His later points are pretty Apache-specific, but most of the early stuff (if-else, variables, case sensitivity, and so on) are all symptoms of trying to produce an ad hoc implementation of a general coding problem-- config file parsing-- instead of doing it just once in a library.
This problem is *everywhere*. Why are we still putting up with differently-designed config files for your webserver, your ftp server, your mailserver, your nameserver and heaven knows what else, all supported by their own pieces of custom code which, like Apache's, each have the possibility of growing up to be subtly wrong?
I know the Windows idea of a centralised registry sucks in too many ways (inscrutable binary is no match for human-readable text files), but there's one thing it's got right: all the apps which access their configuration use a consistent API to do so. Is it an impossible dream to hope that someone gets a bunch of large free software projects to agree on what needs to go into a libconfigparse, then implements it, and provides bindings for major languages? Then we might stand a chance of avoiding weird config file problems cropping up in Apache and everywhere else, slightly differently each time.
the final days of campaigning were marred in some areas of the country piloting all-postal votes by allegations of fraud and voter intimidation
These areas were using postal votes. That's not the same as pencil-and-paper voting in a polling station, which is what was being suggested as an alternative for the US.
And two candidates in Slough were forced to roll a dice to decide the outcome of the election after two recounts failed to split them.
In other words, there was a tie. This is independent of the method used to count the votes.
I think I understand most of your points, but could you explain this one?
The supply will remain small, because thanks to the interference of gasoline, you can't support an infrastructure that produces the stuff with the explicit goal of using it as fuel.
I can see how, if this went something like mainstream, the price would become approximately equal to that of gasoline. But I don't see how the existence of gasoline stops people producing cooking oil deliberately to use as fuel (say, if growing the sunflowers or whatever proved to be easier than digging crude oil out of the ground).
Re-implementing the Z-machine is nothing to be ashamed of. Someone's done it in Perl, and someone else did it as an Emacs major mode... and heck, I'm working on a pure Javascript Z-machine for Mozilla </plug>. There's so much good new Z-machine material coming out each year now that building new Z-machines for modern environments isn't just some sort of digital archaeology to relive the Infocom glory days, though of course there's that side to it as well. It's a living tradition, not a reconstructed dead culture.
If the Cincinatti media had googled him, they'd have found exactly what they already knew: that there was a warrant out for his arrest. The only sort of person who could have found both halves of the story by googling is the sort of person who did: someone who knew him and his whereabouts personally, but needed Google to tell her that he was a fugitive.
No, that's not how it works at all..gov is a top-level domain. ".gov.us" doesn't exist.
Default domains have nothing to do with it: whatever country you're in, a hostname ending with ".gov" refers to the US government's root domain.
For example, if you're in the UK and you fancy visiting a US government site, you'd type, say, "www.whitehouse.gov", not "www.whitehouse.gov.us", because that hostname doesn't exist. Conversely, if you wanted to visit a UK government site, you'd type, say, "www.number-10.gov.uk", not "www.number-10.gov", because that hostname doesn't exist either.
He will be knighted, just the same as everyone else (visit to Buckingham Palace, sword on the shoulder, medal, etc)
Yes, except there'll be no sword involved. As the page you link to says, "Foreign citizens occasionally receive honorary knighthoods; they are not dubbed..." Foreign nationals (along with women and clergymen) don't receive the "accolade" (the touch of the sword on the shoulder) and cannot call themselves "Sir".
There are two states who divide up electors that way. If I may so express it:
"Nebraska and Maine
Are the only two states
Where electors divide
In proportional rates
With more weight to large shares
And less weight to small.
The forty-eight others
Are winner-takes-all."
Both states give two electors to the party who go the most votes, and then divide the others according to the shares they won in the election. Neither state is really big enough for this to make a difference, though.
Here's
some more information about it.
Yes, I'm serious. Suppose someone's on a large private network which uses 10.0.0.0/8. Even though their address isn't routable by the public Internet, there could be tens of thousands of hosts on the private network which can route to it just fine-- some private networks are *huge*.
Unroutable addresses? Anyone on private corporate networks which are large enough to use 10.0.0.0/8, who are unfortunate enough to have been allocated the IP addresses 10.0.0.{1,2,3}, may be experiencing a little more network load than usual today as every machine in the place tries to query them.
That only applies to a "person holding any office of profit or trust under them", i.e. the United States, doesn't it? Giuliani was a city official, and had even finished his time doing that when he was knighted.
(IANAL, however, and I could be talking nonsense. Corrections welcome.)
FWIW, there was an amendment proposed in 1810 which would have removed American citizenship from those who held it and accepted knighthoods:
"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them."
It was passed by the House and the Senate, but fortunately for Giuliani it wasn't ratified by enough of the states to become law.
The movies work fine in xine, too. I had to launch it from the command-line rather than the browser because of the weird protocol (what *is* mms, anyway?)
Here are the commands you want, to save you digging around the page:
xine mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/mrkippling- birth.asf
xine mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/johnsmiths- babies.asf
xine mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/carenz-skul l_gore.asf
xine mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/sylvania-ro aches.asf
and of course xine mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/honda-cog.a sf
Remove the spaces Slashcode's put in the URLs, of course.
Have things much improved since AMK's post about why he was stopping Python Parrot development, then? I'd been following the development of Parrot for Python with some interest at that point, but after I saw the arguments put forward in that post I'd assumed that non-Perl Parrot development was all over, at least for a good while.
Slashdot Mirror
from the where's-my-root-prompt dept.
$ sudo gainroot
There it is!
This problem is *everywhere*. Why are we still putting up with differently-designed config files for your webserver, your ftp server, your mailserver, your nameserver and heaven knows what else, all supported by their own pieces of custom code which, like Apache's, each have the possibility of growing up to be subtly wrong?
I know the Windows idea of a centralised registry sucks in too many ways (inscrutable binary is no match for human-readable text files), but there's one thing it's got right: all the apps which access their configuration use a consistent API to do so. Is it an impossible dream to hope that someone gets a bunch of large free software projects to agree on what needs to go into a libconfigparse, then implements it, and provides bindings for major languages? Then we might stand a chance of avoiding weird config file problems cropping up in Apache and everywhere else, slightly differently each time.
% dig first10-digitprimefoundinconsecutivedigitsofe.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:. 86400 IN CNAME pjn.qsrch.net.
first10-digitprimefoundinconsecutivedigitsofe.com
the final days of campaigning were marred in some areas of the country piloting all-postal votes by allegations of fraud and voter intimidation
These areas were using postal votes. That's not the same as pencil-and-paper voting in a polling station, which is what was being suggested as an alternative for the US.
And two candidates in Slough were forced to roll a dice to decide the outcome of the election after two recounts failed to split them.
In other words, there was a tie. This is independent of the method used to count the votes.
There are photos of his statue here and here. Having seen these, I think I should go and see it in person some day.
I think I understand most of your points, but could you explain this one?
I can see how, if this went something like mainstream, the price would become approximately equal to that of gasoline. But I don't see how the existence of gasoline stops people producing cooking oil deliberately to use as fuel (say, if growing the sunflowers or whatever proved to be easier than digging crude oil out of the ground).
7: They're using MS Exchange SMTP servers, which bog down incredibly under load, especially if you run any separate service such as spam processing.
Nah, it's sendmail:$ dig -t MX tu-bs.de
[...]
tu-bs.de. 172738 IN MX 10 rzcomm5.rz.tu-bs.de.
$ telnet rzcomm5.rz.tu-bs.de smtp
Trying 134.169.9.40...
Connected to rzcomm5.rz.tu-bs.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 rzcomm5.rz.tu-bs.de ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.1/8.11.1; Mon, 24 May 2004 04:00:51 +0200 (METDST)
Re-implementing the Z-machine is nothing to be ashamed of. Someone's done it in Perl, and someone else did it as an Emacs major mode... and heck, I'm working on a pure Javascript Z-machine for Mozilla </plug>. There's so much good new Z-machine material coming out each year now that building new Z-machines for modern environments isn't just some sort of digital archaeology to relive the Infocom glory days, though of course there's that side to it as well. It's a living tradition, not a reconstructed dead culture.
And, they should f'n register a trademark...
They are indeed registering it as a trademark.
"dra.hmg.gb" is still around:
dra.hmg.gb. 10786 IN SOA ns1.cs.ucl.ac.uk. liaison.ess.cs.ucl.ac.uk. 200305161 14400 1800 3600000 360000
I don't know of any hosts in it, though.
If the Cincinatti media had googled him, they'd have found exactly what they already knew: that there was a warrant out for his arrest. The only sort of person who could have found both halves of the story by googling is the sort of person who did: someone who knew him and his whereabouts personally, but needed Google to tell her that he was a fugitive.
No, that's not how it works at all. .gov is a top-level domain. ".gov.us" doesn't exist.
Default domains have nothing to do with it: whatever country you're in, a hostname ending with ".gov" refers to the US government's root domain.
For example, if you're in the UK and you fancy visiting a US government site, you'd type, say, "www.whitehouse.gov", not "www.whitehouse.gov.us", because that hostname doesn't exist. Conversely, if you wanted to visit a UK government site, you'd type, say, "www.number-10.gov.uk", not "www.number-10.gov", because that hostname doesn't exist either.
He will be knighted, just the same as everyone else (visit to Buckingham Palace, sword on the shoulder, medal, etc)
Yes, except there'll be no sword involved. As the page you link to says, "Foreign citizens occasionally receive honorary knighthoods; they are not dubbed..." Foreign nationals (along with women and clergymen) don't receive the "accolade" (the touch of the sword on the shoulder) and cannot call themselves "Sir".
There are two states who divide up electors that way. If I may so express it:
"Nebraska and Maine
Are the only two states
Where electors divide
In proportional rates
With more weight to large shares
And less weight to small.
The forty-eight others
Are winner-takes-all."
Both states give two electors to the party who go the most votes, and then divide the others according to the shares they won in the election. Neither state is really big enough for this to make a difference, though. Here's some more information about it.
LiveJournal is publishing SPF records since they got joe-jobbed a few months back:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
marnanel@spectrum:~$ dig livejournal.com txt
[...]
livejournal.com. 3153 IN TXT "v=spf1 a mx ip4:66.150.15.140 ?all"
(PS: I'm nothing to do with LJ other than being a satisfied user.)
Yes, I'm serious. Suppose someone's on a large private network which uses 10.0.0.0/8. Even though their address isn't routable by the public Internet, there could be tens of thousands of hosts on the private network which can route to it just fine-- some private networks are *huge*.
Unroutable addresses? Anyone on private corporate networks which are large enough to use 10.0.0.0/8, who are unfortunate enough to have been allocated the IP addresses 10.0.0.{1,2,3}, may be experiencing a little more network load than usual today as every machine in the place tries to query them.
Beware the Ghost of Usenet^H^H^H^H^HBlog Postings Past!</gratuitous>
The full Borges story is here. Like much of his work, it's a good read.
That only applies to a "person holding any office of profit or trust under them", i.e. the United States, doesn't it? Giuliani was a city official, and had even finished his time doing that when he was knighted.
(IANAL, however, and I could be talking nonsense. Corrections welcome.)
FWIW, there was an amendment proposed in 1810 which would have removed American citizenship from those who held it and accepted knighthoods:
It was passed by the House and the Senate, but fortunately for Giuliani it wasn't ratified by enough of the states to become law.
Good for him! and about time too.
And why stop at a knighthood? They should make him an Url.
Sadly, that sort of thing is all too common. It varies by state, though-- for example, it's explicitly legal in Florida.
IANAL.
The movies work fine in xine, too. I had to launch it from the command-line rather than the browser because of the weird protocol (what *is* mms, anyway?)
Here are the commands you want, to save you digging around the page:
xine mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/mrkippling- birth.asf- babies.asfl l_gore.asfo aches.asf a sf
xine mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/johnsmiths
xine mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/carenz-sku
xine mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/sylvania-r
and of course
xine mms://windowsmedia.dvlabs.com/adcritic/honda-cog.
Remove the spaces Slashcode's put in the URLs, of course.
(And there's only one P in "Mr. Kipling"...)
From the article:
I hope nobody needs to have that pointed out to them! Nice to see that Google's taking a hand in making it slightly less true, though.
Have things much improved since AMK's post about why he was stopping Python Parrot development, then? I'd been following the development of Parrot for Python with some interest at that point, but after I saw the arguments put forward in that post I'd assumed that non-Perl Parrot development was all over, at least for a good while.
(Googling on this now, I find that someone else was working on Parrot for Python at least six months ago, so I guess I shouldn't have given up hope.)