I know that AOL blocks most of my emails, usually direct replies to emails from customers who I then have to contact using AIM. The good part is that they usually bounce back an email letting me know when I've been blocked.
The best way to solve the problem is for end users to not rely on unreliable email providers. One false positive when spam blocking is one too many especially if they don't bounce.
I almost always use javascript (ASP) on the server side. It's much more powerful than vbscript, allows me to write everything in the same language, and is somewhat portable, though the mod_js project seems to have been abandoned many years ago. Javascript gets bad reviews from people who barely know it and have seen ugly spaghetti scripts written by other people who barely know it. PHP is also fun, and I really like its string performance, object serialization, and vast selection of built in libraries for every conceivable need. It makes me wish my keyboard had a dedicated '$' key though. ASP.NET, whichever flavor you prefer, is very fast for serving complex pages, and probably very good for RAD-developed intranet apps where appearance and bandwidth are not important, but for normal web development I haven't been interested by any of its silver lining like For normal websites that are database driven but where the data doesn't change much, I've been moving away from server side scripts except where absolutely needed, and writing site generator scripts instead whenever possible. The pages are served faster. The server scales better. They aren't penalized as dynamic by search engines. I can put as much processor time and memory as I want into generating them. And they're hacker proof. A lot of functionality like building up a shopping cart or customizing a product can be done better and faster on the client side and still work for 98% of visitors, with usable alternatives for the other 2%. If I want to port a website, I'll only have a few pages to rewrite.
No damage was done to you, except the effort you put into investigating. They, on the other hand, will probably want to catch whoever's actively using their server to launch attacks.
Their false positive rate is rather excessive. The validator is failing on as many legitimate copies as it is on pirated copies, maybe more. Are they within their rights to restrict legitimate users like this?
The Windows Genuine Advantage validator failed on this eMachine with the XP Home that came with it. I had to use the recovery disk once, the exact one that came with this system. Either the validator is wrong, or eMachines (now Gateway) is the biggest Windows pirate to ever exist.
I've written a few tiny web servers. Supporting the minimum http/1.0 (not the full minimum of the standard, just the bare minimum to serve a static site to most browsers) isn't hard. Full http/1.1 support looks like it'd take at least 100x as much work.
I didn't see any pushing in the videos, or hear rumors of pushing except as the excuse given by officers, which protesters deny. And they shot at a lot of people who definitely had no part in any pushing. Jacksonville has long been known for being very controlling to preserve their quaint historic image and they've always had a lot of police officers for their small population of 2200. Most of the protesters were outsiders from Ashland, some from Medford, and officers were offended by the level of disrespect from these outside protesters on the one day that the US president stayed in their small town.
I played it for 6 years. The game is still alive and well, I just don't have much time for it anymore. It's Windows-only, but it's open source under the MPL if anyone wants to port the engine and build a new interface around it.
You can do just about anything with non-sandboxed javascript on the windows scripting host. If you need a GUI, HTA's are good too, and can be styled to look like native windows apps.
Irfanview has command line parameters for most of its features, which makes it useful for image manipulation.
For ftp, you could try outputting your commands to a text file then running the ftp.exe that comes with windows on it.
If you need a great deal more, a full cygwin install will give you almost every tool you'd ever want. ImageMagick is very useful.
If you know C, the GD library is another good tool for image manipulation.
Just in the past year pepperballs were used in a nearby small town to disperse a nonviolent crowd of Bush protesters. As far as I could tell there was no rioting or destruction of property.
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A good developer knows how to learn on the fly.
Wikipedia quote: "When web developers talk about using JavaScript in the IE browser, they silently mean JScript"
I know that AOL blocks most of my emails, usually direct replies to emails from customers who I then have to contact using AIM. The good part is that they usually bounce back an email letting me know when I've been blocked.
The best way to solve the problem is for end users to not rely on unreliable email providers. One false positive when spam blocking is one too many especially if they don't bounce.
I almost always use javascript (ASP) on the server side. It's much more powerful than vbscript, allows me to write everything in the same language, and is somewhat portable, though the mod_js project seems to have been abandoned many years ago. Javascript gets bad reviews from people who barely know it and have seen ugly spaghetti scripts written by other people who barely know it. PHP is also fun, and I really like its string performance, object serialization, and vast selection of built in libraries for every conceivable need. It makes me wish my keyboard had a dedicated '$' key though. ASP.NET, whichever flavor you prefer, is very fast for serving complex pages, and probably very good for RAD-developed intranet apps where appearance and bandwidth are not important, but for normal web development I haven't been interested by any of its silver lining like
For normal websites that are database driven but where the data doesn't change much, I've been moving away from server side scripts except where absolutely needed, and writing site generator scripts instead whenever possible. The pages are served faster. The server scales better. They aren't penalized as dynamic by search engines. I can put as much processor time and memory as I want into generating them. And they're hacker proof. A lot of functionality like building up a shopping cart or customizing a product can be done better and faster on the client side and still work for 98% of visitors, with usable alternatives for the other 2%. If I want to port a website, I'll only have a few pages to rewrite.
Mods love that sort of stuff, especially when it's double-spaced, one sentence per paragraph.
Probably opportunity cost. If he wasn't working on the FreeBSD TCP/IP stack, he could be earning as much as $6300 a month.
Selling hardcore pornography in Australia is still perfectly legal, even in the form of a game, so long as it's name is not GTA: San Andreas.
I have our squid proxy set up to block me specifically from reaching slashdot except during break times.
If I ever use Vista, that'll be the first thing I turn off.
Install some glass windows and skylights. More sunlight for a fraction of the price. Want to be able to turn it off? Just install some blinds.
Just what safety problems have they been working on these last couple years?
I'm pretty sure it was working long before that.
How about per person? Every system you buy means buying a new license. Every major hardware upgrade requires a re-activation.
No damage was done to you, except the effort you put into investigating. They, on the other hand, will probably want to catch whoever's actively using their server to launch attacks.
Their false positive rate is rather excessive. The validator is failing on as many legitimate copies as it is on pirated copies, maybe more. Are they within their rights to restrict legitimate users like this?
The Windows Genuine Advantage validator failed on this eMachine with the XP Home that came with it. I had to use the recovery disk once, the exact one that came with this system. Either the validator is wrong, or eMachines (now Gateway) is the biggest Windows pirate to ever exist.
Just ancient. MSN shows a detailed photo of my city from probably 20+ years ago, while Google shows a very low resolution, but recent photo.
It's unreasonable to censor anything unless asked by the customer.
Just unplug the box and take it home.
I've written a few tiny web servers. Supporting the minimum http/1.0 (not the full minimum of the standard, just the bare minimum to serve a static site to most browsers) isn't hard. Full http/1.1 support looks like it'd take at least 100x as much work.
I didn't see any pushing in the videos, or hear rumors of pushing except as the excuse given by officers, which protesters deny. And they shot at a lot of people who definitely had no part in any pushing. Jacksonville has long been known for being very controlling to preserve their quaint historic image and they've always had a lot of police officers for their small population of 2200. Most of the protesters were outsiders from Ashland, some from Medford, and officers were offended by the level of disrespect from these outside protesters on the one day that the US president stayed in their small town.
I played it for 6 years. The game is still alive and well, I just don't have much time for it anymore. It's Windows-only, but it's open source under the MPL if anyone wants to port the engine and build a new interface around it.
You can do just about anything with non-sandboxed javascript on the windows scripting host. If you need a GUI, HTA's are good too, and can be styled to look like native windows apps.
Irfanview has command line parameters for most of its features, which makes it useful for image manipulation.
For ftp, you could try outputting your commands to a text file then running the ftp.exe that comes with windows on it.
If you need a great deal more, a full cygwin install will give you almost every tool you'd ever want. ImageMagick is very useful.
If you know C, the GD library is another good tool for image manipulation.
Just in the past year pepperballs were used in a nearby small town to disperse a nonviolent crowd of Bush protesters. As far as I could tell there was no rioting or destruction of property.
Do we usually just shoot protesters to death?