Well actually... no. Having the correct IP does little good.
A lot of ISPs use a transparent proxy for outgoing requests. If they find a packet heading for port 80, they grab it and route it via their own proxy servers. The proxy server does its own lookup via its own dns cache, and makes the request on your behalf. No matter what result you may be getting for DNS lookups, if their cache snaffles your packet, then it is all a waste of time.
I've never had a problem with the ops in the channels I frequent, and I've never seen you in any of those channels. Hardly surprising.
Stay out of #kick-me and you'll be fine.
In my favourite channel on OPN one of the operators kicks people when she's in a good mood, and never out of spite. She averages about 10 kicks a week.
If you find yourself getting kicked out of a channel, then go find another one. Or perhaps read their kick messages.
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There are a couple of comic strips that I really love. I used to read one (before it stopped) on the 'net all the time. I even have all the files here on my hard drive.
One day I was passing a book seller, and because I liked the comic strip I went in and purchased the book, and I even had them order the second book which I later purchased.
In the web archive there are some comics that I haven't seen in the book, and in the book there are comics that aren't on the web. The web has colour, the comics are black and white.
There are advantages in both, but I liked the comic strip so much I was prepared to shell out real cold hard cash to purchase the book.
Such a device will be very handy for people that have visual impairments. Instead of the current bulky and expensive kits, this will be an improvement, especially for VI users out-and-about.
- the documents must be made available for free at the Microsoft web site, not just in MSDN nor through some other expensive service or licensing.
- the documentation must be released at least 60 days before the publication of the product, and also 60 days before the publication of any updates.
Worth nothing... the source code for Windows CE is available for completely free on the Microsoft website. I have a copy. However it is nearly useless because:
To get the URL you have to have a Passport and you have to sign in
It is provided in some special installer with EULA, etc
So you'll also have to point out delivery method, format, redistribution, and licensing.
Delivery: anonymous FTP or HTTP with no authentication required (and no authentication required to find the URL either)
Format: plain text, simple zip, standard tarball (with bzip2 compression please!), no EXE + EULA bullcrap + MS Source Safe
Redistribution: I can give a copy to you. You don't just have to get it from MS (which breaks URLs at whim)
Well, I must admit, that after all these years I have finally kicked the addiction to Sid Meier's Civilization 1, that classic game from DOS that came on two floppies.
The reason for choosing an international domain over a local domain has two reasons:
People are too dumb to remember the ccTLD. When I say my website is at "kimihia.org.nz", most people take that to mean my website is at "kimihia.org". I did register the.org TLD version for one of my websites because that was where a large portion of my visitors were arriving from.
People are too dumb to realise the net is international. How many times do you have to explain that yes, anybody anywhere (*) can host a.nz domain, and anybody anywhere can access a.nz domain? It isn't just limited (like most consumer's minds) to one country!
* Unless you are unable to get a 'net connection from where you are.:-)
* Mozilla allows a security policy for cookies (like IE6)
When it comes to features, IE is lagging a long way behind Mozilla for things like the <link rel/rev=""/>, longdesc on images, multiple stylesheets, and P3P.
I notice that recently MSN has included P3P headers, and that IE6 has a cookie manager that looks similiar to the one I first saw in Mozilla.
A while back Microsoft was in town running a conference. One of the gigs they had was a little party out at a local theme park. I copied my mate's ID card, and we waltzed up to the gate. We were let through without even being asked for ID, and we were free to enjoy the food and rides all night.:-)
An expression of strong disapproval or harsh criticism. An official rebuke, as by a legislature of one of its members.
Perhaps the word you were looking for was censor.
A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
I was missing a piece of documentation for mysql. I wanted to know what order configuration files were opened in. Knowing a little C I downloaded the source RPM, cracked it open, and spent quarter of an hour trawling around until I found the pertinent. Not long at all!
Again, I had beef with a certain feature of PHP, and it only took me five minutes to find it and stomp it.
I'll admit that to add features to PHP will take a while, as there are plenty of #defines that completely obscure the code going on behind the scenes. But to actually dive in and fix something doesn't have a large lead time.
So I've removed a feature of PHP, but I have also submitted a couple of bug reports. Anyone can do that. If you can't submit the bug report, there is some J R Hacker out there who already groks the project, and they may be able to write the fix for you.
So what's my point?
Find a problem (no, crashing is not acceptable, no matter what the vendor tells you)
Isolate the problem and reproduce it
If you don't know how to fix the problem, submit a bug report - move on with life, communicate with the developers if they ask for more information
If you can see how to fix the problem quickly, fix it, test it, and include with your bug report - move on with life
If you can kinda see how to fix it but haven't the time, then submit the bug report anyway
I haven't written a dot of code for Mozilla or PHP (so I lie, I have written a file to add another search engine) but I have submitted bug reports.
With web design, one day you have to stop supporting a browser. I can't code pages for Mosaic - it's just too old.
At some point you have to say "that browser is to old". And then you work accordingly. What this means is you create two design - one fancy for new browsers, and one simple for old browsers. How do you tell them apart? From the user agent string. The UA string is fairly arbitary, but then choosing which design you display isn't a matter of life and death.
One example website I did was Oscillations. It has a look at the user agent string, and if you are using Netscape Navigator 4 it will give you a crusty version. (This can be set in your user preferences on the website.)
Is creating two version a problem? Not if you mark your pages up according to the standard.
Although content developers are encouraged to use new technologies that solve problems raised by existing technologies, they should know how to make their pages still work with older browsers and people who choose to turn off features.
Also to call any browser other than those written by Microsoft outdated (as their intro message does) is pretentious BS. Fact is, IE5 sucks when it comes to standard. Half the workarounds I have to write are for that crate of tripe. Complete and utter bollocks. I have nothing but contempt for Microsoft and their decision to display that message.
Just yesterday I was talking to a guy who had done one of these "cookie cutter" training programs that teach you how to do web design. OK, he knows what looks good - but, um, getting it into a suitable format for the web is an awful job. Think of awful 1x1 transparent gifs, missing ALT tags, and huge tables for layout. Yuk!
I spent a long time yesterday schooling him on web design - and I haven't even done a course in it! He's got the piece of paper and the job, but the one with the skills is a bum on the street.
Flooding the market with Yet Another web designer (or developer from the sounds) is a bad, bad idea. Given the current state and the way demand for web work is going down the toilet, to flood the market with a huge supply is the worst thing you could do.
Wouldn't they be more suitable doing something like building houses, landscaping, communications infrastructure - those industries have a more solid market and seem to be the way to go. (Apart from the "building" idea.)
But yes, if you teach 'em PHP then that's a good start. Nothing quite like Javascript form validation (hi MSN!)
I went to the launch in Auckland, New Zealand. Because of our location we were probably the first in the world to have it launched here (we did have it released here first, see earlier articles).
Here's a link to my post on a mailing list explaining what I saw, as well as the application crash at the end of the demonstration. Worth checking out.
If that link doesn't work... um, well I can't find any other archives of it sorry.
After this conflict, will we see that Bin Laden speech in full?
I believe your "constitution" thing gives you citizens of the United States the ability to speak. Well, since when was Osama a citizen of the US? Why should the US let him speak?
And another thing, does the ability to speak also include the right to have your rant broadcasted worldwide on the media? If you're so exciteable sticking up for Osama to have the right to be broadcasted, why don't you also get hot under the collar when an AC posts a troll? Come on, why aren't you screaming that CNN is stomping AC's right to have their troll broadcast?
Because of two things: 1 - you think the US has to provide free speech to everybody. Well dude, there is more than one country in the world! So what if the US stomps free speech? They can just move somewhere (like Canada, or Afghanistan) to get away from you and your government you love so much but don't seem to be able to vote in correctly. 2 - because not everything has value. Osama ranting has minimal value. Natalie Portman's hot grits has little value.
And also I believe you don't understand what the story about the media being cautioned against playing the video was. Here, have a read.
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So you would have preferred a $0.87 discount instead of a $10 discount?
Oh no sirree, don't give me it that cheaply! Charge me the full $9.13 difference.
Well actually ... no. Having the correct IP does little good.
A lot of ISPs use a transparent proxy for outgoing requests. If they find a packet heading for port 80, they grab it and route it via their own proxy servers. The proxy server does its own lookup via its own dns cache, and makes the request on your behalf. No matter what result you may be getting for DNS lookups, if their cache snaffles your packet, then it is all a waste of time.
Have a read of this post to NZLUG.
There's a saying ... "Damned if you do, damned if you don't"
Basically there was no choice in the matter. The guy had already stolen her invention and patented it himself.
So in this case she got fairly compensated for what she had created when its ownership was stolen off her.
PS, click the link in the blurb for this story and have a read. You might understand the case better if you do.
... your job is to look after the Nuclear stockpile, if you are a border guard, or if you have to check passports as part of your job.
As much as you OY YAY FREE SPEECH YAY proponents would like to babble on, it doesn't matter about these other things. It isn't your damn business.
I run a computer, yes, I need computer security information. But no, I am not a border guard.
I think you proved my point quite nicely. Thank you.
When in Rome, do as the Romans. Use #flood for pasting code.
I'm not an op, but if I caught you talking about graphics cards in #perl I'd be sure to say something.
Aw, sour grapes.
I've never had a problem with the ops in the channels I frequent, and I've never seen you in any of those channels. Hardly surprising.
Stay out of #kick-me and you'll be fine.
In my favourite channel on OPN one of the operators kicks people when she's in a good mood, and never out of spite. She averages about 10 kicks a week.
If you find yourself getting kicked out of a channel, then go find another one. Or perhaps read their kick messages.
There are a couple of comic strips that I really love. I used to read one (before it stopped) on the 'net all the time. I even have all the files here on my hard drive.
One day I was passing a book seller, and because I liked the comic strip I went in and purchased the book, and I even had them order the second book which I later purchased.
In the web archive there are some comics that I haven't seen in the book, and in the book there are comics that aren't on the web. The web has colour, the comics are black and white.
There are advantages in both, but I liked the comic strip so much I was prepared to shell out real cold hard cash to purchase the book.
Such a device will be very handy for people that have visual impairments. Instead of the current bulky and expensive kits, this will be an improvement, especially for VI users out-and-about.
What can you do? Make your web pages accessible for a start.
Worth nothing ... the source code for Windows CE is available for completely free on the Microsoft website. I have a copy. However it is nearly useless because:
So you'll also have to point out delivery method, format, redistribution, and licensing.
Well, I must admit, that after all these years I have finally kicked the addiction to Sid Meier's Civilization 1, that classic game from DOS that came on two floppies.
I'm addicted to Freeciv instead.
Where's rehab? I've gotta get some work done.
Good post.
The reason for choosing an international domain over a local domain has two reasons:
* Unless you are unable to get a 'net connection from where you are. :-)
When it comes to features, IE is lagging a long way behind Mozilla for things like the <link rel/rev="" />, longdesc on images, multiple stylesheets, and P3P.
I notice that recently MSN has included P3P headers, and that IE6 has a cookie manager that looks similiar to the one I first saw in Mozilla.
Time to add P3P headers to my website eh?
Don't forget where most of Microsoft's good ideas come from: their competitors.
DOS came from their purchase of QDOS: "Quick and Dirty Operating System".
(IE came from Mosaic, Frontpage came from Vincent Technologies, Age of Empires came from that company with the strange sphere logo, Inspire?)
Oh dear, you don't seem to have much of a clue about how the Filesystem Hierachy Standard works. Come back and troll again another time.
A while back Microsoft was in town running a conference. One of the gigs they had was a little party out at a local theme park. I copied my mate's ID card, and we waltzed up to the gate. We were let through without even being asked for ID, and we were free to enjoy the food and rides all night. :-)
Complete story.
I sure hope you are not your daughters censure.
Perhaps the word you were looking for was censor.
First, avoid blanket generalisations.
I was missing a piece of documentation for mysql. I wanted to know what order configuration files were opened in. Knowing a little C I downloaded the source RPM, cracked it open, and spent quarter of an hour trawling around until I found the pertinent. Not long at all!
Again, I had beef with a certain feature of PHP, and it only took me five minutes to find it and stomp it.
I'll admit that to add features to PHP will take a while, as there are plenty of #defines that completely obscure the code going on behind the scenes. But to actually dive in and fix something doesn't have a large lead time.
So I've removed a feature of PHP, but I have also submitted a couple of bug reports. Anyone can do that. If you can't submit the bug report, there is some J R Hacker out there who already groks the project, and they may be able to write the fix for you.
So what's my point?
I haven't written a dot of code for Mozilla or PHP (so I lie, I have written a file to add another search engine) but I have submitted bug reports.
If you can't navigate the dog-awful Javascript mess, here is the place to go to complain: http://www.msn.com/contactus.ashx.
You'll need to spoof your user-agent string to do so.
With web design, one day you have to stop supporting a browser. I can't code pages for Mosaic - it's just too old.
At some point you have to say "that browser is to old". And then you work accordingly. What this means is you create two design - one fancy for new browsers, and one simple for old browsers. How do you tell them apart? From the user agent string. The UA string is fairly arbitary, but then choosing which design you display isn't a matter of life and death.
One example website I did was Oscillations. It has a look at the user agent string, and if you are using Netscape Navigator 4 it will give you a crusty version. (This can be set in your user preferences on the website.)
Is creating two version a problem? Not if you mark your pages up according to the standard.
What MS has done here is completely different: it is discrimination, through and through. Not only that, but they are violating the standards of the W3C that they proclaim they follow. Look: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0: Guideline 6. Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully..
Also to call any browser other than those written by Microsoft outdated (as their intro message does) is pretentious BS. Fact is, IE5 sucks when it comes to standard. Half the workarounds I have to write are for that crate of tripe. Complete and utter bollocks. I have nothing but contempt for Microsoft and their decision to display that message.
Please, I encourage you to submit a Web Accessibility Initiative report that details EVERY aspect of their page that sucks. Here is a sample.
Just yesterday I was talking to a guy who had done one of these "cookie cutter" training programs that teach you how to do web design. OK, he knows what looks good - but, um, getting it into a suitable format for the web is an awful job. Think of awful 1x1 transparent gifs, missing ALT tags, and huge tables for layout. Yuk!
I spent a long time yesterday schooling him on web design - and I haven't even done a course in it! He's got the piece of paper and the job, but the one with the skills is a bum on the street.
Flooding the market with Yet Another web designer (or developer from the sounds) is a bad, bad idea. Given the current state and the way demand for web work is going down the toilet, to flood the market with a huge supply is the worst thing you could do.
Wouldn't they be more suitable doing something like building houses, landscaping, communications infrastructure - those industries have a more solid market and seem to be the way to go. (Apart from the "building" idea.)
But yes, if you teach 'em PHP then that's a good start. Nothing quite like Javascript form validation (hi MSN!)
I went to the launch in Auckland, New Zealand. Because of our location we were probably the first in the world to have it launched here (we did have it released here first, see earlier articles).
Here's a link to my post on a mailing list explaining what I saw, as well as the application crash at the end of the demonstration. Worth checking out.
If that link doesn't work ... um, well I can't find any other archives of it sorry.
Why the past tense about playing Civ 1? I'm still playing it on my Athlon!
It sounds odd that boaties get better vertical positioning that land-based people.
I 'spose they need to know that their boat is currently at 0 meters above sea level - otherwise the boaties might get a bit concerned.
(True story: Standing on seashore looking at handheld GPS receiver - it said I was way up in the air.)
I believe your "constitution" thing gives you citizens of the United States the ability to speak. Well, since when was Osama a citizen of the US? Why should the US let him speak?
And another thing, does the ability to speak also include the right to have your rant broadcasted worldwide on the media? If you're so exciteable sticking up for Osama to have the right to be broadcasted, why don't you also get hot under the collar when an AC posts a troll? Come on, why aren't you screaming that CNN is stomping AC's right to have their troll broadcast?
Because of two things: 1 - you think the US has to provide free speech to everybody. Well dude, there is more than one country in the world! So what if the US stomps free speech? They can just move somewhere (like Canada, or Afghanistan) to get away from you and your government you love so much but don't seem to be able to vote in correctly. 2 - because not everything has value. Osama ranting has minimal value. Natalie Portman's hot grits has little value.
And also I believe you don't understand what the story about the media being cautioned against playing the video was. Here, have a read.