Although IMHO the BBC has really "dumbed down" over the past decade. For evidence of this please see next Wednesday's prime time viewing on BBC1, our great nation's permiere TV channel.
While I'd agree with you in general (and especially about primetime), they're showing one of the best films ever at 11:45pm. If you've never seen it, watch it.
If you're like me, it'll be in the "box of old computer stuff" in the attic along with printouts like your EBDIC/ASCII tables and line printer pictures of Einstein.
Well, no, not exactly - instead, it has "net statistics [workstation|server]" which gives you a detailed breakdown of your network activity, and shows the date & time at which it started logging:
C:\>net statistics workstation Workstation statistics for \\ERIS
Statistics since 2/20/2003 8:36 AM [snip lots of stats]
Incidentally - and I'm not a Unix guru, so ICBW - isn't logging in as root to find out your uptime the equivalent of using a sledgehammer to push in a thumbtack?
E1s run at £6,000 p.a. to around £15,000 p.a. (at least in London), depending on what sort of SLA you're after. </pedantry>
2Mbit SDSL is reasonable these days, starting from about £2,000 p.a. - again, it depends on your SLA requirements and how much installation charge you're prepared to swallow.
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I know it doesn't help you now you've moved onwards and upwards, but for the benefit of anyone reading who doesn't know this trick:
Rather than doing this:
if (value == 1) {
Do this:
if (1 == value) {
If you get your comparison and assignment operators muddled (and, let's face it, typos happen to everyone) you'll catch it a lot easier this way, as your interpreter or compiler will have a fit trying to assign the contents of "value" to the number "1".
It's complaining because you've missed 3 ALT tags, and you haven't quoted 4 attributes. Both of these are trivial: getting your site up to spec should take you about a minute, including the time taken to think of the text for your ALT tags.
So - I'm genuinely curious here, because I rely on this daily and find it an excellent tool - what were these "stupid things" which make you want to ignore it? Have you considered submitting feedback to the W3C with some possible improvements?
Yup, and I got three months' ADSL rental from BT when they screwed up my payments.
However, if you read the apology letter you probably got with the cheque, it will say "enclosed is a goodwill payment" rather than "enclosed is your compensation".
Point is: they don't *have* to give you that.
But if a cable connection to a home goes down for (say) 24 hours, the provider will just .
If a T1 to a corporate goes down for (say) 2 hours, the customer starts invoking the SLAs and getting compensation.
*That's* what you pay for. Not the bandwidth, but the ability of your CTO to metaphorically bang on the shop counter and ask for the manager.
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Since you need to have links to your site from other sites to get rated highly in Google, it is almost impossible to get them, as people who may be interested in linking to your site won't find it on Google.
If you run a new site, you should submit it to the relevant category of www.dmoz.org, the open directory project. A listing in there gets you into Google within a month.
Also, marking up your site well - using <h1>...</h1> instead of <p><b>...</b></p>, for example - will work wonders: Google (and, I imagine, other engines) pays more attention to text in headings than body text.
I'm trying very hard not to think about what would happen to a spammer who targetted the Monastery, but that's only because I'm about to go and eat lunch.
It used to be that the hammers could be ran over by a tank without bending and could survive explosions.
Well, that wasn't in the spec. It's probably just something marketing made up for an advert.
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While I'd agree with you in general (and especially about primetime), they're showing one of the best films ever at 11:45pm. If you've never seen it, watch it.
If you're like me, it'll be in the "box of old computer stuff" in the attic along with printouts like your EBDIC/ASCII tables and line printer pictures of Einstein.
I'll save you reading the other 21%: Linus did it.
Imagine seeing the same amount of people driving space shuttles as trucks.
Overclocked! w00t!
Slackware, off the top of my head, lets you set up the partition table and then tells you to log in as root (no password) to run the setup program.
Once you've completed installation, you get to set a root password. Once you've done this, you can log in (as root) and add your users.
Not sure how other distros work, but I see absolutely no functional difference here between Slack and recent Windows versions.
> Does windows even have an "uptime" command?
Well, no, not exactly - instead, it has "net statistics [workstation|server]" which gives you a detailed breakdown of your network activity, and shows the date & time at which it started logging:
C:\>net statistics workstation
Workstation statistics for \\ERIS
Statistics since 2/20/2003 8:36 AM
[snip lots of stats]
Incidentally - and I'm not a Unix guru, so ICBW - isn't logging in as root to find out your uptime the equivalent of using a sledgehammer to push in a thumbtack?
E1s run at £6,000 p.a. to around £15,000 p.a. (at least in London), depending on what sort of SLA you're after.
</pedantry>
2Mbit SDSL is reasonable these days, starting from about £2,000 p.a. - again, it depends on your SLA requirements and how much installation charge you're prepared to swallow.
Depends what turns her on. She might think you're both.
The two I know of are OpenNIC and AlterNIC, but there are probably many more.
This is Slashdot. A lot of people round here need help with this sort of thing.
Welcome to Slashdot!
I know it doesn't help you now you've moved onwards and upwards, but for the benefit of anyone reading who doesn't know this trick:
Rather than doing this:
if (value == 1) {
Do this:
if (1 == value) {
If you get your comparison and assignment operators muddled (and, let's face it, typos happen to everyone) you'll catch it a lot easier this way, as your interpreter or compiler will have a fit trying to assign the contents of "value" to the number "1".
Nearly 3,000 so far - maybe he just hasn't said anything as insightful as RMS yet ;-)
It's complaining because you've missed 3 ALT tags, and you haven't quoted 4 attributes. Both of these are trivial: getting your site up to spec should take you about a minute, including the time taken to think of the text for your ALT tags.
So - I'm genuinely curious here, because I rely on this daily and find it an excellent tool - what were these "stupid things" which make you want to ignore it? Have you considered submitting feedback to the W3C with some possible improvements?
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Some do.
Any chance you could subsequently dispute the charges (as the slips haven't been correctly signed by you)?
When you get your bank statement a month later, could you phone them up and say "there's a transaction on here I didn't make...."?
IANELA.
Yup, and I got three months' ADSL rental from BT when they screwed up my payments. However, if you read the apology letter you probably got with the cheque, it will say "enclosed is a goodwill payment" rather than "enclosed is your compensation". Point is: they don't *have* to give you that.
But if a cable connection to a home goes down for (say) 24 hours, the provider will just .
If a T1 to a corporate goes down for (say) 2 hours, the customer starts invoking the SLAs and getting compensation.
*That's* what you pay for. Not the bandwidth, but the ability of your CTO to metaphorically bang on the shop counter and ask for the manager.
Since you need to have links to your site from other sites to get rated highly in Google, it is almost impossible to get them, as people who may be interested in linking to your site won't find it on Google.
If you run a new site, you should submit it to the relevant category of www.dmoz.org, the open directory project. A listing in there gets you into Google within a month.
Also, marking up your site well - using <h1>...</h1> instead of <p><b>...</b></p>, for example - will work wonders: Google (and, I imagine, other engines) pays more attention to text in headings than body text.
my 16000x1200 desktop.
:-)
Wow, that's a wide widescreen
I'm trying very hard not to think about what would happen to a spammer who targetted the Monastery, but that's only because I'm about to go and eat lunch.
It used to be that the hammers could be ran over by a tank without bending and could survive explosions. Well, that wasn't in the spec. It's probably just something marketing made up for an advert.
Given the state of most web pages, it appears to be <body> ... </body>.