I kept getting the flash detection message at IR's site and just told it to go away - it doesn't seem to do anything useful..
Today however I *had* to finally succumb and download it just to view a design brief at Fairchild's site.
Graham
SNIP
time
Firefox seems to do a decent job in surpressing obnoxious flash
Wim
Idiot employers hiring hot-shot script kiddies at exorbitant wages to do fancy-schmancy bullshit.
IOW, people who have more money than sense. ("If you're so rich, howcome you're not smart?")
-- The Pig Bladder from Uranus
PING
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"Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference
is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more
durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it."
(Stephen Leacock)
E-mail them and ask for the info to be sent as a cross-platform attachment, politely explaining why.
If people keep putting them to a lot of trouble, they might realise their website isn't working and give the IT whizz-kids (and their ignorant managers) a kick in the appropriate place.
-- ~ Adrian Tuddenham ~ (Remove the ".invalid"s and add ".co.uk" to reply) www.poppyrecords.co.uk
Damn! I was gonna say, "Sure you can," but this happened: $ traceroute
To be honest, I don't even know what this means, other than to get there, you have to go halfway around the world and back.
Thanks, Rich
"They say 'the early bird gets the worm'. This is fine if you like worms for breakast."
So?! We happily conclude that *This Time* your pings were forwarded by a network that does forward Pings; Will that be the case tomorrow or next week or maybe the next five minutes?
Either you can reach the damn thing or you cannot - but it does not tell you anything because you cannot see what goes on inbetween.
Uhhmm I almost responed to Rich's previous post but didn't think it mattered.
I did a trace route to Zetex from here. In mine, a different list ensued, but I got to the same place where his trace died (his last item in uk) but in mine I got to one more next item in the trace -- the Zetex site -- end of trace.
So, I think clearly, Rich pointed out one example where Zetex really did not exist.
I guess the site is not always available.
Exactly ;-)
That you have no control over the traffic flow; the only thing you know is that when you throw it out of your box, it will magically appear in the right place on the other box ;-)
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It is a subject that is really fanning the flames between the "Old" connection-oriented Telecom world, where the path was known, agreed upon and specified in advance, and the "New & Improved All-IP" package-oriented Telecom world:
There is NO control over the insides of an IP network, only at the endpoints and only in the nodes, you actually "own" with management software(z). Therefore, You need to have Enough Bandwith, Always.
Telco's do not like to overprovision, there are entire branches of mathematics and queue theory lined up to calculate how much one can skimp on the network - problem is, they were developed for connection-oriented networks!
Consequently, Many, Many tools and techniques, such as IntServ, MPLS and DiffServ, exist to bloody well force an IP network into becoming a virtual circuit switched one - And most end up causing more CPU/RAM to be spend on Management and Provisioning than on The JOB, which is moving traffic!
When the old telecom engineers finally retire, the issues will be resolved. Until then we will still see f.ex. routers shipping with 60MB of "Management" bloatware and Quad P4's to run it on, to control about 6 MB worth of "Package Handling" - i.e. products that exactly mimic corporate structures ;-)
On a good day, what's your connection speed?
You must love AdBlock and FlashBlock. Have you got any other useful tricks?
The crap-free sites that are specifically for handhelds save some folks with slow connections a bit of frustration:
Everything takesw longer on the net now, im in a remote area with only a pots dialup line and everything would be much faster if it was all in text. ..pdfs are a particular problem by the time its loaded the lines dropped!
-- dd
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