RasterWeb!If you don’t pay, the bottom-line is that you lose. It may look like you’re not losing, but you are.
Cost of Apache: $0
Cost of Red Hat Linux: $0
Running www.scripting.com using Apache on Red Hat Linux: Priceless
The word “free” has many meanings, as does the word “open.” I’ll leave it as an exercise of the interested reader to investigate how those words apply to software…
Need to change or get a file’s type or creator code? Got the Developer Tools installed?
Look in the /Developer/Tools directory for command line utilities GetFileInfo and SetFile.
These are quite useful if, you know, you have to deal with those people living in the past, using an old, outdated operating system like Mac OS 9… ;)
(Update: Looks like Mac OS X Hints has a blurb on GetFileInfo and SetFile as well.)
There are also other goodies in the /Developer/Tools direcory, but we’ll deal with those later.
You know you’re a GNU-freak or license-lunatic when you add the phrase ‘as in beer’ or ‘as in speech’ after every occurence of the word ‘free’…
For instance, if you’re at your local bank, and the teller says “Would you like a free balloon?” and your response is “Is it free as in speech?” – you need help…
Or your initials are RMS…
Chances are, you can ignore this… It’s probably useful only to me:
Resume normal operation… Now!
The scene is an imaginary tech support transaction…
user: This web site keeps making my browser quit!
support: Can you tell me exactly what happens?
user: Well, I went to the site, and it was full of good information, and it said ‘PRESS CONTROL-D TO BOOKMARK US!”
support: And what did you do?
user: I held down the Control Key, and then pressed the D key…
support: And what happened?
user: The browser quit!
support: Hmmm, what browser are you using?
user: Lynx!
support: ???