Agreed. I work with both PHP and Perl on a daily basis. People like to complain about obfuscated or difficult to read perl. Neither langauge does anything to encourage good coding practices (which is fine, that's certainly not the language's responsiblity), but for some reason the PHP code I come across is *always* eye-gougingly bad. Maybe it's a combination of low barrier-of-entry and popularity. Maybe it's just that I fix too many people's low-budget sites. The point is, PHP code that I come across is almost always a maintability nightmare.
I hear this a lot and always wonder what is wrong with the file-chooser? It's got a list of commonly used locations on the left, file structure to the right, and the path at the top. What is missing?
I don't think he's talking about the xine backend. I'm using totem-gstreamer and can confirm that it is indeed the worst thing that has ever happened to GNOME. The list of bugs is so endless that it would be much better to just scrap the crap and start anew.
Yeah, epiphany is great. Much faster and more stable than firefox, plus it has native widgets instead of XUL. It's support for extensions is not as good, so I still use firefox when I need Firebug, but 99% of the time I'm in epiphany.
Many athiests hate christian beliefs. Many christians hate athiests.
Are you serious? You seem to be implying that it's more likely that a Christian would hate an atheist than vice versa. Try reading the front page of reddit sometime.
i think that the 6 month release cycle is largely a good thing. my favorite distro has always been debian. my main problem back then though was that whenever major new versions of software (gnome 2, xfree86 4.0, etc.), i knew i had two choices: compile it myself, or wait a year (or four) for the next version of debian to come out (assuming i was on stable at the time). I like only having to wait a few months with ubuntu.
the major downside, though, is that the packages that don't come pre-loaded in the default install seem much more likely to have bugs.
I'm typing this on my N800 right now and can confirm that this is the raddest device ever. The gecko based browser makes for the most complete browsing experience i've seen on a portable device (including the iphone).
I learned ruby before perl, although I use both on a nearly daily basis now, and coming from the ruby world with its "puts" statement (also adds a newline char), I'm pretty excited about not adding ', "\n"' to the end of all my print statements from now on.
Also there's a proprietary download manager, so Linux support is iffy. I don't have windows. My wife wanted iTunes after we got married, and I found emusic. It works fine w/ Linux... you just download the mp3s like you would download free songs on any other site. AFAIK, the download manager just facilitates downloading entire albums all at once (not something we do very often).
I think the problem is that WEBrick is only meant for development (please for the love of pete never ever try to use it in a production environment), and Mongrel can only handle one request at a time, so you have to have some sort of webserver in front of a mongrel cluster that forwards the requests back to them.
I don't know how such a wildly incorrect post got rated informative. Rails runs in Apache2 just fine, just about any (cheap) rails host you'll find is running apache 2. It does use FastCGI. Lighttpd works too. Mongrel is generally used by forwarding requests back to several mongrels by an apache process running mod_proxy_balance or something like pound.
So, FSF...if you don't like what the rest of the world are doing, there's an easier alternative than trying to ram your own retrograde viewpoints down everyone else's throat, which IMHO would work a lot better for everyone. Fork off.
are you retarded? projects don't fork software that they wrote themselves. it would be the rest of the community forking from the FSF
good call. the taiwanese also have a system called zhuyin (or 'bopomofo') which is a set of their own phonetic symbols (input is similar to the pinyin approach, however).
newer versions of amanda do support tape-spanning. amanda doesn't have anything to do w/ NFS, it uses a server/client model, although there is no native windows client. not sure why an smb mount wouldn't do the job though.
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I've also seen some Taiwanese friends use a glorified telnet to log in to real BBS's, they seem pretty popular over there still.
That's an enjoyable story, but how did you get a papercut while playing frisbee?
I think that yellowpages.com, hulu.com, pennyarcade.com and many other "big deal" sites are running on RoR.
Honestly, it wasn't that funny to begin with (and I don't even like java).
How did you post that one logged in, eh ?
Remember: real trolls use their primary account.
I'm pretty sure he was making a joke. He couldn't get the confirmation E-Mail because he hadn't removed the ORDB spam-filter from his mail system.
Agreed. I work with both PHP and Perl on a daily basis. People like to complain about obfuscated or difficult to read perl. Neither langauge does anything to encourage good coding practices (which is fine, that's certainly not the language's responsiblity), but for some reason the PHP code I come across is *always* eye-gougingly bad. Maybe it's a combination of low barrier-of-entry and popularity. Maybe it's just that I fix too many people's low-budget sites. The point is, PHP code that I come across is almost always a maintability nightmare.
I hear this a lot and always wonder what is wrong with the file-chooser? It's got a list of commonly used locations on the left, file structure to the right, and the path at the top. What is missing?
I don't think he's talking about the xine backend. I'm using totem-gstreamer and can confirm that it is indeed the worst thing that has ever happened to GNOME. The list of bugs is so endless that it would be much better to just scrap the crap and start anew.
Yeah, epiphany is great. Much faster and more stable than firefox, plus it has native widgets instead of XUL. It's support for extensions is not as good, so I still use firefox when I need Firebug, but 99% of the time I'm in epiphany.
Are you serious? You seem to be implying that it's more likely that a Christian would hate an atheist than vice versa. Try reading the front page of reddit sometime.
i think that the 6 month release cycle is largely a good thing. my favorite distro has always been debian. my main problem back then though was that whenever major new versions of software (gnome 2, xfree86 4.0, etc.), i knew i had two choices: compile it myself, or wait a year (or four) for the next version of debian to come out (assuming i was on stable at the time). I like only having to wait a few months with ubuntu.
the major downside, though, is that the packages that don't come pre-loaded in the default install seem much more likely to have bugs.
I'm typing this on my N800 right now and can confirm that this is the raddest device ever. The gecko based browser makes for the most complete browsing experience i've seen on a portable device (including the iphone).
Hype.
This is what I've been wondering ever since I heard the news as well. Anyone have any information on this front?
I learned ruby before perl, although I use both on a nearly daily basis now, and coming from the ruby world with its "puts" statement (also adds a newline char), I'm pretty excited about not adding ', "\n"' to the end of all my print statements from now on.
wow. most blatantly made up statistic *ever*.
I think the problem is that WEBrick is only meant for development (please for the love of pete never ever try to use it in a production environment), and Mongrel can only handle one request at a time, so you have to have some sort of webserver in front of a mongrel cluster that forwards the requests back to them.
I don't know how such a wildly incorrect post got rated informative. Rails runs in Apache2 just fine, just about any (cheap) rails host you'll find is running apache 2. It does use FastCGI. Lighttpd works too. Mongrel is generally used by forwarding requests back to several mongrels by an apache process running mod_proxy_balance or something like pound.
did someone just put 'wisdom of the crowds' and 'myspace' in the same sentence??
Seriously, if i wanted to see lame articles on linux basics I would go to digg. Can we please stick to the news, people?
hmm, i think since you're using a wildcard it would just be *AA, or maybe you could use the '?' ... ??AA
are you retarded? projects don't fork software that they wrote themselves. it would be the rest of the community forking from the FSF
good call. the taiwanese also have a system called zhuyin (or 'bopomofo') which is a set of their own phonetic symbols (input is similar to the pinyin approach, however).
newer versions of amanda do support tape-spanning. amanda doesn't have anything to do w/ NFS, it uses a server/client model, although there is no native windows client. not sure why an smb mount wouldn't do the job though.