Governments all over the world have more interest in multinational industry and commerce than in the wellbeing of individuals. Look how they keep a biased system like the patent system in place, while they do nothing about the spam problem.
How is GPS providing you with DST info? I would like to know if you have invented some way to do that!
GPS already has a hard time providing you with UTC time. GPS time is different from UTC, and the exact difference is often quite difficult to obtain from the receiver (depends on manufacturer and firmware version). Times reported by GPS receivers are sometimes UTC, sometimes GPS time, and sometimes it is not even clear what they are.
Converting the GPS-calculated position to a timezone is very difficult (it at least requires a detailed description of the timezone borders, and those are not even constant). Providing DST information is even more difficult, as this article explains.
So please explain me (as the clever programmer you undoubtedly are, putting down your fellow programmers as stupid) how you are going to solve this with a GPS receiver.
Microsoft's system is not like zoneinfo, it is more like the oldfashioned TZ environment variable. They can store only a single DST definition per timezone, they don't have the capability of setting a different DST definition per range of years that zoneinfo offers.
DST is already bad enough from an Orthodox Jewish perspective, because we our holidays and sabbaths start at nightfall
High latitudes must be bad from an Orthodox Jewish perspective as well! Nightfall in the summer (depending on how you define it) routinely occurs as late as 10PM here. Go further north and night does not fall at all.
Systems that had their timezone handling updated in the past decade use files in a zoneinfo directory, where the change can be made ahead of time and the old convention will be remembered. So, filedates that are valid now will remain valid after the change.
Europe changed DST handling in 1996. About the only OS giving problems was Windows 95. It does not understand about different DST conventions in different years, and worst: M$ did not know about that change and coded the old convention in Windows 95, released the august before. At that time the change was already widely publicized.
Linux distributions with modern Posix timezone handling made the change without manual intervention, as their tables were already updated before it actually happened.
you wrote "I consider all religions to be completely and obviously false, therefore all religions are cults."
The flaw in your reasoning is readily apparent: just because you can't or won't understand something doesn't mean that it's false.
Most religions educate their followers that their own religion is the only true religion and that all the others are false. They have different ways to express how these believers in other gods should be treated, but generally those are not very positive.
Assuming that those statements are all true, there are only two ways out:
- all religions are false - all religions but one are false.
As we don't want to discriminate against large groups of inhabitants of the world, the safest bet is that all religions are false. Q.E.D.
By including an "allow member of..." in the pool definition, and setting up some classes using "match if substring(option host-name,...)=...". (unfortunately the match syntax does not allow regular expressions, but it does have 'and' and 'or' so we just add up a lot of checks)
For many years, I have been running some simple scripts on a machine on the network that regularly reads out switch MAC tables using snmp. I also read router ARP tables this way. The result can be read from a webserver. IP address, MAC address, swichport and hostname are all conveniently grouped on a line. Knowing which switchport it is on, looking in the patch cabinet, I know on which wallsocket a suspicious device is, and a chart on the wall shows me in which room it is.
Of course the routers have access lists so invalid network addresses aren't routed, and the DHCP server checks if a hostname conforms to the company convention before assigning an address, Plugging in your home laptop yields you an alarm, not an address.
IE is not my reference browser. I have tried some things in CSS and done a lot of searching using google, but I have not been able to come up with a satisfactory solution using CSS (preferably 2.0 and not 2.1 as the example given)
The site is a basic 3-column variable-height fixed-width design. The height of the page is determined by the content of the 3 colums, but usually only the middle and right columns can influence the (minimum) height. Part of the content in the right column should align to the top, and one item aligns to the bottom. And below this 3 column part there is a footer area which spans the whole width.
I have not (yet) been able to align content in the right column to the bottom of the area taken up by the middle column, and still have more content below that. This is no problem with an oldfashioned table.
What I find troublesome is that you cannot have a single tablecell that has some content aligned to its top (e.g. some text, which partly fills the cell) and some other content aligned to its bottom. Often, people solve this by having another nested table in that cell. I would want to have two spans in the cell, and specify one to be aligned top and the other aligned bottom.
Our site had many nested tables as well... At first I tried to use a single table with some rowspan and colspan tricks, but it worked well in all browsers except IE. Apparently IE cannot handle tables that, for example, have on column with a rowspan=2 cell and a single cell, and in the next column a single cell and a rowspan=2 cell. Bummer.
So I changed all internal cells to use CSS for situations like this. I have not found a way to get rid of the single table that defines the overall layout of the site. So that table still remains, but it is simple.
CSS fanatics always claim that you should not use tables for layout, but I find that CSS lacks some basic features for alignment especially at the bottom edge of the content area, which are very simple to implement when using a table. Maybe this is why Microsoft calls the standard flawed...?
I work in the ICT department of the company. The communications department and the board contracted a company that developed a new house style, and that would include a website. That company in turn outsourced the website design and coding to yet another company. So my influence on this project was very limited. I could get them to use Apache+PHP and could provide some "you will have to fix this!" feedback after they sent a first version a week before switchover day. They provided the "finished" site 2 hours before the moment it had to go live.
If it were my decision, they would not have gotten away with this. But in fact I counted myself lucky that the contract included a full handover of everything they had produced and no obligation to go with them for any new developments...
That is certainly true! On the other hand, had Firefox not been there they would not have had a compatibility problem in the first place... there would be no IE7, and by the time Longhorn would come out with a new browser it would just support only "MSIE markup language" and no W3C standard *at all*...
Our website was built by a "website design bureau". We told them it had to be standard, so it would work on Mozilla as well. What they produced was an absolute mess. CSS boxes were built to IE handling, and rendered incorrectly on Mozilla, which they consistently referred to as "Mozarella". They believed all problems seen on Mozilla were Mozilla bugs, and they added browser detection and workarounds. Of course it still failed on Opera and Konqueror. They used an awful piece of Javascript to make dropdown menus.
When they were done, maintenance was handed over to me and I gradually changed all their work to make a standards-conformant site that still rendered the same way. It was a lot of work, starting from the dire state it was in. But finally, it renders OK and the menus work on most browsers without using javascript.
Exceptions: - CSS menu only works in IE by including csshover.htc (conditional inclusion using <!--[if IE]...). maybe IE7 will support:hover on list items? - IE4 and below don't quite cut it, fallback to javascript code using serverside UA string detect. these are dying anyway, probably I will remove this support when IE7 appears. - bug 234788 in GECKO means the menu disappears when mouse moves over scrollable text area. this bug has been fixed in GECKO but Mozilla and Firefox keep releasing new versions based on the broken GECKO for over a year.... We want Firefox 1.1 and Mozilla 1.8!!!
What I learnt: use a website design bureau only to make a site design. Don't allow them anywhere near HTML coding. They just use successive approximation towards the "browsers they test with", and try to impress managers with "browser utilisation percentages" instead of standards compliance.
"I don't use IE at all, but I'll test on it because I have to," said Web designer Donna Donohue, owner of Norwich, Conn.-based development firm KidoImages. "We code to standards to be compliant with Firefox, and then hack for IE."
Same for me. Our website uses standard CSS and it needs a hack (csshover.htc) to make it work on IE. Maybe IE7 no longer requires it, maybe it does. Who knows? Until then, the conditional stylesheet inclusion for IE has to remain there.
When you think the best solution to removing spyware and viruses is buy a new computer, you probably do no know about the existence of harddisks, formatting, or data security.
Of course, after the big uproar this caused some people have woken up.
A Dutch public prosecutor did exactly this. He bought a new computer after his old one got infested with malware and viruses. He put the old one out on the street as garbage.
That got very nasty. Ultimately it cost him his job, because confidential correspondence was leaked when someone picked it up and examined the disk.
In the end he was lucky not to be prosecuted himself, for having child pornography on the system. However, that set some nice precedence: apparently it is no problem to have something on your system when it has gotten there "unintentionally".
That is a very good question. My TV allows side-by-side display of two independent programmes, and you can select which of the two provides the sound (and output the other sound channel on the headphones), but still it is impractical to watch two programmes.
In the Netherlands, digital TV is being setup as a commercial parallel service to analog TV. It is meant to be a competitor to cable (but so far it is available only in about 1/3 of the country).
Being commercial, it requires a subscription to be paid, like for cable. Even for state TV and radio channels. Freely receivable signals are only analog.
This is bad for several reasons: it holds back adoption of digital reception, and it means that only a few channels are available so the streams are overly compressed and thus of bad quality. This is what we get for making everyting a competitive market.
Yes, I found that one already during my search... It is ok for 1TB but I continued looking further as it is quite expensive at this size. (5 or 8 smaller disks are more attractive)
That depends on what load you want to put on the server. I have been looking around for info to build such a thing. I'd like to have 1TB of raid-protected storage for a digital video recorder. Performance is not an issue, but I would like it to be quiet, lowpower, and not too big.
I have not yet decided between building a standalone "server" or just adding a lot of disks to my existing Linux box.
The company also updated its Windows Malicious Software Removal tool to add detections for variants of Wootbot, Optix, Optixpro, Hacty (also known as YYTHAC), and Prustiu (also known as Delf.FN).... and to reflect its intent to buy Claria, distributor of malicious software like Dashbar and Gator, by removing the detections for their products.
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Governments all over the world have more interest in multinational industry and commerce than in the wellbeing of individuals. Look how they keep a biased system like the patent system in place, while they do nothing about the spam problem.
It won't happen because it will put the current freon industry out of business.
You are not going to tell us that the use of freon is still allowed in the USA, aren't you??
How is GPS providing you with DST info? I would like to know if you have invented some way to do that!
GPS already has a hard time providing you with UTC time. GPS time is different from UTC, and the exact difference is often quite difficult to obtain from the receiver (depends on manufacturer and firmware version).
Times reported by GPS receivers are sometimes UTC, sometimes GPS time, and sometimes it is not even clear what they are.
Converting the GPS-calculated position to a timezone is very difficult (it at least requires a detailed description of the timezone borders, and those are not even constant). Providing DST information is even more difficult, as this article explains.
So please explain me (as the clever programmer you undoubtedly are, putting down your fellow programmers as stupid) how you are going to solve this with a GPS receiver.
Microsoft's system is not like zoneinfo, it is more like the oldfashioned TZ environment variable.
They can store only a single DST definition per timezone, they don't have the capability of setting a different DST definition per range of years that zoneinfo offers.
DST is already bad enough from an Orthodox Jewish perspective, because we our holidays and sabbaths start at nightfall
High latitudes must be bad from an Orthodox Jewish perspective as well!
Nightfall in the summer (depending on how you define it) routinely occurs as late as 10PM here. Go further north and night does not fall at all.
That is only for archaic systems.
Systems that had their timezone handling updated in the past decade use files in a zoneinfo directory, where the change can be made ahead of time and the old convention will be remembered. So, filedates that are valid now will remain valid after the change.
Europe changed DST handling in 1996. About the only OS giving problems was Windows 95. It does not understand about different DST conventions in different years, and worst: M$ did not know about that change and coded the old convention in Windows 95, released the august before. At that time the change was already widely publicized.
Linux distributions with modern Posix timezone handling made the change without manual intervention, as their tables were already updated before it actually happened.
you wrote "I consider all religions to be completely and obviously false, therefore all religions are cults."
The flaw in your reasoning is readily apparent: just because you can't or won't understand something doesn't mean that it's false.
Most religions educate their followers that their own religion is the only true religion and that all the others are false. They have different ways to express how these believers in other gods should be treated, but generally those are not very positive.
Assuming that those statements are all true, there are only two ways out:
- all religions are false
- all religions but one are false.
As we don't want to discriminate against large groups of inhabitants of the world, the safest bet is that all religions are false.
Q.E.D.
By including an "allow member of ..." in the pool definition, and setting up some classes using "match if substring(option host-name,...)=...".
(unfortunately the match syntax does not allow regular expressions, but it does have 'and' and 'or' so we just add up a lot of checks)
This is done using ISC DHCPD.
For many years, I have been running some simple scripts on a machine on the network that regularly reads out switch MAC tables using snmp. I also read router ARP tables this way.
The result can be read from a webserver. IP address, MAC address, swichport and hostname are all conveniently grouped on a line.
Knowing which switchport it is on, looking in the patch cabinet, I know on which wallsocket a suspicious device is, and a chart on the wall shows me in which room it is.
Of course the routers have access lists so invalid network addresses aren't routed, and the DHCP server checks if a hostname conforms to the company convention before assigning an address,
Plugging in your home laptop yields you an alarm, not an address.
IE is not my reference browser.
I have tried some things in CSS and done a lot of searching using google, but I have not been able to come up with a satisfactory solution using CSS (preferably 2.0 and not 2.1 as the example given)
The site is a basic 3-column variable-height fixed-width design. The height of the page is determined by the content of the 3 colums, but usually only the middle and right columns can influence the (minimum) height.
Part of the content in the right column should align to the top, and one item aligns to the bottom. And below this 3 column part there is a footer area which spans the whole width.
I have not (yet) been able to align content in the right column to the bottom of the area taken up by the middle column, and still have more content below that. This is no problem with an oldfashioned table.
What I find troublesome is that you cannot have a single tablecell that has some content aligned to its top (e.g. some text, which partly fills the cell) and some other content aligned to its bottom. Often, people solve this by having another nested table in that cell.
I would want to have two spans in the cell, and specify one to be aligned top and the other aligned bottom.
Our site had many nested tables as well...
At first I tried to use a single table with some rowspan and colspan tricks, but it worked well in all browsers except IE. Apparently IE cannot handle tables that, for example, have on column with a rowspan=2 cell and a single cell, and in the next column a single cell and a rowspan=2 cell. Bummer.
So I changed all internal cells to use CSS for situations like this. I have not found a way to get rid of the single table that defines the overall layout of the site. So that table still remains, but it is simple.
CSS fanatics always claim that you should not use tables for layout, but I find that CSS lacks some basic features for alignment especially at the bottom edge of the content area, which are very simple to implement when using a table.
Maybe this is why Microsoft calls the standard flawed...?
I work in the ICT department of the company. The communications department and the board contracted a company that developed a new house style, and that would include a website. That company in turn outsourced the website design and coding to yet another company.
So my influence on this project was very limited. I could get them to use Apache+PHP and could provide some "you will have to fix this!" feedback after they sent a first version a week before switchover day. They provided the "finished" site 2 hours before the moment it had to go live.
If it were my decision, they would not have gotten away with this. But in fact I counted myself lucky that the contract included a full handover of everything they had produced and no obligation to go with them for any new developments...
IE4 and below
That should have read: IE5 and below (IE5.5 is first version that works reasonably)
That is certainly true!
On the other hand, had Firefox not been there they would not have had a compatibility problem in the first place... there would be no IE7, and by the time Longhorn would come out with a new browser it would just support only "MSIE markup language" and no W3C standard *at all*...
Our website was built by a "website design bureau". We told them it had to be standard, so it would work on Mozilla as well.
:hover on list items?
What they produced was an absolute mess. CSS boxes were built to IE handling, and rendered incorrectly on Mozilla, which they consistently referred to as "Mozarella". They believed all problems seen on Mozilla were Mozilla bugs, and they added browser detection and workarounds.
Of course it still failed on Opera and Konqueror.
They used an awful piece of Javascript to make dropdown menus.
When they were done, maintenance was handed over to me and I gradually changed all their work to make a standards-conformant site that still rendered the same way. It was a lot of work, starting from the dire state it was in.
But finally, it renders OK and the menus work on most browsers without using javascript.
Exceptions:
- CSS menu only works in IE by including csshover.htc (conditional inclusion using <!--[if IE]...). maybe IE7 will support
- IE4 and below don't quite cut it, fallback to javascript code using serverside UA string detect. these are dying anyway, probably I will remove this support when IE7 appears.
- bug 234788 in GECKO means the menu disappears when mouse moves over scrollable text area. this bug has been fixed in GECKO but Mozilla and Firefox keep releasing new versions based on the broken GECKO for over a year.... We want Firefox 1.1 and Mozilla 1.8!!!
What I learnt: use a website design bureau only to make a site design. Don't allow them anywhere near HTML coding. They just use successive approximation towards the "browsers they test with", and try to impress managers with "browser utilisation percentages" instead of standards compliance.
"I don't use IE at all, but I'll test on it because I have to," said Web designer Donna Donohue, owner of Norwich, Conn.-based development firm KidoImages. "We code to standards to be compliant with Firefox, and then hack for IE."
Same for me. Our website uses standard CSS and it needs a hack (csshover.htc) to make it work on IE. Maybe IE7 no longer requires it, maybe it does. Who knows?
Until then, the conditional stylesheet inclusion for IE has to remain there.
When you think the best solution to removing spyware and viruses is buy a new computer, you probably do no know about the existence of harddisks, formatting, or data security.
Of course, after the big uproar this caused some people have woken up.
throw out the computer and buy a new one.
A Dutch public prosecutor did exactly this. He bought a new computer after his old one got infested with malware and viruses. He put the old one out on the street as garbage.
That got very nasty. Ultimately it cost him his job, because confidential correspondence was leaked when someone picked it up and examined the disk.
In the end he was lucky not to be prosecuted himself, for having child pornography on the system. However, that set some nice precedence: apparently it is no problem to have something on your system when it has gotten there "unintentionally".
That is a very good question. My TV allows side-by-side display of two independent programmes, and you can select which of the two provides the sound (and output the other sound channel on the headphones), but still it is impractical to watch two programmes.
In the Netherlands, digital TV is being setup as a commercial parallel service to analog TV. It is meant to be a competitor to cable (but so far it is available only in about 1/3 of the country).
Being commercial, it requires a subscription to be paid, like for cable. Even for state TV and radio channels. Freely receivable signals are only analog.
This is bad for several reasons: it holds back adoption of digital reception, and it means that only a few channels are available so the streams are overly compressed and thus of bad quality.
This is what we get for making everyting a competitive market.
No, I am looking for a lowcost NAS box that uses 250 or 300 GB IDE disks in a small enclosure.
The Buffalo unit is close to what I want.
Video recording (at current resolution) requires about 500-600 kbyte/s and very few file opens, so no impressive performance is needed.
Yes, I found that one already during my search...
It is ok for 1TB but I continued looking further as it is quite expensive at this size.
(5 or 8 smaller disks are more attractive)
That depends on what load you want to put on the server.
I have been looking around for info to build such a thing. I'd like to have 1TB of raid-protected storage for a digital video recorder. Performance is not an issue, but I would like it to be quiet, lowpower, and not too big.
I have not yet decided between building a standalone "server" or just adding a lot of disks to my existing Linux box.
The company also updated its Windows Malicious Software Removal tool to add detections for variants of Wootbot, Optix, Optixpro, Hacty (also known as YYTHAC), and Prustiu (also known as Delf.FN). ... and to reflect its intent to buy Claria, distributor of malicious software like Dashbar and Gator, by removing the detections for their products.