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Subject : [ ORG.03 ] Open XWEBS
5:52 PM
Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Dark Daemon
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I
can't believe that ORG is finally out of the planning papers and now a full
fledged blog site for the geekz. It feels like yesterday when Melvin was just
suggesting a blog site for insatiable geekz. Congratulations, Melvin, on a
wonderful job done. Now that we have a home place to rave about everything we
can think of, the world is ours to rumble about. One question though, why
"org32b" ? The first time i saw that name, i thought it was an installer file or
something. Never mind actually, i was just wondering only. So, here goes my
first blog on ORG. After this, there will not be a turn back.
I like to
ponder a lot, and because i constantly think about everything, I tend to look
very much on my own, in a desolate reserved world of mine. Some people see that
as an excuse for being a recluse. Personally, I don't care at all. I love
thinking about the world, myself, sometimes about why people tend to fight so
much although they're all adults and all pretty much grown up. Besides all the
crap i like to ponder on, I love to think about technology too. In fact I hardly
spent any day without thinking lots about the technologies that are in our lives
everyday and how i am going to survive without them.
Of course, it would
come as no surprise at all if i were to say that i was thinking pretty much
about the much talked about XWEBS and its supposedly miraculous speed. The
browser, together with its author, gained phenomenal fame in just a matter of
weeks on the web, but apart from all the news report from a myriad of web news
services and tech sites, something is still missing, and the missing dot is
beginning to widen into a huge blackhole. Yes, like many other netizens, I too
wonder where is the browser. Everybody has heard enough of the browser, but to
completely quench the thirst for a super browser, one has to try it out
ultimately. Where is the download link? Where can i get the browser? Can i test
the browser, i'm a beta tester. These are but a few of the many questions posed
by many on the net regarding XWEBS. People are still searching for it, and
continue searching we will. Google, for the first time did not answer our
prayers or wishes. Google can't get you 'everything' afterall. But the fault
isn't the search engine. The author's holding everyone's breath, for quite a
long time, i think. And at some point, when everyone dies of asphixiation or
shall i say, completely gave up waiting and searching, the magic will vanish
pretty much faster than the fame the author gained. In other words, people start
questioning the truth about the speed the browser claims to have; some even
started criticizing about the technology, nailing the browser as a fake, a
fraud, a lie, a piece of shit or whatever it is.
I begin to feel that
way too. But hey, it isn't the author's fault, he's the inventor, he's the great
one, he's the one to decide what's best for himself. And that is allright. It's
just that people get excited but the excitement cannot hold long enough to
extend his fame without showing the public something substantial.
I
diverted quite a little bit, time to revert back to my little thought. As i was
on my way back from college, these three letters sparked in my head. " G - N - U
". And the next moment, these words came along. " XWEBS ". Yes, i thought to
myself, why not programmers unite to build the "GNU XWEBS" ? If this happens,
it's going to be exactly like the story of Linux and how it was born out of the
UNIX Operating system. Linus Torvalds never used any code from the original UNIX
OS because it was proprietary software, so he set out to build a brand new OS
that resembled the UNIX but used not a single UNIX code.
So, the idea in
simple terms is - Build GNU XWEBS by using none of the original XWEBS codes.
Instead, preserve the same technology by rewriting it in different code. The
technology might not be easy to develop, but there are millions of geeks out
there that could come out with creative code to manipulate the sockets to
achieve higher speed. I'm sure that's possible with some work. The point is that
a million programmers could definitely work better than a 16 year old alone.
So much for the fancy idea. Many would read this and spit it back at me,
i might sound lame or even grotesque, but hey, without that kind of initiative,
would Linus be what he is today ? He set out with nothing but a bare empty
monitor screen waiting for him to spit some code. And yes, he did it, and today
the world changed forever, not quite the same familiar world ever again.
Think about it.
p/s -- Melvin, you might wanna fix the home link
problem. I realize as i surf thru the pages of ORG, when i wanna go back to the
home page, tehre wasn't any link to it. I was thinking if the "ORG" text at the
far left corner at the top of the main page can be turned into a link to the
home site. You can use un-underlined link for the link using CSS, that way it
looks neater, or you could resort to using an image with link coded into it.
thanks.
:::> HotNote <:::
What is Dark Daemon up to now (as at
22/01/2003) ?
-> Trying real hard to look for MS Internet Explorer's so
called plugins for developing browser components without doing it all from
scratch.
-> Still reeling over the news that XWEBBS will never be a
free download or be offered as Open Source. ( sobs...sobs... )
->
Currently reading : Peter Norton's Neetwork Security Fundamentals (pretty basic
stuff, a very light read)
>>Dark Daemon
>>Open
Revolution Group (ORG)
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