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It’s a sad thing to note that whilst Ritchie had as much, if not more, influence on the Computing Industry as Steve Jobs, he’ll only be remembered by a small number of people worldwide: Those of us who program for a living.

Requiescat in Pace, Dennis. You’ll be missed.

I really laughed when I saw that graph.

So, I giggled when I spotted this in the topic of freenode.net’s #zftalk-community channel earlier today:

<freen> Zend Framework is like a really hot chick who doesn’t speak English: You’re already attracted to what it offers, but then the learning curve comes with understanding how to speak to it.

I lolled.

http://boingboing.net/2011/10/08/wipo-boss-the-web-would-have-been-better-if-it-was-patented-and-its-users-had-to-pay-license-fees.html

I can’t think of anything that would have been worse for the world than the guys at DARPA filing patents for the Internet.

Lightening the mood somewhat, this, Jen, is the Internet:

Steve Jobs was a visionary without whom the computer industry would not look anything like it does today. I’m willing to bet that most people reading this own an Apple device of one flavour or another, be it an iPadPodPhone or a MacBook of some revision. His company engineered the biggest, and arguably best, change in the music industry by making digital music easily available world-wide.

Yes, he may not have single-handedly bought about these things, but his enthusiasm, charisma, and love for the work that Apple did and will hopefully continue to do long into the future really did make people think different.

So, the opposing tributes of Apple and Richard Stallman to a man who literally changed the way we work with computers show both the best and worst of people in two short messages.

I must admit, I was shocked when I read that post on RMS’s website. This is a man who is the figurehead of an organisation which exists to convince people to switch to using ‘free’ software, but seems to be doing more harm than good to the cause.

I am not glad that Steve Jobs is dead. I am most certainly not glad that he is gone either, as his company produces software without which I would not be able to pursue one of my most-loved hobbies - producing music. That RMS thinks the world is better with out Steve Jobs says more about how RMS is failing where Steve succeeded - in his ability to convince people to turn to his way of thinking.

Steve Jobs and his company changed an industry with a small, inexpensive device that anyone can own.

RMS, on the other hand, is giving his organisation and his cause a bad name.

It’s amazing how charisma and personality can make such a difference between the success and failure of a project.

That said, Jobs’s management style had a much darker side, which Gawker talks about quite well here: http://gawker.com/5847344/what-everyone-is-too-polite-to-say-about-steve-jobs

It’s a well-known fact that Apple has a department known internally as the Gestapo. I can understand the reasons for its existence - if you’re investing billions into a project, you don’t want your competitors buying the specs from one of your employees - but I must question their methods, and I do find myself asking whether this approach is this the result of lawyers and legal wranglings, or if it was a conscious decision made by Jobs himself?

It’s on the App Store, and it’s bloody genius.

I’ve gotten better results from the equiliser by putting it onto Loud mode, rather than just boosting the output volume, but it really does make up for all those bollocks videos on YouTube.

If you’re trying to connect to an SFTP server using PHP’s libssh2 bindings on Debian, you’ll get an empty result when trying to call readdir() on an opened directory.  The fix is easy: uninstall the version from apt and run this instead:

pecl install channel://pecl.php.net/ssh2-0.11.2

That will install the latest version, which the bug is fixed in. Voila. You can suddenly read directories.

I’m now desperately hoping that all the server optimisations and modifications we’ve made over the last three weeks since we found out about it save it from the inevitable slashdotting.

Of the people I asked, there’s been a definite young/old divide.  Everyone I know under 35 has voted for the Alternative Vote electoral system, and everyone I know over 35 has voted against it.

Considering that the majority of people in the UK are over 40, I’m not holding out hope, despite putting down £15 on a yes vote with Ladbrokes - we’re all allowed a moment of optimism…

So, yeah… Not having a great day already, and the results haven’t even been announced yet.