There's a limit how big nnnnnnn files need to be.... what seems like a lot of space now, will seem like peanuts tomorrow. I remember when 1gb in a 6" x 9" x 2" external housing seemed like more storange than anyone would ever need...... Come to think of it, I remember when a double sided floppy seemed like enough storage to store every BBC game...... Come to think of it, I remember when a 16k rampack for a zx81 seemed like 16 times as much memory as you needed... Come to think of it...........
bonjour, mon chat est un radis, buisson est une orange, vos odeurs de dessus de bureau comme le poo, me pilotent a la banane! vous chaudiere a pression folle!
"a preparation of over a decade would take place before the first men/women set out to explore Mars."
It's one thing for Bush to announce this, but it leaves plenty of time for the next president to cut funding and throw the whole program out the window.....
Or how about hooking up a Sandisk Digital Photo Viewer
at around $40 it's a hell of a lot cheaper. Next, buy a book on famous artists and scan your favourite paintings in.
I agree, I used to use mapquest and mapblast almost exclusively, but since finding maporama I have switched. I'm not usually looking for driving directions though, so I can't comment on that feature, but for a general map of an area I find Maporama much more precise and more detailed. Maybe it's because I'm Brit based in Canada!
Needs to drink more beer
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Skittlebrau
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· Score: 2, Insightful
Boy, does this guy have some learning to do when it comes to beer! In reference to Lowenbrau he states... 'I personally am not a big dark beer fan' If he think's Lowenbrau is a dark beer, god only knows what he would make of a decent bitter or a stout.
I know the feeling. Back in 83 I was halfway between a Spectrum and a C64. My idea of being 'connected' was having a cassette recorder to save my programs on!!
Just like you can sell a G5 based machine running OSX and call it a Mac, or a Pentium 4 / AMD XP based system running Windows XP and call it a PC. The Amiga just skipped the inbetween stages.
Sure it doesn't have chips named Agnus, Paula and Denise and it doesn't come with a Zorro slot. But then again, how many Mac's come with a Nubus slot and are powered by a 68000? and how many PC's still have ISA and a socket for a 8087?
Who's to say that if the Amiga's development hadn't followed a more 'normal' path, that what we would have seen today with is anything different from the Amiga One?
We come in peace shoot to kill shoot to kill shoot to kill We come in peace shoot to kill Scotty beam me up!
There's kilngons on the starboard bow starboard bow starboard bow There's kilngons on the starboard bow starboard bar JIM!
No licence needed... but some accountability....
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License to Surf, Take Two
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· Score: 2, Informative
Personally, I think that licences to go online is a completely ridiculous idea. But I can see where the idea stems from. There are a lot of users out there who continually get viruses on their system, never patch their systems and never update their virus software( Some of my clients think that updating their virus software every year is being responsible!) and ask them what a patch is and they'll reply that it's something to help you stop smoking!.
Unless something changes, these same users will continue to get viruses and will continue to annoy other net users.
I think a better way of approaching it would be to have some form of virus filter at the ISP end. If a user got infected, the filter would turn off their connection ( or limit it to antivirus sites) until they disinfected their system.
I went through a period last year when one user on a major ISP here in Canada was infected with a virus and I was recieving hundreds of infected emails from them every day. I contacted them directly a number of times but received no response, so I contacted the ISP who refused to do anything. If it was set up to turn off their connection upon infection, then I (And everyone else in their address book) wouldn't have had to put up with all the crap that came from the virus.
It would more likely be the other way around... 1). Spammer unleashes a worm/virus which infects unsuspecting/stupid users 2). Said worm/virus goes through address book on infected machines and spams everyone in there using the email address of the owner of the infected machine.
If you're in that address book, then chances are that person is on your whitelist.
Alternatively, Spammer simply spoofs the email address of some well known/well visited/well subscribed to website ( dailystatus@ebay.com, associates@amazon.com, slashdot@slashdot.org ) If you're a regular at any of the above sites you won't want to block their emails....
A whitelist will work just as well as a blacklist. Until the spammers start spoofing the from address the spam comes from to make it look as though it is coming from someone on your whitelist. Whitelist won't work so well then.
I only said that it was the solution.... not that I had the means or ability to implement the solution. If I could stop the spammers I would be a very happy person ( and probably a pretty popular one too)
Creating a website is easy, we have clients who knew nothing about HTML or the web that have put together simple sites for their businesses.
Creating a website that actually looks good and works well and that actually is a benefit to the business is an entirely different matter.
What we come across time and time again is a business that has created a site themselves but the site is doing nothing for them because it wasn't built search engine friendly, or the graphics are 200+k each or they are using dark red on a dark blue (insert own bad colour scheme here! ) background making the page unreadble. Many people seem to think that : more crazy gif animations = better website.
Most people don't realise that they have to prepare their site for the search engines, or that multiple 200+k graphics are going to make visitors go elsewhere.
The other big misconception is that once they have a website, that's it, they're on the web, they're going to make money. Trying to persuade a client that they need to update their site on a regular basis and that they should put the URL everywhere they can (business cards, store window etc etc ) is usually met with the response 'oh, ok' but then no action.
To sum it up, creating a site is one thing, but it's only the first step to a successful site and most people don't realise that.
If everyone casts their mind back just a few years, there was this browser called 'Netscape' which had the browser market pretty much tied up. Then a company called Microsoft came along and released a buggy, bloated piece of code called 'Internet Explorer'. A chorus of 'they'll never beat Netscape' rang out around the world.
Fast forward to today and that buggy, bloated piece of software called 'Internet Explorer' is still here, only now it commands over 90% of the browser market.
Or for those with longer memories, there once was these two programs called 'WordStar' and 'Wordperfect'..........
One day I was carrying my Amiga 4000 into work in a re-inforced plastic bag. I had just climbed to the top of a double flight of stairs when the re-inforced bag decided that it wasn't re-inforced enough. The bottom of the bag split wide open, the 4000 dropped and began cartwheeling back down the stairs. It managed to get some pretty good air before it reached the bottom of the stairs and slammed into a heavy wood door.
I walked back down, picked it up, carried it back upstairs anc plugged it in. Worked perfectly and had hardly any marks on the case.
Even as a web developer your choice of OS is often dictated by the client. The majority of my clients are based on Windows, the others are on Mac.
Try telling a client that the Quark file they sent you is of no use to you and they'll find another designer.
Clients generally don't understand that theres other OS's out there that are different from the one they use. They've either been told to use a certain OS or have chosen their OS based on what everyone around them is using.
They expect that I'll be able to open and view correctly any file they send to me... no matter what filetype it is.
Slashdot Mirror
There's a limit how big nnnnnnn files need to be.... what seems like a lot of space now, will seem like peanuts tomorrow.
I remember when 1gb in a 6" x 9" x 2" external housing seemed like more storange than anyone would ever need......
Come to think of it, I remember when a double sided floppy seemed like enough storage to store every BBC game......
Come to think of it, I remember when a 16k rampack for a zx81 seemed like 16 times as much memory as you needed...
Come to think of it...........
bonjour, mon chat est un radis, buisson est une orange, vos odeurs de dessus de bureau comme le poo, me pilotent a la banane! vous chaudiere a pression folle!
:o)
Because all Canadians speak French right
"a preparation of over a decade would take place before the first men/women set out to explore Mars."
It's one thing for Bush to announce this, but it leaves plenty of time for the next president to cut funding and throw the whole program out the window.....
Or how about hooking up a Sandisk Digital Photo Viewer at around $40 it's a hell of a lot cheaper. Next, buy a book on famous artists and scan your favourite paintings in.
I agree, I used to use mapquest and mapblast almost exclusively, but since finding maporama I have switched.
I'm not usually looking for driving directions though, so I can't comment on that feature, but for a general map of an area I find Maporama much more precise and more detailed. Maybe it's because I'm Brit based in Canada!
Boy, does this guy have some learning to do when it comes to beer!
In reference to Lowenbrau he states... 'I personally am not a big dark beer fan'
If he think's Lowenbrau is a dark beer, god only knows what he would make of a decent bitter or a stout.
I know the feeling. Back in 83 I was halfway between a Spectrum and a C64. My idea of being 'connected' was having a cassette recorder to save my programs on!!
"I think we can handle one little file swapper. I sent two units, they're bringing her down now"
"No lieutenant, your CD is already cracked."
It's life Jim but not as we know it
not as we know it
not as we know it
it's life Jim but not as we know it
not as we know it, captain.
Just like you can sell a G5 based machine running OSX and call it a Mac, or a Pentium 4 / AMD XP based system running Windows XP and call it a PC.
The Amiga just skipped the inbetween stages.
Sure it doesn't have chips named Agnus, Paula and Denise and it doesn't come with a Zorro slot. But then again, how many Mac's come with a Nubus slot and are powered by a 68000? and how many PC's still have ISA and a socket for a 8087?
Who's to say that if the Amiga's development hadn't followed a more 'normal' path, that what we would have seen today with is anything different from the Amiga One?
We come in peace
shoot to kill
shoot to kill
shoot to kill
We come in peace
shoot to kill
Scotty beam me up!
There's kilngons on the starboard bow
starboard bow
starboard bow
There's kilngons on the starboard bow
starboard bar JIM!
Personally, I think that licences to go online is a completely ridiculous idea. But I can see where the idea stems from.
There are a lot of users out there who continually get viruses on their system, never patch their systems and never update their virus software( Some of my clients think that updating their virus software every year is being responsible!) and ask them what a patch is and they'll reply that it's something to help you stop smoking!.
Unless something changes, these same users will continue to get viruses and will continue to annoy other net users.
I think a better way of approaching it would be to have some form of virus filter at the ISP end. If a user got infected, the filter would turn off their connection ( or limit it to antivirus sites) until they disinfected their system.
I went through a period last year when one user on a major ISP here in Canada was infected with a virus and I was recieving hundreds of infected emails from them every day. I contacted them directly a number of times but received no response, so I contacted the ISP who refused to do anything. If it was set up to turn off their connection upon infection, then I (And everyone else in their address book) wouldn't have had to put up with all the crap that came from the virus.
'Large collection of pictures' and Slashdot.... hmmmm.... is that the aroma of the server melting?
It would more likely be the other way around... 1). Spammer unleashes a worm/virus which infects unsuspecting/stupid users
2). Said worm/virus goes through address book on infected machines and spams everyone in there using the email address of the owner of the infected machine.
If you're in that address book, then chances are that person is on your whitelist.
Alternatively, Spammer simply spoofs the email address of some well known/well visited/well subscribed to website ( dailystatus@ebay.com, associates@amazon.com, slashdot@slashdot.org )
If you're a regular at any of the above sites you won't want to block their emails....
A whitelist will work just as well as a blacklist.
Until the spammers start spoofing the from address the spam comes from to make it look as though it is coming from someone on your whitelist.
Whitelist won't work so well then.
I only said that it was the solution.... not that I had the means or ability to implement the solution.
If I could stop the spammers I would be a very happy person ( and probably a pretty popular one too)
The only solution to spam is to stop the spammers.
Everything else is just a bandaid which will eventually be circumvented.
A Konix Multisystem w/Hydralic Chair!
Creating a website is easy, we have clients who knew nothing about HTML or the web that have put together simple sites for their businesses.
Creating a website that actually looks good and works well and that actually is a benefit to the business is an entirely different matter.
What we come across time and time again is a business that has created a site themselves but the site is doing nothing for them because it wasn't built search engine friendly, or the graphics are 200+k each or they are using dark red on a dark blue (insert own bad colour scheme here! ) background making the page unreadble. Many people seem to think that : more crazy gif animations = better website.
Most people don't realise that they have to prepare their site for the search engines, or that multiple 200+k graphics are going to make visitors go elsewhere.
The other big misconception is that once they have a website, that's it, they're on the web, they're going to make money.
Trying to persuade a client that they need to update their site on a regular basis and that they should put the URL everywhere they can (business cards, store window etc etc ) is usually met with the response 'oh, ok' but then no action.
To sum it up, creating a site is one thing, but it's only the first step to a successful site and most people don't realise that.
I've got roughly 2500 spam emails....
Hell, There's a PC Engine emulator for it, that keeps me happy :o) Gunhed and Victory Run here I come!
If everyone casts their mind back just a few years, there was this browser called 'Netscape' which had the browser market pretty much tied up. Then a company called Microsoft came along and released a buggy, bloated piece of code called 'Internet Explorer'. A chorus of 'they'll never beat Netscape' rang out around the world.
Fast forward to today and that buggy, bloated piece of software called 'Internet Explorer' is still here, only now it commands over 90% of the browser market.
Or for those with longer memories, there once was these two programs called 'WordStar' and 'Wordperfect'..........
Course, you have to wonder about whether in 50 years time anyone will a) care about MS-DOS 1.0 and b) want to actually run anything on it.
One day I was carrying my Amiga 4000 into work in a re-inforced plastic bag. I had just climbed to the top of a double flight of stairs when the re-inforced bag decided that it wasn't re-inforced enough. The bottom of the bag split wide open, the 4000 dropped and began cartwheeling back down the stairs. It managed to get some pretty good air before it reached the bottom of the stairs and slammed into a heavy wood door.
I walked back down, picked it up, carried it back upstairs anc plugged it in. Worked perfectly and had hardly any marks on the case.
Still works to this day.
Even as a web developer your choice of OS is often dictated by the client. The majority of my clients are based on Windows, the others are on Mac.
Try telling a client that the Quark file they sent you is of no use to you and they'll find another designer.
Clients generally don't understand that theres other OS's out there that are different from the one they use. They've either been told to use a certain OS or have chosen their OS based on what everyone around them is using.
They expect that I'll be able to open and view correctly any file they send to me... no matter what filetype it is.