Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread David Powers
than Dan's statistics? I consider this conversation closed. -- David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread David Powers
of this list publishing everyone's address, and then attacking me for criticising him for such a dumb move. __ David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread David Powers
member to hand the addresses of 100 members on a plate to all and sundry. As I've said before, if Dan's response had been, Sorry, that wasn't meant to happen, that would have been the end of it. And now this really must be the end of it. __ David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January,2008:php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-20 Thread David Powers
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[PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-19 Thread David Powers
PostTrack [Dan Brown] wrote: Posting Summary for PHP-General List Thanks a bundle, Dan, for publicizing everyone's email address. All the addresses are in plain text, even on the news server web interface ready for spambots to harvest. -- David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-19 Thread David Powers
, there should be a clear statement of privacy policy on the PHP site. If there is one, I couldn't find it. -- David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-19 Thread David Powers
Daniel Brown wrote: On Jan 19, 2008 12:30 PM, David Powers wrote: Yes, and it's obvious how that happens. It's because people, including yourself, don't have the courtesy to set up your email or newreader program to remove the sender's address from replies. By removing the email address

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-19 Thread David Powers
didn't give you permission to publish my details, and I'm pretty sure the same goes for just about everyone else. Instead of apologizing to everyone here, you have sought to ridicule my position. -- David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-19 Thread David Powers
service or whatever else.' By publishing everyone's email address, you screwed up, but don't have the decency to admit it. And at no time have I stooped to calling you names. __ David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Posting Summary for Week Ending 18 January, 2008: php-general@lists.php.net

2008-01-19 Thread David Powers
works, it's not one that I feel comfortable joining. -- David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: A good book for a perspective programer.

2008-01-13 Thread David Powers
with PHP, it might be a good choice. If you're at a less advanced level, maybe not. -- David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] re-compiling PHP on Mac OS X

2007-12-17 Thread David Powers
site for the latest details. There's an extremely long thread about PHP on Leopard. A command line installation is somewhere around page 15 of the thread. -- David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Using PHP to determine if user has Java installed

2007-09-05 Thread David Powers
== Java JavaScript != Java There is a PECL extension for Java, allows you to get the version of Java installed. I have never used it, but details are here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.java.php -- David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http

[PHP] Re: PHP Books - A poll of sorts

2007-08-15 Thread David Powers
* it works can lead to unforeseen problems. By the way, I would welcome constructive criticism of the scripts in my books. I have tried to incorporate what I perceive to be the best practices at the time of writing, but I'm sure there's room for improvement. -- David Powers -- PHP General

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-31 Thread David Powers
. I write a book (actually, I've written several). It takes me on average seven or eight months' full-time work. You buy a copy of my book, I get $1.50-$2.25. For me to get the same rate of pay as a plumber, I would need to sell 70,000 copies of each book. I should be so lucky. David Powers

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread David Powers
sites that assist in that distribution. It might not be stealing in a strict legal sense, but it results in financial harm to me. So money does frequently come into it where copyright infringement is concerned. David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-30 Thread David Powers
companies are making too much money out of rights management. Copyright infringement is against the law in most countries, and it does disproportionate damage to the vast majority of artists and authors. End of story. David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-25 Thread David Powers
because it's getting back at the big boys, who can afford it anyway. Piracy also hits hard-working individuals, to whom the loss of income usually does make a difference. David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-23 Thread David Powers
, but a professionally produced eBook still takes a huge amount of human effort. Unfortunately, an eBook is very easy for a pirate to rip off. The danger with piracy is that authors will be discouraged from writing, and in the end everyone will be worse off. David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-23 Thread David Powers
. As far as an author is concerned, the deal lies in royalties. The more books you sell, the more you get. I also get a higher share of the profit if the book sells more than a specified amount. David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-23 Thread David Powers
not as much as I would like. David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-22 Thread David Powers
philanthropists taking from the rich and giving to the poor. The best known pirate site sells advertising - a small banner reportedly costs $5,000 a month, and a larger one $10,000 a month. http://rixstep.com/1/20060715,00.shtml David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-22 Thread David Powers
Chris Shiflett wrote: David Powers wrote: I suspect that your estimate of the advances paid by Apress/friends of Ed is inflated. Based on the fact that this is almost identical to every other publisher (O'Reilly, Sams, etc.), and based on the fact that Richard said he has a lot of experience

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-22 Thread David Powers
and truly flogged to death. Time to bring this thread to an end. David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-21 Thread David Powers
of sales is unwelcome. David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-19 Thread David Powers
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Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-18 Thread David Powers
is the exception, not the rule. http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6353274.html?pubdate=7%2F17%2F2006display=current David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Re: Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-17 Thread David Powers
popular, I would be even more delighted to get some financial reward for my efforts. Fortunately, a lot of honest people have bought legal copies, but certainly not enough to put me in the fat-cat league. :( David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-16 Thread David Powers
publisher. Even if it's closed down, my work has already been stolen. David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Pirate PHP books online?

2007-07-16 Thread David Powers
writers. If they drive us out of business, everyone will be worse off in the end. David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: PHP textbook suggestions?

2007-04-08 Thread David Powers
it for adoption as a textbook, my publisher (friends of ED) supplies textbook review copies: http://www.friendsofed.com/contact.html#academic -- David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

[PHP] Re: issue with Apache/PHP loadmodule

2006-06-26 Thread David Powers
Alain Roger wrote: I have the following lines in my http.conf from apache 2.2 configuration file. # - for PHP LoadModule php5_module c:\PHP\php5apache2.dll php5apache2.dll doesn't support Apache 2.2. Use Apache 2.0. -- David Powers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net