I think Linux is wonderful, It's a great OS. But... while there are tons of great applications on Linux, the applications I need ( or rather, the applications my clients expect me to have) are nowhere to be seen.
If a client drops a Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign or publisher(urg) file lands in my mailbox I need to be able to:
a) Open the file and b) know that what I am seeing is what my client also sees.
I think Linux is perfect for an average user who just wants to surf the net and check their email, do a bit of word processing etc ( It's the OS I would recommend to my mom ). But in a design environment where the applications are pretty standardized it just isn't ready for primetime yet.
Get some of the big players on board (Adobe, Macromedia etc) and Switching would be incredibly easy for me to do.
Check in the task manager to make sure Netscape isn't still running. I get the exact same problem here and 99% of the time it's because Netscape hasn't closed properly. If you see it in the task manager, kill it, then try double clicking on an html file... it should open. If you open one HTML file in Netscape by double clicking on the file, chances are, the next HTML file you try double clicking on won't open.
I'm pretty sure it's a Netscape 4.x problem... Netscape 6/7 or Moz work fine when set as the default browser for opening HTML files.
The article mentions nothing about the death of other metatags used for search engine promotion, only the keywords tag
I still swear by the description tag which is still used by many search engines. And to be honest, until I see the search engine rankings of my own and my clients sites suffering from the use of the keywords tag I will still continue to use it. Even if only one major search engine uses the tag, then I think the effort of including it is validated.
I'm going for the patent rights on the use of black typeface on a white background for the purpose of displaying details of and discussing stupid patents
Look at it this way, 35 million AOL users is what? about 6% of the global total? Netscape has roughly 5%-7% browser share now?
So you're roughly doubling the number of Netscape/Mozilla browsers out there to a huge 11%-13%
This is providing that every single one of those AOL users use the new browser. There's plenty of AOL users out there who do use another browser instead of the one supplied with AOL. So more likely it might push the number of Moz/NS users up to 10% or so. Many companies are still not going to care if they alienate that 10%
After all, even when Netscape had 15%-20% of the market, there was still plenty of websites out there that wouldn't work properly with it
The only way to make all sites standards compliant is to make IE standards compliant and ditch the crap.
Even if AOL + Mozilla meant 35 million more Mozilla users and 35 million less IE users... It isn't that big a number when you look at the number of users using IE right now. Would be nice if you could count on 35 million to just switch at the drop of a hat... but howmany are still using AOL3, 4,5,6 etc...
I've often thought that expiry times in software would be a good thing. Not nessesarily in Paid for software, but in free software where free updates are readily available. Would be great for the web.... imagine knowing that you will never have a Netscape 3.x or IE 3.x visitor to your site again... or knowing that on such and such a date you wont have to support Netscape 4
The only downside I can see is what happens when you've using some software and the developer stops developing it....your software passes its expiry date...no updates are available... what then?
5 years ago Altavista was my search engine of choice. Both for my own searches and as the number 1 engine for getting my clients websites ranked in.
Back then you could submit to Altavista, and have a good ranking within a week. Over time, the relevance of the returned results dropped dramatically and the time to get a site listed plummetted, quite often taking longer than Yahoo!
Then Google came along and I haven't looked back since. I've consistently been able to find the results I'm after thanks to the way Google indexes sites. I'm now able to almost guarantee clients that their sites, whether old sites that are being revamped or new sites that are freshly hatched, will be ranked well within Google and also ranked within a short period of time. I think the longest I've ever had to wait for a site to be fully indexed is three months.
Plus the indexing of database generated pages and PDF documents by Google is a life saver. Without this feature a lot of the content I develop would be lost.
I think it will take a miracle to get Altavista back on track. I wish it was as great as it once was, but for now it's relegated to one of the less important engines both from a searching and a submitting point of view.
There is a slight difference when it comes to the upgrade path/evolution of Macs and Amigas though...
Sure, early Powermacs had Nubus slots, but the early Powermacs followed directly on from 68k Macs. The new Amiga designs come 7-8 years after the last 'New' Amiga... a lot of things have changed since then.
Zorro was great at the time, but virtually every card that was available for Zorro slots can now be picked up for a fraction of the cost in PCI form. Sure, some of the more exotic cards no longer exist, but they are few and far between.
So why lumber the new Amiga with a slot that the majority of users will never use? Why not instead come up with some kind of bridge that allows Zorro cards to be connected to PCI slots much like the way you could use ISA cards on an Amiga.
Trying to follow a steady evolutionary path between the AGA Amigas and any new machine would be crazy... too much time has passed.
What they already offer in their backordering of domains 'service' through Snapnames? only it seems this new 'service' is $9 cheaper..but doesn't allow you to transfer your subscription to a different domain.
Still a stupid idea... but what else do you expect from netsol.
After having countless problems transfering domains from NSI/Verisign, Updating DNS or changing emails I decided to consult their 'Ask Jeeves' powered question and answer system...
The answer..
Sorry!
You Asked:
how do I transfer my domain to another registrar?
Thanks for asking your question!
Unfortunately, we couldn't find any answers for this one.
Might not be the US attacking Kabul...
The Taliban have been attacking targets just north of Kabul as recently as last night.
http://www.afghan-web.com/aop/today.html
Might not be the US attacking Kabul...
The Taliban have been attacking targets just north of Kabul as recently as last night.
http://www.afghan-web.com/aop/today.html
I remember knocking together a turbo basic program which would generate the endlessly recursing subdirectories. Blew the minds of the lecturers who were 'teaching' me at the time. Before they realised what was happening the program had been run on virtually all the PC's in the college by people wanting to see what it did.... lots of reformatting followed.
We've been through this exact same situation a number of times. We miss out on a contract for whatever reason, the client goes to another company and ends up with a website so full of holes its laughable. We will usually inform the client of the problems, detailing examples, highlighting the potential security problems etc. Their usual response? disinterest.
In one instance the website was a local government site. The site designers had left everything wide open, username and passwords set as admin and admin, people involved with the development using their first name as login and password, backdoors into areas of the site that should have been protected. You could even send an email out as the Mayor of the town... their response when we told them the problems? 'thanks for your suggestions' six months later and the whole thing is still wide open..
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I think Linux is wonderful, It's a great OS. But... while there are tons of great applications on Linux, the applications I need ( or rather, the applications my clients expect me to have) are nowhere to be seen.
:
If a client drops a Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop, Indesign or publisher(urg) file lands in my mailbox I need to be able to
a) Open the file
and
b) know that what I am seeing is what my client also sees.
I think Linux is perfect for an average user who just wants to surf the net and check their email, do a bit of word processing etc ( It's the OS I would recommend to my mom ). But in a design environment where the applications are pretty standardized it just isn't ready for primetime yet.
Get some of the big players on board (Adobe, Macromedia etc) and Switching would be incredibly easy for me to do.
Never mind amateurs not having access to modern physics labs, it would appear that RU students don't have access to a sense of humour! :o)
Let me guess... Netscape 4.x?
Check in the task manager to make sure Netscape isn't still running. I get the exact same problem here and 99% of the time it's because Netscape hasn't closed properly.
If you see it in the task manager, kill it, then try double clicking on an html file... it should open.
If you open one HTML file in Netscape by double clicking on the file, chances are, the next HTML file you try double clicking on won't open.
I'm pretty sure it's a Netscape 4.x problem... Netscape 6/7 or Moz work fine when set as the default browser for opening HTML files.
The article mentions nothing about the death of other metatags used for search engine promotion, only the keywords tag
I still swear by the description tag which is still used by many search engines. And to be honest, until I see the search engine rankings of my own and my clients sites suffering from the use of the keywords tag I will still continue to use it.
Even if only one major search engine uses the tag, then I think the effort of including it is validated.
I'm going for the patent rights on the use of black typeface on a white background for the purpose of displaying details of and discussing stupid patents
Look at it this way, 35 million AOL users is what? about 6% of the global total?
Netscape has roughly 5%-7% browser share now?
So you're roughly doubling the number of Netscape/Mozilla browsers out there to a huge 11%-13%
This is providing that every single one of those AOL users use the new browser. There's plenty of AOL users out there who do use another browser instead of the one supplied with AOL. So more likely it might push the number of Moz/NS users up to 10% or so. Many companies are still not going to care if they alienate that 10%
After all, even when Netscape had 15%-20% of the market, there was still plenty of websites out there that wouldn't work properly with it
The only way to make all sites standards compliant is to make IE standards compliant and ditch the crap.
Even if AOL + Mozilla meant 35 million more Mozilla users and 35 million less IE users... It isn't that big a number when you look at the number of users using IE right now.
Would be nice if you could count on 35 million to just switch at the drop of a hat... but howmany are still using AOL3, 4,5,6 etc...
I've often thought that expiry times in software would be a good thing. Not nessesarily in Paid for software, but in free software where free updates are readily available. Would be great for the web.... imagine knowing that you will never have a Netscape 3.x or IE 3.x visitor to your site again... or knowing that on such and such a date you wont have to support Netscape 4
The only downside I can see is what happens when you've using some software and the developer stops developing it....your software passes its expiry date...no updates are available... what then?
5 years ago Altavista was my search engine of choice. Both for my own searches and as the number 1 engine for getting my clients websites ranked in.
Back then you could submit to Altavista, and have a good ranking within a week.
Over time, the relevance of the returned results dropped dramatically and the time to get a site listed plummetted, quite often taking longer than Yahoo!
Then Google came along and I haven't looked back since. I've consistently been able to find the results I'm after thanks to the way Google indexes sites.
I'm now able to almost guarantee clients that their sites, whether old sites that are being revamped or new sites that are freshly hatched, will be ranked well within Google and also ranked within a short period of time. I think the longest I've ever had to wait for a site to be fully indexed is three months.
Plus the indexing of database generated pages and PDF documents by Google is a life saver. Without this feature a lot of the content I develop would be lost.
I think it will take a miracle to get Altavista back on track. I wish it was as great as it once was, but for now it's relegated to one of the less important engines both from a searching and a submitting point of view.
There is a slight difference when it comes to the upgrade path/evolution of Macs and Amigas though...
Sure, early Powermacs had Nubus slots, but the early Powermacs followed directly on from 68k Macs. The new Amiga designs come 7-8 years after the last 'New' Amiga... a lot of things have changed since then.
Zorro was great at the time, but virtually every card that was available for Zorro slots can now be picked up for a fraction of the cost in PCI form. Sure, some of the more exotic cards no longer exist, but they are few and far between.
So why lumber the new Amiga with a slot that the majority of users will never use? Why not instead come up with some kind of bridge that allows Zorro cards to be connected to PCI slots much like the way you could use ISA cards on an Amiga.
Trying to follow a steady evolutionary path between the AGA Amigas and any new machine would be crazy... too much time has passed.
What they already offer in their backordering of domains 'service' through Snapnames? only it seems this new 'service' is $9 cheaper..but doesn't allow you to transfer your subscription to a different domain. Still a stupid idea... but what else do you expect from netsol.
After having countless problems transfering domains from NSI/Verisign, Updating DNS or changing emails I decided to consult their 'Ask Jeeves' powered question and answer system...
The answer..
Sorry!
You Asked:
how do I transfer my domain to another registrar?
Thanks for asking your question!
Unfortunately, we couldn't find any answers for this one.
Says it all...
Might not be the US attacking Kabul...
The Taliban have been attacking targets just north of Kabul as recently as last night.
http://www.afghan-web.com/aop/today.html
Might not be the US attacking Kabul...
The Taliban have been attacking targets just north of Kabul as recently as last night.
http://www.afghan-web.com/aop/today.html
I remember knocking together a turbo basic program which would generate the endlessly recursing subdirectories. Blew the minds of the lecturers who were 'teaching' me at the time. Before they realised what was happening the program had been run on virtually all the PC's in the college by people wanting to see what it did.... lots of reformatting followed.
We've been through this exact same situation a number of times. We miss out on a contract for whatever reason, the client goes to another company and ends up with a website so full of holes its laughable. We will usually inform the client of the problems, detailing examples, highlighting the potential security problems etc. Their usual response? disinterest. In one instance the website was a local government site. The site designers had left everything wide open, username and passwords set as admin and admin, people involved with the development using their first name as login and password, backdoors into areas of the site that should have been protected. You could even send an email out as the Mayor of the town... their response when we told them the problems? 'thanks for your suggestions' six months later and the whole thing is still wide open..
Advertising in games has been going on since the days of the Spectrum and C64.
Action Biker was basically a big advert for KP Skips
Mr Wimpy...One big advert for Wimpy restaurants (Like McDonalds but served on plates)