Scat Ululation Cavorting with no respect for brevity Plight of the Native Americans Plight of the Congolese The relevance Jazz spam Spam jazz Slightly gothy pseudo-French cabaret parody oom-pah-pah carnival revue Where's the calliope? Tiny violin with a big sound Teeth aglow A tiny boy who had just learned to kiss without affection To kiss as a form of payment Magically pissed at loss Ephemera or pretentious hot air?
"I've never wanted to copy a DVD before. But if there was an easy way of copying this particular DVD to strip this amateurish mood-breaker off of the beginning I'd be sorely tempted."
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I hope to be back to normal in a week or so.Right. A week later, my connectivity issues have gotten so much worse... Yesterday, I was trying to do some of my neglected Debian work at my mother's house (namedly, updating some packages for GNOME 2.12.1), when the ADSL modem lost its link and didn't come up again. As it was a bit late, I just cursed the nth incident with Wanadoo and left until the next day. Today, when I go back there, my sister asks if I can have a look, because there's no Internet. I suspect that the Wanadoo people have finally freed us and have cancelled our contract as we asked for two weeks ago. I phone and they confirm this is it. I then ask, innocently, if I am free to sign up with any other telco. They say I now need to wait, without any internet service, until the telephone line is freed so any other company can take care of it. That will happen in thirty or fourty days. WTF! I'm sure this can be reported somewhere, it's totally unacceptable. I've had to come to my father's house, out of the city, to do the most urgent pending tasks, and it'll be a pain to do this throughout the week. The good news is that today I got a call from Telefonica telling me that my modem should arrive at home on Monday, and some other day my own DSL link will start working. Hopefully that'll happen even before I leave to my American adventure. I am sure The Acetarium will be ready for my arrival. If you're waiting for some upload from me, please have a bit of patience because my current situation is making it quite difficult.
TRACKNUMBER: The track number of this piece if part of a specific larger collection or albumNow, this is a bit ambiguous. In particular, TRCK says how you should store the total number of tracks, and the Vorbis comment specification doesn’t. A strict reading indicates you can’t, but then the same standard is designed to be particularly loose about the data stored in the tags. So a lot of programs, including really popular ones, just kept their ID3 format and wrote tracknumber=x/y. Everyone was happy. Then someone — I wish I knew who, so I could write this to them personally — decided trying to parse the track number in this format was too hard, and so decided they would make a tracktotal tag that stored, as a single number, the number of tracks. Whoever Did This Is Wrong
"In particular, don't open pages in new windows".which is another thing which I find irritating on many sites. If I want a new window, I'll pick the link for a "new window" from the context menu, or by shift-clicking. Does Mozilla or Firefox or something have an "ignore _blank link targets" option yet? It's only a matter of time. My own company's web site has been updated and I've tried to take these on board. We don't do any of the worst things, but there are always things we can do better. Our site isn't that high a priority - there's so much else to do. The W3C's internationalisation working group has issued a note on working with time zones. I get a lot of unusual time zone requests while programming, but I'll remember these explanations and I think I usually follow the recommendations in s1.5 anyway. Also from W3C is a Working Draft of "Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0" which they'd like feedback on, if you use or develop for mobile web devices. At first glance, it seems that many of the items are stronger versions of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. PlayStation chipping is legal in Australia but not in the UK, where it was ruled illegal last year. Chipping is the practice of adding a part to the games console so that it can play imported titles. If the chipping and the risk of breaking it costs less than the difference between imported and domestic releases, some people will want to do it. It's competition between markets. I remember similar things for the old cartridge-based machines of my youth. UK law-makers seem to be trying to kill off that trade in favour of foreign companies that want to tightly control the consoles long after they've been sold. The ruling from Australia might bring the start of a backlash against the increasingly restrictive UK laws, but it's more likely that the EU, US and others will press Australia to fall into line. Copyright seems to be one of the few areas where free trade is being reduced, rather than increased. And finally, I remember the feeling of getting sparc32 Linux working.
Notice that there is no proxy configured. When this did not work they asked to configure proxy.telenet.be:8080 as a proxy without disabling the pac stuff. This also did not work. After the long call on the expensive helpdesk I tried configuring the proxy and disabling the pac. That worked.
/* PAC FILE: VERSION MANAGEMENT WITH CVS
* USE CVSWEB FOR UPDATING !!!
*
* Proxy autoconfig file
*
* $Revision: 1.29 $
* $Date: 2004/04/01 06:58:30 $
*
*/
function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
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return "DIRECT";
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