Yes! I'm not the only one smart enough to set up my own lan dns server! I set myself up with a dnscache and tinydns server on my router box, then I just point all ad services and sites I hate to my basement web server where I translate the requests into "ad blocked" images.
Unfortunately, I wish facebook and apple would stop using Akamai's EdgeSuite (edgesuite.net) to host their stylesheets. I'm forced to endure spamvertising because of that fact. Why do big companies have to outsource static hosting anyway? Are they really that pressed for bandwidth?
I knew I should have patented that idea 5+ years ago when I thought it up with my brothers...
Also, what if you accidentally copy some melody from some artist? Does the RIAA start suing you? Is recording the vibrations considered pirating?
Ever since EverQuest 2 was announced, SoE has failed to put out anything truely original and worth playing. Likewise, Playstation has failed to be inovative and has turned toward hate tactics to gain interest. I almost wonder if changes in Sony's administration is to blame for all the junk they've been trying to sell.
1. He's more interested in the company and wants them to have all the cool gadgets before he gets one himself. Sorta that growth mentality where you want to further the company by making them happy instead of jealous.
2. Maybe he wants one of those whiteboards where he can use his hand motions to move stuff around on the screen and combine stuff and whatnot. I think we saw some articles on this tech before.
3. He's waiting for Windows Vista to arrive.
I think Disney's desire to be politically correct and to taylor to all ethnic groups in their movie making will result in a decline in Pixar's quality of humor.
I'd vote for it being alive, but all these stupid discussions on if it's alive or dead are killing it. It's all this spam and nonsense and a lack of quality web design that's turning it into a bunch of useless junk.
And now we'll see Microsoft delay the release of Vista for another year, and yes, more people will be fired for their supposed ignorance in this meta matter.
"Microsoft, like any other consumer software maker would be just as correct to participte in that kind of market as anyone else."
I'd disagree. Microsoft may have a good product going with Office, but to release it on Linux would bring market loss to them. If you give the corporate world an office suite on linux that is powerful, rich, not bloated, standards complaint any every other bell and whistle, they'll all buy into Linux. What happens then? Microsoft's windows department goes bankrupt because most of their income is based off of corporate investments.
Since Microsoft has all the anti-trust stuff to deal with, they've come down to splitting their business into sections. The Office group scratches the backs of the Windows group, and vice versus. Clearly it'd be a bad move for the capitalistic minds of Microsoft to put out Office on Linux.
I wonder how dependant on the body's natural charge this '12 years' is. I know some people who can wear a watch for a couple years on one battery while other people will kill a watch battery in a month or two. By those numbers, some people would be able to use one of these things for 20 years while someone else will barely live off them for 12 months.
If everyone including web developers are forced to release their code under GPL3, then this spells out hell for 2006 and beyond seeing as it gives hackers a nice giant heap of code to plow through and crack into commerce and other data sensitive web operations.
Just think, GPL3 comes out in 2006 and by 2007 massive amounts of developers release under GPL3 and now hackers can have their way with boat loads of code that may or may not give them access to credit card info among much other sensitive information.
I'd rather stay on GPL2 and forget about some license that's going to force me to release all this code that I hacked together to get some software running. It'd take months to go through it all and remove any possible holes in some code I've seen.
No offense, but isn't Microsoft a primarily American company? so why isn't there an American flag on that 'flag tree'? Perhaps they're trying to tailor to the Brits with this very Monty Python-esque website. Did they higher a few people to go smoke some reef and do a marketing plan? Seriously, psychodelic music, bunnies and rabbit holes, party video thing, glittery flag tree. Somebody didn't have their head on straight.
I remember parsing METAR files for work for one summer. Those things made so little sense to me. Didn't help that I was a comp. sci. doing telecom stuff and wasn't a meteorologist or even could begin to understand some of their terminology.
I practically laughed when I read this article. I totally delete every cookie that has the word "ad" in the url somewhere and then I delete some on top of that. Then I eat a cookie for good measure. And finally I sit back and laugh at the ad companies while their valuable consumer statistics get all screwed up. Oh, and not to mention, I have a number of ad websites resolving to my personal web server so I can browse the web ad-free while not screwing up the layout of the website in question.
They get what's coming to them if they think they can advertise smilie faces and junk like that to me. I'll only tolerate google ads because at least they are sometimes relative to what I'm looking for. But I'm still going to delete their cookies.
I've been using CRT screens for 16 years of my 24, and probably stared at a TV screen for the other 8 years of my life, and I still have 20/20 (or at least that's where my doctor stops having me read off the chart.) And I haven't developed anything like carpal tunnel or cancer or anything.
I still wouldn't doubt that you could probably get cancer from a CRT monitor. But these days they have better shielding to protect the use from harmful rays, although, I find that my Mac at work makes my eyes burn unlike my PCs at home.
Move along people....
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Isn't this old news? I've seen the gmail links on google search a while ago. It's not something new to me. They've been sneaking in gmail invites into their popular Blogger service for a while as a way to slowly increase their user base while they probably sit back and build the infrastructure to hold more users.
Yeah, gmail's been boosting the amount of invites lately, but I still don't see a signu form on their gmail page. I think this is all just more invite leaking. It's not public until their signup page is public.
Just look at the trail of evidence:
techwhackguardian.co.ukSome other SEO news
Doesn't this sound more like Homeland Security trying to break into everyone's computer to spy on possible "terrorist" activities using spyware. This may sound like nice fit maybe because of the knowledge of computer vulnerabilities that Freeman knows privacy. But that's the thing -- he knows privacy, and how to get around them.
Now you can write your web apps to remove tough dirt and grease and it'll leave your websites sparkling clean! It's grease cutting algorithms even come in a lemon fresh scent!
The next entry-level job you'll see listed on monster: Be our file server. Job Requirements: All you have to do is hold a hard drive and touch the switch.
"One approach which they periodically try is to move software onto a subscription model - you pay a flat fee for access to the latest version of a particular application."
I bet you can't find an convert tool for Office 2003 or OpenOffice to read ProWrite Plus 1.0 documents.
I'm still waiting on a company that offers software with staying power. We get a new version of Windows every year or two, and a new version of every *nix/BSD every 5 months. I'd be lucky to not have to redo my system configuration every time a new version of whatever OS comes out and decides to wipe out my old configurations. Plus there's the downtime. When are we going to see a kernel that can be upgraded while the system is still in operation and serving up webpages for happy customers? I don't want to have to take my websites down for half an hour every time there's a new kernel out or a new security patch for x and y applications.
I'd just like to see some software that runs for ten years straight without any need to upgrade or convert to a new format. And the same goes for hardware. How long can I trust my P4 and AMD Athlon 64 systems to run before their circuits degrade. By that point I'll have to buy a new computer that probably won't be supported by Windows or the current Linux distros and all my old software won't run on the next best thing. I'm going to have to start writing my resume, financial docs, journals, and everything else in xml+css so I can trust it'll work on.NET and all the other new standards.
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Yes! I'm not the only one smart enough to set up my own lan dns server! I set myself up with a dnscache and tinydns server on my router box, then I just point all ad services and sites I hate to my basement web server where I translate the requests into "ad blocked" images. Unfortunately, I wish facebook and apple would stop using Akamai's EdgeSuite (edgesuite.net) to host their stylesheets. I'm forced to endure spamvertising because of that fact. Why do big companies have to outsource static hosting anyway? Are they really that pressed for bandwidth?
I knew I should have patented that idea 5+ years ago when I thought it up with my brothers... Also, what if you accidentally copy some melody from some artist? Does the RIAA start suing you? Is recording the vibrations considered pirating?
"Are you saying I'm fat?" breeds a whole new meaning.
*sprays person's hands*
Is it red? Is it red?
Is it- BOOM!
So when does the race to unlock the fourth unused core on a triple-core processor start? What's Next? Hard drive platters?
Ever since EverQuest 2 was announced, SoE has failed to put out anything truely original and worth playing. Likewise, Playstation has failed to be inovative and has turned toward hate tactics to gain interest. I almost wonder if changes in Sony's administration is to blame for all the junk they've been trying to sell.
1. He's more interested in the company and wants them to have all the cool gadgets before he gets one himself. Sorta that growth mentality where you want to further the company by making them happy instead of jealous. 2. Maybe he wants one of those whiteboards where he can use his hand motions to move stuff around on the screen and combine stuff and whatnot. I think we saw some articles on this tech before. 3. He's waiting for Windows Vista to arrive.
I think Disney's desire to be politically correct and to taylor to all ethnic groups in their movie making will result in a decline in Pixar's quality of humor.
I'd vote for it being alive, but all these stupid discussions on if it's alive or dead are killing it. It's all this spam and nonsense and a lack of quality web design that's turning it into a bunch of useless junk.
And now we'll see Microsoft delay the release of Vista for another year, and yes, more people will be fired for their supposed ignorance in this meta matter.
"Microsoft, like any other consumer software maker would be just as correct to participte in that kind of market as anyone else." I'd disagree. Microsoft may have a good product going with Office, but to release it on Linux would bring market loss to them. If you give the corporate world an office suite on linux that is powerful, rich, not bloated, standards complaint any every other bell and whistle, they'll all buy into Linux. What happens then? Microsoft's windows department goes bankrupt because most of their income is based off of corporate investments. Since Microsoft has all the anti-trust stuff to deal with, they've come down to splitting their business into sections. The Office group scratches the backs of the Windows group, and vice versus. Clearly it'd be a bad move for the capitalistic minds of Microsoft to put out Office on Linux.
I wonder how dependant on the body's natural charge this '12 years' is. I know some people who can wear a watch for a couple years on one battery while other people will kill a watch battery in a month or two. By those numbers, some people would be able to use one of these things for 20 years while someone else will barely live off them for 12 months.
If everyone including web developers are forced to release their code under GPL3, then this spells out hell for 2006 and beyond seeing as it gives hackers a nice giant heap of code to plow through and crack into commerce and other data sensitive web operations. Just think, GPL3 comes out in 2006 and by 2007 massive amounts of developers release under GPL3 and now hackers can have their way with boat loads of code that may or may not give them access to credit card info among much other sensitive information. I'd rather stay on GPL2 and forget about some license that's going to force me to release all this code that I hacked together to get some software running. It'd take months to go through it all and remove any possible holes in some code I've seen.
No offense, but isn't Microsoft a primarily American company? so why isn't there an American flag on that 'flag tree'? Perhaps they're trying to tailor to the Brits with this very Monty Python-esque website. Did they higher a few people to go smoke some reef and do a marketing plan? Seriously, psychodelic music, bunnies and rabbit holes, party video thing, glittery flag tree. Somebody didn't have their head on straight.
I remember parsing METAR files for work for one summer. Those things made so little sense to me. Didn't help that I was a comp. sci. doing telecom stuff and wasn't a meteorologist or even could begin to understand some of their terminology.
I practically laughed when I read this article. I totally delete every cookie that has the word "ad" in the url somewhere and then I delete some on top of that. Then I eat a cookie for good measure. And finally I sit back and laugh at the ad companies while their valuable consumer statistics get all screwed up. Oh, and not to mention, I have a number of ad websites resolving to my personal web server so I can browse the web ad-free while not screwing up the layout of the website in question. They get what's coming to them if they think they can advertise smilie faces and junk like that to me. I'll only tolerate google ads because at least they are sometimes relative to what I'm looking for. But I'm still going to delete their cookies.
Couldn't the user just run regedit or other tools as admin and remove the blocks on the admin account?
I've been using CRT screens for 16 years of my 24, and probably stared at a TV screen for the other 8 years of my life, and I still have 20/20 (or at least that's where my doctor stops having me read off the chart.) And I haven't developed anything like carpal tunnel or cancer or anything. I still wouldn't doubt that you could probably get cancer from a CRT monitor. But these days they have better shielding to protect the use from harmful rays, although, I find that my Mac at work makes my eyes burn unlike my PCs at home.
Isn't this old news? I've seen the gmail links on google search a while ago. It's not something new to me. They've been sneaking in gmail invites into their popular Blogger service for a while as a way to slowly increase their user base while they probably sit back and build the infrastructure to hold more users. Yeah, gmail's been boosting the amount of invites lately, but I still don't see a signu form on their gmail page. I think this is all just more invite leaking. It's not public until their signup page is public. Just look at the trail of evidence: techwhack guardian.co.uk Some other SEO news
Doesn't this sound more like Homeland Security trying to break into everyone's computer to spy on possible "terrorist" activities using spyware. This may sound like nice fit maybe because of the knowledge of computer vulnerabilities that Freeman knows privacy. But that's the thing -- he knows privacy, and how to get around them.
Now you can write your web apps to remove tough dirt and grease and it'll leave your websites sparkling clean! It's grease cutting algorithms even come in a lemon fresh scent!
The next entry-level job you'll see listed on monster: Be our file server. Job Requirements: All you have to do is hold a hard drive and touch the switch.
"One approach which they periodically try is to move software onto a subscription model - you pay a flat fee for access to the latest version of a particular application."
I bet you can't find an convert tool for Office 2003 or OpenOffice to read ProWrite Plus 1.0 documents.
I'm still waiting on a company that offers software with staying power. We get a new version of Windows every year or two, and a new version of every *nix/BSD every 5 months. I'd be lucky to not have to redo my system configuration every time a new version of whatever OS comes out and decides to wipe out my old configurations. Plus there's the downtime. When are we going to see a kernel that can be upgraded while the system is still in operation and serving up webpages for happy customers? I don't want to have to take my websites down for half an hour every time there's a new kernel out or a new security patch for x and y applications.
I'd just like to see some software that runs for ten years straight without any need to upgrade or convert to a new format. And the same goes for hardware. How long can I trust my P4 and AMD Athlon 64 systems to run before their circuits degrade. By that point I'll have to buy a new computer that probably won't be supported by Windows or the current Linux distros and all my old software won't run on the next best thing. I'm going to have to start writing my resume, financial docs, journals, and everything else in xml+css so I can trust it'll work on .NET and all the other new standards.
I would have said the same thing. Like, why do I always get these viruses? Have you considered a firewall?