Re: Amazon used lisp & C exclusively?

Darren New <dnew@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Out of curiousity, what do you use symlinks for that putting the name
of the file in a configuration wouldn't do better?

ln -s /path/to/music/mp3-file ~/public_html/mp3s/

Much easier than finagling access to the system httpd.conf, no?

Or getting the syadmin to play with the IE preferences...

Or sharing out a 5.3 GB file in multiple locations without taking up
multiples of 5.3 GB of space...

For all your questions, "man chattr". This usually goes over most
windows users heads too.

Nah. I knew about it. I don't know what all the privs it supports are,
off the top of my head. But I'll note a couple things: that subsystem
is relatively new, and lots of software doesn't support it.

All software supports it--it's part of the OS. If the software tries to
violate a condition set with chattr, an error occurs...

Whups, you mean "themes", I mean "window manager"? I take this as
"no" if so.

No. It comes with two window managers, and you can buy more if you
want. You know, the executable that starts up when you log in? That
thing. It comes with explorer and progman. If you write embedded
Windows software (like for kiosks, say), you can buy ones that are
much more limited.

Linux comes with many more window managers, for many fewer dollars...

Excellent! What package besides GNU Money does double-entry
bookkeeping and US tax preparation? Because GNU Money doesn't do
either of those, last I checked a couple months ago.

GnuCash does dobl-enetry bookkeeping; it also has some tax-related
features, although they are not sufficient to keep pace with the
annually-changing tax laws of the United States; they are, however, good
enough to _feed_ software which handles said annually-changing laws.

This is a point where proprietary software wins; I am not certain that
it's an argument in favour of slavery software: wouldn't the ideal be
one in which the tax laws changed very rarely indeed?

--
Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl>
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
--Quentin Crisp
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