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Re: [Alug] Web of mail
by MJ Ray 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

Raphael Mankin <raph(a)panache.demon.co.uk> writes: > > * Encourages mixing of code, layout and content > But that is its whole rasion d'etre. As it is for TTK and mason. I'm not saying that's a good thing... > > * It has an object system but no-one uses it > You clearly mix in the werong company. Mix with quality design and > implementation teams and you will find that the object system is > used, and used consistently and extensively. "No-one" is an approximation. Please assume a 1% observation error, as usual. ;-) > > * It has all the security problems given in the "study in scarlet" doc > It is quite possible to write bad PHP, as well as bad perl or C/C++. It is > also possible to write good PHP. *Possible* but far more difficult and no-one (see above) does. Interestingly, I don't like perl either. The better string handling is nice and is the main reason I use it at all any more, but the price of the bolted-on and under-used OO system is too high.

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[Cyril Bouthors <cyril@bouthors.org>] Geographical representation of Free Software Developpers
by MJ Ray 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

From: Cyril Bouthors <cyril(a)bouthors.org> Subject: Geographical representation of Free Software Developpers Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:54:32 +0200 Hello, A tool allowing geographical representation of Free Software Developpers and organizations on a terrestrial globe map is now available at http://france.fsfeurope.org/coposys/index.en.html I'd like to reach as much people as possible involved in the Free Software Foundation. Please have a look and register. Please feel free to forward this announcement to other appropriate mailing lists. Thank you for your patience. -- Cyril Bouthors -- phone:+33 1 41 66 47 06 fax:+33 1 41 66 47 10

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Re: [Alug] Web of mail
by Martyn Drake 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

On 04 Aug 2001 23:44:52 +0100 Andrew John Savory wrote: > Gah! Sorry, but MySQL is probably the worst choice you could ever > make if you want to use SQL or have a dynamic web site. For > goodness sake, please use a PROPER database! Oracle, Postgres, even > SQL Server is a better choice than MySQL. Where I work, we're nowing using Postgres for all new clients. We will be converting the majority of clients that use MySQL over to Postgres over the course of many months. But everbody agrees that Postgres is the way to go.. Regards, Martyn

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Re: [Alug] Web of mail
by MJ Ray 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

"D" <dsc(a)clara.net> writes: > PHP/MySQL one of the best combinations for any website! PHP is bad because... * Encourages mixing of code, layout and content * It has an object system but no-one uses it * It has all the security problems given in the "study in scarlet" doc MySQL is bad because... * It encourages use of lots of non-standard SQL extensions * It doesn't crash neatly (full disks are sometimes fun) * Its performance for non-trivial operations is often suboptimal Why do I fell like dropping chaff now?

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Re: [Alug] Document Formats
by MJ Ray 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)alug.org.uk> writes: > I have just tried to download a document from the web site of my local > MEP only to find its in bloody MS Word Format! Antiword, Abiword, even StarOffice/OpenOffice. It can be very entertaining to run strings over it and see what they didn't mean to publish, though ;-)

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Re: [Alug] test message
by MJ Ray 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

Andrew John Savory <a.savory(a)btinternet.com> writes: > Actually, I've just switched to Evolution, as I was getting fed up with > mutt's misbehaviour. I have to say, I'd thoroughly recommend it to > anyone looking for a decent GUI Outlook-style mail client. Aside from a > few annoying crashes (hey, it *is* beta), it's a very nice package. > > I particularly like the absurdly easy to configure mail filtering. > Goodbye procmail, you won't be missed! Well, while people are recommending stupid email clients, I'll just mention that Gnus does everything you could ever possibly wish for in a mail client, including indexed mail spools (for fast searching, no database server required), write-and-forget automatic mail filtering (such silliness as auto-creation of new folders is possible), adaptive scoring (watches what you read and scores up and down as needed) and of course off-line newsgroup reading from multiple servers. The price for this power is a bit of extra effort to set the damn thing up. If you know (X)Emacs already, it will help. As with all mail clients though, back up your mail before trying it ;-)

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Re: [Alug] IRC Nick names
by MJ Ray 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

David Freeman <david_freeman(a)rocketmail.com> writes: > I would just like to remind members that it is incredibly rude to take > the Nick of another Member. I cannot emphasis enough how offensive this > and if it is done again action will be taken. Nicknames are not owned, although nickserv thinks differently to me on that one and will win in a fair fight.

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Re: [Alug] Code Red worm is unreliable because...
by MJ Ray 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

Since modularisation of apache, it looks like all but one of those alerts are in extension modules. Interesting :-)

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Re: [Alug] Grub Glorious Grub!
by David Freeman 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

On Sat, 4 Aug 2001 13:43:20 +0100 Steve Fosdick wrote: > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:27:19AM +0100, Adam Bower wrote: > > > What I meant to actually say in simple english was that I believe > > the MBR only stores the current active partition and looks there for > > the boot record instruction bit. > > Perhaps it would help to understand more of the boot process, so here > it as to the best of my knowledge. > <snip discription of how linux boots> I have just worked out who borrowed the understanding the Linux Kernel book at the last meet :o) Steve, will you be at the next meet? Thanks D ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds

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Next Meeting
by David Freeman 05 Aug '01

05 Aug '01

Ok I have finally written a web page for the next meet, complete with MAPs! http://freemadi.alug.org.uk/alug/martlemeet.html or http://www.alug.org.uk/freemadi/alug/martlemeet.html ===== -------------------- "We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." Linus Torvalds

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