Because obviously people are only interested in perving on someone of the opposite sex... although I guess in a country that's trying hard to make homosexuality illegal, that might be a fair assumption to make...
is called Cindy. No prizes for guessing the signal-to-noise ratio for a search on her name...
(Of course, I hardly need to go anywhere near Google to get this sort of stuff - shortly after we started dating I started getting spam from "Cindy" who wanted me to sample the webcam she had recently installed in her college room... just slightly too close for comfort...)
Well, that went out the window rather quickly. Network Solutions decided in the interest of being able to sell more domains, they'd let anybody whose credit card clears own a.com,.net, or.org domain without checking to see if they really qualify for the definition of those TLDs. As a result, the TLDs lost their meaning.
That's only because Network Solutions made that decision based on their commercial interests, and because they were free to make the decision - in.au, the distinction between.com.au,.net.au and.org.au (and, for that matter,.asn.au and.id.au) is very strictly enforced. This also has the effect of pretty much preventing naming rights conflicts, since you need to prove your claim to the domain name before you are allowed to register it.
On the other hand, it makes it pretty bloody impossible for an individual to register anything but "my-full-name.id.au" in the.au ccTLD...
After having tried gnomeicu (wonderful, but then it couldn't keep up with the protocol change to Oscar, and then my gf changed to MSN) and gabber (nice and open, but the gateways are unreliable) in succession, I've found gaim does exactly what I want - it allows me to have all my friends (who are incidentally scattered across icq (27), msn (42), yahoo! (15) and aim (1)) in one messenger client.
My only complaint would be the inflexibility of the standard "away" thing, although there are menu items to individually set my status on each account. Other than that, I've found a plugin to fix basically every problem i've had with gaim. (and I guess I should really get off my arse and write my own to fix the away thing...)
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I think he's referring to bnetd.
"Microsoft has sold more Windows Server software than Linux."
wait, Microsoft is selling a Linux distribution now?
(or maybe, Linux is selling Windows server now?)
Because obviously people are only interested in perving on someone of the opposite sex... although I guess in a country that's trying hard to make homosexuality illegal, that might be a fair assumption to make...
you mean, the same system will run Doom 3 and Longhorn. But not necessarily at the same time...
is called Cindy. No prizes for guessing the signal-to-noise ratio for a search on her name...
(Of course, I hardly need to go anywhere near Google to get this sort of stuff - shortly after we started dating I started getting spam from "Cindy" who wanted me to sample the webcam she had recently installed in her college room... just slightly too close for comfort...)
Well, that went out the window rather quickly. Network Solutions decided in the interest of being able to sell more domains, they'd let anybody whose credit card clears own a .com, .net, or .org domain without checking to see if they really qualify for the definition of those TLDs. As a result, the TLDs lost their meaning.
.au, the distinction between .com.au, .net.au and .org.au (and, for that matter, .asn.au and .id.au) is very strictly enforced. This also has the effect of pretty much preventing naming rights conflicts, since you need to prove your claim to the domain name before you are allowed to register it.
.au ccTLD...
That's only because Network Solutions made that decision based on their commercial interests, and because they were free to make the decision - in
On the other hand, it makes it pretty bloody impossible for an individual to register anything but "my-full-name.id.au" in the
The official policies are at http://www.auda.org.au/policy/
After having tried gnomeicu (wonderful, but then it couldn't keep up with the protocol change to Oscar, and then my gf changed to MSN) and gabber (nice and open, but the gateways are unreliable) in succession, I've found gaim does exactly what I want - it allows me to have all my friends (who are incidentally scattered across icq (27), msn (42), yahoo! (15) and aim (1)) in one messenger client.
My only complaint would be the inflexibility of the standard "away" thing, although there are menu items to individually set my status on each account. Other than that, I've found a plugin to fix basically every problem i've had with gaim. (and I guess I should really get off my arse and write my own to fix the away thing...)
Also, what would the 'language recognition' do if I suddenly decided to start typing in, for instance, german, or italian, or c?
he did have an education in astrophysics