At The Crossroads by JohnKatz
“As a society, we can try to make cyberspace conform to the rules of physical space. Or we can recognize the extraordinary potential of this new culture, and invest cyberspace with laws and values and properties that are fundamentally different.”
Embrace change or live in the past. I choose chage.
THE REGISTER: Linux is more popular than sex
“There were 11,313,520 Web pages found for the Linux search but only 10,755,265 found for Windows.
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When he put the word sex into the AltaVista search engine, only 9,589,620 were found.”
Joel on Software Strategy Letter II: Chicken and Egg Problems
“The idea of advertising is to lie without getting caught.
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You should be starting to get some ideas about how to break the chicken and egg problem: provide a backwards compatibility mode which either delivers a truckload of chickens, or a truckload of eggs, depending on how you look at it, and sit back and rake in the bucks.”
WINE is the key. Also, the same reason that Perl and Python NEED to be in Mozilla to get onto every desktop. I bet Perl being on almost all UNIX boxes at the dawn of the web made Perl the defacto standard for CGIs.
Contagion: Why Our Dependency on Microsoft Makes Us Susceptible
“Ask any biologist, doctor, historian, or agricultural specialist: what happens when you introduce a severe contagion into a monoculture population with little natural resistance? You get pandemic — widespread infection and damage. Whether it is measles and smallpox killing something like 90% of the Aztecs, Dutch Elm disease destroying a mainstay of the American forest, or ILOVEYOU in Outlook damaging files on machines worldwide, the result is a massive and quick-spreading epidemic.”
Diversity is healthy, in culture, biology and operating systems.
Senate Democrats to introduce bill mandating Web privacy standards
It is about damm time. Now lets hope the bill goes far enough to protect personal privacy.
ActiveState Selects Mozilla Platform for Komodo: Will develop multi-language cross-platform IDE
�Our contributions to the Mozilla open source effort will start with adding Python and Perl bindings to XPCOM, Mozilla’s component architecture. This change will open the Mozilla architecture and eventually make it available to Perl and Python programmers.�
I hope this gets Perl and Python into the main Mozilla distribution.
[via CamWorld]
Congradulations Michele on making the final cut, you are not a Bengal Cheerleader!
” is a cool little php web script. It allows you to do all things “weblog” OK, hold on Philski, what do you mean by that? What I mean is, you can create weblogs and iplogs. Weblogs are like diaries – you can write in them at will. You use a spiffy interface to manage your plogs, and add/remove/edit entries in a given plog. So you can have a plog with quotes, or with information on a trip. Or use it as a diary. And there’s the iplogs… it’s a comprehensive counter and logging functions. Damn simple to set up, insert two lines of code into any given page and you’re off. It stores not only the time of the hit and the IP, but
also the reversed IP (the hostname) and the page. This means you can have multiple pages on a single counter. They are all measures seperately, but this is cool because it gives you a simple database not a complex, clittered one. All the stats are accessible to you by a clean interface, the same one you use for plogs.”
[via GeneHack