"no it isn't, its almost 11pm [GMT] sunday nite right now"
Uhh, maybe we're taking their "we'll put the website up on monday" statement too literally... I doubt there's someone in the office at 11pm Sunday night, with "apachectl start" in a console, and finger hovering over the Enter button listening for Big Ben to strike 12...
(yes I know it's in staffordshire... artistic license..)
If you can't find the CD on an old microsoft application, try anything where the last 7 digits are a multiple of 7. e.g. 111-1111111 7777-7777777 11111-11111-11111 -11111-11111
Thanks for the info. I've been looking at that for a while, but a bug in mozilla means that it can't block <embed> tags yet, which account for about half of the flash advertisements you see. I'm trying to find a good way of blocking Flash, but the best solution I've found so far is Privoxy (a filtering proxy server).
"http://www.xulplanet.com/downloads/prefbar/help/f aq.html to specify a couple of From: fields."
It's easy enough to set up a new email account whenever you want to send email from a particular name. It can be useful if you only have one or two email addresses, but if you regularly tell people your email address is my.name.recipient_identifier@mydomain.com, it can make you wish for the ability to specify your own email address. As often as not, I've had to resort to emailing a message to myself, and sending it from a system with kmail installed.
Mind you it's better than Outlook (which we use at work) -- you can type in your From: address, and get the error "You don't have permission to send on behalf of this user"... C'mon, just let me specify the damned address, or do I have to telnet into the SMTP server myself?
"If you do this, *please* make sure to e-mail the maintainers of the website...Otherwise, the fake user agent string just continues to tell them "everyone uses IE anyway, so we're doing the right thing by ignoring those losers""
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; I'm running mozilla 1.5, see www.mozilla.org to test your website's compatibility with this browser)");
"Just curious, who uses the suite instead of Firebird/Thunderbird... and why?"
I do...
* Looks prettier by default
* Configuration window is familiar, while I can't find anything in Firebird's options at the moment
* Stuff in the Tools menu I actually use (such as the cookie manager and form manager)
* More addons available at projects.mozdev.org (things like HTTP headers in the page-info screen, "save all linked files", the calendar, user-agent setting, etc.)
* I actually use the mail and IRC clients when I'm on a Windows machine, so it's not really a problem to have them included.
* I use the Composer program all the time, (as a word-processor, as well as web-page design) so again, no problem having it included.
It can sometimes startle you to see Mozilla taking up 44MB of memory if you ever look at the Windows task manager, especially when you're not using the broswer and something else is trying to use a lot of memory though... and it does take a while to start if it's not already loaded.
As to download time, if you use all the tools, it should take less time to download the mozilla suite compared to individual components?
"But the zipped-up downloads aren't the same. They look like this. "01.mp3""
If the files are tagged, there are plenty of tools to do a batch-rename from track name/album/track number in the ID1 tag. Just do a search, or try your normal software download lists.
"That actually depresses me a bit, as I had bought some music off of mp3.com when it was around"
Great place to buy music.
You already know it's good music, because all the songs are available to download. When you buy the CD (at a third of the price they're sold in the high-street), you even get MP3 versions of the songs on the data directory. No more CDEXing, just copy the MP3 files in seconds, and the tags are all accurate and ready to put on your Zen.
Then if the CD gets damaged (all CDs get damaged), you already have a backup copy, legally. And if someone asks you what you're listening to, you can send them a link to download the song from the website. Chatting on IRC, "listen to this", post a link. Or email a link.
Discover new music. Amazing what you find when you only have to spend 2 minutes of download time to sample a new band, rather than $20 and a trip to the shops. Find music in the charts there. See which music your bands like, from links in their homepages...
Yes, it's crap that they deleted MP3.com. And you just know, that as long as we live, nobody else will figure out that that's how a music shop should be run...
"I guess if it's for attacking spam filters, people who run software like TMDA are immune."
In the same way that people who live in nice neighbourhoods are immume from crime I suppose... It's still there, just that they don't see it.
One thing TMDA people are immune from is getting receipts from online shopping, or confirmation emails for mailing lists and such like. Computers that don't read the challenge/response questions, and whose email addresses you don't know in advance to whitelist.
Hopefully they're also immune to the angry emails from everyone whose email addy was spoofed, and is getting a shedload of challenge emails from TMDA systems...
And it doesn't really stop someone from sending spam. All they need to do is write schneier@securityfocus.com in the From field, and their email gets through to anyone who's subscribed to cryptogram and whitelisted it.
"I really understand this part: going after people who are taking active measures against your enterprise due to their disinterest."
Odd isn't it, how the people who'll swear blind (see rule #1) that the auto-generated email lists they use are 100% opt-in, yet they know that these "opted-in" recipients will have filters specifically designed to prevent that person from sending them email.
Apparently these people who desire emailed advertisements must have installed SpamAssasin by mistake or something...
In his book, Greenspun mentions that putting your phone number on the web is less annoying than putting an email, as the phone can only be used by a real human, who's paying the cost of the call, and can only contact one person at a time...
"First off, they aren't paying for anything, people who buy music are"
How so? They pay to record it. They pay to play it on the radio, they pay people to do the DRM, they pay people to sue the people who buy the music. They pay to press the CD, package it, transport it, and pay for people to run the shop.
Then we wander in, see the "this will cripple your AppleMac" sticker on the CD, and wander out again. Or we buy the CD, discover some proprietry windows-onlys stuff we can't play (maybe even the whole CD) and take it back for a full refund before calling Trading Standards.
"Though if pressed, I'd rather have the MM/DD/YYYY because you know first what month-- the general-- and then what day-- the specific."
Except you don't... you only know what month is specified about ten seconds later, as you realise that it's written in the american date system...
Unless it's the 12th of the month or earlier, in which case you may never know...
If you want to be really confusing, you can use 2-digit years as well, so now that we're near the beginning of a century, 01-02-03 could mean near enough anything...
I did try using the 2004-01-03 date system for a while -- nobody I showed the text to realised what it was until it was pointed out to them. One person thought 2004-01-03 was a date in 2003, because it had the 03 at the end, where the year normally goes (this after a glancing at a letterhead), and I imagine that the people who clear checks at a bank have about as much time as she did to read dates.
"So those Win98 users - the ones whose needs aren't sophisticated enough to justify upgrading to Win2K or WinXP - are all kernel developers now?"
Which bit of Windows is the kernel? Is it the bit you read emails on, or the bit you browse the web with? Someone used to say that the windows kernel was the directory browser, and someone else said the windows kernel was the thing which displayed the clock.
I'm not a kernel developer, but I'm happy messing with clocks...
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"no it isn't, its almost 11pm [GMT] sunday nite right now"
Uhh, maybe we're taking their "we'll put the website up on monday" statement too literally... I doubt there's someone in the office at 11pm Sunday night, with "apachectl start" in a console, and finger hovering over the Enter button listening for Big Ben to strike 12...
(yes I know it's in staffordshire... artistic license..)
"keygens seem to be widely available"
1 -11111-11111
If you can't find the CD on an old microsoft application, try anything where the last 7 digits are a multiple of 7. e.g.
111-1111111
7777-7777777
11111-11111-1111
more details
"It takes all the fun out of a friendly-fire incident if your sergeant can just respawn."
Let me guess, the British don't want to connect their simulators to this system?
"You have died. Click fire to respawn."
Do you actually know that you won't respawn when you die? Reincarnation is one of those things which is damned difficult to disprove...
Forbidden /~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php on this server.
.htaccess file, as quick as they could?
You don't have permission to access
hmmm, so someone is paying by the gigabyte, saw themselves on slashdot, and put "Deny all" in an
"Mars needs women!"
Isn't that a line from the Chemical Brothers song?
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info.php/flas hclick
f aq.html to specify a couple of From: fields."
Thanks for the info. I've been looking at that for a while, but a bug in mozilla means that it can't block <embed> tags yet, which account for about half of the flash advertisements you see. I'm trying to find a good way of blocking Flash, but the best solution I've found so far is Privoxy (a filtering proxy server).
"http://www.xulplanet.com/downloads/prefbar/help/
It's easy enough to set up a new email account whenever you want to send email from a particular name. It can be useful if you only have one or two email addresses, but if you regularly tell people your email address is my.name.recipient_identifier@mydomain.com, it can make you wish for the ability to specify your own email address. As often as not, I've had to resort to emailing a message to myself, and sending it from a system with kmail installed.
Mind you it's better than Outlook (which we use at work) -- you can type in your From: address, and get the error "You don't have permission to send on behalf of this user"... C'mon, just let me specify the damned address, or do I have to telnet into the SMTP server myself?
"Does it say anywhere how MS was preventing these programs from honoring the default browser setting?"
One would guess:
system("iexplore.exe www.musicsite.microsoft.com");
"If you do this, *please* make sure to e-mail the maintainers of the website...Otherwise, the fake user agent string just continues to tell them "everyone uses IE anyway, so we're doing the right thing by ignoring those losers""
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; I'm running mozilla 1.5, see www.mozilla.org to test your website's compatibility with this browser)");
"Just curious, who uses the suite instead of Firebird/Thunderbird... and why?"
I do...
* Looks prettier by default
* Configuration window is familiar, while I can't find anything in Firebird's options at the moment
* Stuff in the Tools menu I actually use (such as the cookie manager and form manager)
* More addons available at projects.mozdev.org (things like HTTP headers in the page-info screen, "save all linked files", the calendar, user-agent setting, etc.)
* I actually use the mail and IRC clients when I'm on a Windows machine, so it's not really a problem to have them included.
* I use the Composer program all the time, (as a word-processor, as well as web-page design) so again, no problem having it included.
It can sometimes startle you to see Mozilla taking up 44MB of memory if you ever look at the Windows task manager, especially when you're not using the broswer and something else is trying to use a lot of memory though... and it does take a while to start if it's not already loaded.
As to download time, if you use all the tools, it should take less time to download the mozilla suite compared to individual components?
No way to specify the From: field in email messages?
No way to block Flash graphics without using an external proxy?
No per-mime-type filtering options?
And is there any way of making the "Close other tabs" button disappear? No! No! Dammit, don't close everything, I meant just "close this tab"...
"But the zipped-up downloads aren't the same. They look like this. "01.mp3""
If the files are tagged, there are plenty of tools to do a batch-rename from track name/album/track number in the ID1 tag. Just do a search, or try your normal software download lists.
"but I cant help wondering what elevators I am going to be heard in."
;-)
At the risk of making a HHGttG reference, the elevator in question might need councilling afterwards...
"That actually depresses me a bit, as I had bought some music off of mp3.com when it was around"
Great place to buy music.
You already know it's good music, because all the songs are available to download. When you buy the CD (at a third of the price they're sold in the high-street), you even get MP3 versions of the songs on the data directory. No more CDEXing, just copy the MP3 files in seconds, and the tags are all accurate and ready to put on your Zen.
Then if the CD gets damaged (all CDs get damaged), you already have a backup copy, legally. And if someone asks you what you're listening to, you can send them a link to download the song from the website. Chatting on IRC, "listen to this", post a link. Or email a link.
Discover new music. Amazing what you find when you only have to spend 2 minutes of download time to sample a new band, rather than $20 and a trip to the shops. Find music in the charts there. See which music your bands like, from links in their homepages...
Yes, it's crap that they deleted MP3.com. And you just know, that as long as we live, nobody else will figure out that that's how a music shop should be run...
"I guess if it's for attacking spam filters, people who run software like TMDA are immune."
In the same way that people who live in nice neighbourhoods are immume from crime I suppose... It's still there, just that they don't see it.
One thing TMDA people are immune from is getting receipts from online shopping, or confirmation emails for mailing lists and such like. Computers that don't read the challenge/response questions, and whose email addresses you don't know in advance to whitelist.
Hopefully they're also immune to the angry emails from everyone whose email addy was spoofed, and is getting a shedload of challenge emails from TMDA systems...
And it doesn't really stop someone from sending spam. All they need to do is write schneier@securityfocus.com in the From field, and their email gets through to anyone who's subscribed to cryptogram and whitelisted it.
"I really understand this part: going after people who are taking active measures against your enterprise due to their disinterest."
Odd isn't it, how the people who'll swear blind (see rule #1) that the auto-generated email lists they use are 100% opt-in, yet they know that these "opted-in" recipients will have filters specifically designed to prevent that person from sending them email.
Apparently these people who desire emailed advertisements must have installed SpamAssasin by mistake or something...
In his book, Greenspun mentions that putting your phone number on the web is less annoying than putting an email, as the phone can only be used by a real human, who's paying the cost of the call, and can only contact one person at a time...
"I don't get it. If you're not selling a product, what is the spam for?"
For attacking spam-filters.
"First off, they aren't paying for anything, people who buy music are"
How so? They pay to record it. They pay to play it on the radio, they pay people to do the DRM, they pay people to sue the people who buy the music. They pay to press the CD, package it, transport it, and pay for people to run the shop.
Then we wander in, see the "this will cripple your AppleMac" sticker on the CD, and wander out again. Or we buy the CD, discover some proprietry windows-onlys stuff we can't play (maybe even the whole CD) and take it back for a full refund before calling Trading Standards.
So then who's paid for the music?
"Though if pressed, I'd rather have the MM/DD/YYYY because you know first what month-- the general-- and then what day-- the specific."
Except you don't... you only know what month is specified about ten seconds later, as you realise that it's written in the american date system...
Unless it's the 12th of the month or earlier, in which case you may never know...
If you want to be really confusing, you can use 2-digit years as well, so now that we're near the beginning of a century, 01-02-03 could mean near enough anything...
I did try using the 2004-01-03 date system for a while -- nobody I showed the text to realised what it was until it was pointed out to them. One person thought 2004-01-03 was a date in 2003, because it had the 03 at the end, where the year normally goes (this after a glancing at a letterhead), and I imagine that the people who clear checks at a bank have about as much time as she did to read dates.
"I've heard that the European Union is soon going to pass a new harmonisation order forcing everyone to adopt metric time."
That's old news, even for slashdot..
"A day was divided in ten hours of a hundred minutes of a hundred seconds. (Thus, exactly 100,000 seconds per day.)"
10-day weeks, too.
"Why? Because this is slashdot, and we have no lives ;)"
;)
You mean...
Why? Because this is slashdot, and we have no lives
"Lego on ebay costs 10 GBP per kilo."
Is there a petition somewhere for allowing the £ character on slashdot?
"So those Win98 users - the ones whose needs aren't sophisticated enough to justify upgrading to Win2K or WinXP - are all kernel developers now?"
Which bit of Windows is the kernel? Is it the bit you read emails on, or the bit you browse the web with? Someone used to say that the windows kernel was the directory browser, and someone else said the windows kernel was the thing which displayed the clock.
I'm not a kernel developer, but I'm happy messing with clocks...
"They got rid of the old guy with his knee that "acts up" right before an earthquake?"
Government science FAQ on earthquakes website:
q) why do some people have pets that can predict the arrival of an earthquake?
a) earthquakes affect millions of people. It's fairly likely that some of their pets will be behaving oddly anyway
"The copyright holder legally holds all the rights on their work, and they are (and should be!) free to restrict how you use their work."
The law doesn't agree with you, neither do the courts.
(Copyright doesn't allow you to control how a work is used, only how it is copied.)