It's in Easy::Apache for cPanel, and we'll build it if they bitch hard enough, but not without significant warning against it first.
Chances are, it'll screw up at some point -- either from stability issues, or not supporting the features they are trying to use. They will then blame us, harass support, etc, so we don't really pro-actively offer it. Unless they're on a $400-a-month dedicated server, its probably not worth the headache that it causes, and best they just go find Windows hosting as they'll be happier in the long run and we won't have to waste time dealing with crap we told them wouldn't work right in the first place.
I think that this has less to do with De Icaza and RMS than it does with the split that's been brewing since around the Bubble days between the "Free Software" people and the "Open Source" people. For the "Free Software" people, nothing less than everything is ever going to be enough. I don't mean this is a troll, but just a simple observation. For them its a political crusade mixed with a sort of religion -- especially for RMS. That much is obvious.
On the other side of this divide are the more practically-minded Open Source people. Open Source is seen every bit as much as a tactical, if not a strategic, business move as it is a social experiment. It helps level the playing field, reduces barriers to entry, and prevents the establishment of monopolies. It allows users to build communities, but doesn't really seek to impart its view of the world onto users actively.
De Icaza has moved more towards the Practical Open Source camp over time. Let's not forget that he started GNOME -- the G of which means GNU -- because KDE wasn't really "free software" -- it was merely, more or less, open source. He then went on to found Helix, which was a company based around providing commercial support and integration for GNOME. The Mono project, I do believe, was started to aid in their plans on integrating into the already established corporate environment and easing the ability to port applications off the MS platform and onto a more open one, such as Linux.
Now, I've never been the world's biggest MS fan, but it really seems to me that hating a company to such personal levels as many people hate MS is really just sort of off base. I know I used to partake of the MS bashing myself as well when I was younger, and maybe its just that now that I'm older and have more experience in life I can see what a waste of effort it is. It's also been because Microsoft has really made visible strides towards openness.
Microsoft has been for the last several years a co-sponsor of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, put in a lot of money to fund the event and sending some really amazing speakers to give presentations. I have yet to get to go to one of these things live, but I do watch the videos and I saw some really bang-up speeches from Microsoft employees on everything from functional programming, to open-source plugin extensions for Office and other tools to aid the work flow for scientists (who are very practically minded when it comes to picking tools).
They are releasing code, they are joining in on community projects, they are funding conventions and projects (Apache anyone?). They aren't the same company they were 10 years ago, but they are still a company and it would be unreasonable to expect them to give away the major bacon. Does it really matter if they were to open up Windows? Office? No, not really.
Frankly, I think that getting Microsoft to just stick to open standards for information exchange -- document formats, protocols, etc -- would be more than enough. Anything else they want to do would be icing on the cake, but in the mean time we may as well take what we can get and encourage them with good will rather than shifty-eyed suspicion, because like it or not, they are THE major player in the industry and it's better to peacefully co-exist than to try and bash each other's brains out. I think Microsoft has started to figure this out and we, as a community, really ought to let them have a shot and proving it.
I'm a sysadmin at a web host, and we are an all-Linux (CentOS and a few 'real' RedHat machines) in server-space. We have a few customers on VPS or Dedicated hosting who have mod_mono installed into Apache so that they could port over ASP.NET code that they had and still wanted to use. They have had varying degrees of success depending on the complexity of what is they're actually trying to pull off.
It still seems like a hack-job to me, though... and as a regular Perl user and evangelist, that's something I know a thing or two about... mod_mono is a bigger cludge than any of them though.
HURD is worse than a complete failure, because it's basically a never-was. It's the bit player without a speaking roll who still managed to be ushered off the stage due to a chronic inability to grasp the blocking of the scene.
OS/2 and BeOS were complete failures... they had their chance and got beaten down. And its not because they were inferior products, its because they just couldn't sell themselves. Windows succeeded not because it was better, but because Microsoft was able to position it to the point where it didn't have to sell it.
Linux is to HURD in the same way, only bigger, than Windows is to OS/2 or BeOS. Windows was supposed to be a stop-gap until OS/2 was fully functional, but then it just sort of took over all the momentum and steam rolled the original plan. Linux was supposed to be a stop-gap kernel until HURD was fully functional and a completely GNU system could be deployed.
Well, that shit isn't ever going to happen, just like OS/2 is never going to rise from the dead to regain its rightful throne as king of the corporate desktop. Shipping isn't everything, and it isn't even enough -- you need to ship at the right time to steal the momentum and draw in a critical mass. Windows did it, Linux did it, and both left a trail of dead bodies in their wake.
Well, until the FTC is federally insuring cloud computing services, I still think the bank is likely a safer place to have money than "the cloud" is to have data. Of course, if the FTC were making "federally insured" backups and whatnot, then that would still probably make the bank safer...
When I go to Europe I generally have a wad of cash in my pocket, if for no other reason than that the exchange rate changes constantly and the banks don't sync their data with my home bank until its too late. I'd take out a couple hundred Euros or Pounds from an ATM to hold me through for a week or so until I was sure that the bank information had updated and my balance would be correct, as one of the times I went over by myself, I ended up over-drawing my account by a couple hundred dollars because the ATM would keep spitting out money.
In the US, I hardly ever carry cash -- I really only need it when I go visit my parents and need to pay a $2 bridge toll.
I was once grilled for 45 minutes at Heathrow because they didn't believe I was in England to view Roman ruins, despite having just stepped off a plane from Italy with several other college-aged Americans and a couple of Professors of Classics of some note. Of course, that may have had more to do with the people I was hanging out with in Kerry the year before and various donations I've made to various political parties in the past, often times whilst drunk.
Eventually they let me through, but still, it pisses me off. Train from Switzerland to Austria when I was 17, the Austrian customs people are coming through and checking passports -- I see them opening the passports of other people, until the get to me and my friend, see the 'United States of America' on the cover and don't even bother to have me hand it to them to look inside...
But even internal travel in the US, man... I get pulled for "random searches" all the god damned time. I've pretty much given up on the idea of flying places, despite the fact my dad's a retired airline captain for US Air, his uncle was a PanAm captain for 30 years, my grandfather was a Navy pilot in WWII, and I had a good 150+hrs towards my private license when I was in high school... I'll just stick to ground-based modes of transport for now, as they haven't yet seen fit to have the state police cop a squat on the state line to make sure I'm not transporting contraband between my digs in VA Beach and my sister in North Carolina...
5.10.1 just came out like a week or so ago... there seems to be a slightly accelerated rate of Perl development lately, which is nice as it proves it's not a 'dead' language by any stretch... and with extensions such as MooseX::Declare, it really gives some of the more modern, OO-based dynamic languages like Python or Ruby a run for their money in their traditional sphere as well, I'd say.
Everyone I knew back in high school who as into electronics was into it for one reason: Fixing guitar amps, guitar wiring, effects pedals, etc. In high school I built a solid-body electric guitar for a project and then did a demonstration through a tube amp cobbled together by a dude who is now married to my little sister. My guitar is beautiful... that amp, not so much... BUT it worked very well.
Maybe make a PA and a speaker cab, wire some pickups or something, etc... you're bound to have a few kids in class who play, and if they don't already know how to fix their own shit, you can bet that they'll thank you forever when they're able to -- repair work isn't cheap, but the materials aren't that bad if you know how to do a little soldering and follow a schematic.
Robots and things are cool to us, but this is something that's both cool, kinda geeky, and which the students will actually see practical value in.
Gloucester mostly doesn't have other races... Richmond has a lot of problems which depending on how you want to look at it, may or may not be racially caused, but certainly are drawn on racial lines... that and because VCU kids suck.
Actually, I only heard of this Richmond Hispanic Chamber of Commerce deal last week... I didn't know there was such a thing until I went home to visit my parents over the weekend.
Yeah, but if we're talking about a public high school's budget these days, you may as well being telling him to build a breeder reactor out of smoke detectors... Mindstorm is expensive and schools are el cheap-o about spending money. Hell, my mother who is a high school ap Spanish teacher just had to put up all the money for supplies to build a pinata to represent the school at an event sponsored by the Richmond Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which the Principal later tried to take credit for, but has yet to reimburse my mother for the expense, at least since the last I heard of it.
Assuming you still have copies of the messages you know you need to keep, you can just delete your account and re-create it right afterwords. No harm, ho foul essentially. However, with GMail or another such service, I don't think you can remove an address and immediately re-create exactly the same address with less than a minute of 'down time' during the procedure.
If its under foreclosure, I can probably pick it up for a good bargain at auction... I'll stay away from shady legal documents and shadier individuals and go with foreclosure please.
I think they probably watch more American TV in Britain than we do British TV here, so the plot is likely well under way and this is just a follow-up mission to judge the success of the over-all strategy.
On my Toshiba laptop with dual-core 2gz AMD processor and 3GB of RAM running Vista Ultimate, I haven't noticed any battery life differences per se, but I definitely have fewer memory issues with IE8 than I do with Firefox, and its generally much nicer to use than IE 7 was. I use Firefox on my EeePC which runs Windows XP, and I'm certainly not anti-firefox, but I notice it does tend to bog down.
I tried Opera a few months ago, but found that it broke formatting on a lot of sites that I frequent and had a lot of weird features that kept getting in my way. I don't care if saying that I think IE8 is pretty cool isn't the 'popular' opinion, and I sure as hell don't know about battery life issues, but I think its a pretty decent browser either way.
Would you prefer it to be like the US in Germany or Japan -- declare victory then stay forever at the behest of a puppet government?... wait, what are we talking about again?
exactly the same for `sudo su`, `sudu su -` and `sudu su -l`, give or take how environment variables are inherited, and that is, its entirely dependent on how the/etc/sudoers is set up for your users, and whether or not they're just aliasing various command sets and enabling those in groups, or if they gave you ALL=(ALL) ALL or something.
Pain-free soldiers could take the suffering out of war... Pain-free Asian children could take the suffering out of Nike shoes...
I don't want to sound like a douche or anything, but I became vegitarian (not vegan though) a few months ago, and except for a few exceptions for fish, I've stuck to it pretty tight. I'll joke about the Nirvana lyric 'its ok to eat fish because they don't have any feelings', but this is kind of just a step too far. Yeah, I think its somewhat ghoulish to find nourishment in the chard flesh and dead animals, but when you really think about it, vegetarianism does more for us than it does for the animals.
Franly, between soy and hemp we could pretty much eliminate, or at least greatly reduce, the needs for both ranching and logging, taking a lot of pressure off of de-forestation and putting ourselves in a much better position with regards to this 'climate change' thing. And whether that's true or not, or as bad as its been made out to be or not, there is still a lot to be said both practically and morally for stopping deforestation. So, yay soy and hemp.
Making something less painful will always just encourage more of it. Body armour, long-range weapons and all that jazz have made the US a fair bit more willing to go to war than we were even when it made more sense, if you remember all the ass-dragging over entering WWI and WWII, yet the blink-of-an-eye before beating up on Afghanistan or Iraq who were in no position to actually fight back.
Pain serves a very practical purpose -- it's natures way of saying "hey, dumbass, don't do that!" and going around messing with eliminating the pain gene for our own benefit in one species is probably the first step on the road to eliminating it in our own species. This is a bad idea.
I can read that just fine, then again I have a degree in literature with a strong bent on philology and studied latin as well (thus 'u' and 'v' are essentially the same letter in my head), so it might just be due to familiarity with the text that I can read it. I read the Canterbury Tales in the original as well...
However, since the time of Shakespeare, we have adopted standardized spelling and grammar, automated methods for quickly reproducing text in printed format that would make Gutenberg blush, and an almost universal education system. Ideally, linguistic drift and other such things should stabilize or stop as we aren't living in isolated clumps, hand-writing with phonetic spelling which is determined based entirely on local accent to the point where people 5 miles are apart had a harder time understanding each other than someone from Maine and someone from Melbourne would today.
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oh... I thought this was going to be some cleaver advertisement for the 'R' programming language -- http://www.r-project.org/
I bet it was really her cat.
Congress is made up of the House and Senate... thus, you cannot have the "House and Congress". Just sayin'.
It's in Easy::Apache for cPanel, and we'll build it if they bitch hard enough, but not without significant warning against it first.
Chances are, it'll screw up at some point -- either from stability issues, or not supporting the features they are trying to use. They will then blame us, harass support, etc, so we don't really pro-actively offer it. Unless they're on a $400-a-month dedicated server, its probably not worth the headache that it causes, and best they just go find Windows hosting as they'll be happier in the long run and we won't have to waste time dealing with crap we told them wouldn't work right in the first place.
I think that this has less to do with De Icaza and RMS than it does with the split that's been brewing since around the Bubble days between the "Free Software" people and the "Open Source" people. For the "Free Software" people, nothing less than everything is ever going to be enough. I don't mean this is a troll, but just a simple observation. For them its a political crusade mixed with a sort of religion -- especially for RMS. That much is obvious.
On the other side of this divide are the more practically-minded Open Source people. Open Source is seen every bit as much as a tactical, if not a strategic, business move as it is a social experiment. It helps level the playing field, reduces barriers to entry, and prevents the establishment of monopolies. It allows users to build communities, but doesn't really seek to impart its view of the world onto users actively.
De Icaza has moved more towards the Practical Open Source camp over time. Let's not forget that he started GNOME -- the G of which means GNU -- because KDE wasn't really "free software" -- it was merely, more or less, open source. He then went on to found Helix, which was a company based around providing commercial support and integration for GNOME. The Mono project, I do believe, was started to aid in their plans on integrating into the already established corporate environment and easing the ability to port applications off the MS platform and onto a more open one, such as Linux.
Now, I've never been the world's biggest MS fan, but it really seems to me that hating a company to such personal levels as many people hate MS is really just sort of off base. I know I used to partake of the MS bashing myself as well when I was younger, and maybe its just that now that I'm older and have more experience in life I can see what a waste of effort it is. It's also been because Microsoft has really made visible strides towards openness.
Microsoft has been for the last several years a co-sponsor of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, put in a lot of money to fund the event and sending some really amazing speakers to give presentations. I have yet to get to go to one of these things live, but I do watch the videos and I saw some really bang-up speeches from Microsoft employees on everything from functional programming, to open-source plugin extensions for Office and other tools to aid the work flow for scientists (who are very practically minded when it comes to picking tools).
They are releasing code, they are joining in on community projects, they are funding conventions and projects (Apache anyone?). They aren't the same company they were 10 years ago, but they are still a company and it would be unreasonable to expect them to give away the major bacon. Does it really matter if they were to open up Windows? Office? No, not really.
Frankly, I think that getting Microsoft to just stick to open standards for information exchange -- document formats, protocols, etc -- would be more than enough. Anything else they want to do would be icing on the cake, but in the mean time we may as well take what we can get and encourage them with good will rather than shifty-eyed suspicion, because like it or not, they are THE major player in the industry and it's better to peacefully co-exist than to try and bash each other's brains out. I think Microsoft has started to figure this out and we, as a community, really ought to let them have a shot and proving it.
I'm a sysadmin at a web host, and we are an all-Linux (CentOS and a few 'real' RedHat machines) in server-space. We have a few customers on VPS or Dedicated hosting who have mod_mono installed into Apache so that they could port over ASP.NET code that they had and still wanted to use. They have had varying degrees of success depending on the complexity of what is they're actually trying to pull off.
It still seems like a hack-job to me, though... and as a regular Perl user and evangelist, that's something I know a thing or two about... mod_mono is a bigger cludge than any of them though.
HURD is worse than a complete failure, because it's basically a never-was. It's the bit player without a speaking roll who still managed to be ushered off the stage due to a chronic inability to grasp the blocking of the scene.
OS/2 and BeOS were complete failures... they had their chance and got beaten down. And its not because they were inferior products, its because they just couldn't sell themselves. Windows succeeded not because it was better, but because Microsoft was able to position it to the point where it didn't have to sell it.
Linux is to HURD in the same way, only bigger, than Windows is to OS/2 or BeOS. Windows was supposed to be a stop-gap until OS/2 was fully functional, but then it just sort of took over all the momentum and steam rolled the original plan. Linux was supposed to be a stop-gap kernel until HURD was fully functional and a completely GNU system could be deployed.
Well, that shit isn't ever going to happen, just like OS/2 is never going to rise from the dead to regain its rightful throne as king of the corporate desktop. Shipping isn't everything, and it isn't even enough -- you need to ship at the right time to steal the momentum and draw in a critical mass. Windows did it, Linux did it, and both left a trail of dead bodies in their wake.
But I still prefer BSD...
Well, until the FTC is federally insuring cloud computing services, I still think the bank is likely a safer place to have money than "the cloud" is to have data. Of course, if the FTC were making "federally insured" backups and whatnot, then that would still probably make the bank safer...
When I go to Europe I generally have a wad of cash in my pocket, if for no other reason than that the exchange rate changes constantly and the banks don't sync their data with my home bank until its too late. I'd take out a couple hundred Euros or Pounds from an ATM to hold me through for a week or so until I was sure that the bank information had updated and my balance would be correct, as one of the times I went over by myself, I ended up over-drawing my account by a couple hundred dollars because the ATM would keep spitting out money.
In the US, I hardly ever carry cash -- I really only need it when I go visit my parents and need to pay a $2 bridge toll.
To be fair though, I think most people who cross the border into Israel aren't really planning on leaving... alive.
I was once grilled for 45 minutes at Heathrow because they didn't believe I was in England to view Roman ruins, despite having just stepped off a plane from Italy with several other college-aged Americans and a couple of Professors of Classics of some note. Of course, that may have had more to do with the people I was hanging out with in Kerry the year before and various donations I've made to various political parties in the past, often times whilst drunk.
Eventually they let me through, but still, it pisses me off. Train from Switzerland to Austria when I was 17, the Austrian customs people are coming through and checking passports -- I see them opening the passports of other people, until the get to me and my friend, see the 'United States of America' on the cover and don't even bother to have me hand it to them to look inside...
But even internal travel in the US, man... I get pulled for "random searches" all the god damned time. I've pretty much given up on the idea of flying places, despite the fact my dad's a retired airline captain for US Air, his uncle was a PanAm captain for 30 years, my grandfather was a Navy pilot in WWII, and I had a good 150+hrs towards my private license when I was in high school... I'll just stick to ground-based modes of transport for now, as they haven't yet seen fit to have the state police cop a squat on the state line to make sure I'm not transporting contraband between my digs in VA Beach and my sister in North Carolina...
yet.
5.10.1 just came out like a week or so ago... there seems to be a slightly accelerated rate of Perl development lately, which is nice as it proves it's not a 'dead' language by any stretch... and with extensions such as MooseX::Declare, it really gives some of the more modern, OO-based dynamic languages like Python or Ruby a run for their money in their traditional sphere as well, I'd say.
and first post i think.
Everyone I knew back in high school who as into electronics was into it for one reason: Fixing guitar amps, guitar wiring, effects pedals, etc. In high school I built a solid-body electric guitar for a project and then did a demonstration through a tube amp cobbled together by a dude who is now married to my little sister. My guitar is beautiful... that amp, not so much... BUT it worked very well.
Maybe make a PA and a speaker cab, wire some pickups or something, etc... you're bound to have a few kids in class who play, and if they don't already know how to fix their own shit, you can bet that they'll thank you forever when they're able to -- repair work isn't cheap, but the materials aren't that bad if you know how to do a little soldering and follow a schematic.
Robots and things are cool to us, but this is something that's both cool, kinda geeky, and which the students will actually see practical value in.
Gloucester mostly doesn't have other races... Richmond has a lot of problems which depending on how you want to look at it, may or may not be racially caused, but certainly are drawn on racial lines... that and because VCU kids suck.
Actually, I only heard of this Richmond Hispanic Chamber of Commerce deal last week... I didn't know there was such a thing until I went home to visit my parents over the weekend.
Yeah, but if we're talking about a public high school's budget these days, you may as well being telling him to build a breeder reactor out of smoke detectors... Mindstorm is expensive and schools are el cheap-o about spending money. Hell, my mother who is a high school ap Spanish teacher just had to put up all the money for supplies to build a pinata to represent the school at an event sponsored by the Richmond Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which the Principal later tried to take credit for, but has yet to reimburse my mother for the expense, at least since the last I heard of it.
Assuming you still have copies of the messages you know you need to keep, you can just delete your account and re-create it right afterwords. No harm, ho foul essentially. However, with GMail or another such service, I don't think you can remove an address and immediately re-create exactly the same address with less than a minute of 'down time' during the procedure.
If its under foreclosure, I can probably pick it up for a good bargain at auction... I'll stay away from shady legal documents and shadier individuals and go with foreclosure please.
I think they probably watch more American TV in Britain than we do British TV here, so the plot is likely well under way and this is just a follow-up mission to judge the success of the over-all strategy.
Though, to be fair, 50 years isn't quite as long as the average cricket game.
On my Toshiba laptop with dual-core 2gz AMD processor and 3GB of RAM running Vista Ultimate, I haven't noticed any battery life differences per se, but I definitely have fewer memory issues with IE8 than I do with Firefox, and its generally much nicer to use than IE 7 was. I use Firefox on my EeePC which runs Windows XP, and I'm certainly not anti-firefox, but I notice it does tend to bog down.
I tried Opera a few months ago, but found that it broke formatting on a lot of sites that I frequent and had a lot of weird features that kept getting in my way. I don't care if saying that I think IE8 is pretty cool isn't the 'popular' opinion, and I sure as hell don't know about battery life issues, but I think its a pretty decent browser either way.
Would you prefer it to be like the US in Germany or Japan -- declare victory then stay forever at the behest of a puppet government? ... wait, what are we talking about again?
exactly the same for `sudo su`, `sudu su -` and `sudu su -l`, give or take how environment variables are inherited, and that is, its entirely dependent on how the /etc/sudoers is set up for your users, and whether or not they're just aliasing various command sets and enabling those in groups, or if they gave you ALL=(ALL) ALL or something.
Pain-free soldiers could take the suffering out of war...
Pain-free Asian children could take the suffering out of Nike shoes...
I don't want to sound like a douche or anything, but I became vegitarian (not vegan though) a few months ago, and except for a few exceptions for fish, I've stuck to it pretty tight. I'll joke about the Nirvana lyric 'its ok to eat fish because they don't have any feelings', but this is kind of just a step too far. Yeah, I think its somewhat ghoulish to find nourishment in the chard flesh and dead animals, but when you really think about it, vegetarianism does more for us than it does for the animals.
Franly, between soy and hemp we could pretty much eliminate, or at least greatly reduce, the needs for both ranching and logging, taking a lot of pressure off of de-forestation and putting ourselves in a much better position with regards to this 'climate change' thing. And whether that's true or not, or as bad as its been made out to be or not, there is still a lot to be said both practically and morally for stopping deforestation. So, yay soy and hemp.
Making something less painful will always just encourage more of it. Body armour, long-range weapons and all that jazz have made the US a fair bit more willing to go to war than we were even when it made more sense, if you remember all the ass-dragging over entering WWI and WWII, yet the blink-of-an-eye before beating up on Afghanistan or Iraq who were in no position to actually fight back.
Pain serves a very practical purpose -- it's natures way of saying "hey, dumbass, don't do that!" and going around messing with eliminating the pain gene for our own benefit in one species is probably the first step on the road to eliminating it in our own species. This is a bad idea.
I can read that just fine, then again I have a degree in literature with a strong bent on philology and studied latin as well (thus 'u' and 'v' are essentially the same letter in my head), so it might just be due to familiarity with the text that I can read it. I read the Canterbury Tales in the original as well...
However, since the time of Shakespeare, we have adopted standardized spelling and grammar, automated methods for quickly reproducing text in printed format that would make Gutenberg blush, and an almost universal education system. Ideally, linguistic drift and other such things should stabilize or stop as we aren't living in isolated clumps, hand-writing with phonetic spelling which is determined based entirely on local accent to the point where people 5 miles are apart had a harder time understanding each other than someone from Maine and someone from Melbourne would today.
Also, the joke is "really pi^H^H^Hannoys me."