Before starting out, I know this is lame, but it's my closeest brush with easter egging.
Well, I recall popping some in on a high school's websiteduring a period when I was involved there. Seeing there wasn't much scope to put in output HTML except for maybe an Open Directory implementation I chucked on one day, I found it was quite easy to put in stuff in the HTTP headers of Perl and ASP scripts...
Along with a website archive from that era, the perl script with the second longest easter egg resides elsewhere.:) I even figured out how to get to mention marijuana on a school website without trouble. Ah, the days. Hmmm. I'm babbling now so Ill shut up.
I'm not expecting many comments on this, but there is the.nz domain SRS project. There's been a lot of discussion on it. FromInternetNZ:
The SRS will, as much as possible, be built on an open source platform, particularly software meeting the licence approval conditions of the Open Source Initiative (see http://www.opensource.org/licenses/index.html ), So long as the security requirements of the system are not compromised, this means that the source code of the system will be available to all and with no licence fees.
I'm interested to see how this pans out. - Jonathan
reminds me of the Microprose game...
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Eeeeek!
This is a reminder of the game i have around here called 'Pirates!' (within quotes) from about the mid-1980s, that was released my Microprose (that's right, exclamation mark and all), along with a version of Gunship and Airborne Ranger, of the same vintage.
Ah, the game was rather interesting to start, I mean boot, up. Nice touch for days when HDDs were expensive.
(BTW: There's no references to the old versions of these three games at their support site, so I suppose I am showing my age.:)
Now, where the heck did I put those 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch original discs?...and the copy protection code books? Drat! I've lost those!:(
Well, that's what you get for capitalism, fortunately or unfortunately. Still, on my experience, some of their bad stuff is good when one's desperate for Sunday afternoon viewing of some kind to avoid going to the outdoors.
Not only do I get to screw them on the one backup provision IIRC is in my local laws, but (IIRC also) also our wonderful Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 here in NZ lets me screw them to kingdom come for ruining my equipment should I try a disc a local retailer doesn't warn me about.
That said, they'd better not introduce the ******** things here.
Isn't this from the company that at one stage put out their own version of Pacman?
IIRC, it was on a Microsoft OS CD or a download off their games download page a couple of years back, the demonstration had the first couple levels, I think...
I'm not wanting to be obnoxious, but I don't see newbies bothering without that Idiots book. After all, Microsoft [choke] want people to sign up for something like 30- or 60-day sample certs and think that people will pay for 1-year certs. And S/MIME, too.
S/MIME I don't like so much; I wish Microsoft would incorporate other schemes. Feet in both camps for them, too.
Of course, I figure that politics probably won't ever allow that.:)
Not just a pain in the arse on its own, but also a pain that I couldn't ever find a suitable plugin for.qwk and BlueWave (I think that's what the FidoNet-compatible offline BBS e-mail reader I was using was called). Shelling to the command prompt was never so annoying, unfortunately.
Ah, those were the days. At least PGP in Win32 likes grabbing stuff you've sent to the keyboard as its lowest common denominator if you can't get its plugins to work, no more command prompts.:)
Heck, not just any old medal, how does an Order of Australia sound? Much better than a letter from IANA or whoever snatching.au from him.
While we're at it, dropbear.id.au is rather nice, and free as well as a subtle reminder of Australianess in me (uh-oh). While it's a bit long, it makes for quite nice accusations of being a traitor to.nz when I pass over my e-mail address...:)
First, I'd better apologise, I'm feeling I'm a little pedantic here.
Is it also a case of the penalties having been written into law x+50 years ago before the inflation of the present day took hold?
Like everyone else and as said above, I've heard of time and time again of companies flouting the law because the fine was peanuts. I hate using examples from my area, but case in point would have been garden centres and the NZ Holidays Act 1991. NZD$1,000 for opening on Easter Sunday was worth it for almost the whole bunch. (Part of the reasoning was before the passing of the 1991 amendments they were allowed to open, but Department of Labour inspectors still showed up.)
(Postscript: the lucky people got away with it this year - the garden centres sponsored a one-off (IIRC) amendment to legally open this year.)
I recall in a training booklet for a course for accountants in NZ (now chartered accountants, apparently) I purloined briefly in 1997, they described each era of the Internet and wave of new users as waves of settlers, i.e. academics, e-commerce/'dotcoms', military as so on. Rambling aside, I wonder who the next settlers will be, and who'll be the settlers at twenty?
Bit of a late reply, but both North American and EU technology companies have been known for innovating, and seeing North American companies have done a lot of these sort of investments, why not the Europeans?:)
On a personal note, I hope this doesn't start off a change of events where Jabber doesn't lose the open source edge that it holds. (Needless thought of conspiracy here: maybe France Telecom hope to put adware/spyware/schmyware into the jabber.com Jabber client.;-)
I'd like to think Netscape just mucked this one up deleting the DTD, but I'm not so hopeful. It wasn't the latest DTD from anyone around, but at least it did work the basics, enough for almost any RSS-devouring site.:)
Come to think of it, on a second look at this, this whole situation sounds like a public relations person's dream of a press release getting believed... ick, spin. (On an 'objective' trainee journalist's POV though, I have to say, good technology, but slick PR move...)
Smells very vapourware - at this stage, anyway. I'd love to see the day though that this stuff appears as a drop-in replacement for my Palm (maybe not, it's one of those internal ones, I smell a hack:) here) or laptop.
(Which as it happens, battery technology for cellphones on any of the carriers in.nz (Telecom or Vodafone are pretty bad at the moment. Could be useful.)
...a lot of the third party ICQ clis I've used tend to have heaps of server timeouts. At least I recall centericq, micq and miranda-icq doing so.:( (Any tips and any of them?)
(reminds me of the nz nationalists getting re-elected three times, or the uk conservatives' slogan one campaign that went something like go with the devil you know - wasn't there a song by that name? it's eluding me right now.)
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Before starting out, I know this is lame, but it's my closeest brush with easter egging.
Well, I recall popping some in on a high school's website during a period when I was involved there. Seeing there wasn't much scope to put in output HTML except for maybe an Open Directory implementation I chucked on one day, I found it was quite easy to put in stuff in the HTTP headers of Perl and ASP scripts...
Along with a website archive from that era, the perl script with the second longest easter egg resides elsewhere. :) I even figured out how to get to mention marijuana on a school website without trouble. Ah, the days. Hmmm. I'm babbling now so Ill shut up.
I'm not expecting many comments on this, but there is the .nz domain SRS project. There's been a lot of discussion on it. From InternetNZ:
I'm interested to see how this pans out. - Jonathan
Eeeeek!
This is a reminder of the game i have around here called 'Pirates!' (within quotes) from about the mid-1980s, that was released my Microprose (that's right, exclamation mark and all), along with a version of Gunship and Airborne Ranger, of the same vintage.
Ah, the game was rather interesting to start, I mean boot, up. Nice touch for days when HDDs were expensive.
(BTW: There's no references to the old versions of these three games at their support site, so I suppose I am showing my age. :)
Now, where the heck did I put those 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch original discs? ...and the copy protection code books? Drat! I've lost those! :(
Well, that's what you get for capitalism, fortunately or unfortunately. Still, on my experience, some of their bad stuff is good when one's desperate for Sunday afternoon viewing of some kind to avoid going to the outdoors.
Ha!
Not only do I get to screw them on the one backup provision IIRC is in my local laws, but (IIRC also) also our wonderful Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 here in NZ lets me screw them to kingdom come for ruining my equipment should I try a disc a local retailer doesn't warn me about.
That said, they'd better not introduce the ******** things here.
Isn't this from the company that at one stage put out their own version of Pacman?
IIRC, it was on a Microsoft OS CD or a download off their games download page a couple of years back, the demonstration had the first couple levels, I think...
My guess: x days from now. I'm not too sure, I am afraid. ;)
I'm not wanting to be obnoxious, but I don't see newbies bothering without that Idiots book. After all, Microsoft [choke] want people to sign up for something like 30- or 60-day sample certs and think that people will pay for 1-year certs. And S/MIME, too.
S/MIME I don't like so much; I wish Microsoft would incorporate other schemes. Feet in both camps for them, too.
Of course, I figure that politics probably won't ever allow that. :)
Not just a pain in the arse on its own, but also a pain that I couldn't ever find a suitable plugin for .qwk and BlueWave (I think that's what the FidoNet-compatible offline BBS e-mail reader I was using was called). Shelling to the command prompt was never so annoying, unfortunately.
Ah, those were the days. At least PGP in Win32 likes grabbing stuff you've sent to the keyboard as its lowest common denominator if you can't get its plugins to work, no more command prompts. :)
Heck, not just any old medal, how does an Order of Australia sound? Much better than a letter from IANA or whoever snatching .au from him.
While we're at it, dropbear.id.au is rather nice, and free as well as a subtle reminder of Australianess in me (uh-oh). While it's a bit long, it makes for quite nice accusations of being a traitor to .nz when I pass over my e-mail address... :)
First, I'd better apologise, I'm feeling I'm a little pedantic here.
Is it also a case of the penalties having been written into law x+50 years ago before the inflation of the present day took hold?
Like everyone else and as said above, I've heard of time and time again of companies flouting the law because the fine was peanuts. I hate using examples from my area, but case in point would have been garden centres and the NZ Holidays Act 1991. NZD$1,000 for opening on Easter Sunday was worth it for almost the whole bunch. (Part of the reasoning was before the passing of the 1991 amendments they were allowed to open, but Department of Labour inspectors still showed up.)
(Postscript: the lucky people got away with it this year - the garden centres sponsored a one-off (IIRC) amendment to legally open this year.)
I recall in a training booklet for a course for accountants in NZ (now chartered accountants, apparently) I purloined briefly in 1997, they described each era of the Internet and wave of new users as waves of settlers, i.e. academics, e-commerce/'dotcoms', military as so on. Rambling aside, I wonder who the next settlers will be, and who'll be the settlers at twenty?
Bit of a late reply, but both North American and EU technology companies have been known for innovating, and seeing North American companies have done a lot of these sort of investments, why not the Europeans? :)
On a personal note, I hope this doesn't start off a change of events where Jabber doesn't lose the open source edge that it holds. (Needless thought of conspiracy here: maybe France Telecom hope to put adware/spyware/schmyware into the jabber.com Jabber client. ;-)
Well, that's what we say around here.
I'd like to think Netscape just mucked this one up deleting the DTD, but I'm not so hopeful. It wasn't the latest DTD from anyone around, but at least it did work the basics, enough for almost any RSS-devouring site. :)
Ministry of Health warning: usage could blow you apart if you drop it more than 15cm. But seeing you'll want to use it in a PDA, go right ahead... ;)
Oops, bad humour sorry. :(
Come to think of it, on a second look at this, this whole situation sounds like a public relations person's dream of a press release getting believed... ick, spin. (On an 'objective' trainee journalist's POV though, I have to say, good technology, but slick PR move...)
Smells very vapourware - at this stage, anyway. I'd love to see the day though that this stuff appears as a drop-in replacement for my Palm (maybe not, it's one of those internal ones, I smell a hack :) here) or laptop.
(Which as it happens, battery technology for cellphones on any of the carriers in .nz (Telecom or Vodafone are pretty bad at the moment. Could be useful.)
...a lot of the third party ICQ clis I've used tend to have heaps of server timeouts. At least I recall centericq, micq and miranda-icq doing so. :( (Any tips and any of them?)
or as one might say, better than nothing. ;)
(reminds me of the nz nationalists getting re-elected three times, or the uk conservatives' slogan one campaign that went something like go with the devil you know - wasn't there a song by that name? it's eluding me right now.)