I'm currently building a helpdesk system for a company (about 200 users) with LAMP (since that's what they're using for their intranet now), and have been using my own adhoc templates ([**varname**] and (**funcname**)). It's my first project using PHP.
I'm checking out Smarty now, looks like it's just what I need. Thanks for the pointer!:-)
Google needs some serious competition, as they right now are far ahead of the pack. However, Microsoft is evil, we all know that, and Google has made some not-so-nice decisions as of late (see Google watch).
Hopefully, it won't be long before a Free Software search engine will enter the scene.
Believe it or not, not every company looks to Microsoft for everything, and not every company is about making money as the only thing while screwing their customers.
Gates said the Redmond, Washington-based company's work toward Web services standards would be "royalty free." That remark led to questions from the audience, which wanted to make sure Gates hadn't misstated the deviation from the company's royalty-based software sales model.
"I can't believe I said that," Gates joked.
Could you please explain how PERL and Python serve different purposes?
For one thing, Perl is much more used by UNIX (*BSD and GNU/Linux included) system administrators. Some people think Perl is more in the UNIX spirit than Python.
Python focuses more on OO issues and the Pythonic way. Perl is more versatile in terms of syntax.
Basically, there's some differences in the overall design philosophy.
But you are right. You can easily use Python for things you used to do in Perl and vice versa. But there are still things I'd rather use Perl for than Python.
I think Python has a very bright future. For many purposes, it obsoletes Java. Java is more widespread than Python now, but it's proprietary and suffers from a historically slow GUI.
Many people use Python for tasks they used to do in Perl, but I don't see Python replacing Perl. They serve different purposes, for the most part.
Ruby is also an interesting language, although I don't personally know much about it, except that it aims to be truly OO. Again, slightly different purposes, but I don't think Ruby will ever be very widespread.
I want webpages to be designed like they currently are. For people that use 800x600 or 1024x768 (like they should) there is little need to scroll horizontally.
How can this be insightful? It shows a pure lack of understanding the web. Web designers should not design web pages to fit a certain resolution.
No one with a clue about how HTML is supposed to work would say like I quoted.
What people tend to forget is that there are gatekeepers in the open-source community, too," he said. "It's not a free-for-all. On every one of the open-source projects, there are two or three people who are the gatekeepers. And you have to make a pretty good case, accurate and technically astute, to get them to allow changes. That's how it should be."
This is FUD intended to align "Shared Source" with Free Software/Open Source. The main difference is of course, that if you disagree with the so-called "gatekeepers" (what a weird analogy), you can just take the source code and run (make a fork).
You can not do that with "Shared Source". And Microsoft knows that. And most of us here know that. But Microsoft hopes that many people will not see the difference (or won't care).
Ok, Windows vs. GNU/Linux on the desktop is no new discussion, but here goes...:
I think that GNU/Linux in many ways are equal to or better than MS Windows considering apps. A recent GNOME or KDE provides a great working environment with good browsers, email apps, etc. etc.
A problem for GNU/Linux _from a joe user standpoint_ is the inherent security and multi-user nature of UNIX-like OS's. Windows has a history of insecurity, but that also means no hassle with passwords and the like.
This "hassle" and inherent security are of course Right Things, but Joe User just thinks it's annoying.
I like Galeon. Tabs behave the Right Way, nice rendering, integrated with GNOME.
My main reason for using Galeon is the crash recovery. Usually, I just kill X without closing galeon properly (on purpose), then I can return to the same pages in the same tabs as I had when I used it last.
mainly because they have the usenet archives. There's just so much information there, that you can't get anywhere else.
Also, it really helps that they don't have irritating ads, and that it renders great in lynx.
How on earth is Yahoo!'s gonna compete with that? Seriously, I'd like to know. By using a state-of-the-art search engine? That's not going to cut it, not by a long shot.
As the article says, quoting a security expert, online voting "opens up a whole host of opportunities for voter coercion and voter fraud".
I agree. Online voting is not secure. Is RL voting secure? No. There are many examples of tampering, fraud, recounts, etc. etc.
Maybe online voting is _more_ secure than RL voting, if the system is implemented in a sane and secure way.
And then again, maybe it isn't. But I think it is about time such a system is put into place. It _will_ have flaws in the first iteration, but eventually it will (hopefully) get there.
Perhaps it will even drag some useful security innovations along with it. Time will tell.
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Ctrl-U to clear the current line
C-u does not by default clear anything in Emacs - it's the 'universal argument'.
His parents must really have hated him.
Ransom Love?!
The name's so funny, I can't even think of how to make a joke out of it.
I'm currently building a helpdesk system for a company (about 200 users) with LAMP (since that's what they're using for their intranet now), and have been using my own adhoc templates ([**varname**] and (**funcname**)). It's my first project using PHP.
:-)
I'm checking out Smarty now, looks like it's just what I need. Thanks for the pointer!
Google needs some serious competition, as they right now are far ahead of the pack. However, Microsoft is evil, we all know that, and Google has made some not-so-nice decisions as of late (see Google watch).
Hopefully, it won't be long before a Free Software search engine will enter the scene.
Believe it or not, not every company looks to Microsoft for everything, and not every company is about making money as the only thing while screwing their customers.
Troll.
You call that secure? Sad fool.
I'm getting myself a couple of carrier pigeons. Hmm...or maybe three, I need the bandwidth.
What about a fscking link??
Where can I find this Google company?
I, for one, welcome our new meteorologist overlords!
Did I hear you right, did I hear you saying that you wanna make a copy of an iTune without paying?!
Come on guys, you know it's not right - don't copy that iTune!
Python focuses more on OO issues and the Pythonic way. Perl is more versatile in terms of syntax.
Basically, there's some differences in the overall design philosophy.
But you are right. You can easily use Python for things you used to do in Perl and vice versa. But there are still things I'd rather use Perl for than Python.
I think Python has a very bright future. For many purposes, it obsoletes Java. Java is more widespread than Python now, but it's proprietary and suffers from a historically slow GUI.
Many people use Python for tasks they used to do in Perl, but I don't see Python replacing Perl. They serve different purposes, for the most part.
Ruby is also an interesting language, although I don't personally know much about it, except that it aims to be truly OO. Again, slightly different purposes, but I don't think Ruby will ever be very widespread.
How can this be insightful? It shows a pure lack of understanding the web. Web designers should not design web pages to fit a certain resolution.
No one with a clue about how HTML is supposed to work would say like I quoted.
import sys
if sys.platform[:3] == "win": print "Your system is unstable. Please reboot."
You may download and use this program for the small fee of 5 Danish Kroner. Thank you.
I have no idea who/what you're talking about.
I've been meaning to put GNU/Linux on my old 486'er with 8 MB RAM (which is too little for most distros), but now I'm going to check Contiki out.
:-)
I think I'll dig up my old C64 too, how cool to run a free OS on that
This is FUD intended to align "Shared Source" with Free Software/Open Source. The main difference is of course, that if you disagree with the so-called "gatekeepers" (what a weird analogy), you can just take the source code and run (make a fork).
You can not do that with "Shared Source". And Microsoft knows that. And most of us here know that. But Microsoft hopes that many people will not see the difference (or won't care).
Microsoft's strategy is scaringly obvious.
Ok, so is all Linux networking now done as VoIP? Anyone?
Ok, Windows vs. GNU/Linux on the desktop is no new discussion, but here goes...:
I think that GNU/Linux in many ways are equal to or better than MS Windows considering apps. A recent GNOME or KDE provides a great working environment with good browsers, email apps, etc. etc.
A problem for GNU/Linux _from a joe user standpoint_ is the inherent security and multi-user nature of UNIX-like OS's. Windows has a history of insecurity, but that also means no hassle with passwords and the like.
This "hassle" and inherent security are of course Right Things, but Joe User just thinks it's annoying.
I like Galeon. Tabs behave the Right Way, nice rendering, integrated with GNOME.
My main reason for using Galeon is the crash recovery. Usually, I just kill X without closing galeon properly (on purpose), then I can return to the same pages in the same tabs as I had when I used it last.
Does Mozilla have this kind of thing?
mainly because they have the usenet archives. There's just so much information there, that you can't get anywhere else.
Also, it really helps that they don't have irritating ads, and that it renders great in lynx.
How on earth is Yahoo!'s gonna compete with that? Seriously, I'd like to know. By using a state-of-the-art search engine? That's not going to cut it, not by a long shot.
As the article says, quoting a security expert, online voting "opens up a whole host of opportunities for voter coercion and voter fraud".
I agree. Online voting is not secure. Is RL voting secure? No. There are many examples of tampering, fraud, recounts, etc. etc.
Maybe online voting is _more_ secure than RL voting, if the system is implemented in a sane and secure way.
And then again, maybe it isn't. But I think it is about time such a system is put into place. It _will_ have flaws in the first iteration, but eventually it will (hopefully) get there.
Perhaps it will even drag some useful security innovations along with it. Time will tell.
There's a danish band called Press Play On Tape that makes music based on old C64 games. The music's very good.
You should especially check out their "Game Boy Band Video" (downloadable from the band's website) - it's hilarious!