In order to work on the "standard", you need to get Larry or Guido's ear, that is get on the perl-developers or python-developers mailing lists, and have ideas that people respect.
Specifically, for Perl, subscribe to p5p, aka perl5-porters. Mail sent to perl5-porters-subscribe@perl.org should do it.
If what you're mostly interested in is keeping track of changing things, then feel free to hang out and listen on p5p. That's where most patches get sent and people talk about implementing new features, so you'll get to hear about a new keyword being proposed and struck down or adopted, or a change in syntax, or a new module being added to the core.
Larry Wall only posts occasionally; the people responsible for the releases are known as "pumpkings"; the pumpking for 5.6.1 (the latest release of the stable branch) is Gurusamy Sarathy and the for 5.7.1 (the latest release of the development branch) is Jarkko Hietaniemi. There are also pumpkings for areas such as the regular expression engine.
If you want to get noticed, one good way might be to start submitting patches. bugs.perl.org exists and has lots of ideas you could consider -- even if it's only a report that "this bug doesn't occur any more with the latest release" or "I can reproduce this here on <platform>, and I think the problem might be in foo.c line 134", without knowing how to fix it. But for a start, it's undoubtedly better to start off as a lurker and see what happens.
Yahoo & Bigfot were the only two big services who provided forwarding.
iName also provide forwarding, and they seem to me to be pretty ubiquitous... they do provide a *ton* of domains so it might not always be obvious that it's iName behind the thing (cheerful.com, engineer.com, writeme.com). I think they belong to Mail.com now. I've been using a writeme.com address nearly since I had email, precisely for the forwarding -- so I could keep a constant address even when my "real" address changed.
I consider this to be the one most important feature of free web-e-mail.
I agree that it's a very useful feature of email. I'd leave out the "web" bit, though; my writeme.com email is never read through a web interface but forwarded to a real POP3 account where I can access it with my favourite MUA and read it offline, organise it easily into folders, and so on.
A product that is a free download doesn't have much of a source of income.
The distribution comes with some really decent manuals, and free installation support. I think that's worth something. Even if you don't need the support, having a dead tree version around is nice for some people.
(Nice fact: the e2fsck(?) man page is printed in the manual -- which makes sense, since if you need to use the tool, your hard disk may not be in a shape that allows you to read the docs:-)
As pyrodude pointed out, go to ARIN. It's also available through your favourite command-line or GUI WHOIS tool:
$ whois -h whois.arin.net 12.45.166.9
This'll give you their netblock. If the IP address is not in one assigned to ARIN, ARIN will tell you where else to go to (e.g. RIPE for Europe, APNIC for Asia-Pacific, etc.)
I seem to recall a video card maker that detected benchmarks being run on the card, and didn't do anything other then report it was did what was asked.
Yes, and the first 3D video cards for home/office use were optimized for the (limited) kind of 3D stuff found in screen savers, rather than implementing all-round 3D acceleration. So Joe Blow could see that his fance new card made his cool 3D screen saver run really quickly, but it didn't say anything about what performance would be like with rendering or games or whatever.
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Perhaps people don't realize the huge problem associated with typo-squatting. Perhaps I should make a site named "paypall.com" and steal a few million credit-card numbers (which people are willing to give me because the _think_ they typed the address of a legit site).
You mean like the scam Rahoule described in Comment 156 to this article?
We could replace all the computers inside the Shuttle with overclocked VALinux boxes.
Read again what they said about cooling being limited, especially when they lower the pressure to prepare for EVA. I don't think low cooling and overclocking mix well.
Open-SOurce software is always evolving, but it does so in a more or less random way. You can simply not pay and wait for the features you need to evolve, but this will take a long time (and there's no guarantee the features you want will evolve anyway). You pay a consultant because you know the feature will make it into the software, and it will get there much faster than if it were simply coded by unpaid coders in their spare time.
Or you can hope that if a feature is important for you, it will be important for someone else, and wait for that someone else to pay a consultant to implement it. If the new featre is released as open source, too, you can then take it and include it in your product without paying the price (assuming the correct licensing details).
I think you should only be allowed to keep a domain name for 2 day periods. Think how cool it would be if every 2 days, all of the sites that you frequent would have completely different content.
People would go back to using IP addresses, just like in the "bad old days" before DNS was widespread and you had to FTP your copy of HOSTS.TXT from SRI-NIC(?) regularly. Now, if IP address allocation were dynamic, too...
HTML is only easily searchable if your doc is stored in one big HTML document!
Too true... I especially dislike the HTML generated from LaTeX documents with lots and lots of small HTML files and anchors of the form node000002324 or so.
I wish such documentation were available also in one big file where I can read the whole document by scrolling down, instead of having to click "next" "next" "next" ad nauseam.
(OT - anyone else remember the other GUI windowers?)
Such as GEM? There were even quite a few applications written for that IIRC. And then there were the Amstrad machines that could run either MS-DOS or CP/M-86 (I believe), and which had parallel processing and some funny GUI as well.
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I guess I have no point here. Except for the German proverb "Traue keiner Statistik, die du nicht selber gefäscht hast" -- "Don't trust any statistic you didn't forge yourself".
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc are the REAL reasons we're going to need good handwriting and voice recognition. These languages don't map very well into English keyboards, and ones like Chinese simply aren't suited to "typing" at all.
Actually, Korean isn't that bad since it does have an alphabet which maps fairly well onto an English keyboard (upper and lower case letters; 14 consonants + 21 vowels = 35 total letters which is less than 2*26 = 52). It only becomes a problem with hanja (Chinese characters), but they aren't used that much in modern Korean. For Chinese and Japanese you're right, though.
This might work for Iceland, but what about places such as Canada, where the postal code usually follows the country?
This is what Canadian addresses look like AFAIK:
John Q. Public 145 Main Street Anytown, Alberta Canada A1B 2C3
In this case, you can't just stick the post code after the "state" (province in this case).
(And yes, I too hate having to enter a bogus state for those who have heard that Germany has "Länder" -- Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany is one Hamburg too many.)
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Or until your registrar hoses their database and sells your domain to a sex site hoster because they think you're overdue. Remember Webtechs.
Specifically, for Perl, subscribe to p5p, aka perl5-porters. Mail sent to perl5-porters-subscribe@perl.org should do it.
If what you're mostly interested in is keeping track of changing things, then feel free to hang out and listen on p5p. That's where most patches get sent and people talk about implementing new features, so you'll get to hear about a new keyword being proposed and struck down or adopted, or a change in syntax, or a new module being added to the core.
Larry Wall only posts occasionally; the people responsible for the releases are known as "pumpkings"; the pumpking for 5.6.1 (the latest release of the stable branch) is Gurusamy Sarathy and the for 5.7.1 (the latest release of the development branch) is Jarkko Hietaniemi. There are also pumpkings for areas such as the regular expression engine.
If you want to get noticed, one good way might be to start submitting patches. bugs.perl.org exists and has lots of ideas you could consider -- even if it's only a report that "this bug doesn't occur any more with the latest release" or "I can reproduce this here on <platform>, and I think the problem might be in foo.c line 134", without knowing how to fix it. But for a start, it's undoubtedly better to start off as a lurker and see what happens.
Cheers,
Philip.
iName also provide forwarding, and they seem to me to be pretty ubiquitous ... they do provide a *ton* of domains so it might not always be obvious that it's iName behind the thing (cheerful.com, engineer.com, writeme.com). I think they belong to Mail.com now. I've been using a writeme.com address nearly since I had email, precisely for the forwarding -- so I could keep a constant address even when my "real" address changed.
I agree that it's a very useful feature of email. I'd leave out the "web" bit, though; my writeme.com email is never read through a web interface but forwarded to a real POP3 account where I can access it with my favourite MUA and read it offline, organise it easily into folders, and so on.
The distribution comes with some really decent manuals, and free installation support. I think that's worth something. Even if you don't need the support, having a dead tree version around is nice for some people.
(Nice fact: the e2fsck(?) man page is printed in the manual -- which makes sense, since if you need to use the tool, your hard disk may not be in a shape that allows you to read the docs :-)
As pyrodude pointed out, go to ARIN. It's also available through your favourite command-line or GUI WHOIS tool:
$ whois -h whois.arin.net 12.45.166.9
This'll give you their netblock. If the IP address is not in one assigned to ARIN, ARIN will tell you where else to go to (e.g. RIPE for Europe, APNIC for Asia-Pacific, etc.)
Do that if you're willing to sue them in Small Claims Court and set a precedent. Don't do it just for the bluff, or it's not worthwhile.
Suing can be a hassle, and I don't know whether you're eager to try it.
Yes, and the first 3D video cards for home/office use were optimized for the (limited) kind of 3D stuff found in screen savers, rather than implementing all-round 3D acceleration. So Joe Blow could see that his fance new card made his cool 3D screen saver run really quickly, but it didn't say anything about what performance would be like with rendering or games or whatever.
You mean like the scam Rahoule described in Comment 156 to this article?
Read again what they said about cooling being limited, especially when they lower the pressure to prepare for EVA. I don't think low cooling and overclocking mix well.
Or you can hope that if a feature is important for you, it will be important for someone else, and wait for that someone else to pay a consultant to implement it. If the new featre is released as open source, too, you can then take it and include it in your product without paying the price (assuming the correct licensing details).
People would go back to using IP addresses, just like in the "bad old days" before DNS was widespread and you had to FTP your copy of HOSTS.TXT from SRI-NIC(?) regularly. Now, if IP address allocation were dynamic, too...
Cheers,
Philip.
Too true... I especially dislike the HTML generated from LaTeX documents with lots and lots of small HTML files and anchors of the form node000002324 or so.
I wish such documentation were available also in one big file where I can read the whole document by scrolling down, instead of having to click "next" "next" "next" ad nauseam.
Um, font selection? Isn't it supposed to be up to the end-user, not the developer, to pick what fonts they use for headings, body text, etc.?
Such as GEM? There were even quite a few applications written for that IIRC. And then there were the Amstrad machines that could run either MS-DOS or CP/M-86 (I believe), and which had parallel processing and some funny GUI as well.
How many of us haven't been saved from variable problems by the combined power of "-w" and "use strict"?
Maybe it's not available separately from CPAN, but it must count as one of the most useful modules around.
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I guess I have no point here. Except for the German proverb "Traue keiner Statistik, die du nicht selber gefäscht hast" -- "Don't trust any statistic you didn't forge yourself".
Actually, Korean isn't that bad since it does have an alphabet which maps fairly well onto an English keyboard (upper and lower case letters; 14 consonants + 21 vowels = 35 total letters which is less than 2*26 = 52). It only becomes a problem with hanja (Chinese characters), but they aren't used that much in modern Korean. For Chinese and Japanese you're right, though.
Cheers,
Philip
This might work for Iceland, but what about places such as Canada, where the postal code usually follows the country?
This is what Canadian addresses look like AFAIK:
John Q. Public
145 Main Street
Anytown, Alberta
Canada A1B 2C3
In this case, you can't just stick the post code after the "state" (province in this case).
(And yes, I too hate having to enter a bogus state for those who have heard that Germany has "Länder" -- Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany is one Hamburg too many.)