The gist is - they wanted a second form of ID because the address on my valid state issued ID didn't match the ID I was registered to vote with. They were wrong! According to Ohio voting laws I had a legit ID and should be allowed to vote. After some arguing and finally making them take a look at the rules (read: LAW) the polling workers finally agreed that I did indeed have proper ID.
And now for a properly formatted post... damn Preview Button!
>>one of the key aspects of an effective programmer is laziness
I couldn't agree more... and that's probably why I have so many ideas, yet so few implemented products to show for it.;)
But I digress... Phil Haack makes some great points about rolling your own blog engine and why such attempts often come up short.
The whole idea of having proper source code formatting/highlighting built into the blog engine is something that I too have have been longing for. It just seems such a daunting task as I'd want to support so many languages - but perhaps this would be one of those times to start small and get just one or two working.
Maybe this will be a plug-in I'll look into building for the 2.0 release of Subtext.
>>one of the key aspects of an effective programmer is laziness
I couldn't agree more... and that's probably why I have so many ideas, yet so few implemented products to show for it.;)
But I digress... Phil Haack makes some great points about rolling your own blog engine and why such attempts often come up short.
The whole idea of having proper source code formatting/highlighting built into the blog engine is something that I too have have been longing for. It just seems such a daunting task as I'd want to support so many languages - but perhaps this would be one of those times to start small and get just one or two working.
Maybe this will be a plug-in I'll look into building for the 2.0 release of Subtext.
In general, the freshness of MSN's index rivals that of Google.
Not that this will directly speak for the "Freshness" of either companies indexes... but I just took a look at my logs to see which company's robots/spiders were out doing the most work (on my site). MSN seems to be hitting my pages almost 4 times as much as Google. But, like I said... this is by no means a scientific study, just my quick observation.
MSNBot : 2498+305 -- 46.07 MB Googlebot : 427+32 -- 12.91 MM (Numbers after + are successful hits on "robots.txt" files.)
I would have to agree with this comment. On my home PC I use GAIM for talking on AIM, MSN, & GoogleTalk and it works great. The plug-in environment makes it easy to configure/customize to work My-Way (tm). And at work I use GAIM for the above 3 plus Sametime. However, as the parent said, it does tend to break/not support much beyond the basic chat functionality.
For example, this past weekend I was trying to help a family member fix their M$ box, and I wanted to login remotely and let them watch me/talk them through the fix. Normally I'd use a VNC-over-SSH type solution for this. But I knew that would be too much configuration on my family memeber's side... especially when it came to configuring their firewall. So, I decided to give Microsoft's "Remote Assistance" feature.
The easiest way to do this is for both parties to be on MSN (and be running MS Messenger), and the party in need of help just right-clicks on the "expert's" name, and sends an invite to help them. The "expert" then accepts the invite and is connected to the "novice's" desktop (via MS Terminal Services/Remote Desktop). The nice thing is that since the _novice_ started the conversation (session) their (Windows XPSP2) firewall will let the expert connect b/c the service will open a hole in the firewall. (M$'s How-To: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsu pport/learnmore/remoteassist/viaim.mspx)
Granted, I still had to talk my family member thru opening a hole in their hardware firewall. But since it was just your basic consumer router (Linksys, Dlink, etc...) it was pretty painless.
Anyhow, the point of this rant is that this is not possible thru GAIM, but only when using M$'s own MSN Client.
Did anyone else read that as "Sanely Moving from World to the Web?"
I was thinking "Oh God, not another article from Wired!"
And while I don't want to encourage the posting of every article in Wired on/., I also feel compelled to cite why I thought the above. So, realizing that this post will probably only be read by 2 other people at most... the article is here:
http://wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/start.html?pg =3
I've been using ml_ipod to help my girlfriend manage my her iPod Mini since around Dec '04, as well as my Shuffle (which I got just over a month ago). I had some trouble getting ml_iPod to work correctly with the Shuffle at first, but after some quick research and playing around, it works great. I also posted a "Lessons Learned" article here... hopefully it will help get you going.
I also work for a large bank and while I've not seen anything that specifically says "You can NOT use FireFox/Mozilla", our internal website is IE only. If you even try to hit it w/FF it throws up an error message saying you can't access the site because you're not using IE. I do use FF for all of my other browsing while at work, and I've even converted a few of my co-workers (and my boss)! I've also been pushing to get the [web front end-ed] application that I work on to be standards compliant (and therefor FF friendly). As it is today, you can access our app w/FF, but a lot of our UI widgets depend on IE hacks.
For the interested, the error message is something like:
Please use Internet Explorer (IE) to access --name removed-- intranet sites.
You are unable to access this site because you are not using the Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
IE can be accessed by clicking on your "Start" menu > "Search" > "For Files or Folders" and then entering "Internet Explorer" in the search field. For additional help please contact your local help desk.
Uh, wait... so we just went from 2 competing formats (Blu-Ray and HD DVD) to 4 (Blu-Ray, HD DVD, Blu-Ray+HD DVD, and HD DVD+Blu-Ray)? Thats an n-squared rate of growth. Surely someone could come up with something more efficient, along the lines of nLog(n) perhaps?
Now that wouldn't be very Micro$oft-ish... by using their own keyboard shortcuts M$ can help reduce the number of people who move away from IE. I can envision a strategy along these lines:
"By _NOT_ working like Firefox, our users will be less apt to switch away from IE because the other browser doesn't work right." The more stumbling blocks M$ can make their users overcome while trying to learn these new fangled browsers, the more will give up and settle for IE. --IMHO
Yet another example of why an Edit Post option is needed. I fat-fingered the Submit button, missing the Preview step, and my mistyped mark-up ate some of my text. It intended to read:
This sounds a bit familiar... I think the RIAA stole this idea from Southpark. Cartman dressed up like a robot (AWESOM-O) to get secrets from Butters... but he ended up in Hollywood creating blockbuster movie ideas. Here is how it went down:
Producer: Gentlemen, this little boy was kind enough to let us show you his robot. The AWESOM-O 4000. [approaches the robot, who's seated at one end of the table] I've already seen what he can do.
Staffer 1: Uh, excuse me sir, but uh, that's not a robot.
Producer: It's not?
Staffer 1: No, it clearly had bipedal movement, so the correct term is "computerized automatron."
Mitch: Oh, very nice, Mitch.
Staffer 2: You are the smart one.
Producer: Well, regardless, I believe maybe this automatron can help us come up with new movie ideas.
Staffer 2: How can a robot come up with better ideas for movies than us?
Producer: Watch this: AWESOM-O, given the current trends of the movie-going public can you come up with an idea for a movie that will break a hundred million box office?
Cartman: Um... okay. How about this: [the staffers take pen to paper and anticipate the ideas] Adam Sandler is like, in love with some girl, but then it turns out that the girl is actually a...golden retriever, or something.
Staffer 2: [thinking over this idea, then write it down] Oh, perfect!
Staffer 3: We'll call it "Puppy Love"!
Staffer 2: Give us another movie idea, AWESOM-O!
Mitch: Yeah yeah!
Staffer 3: Let's hear it!
Mitch: Yeah, we wanna hear it!
Staffer 3: Come on, come on!
Cartman: Okay, how about this: Adam Sandler... inherits like, a billion dollars, but first, he has to, like, become a...boxer, or something.
Staffer 3: [the producers start writing again]...Yes, it's flawless!
Mitch: Punch-Drunk Billionaire!
Before someone says it... yes, I realize that most any shielded cable will probably work just as well. But the one's I bought have worked for me, and I'm happy with them.
I didn't say that Monster is better than Foo... however the Monster cables I linked to will tend be be better because the are shielded and so will help to ensure that every bit is sent/recieved correctly. So you could say that the shielding is helping to prevent the bits from being massaged (corrupted). Now I know that duct tape has a billion-and-one uses, but I don't know that shielding digital transmission cables is one of them... but I could be wrong!
A a matter of fact, I have used a DVI->HDMI converter cable to hook my Samsung HD841 DVD player (DVI output) up to my Mitsubishi DLP TV (HDMI input). I went for one of the higher-end Monster HDMI/DVI cables to ensure the best possible signal to the TV. I think it was about $180, but the guy at BestBuy gave it to me for the price of the lesser cable (~$120). I had talked to the guy a while before choosing the DVD player and told him that for what the TV had cost, I wasn't interested in skimping out on the components (nor cables) if it cost picture quality. I'm sure I could have done even better online, but I am all about instant gratification! I have been very happy w/the picture (the DVD player up-converts the signal to 480p, 720p, or 1080i).
From the research I've done, and what I've seen, its like most other (electronic) things... you'll generally get the best results if you stick w/high quality stuff from end-to-end. It would have been nice to have all of the audio in the same cable, rather than having to buy another fiber cable for the sound. Good luck!
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I actually just wrote up a post about my (rather poor) experience at the polls here in Ohio.
The gist is - they wanted a second form of ID because the address on my valid state issued ID didn't match the ID I was registered to vote with. They were wrong! According to Ohio voting laws I had a legit ID and should be allowed to vote. After some arguing and finally making them take a look at the rules (read: LAW) the polling workers finally agreed that I did indeed have proper ID.
And now for a properly formatted post... damn Preview Button!
>>one of the key aspects of an effective programmer is laziness
I couldn't agree more... and that's probably why I have so many ideas, yet so few implemented products to show for it. ;)
But I digress... Phil Haack makes some great points about rolling your own blog engine and why such attempts often come up short.
The whole idea of having proper source code formatting/highlighting built into the blog engine is something that I too have have been longing for. It just seems such a daunting task as I'd want to support so many languages - but perhaps this would be one of those times to start small and get just one or two working.
Maybe this will be a plug-in I'll look into building for the 2.0 release of Subtext.
>>one of the key aspects of an effective programmer is laziness I couldn't agree more... and that's probably why I have so many ideas, yet so few implemented products to show for it. ;)
But I digress... Phil Haack makes some great points about rolling your own blog engine and why such attempts often come up short.
The whole idea of having proper source code formatting/highlighting built into the blog engine is something that I too have have been longing for. It just seems such a daunting task as I'd want to support so many languages - but perhaps this would be one of those times to start small and get just one or two working.
Maybe this will be a plug-in I'll look into building for the 2.0 release of Subtext.
Being pretty much a n00b when it comes to Linux... I shouldn't.
I had images of eye patches, rusty swords, and Davey Jones' Locker for sale... Arghhh!
Even lowly bacteria.
I think you forgot your tags...
MSNBot : 2498+305 -- 46.07 MB
Googlebot : 427+32 -- 12.91 MM
(Numbers after + are successful hits on "robots.txt" files.)
FREE BEER (tomorrow)!
Never! Why do you think they call it code?
I would have to agree with this comment. On my home PC I use GAIM for talking on AIM, MSN, & GoogleTalk and it works great. The plug-in environment makes it easy to configure/customize to work My-Way (tm). And at work I use GAIM for the above 3 plus Sametime. However, as the parent said, it does tend to break/not support much beyond the basic chat functionality.
For example, this past weekend I was trying to help a family member fix their M$ box, and I wanted to login remotely and let them watch me/talk them through the fix. Normally I'd use a VNC-over-SSH type solution for this. But I knew that would be too much configuration on my family memeber's side... especially when it came to configuring their firewall. So, I decided to give Microsoft's "Remote Assistance" feature.
The easiest way to do this is for both parties to be on MSN (and be running MS Messenger), and the party in need of help just right-clicks on the "expert's" name, and sends an invite to help them. The "expert" then accepts the invite and is connected to the "novice's" desktop (via MS Terminal Services/Remote Desktop). The nice thing is that since the _novice_ started the conversation (session) their (Windows XPSP2) firewall will let the expert connect b/c the service will open a hole in the firewall. (M$'s How-To: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsu pport/learnmore/remoteassist/viaim.mspx)
Granted, I still had to talk my family member thru opening a hole in their hardware firewall. But since it was just your basic consumer router (Linksys, Dlink, etc...) it was pretty painless.
Anyhow, the point of this rant is that this is not possible thru GAIM, but only when using M$'s own MSN Client.
- just my $0.000002
Since you mentioned .Text (dotText), I thought I'd point out the subText Project, which is nearing it's initial release (expected in December).
.TEXT blogging platform.
Subtext is an open source project licensed under the BSD license. It is a fork of the popular
Did anyone else read that as "Sanely Moving from World to the Web?"
I was thinking "Oh God, not another article from Wired!"
And while I don't want to encourage the posting of every article in Wired on /., I also feel compelled to cite why I thought the above. So, realizing that this post will probably only be read by 2 other people at most... the article is here:
http://wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/start.html?pg =3
Go ahead and mod me Troll.
I've been using ml_ipod to help my girlfriend manage my her iPod Mini since around Dec '04, as well as my Shuffle (which I got just over a month ago). I had some trouble getting ml_iPod to work correctly with the Shuffle at first, but after some quick research and playing around, it works great. I also posted a "Lessons Learned" article here... hopefully it will help get you going.
For the interested, the error message is something like:
Please use Internet Explorer (IE) to access --name removed-- intranet sites.
You are unable to access this site because you are not using the Internet Explorer (IE) browser.
IE can be accessed by clicking on your "Start" menu > "Search" > "For Files or Folders" and then entering "Internet Explorer" in the search field. For additional help please contact your local help desk.
Uh, wait... so we just went from 2 competing formats (Blu-Ray and HD DVD) to 4 (Blu-Ray, HD DVD, Blu-Ray+HD DVD, and HD DVD+Blu-Ray)? Thats an n-squared rate of growth. Surely someone could come up with something more efficient, along the lines of nLog(n) perhaps?
Now that wouldn't be very Micro$oft-ish... by using their own keyboard shortcuts M$ can help reduce the number of people who move away from IE. I can envision a strategy along these lines:
"By _NOT_ working like Firefox, our users will be less apt to switch away from IE because the other browser doesn't work right."
The more stumbling blocks M$ can make their users overcome while trying to learn these new fangled browsers, the more will give up and settle for IE. --IMHO
- In Soviet Russia...
- err United States...
It's satirical, get it? Of course you don't.In Soviet Russia United States...
Looks like Cory Doctorow has made two slashdot posts IN A ROW!
This sounds a bit familiar... I think the RIAA stole this idea from Southpark. Cartman dressed up like a robot (AWESOM-O) to get secrets from Butters... but he ended up in Hollywood creating blockbuster movie ideas. Here is how it went down:
...golden retriever, or something. ...boxer, or something. ...Yes, it's flawless!
Mitch: Punch-Drunk Billionaire!
Producer: Gentlemen, this little boy was kind enough to let us show you his robot. The AWESOM-O 4000. [approaches the robot, who's seated at one end of the table] I've already seen what he can do.
Staffer 1: Uh, excuse me sir, but uh, that's not a robot.
Producer: It's not?
Staffer 1: No, it clearly had bipedal movement, so the correct term is "computerized automatron."
Mitch: Oh, very nice, Mitch.
Staffer 2: You are the smart one.
Producer: Well, regardless, I believe maybe this automatron can help us come up with new movie ideas.
Staffer 2: How can a robot come up with better ideas for movies than us?
Producer: Watch this: AWESOM-O, given the current trends of the movie-going public can you come up with an idea for a movie that will break a hundred million box office?
Cartman: Um... okay. How about this: [the staffers take pen to paper and anticipate the ideas] Adam Sandler is like, in love with some girl, but then it turns out that the girl is actually a
Staffer 2: [thinking over this idea, then write it down] Oh, perfect!
Staffer 3: We'll call it "Puppy Love"!
Staffer 2: Give us another movie idea, AWESOM-O!
Mitch: Yeah yeah!
Staffer 3: Let's hear it!
Mitch: Yeah, we wanna hear it!
Staffer 3: Come on, come on!
Cartman: Okay, how about this: Adam Sandler... inherits like, a billion dollars, but first, he has to, like, become a
Staffer 3: [the producers start writing again]
Before someone says it... yes, I realize that most any shielded cable will probably work just as well. But the one's I bought have worked for me, and I'm happy with them.
I didn't say that Monster is better than Foo... however the Monster cables I linked to will tend be be better because the are shielded and so will help to ensure that every bit is sent/recieved correctly. So you could say that the shielding is helping to prevent the bits from being massaged (corrupted). Now I know that duct tape has a billion-and-one uses, but I don't know that shielding digital transmission cables is one of them... but I could be wrong!
A a matter of fact, I have used a DVI->HDMI converter cable to hook my Samsung HD841 DVD player (DVI output) up to my Mitsubishi DLP TV (HDMI input). I went for one of the higher-end Monster HDMI/DVI cables to ensure the best possible signal to the TV. I think it was about $180, but the guy at BestBuy gave it to me for the price of the lesser cable (~$120). I had talked to the guy a while before choosing the DVD player and told him that for what the TV had cost, I wasn't interested in skimping out on the components (nor cables) if it cost picture quality. I'm sure I could have done even better online, but I am all about instant gratification! I have been very happy w/the picture (the DVD player up-converts the signal to 480p, 720p, or 1080i).
From the research I've done, and what I've seen, its like most other (electronic) things... you'll generally get the best results if you stick w/high quality stuff from end-to-end. It would have been nice to have all of the audio in the same cable, rather than having to buy another fiber cable for the sound.
Good luck!
Sounds like these guys should talk to Hansel & Derek.
Hansel: "The files are IN the computer."
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