As a follow-up to my own post (yes, yes, poor form), someone has done a little analysis of the aforementioned crash log and points out some of the more interesting bits.
It looks like it really is OS X. John Gruber posted a Mail.app (actually called MobileMail.app on the iPhone) crash log that reveals all sorts of interesting about the filesystem layout, including the existence of/Applications,/System/Library/Frameworks,/usr/lib, and so on. MobileMail is using sqlite for storage, apparently.
I'm a big proponent of allowing editing or deletion of comments up until the comment is moderated or replied to. That gives people a window to edit their posts if they need to but solves the trolling problem.
So no big loss if I don't have visual voice mail (like I need to see you when you're rambling for an hour into a networked recording device).
You misunderstand what "visual voicemail" is. It has nothing to do with video, but means that you can browse your voice mail messages visually via the phone interface, giving you random access to them rather than the sequential access you normally have. So people who keep all their voicemail can pick one out of the bunch by simply scrolling to it instead of whatever kludgy audio keypad-based navigation they normally have when they dial into their carrier's VM system.
You're both right. Cingular will unlock a phone upon request after 90 days of service. T-Mobile has the same policy. I don't know what AT&T's pre-Cingular policy was.
I'm pretty sure that site belongs to the victim in this case. I doubt an identity thief would attempt to start a business under a fraudulent name, they usually stick to expensive clothing, electronics, and internet pornography.
I can't speak for "the new AT&T", but Cingular had a pretty fair unlocking policy: They'll give you your unlock code after 90 days of service. I don't expect this will change with the iPhone, as people will still need to use them outside the US (albeit without the fancy visual voicemail or other Cingular-specific stuff).
I have installed it to find within five pages of clicking I have had it crash already.
Hence "beta".
I know the "beta" label doesn't mean much in this post-web 2.0 world, but there was once a time when it was used to refer to software that was mostly finished, but still had features missing and -- *gasp* -- bugs, sometimes even crash-inducing ones. You might prefer waiting until the official release is available, as it will surely run better.
If they start using Safari they will almost certainly, and quickly, come across web sites that render wrong in any non-IE browser.
Mac users seem to get by ok, as well as people who use Firefox on Windows. Where are all these web sites that only work with IE?
There are some out there, sure, but it's hardly the problem that people make it out to be. It's been literally years since I last used a web site that didn't work in Firefox. I got my parents using Firefox at least two years ago and they've not once complained about this to me. Odds are, this is a problem most people will never see, regardless of which browser they use.
It's actually pretty easy to spider for Wordpress sites and check their version number. By default, most WP sites have a line like this in the page header: <meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.2"/>
Wordpress is only a pain to update if you're modifying the core files. Make customiztions the way you're supposed to, via plugins and a custom theme (and no, modifying 'default' doesn't count if you don't copy and rename it) and updates are quick and painless.
I maintain four WP sites and have never had trouble updating any of them. Download and untar the latest release, copy the directory tree over the existing files, test, and upload to the live site (assuming you're doing this on a development site). I updated three sites to 2.2 the other day in about 15 minutes, including testing and updating the production sites.
Someone else mentioned hosted Wordpress blogs at wordpress.com and there's also TypePad. TypePad isn't free, but it's inexpensive, and it also supports domain name customization so the blog can be accessible at her own domain name while still being hosted and managed elsewhere.
Most of your replies have focused on advertising in RSS feeds. Yes, they can put ads in your feeds if you want them, but that's not all they do. They also provide lots of tools for people publishing via RSS, tools like a RSS->e-mail gateway for people who don't use RSS readers, statistics on your subscribers, and lots of other stuff. I'm using them for three feeds and don't have ads in any of them.
The important thing to realize here is that you're not donating anything. Amazon is donating, in the form of the referral credit they're paying for the sale of a book to you. You pay the same amount regardless. This is how affilate programs work.
A) HELO/EHLO information is user-defined and therefore doesn't need to match anything else in the header. B) Earthlink bought Mindspring nearly ten years ago. They are the same company. (hint: try 'whois mindspring.com') C) Even if the HELO information could be trusted, and Earthlink and Mindspring were not affiliated, there's still nothing wrong with what you're seeing here. Why couldn't a laptop that normally uses one service send an e-mail from another service?
Well, as you point out, the info in the HELO/EHLO is user-supplied, so typos, or the absence of, in this information doesn't really have anything to do with how "legit" something is. Someone who names their Windows laptop "NewLapTop" is likely someone who would mistype "earthlink.net".
Anyway, I don't think he was claiming that the HELO info made it look legit, but was simply using that as a reference (ie, to note that it was probably someone's laptop). The IP addressing and SMTP server identified the source of the message as an Earthlink/Mindspring business customer (42.133.37.65.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer user-10ib19a.biz.mindspring.com.).
How do I know Opera doesn't use it to log into my gmail account? I can watch whats going in and out of my ethernet and wireless card, but even so opera could be using some undocumented "feature" of a closed-source operating system to make sure I don't see it.
I find it curious that you're this impassioned about your choice of web browsers yet you continue to use a closed-source operating system.
Interestingly, in the mid-'90s I shared a three bedroom house with a lesbian couple and we were looking to rent out the remaining unused bedroom. The local paper refused to run our ad, saying it was discriminatory. The problem wording? "Predominantly gay household". We didn't care about the orientation of our renter (I'm straight, myself) and didn't say anything about that in the ad. We simply felt that interviewing people who would have a problem with the living situation would be a waste of time, both for us and them. Better to be up-front about it so people who didn't approve wouldn't bother calling.
Our solution was to tell the paper to fuck off and ran the ad in a more reasonable one. Yay competition.
Interestingly, in the mid-'90s I shared a three bedroom house with a lesbian couple and we were looking to rent out the remaining unused bedroom. The local paper refused to run our ad, saying it was discriminatory. The problem wording? "Predominantly gay household". We didn't care about the orientation of our renter (I'm straight, myself) and didn't say anything about that in the ad. We simply felt that interviewing people who would have a problem with the living situation would be a waste of time, both for us and them. Better to be up-front about it so people who didn't approve wouldn't bother calling.
Our solution was to tell the paper to fuck off and ran the ad in a more reasonable one. Yay competition.
Sorry, I missed the part where he said he was riding on the sidewalk or riding through the crosswalk at "high speed". Hell, he didn't even say he was riding in the crosswalk at all. Your criticism is based on assumptions you are making yourself.
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And I hear Cingular bought their new slogan "More bars in more places" from the city of Portland.
That would be 93rd st, then?
As a follow-up to my own post (yes, yes, poor form), someone has done a little analysis of the aforementioned crash log and points out some of the more interesting bits.
It looks like it really is OS X. John Gruber posted a Mail.app (actually called MobileMail.app on the iPhone) crash log that reveals all sorts of interesting about the filesystem layout, including the existence of /Applications, /System/Library/Frameworks, /usr/lib, and so on. MobileMail is using sqlite for storage, apparently.
I'm a big proponent of allowing editing or deletion of comments up until the comment is moderated or replied to. That gives people a window to edit their posts if they need to but solves the trolling problem.
You misunderstand what "visual voicemail" is. It has nothing to do with video, but means that you can browse your voice mail messages visually via the phone interface, giving you random access to them rather than the sequential access you normally have. So people who keep all their voicemail can pick one out of the bunch by simply scrolling to it instead of whatever kludgy audio keypad-based navigation they normally have when they dial into their carrier's VM system.
From http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
You're both right. Cingular will unlock a phone upon request after 90 days of service. T-Mobile has the same policy. I don't know what AT&T's pre-Cingular policy was.
Wow, reading some of the comments on this story make me fall down on my knees and thank $DIETY that I don't work in a big corporation.
I'm pretty sure that site belongs to the victim in this case. I doubt an identity thief would attempt to start a business under a fraudulent name, they usually stick to expensive clothing, electronics, and internet pornography.
You appear to be exactly right.
I can't speak for "the new AT&T", but Cingular had a pretty fair unlocking policy: They'll give you your unlock code after 90 days of service. I don't expect this will change with the iPhone, as people will still need to use them outside the US (albeit without the fancy visual voicemail or other Cingular-specific stuff).
Hence "beta".
I know the "beta" label doesn't mean much in this post-web 2.0 world, but there was once a time when it was used to refer to software that was mostly finished, but still had features missing and -- *gasp* -- bugs, sometimes even crash-inducing ones. You might prefer waiting until the official release is available, as it will surely run better.
Mac users seem to get by ok, as well as people who use Firefox on Windows. Where are all these web sites that only work with IE?
There are some out there, sure, but it's hardly the problem that people make it out to be. It's been literally years since I last used a web site that didn't work in Firefox. I got my parents using Firefox at least two years ago and they've not once complained about this to me. Odds are, this is a problem most people will never see, regardless of which browser they use.
It's actually pretty easy to spider for Wordpress sites and check their version number. By default, most WP sites have a line like this in the page header: />
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.2"
Wordpress is only a pain to update if you're modifying the core files. Make customiztions the way you're supposed to, via plugins and a custom theme (and no, modifying 'default' doesn't count if you don't copy and rename it) and updates are quick and painless.
I maintain four WP sites and have never had trouble updating any of them. Download and untar the latest release, copy the directory tree over the existing files, test, and upload to the live site (assuming you're doing this on a development site). I updated three sites to 2.2 the other day in about 15 minutes, including testing and updating the production sites.
Someone else mentioned hosted Wordpress blogs at wordpress.com and there's also TypePad. TypePad isn't free, but it's inexpensive, and it also supports domain name customization so the blog can be accessible at her own domain name while still being hosted and managed elsewhere.
Most of your replies have focused on advertising in RSS feeds. Yes, they can put ads in your feeds if you want them, but that's not all they do. They also provide lots of tools for people publishing via RSS, tools like a RSS->e-mail gateway for people who don't use RSS readers, statistics on your subscribers, and lots of other stuff. I'm using them for three feeds and don't have ads in any of them.
The important thing to realize here is that you're not donating anything. Amazon is donating, in the form of the referral credit they're paying for the sale of a book to you. You pay the same amount regardless. This is how affilate programs work.
What's wrong with that?
A) HELO/EHLO information is user-defined and therefore doesn't need to match anything else in the header.
B) Earthlink bought Mindspring nearly ten years ago. They are the same company. (hint: try 'whois mindspring.com')
C) Even if the HELO information could be trusted, and Earthlink and Mindspring were not affiliated, there's still nothing wrong with what you're seeing here. Why couldn't a laptop that normally uses one service send an e-mail from another service?
Well, as you point out, the info in the HELO/EHLO is user-supplied, so typos, or the absence of, in this information doesn't really have anything to do with how "legit" something is. Someone who names their Windows laptop "NewLapTop" is likely someone who would mistype "earthlink.net".
Anyway, I don't think he was claiming that the HELO info made it look legit, but was simply using that as a reference (ie, to note that it was probably someone's laptop). The IP addressing and SMTP server identified the source of the message as an Earthlink/Mindspring business customer (42.133.37.65.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer user-10ib19a.biz.mindspring.com.).
I find it curious that you're this impassioned about your choice of web browsers yet you continue to use a closed-source operating system.
(oops, posted this in the wrong thread)
Interestingly, in the mid-'90s I shared a three bedroom house with a lesbian couple and we were looking to rent out the remaining unused bedroom. The local paper refused to run our ad, saying it was discriminatory. The problem wording? "Predominantly gay household". We didn't care about the orientation of our renter (I'm straight, myself) and didn't say anything about that in the ad. We simply felt that interviewing people who would have a problem with the living situation would be a waste of time, both for us and them. Better to be up-front about it so people who didn't approve wouldn't bother calling.
Our solution was to tell the paper to fuck off and ran the ad in a more reasonable one. Yay competition.
Interestingly, in the mid-'90s I shared a three bedroom house with a lesbian couple and we were looking to rent out the remaining unused bedroom. The local paper refused to run our ad, saying it was discriminatory. The problem wording? "Predominantly gay household". We didn't care about the orientation of our renter (I'm straight, myself) and didn't say anything about that in the ad. We simply felt that interviewing people who would have a problem with the living situation would be a waste of time, both for us and them. Better to be up-front about it so people who didn't approve wouldn't bother calling.
Our solution was to tell the paper to fuck off and ran the ad in a more reasonable one. Yay competition.
Sorry, I missed the part where he said he was riding on the sidewalk or riding through the crosswalk at "high speed". Hell, he didn't even say he was riding in the crosswalk at all. Your criticism is based on assumptions you are making yourself.