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Mmap based sessions have been supported in PHP for years... just use session_module_name('mm'). And of course you can always use your own handler to do whatever you like with your session data.
I don't understand why bashing PHP has become such a popular sport nowadays... To me, it seems one of the few languages trying to really do something new to make development more fun, instead of just drooling over endless specs. I really enjoy coding in PHP, especially with the new super cool iterator interfaces and magic methods... Is it just me?
Is intelligent design anything new? Or isn't it nothing more than the good ol'teleological argument? Also known as argument from ignorance...
I understand there is some kind of mathematical theory behind the resurfacing of these ideas, but since I've read Frank Tipler's "The Physics of Immortality" (well, most of it...) I believe that you can "almost" prove anything, as long as you are verbose enough to make people forget about your initial assumptions.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think cron is really adequate in some most common situations:
-run a program twice a day, but make sure you do it if the computer was off at the time
-do something only when I'm not using the pc (sure I could give it a low priority, but often disk usage is the matter)
-execute a task when network activity is low... boy could I use this one
Plus, let's face it, the system V init system is cool but cumbersome (so many scripts, most of them distribution dependant) and painful (I don't have chkconfig on my debian and I really hate going through directories to check the links...)
It doesn't seem so weird to me to think about something better: couldn't it be, instead, that we linux people become too attached to the cornerstones that have served us all too well but show the signs of time?
Here in Italy, the switch is sheduled for 31 december 2006.
What's "fun" is that nobody was even considering it until some four years ago. The move was decided in a rush, and the government granted *150 euros* to anyone who buys a decoder. That is, 100% of the price for many brands (incidentally, if you're 16 you can get just slightly more to buy a PC). Why all this generosity?
Well, it happens that, as you may know, italian prime minister Berlusconi also own 3 of the 7 major channels (3 of the remaining ones being state owned). To contrast this monopolist position a law was passed years ago limiting to two the channels a single corp can control. Berlusconi managed to ingore it until 2003, when he ruled that if DT had been adopted by the majority of italians by 2006. The rest is history. What blows me is that it seems most people just don't get that *they* are paying for the decoder they are getting "for free" from the store.
That's why I for one don't welcome our new DVB-T overlords...
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Mmap based sessions have been supported in PHP for years... just use session_module_name('mm'). And of course you can always use your own handler to do whatever you like with your session data.
I don't understand why bashing PHP has become such a popular sport nowadays... To me, it seems one of the few languages trying to really do something new to make development more fun, instead of just drooling over endless specs. I really enjoy coding in PHP, especially with the new super cool iterator interfaces and magic methods... Is it just me?
It seems the guy was right... they are really stupid after all!
Is intelligent design anything new? Or isn't it nothing more than the good ol'teleological argument? Also known as argument from ignorance...
I understand there is some kind of mathematical theory behind the resurfacing of these ideas, but since I've read Frank Tipler's "The Physics of Immortality" (well, most of it...) I believe that you can "almost" prove anything, as long as you are verbose enough to make people forget about your initial assumptions.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't think cron is really adequate in some most common situations:
-run a program twice a day, but make sure you do it if the computer was off at the time
-do something only when I'm not using the pc (sure I could give it a low priority, but often disk usage is the matter)
-execute a task when network activity is low... boy could I use this one
Plus, let's face it, the system V init system is cool but cumbersome (so many scripts, most of them distribution dependant) and painful (I don't have chkconfig on my debian and I really hate going through directories to check the links...)
It doesn't seem so weird to me to think about something better: couldn't it be, instead, that we linux people become too attached to the cornerstones that have served us all too well but show the signs of time?
Here in Italy, the switch is sheduled for 31 december 2006.
What's "fun" is that nobody was even considering it until some four years ago. The move was decided in a rush, and the government granted *150 euros* to anyone who buys a decoder. That is, 100% of the price for many brands (incidentally, if you're 16 you can get just slightly more to buy a PC). Why all this generosity?
Well, it happens that, as you may know, italian prime minister Berlusconi also own 3 of the 7 major channels (3 of the remaining ones being state owned). To contrast this monopolist position a law was passed years ago limiting to two the channels a single corp can control. Berlusconi managed to ingore it until 2003, when he ruled that if DT had been adopted by the majority of italians by 2006. The rest is history. What blows me is that it seems most people just don't get that *they* are paying for the decoder they are getting "for free" from the store.
That's why I for one don't welcome our new DVB-T overlords...