Someone around here recently asked me my opinions on Solaris on x86machines, and in thinking about it I decided I might as well put downmy current thoughts on the whole matter.
First, we're no longer interested in SPARC hardware and thus SPARCSolaris. The hardware is clearly no longer competitive for genericcomputing; it may be competitive in some niche roles, but my area doesn't have any of those niches we needfilled.
(In the long run I feel that a retreat to specialized
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There are two parties that could be responsible for determining whattype of content you are getting in a HTTP response, whether the data isHTML or a PDF or a JPEG or so on: the server or the client. The web hasopted to make it determined by the server ,and this is the correct place for a simple reason: consistency .
Imagine a world where the clients determine what the content type is.If there is no standard for how clients determine the content type, theconsistency problems are obvious;
Macbook Air，好鬼薄，薄過Pizza。
好靚仔，好有「氣」質。
Multi-touch Pad好鬼正，痴鬼線，正到丫。
但一睇價錢同config，好失望。
一定唔會買。
留番D錢，等大個仔果陣買部MacBook Pro。
When a web server answers your request for a URL, you get boththe contents of the URL and its type; ie, whether you are gettingHTML, plain text, a PNG image, a PDF, and so on. Specifically, thistype information is returned in the form of a MIME type in the Content-Type: HTTP reply header.
(Some web browsers then sniff the data themselves and second guess theweb server, generally with ruinous results.)
Now, the web server has to get this
