Like so many here will no doubt be doing, I just wanted to say 'thanks'. Slashdot was not only my favourite source of news for many years, but also Slash (the 0.3-pre tarball!) was my introduction to coding in Perl, and out of that I built my career. So my sincere thanks for all you did here, and I hope you enjoy whatever you do next.
We currently have petrol at £1.40 per litre in the UK, which is over $10/gallon. Our prices have been over $5/gallon for maybe 20 years or more. We still have single-occupant SUVs all over the place, in fact they're on the increase.
If you've got the kind of issues described in the article summary, your carriers stink.
Yes, they do. Why do the carriers in.au not stink - is there legislation that stops them getting up to the same kind of crap that the UK ones do? Or is there more room on their backbone networks? Or are they just nicer?:)
The UK has always had ridiculously high bandwidth prices and ridiculously low traffic caps, on all Internet services - I've hosted numerous UK-specific websites on US servers over the last ten years, purely for cost reasons.
My girlfriend has mobile broadband through Vodafone because BT couldn't figure out how to install a line in her property (which didn't stop an engineer claiming he'd done it, and them billing her for most of a year before it all got sorted out - but I digress).
I've been surprised at how good the speed and stability of her connection is, but the traffic cap is crippling. She's a fairly heavy 'net user (she's a freelance web designer, so has to upload new sites and drafts for her clients to see), but she's not a filesharer, and she runs up against her 5GB cap most months. Going over it gets very expensive very quickly.
The worst thing about the cap is that it discourages her from downloading updates for her OS and software... meaning that she's probably more open to virus/worm infections.
I filed a bug against Mozilla once, an obscure CSS layout glitch. The original bug report was very hand-wavey, I didn't really know what I was trying to report, just that it didn't seem to be doing the right thing. The developers were extremely helpful in the bugzilla comments, and guided me through the process of refining my bug report and giving them enough information to find out what the problem was and work out whose responsibility it was and how important it was. It was fixed two releases later. I was very very impressed by the whole process.
Commenting under an article will 'nullify' all the moderation you have done under that article - not the moderation that other people have done to your comments.
Yeah, I think the first graphics card I bought was a Millenium II. Nice card for 2D work.
My graphics card in this machine has about 6 times as much memory as my PC did back then:)
Quake Done Quick
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This seems like a good time to mention something I ran across again a few days ago - Quake Done Quick. These guys finish the whole of the original Quake, on Nightmare difficulty, in 12 minutes and some seconds. Incredible.
Date rape isn't a stranger (unless it's a blind date).
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They're talking about where the servers are physically located, which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the (often fake) email address in the 'To:' field.
The comment I was replying to seemed to believe that SPF belonged to AOL. You might not be able to see that comment with your settings - it's only rated '1', whereas its parent and my reply are both rated '5'.
I didn't claim to have any facts - I said that I would like to have some before I would form an opinion. Again, you're over-interpreting what I've written so that you can carry on being excitable. I'm going to leave you to it now, feel free to have the last word. Try to spell it right though.
I didn't dismiss every figure that shows IE less than 90%. I pointed out a bias factor in the figures for wikipedia.
Mainstream sites aren't "a better representation of everyone". They're probably a more reasonable representation of 'most people' than non-mainstream sites.
You appear to want to talk in sweeping generalisations. It's possible the world isn't that simple.
You see what exactly? What you should see is that I like to base my opinions on facts, not on wishful thinking and biased figures.
As a web developer and a Linux user, I'm always pleased to see Mozilla et al gaining ground in the browser space... but I don't see any point in basing our perceptions of that encroachment on figures with extremely obvious bias factors.
So, the smarter someone is, the more likely they are to use a mozilla based browser?
Yes, that's what I was implying - well spotted.
You see this as a recommendation to use IE how?
Did I say I recommended IE? I use Galeon on Debian personally, and I recommend Firefox to any Windows user I meet who doesn't already know about it. I'm a web developer - I spend hours some days trying to work around Microsoft's shoddy design and implementation decisions for their web browser.
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Like so many here will no doubt be doing, I just wanted to say 'thanks'. Slashdot was not only my favourite source of news for many years, but also Slash (the 0.3-pre tarball!) was my introduction to coding in Perl, and out of that I built my career. So my sincere thanks for all you did here, and I hope you enjoy whatever you do next.
We currently have petrol at £1.40 per litre in the UK, which is over $10/gallon. Our prices have been over $5/gallon for maybe 20 years or more. We still have single-occupant SUVs all over the place, in fact they're on the increase.
One sales droid's abject terror is another sales droid's golden opportunity.
Last time I joined in one of these threads, Rob Malda finished it a few comments later.
Are Twitter at any point going to get a revenue stream?
If you've got the kind of issues described in the article summary, your carriers stink.
Yes, they do. Why do the carriers in .au not stink - is there legislation that stops them getting up to the same kind of crap that the UK ones do? Or is there more room on their backbone networks? Or are they just nicer? :)
The UK has always had ridiculously high bandwidth prices and ridiculously low traffic caps, on all Internet services - I've hosted numerous UK-specific websites on US servers over the last ten years, purely for cost reasons.
My girlfriend has mobile broadband through Vodafone because BT couldn't figure out how to install a line in her property (which didn't stop an engineer claiming he'd done it, and them billing her for most of a year before it all got sorted out - but I digress).
I've been surprised at how good the speed and stability of her connection is, but the traffic cap is crippling. She's a fairly heavy 'net user (she's a freelance web designer, so has to upload new sites and drafts for her clients to see), but she's not a filesharer, and she runs up against her 5GB cap most months. Going over it gets very expensive very quickly.
The worst thing about the cap is that it discourages her from downloading updates for her OS and software... meaning that she's probably more open to virus/worm infections.
http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
Bricolage had a command-line SOAP utility in 2002:
http://viewsvn.bricolage.cc/bricolage/trunk/bin/bric_soap?view=log
This is /. - some people here will argue anything. :)
I filed a bug against Mozilla once, an obscure CSS layout glitch. The original bug report was very hand-wavey, I didn't really know what I was trying to report, just that it didn't seem to be doing the right thing. The developers were extremely helpful in the bugzilla comments, and guided me through the process of refining my bug report and giving them enough information to find out what the problem was and work out whose responsibility it was and how important it was. It was fixed two releases later. I was very very impressed by the whole process.
Commenting under an article will 'nullify' all the moderation you have done under that article - not the moderation that other people have done to your comments.
Yeah, I think the first graphics card I bought was a Millenium II. Nice card for 2D work.
:)
My graphics card in this machine has about 6 times as much memory as my PC did back then
This seems like a good time to mention something I ran across again a few days ago - Quake Done Quick. These guys finish the whole of the original Quake, on Nightmare difficulty, in 12 minutes and some seconds. Incredible.
h p%3Fpid%3D%26fid%3D953 (BIG .avi)
Check it out: http://clanservers.multiplay.co.uk/?p=/ftpfiles.p
I assumed they meant to say 'friends and family'.
Date rape isn't a stranger (unless it's a blind date).
They're talking about where the servers are physically located, which doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the (often fake) email address in the 'To:' field.
In Soviet Russia, smiley patents you!
Because he just cut and paste it from the website without engaging his brain.
(karma whoring)--
Copyright (the right to copy).
The comment I was replying to seemed to believe that SPF belonged to AOL. You might not be able to see that comment with your settings - it's only rated '1', whereas its parent and my reply are both rated '5'.
I didn't claim to have any facts - I said that I would like to have some before I would form an opinion. Again, you're over-interpreting what I've written so that you can carry on being excitable. I'm going to leave you to it now, feel free to have the last word. Try to spell it right though.
I didn't dismiss every figure that shows IE less than 90%. I pointed out a bias factor in the figures for wikipedia.
Mainstream sites aren't "a better representation of everyone". They're probably a more reasonable representation of 'most people' than non-mainstream sites.
You appear to want to talk in sweeping generalisations. It's possible the world isn't that simple.
Regards,
Denny
You see what exactly? What you should see is that I like to base my opinions on facts, not on wishful thinking and biased figures.
As a web developer and a Linux user, I'm always pleased to see Mozilla et al gaining ground in the browser space... but I don't see any point in basing our perceptions of that encroachment on figures with extremely obvious bias factors.
Regards,
Denny
So, the smarter someone is, the more likely they are to use a mozilla based browser?
Yes, that's what I was implying - well spotted.
You see this as a recommendation to use IE how?
Did I say I recommended IE? I use Galeon on Debian personally, and I recommend Firefox to any Windows user I meet who doesn't already know about it. I'm a web developer - I spend hours some days trying to work around Microsoft's shoddy design and implementation decisions for their web browser.
Regards,
Denny
SPF isn't an AOL technology - it's an open project. The core of the protocol seems to be adding some extended information in your DNS records.
SPF website
Regards,
Denny