This was written using Apache webserver running PHP. Hooray! I hereby confirm that both the IIS setup of PHP and the Apache setup of PHP work equally well on my computer. The XMLDOM works flawlessy, and the code is as stable or more so than the original ASP code.
PHP (with DOMXML) and IIS:
This is a modern art version of a project I'm working on. It's filed under "C:\altsci\flashinpan\ASNetwork". While it's in a backburners directory, I've been putting a bunch of time into it. It is about networks. You see, recently, I've had a few problems with networks. I love the internet and I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. But there comes a time when corporations get deep enough engrained into something that it has to be reinvented. ASNetwork is about reinventing the internet. It won't be a new program, a new p2p app, or a nice website. My current specifications say that it should be a network that is parallel and seperate from the internet. It will connect computers as the internet does. At the start, it will use phone lines and may even piggyback the internet. But in time, it will exceed the power of the internet and shove the internet into oblivion. Why do we need a new standard? I for one hate new standards. DirectX 9 is coming out soon after I learned DirectX 8. I can't stand it. But this is something more important, more basic. Right now, certain companies own most of the internet. That's right. They own it. Who? Quest and Verison are big ones. They own the phones, they own the cable, they own the net. If they want to shut down content, they will. If they want to charge outrageous prices, they will. Not just that they can, but they do. In the event of economic downfall which we are currently beginning, it is possible that both of these outright acts of aggression towards customers will be escalated to such a level that people will not be able to stand it. The 56k telephone-based BBS will be revived. Even the 2400 bps modem will be used. People will move into major cities so that they can get better content. CDs will become much more fashionable. LAN parties will be essential for the growth of the community. Hackers (those who produce content) will be far more prevalent than stalkers (those who consume content). So then there will need to be a backup plan that is not covered by the government and corporations. A medium that cannot be regulated, bought, or misused.
Good evening, tonight I decided to do a bit of fun stuff. You know how yesterday I said that no government agency could decode truth. That is true. However, it is not true that a government agency could be notified of the truth existing. Both, mathematically and practically, it is possible for a gov't agent decoding the truth from my message. With that, s/he could find a bogus unconstitutional law to frame me for and have me put in jail. Then, accidentally of course, I could be killed during a jail riot initiated by spooks. It's not like it hasn't been done before, even after the FOIA and the infamous reign of J. Edgar Hoover. One shouldn't be too paranoid since a person who is so mediocre and ignorant is the least of the totalitarian's worries. But if you want mathematical and practical security that no one can read what you wrote, PGP is pretty good for privacy. For example, a diary that no one cares about can be stored and password protected using PGPfreeware 7.0.3. It's not very easy, but if you can figure out the learning curve, you're not broadcasting your message to any loser. However, it does depend on how secure you are about it. I wrote a bit about how a determined person can get your info a while back. I came up with a new one for PGP. Instead of a person, a huge group of people allied against a lot of people including you can decode a lot of PGPs. They can just use their own generator to generate public and private blocks, right? Say that they have a 50 gigakey per second machine on the task. That means that they can also save 50 gigakeys per second. They would have a database (a very large one at that) and would have all the keys. That is where the mathematics breaks down, I would guess. Instead of one in million years, it becomes one per year. Not only that, every new user is likely also in that database. In a year, a very powerful computer could have half of the PGPs in use and half of the ones to be used in the near future. That is what mass use of encryption can do. In fact, it has already been done. The distributed supercomputer has done it, but I wonder if they stored it in a database. Of course they did!
I am not really in the mood for a big long rant. I was at the courthouse all today worrying and I didn't even need to be there. I am going to testify about the events on February 18th tomorrow at 9 AM sharp, they tell me. If I am waiting at 10 AM, I won't be surprised. I can tell you I'm going to get completely drunk on life tomorrow night, though. No alcohol, no money. I'm going to listen to good music and think good thoughts tomorrow night. I'm in a bad mood. Why? Because people are being mean to me. Certainly they are only reflecting my recent bad attitude, but I don't like it. I missed church last Sunday, so I'm going to blame it on that. After this Sunday, I'll be fine. Don't worry. If you want to help me, e-mail me at javantea@msn.com.
