>Having watched Robot Wars quite a lot afterall, (>it's hosted by Lister off Red Dwarf)
That would be Craig Charles.
Robot Wars is much much better than Battle Bots. We get Battle Bots here in the UK (forget which channel). I watched it once, and thought it was rather rubbish.
The robots were no better than some from Robot Wars, too.
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whois queries to whois.internic.net and whois.networksolutions.com both (apparently) refer to whois.networksolutions.com, yet each give differing amounts of info.
could this be purposely done to confuse old folks like me?
or is my brain just fried from to much coffee this morning?
I've puzzled over this one. The problem is that the whois database for the.com,.net and.org domains is distributed, and ONLY Network Solutions has the master copy.
It could also have something to do with their terms and conditions of use for the database, too. I dunno - I'm not a registry:/
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Try changing the Registrar. Gandi (www.gandi.net)
is pretty good. They don't claim to own your domain name, and you can simply transfer the domain over to them. -- And let there be light... so he fluffed the light spell
Any decent mild. Where I worked, people normally mixed M&B mild with Guiness.
Although I actually prefer mixing a nice dry cider with Guiness. Black Velvets (ok, ok. A proper black velvet is Guiness & champagne!) are very nice, although they are a swine to pour.
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>believe software for these critical applications should be written by professional, licensed >software engineers, people who have sworn to obey
a code of ethics. I don't want to
I don't beleive Software Engineers are licensed.
At least they are not in the UK. Maybe it's different in the US???
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> Well, compared to the documentation available for Linux
What? Aren't man pages good enough for you?
Then there is always the excellent 'Linux Application Development', which is aimed at anyone who has coded before. In fact, a lot of C calls are standard across platforms. *points to open(), et al.*
So, where is the lack of documentation? Have you actually looked?
>It would keep it from getting to the servers, but would it help reduce the 'tidle wave' of traffic >on it's way to the router?
It would stop it from getting to the servers, yes. But any link that connects your site to the internet would still be full, and in effect, knocking you off the internet. Remember, internet links are usually a LOT slower than server network links!
Also, there are routing methods out there that need ICMP to update dynamic routing tables.
So blocking ALL ICMP is a bad idea... Blocking ICMP Reply, on the other hand.....
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>Having watched Robot Wars quite a lot afterall,
(>it's hosted by Lister off Red Dwarf)
That would be Craig Charles.
Robot Wars is much much better than Battle Bots.
We get Battle Bots here in the UK (forget which channel).
I watched it once, and thought it was rather rubbish.
The robots were no better than some from Robot Wars, too.
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And all black metal. 99% of metal actually. Bon Jovi might survive, but he's hardly a metal artist.
Considering the fuss over Marilyn Manson, I'd hate to see what would happen if Cradle Of Filth was better known.
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Strange.
.com, .net and .org domains is distributed, and ONLY Network Solutions has the master copy.
:/
whois queries to whois.internic.net and whois.networksolutions.com both (apparently) refer to whois.networksolutions.com, yet each give differing amounts of info.
could this be purposely done to confuse old folks like me?
or is my brain just fried from to much coffee this morning?
I've puzzled over this one. The problem is that the whois database for the
It could also have something to do with their terms and conditions of use for the database, too. I dunno - I'm not a registry
-- And let there be light... so he fluffed the light spell
Try changing the Registrar. Gandi (www.gandi.net) is pretty good. They don't claim to own your domain name, and you can simply transfer the domain over to them.
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try whois slashdot.org@whois.networksolutions.com
It gives you the full record!
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Yes, good old Domain/OS.
That was a nice OS. And the apollo's amazingly quick for what they were (68030's, as I recall).
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Any decent mild. Where I worked, people normally mixed M&B mild with Guiness.
Although I actually prefer mixing a nice dry cider with Guiness. Black Velvets (ok, ok. A proper black velvet is Guiness & champagne!) are very nice, although they are a swine to pour.
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I do feel sorry for you. My local [pub] serves very little but real ale.
It's the Palmerston Arms, Peterborough.
They serve ale straight from the keg.
Never visited the Panton Arms when I used to live in Cambridge..
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In the UK, stout & mild mixed is a Black & Tan. :)
We have loads of wierd names for drinks over here!
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>believe software for these critical applications should be written by professional, licensed
>software engineers, people who have sworn to obey a code of ethics. I don't want to
I don't beleive Software Engineers are licensed.
At least they are not in the UK.
Maybe it's different in the US???
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> Well, compared to the documentation available for Linux
What? Aren't man pages good enough for you?
Then there is always the excellent 'Linux
Application Development', which is aimed at
anyone who has coded before. In fact, a lot of C
calls are standard across platforms. *points to open(), et al.*
So, where is the lack of documentation?
Have you actually looked?
I'm afraid to say that WoTc took over TSR a few years ago.
>It would keep it from getting to the servers, but would it help reduce the 'tidle wave' of traffic
>on it's way to the router?
It would stop it from getting to the servers, yes.
But any link that connects your site to the
internet would still be full, and in effect, knocking you off
the internet.
Remember, internet links are usually a LOT slower than server network links!
Also, there are routing methods out there that
need ICMP to update dynamic routing
tables.
So blocking ALL ICMP is a bad idea... Blocking
ICMP Reply, on the other hand.....