Has everyone forgotten that five years ago nobody could register a domain "anonymously", and the privacy everyone is up in arms about the government taking away didn't exist?
You might want to read your contract; providing false contact information is grounds for revocation, i.e. if they catch you (read: someone notices and reports you to the registrar/registry/ICANN/whoever) they can cancel your domain registration and give your domain to someone else (presumably the person who complained).
To block or ignore prefetch requests (from Google and other web sites), you should configure your web server to return a 404 HTTP response code for requests that contain the "X-moz: prefetch" header.
Wouldn't 403 be a more appropriate status code? Why are they suggesting 404?
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Unless, of course, (shamelss plug for all things/.) they re-align the show to be the Premier Expo of all things FOSS.
You should come; at the very least, it's undeniable that merlyn throws great parties (no more live animals, though - got in trouble for the alpacas in '03). Lots of vendors giving away free stuff ("free as in lunch"), an open computer lab and WiFi from Apple, 20% discount to convention-goers from Powell's Technical Books, and I'd be surprised if Linus Torvalds didn't at least show up this year (since he lives in town now). Not to mention all the presentations and stuff - the reason you're supposed to come.
Oh, and don't forget the Perl Foundation auction - in '03, they auctioned off the color scheme of search.cpan.org (over $1000 was paid to keep it the existing blue), Andy Lester ate part of his book (well, not really his book, he just updated it...), and somebody's underwear changed hands... Unfortunately the '04 auction was at the Stonehenge party, so nobody could really hear anything, but '05 should be great.
I would love for the Enter key on my iBook to behave as an Option key instead.
For those rare occasions when Enter doesn't do precisely the same thing as Return, Fn-Return works as Enter. A seperate Enter key is truly useless to me, but an Option key on the right side would be very useful, since I'd be able to use Command-Option combinations on the right side as well as the left.
I'm sure this is possible, but I've never been able to find really good documentation that spells out exactly how to do it. I have seen some really complicated docs on keyboard layouts, but I couldn't figure out how to do what I wanted.
Consider the shareware app "Greg's Browser" for classic Mac OS. It was designed to complement, not replace, the Finder.
Why is this such a difficult concept for Apple to grasp?
Part of the problem seems to be, I don't think Steve Jobs really "gets" the whole spatial Finder idea. He allows it because users demand it, but he's a one-browser-window kind of guy himself, and doesn't understand why anyone would WANT a cluttered desktop.
Actually I seem to recall that the type of price fixing Apple does (requiring all their resellers to agree to fixed minimum prices) is illegal in some countries - not here in the US, but I think it is illegal in Japan, and Apple got in some sort of trouble for it.
There are also issues within the EU, if prices are different in different countries. I'm not clear on details.
It would have been perfectly reasonable for the State of Utah to hire a contractor to whip up a website and some free filtering software for all of Utah to download,
But then somebody would complain that it didn't run on Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, etc...
Also,/etc/sudoers seems to allow a user to "sudo passwd root" upon default install...I'm not sure if this is limited to administrators, but uh, that's not very cool. Easy to fix, but I wonder why they even included that?
Of course it's limited to administrators. In fact, the actual sudoers entry is: %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL If you're not supposed to have complete access over the system, you shouldn't be logged in as an Administrator.
What exactly did you mean by "easy to fix"? Are you suggesting that Administrators shouldn't be able to run commands as root, and therefore that line should be removed? Or are you suggesting that they should be able to do anything else, but not set a root password?
More likely, if you're making a $3 purchase, chances are pretty slim that you're using a stolen card, because if you had stolen someone's card, you'd be trying to buy something valuable with it.
Where are the reasonable Christians who repudiate this demented abuse of our country into a market theocracy in their name?
We tend to be generally peaceful and inoffensive, so you don't hear about us much. Yeah, it pisses me off, but how much can I really do about it? Who's gonna listen or care?
Pretty much the only way to enter the market and be successful these days is to buy up some other company who has infrastructure in place and then went bankrupt because it wasn't profitable, at a seriously reduced price because they're bankrupt, and then use the infrastructure they built to serve the customers they've already acquired.
The polite thing to do is to use an e-mail address @example.com (or something similar), so you can be sure it'll never actually go anywhere. You never know if "no at no dot com" might actually belong to somebody, and if so they probably don't want your spam any more than you do.
(example.com is reserved by the IANA and will never resolve to anything.)
Close enough that they would have gotten a dusting of ash in 1980 (as did we in Portland, though I was too young to remember), but not close enough to do cover them in lava.
Same applies to blogging: say whatever you want to say about your personal life, what you ate this morning, or whom you hate so much...just don't say any sensitive info.
Unless the person you hate so much is your boss.;-)
1) Buy a $5 subscription 2) Reload the front page looking for a new story to be posted 3) Read the linked article 4) In your text editor of choice, compose an insightful reply 5) Reload until the story changes from red to green 6) Post as quickly as possible 7) ??? 8) Profit!!!
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Test</title> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- function popup(url) { var ad='http://www.google.com/ie'; window.open(ad,"popup","width=300,height=400,left= 10,top=10"); window.location=url; return false; } // --></script> </head> <body> <p>You can use server-side code to dynamically replace all your links with something that looks like this; there's no reason the link replacement has to be done client-side. <a href="http://phroggy.com/" onClick="return popup('http://phroggy.com/');"> Click here</a>.</p>
<p>Sorry, but I'm afraid you're being naïve if you think there's a good way to allow user-initiated popups while blocking ad popups that are triggered by clicking links. Even URL-based blacklisting only partly works (how do you block a popup with dynamically generated HTML?)</p>
<p>For those of you running Squid: <a href="http://phroggy.com/bannerfilter/" onClick="return popup('http://phroggy.com/bannerfilter/');"> BannerFilter</a> can block some stuff for you.</p> </body> </html>
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Has everyone forgotten that five years ago nobody could register a domain "anonymously", and the privacy everyone is up in arms about the government taking away didn't exist?
You might want to read your contract; providing false contact information is grounds for revocation, i.e. if they catch you (read: someone notices and reports you to the registrar/registry/ICANN/whoever) they can cancel your domain registration and give your domain to someone else (presumably the person who complained).
To block or ignore prefetch requests (from Google and other web sites), you should configure your web server to return a 404 HTTP response code for requests that contain the "X-moz: prefetch" header.
Wouldn't 403 be a more appropriate status code? Why are they suggesting 404?
Unless, of course, (shamelss plug for all things /.) they re-align the show to be the Premier Expo of all things FOSS.
Don't we already have one of those?
You should come; at the very least, it's undeniable that merlyn throws great parties (no more live animals, though - got in trouble for the alpacas in '03). Lots of vendors giving away free stuff ("free as in lunch"), an open computer lab and WiFi from Apple, 20% discount to convention-goers from Powell's Technical Books, and I'd be surprised if Linus Torvalds didn't at least show up this year (since he lives in town now). Not to mention all the presentations and stuff - the reason you're supposed to come.
Oh, and don't forget the Perl Foundation auction - in '03, they auctioned off the color scheme of search.cpan.org (over $1000 was paid to keep it the existing blue), Andy Lester ate part of his book (well, not really his book, he just updated it...), and somebody's underwear changed hands... Unfortunately the '04 auction was at the Stonehenge party, so nobody could really hear anything, but '05 should be great.
Most excellent! Thank you; I hadn't heard of that.
I would love for the Enter key on my iBook to behave as an Option key instead.
For those rare occasions when Enter doesn't do precisely the same thing as Return, Fn-Return works as Enter. A seperate Enter key is truly useless to me, but an Option key on the right side would be very useful, since I'd be able to use Command-Option combinations on the right side as well as the left.
I'm sure this is possible, but I've never been able to find really good documentation that spells out exactly how to do it. I have seen some really complicated docs on keyboard layouts, but I couldn't figure out how to do what I wanted.
Suggestions?
Precisely.
Consider the shareware app "Greg's Browser" for classic Mac OS. It was designed to complement, not replace, the Finder.
Why is this such a difficult concept for Apple to grasp?
Part of the problem seems to be, I don't think Steve Jobs really "gets" the whole spatial Finder idea. He allows it because users demand it, but he's a one-browser-window kind of guy himself, and doesn't understand why anyone would WANT a cluttered desktop.
Oh, you mean, Apple retail stores are exactly like every other computer retail store on the planet, except they look better? What a shock.
Actually I seem to recall that the type of price fixing Apple does (requiring all their resellers to agree to fixed minimum prices) is illegal in some countries - not here in the US, but I think it is illegal in Japan, and Apple got in some sort of trouble for it.
There are also issues within the EU, if prices are different in different countries. I'm not clear on details.
It would have been perfectly reasonable for the State of Utah to hire a contractor to whip up a website and some free filtering software for all of Utah to download,
But then somebody would complain that it didn't run on Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, etc...
Also, /etc/sudoers seems to allow a user to "sudo passwd root" upon default install...I'm not sure if this is limited to administrators, but uh, that's not very cool. Easy to fix, but I wonder why they even included that?
Of course it's limited to administrators. In fact, the actual sudoers entry is:
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
If you're not supposed to have complete access over the system, you shouldn't be logged in as an Administrator.
What exactly did you mean by "easy to fix"? Are you suggesting that Administrators shouldn't be able to run commands as root, and therefore that line should be removed? Or are you suggesting that they should be able to do anything else, but not set a root password?
My root password is "n0tr00t" so I'm OK, right?
;-)
Well, you were, until you posted it to Slashdot.
More likely, if you're making a $3 purchase, chances are pretty slim that you're using a stolen card, because if you had stolen someone's card, you'd be trying to buy something valuable with it.
Where are the reasonable Christians who repudiate this demented abuse of our country into a market theocracy in their name?
We tend to be generally peaceful and inoffensive, so you don't hear about us much. Yeah, it pisses me off, but how much can I really do about it? Who's gonna listen or care?
Haven't people realized that the average user doesn't know how to insert special characters
The average American, you mean?
Or are barriers to entry too big in broadband?
Um.. yes?
Pretty much the only way to enter the market and be successful these days is to buy up some other company who has infrastructure in place and then went bankrupt because it wasn't profitable, at a seriously reduced price because they're bankrupt, and then use the infrastructure they built to serve the customers they've already acquired.
then should the OS companies really be holding a gun to their head in what can only be an attempt to wring more money from them?
How else do you suggest that OS companies wring more more money from people?
The polite thing to do is to use an e-mail address @example.com (or something similar), so you can be sure it'll never actually go anywhere. You never know if "no at no dot com" might actually belong to somebody, and if so they probably don't want your spam any more than you do.
(example.com is reserved by the IANA and will never resolve to anything.)
Yes, "Washingtonians" is the usual term.
Close enough that they would have gotten a dusting of ash in 1980 (as did we in Portland, though I was too young to remember), but not close enough to do cover them in lava.
Same applies to blogging: say whatever you want to say about your personal life, what you ate this morning, or whom you hate so much...just don't say any sensitive info.
;-)
Unless the person you hate so much is your boss.
Oh come on, that's easy.
(I'm not doing it with this post, obviously.)
1) Buy a $5 subscription
2) Reload the front page looking for a new story to be posted
3) Read the linked article
4) In your text editor of choice, compose an insightful reply
5) Reload until the story changes from red to green
6) Post as quickly as possible
7) ???
8) Profit!!!
Repeat steps 2-6 as needed.
Remember this?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"= 10,top=10");
// --></script>
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Test</title>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
function popup(url) {
var ad='http://www.google.com/ie';
window.open(ad,"popup","width=300,height=400,left
window.location=url;
return false;
}
</head>
<body>
<p>You can use server-side code to dynamically replace all your links with
something that looks like this; there's no reason the link replacement has
to be done client-side.
<a href="http://phroggy.com/" onClick="return popup('http://phroggy.com/');">
Click here</a>.</p>
<p>Sorry, but I'm afraid you're being naïve if you think there's a good
way to allow user-initiated popups while blocking ad popups that are triggered
by clicking links. Even URL-based blacklisting only partly works (how do you
block a popup with dynamically generated HTML?)</p>
<p>For those of you running Squid:
<a href="http://phroggy.com/bannerfilter/" onClick="return popup('http://phroggy.com/bannerfilter/');">
BannerFilter</a> can block some stuff for you.</p>
</body>
</html>
Not another one of these threads :-)
Yep, 'fraid so.