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I'm a big fan of Objective-C, much more than I am of C++. C++ is about adding objects to C without impacting system time, but Objective-C is much more about adding objects to C while reducing programmer time.

For reasons that don't bear much looking into, I needed an ObjC CGI (Common Gateway Interface) class the other day. I googled for one, naturally, and nothing at all came up. I looked high and low. I looked far and wide. I consulted other search engines and other toolkits. No love. Most of the conversation I found about the topic was "Just use an application server. There are three of them, you know: WebObjects, GnustepWeb, and SOPE." But an application server is far too heavy for what I wanted to do. I needed something simple and straightforward. I needed a CGI.

Then, in a lonely and cobweb-ridden corner of the internet, I found one, called "CGI-O." As I looked through the source, I had a strange sensation. A funny case of deja-vu. And then I stumbled across this:

/* Is there a better way to write this? Elf? */

It had written this thing. Twelve years ago. It hadn't been touched in all that time.

Sigh. Something else for the project pile: clean it up and put it into the repository. Someday.

Heh.

Date: 2008-08-01 11:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] jenk
I am both pleased and scared that the first tech support db article I remember writing is still online. Pleased that I can point to it, scared because ... well ... it's 18 years old and still not obsolete enough to delete?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/67321

Re: Heh.

Date: 2008-08-01 11:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] antonia-tiger.livejournal.com
It's oddly out-of-date. The FAT file-system is still used on a lot of hardware, such as USB pendrives, and the limit on drive-size is now much bigger than 2048 MBytes. And yet it was reviewed as recently as 2006. Don't they know what their own OS and file-system can do?

If they'd just kept things up to date...

Re: Heh.

Date: 2008-08-01 11:57 pm (UTC)
jenk: Faye (MsJen)
From: [personal profile] jenk
Yes. I'm not sure why it was never updated for FAT32. :)

Re: Heh.

Date: 2008-08-02 09:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zanfur.livejournal.com
No, FAT still only supports up to 2GB. You're probably thinking of FAT-32...

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