The best thing you can do against SDMI is to support an open alternative like OggVorbis. The music will be realsed in what ever has the largest market share. If SDMI gets > 50% of the market sales then it will win. The best thing you can do is put you money where your mouth is and make sure an user friendly (friendly as in doen't limit the user) format gains most of the market. Leknor
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If you decide to go with more then one web server take a look at Squid. It can reverse proxy web request
to make many servers look like one. You should be able to split the user names
on alpha ranges.
The Squid redirector can make one accelerator act as a single front-end for multiple servers. If you need to move parts of your filesystem from
one server to another, or if separately administered HTTP servers should logically appear under a single URL hierarchy, the accelerator
makes the right thing happen.
This doesn't quite solve your ftp problem. I did a quick search and didn't find anything that would direct a ftp to a different server based off of username. It shouldn't be hard to adapt a ftp proxy to do this for you, but I've never tried.
It wouln't be hard to write a quick php/cgi help page that given
the user name would provide the used with the correct server address. Or you
could make a few dns entries like a.ftp.host, b.ftp.host, etc and if the users
name was tom they would use t.ftp.host.
Or you could ask Geocites for their user management software;~)
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One, if the Internet allows every schmoe to declare themselves a presidential candidate, will it help the political process? Will it even have an effect,
My feeling is politics on the internet will never really have much effect. Why? Because the computer has a power switch. Any voice that preaches real change or what needs to be done (which will upset much of the population) can be easily ignored or just backed out of.
Programming is not like other school classes because most of the kids peers can't look at code and reconize good code like they can a good drawing or well written essay. Kids (and people) like to show their work and get recognized.
Give them a project that has visable results and can be appreciated by there peers. I'd say give them a little web space with perl or php and then teach them how to do a hit counter. Java applets may a better place to start because the language is a little more formal.
If kids don't have some way to show off they will lose interest or resort to writing fire routines over and over.
Some other people suggested a keyring type freature of the browser. good idea! no need to keep all data centeral.
What we should be doing is makeing a defined, supported (Mozilla, then others) standard for form autofill for just what the user wants (name, addr, state, zip, etc but not phone). let the user decide.
If your insistant on a passport type thing then don't make it open. I get enought spam from people that I'm sure got my email via whois at the internic/network solutions with out agreeing to the terms. Make that kinda thing open would be creating a spam database.
The way to do itis to get some human rights group to host/admin it. I know their not equiped but they can charge fees and raise a few nickles to support their cause while there would be a chance I may belive what they say enought to trust the system. Citrix
Passport is simply a bad idea. It doesn't take much thought to realize how much info they could/would collect about you.
Where you shop, when, how often you check your order tracking. Wouldn't be hard to know which prodcuts you clicked on the buy now button. It is bad enought that double click knows more about the surfing habits of my web browser then I really know. Do you want some one knowing that and dollar amounts with proof positive info to id you.
NO!
Don't support any passport type anything. Look at the US goverment. It is scary what they have on me. At least there are (legal) limitations on what info the IRS can ask the police for and the police can ask the fed for, etc...
Personall I won't ever use any web service that requires a passport type service but there are people who like all their secrets exposed. How else does MTV get a cast for the real world/road rules. Citrix
The beauty of HTTP is it is so damn simple. That is why it so successful. It's simplicity and flexibility has allowed it to grow and adapt. XML may be simple but not at simple as HTTP. HTTP may not be perfect but it works. How are you going to have an efficient caching BXXP proxy. yick! the proxy will have to parse 2 BXXP connections. That is way more complex than parsing a header and just passing the content through. My only grip with HTTP is you can't set a cookie after your started sending the content. (any lazy web programmer will agree) Citrix
Recently, I've built some linux boxes that (re)boot very quickly. The main thing I've done is remove unneeded crap from the booup, like do you really need sendmail running in the background of you personal box, I've been fine without it for months now (maybe I'm missing the zen of linux/unix without it but I'm happy). I've also made some things more parallel. eg: gpm (console mouse util) I don't need it first thing at boot so I have some scripts that delay it's loading or at least don't make it stop other things from loading at the same time.
Get to know your linux box. Mainstream distros are geared for everybody and do a lota stuff you probably don't give a damn about.
One other thing. Really large hard drives take forever to mount. look around there are ways to speed this up like reducing redundant fs checking (may not be a smart thing to do) Citrix
I work at a small time bank and basically what we do is insert the text into a PCL file. It is real easy as a PCL is somewhat easy to hack. Here are the steps:
Create a PCL of the form you want to auto fill. (We usually use PageMaker) and print to file with a HP LaserJet printer driver. (PCL is HP's perfered format)
We then use a ruler to measure the X, Y coords for the files (Hight tech, eh)
We then dump the PCL to the printer but we stop right before the end
Then you output the PCL goto X Y command, maybe change the font, and output the text string
then we tell the printer we're finished with the page
It ain't a pretty hack but it works nicly for us. We've written some custom scripts and I don't know the PCL off the top of my head but everything I found was via google.
My 2c on the Dr. Office and safty issue, as long and the DR. is forced to key data in and verify it there is nothing wrong with autofilling forms. You just have to be more clever then the person keying in data. We use prompts that change order or somtimes require doulble entry to keep the users from just going thought the motions. Feel free to email me about how we did it but I can't offer too much help:-( I keep pretty busy. Citrix
You didn't provied a link to your site so I can't experience the problems you describe but here is one idea. (I don't mean to insult you if you know this already but you did claim not to be an expert.)
Most ads are just an image so make sure you specify the image WIDTH="???" and HEIGHT="???" in the IMG tag. It will give the web broser enought extra info to speed the rendering of the page.
It isn't like eBay is disallowing access to everything, crawlers are allowed to index anything on www.ebay.com (no robots.txt) and whatever is not excluded search.ebay.com. IMO whether the judge knows it he is upholding a standard and that is a good thing. Citrix
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions previously performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.
I'm all for people/countries agreeing (including the EU folks) but as I understand it without ICANN or maybe IANA playing along, this doesn't mean much.
Yes, I'm aware that the article says:
The domain name itself will be
protected by the ICANN rules recommended by the World Organisation for Intellectual Property.
but that says nothing about ICANN supporting this decision. It just says they are going to uses the guidelines that ICANN reccomend.
I don't mean to piss anyone off but as I understand it, the internet is still largely American due to it's roots in ARPA and that most "authorities" on the internet are American.
I've been told by someone who claimed what he knew was fact that the manufactures only keep one in five made. That means your paying for four you don't use. If that is true I'm can sympathize why they manufacturers don't wanna replace them but it don't make me sympathize with them any.
Sound like you want Green Frog Linux. It is nothing more than a kernel with, gcc, perl, and the the basic utils. One tip, make sure you have a kernel source near by to rebuild to support the network card you have.
Why don't you just ask Google?
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Google ain't open source but it kicks butt. Why don't you save some time and effort and just make something that takes a search in the form of a question and then makes the question more google friendly. heck you could make it "ask anything" and let people select their favorite search engine.
I don't mean to piss anyone off but I think it doesn't have to be open source, just unbiased and free of any corporate agenda. The open should be a method of keeping you honest and a way to enhance your relationship with your visitors.
To my knowledge VeriSign and Thawte do not come to your location. They don't really even ensure you are who you say you are. They may get your drivers license number to match a name with what you told them but that is about it. If you look at their warrenty they disclaim the acuracy of the certificates. The only way to have a certicifate that you know is good is for the owner to give it to you in person. BTW: I'm not a security, crypto, or any other type of expert. Citrix
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The best thing you can do against SDMI is to support an open alternative like OggVorbis. The music will be realsed in what ever has the largest market share. If SDMI gets > 50% of the market sales then it will win. The best thing you can do is put you money where your mouth is and make sure an user friendly (friendly as in doen't limit the user) format gains most of the market.
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here is the IBM story: http://www.theregister.co.u k/content/archive/10325.html
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It is a great article seperate from problems with win2k.
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If you decide to go with more then one web server take a look at Squid. It can reverse proxy web request to make many servers look like one. You should be able to split the user names on alpha ranges.
From the Squid FAQ
This doesn't quite solve your ftp problem. I did a quick search and didn't find anything that would direct a ftp to a different server based off of username. It shouldn't be hard to adapt a ftp proxy to do this for you, but I've never tried.
It wouln't be hard to write a quick php/cgi help page that given the user name would provide the used with the correct server address. Or you could make a few dns entries like a.ftp.host, b.ftp.host, etc and if the users name was tom they would use t.ftp.host.
Or you could ask Geocites for their user management software ;~)
Leknor
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jch/java/
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(need to change my sig)
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My feeling is politics on the internet will never really have much effect. Why? Because the computer has a power switch. Any voice that preaches real change or what needs to be done (which will upset much of the population) can be easily ignored or just backed out of.
http://Leknor.com/
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Give them a project that has visable results and can be appreciated by there peers. I'd say give them a little web space with perl or php and then teach them how to do a hit counter. Java applets may a better place to start because the language is a little more formal.
If kids don't have some way to show off they will lose interest or resort to writing fire routines over and over.
just my $0.02 cents
Citrix
Some other people suggested a keyring type freature of the browser. good idea! no need to keep all data centeral.
What we should be doing is makeing a defined, supported (Mozilla, then others) standard for form autofill for just what the user wants (name, addr, state, zip, etc but not phone). let the user decide.
If your insistant on a passport type thing then don't make it open. I get enought spam from people that I'm sure got my email via whois at the internic/network solutions with out agreeing to the terms. Make that kinda thing open would be creating a spam database.
The way to do itis to get some human rights group to host/admin it. I know their not equiped but they can charge fees and raise a few nickles to support their cause while there would be a chance I may belive what they say enought to trust the system.
Citrix
Where you shop, when, how often you check your order tracking. Wouldn't be hard to know which prodcuts you clicked on the buy now button. It is bad enought that double click knows more about the surfing habits of my web browser then I really know. Do you want some one knowing that and dollar amounts with proof positive info to id you.
NO!
Don't support any passport type anything. Look at the US goverment. It is scary what they have on me. At least there are (legal) limitations on what info the IRS can ask the police for and the police can ask the fed for, etc...
Personall I won't ever use any web service that requires a passport type service but there are people who like all their secrets exposed. How else does MTV get a cast for the real world/road rules.
Citrix
The beauty of HTTP is it is so damn simple. That is why it so successful. It's simplicity and flexibility has allowed it to grow and adapt. XML may be simple but not at simple as HTTP. HTTP may not be perfect but it works. How are you going to have an efficient caching BXXP proxy. yick! the proxy will have to parse 2 BXXP connections. That is way more complex than parsing a header and just passing the content through. My only grip with HTTP is you can't set a cookie after your started sending the content. (any lazy web programmer will agree)
Citrix
Get to know your linux box. Mainstream distros are geared for everybody and do a lota stuff you probably don't give a damn about.
One other thing. Really large hard drives take forever to mount. look around there are ways to speed this up like reducing redundant fs checking (may not be a smart thing to do)
Citrix
It is real easy as a PCL is somewhat easy to hack. Here are the steps:
- Create a PCL of the form you want to auto fill. (We usually use PageMaker) and print to file with a HP LaserJet printer driver. (PCL is HP's perfered format)
- We then use a ruler to measure the X, Y coords for the files (Hight tech, eh)
- We then dump the PCL to the printer but we stop right before the end
- Then you output the PCL goto X Y command, maybe change the font, and output the text string
- then we tell the printer we're finished with the page
It ain't a pretty hack but it works nicly for us. We've written some custom scripts and I don't know the PCL off the top of my head but everything I found was via google.My 2c on the Dr. Office and safty issue, as long and the DR. is forced to key data in and verify it there is nothing wrong with autofilling forms. You just have to be more clever then the person keying in data. We use prompts that change order or somtimes require doulble entry to keep the users from just going thought the motions. :-( I keep pretty busy.
Feel free to email me about how we did it but I can't offer too much help
Citrix
Most ads are just an image so make sure you specify the image WIDTH="???" and HEIGHT="???" in the IMG tag. It will give the web broser enought extra info to speed the rendering of the page.
hope this helps.
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they do right here: http://search.ebay.com/robots.txt
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here is http://search.ebay.com/robots.txt:
It isn't like eBay is disallowing access to everything, crawlers are allowed to index anything on www.ebay.com (no robots.txt) and whatever is not excluded search.ebay.com. IMO whether the judge knows it he is upholding a standard and that is a good thing.Citrix
but nobody really knows
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Why not let site enable their Dialectizing by adding a special custom meta tab to the top of the HTML.
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About learning different languages, I think the more you know the better you'll be at writing good code in general but that is just an opinion.
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I don't mean to be a troll but isn't this up to ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)?
To quote their about page:
I'm all for people/countries agreeing (including the EU folks) but as I understand it without ICANN or maybe IANA playing along, this doesn't mean much.
Yes, I'm aware that the article says:
but that says nothing about ICANN supporting this decision. It just says they are going to uses the guidelines that ICANN reccomend.I don't mean to piss anyone off but as I understand it, the internet is still largely American due to it's roots in ARPA and that most "authorities" on the internet are American.
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I meant to say:
If that is true I'm can see why the manufacturers don't wanna replace them but it doesn't make me sympathize with them any.
Hopefully this one doens't .. as much :-)
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One tip, make sure you have a kernel source near by to rebuild to support the network card you have.
http://members.linuxstar t.com/~austin/GreenFrog/index.html
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I don't mean to piss anyone off but I think it doesn't have to be open source, just unbiased and free of any corporate agenda. The open should be a method of keeping you honest and a way to enhance your relationship with your visitors.
my 2 cents.
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To my knowledge VeriSign and Thawte do not come to your location. They don't really even ensure you are who you say you are. They may get your drivers license number to match a name with what you told them but that is about it. If you look at their warrenty they disclaim the acuracy of the certificates. The only way to have a certicifate that you know is good is for the owner to give it to you in person. BTW: I'm not a security, crypto, or any other type of expert.
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