I don't mind actual users spoofing their Referers, but the situation is IMHO a bit different when there are multiple machines doing automated referer spamming at a rate of, say 400 requests per minute.
Even though I don't publish those log stats (so their efforts are to naught), they continue to send their stupid traffic and it's a bit annoying to see in the web log analysis.
I put whatever I want in my Referer header. If you don't like it in your logs, don't log it. Actually I don't do referer spamming, but I don't like people looking at the page I was visiting before, so sometimes I fill in just random junk, or diable it completely.
Anyway, my point remains: nobody is forcing you to look at my referer string. It's not like junk mail. If you don't like it, don't look at it.
their 'beta' email system is any better than anyone else's, that they are a benevolent company who love technology for it's own sake, that they are the future of the Internet, or indeed that they are trying to do anything other than maximise shareholder value by providing marketable web services.
I completely agree with you. And let me add that google did nothing really new or innovating. Ever.
- Email? was here before. - Maps? too. - News? old stuff as well. - Image search? Was already here.
I can't really understand all this hype every time google makes a little change to one of their pages.
Would slashdot have reported this if it was Yahoo (or something else) which did this instead of Google?
No. Because if Yahoo! did it, it would be cluttered with ads and unusable, but if google does it, it is a new useful service that is interesting and makes intelligent use of new implementation of current technologies (like the drag&drop customization of the news items that interest you).
Linux will be ready for the desktop when --- and only when --- conversion stories don't begin with I decided to make my Dad switch from WinXP.
Why? Windows comes preinstalled. The normal user (like my Dad) does not care about the underlying OS. So theis is the proof that *Linux is ready for the desktop*. My Dad uses it, I use it and a whole lot of other people use it. If one day it comes preinstalled on the new computer you buy at Walmart, you can begin to use it exactly like you do with windows or OS X.
At first he was a bit bored because he had to learn some new things (for example the "Applications" menu is on the top left, and not on the bottom)
Just because that's the default position doesn't mean that you have to leave the menu there.
I know, but I wanted him to use the default Gnome/Ubuntu setup. I didn't want him to have a Windowized Linux. But a real Linux. So he notices it's something different, that works different. And is better. Not a cheap copy of Windows.
And he loves it. I first tryed it on my own computer and was really surprised at how polished and stable it was. It detected everything out of the box and I had very little to do to make it work like I wanted. So I decided to make my Dad switch from WinXP to Ubuntu, installed Abiword and gnumeric (oo.org was to slow on his P4 with 96MB RAM), setted them as default editors, copied all his Documents over from the Win partition and made a shortcut on the desktop to his Documents folder. He really likes Ubuntu. At first he was a bit bored because he had to learn some new things (for example the "Applications" menu is on the top left, and not on the bottom), but he got the changes quickly and adapted to the new OS in a few days. I asked him yesterday if he likes more Windows or Linux now that he tryed both, and he told me that it makes no difference for him, as long as he can use spreadsheets, write letters, read his emals and organize his pictures like he did before (btw. he loves gPhoto and Gimp is his new favorite program:). So to him it makes no difference, but now I don't have to clean his computer from spyware and viruses every few weeks.
So for me (and for my dad) Linux IS READY for the desktop. At least Ubuntu is.
Somebody, please please PLEEZ figure out a simple (one click?) install and update process for *Nix instead of having to slog through multiple tarballs and such?
The older iPods, especially the Mini, have been rightfully criticized for being somewhat deficient in bass, and although the bigger players have flat frequency response, they have trouble sustaining big bass notes.
The iPod is designed to take with you and hear music on the bus, or while jogging - with headphones. Does it really matter how good the bass is if you listen to it with headphones anyway? I think not.
I think we con not compare Books and Games. They are just two different types of entertainment. You read a Book or play a Game in different situations, different places and with different moods.
I haven't RFTA, but I would imagine this is added to areas where anybody can add a comment. This is not the same as all blog content, so a link pointing that a site author specifies would not have this attribute.
I have RTFA, and it's exactly how you describe it. But what I am talking about are the useful links in the comments. There are different types of blogs and forums: those that are abused often, and those that have a lot of useful links and information. With the tag applied to all links in the posts, useful sites will not get a good search ranking even if they may deserve it.
Forums and Blogs often contain very useful links. What about them? What about all those sites that are *only* linked to from blogs and forums, and that actually are great and useful sites?
"Firefox isn't perfect. It still has some bugs, which isn't surprising considering it only recently came out of "beta" or testing mode. It also can't do much with pages that require features only Internet Explorer has, such as the ability to run Active-X programs."
this article is great. it does a good job at explaining what firefox is and what it can do, and also tells the reader that if you try it and find a bug, don't trash it. give it time and keep it around.
i really like this article. it'S how we all should evangelize ff.
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Thank you, I did not know about that. But do you know why they forked it? Was this impossible/a pain to implement as plugin?
Why? GnomeMeeting is compatible with Netmeeting on Windows (both use the H.323 protocoll). You can just use that.
Anyway, it would be grat if this project would be somehow implemented by gaim.
I don't mind actual users spoofing their Referers, but the situation is IMHO a bit different when there are multiple machines doing automated referer spamming at a rate of, say 400 requests per minute.
Yes, I agree. Thanks for clarifying that.
Even though I don't publish those log stats (so their efforts are to naught), they continue to send their stupid traffic and it's a bit annoying to see in the web log analysis.
I put whatever I want in my Referer header. If you don't like it in your logs, don't log it.
Actually I don't do referer spamming, but I don't like people looking at the page I was visiting before, so sometimes I fill in just random junk, or diable it completely.
Anyway, my point remains: nobody is forcing you to look at my referer string. It's not like junk mail. If you don't like it, don't look at it.
In Italy LUGs get funded by the government. More or less everything they spend for hardware, room rentals for courses, etc. gets a refund.
I completely agree with you. And let me add that google did nothing really new or innovating. Ever.
- Email? was here before.
- Maps? too.
- News? old stuff as well.
- Image search? Was already here.
I can't really understand all this hype every time google makes a little change to one of their pages.
I'm sarcastic. Yahoo! news is here since ages and works like a charm. Sorry for me writing such an incomprensible post.
No. Because if Yahoo! did it, it would be cluttered with ads and unusable, but if google does it, it is a new useful service that is interesting and makes intelligent use of new implementation of current technologies (like the drag&drop customization of the news items that interest you).
I know you are trying to be funny, but the EULA is right on your disk so you can check it out: C:\WINDOWS\system32\eula.txt
Why? Windows comes preinstalled. The normal user (like my Dad) does not care about the underlying OS. So theis is the proof that *Linux is ready for the desktop*. My Dad uses it, I use it and a whole lot of other people use it. If one day it comes preinstalled on the new computer you buy at Walmart, you can begin to use it exactly like you do with windows or OS X.
I know, but I wanted him to use the default Gnome/Ubuntu setup. I didn't want him to have a Windowized Linux. But a real Linux. So he notices it's something different, that works different. And is better. Not a cheap copy of Windows.
Yes i got that wrong. See here. He has 192MB + 32 for graphics.
Anyway, oo.org was to slow. But gnucalc and abiword just fly.
Pardon? A P4 with 96MB? My Pentium 100 from nearly a decade ago had 192MB.
Yes, sorry. I got that wrong. He had 128MB of RAM and I got 64MB more from an other PC. That's 192MB in total. Sorry for the mistake.
And he loves it. I first tryed it on my own computer and was really surprised at how polished and stable it was. It detected everything out of the box and I had very little to do to make it work like I wanted. :).
So I decided to make my Dad switch from WinXP to Ubuntu, installed Abiword and gnumeric (oo.org was to slow on his P4 with 96MB RAM), setted them as default editors, copied all his Documents over from the Win partition and made a shortcut on the desktop to his Documents folder.
He really likes Ubuntu. At first he was a bit bored because he had to learn some new things (for example the "Applications" menu is on the top left, and not on the bottom), but he got the changes quickly and adapted to the new OS in a few days.
I asked him yesterday if he likes more Windows or Linux now that he tryed both, and he told me that it makes no difference for him, as long as he can use spreadsheets, write letters, read his emals and organize his pictures like he did before (btw. he loves gPhoto and Gimp is his new favorite program
So to him it makes no difference, but now I don't have to clean his computer from spyware and viruses every few weeks.
So for me (and for my dad) Linux IS READY for the desktop. At least Ubuntu is.
"Protected CDs" rippeable pressing CTRL
That was shift.
Somebody, please please PLEEZ figure out a simple (one click?) install and update process for *Nix instead of having to slog through multiple tarballs and such?
Here it is. Try it out. Worked great for me.
The older iPods, especially the Mini, have been rightfully criticized for being somewhat deficient in bass, and although the bigger players have flat frequency response, they have trouble sustaining big bass notes.
The iPod is designed to take with you and hear music on the bus, or while jogging - with headphones. Does it really matter how good the bass is if you listen to it with headphones anyway? I think not.
I think we con not compare Books and Games. They are just two different types of entertainment. You read a Book or play a Game in different situations, different places and with different moods.
I haven't RFTA, but I would imagine this is added to areas where anybody can add a comment. This is not the same as all blog content, so a link pointing that a site author specifies would not have this attribute.
I have RTFA, and it's exactly how you describe it. But what I am talking about are the useful links in the comments. There are different types of blogs and forums: those that are abused often, and those that have a lot of useful links and information.
With the tag applied to all links in the posts, useful sites will not get a good search ranking even if they may deserve it.
As for useful links in comments; if they're really good sites, people are bound to blog about them more generally.
Yes, that's fine, but if I search something I do not go through a bunch of blogs, I use google, and that will not work any more.
And my poor blog gets few enough hits that it will be no problem for me to manually edit genuine comments to remove nofollow tags.
See, you still have to edit posts manually. Isn't it better then if you remove the spam manually?
Forums and Blogs often contain very useful links. What about them? What about all those sites that are *only* linked to from blogs and forums, and that actually are great and useful sites?
"Firefox isn't perfect. It still has some bugs, which isn't surprising considering it only recently came out of "beta" or testing mode. It also can't do much with pages that require features only Internet Explorer has, such as the ability to run Active-X programs."
this article is great. it does a good job at explaining what firefox is and what it can do, and also tells the reader that if you try it and find a bug, don't trash it. give it time and keep it around.
i really like this article. it'S how we all should evangelize ff.
Win XP:
> Executing: "C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe" -w "test.pl"
Tue Jan 19 04:14:01 2038
Tue Jan 19 04:14:02 2038
Tue Jan 19 04:14:03 2038
Tue Jan 19 04:14:04 2038
Tue Jan 19 04:14:05 2038
Tue Jan 19 04:14:06 2038
Tue Jan 19 04:14:07 2038
> Execution finished.
Looks buggy.
No. Manitoba is in Canada.
Cube is one of the best films ever. A must see. 6 sides of the Cube, 6 people, 6 personalities... grat movie!
Hypercube was crap.