It's not something Google requires, per se, it's just that if there isn't a link to it somewhere, how would they find out about it? Spiders work by following links on sites they already know about. If it finds a link to another site, it will then index that site (robots.txt allowing). They don't scan random IP addresses looking for web servers.
Read her replies to comments in her own LJ, as well as the journals she provides links to. It's pretty obviously a hoax intended to stir up panic and knee-jerk reactions among the more gullible LJ users.
Note that said LJ poster is also involved with the now-offline LJDrama.org and Encyclopedia Dramatica (current front page NSFW). Take it all with a nice, big grain of salt.
Maybe you're just lucky, my experience is much different. I recently came off a four year stint in Earthlink's abuse department and we got a ton of spam addressed to abuse@, security@, you name it.
Are you sure about that? My G4 desktop came with one hard drive and one optical drive, but it now has three hard drives and two optical, all internal. I've also added an Adaptec SCSI card and a PCI card with additional USB 2.0 and Firewire ports. I still have room for one more hard drive and have two free PCI slots.
With room for six IDE devices standard, this Mac actually is actually more expandable than any x86 motherboard I've owned.
Not necessarily. Last year I had a crappy, low-end phone with service through Verizon in LA. My GF also had Verizon service, but had a much nicer phone. She often got much better reception than I did, sometimes even standing right next to me. Because my phone was work-provided, I was able to compare notes with my co-workers, who all reported similar problems.
But then I changed jobs. On the one hand, I have a much better phone and service now, but on the other hand I now have to pay for it myself:(
Not if you disable HTML rendering entirely. This MacOSXHints.com article has instructions on how to do so. It forces Mail to show the plain text part of multipart messages by default. You can still view the HTML part via a menu option. Works like a charm.
My point is that, when you're given a speeding ticket, it's given with the understanding that you've JUST BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SPEEDING, else you wouldn't have gotten the ticket in the first place.
Likewise, if you're arrested for any crime, you MUST be guilty or else the police wouldn't have arrested you.
My doc said no on a vasectomy for a few years, as I am "still young (I'm almost 26), and will likely change my mind."
Sounds to me like you need to find a new doctor, one who won't try to make your decisions for you.
I was a bit older than you (early 30s) when I had my vasectomy two years ago, but I also have no children. When the doctor started in on the whole "You understand this is permanent, right?" bit, I politely told him that I had been considering the procedure for a number of years, had researched it thoroughly, and am certain that I don't want children. He accepted this without argument and scheduled me an appointment.
When I get the "What if you change your mind?" routine from people I tell them that if that if I do, however unlikely that may be, I'd rather adopt a child who needs a home than make a new one.
Not only that, but since I started using an RSS reader, I'm constantly on the lookout for new and interesting sites that have RSS feeds. Half the sites I read RSS from are sites I didn't visit normally before, and probably wouldn't if it weren't for RSS. I only have enough time in the morning to browse a few sites normally, but I can keep up on three times as many using RSS.
Judging from my experience then, RSS may reduce the bandwidth used by your regular readers (because they aren't downloading images, etc), but that savings will be used up by new readers who are only there because of the feed.
You may be right, but in Jonathan Swartz Sun's world, he's probably refering to the server market and/or enterprise workstations
Interestingly, when I left my position at Earthlink (Pasadena, CA) a few months ago, the sysadmins there were in the process of replacing their Sun workstations with OS X machines.
Actually, my GF is going to be working on a site that will hopefully provide a balance to what the PTC is doing. Among other things, you'll be able to write the FCC to remind them of the first amendment and thank them for allowing you to make your own parenting decisions.
rsync would do it, but Unison will do it better. Like rsync, it can run over SSH and will only copy changed files. Unlike rsync, it will get you two-way synchronization, so you can change one file on one end and another file on the ohter end, and both locations will up updated with the changes. It's also available for *nix, OS X, and Windows, and can sync files across all platforms.
Which reminds me, I haven't synced up my laptop yet today...
Even as a full-time Mac and part-time Linux user, I don't mind that Portable Firefox is Windows-only. I keep it, along with Putty and a selection of Unix utilities ported to Win32, on my USB drive for the times I'm stuck sitting at a Windows machine without an SSH client or decent browser (ie, most Windows machines). OS X and Linux already have these areas covered.
Also, it creeped me out to no end discovering this morning that my Gmail cookie is really a "Google Accounts" cookie which will now be attached to my Usenet forays via Google as well.
Using Firefox or Mozilla, you can force all cookies to be session cookies instead of persistent. It's in your cookie preferences.
1. Check your Gmail, accept session cookie 2. Close browser (manually logging out of Gmail won't even be necessary) 3. Use Google's Usenet search without any identifying cookies 4. That's it, there is no #4 (neither is there a "profit!")
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It's not something Google requires, per se, it's just that if there isn't a link to it somewhere, how would they find out about it? Spiders work by following links on sites they already know about. If it finds a link to another site, it will then index that site (robots.txt allowing). They don't scan random IP addresses looking for web servers.
That is the stupidest thing I have ever seen.
Also, WTF did that idiot on their web site do to his teeth?
Right, and if you re-read the grandparent post, you'll see that the poster was talking about standard .mp3s, not iTMS-purchased AAC files.
Read her replies to comments in her own LJ, as well as the journals she provides links to. It's pretty obviously a hoax intended to stir up panic and knee-jerk reactions among the more gullible LJ users.
Note that said LJ poster is also involved with the now-offline LJDrama.org and Encyclopedia Dramatica (current front page NSFW). Take it all with a nice, big grain of salt.
Maybe you're just lucky, my experience is much different. I recently came off a four year stint in Earthlink's abuse department and we got a ton of spam addressed to abuse@, security@, you name it.
Unsurprisingly, spammers really are that stupid.
And you call yourself a geek. For shame.
Are you sure about that? My G4 desktop came with one hard drive and one optical drive, but it now has three hard drives and two optical, all internal. I've also added an Adaptec SCSI card and a PCI card with additional USB 2.0 and Firewire ports. I still have room for one more hard drive and have two free PCI slots.
With room for six IDE devices standard, this Mac actually is actually more expandable than any x86 motherboard I've owned.
Not necessarily. Last year I had a crappy, low-end phone with service through Verizon in LA. My GF also had Verizon service, but had a much nicer phone. She often got much better reception than I did, sometimes even standing right next to me. Because my phone was work-provided, I was able to compare notes with my co-workers, who all reported similar problems.
:(
But then I changed jobs. On the one hand, I have a much better phone and service now, but on the other hand I now have to pay for it myself
Not if you disable HTML rendering entirely. This MacOSXHints.com article has instructions on how to do so. It forces Mail to show the plain text part of multipart messages by default. You can still view the HTML part via a menu option. Works like a charm.
So Slashdot would be given Slashdot.xxx
Finally! Somewhere people won't be modded down for posting penis bird and goatse links!
My point is that, when you're given a speeding ticket, it's given with the understanding that you've JUST BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF SPEEDING, else you wouldn't have gotten the ticket in the first place.
Likewise, if you're arrested for any crime, you MUST be guilty or else the police wouldn't have arrested you.
hello world
My doc said no on a vasectomy for a few years, as I am "still young (I'm almost 26), and will likely change my mind."
Sounds to me like you need to find a new doctor, one who won't try to make your decisions for you.
I was a bit older than you (early 30s) when I had my vasectomy two years ago, but I also have no children. When the doctor started in on the whole "You understand this is permanent, right?" bit, I politely told him that I had been considering the procedure for a number of years, had researched it thoroughly, and am certain that I don't want children. He accepted this without argument and scheduled me an appointment.
When I get the "What if you change your mind?" routine from people I tell them that if that if I do, however unlikely that may be, I'd rather adopt a child who needs a home than make a new one.
Not only that, but since I started using an RSS reader, I'm constantly on the lookout for new and interesting sites that have RSS feeds. Half the sites I read RSS from are sites I didn't visit normally before, and probably wouldn't if it weren't for RSS. I only have enough time in the morning to browse a few sites normally, but I can keep up on three times as many using RSS.
Judging from my experience then, RSS may reduce the bandwidth used by your regular readers (because they aren't downloading images, etc), but that savings will be used up by new readers who are only there because of the feed.
This is Red Hat's Linux. There are thousands more, but this one is theirs.
You may be right, but in Jonathan Swartz Sun's world, he's probably refering to the server market and/or enterprise workstations
Interestingly, when I left my position at Earthlink (Pasadena, CA) a few months ago, the sysadmins there were in the process of replacing their Sun workstations with OS X machines.
Actually, my GF is going to be working on a site that will hopefully provide a balance to what the PTC is doing. Among other things, you'll be able to write the FCC to remind them of the first amendment and thank them for allowing you to make your own parenting decisions.
rsync would do it, but Unison will do it better. Like rsync, it can run over SSH and will only copy changed files. Unlike rsync, it will get you two-way synchronization, so you can change one file on one end and another file on the ohter end, and both locations will up updated with the changes. It's also available for *nix, OS X, and Windows, and can sync files across all platforms.
Which reminds me, I haven't synced up my laptop yet today...
Even as a full-time Mac and part-time Linux user, I don't mind that Portable Firefox is Windows-only. I keep it, along with Putty and a selection of Unix utilities ported to Win32, on my USB drive for the times I'm stuck sitting at a Windows machine without an SSH client or decent browser (ie, most Windows machines). OS X and Linux already have these areas covered.
The English language called, they want their improper spelling of their back.
Also, it creeped me out to no end discovering this morning that my Gmail cookie is really a "Google Accounts" cookie which will now be attached to my Usenet forays via Google as well.
Using Firefox or Mozilla, you can force all cookies to be session cookies instead of persistent. It's in your cookie preferences.
1. Check your Gmail, accept session cookie
2. Close browser (manually logging out of Gmail won't even be necessary)
3. Use Google's Usenet search without any identifying cookies
4. That's it, there is no #4 (neither is there a "profit!")
Keep in mind that the adjective elegant can also be used to describe software.
Also, putting the power button on the back of the machine?!? Mr. Jobs, we like to turn our computers on and off too, just like PC people.
Apple menu -> shut down
That was easy.
So how do you put music on your iPod?
iTunes != iTunes Music Store
I've never bought anything from the iTMS, but I use iTunes all the time for both managing my iPod and playing music directly on my computer.
Make them run Gentoo. That will ensure they have time to go out and get some fresh air while they wait for stuff to compile.