(Why couldn't AOL have dome this 10 years ago when everybody asked them to?)
Usenet is becomming more and more obscure as web message boards dedicated to single topics spring up
I still read groups I created 15 years ago. To this day they're still more usefull than the web bbs's and are a nice adjuct to mailing lists on the subject's I'm interested in. If the web BBS's vanished, I really wouldn't notice or care, but I would miss usenet and mailing lists if they were to go.
Wales does something and England and Scotland talk about it. Again. Get used to it.
Cymru am byth.
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I called to get their side of the story and ended up in voice mail hell. It took me 3:54 minutes before I gave up. Interestingly, when it transfers you to the operatot you get one Brian Heberston's voicemail.
The last time I went to the (local, Canadian) post office there's a new notice there. "persuant to the bioterrorism act it is no longer legal to send food to the United States. Home made goods are excepted".
I am not making this up. Send a pack of gum and you're busted. Send a dozen homemade chocolate chip anthrax cookies and you're ok.
Simple "loser pays" as a solution would be worse than the current system.
An interesting opinion, but does not mesh well with reality. This rule is in effect here in Canada and works well. We don't have the stupid lawsuits you yanks have.
That business never realized the huge potential of a multitasking, windowing, command-line integrated OS to run spreadsheets and wordprocessors on instead of the clunky program launcher that was MS-DOS.
Ah yeah well, there would have ahd to have BEEN an Amiga Word Processor and Spreadsheet would't there?
There was supposed to be a WordPerfect port to the Amiga and a weak demo copy circulated but never panned out. In a world utterly captivated by Lotus 1-2-3 the fact that the Amiga excelled (no pun intended) at editing images and video was a big "oh, neat" but did not exacly set the business world on fire.
Quartz watches almost killed nice mechanical ones and the PC reached ubiquity. Pogo was right.
I have a hundred old Amiga floppies with all my old email from the 80s on the. I have a neighbor with 5 Amigas. After messing with them for a weekend, not one is readable. Hmmm... I have a 5 meg SCSI drive on that thing... hmmm...
It ran games? Oh yeah there was that Wolftank von Moneybucks guy. And it made Schwab famous for doing in a weekend what Pixer took weeks to do. Got an updated mpg, Leo? Only Loren believes you destroyed all the copies...
What made the Amiga cool from my perspective (I still have A1000 serial #7) was, in an era of Windows 2.1 and an essentially unprogrammable Mac (Pascal? Hahahahaha) it let you have Bash, UUCP, a rational C compiler and a liner ("sergments are for worms") address space. It was as close to unix as you could get, your only other options were stolen Bell stuff or MS 286Xenix which could be made to work, but not well or easily.
Keith Doyle's (Hi Keith!) _Director_ begat Macromedia's program of the same name, which begat Flash, and it was the first computer to sync the CPU clock with a video timings, the computer to TV convergance happened first with the Amiga.
It was ungodly fast at video stuff haveing no less that three graphcs processors (in an era where EGA was "advanced" and expensive) but best of all, Amiga people were a cut above. We owe a lot to the Amiga and IMO the Linux movement today just recapitulates the whole Amiga thing.
Havung said that, my next computer will be a osx mac and I fiannly get to shoot these fucking windows PCs. I switched to cheap (ebay) suns for servers. Witha any luck, in my lifetime I'll get to see wintel boxes become extinct before the last elephant in the wild drops dead.
As opposed to with a barrage of public comments they still might think everythings ok. Any real cyange at ICANN comes in the bar, after hours duting the public meetings in exotic lovales 4X a year and only from lobbyists from compaies with three letter names.
ICANN was created to create new tlds, they really were. Big business didn't want this and spent literally hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent it.
It seems that it can become impossible to even renew the domain without the authority of that individual - and if they've left the company...
Huh? I have a bunch of domains that other people use but they're in my name. Community service (not court ordered!) stuff. Every now and then they come up for reneweal so I tell them to go renew them and thay take it in turns going to netsols website and paying for it with a credit card.
Which registrar only lets the registrant renew it? I'd like to avoid that one.
If you look hard enough you'll find that about 2 weeks ago the transfer process was changed so that the losing registrar no longer has to ACK the transfer. This was apparanly at the impetus of an intellectual property lobbyist within ICANN who has never owned or managed a domain, ever.
I dare you to create a meaningful sentance with the words "IANA" and "lobbyist" in it.
This is, sadly, standard policy for all the registrars. Idiotic, yes, but normal. The problem is that in their (NetSol's) boneheaded minds, the owner of the domain is the COMPANY to which the domain is registered, not the person.
Factually incorrect. The owner of the domain is the registrant. It's whatever you tell them when you registrer it.
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Why? Oil money.
Used to be if you wanted to sell a(n interesting) car in Canada you'd sell it in the US to get the most $. These days you sell it in Calgary.
So what does Vint have to say?
I suppose. But if you screw up and end up in that cop show.... (shudder).
I'm dead, Jim.
Enterprise has kinda laid off the "decontamination chamber" bit in Season 4
Lemme know when it's worth watching again then.
If pr0n is the only way to save the show then bring it on boys, bring it on. I'd pay big money for a one hour decontamination video.
Throw Dax in too. See where I'm going with this? Work with me here.
My people will call your people.
Luv ya babe, chow chow mein.
(Why couldn't AOL have dome this 10 years ago when everybody asked them to?)
Usenet is becomming more and more obscure as web message boards dedicated to single topics spring up
I still read groups I created 15 years ago. To this day they're still more usefull than the web bbs's and are a nice adjuct to mailing lists on the subject's I'm interested in. If the web BBS's vanished, I really wouldn't notice or care, but I would miss usenet and mailing lists if they were to go.
> Never had that problem with MSIE!
You spelled it wrong. It's "MS AAAIIIEEEEEEEE!"
water in French is "eau"
A reverse osmosis filter will clean that right up. Here's it's more like "ewww" but carbon takes care of that.
Ewww.
Could you hold the pickles on that burger?
Wales does something and England and Scotland talk about it. Again. Get used to it.
Cymru am byth.
I called to get their side of the story and ended up in voice mail hell. It took me 3:54 minutes before I gave up. Interestingly, when it transfers you to the operatot you get one Brian Heberston's voicemail.
I wonder how many people actually work there?
...The judge is clearly an incompetent idiot...
Hey, more libel. Cool.
That law is not concerned with your opinion, it is concerned with the facts of the matter.
What kind of cookies?
The last time I went to the (local, Canadian) post office there's a new notice there. "persuant to the bioterrorism act it is no longer legal to send food to the United States. Home made goods are excepted".
I am not making this up. Send a pack of gum and you're busted. Send a dozen homemade chocolate chip anthrax cookies and you're ok.
Send them spam that under the law is not spam?
Don't all do this at once.
(He's still an idiot for libelling them.)
Simple "loser pays" as a solution would be worse than the current system.
An interesting opinion, but does not mesh well with reality. This rule is in effect here in Canada and works well. We don't have the stupid lawsuits you yanks have.
That business never realized the huge potential of a multitasking, windowing, command-line integrated OS to run spreadsheets and wordprocessors on instead of the clunky program launcher that was MS-DOS.
Ah yeah well, there would have ahd to have BEEN an Amiga Word Processor and Spreadsheet would't there?
There was supposed to be a WordPerfect port to the Amiga and a weak demo copy circulated but never panned out. In a world utterly captivated by Lotus 1-2-3 the fact that the Amiga excelled (no pun intended) at editing images and video was a big "oh, neat" but did not exacly set the business world on fire.
Quartz watches almost killed nice mechanical ones and the PC reached ubiquity. Pogo was right.
I have a hundred old Amiga floppies with all my old email from the 80s on the. I have a neighbor with 5 Amigas. After messing with them for a weekend, not one is readable. Hmmm... I have a 5 meg SCSI drive on that thing... hmmm...
The Amiga was a great games machine.
It ran games? Oh yeah there was that Wolftank von Moneybucks guy. And it made Schwab famous for doing in a weekend what Pixer took weeks to do. Got an updated mpg, Leo? Only Loren believes you destroyed all the copies...
What made the Amiga cool from my perspective (I still have A1000 serial #7) was, in an era of Windows 2.1 and an essentially unprogrammable Mac (Pascal? Hahahahaha) it let you have Bash, UUCP, a rational C compiler and a liner ("sergments are for worms") address space. It was as close to unix as you could get, your only other options were stolen Bell stuff or MS 286Xenix which could be made to work, but not well or easily.
Keith Doyle's (Hi Keith!) _Director_ begat Macromedia's program of the same name, which begat Flash, and it was the first computer to sync the CPU clock with a video timings, the computer to TV convergance happened first with the Amiga.
It was ungodly fast at video stuff haveing no less that three graphcs processors (in an era where EGA was "advanced" and expensive) but best of all, Amiga people were a cut above. We owe a lot to the Amiga and IMO the Linux movement today just recapitulates the whole Amiga thing.
Havung said that, my next computer will be a osx mac and I fiannly get to shoot these fucking windows PCs. I switched to cheap (ebay) suns for servers. Witha any luck, in my lifetime I'll get to see wintel boxes become extinct before the last elephant in the wild drops dead.
As opposed to with a barrage of public comments they still might think everythings ok. Any real cyange at ICANN comes in the bar, after hours duting the public meetings in exotic lovales 4X a year and only from lobbyists from compaies with three letter names.
.coop working out for ya?
ICANN was created to create new tlds, they really were. Big business didn't want this and spent literally hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent it.
Hows that
It seems that it can become impossible to even renew the domain without the authority of that individual - and if they've left the company...
Huh? I have a bunch of domains that other people use but they're in my name. Community service (not court ordered!) stuff. Every now and then they come up for reneweal so I tell them to go renew them and thay take it in turns going to netsols website and paying for it with a credit card.
Which registrar only lets the registrant renew it? I'd like to avoid that one.
Somebody should transfer Malbourne IT's domain to Panix.
You might want to read up on the history of .au and .oz. Google Robert "shoeless" Elz.
Why was IANA at the university of southern california? Same reason. That's where it started.
If you look hard enough you'll find that about 2 weeks ago the transfer process was changed so that the losing registrar no longer has to ACK the transfer. This was apparanly at the impetus of an intellectual property lobbyist within ICANN who has never owned or managed a domain, ever.
I dare you to create a meaningful sentance with the words "IANA" and "lobbyist" in it.
even ignoring emails form ICANN for a couple of weeks at the start of September 2000
At least they got something right.
This is, sadly, standard policy for all the registrars. Idiotic, yes, but normal. The problem is that in their (NetSol's) boneheaded minds, the owner of the domain is the COMPANY to which the domain is registered, not the person.
Factually incorrect. The owner of the domain is the registrant. It's whatever you tell them when you registrer it.
It's been that way since 1986.