China, Russia, India: I don't want to think of the levels of forum spam message board operators will face by 2012 if citizens of these countries come online in droves. Most of the manual human-entered spam on my forum already comes from those three countries, as well as the Philippines.
Every day, I take the few pump-and-dump spams, along with the others that make it past SpamAssassin and the various DNSBL blocks on my VPS, and submit them to SpamAssassin. Almost of them -- probably 97% -- came from a source outside of the United States.
My Web site has a Google PageRank of 7, but an Alexa rank of 261,144. I can't be the only one that has a site with good GoogleJuice and a good number of visitors, but an Alexa rank that falls below Jean Teasdale-esque Geocities sites with angel and "survivor" glurge.
For the longest time, I was thinking "why doesn't someone make a GPS tracker for dogs?" I don't have the resources to create and market such a device, but I"m glad somebody did. I have a very friendly -- and very expensive -- Portuguese Water Dog who used to be a homebody, but is now struck by wanderlust; he ran away three times this year. Fortunately, all three times he was found.
He's got regular tags with a multitude of contacts, a FidoFinder tag, and an RFID microchip. He's probably going to get this GPS/cell collar, too.
The cost of such a device is far less than the stress toll I take when he unlatches the gate I might have forgotten to padlock, and catches a scent.
Of course, in a post complaining about English, I misspelled a word.
It's Sunday morning. I'm tired. I still have to put on some face lubrication solution and use a beard removal solution (part of the facial grooming suite) and head to a lecture at an Ashkenazi Hebrew Religious Solution Center. Meanwhile, others will be on their way to a personal salvation solution center, where they will likely sing from a robust suite of hymns. Unless they're Missouri Synod Lutherans, where they'll have low-frequency dirge solutions.
The OP could have immpressed us more by calling it a "robust computer security solution stack". What's with the increasing use of corporate-speak in Slashdot articles and posts?
"Such commodities will be expertly and automatically leveraged by super-deep, business-to-business automation, and new enterprises will start up by focusing their energy on differentiating their value in the marketplace rather than creating and supporting all of the associated accoutrements."
"Remote-working solution?" Didn't it used to be called a "PDA?"
It's sad to see marketing -speak cross over from the boardroom to Slashdot articles and posts. Seriously, there's more marketing jargon in some threads than a stack of press releases from a soon-to-be-bankrupt 1999 dot-com.
If you'll excuse me, I have to use the solid biological waste transport solution for something that's robust, scalable and end-to-end.
Sad. That post had more jargon than a 1999s dot-com press release.
It looks like marketing-speak has crossed over to the everyday vocabulary of the Slashdot crowd. Didn't a "massive single storage solution" used to be called a "hard drive bank?"
The BBC stats aren't that far off from the stats for my planning-related Web site. Considering how many people visit the site from their workplaces, I'm really surprised to see a somewhat higher percentage of alternative browsers than the Beeb.
Yet another ordinary review of a typical commercial Linux distro, in that format we all love to hate - a few paragraphs on a page filled with distracting LowerMyBills.Com Flash ads. Comedy option: screenshots taken with a digital camera pointed at the screen.
What's the big deal?
Here's what happens, I think:
1) At first, no reference to Wayback machine in robots.txt. Site is spidered and the archive placed on line.
2) Add Wayback Machine to robots.txt. The site is no longer spidered, and old archives are hidden from public view.
3) Remove Wayback Machine from robots.txt again. Spidering resumes, and all the old archives of the site reappear. However, there is no archive of your site from the time robots.txt was up; remember, it wasn't spidered then.
Even if the Wayback Machine archived your site, adding an appropriate robots.txt file to your Web site's root directory will make _all_ previous archives inaccessible to the public. I discovered this by accident, after I blocked the Wayback Machine robot by accident in an attempt to control malicious spiders. After I modified robots.txt, all the old archives reappeared after a few weeks.
I used the Wayback machine to grab thousands of messages from an old WWWBoard-based message board that I ran, for eventual conversion to vBulletin. Some years, the Wayback Machine crawled every month; others it didn't even visit. Probably 80% of the messages that were posted before 2000 are lost to the ether of cyberspace. Guess you can't expect it to archive everything.
It's nice to see a clearly written, jargon-free review that can be easily understood.
In today's magazines, even though they're read by folks that are as a whole far less tech-savvy than the Byte readers of old, reviews are filled with acronyms and buzzwords. I wonder what that review would look like if it was in PC World...
As with the rest of the hardware solution, the input device solution is significantly different from those found on other hardware solutions (see photo 3). It's smaller than most and has only 58 depressable character, line break and control function entry solutions.
"What you want, when you want it" or "All the best resources on the net." You may not have the chip, but you'll have lots of convenient links to online poker and pharmacy sites.
This is likely aimed at preventing Linux from gaining market share where MS is currently alienating their customers.
I've got an ancient 200 MHz Pentoum MMX-based PC with 96 megs of RAM and a two gigabyte hard drive, that I use for a "guinea pig" of sorts. Newer Linux distros using KDE or Gnome -- Fedora, Ubuntu, and even Vector -- crawl to the point where the computer is almost unusable. Any GUI action takes a few seconds or more just to register; click a mouse, and wait to see the button image depress. Windoes 2000 runs just a bit sluggish, but it's responsive, and the computer actually seems uable, even though it's slow.
Maybe in 2000, using what would have been considered old hardware at the time, Windows-based operating systems seemed slow and compared to Linux distos of the time. Back then, Linux was always recommended as a way to extend the working life of an older PC. Now, though, when a Linux installation seems slow on an elderly box, the alternative is to repalce it with Windows 98 or 2000, or make it a power-hungry router or firewall -- a waste of computing power, considering that when the computer was built, it was intended to be every bit as functional as the PCs of today.
I know someone will chime in and say "What about TWM/FVWM?" For a school, non-profit, or church, you know the answer is "no."
With all the Jewish holidays around this time of the year, there's probably more than one keyboard being replaced dut to flying matzoh crumbs and spilled Manichewitz.
The solution? A kosher dishwasher.
Why not just use old technology for cheap laptops; with slower processors, smaller hard drives, and previous generation LCD displays? Would it cost that much to create a new laptop with specs comparable to a decent laptop from 2000? At first glance, it would seem cheaper than reinenting the wheel.
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China, Russia, India: I don't want to think of the levels of forum spam message board operators will face by 2012 if citizens of these countries come online in droves. Most of the manual human-entered spam on my forum already comes from those three countries, as well as the Philippines.
There are MP3 players and plasma televisions made in the United States?
Every day, I take the few pump-and-dump spams, along with the others that make it past SpamAssassin and the various DNSBL blocks on my VPS, and submit them to SpamAssassin. Almost of them -- probably 97% -- came from a source outside of the United States.
My Web site has a Google PageRank of 7, but an Alexa rank of 261,144. I can't be the only one that has a site with good GoogleJuice and a good number of visitors, but an Alexa rank that falls below Jean Teasdale-esque Geocities sites with angel and "survivor" glurge.
a Beowulf cluster of friends!
OMG do they run LINUX????????>>???questionmark??? Linux is too haaaaaaaaaaaaaard!!! Apple 4-EV-R!!!!11!!!
For the longest time, I was thinking "why doesn't someone make a GPS tracker for dogs?" I don't have the resources to create and market such a device, but I"m glad somebody did. I have a very friendly -- and very expensive -- Portuguese Water Dog who used to be a homebody, but is now struck by wanderlust; he ran away three times this year. Fortunately, all three times he was found.
He's got regular tags with a multitude of contacts, a FidoFinder tag, and an RFID microchip. He's probably going to get this GPS/cell collar, too.
The cost of such a device is far less than the stress toll I take when he unlatches the gate I might have forgotten to padlock, and catches a scent.
Of course, in a post complaining about English, I misspelled a word.
It's Sunday morning. I'm tired. I still have to put on some face lubrication solution and use a beard removal solution (part of the facial grooming suite) and head to a lecture at an Ashkenazi Hebrew Religious Solution Center. Meanwhile, others will be on their way to a personal salvation solution center, where they will likely sing from a robust suite of hymns. Unless they're Missouri Synod Lutherans, where they'll have low-frequency dirge solutions.
The OP could have immpressed us more by calling it a "robust computer security solution stack". What's with the increasing use of corporate-speak in Slashdot articles and posts?
I would, but I'm currently on the fast track to leveraging my synergy, to untimately enable a scalable best-of-breed solution.
"Such commodities will be expertly and automatically leveraged by super-deep, business-to-business automation, and new enterprises will start up by focusing their energy on differentiating their value in the marketplace rather than creating and supporting all of the associated accoutrements."
Can we have a translation to English, please?
It's sad to see marketing -speak cross over from the boardroom to Slashdot articles and posts. Seriously, there's more marketing jargon in some threads than a stack of press releases from a soon-to-be-bankrupt 1999 dot-com.
If you'll excuse me, I have to use the solid biological waste transport solution for something that's robust, scalable and end-to-end.
Sad. That post had more jargon than a 1999s dot-com press release.
It looks like marketing-speak has crossed over to the everyday vocabulary of the Slashdot crowd. Didn't a "massive single storage solution" used to be called a "hard drive bank?"
The BBC stats aren't that far off from the stats for my planning-related Web site. Considering how many people visit the site from their workplaces, I'm really surprised to see a somewhat higher percentage of alternative browsers than the Beeb.
MS IE 81.9 %
Firefox 10.4 %
Safari 2.2 %
Netscape 1.6 %
Konqueror 1.1 %
Mozilla 1 %
Unknown 0.8 %
Opera 0.6 %
Camino >0.1%
I-Mode phone >0.1%
Others >0.1%
Uhhh ... and I say the same thing earlier, and get labeled "(Score:0, Offtopic)"
Maybe I should have said "W1nd0ws SuxxORz!!!1!" in there to score some points.
Yet another irritating site where random words in an article link to irrelevant ads and Web sites.
Maybe if they called it a "robust online gaming solution," they could attract the Slashdot crowd.
Yet another ordinary review of a typical commercial Linux distro, in that format we all love to hate - a few paragraphs on a page filled with distracting LowerMyBills.Com Flash ads. Comedy option: screenshots taken with a digital camera pointed at the screen. What's the big deal?
Here's what happens, I think: 1) At first, no reference to Wayback machine in robots.txt. Site is spidered and the archive placed on line. 2) Add Wayback Machine to robots.txt. The site is no longer spidered, and old archives are hidden from public view. 3) Remove Wayback Machine from robots.txt again. Spidering resumes, and all the old archives of the site reappear. However, there is no archive of your site from the time robots.txt was up; remember, it wasn't spidered then.
I used the Wayback machine to grab thousands of messages from an old WWWBoard-based message board that I ran, for eventual conversion to vBulletin. Some years, the Wayback Machine crawled every month; others it didn't even visit. Probably 80% of the messages that were posted before 2000 are lost to the ether of cyberspace. Guess you can't expect it to archive everything.
In today's magazines, even though they're read by folks that are as a whole far less tech-savvy than the Byte readers of old, reviews are filled with acronyms and buzzwords. I wonder what that review would look like if it was in PC World ...
As with the rest of the hardware solution, the input device solution is significantly different from those found on other hardware solutions (see photo 3). It's smaller than most and has only 58 depressable character, line break and control function entry solutions.
"What you want, when you want it" or "All the best resources on the net." You may not have the chip, but you'll have lots of convenient links to online poker and pharmacy sites.
I've got an ancient 200 MHz Pentoum MMX-based PC with 96 megs of RAM and a two gigabyte hard drive, that I use for a "guinea pig" of sorts. Newer Linux distros using KDE or Gnome -- Fedora, Ubuntu, and even Vector -- crawl to the point where the computer is almost unusable. Any GUI action takes a few seconds or more just to register; click a mouse, and wait to see the button image depress. Windoes 2000 runs just a bit sluggish, but it's responsive, and the computer actually seems uable, even though it's slow.
Maybe in 2000, using what would have been considered old hardware at the time, Windows-based operating systems seemed slow and compared to Linux distos of the time. Back then, Linux was always recommended as a way to extend the working life of an older PC. Now, though, when a Linux installation seems slow on an elderly box, the alternative is to repalce it with Windows 98 or 2000, or make it a power-hungry router or firewall -- a waste of computing power, considering that when the computer was built, it was intended to be every bit as functional as the PCs of today.
I know someone will chime in and say "What about TWM/FVWM?" For a school, non-profit, or church, you know the answer is "no."
With all the Jewish holidays around this time of the year, there's probably more than one keyboard being replaced dut to flying matzoh crumbs and spilled Manichewitz. The solution? A kosher dishwasher.
Why not just use old technology for cheap laptops; with slower processors, smaller hard drives, and previous generation LCD displays? Would it cost that much to create a new laptop with specs comparable to a decent laptop from 2000? At first glance, it would seem cheaper than reinenting the wheel.