Freelancers Forum Messages on Saturday January 25th 2003
Re: FN-FORUM Internet Down
date posted 25th January 2003 23:52
perhaps because they try to at least inbuild a certain level of security in
them?
its only recently with the advent of 'trustworthy computing' and the various
gripes techies have always had with M$ t...
RE: FN-FORUM anyone fancy a .mil domain?
date posted 25th January 2003 23:51
It took 30 seconds
https://www.nafi.navy.mil
but the "U.S. Government Computer System Warning and Disclaimers" is
enough to put me off having a go. -even if I were to use several
anonymisers.
/Rob...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] RFID's (was Radar Detectors)
date posted 25th January 2003 23:38
> Sorry Dave, could you explain RFID for the dunce of the class?
http://www.frost.com/prod/news.nsf/3fcc3449277e0b738025695d006cfe7f/bcb486b1
75ea6eac65256b6e001a317f?OpenDocument
i came across them...
anyone fancy a .mil domain?
date posted 25th January 2003 23:27
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/29026.html
hahahahahaha, this a few days after rumsfeld declared a lock on secure
information popping up on military sites...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 23:23
I find it impossible to ignore anything that is around my car - I thinks
it's very important to be aware of everything within a short distance of the
car. That's half the problem with a lot of people...
Re: FN-FORUM PHP session problems
date posted 25th January 2003 23:22
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Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 23:21
Unfortunately, if they hit you, you're at fault.
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Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 23:15
You got me
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Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 23:14
I started using the handbrake and that got me off the line way before normal
people. I was just pointing out that I don't think it's a calm set of
people out there, just that their hardware encourage...
Re: FN-FORUM PHP session problems
date posted 25th January 2003 23:08
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Re: FN-FORUM Internet Down
date posted 25th January 2003 23:06
Why not point the finger at the people who actually DO the hacking?
As I said recently on thsi forum, we don't level a fnger at the guys who
write Apache or the relevant module of Unix / Linux / VMS...
Re: FN-FORUM Internet Down
date posted 25th January 2003 22:57
Joe Pritchard wrote:
> Hard to blame Bill....
It gets easier everytime it happens
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Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 21:41
Oh blimey I think we're both tipsy!
I am saying that in my 30 road it is usually dangerous to cross by foot,
so when I see a serious speeder on it I get seriously wound up,
whaever my mode of transpo...
Re: FN-FORUM RE: Grep for windows (was radar detectors, etc)
date posted 25th January 2003 20:29
Quoting Richard Parratt [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > but: is there a grep for windows?"
> FIND & FINDSTR do the same from the command line.
>
> If you need a full grep, cygwin includes grep - need to have...
PHP session problems
date posted 25th January 2003 20:05
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RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 19:58
Ah....but your talking about being on foot rather than in a car and pulling
out on anther road user rather than a pedestrian. From memory (kinda rusty
now) pedestrians have the right of way, but, are...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 19:55
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> I...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 19:54
Ignore them - it's their problem, unless you are
causing an obstruction.
I had a convoy of police motorcyclists doing just this
on my tail (in a car) once, which surprised me, and
I had every right t...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 19:50
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Re: FN-FORUM Internet Down
date posted 25th January 2003 19:38
Ah ha thats why blueyonder broadband has been so bad today I assume,
browsing was crawling earlier, alot of sites not working at all, seems ok
now tho. They were reporting it as a nationwide fault, gu...
RE: Grep for windows (was radar detectors, etc)
date posted 25th January 2003 18:28
> "I can't be bothered to google, and don't want to go and look
> on phpresource index, hotscripts, sourceforge, freshmeat, tucows etc
> but: is there a grep for windows?"
Windows Explorer will find...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 17:02
The great thing about the "average speed over a fixed distance" is that it
gets around the problem someone mentioned of accelerating to overtake
safely, putting you temporarily over the speed limit....
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:45
> > > driving with undue care and attention
>
> > Doesn't that mean too much care and attention?
>
> I didn't think it sounded right when I wrote it, but I seem to remember
> that it's the name of t...
RE: FN-FORUM Tablet PC
date posted 25th January 2003 16:37
No, I've read the reviews and tested several BUT which one is the best, I
don't know! I've decided to wait a couple of months and let the market
settle down....
If you buy one let me know the details...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:25
> The other way to look at this is the number of wing mirrors
> (two in 5 years) I've lost from bikes coming through on my right.
Despite over a year of constant commuting up and down the M6 from
Ca...
Re: FN-FORUM site outage
date posted 25th January 2003 16:08
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2693925.stm
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RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> A lot of the time it's not your driving that's the problem,
> it's somebody else's.
Absolutely. There's a rule that I follow, and it's very frequently
proven to me: Always assume that everyone el...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> i've yet to work out why the hell speed limiters aren't
> placed in cars - we have the tech.
Because the government have something far more nefarious in mind.
Norwich Union, I believe, are starti...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> I've always maintained that the presence of cameras does more
> to promote erratic driving than anything - so many times I've
> been behind cars that suddenly stamp on their brakes because
> they...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> They're pretty much all automatic in the US - taking your
> foot off the brake and putting your foot on the accelerator
> (gently so as not to jerk off the
> line) takes about two seconds so it lo...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> > driving with undue care and attention
> Doesn't that mean too much care and attention?
I didn't think it sounded right when I wrote it, but I seem to remember
that it's the name of the offence....
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> Again, something on TV but this time I think it was Quentin
> Wilson, referring to some road in Scotland (I think), where
> they've put speed cameras on a big wide road:
Big wide roads should nev...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> My car is a 1.6 litre turbo - it'll do 0-60 in less than 7
> seconds and 140mph. This is before any modifications that
> could push it to over 200bhp.
Lotus Elan?
> There are cars out there tha...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> >Because it would be an expensive failure
>
> doesnt have to be - michelin are about to start placing
> RFID's into every tyre, these are going to be very cheap
> cheaps to build in mass producti...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> i caused some eyebrows to be raised whern i gave my views on
> what should be done to drink drivers.
>
> screw a trial, they're guilty. unless they can at the scene
> come up with some really goo...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> Darran said...
>
> >When was the last time you saw a speed camera outside a
> primary school?
>
> Couple of days ago.
>
> Where... about a mile away from where I live. Primary school
> on a hil...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 16:06
> Driver Education. Poor handling of cars at any speed is the
> killer. I've seen people loose control at 40 mph in bad road
> conditions. Educate drivers how to use speed properly.
> Encourage...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 15:40
Good point....
You can see why I'm a software person and not a hardware person!
Joe
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RE: FN-FORUM More beautiful designs
date posted 25th January 2003 15:38
OK Theresa, here's a list.
These aren't perfrect sites (many use fixed-small fonts) but they meet the
criteria: both EASY and PLEASANT to use. Enjoy.
: )B
http://www.communic8.com.au/
http://www.a...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 15:37
The other way to look at this is the number of wing mirrors (two in 5 years)
I've lost from bikes coming through on my right.
And as for bikes coming through on my left......
Fortunately I'm one of...
Re: FN-FORUM Internet Down
date posted 25th January 2003 15:32
Hard to blame Bill....
I still believe that the biggest Internet closedown in proprtionate terms
was the one in the 1980s when that student exploited a series of problems in
Unix Sendmail....
At tha...
RE: FN-FORUM Internet Down
date posted 25th January 2003 15:10
This is the MS patch if anyone needs it
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=DCFD
CBE9-B4EB-4446-9BE7-2DE45CFA6A89
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Tablet PC
date posted 25th January 2003 13:27
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RE: FN-FORUM Internet Down
date posted 25th January 2003 13:13
> If any of you are experiencing problems accessing sites it's because that
> most of the large US networks are down because of what seems to be another
> DDoS attack on the root servers.
>
More info...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 13:05
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> If no one could exceed the speed limit, zero income from speed cameras...so
> the government wouldn't allow it.
That's about as ridiculous observation as I'...
RE: FN-FORUM site outage
date posted 25th January 2003 12:58
>can't find dabs.co.uk and dell.co.uk
Sounds like a benefit!, dabs are a bunch of cowboys....
RE: FN-FORUM Internet Down
date posted 25th January 2003 12:47
Its that bill gates again !
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/01/25/internet.attack.ap/index.html
...The virus-like attack, which began about 12:30 a.m. EST, sought out
vulnerable computers on...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 12:40
> Oh yeah, and watch out for drivers using stop watches too ;-)
LOL, ok someone else did the timing for me!...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 11:58
>>Marc(CBR900RR)
Ahh.....a blade man.....they bring back fond memories....my last bike was a
6 ninja
Regards
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RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 11:58
If no one could exceed the speed limit, zero income from speed cameras...so
the government wouldn't allow it.
Car manufacturers won't want it, as they will struggle to market cars to all
the boy race...
Re: FN-FORUM V.Simple Flash problem
date posted 25th January 2003 11:57
I'm not a flash guy, but I would think that /window.html will point to a
file window.html located in the root of your web server (see the slash?).
So, don't use / if you want it to point to the file i...
RE: FN-FORUM site outage
date posted 25th January 2003 11:41
Don't know if this is anything to do with it but I think there has been a
DOS attack and I know for sure that Verio UK have lost connectivity since
around 6.30 AM and ALL Verio UK sites are down.
Reg...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 11:36
Darren Spink wrote.......
>the thing that normally annoys car drivers is the "Filtering"
>that bikers do through heavy traffic
Tell me about it! I have lost count of the number of times car drivers...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 11:33
Well I don't agree with you in principle, a burst of speed to get out of
some tossers way is handy but perhaps my example is not quite correct.
Some other reasons against speed limiters.
- How would...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 11:25
>The initial problem with speed limiters I can see if quite simple, if
>you saw a car heading towards you ready to sideswipe you would not be
>able to put the foot down and avoid it.
hence why i said...
Re: FN-FORUM site outage
date posted 25th January 2003 11:10
can't find dabs.co.uk and dell.co.uk
Dave
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RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 11:05
Dave,
I am in favour of a mandatory ban for 3 years for the first offence of drink
driving, a second offence would disqualify you for life from driving.
The thing that most people overlook (politicia...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 11:04
Raymond Stone wrote:
> The only problem was (and I checked this later) was that you only had 9
> seconds warning that the road changed speed, the first sign was round a
> wide bend and the road remai...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 11:00
>If there is a speed limit set (ie less than the national
>limit) and anyone is breaking it, I have no problem
>with them having someone pulling out on them as if they
>were adhering to the limit.
Ca...
RE: FN-FORUM Internet Down
date posted 25th January 2003 11:00
Thanks for letting us know, where did you here about this?
Mike
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Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 10:50
They're pretty much all automatic in the US - taking your foot off the brake
and putting your foot on the accelerator (gently so as not to jerk off the
line) takes about two seconds so it looks a lot...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 10:50
Or talk to a passenger whilst looking at them?
Dave
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Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 10:50
'Responsibly' and 'within the speed limits' are in no way linked.
Dave
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Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 10:50
My car is a 1.6 litre turbo - it'll do 0-60 in less than 7 seconds and
140mph. This is before any modifications that could push it to over 200bhp.
There are cars out there that have 1.3 litre turbo e...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 10:42
An advert on TV for a car a while back said something like, "and a 150bhp
engine for safer overtaking"
Again, something on TV but this time I think it was Quentin Wilson,
referring to some road in Sc...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 10:29
Doesn't that mean too much care and attention?
Dave
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RE: FN-FORUM More beautiful designs
date posted 25th January 2003 10:23
they all seem to be Flash lol, interested to know your list of usable
websites - not Flash
Theresa
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Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 10:14
As a driver of cars I do find that bikers cause a small problem.
Frequently, when being followed by a bike, I find that I'm looking at them
more than the traffic in front because they are sat about th...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 10:08
Quoting Joe Pritchard [EMAIL REMOVED]
> why not make it illegal to sell cars of over
> a certain engine capacity to drivers under 25?
Because engine capacity is not a particularly good measure of pe...
site outage
date posted 25th January 2003 10:06
Any one else experiencing problems accessing sites
today. A number of my sites are inaccessable across
a number of different servers, 'This page cannot be
displayed'
Darren Yates
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http...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 10:03
Quoting David Eckersall [EMAIL REMOVED]
> i've yet to work out why the hell speed limiters aren't placed in cars - we
> have the tech.
Because it would be an expensive failure.
Firstly you'd have t...
FN-FORUM V.Simple Flash problem
date posted 25th January 2003 09:37
Guys,
It's late and for the life of me I can't get flash to link to a .html site
in the same folder as it, basically want 2 pop up a window witch I made...
I'm using...
/window.html as the link? Is...
Internet Down
date posted 25th January 2003 08:47
If any of you are experiencing problems accessing sites it's because that
most of the large US networks are down because of what seems to be another
DDoS attack on the root servers.
Not a good way to...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 08:45
> > i've yet to work out why the hell speed limiters aren't
> placed in cars
> - we have the tech.
> The initial problem with speed limiters I can see if quite simple, if
> you saw a car heading towa...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 08:43
Speed limiters are fine in principle until you need to get out of trouble.
I wouldn't like to be in a situation where I couldn't get the burst of speed
needed to finish a manouvre.
If you want to de...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 08:23
I like it....
I currently work in Leeds and live in Sheffield, so my Friday evenings in
the pub after work are, for me, coke fuelled affairs (the soft drink, not
the Columbian Marching Powder). It's...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 06:54
I'll do it for you .... !!
Every copper I've ever spoken to is aga...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 06:40
,but then most of the motorcyclists I meet leave their lights on main
beam day and night - most inconsiderate!>
I ALWAYS have my headlight on when on my bike, during the day I'll often
shove it on ma...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 00:55
> In your example anyone speeding while heading up a hill would be being
> reckless in my mind - not being able to see a sufficient distance ahead
> for the speed in that case
But this is my point,...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 00:48
The initial problem with speed limiters I can see if quite simple, if
you saw a car heading towards you ready to sideswipe you would not be
able to put the foot down and avoid it.
> i've yet to work...
Re: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 00:26
i've yet to work out why the hell speed limiters aren't placed in cars - we
have the tech.
make sure a car is never capable of going about x mph above an areas speed
limit - iirc they designed someth...
RE: FN-FORUM [OT] Radar Detectors (Was: Design Critique)
date posted 25th January 2003 00:25
There is little doubt that some drivers suffer from car accidents just
as their families do and pedestrians do.
The main point however that I see being made about speeding is that it
is bad when reck...
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