I was a customer of Bargainhost during this downtime - it was about 11 days in total - and there was barely an apology from BargainHost, let alone any offer of compensation. After wrestling my domain names from them, by faxing proof that they were mine to the registrys, I switched to another host and put up a page to warn potential customers about the service, which got to no. 2 in a Google search for bargain host and bargainhost. A couple of months later I got an email from James Innes threatening legal action if I didn't take the page down or if I published that he had sent the email. I hadn't written anything libelous, just the facts, but at the time I didn't have the cash to fight it. Figuring I had probably cost them enough business to make up for the money I had lost (I was 3 months into a 1 year contract), I put up a 301 redirect to a page on the BBC about them.
The lessons I learnt:
- Never take out a years contract (for anything) if it can be avoided.
- Never buy your domains from your host, they'll only hold them to ransom.
- Only host with companies that provide a full postal address and geographic telephone number (as opposed to an 0800 or 0845). Not necessarily telephone support, but at least a way of contacting them.
With the UK & USA seemingly going down the route of 'the more we can track our citizens, the safer they'll be', which 'western' countries have we got left to emigrate to where we can at least trust the government not to be listening to our conversations or tracking our cars - Canada? Sweden?
I really hope that becomes the norm rather than the exception, but getting your first record contract is still seen as being a rite of passage for new bands - a big chunk of cash in your pocket and your album promoted more than just at gigs. There needs to be an equivalent on iTMS before bands and artists stop chasing record deals.
There was a lot of crap about in the 60s and 70s too, it's just we don't hear it now for that reason. In 30 years time I doubt people will be listening to Britney Spears and Kelly Clarkson.
No, but once (if) it gets built into phones, if you're away on a business trip and forget your cellphone charger you'll be glad the hotel provided a pad in your room.
Not that there may (or may not) be personal info unencrypted on the card, but how easy would it be to write a magnetic strip that would get you into a room? If all it takes is a track with the room number, and 'key valid' dates which fall either side of today, then there is a bigger problem.
I work for a company that provides main hotel reception/reservation systems. When a guest checks in we can interface with the key encoder, sending it guest name, length of stay, room number etc, so that all the receptionist has to do is put a fresh key in the encoder. I don't know of any key cutting interface specs that require a CC number, but I imagine if there were we would point-blank refuse to send it.
I used to be of the same opinion - I immediately decided against the iPod a couple of years ago because of the lack of FM tuner. But then I bought a Bug digital radio that records the DAB stream at home, and I can now choose what radio I listen to and when, and in better quality than a portable FM tuner.
Ok, I can't listen to today's breakfast show on the way to work, but then does it really matter if you're a day behind? Plus I get to fast forward the adverts, news and traffic reports.
Walkers Crisps are currently giving away an iPod Mini every 5 minutes during September. Seems the ideal way for Apple to get rid of excess stock in the UK. I wonder if Walkers were aware it was going to be discontinued?
My website gets around 30 hits a minute (from seperate IPs) with fake referrer spam for sites selling prescription drugs. Anything with a drug name in the referrer, Phentermine, Xanax etc, gets an http 302 redirect to dea.gov; the original referrer isn't replaced. Who knows, maybe no one there ever looks at the logs, but if they do there's a few sites they might be interested in.
The village where I live is about 3 miles from the nearest Tesco and, one by one, the small family-run shops are closing. But they themselves are partly to blame - apart from Saturday mornings, they're closed when I'm at home. I would buy my meat fresh the butchers, fruit and veg from the greengrocer, and fresh bread from the bakers, but they don't give me that choice. If they stayed open late, just by a couple of hours, one day a week they'd get my business. At the moment the only people able to shop there are pensioners, the unemployed, housewives and shift workers.
I maintain some legacy code that has, during it's (30 year) life, been converted through various versions of the language making it virtualy unreadable in places. There's one fairly frequently used section commented with:
'not quite sure what this bit does'
It's been like that for years, but whatever it does, it seems to work.
It's not just you, it crashes on me if I follow those steps. It doesn't matter what the zoom level is or whether you have any markers are displayed, just swapping from map to hybrid to map does it.
The record companies usually don't make anything from the videos, they are made to promote the single. Anything they make from selling the video on iTunes will go straight to the bottom line.
Yes, carrying a bomb is the answer - the chances of there being someone carrying a bomb is, thankfully, tiny. The chances of there being 2 people carrying them...
Air traffic control must surely be a prime target for conventional terrorism too. Think about it - a coordinated attack would leave hundreds of planes in the air with no one to organise them, and would cripple the country for weeks after.
Yes, the problem's not with new content on existing sites, that goes in straight away, it's with new sites. If your site was around before about March last year you won't have a problem. Any sites registered or developed since then risk going into the sandbox. It's not all sites - it seems to be those that target popular keywords.
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I was a customer of Bargainhost during this downtime - it was about 11 days in total - and there was barely an apology from BargainHost, let alone any offer of compensation. After wrestling my domain names from them, by faxing proof that they were mine to the registrys, I switched to another host and put up a page to warn potential customers about the service, which got to no. 2 in a Google search for bargain host and bargainhost. A couple of months later I got an email from James Innes threatening legal action if I didn't take the page down or if I published that he had sent the email. I hadn't written anything libelous, just the facts, but at the time I didn't have the cash to fight it. Figuring I had probably cost them enough business to make up for the money I had lost (I was 3 months into a 1 year contract), I put up a 301 redirect to a page on the BBC about them.
The lessons I learnt:
- Never take out a years contract (for anything) if it can be avoided.
- Never buy your domains from your host, they'll only hold them to ransom.
- Only host with companies that provide a full postal address and geographic telephone number (as opposed to an 0800 or 0845). Not necessarily telephone support, but at least a way of contacting them.
With the UK & USA seemingly going down the route of 'the more we can track our citizens, the safer they'll be', which 'western' countries have we got left to emigrate to where we can at least trust the government not to be listening to our conversations or tracking our cars - Canada? Sweden?
If there wasn't any voting fraud then I'd say around 51% of Americans are insane.
I really hope that becomes the norm rather than the exception, but getting your first record contract is still seen as being a rite of passage for new bands - a big chunk of cash in your pocket and your album promoted more than just at gigs. There needs to be an equivalent on iTMS before bands and artists stop chasing record deals.
And to give you an idea of how prevalent they are in the UK, this is just one area of East London; I count at least 50.
There was a lot of crap about in the 60s and 70s too, it's just we don't hear it now for that reason. In 30 years time I doubt people will be listening to Britney Spears and Kelly Clarkson.
No, but once (if) it gets built into phones, if you're away on a business trip and forget your cellphone charger you'll be glad the hotel provided a pad in your room.
Not that there may (or may not) be personal info unencrypted on the card, but how easy would it be to write a magnetic strip that would get you into a room? If all it takes is a track with the room number, and 'key valid' dates which fall either side of today, then there is a bigger problem.
I work for a company that provides main hotel reception/reservation systems. When a guest checks in we can interface with the key encoder, sending it guest name, length of stay, room number etc, so that all the receptionist has to do is put a fresh key in the encoder. I don't know of any key cutting interface specs that require a CC number, but I imagine if there were we would point-blank refuse to send it.
I used to be of the same opinion - I immediately decided against the iPod a couple of years ago because of the lack of FM tuner. But then I bought a Bug digital radio that records the DAB stream at home, and I can now choose what radio I listen to and when, and in better quality than a portable FM tuner.
Ok, I can't listen to today's breakfast show on the way to work, but then does it really matter if you're a day behind? Plus I get to fast forward the adverts, news and traffic reports.
Walkers Crisps are currently giving away an iPod Mini every 5 minutes during September. Seems the ideal way for Apple to get rid of excess stock in the UK. I wonder if Walkers were aware it was going to be discontinued?
I agree. I hate it when people show off about having a girlfriend.
My website gets around 30 hits a minute (from seperate IPs) with fake referrer spam for sites selling prescription drugs. Anything with a drug name in the referrer, Phentermine, Xanax etc, gets an http 302 redirect to dea.gov; the original referrer isn't replaced. Who knows, maybe no one there ever looks at the logs, but if they do there's a few sites they might be interested in.
Yes, if only they had a bestselling games console to fall back on. Oh, hang on...
The village where I live is about 3 miles from the nearest Tesco and, one by one, the small family-run shops are closing. But they themselves are partly to blame - apart from Saturday mornings, they're closed when I'm at home. I would buy my meat fresh the butchers, fruit and veg from the greengrocer, and fresh bread from the bakers, but they don't give me that choice. If they stayed open late, just by a couple of hours, one day a week they'd get my business. At the moment the only people able to shop there are pensioners, the unemployed, housewives and shift workers.
Not unless they want to be kicked out of Adsense. Google's T&C prohibts the use of any other contextual ads on the same page.
I maintain some legacy code that has, during it's (30 year) life, been converted through various versions of the language making it virtualy unreadable in places. There's one fairly frequently used section commented with:
'not quite sure what this bit does'
It's been like that for years, but whatever it does, it seems to work.
It's not just you, it crashes on me if I follow those steps. It doesn't matter what the zoom level is or whether you have any markers are displayed, just swapping from map to hybrid to map does it.
The record companies usually don't make anything from the videos, they are made to promote the single. Anything they make from selling the video on iTunes will go straight to the bottom line.
Yes, carrying a bomb is the answer - the chances of there being someone carrying a bomb is, thankfully, tiny. The chances of there being 2 people carrying them...
Air traffic control must surely be a prime target for conventional terrorism too. Think about it - a coordinated attack would leave hundreds of planes in the air with no one to organise them, and would cripple the country for weeks after.
Exactly. Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.
Seconded. Flexible, powerful anti-spam mechanism and very active community.
I knew the army were desperate, but I didn't know they were having problems finding astronauts
Yes, the problem's not with new content on existing sites, that goes in straight away, it's with new sites. If your site was around before about March last year you won't have a problem. Any sites registered or developed since then risk going into the sandbox. It's not all sites - it seems to be those that target popular keywords.