The US system could do with a real shakedown, 10 (or more) length numbers seem to be commonplace in the rest of the world and are not that hard to remember.
Here (in the UK) the first 2 digits are use to clasify the type of phone, for example:
01, 02 geographical
07 - mobile
08 - free
09 - premium
amongst the others. There is no need to give mobile phones a geographical code, since they are mobile by nature.
To continue the example I'm in edinburgh where the numbers are like:
0131 lll nnnn
where 0131 is the area code and lll specifies a locality and nnn the rest of the number. Different areas have different amounts of numbers after their area code to deal with demand. The area code itself isn't always 4 digits:
Seriously, I don't see much use for perl other than for programming server-side applications (i.e., the Slashcode
which powers Slashdot's forum system, etc.). Until I do get into the server world, I won't need it.
Well you're missing out on Perl's real uses then!
Perl isn't ideal for Slashcode (it's too large and crappy, other technology would be better). It is really good for knocking up quick scripts... Want to rename a bunch of mp3 files so they don't have spaces in their name? Perl's for you. Want to rename mp3 files based on CDDB information? Perl's for you.
I just picked those off the top of my head, but I use Perl daily for small scripts to cut out mundane shell typing. It's also ideally suited to build scripts and environments.
Your credit cards number could be used to validate your (general) location. As it is Visa, Amex etc have records of each transaction - this includes the business name. This could be easily expanded to also include the location.
For these records one could then determine the 'average' shopping location (ignoring on-line purchases) and the last shopping location...
Mobile phones could also be used - the phone companies (can) know the current location of the phone and have details of its owner... You just need them to give access to the data...
A recurring topic in the scot.general newsgroup is a top level domain for Scotland.
If Scotland gained independence from the UK then it clear it would get a TLD. However there are substantial arguments for creating one now - it's a nation, separate legal & eductation systems, devolved government...
Anyway, all (reasonable) possible combinations of the characters in 'Scotland' are already allocation by ISO. So '.sx' looks like a possable choice!
Sure it will compile no problems... However I don't think you'll enjoy using it (or Gnome for that matter).
The chances are that your Solaris box only has an 8 bit display driver - this is bad enough when using CDE, but KDE and gnome really enjoy eating the colourmap...
The nature of the internet and email, allowing people to communicate with others with the shield of anonymity means that
people feel none of the need to be polite that governs our conversations in the real world, and instead feel safe in
expressing their opinions in abusive, derogatory language that their mothers wouldn't approve of. We see it here every
day on/. after all.
Maybe if emails were filtered to block messages that were too flamey then people would get the chance to "cool down"
However flame != foul language. It is an over-generalisation which makes the technology useless.
In reality the 'algorithms' involved are already in UNIX mail clients - and virually everyother application. It is called searching.
This 'feature' is really just searching for foul language and tallying up a count. This count is then converted onto a scale of 0 to 3 chillies...
Never mind rocket science, it's not even computer science!
In reality 'flames' and foul language do not go hand-in-hand. I've never sworn in a flame - and i've certainly given some (mostly in the mists of time back in Fidonet).
First, draining India's best brains does not do much for India or the wages of those who stay there. Money sent back home
can help, but nothing helps India more than people who work to improve things there first hand.
Actually this is quite wrong. A lot of people who move abroad for work (including those from India) will eventually return 'home'. When they return home they bring with them experience of the US/UK/European system and business practice. They can then put this experience to use in the local area.
However I'm not saying these countries should be 'brain-drained'. There is ample space for both methods - moving abroad and inward investment.
It really highlights the lack of features of the Slash code. The editors must have to enter the "a href" link manually because the problem is not an extra quote - it's a missing one from the start!
Without a new network to sell to people, all the mobile phone companies can do is to produce smaller models and
maybe integrate in more features
But in 2-3 years they will have a new network to push. Once the 3rd generation networks are running the mobile phone will take an enormous leap. So much will be possible with compared to today. WAP is just a taster, and a bad taste at that.
Howabout picture calls? Graphical browsing of the 'net?
In the UK we have the rather poor "Robowars" on TV. All the robots are submitted by gormless geeks and sad old men. I'm sure the Robot World Cup is much the same...
don't agree that user home directories should not be world-readable by default. That just encourages a false sense of
security, giving users the idea that they can keep files 'secure' using permissions.
If users want sensitive information kept private they need to encrypt it.
So lets just ditch permissions then? On a secure system permissions are a good method of 'keeping things private'. However if the system isn't secure (everyone and their dog knows the root password) then you've got bigger concerns...
It looks like all the main HotMail servers are running on Windows/IIS. However the image servers are not - http://216.32.182.251/ is running Boa. Now as far as i'm aware Boa only run on Unix-like operating systems...
All this proves is the first-line servers are using a Windows operating system.
You'll note that a 302 redirect respose is returned by www.microsoft.com - it's the addresses that you're redirected to that are the interesting ones (of the form lc?.law?.hotmail.com).
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Here (in the UK) the first 2 digits are use to clasify the type of phone, for example:
- 01, 02 geographical
- 07 - mobile
- 08 - free
- 09 - premium
amongst the others. There is no need to give mobile phones a geographical code, since they are mobile by nature.To continue the example I'm in edinburgh where the numbers are like:
where 0131 is the area code and lll specifies a locality and nnn the rest of the number. Different areas have different amounts of numbers after their area code to deal with demand. The area code itself isn't always 4 digits:You can find a lot of info about this on the net.
Perl isn't ideal for Slashcode (it's too large and crappy, other technology would be better). It is really good for knocking up quick scripts... Want to rename a bunch of mp3 files so they don't have spaces in their name? Perl's for you. Want to rename mp3 files based on CDDB information? Perl's for you.
I just picked those off the top of my head, but I use Perl daily for small scripts to cut out mundane shell typing. It's also ideally suited to build scripts and environments.
It's a exact copy of the URL in the article - mistakes and all!
Here Also another interesting hit I came up with was a article about a proposed .geo domain based on gridding the world and using those as domains...
The only difference here is a factor of scale, and radio is so passe today...
Baxter, Stephen; Manifold: Time; ISBN:0006511821
For these records one could then determine the 'average' shopping location (ignoring on-line purchases) and the last shopping location...
Mobile phones could also be used - the phone companies (can) know the current location of the phone and have details of its owner... You just need them to give access to the data...
A recurring topic in the scot.general newsgroup is a top level domain for Scotland.
If Scotland gained independence from the UK then it clear it would get a TLD. However there are substantial arguments for creating one now - it's a nation, separate legal & eductation systems, devolved government...
Anyway, all (reasonable) possible combinations of the characters in 'Scotland' are already allocation by ISO. So '.sx' looks like a possable choice!
It'd be a nice money spinner...
Sure it will compile no problems... However I don't think you'll enjoy using it (or Gnome for that matter).
The chances are that your Solaris box only has an 8 bit display driver - this is bad enough when using CDE, but KDE and gnome really enjoy eating the colourmap...
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And for the other guy - it's Aberlour.
Anyway Balvenie is my favourite, even the 10 year...
But you could still get whisky 100 times better than those 2...
In really this is just a foul language scanner.
In reality the 'algorithms' involved are already in UNIX mail clients - and virually everyother application. It is called searching.
This 'feature' is really just searching for foul language and tallying up a count. This count is then converted onto a scale of 0 to 3 chillies...
Never mind rocket science, it's not even computer science!
In reality 'flames' and foul language do not go hand-in-hand. I've never sworn in a flame - and i've certainly given some (mostly in the mists of time back in Fidonet).
However I'm not saying these countries should be 'brain-drained'. There is ample space for both methods - moving abroad and inward investment.
Shoddy...
Howabout picture calls? Graphical browsing of the 'net?
In the UK we have the rather poor "Robowars" on TV. All the robots are submitted by gormless geeks and sad old men. I'm sure the Robot World Cup is much the same...
Should I insert a smiley here?
It looks like all the main HotMail servers are running on Windows/IIS. However the image servers are not - http://216.32.182.251/ is running Boa. Now as far as i'm aware Boa only run on Unix-like operating systems...
All this proves is the first-line servers are using a Windows operating system.
/var/tmp/hotmail
/var/tmp/hotmail-first
/var/tmp/hotmail-first | cut -f 2 -d ' '` >> /var/tmp/hotmail
/var/tmp/hotmail | sort | uniq -c
You'll note that a 302 redirect respose is returned by www.microsoft.com - it's the addresses that you're redirected to that are the interesting ones (of the form lc?.law?.hotmail.com).
The following script will test those:
#!/bin/bash
rm -f
i=0
while [ "$i" -lt 100 ]
do
lynx -head -dump http://www.hotmail.com/ >
lynx -head -dump `grep '^Location:'
echo $i
i=$((i+1))
done
grep '^Server:'
However the result is the same - 100% IIS.