According to the Beeb current thinking is that a train crash in a tunnel caused a fire which damaged data cables used by ISPs which were in the tunnel, which caused the slowdown, not Code Red at all.
If you want to spam proof your email addy with JavaScript for on your site, I have a bit of JS on my site that will split your addy up into several document.write() statements so that the harvester bots can't see it.
tele2 are trialling broadband Wireless networking in my area of the UK. The big attraction is that it costs £10 per month for unlimited always on access.
If the deal is that good when they roll it out to the whole country then I think we're looking at an unqualified success story.
I was under the impression that AV wasn't blaming BT just because they had nobody else to blame, but because BT hadn't kept to an agreement with/order from OFTEL to make flat rate available to other ISPs when it launched its own service.
Perhaps OFTEL is who it should be blaming for not enforcing its orders.
The spiders come and they copy the information on your site and they store it on their own index. AltaVista for example takes the whole of the text from your pages.
So can Frater 219, hubertf, Crowdpleazr1, Sander Sassen, Jon Rochmis, EngrBohn and Anonymous Coward, whose stories are on the/. front page that Google cached sue Google for breach of their Copyright?
I think that old joke about how do men unscrew lightbulbs needs updating...
How do Microsoft employees unscrew a lightbulb? Hold the bulb and wait for the world to revolve around them... backwards:-D
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start selling vacuum cleaners
Is your Browser breaking the law?
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I'll admit that I'm not familiar with the Act, but this is something that I've wondered about in the past and I post it FWIW Your browser caches pages as you view them. Your ISP may well have a caching proxy that caches pages as you view them. I'm wondering whether this strictly legal? Taking it one step further, is Virtual Memory legal? Certainly in the MacOS implementation, your physical RAM is copied to your HD and required data gets swapped from RAM to HD. Most software licences only allow one installation to be made but using VM you've effectively got two copies of the s/w on your HD.
The Apple PowerMac G4 is a supercomputer according to the out of date export control laws. A supercomputer is defined as being capable of performing 1 billion floating point operations per second, ie 1 Gigaflop. Can anybody tell me what threat to national security a G4 is?
Re:Drag into trash is *still* a bad UI design.
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And using the Start button to shut down a PC is great UI design:-) You hear of stories of incidents in open plan offices, where the techie is out of the office, and receives a call on his/her mobile for help. The user is told to "go to My Computer", and so walks to the other side of the office to the techie's PC... or "Can you see a folder on the desktop?" "No, there's just the keyboard and my phone" I suppose that one could as easily be a Mac problem too:(
My University (I won't name them) has disallowed access to http://www.hotmail.com from some of its computer labs.
However this is largely a waste of time, now that the search engines have got in on the act of free e-mail accounts, as they're hardly going to block Yahoo or AltaVista etc, and students are wiser in this respect than the powers that be care to give them credit for.
Slashdot Mirror
I came across a JavaScript Eliza implementation and turned it into
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Virtual Tech Chat
A parody of AOL UK's online tech support, which arguably gives more sensible answers
According to the Beeb current thinking is that a train crash in a tunnel caused a fire which damaged data cables used by ISPs which were in the tunnel, which caused the slowdown, not Code Red at all.
If you want to spam proof your email addy with JavaScript for on your site, I have a bit of JS on my site that will split your addy up into several document.write() statements so that the harvester bots can't see it.
Email address hider
The University of Leeds has been doing this for a while it seems... mod date on this is September 2000
;o)
In my experience University email systems aren't the most reliable in the world though
The evidence
The beta gave me an error: cannot open files of type text/plain :-D
tele2 are trialling broadband Wireless networking in my area of the UK. The big attraction is that it costs £10 per month for unlimited always on access. If the deal is that good when they roll it out to the whole country then I think we're looking at an unqualified success story.
Apparently they're making a series in the US, and then the US winners will play the UK winners.
Netscape 6 Beta Screenshot
This is a genuine screenshot produced by the Mac Beta. I would have thought opening text/html files would be a pretty important standard to adopt :)
I was under the impression that AV wasn't blaming BT just because they had nobody else to blame, but because BT hadn't kept to an agreement with/order from OFTEL to make flat rate available to other ISPs when it launched its own service. Perhaps OFTEL is who it should be blaming for not enforcing its orders.
Is that a breach of ©?
How about Google - it caches a whole page?
Cached /.
From the bottom of the /. homepage
So can Frater 219, hubertf, Crowdpleazr1, Sander Sassen, Jon Rochmis, EngrBohn and Anonymous Coward, whose stories are on the /. front page that Google cached sue Google for breach of their Copyright?
I'll admit that I'm not familiar with the Act, but this is something that I've wondered about in the past and I post it FWIW Your browser caches pages as you view them. Your ISP may well have a caching proxy that caches pages as you view them. I'm wondering whether this strictly legal? Taking it one step further, is Virtual Memory legal? Certainly in the MacOS implementation, your physical RAM is copied to your HD and required data gets swapped from RAM to HD. Most software licences only allow one installation to be made but using VM you've effectively got two copies of the s/w on your HD.
The Apple PowerMac G4 is a supercomputer according to the out of date export control laws. A supercomputer is defined as being capable of performing 1 billion floating point operations per second, ie 1 Gigaflop. Can anybody tell me what threat to national security a G4 is?
And using the Start button to shut down a PC is great UI design :-) You hear of stories of incidents in open plan offices, where the techie is out of the office, and receives a call on his/her mobile for help. The user is told to "go to My Computer", and so walks to the other side of the office to the techie's PC... or "Can you see a folder on the desktop?" "No, there's just the keyboard and my phone" I suppose that one could as easily be a Mac problem too :(
However this is largely a waste of time, now that the search engines have got in on the act of free e-mail accounts, as they're hardly going to block Yahoo or AltaVista etc, and students are wiser in this respect than the powers that be care to give them credit for.