Open Source Parking [LWN.net]

Open Source Parking

Posted Apr 20, 2006 5:30 UTC (Thu) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510)
In reply to: Open Source Parking by hppnq
Parent article: Open Source Parking

OK, now I see what you want. It was a little difficult to see which complaint was the important one.

You will notice that there is an Apache 1.x server on old.technocrat.net, because the Slashcode (which that runs) depends on mod_perl. That server exists only to serve archives of older technocrat postings, since I have switched to Rails blog software of my own creation for the more recent postings. I haven't heard if the Slashcode was ever successfully ported to Apache 2.

I am in Tahoe with my little boy, and only a slow and flaky GPRS connection. I have Linux on Wall Street in NY on Monday. As soon as I have desk-time on a good net connection, I will figure out how to get the Apache server I am already running to direct all hosts except old.technocrat.net to the fastcgi connection for the parking Rails software.

Thanks

Bruce

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Open Source Parking

Posted Apr 20, 2006 7:36 UTC (Thu) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

Thanks Bruce. Yes, I do want to keep it slightly more on topic, so information like this is what I'm after. I don't think my reasoning was that obscure, and I do expect people to ask what I mean if they can't follow me, even if they are Bruce Perens, admired Open Source leader. ;-)

For example, I don't care about your actual business plans or what you would do in a number of hypothetical situations as much as I have probably made you think. But I can't see how you will pull this off without any concrete plans at all. Surely, there must be something substantial. My questions on this subject were not much more than a "Well, if you don't have a financial picture, HOW are you going to do it then?!" There must be something, or there must be a reason for not having a plan. "We'll see" is not an entirely satisfying answer to those questions from my perspective, I do hope you understand this.

As luck would have it I'll be hanging out in NYC next week, maybe I'll drop by on Monday. If you like and if I get the opportunity I'll introduce myself to you in person, so you know who has been harrassing you all this time. ;-)

And so I get the chance to shake the hand of someone who has indeed made this world a better place, there's no question about that. I don't mind that we don't exactly see eye to eye on some points, like I said: this is nothing personal.