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PHP had a Perl-like command structure, somewhat inconsistent
PHP/FI was created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995
Rasmus chose to release the source code for PHP/FI for everybody to see
By 1997, PHP/FI 2.0 (written in C), had a cult of several thousand users with 50,000 domains
New Acromyn (PHP Hypertext Processor)
PHP 3.0 (similar to today?s version) was created by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski in 1997 as a complete rewrite and was designed to support a University eCommerce project.
PHP 3.0 was officially released in June 1998, after having spent about 9 months in public testing.
Hundreds of thousands of domains (approximately 10% of Internet)
PHP4 was released in Winter 1998 by Gutmans and Suaaski
The new engine is called ?Zend Engine? (Comprised for first names Zeev and Andi)
Based on OS by Minix that was created by Dutch professor, Andrew Tanenbaum, as a teaching tool
Designed to run on 8086 Intel processor. (12,000 lines of C)
He released the code and wrote an excellent book explaining operating systems
Linus Tovalds, at age 21, read his book while at University of Helsinke
In 1991, there was no open source operating system
In August, 1991 Linus began the project to create a new operating system based on Minix. (First version released October 1991)
Andrew Tanenbaum did not like the architecture and told Linus.
His response (?Your job is being a professor and researcher. That?s one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix?)
It was licensed under the GNU General Public License for open software A world-wide group of volunteers began developing Linux collaboratively with Linux holding the final vote for any changes.
Windows-type interface now available (K Desktop Environment and GNOME)
Astronomers reported the first strong evidence of s supermassive black hole stretching and tearing apart, and partially absorbing a star.
Event marked by powerful X-Ray blast from a galaxy about 700 million light-years away (emitting just before the fragment was trapped by the Black Hole)
The resulting flair was thousands of times brighter that all of the billions of other stars in the galaxy
This particular black hole has a mass 100 million times that of the sun
The unlucky star veer off-course after a near miss with another star.
The black hole consumed from 1 to 25 percent of the star, flinging the rest into space
Similar events occur every 10,000 years in a typical galaxy
Adrian Lamo, a 22 year old hacker with a conscience
Lamo frequently trespassed on the networks of prominent companies
He then informed the companies of his exploits and often worked with them, as a consultant, to close the holes
Before the courts ordered him to return to California, area to live with his parents
He wandered around the United States on Greyhound buses, sleeping on friends’ couches and, when necessary, staying in vacant or derelict buildings.
He broke into New York Times Servers and got confidential source information.
The Times was not amused. It pressed charges.
Adrian Lamo, 22, of Carmichael, Calif., pleaded guilty to a single count of computer damage. Sentencing is set for April 8.
A plea agreement between prosecutors and the defense agrees that federal sentencing guidelines would result in a sentence of six months to a year in jail.
Also broke into Worldcom, among others
Go to www.freelamo.org for more info about movement to get all charges dropped.