Good one. When people complain of package management and administrative time when talking of Slackware I it just gives me a headache because I then I know I am not dealing with someone who would understand how it works anyway. And like you say, have it page you, jeez...
Great going Slackers! I've been using Slack since 7.0 and never looked back as my personal choice because I can make it do anything I want. I've installed dozens of other Unices/Linuces but I'm sure you'll find that those who know would use only FreeBSD in place of Slackware, if they had to.
But I am only talking about a certain portion of the community who does things a certain way, who likes to have their cake and eat it too, and like you said, go home on time.
My first slack box went from version 7.0 to 9.0 through manual upgrades over the years. It spanned 3 kernel release numbers and the only reason it isnt around any more is because I built an entirely new box and just wanted to start from scratch again. I get paid to do it because of Slackware, fellas. Thanks to all of those who make it possible!
Along that note there are scales at which the elements can support an 'organic' life form, one of which is our definition of carbon based, the next level theoretically would be silicon based. This has to do with atomic structure and related harmonics of the periodic table.
I wonder if the environment on Titan would have the ability to support life on a different atomic scale. Ammonia seems to be a promising candidate on Titan.
i dont give a shit if microsoft makes 'the right tool for the job'. let's get that straight ok?
my 'narrow minded viewset' is about kicking the shit out of microsoft until they give in and give the world back everything they have taken from us: all our code, time, money, efforts and anguish spent dealing with their ILLEGAL MONOPOLY.
now, if you don't like that, then you can go on buying 'the right tool for the job', but don't come crying to me when you need someone strong because all those tools are too pricey for you to afford anymore. get with the program.
read up on here about how taking away our rights is supposed to ensure our safety. this has alot more to do with the open source vs closed source issue than your NARROW MIND can obviously comprehend.
by giving in to big pressure from big companies and laying down your responsibility to CONTRIBUTE to the world around you, you endanger yours and everyone else's rights to ever have an open society where people aren't trying kill each other and the planet constantly. WAKE UP!!!!!!
corporations.org
scorecard.org
malfeasance.50megs.com
go on, take a look, that is, if your 'right tool for the job' internet censoring software will let you. when you get back tell me how you feel about giving huge companies your blood, sweat, and tears, ok? tell me. i'll be waiting, but you won't be back will you?
i know though, you just want 'the right tool for the job' because it is the solution 'smart people' use.
i have a feeling that if you are considered one of those 'smart people' that we have alot more to worry about than human rights and pollution - because of people like you we have question if the human race as a whole are even worthy of living in a better world.
..to ignore Microsoft some more. Go ahead and "Open Up" your API's. I'm sure we will find that they work well with the other technology the rest of the internet has been built on over the last 20 years. I'm sure we will find the freedom and mutual satisfaction that comes with Open Standards in your project. In fact, I am so confident that I will ignore the shit out of Microsoft that I will continue to use Linux. Take that!
The last thing I need is for SCO to come knocking saying their code is in my damn database. It was bad enough that they tried to steal my OS, now the data on top it isn't even safe.
So I'm being speculative if not pretentious but that doesn't change the fact that I'm serious about migration. I'm getting out while MySQL is still portable to PG.
Microsoft does not pay people enough to work for them, or employees do not agree with what Microsoft is doing, or would have them do, so they leave. If Microsoft can't accept the fact that they are being defeated fair and square because they didn't incorporate enough "employee lock-in" into their business model, tough shit. End of story.
I work for a company like this who likes to scare employees into staying employed with them by suing ex-employees seemingly arbitrarily, writing threatening and harrassing email to staff, and general pandering to every little insecurity of the executive staff. Beauracracy and politics are obstacles to progress. "The Chain Of Command", I have learned, is nothing more than a way for your manager to take credit for your ideas, and then his manager implement them incorrectly, and then it comes back to you when it breaks and you take the fall. This perversion of business practices is costing many of the finest people I have seen in IT their reputations and careers. I am sick of it and have all but lost faith in IT. I know how I got here, and want to warn anyone reading to do your homework on any potential employer before signing away your soul.
If you talk back, your'e fired and they make up some shit about you, and maybe sue you. If you stay, you compromise even the most basic ethical beliefs by doing what it takes to keep employed. And if you quit, well, you better not ever work again because that non-compete covers everything you touched since the day you got hired, including the toilet handle.
My most sincere wishes of luck and well being go out to all employees who will leave Microsoft or similarly "morally challenged" companies, my sympathies to those who cannot, and my curses to those who would perpetuate this ugly and vicious cycle of plugging the holes in the dam holding back all your bullshit with your peckers. Companies can ruin indviduals for life at relatively little expense, and being an individual without the deep pockets to satisfy the courts is the hole in the legal system that is probably abused most in our country. I see it more often that I would like to admit in my own WORKPLACE not to mention TV, and can tell you that I personally have missed out on many good job opportunities just because my name is associated with this company and its notoriously cannibalistic tendancies and itchy trigger finger for litigation.
"Work for us or we will sue you." Why don't you just cut my fingers off and we will call it even.
Then what do you suggest? Nobody seems to have a viable solution, except to say it's wrong to block them.
Let me explain a little about how the world works on a sociological level:
People are hindered from doing the things they want by a given circumstance and rise to the challenge to over come said circumstance.
The problem clearly lies in China, whether it be on the part of the ISP or the Operating System or the Consumer. Don't make us all pay for their incompetence/lack of education. To those who would say that bans are in the best interest of no one, I say the scans are even more detrimental considering the amount of spam, identity theft, espionage, etc. that would be prevented. A lot of it would stop at the drop of a hat by droppign 221.0.0.0/8 at the average and relativly minor expense of the site's owner. If you must be on the wire with China, get a box that is designed for it, understand the risks, and get going. Leaving the average server on the net without attendance to the ever increasing needs of security is _just_plain_stupid_.
My Own Suggestion would be to have sites we can subscribe to like spamcop.net where we can retrieve lists of temporarily blocked hosts. DUH. SHIT....
This also has other potential uses. A project dedicated to providing several kinds of blacklist, such as one for outbound port scanning and notoriously bad security problems, to worm ridden networks and otherwise categorized lists that would be subscribeable to through the service. Once a network is reported for spreading a worm it could potentially slow down the propagation as the client picked up on the newest list and did the -s 152.164.64.0/16 -j DROP on them.
This could be extended to usefulness in a firewall's configuration for blocked hosts. Networks or individual IP's that are known to have poor security and have scans frequently emanate from them should be on a temporary list like spam blacklists.
WHAT HE WANTS: A startup that can create a suite of open-source applications for maintenance and upkeep of a company's IT backbone. It would give away the programs to corporate clients but charge for service and upkeep at a substantial discount off current rates.
I have a bridge for sale...
With the growing complexity and diversity of the internet and the communities that use it, how they interact, and nature of companies that provide the service, I sure am glad I never specialized in one particular field.
Seriously though, reading that actually made me feel a little better. Alot of the people I know can solve a given problem in a number of ways, feverishly spouting ideas and solutions like there is not tomorrow. From IPPBX to Corporate Intranets, this thing is HUGE. Those of us who have been using Open Source as hobbyists and professionals alike can attest to the sheer diversity of the community. I just read that sourceforge hit 100,000 projects...
Gluing them together is what I do for a living and it is only a matter of time before we come up with something very marketable. Maybe I'll give this guy a call and see if he will buy me a Porsche so I can fly around town from office to office consulting companies and interviewing the bottom half to see how my services can benefit their organization.
Who am I kidding though, I didn't even finish high school:)
I'll give you a hint though, it goes something like this:
Hello, this is Apache 2 calling, press 1 if you are hung over, press 2 if you forgot to set your alarm, press 3 if you are on your way to work allready...
Please leave a message after the tone to explain why you are late to work. Have a nice day!
Wonderful world we live in... everyone at work hates me hahaha...
Easy as that. If you don't know enough to lock down a computer from the ground up having a vendor supply the service is not going to do you any good because you won't know how it works and you will be at the mercy of Tech Support during a crisis. We have spent years building our own linux distro with what most might consider an over-kill in RBAC and other model implementation. When the latest greatest exploits/bugs/worms hit the scene we go right in and rip up the source and its fixed on the spot that morning, no questions asked. Try getting that out of a 1-800 service. The bottom line is security, not accountability. If you want to make things happen then make them happen, don't wait for someone else to do it. If the NSA thought Microsoft or any other MSO was a big prospect in the contract we wouldn't have SELinux. I could be wrong about trusting the security of my systems to other people, but I can't afford to take that risk, can I?
From what I heard we were allready all patched up at work. From the stuff Im reading on the net this thing is going around killing spyware! Im SURE MS is in a BIG hurry to stop this.
It hit the local news earlier about ABC, they went on to report that 'All versions of Microsof Windows are vulnerable'. Be this true or not they even displayed all 6 or so of logos of the different versions, ie 95, 98, ME, "NE" (Whatever the hell that is), 2k, XP etc. This is in Dallas.
They also announced that a number of Chrysler plants were also dropped offline due to this thing.
The kicker was how the news anchors reacted, you know, when they get to spout their little un-educated opinions on the matter during that 45 second space between the end of the story and the next commercial. One guy said something like "Gosh with those computers if its not one thing its another" and the anchor woman next to him said something about how terrible it is to lose all your personal data and have to "reboot".
This is sooooooo classic. I wish I had been recording that. It shows how uneducated people are and how foolishly inclined even the media themselves are to believe just about anything thrown at them, like 'Microsft = Computers' and how these problems are completely unavoidable, like there is NO ALTERNATIVE to using MS products.
Im in the process of writing them a (much better spoken) letter about the tragedy brought about by convenience and ignorance. Any comments on some points I can bring up? Not to troll, well yeah, to troll, just thought Id ask. It cant hurt a thing to inform these people a little on the *real world* use of the operating system that drives us into the future.
I know that one day we will be looking at some serious security problems with OSS, especially when it hits prime time. But when that day comes its not going to be up to some big ass company with greedy motives to fix it, or to delay a fix so it can push out 'updated versions' of its software for sale instead. The fix is going to come from thousands of sources and this is a GOOD THING. We have the source code to fix the problem and staff on hand to implement a quick solution to a wide range of possible issues on the kernel level. We don't need to pray and wait for some extortionist coporation to be merciful enough to bend under the will of the most basic moral resourcefullness of its staff.
im no scientist, but i do like to gamble, so i know a little about 'probability'.
for each set of 'spontaneous' particles that pop into existence, for each set that gets split up by the gravitational force of the black hole, it stands to reason that for each anti-particle to get absorbed, there would most likely be another 'spontaneous' particle set creation that would lose the particle to the black hole, thereby adding to the mass of the black hole.
so hawking's radiation killing a black hole would be a is a 35 - 1 payoff, am i right?
I probably write some of the ugliest code you've ever seen in any language, and using PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL with XMLHTTPRequests made me the sole developer of an intranet server for use by over 100 employees around the world.
OK, not large scale, but large enough to be a major pain in the ass when features and departements need to be added - but that was my fault for coding first and then checking to see if it works at all. Ive rewritten the thing a couple times since and can say that the system is now modular enough to where functional additions are a breeze.
Knowing nothing about any of these 'languages' I whipped up a beta in about a week with over 2000 lines of code. Its a real monster now with around 7500 lines of code, and does everything from manage employee information to providing a web based time clock and report generator. It even does some graph generation for employee performance analysis and has levels of logins where 'managers' can use the CMS front end to edit the site dynamically. Why would I go looking else where and waste time trying to implement a new system or language when this one has all these goodies right out of the./configure?
Employee records, procedural and technical documentation, timeclock stuff, schedules and search features, its all there in no time. The idea was to replace the endless stacks of paperwork on my immediate supervisors desk, and now we wonder how we got along without it and why we didn't get someone to write it sooner.
If this does not say anything about the flexibility of these languages I don't know how to. My point is that if I can do this, anyone reasonably technically inclined can.
As I dig into the world of web based application design and engineering I'm finding more and more possiblities for how to handle events and situations where data should be presented and handled in a specific manner to and from the user. The PHP language is AWESOME for this kind of stuff , and as time progresses its track record will only improve.
I like telling people about this because it lends credibility to a language many of our customers don't see as a viable solution to any serious web based business endeavor. Its all in how you implement it, obviously. If I had to write this thing in C, Bash, or God forbid, Perl, it would have been written so, but since PHP was available and my initial attempt at managing user logins to a small test site was a great success, it was all down hill from session_start();
Id also suggest that there may be things in the code they dont want us seeing for other reasons, like copyright violations. This is of course the essence of closed source code in my opinion.
no voice of expression as opposed to a limited one?
People don't seem to understand that letting basic human rights erode over the period of many generations is a path to the unthinkable - for exactly that reason. Think about it.
Corporations have no laws. Individuals do. This is a fact. If you as an individual commit an offense illegal in the United States, and you return, you can be charged.
If you own a huge company and have claws long enough to reach around the world apparently there is no law. This confuses me, but makes enough sense to be indicative of just what kind of world we live in.
id just like to take this little opportunity to tell you that you are one cocky little shit who is probably in store for an ass kicking.
you come on this board to call someone typical and then turn around and pretend like you are the victim. you have the rotting nerve to stereotype someone and advocate a monopolistic organization's efforts to subdue customer's into proprietary obsolescence; with all of the condescention and contempt of a sociopathic corporate lackey.
now i'll tell you something about myself. i use linux. i get paid well to work on it. i get paid to help people and teach them about how a computer really works. good for me. what i don't do is go around fuming with contempt for people who know they have the right feelings but can't express them as eloquently as you think you can.
go pay for some technical support instead of some software - it might help you sleep. while you are at it you'll reflect on what you have been taught rather than what you would have been tricked into thinking.
regards,
your conscience
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Great going Slackers! I've been using Slack since 7.0 and never looked back as my personal choice because I can make it do anything I want. I've installed dozens of other Unices/Linuces but I'm sure you'll find that those who know would use only FreeBSD in place of Slackware, if they had to.
But I am only talking about a certain portion of the community who does things a certain way, who likes to have their cake and eat it too, and like you said, go home on time.
My first slack box went from version 7.0 to 9.0 through manual upgrades over the years. It spanned 3 kernel release numbers and the only reason it isnt around any more is because I built an entirely new box and just wanted to start from scratch again. I get paid to do it because of Slackware, fellas. Thanks to all of those who make it possible!
5,000 year old pool of petrified vomit discovered in Europe. Details at 6...
I wonder if the environment on Titan would have the ability to support life on a different atomic scale. Ammonia seems to be a promising candidate on Titan.
I love this stuff!
listen ass hole:
i dont give a shit if microsoft makes 'the right tool for the job'. let's get that straight ok?
my 'narrow minded viewset' is about kicking the shit out of microsoft until they give in and give the world back everything they have taken from us: all our code, time, money, efforts and anguish spent dealing with their ILLEGAL MONOPOLY.
now, if you don't like that, then you can go on buying 'the right tool for the job', but don't come crying to me when you need someone strong because all those tools are too pricey for you to afford anymore. get with the program.
read up on here about how taking away our rights is supposed to ensure our safety. this has alot more to do with the open source vs closed source issue than your NARROW MIND can obviously comprehend.
by giving in to big pressure from big companies and laying down your responsibility to CONTRIBUTE to the world around you, you endanger yours and everyone else's rights to ever have an open society where people aren't trying kill each other and the planet constantly. WAKE UP!!!!!!
corporations.org
scorecard.org
malfeasance.50megs.com
go on, take a look, that is, if your 'right tool for the job' internet censoring software will let you. when you get back tell me how you feel about giving huge companies your blood, sweat, and tears, ok? tell me. i'll be waiting, but you won't be back will you?
i know though, you just want 'the right tool for the job' because it is the solution 'smart people' use.
i have a feeling that if you are considered one of those 'smart people' that we have alot more to worry about than human rights and pollution - because of people like you we have question if the human race as a whole are even worthy of living in a better world.
..to ignore Microsoft some more. Go ahead and "Open Up" your API's. I'm sure we will find that they work well with the other technology the rest of the internet has been built on over the last 20 years. I'm sure we will find the freedom and mutual satisfaction that comes with Open Standards in your project. In fact, I am so confident that I will ignore the shit out of Microsoft that I will continue to use Linux. Take that!
To move it all to PGSQL
The last thing I need is for SCO to come knocking saying their code is in my damn database. It was bad enough that they tried to steal my OS, now the data on top it isn't even safe.
So I'm being speculative if not pretentious but that doesn't change the fact that I'm serious about migration. I'm getting out while MySQL is still portable to PG.
What's the big mystery here?
Microsoft does not pay people enough to work for them, or employees do not agree with what Microsoft is doing, or would have them do, so they leave. If Microsoft can't accept the fact that they are being defeated fair and square because they didn't incorporate enough "employee lock-in" into their business model, tough shit. End of story.
I work for a company like this who likes to scare employees into staying employed with them by suing ex-employees seemingly arbitrarily, writing threatening and harrassing email to staff, and general pandering to every little insecurity of the executive staff. Beauracracy and politics are obstacles to progress. "The Chain Of Command", I have learned, is nothing more than a way for your manager to take credit for your ideas, and then his manager implement them incorrectly, and then it comes back to you when it breaks and you take the fall. This perversion of business practices is costing many of the finest people I have seen in IT their reputations and careers. I am sick of it and have all but lost faith in IT. I know how I got here, and want to warn anyone reading to do your homework on any potential employer before signing away your soul.
If you talk back, your'e fired and they make up some shit about you, and maybe sue you. If you stay, you compromise even the most basic ethical beliefs by doing what it takes to keep employed. And if you quit, well, you better not ever work again because that non-compete covers everything you touched since the day you got hired, including the toilet handle.
My most sincere wishes of luck and well being go out to all employees who will leave Microsoft or similarly "morally challenged" companies, my sympathies to those who cannot, and my curses to those who would perpetuate this ugly and vicious cycle of plugging the holes in the dam holding back all your bullshit with your peckers. Companies can ruin indviduals for life at relatively little expense, and being an individual without the deep pockets to satisfy the courts is the hole in the legal system that is probably abused most in our country. I see it more often that I would like to admit in my own WORKPLACE not to mention TV, and can tell you that I personally have missed out on many good job opportunities just because my name is associated with this company and its notoriously cannibalistic tendancies and itchy trigger finger for litigation.
"Work for us or we will sue you." Why don't you just cut my fingers off and we will call it even.
I WORK at a place with this exact situation. My employer would prefer to pay me with bear hides and sharp objects than real currency.
Let me explain a little about how the world works on a sociological level:
People are hindered from doing the things they want by a given circumstance and rise to the challenge to over come said circumstance.
The problem clearly lies in China, whether it be on the part of the ISP or the Operating System or the Consumer. Don't make us all pay for their incompetence/lack of education. To those who would say that bans are in the best interest of no one, I say the scans are even more detrimental considering the amount of spam, identity theft, espionage, etc. that would be prevented. A lot of it would stop at the drop of a hat by droppign 221.0.0.0/8 at the average and relativly minor expense of the site's owner. If you must be on the wire with China, get a box that is designed for it, understand the risks, and get going. Leaving the average server on the net without attendance to the ever increasing needs of security is _just_plain_stupid_.
My Own Suggestion would be to have sites we can subscribe to like spamcop.net where we can retrieve lists of temporarily blocked hosts. DUH. SHIT....
This also has other potential uses. A project dedicated to providing several kinds of blacklist, such as one for outbound port scanning and notoriously bad security problems, to worm ridden networks and otherwise categorized lists that would be subscribeable to through the service. Once a network is reported for spreading a worm it could potentially slow down the propagation as the client picked up on the newest list and did the -s 152.164.64.0/16 -j DROP on them.
This could be extended to usefulness in a firewall's configuration for blocked hosts. Networks or individual IP's that are known to have poor security and have scans frequently emanate from them should be on a temporary list like spam blacklists.
I have a bridge for sale...
With the growing complexity and diversity of the internet and the communities that use it, how they interact, and nature of companies that provide the service, I sure am glad I never specialized in one particular field.
Seriously though, reading that actually made me feel a little better. Alot of the people I know can solve a given problem in a number of ways, feverishly spouting ideas and solutions like there is not tomorrow. From IPPBX to Corporate Intranets, this thing is HUGE. Those of us who have been using Open Source as hobbyists and professionals alike can attest to the sheer diversity of the community. I just read that sourceforge hit 100,000 projects...
Gluing them together is what I do for a living and it is only a matter of time before we come up with something very marketable. Maybe I'll give this guy a call and see if he will buy me a Porsche so I can fly around town from office to office consulting companies and interviewing the bottom half to see how my services can benefit their organization.
Who am I kidding though, I didn't even finish high school :)
I'll give you a hint though, it goes something like this:
Hello, this is Apache 2 calling, press 1 if you are hung over, press 2 if you forgot to set your alarm, press 3 if you are on your way to work allready...
Please leave a message after the tone to explain why you are late to work. Have a nice day!
Wonderful world we live in... everyone at work hates me hahaha...
Easy as that. If you don't know enough to lock down a computer from the ground up having a vendor supply the service is not going to do you any good because you won't know how it works and you will be at the mercy of Tech Support during a crisis. We have spent years building our own linux distro with what most might consider an over-kill in RBAC and other model implementation. When the latest greatest exploits/bugs/worms hit the scene we go right in and rip up the source and its fixed on the spot that morning, no questions asked. Try getting that out of a 1-800 service. The bottom line is security, not accountability. If you want to make things happen then make them happen, don't wait for someone else to do it. If the NSA thought Microsoft or any other MSO was a big prospect in the contract we wouldn't have SELinux. I could be wrong about trusting the security of my systems to other people, but I can't afford to take that risk, can I?
From what I heard we were allready all patched up at work. From the stuff Im reading on the net this thing is going around killing spyware! Im SURE MS is in a BIG hurry to stop this.
They also announced that a number of Chrysler plants were also dropped offline due to this thing.
The kicker was how the news anchors reacted, you know, when they get to spout their little un-educated opinions on the matter during that 45 second space between the end of the story and the next commercial. One guy said something like "Gosh with those computers if its not one thing its another" and the anchor woman next to him said something about how terrible it is to lose all your personal data and have to "reboot".
This is sooooooo classic. I wish I had been recording that. It shows how uneducated people are and how foolishly inclined even the media themselves are to believe just about anything thrown at them, like 'Microsft = Computers' and how these problems are completely unavoidable, like there is NO ALTERNATIVE to using MS products.
Im in the process of writing them a (much better spoken) letter about the tragedy brought about by convenience and ignorance. Any comments on some points I can bring up? Not to troll, well yeah, to troll, just thought Id ask. It cant hurt a thing to inform these people a little on the *real world* use of the operating system that drives us into the future.
I know that one day we will be looking at some serious security problems with OSS, especially when it hits prime time. But when that day comes its not going to be up to some big ass company with greedy motives to fix it, or to delay a fix so it can push out 'updated versions' of its software for sale instead. The fix is going to come from thousands of sources and this is a GOOD THING. We have the source code to fix the problem and staff on hand to implement a quick solution to a wide range of possible issues on the kernel level. We don't need to pray and wait for some extortionist coporation to be merciful enough to bend under the will of the most basic moral resourcefullness of its staff.
A big up yours to whoever modded me down for stating that I've suspected stuff like this for a while from them.
it also stands to reason that hawking's radiation could destroy the entire universe if enough anti-particles escaped into space....
for each set of 'spontaneous' particles that pop into existence, for each set that gets split up by the gravitational force of the black hole, it stands to reason that for each anti-particle to get absorbed, there would most likely be another 'spontaneous' particle set creation that would lose the particle to the black hole, thereby adding to the mass of the black hole.
so hawking's radiation killing a black hole would be a is a 35 - 1 payoff, am i right?
OK, not large scale, but large enough to be a major pain in the ass when features and departements need to be added - but that was my fault for coding first and then checking to see if it works at all. Ive rewritten the thing a couple times since and can say that the system is now modular enough to where functional additions are a breeze.
Knowing nothing about any of these 'languages' I whipped up a beta in about a week with over 2000 lines of code. Its a real monster now with around 7500 lines of code, and does everything from manage employee information to providing a web based time clock and report generator. It even does some graph generation for employee performance analysis and has levels of logins where 'managers' can use the CMS front end to edit the site dynamically. Why would I go looking else where and waste time trying to implement a new system or language when this one has all these goodies right out of the ./configure?
Employee records, procedural and technical documentation, timeclock stuff, schedules and search features, its all there in no time. The idea was to replace the endless stacks of paperwork on my immediate supervisors desk, and now we wonder how we got along without it and why we didn't get someone to write it sooner.
If this does not say anything about the flexibility of these languages I don't know how to. My point is that if I can do this, anyone reasonably technically inclined can.
As I dig into the world of web based application design and engineering I'm finding more and more possiblities for how to handle events and situations where data should be presented and handled in a specific manner to and from the user. The PHP language is AWESOME for this kind of stuff , and as time progresses its track record will only improve.
I like telling people about this because it lends credibility to a language many of our customers don't see as a viable solution to any serious web based business endeavor. Its all in how you implement it, obviously. If I had to write this thing in C, Bash, or God forbid, Perl, it would have been written so, but since PHP was available and my initial attempt at managing user logins to a small test site was a great success, it was all down hill from session_start();
Id also suggest that there may be things in the code they dont want us seeing for other reasons, like copyright violations. This is of course the essence of closed source code in my opinion.
gotta keep the himilayan UID/GID in case MS tries to sue.
People don't seem to understand that letting basic human rights erode over the period of many generations is a path to the unthinkable - for exactly that reason. Think about it.
"GIVE ME FREEDOM OR GIVE ME DEATH"
I think this kind of thing allready affects people in other countries.
A long time ago IBM helped the Nazi's in Germany.
If anyone follows the real ongoing turmoil in the Middle East this should bother them as well
Corporations have no laws. Individuals do. This is a fact. If you as an individual commit an offense illegal in the United States, and you return, you can be charged.
If you own a huge company and have claws long enough to reach around the world apparently there is no law. This confuses me, but makes enough sense to be indicative of just what kind of world we live in.
you come on this board to call someone typical and then turn around and pretend like you are the victim. you have the rotting nerve to stereotype someone and advocate a monopolistic organization's efforts to subdue customer's into proprietary obsolescence; with all of the condescention and contempt of a sociopathic corporate lackey.
now i'll tell you something about myself. i use linux. i get paid well to work on it. i get paid to help people and teach them about how a computer really works. good for me. what i don't do is go around fuming with contempt for people who know they have the right feelings but can't express them as eloquently as you think you can.
go pay for some technical support instead of some software - it might help you sleep. while you are at it you'll reflect on what you have been taught rather than what you would have been tricked into thinking. regards, your conscience
Looks like forum spam, its all over this one.