Does it bother anyone else that the Webby award site itself was designed by retarded monkeys? Almost all of the text is presented with images, forcing you to deal with that God-awful 6 pixel high font. Try viewing that site without images. It's nearly impossible. About the only thing NOT hard-coded in images are the site names and links. And of course the site does not repond at all to a "text size" option in my browser (which I admit is Crazy Browser, based on IE; Moz may be different.)
This site fails almost every rule of web design, for fuck's sake.
So 'stat' is now a verb, in the neckbeard-Unix-wizard sense of "to quickly check out [a file] for its essential details"?
I swear if I ever hear somebody say "Yeah lets go to that bar and stat all the hot chix" I am going to laugh... and then start flailing wildly as yet another unixism perverts our spoken language.
This is a silly question. The original "official" client has had the very same capability via the command line since the start. THe only thing the experimental build offers is a pretty GUI widget to adjust it.
Was it a free email service? I've got a solution for you, get her an account with spamblocked.com (where's my check Morely/Rich?) or a similar service that uses lots of RBLs or does heavy filtering. For kids, I really see this as the best way to go. I would never let a child use hotmail/yahoo/etc, they are so limp in the blocking department that it's a joke.
I hear that a lot -- "SMTP is old and crusty and if we could just throw it away and start over we could end spam forever." And that is such a bogus argument in my opinion.
First, there's the notion of getting the entire planet to upgrade to a new protocol. There are *still* open relays out there, and SMTP has been around for what, 25 years? And that's just a simple configuration change. You're asking every single organization that uses mail to switch to some brand new, perhaps untested program? What about all those millions of automated applications, web scripts, and embedded applications that send or receive email? What do you do, throw those away? And remember, you can't just say "Well, we'll make it backwards compatible for a while" because otherwise the spammers will just keep sending plain old fashioned spam. Perhaps the most fundamental aspect of why email has been so universally embraced by everyone is that it is simple, easy to understand, universal, and standardized. You risk throwing that all away.
But assuming you can get around the above issue, I still challenge you to come up with a new protocol that satisfies the following requirements:
Does not break mailing lists and other legitimate bulk email. You may not be a list-junkie but everyone at some point in time has been on a mailing list that was of real value. I think you would find that many organizations would have a major problem giving up mailing lists. And there's plenty of other examples of legitimate bulk email -- order confirmations, notices, CONFIRMED (closed-loop) opt-in (and no other "opt" variety!), etc. I fear that a lot of the "make it hard for a computer to do it" solutions fail on this account. Hashcash is great and all, but how does a mailserver for a large mailing list deal with it? Whitelisting? You assume way too much about end users, they can't even get it straight how to unsubscribe most of the time, how can you expect them to maintain a whitelist? And how does Junis with his Commodore send email and still have the computation-requirement high enough that a spammer with a dual-Xeon can't send with impunity?
Does not require a centralized, top-level organization. A lot of the cryptograpic proposals make the common blunder often seen when designing crypographic systems of ignoring the issue of trust and keys. If you are going to make this work then really the only way I can see it is to have some Verisign-like body that issues certificates, and revokes them if proof of spam is found. However, that is a giant can of worms waiting to happen. They would be subject to lawsuit after lawsuit from the chickenboners (small time spammers) and mainsleeze ("reputable" spammers) for all sorts of counts of "impeding business" or other crys of general unfair practice. This organization will somehow need to be funded, which means you have to either start charging for these certificates, requiring deposits, or taxing the entire system to pay the authority. And I'm not going to get into the issue of international law and jurisdictional issues. I hope you can see that this is a HUGE can of worms and if you hate Verisign think of a world where every email you send depends on their competence. You may claim a web-of-trust scenario will work, I say spammers would just create a fake community that all certify each other.
Does not make email a pain in the ass. Whitelisting, TMDA, and a lot of things fail flat on their face here. The reason email is the killer application is because it's simple and universal. You will kill that with an overly complicated scenario that involves fees, licenses, governing organizations, international cooperation, etc.
If you have an idea for a completely new system that doesn't suck in the ways above, I'd like to hear it. But I haven't heard of one yet...
Apparently in your haste to post your links to the standards you missed the part of the review that explicitly said how valuable the (paraphrasing) "real-world experience says that foo always violates bar and it's best to baz despite the RFC" parts of the book were.
In other words, no shit. If you can't find the http RFCs, you are probably in over your head. That's not the point of this book.
I don't know what is more pathetic: that you would make requests just to see X-Bender headers, or that I would know where to look in the slashcode CVS to see the list (scroll down to the end of that page.)
This guy enjoys tinkering around. If you read through his pages he's got all sorts of really old generators (1920s vintage) and you can tell that he enjoys rebuilding them and playing around. His projects are all geared around the idea of "what can I get for little or no money and some tinkering." For example:
Here is a 1941 military "M-3" 3 phase 120 volt AC machine with a 4 cylender Hercules enging. I found this one about half buried in a hill-with trees growing through it. It wasnt seized, so I gave $25 for it. About 10 work on the carburator had it running well. I got 6 years of so of good service out of it-and gave it to a neigbor-who used it a bunch for a while-now its got a bit of a rod knock-probably and easy fix.
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A good gas generator is critical to any remote power system. Portable generators are designed to be portable-not permanent. A good generator should run slowly, quitely, and efficiently. This page is devoted to some classic gas generators.
He is obviously not the target audience for cheapo, portable, light-duty cycle generators. Sometimes it's fun to have a hobby, and he likes playing around with natural-power related junk.
Well, if you kept reading his site you'd see that he has plenty of that kind of stuff. There's a page where he has a waterwheel (that he put in a small creek) he made from an old squirrel-cage blower motor, that powers an alternator and generates a constant 2.5 amperes or so (all day, every day) for charging a car battery. He lives in the middle of nowhere, COlorado, and apparently is into generating his own power.
As others have said, why have you not looked into the 2.5" form-factor laptop hard drives? They're exactly what you want (low power, moderate size, shock resistent) in addition to being a standardized/commodity item. The interface is pretty much the same as any other hard drive (ATAPI), so I don't understand the problem. Or were you just hoping for free product development or something?
By the way, if you saw Cast Away, that was an analemma that Hanks' character used to keep track of the time he was stuck on the island. Hollywood took some liberty with the concept though, because it would have been impossible without an accurate timepiece of some kind.
Indeed. And since the poster seemed to be asking specifically for ECMAscript/DOM/DHTML stuff, here's a link to the Web Standards Project's DOM, Platform Issues, & Cross-Browser DHTML resources. Plenty of links to browser charts, cross browser code snippets, etc.
Search engine history and summary
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This page over at Search Engine Watch provides a good summary of all the major search engines, past and present. There are some interesting historical tidbits as well. The Hotbot section reads:
When HotBot debuted in May 1996, it gained a strong following among serious searchers for the quality and comprehensiveness of its crawler-based results, which were provided by Inktomi, at the time. It also caught the attention of experienced web users and techies, especially for the unusual colors and interface it continues to sport today.
HotBot gained some notoriety when it switched over to using Direct Hit's "clickthrough" results for its main listings in 1999 (see the Using Direct Hit Popularity Results page for more about this). Direct Hit was then one of the "hot" search engines that had recently appeared. Unfortunately, the quality of Direct Hit's results couldn't match those of another "hot" player that had debuted at the same time, Google. HotBot's popularity began to drop.
Even worse, HotBot also suffered by being owned by Lycos (now Terra Lycos). Lycos had acquired HotBot when it purchased Wired Digital in October 1998. Lycos failed to make search a priority on its flagship Lycos site as well as HotBot through much of 1999 and 2000, as it focused instead on adding "portal" features. The company refocused on search in late 2001, making significant improvements to the Lycos site (described above). HotBot's chance at redemption is supposed to come in late 2002. Watch this space!
You may also be interested in SEW's "Who Powers What?" chart, which shows how various search sites outsource the actual searching to the major search engines.
. I wish they would stop with this Z-CLV crap and just do plain old CLV. If they used 52X CLV, then a disc would be able to be burned in about a minute and a half.
That is not possible. To spin the disc fast enough to achieve 52X rates at the inner tracks would cause the disc to disintegrate for sure. There was a story a while ago about how the polycarbonate plastic just can't the stress of being spun faster than about 55X - 60X, measured at the outer tracks. In order to get the same transfer rate at the inner tracks, the disc would have to spin (r2-r1) times faster which it is obviously incapable of.
If you want pre CLV then buy a 52X drive and set the burn rate to 20X or whatever it's Z-CLV start rate is. It won't change speeds at all. But don't ask for something that's not possible.
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Please, for the love of god, never link to dvhardware.net again. Fer christ's sake, with a readership in the tens to hundreds of thousands, you'd think Slashdot could accept articles that feature quality sites... which dvhardware.net is NOT. Hmmm, let's have a look at the checklist for crappy hardware reviews:
Article split into unnecessarily high number of pages? Check.
Verdana microsized font (specified in pixels in the stylesheet) which is unresizable? Check.
Terrible spelling and grammar? Check. (Note: I realize that English was probably not the author's primary language. Nevertheless, it doesn't excuse passages such as this:
One of the good things about it is the material it's made of , aluminium. Another good thing is that the pad looks very cool! One of the downsides of the pad is the noise, the pad makes lot's of noise when you're moving your mouse on it. And then another thing , which is good and bad together:p , the pad always feels cold. This would be very good in summer but now in winter it feels too cold.
If you want to be taken seriously you must write articles that don't sound like a twelve-year-old puked on the keyboard.
Useless pictures that look like they were taken by some retard with a digital camera, featuring a "click on me to enlarge" link which doesn't help at all? Check.
Overall vapid commentary that ends with a predominantly positive rating, in this case three stars? Check.
The idea, then, is to limit the rate at which a computer can connect to new computers, where "new" means those that are not on a recent history list. Dr Williamson's "throttle" [...] restricts such connections to one a second.
Hrm... well, it might have some benefit for things like Nimda, but it won't do anything for nasties that spread via email. If this becomes a default in a future version of Windows, though, you can bet that any virus meant to propagate by opening outgoing connections will just self-throttle, or disable the feature first. Already there is precedent for this, such as Bugbear that disables software firewalls so it can get out and spread.
I would much rather see effort spent educating people to install security related patches regularly and turn off unused services, and push vendors towards "secure by default."
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Does it bother anyone else that the Webby award site itself was designed by retarded monkeys? Almost all of the text is presented with images, forcing you to deal with that God-awful 6 pixel high font. Try viewing that site without images. It's nearly impossible. About the only thing NOT hard-coded in images are the site names and links. And of course the site does not repond at all to a "text size" option in my browser (which I admit is Crazy Browser, based on IE; Moz may be different.)
This site fails almost every rule of web design, for fuck's sake.
So 'stat' is now a verb, in the neckbeard-Unix-wizard sense of "to quickly check out [a file] for its essential details"?
I swear if I ever hear somebody say "Yeah lets go to that bar and stat all the hot chix" I am going to laugh... and then start flailing wildly as yet another unixism perverts our spoken language.
Waitaminute, is this Gecko a magic sticky-tape like technology, a browser engine, or an open source database? I'm sooo confused!
Care to look at my etchings?
Darjeeling,
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Well if they can fit a book of the bible into one of those little miniature keyring fob deals....
Or how about a costco-sized package of toilet paper, with the entire distribution uuencoded as one long continuous message...
This is a silly question. The original "official" client has had the very same capability via the command line since the start. THe only thing the experimental build offers is a pretty GUI widget to adjust it.
Ah, the slashdot classics, they never get old... Instant Karma, every time.
Was it a free email service? I've got a solution for you, get her an account with spamblocked.com (where's my check Morely/Rich?) or a similar service that uses lots of RBLs or does heavy filtering. For kids, I really see this as the best way to go. I would never let a child use hotmail/yahoo/etc, they are so limp in the blocking department that it's a joke.
First, there's the notion of getting the entire planet to upgrade to a new protocol. There are *still* open relays out there, and SMTP has been around for what, 25 years? And that's just a simple configuration change. You're asking every single organization that uses mail to switch to some brand new, perhaps untested program? What about all those millions of automated applications, web scripts, and embedded applications that send or receive email? What do you do, throw those away? And remember, you can't just say "Well, we'll make it backwards compatible for a while" because otherwise the spammers will just keep sending plain old fashioned spam. Perhaps the most fundamental aspect of why email has been so universally embraced by everyone is that it is simple, easy to understand, universal, and standardized. You risk throwing that all away.
But assuming you can get around the above issue, I still challenge you to come up with a new protocol that satisfies the following requirements:
If you have an idea for a completely new system that doesn't suck in the ways above, I'd like to hear it. But I haven't heard of one yet...
Apparently in your haste to post your links to the standards you missed the part of the review that explicitly said how valuable the (paraphrasing) "real-world experience says that foo always violates bar and it's best to baz despite the RFC" parts of the book were.
In other words, no shit. If you can't find the http RFCs, you are probably in over your head. That's not the point of this book.
I don't know what is more pathetic: that you would make requests just to see X-Bender headers, or that I would know where to look in the slashcode CVS to see the list (scroll down to the end of that page.)
Well, if you kept reading his site you'd see that he has plenty of that kind of stuff. There's a page where he has a waterwheel (that he put in a small creek) he made from an old squirrel-cage blower motor, that powers an alternator and generates a constant 2.5 amperes or so (all day, every day) for charging a car battery. He lives in the middle of nowhere, COlorado, and apparently is into generating his own power.
As others have said, why have you not looked into the 2.5" form-factor laptop hard drives? They're exactly what you want (low power, moderate size, shock resistent) in addition to being a standardized/commodity item. The interface is pretty much the same as any other hard drive (ATAPI), so I don't understand the problem. Or were you just hoping for free product development or something?
Try Privoxy.
That would probably be because he's wearing the Daddy Pants at the time.
You should have looked at the date on that article, it was April first. Seriously.
Here are some links if you're interested in more:
Qualitative and mathematical description of why the effect occurs.
Gallery of analemma images, description of construction and implementation of making one.
By the way, if you saw Cast Away, that was an analemma that Hanks' character used to keep track of the time he was stuck on the island. Hollywood took some liberty with the concept though, because it would have been impossible without an accurate timepiece of some kind.
Indeed. And since the poster seemed to be asking specifically for ECMAscript/DOM/DHTML stuff, here's a link to the Web Standards Project's DOM, Platform Issues, & Cross-Browser DHTML resources. Plenty of links to browser charts, cross browser code snippets, etc.
Hint: Click on the "Print This" link. It's not all of them on one page, but it's like 15 at a time.
I think what you meant to say was: "My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"
You may also be interested in SEW's "Who Powers What?" chart, which shows how various search sites outsource the actual searching to the major search engines.
. I wish they would stop with this Z-CLV crap and just do plain old CLV. If they used 52X CLV, then a disc would be able to be burned in about a minute and a half.
That is not possible. To spin the disc fast enough to achieve 52X rates at the inner tracks would cause the disc to disintegrate for sure. There was a story a while ago about how the polycarbonate plastic just can't the stress of being spun faster than about 55X - 60X, measured at the outer tracks. In order to get the same transfer rate at the inner tracks, the disc would have to spin (r2-r1) times faster which it is obviously incapable of.
If you want pre CLV then buy a 52X drive and set the burn rate to 20X or whatever it's Z-CLV start rate is. It won't change speeds at all. But don't ask for something that's not possible.
For fuck's sake...
Hrm... well, it might have some benefit for things like Nimda, but it won't do anything for nasties that spread via email. If this becomes a default in a future version of Windows, though, you can bet that any virus meant to propagate by opening outgoing connections will just self-throttle, or disable the feature first. Already there is precedent for this, such as Bugbear that disables software firewalls so it can get out and spread.
I would much rather see effort spent educating people to install security related patches regularly and turn off unused services, and push vendors towards "secure by default."