Thus the reply to that post... I screwed up, and didn't look at the Preview, so I said screw it, and made a link to the NYUD cache instead... sorry 'bout that.
Just block the bot from your site, or write some simple PHP to restrict it from querying the pages you want, and the frequency....
I'd just block the "bad-bots" though, if they don't listen to you, don't give them contact.
Or, contact the owner of the domain and get mad at them for spidering without following proper spider rules. He is wasting <b>your</b> resources in exchange for <b>their</b> profit, get mad, get even!
zero comments have been posted and it's slow as hell
Casefancasefancasefancasefancase...
I work in a computer store building PCs all day. With every new case there are one or two 8cm case fans included. Most of the systems we build do not need any more cooling than is supplied by the CPU fan as most of our customers generally don't go in for all this "overclocking malarky".
Looking around the stock room I discovered two large boxes of unused 8cm case fans.
Surfing through case mod sites, the most popular mod you see (besides Lexan windows) is some form of whizzy cooling device, be it fan or waterblock. People go to great lengths to keep their PCs cool.
Now... putting these two things together...
Click pictures to show them at full size.
What you are looking at is a case made of case fans, Dexian (there's probably a trademark in there somewhere) shelving, nylon cable ties, terminal blocks, nylon motherboard mounts, backplane blanks, screws and wire. Oh, and PC hardware.
This was as much an art project as it was a case mod -- I intended it to be indicative of the work I do, the things I see and work with every day, and also put an interesting spin on a common concern in the hardcore PC user community.
Or you could say that is all a load of bollocks and I just thought it would be a cool thing to do.
Perhaps a little from both columns... side2
front2 There are 70 case fans in total, covering over 95% of the case AND THEY ALL WORK!
Looking from the front of the case, air flows in through the left side and out the right side. The front an back blow air into the case and air flows from the top of the case down and out the bottom... theoretically anyway.
All of the fans are cable tied together, and each side is attached to the Dexian (there's sure to be a trademark there) frame with nylon motherboard mounts (or standoffs). This was meant to be an action shot but the digital camera's "shutter speed" was too quick to capture the movement. side
Although I was actually going for the grungy industrial look, my construction and finishing methods do leave a lot to be desired. However, when you are building a computer case from scratch in your lunch hours and idle periods at work without the correct tools or the benefit of power tools other than a cordless drill, you've got to cut corners somewhere or you'll never finish.
Just to prove the thing actually works here is the casefancasefancase... running Slax Linux in KDE GUI mode. The hardware installed in the photo is an MS-6540 mobo, P4 3GHz Prescott CPU, 512MB DDR400 RAM, 40GB ATA HDD, and crappy 36xCDROM I found lying around. The hardware I used was for testing purposes. The company would never let me have it without me having to pay for it, and I had hoped to spend as little money on this venture as I could. I intend to redesign the case to suit some hardware I've got lying around at home. According to the owner of the store the case costs around NZ$140 in case fans alone. slax
BIOS Now I suppose you are wondering: "Does it actually make a difference to the running temperature?"
Answer: Yes and no.
The main difference between the casefancasefancase... and any normal case is the system or mainboard temperature. After prolonged use it remains pretty constant at about 23 - 24 degrees Centigrade. The CPU temp is not as greatly affected, basically because I am using the standard fan/heatsink supplied with the CPU. If I was to shell out for something with big copper fins on it I'd probably notice a difference. But just in case you were wondering, here's a BIOS screenshot.
Finally, here is the back of the beast. I thought it might be stupid, even for me, to cover the PSU fan with case fans as well. Don't knock my wiring either. This whole thing is not the finished product by any stretch of the imagination. You may have noticed it lacks a power switch other than the one at the end of the blue and red cable dangling from the front of the case. I intend to keep the exposed wiring and terminal blocks, but tidy up the molex plugs and keep them out of sight. I also need
The problem is on the webmaster end, NOT the user end... privacy is an issue, but stealing sales or adding un-asked-for links AWAY from the site is more of an issue
I hope I don't get in trouble, but I submitted a story that said
"My site went off line during the reboot to upgrade the kernel, then, went down for a few seconds while overwriting files to implement the new Refrozen Upload"
There is a good chance Blizzard's support staff is not part of the regular staff, meaning they don't really know a lot about the company.
Also, there is a good chance that they've been given a set of pre-built answers, and can't modify them... maybe try asking to speak to "someone higher up"... although, you'll probably get a decline...
OR... just tell them that the CD-key you bought didn't work (it's true) and it said it was already in use. If you say no more than that, you have a chance.
This thread is moving VERY slowly, what's going on/.?
Anyways, I believe this is a good thing, however, I don't see HOTMAIL on that list.:-) I honestly believe free mail providers should be 100% responsible for what their users do so they'd so something to stop the ub3rsp4m that comes out of HMail.
Yeah, you are right, I take that back, the customize toolbar dialog, in theory, could be improved. And, I have nothing more to say on it, but, they have been using it since an early, early, EARLY version of Firefox, it just seems that they would continue to make things work similarly throughout their applications. (their = mozilla org's)
"It just rubs me the wrong way when you hear (from some people) open source foo is superior to proprietary foo, or more conducive to creativity, or more original or whatever. Because even as they speak, the other hand's busy ripping off proprietary innovations like this toolbar interface."
I agree completely, one thing I try to get across to people with the Slashdot mindset is that if you are just USING software, it makes no difference if it is open source or proprietary, the thing that makes a difference is how well it works, how efficent it is, how easy it is to use, and how much you can accomplish with it. Open source doesn't directly tie in to any one of those things, granted, some open source software is better than some proprietary software, but vice-versa as well.
I actually buy in to it a bit, after using both Linux and Windows, I can definately say that what is refered to as 'DLL Hell' on Windows, happens 24 hours a day with.so.* files on Linux.
Everything has a thousand dependancies on Linux, on Windows most of the dependancies are built in to the operating system, and the others, aren't covered by licenses that say things that make them hard to distribute or anything, so they are included when you install software.
Of course, this is again, a matter of judgement, modularizing everything to the extent that Linux has, has it's positive features and negative features.
No, I'm not. I am 100% for innovation, but only where innovation is going to give substantial improvemnt.
Sunbird should not just be an iCal ripoff, however, there isn't much more I can add to this discussion, because I don't understand your view point in the post (maybe you were being sarcastic in some spots, or maybe you were talking to other people, or... I don't know)
Oddly enough, I am downloaded it at 150kb/s at about the same time your comment was posted. Could it be your end that is slow? Maybe someone could mirror it anyways, it's free karma after all.:-)
"An exact copy is never better than the original. In order to make it better, it must, at a minimum, be different (not that everything different is automatically better)."
I see NOTHING that can be improved with something as simple as a customize toolbar window. When you develop applications do you ever have a button that says "Ok" or "Yes"? I betcha you do, and so does everyone else, doesn't that make you unoriginal? Why not put "kjfdgnfs" on the button? People want "Ok", not "kjfdgnfs".
Other than that, you are 100% right, something cannot be better by being the same.
I call you on bullshit, the grandparent is right, a fully patched, properly configured Windows server is going to be secure. Windows does have a small (user/file permissions) design flaw, which I find Unix to do near perfectly, but still, Windows can be secure, it's just, personal users don't 'have time to be bothered'.
Yeah, that is a problem, but Thunderbird has a lot of other problems as far as I've seen (making me choose Refrozen-WebMail as my client of choice, no you can't use it, for my personal use only:-))
With Thunderbird, if you save a letter to send later, you have no way (that I can find) to send it, you have to restart the program for it to send it self, (in other words, there is no send button, just a recieve button)... Maybe I am wrong, or have the concept mixed up, but, that's how I see it.
Slashdot Mirror
Thus, the cached link. It's got pictures. :-) Mod up the cached link post, and down the full article text post, and the problem is solved.
Thus the reply to that post... I screwed up, and didn't look at the Preview, so I said screw it, and made a link to the NYUD cache instead... sorry 'bout that.
Just block the bot from your site, or write some simple PHP to restrict it from querying the pages you want, and the frequency....
I'd just block the "bad-bots" though, if they don't listen to you, don't give them contact.
Or, contact the owner of the domain and get mad at them for spidering without following proper spider rules. He is wasting <b>your</b> resources in exchange for <b>their</b> profit, get mad, get even!
Err, wow.
AND the cached link: the cached link
zero comments have been posted and it's slow as hell Casefancasefancasefancasefancase... I work in a computer store building PCs all day. With every new case there are one or two 8cm case fans included. Most of the systems we build do not need any more cooling than is supplied by the CPU fan as most of our customers generally don't go in for all this "overclocking malarky". Looking around the stock room I discovered two large boxes of unused 8cm case fans. Surfing through case mod sites, the most popular mod you see (besides Lexan windows) is some form of whizzy cooling device, be it fan or waterblock. People go to great lengths to keep their PCs cool. Now... putting these two things together... Click pictures to show them at full size. What you are looking at is a case made of case fans, Dexian (there's probably a trademark in there somewhere) shelving, nylon cable ties, terminal blocks, nylon motherboard mounts, backplane blanks, screws and wire. Oh, and PC hardware. This was as much an art project as it was a case mod -- I intended it to be indicative of the work I do, the things I see and work with every day, and also put an interesting spin on a common concern in the hardcore PC user community. Or you could say that is all a load of bollocks and I just thought it would be a cool thing to do. Perhaps a little from both columns... side2 front2 There are 70 case fans in total, covering over 95% of the case AND THEY ALL WORK! Looking from the front of the case, air flows in through the left side and out the right side. The front an back blow air into the case and air flows from the top of the case down and out the bottom... theoretically anyway. All of the fans are cable tied together, and each side is attached to the Dexian (there's sure to be a trademark there) frame with nylon motherboard mounts (or standoffs). This was meant to be an action shot but the digital camera's "shutter speed" was too quick to capture the movement. side Although I was actually going for the grungy industrial look, my construction and finishing methods do leave a lot to be desired. However, when you are building a computer case from scratch in your lunch hours and idle periods at work without the correct tools or the benefit of power tools other than a cordless drill, you've got to cut corners somewhere or you'll never finish. Just to prove the thing actually works here is the casefancasefancase... running Slax Linux in KDE GUI mode. The hardware installed in the photo is an MS-6540 mobo, P4 3GHz Prescott CPU, 512MB DDR400 RAM, 40GB ATA HDD, and crappy 36xCDROM I found lying around. The hardware I used was for testing purposes. The company would never let me have it without me having to pay for it, and I had hoped to spend as little money on this venture as I could. I intend to redesign the case to suit some hardware I've got lying around at home. According to the owner of the store the case costs around NZ$140 in case fans alone. slax BIOS Now I suppose you are wondering: "Does it actually make a difference to the running temperature?" Answer: Yes and no. The main difference between the casefancasefancase... and any normal case is the system or mainboard temperature. After prolonged use it remains pretty constant at about 23 - 24 degrees Centigrade. The CPU temp is not as greatly affected, basically because I am using the standard fan/heatsink supplied with the CPU. If I was to shell out for something with big copper fins on it I'd probably notice a difference. But just in case you were wondering, here's a BIOS screenshot. Finally, here is the back of the beast. I thought it might be stupid, even for me, to cover the PSU fan with case fans as well. Don't knock my wiring either. This whole thing is not the finished product by any stretch of the imagination. You may have noticed it lacks a power switch other than the one at the end of the blue and red cable dangling from the front of the case. I intend to keep the exposed wiring and terminal blocks, but tidy up the molex plugs and keep them out of sight. I also need
Assuming your trying to do the obligatory anti-microsoft post, I figured I'd point out that that is precisely what .NET is meant to do.
I guess that means no one here uses Teoma?
I find Teoma more reliable, more accurate and even some times faster than the big G.
Ultaportable
Mmmm...
"It's not your signature they take, it's the CC#, exp date, and confirmation code, to use online where no one ever asks for a signature. "
Why the HELL did that get rated informative? Maybe funny, but INFORMATIVE?
The problem is on the webmaster end, NOT the user end... privacy is an issue, but stealing sales or adding un-asked-for links AWAY from the site is more of an issue
And that "you're" was supposed to be your.... :P
Yeah, you're apostraphy goes one character to the right.
I hope I don't get in trouble, but I submitted a story that said "My site went off line during the reboot to upgrade the kernel, then, went down for a few seconds while overwriting files to implement the new Refrozen Upload"
Damn cheap hard-drive space. :-)
There is a good chance Blizzard's support staff is not part of the regular staff, meaning they don't really know a lot about the company.
Also, there is a good chance that they've been given a set of pre-built answers, and can't modify them... maybe try asking to speak to "someone higher up"... although, you'll probably get a decline...
OR... just tell them that the CD-key you bought didn't work (it's true) and it said it was already in use. If you say no more than that, you have a chance.
That is all.
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The requested URL http:// was not found on this server.
Never seen that error before.
This thread is moving VERY slowly, what's going on /.?
Anyways, I believe this is a good thing, however, I don't see HOTMAIL on that list. :-) I honestly believe free mail providers should be 100% responsible for what their users do so they'd so something to stop the ub3rsp4m that comes out of HMail.
Yeah, you are right, I take that back, the customize toolbar dialog, in theory, could be improved. And, I have nothing more to say on it, but, they have been using it since an early, early, EARLY version of Firefox, it just seems that they would continue to make things work similarly throughout their applications. (their = mozilla org's)
"It just rubs me the wrong way when you hear (from some people) open source foo is superior to proprietary foo, or more conducive to creativity, or more original or whatever. Because even as they speak, the other hand's busy ripping off proprietary innovations like this toolbar interface."
I agree completely, one thing I try to get across to people with the Slashdot mindset is that if you are just USING software, it makes no difference if it is open source or proprietary, the thing that makes a difference is how well it works, how efficent it is, how easy it is to use, and how much you can accomplish with it. Open source doesn't directly tie in to any one of those things, granted, some open source software is better than some proprietary software, but vice-versa as well.
I actually buy in to it a bit, after using both Linux and Windows, I can definately say that what is refered to as 'DLL Hell' on Windows, happens 24 hours a day with .so.* files on Linux.
Everything has a thousand dependancies on Linux, on Windows most of the dependancies are built in to the operating system, and the others, aren't covered by licenses that say things that make them hard to distribute or anything, so they are included when you install software.
Of course, this is again, a matter of judgement, modularizing everything to the extent that Linux has, has it's positive features and negative features.
No, I'm not. I am 100% for innovation, but only where innovation is going to give substantial improvemnt.
Sunbird should not just be an iCal ripoff, however, there isn't much more I can add to this discussion, because I don't understand your view point in the post (maybe you were being sarcastic in some spots, or maybe you were talking to other people, or... I don't know)
Oddly enough, I am downloaded it at 150kb/s at about the same time your comment was posted. Could it be your end that is slow? Maybe someone could mirror it anyways, it's free karma after all. :-)
"An exact copy is never better than the original. In order to make it better, it must, at a minimum, be different (not that everything different is automatically better)."
I see NOTHING that can be improved with something as simple as a customize toolbar window. When you develop applications do you ever have a button that says "Ok" or "Yes"? I betcha you do, and so does everyone else, doesn't that make you unoriginal? Why not put "kjfdgnfs" on the button? People want "Ok", not "kjfdgnfs".
Other than that, you are 100% right, something cannot be better by being the same.
I call you on bullshit, the grandparent is right, a fully patched, properly configured Windows server is going to be secure. Windows does have a small (user/file permissions) design flaw, which I find Unix to do near perfectly, but still, Windows can be secure, it's just, personal users don't 'have time to be bothered'.
Oh yeah, and uninstall IE.
Yeah, that is a problem, but Thunderbird has a lot of other problems as far as I've seen (making me choose Refrozen-WebMail as my client of choice, no you can't use it, for my personal use only :-))
With Thunderbird, if you save a letter to send later, you have no way (that I can find) to send it, you have to restart the program for it to send it self, (in other words, there is no send button, just a recieve button)... Maybe I am wrong, or have the concept mixed up, but, that's how I see it.