Possibly stupid question, but does PHP come with documentation as part of the distribution?
If it's all there for the download it would be nice if it were. I love the perldoc program, and it's accompanying POD documentation which comes with perl
(I've only ever toyed with PHP, making minor edits to existing code, so I'd benefit from good documentation if I were to do some real coding in it)
Actually I'd rather you used any spare cash for some charity nearby - wherever you live, a nice local project whose results you can feel.
(I'm bad with charity I refuse to donate money to poeple far away who I don't know, but I'm happy to donate to local groups and causes. I hope that doesn't make me a bad person - I view it as a good way of narrowing down the millions of charities in the world to a small group whom I can donate what little spare I have ).
Re:Should there be a GNU-Google?
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I was thinking of this recently actually, and came up with a prototype system for searching.
Essentially most people have their favourite areas of the web, which they visit frequently and probably cover their hobbies and interests.
What would be ideal then, would be to share peoples these links in some way. One obvious way of doing this is a Peer-to-peer bookmark searching system.
People essentially share their bookmarks.html file/favourites folders with other users - and then searches are conducted by asking for 'links with $foo in their title/url'.
Seems simple enough; but it would obviously only work if enough people shared their bookmarks; which might not be easy if people bookmark 'private' sites, or could be traced.
(Anybody wanting to discuss this; or interested in the idea feel free to drop me a mail or something)
nor even the White House. (Incidentally, soldiers from Canada burned the original President's Mansion during the War of 1812.)
Something I've wondered for a while, as a non-American with too little knowledge of your country..
The Banks house from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air - is it deliberately modelled after the white house? Or are there lots of houses like that in the USA?
(Of topic I know, but I was suddenly reminded by your comment)
Putting MD5 signatures on the same server that the software is available from isn't even close to secure
True, which is why I sign all of my releases with GPG nowadays. It's a little bit more effort for people to verify them now, but those that want to won't mind the extra work I'm sure.
I started doing this some time ago, after the last round of trojans - So far I've not actually seen many people download my gpg key from the site, but enough people have downloaded the signatures that I'm sure some checking is going on.
Thankfully it only takes one person to get a false signature and the word would quickly spread.
I'm a Debian developer, and I run Debian at home and work, as I have done for ~3 years. (I don't use kde/gnome though, I don't have the horsepower for it - just icewm).
I'm quite rare though. In our company there are three people who use Linux upon their desktop, Me (a sysadmin), a web developer/perl coder, and an Oracle guy.
So far I've not had any major problems, I can view PDF's/Java/DOC files etc, and generally operate on a par with other people within the office
I used to have a dual boot setup so that I could run things like the Microsoft policy editor, but not any more - if I want to run something like that I'll walk to somebody else's PC and borrow it for a few minutes.
Sometimes I wish I were running Windows - because it can be very hard to help one of our home works over the phone when I can't look to my machine and talk them through what options to select, etc. But apart from that life is peachy:)
Re:Gaming mods as part of school curiculum
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When will that start embracing education into gaming mods.
I can see it now, Quake III Arena meets Battle Royale. With the addition of some tentacly chuthulu aliens to the schoolgirl mix it could be this years hot game over in Japan;)
I see a lot of those, so much so that I now include an integrated bug reporting plugin in my application.
This has proved to be a double edges sword - on the one hand the plugin ensures I have all the details that I'll probably need of the system, (OS program version, memory size, etc), but it makes it almost too easy to report a bug - instead of reading the fine documentation.
Personally I've spent hours working with some users to fix a bug in my code, and I'm happy to do so.. if I get one person who sees the bug and reports it then it's probably fair to say that 20 people see the bug and uninstall the software, never to return.
If people are greatful for my work/fixes they can reward me if they wish;)
There's a few of them around in Edinburgh too - mostly they're boarded up or locked up so you can't even see inside them.
A couple of years ago an enterprizing group got together and actually bought some of the boxes which were in central areas from the local council, and now they're being used as little coffee shops.
There's just enough room inside one for a small student, a coffee machine and a selection of cakes and buns...
These rebranded boxes have all been painted a purpley colour - I don't know if that was mandatory or not, I think it would have been nicer if they could have remained Police-box-blue.
I remember when I first saw scrapheap challenge I thought it was like "The Great Egg Race", but with bigger 'pieces' - did this show influence you at all?
Also I wonder, if you weren't presenting the show do you think you'd be knowledgable enough to actually compete as part of a team? What about with your fellow presentors?
(I'd love to see a special edition with the presentors vs some celebritys or something similar...)
I'm not sure if the first command is redundent or not to be entirely honest - the intention is that it will install all the packages required to build the new package. (-devel packages, etc)
I seem to remember that there was an article just after the WTC attacks last year, which discussed how Slashdot had handled the massive surge in traffic after other online sites went down.
From memory it involved switching to static pages, and dropping gifs, etc.
Unfortunately the search engine on Slashdot really sucks - so I couldn't find the piece in question.
I tried to setup mod_throttle for a site where the requirement was 'No more than 1gig per hour'.
I actually found this incredibly hard to do, it's fine for slowing down the incoming requests when lots of them start coming in, but hard to make it keep track of total traffic served.
I think it should be fairly straightforward using the 'volume' directive, but I could never quite get it to work out properly.
My solution was mod_curb
which is dedicated to just doing that. (It doesnt handle virtualhosts yet, but it will do by next weekend.
In that case you might like to look at ccache which is a compiler cache for a single machine.
It will cache the compiler options for each source file and the resultant object file generated. I use a lot when I'm building packages for software - which require multiple compilations. It works very nicely - I'd love to see how well it would integrate with distcc....
I've been working for a while on a bootable Debian based-cdrom which will mount any partitions it finds upon a disk, search them for media then automatically set itself up as a streamer.
I think that'd be kinda cool.. Most of the simple stuff is working now - but I can't settle upon a good user interface..
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Possibly stupid question, but does PHP come with documentation as part of the distribution?
If it's all there for the download it would be nice if it were. I love the perldoc program, and it's accompanying POD documentation which comes with perl
(I've only ever toyed with PHP, making minor edits to existing code, so I'd benefit from good documentation if I were to do some real coding in it)
Would now be a good time to plug this and this? ;)
Actually I'd rather you used any spare cash for some charity nearby - wherever you live, a nice local project whose results you can feel.
(I'm bad with charity I refuse to donate money to poeple far away who I don't know, but I'm happy to donate to local groups and causes. I hope that doesn't make me a bad person - I view it as a good way of narrowing down the millions of charities in the world to a small group whom I can donate what little spare I have ).
I was thinking of this recently actually, and came up with a prototype system for searching.
Essentially most people have their favourite areas of the web, which they visit frequently and probably cover their hobbies and interests.
What would be ideal then, would be to share peoples these links in some way. One obvious way of doing this is a Peer-to-peer bookmark searching system.
People essentially share their bookmarks.html file/favourites folders with other users - and then searches are conducted by asking for 'links with $foo in their title/url'.
Seems simple enough; but it would obviously only work if enough people shared their bookmarks; which might not be easy if people bookmark 'private' sites, or could be traced.
(Anybody wanting to discuss this; or interested in the idea feel free to drop me a mail or something)
Seems to me that if you're outside using a free access point you're gonna get cold - and would like nothing better than a nice starbucks coffee....
I have a pop3 mailserver which I maintain for our company. I'm planning to switch this to IMAP - having all the users mail on that one box.
THe backup plan goes like this:
Is this such a bad idea? Should I not use the 120gb drives for the mailstore in the firstplace?
Other people have suggested Running Linux already, I had that for a while and ended up giving it away to a newbie who appreciated it.
I had the benefit of a couple of local experts and found that and a working modem to be sufficient to get me up to speed.
To throw in a handy link I found The Linux Cookbook a good site.
It has common activities listed and pointers to more documentation, and software - very interesting:
I love the sig. It's just like a quiz I made a while back...
Thanks for that - I was curious.
It almost sounds a bit draconian though, worse than I was expecting from the land of the free.
Over here in the UK we can have our houses how we like - we just have compulsory Fish + Chips every Friday..
What, like Curious Yellow?
Something I've wondered for a while, as a non-American with too little knowledge of your country..
The Banks house from the Fresh Prince of Bel Air - is it deliberately modelled after the white house? Or are there lots of houses like that in the USA?
(Of topic I know, but I was suddenly reminded by your comment)
Like this one?
By the time we can inject knowledge directly into the human brain, and conciousness, I truly hope that we're not using optical media.
Imagine what errors could creep in with a single scratch!
I demand holographic storage .. Mmm, and a holodec too ;)
True, which is why I sign all of my releases with GPG nowadays. It's a little bit more effort for people to verify them now, but those that want to won't mind the extra work I'm sure.
I started doing this some time ago, after the last round of trojans - So far I've not actually seen many people download my gpg key from the site, but enough people have downloaded the signatures that I'm sure some checking is going on.
Thankfully it only takes one person to get a false signature and the word would quickly spread.
I'm a Debian developer, and I run Debian at home and work, as I have done for ~3 years. (I don't use kde/gnome though, I don't have the horsepower for it - just icewm).
I'm quite rare though. In our company there are three people who use Linux upon their desktop, Me (a sysadmin), a web developer/perl coder, and an Oracle guy.
So far I've not had any major problems, I can view PDF's/Java/DOC files etc, and generally operate on a par with other people within the office
I used to have a dual boot setup so that I could run things like the Microsoft policy editor, but not any more - if I want to run something like that I'll walk to somebody else's PC and borrow it for a few minutes.
Sometimes I wish I were running Windows - because it can be very hard to help one of our home works over the phone when I can't look to my machine and talk them through what options to select, etc. But apart from that life is peachy :)
I can see it now, Quake III Arena meets Battle Royale. With the addition of some tentacly chuthulu aliens to the schoolgirl mix it could be this years hot game over in Japan ;)
I see a lot of those, so much so that I now include an integrated bug reporting plugin in my application.
This has proved to be a double edges sword - on the one hand the plugin ensures I have all the details that I'll probably need of the system, (OS program version, memory size, etc), but it makes it almost too easy to report a bug - instead of reading the fine documentation.
Personally I've spent hours working with some users to fix a bug in my code, and I'm happy to do so .. if I get one person who sees the bug and reports it then it's probably fair to say that 20 people see the bug and uninstall the software, never to return.
If people are greatful for my work/fixes they can reward me if they wish ;)
You also win if all your opponents are dead in the multiplayer games, like Tetrinet. (There's a good client out for Linux too - gTetrinet).
Unfortuntately there is a limit of six players to the game; but it's still been taking my workplace by storm for the past two weeks.
Yeah there are at least two restored ones in Edinburgh, and several others which have been refitted as refitted as small coffee shops
There's a few of them around in Edinburgh too - mostly they're boarded up or locked up so you can't even see inside them.
A couple of years ago an enterprizing group got together and actually bought some of the boxes which were in central areas from the local council, and now they're being used as little coffee shops.
There's just enough room inside one for a small student, a coffee machine and a selection of cakes and buns...
These rebranded boxes have all been painted a purpley colour - I don't know if that was mandatory or not, I think it would have been nicer if they could have remained Police-box-blue.
I remember when I first saw scrapheap challenge I thought it was like "The Great Egg Race", but with bigger 'pieces' - did this show influence you at all?
Also I wonder, if you weren't presenting the show do you think you'd be knowledgable enough to actually compete as part of a team? What about with your fellow presentors?
(I'd love to see a special edition with the presentors vs some celebritys or something similar...)
Building from source is already supported:
apt-get builddep gtetrinetapt-get --build source gtetrinet
I'm not sure if the first command is redundent or not to be entirely honest - the intention is that it will install all the packages required to build the new package. (-devel packages, etc)
I seem to remember that there was an article just after the WTC attacks last year, which discussed how Slashdot had handled the massive surge in traffic after other online sites went down.
From memory it involved switching to static pages, and dropping gifs, etc.
Unfortunately the search engine on Slashdot really sucks - so I couldn't find the piece in question.
I tried to setup mod_throttle for a site where the requirement was 'No more than 1gig per hour'.
I actually found this incredibly hard to do, it's fine for slowing down the incoming requests when lots of them start coming in, but hard to make it keep track of total traffic served.
I think it should be fairly straightforward using the 'volume' directive, but I could never quite get it to work out properly.
My solution was mod_curb which is dedicated to just doing that. (It doesnt handle virtualhosts yet, but it will do by next weekend.
In that case you might like to look at ccache which is a compiler cache for a single machine.
It will cache the compiler options for each source file and the resultant object file generated. I use a lot when I'm building packages for software - which require multiple compilations. It works very nicely - I'd love to see how well it would integrate with distcc....
Sure which is why I didn't offer my own MP3 / OGG Vorbis streaming server as a solution. In fact I haven't plugged it at all ;)
I've been working for a while on a bootable Debian based-cdrom which will mount any partitions it finds upon a disk, search them for media then automatically set itself up as a streamer.
I think that'd be kinda cool .. Most of the simple stuff is working now - but I can't settle upon a good user interface..