http://www.placeengine.com/en - developed in Japan. I tried it out when they first launched it. It works quite well. Most of the major Japanese cities are covered and they have a pretty good handle on major cities outside Japan. London, NYC, LA, Toronto etc.
And yes, it can estimnate your location inside buildings as well. Of course it needs somebody to go visit those places to feed it the relevant WiFi signal strengths in the first place.
The Good Thing about Notes/Domino is that it allows anybody to develop applications. The Bad Thing about Notes/Domino is that it allows anybody to develop applications.
I've been a Notes/Domino Developer for 13 years now, and beleive me, I've seen some real dodgy applications. The 6.5 client is defintely the best, but even that sucks when you point it at poorly designed applications. You may as well say that Firefox is rubbish because you're looking at poorly designed websites all the time.
I think you're getting confused with what the client is capable of doing and what the application that you're using does.
Adding ODF just gives the client another tool to use. A very powerful tool.
If you go to the normal places you will pay over the odds. Mainly because they're priced that way to catch out the people who don't know whats going on. There are tricks to buying stuff in Akiba. Such as in many places you can haggle down the price. And you can get it even lower depending on who you ask to reduce the price (Usually the oldest guy there).
Akiba is an excellant place to get cutting edge tech gear. But if you only stick to the common main street stores you will pay for it in the end.
Well it may be tagged as "Funny" but I can certainly answer these questions. I am the owner of the server that hosts Anime Digital.
The server is a Lotus Domino V6.01 running on a Windows 2000 server. The main anime.org.uk application is a Domino Database. We sub-host to a variety of UK organisations and clubs for free.
Joe has done some sterling work in getting this FAQ updated. Since I keep the logs I can tell that quite a few respectable companies have perused it.
Joe has twice attempted to slashdot my server now. And this time he tried it even further by posting on animeondvd and on Anime News Network.
I guess he's going to have to pay at the next London Anime Club meeting.
David "Dragon" Cotterill President: London Anime Club
I think this is caused by the new versions of Mobile Phones.
In days of Olde, these games were so popular because of the actual gameplay. Yes they had limiting graphics, but what they had worked so well. Now in this day of new mobile phones (Ericcsson P800 springs to mind) people are looking back at these games and thinking "that could easily be ported".
I grew up and learned to program in the Spectrum era. In fact if you hunt closely you may find one of my games. (^_^) Mobile Phones are now reaching the kind of status as a portable entertainment device. And games obviously figure quite highly on the list of money making revenue that the providers like. Forget Tetris. Multi-player Barbarian anyone?
Every piece of software comes with default installations. Now, could I install and setup a Linux box? Yes. An Exchange serevr? Yes. But would you want to trust these setups on a live network? No. Why not? Because I know next to nothing about them.*
Any SA worth his salt would not stick to the default installations. They should know about, if not where to find, the latest patches and fixes. Thats their job! Nobody should ever put out-of-the-box installations onto live networks. Not Windows, not Linux, not Domino.
* - I know more about Linux than Exchange. But that's by personal choice. (^_^)
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I run a Domino server. In fact I run lots of Domino websites. And this "Denial of Service" issue that is reported is really due to Admins who don't know what they're doing.
Any system can try and forward to 127.0.0.1 if it is set that way. There is so much information available at all the normal locations that it is really the Admins own fault. Why they should take it out on somebody who has done as all a superb service is anybodies guess.
In fact give him quite a few gold stars. Yes, all entries are recorded. But to be quite honest what is the point of tracking individual users requests. The advertising is targeted at the topic, not the user.
Personally I scrap IP address info and such. I am only interested in what the most/least common search term is.
Oh, btw... I don't use (blasphemy) Apache. I use Domino. And I must admit that it's on NT at the present. I haven't yet installed my Red Hat. Many apologies.
I run websearches.net which is a topic based search engine. I use my own ranking system, but the great thing is you cannot spam it at all.
Why? Well firstly to be considered is must pass the theme check, then it checks for page spam (duplicated keywords, repeated patterns etc.) then it checks to see what level sites it links to and from.
You still get people searching for strange terms (you can never get away from those!!), but at least I have the luxury of laughing at how people use the system. Such as the amount of people who search for "Linux" on the Linux search engine! It's meaningless. It must be a linux site to get in the database in the first place.
If you watch the "Making of..." on the DVD the Watchaski(sp?) Brothers explicitly state that the idea of the Matrix comes from an Anime series. Now which Anime series features computers as much as Lain. No, I rather think that Matrix was made because of Lain.
OK, so I may be a very small fish. I'm a one-man-band (and his cat!) but I do provide free services to people - one of which is discussion forums and places for free-speech. But I will not in any way, shape or form, censor people from expressing their opinions. So it all comes down to money. If people want to sue me, then it looks like I could be off to jail for a spell. Ho Hum! At least I can count on the sensible people of the world to shout out about the injustice. Can't I? Err.. Hello? Anybody there? Dragon
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This has already been around for a few years.
http://www.placeengine.com/en - developed in Japan. I tried it out when they first launched it. It works quite well. Most of the major Japanese cities are covered and they have a pretty good handle on major cities outside Japan. London, NYC, LA, Toronto etc.
And yes, it can estimnate your location inside buildings as well. Of course it needs somebody to go visit those places to feed it the relevant WiFi signal strengths in the first place.
Why was this moderated Interesting?
The Good Thing about Notes/Domino is that it allows anybody to develop applications. The Bad Thing about Notes/Domino is that it allows anybody to develop applications.
I've been a Notes/Domino Developer for 13 years now, and beleive me, I've seen some real dodgy applications. The 6.5 client is defintely the best, but even that sucks when you point it at poorly designed applications. You may as well say that Firefox is rubbish because you're looking at poorly designed websites all the time.
I think you're getting confused with what the client is capable of doing and what the application that you're using does.
Adding ODF just gives the client another tool to use. A very powerful tool.
Which is exactly the reason I wrote my book.
If you go to the normal places you will pay over the odds. Mainly because they're priced that way to catch out the people who don't know whats going on. There are tricks to buying stuff in Akiba. Such as in many places you can haggle down the price. And you can get it even lower depending on who you ask to reduce the price (Usually the oldest guy there).
Akiba is an excellant place to get cutting edge tech gear. But if you only stick to the common main street stores you will pay for it in the end.
Well it may be tagged as "Funny" but I can certainly answer these questions. I am the owner of the server that hosts Anime Digital.
The server is a Lotus Domino V6.01 running on a Windows 2000 server. The main anime.org.uk application is a Domino Database. We sub-host to a variety of UK organisations and clubs for free.
Joe has done some sterling work in getting this FAQ updated. Since I keep the logs I can tell that quite a few respectable companies have perused it.
Joe has twice attempted to slashdot my server now. And this time he tried it even further by posting on animeondvd and on Anime News Network.
I guess he's going to have to pay at the next London Anime Club meeting.
David "Dragon" Cotterill
President: London Anime Club
I don't think the robots are unionized...yet.
Well when they do, I guess that is when the Second Renaissance starts.
I think this is caused by the new versions of Mobile Phones.
In days of Olde, these games were so popular because of the actual gameplay. Yes they had limiting graphics, but what they had worked so well. Now in this day of new mobile phones (Ericcsson P800 springs to mind) people are looking back at these games and thinking "that could easily be ported".
I grew up and learned to program in the Spectrum era. In fact if you hunt closely you may find one of my games. (^_^) Mobile Phones are now reaching the kind of status as a portable entertainment device. And games obviously figure quite highly on the list of money making revenue that the providers like. Forget Tetris. Multi-player Barbarian anyone?
Done by the Open University earlier this year.
My point exactly.
Every piece of software comes with default installations. Now, could I install and setup a Linux box? Yes. An Exchange serevr? Yes. But would you want to trust these setups on a live network? No. Why not? Because I know next to nothing about them.*
Any SA worth his salt would not stick to the default installations. They should know about, if not where to find, the latest patches and fixes. Thats their job! Nobody should ever put out-of-the-box installations onto live networks. Not Windows, not Linux, not Domino.
* - I know more about Linux than Exchange. But that's by personal choice. (^_^)
I run a Domino server. In fact I run lots of Domino websites. And this "Denial of Service" issue that is reported is really due to Admins who don't know what they're doing.
Any system can try and forward to 127.0.0.1 if it is set that way. There is so much information available at all the normal locations that it is really the Admins own fault. Why they should take it out on somebody who has done as all a superb service is anybodies guess.
Where to look for info:
Lotus
Notes.net
DominoHive
SecurityTracker for Domino
Give the guy a gold star.
In fact give him quite a few gold stars. Yes, all entries are recorded. But to be quite honest what is the point of tracking individual users requests. The advertising is targeted at the topic, not the user.
Personally I scrap IP address info and such. I am only interested in what the most/least common search term is.
Oh, btw... I don't use (blasphemy) Apache. I use Domino. And I must admit that it's on NT at the present. I haven't yet installed my Red Hat. Many apologies.
Well try getting a bit of smarts and reading the help.
Doh!
Try "apache and htaccess".
I do run my own search engine.
I run websearches.net which is a topic based search engine. I use my own ranking system, but the great thing is you cannot spam it at all.
Why? Well firstly to be considered is must pass the theme check, then it checks for page spam (duplicated keywords, repeated patterns etc.) then it checks to see what level sites it links to and from.
You still get people searching for strange terms (you can never get away from those!!), but at least I have the luxury of laughing at how people use the system. Such as the amount of people who search for "Linux" on the Linux search engine! It's meaningless. It must be a linux site to get in the database in the first place.
Dragon.
More to the point...
If you watch the "Making of..." on the DVD the Watchaski(sp?) Brothers explicitly state that the idea of the Matrix comes from an Anime series. Now which Anime series features computers as much as Lain. No, I rather think that Matrix was made because of Lain.
David "Dragon" Cotterill
President: London Anime Club.
OK, so I may be a very small fish. I'm a one-man-band (and his cat!) but I do provide free services to people - one of which is discussion forums and places for free-speech. But I will not in any way, shape or form, censor people from expressing their opinions. So it all comes down to money. If people want to sue me, then it looks like I could be off to jail for a spell. Ho Hum! At least I can count on the sensible people of the world to shout out about the injustice. Can't I? Err.. Hello? Anybody there? Dragon