You know, it really annoys me when some idiot makes a blanket statment, spewing doctrine about how sites should function. It depends upon the site's percieved audience! Or maybe you think javascript.com should work without Javascript, flash.com should work without flash and online shops should work without cookies (yeah you CAN do it, if you don't mind having to submit forms on every page, or huge ugly URLs that can't be bookmarked).
Funny how the jokers who spout this garbage always cite yahoo and amazon isn't it? Could it be because these sites are DESIGNED for dumb browsers; and have nothing more advanced than images and text.
I'm not saying that all sites need Flash, Javascript or any other technology - frankly most don't - but many sites attract visitors based on the fact they're exploiting a technology. Not all sites are shops.
In conclusion: anyone who subscribes to the OPs is either making very dull, generic sites, or needlessly handicapping themselves.
I think you'll find the speedo/odo assembly receives pulses from the gearbox output shaft. So in fact the odometer is being driven more directly than the speedometer (which uses the pulses/time to display the speed).
At least that was the case for truck tachograph units when I worked on them a long long time ago...
Time to make another round and buy these, open them, and return them.
Sorry dude, maybe if it was a nin CD or something I might want to help out, but there's no fscking way I'm walking into HMV in broad daylight and blatantly buying a Celine Dion CD!
When you think about it, adding copy protection to a Celine Dion CD is about as worthwile as adding a $20,000 alarm system to a Trabant (for those who're unaware, it's an unbelievably crap European car - think those hilarious "exploding" clown cars, except more dangerous and less funny).
I'd hope it would be obvious to most people, but I wouldn't want to use this for any mission critical computers
Oh no! I wish I'd read your comment earlier; I've just moved our high-traffic e-commerce sites across to these (it was a real bitch pushing them into the rack, I can tell you!) So you think the dual celerons overclocked to 1.9GHZ might overheat when serving 500,000 hits per day??
Actually it was sometimes useful to have a circular buffer! Obviously it wasn't so useful to accidentally try to write a word or dword to xxxx:ffff and see the machine lock up solid:-)
Why doesn't slashdot mirror the site anyway, but still link to the original. Then, if and when the real site goes down redirect the link to the copy on the slashdot server? Once the real site is back up, redirect back again etc etc. At least then people could see the cool stuff! It's not as though it would take any revenue away from the original site - if their server has given up they're not making any money on ads anyway!
Honestly, how difficult would it be to implement something like a "slashdot load balancer"?
It always seems to get forgotten (maybe because it's not a Gnome app), and it's a kick-ass browser! I write DHTML apps as part of my work and although it's not quite there, Konq can almost run standards compliant dynamic HTML apps as well as Moz, and probably faster! I have windowing systems, drop menus and tons of other widgets working for Konq, but little things let it down (like not returning the correct offsetLeft/offsetTop properties for relatively positioned elements for instance) but once fixed, I doubt I'll use Moz at all!
Konq's and Mozillas problems are website authors only worrying about the 85% using 1 browser (IE), and not caring if it breaks anything else - hell most website authors only care about 1 browser on 1 platform (Windows)! Many sites look and (if they work at all) work badly on OS9/OS-X even with IE!!
As I say, I write quite a lot of DHTML, and a lot of people use my APIs, so I'm really hoping to put full support in for Konq in its next invocation so it gets the recognition it deserves!
I agree, in fact I've been thinking that Slashdot should add this as an option for my user settings. So there's say a checkbox so that every link I clicked would target _new. I like to go into the comments for a story, and have the item they're referencing open in another browser window at the same time. Of course this would mean/. would have to generate 2 versions of the same page for the cache, but it's not that big a technical challenge!!
I had one recently that included a form, just in case I needed to order some crap goods in a hurry! So I wrote a little piece of javascript that filled the necessary fields with random characters (with @ signs for the email addresses) and posted it from a second frame, then looped. I left this going for the rest of the day, so hopefully the spammer's customer was pleasantly surprised by the 1000's of requests for more info!
Maybe I should write a server-side script where one can enter the name and type of required fields for a spammers form. Then the cgi could generate the necessary javascript to keep on sending it nice and quickly... hmm...
I recently wrote such a CGI script for my site. It creates html pages with randomly generated paragraphs, dotted with random email addresses and links which loop back to the script.
However, my problem is that my site already over-runs my bandwidth limit every month so I have to pay an excess per MB, so I added a variable to the script so that after a bot has moved over X levels deep into the pages it just returns 500's instead of pages.
The logs have started filling pretty quickly even though the link to the fake pages will only be seen by a robot (or someone looking through the source). The user agents include the usual suspects, plus a LOT of faked Explorer and Mozilla "Agents" - these are obviously not real people due to the speed at which they've moved between pages.
If anyone wants it, just drop me a mail - it's only a little perl script; hopefully I'm doing my bit to annoy them though:-)
Yes, it's funny how these "blackspots" are nice straight clear roads, where motorists have a chance to break the limit without even thinking about it rather than outside schools or hospitals, or on narrow coutry roads where they might actually save a life isn't it? It's also funny that they are normally concealed so a motorist isn't aware of the camera until it's caught them, instead of being brightly coloured and obvious enough to be a deterent...
Maybe it's something to do with the fact the police recieve the revenues from these cameras... hmmm...
Speaking of being fucked... I remember one of the government's excuses for us paying 90% tax on fuel (or whatever it is this week) was to "encourage" people to use public transport. In fact I remember Prescott (a bumbling idiot, first in line to Tony Blair's throne) giving a speech to the Labour party to this effect. The funny thing is, he was chaufeur driven down the road from his hotel, to the conference to deliver this speech:-)
Anyway, the fact of the matter is, there is no alternative to private transport for most people. If you've ever been unfortunate enough to try using our railway service you'll understand this. That was another master-stroke by the Government - putting private companies in charge of the railways so that rather than invest any money on improvements, it was all spent on dividends and enormous pay increases for the directors...
I used to alternate between driving and using the train - that way I could experience a few weeks of traffic jams, ludicrous fuel prices and road-rage before switching to the marvels of unexplained delays, cancellations and being accosted by the mad people who seem attracted to our trains in the same way flies are attracted to... well... you know...
I live in the UK, and have seen this idea bubble up from the sewers every few years over here. As though having the highest fuel tax, worst roads and high levels of congestion weren't already bad enough, they actually want to charge yet more for our use of them!
An interesting fact from my days in transport logistics:
When UK hauliers travel abroad, they must pay per-day to travel on the foreign roads, and also pay toll charges at the same rate as their European counterparts - this is ON TOP of having to pay UK road taxes at the same time. They are also in danger of legal action if they bring in more fuel than they had in they had when they left the country.
When European vehicles travel to the UK, they are allowed to use the roads for free - no taxes. They are allowed any size of fuel tanks, so they can effectively operate for a week on much cheaper European fuel.
The government have obviously completely ignored this and as a result we've seen increasing damage caused to our roads from the increasing numbers of foreign vehicles travelling around for free!
Based on the assumption there is only so much stuff to move around in this country each day, each foreign truck over here is costing 3000-5000 pounds per year in road tax alone, without fuel (1000-1500 pounds per week!), not to mention the unemployed UK warehouse workers/drivers/office staff claiming benefit as their jobs are now taken by European firms who can offer much cheaper rates as a result of their operating conditions...
I'm so proud to be a UK citizen sometimes... Really...
I can sympathise with your friend, as I had something similar happen a while back (not from a spammer, but the results were the same.)
I used a few lines of C to fix this without my having to download the mail. Basically, all you have to do is log into the POP server, find out how many messages you have, then loop the command "DELE 1","DELE 2"... "DELE X" to trash them. Ok, you may also lose some legitimate mail, but it's still better than having to check 1000's of messages!
...if the days seem a little longer to you than they used to, it might not be just old age catching up with you...
Actually I was under the impression that time appeared to pass faster the older you grew. It's related to the fact you heart gradually slows down, and it's effect on your body clock..
Maybe this explains why my Grandad always seemed surprised when I slipped into a coma after a few hours listening to him drone about "the war", how he knew hist neighnours were plotting to steal the huge amounts of money he kept in a biscuit tin on his wardrobe, and stuff generally being easier for the youngans. To him, it probably seemed like a quick chat...
Well the memory barrier was not really an issue. There were ways of accessing all available RAM through DOS, or of course you could use a small lib like pmode to switch to 32bit addressing mode. Many of the old DOS games did just this (like Doom and the LucasArts games - Sam and Max was fantastic, still one of my favourite adventure games). I used to write Demos on PC in assembler under DOS/pmode, and really miss having a CPU all to myself. If you play some of the old Demos that used to run great on an old 386/486 on a machine running any version of Windows (if it works at all) you'll see glitches and slowdown even on very fast machines. Obviously 3D accelerators etc make up for this now, but it shows the difference with a "real-time" (as in single task) OS.
Slashdot Mirror
You know, it really annoys me when some idiot makes a blanket statment, spewing doctrine about how sites should function. It depends upon the site's percieved audience! Or maybe you think javascript.com should work without Javascript, flash.com should work without flash and online shops should work without cookies (yeah you CAN do it, if you don't mind having to submit forms on every page, or huge ugly URLs that can't be bookmarked).
Funny how the jokers who spout this garbage always cite yahoo and amazon isn't it? Could it be because these sites are DESIGNED for dumb browsers; and have nothing more advanced than images and text.
I'm not saying that all sites need Flash, Javascript or any other technology - frankly most don't - but many sites attract visitors based on the fact they're exploiting a technology. Not all sites are shops.
In conclusion: anyone who subscribes to the OPs is either making very dull, generic sites, or needlessly handicapping themselves.
I think you'll find the speedo/odo assembly receives pulses from the gearbox output shaft. So in fact the odometer is being driven more directly than the speedometer (which uses the pulses/time to display the speed).
At least that was the case for truck tachograph units when I worked on them a long long time ago...
I'm of a similar opinion, Robert Novak also came around my house last night and left the toilet seat up; the bastard!
Time to make another round and buy these, open them, and return them.
Sorry dude, maybe if it was a nin CD or something I might want to help out, but there's no fscking way I'm walking into HMV in broad daylight and blatantly buying a Celine Dion CD!
When you think about it, adding copy protection to a Celine Dion CD is about as worthwile as adding a $20,000 alarm system to a Trabant (for those who're unaware, it's an unbelievably crap European car - think those hilarious "exploding" clown cars, except more dangerous and less funny).
Here for when the site inevitably goes down :-)
I've put BC2000 up for download here. Also the D5D plugin to allow Xine to play encoded DVDs with Linux.
What the hell is a starwipe?
You obviously never watched a lot of old Abba videos...
Step 1. Sell $250 phones for $30.
Step 2.
Step 3. Profit!
I'd hope it would be obvious to most people, but I wouldn't want to use this for any mission critical computers
Oh no! I wish I'd read your comment earlier; I've just moved our high-traffic e-commerce sites across to these (it was a real bitch pushing them into the rack, I can tell you!) So you think the dual celerons overclocked to 1.9GHZ might overheat when serving 500,000 hits per day??
Back to the drawing board...
Why would a developer need 1000 times the performance?! Are they going to port the Java Runtime Environment over to the PS3?
There is also an article on the Register [theregister.co.uk] about this issue.
Of course there is; where do you think this
yggdrasil tendonitis - returned 1 result!
DMCA... RIAA... SSSCA...
Yeah, America really leads the pack on issues of freedom...
Ok, 64K wrap-around in a segment sucked too.
Actually it was sometimes useful to have a circular buffer! Obviously it wasn't so useful to accidentally try to write a word or dword to xxxx:ffff and see the machine lock up solid
Why doesn't slashdot mirror the site anyway, but still link to the original. Then, if and when the real site goes down redirect the link to the copy on the slashdot server? Once the real site is back up, redirect back again etc etc. At least then people could see the cool stuff! It's not as though it would take any revenue away from the original site - if their server has given up they're not making any money on ads anyway!
Honestly, how difficult would it be to implement something like a "slashdot load balancer"?
It always seems to get forgotten (maybe because it's not a Gnome app), and it's a kick-ass browser! I write DHTML apps as part of my work and although it's not quite there, Konq can almost run standards compliant dynamic HTML apps as well as Moz, and probably faster! I have windowing systems, drop menus and tons of other widgets working for Konq, but little things let it down (like not returning the correct offsetLeft/offsetTop properties for relatively positioned elements for instance) but once fixed, I doubt I'll use Moz at all!
Konq's and Mozillas problems are website authors only worrying about the 85% using 1 browser (IE), and not caring if it breaks anything else - hell most website authors only care about 1 browser on 1 platform (Windows)! Many sites look and (if they work at all) work badly on OS9/OS-X even with IE!!
As I say, I write quite a lot of DHTML, and a lot of people use my APIs, so I'm really hoping to put full support in for Konq in its next invocation so it gets the recognition it deserves!
I agree, in fact I've been thinking that Slashdot should add this as an option for my user settings. So there's say a checkbox so that every link I clicked would target _new. I like to go into the comments for a story, and have the item they're referencing open in another browser window at the same time. Of course this would mean /. would have to generate 2 versions of the same page for the cache, but it's not that big a technical challenge!!
I had one recently that included a form, just in case I needed to order some crap goods in a hurry! So I wrote a little piece of javascript that filled the necessary fields with random characters (with @ signs for the email addresses) and posted it from a second frame, then looped. I left this going for the rest of the day, so hopefully the spammer's customer was pleasantly surprised by the 1000's of requests for more info!
Maybe I should write a server-side script where one can enter the name and type of required fields for a spammers form. Then the cgi could generate the necessary javascript to keep on sending it nice and quickly... hmm...
I recently wrote such a CGI script for my site. It creates html pages with randomly generated paragraphs, dotted with random email addresses and links which loop back to the script.
:-)
However, my problem is that my site already over-runs my bandwidth limit every month so I have to pay an excess per MB, so I added a variable to the script so that after a bot has moved over X levels deep into the pages it just returns 500's instead of pages.
The logs have started filling pretty quickly even though the link to the fake pages will only be seen by a robot (or someone looking through the source). The user agents include the usual suspects, plus a LOT of faked Explorer and Mozilla "Agents" - these are obviously not real people due to the speed at which they've moved between pages.
If anyone wants it, just drop me a mail - it's only a little perl script; hopefully I'm doing my bit to annoy them though
Yes, it's funny how these "blackspots" are nice straight clear roads, where motorists have a chance to break the limit without even thinking about it rather than outside schools or hospitals, or on narrow coutry roads where they might actually save a life isn't it? It's also funny that they are normally concealed so a motorist isn't aware of the camera until it's caught them, instead of being brightly coloured and obvious enough to be a deterent...
Maybe it's something to do with the fact the police recieve the revenues from these cameras... hmmm...
Speaking of being fucked... I remember one of the government's excuses for us paying 90% tax on fuel (or whatever it is this week) was to "encourage" people to use public transport. In fact I remember Prescott (a bumbling idiot, first in line to Tony Blair's throne) giving a speech to the Labour party to this effect. The funny thing is, he was chaufeur driven down the road from his hotel, to the conference to deliver this speech :-)
Anyway, the fact of the matter is, there is no alternative to private transport for most people. If you've ever been unfortunate enough to try using our railway service you'll understand this. That was another master-stroke by the Government - putting private companies in charge of the railways so that rather than invest any money on improvements, it was all spent on dividends and enormous pay increases for the directors...
I used to alternate between driving and using the train - that way I could experience a few weeks of traffic jams, ludicrous fuel prices and road-rage before switching to the marvels of unexplained delays, cancellations and being accosted by the mad people who seem attracted to our trains in the same way flies are attracted to... well... you know...
I live in the UK, and have seen this idea bubble up from the sewers every few years over here. As though having the highest fuel tax, worst roads and high levels of congestion weren't already bad enough, they actually want to charge yet more for our use of them!
An interesting fact from my days in transport logistics:
When UK hauliers travel abroad, they must pay per-day to travel on the foreign roads, and also pay toll charges at the same rate as their European counterparts - this is ON TOP of having to pay UK road taxes at the same time. They are also in danger of legal action if they bring in more fuel than they had in they had when they left the country.
When European vehicles travel to the UK, they are allowed to use the roads for free - no taxes. They are allowed any size of fuel tanks, so they can effectively operate for a week on much cheaper European fuel.
The government have obviously completely ignored this and as a result we've seen increasing damage caused to our roads from the increasing numbers of foreign vehicles travelling around for free!
Based on the assumption there is only so much stuff to move around in this country each day, each foreign truck over here is costing 3000-5000 pounds per year in road tax alone, without fuel (1000-1500 pounds per week!), not to mention the unemployed UK warehouse workers/drivers/office staff claiming benefit as their jobs are now taken by European firms who can offer much cheaper rates as a result of their operating conditions...
I'm so proud to be a UK citizen sometimes... Really...
I can sympathise with your friend, as I had something similar happen a while back (not from a spammer, but the results were the same.)
... "DELE X" to trash them. Ok, you may also lose some legitimate mail, but it's still better than having to check 1000's of messages!
I used a few lines of C to fix this without my having to download the mail. Basically, all you have to do is log into the POP server, find out how many messages you have, then loop the command "DELE 1","DELE 2"
...if the days seem a little longer to you than they used to, it might not be just old age catching up with you...
Actually I was under the impression that time appeared to pass faster the older you grew. It's related to the fact you heart gradually slows down, and it's effect on your body clock..
Maybe this explains why my Grandad always seemed surprised when I slipped into a coma after a few hours listening to him drone about "the war", how he knew hist neighnours were plotting to steal the huge amounts of money he kept in a biscuit tin on his wardrobe, and stuff generally being easier for the youngans. To him, it probably seemed like a quick chat...
Well the memory barrier was not really an issue. There were ways of accessing all available RAM through DOS, or of course you could use a small lib like pmode to switch to 32bit addressing mode. Many of the old DOS games did just this (like Doom and the LucasArts games - Sam and Max was fantastic, still one of my favourite adventure games). I used to write Demos on PC in assembler under DOS/pmode, and really miss having a CPU all to myself. If you play some of the old Demos that used to run great on an old 386/486 on a machine running any version of Windows (if it works at all) you'll see glitches and slowdown even on very fast machines. Obviously 3D accelerators etc make up for this now, but it shows the difference with a "real-time" (as in single task) OS.