What's the problem with the domain name change? If you just make your web server send people to your new domain name using a correct forward (not 302 but 304 IIRC) everything should be fine. Worked for me about two years ago, at least.
> Isn't there a way for Google to virus scan the ads before they're added to the potential pool and, if so, shouldn't there be a way for punishing advertisers who swap out a clean ad with a virus/malware laden one at a later date?
Definitely. But the problem here is that the malicious person can change the contents of the website any time he/she wants. When placing the ad, put something normal there. Once the ad is live, put your malware there. After a few hours the ad will probably be dead... but I'm afraid there are ways around that too.
Agreed. No voice calls, never. However, support for SMS means that from now we get to enjoy all the silly annoying ringtones people have selected when they receive SMS messages. Bah.
And wasn't there this theory that allowing passengers to communicate with the outside world can cause stress and panic when things aren't going as well as planned?
BTW, slightly off-topic, but does this actually work? Does it make *.doubleclick.net resolve to 127.0.0.1 too? I just make all my nameservers authoritative for doubleclick.net and domains like that, works perfectly and for all machines on the network.:-)
As other people already said, you're very wrong.:-) I don't see the point of ad blockers. I used one back when I had dialup because it actually took a significant amount of time to download the ads. (The graphical ones, at least.)
But these days that time is not really noticeable anymore. And since I developed an "ad blindness" years ago already there's no need to block ads in software, I don't notice anymore if they're there or not. Works a lot better than getting upset when the adblocker mist an ad again. My blindness works for any ad.;-)
Actually IIRC you can change your I/O scheduler per-device on the fly via/sys or/proc. And for just the pre-emptive/non-pre-emptive difference, distros probably ship separate server/non-server kernels.
I think you and I work at the same place.:-) I opted for the MacOS laptop because I already have a Thinkpad with Linux, no need to have two of them. IIRC there are Ubuntu laptop images now BTW? I see people around me who installed Linux on their laptops long ago already, so it really shouldn't be a problem.
Actually Xen can run unmodified versions of Windows too, if you have a recent CPU with support for VT/Pacifica. Which KVM needs too to work well, as far as I know.
> All he remembers is that he was flamed when he called it 'et cetera'
Flamed by suckers then. It's the explanation I heard the most frequently (so it MUST be true;-)). Those flamers just think "Unix is too cool so obviously etc can't be an everyday word like all the other people use, it must be some obscure acronym that only WE know". And most likely they don't know what it means themselves or made something up.:-)
This sounds very much like how one usually installs software on Mac OS X... Just drag a directory (which looks like a single file in the Finder) to your/Applications folder (or anywhere else, if you prefer, or if you can't write to/App) and you're done.
Just because you _can_ update all the time doesn't mean you should.
From what I have heard, it does mean that. Not updating a Gentoy box for half a year or even longer often means that any attempt to upgrade it will be hard and painful.
but when modular X went stable all of a sudden *all* packages that needed X now depended on the modular X libs.
Dude, that's a lot better than to have all those packages depend on non-modular X packages that don't exist anymore. Actually I'd almost say I'm impressed that they managed to update all those dependencies so quickly. Although depending on both (OR, not AND) would be better, of course...
Another irritating feature. Apple firmware mistakenly identifies any non-Apple operating system as 'Windows'; for Apple 'Linux' is the same as 'Windows'.
That's a shame. On their PPC machines they actually display a little Tux for Linux partitions in their bootloader. I really liked that.
I doubt if they ever had it on the site. AFAIK it's more the well-known story of engineers who wrote that line on a whiteboard some day when management was meeting some important people/investors or whatever.
One nice thing in Skype is that it even works on Windows 98. You don't want to know how many people still use that piece of history. Do you know of any other VoIP program that is still Win98-compatible?
True, or maybe people just like it so much that it became too expensive to run the service for free. They probably do have to pay themselves to connect those calls. If people use it a lot it's probably worth the 2.5 dollars a month. For people who don't use it that much, it's too bad.
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What's the problem with the domain name change? If you just make your web server send people to your new domain name using a correct forward (not 302 but 304 IIRC) everything should be fine. Worked for me about two years ago, at least.
> if HR calls you and wants you to work for them, it implies they have researched your background and have something in mind.
I've seen recruiters send that kind of mails to mailing list. Don't be so sure... Ah, found one on a Python mailing list.
It made me feel itchy. But they didn't fire me yet. Fortunately you never hear the word again after the first week, so don't worry. ;-)
> Isn't there a way for Google to virus scan the ads before they're added to the potential pool and, if so, shouldn't there be a way for punishing advertisers who swap out a clean ad with a virus/malware laden one at a later date?
... but I'm afraid there are ways around that too.
Definitely. But the problem here is that the malicious person can change the contents of the website any time he/she wants. When placing the ad, put something normal there. Once the ad is live, put your malware there. After a few hours the ad will probably be dead
Agreed. No voice calls, never. However, support for SMS means that from now we get to enjoy all the silly annoying ringtones people have selected when they receive SMS messages. Bah.
And wasn't there this theory that allowing passengers to communicate with the outside world can cause stress and panic when things aren't going as well as planned?
BTW, slightly off-topic, but does this actually work? Does it make *.doubleclick.net resolve to 127.0.0.1 too? I just make all my nameservers authoritative for doubleclick.net and domains like that, works perfectly and for all machines on the network. :-)
As other people already said, you're very wrong. :-) I don't see the point of ad blockers. I used one back when I had dialup because it actually took a significant amount of time to download the ads. (The graphical ones, at least.)
;-)
But these days that time is not really noticeable anymore. And since I developed an "ad blindness" years ago already there's no need to block ads in software, I don't notice anymore if they're there or not. Works a lot better than getting upset when the adblocker mist an ad again. My blindness works for any ad.
Actually IIRC you can change your I/O scheduler per-device on the fly via /sys or /proc. And for just the pre-emptive/non-pre-emptive difference, distros probably ship separate server/non-server kernels.
Do you also have an Asus keyboard?
;-)
Does it have an Enter key?
I think you and I work at the same place. :-) I opted for the MacOS laptop because I already have a Thinkpad with Linux, no need to have two of them. IIRC there are Ubuntu laptop images now BTW? I see people around me who installed Linux on their laptops long ago already, so it really shouldn't be a problem.
Actually Xen can run unmodified versions of Windows too, if you have a recent CPU with support for VT/Pacifica. Which KVM needs too to work well, as far as I know.
> But instead sell it independently, and have the users get their own SIM through a carrier and sign up for a data only plan.
:-)
Move to Europe. America seems to be about the only place where this is still impossible.
> All he remembers is that he was flamed when he called it 'et cetera'
;-)). Those flamers just think "Unix is too cool so obviously etc can't be an everyday word like all the other people use, it must be some obscure acronym that only WE know". And most likely they don't know what it means themselves or made something up. :-)
Flamed by suckers then. It's the explanation I heard the most frequently (so it MUST be true
Where did he get flamed exactly, I wonder...
This sounds very much like how one usually installs software on Mac OS X... Just drag a directory (which looks like a single file in the Finder) to your /Applications folder (or anywhere else, if you prefer, or if you can't write to /App) and you're done.
Just because you _can_ update all the time doesn't mean you should.
From what I have heard, it does mean that. Not updating a Gentoy box for half a year or even longer often means that any attempt to upgrade it will be hard and painful.
but when modular X went stable all of a sudden *all* packages that needed X now depended on the modular X libs.
Dude, that's a lot better than to have all those packages depend on non-modular X packages that don't exist anymore. Actually I'd almost say I'm impressed that they managed to update all those dependencies so quickly. Although depending on both (OR, not AND) would be better, of course...
Another irritating feature. Apple firmware mistakenly identifies any non-Apple operating system as 'Windows'; for Apple 'Linux' is the same as 'Windows'.
That's a shame. On their PPC machines they actually display a little Tux for Linux partitions in their bootloader. I really liked that.
Oops! You're totally right. Why didn't I think of that... :-(
Yeah, that's what I realized a few seconds after posting this too. The author certainly has some work to do. :-)
Adding a long salt should work though, as long as the salt is secret.
There's no need to download the image. Look at the source. Somewhere it says:
:-)
Now, just go to MD5Lookup.Com and convert that little "hidden" MD5Sum back to the original text:
ad6ade8a0b6e2f748b80a390ff45cf31 - &NMTB
Maybe the author should add some salt.
The story I was talking about.
I doubt if they ever had it on the site. AFAIK it's more the well-known story of engineers who wrote that line on a whiteboard some day when management was meeting some important people/investors or whatever.
Oh, actually... You can still find it in a couple of places.
> Now if the developers at Mozilla wish to look down on google, they could stop making it default in Firefox as a search engine.
;-)
I'm told that Mozilla.com makes a "bit" too much money from that little textbox, so I don't think they'd like to remove it.
One nice thing in Skype is that it even works on Windows 98. You don't want to know how many people still use that piece of history. Do you know of any other VoIP program that is still Win98-compatible?
True, or maybe people just like it so much that it became too expensive to run the service for free. They probably do have to pay themselves to connect those calls. If people use it a lot it's probably worth the 2.5 dollars a month. For people who don't use it that much, it's too bad.