neylitalo

The age of the technology has little to do with it. I see no advantage to NOT having a SIM card over having a SIM card; perhaps you can enlighten me as to why SIM cards are bad?

Godaddy sucks. Cute FTP owns. That may well be, but we need you to qualify that. Why does Godaddy suck, and why does Cute FTP "own"?

For the non-*nix users here, the title of this thread, loosely translated, means "rename 'gaim' to 'pidgin'". Which is exactly what is happening as a result of AOL's copyright claims on the term "AIM". The Project Formerly Known As Gaim will now be housed at www.pidgin.im, and we'll finally see the release of 2.0.0 Final within the week. The whole story is in the top-most article at www.pidgin.im.

Put this line in a file named .htaccess in the directory you want to prohibit file listings for. Options -Indexes

What do you mean by "whois privacy control"?

Ron, he wants to compress his entire framework into one file; that would work from a "does it work" point of view, but wouldn't solve the problem. Mark: Most frameworks are usually a pretty good size, and I'm guessing yours is no exception - this file might end up being several megabytes. And we all know that byte-compiled and encoded PHP scripts aren't locked down very tightly. We do something rather unique with our framework at my place of employment, and it works very well. I don't know how well this will work for you, or if it's financially possible, but it could be something to think about. Any time a client wants to take advantage of our framework, we require that their website be hosted on our servers. We keep all of our servers in-house and are connected to a very reliable pipe that we share with a few other companies. We handle all of the DNS services, database storage and backup, and every thing else that comes with running a reliable server. This allows us complete control over the framework and the environment, and we use a subversion repository to make upgrades and modifications simple. There's a bit of overhead for such an operation, of course, so if you decide to go with it, that's something you'll have to figure out.

Well sure, if you don't take breaks. In the summers, when I'm pulling real shifts at the office, I take a five minute break every two hours, and a half hour for lunch.

No, most of those are subdomains, probably completely out of Google's control.

Those are actually not bad ideas. We'll see what the admins have to say about this.

I always check out www.thinkgeek.com on April 1 for their collection of just-for-fun April Fool's products. This is, by far, the most elaborate April Fool's I've ever seen.

I ran across them many years ago and haven't thought of switching since.

If it's not about the money, you'd do much better to give ace-host.net 7 USD a month and get infinitely better service. A free web host is going to pepper your website with ads, provide low quality service, and offer next to nothing in the way of tech support.

The router has a built-in switch, so if you just plug the internet into one of the LAN ports on the router, the computers will get their IP addresses from the cable/DSL modem/router.

The Gentoo package repository (Portage) has had Flash 9 since October 19, 2006, albeit in a beta form. As of Jan 17, 2007, the stable Flash 9 was in the Portage tree, and the Gentoo developers are usually about two weeks slow in adding packages to the tree. Flash of any version is only available for x86, although you can use it on amd64 via a pre-compiled 32-bit binary of your favorite browser.

I'm a fan of dyndns.com. As well as providing free DNS services (you get assigned a subdomain), they let you buy full-featured DNS service with your own domain name, and you can point the domain at whatever host you want.

The Flash 9 player is indeed finished for Linux, maybe they're creating another one specially for Apollo? I'm worried about the web's migration to Flash layouts and websites. I'm not quite sure that the world is ready for it, with a solid amount of people still on dialup and with computers that may not be able to handle it. Or maybe this is the thing that will prompt people to upgrade their internet service and buy a better computer? At any rate, this does look like something that might have a big role in the future.

Correct. For example, my SMS email address is 11234567890@mobile.celloneusa.com, where 123-456-7890 is my phone number. The first 1 is the USA country code. I, personally, love this - spammers need to know both your mobile phone number, and your service provider.

I've never tried the recovery console, the only thing I've ever tried was the "Repair this Windows installation" option, and that's what my comment above is referring to - apologies for any confusion. (Am I correct in that you cannot just Repair a Windows XP Home installation with an XP Pro disc, or am I way off the mark?) And regarding Microsoft's tech support in the US: I'm not a fan of Microsoft, their software, or their business strategies, but their tech support is top-notch. In all other cases, I dread calling tech support, but Microsoft has made the tech support experience pleasant again.

You will not be able to fix a Windows XP Home installation using your Windows XP Pro CD, and you will run into activation issues if you do a fresh install. If you install XP Pro in his computer, you'll need to call Microsoft and go through their telephone activation process (very quick, usually takes about five mins), and explain to them that you've uninstalled it from the original computer and installed it on the new one. If you haven't actually uninstalled it, don't worry - they can't, or don't, check. I've done it several times. :x As for making the actual transfer, in section 4 of Microsoft's Windows XP Professional EULA, it is specified that the owner of the Windows XP Pro license may make a one-time transfer to a third party, under these terms: So, technically, and to make it easier on everybody, you'll need/want to give him the sticker from your case. (Remove it carefully, or at least write down the key and make sure your friend puts it in a safe place.) All it takes is the above-mentioned call to Microsoft and typing an activation key, and your friend should be good to go. You should know that they will ask you what happened, and will ask you how many computers it's installed on. Attached is a PDF of the full Microsoft Windows XP EULA. [attachment deleted by admin]

We shouldn't give them the satisfaction. We're only encouraging them to keep it up. And I looked at that PDF - their entire argument is based on a notion that the internet is a medium identical to printed books.

For some odd reason, when I see a URL in a "worst site ever" thread, I don't feel the need to follow the link. To stick to the subject, I think that you can only go so far down the hole before a bad website is nothing more than a bad website. Once it gets bad enough, there isn't really a way to quantify how poor a website is. If I were a betting man, though, I would say that myspace is the home of the world's worst websites.

I don't support this idea, for two reasons. 1) Business relationships are (or should be) strictly between the employer and the employee/contractor. I know that my employer wouldn't want me putting my project details on the internet, and they certainly wouldn't want me discussing my earnings with other people. They even often tell me that the project details are to be kept within the team, and it's been understood without mention from the start that my earnings are private. 2) You'll never be a successful businessperson if you don't learn what your skills are worth and how to get the most compensation for the work you're capable of. It's not something that you can be taught, you have to figure it out. (This is, for the most part, an opinion.)

Yes, that is a crucial aspect of a database abstraction library, but if you'll notice, cmgmyr was not out to create a database abstraction library. He says "MySQL class", which leads me to believe that he's not going to be using it with a postgres/sqlite/etc. database.

I suggest you get a GSM provider. CDMA providers, such as Nextel, make you purchase everything through them. If the phone breaks, or you want a new one, as you've found out, you need to buy it from them. GSM providers, on the other hand, only require that you buy a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card from them, and then you can put it in whatever GSM-capable phone you want. For example, I've had a GSM service provider (Dobson/Cellular One) for two years, and have had three different phones, one of which is only sold in the Middle East/Asia/Oceania markets. Every single one of them has been purchased from eBay. You also have a considerable advantage with GSM phones when it comes to making software modifications and firmware upgrades. CDMA providers often load their phones with their own custom firmware and software, and make it very difficult to change internal settings. With GSM, you can just buy a phone directly from the manufacturer, and make whatever modifications you want. The most popular US GSM providers are Cingular and T-Mobile.

It's what I do for a living, so I'd better be able to put in a solid amount of time.