PHP is arguably just as good a general language as perl or C/C++. Its string handling functions are awesome. I have built it as a stand-alone interpreter and use it as a scripting language.
To imply that this will detract from PHP's "focus" would also imply that you can't have one without the other. This is really not the case for PHP. Let's get down to brass tacks. If you take away the automatic headers, caching options, and session management, PHP becomes a regular scripting language. But you wouldn't take these things away because they are already there.:)
Just as perl's HTTP extensions are under constant development, PHP's Web stuff is not going to atrophy or go away altogether because there is way too much interest in it. Even if only 10% of the userbase used it for Web and the rest used it for scripting or controlling GTK widgets or whatever, the Web-only stuff would still be maintained.
PHP may have started out as a Web-centric language, but it just happened to turn out to be an excellent general-purpose language as well.
If I come up with an idea, I should be able to register its name under every last TLD in the world if I so desire. That way, some punk can't rip off my idea and start his/her own domain based on my idea and pretend that they came up with it.
If I am, say, Sears Roebuck, I should be allowed to register sears.com|net|org|nnn to prevent hucksters from cloning my website and gathering credit card numbers from unsuspecting users. I used to work in an ISP position where I regularly saw people ripping off our site design and using it to fool our members into sending their usernames and passwords. I saw this shit all the time.
Saying that people should only be allowed to register under a single TLD is nothing but control for the sake of control.
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If you really are the devil Phil, you probably know that a few members of your community might be impacted by this. Like this guy.
The whole point is that they will force anyone who is not a registered nonprofit to cede their.org domains. I have a few.org domains but I'm not a registered nonprofit. (I don't make a dime off them, but as long as I'm not a registered nonprofit organization, I still would have to give them up.)
There will certainly be a class action lawsuit if they try to enforce this, and I, for one, intend to join it.
There is a package called 'alien' that will install Redhat's.rpm and Stampede's.slx (I think it's.slx) packages. It's pretty simple. The reason you don't see apt-get in RH-based distros is simply that they are not based on dpkg, but RPM.
I used redhat a lot when I started out with linux - redhat, and its derivatives (particularly caldera) for a long time. Then I moved to debian. Haven't looked back even once.
You can calculate a metaphone key. This is a reduction of the word to a more abstract pattern. It's how dictionary.com knows that when you type "thier" you really mean "their".
It was also a huge masturbation session for the author. How many times do you have to "casually" list your name and your achievements in an article that isn't about you?
I don't like it. I've been chased before by angry civilians. If some maniac takes exception to something I do, I *MUST* have the ability to escape. Forced speed reduction is about as good an idea as non-overrideable fly-by-wire, which is responsible for at least one plane spiraling to its death.
"Customer facing" is an industry-standard term. Everything is either customer-facing or non-customer-facing. A development server that is firewalled from the outside world is non-customer-facing. So is the sysadmin that runs it. You don't route calls to sysadmins. They are the (ostensibly) bright people on whom you rely to keep the show running. Encouraging them all to quit by forcing them to deal with cluebies *AND* do a full-time SA job is a great way to have them all say "Fuck you", quit, and then you have to re-hire them as "contractors" for 2x the wage you were paying them before because they're the only ones who know enough about the infrastructure to keep it alive.
Any ISP or ISV with a NOC has network monitoring software that checks everything real-time and projects the results on a big-screen TV in the NOC room itself. They DO watch these screens, but the lusers always assume that the ISP is broken. Then they come on Slashdot and post all kinds of mad shit about how bad the ISP is. Some of them are right. Most of them predicate their own happiness on their "infallible" operating system, whatever that may be, or their "infallible" skills administrating it, or both.
As they say, it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Hah. I used to do technical support. All the people who called in claiming to be "kung-fu engineers" were usually
UTTERLY
FUCKING
CLUELESS.
I remember this one lady who called in. Hot-shot MCSE didn't want me to tell her where in a connectoid to put in DNS information. After 3 minutes of silence she finally let me tell her where it was. What the fuck?
Then there was this guy who called up during an authentication outage to ask why we didn't use "a BDC, a backup domain controller?" I told him we didn't use NT. Duh. Why the fuck would we trust NT to authenticate millions of dialup users? What a laugh. What the fuck were we, a mom-and-pop shop? I think not. Anyway, a million backups wouldn't have worked... the central auth database was down because the machine running it had a hardware failure and it usually takes a couple minutes to fully switch to the alternate machine.
A "SUPER-SMART ENGINEERS ONLY !!!!111" line would be constantly inundated by clueless morons who have HEARD OF APPLESCRIPT or something TOTALLY INANE and suddenly think they're SUPER-WIZARD-GENIUS-OF-THE-INTERNET.
Well, I run a domain with reverse DNS. If I go on IRC (where the rDNS reveals my domain name) and someone is being a twit and I kickban them, I don't want them to be able to whois my domain, find my house, and snail-mail me a fish, or dog shit, or a bomb, or a box of disentery, or whatever. There should be ZER0 requirement for specifying a correct address - there are FAR too many loons in this world, and they have 24 HOURS A DAY to figure out whatever it takes to screw with you. That's why I have a bogus address in there. It's enough that they have my e-mail address.
If you are paying for the actual business account, just ask them to enable reverse DNS. You will need to have a clue as to how DNS operates.
Other than that, if you don't have anyone skilled enough to figure out reverse DNS (and they use classless in-addr.ARPA delegation - you better have a REAL GOOD IDEA what that's all about), just smarthost your mail server to PacBell's and everything will be fine.
That is because they got sick of getting spammed by people who would sign up for an account at some ISP and then spam directly from their own box rather than going through their ISP's mail servers. This is "smart" for the spammers because the ISP they are going through doesn't notice all the mail going through. So you have to relay your mail through someone else's server? Big fat hairy deal. Just set up smarthosting or something similar.
I was sorta thinking they should use Solaris on it. Solaris does SMP really, really, really well.
Then I got to thinking... why not Linux? They are already going to spend doubtless tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on it, so improving SMP is probably not too tricky. Additionally, there are at least two Real Time implementations for Linux that I know of.
They can tweak the hell out of it because they have the entire source code in a mostly unrestricted form. Sun's kernel is "free" but you have to pay for it after using a certain number of CPUs. Also, the Solaris kernel is designed to be constantly defragmenting memory. That's why it runs so slow (which is where the "Slowaris" moniker comes from). They aren't running a high-end Web server sitting on an OC3, so this constant memory defragmentation is probably detrimentatl; the data structures they will be working with will be unbelievably huge, and if the kernel spends time trying to optimize allocation, it's going to choke down to a halt.
So yeah, I think it was a wise decision to use Linux. Since they are not going to be releasing binaries, they are under no obligation to provide the kernel patches, but if they're nice they will. Linux could really use better SMP support. As far as the heaviness of the kernel, you can build a very lightweight kernel by just turning off all the stupid crap in 'make menuconfig'.:) - They can also turn off a lot of stuff by manually editing the kernel source, as they doubtlessly will.
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I know you won't read this but I'll post it anyway. I had to put up with racism from blacks and "chicanos" or whatever the term of the day is all throughout junior high and the first year of high school. So did every other white kid in the district. This image of the "poor minorities" doesn't fly with me. Get a life.
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To imply that this will detract from PHP's "focus" would also imply that you can't have one without the other. This is really not the case for PHP. Let's get down to brass tacks. If you take away the automatic headers, caching options, and session management, PHP becomes a regular scripting language. But you wouldn't take these things away because they are already there. :)
Just as perl's HTTP extensions are under constant development, PHP's Web stuff is not going to atrophy or go away altogether because there is way too much interest in it. Even if only 10% of the userbase used it for Web and the rest used it for scripting or controlling GTK widgets or whatever, the Web-only stuff would still be maintained.
PHP may have started out as a Web-centric language, but it just happened to turn out to be an excellent general-purpose language as well.
You have to remember that NSI still uses e-mail forms. They are the most incompetent, ghetto registrar in the world.
If I come up with an idea, I should be able to register its name under every last TLD in the world if I so desire. That way, some punk can't rip off my idea and start his/her own domain based on my idea and pretend that they came up with it.
If I am, say, Sears Roebuck, I should be allowed to register sears.com|net|org|nnn to prevent hucksters from cloning my website and gathering credit card numbers from unsuspecting users. I used to work in an ISP position where I regularly saw people ripping off our site design and using it to fool our members into sending their usernames and passwords. I saw this shit all the time.
Saying that people should only be allowed to register under a single TLD is nothing but control for the sake of control.
If you really are the devil Phil, you probably know that a few members of your community might be impacted by this. Like this guy.
There will certainly be a class action lawsuit if they try to enforce this, and I, for one, intend to join it.
I used redhat a lot when I started out with linux - redhat, and its derivatives (particularly caldera) for a long time. Then I moved to debian. Haven't looked back even once.
Really? I thought H2G2 was written in the '70s. Seems to me the concept of it is just a little bit older than e2.
You can calculate a metaphone key. This is a reduction of the word to a more abstract pattern. It's how dictionary.com knows that when you type "thier" you really mean "their".
Maybe we should concentrate on "cloning" a bathtub for the Cox who's already here...
Reading that article is like having teeth extracted with a dull butter knife!
Minidisc isn't exactly dead...
It was also a huge masturbation session for the author. How many times do you have to "casually" list your name and your achievements in an article that isn't about you?
I don't like it. I've been chased before by angry civilians. If some maniac takes exception to something I do, I *MUST* have the ability to escape. Forced speed reduction is about as good an idea as non-overrideable fly-by-wire, which is responsible for at least one plane spiraling to its death.
It sez this will only apply to speed-limited zones.
(why the hell are you talking about MAME in an article about E)
"Customer facing" is an industry-standard term. Everything is either customer-facing or non-customer-facing. A development server that is firewalled from the outside world is non-customer-facing. So is the sysadmin that runs it. You don't route calls to sysadmins. They are the (ostensibly) bright people on whom you rely to keep the show running. Encouraging them all to quit by forcing them to deal with cluebies *AND* do a full-time SA job is a great way to have them all say "Fuck you", quit, and then you have to re-hire them as "contractors" for 2x the wage you were paying them before because they're the only ones who know enough about the infrastructure to keep it alive.
As they say, it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
"Hello, telecom? This is Tier 3. We need to get our direct line changed, some fuckwit posted it to news."
Then there was this guy who called up during an authentication outage to ask why we didn't use "a BDC, a backup domain controller?" I told him we didn't use NT. Duh. Why the fuck would we trust NT to authenticate millions of dialup users? What a laugh. What the fuck were we, a mom-and-pop shop? I think not. Anyway, a million backups wouldn't have worked... the central auth database was down because the machine running it had a hardware failure and it usually takes a couple minutes to fully switch to the alternate machine.
A "SUPER-SMART ENGINEERS ONLY !!!!111" line would be constantly inundated by clueless morons who have HEARD OF APPLESCRIPT or something TOTALLY INANE and suddenly think they're SUPER-WIZARD-GENIUS-OF-THE-INTERNET.
Well, I run a domain with reverse DNS. If I go on IRC (where the rDNS reveals my domain name) and someone is being a twit and I kickban them, I don't want them to be able to whois my domain, find my house, and snail-mail me a fish, or dog shit, or a bomb, or a box of disentery, or whatever. There should be ZER0 requirement for specifying a correct address - there are FAR too many loons in this world, and they have 24 HOURS A DAY to figure out whatever it takes to screw with you. That's why I have a bogus address in there. It's enough that they have my e-mail address.
Other than that, if you don't have anyone skilled enough to figure out reverse DNS (and they use classless in-addr.ARPA delegation - you better have a REAL GOOD IDEA what that's all about), just smarthost your mail server to PacBell's and everything will be fine.
That is because they got sick of getting spammed by people who would sign up for an account at some ISP and then spam directly from their own box rather than going through their ISP's mail servers. This is "smart" for the spammers because the ISP they are going through doesn't notice all the mail going through. So you have to relay your mail through someone else's server? Big fat hairy deal. Just set up smarthosting or something similar.
Then I got to thinking... why not Linux? They are already going to spend doubtless tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on it, so improving SMP is probably not too tricky. Additionally, there are at least two Real Time implementations for Linux that I know of.
They can tweak the hell out of it because they have the entire source code in a mostly unrestricted form. Sun's kernel is "free" but you have to pay for it after using a certain number of CPUs. Also, the Solaris kernel is designed to be constantly defragmenting memory. That's why it runs so slow (which is where the "Slowaris" moniker comes from). They aren't running a high-end Web server sitting on an OC3, so this constant memory defragmentation is probably detrimentatl; the data structures they will be working with will be unbelievably huge, and if the kernel spends time trying to optimize allocation, it's going to choke down to a halt.
So yeah, I think it was a wise decision to use Linux. Since they are not going to be releasing binaries, they are under no obligation to provide the kernel patches, but if they're nice they will. Linux could really use better SMP support. As far as the heaviness of the kernel, you can build a very lightweight kernel by just turning off all the stupid crap in 'make menuconfig'. :) - They can also turn off a lot of stuff by manually editing the kernel source, as they doubtlessly will.
I know you won't read this but I'll post it anyway. I had to put up with racism from blacks and "chicanos" or whatever the term of the day is all throughout junior high and the first year of high school. So did every other white kid in the district. This image of the "poor minorities" doesn't fly with me. Get a life.
A little defensive, yes? :)