You seem to be concentrating on their mistakes while ignoring their fabulous successes. We have been flying space shuttles for decades and only lost one. We put two men on the moon and brought them back safely, and the advancements made directly because of the development of the computers used in that mission are the reason why a sorry jealous idiot like you can even afford a computer.
Yes, it sucks. There is no shortage of diesel pumps. Or does everyone think all those big rigs on the freeways run on gasoline? See that huge black cloud that erupts every time they accelerate? Gasoline doesn't do that.
Diesel is hideous. Yeah, you don't need spark plugs in the engines so you can slap a 300,000 mile warranty. Yippee. You just have to put up with the nasty fumes. *COUGH*
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc. It's Latin. It's the name for the "after X, and therefore, because of X" fallacy.
You think that EarthLink fucked up your dialup? LOL! Yeah, they went around and tweaked settings on all the dialup gear. Just because. Uh huh. Mergers have next to nothing to do with hardware and I've watched enough of them to know what I'm talking about.
Your second line about use of frame-relay is pure BS. Many CLECs like Covad lease an essentially dry voice pair from the ILEC, but to the best of my knowledge they are not running channelized DS1 signalling and frame-relay encoding on these, they run DSL. Whether leasing a pair from the phone company is cost effective is debatable, but running DSLAMs in a zillion wire centers more than likely isn't.
In some cases, the ISP has its own gear (RedBack or Shasta or whatever) in its own data center. I know this because I have seen it with my own eyes and dealt with it on occasion when the boxes broke. I also provisioned some circuits once when the engineer in charge was away, and that IS frame relay. As I understand it, DSL is nothing more than frame relay encapsulated by X.25 - in other words, frame relay over HAM radio, but you're using wires instead of antennas. IPv4 is encapsulated within the frame relay segment, but the line card your DSL terminates in doesn't care about IPv4.
Now, some of our customers are provisioned on the gear in our DC, and some are provisioned on RedBacks run by the telcos. If they are provisioned onto telco gear, then yeah, we just shoot them a DS3 or whatever is appropriate. But at the core, the gentleman's statement that DSL is based on frame relay is absolutely correct.
There has to be a clear, untapped, all-copper path between the CO (central office) and CPE (customer premise equipment). You can't have fiber in there, or any kind of piece that requires analog/digital conversion.
When he talks about frame relay, he is talking about the transport layer (I think - haven't looked at the OSI stack in over a year), which basically IS frame relay. We're not talking about the physical layer, but the protocol they use to encapsulate what is going over the line, which is of concern to the gear that authenticates (if it does authenticate) and assigns IP addresses (the RedBack, Shasta, or whatever is used).
No, he is not directly responsible. The idea that he is even indirectly responsible is shaky at best. It is easy for a teenager to lose control of emotions, and many of them cope with this kind of thing by killing themselves.
I don't know what you guys are looking at, but there are a million billion printer drivers for HP printers. Why would they bother to provide Linux drivers when support already exists and the GPL'd drivers are being actively developed?
Your load is probably low. Solaris is dog-slow because it continuously defragments memory. When your server is maxed out and the load is 20+, you will find it handles better with Solaris.
He also got the PHP example wrong. Setting variables, escaping out with "?>", and then using a bunch of "" statements is ludicrous and wasteful.
You can just do this:
$myvar = "Some text";
echo "<html>
<title>$myvar</title>
Here is some text, and here is my string: $myvar
";
The PHP interpreter will also insert newlines in the above echo statement, since it is multiline. This is especially useful since you can pipe the resulting string through nl2br.
If you want the real deal on Scientology, go here. What it boils down to is that they have great technology but are shooting themselves in the foot more or less constantly with the ill behavior - Scientology needs to be reformed, but upper management has taken steps to make this inordinately difficult.
As a religion, the idea of 75 billion (or trillion) years is not so far off when you consider that the universe may be cyclical: Big bang -> Expansion, cooling -> Stability -> Entropy -> Final collapse -> Big bang -> etc. It is certainly no harder to swallow than what other religions claim.
Finally, one must separate the technology from the religion. Some of what they do is purely scientific, like the lower-level courses and Dianetics auditing. The religion part of it is in the upper levels. Also keep in mind that the Church of Scientology is not the whole of Scientology, any more than the Catholic Church is the whole of Catholicism.
One more thing: Don't use DSO. It slows the core and surrounding modules down by 5-10% according to the Apache docs. Build everything in static-style.
Also, if you are using PHP, use a cacher (such as the Zend cache or one of the free cachers), as well as the extra Zend optimizer binary. The cacher keeps compiled PHP code so that it doesn't have to be parsed, lexed, etc. every time the page is loaded.
PHP also has a smaller memory footprint than perl, but IMO the solution to this is to use whichever language suits you better and buy more RAM as needed.
Hear hear. I remember my old Tandy 1000s. I had an HX and an RL/HD20. They were pretty sweet for the time.
You'd turn one of them on, it would wait a second, you'd hear a beep, then a second later you'd see the PhoenixBIOS (IIRC) banner and you'd be dropped to an A: or C: prompt.:)
Then you'd load DeskMate (or BASIC or whatever) and be off!
You tell your boss you already have something similar that you developed on your own time "a while ago", at home. Tell them that rather than paying you to develop this for their client (C), you can just allow them to resell what you already have done, and they can have you start on a new project.
The point is that they are already paying you some sort of salary, but rather than waste time re-inventing something you have already done, you can work on another project, client C gets their product very quickly, and everyone is happy.
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Listen, lobsterback, your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-gr eat-great-great-great grandfathers fucking lost the war... to rag-tag farmers and a bunch of Frenchies, no less. England is no longer #1. It hasn't been for about 100 years, and its decline was well underway when we wiped the walls with you in 1776. I hear your history books are just a little bit different from ours. GEE, I WONDER WHY?
Anyone who visits the US from England is likely to be welcomed here. In fact, the only reaction you can really expect is some interest in your accent. "What part of the UK are you from? My aunt lives in Sussex..." Et cetera. Why is it, then, that when someone visits England from the US, they are held up at the border and accused of trying to sneak into the UK to try to steal jobs?
In the US, many people are in the habit of making eye contact with others as they walk down the street. They might even say 'hello'. In England, no one makes eye contact. You greet a stranger and they look at you like you're some kind of villain.
Brits like you are one of the reasons why so many Americans have a poor opinion of the UK. Perhaps you could see your way to pulling the stick out of your ass for a while and realize that the whole one-upsmanship game is pointless. It's like a rowboat tring to race a powerboat.
He's talking about the misuse of an apostrophe. The author said "it's" when s/he/it should have said "its".
Although as a jest it falls flat because the contraction "it's" doesn't mean property-of-it, it means it-is.:)
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So you have the same code under two licenses. What do you really have, then? A union of the two licenses? What if there are mutually exclusive bits (and it sounds like there are)? What is the real difference - just the name of the tarball?:)
More importantly, perhaps you want to re-use the same code for your web site and one or more back-end processes. I am working on an application that has exactly that requirement. Why write the same exact routine twice, in two separate languages, when it is possible to reuse it and not have to maintain two separate versions of the same code?
It already IS a full-fledged language! You can use it as just a Web scripting language or as a regular shell scripting language - and now, as a widget wrangling language.
That's the beauty of it. Either or, with no penalty for going in either direction.
As far as bloat is concerned... well... try configure --help, for one.
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The article calls itself a "note." What the hell kind of note is fifty pages long?
You seem to be concentrating on their mistakes while ignoring their fabulous successes. We have been flying space shuttles for decades and only lost one. We put two men on the moon and brought them back safely, and the advancements made directly because of the development of the computers used in that mission are the reason why a sorry jealous idiot like you can even afford a computer.
Mozilla can also suck me. Let's see some HTTPS support, then we can talk.
Diesel is hideous. Yeah, you don't need spark plugs in the engines so you can slap a 300,000 mile warranty. Yippee. You just have to put up with the nasty fumes. *COUGH*
You think that EarthLink fucked up your dialup? LOL! Yeah, they went around and tweaked settings on all the dialup gear. Just because. Uh huh. Mergers have next to nothing to do with hardware and I've watched enough of them to know what I'm talking about.
Now, some of our customers are provisioned on the gear in our DC, and some are provisioned on RedBacks run by the telcos. If they are provisioned onto telco gear, then yeah, we just shoot them a DS3 or whatever is appropriate. But at the core, the gentleman's statement that DSL is based on frame relay is absolutely correct.
When he talks about frame relay, he is talking about the transport layer (I think - haven't looked at the OSI stack in over a year), which basically IS frame relay. We're not talking about the physical layer, but the protocol they use to encapsulate what is going over the line, which is of concern to the gear that authenticates (if it does authenticate) and assigns IP addresses (the RedBack, Shasta, or whatever is used).
No, he is not directly responsible. The idea that he is even indirectly responsible is shaky at best. It is easy for a teenager to lose control of emotions, and many of them cope with this kind of thing by killing themselves.
I don't know what you guys are looking at, but there are a million billion printer drivers for HP printers. Why would they bother to provide Linux drivers when support already exists and the GPL'd drivers are being actively developed?
Your load is probably low. Solaris is dog-slow because it continuously defragments memory. When your server is maxed out and the load is 20+, you will find it handles better with Solaris.
Why not IDE? The mechanics are identical to SCSI and the electronics are no more failure-prone.
He also got the PHP example wrong. Setting variables, escaping out with "?>", and then using a bunch of "" statements is ludicrous and wasteful.
You can just do this:
$myvar = "Some text";
echo "<html>
<title>$myvar</title>
Here is some text, and here is my string: $myvar
";
The PHP interpreter will also insert newlines in the above echo statement, since it is multiline. This is especially useful since you can pipe the resulting string through nl2br.
As a religion, the idea of 75 billion (or trillion) years is not so far off when you consider that the universe may be cyclical: Big bang -> Expansion, cooling -> Stability -> Entropy -> Final collapse -> Big bang -> etc. It is certainly no harder to swallow than what other religions claim.
Finally, one must separate the technology from the religion. Some of what they do is purely scientific, like the lower-level courses and Dianetics auditing. The religion part of it is in the upper levels. Also keep in mind that the Church of Scientology is not the whole of Scientology, any more than the Catholic Church is the whole of Catholicism.
Also, if you are using PHP, use a cacher (such as the Zend cache or one of the free cachers), as well as the extra Zend optimizer binary. The cacher keeps compiled PHP code so that it doesn't have to be parsed, lexed, etc. every time the page is loaded.
PHP also has a smaller memory footprint than perl, but IMO the solution to this is to use whichever language suits you better and buy more RAM as needed.
It's all about joe. WordStar, baby!
Assembly wrapped in some minimal supporting C is probably the best.
Not quite. C++ is pretty efficient but when you get down to it, it is still quicker to use assembly.
You mean you got it to run and not crash all the time like 4.x does?
You'd turn one of them on, it would wait a second, you'd hear a beep, then a second later you'd see the PhoenixBIOS (IIRC) banner and you'd be dropped to an A: or C: prompt. :)
Then you'd load DeskMate (or BASIC or whatever) and be off!
You tell your boss you already have something similar that you developed on your own time "a while ago", at home. Tell them that rather than paying you to develop this for their client (C), you can just allow them to resell what you already have done, and they can have you start on a new project.
The point is that they are already paying you some sort of salary, but rather than waste time re-inventing something you have already done, you can work on another project, client C gets their product very quickly, and everyone is happy.
Anyone who visits the US from England is likely to be welcomed here. In fact, the only reaction you can really expect is some interest in your accent. "What part of the UK are you from? My aunt lives in Sussex..." Et cetera. Why is it, then, that when someone visits England from the US, they are held up at the border and accused of trying to sneak into the UK to try to steal jobs?
In the US, many people are in the habit of making eye contact with others as they walk down the street. They might even say 'hello'. In England, no one makes eye contact. You greet a stranger and they look at you like you're some kind of villain.
Brits like you are one of the reasons why so many Americans have a poor opinion of the UK. Perhaps you could see your way to pulling the stick out of your ass for a while and realize that the whole one-upsmanship game is pointless. It's like a rowboat tring to race a powerboat.
Although as a jest it falls flat because the contraction "it's" doesn't mean property-of-it, it means it-is. :)
So you have the same code under two licenses. What do you really have, then? A union of the two licenses? What if there are mutually exclusive bits (and it sounds like there are)? What is the real difference - just the name of the tarball? :)
More importantly, perhaps you want to re-use the same code for your web site and one or more back-end processes. I am working on an application that has exactly that requirement. Why write the same exact routine twice, in two separate languages, when it is possible to reuse it and not have to maintain two separate versions of the same code?
That's the beauty of it. Either or, with no penalty for going in either direction.
As far as bloat is concerned... well... try configure --help, for one.