top of it, I haven't had any luck on getting these providers setup as authenticators for anything other than their own domains. I.E. I can be JimBob at Yahoo.com, and JimBob at Blogger.com, and JimBob at Facebook.com, but I can't set any of them up to authenticate me as "JimBob" of "random URL". Which completely destroys any utility of their membership in this group.
Of course you can. As long as you control "random URL", you can add OpenID delegation code in your source. Then you can use your random URL as your ID, but still use Facebloggerhoo as backend authentication.
You do indeed see an e-mail address for the registry, but that doens't mean registrations are actually being taken. If you do a zone transfer of the.um zone, you get:
um. 86400 IN SOA VENERA.ISI.EDU. us-domain.ISI.EDU. 2000120103 43200 3600 1209600 86400 ;; WARNING: ID mismatch: expected ID 11337, got 0
um. 604800 IN NS VENERA.ISI.EDU.
um. 604800 IN NS NS.ISI.EDU.
um. 604800 IN NS FLAG.EP.NET.
open.um. 86400 IN A 198.32.4.13
www.um. 86400 IN A 128.9.160.31
nic.um. 86400 IN A 128.9.160.31
www.nic.um. 86400 IN A 128.9.160.31
um. 86400 IN SOA VENERA.ISI.EDU. us-domain.ISI.EDU. 2000120103 43200 3600 1209600 86400
So, there are only 3 domains registered, open.um, www.um and nic.um. The first one seems down, the other two point to the same host. With a zone file that hasn't been updated since December 1st, 2000, I'd say: lose it.
As long as these 'ripoffs' comply with the terms of the GNU FDL I see no problem. If Google lists them all on top maybe their 'similar pages were filtered' option should be tuned. Some of these "mirrors" do add advertising, but many of them donate to Wikipedia in return.
What I hate is when I try to search for *anything* hardware related, and the first fifty links are for shopping spam portals, which often don't even sell the actual product but instead redirect to "search result pages" full of useless crap.
Analytics will generate a Flash-based map of the world that shows you which regions your traffic comes from.
What about those of us who don't use Flash? Why use Flash? Wouldn't it be just as easy to generate a table showing the same information?
Think of the target audience for this product: managers and marketing people. They drool over shiny graphs, and have certainly got flash installed.
I suppose they will provide hard numbers for the geeks and the financial people too, though I'm not sure about that (at the moment the site seems a bit slashdotted, so I can't check it out).
If you get an e-mail purporting to be from paypal, you have no good way of knowing whether it's really from paypal or not.
You do. Paypal publishes SPF records, as do several others. If a domain publishes spf records, and you get a mail claiming to be from that domain but not matching the SPF records you can easily throw it away. Even if not the whole world uses it yet, there's no reason to start using it today to filter on the domains that already do.
The good ones (ie. frequently spoofed domains that publish SPF records and thus can easily be filtered):
paypal.com, ebay.com, citi.com
The bad ones (ie. the negligent frequently spoofed domains that make it hard for their customers to verify the genuinity of the mails):
Why doesn't my virus scanner catch these things? -- Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
Most virus scanners nowadays have got a 'JesusSaver'-feature. This means that they pass the information they get in on to Him, and if He says it's OK they don't do further analysis on the sample they receive. After all, He is the one who can decide between good and bad, and why should they question His judgement, right?
Really? That's strange. I applied for a data center job, and the first phone screen was with a person that did the same job as I was applying for. It went on for about one hour. About a week later another conversation of about 45 minutes followed, this time with a colleague actually working in the datacenter I was applying for. Both conversations were quite informal.
Most of the time they were asking specific, technical questions that weren't really that hard to answer (How do you diagnose a broken machine? What RAID levels do you know? What is spanning tree? What's the difference between a hub and a switch?)
If you want more info on this process, feel free to ask.. I didn't sign any NDAs or something, so I'm free to talk.
Then followed a live interview with two more people, with more technical questions. They also gave me some more information about the job itself, although they remained pretty secretive about some parts. (Which I found a bit stupid, as most of this information is readily available on the net.)
In the end I didn't take the job because the conditions weren't all that good, and the salary was really lousy. Perhaps Google pays better in the US of A, but here in Europe it isn't worth moving 300 kilometers and giving up my social life.
I recently interview with them, and was offered a job, even though I've only got (the Belgian equivalent of) a Bachelor's Degree in CS.
Maybe they require lots of paper for their R&D positions, but for positions in their NOC it's skills that matter, not paper.
I didn't take the job because I got a better offer closer to home, but my lack of 'impressive' degrees wasn't a problem with them.
If my mother, who is not as quickly able to uninstall stuff, downloads music engine, and then has messenger sitting forever in her taskbar, that sucks. Thankfully, I can tell her to download itunes, and she will have a clean and good experience. Neither she nor the queen of england want to be bothered with Yahoo! Messenger crap.
She will also be very happy about the 'ipodservice' and 'ituneshelper' processes which are also running in the background from as soon as her computer starts up, using more memory than most spyware.
I think its weird that virgin mobile doesn't yet have a 3G service!
Don't let their names fool you. Virgin radio is no longer part of the "Virgin Empire", it's a company of SMG Radio.
It used to be a part of Bransons' group, but he sold it. SMG just licenses the use of the name.
Virgin Mobile does not operate their own network either, it's a virtual mobile network operator, which basically means they provide their own branded version of the T-Mobile network. Strange thing is that T-Mobile does offer 3G services, but apparently Virgin Mobile doesn't.
Luckily the Wikipedia content is under the GNU FDL, and the database dumps can be downloaded by anyone with enough time & bandwidth. If Google should want to kill Wikipedia, I'm sure someone else (the big Y perhaps) will step forward to host it.
By the way, in 3-4 years time.. who knows what the net will look like?
US price without any tax : $ 499,00 - eur 381,41 US price with 5% sales tax (in some states) : $ 523,95 - eur 400,48 Belgian price excl 21% VAT : $ 550,35 - eur 420,66 Belgian price incl 21% VAT : $ 665,92 - eur 509,00
Okay, so the prices before tax aren't that different ($499 us, $550 eu), it's still worth the trip if you buy say a cinema display. (Which of course I will not.)
I still think it's illogical to overcharge us "just in case the dollar should become more expensive". Firstly, I don't think that's going to happen in the next 4 years, and secondly I wouldn't mind if they'd adjust their prices. That's why currencies fluctuate in the first place.
But indeed, point taken.. the prices before tax aren't that different anymore.
If you install WinXP Volume licenced edition with the famous FCKGW RHQQ2 (Genius!) serial number... the computer will start crashing on an occasional basis...
I get that with any serial number, updates or no updates.
(What I do know is that you use one of this keys you can't install SP1 or SP2)
Okay, the upgrades were overpriced, but what gets me really upset is how they convert their prices into euros.
If I want to buy a Mac Mini in Belgium, the entry price is 519 euro, as opposed to 499 in the US. At the current conversion rate (taken from XE.net/ucc), the "correct" EU price should be 381.68 eur.
Even tough Apple is an American company, they're not going to convince me this price is because the stuff has to come from the US of A. And even then, you'd think that Apple, being a global company, should be able to get some volume discounts from their transport service.
This goes for all of their products. If I want to buy a Powerbook, it's actually cheaper to take a plane to New York, buy it at the NY Apple store (if there is one, I suppose there is), put it in my bag and fly back to the Old Continent than to buy it here, be it from a store or from the Apple website.
Come to think of it, anyone from Belgium or Holland who wants to buy some mac stuff? I'll go to NY, pick it up and pass the discount on to you. The more, the merrier.
(yes, I know I won't be able to walk trough the airport with thousands of $ worth of stuff without being robbed (be it by criminals or by the import tax officers), and I know this doesn't include cab rides.. but you get the picture)
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top of it, I haven't had any luck on getting these providers setup as authenticators for anything other than their own domains. I.E. I can be JimBob at Yahoo.com, and JimBob at Blogger.com, and JimBob at Facebook.com, but I can't set any of them up to authenticate me as "JimBob" of "random URL". Which completely destroys any utility of their membership in this group. Of course you can. As long as you control "random URL", you can add OpenID delegation code in your source. Then you can use your random URL as your ID, but still use Facebloggerhoo as backend authentication.
You do indeed see an e-mail address for the registry, but that doens't mean registrations are actually being taken. If you do a zone transfer of the .um zone, you get:
um. 86400 IN SOA VENERA.ISI.EDU. us-domain.ISI.EDU. 2000120103 43200 3600 1209600 86400um. 604800 IN NS VENERA.ISI.EDU.
um. 604800 IN NS NS.ISI.EDU.
um. 604800 IN NS FLAG.EP.NET.
open.um. 86400 IN A 198.32.4.13
www.um. 86400 IN A 128.9.160.31
nic.um. 86400 IN A 128.9.160.31
www.nic.um. 86400 IN A 128.9.160.31
um. 86400 IN SOA VENERA.ISI.EDU. us-domain.ISI.EDU. 2000120103 43200 3600 1209600 86400
So, there are only 3 domains registered, open.um, www.um and nic.um. The first one seems down, the other two point to the same host. With a zone file that hasn't been updated since December 1st, 2000, I'd say: lose it.
911 *is* the low-priority number. The high priority number is, like everyone knows 912
What I hate is when I try to search for *anything* hardware related, and the first fifty links are for shopping spam portals, which often don't even sell the actual product but instead redirect to "search result pages" full of useless crap.
What about those of us who don't use Flash? Why use Flash? Wouldn't it be just as easy to generate a table showing the same information?
Think of the target audience for this product: managers and marketing people. They drool over shiny graphs, and have certainly got flash installed.
I suppose they will provide hard numbers for the geeks and the financial people too, though I'm not sure about that (at the moment the site seems a bit slashdotted, so I can't check it out).
You must be new here.
You misspelled 100.0%.
You do. Paypal publishes SPF records, as do several others. If a domain publishes spf records, and you get a mail claiming to be from that domain but not matching the SPF records you can easily throw it away. Even if not the whole world uses it yet, there's no reason to start using it today to filter on the domains that already do.
The good ones (ie. frequently spoofed domains that publish SPF records and thus can easily be filtered):
paypal.com, ebay.com, citi.com
The bad ones (ie. the negligent frequently spoofed domains that make it hard for their customers to verify the genuinity of the mails):
visa.com, amex.com, chase.com, suntrust.com
You *are* kidding, right?
Why doesn't my virus scanner catch these things?
--
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
Most virus scanners nowadays have got a 'JesusSaver'-feature. This means that they pass the information they get in on to Him, and if He says it's OK they don't do further analysis on the sample they receive. After all, He is the one who can decide between good and bad, and why should they question His judgement, right?
I didn't have to buy new hardware for Tiger either, it runs fine on my 'old' G4. Windows doesn't.
I interviewed with Google a while ago, and noticed several users had lines like:
..), so perhaps they were already using (an internal version of) Google IM?
im: cmdrtaco
in their mail subjects. No mention of a network (aol, icq, msn,
Someone who mails with Google folks else noticed this?
sosumi
I'm sure you meant http://www.google.com/bsd :)
(there used to be an apple search as well, but that seems to be gone)
I used to think so too, until recently I saw this: http://live.managerzone.com/applet/live3d/index.ph p?id=demo&lang=en
It's a 3D game linked to the football competition simulator Managerzone. It is absolutely stunning. Check it out.
Really? That's strange.
I applied for a data center job, and the first phone screen was with a person that did the same job as I was applying for. It went on for about one hour.
About a week later another conversation of about 45 minutes followed, this time with a colleague actually working in the datacenter I was applying for.
Both conversations were quite informal.
Most of the time they were asking specific, technical questions that weren't really that hard to answer (How do you diagnose a broken machine? What RAID levels do you know? What is spanning tree? What's the difference between a hub and a switch?)
If you want more info on this process, feel free to ask.. I didn't sign any NDAs or something, so I'm free to talk.
Then followed a live interview with two more people, with more technical questions. They also gave me some more information about the job itself, although they remained pretty secretive about some parts. (Which I found a bit stupid, as most of this information is readily available on the net.)
In the end I didn't take the job because the conditions weren't all that good, and the salary was really lousy. Perhaps Google pays better in the US of A, but here in Europe it isn't worth moving 300 kilometers and giving up my social life.
Oh no! Yahoo bought something? Are you serious?! Well, long live Google then, because they invent everything in house, don't they?
I recently interview with them, and was offered a job, even though I've only got (the Belgian equivalent of) a Bachelor's Degree in CS. Maybe they require lots of paper for their R&D positions, but for positions in their NOC it's skills that matter, not paper. I didn't take the job because I got a better offer closer to home, but my lack of 'impressive' degrees wasn't a problem with them.
She will also be very happy about the 'ipodservice' and 'ituneshelper' processes which are also running in the background from as soon as her computer starts up, using more memory than most spyware.
If you don't believe me, ask Zeldman, or read here.
Yes. They could have started by not ruining their nice design by using Jpegs for text.
That aside it's a very nice site for a very nice browser.
Don't let their names fool you. Virgin radio is no longer part of the "Virgin Empire", it's a company of SMG Radio.
It used to be a part of Bransons' group, but he sold it. SMG just licenses the use of the name.
see the Virgin Radio website for details on this
Virgin Mobile does not operate their own network either, it's a virtual mobile network operator, which basically means they provide their own branded version of the T-Mobile network. Strange thing is that T-Mobile does offer 3G services, but apparently Virgin Mobile doesn't.
Luckily the Wikipedia content is under the GNU FDL, and the database dumps can be downloaded by anyone with enough time & bandwidth. If Google should want to kill Wikipedia, I'm sure someone else (the big Y perhaps) will step forward to host it. By the way, in 3-4 years time.. who knows what the net will look like?
Okay, so the prices before tax aren't that different ($499 us, $550 eu), it's still worth the trip if you buy say a cinema display. (Which of course I will not.)
I still think it's illogical to overcharge us "just in case the dollar should become more expensive". Firstly, I don't think that's going to happen in the next 4 years, and secondly I wouldn't mind if they'd adjust their prices. That's why currencies fluctuate in the first place.
But indeed, point taken.. the prices before tax aren't that different anymore.
I get that with any serial number, updates or no updates.
(What I do know is that you use one of this keys you can't install SP1 or SP2)
If I want to buy a Mac Mini in Belgium, the entry price is 519 euro, as opposed to 499 in the US. At the current conversion rate (taken from XE.net/ucc), the "correct" EU price should be 381.68 eur.
Even tough Apple is an American company, they're not going to convince me this price is because the stuff has to come from the US of A. And even then, you'd think that Apple, being a global company, should be able to get some volume discounts from their transport service.
This goes for all of their products. If I want to buy a Powerbook, it's actually cheaper to take a plane to New York, buy it at the NY Apple store (if there is one, I suppose there is), put it in my bag and fly back to the Old Continent than to buy it here, be it from a store or from the Apple website.
Come to think of it, anyone from Belgium or Holland who wants to buy some mac stuff? I'll go to NY, pick it up and pass the discount on to you. The more, the merrier.
(yes, I know I won't be able to walk trough the airport with thousands of $ worth of stuff without being robbed (be it by criminals or by the import tax officers), and I know this doesn't include cab rides.. but you get the picture)