Finally a legitimate use for my neighbor's Hummer! Glue wings on it and throw it out the back of a C17. And think of the great mileage it'll get on the way down.
T-Mobile charges me $19.95 for unlimited data. Since my Nokia has Bluetooth, I can access that connection from my laptop and from my N800 Internet Tablet as well. In addition, I get free access to T-Mobile hotspots.
HOWEVER: The data connection is GPRS/EDGE, which is annoyingly slow much of the time.
The wifi hotspots are hard to find. Many airports have wifi that includes T-Mobile logins, but it's not T-Mobile access and you have to pay seven to ten dollars an hour extra. Thanks but no thanks.
(Tip: Find a Delta Crown Room and stand outside. You'll probably be able to connect to T-mobile.)
On what phones will Android be shipped? Only on Motorola? Motorola, Samsung, LG and HTC are members of the alliance, so don't be in haste to bury Android.
You're absolutely right that Symbian dominates the past.
I had an S60 phone, and it was a frustrating experience. I also had a Windows Mobile phone, and it was an infuriating experience. On balance, Symbian won. Both phones really needed more hardware power than was available at the time. And with more hardware power, you open the way to a much more capable system, which the Linux-based Android promises.
At the moment, I have a Nokia, but it's a dumb phone, not a Symbian. If I need more than that, I pull out my Linux-based Nokia N800 and connect via Bluetooth.
I installed Ubuntu Linux and did a "first run" of Microsoft Vista, side by side, and Ubuntu won the race. I assume that means Vista didn't really come "installed," but rather with just an installer pointed at some.CAB files.
There really wasn't a significant difference either way, and I didn't do much other than wait and confirm an occasional dialog/default. The idea that Linux is harder to install than Vista has never been true. Linux installations became insanely easy long before Microsoft shipped its Edsel.
By the way, the Vista installation was on my teen daughter's new laptop. Performance was so poor that I reformatted and switched her to Ubuntu. The original Ubuntu installation was on her grandmother's PC. Both are working out just fine.
"Can't seem to remember OSS being used by any other presidential candidate in the past, ever."
Here are several, then.
Howard Dean's 2004 campaign used Drupal to build a website aimed at helping grassroots supporters self-organize. The resulting package was released as a fork called Civicspace, which eventually was reconciled back into the Drupal core and the CiviCRM constitutent relationship management toolkit.
John Edwards has endorsed the concept of open-source software for voting machines and has blogged about open source. Note that Redhat is based in his state.
This year, Christopher Dodd's website was built on Drupal 5, Bill Richardson's with Zope, and all of the Democratic candidates except Hillary Clinton ran Linux or BSD. (Clinton and most of the Republicans ran Windows servers.)
Ray Ozzie: "I think it's important to solve this so that the sustainability of open source projects is improved."
I'm touched by this new warmer, fuzzier Microsoft! Now that it's "helped" the commercial software industry, creating a level playing field by bulldozing everybody else's buildings, it can turn its attention to "helping" the struggling open-source world. Welcome, new open-source overlords! May the innovations continue!
Apparently in haste to make jokes about bad airplane food, most have missed the point that the article refers to fasting BEFORE the flight. The Reuters headline writer also missed that fact.
The idea is to start pushing your food cycle toward the target before you fly so your body is more receptive to the time change.
In fact, if you're taking the typical ATL-ICN-HKG route some airplane dining is going to be pretty important. You'll arrive in Hong Kong around 10 p.m. Your elapsed clock time including layover will be nearly 24 hours, and if you manage your eating and sleeping during that time you'll actually be in pretty good shape the morning after your arrival. (Hint: Sleep as much as possible between ATL and mid-Pacific, and only after that should you turn on the entertainment system.)
Another study suggests that Viagra might help with jet lag, but it might create unrelated issues that you might have trouble explaining.
I am one of those people who don't use it, and I'm perfectly happy to "perpetuate." Because "don't use" doesn't mean "has no experience with."
I bought my daughter an Acer laptop that came with Vista. When I tried to run Vista for the first time, it took so long to load that I had time to completely install Ubuntu Linux on her grandmother's desktop PC while waiting for the Vista desktop to appear.
Note that I said "install Ubuntu Linux," not just "boot Ubuntu Linux." That "first run" of Vista took more than half an hour. Apparently it isn't really "installed" at the factory.
Once the operating systems were both installed, I tried the boot test. Ubuntu came up on the old desktop machine in about 60 seconds; Vista still took three or four minutes to load, and when it was done it was barely responsive to the mouse. Launching applications took minutes and the screen would freeze from time to time.
The real Vista hardware requirements are far beyond the stated requirements. A Vista sticker on a PC means nothing. By ramming Vista down the PC manufacturers' throats, MS has shot itself in the foot.
Sure, I could have "fixed" the problem by adding another gig of RAM, but there just wasn't any payoff at the end of that road. So I installed Ubuntu on the laptop as well. Now it's virus-free and well-stocked with useful applications and enough games to keep her busy.
In fairness, Ubuntu was not trouble-free, either. I had trouble with the wi-fi card, so I had to spend $4.95 on an 802.11G card to replace it.
Oh, about the grandmother's PC: She would have been happy to have stayed with XP, but the hard drive failed, and the only copy of the operating system went with it. I fixed it with a $40 hard drive and Linux, and as a bonus I no longer worry about viruses on her machine.
Well, I'm posting under my real name and with my original Slashdot ID, which is low enough. And I've been running online discussions since the 1980s, so I have some experience with this.
I have to agree: Cutting yourself off from unattributed expertise is crazy.
But there is a difference between requiring disclosure of real identity, and publishing that disclosure.
This is actually closer to the model used by the Washington Post in its journalism in cases where the value of the information merits "anonymous sources" because that information otherwise would not be obtainable.
There really are no anonymous sources. There are unnamed sources, and occasionally one who emerges (like Deep Throat) as a full-fledged pseudonym.
The right thing to do is simple: Figure out your goals, and then choose the model that best supports those goals.
The problem most newspapers have is that they have not articulated any goals for adding public comments, blogs or forums, other than boosting pageviews for commercial reasons.
If that's the only goal, then by all means, allow truly anonymous random comments. That will work. Just don't complain about the quality.
If the goal is something different -- to build a cohesive and functioning community, to enhance civic engagement, to advance understanding and promote participative democracy -- then it's likely that unfiltered anonymous commenting will be the worst choice. But many people may have legitimate needs to cloak their identity, and throwing them overboard in order to guard against the occasional idiot and vandal is counterproductive.
However, if you want to customize the behavior of the CMS at all, you really have to start digging into the core, and breaking a few things. No, no, no. You do not hack the core. You extend by writing modules and/or overriding theme functions.
Manually relocating the menu bar from one monitor to another does not fix the problem. I don't WANT a "main screen." On a multiscreen, multitasking system where I might very well have 18 apps running at the same time, the damned menu bar should be with the application I'm using at the moment, and the only reason it's not part of the application on the Mac is a poor 1980s design decision made permanent by arrogance. And that's the problem: The Mac UI engineers are fanbois of their own work, incapable of seeing its flaws.
I could rant about Linux, too, but most of my ire would be focused on wifi hardware engineers who change chipsets and designs without changing hardware designations.
These discussions are chronically unproductive because they attract postings from True Believers who aren't capable of seeing the flaws in their Chosen Products and have no significant, current real-world experience with the alternatives.
The Macintosh UI is a rat's nest of bad design decisions and inconsistencies.
So is the Windows UI, and so are the several Linux desktops.
They all suck. Get used to it.
I use a high-end Powerbook as my primary work tool every single day. I have a couple of XP machines sitting around the house (old desktop, wife's Vaio laptop), have run Linux since kernel 0.96 or so, have a Linux-powered Nokia 800 in my pocket, and have installed Ubuntu on the computers of my kids and their grandmothers. (Vista has been banned from my presence.)
All of them, including the Macintosh, fall apart under scrutiny when it comes to UI. (Why is the menu bar on a DIFFERENT MONITOR THAN THE ONE I AM USING? This is not single-tasking 1984! Why do I drag something to the trash can when I don't want to delete it? And what idiot actually thinks Finder is a decent way to launch applications? And why is it so slow? And, and, and....)
And when it comes to hardware, the general rule on the Mac is that it Just Works only if you buy pricey Apple-branded add-ons.
Anything else is a complete crap shoot. Odds of getting my USB hard drive to work on a Mac are slim and none, yet it Just Works with every Linux system I've tried. Without touching configuration files (I don't even know where they are any more).
On balance I like my Powerbook a lot more than the dead Windows Compaq it replaced, and it's infinitely more secure. But there are all sorts of Linux features it doesn't have, such as the very slick virtual filesystem that lets me mount my webserver folders via ssh/sftp, and I miss the vast quantities of software for Linux. And, because I have to work with Exchange, I'm really frustrated with the Mac's calendaring. So it's entirely possible that when my Mac dies, the replacement will be a Linux laptop, especially now that the Eee has the multitouch pad.
Try host 208.65.153.238: 238.153.65.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer youtube.com.hk.
Then whois youtube.com.hk.
Domain Name: YOUTUBE.COM.HK Contract Version: HKDNR latest version
Registrant Contact Information:
Company English Name (It should be the same as the registered/corporation name on your Business Register Certificate or relevant documents): HONG KONG INTERNET (HOLDING) LIMITED Company Chinese name: ?????????????? Address: RM 2203E, NAN FUNG CENTRE, 264-298 CASTLE PEAK RD TSUEN WAN Country: HK Email: domainreg@webdomain.com.hk Domain Name Commencement Date: 01-08-2006 Expiry Date: 27-06-2008 Re-registration Status: Complete Name of Registrar: HKDNR
Administrative Contact Information:
First name: DOMAIN Last name: ADMIN Company name: GOOGLE INC. Address: PMB 155, 10400 OVERLAND RD BOISE 83709-1433 ID Country: US Phone: +1-208-3895740 Fax: +1-208-3895771 Email: domainreg@webdomain.com.hk Account Name: HK1914580T
Technical Contact Information:
First name: DOMAIN REG. Last name: SECTION Company name: HONG KONG INTERNET (HOLDING) LIMITED. Address: RM 2203E, NAN FUNG CENTRE, 264-298 CASTLE PEAK RD TSUEN WAN Country: HK Phone: +852--24921168 Fax: +852--82088601 Email: ccops@markmonitor.com
DNS highjackers have effectively blocked YouTube globally by gaining control of the root domain record. whois youtube.com returns a poisoned record: disruptive:~ stevey$ whois youtube.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the.com and.net domains can now be registered with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/ for detailed information.
Drupal often gets criticized by newcomers who believe that object-oriented programming (OOP) is always the best way to design software architecture, and since they do not see the word "class" in the Drupal code, it must be inferior to other solutions. In fact, it is true that Drupal does not use many of the OOP features of PHP, but it is a mistake to think that the use of classes is synonymous with object-oriented design. This article will cover several of the features of Drupal from an object-oriented perspective, so programmers comfortable with that paradigm can begin to feel at home in the Drupal code base, and hopefully be able to choose the right tool for the job.
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If you read the Drupal theme developer's guide you'd know that basic Drupal theming works exactly that way. A page template is simply an HTML page with tags inserted where you want specific components to appear.
The power of Drupal's approach to theming is that you can do as little, or as much, customization of detailed component formatting as you want.
I'm wondering if you've ever done anything complex enough to require additional regions not provided in off-the-shelf themes or alternative layouts for multiple content types, or rearrangement of fields in complex content types or user profiles, or overriding microcomponents such as taxonomy links.
Theming is not limited to simple reskinning. CSS is a tool. It shouldn't be your only tool.
I could set him up with Ubuntu but where would he find support for it when I am not around? I don't know how good Dell is at Ubuntu support and frankly he isn't the most technical person on the planet.
If it doesn't break, you don't need support.
That's why I set up my elderly mother and mother-in-law up with Ubuntu Linux. I don't have to worry about viruses, or virus software protection rackets, or infestations of spyware. Ubuntu Just Works.
And besides, it comes with more/better games.:-)
That Dell all-in-one PC looks pretty sweet... if it runs Linux.
While the FCC has no authority to regulate newspapers, it does have the authority to deny broadcast spectrum licenses in situations where it judges the grant not to be in the public interest, and it has for decades held the position that granting a television license to a daily newspaper in the same market is automatically not in the public interest. Tuesday's decision changes that position.
If this decision had been made a decade ago, you would have seen a burst of acquisitions by newspaper companies. Today they simply don't have the access to capital. McClatchy's current market cap is about what it paid in 1997 to buy the Minneapolis Star Tribune. And local TV isn't as attractive as it once was. Is audience has been drained away to cable and the Internet, or driven away by cheap-to-produce "reality" shows.
So there may be a burst of property-trading in which media companies consolidate geographic holdings, I don't expect it to be all that significant.
All this seems to me like a case of fighting the last war. The Internet has made it impossible for any local media entity to dictate the public agenda. And I think that's a good thing.
It's not necessarily wrong. Sophos is assuming, without reason, that an open access point isn't intended to be used. I would argue the opposite. Open access means "use me."
Earlier this week at the Columbus, Ohio, airport, I appreciated not having to click through pages of legal disclaimers, threats, et cetera, to get to the Internet on the unsecured wifi access point that I found when sitting an airport waiting area. I was able to connect and quickly grab my email without having to mess around with a web browser.
Am I a criminal for using the open wifi connection? Or was I merely using a publicly accessible wifi connection? The latter, judging from the posters all over the airport urging me to use the service.
I had the same experience at the Columbia, South Carolina, airport. Free access, fast connections, no legal clickthrough junk. (Cheers to both airports for not trying to nick me for $8 an hour.)
An open, unsecured wifi access point should be considered an invitation to public use. And inviting free public use should never be outlawed.
At the risk of piling on: My Windows Mobile-based smartphone locked up hard earlier this year at the worst possible time: in the Atlanta airport as I was headed to Europe for a week of travel. It never came back to life, capping a history of unreliability and bizarre behavior. At the end I was glad to see it go.
Replacing it: A simple Nokia 6133 not-so-smartphone that boots in a matter of seconds, paired via Bluetooth with a Nokia 800 Internet tablet running Linux and a Mozilla browser. I am much, much better off.
Previously I had a Symbian S60 Nokia that eventually suffered hardware failure.
Based on my experience with both Symbian and Microsoft, a long history of using Linux, I'm excited and optimistic about the Android project. It's been said that OK open systems beat great closed systems every time. In this case, the closed systems are far from great, and the open system looks like it's going to kick butt.
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Finally a legitimate use for my neighbor's Hummer! Glue wings on it and throw it out the back of a C17. And think of the great mileage it'll get on the way down.
T-Mobile charges me $19.95 for unlimited data. Since my Nokia has Bluetooth, I can access that connection from my laptop and from my N800 Internet Tablet as well. In addition, I get free access to T-Mobile hotspots.
HOWEVER: The data connection is GPRS/EDGE, which is annoyingly slow much of the time.
The wifi hotspots are hard to find. Many airports have wifi that includes T-Mobile logins, but it's not T-Mobile access and you have to pay seven to ten dollars an hour extra. Thanks but no thanks.
(Tip: Find a Delta Crown Room and stand outside. You'll probably be able to connect to T-mobile.)
You're absolutely right that Symbian dominates the past.
I had an S60 phone, and it was a frustrating experience. I also had a Windows Mobile phone, and it was an infuriating experience. On balance, Symbian won. Both phones really needed more hardware power than was available at the time. And with more hardware power, you open the way to a much more capable system, which the Linux-based Android promises.
At the moment, I have a Nokia, but it's a dumb phone, not a Symbian. If I need more than that, I pull out my Linux-based Nokia N800 and connect via Bluetooth.
I installed Ubuntu Linux and did a "first run" of Microsoft Vista, side by side, and Ubuntu won the race. I assume that means Vista didn't really come "installed," but rather with just an installer pointed at some .CAB files.
There really wasn't a significant difference either way, and I didn't do much other than wait and confirm an occasional dialog/default. The idea that Linux is harder to install than Vista has never been true. Linux installations became insanely easy long before Microsoft shipped its Edsel.
By the way, the Vista installation was on my teen daughter's new laptop. Performance was so poor that I reformatted and switched her to Ubuntu. The original Ubuntu installation was on her grandmother's PC. Both are working out just fine.
Here are several, then.
Howard Dean's 2004 campaign used Drupal to build a website aimed at helping grassroots supporters self-organize. The resulting package was released as a fork called Civicspace, which eventually was reconciled back into the Drupal core and the CiviCRM constitutent relationship management toolkit.
Wesley Clark's 2004 campaign open-sourced an array of projects.
John Edwards has endorsed the concept of open-source software for voting machines and has blogged about open source. Note that Redhat is based in his state.
This year, Christopher Dodd's website was built on Drupal 5, Bill Richardson's with Zope, and all of the Democratic candidates except Hillary Clinton ran Linux or BSD. (Clinton and most of the Republicans ran Windows servers.)
And I'm sure there are other examples.
Ray Ozzie: "I think it's important to solve this so that the sustainability of open source projects is improved."
I'm touched by this new warmer, fuzzier Microsoft! Now that it's "helped" the commercial software industry, creating a level playing field by bulldozing everybody else's buildings, it can turn its attention to "helping" the struggling open-source world. Welcome, new open-source overlords! May the innovations continue!
Apparently in haste to make jokes about bad airplane food, most have missed the point that the article refers to fasting BEFORE the flight. The Reuters headline writer also missed that fact.
The idea is to start pushing your food cycle toward the target before you fly so your body is more receptive to the time change.
In fact, if you're taking the typical ATL-ICN-HKG route some airplane dining is going to be pretty important. You'll arrive in Hong Kong around 10 p.m. Your elapsed clock time including layover will be nearly 24 hours, and if you manage your eating and sleeping during that time you'll actually be in pretty good shape the morning after your arrival. (Hint: Sleep as much as possible between ATL and mid-Pacific, and only after that should you turn on the entertainment system.)
Another study suggests that Viagra might help with jet lag, but it might create unrelated issues that you might have trouble explaining.
I am one of those people who don't use it, and I'm perfectly happy to "perpetuate." Because "don't use" doesn't mean "has no experience with."
I bought my daughter an Acer laptop that came with Vista. When I tried to run Vista for the first time, it took so long to load that I had time to completely install Ubuntu Linux on her grandmother's desktop PC while waiting for the Vista desktop to appear.
Note that I said "install Ubuntu Linux," not just "boot Ubuntu Linux." That "first run" of Vista took more than half an hour. Apparently it isn't really "installed" at the factory.
Once the operating systems were both installed, I tried the boot test. Ubuntu came up on the old desktop machine in about 60 seconds; Vista still took three or four minutes to load, and when it was done it was barely responsive to the mouse. Launching applications took minutes and the screen would freeze from time to time.
The real Vista hardware requirements are far beyond the stated requirements. A Vista sticker on a PC means nothing. By ramming Vista down the PC manufacturers' throats, MS has shot itself in the foot.
Sure, I could have "fixed" the problem by adding another gig of RAM, but there just wasn't any payoff at the end of that road. So I installed Ubuntu on the laptop as well. Now it's virus-free and well-stocked with useful applications and enough games to keep her busy.
In fairness, Ubuntu was not trouble-free, either. I had trouble with the wi-fi card, so I had to spend $4.95 on an 802.11G card to replace it.
Oh, about the grandmother's PC: She would have been happy to have stayed with XP, but the hard drive failed, and the only copy of the operating system went with it. I fixed it with a $40 hard drive and Linux, and as a bonus I no longer worry about viruses on her machine.
Well, I'm posting under my real name and with my original Slashdot ID, which is low enough. And I've been running online discussions since the 1980s, so I have some experience with this.
I have to agree: Cutting yourself off from unattributed expertise is crazy.
But there is a difference between requiring disclosure of real identity, and publishing that disclosure.
In a forum context, there is a middle ground that I've labeled "pseudonymity." Google will find you the citations.
This is actually closer to the model used by the Washington Post in its journalism in cases where the value of the information merits "anonymous sources" because that information otherwise would not be obtainable.
There really are no anonymous sources. There are unnamed sources, and occasionally one who emerges (like Deep Throat) as a full-fledged pseudonym.
The right thing to do is simple: Figure out your goals, and then choose the model that best supports those goals.
The problem most newspapers have is that they have not articulated any goals for adding public comments, blogs or forums, other than boosting pageviews for commercial reasons.
If that's the only goal, then by all means, allow truly anonymous random comments. That will work. Just don't complain about the quality.
If the goal is something different -- to build a cohesive and functioning community, to enhance civic engagement, to advance understanding and promote participative democracy -- then it's likely that unfiltered anonymous commenting will be the worst choice. But many people may have legitimate needs to cloak their identity, and throwing them overboard in order to guard against the occasional idiot and vandal is counterproductive.
If you have not learned to stay off the road to Drupal hell you have much left to climb left on the Drupal learning curve.
Manually relocating the menu bar from one monitor to another does not fix the problem. I don't WANT a "main screen." On a multiscreen, multitasking system where I might very well have 18 apps running at the same time, the damned menu bar should be with the application I'm using at the moment, and the only reason it's not part of the application on the Mac is a poor 1980s design decision made permanent by arrogance. And that's the problem: The Mac UI engineers are fanbois of their own work, incapable of seeing its flaws.
I could rant about Linux, too, but most of my ire would be focused on wifi hardware engineers who change chipsets and designs without changing hardware designations.
These discussions are chronically unproductive because they attract postings from True Believers who aren't capable of seeing the flaws in their Chosen Products and have no significant, current real-world experience with the alternatives.
The Macintosh UI is a rat's nest of bad design decisions and inconsistencies.
So is the Windows UI, and so are the several Linux desktops.
They all suck. Get used to it.
I use a high-end Powerbook as my primary work tool every single day. I have a couple of XP machines sitting around the house (old desktop, wife's Vaio laptop), have run Linux since kernel 0.96 or so, have a Linux-powered Nokia 800 in my pocket, and have installed Ubuntu on the computers of my kids and their grandmothers. (Vista has been banned from my presence.)
All of them, including the Macintosh, fall apart under scrutiny when it comes to UI. (Why is the menu bar on a DIFFERENT MONITOR THAN THE ONE I AM USING? This is not single-tasking 1984! Why do I drag something to the trash can when I don't want to delete it? And what idiot actually thinks Finder is a decent way to launch applications? And why is it so slow? And, and, and....)
And when it comes to hardware, the general rule on the Mac is that it Just Works only if you buy pricey Apple-branded add-ons.
Anything else is a complete crap shoot. Odds of getting my USB hard drive to work on a Mac are slim and none, yet it Just Works with every Linux system I've tried. Without touching configuration files (I don't even know where they are any more).
On balance I like my Powerbook a lot more than the dead Windows Compaq it replaced, and it's infinitely more secure. But there are all sorts of Linux features it doesn't have, such as the very slick virtual filesystem that lets me mount my webserver folders via ssh/sftp, and I miss the vast quantities of software for Linux. And, because I have to work with Exchange, I'm really frustrated with the Mac's calendaring. So it's entirely possible that when my Mac dies, the replacement will be a Linux laptop, especially now that the Eee has the multitouch pad.
Maybe they were thinking about http://www.sonicdrivein.com/?
But in their defense, I understand the hamburger wrappers make great tinfoil hats.
Looks like it's ARIN as well as DNS.
Try host 208.65.153.238:
238.153.65.208.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer youtube.com.hk.
Then whois youtube.com.hk.
Domain Name: YOUTUBE.COM.HK
Contract Version: HKDNR latest version
Registrant Contact Information:
Company English Name (It should be the same as the registered/corporation name on your Business Register Certificate or relevant documents): HONG KONG INTERNET (HOLDING) LIMITED
Company Chinese name: ??????????????
Address: RM 2203E, NAN FUNG CENTRE, 264-298 CASTLE PEAK RD TSUEN WAN
Country: HK
Email: domainreg@webdomain.com.hk
Domain Name Commencement Date: 01-08-2006
Expiry Date: 27-06-2008
Re-registration Status: Complete
Name of Registrar: HKDNR
Administrative Contact Information:
First name: DOMAIN
Last name: ADMIN
Company name: GOOGLE INC.
Address: PMB 155, 10400 OVERLAND RD BOISE 83709-1433 ID
Country: US
Phone: +1-208-3895740
Fax: +1-208-3895771
Email: domainreg@webdomain.com.hk
Account Name: HK1914580T
Technical Contact Information:
First name: DOMAIN REG.
Last name: SECTION
Company name: HONG KONG INTERNET (HOLDING) LIMITED.
Address: RM 2203E, NAN FUNG CENTRE, 264-298 CASTLE PEAK RD TSUEN WAN
Country: HK
Phone: +852--24921168
Fax: +852--82088601
Email: ccops@markmonitor.com
Name Servers Information:
DNS1.SJL.YOUTUBE.COM
DNS2.SJL.YOUTUBE.COM
Even better than Pakistan:
.com and .net domains can now be registered
DNS highjackers have effectively blocked YouTube globally by gaining control of the root domain record. whois youtube.com returns a poisoned record:
disruptive:~ stevey$ whois youtube.com
Whois Server Version 2.0
Domain names in the
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net/
for detailed information.
YOUTUBE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.MORE.INFO.AT.WWW.BEYONDWHOIS.COM
YOUTUBE.COM.IS.N0T.AS.1337.AS.WWW.GULLI.COM
YOUTUBE.COM
Traceroute to www.youtube.com shows packets disappearing into a Hong Kong ISP, PCCW Telecom.
You might want to try Citadel, which has integrated email, group conversations and shared calendaring.
You can subscribe to your Facebook notifications as an RSS feed in Thunderbird, and click to open each message in Firefox.
As for the number of queries used in Drupal, learn to use the cache system:
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/a_beginners_guide_to_caching_data
If you read the Drupal theme developer's guide you'd know that basic Drupal theming works exactly that way. A page template is simply an HTML page with tags inserted where you want specific components to appear.
The power of Drupal's approach to theming is that you can do as little, or as much, customization of detailed component formatting as you want.
It's a site development platform, not simple blogware that lets you play with look and feel. This is why the Onion, HamptonRoads.com, New York Observer and Ozzy Osborne's website can all run Drupal but not look or act like my weblog or JumpTV.
I'm wondering if you've ever done anything complex enough to require additional regions not provided in off-the-shelf themes or alternative layouts for multiple content types, or rearrangement of fields in complex content types or user profiles, or overriding microcomponents such as taxonomy links.
Theming is not limited to simple reskinning. CSS is a tool. It shouldn't be your only tool.
If it doesn't break, you don't need support.
That's why I set up my elderly mother and mother-in-law up with Ubuntu Linux. I don't have to worry about viruses, or virus software protection rackets, or infestations of spyware. Ubuntu Just Works.
And besides, it comes with more/better games.
That Dell all-in-one PC looks pretty sweet
While the FCC has no authority to regulate newspapers, it does have the authority to deny broadcast spectrum licenses in situations where it judges the grant not to be in the public interest, and it has for decades held the position that granting a television license to a daily newspaper in the same market is automatically not in the public interest. Tuesday's decision changes that position.
If this decision had been made a decade ago, you would have seen a burst of acquisitions by newspaper companies. Today they simply don't have the access to capital. McClatchy's current market cap is about what it paid in 1997 to buy the Minneapolis Star Tribune. And local TV isn't as attractive as it once was. Is audience has been drained away to cable and the Internet, or driven away by cheap-to-produce "reality" shows.
So there may be a burst of property-trading in which media companies consolidate geographic holdings, I don't expect it to be all that significant.
All this seems to me like a case of fighting the last war. The Internet has made it impossible for any local media entity to dictate the public agenda. And I think that's a good thing.
See also Ben Compaine: http://wotmedia.blogspot.com/
CompUSA is shutting down, Best Buy has gone insane ... from now on I'll do my shopping at Buy More.
It's not necessarily wrong. Sophos is assuming, without reason, that an open access point isn't intended to be used. I would argue the opposite. Open access means "use me."
Earlier this week at the Columbus, Ohio, airport, I appreciated not having to click through pages of legal disclaimers, threats, et cetera, to get to the Internet on the unsecured wifi access point that I found when sitting an airport waiting area. I was able to connect and quickly grab my email without having to mess around with a web browser.
Am I a criminal for using the open wifi connection? Or was I merely using a publicly accessible wifi connection? The latter, judging from the posters all over the airport urging me to use the service.
I had the same experience at the Columbia, South Carolina, airport. Free access, fast connections, no legal clickthrough junk. (Cheers to both airports for not trying to nick me for $8 an hour.)
An open, unsecured wifi access point should be considered an invitation to public use. And inviting free public use should never be outlawed.
At the risk of piling on: My Windows Mobile-based smartphone locked up hard earlier this year at the worst possible time: in the Atlanta airport as I was headed to Europe for a week of travel. It never came back to life, capping a history of unreliability and bizarre behavior. At the end I was glad to see it go.
Replacing it: A simple Nokia 6133 not-so-smartphone that boots in a matter of seconds, paired via Bluetooth with a Nokia 800 Internet tablet running Linux and a Mozilla browser. I am much, much better off.
Previously I had a Symbian S60 Nokia that eventually suffered hardware failure.
Based on my experience with both Symbian and Microsoft, a long history of using Linux, I'm excited and optimistic about the Android project. It's been said that OK open systems beat great closed systems every time. In this case, the closed systems are far from great, and the open system looks like it's going to kick butt.