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I really couldn't agree more. That would be a great way to do things. It wasn't built in from the beginning because it wasn't practical until recently - storage just cost too much. It isn't being built in now because the existing models work-ish, and no influential organization has been willing to lend their backing to deploying the new technology.

I did have the idea of encoding the hash addresses as a 'magic directory' in HTTP - eg, http://your.server.com/CANary/...//filename. That way any browser or software aware of the address form can run a SHA search of reachable caches, while any non-aware software (or if the cache search fails) just interpret it as an HTTP address and get the file the old way. Even if there are no caches in reachable, it'd still save a lot of IMS requests when re-visiting a website.

Making personal or household devices public cache servers is probably not the best idea though. Privacy concerns - it wouldn't take long for someone to write a script that queries a specified cache for the top thousand video hashes from the popular porn sites and see if they have it stored already.

Web server will also require access to database which is more than enough for attacker. So attacker then can request http://your.server.com/IHaveHackedThisBox.html and get a full database dump.

In practice, your webserver will probably also need permissions for outgoing connections. So if it's hacked then your computer can be a part of DDoS'ing botnet.

Where are you and your friend?

Just testes this in Brazil (sender and receiver) with the url "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Fbk52Mk1w" and it worked. The traditional http://server.com/download.php is still blocked.

And if you really don't want to RTFA and still want to rip a website, try this command (that is, if you have wget installed) "wget -m http://www.server.com/"
A partially better alternative is httrack, it has more features but also tends to be less table ;)

Well, I hate to break it for you, but after 12+ years, web sites have gone to crap.

Instead of a light page that contains exactly what it should and no more, now I need to deal with 50K Javascript monstruosities which break the back button, produce errors even in IE, and do utterly annoying things having the gall of popping up message boxes saying "Please wait until the page refreshes"!

Seriously, I tried configure a server on hp.com today. HP could have a normal page, but no, there's got to be some Javascript crap that dares to complain because I toggle options too fast on it! And my bank for some reason insists on that the "back" button is a no-no, and that I must deal with it like with old DOS applications that could only have one "window" at once. Heck, even in DOS they managed to do better than that!

The same crap also makes it impossible to bookmark multiple configurations, as the data isn't actually stored anywhere. Now I've got to print it, then go back to the page, and set the options the way I like them again. Isn't it great to have http://server.com/magic-script.asp in the URL instead of all that "foo=1&bar=3" mess?

Yup, things have evolved indeed.

Up until now to create a simple web CRUDS (Create, Read, Update, Delete, Search) application you had to know HTML, SQL and {PHP|PERL|JAVA), etc.!

And even if you know what you're doing it still takes time and money to get CRUDS done right.

Google Base is going to change that radically. It reduces the cost of CRUDS to ZERO.

Some of the consequences will be:

• Demand for small custom webapps will go down, or have to move to a new Google Base environment.
• Web sites that already provide similiar services like http://server.com/ and http://myweblists.com/test will likely die.

Increased competition with MSFT because they want these applications on the desktop using Office 12.

Google Base may be leading us to the universal ATOM store. More info. at http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/09/21/atom-store-web -database.html

Sorry for the crappy formatting, but I couldn't figure out how to associate text with the URLs.

Start -> Run -> ftp://ftp.server.com

Change to directory of interest

Drag file to floppy disk (or just right click -> Send To Floppy).

Explorer in its default configuration should allow this, as should any reasonably decent FTP client.

You still have to right click, select rename, and type test.aaa.

How much slower is that than my example?
get file a:\test.aaa

You've confused cause and effect. CLIs (typically) *require* you to present much more complex information to achieve the same ends.

Which is more complex:
Type:
get file a:\test.aaa

or

1) Right click file. Select "send to" then "Floppy Disk"
2) Open Floppy Disk
3) Right click file, select rename, type test.aaa

Indeed I would argue that the latter is more complex. If you have commonly used scenarios, there is no reason these can't be set up as aliases under bash (like ll is ls -l, for example) to make things easier.

Yes, it takes a little more learning, but do you want admins who don't take the time to learn?

But a CLI allows the user to present much more complex information (such as commands) to the computer much more rapidly than is possible via mouse clicks and a few typed strings.

You've confused cause and effect. CLIs (typically) *require* you to present much more complex information to achieve the same ends.

The advantage of the CLI lies primarily in automation. Outside that, it sucks - very little context or feedback, utterly reliant on specific prior knowledge and poor to nonexistant data and syntax checking.

A _good_ GUI interface makes most things just as quick and easy to do as a CLI, while also removing many of the possibilities for introducing human error.

You have just downloaded the file and saved it on the floppy, and renamed it to test.aaa. Try doing this in a graphical FTP client. How many extra steps do you have to do?

Fewer, if anything (there are numerous ways to do this, here's one):

Start -> Run -> ftp://ftp.server.com

Change to directory of interest

Drag file to floppy disk (or just right click -> Send To Floppy).

Explorer in its default configuration should allow this, as should any reasonably decent FTP client.

A .pac file is better suited to blocking ads by denying connections in a web browser. It lets you block/allow by URL rather than just hostname (i.e. block http://server.com/ads/ but still allow http://server.com/goodstuff/ through). It's a lot like the Ad-Block extension for Firefox, but not tied specifically to one browser. It works in all modern browsers and many other internet programs (email clients, etc.). See http://www.schooner.com.nyud.net:8090/~loverso/no- ads/ for details. As with Ad-Block, a few regular expressions in a no-ads.pac file will block most ads as well, even with no site-specific filters.

A no-ads.pac file will be slower than a HOSTS file (it uses Javascript inside the browser to process it, rather than being handled by the networking subsystem of the OS). However, any remotely-modern PC should have no problem with the tiny amount of extra processing needed. John LoVerso has claimed that he used to run it on a (sub-200MHz?) P1 and didn't notice any slowdown on that.

I do use my HOSTS file to block servers that I absolutely don't want any connections made to (in my browser, email, IM, or anything else). However, I found the HOSTS file to work very poorly for blocking ads in web pages, compared to these other methods.

A .pac file is better suited to blocking ads by denying connections in a web browser. It lets you block/allow by URL rather than just hostname (i.e. block http://server.com/ads/ but still allow http://server.com/goodstuff/ through). It's a lot like the Ad-Block extension for Firefox, but not tied specifically to one browser. It works in all modern browsers and many other internet programs (email clients, etc.). See http://www.schooner.com.nyud.net:8090/~loverso/no- ads/ for details. As with Ad-Block, a few regular expressions in a no-ads.pac file will block most ads as well, even with no site-specific filters.

A no-ads.pac file will be slower than a HOSTS file (it uses Javascript inside the browser to process it, rather than being handled by the networking subsystem of the OS). However, any remotely-modern PC should have no problem with the tiny amount of extra processing needed. John LoVerso has claimed that he used to run it on a (sub-200MHz?) P1 and didn't notice any slowdown on that.

I do use my HOSTS file to block servers that I absolutely don't want any connections made to (in my browser, email, IM, or anything else). However, I found the HOSTS file to work very poorly for blocking ads in web pages, compared to these other methods.

Or better yet:

http://server.com/%2Fcon%3A

to get access to the command prompt!

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Sci-Fi cancells Farscape (MLP)
By yanisa
Sat Sep 7th, 2002 at 05:46:41 AM CST

Sci-Fi network shocks viewers: Farscape, its flagship series, has been cancelled.

Fanbase reacts; join them!

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In a surprise chat yesterday night, David Kemper, Richard Manning and Ben Browder announced Sci-Fi network's decision to cancel Farscape, critically acclaimed and much beloved SF series, now in its fourth season.

Although Sci-Fi has previously contracted for two more seasons of Farscape, they have now excercised an out-clause. This was made known to the creators and cast only after they have finished filming the last episode of Season 4, which means that they have had no chance of even finishing the story. Farscape will thus end with a cliffhanger and unfinished story threads.

Needles to say, the fanbase is in an uproar and the cast is shocked.

And not suprisingly, Dilbert has seen it coming.

If you like Farscape and would like to see it go on, add your voice to the enraged masses.

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Would any of you Gateway guys be willing to visit http://disc.server.com/Indices/136505.html and answer some of the tougher Destination questions?

Only if I can get every college radio station from accross the country that I desire on my presets.

You can't. The station manager at WFMU contacted Sirius and XM, but got turned down.

Unless we're really, really hungry, that is, and there aren't any frat boys at hand.