On Wednesday 03 May 2017 05:20:51 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 05:35:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I've been looking at nginx myself, and wondering if it was any > > easier to setup. Apache2 can be a mutant bear with 6 sore paws. > > This is a nice description ;-) > > Remember that in its very early infancy, "Apache" was a pun on "a > patchy server", because it started its life as a set of patches on top > of NCSA httpd.
Interesting bit of history, that. > XML was all the rage at that time and supposed to reconciliate > executive world (IBM's SGML) with the hippy early Internet (HTML). The > result of such marriages tends to be an abominable monster (tell that > to me, who at $DAYJOB have to watch "Agile Bureaucracy" unfurling in > front of me... I'm too old for that shit). At 82 & long retired, so am I. But I'm still carving xml right now, prettying up the working face of linuxcnc. > Combine that with the raging early success of Apache (which was, > without doubt, very much deserved, for all the outstanding people > working there. Remember the competition? Shudder!). That success > brings on what I call the "no backtracking" curse: if you have so many > users relying on you, you are not supposed to backtrack on any design > decision, be it as shitty as it might. And you do take shitty design > decisions when you're moving fast. Absolutely. But generally, my audience was one tv station, so I had the agility to fix it once I saw that it wasn't working that well. But it wasn't drudgery to me, I was having immense fun proving it didn't take $20,000 to do THAT job, I was doing it with a far better user interface, and 4x faster than the 20 kilobuck kit from the Grass Valley Group folks. And sold it to the tv station as a trs-80 color computer 2, with 2 disk drives, for $250. Running a program I wrote in basic09. Gotta love it, Tomas. > cheers > -- tomás Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>