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Politics is what's preventing us from considering LLVM, let alone the long and torturous process of making the code work. The brutally short story is that GCC is operating under a certain restriction imposed by RMS since its inception, and LLVM -- or really, any good whole-program optimization technique -- would require us to violate that restriction.
Now, there are some of us (*waves hand*) who feel that RMS is a reactionary zealot in this respect, and would be more than happy to use the LLVM techniques, but we won't get into that.
Sounds like RMS is protecting gcc, good for him. Unless you have something more substantial than insinuated slander?
Exciting news would be a cheap CAN node with some practical functionalitiy as an alternative to the ridiculously expensive CBUS. Or a Python equivalent of the excellent but Perl "Mister House". I thought xAP had potential but it's turned into a crap Windoze app. Shame. Sorry but there is currently no cheap but decent HA stuff out there except the slow and error prone X10. We are still living in the 60's.
The article says nothing about P2P software, only that he downloaded the films. The submitter needs to back up his claim that this will have an effect on P2P sharing.
I've just written to Edward McMillan Scott describing my disgust, and told him that if he cannot back up Richard Corbett's stance on the directive then I will for the first time in my life vote non-Conservative. And I mean it.
A Festival For Film? Wasn't star wars filmed digitally. I know that cannes has rejected many pleas to include digitally shot movies. On the plus side, perhaps this will open the way to future digitally shot entries. (Shame amature photographers and movie makers can rarely afford the transfer from digital to film!)
Shrek 2 was at the festival last year. You don't get much more digital than that.
One thing I just read in my MCSE study book... Windows 2000 and up support 127-character passwords, but Windows NT, Windows 9x and Windows ME only support 14-characters in a password. A user who has a Windows password greater than 14 characters simply cannot using the older operating systems even if they otherwise should be able to.
Does Windows 2000 really support 127-character passwords? Or allow you to enter passwords 127 characters in length? Many operating systems allow you to enter a large number of characters but only use the first x characters. When it comes down to it, the encryption algorithm will use a certain keylength measured in a number of bits. The standard AES key is between 128 and 256 bits long (equivalent of 16 and 32 bytes). Whatever password/passphrase you enter will have to map onto this fixed number of bits. A hash of a longer passphrase appears more secure but not necessarily as much as you would think, as grammer follows pretty strict rules hence vulnerable to crypto-analysis. In addition, each step you add to create that mapping risks introducing an implementation-related vulnerability.
Personally, as a compromise between a dictionary-attack vulnerable password and an unfeasably long password to type I do the following: I take a sentence and use the first letter of each word. I end up with a completely random set of characters. There is no chance I can forget and get locked out, even if it's awkward to type for the first week or two. After a short while I can type it without even thinking.
I started using Firefox as my permanent browser when it started being a lot faster than IE. I then deleted the IE icon when I got addicted to tabbed browsing. In my experience under XP, Firefox is only slightly slower on the first window (because XP preloads IE libraries when it boots, some say cheating but since most people go take a cup of tea whilst XP boots why not). After that Firefox is far quicker, esp rendering.
I do all family and friends PCs. I now have a rule: if you use IE or Outlook I won't touch it. Money still not involved but I've no intention of wasting any more of my time. Reinstalling XP takes a ridiculous amount of time, and I need so many patches and apps I need to install off-line before they can connect it's stupid. They are all begging me to install Linux but I don't know what to install for them. I use Gentoo but damned if I am going to maintain dozens of Gentoo boxes. Maybe Ubuntu? Need to find a solution soon:-/
ScheduleWorld license is a bit vague. It's free for now, they may charge in the future but for what functionality they aren't sure, for some parts there will be a monthly fee but not sure how much (this applies to the timesheet functionality and not the basic calendar). It really doesn't give me confidence.
The competition still seems to be between Sunbird (still immature) and Evolution (bloated). I'll stick with Sunbird for now, though keep an open mind.
I just wish all apps would use the ical format and store in a standard place. Then I can use the app I want without being held hostage by the data.
Er, releasing it exactly the same as Half Life 1? Wasn't it described as the best selling game ever?
If you don't like it, fine. But acting like spoiled kids and calling the people at Valve all sorts of names is just pathetic.
On the contrary, if someone has shelled out a lof of money and then the next day can't even play the game they've paid for then they have every right to get angry.
Yup. Its a sign from g0d! Climb out of the basement or your sad little room and go out and do something. Who knows, maybe the stars will line up and you might actually get laid. If you meet the right person you might even get to try some "taunts" out in real life. Watch out though, chances are you'll going to here more than one h0ttie say "go frag yourself."
Indeed. Well adjusted people are paying through the nose in over-priced bars, getting drunk and staring at girls, failing miserably and then occasionally beating up someone smaller than themselves to restore their self esteem.
And you'll pirate Half-Life 3, and Half-Life 3's authentication system will be even worse for legitimate users? That makes a lot of sense, sure thing.
Would you rather Valve spend tens of millions on developing Half-Life 2 and 3, sell it without DRM and barely sell a maybe a quarter of what they sold now due to rampant piracy? Let's see, estimates of cost on HL2 production range around... what, 30 million plus? They've sold 1.7 million units so far, so cut that back, say 250,000 units to be generous. That means they'd have made $12,500,000 -gross-. With an ungodly amount of that - more than half - going to the distribution channel.
How did the RIAA/MPAA argument get modded +4? Same thing with music and films. Add large amounts of DRM, inconvenience the person that actually paid for it, and claim piracy is the reason the price is so high. Then do bogus calculations and claim every person that downloaded would have actually bought it full price, which is patently not true, and claim X billions in losses.
How can a company that get it so right with Half Life (you can freely copy the CD and don't need it in the drive, the CD key lets you in the 1 player, 2 people on the Internet and 4 people on the LAN), and then get it so horribly wrong with Half Life 2. I'm gutted that I have to boycott it, I was so looking forwards to it:-(
The story states that he's going to a minimum security jail. If they are anything like here in the UK, it's more like being forced to stay in a youth hostel.
Then, the next step for Google is to create Gunix (Google + Lunix), pronouced "goon-ix". With the Google client in place, you download Gunix and swap out M$ Window$.
I read that there is an unofficial patch (wrapper?) for Knoppix that changes the Windows boot-loader to offer a choice of Windows or Knoppix upon boot-up. Selecting Knoppix will boot the live-cd iso mounted on the hard-drive. This would be great for those that want to try Linux, simply download and run, and would fit into the Google KISS principles.
I have a number of friends that want to use Linux instead of Windows, but I'm not sure what to install that will give them the most functionality but me the least headaches. Must be able to connect to adsl out-of-the-box.
So far my option list appears to be: Ubuntu, Knoppix, Mepis. Now Vidalinux.
Off the list: Red Hat, Mandrake (same rpm hell), Gentoo (this is what I use but is too slow to install and configure for others).
Can ppl that have used the above list please post comparative reviews?
Both Wanadoo and Neuf do 8Mb/s for around 30 euros per month (around £20/month, half the price of the slashvert). Wanadoo throw in a free wireless router, neuf just the modem. All uncapped, along with a fixed IP should you desire.
The best choices are Quicktime or mpeg. I wouldn't recommend DivX or XVid simply because the user has to install a 3rd party codec.
Codecs are so easy to install these days on any platform. Many players will auto-fetch the more popular ones. mplayer seems to play any format under the sun out-of-the-box.
More often than not, they're just going to skip over it and move on to another page. The hassle of installing the codec will outweight their interest in actually seeing the video.
If the video is not worth a 10 second install then perhaps the viewer has saved a few minutes of their life by not watching it.
People appear to be happy enough to install codecs to watch porn, eg vivo, and I've lost count of seeing sysadmin warnings to stop users downloading special "image viewers" from porn sites which are trojans that do all kinds of nasty stuff of a machine.
The fact is that what-ever format is used by movie warez traders is going to be installed by default on most people's machines. That's how divx became popular. The best thing is to get porn merchants and warez traders to standardise on ogg format. It's definately in their and the users best interests.
So my big question, besides the obvious price drop from normal Apple systems and putting aside the whole Mac vs. x86 platform, is where is the real price savings for a new user buying a new home computer?
You get to keep your friends. I've fixed 5 of my friends XP machines over the past few days and it's not fun. They are good friends and so I don't charge them but I'm SICK of it. I've already stated that I no longer fix machines where IE or Outlooked is used (that includes family and friends).
Connecting friends WinXP machine to ADSL here: * a couple of hours install - downloading the security patches (ie blaster etc) and a firewall offline and burning onto CD, fixing driver conflicts, constantly rebooting until other problems go away (eg an hour ago a XP laptop refused to shut down until 1/2 dozen hard resets then started working for no reason) - and then an hour or two each month to fix the mess XP gets into after a lot of surfing the 'net
Connecting OSX to the 'net: * they never need me, it just works
I've done a couple of Linux installs but I haven't found a distro I can standardise on so don't want to maintain multiple versions (Gentoo is too slow to install, not over-happy with Mandrake atm, Knoppix is best so far). From now on I'm going to recommend Mac.
That has been our UI for over a decade. Nobody has successfully thought outside the box in over 10 years.
On the contrary, it's gone backwards. Take RiscOS from circa 1987.
* If I left-clicked on the scroll down button on a scroll bar then it scrolled down, but if I right-clicked it scrolled up. No more keep moving my mouse up and down any more. * Left button and drag moved the scroll bar up and down, but right button and I can drag in both dimensions at the same time (unbelievably good for scrolling around zoomed in pages) * Left click to close a Filer window, right click to close a Filer window but to open its parent. * The whole drag-and-drop environment blows away the "oh not that damn save box again, let's navigate yet AGAIN to the right directory" system
Oh I don't have time to go through the whole list.
For those still not with the times, ROX (inspired by RiscOS) is still the best Filer system for Linux machines and can be found here. Lightening fast and works with Gnome, KDE, xfce4, etc.
Another wireless attempt. I want to set up a Home Automation system, yet things don't seem to have moved on since 20 years ago. You have a few wireless options, which I'm not interested both for security and as I have a lot of appliances that generate a lot of RF. X10 is slow and unreliable. The Clipsal CBUS is a nice idea but a patented monopoly and stupidly expensive. There are some nice USB capture devices such as labjack, minilab, etc but Linux support is poor. There are embedded computers but those with Ethernet are too expensive. There are a few RS485 options though. I was hoping some XaP devices would appear, PIC based, but Xap has turned into some crap WinXP desktop app. DMX isn't appropriate really. I'm going to have to come up with some homebrew solution, currently thinking of using Micromint PicStic which appears better for home control than the Gumstix, but it's going to reduce the resale price of my flat if I don't use a supported off-the-shelf solution:-(.
The state of HA today is a sad mess. I really am disappointed.
If you have agreed a contract, abide by the T&Cs, and keep up payment; you have a RIGHT to be hosted, unless the contract is ended under its own T&Cs
Indeed. Under their "Terms and Conditions" they state that unless there is a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP):
[For termination] written notice of non-renewal by either party is delivered to the other party at least thirty (30) days prior to the end of the then current [yearly] term.
Therefore the 48 hours notice is an accusation of breach of the AUP. Unless the ISNA has committed a clear breach, such as spamming, or the ISP has been contacted by law enforcement, then the only term I can see Planet may want to apply is:
The Customer is not permitted to post any material that is illegal, libelous, and tortuous, indecently depicts children or is likely to result in retaliation against Company by offended users. Company reserves the right to refuse or terminate service at any time for violation of this section. (emphasis mine)
If they are fed up with being DDoS through hosting this site, as some posters are suggesting, then they may try and claim a breach of this clause. On the other hand it means that they cannot be relied upon to host any site with political or religious content.
72 hours is the standard notification; situations involving law enforcement, phishing, fraud, password harvesting, network interference, Denial or Disruption of service, IRC mis-use, or other malicious activity can reduce the notification time frame.
As the breach does not appear to fall any of the listed categories, it should be simple to write a registered delivery letter requesting an extension to 72 hours instead of 48 hours. Failure to do so by the ISP would give some grounds to claim breach of contract by the claimant.
Then under the T&C: 7. Arbitration. ANY CONTROVERSY OR CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS CONTACT OR ANY BREACH THEREOF IN EXCESS OF $250.00 SHALL BE SETTLED BY ARBITRATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION RULES OF THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION AND JUDGMENT UPON THE AWARD RENDERED BY THE ARBITRATOR MAY BE ENTERED IN ANY COURT HAVING JURISDICTION THEREOF.
This non-profit organisation can be found here. Frankly hosting is so cheap and providers 10 a pennny it's just much easier to ftp your stuff to another machine at a friendlier company.
Everyone I know doing CSS uses it client side. Everyone I know using XSL uses it server side. Often both are used at the same time, with XSL used to transform the XML into XHTML, and the CSS used for pretty presentation.
I'd rather see it compared to other templating solutions. It seems to me that XSL is like a functional language compared to other templating engines acting more like an imperative language (I said like, it's not a great analogy). It would appear to me to be a bitch to render XSL pages real-time if, as I see in many tutorials, the transforms are an extensive list of recursive <xsl:apply-templates>. How fast are the XSLT parsers these days?
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Politics is what's preventing us from considering LLVM, let alone the long and torturous process of making the code work. The brutally short story is that GCC is operating under a certain restriction imposed by RMS since its inception, and LLVM -- or really, any good whole-program optimization technique -- would require us to violate that restriction.
Now, there are some of us (*waves hand*) who feel that RMS is a reactionary zealot in this respect, and would be more than happy to use the LLVM techniques, but we won't get into that.
Sounds like RMS is protecting gcc, good for him. Unless you have something more substantial than insinuated slander?
Phillip.
Exciting news would be a cheap CAN node with some practical functionalitiy as an alternative to the ridiculously expensive CBUS. Or a Python equivalent of the excellent but Perl "Mister House". I thought xAP had potential but it's turned into a crap Windoze app. Shame. Sorry but there is currently no cheap but decent HA stuff out there except the slow and error prone X10. We are still living in the 60's.
Phillip.
The article says nothing about P2P software, only that he downloaded the films. The submitter needs to back up his claim that this will have an effect on P2P sharing.
Phillip.
I've just written to Edward McMillan Scott describing my disgust, and told him that if he cannot back up Richard Corbett's stance on the directive then I will for the first time in my life vote non-Conservative. And I mean it.
Phillip.
Even easier:
1. emerge privoxy
2. in firefox, set proxy server to: localhost 8118
No more pop-ups. Worked for me with both Scienceblog and DrudgeReport. See Privoxy page for other distros/platforms.
Phillip.
A Festival For Film? Wasn't star wars filmed digitally. I know that cannes has rejected many pleas to include digitally shot movies. On the plus side, perhaps this will open the way to future digitally shot entries. (Shame amature photographers and movie makers can rarely afford the transfer from digital to film!)
Shrek 2 was at the festival last year. You don't get much more digital than that.
Phillip.
One thing I just read in my MCSE study book... Windows 2000 and up support 127-character passwords, but Windows NT, Windows 9x and Windows ME only support 14-characters in a password. A user who has a Windows password greater than 14 characters simply cannot using the older operating systems even if they otherwise should be able to.
Does Windows 2000 really support 127-character passwords? Or allow you to enter passwords 127 characters in length? Many operating systems allow you to enter a large number of characters but only use the first x characters. When it comes down to it, the encryption algorithm will use a certain keylength measured in a number of bits. The standard AES key is between 128 and 256 bits long (equivalent of 16 and 32 bytes). Whatever password/passphrase you enter will have to map onto this fixed number of bits. A hash of a longer passphrase appears more secure but not necessarily as much as you would think, as grammer follows pretty strict rules hence vulnerable to crypto-analysis. In addition, each step you add to create that mapping risks introducing an implementation-related vulnerability.
Personally, as a compromise between a dictionary-attack vulnerable password and an unfeasably long password to type I do the following: I take a sentence and use the first letter of each word. I end up with a completely random set of characters. There is no chance I can forget and get locked out, even if it's awkward to type for the first week or two. After a short while I can type it without even thinking.
Phillip.
I haven't tried it yet (am about to), but for Gentoo there is Gensplash
Phillip.
I started using Firefox as my permanent browser when it started being a lot faster than IE. I then deleted the IE icon when I got addicted to tabbed browsing. In my experience under XP, Firefox is only slightly slower on the first window (because XP preloads IE libraries when it boots, some say cheating but since most people go take a cup of tea whilst XP boots why not). After that Firefox is far quicker, esp rendering.
Phillip.
I do all family and friends PCs. I now have a rule: if you use IE or Outlook I won't touch it. Money still not involved but I've no intention of wasting any more of my time. Reinstalling XP takes a ridiculous amount of time, and I need so many patches and apps I need to install off-line before they can connect it's stupid. They are all begging me to install Linux but I don't know what to install for them. I use Gentoo but damned if I am going to maintain dozens of Gentoo boxes. Maybe Ubuntu? Need to find a solution soon :-/
Phillip.
ScheduleWorld license is a bit vague. It's free for now, they may charge in the future but for what functionality they aren't sure, for some parts there will be a monthly fee but not sure how much (this applies to the timesheet functionality and not the basic calendar). It really doesn't give me confidence.
The competition still seems to be between Sunbird (still immature) and Evolution (bloated). I'll stick with Sunbird for now, though keep an open mind.
I just wish all apps would use the ical format and store in a standard place. Then I can use the app I want without being held hostage by the data.
Phillip.
I would be interested to know how much power the Mac Mini and a VIA Nehemiah ITX consume (a) when active and (b) when idle.
If both machines suited my needs and are roughly the same price, this becomes an important distinction for me when building my MythTV front-end.
Actual numbers, not comments along the lines of "but the hard drive will consume more than the CPU" etc.
Phillip.
so what options are there?
Er, releasing it exactly the same as Half Life 1? Wasn't it described as the best selling game ever?
If you don't like it, fine. But acting like spoiled kids and calling the people at Valve all sorts of names is just pathetic.
On the contrary, if someone has shelled out a lof of money and then the next day can't even play the game they've paid for then they have every right to get angry.
Phillip.
Yup. Its a sign from g0d! Climb out of the basement or your sad little room and go out and do something. Who knows, maybe the stars will line up and you might actually get laid. If you meet the right person you might even get to try some "taunts" out in real life. Watch out though, chances are you'll going to here more than one h0ttie say "go frag yourself."
Indeed. Well adjusted people are paying through the nose in over-priced bars, getting drunk and staring at girls, failing miserably and then occasionally beating up someone smaller than themselves to restore their self esteem.
Phillip.
And you'll pirate Half-Life 3, and Half-Life 3's authentication system will be even worse for legitimate users? That makes a lot of sense, sure thing.
:-(
Would you rather Valve spend tens of millions on developing Half-Life 2 and 3, sell it without DRM and barely sell a maybe a quarter of what they sold now due to rampant piracy? Let's see, estimates of cost on HL2 production range around... what, 30 million plus? They've sold 1.7 million units so far, so cut that back, say 250,000 units to be generous. That means they'd have made $12,500,000 -gross-. With an ungodly amount of that - more than half - going to the distribution channel.
How did the RIAA/MPAA argument get modded +4? Same thing with music and films. Add large amounts of DRM, inconvenience the person that actually paid for it, and claim piracy is the reason the price is so high. Then do bogus calculations and claim every person that downloaded would have actually bought it full price, which is patently not true, and claim X billions in losses.
How can a company that get it so right with Half Life (you can freely copy the CD and don't need it in the drive, the CD key lets you in the 1 player, 2 people on the Internet and 4 people on the LAN), and then get it so horribly wrong with Half Life 2. I'm gutted that I have to boycott it, I was so looking forwards to it
Phillip.
The story states that he's going to a minimum security jail. If they are anything like here in the UK, it's more like being forced to stay in a youth hostel.
Phillip.
Then, the next step for Google is to create Gunix (Google + Lunix), pronouced "goon-ix". With the Google client in place, you download Gunix and swap out M$ Window$.
I read that there is an unofficial patch (wrapper?) for Knoppix that changes the Windows boot-loader to offer a choice of Windows or Knoppix upon boot-up. Selecting Knoppix will boot the live-cd iso mounted on the hard-drive. This would be great for those that want to try Linux, simply download and run, and would fit into the Google KISS principles.
Go Gunix!
Phillip.
I have a number of friends that want to use Linux instead of Windows, but I'm not sure what to install that will give them the most functionality but me the least headaches. Must be able to connect to adsl out-of-the-box.
So far my option list appears to be: Ubuntu, Knoppix, Mepis. Now Vidalinux.
Off the list: Red Hat, Mandrake (same rpm hell), Gentoo (this is what I use but is too slow to install and configure for others).
Can ppl that have used the above list please post comparative reviews?
Ta,
Phillip.
Both Wanadoo and Neuf do 8Mb/s for around 30 euros per month (around £20/month, half the price of the slashvert). Wanadoo throw in a free wireless router, neuf just the modem. All uncapped, along with a fixed IP should you desire.
Phillip.
The best choices are Quicktime or mpeg. I wouldn't recommend DivX or XVid simply because the user has to install a 3rd party codec.
Codecs are so easy to install these days on any platform. Many players will auto-fetch the more popular ones. mplayer seems to play any format under the sun out-of-the-box.
More often than not, they're just going to skip over it and move on to another page. The hassle of installing the codec will outweight their interest in actually seeing the video.
If the video is not worth a 10 second install then perhaps the viewer has saved a few minutes of their life by not watching it.
People appear to be happy enough to install codecs to watch porn, eg vivo, and I've lost count of seeing sysadmin warnings to stop users downloading special "image viewers" from porn sites which are trojans that do all kinds of nasty stuff of a machine.
The fact is that what-ever format is used by movie warez traders is going to be installed by default on most people's machines. That's how divx became popular. The best thing is to get porn merchants and warez traders to standardise on ogg format. It's definately in their and the users best interests.
Phillip.
So my big question, besides the obvious price drop from normal Apple systems and putting aside the whole Mac vs. x86 platform, is where is the real price savings for a new user buying a new home computer?
You get to keep your friends. I've fixed 5 of my friends XP machines over the past few days and it's not fun. They are good friends and so I don't charge them but I'm SICK of it. I've already stated that I no longer fix machines where IE or Outlooked is used (that includes family and friends).
Connecting friends WinXP machine to ADSL here:
* a couple of hours install - downloading the security patches (ie blaster etc) and a firewall offline and burning onto CD, fixing driver conflicts, constantly rebooting until other problems go away (eg an hour ago a XP laptop refused to shut down until 1/2 dozen hard resets then started working for no reason) - and then an hour or two each month to fix the mess XP gets into after a lot of surfing the 'net
Connecting OSX to the 'net:
* they never need me, it just works
I've done a couple of Linux installs but I haven't found a distro I can standardise on so don't want to maintain multiple versions (Gentoo is too slow to install, not over-happy with Mandrake atm, Knoppix is best so far). From now on I'm going to recommend Mac.
Phillip.
That has been our UI for over a decade. Nobody has successfully thought outside the box in over 10 years.
On the contrary, it's gone backwards. Take RiscOS from circa 1987.
* If I left-clicked on the scroll down button on a scroll bar then it scrolled down, but if I right-clicked it scrolled up. No more keep moving my mouse up and down any more.
* Left button and drag moved the scroll bar up and down, but right button and I can drag in both dimensions at the same time (unbelievably good for scrolling around zoomed in pages)
* Left click to close a Filer window, right click to close a Filer window but to open its parent.
* The whole drag-and-drop environment blows away the "oh not that damn save box again, let's navigate yet AGAIN to the right directory" system
Oh I don't have time to go through the whole list.
For those still not with the times, ROX (inspired by RiscOS) is still the best Filer system for Linux machines and can be found here. Lightening fast and works with Gnome, KDE, xfce4, etc.
Phillip.
Another wireless attempt. I want to set up a Home Automation system, yet things don't seem to have moved on since 20 years ago. You have a few wireless options, which I'm not interested both for security and as I have a lot of appliances that generate a lot of RF. X10 is slow and unreliable. The Clipsal CBUS is a nice idea but a patented monopoly and stupidly expensive. There are some nice USB capture devices such as labjack, minilab, etc but Linux support is poor. There are embedded computers but those with Ethernet are too expensive. There are a few RS485 options though. I was hoping some XaP devices would appear, PIC based, but Xap has turned into some crap WinXP desktop app. DMX isn't appropriate really. I'm going to have to come up with some homebrew solution, currently thinking of using Micromint PicStic which appears better for home control than the Gumstix, but it's going to reduce the resale price of my flat if I don't use a supported off-the-shelf solution :-(.
The state of HA today is a sad mess. I really am disappointed.
Phillip.
Indeed. Under their "Terms and Conditions" they state that unless there is a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP):
[For termination] written notice of non-renewal by either party is delivered to the other party at least thirty (30) days prior to the end of the then current [yearly] term.
Therefore the 48 hours notice is an accusation of breach of the AUP. Unless the ISNA has committed a clear breach, such as spamming, or the ISP has been contacted by law enforcement, then the only term I can see Planet may want to apply is:
The Customer is not permitted to post any material that is illegal, libelous, and tortuous, indecently depicts children or is likely to result in retaliation against Company by offended users. Company reserves the right to refuse or terminate service at any time for violation of this section. (emphasis mine)
If they are fed up with being DDoS through hosting this site, as some posters are suggesting, then they may try and claim a breach of this clause. On the other hand it means that they cannot be relied upon to host any site with political or religious content.
72 hours is the standard notification; situations involving law enforcement, phishing, fraud, password harvesting, network interference, Denial or Disruption of service, IRC mis-use, or other malicious activity can reduce the notification time frame.
As the breach does not appear to fall any of the listed categories, it should be simple to write a registered delivery letter requesting an extension to 72 hours instead of 48 hours. Failure to do so by the ISP would give some grounds to claim breach of contract by the claimant.
Then under the T&C:
7. Arbitration. ANY CONTROVERSY OR CLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS CONTACT OR ANY BREACH THEREOF IN EXCESS OF $250.00 SHALL BE SETTLED BY ARBITRATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION RULES OF THE AMERICAN ARBITRATION ASSOCIATION AND JUDGMENT UPON THE AWARD RENDERED BY THE ARBITRATOR MAY BE ENTERED IN ANY COURT HAVING JURISDICTION THEREOF.
This non-profit organisation can be found here. Frankly hosting is so cheap and providers 10 a pennny it's just much easier to ftp your stuff to another machine at a friendlier company.
Phillip.
Everyone I know doing CSS uses it client side. Everyone I know using XSL uses it server side. Often both are used at the same time, with XSL used to transform the XML into XHTML, and the CSS used for pretty presentation.
I'd rather see it compared to other templating solutions. It seems to me that XSL is like a functional language compared to other templating engines acting more like an imperative language (I said like, it's not a great analogy). It would appear to me to be a bitch to render XSL pages real-time if, as I see in many tutorials, the transforms are an extensive list of recursive <xsl:apply-templates>. How fast are the XSLT parsers these days?
Phillip.