow private companies to do, but will allow the government to do. There are certain types of data that stores are not allowed to record, but instead, it must be sent to the police station to be stored.
Source please?
Living in the UK I find this notion extremely unlikely.
Yes the Police would be allowed to store records about criminal behaviour, etc, but stores/shops wouldn't send random customer data to the police force - they'd have no need for it, and most likely wouldn't even have the space for it!
i would say that i believe they have been doing a good job for quite a while and the security problems are not as problematic as it seems to many of the readers here.
I'm really not sure I could agree with that.
If you follow the bugtraq mailing list you'll have seen several recent posts expressing increasing dissatisfaction with the way that Oracle has handled security issues. Including several mentions of one bug being fixed whilst nearly identical (and also public) ones have been ignored.
For a good example of that please see this post from a week or two ago describing a "fixed" bug lasting over a year..
In the communities that I'm involved with most are "run" by a single person who pays the server costs, etc, and they use adverts. I'm also part of a couple of coops where the running costs are split and in those sites there are either no adverts - or the revenue is shared amongst the people who pay the costs.
The only downside to running a co-op is that you need people to agree to pay before there actually is a community. Although you could invite new members to help join and support the site and reduce everbodies payments for the next billing/renewal point.
I'm pleased you mention administration time, that for me is almost the biggest killer in running my site. Most months my Adsense covers server rental, but does little for the actual time I spend in babysitting things. Still if I didn't think it was worthwhile I wouldn't do it..
I guess the expectation of making money is much lower on a community site vs. a real "commercial" enterprise.
In my case it was just a button along with some text which said "hosting + admin isn't free". I didn't put down targets, although a few times I did detail actual running costs.
I hadn't actually thought of putting down a monthly "total" but I guess that would be very simple to do and make it more obvious - especially if it were updated when new money came in.
In my experience a "Paypal donate" button doesn't give you much revenue.
99% of users will ignore it, and the remaining 1% tends to make a one-off payment of $5. Useful? Yes. But I've not seen enough recurring donations to offset hosting costs.
I've had far more income from showing Google's adsense adverts, whilst annoying very few users I believe.
(Of course it is always a bit hard to tell, and the results probably depend a lot on the type of site you run as well)
One downside to using Paypal I found was that the off-site logo used for the button was frequently the slowest loading part of my pages. I was never sure if I was allowed to copy that locally, but in the end avoided using Paypal before investigating it.
I run a Debian community site and found that I was spending a reasonable amount of money on a dedicated host for it, (along with time too!), and so figured adding adverts was a reasonable thing to do.
But I know that people can be very vocal on the subject of advertising, especially on community sites where the revenue goes to the "owner" rather than the "community". So the way I tried to made it more bearable was to make it optional. Albeit enabled by default.
If you're an unregistered user you see one block of Google text adverts on each article. But if you're a registered user you can completely disable the adverts via a setting in your user options.
That means that anybody who wishes to support the site and view potentially useful adverts can do so. And anybody who gets annoyed by adverts can hide them.
The people who disable adverts make about 20% of the site membership. Suprisingly low I thought! (Although that could well be because people use adblocking software and have them hidden regardless of the settings?)
If you let people choose to hide or show the adverts I think they are happier about them. There are other sites where I've seen this approach and I'll always happily view them when given a choice (so long as they aren't flash. Ugh) just the fact that the site owners care enough to make it an option makes me more inclined to view them.
I guess it is just a nice change from having adverts appear everywhere on some sites with no ability to configure them apart from using extra software, or plugins.
Which is a lot like programming on those early home computers. Half the fun is getting anything to work at all.
True.
I got started programming because the ZX Spectrum I was given for chrismas in the early 80s came with a broke tape-recorder. So I couldn't play any games at all for the first week or two.
My sisters ignored the machine until they could play the games. Me? I started reading the manual and entering little programs in BASIC.
I imagine I would have found programming eventually had this not happened. Maybe when I got to college and we had a number of XT clones running MS-DOS 3.3!
Nowadays you don't need to tinker with PCs to use them, at least not to the same extent that you did back then. So theres little forcing users to get started with programming. Even worse 99% of PCs come running windows with no programming environment supplied for free.
(OK maybe that last is a stretch. But early home computers always had BASIC, and many MS-DOS systems had batchfiles to write. Nowadays I guess you just get VBScript/JScript + web programming to start people off. There isn't a "real" programming language to experiment with.)
Digg's design is completely inappropriate for this site for the simple reason that the two sites have different focusses.
Over there stories tend to get 100 comments. Over here we frequently have 400+ comments on a single story or poll, and having massively more than that isn't uncommon.
Over there the stories are tiny, and have only a single paragraph, here things are different.
The display of "extra content" such as the diggers at the foot of the "articles", the people who blogged a story, etc, don't map to features that slashdot has. Or in the case of things that do map would soon get overcrowded because there are significantly more slashdot members than digg members. (Actually that might not be true; but my impression is that way round - otherwise Digg would have more comments?)
In short Digg is good. Diggs layout is fine for Digg - but there is a different kind of participation over here.
Plus things like comment options on Digg suck. Many troll/random comments are hidden, but the interplay between comments is missing - since there is no concept of threading.
When you write a blog entry in LiveJournal, you're give an opportunity to select a "mood" from a dropdown list of moods.
For a bit of fun a few years ago I copied down each of the available "moods" and tried to assign ratings to them - to see how true the idea that Livejournal gets angsty EMO types.
Of the 131 available moods I classed them as 33 positive, 58 negative, and 40 neutral.
Things might be different now if they've expanded the range - I'm not sure - or since my opinion might have changed as some of the moods are pretty hard to qualify.
The way I read it was that SCO couldn't claim copyright infringement on the Linux side - but they still had free reign to claim that IBM had misappropriated things and added them to Linux.
This "new" contract revelation only applies to the updated/new claim brought by SCO - it doesnt spoil their ongoing IBM case with regard to their other (bogus) claims.
It was only a short time ago that Michael Robertson, CEO of Linspire said "I defy anybody to tell me why is it more secure to not run as root. Nobody really has a good answer. They say 'oh, yeah, it is!', but it really isn't."
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I can't see many people sending payment via paypal/whatever to Nigera - what with the reputation that country has (fairly or not) for scams.
If they are identical setups, sure.
I've run into minor/annoying problems when upgrading PHP on hosts though. The defaults of the language will change (eg. RegisterGlobals), and the available extensions can get broken in upgrades.
There are a lot of times when taking a working PHP script from one host to another will result in errors and require a fiddle to get sorted. By contrast perl is simpler to use since the defaults rarely change, and installing dependency modules is usually simple.
Personally most of my code is written in Perl with Danga's Memcached used to cache database results.
I too have one of those chairs, not so much because I need one, just because I saw one on a sale a few years ago and thought it looked cute enough to be worth trying!
I'm onto my second one now and find it very comfortable and much preferable to a normal office chair. The only downside is that my first one broke and it was very hard to find a replacement here in the UK, since a lot of places that used to sell them (Argos +Ikea) no longer do so. In the end I got one online from furniture at work (Cost about £30 quid)
Still I find them very comfortable, and as a nice bonus you can push them right under the desk to keep your place looking neat and tidy. (I work at home so that is a consideration.)
Yeah that is a common one, but apparently many people "grow out of it" when they're older.
I had a bad reaction to penicillin the first time I was given any, aged around 7, and whilst I it could have gone away by now I figure why risk it?
I've been surrounded by cats, dogs, and outdoor life from 0-18 and I'm allergy-free apart from that...
Small world. Hello from Leith!
There are software drivers which try to silently install themselves.
Raymond Chen has covered them several times in his blog (great reading if you're interested in some of the behind the scenes stuff; even if you don't run windows anymore.)
Here is a good example When people ask for security holes as features: Silent install of uncertified drivers.
But imagine if security updates couldn't be applied to "pirated" installations of Windows. Suddenly by trashing the legitimacy of a machine they could prevent security holes from being patched - making further/future exploits easier to conduct.
Source please?
Living in the UK I find this notion extremely unlikely.
Yes the Police would be allowed to store records about criminal behaviour, etc, but stores/shops wouldn't send random customer data to the police force - they'd have no need for it, and most likely wouldn't even have the space for it!
Jellyfish? Jaguar? Probably more ..
I'm really not sure I could agree with that.
If you follow the bugtraq mailing list you'll have seen several recent posts expressing increasing dissatisfaction with the way that Oracle has handled security issues. Including several mentions of one bug being fixed whilst nearly identical (and also public) ones have been ignored.
For a good example of that please see this post from a week or two ago describing a "fixed" bug lasting over a year..
Seconded almost entirely.
In the communities that I'm involved with most are "run" by a single person who pays the server costs, etc, and they use adverts. I'm also part of a couple of coops where the running costs are split and in those sites there are either no adverts - or the revenue is shared amongst the people who pay the costs.
The only downside to running a co-op is that you need people to agree to pay before there actually is a community. Although you could invite new members to help join and support the site and reduce everbodies payments for the next billing/renewal point.
I'm pleased you mention administration time, that for me is almost the biggest killer in running my site. Most months my Adsense covers server rental, but does little for the actual time I spend in babysitting things. Still if I didn't think it was worthwhile I wouldn't do it ..
I guess the expectation of making money is much lower on a community site vs. a real "commercial" enterprise.
In my case it was just a button along with some text which said "hosting + admin isn't free". I didn't put down targets, although a few times I did detail actual running costs.
I hadn't actually thought of putting down a monthly "total" but I guess that would be very simple to do and make it more obvious - especially if it were updated when new money came in.
In my experience a "Paypal donate" button doesn't give you much revenue.
99% of users will ignore it, and the remaining 1% tends to make a one-off payment of $5. Useful? Yes. But I've not seen enough recurring donations to offset hosting costs.
I've had far more income from showing Google's adsense adverts, whilst annoying very few users I believe.
(Of course it is always a bit hard to tell, and the results probably depend a lot on the type of site you run as well)
One downside to using Paypal I found was that the off-site logo used for the button was frequently the slowest loading part of my pages. I was never sure if I was allowed to copy that locally, but in the end avoided using Paypal before investigating it.
I run a Debian community site and found that I was spending a reasonable amount of money on a dedicated host for it, (along with time too!), and so figured adding adverts was a reasonable thing to do.
But I know that people can be very vocal on the subject of advertising, especially on community sites where the revenue goes to the "owner" rather than the "community". So the way I tried to made it more bearable was to make it optional. Albeit enabled by default.
If you're an unregistered user you see one block of Google text adverts on each article. But if you're a registered user you can completely disable the adverts via a setting in your user options.
That means that anybody who wishes to support the site and view potentially useful adverts can do so. And anybody who gets annoyed by adverts can hide them.
The people who disable adverts make about 20% of the site membership. Suprisingly low I thought! (Although that could well be because people use adblocking software and have them hidden regardless of the settings?)
If you let people choose to hide or show the adverts I think they are happier about them. There are other sites where I've seen this approach and I'll always happily view them when given a choice (so long as they aren't flash. Ugh) just the fact that the site owners care enough to make it an option makes me more inclined to view them.
I guess it is just a nice change from having adverts appear everywhere on some sites with no ability to configure them apart from using extra software, or plugins.
True.
I got started programming because the ZX Spectrum I was given for chrismas in the early 80s came with a broke tape-recorder. So I couldn't play any games at all for the first week or two.
My sisters ignored the machine until they could play the games. Me? I started reading the manual and entering little programs in BASIC.
I imagine I would have found programming eventually had this not happened. Maybe when I got to college and we had a number of XT clones running MS-DOS 3.3!
Nowadays you don't need to tinker with PCs to use them, at least not to the same extent that you did back then. So theres little forcing users to get started with programming. Even worse 99% of PCs come running windows with no programming environment supplied for free.
(OK maybe that last is a stretch. But early home computers always had BASIC, and many MS-DOS systems had batchfiles to write. Nowadays I guess you just get VBScript/JScript + web programming to start people off. There isn't a "real" programming language to experiment with.)
Digg's design is completely inappropriate for this site for the simple reason that the two sites have different focusses.
Over there stories tend to get 100 comments. Over here we frequently have 400+ comments on a single story or poll, and having massively more than that isn't uncommon.
Over there the stories are tiny, and have only a single paragraph, here things are different.
The display of "extra content" such as the diggers at the foot of the "articles", the people who blogged a story, etc, don't map to features that slashdot has. Or in the case of things that do map would soon get overcrowded because there are significantly more slashdot members than digg members. (Actually that might not be true; but my impression is that way round - otherwise Digg would have more comments?)
In short Digg is good. Diggs layout is fine for Digg - but there is a different kind of participation over here.
Plus things like comment options on Digg suck. Many troll/random comments are hidden, but the interplay between comments is missing - since there is no concept of threading.
You know you've been reading Slashdot too long when you assume the title of this article contained a typo for "vista".
For a bit of fun a few years ago I copied down each of the available "moods" and tried to assign ratings to them - to see how true the idea that Livejournal gets angsty EMO types.
The results in 2003 showed that Livejournal is overly negative.
Of the 131 available moods I classed them as 33 positive, 58 negative, and 40 neutral.
Things might be different now if they've expanded the range - I'm not sure - or since my opinion might have changed as some of the moods are pretty hard to qualify.
Thanks for the in-depth rebuttal.
The way I read it was that SCO couldn't claim copyright infringement on the Linux side - but they still had free reign to claim that IBM had misappropriated things and added them to Linux.
I guess it all gets a bit hard to follow.
Not quite.
This "new" contract revelation only applies to the updated/new claim brought by SCO - it doesnt spoil their ongoing IBM case with regard to their other (bogus) claims.
It was only a short time ago that Michael Robertson, CEO of Linspire said "I defy anybody to tell me why is it more secure to not run as root. Nobody really has a good answer. They say 'oh, yeah, it is!', but it really isn't."
You could also go for the cuteness approach:
Click on the three images which are OMG Kittens and you're identified as human.
I work in a database shop in Edinburgh and I've heard it called S-Q-L and Sequel pretty much interchangably.
The most grating pronunciation I've ever heard was one manage who used to read HTML as "H-tim-el".
I always wondered who Tim was...
Cute site. Look like I could even add one...
Don't forget everybodies favourite cross-over: