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Larry Wall Talks Perl, Culture, and Community 123

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday December 14, 2008 @11:49AM from the wall-to-wall-coverage dept.

LostDiver writes "Computerworld Australia caught up recently with Larry Wall of Patch and Perl fame. He talks about the development of Perl as 'scratching an itch,' a release date for Perl 6 (Christmas day, year unknown) and beauty versus practicality. Computerworld also has some more information on the upcoming Perl 6. A while back they interviewed Bjarne Stroustrup of C++ fame as well." jamie pointed out a interesting, related video of a presentation by Clay Shirky from last year's Supernova conference in which he discusses why the Perl community (or any web community) drives progress and innovation.

Comment Re:projection (Score 1) 596

by munehiro on Monday October 20, 2008 @02:35AM (#25438023) Attached to: How Much Storage Will You Use 10 Years From Now?

inches? feet? what the hell of units are those ?

Wordpress 2.1.1 Release Compromised by Cracker 48

Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 03, 2007 @02:34AM from the not-my-emo-comments-and-angsty-statements dept.

GrumpySimon writes "The recent 2.1.1 release of the popular blog software Wordpress was compromised by a cracker who made it easier for to execute code remotely. This is interesting because the official release was quietly and subtly compromised, and has been in the wild for a few days now. There's no word on if any affected sites have been compromised, but anyone running Wordpress is urged to upgrade to 2.1.2 immediately, and admins can check their logs for access to 'theme.php' or 'feed.php', and query strings with 'ix=' or 'iz=' in them."

Submission + - The RIAA is trying to kill internet radio

Submitted by

sgeirk

on Friday March 02, 2007 @10:34PM

sgeirk writes: "The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB),announced the new Soundexchange royalty rates, which could spell the end for many independent webcasters, not to mention the simulcast signals for many commercial and non-commercial radio stations. In a nutshell, rates are going to double between now and 2010. Even webcasters who stream through services like Live365 may be in jeopardy, as such firms' business models never envisioned a royalty rate this high. For more information on this story go here."

Submission + - Comet McNaught Visible in Broad Daylight

Submitted by AbsoluteXyro on Sunday January 14, 2007 @04:35AM

AbsoluteXyro writes: As the amateur astronomers among us already know, Comet McNaught has been gracing the early morning and late evening skies... as it approaches the Sun, some estimate it has the potential to become 40 times brighter than Venus, or a magnitude of -8.8! In fact, it has recently been reported at SpaceWeather.com that Comet McNaught is now visible in broad daylight! From the article: "It's fantastic," reports Wayne Winch of Bishop, California. "I put the sun behind a neighbor's house to block the glare and the comet popped right into view. You can even see the tail."

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