yeah its the bane of dynamic sites, browsers treat the hostname barrier as the security barrier and provide no way to mark untrusted content within your site. this means if you do anything at all the involves user submitted content you have to be extremely carefull that users can't use it to pass script to the browser.
afaict the best way is to use the https port (443). its very hard to get away with disallowing it and very hard to do any meaningfull filtering of what flows over it. The vast majority of http proxyies seem to allow http connects to this port.
e.g. All those Plug 'N Play TV Games rely on old copyrights to compete in the market. i was under the impression that lots of those were completely pirate devices anyway (though there are probablly some legit ones too).
i dunno what american TV is like but at least here in britian we get a lot of american TV, a fair bit of australian TV and some irish stuff too so we are pretty used to american and australian accents.
whereas you don't seem to see much programming on TV which is made by production companies based in non english speaking locations using presenters for whom english is a section language (sure you see programs on things like the great wall of china but they aren't presented using local labour). and imported cartoons seem to be dubbed by people with native english accents.
also someone who has english as a first language will have developed thier speach round it rather than trying to adapt from a language that uses fairly different base sounds. it wouldn't at all surprise me if this makes speach of non native speakers less clear although its going to be hard to measure quantitively.
First, Wikipedia is under control of the Wikimedia Foundation [wikimedia.org] these days, not just Jimmy Wales i was under the impression that he had stacked the board by placing two members who were appointed by himself and had nothing else to do with wikipedia. (its a 5 member board iirc)
in other words if he wants to force a descision though the wikimedia board he can.
btw java web start is running today for anyone who has the JRE installed. so are java applets for that matter (though web start seems better than applets in a couple of ways 1: it does a end run round the firefox 100% height issue which means you can't just make your applet fill the windows (you can hack arround this with javascript but its apparently very hard to get it to work perfectly) 2: you don't have all the window trash that a typical browser window has 3: your app is far less likely to get closed by mistake.
open source drm is kind of impossible, the entire POINT of drm (at least as implemented on commodity hardware) is to use sneaky methods to keep the key and the unencrypted bitstream away from the owner of the system that is doing the decryption.
mips alpha and powerPC have all had versions of NT at some point possiblly others too. i know alpha was supported in NT4 and i think POWERPC was too not sure at what time in NTs life the others were.
and there was a power version with a recent directx added made availible to xbox 360 developers (iirc it was running on a powermac).
apple has done the right thing though and got thier hands on a good emulation engine. in the closed source world such features are VERY important!!!
last i heared intel OSx didn't support classic has that changed?
or.. buy a hundred.co.XX domains, get a.com free trouble with that kind of idea is it wouldn't be an organisational nightmare. pretty much every cctld is handled by a different body!
also afaict most countries just give names direct under thier cctld and don't bother with a second level.
When they sold us all asymetric home internet connections we said nothing....
mainly because they were a heck of a lot faster than anything home users could get at a reasonable price before (which sounds better to you? 1024/256 adsl or 128/128 basic rate ISDN with both channels bonded).
here in the uk providers did (and still do) that with 0845 (local rate from anywhere numbers) and the result was companies that offered unmetered local calls quickly excluded 0845 numbers from said plans (at least for new subscribers)
i'm not sure what the rules are for terminating geograpic numbers in the uk but i'd guess from the fact that ISPs don't use them there isn't much money to be made.
i'd imagine as soon as this hardware gets into the right developers hands a wine port should follow pretty quick. indeed i think darwine has already done most of the legwork needed to get an initial working relase (i imagine it will be X11 based at least to start with).
hmm is it like with the ibook where non user upgradeable means user upgradeable if you have a lot of time, a lot of tiny screwdrivers and a very steady hand?
what i don't get is why apple make life so hard for thier own techs.
There are a large number of 16 bit (ie Win3.0/3.1) apps out there that are still in industrial use. They tend to be obscure things - applications for subtitling TV transmissions, interfacing to medical kit etc. i'd imagine a great many of those are unlikely to run on the NT lineage (reliance on direct hardware access etc) and they probablly run on dedicated pcs anyway.
still its a good indication on why you should require source for anything you rely on that isn't well supported off the shelf software.
Another big determiner for me, on major sites anyway, is time-to-load. I'll frequently abort a page before it's even finished if I'm not reading something else. i'll often push lots of pages from a search to tabs and i'll look at the faster ones first. the slow ones will probablly finish loading but are far less likely to get actually looked at.
ever heared of a cold war? that is a war where neither side is currently actively doing anything to each other but they hate each other and make threats all the time. The best known one was the global cold war involving the USA and the USSR but there are still smaller cold wars (taiwan/china,india/packistan etc).
a country stuck in a cold war can't really be considered stable but it can't really be considerd on the verge of collapse either.
i'm in the uk and i've never heared them specifically say on time. they won't bother announcing as late unless its at least a few miniutes late.
some trains are much worse than others. the worst idea if you wan't to get out quickly is catching a long distance train from its starting station for a few stops because if they have any problems at all then it can stay sitting there for quite some time (half an hour or so in some cases) after its due out time.
mostly local trains round here seem to run within a few minites of time at least during off peak hours (i don't travel by train in the rush hour so can't comment there).
i guess its because dhcpd is designed on the assumption that the dhcp server is the authoritive source for any networking related configuration (which it *SHOULD* be thats kinda the point of DHCP) but yes it does break down when the dchp server gives you info you don't wan't and you don't know its admin well enough to get them to fix it (as is often the case with ISP dhcp servers).
Meanwhile, on the Mac side, there's no volume discounts i dunno about corp licensing but i'm pretty sure they have it included in the ms deal they have here at manchester university and they certainly offered it through thier student license program so it would surprise me if you couldn't get it corp license.
though there is a stinger, iirc the standard corporate and acedemic licenses for windows are upgrade/downgrade only so if you wan't to legally use the virtual PC thats included with office mac you apparently have to buy windows at full retail!
i'd imgine the main (and also unfortunately the hardest to mesure) thing society gains from imprisoning people is a deterrant to others who were thinging of doing the same.
I'm glad I don't have to constantly be on the lookout for giant birds that could swoop down from the sky and pierce my brain with its talons through my eyeballs to let me dangle until I die. but if you did have to you'd sure as hell wan't to carry with you the best anti bird weapon you could get your hands on and/or travel in groups.
humans biggest evolotuionary advantage has been the ability to use weapons (and those weapons have got better and better over time) to take out animals much larger than themselves.
add to the fact that humans have a very low tolerance of man eaters and yes it wouldn't surprise me if they managed to wipe out a whole species of man eating birds
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yeah its the bane of dynamic sites, browsers treat the hostname barrier as the security barrier and provide no way to mark untrusted content within your site. this means if you do anything at all the involves user submitted content you have to be extremely carefull that users can't use it to pass script to the browser.
afaict the best way is to use the https port (443). its very hard to get away with disallowing it and very hard to do any meaningfull filtering of what flows over it. The vast majority of http proxyies seem to allow http connects to this port.
just to let you know openssh has had that feature a LOT longer than putty has (nice feature too).
e.g. All those Plug 'N Play TV Games rely on old copyrights to compete in the market.
i was under the impression that lots of those were completely pirate devices anyway (though there are probablly some legit ones too).
i dunno what american TV is like but at least here in britian we get a lot of american TV, a fair bit of australian TV and some irish stuff too so we are pretty used to american and australian accents.
whereas you don't seem to see much programming on TV which is made by production companies based in non english speaking locations using presenters for whom english is a section language (sure you see programs on things like the great wall of china but they aren't presented using local labour). and imported cartoons seem to be dubbed by people with native english accents.
also someone who has english as a first language will have developed thier speach round it rather than trying to adapt from a language that uses fairly different base sounds. it wouldn't at all surprise me if this makes speach of non native speakers less clear although its going to be hard to measure quantitively.
First, Wikipedia is under control of the Wikimedia Foundation [wikimedia.org] these days, not just Jimmy Wales
i was under the impression that he had stacked the board by placing two members who were appointed by himself and had nothing else to do with wikipedia. (its a 5 member board iirc)
in other words if he wants to force a descision though the wikimedia board he can.
btw java web start is running today for anyone who has the JRE installed. so are java applets for that matter (though web start seems better than applets in a couple of ways
1: it does a end run round the firefox 100% height issue which means you can't just make your applet fill the windows (you can hack arround this with javascript but its apparently very hard to get it to work perfectly)
2: you don't have all the window trash that a typical browser window has
3: your app is far less likely to get closed by mistake.
open source drm is kind of impossible, the entire POINT of drm (at least as implemented on commodity hardware) is to use sneaky methods to keep the key and the unencrypted bitstream away from the owner of the system that is doing the decryption.
mips alpha and powerPC have all had versions of NT at some point possiblly others too. i know alpha was supported in NT4 and i think POWERPC was too not sure at what time in NTs life the others were.
and there was a power version with a recent directx added made availible to xbox 360 developers (iirc it was running on a powermac).
apple has done the right thing though and got thier hands on a good emulation engine. in the closed source world such features are VERY important!!!
last i heared intel OSx didn't support classic has that changed?
or.. buy a hundred .co.XX domains, get a .com free
trouble with that kind of idea is it wouldn't be an organisational nightmare. pretty much every cctld is handled by a different body!
also afaict most countries just give names direct under thier cctld and don't bother with a second level.
When they sold us all asymetric home internet connections we said nothing....
mainly because they were a heck of a lot faster than anything home users could get at a reasonable price before (which sounds better to you? 1024/256 adsl or 128/128 basic rate ISDN with both channels bonded).
here in the uk providers did (and still do) that with 0845 (local rate from anywhere numbers) and the result was companies that offered unmetered local calls quickly excluded 0845 numbers from said plans (at least for new subscribers)
i'm not sure what the rules are for terminating geograpic numbers in the uk but i'd guess from the fact that ISPs don't use them there isn't much money to be made.
yeah some hi-fi amps have vents in stupid places like the top and if you'r running them at high power then they need to be unobstructed.
rackmount amplifiers on the other hand are usually fan cooled with vent positions limited to the front and back.
i'd imagine as soon as this hardware gets into the right developers hands a wine port should follow pretty quick. indeed i think darwine has already done most of the legwork needed to get an initial working relase (i imagine it will be X11 based at least to start with).
hmm is it like with the ibook where non user upgradeable means user upgradeable if you have a lot of time, a lot of tiny screwdrivers and a very steady hand?
what i don't get is why apple make life so hard for thier own techs.
There are a large number of 16 bit (ie Win3.0/3.1) apps out there that are still in industrial use. They tend to be obscure things - applications for subtitling TV transmissions, interfacing to medical kit etc.
i'd imagine a great many of those are unlikely to run on the NT lineage (reliance on direct hardware access etc) and they probablly run on dedicated pcs anyway.
still its a good indication on why you should require source for anything you rely on that isn't well supported off the shelf software.
Another big determiner for me, on major sites anyway, is time-to-load. I'll frequently abort a page before it's even finished if I'm not reading something else.
i'll often push lots of pages from a search to tabs and i'll look at the faster ones first. the slow ones will probablly finish loading but are far less likely to get actually looked at.
ever heared of a cold war? that is a war where neither side is currently actively doing anything to each other but they hate each other and make threats all the time. The best known one was the global cold war involving the USA and the USSR but there are still smaller cold wars (taiwan/china,india/packistan etc).
a country stuck in a cold war can't really be considered stable but it can't really be considerd on the verge of collapse either.
doesn't ms have one of those by the name of j#?
well ms used the .net brand on passport so anyone who uses hotmail or msn messenger will be somewhat familiar with the .net brand.
i'm in the uk and i've never heared them specifically say on time. they won't bother announcing as late unless its at least a few miniutes late.
some trains are much worse than others. the worst idea if you wan't to get out quickly is catching a long distance train from its starting station for a few stops because if they have any problems at all then it can stay sitting there for quite some time (half an hour or so in some cases) after its due out time.
mostly local trains round here seem to run within a few minites of time at least during off peak hours (i don't travel by train in the rush hour so can't comment there).
i guess its because dhcpd is designed on the assumption that the dhcp server is the authoritive source for any networking related configuration (which it *SHOULD* be thats kinda the point of DHCP) but yes it does break down when the dchp server gives you info you don't wan't and you don't know its admin well enough to get them to fix it (as is often the case with ISP dhcp servers).
Meanwhile, on the Mac side, there's no volume discounts
i dunno about corp licensing but i'm pretty sure they have it included in the ms deal they have here at manchester university and they certainly offered it through thier student license program so it would surprise me if you couldn't get it corp license.
though there is a stinger, iirc the standard corporate and acedemic licenses for windows are upgrade/downgrade only so if you wan't to legally use the virtual PC thats included with office mac you apparently have to buy windows at full retail!
i'd imgine the main (and also unfortunately the hardest to mesure) thing society gains from imprisoning people is a deterrant to others who were thinging of doing the same.
I'm glad I don't have to constantly be on the lookout for giant birds that could swoop down from the sky and pierce my brain with its talons through my eyeballs to let me dangle until I die.
but if you did have to you'd sure as hell wan't to carry with you the best anti bird weapon you could get your hands on and/or travel in groups.
humans biggest evolotuionary advantage has been the ability to use weapons (and those weapons have got better and better over time) to take out animals much larger than themselves.
add to the fact that humans have a very low tolerance of man eaters and yes it wouldn't surprise me if they managed to wipe out a whole species of man eating birds