I think most of those questions can be answered by the other messages in these threads.
To sum up, DNS is not a good 'average joe user web lookup system', in fact, it's a pretty poor one.
DNS is designed to map domain names to IP addresses, and not designed to help the user find information. What is needed is something like a combo of realnames, dmoz, yahoo, google and your local yellow pages.
It's a domain naming system, not a service naming system or a content naming system. Users don't care about domain names, really, they don't. End users care about content and services.
For example, you have a website that sells coffee. It should be able to be called abc123.happy.happy.joy.joy.mysite.org.net.com without having the user know or even care.
They should be able to find your site in under 30 seconds by typing in "abulafia's coffee"
I'm not suggesting that all naming systems be killed off in favor of search engines.
I'm just saying DNS needs to be improved or replaced with something more dnyamic and open.
The solution might be to simply open all tlds and provide an easy way to register and update records. IMHO, that's not the best solution, because it can lead to joesbar.a and joesbar.aa (or better joes.bar) Which one is the Joe's bar you want? There needs to be a better Human readable catagory system attached to it.
Additional TLD's won't help in the long run, because when it comes down to it, it's just all part of an aging DNS system.
The better solution would be to replace DNS with a better naming system.
Search engines are a good start but they are too hit or miss on many topics. Those with IE/Windows, try using the Google toolbar as your address bar for a week. It makes a decent DNS replacement system (Okay, it hides DNS, it still uses it, but it wouldn't be a big jump to switch Google to an all IP address solution)
Leaving DNS will be a huge task, bigger than changing to IP v6. There needs to be some way to get everyone to install the replacement, or convince Mozilla/Netscape, AOL and Microsoft to include it.
On a side note, at this time, there is only one plugin that has made it this far, and that's Flash. So, it can be done, there just has to be a compelling reason to get people to do it.
That would be the southbound 6 train, it terminates at Brooklyn Bridge. From there, the train loops thru the old City Hall station and comes out on the northbound platform of the Brooklyn Bridge station.
The City Hall station is one of the first subway stations in NYC. It was going to become a transit museum, but the Mayor decided it was a security risk.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ is an excellent resource for this and other interesting forgotten NYC items.
"If it can balance, why not make it go 50 miles an hour?"
Because it's bad enough that you can get a bicycle up over 25mph on a city street. The average user would rocket down Broadway at 50, mowing thru about ten pedestrians before sliding under a cab.
Granted, you could easily start up a reality TV show based on this. How about "Segway Survivor" or "World's stupidest police chases"?
Actually, Windows NT 3.1 (the first release) was a multi-cpu architecture operating system that ran on Intel, Mips, Alpha and eventually the PPC platform. It was Posix compatible and compatible with most well behaved Windows 3.1 apps. It had a version of Office for it and even a TCP/IP stack before the Internet was popular.
I'm not sure what OS you're talking about, but it wasn't Windows NT.
I won't even begin to get into the fact that longhorn was supposed to be a point release and not a new revision. (This would be Windows NT 5.2 if MS marketing didn't ruin a perfectly good version numbering scheme) (BTW,.net server is Windows NT 5.11, expect to see it in about 6 weeks.)
Put a deny acl on it and remove all non-admin access, then leave it where it is.
Putting it in another directory doesn't help anything, it's just adding a small layer of obscurity. Not to mention making more work for the admins when they have to install a service pack or something.
And I think the entire point of this whole article is security thru obscurity doesn't work.
Just as an example, I've found that NS4 tends to toss out valid HTML4.01 strict on occasion.
I've never bothered to find out why. I'm guessing something to do with the style sheets.
But to be honest, the days of writing two sites, one for Browser A and one for Browser B are over. I would rather lose 5% of all sales then spend twice as much time.
I am against using javascript, java, activex, flash, etc as a primary means to a website. They are mostly eye candy or client side input validation for forms. By no means should they ever be a requirement to access a site.
(There are exceptions to every rule, of course, but I havn't had it come up yet)
"People who design sites exclusively for the IE4+ market aren't just naive, they're inconsiderate."
You're missing the point. The point is to design things ONLY for the HTML 4 or later browsers, or you wind up with the complete lack of standards that caused this problem in the first palce.
If this means isolating Netscape 1 thru 4 and IE 1 thru 3, so be it.
I try to code all my sites in a minimum of HTML 4.01 strict, and I recommend everyone else does the same.
To make it look like it's going to be an all-night job that will take hours of your time and might screw up the mail server.
"I'll start on it now boss, but it's going to take several hours. I don't know what something like this might do to the mail server, it's not really designed to do this."
That alone should scare most people away from it.
If it doesn't, generate some random errors, turn off a few mailboxes and blame it on the 'manual deletion of messages outside of the normal messaging interface'.
Of course, you have to fix it quickly, and then you'll look even better.
Commodore annouced something very similar years ago.
They went out of business shortly after. I don't think anyone ever understood why they were supposed to buy the computer for your tv, it wasn't a Commodore 64 or Amiga, it wasn't a game console and it wasn't a VCR. It was something in-between all of that.
Who knows, maybe music will be the feature that saves this one.
"Face it, if you're likely to receive a call that is so stupendously important that it couldn't wait until you pick up your messages, then perhaps you shouldn't have gone to the movies in the first place."
Never heard of a doctor on call, have you? Or do you expect him/her to just sit in the hospital 24 hours a day, just in case.
If you have all SCSI, and a drive dies on you, don't expect the local CompUSA or Staples to suddenly have a huge SCSI selection available.
Either way, you wait.
What I'm saying is, you should always have a backup system in place for critical systems, important data, saved games, your family from the Sims, etc...
Adding an extra converter shouldn't make a difference.
Paper 1, B Paper 2, C+ Paper 3, B- Paper 4, F and now Papers 1, 2, and 3 are changed to a C-
Why? Were they not worthy of the grade given originally? (If so, the teacher is at fault, not the student) It's a cumulative punishment when you deduct points from something that was already graded.
Someone can be very good at teaching a subject and completely horrible when it comes to testing and grading.
On a side note, most computer teachers fall into this catagory. I've only had one teacher that didn't play the syntax is 90% of development and coding test game. (By the way, logic is 90% of development, but it's hard to test that, so most take the easy route)
You get a speeding ticket, it's decided that you were going too fast, so you get a $100 fine. Then they charge you an extra $20 for any parking ticket you had over the past 2 years. While they are at it, they tack on some extra points for that light you accidentally went thru 3 years ago. (Hey, it was yellow)
Lets put it back in the classroom now. You missed or screwed up an essay because of personal problems. So instead of getting a B-, you get an F as a final grade. Why would I go to this class if I knew I had absolutely no chance of passing? It would be a complete waste of time. It shows that the teacher is more interested in playing god over her students lives and less interested in teaching the subject she was [under] paid for.
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I think most of those questions can be answered by the other messages in these threads.
To sum up, DNS is not a good 'average joe user web lookup system', in fact, it's a pretty poor one.
DNS is designed to map domain names to IP addresses, and not designed to help the user find information. What is needed is something like a combo of realnames, dmoz, yahoo, google and your local yellow pages.
It's a domain naming system, not a service naming system or a content naming system. Users don't care about domain names, really, they don't. End users care about content and services.
For example, you have a website that sells coffee. It should be able to be called abc123.happy.happy.joy.joy.mysite.org.net.com without having the user know or even care.
They should be able to find your site in under 30 seconds by typing in "abulafia's coffee"
First off, no service should be slaved to DNS.
By your account, the web can never leave the DNS system without completely and totally falling apart.
I disagree completely.
1. There is no reason why DNS can't eventually be replaced by a more efficient system.
2. I'm not saying, dump DNS tomorrow, kill every legacy app out there and ruin 30% of all websites.
3. I'm not even proposing a new name resolution system, that job is for people who have more experience in this field.
4. The Google Toolbar and Flash were EXAMPLES of moving away from strict DNS lookups, not a solution I was proposing.
I'm saying that name resolution system could stand some improvements. DDNS? Who knows.
By the way,
Thank you for being so concerned about my health. I don't smoke but thanks for asking 3 times. Ever think about a career in politics?
I'm not suggesting that all naming systems be killed off in favor of search engines.
I'm just saying DNS needs to be improved or replaced with something more dnyamic and open.
The solution might be to simply open all tlds and provide an easy way to register and update records. IMHO, that's not the best solution, because it can lead to joesbar.a and joesbar.aa (or better joes.bar) Which one is the Joe's bar you want? There needs to be a better Human readable catagory system attached to it.
Additional TLD's won't help in the long run, because when it comes down to it, it's just all part of an aging DNS system.
The better solution would be to replace DNS with a better naming system.
Search engines are a good start but they are too hit or miss on many topics. Those with IE/Windows, try using the Google toolbar as your address bar for a week. It makes a decent DNS replacement system (Okay, it hides DNS, it still uses it, but it wouldn't be a big jump to switch Google to an all IP address solution)
Leaving DNS will be a huge task, bigger than changing to IP v6. There needs to be some way to get everyone to install the replacement, or convince Mozilla/Netscape, AOL and Microsoft to include it.
On a side note, at this time, there is only one plugin that has made it this far, and that's Flash. So, it can be done, there just has to be a compelling reason to get people to do it.
Have you ever been to The Warrens or Stonebrunt? They are in the middle of nowhere. Paineel is no picnic either. Odus is mostly empty nowadays.
As for the zones being free, I somehow remember paying a monthly fee. Yes, It's coming back to me, $9.95...no wait $12.95!
That would be the southbound 6 train, it terminates at Brooklyn Bridge. From there, the train loops thru the old City Hall station and comes out on the northbound platform of the Brooklyn Bridge station.
The City Hall station is one of the first subway stations in NYC. It was going to become a transit museum, but the Mayor decided it was a security risk.
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ is an excellent resource for this and other interesting forgotten NYC items.
"If it can balance, why not make it go 50 miles an hour?"
Because it's bad enough that you can get a bicycle up over 25mph on a city street. The average user would rocket down Broadway at 50, mowing thru about ten pedestrians before sliding under a cab.
Granted, you could easily start up a reality TV show based on this. How about "Segway Survivor" or "World's stupidest police chases"?
Actually, Windows NT 3.1 (the first release) was a multi-cpu architecture operating system that ran on Intel, Mips, Alpha and eventually the PPC platform. It was Posix compatible and compatible with most well behaved Windows 3.1 apps. It had a version of Office for it and even a TCP/IP stack before the Internet was popular.
.net server is Windows NT 5.11, expect to see it in about 6 weeks.)
I'm not sure what OS you're talking about, but it wasn't Windows NT.
I won't even begin to get into the fact that longhorn was supposed to be a point release and not a new revision. (This would be Windows NT 5.2 if MS marketing didn't ruin a perfectly good version numbering scheme) (BTW,
Put a deny acl on it and remove all non-admin access, then leave it where it is.
Putting it in another directory doesn't help anything, it's just adding a small layer of obscurity. Not to mention making more work for the admins when they have to install a service pack or something.
And I think the entire point of this whole article is security thru obscurity doesn't work.
Is EverQuest in all its glory!
If that's not programming gone wrong, I don't know what is...
Acer just needs to add more RAM and and DVD video into their tablet and this will be a laptop (and portable DVD player) killer product.
Just as an example, I've found that NS4 tends to toss out valid HTML4.01 strict on occasion.
I've never bothered to find out why. I'm guessing something to do with the style sheets.
But to be honest, the days of writing two sites, one for Browser A and one for Browser B are over. I would rather lose 5% of all sales then spend twice as much time.
I am against using javascript, java, activex, flash, etc as a primary means to a website. They are mostly eye candy or client side input validation for forms. By no means should they ever be a requirement to access a site.
(There are exceptions to every rule, of course, but I havn't had it come up yet)
"People who design sites exclusively for the IE4+ market aren't just naive, they're inconsiderate."
You're missing the point. The point is to design things ONLY for the HTML 4 or later browsers, or you wind up with the complete lack of standards that caused this problem in the first palce.
If this means isolating Netscape 1 thru 4 and IE 1 thru 3, so be it.
I try to code all my sites in a minimum of HTML 4.01 strict, and I recommend everyone else does the same.
To make it look like it's going to be an all-night job that will take hours of your time and might screw up the mail server.
"I'll start on it now boss, but it's going to take several hours. I don't know what something like this might do to the mail server, it's not really designed to do this."
That alone should scare most people away from it.
If it doesn't, generate some random errors, turn off a few mailboxes and blame it on the 'manual deletion of messages outside of the normal messaging interface'.
Of course, you have to fix it quickly, and then you'll look even better.
The more they stay the same.
Commodore annouced something very similar years ago.
They went out of business shortly after. I don't think anyone ever understood why they were supposed to buy the computer for your tv, it wasn't a Commodore 64 or Amiga, it wasn't a game console and it wasn't a VCR. It was something in-between all of that.
Who knows, maybe music will be the feature that saves this one.
If the emulation becomes complete, then you wind up with the Commodore 128 problem.
Why develop for the 128 when you could use that nifty Commodore 64 mode that was built in. The 128 platform became a joke because of this.
"Face it, if you're likely to receive a call that is so stupendously important that it couldn't wait until you pick up your messages, then perhaps you shouldn't have gone to the movies in the first place."
Never heard of a doctor on call, have you? Or do you expect him/her to just sit in the hospital 24 hours a day, just in case.
There are exceptions to every rule.
"The half you left out is that you do it in a publicly conspicuous manner"
Well, he did publicly announce it on Slashdot, doesn't that count for anything?
Okay, no.
If you have all SCSI, and a drive dies on you, don't expect the local CompUSA or Staples to suddenly have a huge SCSI selection available.
Either way, you wait.
What I'm saying is, you should always have a backup system in place for critical systems, important data, saved games, your family from the Sims, etc...
Adding an extra converter shouldn't make a difference.
And after that we'll all switch over to IP v6, DDNS and so on.
And where are those flying cars and jetpacks that I was promised?
Paper 1, B
Paper 2, C+
Paper 3, B-
Paper 4, F and now Papers 1, 2, and 3 are changed to a C-
Why? Were they not worthy of the grade given originally? (If so, the teacher is at fault, not the student) It's a cumulative punishment when you deduct points from something that was already graded.
Someone can be very good at teaching a subject and completely horrible when it comes to testing and grading.
On a side note, most computer teachers fall into this catagory. I've only had one teacher that didn't play the syntax is 90% of development and coding test game. (By the way, logic is 90% of development, but it's hard to test that, so most take the easy route)
OEM versions are different.
Lets apply this to real life.
You get a speeding ticket, it's decided that you were going too fast, so you get a $100 fine.
Then they charge you an extra $20 for any parking ticket you had over the past 2 years. While they are at it, they tack on some extra points for that light you accidentally went thru 3 years ago. (Hey, it was yellow)
Lets put it back in the classroom now. You missed or screwed up an essay because of personal problems. So instead of getting a B-, you get an F as a final grade. Why would I go to this class if I knew I had absolutely no chance of passing? It would be a complete waste of time. It shows that the teacher is more interested in playing god over her students lives and less interested in teaching the subject she was [under] paid for.
They're complaining that it's not easy to find the program in XP? It's at the top of the Program Start Menu AND in the Control Panel.
IMHO it should only be in the Control Panel, as it's not something you're likely to need on a daily basis.
As for the desktop, heck, XP didn't even come with IE on the desktop. Why should control panel programs start showing up there?