Open Source Web-Based File Browser?

[bogeyman]

A died-in-the-wool geek down the pub (he has a T-shirt with a file-encryption algorithm printed on it) swears by something called Sapphire. (?)
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F in "Mainframe dinosaur" mode

Saphire? Never heard of it! Probably some bastard off-spring of Ruby and a Javabean.

I'm (former) mainframe dinosaur too! MVS sysprog and s3x0 ASM developer many moons ago. Still have my ancient yellow card (c. 1980) pinned to my noticeboard (GX20-1850-4).

[Mordac]

A died-in-the-wool geek down the pub (he has a T-shirt with a file-encryption algorithm printed on it) swears by something called Sapphire. (?)
hth

F in "Mainframe dinosaur" mode

Fleety, shouldn't that be dyed-in-the-wool?


Mordy in "Smartarse" Mode

[threaded]

Fleety, shouldn't that be dyed-in-the-wool?

I prefer batik, but hardly anyone knows what that means either.

[TheMonkey]

mod_perl is king and you know it.

[OwlHoot]

I prefer batik, but hardly anyone knows what that means either.

I thought batik was an SVG image file viewer and editor. Guess I'll have to go and check.

[OwlHoot]

mod_perl is king and you know it.

mod_perl is tulipe - Doesn't even work with Apache 2. Permanent perl is taking over (from mod_perl, rather than the world).

P.S. The BBC are stuck with mod_perl for much of their web code, and they're now stuck on some ancient versions of Apache and php

[TheMonkey]

mod_perl is tulipe - Doesn't even work with Apache 2. Permanent perl is taking over (from mod_perl, rather than the world).

P.S. The BBC are stuck with mod_perl for much of their web code, and they're now stuck on some ancient versions of Apache and php

Rubbish - mod_perl 2 works perfectly with apache 2! So do recent version of PHP which are backwardly compatible.

BBC use CGI/perl rather than mod_perl handlers (although they use mod_perl to accelerate the CGI). They also use SSI. The reason they're using old stuff is because it works so flawlessly and is simple! 99.999% of their hits don't give a monkey's about what technology the site uses and the people who work there use the KISS principle for developing software.

Anyway, I tend to still use Apache 1.3 for a lot of things. Mainly because it's bundled with OpenBSD which I use for anything I can, again because it works flawlessly and is simple.

[DimPrawn]

Can you imagine what the BBC website would have been like if they developed it in that bloated pile of tulipe known as Java/J2EE?

[TheMonkey]

Can you imagine what the BBC website would have been like if they developed it in that bloated pile of tulipe known as Java/J2EE?

God it'd be like eBay, which I've noticed has deteriorated in reliability and quality significantly since they changed from the COM / ISAPI platform it was based on.

I just don't understand why anyone uses J2EE at all - it's such a mess.

[bobhope]

using J2EE

God it'd be like eBay, which I've noticed has deteriorated in reliability and quality significantly since they changed from the COM / ISAPI platform it was based on.

I just don't understand why anyone uses J2EE at all - it's such a mess.

err 'cos it's shiny and pays well.