simply buy a domain renewal/transfer somewhere else and keep an eye on your e-mail, your new domain provider will contact yahoo in a way they can't ignore.
If only it were that simple. I went through the process a year ago with a domain I bought from Yahoo in 2000.
You have to close out and cancel your Yahoo domain account (counter intuitive), then deal with Melbourne IT, which is the registrar Yahoo uses. (Because Yahoo is not a registrar.)
Only, Melbourne IT will refer you to Yahoo. And Yahoo will refer you to Melbourne IT. It's a fun process that took me a month and a half for a simple domain transfer.
Never, ever, ever, on pain of death, buy a domain from Yahoo.
Now as I start to type "s" for slashdot, instead of a list of URLs like slashdot.org, somethingawful.com, etc. I get a huge list of pages where "s" appears anywhere in the URL or title of the page. Flash MX Design, CBS News, gamesocks.com, etc.... all apparently culled from my bookmarks or pages I visited recently. It takes much longer to scan through the list (partly because the page titles are now shown along with the URL) and find the actual page I want.
The location bar is for URLs. Not page titles. Not search queries. Just addresses.
Many, many users are complaining about the so-called "awesome" bar. Unfortunately, there is no way to completely restore the old no-nonsense location bar behavior. You can just approximate it with about:config settings and the oldbar extension.
Make your voice heard if you'd like the option to restore the old location bar behavior.
I've found the "free software + ad on web site" model to work really well. I released a quirky freeware Boulder Dash clone a year ago and it's now making me an average of $5.17 per day just based on one affiliate ad I placed on the download page.
I've used Zope as the backend for everything from an online dating site to a simple online game store. It's easy to extend and unless you want to copy Plone.org you should look at the wide variety of already available Zope products before installing an extra layer of abstaction.
I looked at Plone a few times over the years but it just appeared too crufty and since Zope supports Python scripts it's easy enough for a competent programmer (of which even I'm not!) to roll their own solution.
This was an excellent book, and based on a Doctor Who script or not, I always thought it was much better than any of the Hitchhiker's novels. (However I still put the original Hitchhiker's radio series at the top of Adams' oeuvre, mostly due to the brilliance of Mark Wing-Davey.)
I used to work in an office with a crusty old guy whose only job appeared to be watering the plants all over his desk and playing Windows solitaire. We called him "boss."
Sadly I got addicted to the casual game Jurassic Realm about a year ago. Still play it at home occasionally.
My all-time favorite game might be the freeware Top Hat Willy, which was based on Jet Set Willy. It was so hard that the creator, Tero Heikkinen, never won it. As far as I know I'm one of only four people in the world who ever completed the game, and I did it twice.
The game was originally developed on the Amiga, but a PC version is also available. It's a very simple, very devious platformer.
I'm from Ohio, and I have no respect for Diebold, and probably never will again.
Their dishonest demos and insecure, buggy, unverifiable voting system showed their complete lack of respect for America's representative democracy. At the very least they are unpatriotic. Whether they rigged the presidential election or not, they are criminals.
Whatever you do, no matter how good a deal they offer, NEVER register a domain through Yahoo.
I had problems with my Yahoo Domains account's email (web service was fine) - basically 1 out of every 5 emails sent from my Yahoo purchased domain's account would not be delivered to Yahoo or Hotmail addresses. I'd get a message 2 days later saying hotmail.com couldn't be found, or yahoo.com couldn't be found. I went back and forth with Yahoo support. Eventually they told me the addresses of my friends (the Yahoo ones, at least) didn't exist or weren't valid Yahoo accounts. These were people who regularly send me mail. So I made a test free Yahoo account of my own and got the same result - sometimes mail I sent to the account didn't go through and I didn't get any clue that something was wrong until a nondelivery message came 2 days later. Again customer support told me the address didn't exist, so I sent them email FROM that address, and then they completely stopped responding to all customer support mails I sent from that point on. I was amazed.
So I decided to switch my domain to Godaddy, the registrar I have been using recently. I made a transfer purchase order through Godaddy's site and all I needed was the authorization code for my domain from Yahoo.
And thus began the hell that is trying to transfer a domain away from Yahoo.
Buried deep down in Yahoo's Website Services help pages were the directions to contact Melbourne IT, the registrar Yahoo uses to purchase domains. (Yes, Yahoo is not a registrar.) I emailed Melbourne IT asking for my code. They said to contact the reseller. Yahoo sent me email that I should contact Melbourne IT. Another person at Yahoo said I should cancel my Yahoo Domains account and they'd send me the information I needed to login to Melbourne IT's site and get my code. This sounded dubious.
But searching online revealed that's what other people had ended up doing. So I tried to change my domain's contact email address to a temp gmail address, so that when Yahoo canceled my account they wouldn't send email to the just-canceled email service. Yahoo's contact address change form returned, "Unable to modify contact information at this time. Please try again later," no matter when I tried using it. Finally I got someone at Yahoo to change the address for me. I cancelled my Yahoo account.
True to their word, Yahoo sent the login information for Melbourne IT to my domain's contact address after closing my website services account. I logged into Melbourne IT's site and there was no way to request the authorization code other than entering a basic help ticket. I did, and got no response. After a few days I sent another request. Again, no response.
One day I was reading complaints on message boards about Melbourne IT and saw a link to a login URL I hadn't seen before. I logged in there and had access to to my domain's code! Apparently Melbourne IT's support pages are partitioned with no links between each other... I sent the auth code to Godaddy and they began the transfer. Four days later, Melbourne IT responded to my original request for the authorization codes.
(I have omitted the dozens of useless exchanges with tech support people asking me for information I had already given to one of their coworkers. There is nothing more frustrating - and Yahoo was really bad at this - of starting over in a process because the person who responds to your message today doesn't understand what their coworker began two days previous.)
Total time to transfer a domain from Yahoo Domains: 1 1/2 months
If someone is more comfortable with Windows after trying one of the most user-friendly distributions out there (Kubuntu) then maybe Linux isn't for them. Time to stop evangelizing.
Someone advocated Windows for a web server I was setting up, but I tried it and decided to go with FreeBSD instead. Windows as a server wasn't for me.
The "scripting" languages that serve as entry-level tools for today's aspiring programmers -- like Perl and Python -- don't make this experience accessible to students in the same way. BASIC was close enough to the algorithm that you could actually follow the reasoning of the machine as it made choices and followed logical pathways.
If Johnny can't scan through a Python program and follow the logic, maybe he isn't quite ready to tackle computer programming...
Duke Nukem Forever will ALSO be shipping One Million Copies by the end of this year. OH, and it's European release date will be the first quarter of 2007.
Don't know what you did wrong, but I have had an NTT DoCoMo imode address attached to my phone for more than a year (the same address) and have yet to receive a single spam. This is even after giving it out to my friends. And my address is basically myname@docomo.ne.jp - I actually couldn't believe it was available.
However in regards to the callback scam you mentioned, I do get about 2 of those a week.
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simply buy a domain renewal/transfer somewhere else and keep an eye on your e-mail, your new domain provider will contact yahoo in a way they can't ignore.
If only it were that simple. I went through the process a year ago with a domain I bought from Yahoo in 2000.
You have to close out and cancel your Yahoo domain account (counter intuitive), then deal with Melbourne IT, which is the registrar Yahoo uses. (Because Yahoo is not a registrar.)
Only, Melbourne IT will refer you to Yahoo. And Yahoo will refer you to Melbourne IT. It's a fun process that took me a month and a half for a simple domain transfer.
Never, ever, ever, on pain of death, buy a domain from Yahoo.
Can someone please create a new site like Slashdot, except with actual editors?
Now as I start to type "s" for slashdot, instead of a list of URLs like slashdot.org, somethingawful.com, etc. I get a huge list of pages where "s" appears anywhere in the URL or title of the page. Flash MX Design, CBS News, gamesocks.com, etc. ... all apparently culled from my bookmarks or pages I visited recently. It takes much longer to scan through the list (partly because the page titles are now shown along with the URL) and find the actual page I want.
The location bar is for URLs. Not page titles. Not search queries. Just addresses.
Many, many users are complaining about the so-called "awesome" bar. Unfortunately, there is no way to completely restore the old no-nonsense location bar behavior. You can just approximate it with about:config settings and the oldbar extension.
Make your voice heard if you'd like the option to restore the old location bar behavior.
The Firefox team's feedback system is here.
If enough users complain, maybe this will get fixed. Or forked.
The location bar is for URLs, not searches through my bookmarks or wildcard searches through the titles of pages I visited last week.
Here's the link to the actual portal. (Annoyingly not included in the summary OR the Gamasutra hosted press release.)
Looks like yet another portal attempting to bank in with the same games already hosted on existing portals like Big Fish Games and Game Socks...
The more the merrier, I guess.
I've found the "free software + ad on web site" model to work really well. I released a quirky freeware Boulder Dash clone a year ago and it's now making me an average of $5.17 per day just based on one affiliate ad I placed on the download page.
Exactly!
I've used Zope as the backend for everything from an online dating site to a simple online game store. It's easy to extend and unless you want to copy Plone.org you should look at the wide variety of already available Zope products before installing an extra layer of abstaction.
I looked at Plone a few times over the years but it just appeared too crufty and since Zope supports Python scripts it's easy enough for a competent programmer (of which even I'm not!) to roll their own solution.
This was an excellent book, and based on a Doctor Who script or not, I always thought it was much better than any of the Hitchhiker's novels. (However I still put the original Hitchhiker's radio series at the top of Adams' oeuvre, mostly due to the brilliance of Mark Wing-Davey.)
Can't wait to listen to this new show.
I think I used that POS.
I used to work in an office with a crusty old guy whose only job appeared to be watering the plants all over his desk and playing Windows solitaire. We called him "boss."
Sadly I got addicted to the casual game Jurassic Realm about a year ago. Still play it at home occasionally.
I only played it at work a few times. Honest.
When I needed a break.
And no one could see my screen.
My all-time favorite game might be the freeware Top Hat Willy, which was based on Jet Set Willy. It was so hard that the creator, Tero Heikkinen, never won it. As far as I know I'm one of only four people in the world who ever completed the game, and I did it twice.
The game was originally developed on the Amiga, but a PC version is also available. It's a very simple, very devious platformer.
I ask that someone make an extension called "Just Show Me My Damn Mail" that works like View -> Message Source
Because I still don't know how to turn off all the stupid formatting that Thunderbird insists on. For example, changing
> quoted text
> quoted text
to
| quoted text
| quoted text
(blue bars)
and *strong* to *strong* ...and so on.
One might expect that the first, basic function of a mail program is to display the mail...
I'm from Ohio, and I have no respect for Diebold, and probably never will again.
Their dishonest demos and insecure, buggy, unverifiable voting system showed their complete lack of respect for America's representative democracy. At the very least they are unpatriotic. Whether they rigged the presidential election or not, they are criminals.
Whatever you do, no matter how good a deal they offer, NEVER register a domain through Yahoo.
I had problems with my Yahoo Domains account's email (web service was fine) - basically 1 out of every 5 emails sent from my Yahoo purchased domain's account would not be delivered to Yahoo or Hotmail addresses. I'd get a message 2 days later saying hotmail.com couldn't be found, or yahoo.com couldn't be found. I went back and forth with Yahoo support. Eventually they told me the addresses of my friends (the Yahoo ones, at least) didn't exist or weren't valid Yahoo accounts. These were people who regularly send me mail. So I made a test free Yahoo account of my own and got the same result - sometimes mail I sent to the account didn't go through and I didn't get any clue that something was wrong until a nondelivery message came 2 days later. Again customer support told me the address didn't exist, so I sent them email FROM that address, and then they completely stopped responding to all customer support mails I sent from that point on. I was amazed.
So I decided to switch my domain to Godaddy, the registrar I have been using recently. I made a transfer purchase order through Godaddy's site and all I needed was the authorization code for my domain from Yahoo.
And thus began the hell that is trying to transfer a domain away from Yahoo.
Buried deep down in Yahoo's Website Services help pages were the directions to contact Melbourne IT, the registrar Yahoo uses to purchase domains. (Yes, Yahoo is not a registrar.) I emailed Melbourne IT asking for my code. They said to contact the reseller. Yahoo sent me email that I should contact Melbourne IT. Another person at Yahoo said I should cancel my Yahoo Domains account and they'd send me the information I needed to login to Melbourne IT's site and get my code. This sounded dubious.
But searching online revealed that's what other people had ended up doing. So I tried to change my domain's contact email address to a temp gmail address, so that when Yahoo canceled my account they wouldn't send email to the just-canceled email service. Yahoo's contact address change form returned, "Unable to modify contact information at this time. Please try again later," no matter when I tried using it. Finally I got someone at Yahoo to change the address for me. I cancelled my Yahoo account.
True to their word, Yahoo sent the login information for Melbourne IT to my domain's contact address after closing my website services account. I logged into Melbourne IT's site and there was no way to request the authorization code other than entering a basic help ticket. I did, and got no response. After a few days I sent another request. Again, no response.
One day I was reading complaints on message boards about Melbourne IT and saw a link to a login URL I hadn't seen before. I logged in there and had access to to my domain's code! Apparently Melbourne IT's support pages are partitioned with no links between each other... I sent the auth code to Godaddy and they began the transfer. Four days later, Melbourne IT responded to my original request for the authorization codes.
(I have omitted the dozens of useless exchanges with tech support people asking me for information I had already given to one of their coworkers. There is nothing more frustrating - and Yahoo was really bad at this - of starting over in a process because the person who responds to your message today doesn't understand what their coworker began two days previous.)
Total time to transfer a domain from Yahoo Domains: 1 1/2 months
(Insert big "DUH" sound here.)
If someone is more comfortable with Windows after trying one of the most user-friendly distributions out there (Kubuntu) then maybe Linux isn't for them. Time to stop evangelizing.
Someone advocated Windows for a web server I was setting up, but I tried it and decided to go with FreeBSD instead. Windows as a server wasn't for me.
The more you write, the better you'll be.
I submit, as a rebuttal to your argument, one Roland Piquepaille.
From the article:
The "scripting" languages that serve as entry-level tools for today's aspiring programmers -- like Perl and Python -- don't make this experience accessible to students in the same way. BASIC was close enough to the algorithm that you could actually follow the reasoning of the machine as it made choices and followed logical pathways.
If Johnny can't scan through a Python program and follow the logic, maybe he isn't quite ready to tackle computer programming...
Duke Nukem Forever will ALSO be shipping One Million Copies by the end of this year. OH, and it's European release date will be the first quarter of 2007.
Wow, one million copies just for Ohio.
Haven't tried Django, but while Ruby on Rails is making progress, it's still no match for the power and flexibility of Zope.
One of the most useful things about Amiga icons was that they could contain the command line arguments for the program they called.
However in regards to the callback scam you mentioned, I do get about 2 of those a week.
That's why I do all my machine coding in MS Word Times New Roman point 18... nice smooth fonts. You losers and your pixelly text editors!
Not crippleware, but it does require one hell of an expensive dongle to run...