Perhaps you should check for yourself before you correct others; VC++6's 'Process Viewer Application' (haven't got a better one at the moment) lists 10 threads (in the 'Num. Threads' column) for NETSCAPE.EXE.
In fact, one of 'em appears to be running at 'Time Critical' priority...
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Couldn't be more true.
I've got games for my Amiga on (low density) floppies that are over 12 years old and they still work perfectly, but newer disks don't live past 3 reformats.
One bit of advice: if possible, use old low density floppies; the data is much less likely to get messed up, since it isn't crammed together as much as it is with high density or *shudder* extra-density (2.88mb) disks, AND if the disks are older, they're more likely to be made of better material. I guess the phrase "They don't make 'em like they used to" applies here.
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Things are going beyond that step already: they're becoming completely automatic. 99% of script kiddies don't know how to hack a linux box, but they do know how to run a script to automatically hack the boxes for them and they do know the command to type to download a rootkit to automatically 'secure' the box for them.
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I know for a fact that Netscape 4.75 can handle gzip-compressed data.
I set up a program to listen on port 80 and told NS to browse to localhost. It sent the "Accept-encoding: gzip". I then telnetted to www.excite.com:80 and sent that data. I got gzipped data in return. I then browsed the site using Netscape, and it loaded properly; therefore, Netscape 4.75 can handle gzipped downloads.
I then tricked IE 5.5 into sending the same HTTP request; I connected to a proxy (127.0.0.1) which would transparently forward to excite.com, filtered out the HTTP request, pasted in Netscape's; it also loaded properly.
So yes, gzip downloads work fine under Windows systems using Netscape 4.75 or IE5.5 (not sure about older versions, though), though IE5.5 sends an odd "Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate" which results in some sites not compressing it at all.
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The main points of interest are that IE5.5 can handle HTTP/1.1 while Netscape only requests HTTP/1.0, and that IE5.5 also claims to handle gzip AND deflate encoding, even though they're exactly the same (last time I checked, gzip used the deflate algorithm).
I also tried sending the IE5.5 HTTP request via telnet to www.excite.com; it returned plain text, whereas Netscape's HTTP request returned gzipped data.
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Since I'm stuck with Windows for a couple more months, I'm wondering if this will work on Netscape 4.7+ for Windows. Or even IE 4+ for Windows. Does Opera do this?
Let me quote part of the original question:
...the "Accept-encoding: gzip" field sent by NS 4.7+, IE 4+...
If Netscape 4.7+ and IE 4+ claim that they can accept gzipped data, they had better know how to handle it.
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Seems someone else posted another mirror and took out the width/height tags on the images (which were squished on the original page; *does this on his own mirror*).
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Hopefully this should be slightly faster than the original site. I've only mirrored the relevant content and fixed the links; if the text is garbled, hit STOP once the images load.
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Hold it so the keys are facing you and shake it. The dirt will fall to the bottom of the keyboard (read: by the Ctrl/Alt keys and the Spacebar). From there, you should be able to shake the it out without it getting stuck in too many of the keys.
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.tar.gz is equivalent of a solid archive ZIP (like RAR); a.tar.gz would be almost exactly the same size as a.tar.zip (probably about 100 bytes smaller due to the additional header info in a.ZIP file)
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And in real film photography, dust doesn't leave a solid black dot; it's small enough that the light diffracts around it, resulting in a slight blur instead. Which wouldn't hurt a picture of the sky too much.
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Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps you should check for yourself before you correct others; VC++6's 'Process Viewer Application' (haven't got a better one at the moment) lists 10 threads (in the 'Num. Threads' column) for NETSCAPE.EXE.
In fact, one of 'em appears to be running at 'Time Critical' priority...
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If the monitor is a vacuum tube, why would it explode like a balloon? Would it not implode like a... ...thing that implodes?
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Couldn't be more true.
I've got games for my Amiga on (low density) floppies that are over 12 years old and they still work perfectly, but newer disks don't live past 3 reformats.
One bit of advice: if possible, use old low density floppies; the data is much less likely to get messed up, since it isn't crammed together as much as it is with high density or *shudder* extra-density (2.88mb) disks, AND if the disks are older, they're more likely to be made of better material. I guess the phrase "They don't make 'em like they used to" applies here.
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Jargon Lexicon entry: magic smoke
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Things are going beyond that step already: they're becoming completely automatic. 99% of script kiddies don't know how to hack a linux box, but they do know how to run a script to automatically hack the boxes for them and they do know the command to type to download a rootkit to automatically 'secure' the box for them.
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I know for a fact that Netscape 4.75 can handle gzip-compressed data.
I set up a program to listen on port 80 and told NS to browse to localhost. It sent the "Accept-encoding: gzip". I then telnetted to www.excite.com:80 and sent that data. I got gzipped data in return. I then browsed the site using Netscape, and it loaded properly; therefore, Netscape 4.75 can handle gzipped downloads.
I then tricked IE 5.5 into sending the same HTTP request; I connected to a proxy (127.0.0.1) which would transparently forward to excite.com, filtered out the HTTP request, pasted in Netscape's; it also loaded properly.
So yes, gzip downloads work fine under Windows systems using Netscape 4.75 or IE5.5 (not sure about older versions, though), though IE5.5 sends an odd "Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate" which results in some sites not compressing it at all.
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Here's what IE5.5 gives when I go to http://127.0.0.1/:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
Host: 127.0.0.1
Connection: Keep-Alive
In comparison, Netscape 4.75:
GET / HTTP/1.0
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.75 [en] (Win98; U)
Host: 127.0.0.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, image/png, */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Charset: iso-8859-1,*,utf-8
The main points of interest are that IE5.5 can handle HTTP/1.1 while Netscape only requests HTTP/1.0, and that IE5.5 also claims to handle gzip AND deflate encoding, even though they're exactly the same (last time I checked, gzip used the deflate algorithm).
I also tried sending the IE5.5 HTTP request via telnet to www.excite.com; it returned plain text, whereas Netscape's HTTP request returned gzipped data.
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Done. :)
This gives a totally new meaning to the term "mirror site".
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Seems someone else posted another mirror and took out the width/height tags on the images (which were squished on the original page; *does this on his own mirror*).
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Which would you prefer? The Yahoo! Ad Square or a 10 minute delay?
What browser are you using? Mozilla/Netscape 6?
Netscape 4.75 and IE5.5 both show the page fine for me.
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Or scroll up, depending on your threshold :)
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Scroll down a bit, I've posted one on my geoshitties account; they should have plenty of bandwidth to spare :)
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Hopefully this should be slightly faster than the original site. I've only mirrored the relevant content and fixed the links; if the text is garbled, hit STOP once the images load.
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Yes, that's exactly what I meant :)
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I recall something very similar to this happening in Japan with the SNES - the SatellaView.
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Hold it so the keys are facing you and shake it. The dirt will fall to the bottom of the keyboard (read: by the Ctrl/Alt keys and the Spacebar). From there, you should be able to shake the it out without it getting stuck in too many of the keys.
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.tar.gz is equivalent of a solid archive ZIP (like RAR); a .tar.gz would be almost exactly the same size as a .tar.zip (probably about 100 bytes smaller due to the additional header info in a .ZIP file)
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Whoops, meant spans per week squared.
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Furlongs per fortnight for me; for the uninformed, 65mph ~= 1.54761904762fu/fo.
Oh, and acceleration would be in spans per week
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Which is exactly what I was referring to :)
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And in real film photography, dust doesn't leave a solid black dot; it's small enough that the light diffracts around it, resulting in a slight blur instead. Which wouldn't hurt a picture of the sky too much.
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He was thinking of the TI-36X, the solar version of the TI-35X.
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