anyone who's looked at the http spec for more than a millisecond will see that it already handles this case quite gracefully with the 3xx series of responses, including:
301 Moved permanently 302 Moved Temporarily
I think/. even uses these once a story has been archived.
interesting material, but why do html authors insist on doing stupid stuff like font size=2? I had to bump up the font size 8 times to read the fine print on that page. I'm really getting sick of that kinda bad design.
I don't know what the government bean counters are smoking, but they need to start sharing.
I'm a software engineer for a major global I/T company, one every single one of you reading this know - we even have our own catagory on/.! I've been with them for a year and a half, took a job from them out of university with a BS, had a couple previous degrees and spent the majority of my time in uni working for a lab that did contract work for them. I'm salaried, so I don't punch a time clock, but I do ocasionally keep track of my hours in a week just for the "fun" of it.
Last week I worked 64.7 hrs. Yesterday I worked 13.5 hrs. Last spring/summer I worked every day for over two months solid a minimum of 9 hours on weekdays and 3 hours on weekends (federal holiday excluded).
One particular week late last summer my parents were in town to celebrate my birthday (2K mile flight to get here) the plan was that I'd work a half day wednesday and have thursday off... nice plan... I went in at about 8 wednesday worked all morning as normal, then went to the lobby to let my folks in for lunch and show them around afterward then leave and show them the town... well partway through lunch the pager I was carring went off. (I do not normally carry a pager, had this one because we had developers on site for a customer go live situation, they hadn't needed me all week.) I looked at the number and said, "it'll wait till after we finish eating." three more pages durring lunch said otherwise. so we cut out the tour I said I'd check with them and be home in a half hour. Well it turns out it was a different customer who had already deployed and was down fatally... I was in the lab untill midnight with a copy of their config database trying to get them back up and running. I got two more pages that day, both from my own home phone number... when I finally came stagering in my mother said, "now I understand why you don't have a life, glad I'm not in any hurry for grandkids." (I did manage to get out of the office in under three hours the next morning so that by 11 we were on the road driving so I could show them the area, started with the city I went to uni in)
I'm not the only one with these kinds of stories, there are a small handfull of people I work with who put in the same kinds of hours, one of them has been at a customer sight monday through friday for the last three weeks he's putting in the same kinds of hours their people are, not uncommon for them to be at work well after midnight.
Let's take a look at last weekend, very close to *every* weekend since the new year for me:
left work friday night about 8pm. got home and threw together a quick dinner, relaxed in front of the computer while eating it, in bed by 10pm. woke up saturday at about 6... PM! shuffled around the apartment for a few hours... didn't have the energy/enthusiasm to go grocery shopping, even thought the refrigerator and cupboards are empty... futz'ed around on line for a couple hours before ordering a pizza, then hacked on an oss project I'm involved with while eating pizza for a few hours... went to bed about 3am sunday slept 'till about 4pm sunday did laundry and watched tv for the rest of the day, then hacked that evening while eating left over pizza. before heading to bed about midnight. stared at the ceiling untill shortly after neighboor's alarm went off at 6am... dozed sometime thereafter untill mine at 8am, was at work by 9pm.
some may question the amount of hacking time in there... since it's about the only time I get to actually write code I call it the most relaxing part of the weekend.
a couple people who've seen the kind of hours I work, and the excuse for a life I live have said, "So you're working your ass off... you must be making real good money right?"
every morning when I badge in I walk past a sign telling me what the minimum wage is... when I see that I think about my pal in uni who was torn between becoming a elementary teacher or a McManager... the McManager pays more. When I was hired in I believed the statement that they couldn't offer any more, and after holding out for a while and telling them about other, better, offers they still wouldn't budge so I accepted. 7 months latter durring the annual salary adjustment phase my manager was rather blunt when he said I wasn't being paid near what I was worth, then he gave me the bigest raise he could get past his manager's manager, also the largest raise in the area, percentage wise. This week I had a meeting with my (new) manager who said he was requesting that they "do right by me", which I guess means he's going for the same percentage.
Now last fall I spent a lot of time talking career with a guy that I was kinda following in the footsteps of, he kept very close tabs on the market for our skills (for reasons that became obvious just recently when he left) and I had worked for him extensivly for about six months or so, so he knew very well what I could do. His expert opinion was that I was hired for about 55-60% what I should be getting for my ability. Even if my raise this year is equal to last years' I'll be at about 75% of that figure from a year and a half ago, and most people would say my "value" has risen quite a bit in those 18 months. note: I've not used real numbers here because if I actually posted my salary people would laugh; but I live in an area with a very low CPI and cost of living (about as far from silly-con valley as conceivable) and also much less competitive job market (unlike austin for example where I know a lot of people who have quit, walked accross the street and gotten hired for 20% more money, although some smaller companies have started to realise the target rich environment captive in this area and are moving in) so all things are relative and have been scaled. (math major's are encouraged to do the reverse formula and solve for my salary for extra credit)
Then I see a new guy come in a year after me and is hired at a salary that already beats mine after my first raise. (by a few percent!) And I refuse to even go into the recent pension fiasco.
Recently there are four or five companies that have come in and capitalized on some internal politics and strife over bad upper-middle-mis-management decisions, the defection rate amoung some of our top technical people is becoming alarming, but it has also put me in an interesting place... I'm on my managers "big truck list". What you ask is a "big truck list"? it means that if I get hit by a truck tommorow they're screwed. it also means it's in his best interest to make sure the company does in fact "do right by me".
So here's the question I say we put forward as the next one: "Why? We've seen how bad the conditions in the industry are, why do people stay?"
for me, it's the people and the work. I'm surounded by geeks... now there are fewer than there used to be, and I'm afraid the ones that left are the ones most like me, but I'm still a geek amoungst geeks. I have a manager that I trust has my best career interests in mind (that wasn't the case for a few months last summer/fall... but my friends credit me with driving that guy out of management...;> ). There is also the work, I do like the portion of code I own, I wish I had more time to work on it, rather than do highlevel analysis and sketch out a design for vendors to implement. I've often joked that it's amazing how the two managers I interviewed with took a sum total of two and a half hours conversation (a fair amount of which overlapped) and managed to put me in just the right spot on a product that strectches from one extreme of computer science to the other, but they did and I thank them every time I spend more than a day or so working closely with the people at the other end... they're nice people, but I wouldn't trade their work for anything.
to your first point: my mother is an elementary school teacher. I volunteered at her site all through jr/sr highschool and into college doing computer type work, and was in the classroom every now and again - I always saw this. It wasn't just on the computers. One day after I was in her room for a while I asked her about one particular incident, and asked "well, when you make the groups that go to computer time, why don't you put all girls or all boys in a group, except maybe the girls like Jane (made up) that don't seem to have any problem defending themselves and will actually push back to get their share?" Her response was basically "don't suggest that while on school grounds... you'll get us sued."
a friend of mine in uni was an elementary ed major and summed it up best over supper in the caf one night after his first phase of student teaching: "yeah, little girls can be pr***y bi****s every now and again, but little boys tend to be ba*****s day in and day out."
your second point: you're right on the money... I had to go back and re-read that line a few times to make sure I understood what she was saying, then passed it off as bs and moved on.
When I was in college, and again latter in uni there were *very few* women in any of the three majors (CS, CIS, MIS) in the department so if the numbers are going down then there must be none at all left now. Fortunately that isn't the case... I was talking to someone on campus at uni last week and he mentioned there were about thirty women in the program now; that kinda matches what little I remember of the incoming class of frosh the summer after my "last" year;} there were a LOT of young ladies in those tour groups and early summer classes.
I have to agree with a lot of what Dr. Borg is saying here, and it's really pathetic that this is the case. I can't think of a single women in my graduating class that wasn't in the top handfull of students, ditto the class before me. I generally found that the women in my classes and the ones I work with now are the better engineers, certainly on several occasions I can look at a project group that had maybe four people and say that the women on the group did more than their 25% of the share. It was always interesting to watch the group when it was say four guys and see how things got done, then watch those same four guys on the next project when one of the ladies in the area got added to their group... there was a very subtle change in the group dynamics and a very severe change in the quality of the work. Now I know in a couple cases it was because the guys were ashamed that a "girl" did better work than they did... but then I had also worked with that young lady before, they didn't have a chance - she out-classed them.
I wish there was a more natural balance of men:women in hard core computer science - and not because they're a welcome sight after staring at code for hours on end or sitting in design meetings that just won't stop - it's because their very presence in the group alters the balance and their different perspective and methodology is always beneficial.
a fourth example to add to yours... folks that have to have a domain name for purposes other than resolving IP addresses. case in point: java packages (and I think perl some also) use the domain system to segregate the name space. I want to release java code, but don't have my own domain name to package it in, so wherever I put it I run the risk of conflicting with someone. (hint, it's already happened for some people.)
Third era, "Broadband Internet", 1999-tomorrow: cable modem and DSL infrastructures remove bandwidth constraints....
LOL!!! try 2002! you obviously haven't experienced the joy of being on one of today's cable or dsl networks. Remove bandwidth constraints my ass; they make constraints MORE NOTICABLE! for proof I suggest seeing any of the posts to the athome.discusion-athomeservice newsgroup... oh wait... athome got smart and made those local so you can't. Anyway they're routinely full of people griping about only getting a measly 50kbytes d/l to their favorite warez/pr0n server. About the only group that drowns them out are the poor folks from places like the seatle area who have been without email off and on for months because the network wasn't sized for the explosive growth it's seen. Ask anyone in one of the markets that are absolutely saturated beyond capacity and still being sold into; the concept is there, but the implementation is lagging behind. and of course as long as they rely on uswest and other dsl providing telcos to deliver their fiber they aren't going to be catching up in the near term.
In summary, ya got the ages right... but this isn't yet the dawning of the third age of mankind, our last best hope for the . . . wait a minute . . . wrong group. . . . <*>
It doesn't really matter what version they were using. I would assume that any competent administrator does not use any
development kernels, and doesn't upgrade their stable kernel everytime a new one is announced. It doesn't do anyone a bit of good to say "oh, you were using 2.2.x, that's you problem, use 2.2.y with the z patch instead".
umm... duh.
That's not the point though... if they're on 2.2.x and they see panic XYZ and don't tell us "hey I got a panic XYZ on 2.2.x when I ran stream.c" then in 6 months when they're ready to move to 2.4.x because it's been "stable" for months now odds are they're still going to get panic XYZ!
while this isn't the forum to report that panic, they mentioned it and were asked for info by someone who would do something about it (at least make sure the right people knew about it) and responded with a non-answer answer.
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see bugzilla 18110... the xpcomm/proxy component has some thread safety issues... they've pushed this out from m12 to m13 and recently to m14... at this rate mozilla will never run on multiprocessors. I'd encourage those of you with mp boxes and bugzilla votes to spare to add them to the collection... or if you have the skills and the time go join the project and help fix the problem.
one of the direct impacts of this announcement is being felt here in Rochester, MN where WD Enterprise Storage Systems had just built a huge new R&D lab, and were preparing to plunder the staff of IBM's DASD group here in town... now they're going from moving into their new building and staffing up something like 600 jobs... to selling the building to Mayo and laying off the 400 some odd people that work at their current location. Bet those folks that left IBM are thinking about just how well they'd be welcomed back.....
Yup, it's a true masterpiece... John Corkery won the 1996 design of the year for it... corelmag had a detailed writeup on it, but I can't find it to provide a link.
And yeah, she sued. They've since resolved and she granted them a 5 year license. Details are available from Corel.
She was definently the original TTB (hey Nitrozac, was she inspiration?) and will be missed.
we went over this back in the wordperfect beta time... its a GENERIC beta test applicaion, they don't customize it beyond slapping the product name on. This was exactly the same form used for beta testers of their linux distro (wherein those questions made a LOT of sense)
there is a great database at IBM that is used for looking up all the TLAs we use... one of my most often requested additions is that HAL stands for Holerith's Arithmatical Legacy (a reference to IBM). another is that IBM stands for Security Through Acronyms... few people get that one though....
this just recently came up on the spamcop newsgroup... a quick look at how it works and I've already come up with at least a handfull of very nasty potential exploits, not to mention some of the stuff that's already being done. The whole thing just screams that there was NO thought given to security in the design of WebTV's mailto: url extensions. I wonder how many more of these gems are ticking away under the covers of systems like these?
On Nov. 29 in Superior Court here, the company won an injunction that has kept etoy off the Net and unable to use its domain for email or a Web presence
I'll assume that was California Superior Court... what I'd really like to see on this is some non-us registry decide that a pidling injunction from some clueless judge in California has no meaning in the international market and reinstate etoy.com! might teach NSI a thing or two.
Etoy claims the various actions forced eToys to extend its deadline for Christmas delivery. "The 'sit-in' is one of about 15 campaigns coordinated by RTMark, aimed at disrupting the internal and external communications of eTioys.com, [sic] and targeting telephone and fax lines as well as behavior and morale of employees, management, and major investors," all aimed at "making eToys.com an example the online world will never forget," the press release said.
I'm not sure I agree with the more militant actions some are using against eToys; but then what is that compared to illegally cutting off an entire domain, making the sale of a particular piece of art illegal, bullying an american company into breaking an international database....
I love the analogy of the kids btw... I was trying to explain to my parents why we're boycotting eToys... wish I had that at the time.
On the other, they listened to what people were saying and responded in an appropriate manner.
ahem. no offense to you, but bullshit. the silly-season shopping frenzy is over, they slacked off on their TV ads - I normally heard/saw four or five a day while I had the idiot box on for background in the morning while getting up or over lunch or dinner, this week that number is ONE, for the week - therefore they no longer had as much of a worry about new users not being able to remember the extra 's'... returning users will either have it in a bookmark, or a link they emailed out, or in the location history (auto completion). That's why they appear to have backed down, that and the sorry state of their stock.
What to do?
Keep the boycot going... FOREVER. They've earned themselves a permenant place in my firewall's gouhls section (not even outbound connections are allowed) This is an honor usually reserved for known hacker sites. I've made sure they know this.
on a somewhat related topic, NSI's incompetence: [cabbey@tweedle cabbey]$ nslookup 146.228.204.72 Server: localhost Address: 127.0.0.1
"Rolling out IIS to microsoft.com prior to releasing it to customers has always been an important requirement," noted developer John Ludeman. "There's no testing that can be done that's equivalent to the environment of live Internet traffic. That motto still exists -
all of microsoft.com was running IIS 5.0 before Windows 2000 was released."
(emphasis mine: Win2K isn't released yet.) and this trio makes a great combo...
"The Windows 95 group didn't have much faith in us, probably rightly so - [....]"
iirc, the date on the filing would be the date they plan to deliver it to the court, but then ianal.
and yes, "silly, childish" are two of the words that have come to mind over this issue... about the only two that are repeatable in mixed company though.....
apparently the lawyers aren't bright enough to figure out who runs/.
Doe 57 is listed as whoever is responsible for this/. article, so it's either Hemos or Rob... or maybe the legal guns of Andover.net are going to have to be brought to bear on this one.
Slashdot Mirror
...poorly.
/. even uses these once a story has been archived.
anyone who's looked at the http spec for more than a millisecond will see that it already handles this case quite gracefully with the 3xx series of responses, including:
301 Moved permanently
302 Moved Temporarily
I think
perhaps because the link you provided has nothing to do with the story? or a cartoon of any form....
care to try again?
interesting material, but why do html authors insist on doing stupid stuff like font size=2? I had to bump up the font size 8 times to read the fine print on that page. I'm really getting sick of that kinda bad design.
I don't know what the government bean counters are smoking, but they need to start sharing.
/.! I've been with them for a year and a half, took a job from them out of university with a BS, had a couple previous degrees and spent the majority of my time in uni working for a lab that did contract work for them. I'm salaried, so I don't punch a time clock, but I do ocasionally keep track of my hours in a week just for the "fun" of it.
;> ). There is also the work, I do like the portion of code I own, I wish I had more time to work on it, rather than do highlevel analysis and sketch out a design for vendors to implement. I've often joked that it's amazing how the two managers I interviewed with took a sum total of two and a half hours conversation (a fair amount of which overlapped) and managed to put me in just the right spot on a product that strectches from one extreme of computer science to the other, but they did and I thank them every time I spend more than a day or so working closely with the people at the other end... they're nice people, but I wouldn't trade their work for anything.
I'm a software engineer for a major global I/T company, one every single one of you reading this know - we even have our own catagory on
Last week I worked 64.7 hrs.
Yesterday I worked 13.5 hrs.
Last spring/summer I worked every day for over two months solid a minimum of 9 hours on weekdays and 3 hours on weekends (federal holiday excluded).
One particular week late last summer my parents were in town to celebrate my birthday (2K mile flight to get here) the plan was that I'd work a half day wednesday and have thursday off... nice plan... I went in at about 8 wednesday worked all morning as normal, then went to the lobby to let my folks in for lunch and show them around afterward then leave and show them the town... well partway through lunch the pager I was carring went off. (I do not normally carry a pager, had this one because we had developers on site for a customer go live situation, they hadn't needed me all week.) I looked at the number and said, "it'll wait till after we finish eating." three more pages durring lunch said otherwise. so we cut out the tour I said I'd check with them and be home in a half hour. Well it turns out it was a different customer who had already deployed and was down fatally... I was in the lab untill midnight with a copy of their config database trying to get them back up and running. I got two more pages that day, both from my own home phone number... when I finally came stagering in my mother said, "now I understand why you don't have a life, glad I'm not in any hurry for grandkids." (I did manage to get out of the office in under three hours the next morning so that by 11 we were on the road driving so I could show them the area, started with the city I went to uni in)
I'm not the only one with these kinds of stories, there are a small handfull of people I work with who put in the same kinds of hours, one of them has been at a customer sight monday through friday for the last three weeks he's putting in the same kinds of hours their people are, not uncommon for them to be at work well after midnight.
Let's take a look at last weekend, very close to *every* weekend since the new year for me:
left work friday night about 8pm.
got home and threw together a quick dinner, relaxed in front of the computer while eating it, in bed by 10pm.
woke up saturday at about 6... PM!
shuffled around the apartment for a few hours... didn't have the energy/enthusiasm to go grocery shopping, even thought the refrigerator and cupboards are empty... futz'ed around on line for a couple hours before ordering a pizza, then hacked on an oss project I'm involved with while eating pizza for a few hours...
went to bed about 3am sunday
slept 'till about 4pm sunday
did laundry and watched tv for the rest of the day, then hacked that evening while eating left over pizza. before heading to bed about midnight.
stared at the ceiling untill shortly after neighboor's alarm went off at 6am... dozed sometime thereafter untill mine at 8am, was at work by 9pm.
some may question the amount of hacking time in there... since it's about the only time I get to actually write code I call it the most relaxing part of the weekend.
a couple people who've seen the kind of hours I work, and the excuse for a life I live have said, "So you're working your ass off... you must be making real good money right?"
every morning when I badge in I walk past a sign telling me what the minimum wage is... when I see that I think about my pal in uni who was torn between becoming a elementary teacher or a McManager... the McManager pays more. When I was hired in I believed the statement that they couldn't offer any more, and after holding out for a while and telling them about other, better, offers they still wouldn't budge so I accepted. 7 months latter durring the annual salary adjustment phase my manager was rather blunt when he said I wasn't being paid near what I was worth, then he gave me the bigest raise he could get past his manager's manager, also the largest raise in the area, percentage wise. This week I had a meeting with my (new) manager who said he was requesting that they "do right by me", which I guess means he's going for the same percentage.
Now last fall I spent a lot of time talking career with a guy that I was kinda following in the footsteps of, he kept very close tabs on the market for our skills (for reasons that became obvious just recently when he left) and I had worked for him extensivly for about six months or so, so he knew very well what I could do. His expert opinion was that I was hired for about 55-60% what I should be getting for my ability. Even if my raise this year is equal to last years' I'll be at about 75% of that figure from a year and a half ago, and most people would say my "value" has risen quite a bit in those 18 months. note: I've not used real numbers here because if I actually posted my salary people would laugh; but I live in an area with a very low CPI and cost of living (about as far from silly-con valley as conceivable) and also much less competitive job market (unlike austin for example where I know a lot of people who have quit, walked accross the street and gotten hired for 20% more money, although some smaller companies have started to realise the target rich environment captive in this area and are moving in) so all things are relative and have been scaled. (math major's are encouraged to do the reverse formula and solve for my salary for extra credit)
Then I see a new guy come in a year after me and is hired at a salary that already beats mine after my first raise. (by a few percent!) And I refuse to even go into the recent pension fiasco.
Recently there are four or five companies that have come in and capitalized on some internal politics and strife over bad upper-middle-mis-management decisions, the defection rate amoung some of our top technical people is becoming alarming, but it has also put me in an interesting place... I'm on my managers "big truck list". What you ask is a "big truck list"? it means that if I get hit by a truck tommorow they're screwed. it also means it's in his best interest to make sure the company does in fact "do right by me".
So here's the question I say we put forward as the next one: "Why? We've seen how bad the conditions in the industry are, why do people stay?"
for me, it's the people and the work. I'm surounded by geeks... now there are fewer than there used to be, and I'm afraid the ones that left are the ones most like me, but I'm still a geek amoungst geeks. I have a manager that I trust has my best career interests in mind (that wasn't the case for a few months last summer/fall... but my friends credit me with driving that guy out of management...
to your first point: my mother is an elementary school teacher. I volunteered at her site all through jr/sr highschool and into college doing computer type work, and was in the classroom every now and again - I always saw this. It wasn't just on the computers. One day after I was in her room for a while I asked her about one particular incident, and asked "well, when you make the groups that go to computer time, why don't you put all girls or all boys in a group, except maybe the girls like Jane (made up) that don't seem to have any problem defending themselves and will actually push back to get their share?" Her response was basically "don't suggest that while on school grounds... you'll get us sued."
a friend of mine in uni was an elementary ed major and summed it up best over supper in the caf one night after his first phase of student teaching: "yeah, little girls can be pr***y bi****s every now and again, but little boys tend to be ba*****s day in and day out."
your second point: you're right on the money... I had to go back and re-read that line a few times to make sure I understood what she was saying, then passed it off as bs and moved on.
When I was in college, and again latter in uni there were *very few* women in any of the three majors (CS, CIS, MIS) in the department so if the numbers are going down then there must be none at all left now. Fortunately that isn't the case... I was talking to someone on campus at uni last week and he mentioned there were about thirty women in the program now; that kinda matches what little I remember of the incoming class of frosh the summer after my "last" year ;} there were a LOT of young ladies in those tour groups and early summer classes.
I have to agree with a lot of what Dr. Borg is saying here, and it's really pathetic that this is the case. I can't think of a single women in my graduating class that wasn't in the top handfull of students, ditto the class before me. I generally found that the women in my classes and the ones I work with now are the better engineers, certainly on several occasions I can look at a project group that had maybe four people and say that the women on the group did more than their 25% of the share. It was always interesting to watch the group when it was say four guys and see how things got done, then watch those same four guys on the next project when one of the ladies in the area got added to their group... there was a very subtle change in the group dynamics and a very severe change in the quality of the work. Now I know in a couple cases it was because the guys were ashamed that a "girl" did better work than they did... but then I had also worked with that young lady before, they didn't have a chance - she out-classed them.
I wish there was a more natural balance of men:women in hard core computer science - and not because they're a welcome sight after staring at code for hours on end or sitting in design meetings that just won't stop - it's because their very presence in the group alters the balance and their different perspective and methodology is always beneficial.
a fourth example to add to yours... folks that have to have a domain name for purposes other than resolving IP addresses. case in point: java packages (and I think perl some also) use the domain system to segregate the name space. I want to release java code, but don't have my own domain name to package it in, so wherever I put it I run the risk of conflicting with someone. (hint, it's already happened for some people.)
In summary, ya got the ages right... but this isn't yet the dawning of the third age of mankind, our last best hope for the . . . wait a minute . . . wrong group. . . . <*>
the only thing that could possibly be more wrong than this is the advert flashing at the top of my /. window when I read it, for a linux asp server....
umm... duh.
That's not the point though... if they're on 2.2.x and they see panic XYZ and don't tell us "hey I got a panic XYZ on 2.2.x when I ran stream.c" then in 6 months when they're ready to move to 2.4.x because it's been "stable" for months now odds are they're still going to get panic XYZ!
while this isn't the forum to report that panic, they mentioned it and were asked for info by someone who would do something about it (at least make sure the right people knew about it) and responded with a non-answer answer.
true. seen it. ain't pretty.
looks like you've made your 5000 names target... I was number 5340! Let's hope this works....
see bugzilla 18110... the xpcomm/proxy component has some thread safety issues... they've pushed this out from m12 to m13 and recently to m14... at this rate mozilla will never run on multiprocessors. I'd encourage those of you with mp boxes and bugzilla votes to spare to add them to the collection... or if you have the skills and the time go join the project and help fix the problem.
one of the direct impacts of this announcement is being felt here in Rochester, MN where WD Enterprise Storage Systems had just built a huge new R&D lab, and were preparing to plunder the staff of IBM's DASD group here in town... now they're going from moving into their new building and staffing up something like 600 jobs... to selling the building to Mayo and laying off the 400 some odd people that work at their current location. Bet those folks that left IBM are thinking about just how well they'd be welcomed back.....
Yup, it's a true masterpiece... John Corkery won the 1996 design of the year for it... corelmag had a detailed writeup on it, but I can't find it to provide a link.
And yeah, she sued. They've since resolved and she granted them a 5 year license. Details are available from Corel.
She was definently the original TTB (hey Nitrozac, was she inspiration?) and will be missed.
we went over this back in the wordperfect beta time... its a GENERIC beta test applicaion, they don't customize it beyond slapping the product name on. This was exactly the same form used for beta testers of their linux distro (wherein those questions made a LOT of sense)
there is a great database at IBM that is used for looking up all the TLAs we use... one of my most often requested additions is that HAL stands for Holerith's Arithmatical Legacy (a reference to IBM). another is that IBM stands for Security Through Acronyms... few people get that one though....
just out of curiosity, what alphabet do you use?
H + 1 = I
A + 1 = B
L + 1 = M
or in other words
I - 1 = H
B - 1 = A
M - 1 = L
thus HAL is less than IBM... but then I wouldn't have bought that argument if it was JCN's birhtday instead of HAL's either....
this just recently came up on the spamcop newsgroup... a quick look at how it works and I've already come up with at least a handfull of very nasty potential exploits, not to mention some of the stuff that's already being done. The whole thing just screams that there was NO thought given to security in the design of WebTV's mailto: url extensions. I wonder how many more of these gems are ticking away under the covers of systems like these?
umm... how pray tell do you think I got the IP in the first place?
here's another varient on the url, without the blink tags; seems to be cached from the last version.
the server said "This account has too many processes running. Please try again later." LOL!
according to queso it's either DSBi 3.0, or IBM S/390. I think we can eliminate the mainframe.
I somehow expected it to be running Linux.
I'll assume that was California Superior Court... what I'd really like to see on this is some non-us registry decide that a pidling injunction from some clueless judge in California has no meaning in the international market and reinstate etoy.com! might teach NSI a thing or two.
I'm not sure I agree with the more militant actions some are using against eToys; but then what is that compared to illegally cutting off an entire domain, making the sale of a particular piece of art illegal, bullying an american company into breaking an international database....
I love the analogy of the kids btw... I was trying to explain to my parents why we're boycotting eToys... wish I had that at the time.
ahem. no offense to you, but bullshit. the silly-season shopping frenzy is over, they slacked off on their TV ads - I normally heard/saw four or five a day while I had the idiot box on for background in the morning while getting up or over lunch or dinner, this week that number is ONE, for the week - therefore they no longer had as much of a worry about new users not being able to remember the extra 's'... returning users will either have it in a bookmark, or a link they emailed out, or in the location history (auto completion). That's why they appear to have backed down, that and the sorry state of their stock.
Keep the boycot going... FOREVER. They've earned themselves a permenant place in my firewall's gouhls section (not even outbound connections are allowed) This is an honor usually reserved for known hacker sites. I've made sure they know this.
on a somewhat related topic, NSI's incompetence:
[cabbey@tweedle cabbey]$ nslookup 146.228.204.72
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Name: www.etoy.com
Address: 146.228.204.72
[cabbey@tweedle cabbey]$ nslookup www.etoy.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
*** localhost can't find www.etoy.com: Non-existent host/domain
so they got the A record but not the PTR... smooth dns admins they got there....
iirc, the date on the filing would be the date they plan to deliver it to the court, but then ianal.
and yes, "silly, childish" are two of the words that have come to mind over this issue... about the only two that are repeatable in mixed company though.....
apparently the lawyers aren't bright enough to figure out who runs /.
/. article, so it's either Hemos or Rob... or maybe the legal guns of Andover.net are going to have to be brought to bear on this one.
Doe 57 is listed as whoever is responsible for this