Comments on: Essential software

By: Pozycjonowanie

Pozycjonowanie — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:15:44 +0000

Someone else below asked this already about antispam scripts.
I am getting nailed with Spam on my website mails and in our blog website - now its offline too

much spam. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn’t any point in leaving it up

and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for help, Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland

By: Clancy

Clancy — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:28:58 +0000

(Sample comment to see if I can edit my comments)

By: cbd

cbd — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 19:17:15 +0000

Installing the GNU toolkit on AIX would make it less painful. Although I could probably put up with AIX if there were sysadmins around 24/7 to kill spinning processes, etc.

BTW, for those of you who’ve made accounts, I’ll be tweaking the config so you can edit more stuff. I plan more tweaking when I go up to WP 2.0 later this semester.

By: Erich

Erich — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 16:44:11 +0000

Bradley aks, “But why in hale does UVa use AIX?” Good question. Here’s their FAQ. The cluster runs on IBM RS6000 hardware. It would certainly make my life easier if they were to run Linux (which IBM supports on this hardware). The differences between the GNU toolset and the non-GNU stuff is just significant enough to really be a pain.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:29:16 +0000

Ack, pretend the double “right?” in that comment isn’t there. I’m going to create an account right this minute so I can edit future comments.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 05:27:09 +0000

This is only marginally related, but you know how some people will refer to someone’s web site in a blog post but then type “(sorry, I’m way too lazy to link it)”? But they’re not too lazy to type out the testimonial that they’re too lazy to link to the site? It irritates me. If you’re too lazy to link, fine, but let it ride, you know?

To me, it’s a lot easier and faster to go ahead and do the link. But whatever. It makes me think of doing html code vs. using Dreamweaver, NVU, etc. To me it’s a lot easier to just do the code than to learn some tool that does the code for you. I guess it’s a matter of what you learn first, right? I learned html before I was ever exposed to an html editor. You’ve probably addressed this matter in some way in your research, Bradley, right?

By: cbd

cbd — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 04:45:38 +0000

Overkill is a God-given right. If you want to use Frame to make text files, go for it. Lots of folks use their mobile phones to tell the time. Why not?

But why in hale does UVa use AIX? What a piece of crap. I’m happy to say I have not been exposed to that monstrosity since August 2001, when I watched Allan West shut down the NWE 1.1 servers for the last time.

By: Erich

Erich — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:34:05 +0000

And another thing…I don’t approve of this pico-bashing. I still use Pico pretty much every day on the University’s AIX server, and I use nano at home in both Linux and Windows. It gets the job done.

By: Erich

Erich — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:29:51 +0000

Jonathan, you’re probably right that Framemaker is overkill in most situations, but I find that Frame is the only reasonably user-friendly application that applies paragraph and character styles in a non-intrusive way, and that allows me to focus on content, while knowing that the app won’t fsck up my formatting. I’m not nerdly enough to use LaTeX or to write in XML, although both those solutions seem acceptable too. Maybe Bradley’s right, and OOo can be configured to stay the hell out of the way. I hope so.

By: cbd

cbd — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 21:40:53 +0000

Spotlight doesn’t fix that problem, but Loook does. Why I didn’t Google for something like this before, I’ll never know.