A new standard every 5 years for example. Since HTML is around since 1994, HTML5 would be out in 2014. Developers can easily adapt, and wouldn't have to support other version than the current one and its predecessor... 5 years is also enough time to reach a "stable" and mature standard.
In fact, there's alot more in those notes than only characters.
It would be helpful if we get another note of readable text (maybe a booklet from school) - so we compare those characters to other characters he wrote.
We absolutely don't need nuclear power. Nuclear plants account only for a small percentage of all energy produced and consumed world-wide.
In Germany, where 17 plants are in operation, 7 were switched off last week, and the other 10 could also be switched off any time without shortcomings in energy-supply. Germany is producing more energy than it needs.
With a bit more sparing and sensible energy-consumption we could save more energy than all those nuclear plants produce.
Burning oil, gas or coal produces carbon dioxide, yes. But those are not the only alternatives. Don't forget hydropower, wind and sun! My region (South Tyrol in Northern Italy) for example is producing twice the amount of energy with hydropower plants, than we need - we are exporting 50% of this "green" energy.
The only reason to sustain nuclear power is its low cost: greedy people earn a lot of money with it - at our risk and the risk of future generations. I wouldn't care, if my electricity bill would rise a 20% - others shouldn't too, so shut off those nuclear time-bombs ASAP!
You ask how many have died? We don't know it right now, as the radiation will decay slowly, so the death-toll and (what's worse) the people dying of cancer and leukemia will rise for many generations. In Cernobyl babies are still born crippled - after 25 years of the disaster!!!
Any other incident lasts only a few minutes: earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, dam-breach, mine-breakins,... The victims are countable and the rebuilding may start the day after the incident.
Wile with a nuclear incident, the surrounding area (and we talk about areas the size of an entire state!) becomes uninhabitable for thousands of years!:-(
Any nuclear risk, as small it might be, is too much risk. There exists only one single nuclear plant world-wide, which is 100% secure: it's in Austria - it was never turned on.:-)
They may be dependent from each other (it seems obvious), but... the possibility the next earthquake happens this year, the next year or in 10 years is exactly the same, as long as we cannot calculate or measure that persumed "dependency".
The probability the big one will happen in 2200 or in 2011 is exactly the same.
500 years is only an average. Like with dices where the propability is one out of six, but that doesn't mean, every sixth throw gives the same number - all numbers are allways equally possible no matter what the previous numbers were.
The magnitude 9 was 150 km from Fukushima 1. The epicenter was NOT underneath the nuclear power plant!
How strong was the earthquake at the power plant?!?
Hotmail startet on Solaris/*BSD-servers and was a charm to use...
In January 1998 Microsoft bought Hotmail and tried to port everything to WindowsNT...
In mid-2000 they finally started switching "some" of the frontend-servers from FreeBSD/Apache to Windows2000/IIS...
Maybe now they are finally starting to port the database-servers also to Windows-HastaLaVista-New-Experience-Technology, so that's why data gets lost.:-)
Google does not eat my bandwith
Google does not slow down my PC without my knowledge
Google does not pop up ads whenever I visit other sites
Google's about page is not hidden
I can use Google whenever I want
I do not have to uninstall Google from my PC, if I choose not to use Google anymore
You do not use Google by accident
People who use Google do so intentionally and are happy with the results
Friends do no ask me for help, cause their PC got infested by Google ...
5 years ago one of my clients bought IBM Net.Commerce. While adapting the scripts to their needs, I found a vulnerability, witch exposed configuration data (passwords included) via HTTP: you simply had to add a dot to the filename to view it in the browser.
We decided to tell IBM, and they patched it. But not fully: the same hole was still open. It was not anymoe possible to access the configuration data by appending a dot, but this time is was enough to add a "%20" to the filename or something similar.
Instead of moving those configuration files out of the webroot!
Roman numbers are added, not appended, and if one or more symbols with a lower value precede another with a higer value, they are subtracted, therefore:
V + IIV = 5 + 3 = 8
Yes, there are many ways to write the same number: VIIII is equivalent to IX, or XXXXX is equivalent to L
Maybe they intend this to be the Octium [x886] (following Pentium [x586], Sexium [x686] and Heptium [x786]), and as this processor is meant for entertainment, games, fun etc., they made a joke of its name also.
No, other countries also have decent privacy laws, which consider the e-mail address worth to protect.
One of those countries is Italy (where I am from), and italian law has worked well (since September 2003) so far to deter spammers. Fines go up to 90.000 Euro or 3 years of jail.
It's only a pity that *all* the spam I get origins in the USA (sent through various open relays scattered around the world), is in english language and targetted to US-citizens. So there's no way for me to get one of those mortgages...:-(
You should also know, that in 2001 most PCs were sold with Windows2000 and IIS preinstalled and activated. People buying a PC for personal use were unknowingly running a webserver!
This bad-practise by Microsoft to artificially increase the "market-share" of IIS came finally to a halt, after the various worms (Code Red in August 2001 and Nimda in September 2001 - you remember?!?) infected those servers, and people were instructed to patch or shut down their servers.
Those numbers were not about the amount of deployed webservers, but about "unknowingly" preinstalled IISes. This is also, why those home-PCs do not show up in serious webserver-counts. Home-PCs are often not associated with a hostname, but simply do only respond to a (dynamically associated) IP-address. No serious survey should count webservers by ip-address! That's also why Netcraft as well as Securityspace regularly count the amount of hostnames, not IP-addresses.
The question was IIS vs Apache, not Windows vs Unix
While the server-OS market share in 2001 was about 50% Windows, that simply tells us, that in no way the IIS-share could have been more than 50%, as IIS does not run on any other OS besides MS-Windows.
FYI a number of httpd-servers which are not made by Microsoft run on Windows, like: IBM Dominio Go, IBM-Websphere HTTPD (based on Apache), Netscape-Server, NCSA, CERN and many others.
On the same Netcraft page further down, we read: "Linux has gained 1% and Windows 0.3%, at the cost of the other operating systems. In fact the 0.3% Windows gain is largely a technical improvement, due to Unknown dropping 0.6% because of improvements in Netcraft operating system detection. The trend is of Linux steadily increasing".
There was no point in time, where IIS had a bigger market share than Apache, neither counting by hostnames, nor active sites, nor by ip-adresses.
BTW: I'm webmaster of a wellknown european e-commerce site running IBM WebSphere on MS-Windows, and soon we'll migrate to Linux (for security, performance and TCO reasons!).
The number of spam-reports sent by spamcop is surely related to the amount of spam received at various inboxes, although also affected by other variables (such as changings in the parser algorithm by spamcop).
ad.law3.hotmail.com http://ad.law3.hotmail.com was running Apache on FreeBSD when last queried at 26-Jul-2004
Also in a paper by Microsoft it clearly shows how Microsoft transferred the Hotmail site (that is the front-end servers!) from FreeBSD to Win2K (after years of failing to convert them to WinNT), but no mention about the back-end, no mention about the database, no mention about where all those mails are stored and sent from!
Unless someone from Microsoft officially states, that "no Unix-like OS is used anywhere at Hotmail", I will continue to claim Hotmail is still running FreeBSD, and I am able to prove it (thanks to Netcraft)!
I analyzed a few medium-traffic domains on a virtual hosting server I administer. Sites are not geek related, but about arts, tourism, agriculture or social services:
Google (78,37%)
Yahoo (6,53%)
MSN (4,65%)
Altavista (2,16%)
Others (8,28%) (mainly regional search-engines like Virgilio, Arianna or Tiscali)
The server is located in Italy, and all sites are in german and/or italian language, so this may be quite representative for searchengine usage in Europe.
The drop at the end of May was when Akamai was down, and afterwards Spamcop had some bugs...
On the other hand, the peaks in January, February and March are due to a new worm (e.g. Netsky), which Spamcop didn't recognise as such and accepted the reportings as spam.
Laws against spam are very efficient, if only they are applied!
In the Dolomites (Northern Italy) you are encouraged to take the cell-phone with you, when you climb the mountains. The mountain peaks are all covered - so in case of an accident you may call 118 (the italian 911).
The mountains are not what I would call "densily populated".
No wonder children in Europe usually get their fist cell-phone at the age of 8.
Slashdot Mirror
I still use Homesite too - I'm used to it.
If you're in search of something more recent, try mirabyte Web Architect.
Think a moment before posting: ...
1994 HTML1
1999 HTML2
2004 HTML3
2009 HTML4
2014 HTML5
2019 HTML6
q.e.d. :-)
A new standard every 5 years for example. Since HTML is around since 1994, HTML5 would be out in 2014. Developers can easily adapt, and wouldn't have to support other version than the current one and its predecessor... 5 years is also enough time to reach a "stable" and mature standard.
The whole world should slow down. Stick with a stable standard for a while. And relax.
It would be helpful if we get another note of readable text (maybe a booklet from school) - so we compare those characters to other characters he wrote.
194 WLD's NCBE SE- this must be solvable! :-)
In Germany, where 17 plants are in operation, 7 were switched off last week, and the other 10 could also be switched off any time without shortcomings in energy-supply. Germany is producing more energy than it needs.
With a bit more sparing and sensible energy-consumption we could save more energy than all those nuclear plants produce.
Burning oil, gas or coal produces carbon dioxide, yes. But those are not the only alternatives. Don't forget hydropower, wind and sun! My region (South Tyrol in Northern Italy) for example is producing twice the amount of energy with hydropower plants, than we need - we are exporting 50% of this "green" energy.
The only reason to sustain nuclear power is its low cost: greedy people earn a lot of money with it - at our risk and the risk of future generations. I wouldn't care, if my electricity bill would rise a 20% - others shouldn't too, so shut off those nuclear time-bombs ASAP!
Any other incident lasts only a few minutes: earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, dam-breach, mine-breakins, ... The victims are countable and the rebuilding may start the day after the incident.
Wile with a nuclear incident, the surrounding area (and we talk about areas the size of an entire state!) becomes uninhabitable for thousands of years! :-(
Any nuclear risk, as small it might be, is too much risk. There exists only one single nuclear plant world-wide, which is 100% secure: it's in Austria - it was never turned on. :-)
They may be dependent from each other (it seems obvious), but... the possibility the next earthquake happens this year, the next year or in 10 years is exactly the same, as long as we cannot calculate or measure that persumed "dependency".
The probability the big one will happen in 2200 or in 2011 is exactly the same. 500 years is only an average. Like with dices where the propability is one out of six, but that doesn't mean, every sixth throw gives the same number - all numbers are allways equally possible no matter what the previous numbers were.
The magnitude 9 was 150 km from Fukushima 1. The epicenter was NOT underneath the nuclear power plant! How strong was the earthquake at the power plant?!?
Hotmail startet on Solaris/*BSD-servers and was a charm to use... In January 1998 Microsoft bought Hotmail and tried to port everything to WindowsNT... In mid-2000 they finally started switching "some" of the frontend-servers from FreeBSD/Apache to Windows2000/IIS... Maybe now they are finally starting to port the database-servers also to Windows-HastaLaVista-New-Experience-Technology, so that's why data gets lost. :-)
Google does not eat my bandwith
...
Google does not slow down my PC without my knowledge
Google does not pop up ads whenever I visit other sites
Google's about page is not hidden
I can use Google whenever I want
I do not have to uninstall Google from my PC, if I choose not to use Google anymore
You do not use Google by accident
People who use Google do so intentionally and are happy with the results
Friends do no ask me for help, cause their PC got infested by Google
We decided to tell IBM, and they patched it. But not fully: the same hole was still open. It was not anymoe possible to access the configuration data by appending a dot, but this time is was enough to add a "%20" to the filename or something similar.
Instead of moving those configuration files out of the webroot!
V + IIV = 5 + 3 = 8
Yes, there are many ways to write the same number: VIIII is equivalent to IX, or XXXXX is equivalent to L
Maybe they intend this to be the Octium [x886] (following Pentium [x586], Sexium [x686] and Heptium [x786]), and as this processor is meant for entertainment, games, fun etc., they made a joke of its name also.
I'm glad I do no business with them.
One of those countries is Italy (where I am from), and italian law has worked well (since September 2003) so far to deter spammers. Fines go up to 90.000 Euro or 3 years of jail.
It's only a pity that *all* the spam I get origins in the USA (sent through various open relays scattered around the world), is in english language and targetted to US-citizens. So there's no way for me to get one of those mortgages... :-(
ms
This bad-practise by Microsoft to artificially increase the "market-share" of IIS came finally to a halt, after the various worms (Code Red in August 2001 and Nimda in September 2001 - you remember?!?) infected those servers, and people were instructed to patch or shut down their servers.
Those numbers were not about the amount of deployed webservers, but about "unknowingly" preinstalled IISes. This is also, why those home-PCs do not show up in serious webserver-counts. Home-PCs are often not associated with a hostname, but simply do only respond to a (dynamically associated) IP-address. No serious survey should count webservers by ip-address! That's also why Netcraft as well as Securityspace regularly count the amount of hostnames, not IP-addresses.
ms
While the server-OS market share in 2001 was about 50% Windows, that simply tells us, that in no way the IIS-share could have been more than 50%, as IIS does not run on any other OS besides MS-Windows.
FYI a number of httpd-servers which are not made by Microsoft run on Windows, like: IBM Dominio Go, IBM-Websphere HTTPD (based on Apache), Netscape-Server, NCSA, CERN and many others.
On the same Netcraft page further down, we read: "Linux has gained 1% and Windows 0.3%, at the cost of the other operating systems. In fact the 0.3% Windows gain is largely a technical improvement, due to Unknown dropping 0.6% because of improvements in Netcraft operating system detection. The trend is of Linux steadily increasing".
There was no point in time, where IIS had a bigger market share than Apache, neither counting by hostnames, nor active sites, nor by ip-adresses.
BTW: I'm webmaster of a wellknown european e-commerce site running IBM WebSphere on MS-Windows, and soon we'll migrate to Linux (for security, performance and TCO reasons!).
The number of spam-reports sent by spamcop is surely related to the amount of spam received at various inboxes, although also affected by other variables (such as changings in the parser algorithm by spamcop).
ms
You remember: MSIE is part of the OS, and as such does not count as an application!
But what if you have Quick-Time resident, Norton-Anti-Virus and the Zone-Labs firewall running? Will you be able to start any additional program?
ad.law3.hotmail.com
http://ad.law3.hotmail.com was running Apache on FreeBSD when last queried at 26-Jul-2004
Also in a paper by Microsoft it clearly shows how Microsoft transferred the Hotmail site (that is the front-end servers!) from FreeBSD to Win2K (after years of failing to convert them to WinNT), but no mention about the back-end, no mention about the database, no mention about where all those mails are stored and sent from!
Unless someone from Microsoft officially states, that "no Unix-like OS is used anywhere at Hotmail", I will continue to claim Hotmail is still running FreeBSD, and I am able to prove it (thanks to Netcraft)!
Google (78,37%)
Yahoo (6,53%)
MSN (4,65%)
Altavista (2,16%)
Others (8,28%) (mainly regional search-engines like Virgilio, Arianna or Tiscali)
The server is located in Italy, and all sites are in german and/or italian language, so this may be quite representative for searchengine usage in Europe.
An example why this makes such a big difference:
- I use Google 10 times a day, MSN and Yahoo only once a day.
- My wife uses Google 2 times a day
- My brother uses Altavista (now Yahoo) once a day
This gets counted as: 3 users, of which 66% use Google, 66% use Yahoo and 33% use MSN.But usage numbers are quite different: out of 15 searches, 12 are made through Google (80%), 2 by Yahoo!(13%) and one by MSN (7%).
So, while there may seem equally many users of Google, Yahoo and MSN, the real usage if heavily pro Google.
ms
The drop at the end of May was when Akamai was down, and afterwards Spamcop had some bugs...
On the other hand, the peaks in January, February and March are due to a new worm (e.g. Netsky), which Spamcop didn't recognise as such and accepted the reportings as spam.
Laws against spam are very efficient, if only they are applied!
The mountains are not what I would call "densily populated".
No wonder children in Europe usually get their fist cell-phone at the age of 8.