I manage several dozen domains, either for myself, work or friends. Let me tell you, dealing with Network Solutions is a huge pain in the ass. My original hosting company put in the wrong email address when they set up my domain, and it took me over a month to get that sorted out. This included several faxes to virginia.
I'm still using them for some domains that someone else (argh) registered. Filing change requests via email sucks.
joker.com has been wonderful. Changes I make show up in whois in five minutes. Being able to do it from the web is great. A while ago, they didn't have any form for changing your registration email, so I emailed them. Less than a day later, the form was up on the site.
Oh yeah, the $15 a year is pretty damned good, too.
I've just finished my third year of computer science at the University of Waterloo. In my experience, male students greatly outnumber females. I have walked in to many a CS lecture to find about 90 students, and about six of them are female.
Our school has a Women in Mathematics Committee that deals with this sort of thing. Their stats show that females make up about 20 percent of the math faculty, and that percentage has declined in recent years.
Someone from CMU posted that they have a special intro course for non-computer people. We have one of those too. It's a joke. You learn FileMaker, Word, Excel, and Turing (ever programmed in that?). And yes, the class has a lot of females in it. (An aside: not everyone in there is a CS major; they're all math majors though.)
On the issue of minorities, that's really a non-issue at UW. I'd say the class is an even mixture of white and asian students, with a good number of Indian (from India, not Native American) students as well.
A bunch of friends and I were mulling over the latest recruitment brochure sometime last year. (It's much prettier than the one I got.) We noticed the photographs featured a disproportionately high number of white females, especially in programs where they aren't well represented, like CS. So what's up with that? False advertising? (By contrast, a friend of mine who worked on the brochures at Western said they were told to find as many minorities as possible.)
As has already been pointed out, Mac OS Rumors is not very reliable. For a thorough debunking/parody, check out mosr.net. One of their pages has links to more parody sites:
dmoz has links to a couple of parody sites as well.
You're missing a lot of valid extensions, like stm (for microsoft servers doing server-parsed), cfm (cold fusion). You could also include perl (cgi, pl), python (py), and whatever other crap is out there.
You have to wonder if the recent IPOs and the general "market likes Linux" mentality has encouraged many "fortune 500" companies to jump on the bandwagon in order to boost their stock price.
It is unfortunate in our market economy we have to be more worried about stock prices than even making money. Nice link off the Suck parody yesterday to the SEC filing for Andover.net (which includes Rob's stock deal with Andover) also contains a line which says "WE EXPECT TO INCUR SUBSTANTIAL LOSSES IN THE FUTURE."
I don't know, maybe it is just me but how can companies like this get blown up, while real companies with real income (see banks, insurance) are sitting pretty low.
So way to go "Open Source" we may not help companies profit, but we will push stock prices up, that's for sure.
I am in the processing of changing servers, so I've put in about a dozen change requests, which haven't gone through yet.
The contact change went through two days ago, but the whois still hasn't been updated.
With joker.com, my whois record was updated in 10 minutes (literally) and the server was up under the new DNS in less than 24 hours. If you take a look at yi.org, you'll find out that NSI requires all changes to be approved by a person. What crack are they on?
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Speaking of M3: I was in the Chapters on Bay/Bloor in Toronto a couple years ago and remembered they had two or three Modula-3 books. Truly weird. :)
Paul
I went to Nelson ... I take it you were at Aldershot?
Paul
Paul
can someone explain how the scoring system (penalty minutes) are calculated/ thanks. Paul
Well, I've known Ondrej since grade 7 :-) when he was winning national math contests.
:)
/.-ed.
yeah, UW!
How many other UW mathies are reading this thread? I also know Justin, who submitted the story. I'm surprised undergrad hasn't been
Paul
wow. rasmus was a syde. :) Paul 4A CS in S00
excuse me??? your whole campus has one t1 line? like quit yer bitchin' and some real bandwidth. no wonder napster is using 25% of it.
I'm still using them for some domains that someone else (argh) registered. Filing change requests via email sucks.
joker.com has been wonderful. Changes I make show up in whois in five minutes. Being able to do it from the web is great. A while ago, they didn't have any form for changing your registration email, so I emailed them. Less than a day later, the form was up on the site.
Oh yeah, the $15 a year is pretty damned good, too.
Paul
Did not like it.
mmmmmmozillllla
There's an SSH version of NiftyTelnet that's really nice. You can't use it in the US, though, due to greedy patent nonsense.
yeah, but it's a fricken beta. when 5.6 ships, then announce it.
apologies for the brevity of this comment ... i don't have any reference books on hand?
why are c++ templates so awkward? what can be done about it?
i can write code in maybe a dozen languages, and i still can't get templates to work properly most of the time. modula-3's generics are much nicer.
Our school has a Women in Mathematics Committee that deals with this sort of thing. Their stats show that females make up about 20 percent of the math faculty, and that percentage has declined in recent years.
Someone from CMU posted that they have a special intro course for non-computer people. We have one of those too. It's a joke. You learn FileMaker, Word, Excel, and Turing (ever programmed in that?). And yes, the class has a lot of females in it. (An aside: not everyone in there is a CS major; they're all math majors though.)
On the issue of minorities, that's really a non-issue at UW. I'd say the class is an even mixture of white and asian students, with a good number of Indian (from India, not Native American) students as well.
A bunch of friends and I were mulling over the latest recruitment brochure sometime last year. (It's much prettier than the one I got.) We noticed the photographs featured a disproportionately high number of white females, especially in programs where they aren't well represented, like CS. So what's up with that? False advertising? (By contrast, a friend of mine who worked on the brochures at Western said they were told to find as many minorities as possible.)
now if the canadian dollar didn't suck...
The same Sony is suing over DeCSS.
No wonder it doesn't work ... that code won't even compile. :-) (look at line 8) Paul
dmoz has links to a couple of parody sites as well.
http://macosrumorz.8m.com/ - hilarious poem at this one
http://macosrumorz.8m.com/mosr.html - hilarious picture of Meader...
http://macosrumors.8m.com/ - another parody...
http://members.tripod.com/~MacOSHumor/ - pretty funny
http://macosrumorsrumors.8m.com/ - another one...
http://paulschreiber.com/mosrr/ - another one...
Paul
your analogy is braindead.
you cut down the tree, jon no longer has the tree.
however, if jonny is running napster and you copy his cover of aretha franklin's "respect" from his box, he didn't lose anything.
Paul
last summer, the us army switched to a power mac g4 and webstar. starnine, of course, made lots of noise.
... with the unix base, does that make it just as insecure as solaris/linux/et cetera?
do you think the mac os is a viable platform to run http on?
what about mac os x
You're missing a lot of valid extensions, like stm (for microsoft servers doing server-parsed), cfm (cold fusion). You could also include perl (cgi, pl), python (py), and whatever other crap is out there.
You have to wonder if the recent IPOs and the general "market likes Linux" mentality has encouraged many "fortune 500" companies to jump on the bandwagon in order to boost their stock price.
It is unfortunate in our market economy we have to be more worried about stock prices than even making money. Nice link off the Suck parody yesterday to the SEC filing for Andover.net (which includes Rob's stock deal with Andover) also contains a line which says "WE EXPECT TO INCUR SUBSTANTIAL LOSSES IN THE FUTURE."
I don't know, maybe it is just me but how can companies like this get blown up, while real companies with real income (see banks, insurance) are sitting pretty low.
So way to go "Open Source" we may not help companies profit, but we will push stock prices up, that's for sure.
The contact change went through two days ago, but the whois still hasn't been updated.
With joker.com, my whois record was updated in 10 minutes (literally) and the server was up under the new DNS in less than 24 hours. If you take a look at yi.org, you'll find out that NSI requires all changes to be approved by a person. What crack are they on?