PHP is designed for Web Applications. I wouldn't try to write a Chat Room in PHP.
I think the OP was refering to writing a Web App based chat room (hence the need to write web applications that require that user sessions communicate with each other.).
The first "web logs" I came across (back in the early day of the web)were single pages containing links to sites some person had visted, maybe with a one line description of the link, ie a log of visted websites. I suppose slashdot is that idea on steroids.
The online personal journal seems to have come later and I'm not sure why they're called "web logs" - I suppose there is some similarity with the slashdot style web log in presentation and even the software used to drive them - but the content is certainly different.
I suppose defining a blog as a site or part of a site where the contents are ordered chronologically is probably the best way to define it. It's a pretty broad reach and that does include things like news sites, so you do have to wonder if you really need to seperate them from the greater Web. Still, I suppose being able to google for RSS/Atom feeds will have its uses.
Difficult, no, but I'd still like to see a "Search Everything" tab so that I don't have to repeat the same search for the Web, Usenet and now Blogs. Probably not overly useful for "day to day" searches, but for something more techical it'd be handy.
Again, as a avid linux user, i always like to suggest it as a option. However in your case, the money is spent, the network works.
Except that evetually he's going to have to look at upgrading everything at some point in the future anyway, so he might as well start looking at how to get himself and his company out of Microsoft's profit cycle now.
Although people may disagree because its cool to hate paypal, but look at ebay and paypal? completely vertical markets,
Not really, as paypal's main reason for existence is paying for online auctions (ie eBay). Sure, paypal has some use beyond that, but you could at least see a link between paypal and ebay.
It's a lot harder to see what Skype has to do with online auctions. What's next, eBay search? eBay mail(especially as they already have an email like function in my ebay)? ebay news & weather? Maybe it is like others have said and that the link is with PayPal's micropayment system than eBay.
What I find funny is that the MSNBC article is rather indignant about it.
The good news: If you've survived Hurricane Katrina, the government will let you register for help online. The bad news: But only if the computer you're using is running Windows.
IE on the Mac stopped at 5.5. There is no IE 6 for the Mac.
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It's rather difficult to find a device with qt/embedded that's programmable in C++. The only thing that I can think of is the new Nokia surfing tablet, but IIRC it's not available yet.
Actually, the Nokia is/will be GTK based. Even though the 770 isn't out, you can download and play with it's Debianesque OS (called Maemo) here
I can't believe you actually posted all of those things when the reasons are actually pretty self evident.
Self evident to people who work in IT - most of them are far from being self evident for somebody for whom IT is just the tool to get the job done and not the job itself.
It is not the job of IT to explain those reasons; it is the job of IT to do the IT-related work.
But part of an IT departments work is to explain it's policies to others - after all it's a service department. It like when the legal department vetoes contracts - they don't just say that it's for legal reasons, they state what those legal reasons actually are.
Really, it doesn't matter what the users want.
Wrong, IT is a service department - which means giving the users what they want in order to do their jobs. Now sometimes there are conflicts - for example users want a secure environment but they also instant messaging so part of the IT department's job is to work out what the priorities are and then to both implement those priorities and explain them.
Everyone who works in IT (and I work in an IT department) who doesn't at least try to explain why IT is doing what it's doing has absolutly no reason to wonder why the rest of their company treats them with contempt. It's not IT Vs Users - everyone is suppossed to be working towards common goals and communicating with each other.
You follow the policies of your workplace because those are the conditions of working there.
Yes, but most workplace policies don't change with the seasons - unlike IT policies which have a habit of changing overnight and without warning or explanation. And when workplace policy changes it's generally explained why the policy is changing. From what I've seen most non IT workplace policy changes because of changes to legislation whereas IT policy changes because of the latest headlines in "IT Week".
It's not that the policies shouldn't be there - it's that the reasons why these policies are in force should be clearly explained. There are perfectly logical reasons behind all the policies mentioned, but when these policies appear to get in the user's way they're going to want a better explanaition than "security reasons" or "management decided".
Unlike smoking in buildings where most people will automatically understand why it's not allowed (it's safe to assume the vast majority of people understand the risks posed by smoking) most people are not going to understand the security and legal risks associated with IM, web browsing and installing software.
That's not really that true - the radio spectrum is licensed. The UK regulator for radio spectrum auctions licenses and even wants to create a trading market for spectrum as well. So in many respects the airwaves are owned. And we're not really talking about the airwaves anyway, but on a network on top of the airwaves.
If your door is wide open that is actually somewhat suspicious and police patrols will actually look into it if driving by
That really is highly dependent on where you live - in some places it's pretty common to leave your front door unlocked and in the summer open as you assume that people won't come into your premises. And if what older gernerations say is true, the practice was at one point quite common in most places.
There are alot of people that provide open...
and
One good analogy is this is similar to the phone network, businesses especially pollsters and advertisers are allowed to assume that any phone number is fair game to be called unless it is on the federal do not call list.
But the phone network is meant to be publicly accessible. Just because an AP is open doesn't mean it's meant to publicly accessible. Yes, this is a fault of the router manufacturers who should have made them secure by default, in which case if an AP was open you'd know it was for public use. Instead, we're in a situation where it's not clear if it's meant for public use or not. As we are dealing with a private resource then I think it should be assumed to be private unless there are notices to the contrary. In much the same way as if I leave my door open, it's still not considered OK for people to come in and watch my TV, unless I put a sign saying "come in and watch my TV".
Another analogy is potentially FM radio (FCC restrictions aside) the signal is open to the public unless otherwise restricted.
As we're dealing with a case in the UK, it should be noted that FM radio is not open to the public. All those little transmitters for the iPod are illegal to use in this country.
One of the churches in my area put up an open wifi access point for anyone to use, the only reason I know that is we were looking for a church to attend and the pastor happened to mention it when he found out I was into IT. How would anyone else know?One of the churches in my area put up an open wifi access point for anyone to use, the only reason I know that is we were looking for a church to attend and the pastor happened to mention it when he found out I was into IT. How would anyone else know? but yet they want people to feel free to use it.
First off, I think comparing public web servers and open APs is comparing apples to oranges.
Just because an AP is open, doesn't mean that you can assume that it is "free for all". Sadly, most routers are not secured by default and this is what's causing the problem. If APs were secured by default, then I could see that "but it was open" would be a reasonable excuse as you could assume that it was intended to be open (ie, somebody had to intentionally make it public). Instead we're in a situation where many people "buy a house, but don't bother to lock the door because they either don't know how or can't be bothered" and while some people are happy to let people come in to their new house and eat a biscuit or print something on the printer, other people aren't.
In the past (and apperently in a few places still), people didn't lock thier doors as it was just assumed that even though something that was private was open, it didn't make it all right for people to come in and use it. And as people knew other people wouldn't go in they didn't have to lock the doors.
WTF? If someone sneaks into my garden and starts dealing crack does that meen I'm responsible for that crime too? I meen, it was on my property after all.
While IANAL, I do remember reading somwhere that yes, under English law you would at least be partly responsible. From what I can remember about the article where I read that (yes, it's a bit sketchy, this was several years ago), it was to do with somebody (I believe a political activist and the police were out to get them) was charged with with allowing drug offences to take place on their property (ie, they caught somebody else smoking hash in the guy's flat). I think a lot of it depends on if you know about it or not (ie, if you saw somebody dealing crack in your back garden and you didn't phone the police then you'd be liable, but if you owned a flat and rented it out to drug dealers and didn't know that they were selling crack, then you wouldn't be).
-Banking A rich client is definately the way to go here. Sadly I've never come across a bank that offers this.
My bank's original online banking system was a rich client. It didn't use the the internet, it just dialed up the bank. Sadly, several years ago they did away with it for an internet based service - after several years the internet site still isn't as feature rich as that original app.
Actually I can't think of single application I wouldn't rather have a custom rich client for.
I think it's possible to create fairly rich clients using something like XUL. However as long as such super rich clients are specific to one browser family (wasn't IE 7 supposed to have something a lot like XUL?) instead of being a W3C standard, we're going to be stuck with DHTML.
Apperently not (at least from what I've been told from how the UK TV ratings works). This is just an extension of taping a show and watching it later, and those viewings already count towards a programmes ratings. Not in the overnight ratings, but in the more accurate ratings that are delivered afterwards.
They use an inexpensive (~50 quid from Maplin) DVB-T tuner card to record the entire BBC multiplex (which contains several channels). As there are only 6 Multiplexes in the UK, you would need 6 cards (assuming a single pc could handle the throughput from 6 cards) to record all digital terrestrial television in the UK.
Homechoice (which is a TV + Internet over ADSL service in London) offers soemthing like this. The BBC channels and ITV1 offer some (but by no means all) programmes from the last 7 days on a video on demad service.
One of the things that struck me while watching the promise.tv demo at OpenTech was how pointless it seems having such a device in every household, when centralized servers could provide the service instead.
The amount it will record is entirely dependent on how much you want to spend on storage - apparently, the cost to record a months worth (I beleive of just a single multiplex - they only appeared to be recording the BBC multiplex) is around the same as a plasma tv.
If they're going to be making an announcement in August, then why not wait until August to post the article?
Because the system was demoed at OpenTech 2005 on Saturday.
I was there and I saw it. So here's a bit more info on how it works. I records digital terrestrial televison, not analogue. I suppose it could be changed to use satelite DVB instead of terrestrial DVB - but you can't get a DVB-S card that decode Sky's encryption, so there's not much point. It records an entire mutiplex off the DVB-T card. They only appear to have one card, so they were only recording the BBC multiplex. There are 6 multiplexes in the UK, so I suppose to record "all" DVB-T transmissions, you'd need multiple cards.
As for costs, while the DVB card was quite cheap (they said around 50 quid) and the PC is faily inexpensive, the storage costs are about the same as a plasma tv - but falling all the time.
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PHP is designed for Web Applications. I wouldn't try to write a Chat Room in PHP.
I think the OP was refering to writing a Web App based chat room (hence the need to write web applications that require that user sessions communicate with each other.).
The first "web logs" I came across (back in the early day of the web)were single pages containing links to sites some person had visted, maybe with a one line description of the link, ie a log of visted websites. I suppose slashdot is that idea on steroids.
The online personal journal seems to have come later and I'm not sure why they're called "web logs" - I suppose there is some similarity with the slashdot style web log in presentation and even the software used to drive them - but the content is certainly different.
I suppose defining a blog as a site or part of a site where the contents are ordered chronologically is probably the best way to define it. It's a pretty broad reach and that does include things like news sites, so you do have to wonder if you really need to seperate them from the greater Web. Still, I suppose being able to google for RSS/Atom feeds will have its uses.
Difficult, no, but I'd still like to see a "Search Everything" tab so that I don't have to repeat the same search for the Web, Usenet and now Blogs. Probably not overly useful for "day to day" searches, but for something more techical it'd be handy.
Again, as a avid linux user, i always like to suggest it as a option. However in your case, the money is spent, the network works.
Except that evetually he's going to have to look at upgrading everything at some point in the future anyway, so he might as well start looking at how to get himself and his company out of Microsoft's profit cycle now.
Although people may disagree because its cool to hate paypal, but look at ebay and paypal? completely vertical markets,
Not really, as paypal's main reason for existence is paying for online auctions (ie eBay). Sure, paypal has some use beyond that, but you could at least see a link between paypal and ebay.
It's a lot harder to see what Skype has to do with online auctions. What's next, eBay search?
eBay mail(especially as they already have an email like function in my ebay)? ebay news & weather? Maybe it is like others have said and that the link is with PayPal's micropayment system than eBay.
What I find funny is that the MSNBC article is rather indignant about it.
The good news: If you've survived Hurricane Katrina, the government will let you register for help online. The bad news: But only if the computer you're using is running Windows.
They did make a 5.5 for the Mac
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/07/06
Maybe it never made it out of Beta (it was a loong time ago)
IE on the Mac stopped at 5.5. There is no IE 6 for the Mac.
It's rather difficult to find a device with qt/embedded that's programmable in C++. The only thing that I can think of is the new Nokia surfing tablet, but IIRC it's not available yet.
Actually, the Nokia is/will be GTK based. Even though the 770 isn't out, you can download and play with it's Debianesque OS (called Maemo) here
I can't believe you actually posted all of those things when the reasons are actually pretty self evident.
Self evident to people who work in IT - most of them are far from being self evident for somebody for whom IT is just the tool to get the job done and not the job itself.
It is not the job of IT to explain those reasons; it is the job of IT to do the IT-related work.
But part of an IT departments work is to explain it's policies to others - after all it's a service department. It like when the legal department vetoes contracts - they don't just say that it's for legal reasons, they state what those legal reasons actually are.
Really, it doesn't matter what the users want.
Wrong, IT is a service department - which means giving the users what they want in order to do their jobs. Now sometimes there are conflicts - for example users want a secure environment but they also instant messaging so part of the IT department's job is to work out what the priorities are and then to both implement those priorities and explain them.
Everyone who works in IT (and I work in an IT department) who doesn't at least try to explain why IT is doing what it's doing has absolutly no reason to wonder why the rest of their company treats them with contempt. It's not IT Vs Users - everyone is suppossed to be working towards common goals and communicating with each other.
You follow the policies of your workplace because those are the conditions of working there.
Yes, but most workplace policies don't change with the seasons - unlike IT policies which have a habit of changing overnight and without warning or explanation. And when workplace policy changes it's generally explained why the policy is changing. From what I've seen most non IT workplace policy changes because of changes to legislation whereas IT policy changes because of the latest headlines in "IT Week".
It's not that the policies shouldn't be there - it's that the reasons why these policies are in force should be clearly explained. There are perfectly logical reasons behind all the policies mentioned, but when these policies appear to get in the user's way they're going to want a better explanaition than "security reasons" or "management decided".
Unlike smoking in buildings where most people will automatically understand why it's not allowed (it's safe to assume the vast majority of people understand the risks posed by smoking) most people are not going to understand the security and legal risks associated with IM, web browsing and installing software.
Looking at the devoper page http://www.google.com/talk/developer.html
Google Talk supports XMPP with the beta release. We plan to support SIP in a future release.
Then yes, they are planning on building the next voice comms network.
I'd like to know if there is a small monochrome display that you can simply write-on that will save all your notes.
You mean an Apple Newton?
You know, like giving normal users the ability to shutdown the computer or turn on/off the ethernet interface.
That's down to your choice of distro. Try Ubuntu.
No one specifically owns the airwaves.
That's not really that true - the radio spectrum is licensed. The UK regulator for radio spectrum auctions licenses and even wants to create a trading market for spectrum as well. So in many respects the airwaves are owned. And we're not really talking about the airwaves anyway, but on a network on top of the airwaves.
If your door is wide open that is actually somewhat suspicious and police patrols will actually look into it if driving by
That really is highly dependent on where you live - in some places it's pretty common to leave your front door unlocked and in the summer open as you assume that people won't come into your premises. And if what older gernerations say is true, the practice was at one point quite common in most places.
There are alot of people that provide open...
and
One good analogy is this is similar to the phone network, businesses especially pollsters and advertisers are allowed to assume that any phone number is fair game to be called unless it is on the federal do not call list.
But the phone network is meant to be publicly accessible. Just because an AP is open doesn't mean it's meant to publicly accessible. Yes, this is a fault of the router manufacturers who should have made them secure by default, in which case if an AP was open you'd know it was for public use. Instead, we're in a situation where it's not clear if it's meant for public use or not. As we are dealing with a private resource then I think it should be assumed to be private unless there are notices to the contrary. In much the same way as if I leave my door open, it's still not considered OK for people to come in and watch my TV, unless I put a sign saying "come in and watch my TV".
Another analogy is potentially FM radio (FCC restrictions aside) the signal is open to the public unless otherwise restricted.
As we're dealing with a case in the UK, it should be noted that FM radio is not open to the public. All those little transmitters for the iPod are illegal to use in this country.
One of the churches in my area put up an open wifi access point for anyone to use, the only reason I know that is we were looking for a church to attend and the pastor happened to mention it when he found out I was into IT. How would anyone else know?One of the churches in my area put up an open wifi access point for anyone to use, the only reason I know that is we were looking for a church to attend and the pastor happened to mention it when he found out I was into IT. How would anyone else know? but yet they want people to feel free to use it.
How about they put up a sign?
Yep, that was it. Cheers
First off, I think comparing public web servers and open APs is comparing apples to oranges.
Just because an AP is open, doesn't mean that you can assume that it is "free for all". Sadly, most routers are not secured by default and this is what's causing the problem. If APs were secured by default, then I could see that "but it was open" would be a reasonable excuse as you could assume that it was intended to be open (ie, somebody had to intentionally make it public). Instead we're in a situation where many people "buy a house, but don't bother to lock the door because they either don't know how or can't be bothered" and while some people are happy to let people come in to their new house and eat a biscuit or print something on the printer, other people aren't.
In the past (and apperently in a few places still), people didn't lock thier doors as it was just assumed that even though something that was private was open, it didn't make it all right for people to come in and use it. And as people knew other people wouldn't go in they didn't have to lock the doors.
WTF? If someone sneaks into my garden and starts dealing crack does that meen I'm responsible for that crime too? I meen, it was on my property after all.
While IANAL, I do remember reading somwhere that yes, under English law you would at least be partly responsible. From what I can remember about the article where I read that (yes, it's a bit sketchy, this was several years ago), it was to do with somebody (I believe a political activist and the police were out to get them) was charged with with allowing drug offences to take place on their property (ie, they caught somebody else smoking hash in the guy's flat). I think a lot of it depends on if you know about it or not (ie, if you saw somebody dealing crack in your back garden and you didn't phone the police then you'd be liable, but if you owned a flat and rented it out to drug dealers and didn't know that they were selling crack, then you wouldn't be).
-Banking
A rich client is definately the way to go here. Sadly I've never come across a bank that offers this.
My bank's original online banking system was a rich client. It didn't use the the internet, it just dialed up the bank. Sadly, several years ago they did away with it for an internet based service - after several years the internet site still isn't as feature rich as that original app.
Actually I can't think of single application I wouldn't rather have a custom rich client for.
I think it's possible to create fairly rich clients using something like XUL. However as long as such super rich clients are specific to one browser family (wasn't IE 7 supposed to have something a lot like XUL?) instead of being a W3C standard, we're going to be stuck with DHTML.
Apperently not (at least from what I've been told from how the UK TV ratings works). This is just an extension of taping a show and watching it later, and those viewings already count towards a programmes ratings. Not in the overnight ratings, but in the more accurate ratings that are delivered afterwards.
They use an inexpensive (~50 quid from Maplin) DVB-T tuner card to record the entire BBC multiplex (which contains several channels). As there are only 6 Multiplexes in the UK, you would need 6 cards (assuming a single pc could handle the throughput from 6 cards) to record all digital terrestrial television in the UK.
Homechoice (which is a TV + Internet over ADSL service in London) offers soemthing like this. The BBC channels and ITV1 offer some (but by no means all) programmes from the last 7 days on a video on demad service.
One of the things that struck me while watching the promise.tv demo at OpenTech was how pointless it seems having such a device in every household, when centralized servers could provide the service instead.
Did anyone go to OpenTech and see this thing?
Yes, it was a really good day.
The amount it will record is entirely dependent on how much you want to spend on storage - apparently, the cost to record a months worth (I beleive of just a single multiplex - they only appeared to be recording the BBC multiplex) is around the same as a plasma tv.
If they're going to be making an announcement in August, then why not wait until August to post the article?
Because the system was demoed at OpenTech 2005 on Saturday.
I was there and I saw it. So here's a bit more info on how it works. I records digital terrestrial televison, not analogue. I suppose it could be changed to use satelite DVB instead of terrestrial DVB - but you can't get a DVB-S card that decode Sky's encryption, so there's not much point. It records an entire mutiplex off the DVB-T card. They only appear to have one card, so they were only recording the BBC multiplex. There are 6 multiplexes in the UK, so I suppose to record "all" DVB-T transmissions, you'd need multiple cards.
As for costs, while the DVB card was quite cheap (they said around 50 quid) and the PC is faily inexpensive, the storage costs are about the same as a plasma tv - but falling all the time.