You can also list robots.txt commands as meta tags in the [head] portion of the document. So, the wiki authors could just put them in the sandbox template, and individual site owners would not even have to know about / monkey with robots.txt to be protected.
and is trying to integrate the two development platforms and environments without antagonizing either the developers from both sides or the screaming fanboys
It seems to me that the easiest way to accomplish this is to put the developers from both sides in the same room, or in adjacent offices. I once worked in a web dev team which was one door down from the video production studios. Since we were all very creative and in contact all day long, we rather naturally ended up collaborating on lots of cool cross-media stuff.
OK, I tried using XML & XSLT under PHP a couple years ago, for the CMS system which is linked in my.sig. It was one of the most frustrating experiences of my life.
Firstly, it required that PHP be recompiled with the Sablotron module, which would have made the software inaccessible to most of its current user base.
Secondly, writing the XSL stylesheets was complicated as hell. The learning curve associated with them would have made the software inaccessible to ~96% of its current user base, probably including me. (it now uses its own templating system which allows designers to create the templates.)
Has any of this changed? For example, are there any WYSIWYG editors which make it easier to write stylesheets? Will PHP 5 have XSLT capabilities built-in?
Or am I missing something? Is XSLT really not as hard to get started with as I think? (If I'm just a dumbass, I'm sure someone on/. will quickly point that out:)
I've thought it would be funny to buy and use each and every penis enlargement product pitched to me via spam for one year, and document the results on a weblog. At the end of that year, I bet my schlong would be enormous.
The rich keep getting richer. The poor keep getting poorer.
This mantra of the left never fails to chap my ass. It certainly is accurate when describing communist societies such as China, the USSR, and North Korea, in which the political elite live large at the expense of the working class. It emphatically does not apply to capitalism, under which the rich get richer, and the poor get richer.
- New building to accomodate growing staff - Expand QA dept to increase product quality - Security system in parking lot to prevent assaults on employees - Holiday party
(seriously, I know dozens of executives and none are big spenders. Most are frugal as hell and trying to run tight ships in a still-struggling economy)
The little guy doesn't get to assemble these either, by the way. Those jobs have also been outsourced. We get to sell them if we're lucky.
We get to either adapt to the changing needs of a global marketplace or STFU. That's life.
In all likelihood there is nothing at all 'wrong' with your daughter. If she's having problems focusing in school, try a change of environment. Consider homeschooling, or a Sudbury school (Link 1) (Link 2).
Some kids may be able to sit still for hours in an uncomfortable wooden chair, ingesting mostly-useless information from a chalkboard and asking permission to use a bathroom. Others can't, and should not be placed in such a miserable environment.
What I don't get is the spam which advertises a product, but gives you no way to follow through and purchase it. I've even looked at the message source and there is no brand name, 800 number, URL, or contact info. Just one paragraph which reads along the lines of "Our Cable Descrambler is the best on the market. It descrambles stuff better than the others. Purchase one today!"
Not that I would actually purchase something; it just makes me wonder WTF the point was of sending the message in the first place. It seems like a 100% waste of time and bandwidth for everyone.
I have written a simple application in Visual Basic once that used the API of MSN instant messenger to listen to the messages sent to me and do a custom auto reply saying things like "i will be back in a few mins".
Good lord. Couldn't you have just clicked the 'Away' button?;-)
Maybe KDE has gotten to the point where it needs to be split into two separate branches, not unlike Debian stable vs. unstable, or Red Hat Enterprise vs. Fedora. Let the testing and innovation originate in the "unstable" branch, and trickle over to the "stable" branch upon maturation.
It would help if another high-profile distro adopted KDE as the default.
Wow, thanks for all the helpful suggestions. I have read what everyone said, and here is what I decided to do:
1. I wrote a quick batch/commandline PHP program which will retrieve and parse the whois information for a list of domains on a daily basis, and mail an expiration report to me. It's not perfect but it works. The script can be downloaded here: http://www.axis80.com/domain_watcher_20031209.tar. gz
2. When each client's domain comes up for renewal, I'll check their contact information and make any changes necessary to bring it up to date, unless it's a NetSol domain, in which case I'll just throw my hands up in frustration.
Anyway, thanks again for all the good ideas. Hope others find the PHP script useful.
Yep, I have been getting the same thing for several weeks, although it has slowed down recently.
Check the mail headers - I bet you'll find that each message originated from a different IP. In my case, the messages were coming from hijacked PCs on cable/DSL connections.
For Christmas last year I got my (then 10 yo) son a domain name and a book on HTML. I set his Mac up with BBEdit and an FTP client, and after a couple days of reading and just a little bit of help from me, he had a site up and running.
It's pretty hard to navigate, and some of the HTML is questionable, but he had a lot of fun with it. I'm going to help him get set up with PostNuke soon, as he's kind of bored with writing HTML.
I'd like to post the URL for his site, but it's better if I omit it to protect his privacy. There are a lot of weirdos on the Internet, you know.
I feel your pain. A spammer is doing the same thing to me right now. I've received >1000 bounce messages in the past few days.
What's weird is that there are dozens of unique originating IPs. I don't think they're forged, rather it appears that he/she has hijacked vulnerable machines on cable & dsl networks, and used them to originate the spam.
I tried emailing a bunch of the ISPs, but nobody ever does anything. Sigh.
(I can't take credit for this. My brother wrote it)
I think I've come up with a system which will solve Friendster's database problems:
First you get 2500 chimpanzees, and arrange them in a 50x50 grid. Each monkey is sitting in front of a chute which dispenses ripe bananas. Whenever the Friendster server needs to retrieve a piece of data, bananas will be dispensed across the grid in a pattern that represents the parameters of that database query. Monkeys who do not get bananas will begin flinging feces at the monkeys who do get them, and an array of overhead cameras, connected to an advanced video analysis system, will extrapolate the vectors and distribution of said feces.
In another room, these vectors are fed directly into the cerebral cortex of a stoned teenager in a Slipknot T-shirt, who is playing Excitebike. His NES, which has been augmented with sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms and has achieved consciousness, uses the input from the game controller to infer the appropriate response to the database query, and telepathically transmits this information to Miss Cleo.
At this point the user will be prompted to call Miss Cleo, who will tell them the answer in highly inauthentic Jamaican patois. This will cost $2.99 per minute, but there will be several Kingston rude bwoys standing by Miss Cleo who will roll 3d6 every time someone calls. If the result is less than Miss Cleo's saving throw, the rude bwoys will gang-rape her at knifepoint.
I think this will be a much more efficient system than whatever the fuck they're doing now.
In economic terms, this is a shortage. People want to "buy" more roadspace at the current price than is available. When there's a shortage, queuing costs dominate but the queuing costs benefit nobody. There's really only one solution -- make buying roadspace more expensive.
Yep, you're completely correct, of course. I read another post here some weeks ago which described your solution and called it "peak demand pricing".
While that solution makes abundant sense, it is not likely to fly politically any time soon. My impression is that most people view transportation/roads as a right rather than a service. Until that changes, we're stuck with traffic jams.
Bogus. If more people would get off their asses and onto a bicycle or even walk we would have far fewer traffic problems. Instead, we want large hulking SUV's to haul us back and forth from work and the store.
Get real, dude. This isn't Europe. Where I live, it is absolutely unsafe to walk or ride a bike. If you try to ride a bike to work here, you are likely to be killed within a couple of miles. This is mostly due to the fact that there are few shoulders, bike lanes or sidewalks, and partly due to the street thugs and undesirables who stumble around the downtown area all day long.
I have lived in towns where it is possible to go for weeks without needing a car, and I miss them. Unfortunately, those places are few and far-between. Instead, we have Wonderful Suburbia, with all of its sterile cul-de-sac neighborhoods, highways, indistinguishable chain restaurants and strip malls.
Given the sometimes cruel nature of peer pressure and cliques in public schools, do students really have that much of a viable choice in this matter--or do they risk being labeled as "anti-American" and treated as a social outcast if they decide to sit out on the recitation of the pledge? I'd argue that there's more to it from a social standpoint than students just not saying the pledge if they don't want to.
I declined to say the pledge throughout high school, but I don't think it was that big of a deal. I was reasonably popular, and nobody ever raised the issue.
It's more of an issue for me now, because the pledge is recited at my kid's school assemblies. Out of a crowd of hundreds of adults (this is in a somewhat conservative town) I am always the only one standing silent with my hands by my side. It's beyond uncomfortable. Many other parents stare at me with looks of incredulity and often outright anger. Judging from the looks I've received, I expect to be physically confronted sooner or later.
Screw 'em, I say. I will not profess to a belief which I do not hold.
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You can also list robots.txt commands as meta tags in the [head] portion of the document. So, the wiki authors could just put them in the sandbox template, and individual site owners would not even have to know about / monkey with robots.txt to be protected.
This is one of the great things about digging through old stacks of National Geo. Especially issues from the '50s and earlier.
Yeah, you get the same effect just going through copies of Wired magazine from the last couple years.
and is trying to integrate the two development platforms and environments without antagonizing either the developers from both sides or the screaming fanboys
It seems to me that the easiest way to accomplish this is to put the developers from both sides in the same room, or in adjacent offices. I once worked in a web dev team which was one door down from the video production studios. Since we were all very creative and in contact all day long, we rather naturally ended up collaborating on lots of cool cross-media stuff.
Yes, it's true.
OK, I tried using XML & XSLT under PHP a couple years ago, for the CMS system which is linked in my .sig. It was one of the most frustrating experiences of my life.
/. will quickly point that out :)
Firstly, it required that PHP be recompiled with the Sablotron module, which would have made the software inaccessible to most of its current user base.
Secondly, writing the XSL stylesheets was complicated as hell. The learning curve associated with them would have made the software inaccessible to ~96% of its current user base, probably including me. (it now uses its own templating system which allows designers to create the templates.)
Has any of this changed? For example, are there any WYSIWYG editors which make it easier to write stylesheets? Will PHP 5 have XSLT capabilities built-in?
Or am I missing something? Is XSLT really not as hard to get started with as I think? (If I'm just a dumbass, I'm sure someone on
I've thought it would be funny to buy and use each and every penis enlargement product pitched to me via spam for one year, and document the results on a weblog. At the end of that year, I bet my schlong would be enormous.
I've often heard the U.S. economy described as a "mixed economy," i.e. a hybrid of capitalism and socialism.
so like, all these projectiles being fired at the asteroid are going to push the earth backward and out of its normal orbit?
that's one way to get it out of the path of the asteroid, i guess.
The rich keep getting richer. The poor keep getting poorer.
This mantra of the left never fails to chap my ass. It certainly is accurate when describing communist societies such as China, the USSR, and North Korea, in which the political elite live large at the expense of the working class. It emphatically does not apply to capitalism, under which the rich get richer, and the poor get richer.
You're right. They use that money elsewhere.
Bigger boats
$15,000 watches
Expensive artwork
Marble dog-houses
McMegaMansions
- New building to accomodate growing staff
- Expand QA dept to increase product quality
- Security system in parking lot to prevent assaults on employees
- Holiday party
(seriously, I know dozens of executives and none are big spenders. Most are frugal as hell and trying to run tight ships in a still-struggling economy)
The little guy doesn't get to assemble these either, by the way. Those jobs have also been outsourced. We get to sell them if we're lucky.
We get to either adapt to the changing needs of a global marketplace or STFU. That's life.
Friendster has such momentum even though it is so buggy and slow. Can anyone explain why it is so popular?
:)
Because it has a clean, simple and intuitive user interface. It is very well designed, except for the database part
All the other social networking sites are a PITA to navigate, and have really cluttered, obnoxious UIs.
In all likelihood there is nothing at all 'wrong' with your daughter. If she's having problems focusing in school, try a change of environment. Consider homeschooling, or a Sudbury school (Link 1) (Link 2).
Some kids may be able to sit still for hours in an uncomfortable wooden chair, ingesting mostly-useless information from a chalkboard and asking permission to use a bathroom. Others can't, and should not be placed in such a miserable environment.
Yeah, really.
What I don't get is the spam which advertises a product, but gives you no way to follow through and purchase it. I've even looked at the message source and there is no brand name, 800 number, URL, or contact info. Just one paragraph which reads along the lines of "Our Cable Descrambler is the best on the market. It descrambles stuff better than the others. Purchase one today!"
Not that I would actually purchase something; it just makes me wonder WTF the point was of sending the message in the first place. It seems like a 100% waste of time and bandwidth for everyone.
So what was the flick? It sounds interesting.
I have written a simple application in Visual Basic once that used the API of MSN instant messenger to listen to the messages sent to me and do a custom auto reply saying things like "i will be back in a few mins".
;-)
Good lord. Couldn't you have just clicked the 'Away' button?
Maybe KDE has gotten to the point where it needs to be split into two separate branches, not unlike Debian stable vs. unstable, or Red Hat Enterprise vs. Fedora. Let the testing and innovation originate in the "unstable" branch, and trickle over to the "stable" branch upon maturation.
It would help if another high-profile distro adopted KDE as the default.
Wow, thanks for all the helpful suggestions. I have read what everyone said, and here is what I decided to do:
. gz
1. I wrote a quick batch/commandline PHP program which will retrieve and parse the whois information for a list of domains on a daily basis, and mail an expiration report to me. It's not perfect but it works. The script can be downloaded here: http://www.axis80.com/domain_watcher_20031209.tar
2. When each client's domain comes up for renewal, I'll check their contact information and make any changes necessary to bring it up to date, unless it's a NetSol domain, in which case I'll just throw my hands up in frustration.
Anyway, thanks again for all the good ideas. Hope others find the PHP script useful.
Yep, I have been getting the same thing for several weeks, although it has slowed down recently.
Check the mail headers - I bet you'll find that each message originated from a different IP. In my case, the messages were coming from hijacked PCs on cable/DSL connections.
For Christmas last year I got my (then 10 yo) son a domain name and a book on HTML. I set his Mac up with BBEdit and an FTP client, and after a couple days of reading and just a little bit of help from me, he had a site up and running.
7 64 560670/qid=1070420666/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-991522 3-5041741?v=glance&n=507846
It's pretty hard to navigate, and some of the HTML is questionable, but he had a lot of fun with it. I'm going to help him get set up with PostNuke soon, as he's kind of bored with writing HTML.
I'd like to post the URL for his site, but it's better if I omit it to protect his privacy. There are a lot of weirdos on the Internet, you know.
Anyway, I can't recommend this book enough:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0
I feel your pain. A spammer is doing the same thing to me right now. I've received >1000 bounce messages in the past few days.
What's weird is that there are dozens of unique originating IPs. I don't think they're forged, rather it appears that he/she has hijacked vulnerable machines on cable & dsl networks, and used them to originate the spam.
I tried emailing a bunch of the ISPs, but nobody ever does anything. Sigh.
(I can't take credit for this. My brother wrote it)
I think I've come up with a system which will
solve Friendster's database problems:
First you get 2500 chimpanzees, and arrange them
in a 50x50 grid. Each monkey is sitting in front
of a chute which dispenses ripe bananas. Whenever
the Friendster server needs to retrieve a piece
of data, bananas will be dispensed across the
grid in a pattern that represents the parameters
of that database query. Monkeys who do not get
bananas will begin flinging feces at the monkeys
who do get them, and an array of overhead
cameras, connected to an advanced video analysis
system, will extrapolate the vectors and
distribution of said feces.
In another room, these vectors are fed directly
into the cerebral cortex of a stoned teenager in
a Slipknot T-shirt, who is playing Excitebike.
His NES, which has been augmented with
sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms
and has achieved consciousness, uses the input
from the game controller to infer the appropriate
response to the database query, and
telepathically transmits this information to Miss
Cleo.
At this point the user will be prompted to call
Miss Cleo, who will tell them the answer in
highly inauthentic Jamaican patois. This will
cost $2.99 per minute, but there will be several
Kingston rude bwoys standing by Miss Cleo who
will roll 3d6 every time someone calls. If the
result is less than Miss Cleo's saving throw, the
rude bwoys will gang-rape her at knifepoint.
I think this will be a much more efficient system
than whatever the fuck they're doing now.
In economic terms, this is a shortage. People want to "buy" more roadspace at the current price than is available. When there's a shortage, queuing costs dominate but the queuing costs benefit nobody. There's really only one solution -- make buying roadspace more expensive.
Yep, you're completely correct, of course. I read another post here some weeks ago which described your solution and called it "peak demand pricing".
While that solution makes abundant sense, it is not likely to fly politically any time soon. My impression is that most people view transportation/roads as a right rather than a service. Until that changes, we're stuck with traffic jams.
Bogus. If more people would get off their asses and onto a bicycle or even walk we would have far fewer traffic problems. Instead, we want large hulking SUV's to haul us back and forth from work and the store.
Get real, dude. This isn't Europe. Where I live, it is absolutely unsafe to walk or ride a bike. If you try to ride a bike to work here, you are likely to be killed within a couple of miles. This is mostly due to the fact that there are few shoulders, bike lanes or sidewalks, and partly due to the street thugs and undesirables who stumble around the downtown area all day long.
I have lived in towns where it is possible to go for weeks without needing a car, and I miss them. Unfortunately, those places are few and far-between. Instead, we have Wonderful Suburbia, with all of its sterile cul-de-sac neighborhoods, highways, indistinguishable chain restaurants and strip malls.
Given the sometimes cruel nature of peer pressure and cliques in public schools, do students really have that much of a viable choice in this matter--or do they risk being labeled as "anti-American" and treated as a social outcast if they decide to sit out on the recitation of the pledge? I'd argue that there's more to it from a social standpoint than students just not saying the pledge if they don't want to.
I declined to say the pledge throughout high school, but I don't think it was that big of a deal. I was reasonably popular, and nobody ever raised the issue.
It's more of an issue for me now, because the pledge is recited at my kid's school assemblies. Out of a crowd of hundreds of adults (this is in a somewhat conservative town) I am always the only one standing silent with my hands by my side. It's beyond uncomfortable. Many other parents stare at me with looks of incredulity and often outright anger. Judging from the looks I've received, I expect to be physically confronted sooner or later.
Screw 'em, I say. I will not profess to a belief which I do not hold.
oh no, AT&T wants to gather the browser versions and screen resolutions we are using on a different server...
.gif.
Is it possible to determine the screen resolution with a hidden single-pixel gif?
I know it can be done with Flash, but can't see how it could be done with a regular
Thank you *very* *very* *very* *very* much.
You have no idea how much that helps me.
Cheers,
PB