Visibility Operators in PHP

Did you know that visibility operators are REQUIRED for php properties (class variables) and NOT REQUIRED for class methods (functions)?

These are one the many rules that drive me nuts about PHP.

"Class properties must be defined as public, private, or protected. If declared using var, the property will be defined as public."
"Class methods may be defined as public, private, or protected. Methods declared without any explicit visibility keyword are defined as public."

Can you guys (PHP people out there) make the properties public by default (if no visibility operator is used). I used to use “var” but now “var” is obsolete. Have some consistency for God’s sake.

Reference:
http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.visibility.php

What is WINS? (Windows Internet Name Service)

Network administrators sometimes would give you a couple of DNS server IP addresses  and one or two WINS server IP addresses to add to your network settings see below:

Now you are like : What do I need a WINS IP address for? I thought that DNS could easily handle the IP and the name resolutions.

In reality you do not really need WINS servers unless you still have legacy hardware and software that you want to communicate to.

WINS keeps tracks of computers or devices names something that DNS can handle alone.
The main job of WINS  “is to support older Microsoft operating systems like Windows 9x, Me,and NT 3, 4 ”
Taken from Mastering Windows Server 2003 (page 26)

FYI : “WINS is a service run on Windows NT servers to provide Windows clients a way to find other Windows computers. WINS (Windows Internet Naming Service) resolves Windows network computer names (also known as NetBIOS names) to Internet IP addresses, allowing Windows computers on a network to easily find and communicate with each other”
Taken from the internet.

Reference
What is WINS?
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc784180%28WS.10%29.aspx

How To Download emacs for Windows

How to download emacs for Windows damn it?

For those of you out there who have websites, if you have a download link on your website when i click on it, i have to get to my downloads PERIOD.

Don’t have me chase around for the files, I sincerely do not have time for this. If you want to give me literature, put it somewhere else on your damn site.

Download emacs for Windows
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/windows/ (look at the bottom of the page for the downloads)
Download this file : emacs-23.3-bin-i386.zip and proceed from there.

Other useful links

Emacs Manuals
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#Intro
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/emacs.pdf