| Garrett Lynch on Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:31:02 +0100 (CET) |
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| Re: <nettime> nettime-l Digest, Vol 2, Issue 9 |
On 7 Nov 2007, at 13:50, [email protected] wrote: >On 07/11/2007, Kazys Varnelis <[email protected]> wrote: >>Take, for example, PHP/Mysql. [...] The default encoding had been >>Latin1 [...] Unfortunately the upgrade didn't go as planned. > >This is not the fault of PHP or MySQL; it's your ISP's fault for not >paying attention when upgrading MySQL. Of course it would have been >easy for them to configure MySQL properly and keep your data in the >same encoding after the upgrade; they just bother to think about it. >No software, whether free or proprietary, can protect human beings >from their own stupidity. it's a good point however, open source may be a vast improvement on proprietary software / programming but it too creates issues as it develops, functions phased out, replaced or redefined are a fairly regular thing in php, cgi, java etc. a+ gar _________________ [email protected] http://www.asquare.org/ http://www.asquare.org/networkresearch/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]