The login problem with UBB.threads is due to Safari setting the cookie path to the script... so you log in to/threads/start_page.php, and the cookie is only good for the page. Oops. A bug has been filed.
The login problem with UBB.classic is still being investigated, and is currently believed to be a problem with handling multiple Cookie headers.
To the best of my knowledge, Safari works fine with UBB.x using the old UI. There are some DOM bugs preventing use of the new UI. A bug has been filed.
My father kept all his old Bytes from the late 70s and early 80s... I used to spend my afternoons going through them, one by one, reading the technical details and discussions...
... items that were absent when the paper publication finally stopped a few years ago.
That article is exactly the kind of thing that would have fit right in with the old Byte. I hope they continue such things in the future.
It took FOUR MONTHS for an appointment to get set up... FOUR MONTHS! Jesus... I knew I was in for trouble then.
What happens next? GTE doesn't show up to examine the box outside. And I heard NOTHING from Covad OR GTE about the problem. I proceeded to scream at my ISP, who proceeded to scream at Covad, who proceeded to scream at GTE. Or so I thought.
The next week, while I was STILL waiting to find out why the hell the line wasn't installed... COVAD CANCELED THEIR CONTRACT WITH MY ISP, AND EVERY OTHER SMALL LOCAL ISP! Everyone who went through my ISP for Covad DSL would have their service terminated in six weeks.
How nice of Covad. Bastards.
Luckily, I'm in the process of securing a job out of state, in an area where I KNOW that I can get DSL.. or at least a cable modem. Anything that doesn't tie up my phone line.
If the Qubes are designed anything like the RaQs, then look elsewhere.
The RaQ is an underpowered piece of CRAP. Put a few medium to high load CGI scripts on the server, hit it with a few dozen requests and watch it fall over in no time at all. The CPU and disk system just can't take the load. (This is from first and second hand experience doing tech support for those scripts...)
The RaQ3 is better (it uses an AMD K6, among other improvements), but not by much.
The Qube probably uses the same platform as the older RaQ series, and would certainly be something to avoid unless you don't actually intend to use the box for anything.
...and I'm pretty sure you can put together some bastardized connection between it and an MS Access database. You don't really need to lose your Apache front-end setup, but you might find yourself reliant on NT for the backend, which might not be acceptable. As for Frontpage... Point them to a nice little box of Dreamweaver and pray they like it. (As it can play nice with PHP.:))
Kids are smart. They'll get around the damn thing as if it wasn't there. It's relatively simple to LIE about your age / birthdate. Then what are we supposed to do to "protect" them*? Give me an effing break. Another useless piece of trash brought to you by the United States Federal Government.
My site uses an Ultimate Bulletin Board - they've recently put out a copy that's COPPA compliant. Of course, the way they've done it isn't up to my standards... hehe... So what will my solution be? Simple: I'm turning off registration on my site until I can figure it out.
*: Not that I'm saying we shouldn't be trying to keep 'private' information out of the hands of people who would do harm to kids / Big Giant Evil Corporations / the Marketing Department...
...is that on occasion, game companies decide to encode the machine's IP address in the packet, meaning that IPMasq can't pick it up and change it as needed. The server then decodes the packet and tries to get to an IP it can't get to.
For games like those, you plain can't play over IPMasq.
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In the event that you were actually serious: http://www.montypython.net/scripts/petshop.php3
"With respect to the latter assertion, Internet Explorer is not demonstrably the current "best of breed" Web browser, nor is it likely to be so at any time in the immediate future."
" kdelibs frozen March 30 documentation complete April 15 kdebase frozen April 21 translations complete April 30 " Pardon the snippage. Allowing for things that will most certainly get delayed for one reason or another...
Yeah, I happen to agree with that congressman - why bother registering people who just don't give a crap?
But that can't be applied to internet voting.
I voted absentee this year. I simply couldn't get to the poll in time - by the time I got back home (damn commute!), the polls would have been closed.
Think of internet voting like absentee voting, only with the use of a keyboard and mouse rather than a punchcard (at least for California, I dunno how they do absentee elsewhere)...
What POSSIBLE motive could there be behind this? Think about it... What they're doing seems to be a move towards a: - Closed nature - Thirst for cash - Will to royally tick off the Linux community - Will to see the death of USB on Linux
Makes me wonder if the Beanie can be revoked. Perhaps they need to be reminded of that...
"Hey! You! Open up your specs or we'll... er... we'll... We'll SLASHDOT YOU! That's what we'll do! Yeah!"
Joker registers through CORE (http://www.corenic.org/) - the registration is really held by them. So if Joker goes belly up, you can probably still modify things through CORE. In theory.
Thanks for the welcome. I have always made it a practice to lurk for weeks before even considering a post. In this case, I've been lurking for months.
*insert some unknown time during which TOCie labors on a post...*
Oh screw it... I've written and rewritten the rest of my reply four times now and I still ain't comin' out with a coherent argument. Heh. Ok, one last time.
Not much can be done. More moderation might work in the short run, but it isn't a viable long term solution. Something must be done to stop the abuse of the AC.
I'd like to see another step of moderation: the ability to block out posts which have not been 'approved' by a moderator. 'Approval' doesn't necessitate a change in the score, just that a moderator has seen the post and marked it as not being a troll. Viewing this way would be optional... No more trolls, even if you browse at 0...
Just an idea. Someone probably thought of it before me. Oh well.:)
I hate to disagree, but I must disagree...:) I'm a "new user"... I've made a few of my first posts today, only because I finally had something substantial to say. The idea that I'd start out unreadable is... well, a real turnoff. Why would I bother to contribute if no one would see my post!? Starting at 0 is marginal. There are other solutions to this problem which don't involve major changes. Simple flood protection can be implemented. If the username (or IP address, which might be more accurate) has posted within the past, say, 30 seconds, force the user to wait before posting. And make no exceptions to that rule. I would like to see something else, though: The ability to block out ACs entirely via our profile, if the score for the post isn't 1 or higher. Doing so will block out 99% of the trolls... The only problem being that then the people using AC mode for legit reasons will become blocked... CmdrTaco, another dedicated story for this topic would be very nice. Thanks.
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Easy - first, install Flash.
Then install the Flash Block extension. It replaces the Flash applet with a button you have to click to begin the applet.
It sorta depends on which UBB you're speaking of.
/threads/start_page.php, and the cookie is only good for the page. Oops. A bug has been filed.
The login problem with UBB.threads is due to Safari setting the cookie path to the script... so you log in to
The login problem with UBB.classic is still being investigated, and is currently believed to be a problem with handling multiple Cookie headers.
To the best of my knowledge, Safari works fine with UBB.x using the old UI. There are some DOM bugs preventing use of the new UI. A bug has been filed.
So what's the best way to make the client work? Simple - write the server also.
Okay, mabye that's not so simple after all. :)
My father kept all his old Bytes from the late 70s and early 80s... I used to spend my afternoons going through them, one by one, reading the technical details and discussions...
... items that were absent when the paper publication finally stopped a few years ago.
That article is exactly the kind of thing that would have fit right in with the old Byte. I hope they continue such things in the future.
It took FOUR MONTHS for an appointment to get set up... FOUR MONTHS! Jesus... I knew I was in for trouble then.
What happens next? GTE doesn't show up to examine the box outside. And I heard NOTHING from Covad OR GTE about the problem. I proceeded to scream at my ISP, who proceeded to scream at Covad, who proceeded to scream at GTE. Or so I thought.
The next week, while I was STILL waiting to find out why the hell the line wasn't installed... COVAD CANCELED THEIR CONTRACT WITH MY ISP, AND EVERY OTHER SMALL LOCAL ISP! Everyone who went through my ISP for Covad DSL would have their service terminated in six weeks.
How nice of Covad. Bastards.
Luckily, I'm in the process of securing a job out of state, in an area where I KNOW that I can get DSL.. or at least a cable modem. Anything that doesn't tie up my phone line.
If the Qubes are designed anything like the RaQs, then look elsewhere.
The RaQ is an underpowered piece of CRAP. Put a few medium to high load CGI scripts on the server, hit it with a few dozen requests and watch it fall over in no time at all. The CPU and disk system just can't take the load. (This is from first and second hand experience doing tech support for those scripts...)
The RaQ3 is better (it uses an AMD K6, among other improvements), but not by much.
The Qube probably uses the same platform as the older RaQ series, and would certainly be something to avoid unless you don't actually intend to use the box for anything.
Works fine on Netscape 4.5, on Solaris...
...and I'm pretty sure you can put together some bastardized connection between it and an MS Access database. You don't really need to lose your Apache front-end setup, but you might find yourself reliant on NT for the backend, which might not be acceptable. As for Frontpage... Point them to a nice little box of Dreamweaver and pray they like it. (As it can play nice with PHP. :))
My site uses an Ultimate Bulletin Board - they've recently put out a copy that's COPPA compliant. Of course, the way they've done it isn't up to my standards... hehe... So what will my solution be? Simple: I'm turning off registration on my site until I can figure it out.
*: Not that I'm saying we shouldn't be trying to keep 'private' information out of the hands of people who would do harm to kids / Big Giant Evil Corporations / the Marketing Department...
...is that on occasion, game companies decide to encode the machine's IP address in the packet, meaning that IPMasq can't pick it up and change it as needed. The server then decodes the packet and tries to get to an IP it can't get to.
For games like those, you plain can't play over IPMasq.
In the event that you were actually serious: http://www.montypython.net/scripts/petshop.php3
It's very difficult to kill someone with a game... Er, well, without bludgeoning them with the box, or something. :)
My favorite quote?
:)
"With respect to the latter assertion, Internet Explorer is not demonstrably the current "best of breed" Web browser, nor is it likely to be so at any time in the immediate future."
Buahaha.
...that during CNN's coverage, they're showing NASDAQ commercials.
The NASDAQ commercials feature MS, in the usual propaganda-ish tone.
Coincidence?
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"Truth about Santa Claus debunks Santa God. God evolves from Santa."
"Educated people are stupid cowards."
"Not a single university has accepted my challenge for a public debate of Nature's Time Cube."
"Pedants cannot comprehend that there are 4 simultaneous Years within a single rotation of Earth about the Sun."
"Greenwich Time is a Lie"
"Your midday is someone else's midnight, someone else's sundown and even someone else's sunup."
That last one is the most coherent statement on the entire site.
It may not make sense, but it's sure entertaining... (Of course, all this is old news to me... Pardon the blatant plug. ;))
"
kdelibs frozen March 30
documentation complete April 15
kdebase frozen April 21
translations complete April 30
"
Pardon the snippage. Allowing for things that will most certainly get delayed for one reason or another...
Speculation: Summer?
But that can't be applied to internet voting.
I voted absentee this year. I simply couldn't get to the poll in time - by the time I got back home (damn commute!), the polls would have been closed.
Think of internet voting like absentee voting, only with the use of a keyboard and mouse rather than a punchcard (at least for California, I dunno how they do absentee elsewhere)...
Oops! Thanks for the correction.
What POSSIBLE motive could there be behind this? Think about it... What they're doing seems to be a move towards a:
- Closed nature
- Thirst for cash
- Will to royally tick off the Linux community
- Will to see the death of USB on Linux
Makes me wonder if the Beanie can be revoked. Perhaps they need to be reminded of that...
"Hey! You! Open up your specs or we'll... er... we'll... We'll SLASHDOT YOU! That's what we'll do! Yeah!"
Joker registers through CORE (http://www.corenic.org/) - the registration is really held by them. So if Joker goes belly up, you can probably still modify things through CORE. In theory.
Thanks for the welcome. I have always made it a practice to lurk for weeks before even considering a post. In this case, I've been lurking for months.
:)
*insert some unknown time during which TOCie labors on a post...*
Oh screw it... I've written and rewritten the rest of my reply four times now and I still ain't comin' out with a coherent argument. Heh. Ok, one last time.
Not much can be done. More moderation might work in the short run, but it isn't a viable long term solution. Something must be done to stop the abuse of the AC.
I'd like to see another step of moderation: the ability to block out posts which have not been 'approved' by a moderator. 'Approval' doesn't necessitate a change in the score, just that a moderator has seen the post and marked it as not being a troll. Viewing this way would be optional... No more trolls, even if you browse at 0...
Just an idea. Someone probably thought of it before me. Oh well.
I hate to disagree, but I must disagree... :) I'm a "new user"... I've made a few of my first posts today, only because I finally had something substantial to say. The idea that I'd start out unreadable is... well, a real turnoff. Why would I bother to contribute if no one would see my post!? Starting at 0 is marginal. There are other solutions to this problem which don't involve major changes. Simple flood protection can be implemented. If the username (or IP address, which might be more accurate) has posted within the past, say, 30 seconds, force the user to wait before posting. And make no exceptions to that rule. I would like to see something else, though: The ability to block out ACs entirely via our profile, if the score for the post isn't 1 or higher. Doing so will block out 99% of the trolls... The only problem being that then the people using AC mode for legit reasons will become blocked... CmdrTaco, another dedicated story for this topic would be very nice. Thanks.
Neither - it's running on Solaris according to Netcraft: /?host=homepages.msn.com :)
http://www.netcraft.com/whats
Hm, I'll refrain from comment on that development...