A very
sad day approaches.
Those of you old enough to remember Gopher may proceed to shed a quiet, ASCII-art tear. Gopher document type 0.
For those of you that don't know what Gopher is, here's my quick summary:
* It existed before the web.
* It is an extremely simple protocol designed to be an Internet-wide filesystem, though the bit that let you mount the Internet like a disk never quite happened, though still could. (actually I think I saw a FUSE gopher implementation recently)
* It pretty much does everything that WAP does, but about 50 times simpler. Why smartphones invented WAP instead of just using Gopher is still a mystery to me.
* XML-RPC is usually extreme overkill when you could use a simple protocol like Gopher
Now how many of you remember Veronica and Archie?
Comments
Fri, 18.07.2008 12:48
Actually, I just had a horribl e experience with VPSLink. Lon g story short, they did not pr otect our Xen4 (we were [...]
Fri, 18.07.2008 10:43
Good job, John! There is a fai rly large group here at my off ice that rides every day to wo rk, most from Goshen (ab [...]
Thu, 17.07.2008 04:46
Your earlier post inspired me and I too travel occasionally to office on bicycle. Howeve r, I could not manage it [...]
Wed, 16.07.2008 10:21
Please send the config files,I want to have an experience of it. Thanks, Regards, J ayadev Kranti
Wed, 16.07.2008 06:12
Did we file a bug yet? :) I have also been seeing this, f or at least a year, with both usb and ps2 keyboards an [...]
Tue, 15.07.2008 11:30
Hi Cliff, Thanks for the co mment! No idea what happened to your earlier one; strange. After your experience [...]
Mon, 14.07.2008 20:53
Hi John, I came back to reread this post it is one of the be st. Nice Job. I left a comme nt the day it was first [...]
Mon, 14.07.2008 10:17
Thanks to everyone for all the tips. It looks like this CON FIG_GROUP_SCHED is the most li kely culprit; I will hav [...]