Actually no. Since in the UK, Yahoo, in conjunction with BT, already offer VOIP. Though in typical BT fashion the calls cost exactly the same as an ordinary phone so there is very little advantage to be gained from using VOIP. Oh, apart from the introductory month of free Local and National calls.
I had the misfortune to actually want to try and get ISDN + DSL in my old flat in Germany through Deutsche Telekom. They far surpassed BT in incompetence and it required 13 trips to a Deutsche Telekom store over a 2 month period to get both ISDN and DSL fully working.
So when I returned to the UK I was pleasently surprised when BT activated the Phoneline in my flat overnight and ADSL was activated one week later.
According to the small making of documentary . The radio series will be an adaptation of the remaining 3 books in the 5 part Trilogy. As opposed to an extension of the original radio series.
WPA was the source of my woes
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Linux Unwired
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· Score: 2, Informative
I discovered that both of my Windows Laptops were dropping the connection approximately every hour and it was driving me nuts. (They are a Dell with a Broadcom 4306 (802.11g) and a Centrino Toshiba.) Even with a Linksys 802.11g WAP and an SMC 802.11b WAP I was still getting the disconnections.
Eventually after one night's worth of Windows's Eventlog data, when I forgot to switch my laptop off, I realised that there was almost precisely an hour between disconnections. An alarm bell rang in my head because on the Linksys there was an option for altering the "Group Key Renewal" for WPA. This was by default set to 3600 seconds.
One quick switch back to 128bit WEP and my connection is rock solid on both laptops.
He was sending about 2 1/2 messages a minute for 16 hours a day! He must have been using a data cable and a program to send all those messages. I know I would have gone completely loopy sending the same message 2,500 times a day.
I did see a large orange device on the front of one of the cigarette machines the other day that allowed purchases via a mobile phone. I'm not sure how it worked though.
I guess it's the perfect combination; you can go out without your wallet, but do you go out without your mobile?
I never patch the live servers immediately but follow this regime
1. My local development machine. ( This is done as soon as I get the reports that the patch is out.)
2. Our development servers
3. Our staging server
4. Live web servers
5. Database server
The time from top to bottom is usually about 2 - 3 days, unless a problem was found ( which there was with KB824141)
Well its not quite the same, but somebody has ported the engine of FFE to DirectX. There is even a Linux version and source too for downloading.
The videos sadly (or luckily) don't seem to be available any more, but perhaps your nearest searchable P2P can be of more help.
I found the HTTP Pocket Reference to be an incredibly useful book in those times when you just have to know what that status code or header means. There is enough explanation in this book that it can be used as a guide to HTTP.
A colleague of my brother did this and found this out when he hit the limit. Being an enterprising chap he called up Sky and claimed that his young kid had taken the card out and destroyed it. Sky sent him out a new card and he sent them back, by return of post, a smart-card which had been throughly decimated with a hammer.
Just looking at the dates of the best Simpsons episodes it has just confirmed what I already suspected. The best time for the Simpsons was around about 92 -94 with the later episodes being of dubious quality, but still, in my opinion, quite watchable.
The UK is not a part of the Shengen zone, though it is a part of the Common Travel Area. This is why you have to show your passport when getting off the Eurostar in London when you have probably travelled through 3 or 4 different countries without being questioned.
Disabling the Use of Trace in Apache
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Apache Week has a short piece on this "vulnerability". It also includes this short snippet of configuration code to stop traces against your webserver.
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} ^TRACE RewriteRule.* - [F]
I read this the other day when it was posted on "The Register" and I didn't like it then and I don't like it now. Why?
Well it all boils down to an attempt to legitimise hacking. If it was allowed that we could "strikeback" ( which is just a cute word for hack ) and disable the attacking process, then where do we draw the line. I think we can all agree on the extremes, but lets consider another example.
What if a website was posted on slashdot, would all of the rampaging geeks be classed as attacking processes and therefore be liable to be struckback and eliminated. I am certain that the website administrator would consider the massive increase in traffic to be an "attack" as their poor server disappears in smoke.
Personally if you are likely to be attacked get better security. You can't enter somebody's house just to close an open window.
The other good news is that European gamers will not have to wait overly long for the console, as it should debut in Europe priced between 129 and 139 Euros on
March 28 - just five days after it appears in the US. We've also been told that it will appear in three colours - silver (pictured), black and blue, and will be backed by a half-million-Euro marketing campaign.
So the price won't be too bad at 129 - 139 Euro and a release date of March 28th. I wonder though if the retailers will actually have the thing in stock on March 28th. I for one will certainly be heading up to my local electronic store with my Credit Card burning a hole in a my pocket.
Actually according to this article on The Register; the decrease in CD sales are due in part to a drop in the number of released albums. From 38.900 in '99 to 27.000 in '01. Interestingly if the Record Companies had released these 12.000 extra albums then each of these would only have needed to sell 3.000 copies for the growth in sales to have continued.
The orginal article can be found here If you want to analyse the figures yourself.
I doubt that this is going to be a reasonably faithful adaptation from the book we all know and love:
The project originated as "Hardwired," a futuristic script by Jeff Vintar that was amalgamated with elements of "I, Robot" when Fox bought rights to Asimov's landmark book.
Basically Fox bought the rights, transplanted the name onto an existing script and then added a few elements from the book to avoid rejection. Either that or the script was a complete rip-off of the book anyway that they just brought in a few elements that were missing....
From the Whois database
evisa.com : Record created on 27-Aug-1997
e-visa.com: Created on Wed, Apr 22, 1998
evisa.com had been registered just under a year when VISA registered their domain for eVisa (as a product)
A quick search of the US PTO database reveals that VISA did not register their trademark for eVisa and e-Visa until "August 19, 1999".
Though interestingly a search of the wayback machine shows an incarnation of the evisa website from oct 12 1999 (after the eVisa trademark was filed) as a webdesign and e-commerce company, with later additional web directory content. The wayback machine does not have any Visa (as an entry stamp) information as of Sep 25 2001 (its last entry for evisa.com)
Vancouver Airport
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I had a conference in Vancouver in October. When I flew into Vancouver's airport I found out, much to my surprise, that I would have to pay 15 Canadian dollars just to leave the place (this fee not being included in my ticket). The airport authority called it an "Airport Improvement Tax". My only thought was, "I don't care what this airport looks like, I'm only going to be here a couple of hours".
I had noticed a while ago that BBC were sneaking in another Java applet at the bottom of the page. I guesss that they they were thinking that people wouldn't notice a second Java app on the page.
I can't rememeber how I came to notice it. I guess I was just reading the source of the page one day. Anyway, since I use Windows and IE at work I just stuffed it into my Restricted Sites zone and I haven't had problems with the site since. Actually, now I come back to the site I realise that they try other things, like the monitoring company tries to set a tracking cookie as well by calling a invisible 1 x 1 GIF.
I guess it is about time I placed "server-uk.imrworldwide.com" in my hosts file and deny them even the chance to detect how many times their invisble graphic has been called.
One of the features I would love Mozilla to have is the ability to selectively restrict features based on IP or DNS address. IE does it but sometimes it is just too course and you don't have the chance to setup multiple profiles.
It's a GSM/GPRS phone! GSM comes with encryption as standard, albeit the encryption is not as good as it seems. I'm not too sure about the GPRS side but since it just an extension of GSM I'd assume that the existing GSM encryption would apply to the GPRS packets. Can anybody out there confirm or deny this?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually no. Since in the UK, Yahoo, in conjunction with BT, already offer VOIP. Though in typical BT fashion the calls cost exactly the same as an ordinary phone so there is very little advantage to be gained from using VOIP. Oh, apart from the introductory month of free Local and National calls.
I had the misfortune to actually want to try and get ISDN + DSL in my old flat in Germany through Deutsche Telekom. They far surpassed BT in incompetence and it required 13 trips to a Deutsche Telekom store over a 2 month period to get both ISDN and DSL fully working.
So when I returned to the UK I was pleasently surprised when BT activated the Phoneline in my flat overnight and ADSL was activated one week later.
Well its 10x better than our current half-assed overlords.
According to the small making of documentary . The radio series will be an adaptation of the remaining 3 books in the 5 part Trilogy. As opposed to an extension of the original radio series.
I discovered that both of my Windows Laptops were dropping the connection approximately every hour and it was driving me nuts. (They are a Dell with a Broadcom 4306 (802.11g) and a Centrino Toshiba.) Even with a Linksys 802.11g WAP and an SMC 802.11b WAP I was still getting the disconnections.
Eventually after one night's worth of Windows's Eventlog data, when I forgot to switch my laptop off, I realised that there was almost precisely an hour between disconnections. An alarm bell rang in my head because on the Linksys there was an option for altering the "Group Key Renewal" for WPA. This was by default set to 3600 seconds.
One quick switch back to 128bit WEP and my connection is rock solid on both laptops.
He was sending about 2 1/2 messages a minute for 16 hours a day! He must have been using a data cable and a program to send all those messages. I know I would have gone completely loopy sending the same message 2,500 times a day.
I did see a large orange device on the front of one of the cigarette machines the other day that allowed purchases via a mobile phone. I'm not sure how it worked though.
I guess it's the perfect combination; you can go out without your wallet, but do you go out without your mobile?
I never patch the live servers immediately but follow this regime
1. My local development machine. ( This is done as soon as I get the reports that the patch is out.)
2. Our development servers
3. Our staging server
4. Live web servers
5. Database server
The time from top to bottom is usually about 2 - 3 days, unless a problem was found ( which there was with KB824141)
Well its not quite the same, but somebody has ported the engine of FFE to DirectX. There is even a Linux version and source too for downloading.
The videos sadly (or luckily) don't seem to be available any more, but perhaps your nearest searchable P2P can be of more help.
I found the HTTP Pocket Reference to be an incredibly useful book in those times when you just have to know what that status code or header means. There is enough explanation in this book that it can be used as a guide to HTTP.
Removing their skulls will make no difference; the SCO execs seem to be rather headless at the moment anyway.
A colleague of my brother did this and found this out when he hit the limit. Being an enterprising chap he called up Sky and claimed that his young kid had taken the card out and destroyed it.
Sky sent him out a new card and he sent them back, by return of post, a smart-card which had been throughly decimated with a hammer.
Just looking at the dates of the best Simpsons episodes it has just confirmed what I already suspected. The best time for the Simpsons was around about 92 -94 with the later episodes being of dubious quality, but still, in my opinion, quite watchable.
Nope, even the lowly 386 was a 32bit processor. The 386 SX though had a 32bit core with a 16 bit data bus and a 24 bit memory bus.
The UK is not a part of the Shengen zone, though it is a part of the Common Travel Area. This is why you have to show your passport when getting off the Eurostar in London when you have probably travelled through 3 or 4 different countries without being questioned.
I haven't tried this yet!
I read this the other day when it was posted on "The Register" and I didn't like it then and I don't like it now.
Why?
Well it all boils down to an attempt to legitimise hacking. If it was allowed that we could "strikeback" ( which is just a cute word for hack ) and disable the attacking process, then where do we draw the line. I think we can all agree on the extremes, but lets consider another example.
What if a website was posted on slashdot, would all of the rampaging geeks be classed as attacking processes and therefore be liable to be struckback and eliminated. I am certain that the website administrator would consider the massive increase in traffic to be an "attack" as their poor server disappears in smoke.
Personally if you are likely to be attacked get better security. You can't enter somebody's house just to close an open window.
So the price won't be too bad at 129 - 139 Euro and a release date of March 28th. I wonder though if the retailers will actually have the thing in stock on March 28th. I for one will certainly be heading up to my local electronic store with my Credit Card burning a hole in a my pocket.
Actually according to this article on The Register; the decrease in CD sales are due in part to a drop in the number of released albums. From 38.900 in '99 to 27.000 in '01. Interestingly if the Record Companies had released these 12.000 extra albums then each of these would only have needed to sell 3.000 copies for the growth in sales to have continued.
The orginal article can be found here If you want to analyse the figures yourself.
Basically Fox bought the rights, transplanted the name onto an existing script and then added a few elements from the book to avoid rejection. Either that or the script was a complete rip-off of the book anyway that they just brought in a few elements that were missing....
Only time and release schedules will tell.
From the Whois database
evisa.com : Record created on 27-Aug-1997
e-visa.com: Created on Wed, Apr 22, 1998
evisa.com had been registered just under a year when VISA registered their domain for eVisa (as a product)
A quick search of the US PTO database reveals that VISA did not register their trademark for eVisa and e-Visa until "August 19, 1999".
Though interestingly a search of the wayback machine shows an incarnation of the evisa website from oct 12 1999 (after the eVisa trademark was filed) as a webdesign and e-commerce company, with later additional web directory content. The wayback machine does not have any Visa (as an entry stamp) information as of Sep 25 2001 (its last entry for evisa.com)
I had a conference in Vancouver in October. When I flew into Vancouver's airport I found out, much to my surprise, that I would have to pay 15 Canadian dollars just to leave the place (this fee not being included in my ticket). The airport authority called it an "Airport Improvement Tax". My only thought was, "I don't care what this airport looks like, I'm only going to be here a couple of hours".
I had noticed a while ago that BBC were sneaking in another Java applet at the bottom of the page. I guesss that they they were thinking that people wouldn't notice a second Java app on the page.
I can't rememeber how I came to notice it. I guess I was just reading the source of the page one day. Anyway, since I use Windows and IE at work I just stuffed it into my Restricted Sites zone and I haven't had problems with the site since. Actually, now I come back to the site I realise that they try other things, like the monitoring company tries to set a tracking cookie as well by calling a invisible 1 x 1 GIF.
I guess it is about time I placed "server-uk.imrworldwide.com" in my hosts file and deny them even the chance to detect how many times their invisble graphic has been called.
One of the features I would love Mozilla to have is the ability to selectively restrict features based on IP or DNS address. IE does it but sometimes it is just too course and you don't have the chance to setup multiple profiles.
It's a GSM/GPRS phone! GSM comes with encryption as standard, albeit the encryption is not as good as it seems. I'm not too sure about the GPRS side but since it just an extension of GSM I'd assume that the existing GSM encryption would apply to the GPRS packets.
Can anybody out there confirm or deny this?
The previous 727 as a home story is here