1. if you happen to be navigating a secure site (https) with Internet Explorer
2. and if your session information is in a cookie
3. and if you hit the back button
Internet Explorer will tell you that "the page has expired" and will ask you to reload the page.
If you're using url encoded session information (ugly urls) instead of a cookie, your session info will be automatically passed when you hit the back button. This is a nicer way to treat users who like using their back buttons to navigate a site.
Of course that session information will then likely be stored in your browser history, but hopefully it will have expired by the time someone else has sat down at your computer to use your amazon.com account to buy their textbooks for next semester.
Another Way:
What I think Tumbleweed might be talking about here is making a new URL for each transaction... like on the other side of the.com. For example, 1234asdf.usemeonce.tumbleweed.com. As long as httpd is differentiating host headers, you could add and map these "secure" urls to content pretty quick with an automated process. As I've never seen it done before I'm sure it could be patented.
once you work for the US government, in any capacity, you're guilty when they say you are. Never mind that regulations are distributed to agency offices on CDROM, then printed and stuffed into eight or ten binders... they don't mean shit. If someone above you says you're guilty, you are.
What happens if you say you're not guilty? Mountains of "documentation" appears from the cracks. Documentation of accusations, made to look like truth. Enough lies on enough pieces of paper make you guilty, law or not.
yes, but you have the better processor. Apple's current line of G3 and G4 processors are descendants of the 603. They were cheaper to build I guess.
Descendants of the 604 live in massively parallel supercomputers and no small number of RS6000 systems.
If you really want to be different, you could replace your Apple ROM with a PC BIOS and run WinNT 4.0 PPC. (though only to SP4 I think.) Or you could just stick with an older linux kernel. It's not like they go bad or anything.
You might not have personal experience with SuperMicro dual-processor boards, but I do.
A have a SuperMicro P6DNE dual PPro board that's been up since early 1997. It happily runs WinNT 4.0 sp6a supporting ~50 users at a factory in Connecticut. WinNT goes 3-4 months at a time without a reboot, and I believe the motherboard contributes to this.
Some might remember that another SuperMicro dual board was used by Andy Grove to demonstrate the Pentium Pro chip on a tour sometime in 1997.
I think their board designs are good, and I'm sure their manufacturing is as good as anyone on the market. Maybe you should reserve your judgement for products you have personal experience with?
These guys are trying to make common medicine more accessible. They hope to keep their patients in better contact, and this is a good thing.
If I can communicate with my doctor electronically, I might tell him things more often about the state of my health. Like things I would tell the doctor if I were living in some small town in Kansas, and saw him in the street.
Say I complain about specific leg pain sometimes, and minor twitches in my back at others. Or say I regularly report I wake up with a stuffy head, or that (god forbid at 25) have regular bowel problems. This might tell a doctor something else.
These are not things I would schedule a doctor's appointment for - and things I may not remember at a sporadic physical exam - but they are things a doctor may be able to help me with.
Better communication with physicians will help us all live longer, and I for one would be willing to pay for it in higher insurance premiums.
After reading the article "Microsoft takes a page from Linux playbook", don't you wonder who wrote it?
Dead-tree pubs aren't the only ones who take pr-wire stuff and print it as news.
This article is very thinly veiled advertising for Microsoft. It's no different from the crap posted in connection with the LinuxGruven article by posters 311,256, et al.
Read with a more discerning eye, and don't automatically trust something you read in the mainstream media. Always follow the money, and see who benefits first. Even when reading Slashdot.:-)
Take my advice, gleaned from many semesters of classes leading to a real-live undergrad degree in Advertising:
The attorney thing is a stretch. Just say you asked a friend who is an attorney, or maybe a neighbor. But posting as a regluar employee and claiming you have an attorney isn't lending any credibility to your claim.
Lose the "guarentee" bit. You should be going for a soft sell in this forum. No need to pound the details, that's been taken care of in other posts.
Hold back on the dramatic closing. Remember, this is a testimonial, it's not supposed to be glitzy or end in a bang.
And finally remember that ambigouity is your friend.
"Your suggestion is like showing the hacker the front door, locked, and jiggling the keys in your hand. I'd prefer to have the door hard to find, or impossible to find."
And respond:
I believe that allowing free, anonymous access to the Internet via unused bandwidth on your broadband connection is just that. No doorway into your network for hackers, just a doorway to the rest of the Internet for someone who wants to remain anonymous. Or someone who needs to get online from the street, their car, their bicycle, headgear, or whatever.
I'm by no means a communist, but if I'm paying for "unlimited, always on" connection, I might as well give some of it away, especially at times when I don't need it. (like 90% of the time.) And if it allows some hacker to get on the internet anonymously, so be it.
Britney and NSync were outclassed by Aerosmith. They really looked weak next to a band with serious musical talent. The rapper seemed to hold his own but I'd never heard of him. (guess I'm too old.)
It sure would've been cool to see Run DMC up there with Aerosmith.:-)
Who wrote this article? Why does it so prominently feature information about the services and prices of the competition?
"According to Marc Lumpkin, communications manager for Echostar, the parent company of Dish Network, their Model 6000 HDTV set-top box does not contain CGMS, or any other system that can restrict which content you will be permitted to view in full 1080i or 720p via the 6000's high-definition analog outputs."
"The Model 6000 sells for $650 list, including the 8 VSB module for terrestrial HDTV broadcasts. Currently Dish Network has three HDTV channels: Showtime HD, HBO HD and HD pay-per-view, which is available 24 hours a day."
Taking into consideration the last two paragraphs of the article, I'd say the whole thing smacks of FUD being spread by Echostar - a perfectly normal thing for a competitor to do. Hell, I learned how to write press releases in the form of news while studying Advertising at a certain well-respected school of Journalism and Mass Communications. We talked frequently about how easy it was to get PR by writing articles for journalists who would then publish them as their own.:-)
I wonder if the article's stated author, Gary Merson, would comment on this? It would be interesting to know if EchoStar provided some or all of the content he claims is his own. Hmm...
he'd buy Sega and use all their developer contacts / contracts for development of games for the Mac. Or even rebrand the dreamcast ala Sun/Cobalt. If the dreamcast will boot NetBSD then it's not too far a leap to imagine dreamcast booting OSX. Ship an emu to play all the old Sega games on G3/4 under OSX. Get all the developers in contract w/ current Sega to start developing games for OSX exclusively.
but can mr. Jobs and stockholders really think differently?
If you don't want to be contacted, there's nothing keeping you from filling your whois record with crap. For example, looking at my domain (which is virt-hosted now, but at one point occupied a nice little class C) you'll find that my telephone number is 555-1212. (That's a common information line) The email works, though I only check it every few months.
I used to have good information in there, but I found it was abused by all manner of advertisers and fifteen year-old geeks who thought they knew what they were talking about.
(I'm glad I no longer have a job where I'm responsible for The Internet.)
Every real project requires development machines, pilot machines, and production machines. Now we just use old Ultra2, 5, and 10 machines as development boxes - they take up space that we don't really have. We use expensive copies of our production boxes as pilot machines - though normally with less ram / fewer cpus.
These nice little rack jobs are just the ticket - no reason now that every developer can't have their own dev machine or two, without the worry of where to put the things.
(+we can get rid of those nasty NOISY old Ultras under our desks.)
"I know it breaks geek tradidition to say this (heresey! they cry) but: NEVER, EVER pick up first generation tech, even 1st gen deriv's. "
first generation tech: The Thinkpad 770 I picked up three years ago with a first-gen DVD drive and hardware mpeg en/decode that's still in use. The Mac 7100 I purchased six years ago that's still in use. The Sony 5-disc changer I purchased twelve years ago that's still in use.
I think this camera is exactly what I've been waiting for, and I do intend to try it out as soon as I can. Timothy, you, and your FUD be dammned. Those who take the risk of first-generation products are called "early adopters" by those who sell, and "leading edge" by those who hire.
Before anyone jumps on Starband over their support for only Win 98+, have a look at a bit from their rather intelligent FAQ:
"Our Help Desk does not support networking questions and issues, so if you want to try networking with our system, you do so at your own risk, and we recommend that you first make sure that you have access to technical support through other sources. You will be charged by StarBand for any maintenance / repair / support services provided by StarBand due to problems resulting from your networking activities. While we do not yet provide a "StarBand-approved" networking solution, users have done it successfully."
They say "our Help Desk does not support..." Then they say "make sure you have access to technical support through other sources."
It sounds pretty clueful to me. Their Help Desk has enough trouble supporting Win9x, and they certainly don't need to be helping some 15YO with his Mac or Linux problems. (having worked tech support I have some pretty strong opinions.) But they do say networking has been done, and they don't explicitly ban the practice, like many other broadband providers.
I think that when Apple comes out with a server version of Mac OS X it will start to get some serious interest in many places were Linux is currently used for servers.
MacOS X Server has been shipping for many moons. It's Workstation that's slated for release this spring. Os X Server hasn't been widely adopted. In my experience this is because the MacHeads in IT jobs don't understand enough *nix to play. Many of them are quite frightened. THey'd rather stick to OS 8/9 and their nice AppleScript Admin tools.
What's your zip code? I tried all the zips for San Bruno (94066, 94067, 94096, 94098) and the Sprint site still says "At this time, our service is not available in your market area."
I've tried dozens of obvious city zips now and still haven't seen anything but "At this time..."
I think hardware companies are trying to get away from old-style serial. Serial needs fixed resources on host PCs, and most of us know about fiddling with IRQs, etc. It's considered legacy, and doesn't even appear in some new pcs, like Compaq's iPaq legacy-free desktop.
Serial also has a ~115kbps limit that tends to impede the synchronization of anything substantial. (read mp3)
USB controllers, OTHO, support many devices with one set of resources, and at least in the case of my system (Asus A7V) take whatever resources the hardware gives them, and share nicely. They also have a decent 12mbps transfer rate.
As for ethernet vs. bluetooth, for wireless sync, bluetooth is the way to go. Ethernet doesn't include all the auto-negotiation / auto-configuration that bluetooth does on as low a level.
Finally, my personal prediction on wireless Internet is that it'll use whatever the dominant cell-phone technology is... I doubt highly that anyone will deploy wireless ethernet on a national/international scale just to support PDAs. I see PDAs using 3g GSM for Internet, even in the US.
Slashdot Mirror
A Reason. (there are a few ifs here):
.com. For example, 1234asdf.usemeonce.tumbleweed.com. As long as httpd is differentiating host headers, you could add and map these "secure" urls to content pretty quick with an automated process. As I've never seen it done before I'm sure it could be patented.
1. if you happen to be navigating a secure site (https) with Internet Explorer
2. and if your session information is in a cookie
3. and if you hit the back button
Internet Explorer will tell you that "the page has expired" and will ask you to reload the page.
If you're using url encoded session information (ugly urls) instead of a cookie, your session info will be automatically passed when you hit the back button. This is a nicer way to treat users who like using their back buttons to navigate a site.
Of course that session information will then likely be stored in your browser history, but hopefully it will have expired by the time someone else has sat down at your computer to use your amazon.com account to buy their textbooks for next semester.
Another Way:
What I think Tumbleweed might be talking about here is making a new URL for each transaction... like on the other side of the
once you work for the US government, in any capacity, you're guilty when they say you are. Never mind that regulations are distributed to agency offices on CDROM, then printed and stuffed into eight or ten binders... they don't mean shit. If someone above you says you're guilty, you are.
What happens if you say you're not guilty? Mountains of "documentation" appears from the cracks. Documentation of accusations, made to look like truth. Enough lies on enough pieces of paper make you guilty, law or not.
hilarious! certainly not a troll.
yes, but you have the better processor. Apple's current line of G3 and G4 processors are descendants of the 603. They were cheaper to build I guess.
Descendants of the 604 live in massively parallel supercomputers and no small number of RS6000 systems.
If you really want to be different, you could replace your Apple ROM with a PC BIOS and run WinNT 4.0 PPC. (though only to SP4 I think.) Or you could just stick with an older linux kernel. It's not like they go bad or anything.
:-) I drive a volkswagen, but then again I'm not a doctor.
You might not have personal experience with SuperMicro dual-processor boards, but I do.
A have a SuperMicro P6DNE dual PPro board that's been up since early 1997. It happily runs WinNT 4.0 sp6a supporting ~50 users at a factory in Connecticut. WinNT goes 3-4 months at a time without a reboot, and I believe the motherboard contributes to this.
Some might remember that another SuperMicro dual board was used by Andy Grove to demonstrate the Pentium Pro chip on a tour sometime in 1997.
I think their board designs are good, and I'm sure their manufacturing is as good as anyone on the market. Maybe you should reserve your judgement for products you have personal experience with?
-jb
These guys are trying to make common medicine more accessible. They hope to keep their patients in better contact, and this is a good thing.
If I can communicate with my doctor electronically, I might tell him things more often about the state of my health. Like things I would tell the doctor if I were living in some small town in Kansas, and saw him in the street.
Say I complain about specific leg pain sometimes, and minor twitches in my back at others. Or say I regularly report I wake up with a stuffy head, or that (god forbid at 25) have regular bowel problems. This might tell a doctor something else.
These are not things I would schedule a doctor's appointment for - and things I may not remember at a sporadic physical exam - but they are things a doctor may be able to help me with.
Better communication with physicians will help us all live longer, and I for one would be willing to pay for it in higher insurance premiums.
As for the lexus, don't you have one too?
-jonbrewer
got that here: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.sati rewire.com
The site www.satirewire.com runs Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) mod_perl/1.24 PHP/3.0.16 FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.4.9 SSL-C on Linux
After reading the article "Microsoft takes a page from Linux playbook", don't you wonder who wrote it?
:-)
Dead-tree pubs aren't the only ones who take pr-wire stuff and print it as news.
This article is very thinly veiled advertising for Microsoft. It's no different from the crap posted in connection with the LinuxGruven article by posters 311,256, et al.
Read with a more discerning eye, and don't automatically trust something you read in the mainstream media. Always follow the money, and see who benefits first. Even when reading Slashdot.
Marketing Guys,
Take my advice, gleaned from many semesters of classes leading to a real-live undergrad degree in Advertising:
The attorney thing is a stretch. Just say you asked a friend who is an attorney, or maybe a neighbor. But posting as a regluar employee and claiming you have an attorney isn't lending any credibility to your claim.
Lose the "guarentee" bit. You should be going for a soft sell in this forum. No need to pound the details, that's been taken care of in other posts.
Hold back on the dramatic closing. Remember, this is a testimonial, it's not supposed to be glitzy or end in a bang.
And finally remember that ambigouity is your friend.
Cheers,
jonbrewer
I quote you:
"Your suggestion is like showing the hacker the front door, locked, and jiggling the keys in your hand. I'd prefer to have the door hard to find, or impossible to find."
And respond:
I believe that allowing free, anonymous access to the Internet via unused bandwidth on your broadband connection is just that. No doorway into your network for hackers, just a doorway to the rest of the Internet for someone who wants to remain anonymous. Or someone who needs to get online from the street, their car, their bicycle, headgear, or whatever.
I'm by no means a communist, but if I'm paying for "unlimited, always on" connection, I might as well give some of it away, especially at times when I don't need it. (like 90% of the time.) And if it allows some hacker to get on the internet anonymously, so be it.
Britney and NSync were outclassed by Aerosmith. They really looked weak next to a band with serious musical talent. The rapper seemed to hold his own but I'd never heard of him. (guess I'm too old.)
:-)
It sure would've been cool to see Run DMC up there with Aerosmith.
Who wrote this article? Why does it so prominently feature information about the services and prices of the competition?
Taking into consideration the last two paragraphs of the article, I'd say the whole thing smacks of FUD being spread by Echostar - a perfectly normal thing for a competitor to do. Hell, I learned how to write press releases in the form of news while studying Advertising at a certain well-respected school of Journalism and Mass Communications. We talked frequently about how easy it was to get PR by writing articles for journalists who would then publish them as their own. :-)
I wonder if the article's stated author, Gary Merson, would comment on this? It would be interesting to know if EchoStar provided some or all of the content he claims is his own. Hmm...
he'd buy Sega and use all their developer contacts / contracts for development of games for the Mac. Or even rebrand the dreamcast ala Sun/Cobalt. If the dreamcast will boot NetBSD then it's not too far a leap to imagine dreamcast booting OSX. Ship an emu to play all the old Sega games on G3/4 under OSX. Get all the developers in contract w/ current Sega to start developing games for OSX exclusively.
but can mr. Jobs and stockholders really think differently?
If you don't want to be contacted, there's nothing keeping you from filling your whois record with crap. For example, looking at my domain (which is virt-hosted now, but at one point occupied a nice little class C) you'll find that my telephone number is 555-1212. (That's a common information line) The email works, though I only check it every few months.
I used to have good information in there, but I found it was abused by all manner of advertisers and fifteen year-old geeks who thought they knew what they were talking about.
(I'm glad I no longer have a job where I'm responsible for The Internet.)
Who will use this? I will.
Every real project requires development machines, pilot machines, and production machines. Now we just use old Ultra2, 5, and 10 machines as development boxes - they take up space that we don't really have. We use expensive copies of our production boxes as pilot machines - though normally with less ram / fewer cpus.
These nice little rack jobs are just the ticket - no reason now that every developer can't have their own dev machine or two, without the worry of where to put the things.
(+we can get rid of those nasty NOISY old Ultras under our desks.)
"I know it breaks geek tradidition to say this (heresey! they cry) but: NEVER, EVER pick up first generation tech, even 1st gen deriv's. "
first generation tech: The Thinkpad 770 I picked up three years ago with a first-gen DVD drive and hardware mpeg en/decode that's still in use. The Mac 7100 I purchased six years ago that's still in use. The Sony 5-disc changer I purchased twelve years ago that's still in use.
I think this camera is exactly what I've been waiting for, and I do intend to try it out as soon as I can. Timothy, you, and your FUD be dammned. Those who take the risk of first-generation products are called "early adopters" by those who sell, and "leading edge" by those who hire.
crashing said competitor's site and all. :-)
Before anyone jumps on Starband over their support for only Win 98+, have a look at a bit from their rather intelligent FAQ:
"Our Help Desk does not support networking questions and issues, so if you want to try networking with our system, you do so at your own risk, and we recommend that you first make sure that you have access to technical support through other sources. You will be charged by StarBand for any maintenance / repair / support services provided by StarBand due to problems resulting from your networking activities. While we do not yet provide a "StarBand-approved" networking solution, users have done it successfully."
They say "our Help Desk does not support..." Then they say "make sure you have access to technical support through other sources."
It sounds pretty clueful to me. Their Help Desk has enough trouble supporting Win9x, and they certainly don't need to be helping some 15YO with his Mac or Linux problems. (having worked tech support I have some pretty strong opinions.) But they do say networking has been done, and they don't explicitly ban the practice, like many other broadband providers.
I think that when Apple comes out with a server version of Mac OS X it will start to get some serious interest in many places were Linux is currently used for servers.
MacOS X Server has been shipping for many moons. It's Workstation that's slated for release this spring. Os X Server hasn't been widely adopted. In my experience this is because the MacHeads in IT jobs don't understand enough *nix to play. Many of them are quite frightened. THey'd rather stick to OS 8/9 and their nice AppleScript Admin tools.
What's your zip code? I tried all the zips for San Bruno (94066, 94067, 94096, 94098) and the Sprint site still says "At this time, our service is not available in your market area."
I've tried dozens of obvious city zips now and still haven't seen anything but "At this time..."
I tried that before reading your post. it doesn't work.
this calendar has seven days per week. read the article!
I think hardware companies are trying to get away from old-style serial. Serial needs fixed resources on host PCs, and most of us know about fiddling with IRQs, etc. It's considered legacy, and doesn't even appear in some new pcs, like Compaq's iPaq legacy-free desktop.
Serial also has a ~115kbps limit that tends to impede the synchronization of anything substantial. (read mp3)
USB controllers, OTHO, support many devices with one set of resources, and at least in the case of my system (Asus A7V) take whatever resources the hardware gives them, and share nicely. They also have a decent 12mbps transfer rate.
As for ethernet vs. bluetooth, for wireless sync, bluetooth is the way to go. Ethernet doesn't include all the auto-negotiation / auto-configuration that bluetooth does on as low a level.
Finally, my personal prediction on wireless Internet is that it'll use whatever the dominant cell-phone technology is... I doubt highly that anyone will deploy wireless ethernet on a national/international scale just to support PDAs. I see PDAs using 3g GSM for Internet, even in the US.