PHP Cookbook, published by O'Reilly. I've found it quite useful.
I believe there's also a MySQL Cookbook, but my database use isn't so advanced that I need specific help on that just yet.
I'm still learning proper programming technique, while trying to learn PHP and MySQL and the fine points of CSS AND crank out a new web site that won't require a massive rewrite in a year.
Before you launch into yet another tirade against the president, bear in mind that our divided Congress consistently allows things like this. This isn't a Bush thing or a Republican thing. This is a beaurocratic, ivory tower, professional politician thing. This happens because we elect the very wealthy from both parties, so that the majority of our elective government has very little connection with their constituents. We create political dynasties, voting for celebrities rather than leaders. Our current political situation isn't due to one man or one party, but rather one entire nation ignoring its own wellbeing in favor of the candidate with the best sound-bites and the stiffest hair. We might as well be getting our political news from E!: who cares how they voted, let's find out which congressman is cheating on his wife this week and what Hillary wore to session today.
So that it's harder for identity theives to gather personal information.
Cellphones and landlines aren't secure. Encrypted voice adds a layer of security so that when your bank asks for your SSN, you are a little safer giving it over the phone.
What BS. So the man can't afford a PC, but he could afford a Wifi router or extension ?
You can get DSL here for $13 a month. It comes with a Wifi router.
I paid $20 for my NIC, and got a $10 rebate check back on it later.
Even at retail prices a router and wireless card cost less than $100. And I was citing a specific experience (my own) users might encounter when setting up Linux.
I would say Linux is not an OS for BS people like you.
I use Linux on the majority of my PCs.
Don't know what Linux did to you,
Actually I get along great with Linux. It's the novice users I try to help get started on it that have had most of the bad experiences. It's much easier to teach someone the basics of using Windows than it is Linux.
Windows comes with about 300 fewer useful apps than your common-or-garden desktop linux, and most of your apps will have to be bought or sought out online instead of coming with the OS.
Wow, I guess windows is much better in that regard.
My point is, Joe Six Pack doesn't know what to do if he can't find the app he's looking for. He can't walk into a store and buy it, and if it's not in the application list (for example, Synaptic? something like that) he's going to have a hard time finding it.
Linux is not windows so you wouldn't expect it to run windows software, but if you want to, you can use wine.
Now please tell me exactly how to run my closed-source linux binaries on windows. What - "Windows" can't do that?
Well, lets just spin that as an advantage to windows then.
See, now, you're assuming I'm saying Linux sucks, whereas I'm actually trying to say that Linux isn't novice-friendly. The "I just want it to work" crowd isn't going to take the time to learn what they need to know to make Linux work for them. Windows is a lot more idiot-friendly.
You probably didn't need to download it by hand, you probably could have installed it using your package manager by point-and-click, as clearly stated in your documentation.
Actually, *I* did, because the package manager didn't work.
Because you can install almost everything via online repositories, which is easier and free.
Having to go to the shops and buy each app for large prices instead of installing through point-and-click, for no money - probably from the install disk or an online repository.
Aside from the obvious trouble for dial-up users, let's talk about convenience: a typical package manager (the only one I've used is Synaptic) has very little program information, and no help features. Walking into the store will give you shiny boxes to read and a semi-useful sales person (if you're lucky) to give you some advice if you need it.
Probably because you haven't bothered to install some plugin, or because the 3rd party website is not made to proper standards.
Of course, windows comes with all browser plugins and codecs preinstalled doesn't it?
What, it doesn't? Well that must be what makes it better in this regard.
Of course, third parties that can't follow basic web spec means linux is at fault, doesn't it?
I have a specific situation in mind that I've run into at home. My wife was trying to watch some video or another, and it wanted Flash installed. So, I installed Flash. Still didn't work. Removed and reinstalled both firefox and flash, no go. She fired up her old Windows ME box, updated Flash, it worked perfectly.
Whether or not there's a problem with the site, Linux clearly failed as a user-friendly OS that round. If your browser only loads half the sites on the internet, blaming the sites for bad code won't draw any more users. They'll go with the crappier browser that loads 90% of sites properly.
Some people will mess up their OS, be it linux or windows, it never ceases to amaze me how they'll publicly blame the OS for that.
You completely failed at reading that post. I especially like how you skipped over the last line:
Linux is not an OS for the meek. If a user isn't willing to spend some time getting to know it and learn how to use it properly, it's a lot less tolerant of mistakes than Windows. It's not ready for prime time, and won't be until someone makes it idiot-friendly (which may not be a good thing).
Let me repeat the last part: WHICH MAY NOT BE A GOOD THING. Microsoft's mistake was aiming at the lowest common denominator. They wanted to make an OS that your average moron could use easily, and did so. Along with that, they made an OS that was full of security holes and allowed apps far more access than any reasonably-designed OS should.
If you want to see Linux become a mainstream OS, you're going to have to dumb it down. If you dumb it down, you make it vulnerable, and it loses its primary advantage over Windows: security.
It's pretty clear that you really haven't used Linux lately.
Ubuntu 5.10, installed it a little over two months ago on my laptop. I love it, but it was a nightmare getting my wireless card to work.
you are dropped into a working, functional environment that fully supports your graphics card (unlike any ugly Windows install at 640x480)
Because flashy graphics make such a big difference in the installation process.
Actually, I've had one old system (an HP eVectra) that would not display the Linux installer correctly. The bottom third of the screen was off-screen...it probably would have worked better at 640x480.
After the reboot you're dropped straight into a slick gui. Tons of apps are accessible straight from the Gnome, KDE, or even "Start" menu depending on what gui screenshot you picked at the install.
Whether those apps are what you are looking for is a different story entirely.
I recently went looking for a PHP development package for my Ubuntu laptop. None of the installations I tried with apt-get worked, and I learned the meaning of dependency hell when I tried to download and compile a couple on my own.
Even cooler? Many distros include an "Add/Remove" programs app that *actually works*. If you want to add some software you are presented with a list of categories, so just browse to the type of app and then the specific program you want to install and it's downloaded and installed straight from the Internet. So easy!
Good luck if your only connection option is dial-up.
The OS X kernel has been in the news alot this past year, whether it's: -why its slow, -Mach/micro-kernel makes it bad, -it's going closed source -and what not
make sense now?
The sentence sucked, but it made sense in a bad grammar sort of way.
Also known as "boot off install CD", just like Linux.
2. answer a few questions
3. when cd tray opens, remove cd and reboot
Umm...haven't installed Windows lately, have you?
4. for driver_cd in driver_cds: cross fingers; GOTO 1
For drivers_not_on_linux_cd: cross fingers; goto internet; hope you find what you need.
5.... some time later...
6. insert app cd
7. answer a few questions
8. for app_cd in app_cds: GOTO 6
Linux: install package, update, wash, rinse, repeat. No significant difference, except for the swapping of CDs (which I rarely do, since most of my apps are downloads and reside on a hard drive).
9. update antivirus
10. set OS to auto-update
11. set antivirus to auto-update
#11 == #9. These three can be grouped as one, like you did with #4.
12. every once in a while: pay to update apps
What apps would those be?
13. once a year: reformat to get rid of spyware/malware/trojans/etc; GOTO 1
4 1/2 years running an XP install, and I *finally* got something two days ago. Just as well, gives me an excuse to do the reinstall I've been planning for a year or so now.
1. boot off install dvd...if you have a DVD-ROM. Of course, where do you get the install DVD? One doesn't exactly find Linux on store shelves most places.
2. answer a few questions...and pray your devices are all set up properly. Because if your 3Com 802.11b NIC doesn't install when you set up Breezy Badger, you're going to jump through some hoops to make it work. Trust me on this.
3. when dvd tray opens, remove dvd and reboot
4. set all apps and os to auto-update
"How do I do that?" "I can't find the app I want." "What about my games/apps from Windows?" "Hey I downloaded this program, what do I have to do to make it work?" "Why can't I just buy a CD and stick it in the drive to install a program like I do with Windows?" "Why won't (insert website or online media) load right?"
Linux is not an OS for the meek. If a user isn't willing to spend some time getting to know it and learn how to use it properly, it's a lot less tolerant of mistakes than Windows. It's not ready for prime time, and won't be until someone makes it idiot-friendly (which may not be a good thing).
IIS is more vulnerable because of Microsoft's thickheaded habit of hooking what should be a free-standing app deep into the OS. The same goes for Firefox vs. IE: IE's vulnerabilities would be a nonissue, except that IE is deep enough in the system to allow access to things outside the browser. That is supposedly being fixed with IE7, so that it works more like a browser should--on top of the OS.
The same goes for this problem with Word. If they'd get their hooks out of the OS, most of Microsoft's security holes would disappear...and it appears they have begun to learn that and are applying it to some degree in Vista.
When some other OS with some other standard office suite becomes the de facto standard for business AND for home users, we'll see the same sort of security breaches for that particular combination or software. It hasn't been done yet on because there are twenty (or more) times as many Windows machines, and Windows has a larger percentage of careless users.
When Joe Six Pack switches to Linux/Unix/Mac/whatever and MS is the underdog, suddenly they'll be the secure ones.
Incidentally, it's not trolling to point out that I haven't seen a virus since early 2000, and that was because I hated updating W2K on dialup and put it off.
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It occurs to me that a cellphone MMO would introduce a new threat: cell phones being stolen so that accounts can be pillaged.
They don't have to hack your account or anything special like that...you just forgot your cell phone on a desk for a few minutes, and when you came back you had somehow given away everything you had.
If you weren't posting AC (and I had mod points), I'd mod you up.
We don't expect our games to be realistic. Sure, we whine about them lacking realism both in appearance and mechanics, but in reality we all understand that we can't do everything in a game that we can do in real life. Like fire around a corner without exposing half our body in most FPS. But when we watch a movie, we expect to see as close to realism as we can get--without the tedium of real life. What is perfectly acceptable in a game is intolerable in a movie.
Back when it was possible to track down the spammers and e-mail them easily (~1998) I did this sort of thing on my own.
If I got spam from someone, I sent them an e-mail asking them to stop. When I got another one from them, I sent two. Then three, four, and so on. I made liberal use of free e-mail so they couldn't filter out my addressed, and eventually spammed one guy with 98 e-mails before he relented.
Multiply that by 500,000 users and you'd get one nasty spam attack. That's what these guys deserve: to get one e-mail for every e-mail they've sent to each address. Tens of millions of e-mails flooding their inboxes.
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PHP Cookbook, published by O'Reilly. I've found it quite useful.
I believe there's also a MySQL Cookbook, but my database use isn't so advanced that I need specific help on that just yet.
I'm still learning proper programming technique, while trying to learn PHP and MySQL and the fine points of CSS AND crank out a new web site that won't require a massive rewrite in a year.
The thought of Hillary shaking anything makes me nauseous.
Before you launch into yet another tirade against the president, bear in mind that our divided Congress consistently allows things like this. This isn't a Bush thing or a Republican thing. This is a beaurocratic, ivory tower, professional politician thing. This happens because we elect the very wealthy from both parties, so that the majority of our elective government has very little connection with their constituents. We create political dynasties, voting for celebrities rather than leaders. Our current political situation isn't due to one man or one party, but rather one entire nation ignoring its own wellbeing in favor of the candidate with the best sound-bites and the stiffest hair. We might as well be getting our political news from E!: who cares how they voted, let's find out which congressman is cheating on his wife this week and what Hillary wore to session today.
To strip politics out of the argument:
So that it's harder for identity theives to gather personal information.
Cellphones and landlines aren't secure. Encrypted voice adds a layer of security so that when your bank asks for your SSN, you are a little safer giving it over the phone.
What BS. So the man can't afford a PC, but he could afford a Wifi router or extension ?
You can get DSL here for $13 a month. It comes with a Wifi router.
I paid $20 for my NIC, and got a $10 rebate check back on it later.
Even at retail prices a router and wireless card cost less than $100. And I was citing a specific experience (my own) users might encounter when setting up Linux.
I would say Linux is not an OS for BS people like you.
I use Linux on the majority of my PCs.
Don't know what Linux did to you,
Actually I get along great with Linux. It's the novice users I try to help get started on it that have had most of the bad experiences. It's much easier to teach someone the basics of using Windows than it is Linux.
Nearest Best Buy is 40 miles away, and the local "geeks" hate Linux.
I have two guesses:
http://www.answers.com/allot&r=67
http://www.answers.com/a+lot&r=67
Windows comes with about 300 fewer useful apps than your common-or-garden desktop linux, and most of your apps will have to be bought or sought out online instead of coming with the OS.
Wow, I guess windows is much better in that regard.
My point is, Joe Six Pack doesn't know what to do if he can't find the app he's looking for. He can't walk into a store and buy it, and if it's not in the application list (for example, Synaptic? something like that) he's going to have a hard time finding it.
Linux is not windows so you wouldn't expect it to run windows software, but if you want to, you can use wine.
Now please tell me exactly how to run my closed-source linux binaries on windows. What - "Windows" can't do that?
Well, lets just spin that as an advantage to windows then.
See, now, you're assuming I'm saying Linux sucks, whereas I'm actually trying to say that Linux isn't novice-friendly. The "I just want it to work" crowd isn't going to take the time to learn what they need to know to make Linux work for them. Windows is a lot more idiot-friendly.
You probably didn't need to download it by hand, you probably could have installed it using your package manager by point-and-click, as clearly stated in your documentation.
Actually, *I* did, because the package manager didn't work.
Because you can install almost everything via online repositories, which is easier and free.
Having to go to the shops and buy each app for large prices instead of installing through point-and-click, for no money - probably from the install disk or an online repository.
Aside from the obvious trouble for dial-up users, let's talk about convenience: a typical package manager (the only one I've used is Synaptic) has very little program information, and no help features. Walking into the store will give you shiny boxes to read and a semi-useful sales person (if you're lucky) to give you some advice if you need it.
Probably because you haven't bothered to install some plugin, or because the 3rd party website is not made to proper standards.
Of course, windows comes with all browser plugins and codecs preinstalled doesn't it?
What, it doesn't? Well that must be what makes it better in this regard.
Of course, third parties that can't follow basic web spec means linux is at fault, doesn't it?
I have a specific situation in mind that I've run into at home. My wife was trying to watch some video or another, and it wanted Flash installed. So, I installed Flash. Still didn't work. Removed and reinstalled both firefox and flash, no go. She fired up her old Windows ME box, updated Flash, it worked perfectly.
Whether or not there's a problem with the site, Linux clearly failed as a user-friendly OS that round. If your browser only loads half the sites on the internet, blaming the sites for bad code won't draw any more users. They'll go with the crappier browser that loads 90% of sites properly.
Some people will mess up their OS, be it linux or windows, it never ceases to amaze me how they'll publicly blame the OS for that.
You completely failed at reading that post. I especially like how you skipped over the last line:
Linux is not an OS for the meek. If a user isn't willing to spend some time getting to know it and learn how to use it properly, it's a lot less tolerant of mistakes than Windows. It's not ready for prime time, and won't be until someone makes it idiot-friendly (which may not be a good thing).
Let me repeat the last part: WHICH MAY NOT BE A GOOD THING. Microsoft's mistake was aiming at the lowest common denominator. They wanted to make an OS that your average moron could use easily, and did so. Along with that, they made an OS that was full of security holes and allowed apps far more access than any reasonably-designed OS should.
If you want to see Linux become a mainstream OS, you're going to have to dumb it down. If you dumb it down, you make it vulnerable, and it loses its primary advantage over Windows: security.
(obligatory) I always thought it was Canadian money. (/obligatory)
It's pretty clear that you really haven't used Linux lately.
Ubuntu 5.10, installed it a little over two months ago on my laptop. I love it, but it was a nightmare getting my wireless card to work.
you are dropped into a working, functional environment that fully supports your graphics card (unlike any ugly Windows install at 640x480)
Because flashy graphics make such a big difference in the installation process.
Actually, I've had one old system (an HP eVectra) that would not display the Linux installer correctly. The bottom third of the screen was off-screen...it probably would have worked better at 640x480.
After the reboot you're dropped straight into a slick gui. Tons of apps are accessible straight from the Gnome, KDE, or even "Start" menu depending on what gui screenshot you picked at the install.
Whether those apps are what you are looking for is a different story entirely.
I recently went looking for a PHP development package for my Ubuntu laptop. None of the installations I tried with apt-get worked, and I learned the meaning of dependency hell when I tried to download and compile a couple on my own.
Even cooler? Many distros include an "Add/Remove" programs app that *actually works*. If you want to add some software you are presented with a list of categories, so just browse to the type of app and then the specific program you want to install and it's downloaded and installed straight from the Internet. So easy!
Good luck if your only connection option is dial-up.
Parse it out:
The OS X kernel has been in the news alot this past year, whether it's:
-why its slow,
-Mach/micro-kernel makes it bad,
-it's going closed source
-and what not
make sense now?
The sentence sucked, but it made sense in a bad grammar sort of way.
Forgot to get the rest of it:
... some time later ...
1. run install cd
Also known as "boot off install CD", just like Linux.
2. answer a few questions
3. when cd tray opens, remove cd and reboot
Umm...haven't installed Windows lately, have you?
4. for driver_cd in driver_cds: cross fingers; GOTO 1
For drivers_not_on_linux_cd: cross fingers; goto internet; hope you find what you need.
5.
6. insert app cd
7. answer a few questions
8. for app_cd in app_cds: GOTO 6
Linux: install package, update, wash, rinse, repeat. No significant difference, except for the swapping of CDs (which I rarely do, since most of my apps are downloads and reside on a hard drive).
9. update antivirus
10. set OS to auto-update
11. set antivirus to auto-update
#11 == #9. These three can be grouped as one, like you did with #4.
12. every once in a while: pay to update apps
What apps would those be?
13. once a year: reformat to get rid of spyware/malware/trojans/etc; GOTO 1
4 1/2 years running an XP install, and I *finally* got something two days ago. Just as well, gives me an excuse to do the reinstall I've been planning for a year or so now.
1. boot off install dvd ...if you have a DVD-ROM. Of course, where do you get the install DVD? One doesn't exactly find Linux on store shelves most places.
...and pray your devices are all set up properly. Because if your 3Com 802.11b NIC doesn't install when you set up Breezy Badger, you're going to jump through some hoops to make it work. Trust me on this.
2. answer a few questions
3. when dvd tray opens, remove dvd and reboot
4. set all apps and os to auto-update
"How do I do that?" "I can't find the app I want." "What about my games/apps from Windows?" "Hey I downloaded this program, what do I have to do to make it work?" "Why can't I just buy a CD and stick it in the drive to install a program like I do with Windows?" "Why won't (insert website or online media) load right?"
Linux is not an OS for the meek. If a user isn't willing to spend some time getting to know it and learn how to use it properly, it's a lot less tolerant of mistakes than Windows. It's not ready for prime time, and won't be until someone makes it idiot-friendly (which may not be a good thing).
Funny how Apache isn't an operating system.
IIS is more vulnerable because of Microsoft's thickheaded habit of hooking what should be a free-standing app deep into the OS. The same goes for Firefox vs. IE: IE's vulnerabilities would be a nonissue, except that IE is deep enough in the system to allow access to things outside the browser. That is supposedly being fixed with IE7, so that it works more like a browser should--on top of the OS.
The same goes for this problem with Word. If they'd get their hooks out of the OS, most of Microsoft's security holes would disappear...and it appears they have begun to learn that and are applying it to some degree in Vista.
It helps not to open infected files :)
When some other OS with some other standard office suite becomes the de facto standard for business AND for home users, we'll see the same sort of security breaches for that particular combination or software. It hasn't been done yet on because there are twenty (or more) times as many Windows machines, and Windows has a larger percentage of careless users.
When Joe Six Pack switches to Linux/Unix/Mac/whatever and MS is the underdog, suddenly they'll be the secure ones.
Incidentally, it's not trolling to point out that I haven't seen a virus since early 2000, and that was because I hated updating W2K on dialup and put it off.
Utterly typical of MS to attempt to force their crap software on the world (but thank god its only a link to their crap content).
God forbid they use the software they developed on the website they created to create the content they're providing to you at no cost.
It's no different than other proprietary formats like Real Audio. It sucks that they exist, but don't make it into more than it is.
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It occurs to me that a cellphone MMO would introduce a new threat: cell phones being stolen so that accounts can be pillaged.
They don't have to hack your account or anything special like that...you just forgot your cell phone on a desk for a few minutes, and when you came back you had somehow given away everything you had.
LOG OFF AND DRIVE!
I expect it to be all the rage at mall kiosks and gun shows.
Or...get this...a controller that vibrates! You know, so that you don't have to plug in and use a second peripheral.
If you weren't posting AC (and I had mod points), I'd mod you up.
We don't expect our games to be realistic. Sure, we whine about them lacking realism both in appearance and mechanics, but in reality we all understand that we can't do everything in a game that we can do in real life. Like fire around a corner without exposing half our body in most FPS. But when we watch a movie, we expect to see as close to realism as we can get--without the tedium of real life. What is perfectly acceptable in a game is intolerable in a movie.
In other words, Darwin didn't present the idea, he proved it. He also explicitly noted the prior presentations of the idea on various occasions.
Most notably at the beginning of Origin of Species. Darwin cites prior and contemporary works on which much of his work was based.
The more you know.
Back when it was possible to track down the spammers and e-mail them easily (~1998) I did this sort of thing on my own.
If I got spam from someone, I sent them an e-mail asking them to stop. When I got another one from them, I sent two. Then three, four, and so on. I made liberal use of free e-mail so they couldn't filter out my addressed, and eventually spammed one guy with 98 e-mails before he relented.
Multiply that by 500,000 users and you'd get one nasty spam attack. That's what these guys deserve: to get one e-mail for every e-mail they've sent to each address. Tens of millions of e-mails flooding their inboxes.
This raises an interesting question. How much would it cost to rent a PS3, and how long would you have to rent it to have spent as much as buying one?
And it will hit $1000 on Ebay
I was wondering how I'd pay for Christmas this year.