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"Le Chevalier Noir" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message
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| Hello I would like to use a sound on a web page. Something similar as an audio "welcome" message. The problem is I want this sound be played just the first time the page is load. I imagine it is possible, but I don't know how... This is for the page http://www.mecatwin.com/fr/motos/hd/xlcr/ Le Chevalier Noir |
Look up the attributes for "embed sound" then use loop="1".
don't use bgsound because that's only for IE.
loop="-1" would play continously.
After falling in love with OE-Quotefix, I read what Experienced but
Undocumented wrote:
Undocumented wrote:
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| I would like to select a random row from my table. |
Thanks all for the input. I ended up using the following:
$countrowsresult = mysql_query("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM table WHERE (stuff
happens)");
$num_rows = mysql_result($countrowsresult,0,"count(*)");
$random_row = round(rand(0, $num_rows - 1));
$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM table WHERE (stuff happens) LIMIT
$random_row, 1");
$row = mysql_fetch_row($result);
echo $row[1] . "<BR>We found $num_rows rows and chose a random row of
$random_row<BR><BR>";
It works well! But if anyone has suggestions of making it more efficient I
would be glad to hear them.
Graham
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| "Fat Sam" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:bd9ksb$d2i$[Email Removed]... I've just looked at the Copyright info on IE5 and it says this <quote Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic™; was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. </quote What is Mosaic?......Is it a rowser that MS bought and bastardised into IE, or is it a different product that's actually still available?..... Ahhh, young grasshopper; there was a time when IE did not exist, and all this were nowt but fields.... http://www.kevcom.com/words/guide/guide.07.html Steve. |
No IE master? However did you manage to surf without it?
has anyone ever written a browser using nothing but gwbasic?
now that would be a major achievement eh?
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| "Andrew C. MacDonald" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:[Email Removed]... Hi Matthias Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'm always amazed at how well you Euros speak English (though you could be a transplanted American or something . . .) I'm in Canada. Thanks again, Andrew In Europe, they teach their kids English in school, as a subject. |
Yeah, true.
Here in Finland we must choose one language which we start learning in 3rd
grade, usually its English but there
are also other possibilities like French, Deutsch or Russian. There are more
possibilities in bigger schools but these are the most usual.
In 5th grade we can start learning second language if we want, same
possibilities as I allready told.
In 7th grade we start learning Swedish as its our second mother tongue.
And in 8th grade we can start one more language. (same possibilities again)
So basically here we can learn 4 languages in elementary school.
Though not many students choose to learn any language in 5th or 8th grade.
Because they think English and Swedish are enough...
Of course you can study more languages in upper secondary school or in
college or
in any other second degree schools.
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| As a military brat, I had the privilege of living in Germany most of my childhood. the local German kids could speak English almost as well as we could. We learned German from them B4 we had it as a subject in school. Over here (In the U.S.A.) we don't make language a requirement (sigh)...in fact, reading doesn't seem to be a requirement anymore....don't get me started. One of the many reasons why my wife and I homeschool. Our kids speak two languages (learning a third ) and when tested each year, test out in the to 2% of the Nation for Public, Private and homeschooled children...and posses superior social skills. James Taylor www.AICompany.com |
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"Le Chevalier Noir" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message
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| Hello I would like to use a sound on a web page. Something similar as an audio "welcome" message. The problem is I want this sound be played just the first time the page is load. I imagine it is possible, but I don't know how... This is for the page http://www.mecatwin.com/fr/motos/hd/xlcr/ Le Chevalier Noir |
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| try it - the online freebie still works ok. |
So it does. Last time I tried it (admittedly ages ago) it had closed down.
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| No IE master? However did you manage to surf without it? has anyone ever written a browser using nothing but gwbasic? now that would be a major achievement eh? |
I sometimes use telnet, does that count?
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| Even windows was a ripoff of the mac system. |
according to pirates of the silicon valley, what gates stole was the
mouse.....not the operating system. and apple got the mouse from xerox.
some command line einstein at xerox didnt think there would be any future in
the mouse and a gui. i wonder if he feels stupid yet? :-)
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| I'm starting to do a few sites but what's a ball park charge for a basic site with no server-side action, say 10 pages? |
Andrew,
I have an article that might help:
"What Should I Charge? Figuring Out Your Own Right Answer"
http://www.WebDevBiz.com
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| "Notorious Sharif" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:ab%Ja.172672$[Email Removed]... This week's quote: "Freedom or jail, clips inserted, a baby's bein born, Same time my man is murdered, the beginning and end" - Nas Thanks Sharif, can't wait for next week's! |
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| I think it was intended as a compliment, |
I realised this about ten minutes after I pressed 'send'.....I extend my
apologies to the original poster.....
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| But I know you Commonwealth types still have some gripes about your former colonies ;-). |
Must keep the natives in check old chap :-)
Richard wrote:
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| Even windows was a ripoff of the mac system. |
seems like the mac isn't adverse to taking good ideas from win XP
http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/fast_user_switching.html
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I would suggest trying Pay Per Click advertising -- pick some keywords
that aren't as general as simply "hotels" -- for example, if you have
specific pages for each city, you can try keyword combinations for
different pages -- i.e., hotels san francisco and links to a san
francisco hotels page. Or if your page is simply for a single hotel in
Atlanta, try hotels atlanta for example. You can get pretty
inexpensive pay per click advertising -- check out these pay per click
PPC reviews:
http://www.SterlingReport.com/business/pay-per-click.html
Good luck.
Mike
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that aren't as general as simply "hotels" -- for example, if you have
specific pages for each city, you can try keyword combinations for
different pages -- i.e., hotels san francisco and links to a san
francisco hotels page. Or if your page is simply for a single hotel in
Atlanta, try hotels atlanta for example. You can get pretty
inexpensive pay per click advertising -- check out these pay per click
PPC reviews:
http://www.SterlingReport.com/business/pay-per-click.html
Good luck.
Mike
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| Hello Submissions to search engines- can anyone suggets a way to get better listings on main search engines for 'hotel accommodation'? I have submited to main search engines but it is fiercely competitive. Are there dedicated webrings that help improve positioning via links? Does this really work or should I concentrate on submitting to the main search engines? I have numberous pages with the correct keywords etc but I'm not sure if submitting more pages will help, or do the robots crawl through the links automatically? Thks. Les |
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| On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:03:25 +0100, "Shiperton Henethe" <[Email Removed]> wrote: It only points to where the image lives not to the website hosting the image My google must be better than your google. If you search images and follow the link for an image, it will give you a frame (or in OB1, a link to the referring page) which gives you the page the image is located on. Sometimes, the links are broken because the page or image has been moved ... but your scenario doesn't make sense. Have you ever clicked on an image in the google search? Okay for example this image http://www.auction-air.com/auction_2002_Oc...werbook_big.jpg has been nicked by this user on overture. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...6399&category=1 How do I find how many other sites are linking to the image on the auction-air.com server? An .htaccess hotlinking denial entry would prevent them from actualy being able to hotlink it in the first place.. |
Dont understand this bit!
How does this work?
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| In your case, if you owned the image I would replace it with something dorky to embarrass the horker.. fun playthings.. |
Yes but that would appear on our own site too.
Unless we renamed the image... in which case
they could use the renamed image too!
Ship
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| "Seaking" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message |
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| An .htaccess hotlinking denial entry would prevent them from actualy being able to hotlink it in the first place.. Dont understand this bit! How does this work? In your case, if you owned the image I would replace it with something dorky to embarrass the horker.. fun playthings.. |
And risking that a *legal* vistor sees this image, see below.
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| Yes but that would appear on our own site too. |
Possible, see below.
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| Unless we renamed the image... in which case they could use the renamed image too! |
AFAIK the trick is to check the referrer and based on the referrer serve
a different image. However some browsers have a buggy referrer and some
others have the ability to fix the referrer string to some kind of
message like "MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS"..
I recommend *against* using this "trick" because of this.
John
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| Hi, I had to move a site and found a small but seemingly nice plan that allowed me 20 Megs disk / 2 Gigs transfert. It all seemed Ok until I realized that my site was growing at an alarming 2 Megs of space every day. I finally found out that they include the logs in the disk quota ... The site quickly went over quota, preventing the rewrite of my webboard's summary file and erasing it in the process ... needless to say I was not thrilled ! Is this a common practice ? Yes, it is usually your responsibility to nuke the logs at regular |
intervals - or set up a cron job to do it for you.
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"OJ" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:[Email Removed]... Hi there, So with all the font size constant discussion about accessibility, etc... No one seems to have issues with acrobat files. What makes this so? I'm wondering if it because you can "zoom" in to view whatever size you need. Why don't browsers treat the page like a piece of paper or pdf, and let you zoom in on the section that you wan? The layout would stay the same, relationships would stay the same, the arrangement wouldn't contantly be changing, etc.... Why is the world not like this? oj If you have windows ME you may have "magnifyer" which would allow you to do just that. Look around at various download sites and you may find one more suitable to your needs. I really hate pdf stuff anyway. It kind of shows me that the writer is just to damn lazy to put the text into html format. And if you want to copy and paste a paragraph, you can't do it. Which provides a good reason for delivering stuff via pdf |
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| "noSpam" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:SYZJa.2404$[Email Removed]... Hi, I had to move a site and found a small but seemingly nice plan that allowed me 20 Megs disk / 2 Gigs transfert. It all seemed Ok until I realized that my site was growing at an alarming 2 Megs of space every day. I finally found out that they include the logs in the disk quota ... The site quickly went over quota, preventing the rewrite of my webboard's summary file and erasing it in the process ... needless to say I was not thrilled ! Is this a common practice ? Yes, it is usually your responsibility to nuke the logs at regular intervals - or set up a cron job to do it for you. |
Strange. My hosting provider *does* do the log file rotating and
archiving for me. And I am quite sure that the size of the log file is
*not* included in the quota (but I might be wrong here).
John
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Steve wrote:
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| And where did Steve Jobs get his ideas? Ultimately we all have Xerox Parc to thank for a great many things. |
And Douglas Engelbart, and Vannevar Bush.
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| Hi, I had to move a site and found a small but seemingly nice plan that allowed me 20 Megs disk / 2 Gigs transfert. It all seemed Ok until I realized that my site was growing at an alarming 2 Megs of space every day. I finally found out that they include the logs in the disk quota ... The site quickly went over quota, preventing the rewrite of my webboard's summary file and erasing it in the process ... needless to say I was not thrilled ! Is this a common practice ? |
It used to be, but most server management systems store
the log files in a central directory seperate from users accounts.
If you look for a host that uses Cpanel your logs will not be stored in your
account.
However, the database used to generate your web stats (which is derived
from the logs is stored in your account) but it is a fraction of the size.
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| OJ wrote: Hi there, So with all the font size constant discussion about accessibility, etc... No one seems to have issues with acrobat files. What makes this so? I'm wondering if it because you can "zoom" in to view whatever size you need. Why don't browsers treat the page like a piece of paper or pdf, and let you zoom in on the section that you wan? The layout would stay the same, relationships would stay the same, the arrangement wouldn't contantly be changing, etc.... Why is the world not like this? |
Hi,
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| because it's a right royal pain in the proverbials having to mess around with zoom and scrolling because some moron is too precious about their lboody design to allow it to work on the web |
Let's rethink web here, just for a minute and think of it as a
presentational _and_ informational device. Why shouldn't a designer
be able to do whatever they can design in a layout program?
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pdf is great for printing from...and by and large it's possible to get at the content eventually...but html, in the right hands, delivers instantly and universally accessible content in the vast majority of situations |
Don't think pdf. That was just an example.
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if I spent my time wandering around the web completely amazed by the stunningly executed and beautifully realised pages then there would be the glimmerings of a case for that level of designer to override the flexibility of html...unfortunately that simply isn't the case...mostly when a site is inaccessible it still looks, at best, competent |
Maybe people are hampered by the limitations/quirks/problems with html
and css and this limits their work.
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IMO far too many web designers are people who have failed to make the grade as designers in other fields and spend their time moaning about how the web isn't like the stuff they used to do on their design course instead of learning to actually use the medium |
That isn't really the discussion, here.
oj
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there is no problem with allowing flexible font sizes...there is no problem with sometimes overriding that with pixel specification...IF YOU HAVE THE TALENT TO MAKE AN IMPACT WITH IT...otherwise (and this is almost always the case) it's just making the page inaccessible in order to boost ones ego |
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| Hi, I had to move a site and found a small but seemingly nice plan that allowed me 20 Megs disk / 2 Gigs transfert. It all seemed Ok until I realized that my site was growing at an alarming 2 Megs of space every day. I finally found out that they include the logs in the disk quota ... |
2 mb of data in logs a day - you must have a busy site.
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The site quickly went over quota, preventing the rewrite of my webboard's summary file and erasing it in the process ... needless to say I was not thrilled ! |
You host should be rotating the site logfiles to prevent this
occuring.
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Is this a common practice ? |
Is what common practice?
The allocation of your data to your account is common. Whether your
host is performing the necessary housekeeping to prevent your logfiles
exceeding your quota is another matter - and I'd say it's probably NOT
common.
You might ask yourself if this is something that might indicate a
larger problem - for one, I'd expect any host worth their salt to
notice when a site approaches it's limit, and investigate.
I'd also expect the host to notice the logfiles were growing at an
alarming rate. 10% of total disk quota is what we allocate for the
http logfile as standard on our customer accounts - when this size is
exceeded, the logfile is compressed and a new one started. This would
happen every day in your case, unless the logfiles were allowed to
grow to a larger size.
If I were you, I'd ask the host why they aren't rotating the logfiles
- although they may leave that to their users - we consider it a
system administration function, and it should be transparent to the
end user. It might be that their log rotation script has stopped - in
which case, I'd have thought they might have noticed... if not.. .why
not?!?
regards
Greg Hewitt-Long
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Eric. |
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| Hi Matthias Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I'm always amazed at how well you Euros speak English (though you could be a transplanted American or something . . .) I'm in Canada. Thanks again, Andrew In Europe, they teach their kids English in school, as a subject. Yeah, true. Here in Finland we must choose one language which we start learning in 3rd grade, usually its English but there are also other possibilities like French, Deutsch or Russian. There are more possibilities in bigger schools but these are the most usual. [SNIP] |
What do they say again...? An optimist is one who learns Russian; a pessimist is one who
learns chinese.
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| Nathan W. Collier wrote: "Richard" <anom@anom> wrote in message news:[Email Removed]... Even windows was a ripoff of the mac system. according to pirates of the silicon valley, what gates stole was the mouse.....not the operating system. and apple got the mouse from xerox. some command line einstein at xerox didnt think there would be any future in the mouse and a gui. i wonder if he feels stupid yet? :-) Yeah, Microsoft didn't steal anything from Apple that Apple itself didn't steal. ;) From what I have read, it wasn't that some command line Einstein at Xerox thought there was no future in a mouse and GUI. While at the Xerox PARC they had some really bright computer people, the top brass at Xerox really didn't see the future for the company as being the next IBM. Steve Job's once called them a bunch of "copier heads", who just didn't realize the value of what the gang at PARC created. Thus, it wasn't that it was a command line fan that was responsible, but instead non-geeks who didn't see the future of Xerox in computers. |
Xerox made some pretty big inroads into IT early on. Anyone remember the
Sigma range? Sigma 6, Sigma 9 etc.
The way I heard it, a nice man from IBM called his counterpart at Xerox to
say "We think the main-frame computer market is getting a little crowded,
we're thinking of diversifying into photo-copiers" The result is history.
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Bill Logan wrote:
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| "Eric Jarvis" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:[Email Removed]... OJ wrote: Hi there, So with all the font size constant discussion about accessibility, etc... there is no problem with allowing flexible font sizes...there is no problem with sometimes overriding that with pixel specification...IF YOU HAVE THE TALENT TO MAKE AN IMPACT WITH IT...otherwise (and this is almost always the case) it's just making the page inaccessible in order to boost ones ego Is that so bad? Even egos need boosting from time to time. |
Self generated ego boosting? For that, there is masterbation.
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OJ wrote:
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| Eric Jarvis <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:<[Email Removed]>... OJ wrote: Hi there, So with all the font size constant discussion about accessibility, etc... No one seems to have issues with acrobat files. What makes this so? I'm wondering if it because you can "zoom" in to view whatever size you need. because it's a right royal pain in the proverbials having to mess around with zoom and scrolling because some moron is too precious about their lboody design to allow it to work on the web Let's rethink web here, just for a minute and think of it as a presentational _and_ informational device. Why shouldn't a designer be able to do whatever they can design in a layout program? |
Who said you can't? Nobody even said you shouldn't. They just said don't do
it on the web.
All you have to do is write a program that delivers your design and
distribute the software to all your visitors. It's blindingly simple. Of
course the chances of complete strangers wanting desperately to see your
(anyones) design are close to zero, but hey that's what marketing is for and
if you give folk enough reasons (think benefits) they will install and run
your application.
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| On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 13:03:07 GMT "Notorious Sharif" <[Email Removed]> broke off from drinking a cup of tea at Road Runner - NYC to write: And if he can afford to deal in $4500 computers, he can afford to play by the rules, and stop hiding behind the young and naive excuses. Well you guys are my friends so I guess I can make this statement: "Sh*t, like I paid for it at all" Implying that it's stolen? Like the JVC CD Receiver which went from my car this morning.....I am not a happy man today. |
JVC? Do these thieves not have any better taste than that?
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Bill Logan, you are so out of touch with this situation is it funny.
You obviously are not a Totalnic customer.
I hesitate to even waste another second of time regarding Totalnic but
a little more venting can't hurt.
We tried to transfer our domains away 17 months ago and I'll spare the
details but it has been a nightmare (as you all can imagine). Luckily
we were able to transfer our main e-commerce domain away after about a
year (it looks like by accident!) otherwise we would have had to have
taken legal action. We decided to let all the domains expire and then
re-register the ones we wanted to keep the minute they became
available (about 70 days after they expire). Ridiculous. These guys
wanted copies of our Articles of Incorporation, which we sent them
more than once. One of the big problems is that you cannot send any
documents to them with signature required because they reject them -
they say they only accept 'regular' (slow) International Mail. So
there is no way to ever verify if and when they received the
documents. And then ironically, if you try to communicate with them
via e-mail, they say to send a letter to their administrative office
in Australia. Ya but what if I'm trying to verify if you even
received the letter? We wasted hours and hours of long distance
phone bills waiting on hold.
The worst thing is, technically, as far as we can tell, they are not
doing anything overtly illegal aside from being extremely unresponsive
which if goes on long enough could probably end up being illegal,
especially if their irresponsibility does damage to a business that
relies on being able to control domain registered with them.
The main problem is the body which governs them, ICANN, has a bunch of
technical requirements to become an ICANN accredited registrar but
there are no customer service requirements whatsoever and there is
virtually no oversight on the part of ICANN as far as insuring even a
basic level of customer service is met by registrars. Maybe someday
ICANN will get sued along with the abusive registrar for negligence
and things will change?
Over my 20+ years in business and 8+ years doing business with
numerous Internet-related companies, I have never encountered anything
like the level of unresponsiveness and customer neglect that I have
from this company, Capital Networks, aka, Totalnic. It is so bad that
it makes me extremely curious to know who these people are and what
they are thinking. I'm not a violent person, I'm very patient,
flexible, and understanding. But I must admit I have enjoyed thinking
of the chance to take a bat to the head of the person(s) who are
behind this farce of business. Can you imagine being an employee at
this company? It can't be a pretty picture, their revenues have to
have sunk over the last couple years.
One word of advice (not sure if this still works), if you want to
transfer a domain away from them that is registered to a business,
first create an account in your individual name and transfer the
domains to that account (you personally) before trying to transfer
them away from Totalnic. This makes your chances of success much
better as the documentation requirements for an individual as opposed
to a business are not as stringent. We made the mistake of attempting
the transfer first and then they locked our domains so we couldn't
change the registered owner. The reason they do this is that even
though all their transfer requirements are done in the name of
'security' (more like greed), they realize that within their system
anyone can change the ownership of a domain without any documentation
whatsoever. What a joke. And technically (at least since the last
time I checked), they aren't violating an ICANN policy because ICANN
doesn't impose any documentation requirements on domain ownership
change or registrar transfer - they leave it at the discretion of the
registrar so Totalnic can be a strict as they want when it comes to
losing business an as easy as they want when it comes to transfers
within their system in which they don't lose business.
The whole situation has been completely insane. These guys are
unreal. I will be so happy the day they go out of business.
"Bill Logan" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:<[Email Removed]>...
You obviously are not a Totalnic customer.
I hesitate to even waste another second of time regarding Totalnic but
a little more venting can't hurt.
We tried to transfer our domains away 17 months ago and I'll spare the
details but it has been a nightmare (as you all can imagine). Luckily
we were able to transfer our main e-commerce domain away after about a
year (it looks like by accident!) otherwise we would have had to have
taken legal action. We decided to let all the domains expire and then
re-register the ones we wanted to keep the minute they became
available (about 70 days after they expire). Ridiculous. These guys
wanted copies of our Articles of Incorporation, which we sent them
more than once. One of the big problems is that you cannot send any
documents to them with signature required because they reject them -
they say they only accept 'regular' (slow) International Mail. So
there is no way to ever verify if and when they received the
documents. And then ironically, if you try to communicate with them
via e-mail, they say to send a letter to their administrative office
in Australia. Ya but what if I'm trying to verify if you even
received the letter? We wasted hours and hours of long distance
phone bills waiting on hold.
The worst thing is, technically, as far as we can tell, they are not
doing anything overtly illegal aside from being extremely unresponsive
which if goes on long enough could probably end up being illegal,
especially if their irresponsibility does damage to a business that
relies on being able to control domain registered with them.
The main problem is the body which governs them, ICANN, has a bunch of
technical requirements to become an ICANN accredited registrar but
there are no customer service requirements whatsoever and there is
virtually no oversight on the part of ICANN as far as insuring even a
basic level of customer service is met by registrars. Maybe someday
ICANN will get sued along with the abusive registrar for negligence
and things will change?
Over my 20+ years in business and 8+ years doing business with
numerous Internet-related companies, I have never encountered anything
like the level of unresponsiveness and customer neglect that I have
from this company, Capital Networks, aka, Totalnic. It is so bad that
it makes me extremely curious to know who these people are and what
they are thinking. I'm not a violent person, I'm very patient,
flexible, and understanding. But I must admit I have enjoyed thinking
of the chance to take a bat to the head of the person(s) who are
behind this farce of business. Can you imagine being an employee at
this company? It can't be a pretty picture, their revenues have to
have sunk over the last couple years.
One word of advice (not sure if this still works), if you want to
transfer a domain away from them that is registered to a business,
first create an account in your individual name and transfer the
domains to that account (you personally) before trying to transfer
them away from Totalnic. This makes your chances of success much
better as the documentation requirements for an individual as opposed
to a business are not as stringent. We made the mistake of attempting
the transfer first and then they locked our domains so we couldn't
change the registered owner. The reason they do this is that even
though all their transfer requirements are done in the name of
'security' (more like greed), they realize that within their system
anyone can change the ownership of a domain without any documentation
whatsoever. What a joke. And technically (at least since the last
time I checked), they aren't violating an ICANN policy because ICANN
doesn't impose any documentation requirements on domain ownership
change or registrar transfer - they leave it at the discretion of the
registrar so Totalnic can be a strict as they want when it comes to
losing business an as easy as they want when it comes to transfers
within their system in which they don't lose business.
The whole situation has been completely insane. These guys are
unreal. I will be so happy the day they go out of business.
"Bill Logan" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:<[Email Removed]>...
| QUOTE |
| <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:bctsmk$[Email Removed]... They keep sending me emails that tell me they've send prior emails. (see below). But they keep saying that my notarized forms have not been received, but they will not accept any delivery method that requires a signature (aka proof). AND......... they have a WARNING at the bottom of their email that their emails cannot be posted/disseminated, etc. In other words, make sure you don't tell anyone that they're crooks. I'm calling an attorney tomorrow. lucy Dear Madam, We received information that you phoned the US support center today stating you did not receive a reply to your previous call (which requested a follow-up regarding a verification form). Our records show that an e-mail was sent to yourself at _________ on 6/17/2003. The text of that message was: We received information that you phoned the US support center regarding the status of the verification form submitted for manuscriptediting.com. If you have not yet received an e-mail regarding the form, then the form has not yet been received. Our business offices will contact the listed administrative contact directly once the form has been received and acted upon appropriately. Please note: TotalNIC's mail handling facility deals with large volumes of postal correspondence in an ordered fashion. For this reason we are unable to accept mail requiring personal attendance at the postal delivery facilities by staff members. Transfer authority forms specify the use of regular postal mail to ensure delivery. If you send an item of correspondence which requires signature authorization prior to effecting delivery it can not be collected and your document cannot be processed. If your document cannot be processed we cannot assist you in making updates which require written authority. Two things. No matter how unpalatable, following the process laid out by a registrar is the surest way of getting a result. Trying to buck the system only provides headaches! Having said that, remeber totalnic is answerable for any misconduct. So, if you follow their proceedures exactly and then do not get a result you have justification for ldging a complain with ICANN. Second. I do not see the problem, there is no indictaion either in the whois or zone records that indicate a registrar lock on your name - assuming it is the name mentioned in the above e-mail? Question - have they perhaps already received the notarised docs and taken action to lift the lock without saying so? Maybe a case of left hand right hand ? Test it by doing trying a transfer of the name. |
William Tasso wrote:
| QUOTE |
| The way I heard it, a nice man from IBM called his counterpart at Xerox to say "We think the main-frame computer market is getting a little crowded, we're thinking of diversifying into photo-copiers" The result is history. |
Heh. ;) Although, I question if anyone at IBM was that smart. IBM had
already blown it by making the PC open architecture, which made it
possible for others to come out with PC clones. Very uncharacteristic of
IBM. From what I've read it seems that they became worried that they
already were way behind Apple, and going closed architecture would have
delayed entry into the market too long for their comfort. Ended up bad
for IBM, but made Bill Gates richer than God.
--
http://www.dextromethorphan.ws/
For information about the psychedelic DXM, including dangers.
John Bokma wrote:
| QUOTE |
| Richard wrote: [snip] No IE master? However did you manage to surf without it? has anyone ever written a browser using nothing but gwbasic? now that would be a major achievement eh? I sometimes use telnet, does that count? |
nope...it's all amateur unless you simply whistle down
the phone
command line?...fripperies a professional shouldn't nee
Marc Bissonnette wrote:
| QUOTE |
And me. You all have me to thank for a bunch of stuff. Why ? I dunno, I just think you should all be thanking me for stuff :) |
'nk you
<kicks empty Diet Coke can...walks off>
--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"Hey Lord don't ask me questions
There ain't no answer in me"
rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski wrote:
| QUOTE |
| William Tasso wrote: The way I heard it, a nice man from IBM called his counterpart at Xerox to say "We think the main-frame computer market is getting a little crowded, we're thinking of diversifying into photo-copiers" The result is history. Heh. ;) Although, I question if anyone at IBM was that smart. |
Was it smart? IBM should have got into photocopiers and then printers,
faxes, multi-function devices etc. Seems like muddle-headed corporate panic
to me.
| QUOTE |
| IBM had already blown it by making the PC open architecture, |
OJ wrote:
| QUOTE |
Let's rethink web here, just for a minute and think of it as a presentational _and_ informational device. Why shouldn't a designer be able to do whatever they can design in a layout program? |
erm...lets rethink wheel here, just for a minute and
think of it as a fashion accessory for a car...why
shouldn't a designer make it any shape they like?
--
eric
www.ericjarvis.co.uk
"Hey Lord don't ask me questions
There ain't no answer in me"
To start, I want to thank everyone for their replies. I have posted
this question elsewhere, and no one could provide as much useful
information as you guys.
The reason I wanted to find a host with this specific Webmail software
is because I have setup email accounts through Register.com for family
members that are not very computer literate. So I wanted to make the
transfer as painless as possible for them.
My current host offers Horde and Neomail. I am not a big fan of the
user interfaces for either of those products.
Laurence, would you happen to know which mail systems Register.com is
considering?
Laurence Sherzer <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:<[Email Removed]>...
this question elsewhere, and no one could provide as much useful
information as you guys.
The reason I wanted to find a host with this specific Webmail software
is because I have setup email accounts through Register.com for family
members that are not very computer literate. So I wanted to make the
transfer as painless as possible for them.
My current host offers Horde and Neomail. I am not a big fan of the
user interfaces for either of those products.
Laurence, would you happen to know which mail systems Register.com is
considering?
Laurence Sherzer <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:<[Email Removed]>...
| QUOTE |
| Critical Path was setup for Register.com. To learn more about their system go to cp.net. Critical Path is an expensive mail solution for hosting companies. Most are moving away from CP due to price considerations. There is a project underway to move Register.com onto an alternative mail system. I know that bigstep uses CP for mail, if you really want to use the CP webmail interface. There are several choices for webmail that are free. We use Horde (open source) for our hosted domains. I run MailReader on one of my test accounts laurencesherzer.com. MailReader is designed to let anyone check mail from anywhere. It is a set of perl cgi scripts that are easy to setup and use. It is available for download at mailreader.com/download -Laurence citron wrote: Would anyone happen to know which Webmail software Register.com and PeoplePC use? I have searched the Internet extensively for this answer, but have not found the information. I emailed the support for both companies, but was blown off. I'm sure other companies use the same Webmail software, but those are the only two I have run across thus far. The reason I ask: I am looking for a new web hosting company, and I want to be able to specify this Webmail software as a requirement. |
"Travis" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message
news:[Email Removed]...
news:[Email Removed]...
| QUOTE |
| Bill Logan, you are so out of touch with this situation is it funny. You obviously are not a Totalnic customer. You are probably right, I have only been selling domain names for 3 years so |
my knowledge is limited. Also I am not a totalnic customer. Why would I buy
from them when I can do it myself for less than $7 per year?
One thing I can tell you is that where there is a problem, in almost every
case, the fault lies with the clients failure to follow the correct,
(Registrars) proceedure. Registrars cannot refuse a transfer request within
the transfer periods laid down by ICANN unless there is a valid reason such
as non payment of fees or failure to respond to a request from the
registrant/admin e-mail of record.
Yes, some registrars have a record of making it difficult to transfer, and
yes, sometimes it can unfortunately take time. But realistically, those are
only reasons for doing your research prior to registering a domain name.
Of course, when you have a bad experience with a registrar it makes it
difficult to accept that there may be reasons for the failure to deliver
which are not the fault of the registrar.
Even though I do not support totalnic nor am I involved with them in any way
I also know there are a lot of satisfied customers with them - just as there
are no doubt many who are not. I guess it is a bit like hosts. In this group
there have been many complaints about some hosts. The fact is that after
many posts, in most cases the complainer turns out to have been at fault.
Only in an occasional instance has the host been at fault. What it comes
down to is that more often than not the person witrh the problem is usually
the cause of the problem.
I do not mean that is the case with your situation but without all the
information related to the issue it is difficult to accept that a registrar,
with all that is at stake, would deliberately screw people. There is just
far too much money involved.
| QUOTE |
| I hesitate to even waste another second of time regarding Totalnic but a little more venting can't hurt. We tried to transfer our domains away 17 months ago and I'll spare the details but it has been a nightmare (as you all can imagine). Luckily we were able to transfer our main e-commerce domain away after about a year (it looks like by accident!) otherwise we would have had to have taken legal action. We decided to let all the domains expire and then re-register the ones we wanted to keep the minute they became available (about 70 days after they expire). Ridiculous. These guys wanted copies of our Articles of Incorporation, which we sent them more than once. One of the big problems is that you cannot send any documents to them with signature required because they reject them - they say they only accept 'regular' (slow) International Mail. So there is no way to ever verify if and when they received the documents. And then ironically, if you try to communicate with them via e-mail, they say to send a letter to their administrative office in Australia. Ya but what if I'm trying to verify if you even received the letter? We wasted hours and hours of long distance phone bills waiting on hold. The worst thing is, technically, as far as we can tell, they are not doing anything overtly illegal aside from being extremely unresponsive which if goes on long enough could probably end up being illegal, especially if their irresponsibility does damage to a business that relies on being able to control domain registered with them. The main problem is the body which governs them, ICANN, has a bunch of technical requirements to become an ICANN accredited registrar but there are no customer service requirements whatsoever and there is virtually no oversight on the part of ICANN as far as insuring even a basic level of customer service is met by registrars. Maybe someday ICANN will get sued along with the abusive registrar for negligence and things will change? Over my 20+ years in business and 8+ years doing business with numerous Internet-related companies, I have never encountered anything like the level of unresponsiveness and customer neglect that I have from this company, Capital Networks, aka, Totalnic. It is so bad that it makes me extremely curious to know who these people are and what they are thinking. I'm not a violent person, I'm very patient, flexible, and understanding. But I must admit I have enjoyed thinking of the chance to take a bat to the head of the person(s) who are behind this farce of business. Can you imagine being an employee at this company? It can't be a pretty picture, their revenues have to have sunk over the last couple years. One word of advice (not sure if this still works), if you want to transfer a domain away from them that is registered to a business, first create an account in your individual name and transfer the domains to that account (you personally) before trying to transfer them away from Totalnic. This makes your chances of success much better as the documentation requirements for an individual as opposed to a business are not as stringent. We made the mistake of attempting the transfer first and then they locked our domains so we couldn't change the registered owner. The reason they do this is that even though all their transfer requirements are done in the name of 'security' (more like greed), they realize that within their system anyone can change the ownership of a domain without any documentation whatsoever. What a joke. And technically (at least since the last time I checked), they aren't violating an ICANN policy because ICANN doesn't impose any documentation requirements on domain ownership change or registrar transfer - they leave it at the discretion of the registrar so Totalnic can be a strict as they want when it comes to losing business an as easy as they want when it comes to transfers within their system in which they don't lose business. The whole situation has been completely insane. These guys are unreal. I will be so happy the day they go out of business. "Bill Logan" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:<[Email Removed]>... <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:bctsmk$[Email Removed]... They keep sending me emails that tell me they've send prior emails. (see below). But they keep saying that my notarized forms have not been received, but they will not accept any delivery method that requires a signature (aka proof). AND......... they have a WARNING at the bottom of their email that their emails cannot be posted/disseminated, etc. In other words, make sure you don't tell anyone that they're crooks. I'm calling an attorney tomorrow. lucy Dear Madam, We received information that you phoned the US support center today stating you did not receive a reply to your previous call (which requested a follow-up regarding a verification form). Our records show that an was sent to yourself at _________ on 6/17/2003. The text of that message was: We received information that you phoned the US support center regarding the status of the verification form submitted for manuscriptediting.com. If you have not yet received an e-mail regarding the form, then the form has not yet been received. Our business offices will contact the listed administrative contact directly once the form has been received and acted upon appropriately. Please note: TotalNIC's mail handling facility deals with large volumes of postal correspondence in an ordered fashion. For this reason we are unable to accept mail requiring personal attendance at the postal delivery facilities by staff members. Transfer authority forms specify the use of regular postal mail to ensure delivery. If you send an item of correspondence which requires signature authorization prior to effecting delivery it can not be collected and your document cannot be processed. If your document cannot be processed we cannot assist you in making updates which require written authority. Two things. No matter how unpalatable, following the process laid out by a registrar is the surest way of getting a result. Trying to buck the system only provides headaches! Having said that, remeber totalnic is answerable for any misconduct. So, if you follow their proceedures exactly and then do not get a result you have justification for ldging a complain with ICANN. Second. I do not see the problem, there is no indictaion either in the whois or zone records that indicate a registrar lock on your name - assuming it is the name mentioned in the above e-mail? Question - have they perhaps already received the notarised docs and taken action to lift the lock without saying so? Maybe a case of left hand right hand ? Test it by doing trying a transfer of the name. |
After falling in love with OE-Quotefix, I read what Fat Sam wrote:
| QUOTE |
| That's a very conceited and condescending viewpoint if you don't mind me saying so.....After all, the language does originate from Europe, not the Americas...... |
I thought he was _complimenting_ Matthias on his language skills which,
statistically speaking, aren't as prolific in North America.
-G
Globe City wrote:
| QUOTE |
| Today, we can all say good-bye to traditional Web hosting... |
good bye - it's been fun.
--
William Tasso - traditional web hosting
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:53:47 +0100 "Fat Sam"
<[Email Removed]> broke off from drinking a cup of tea
at to write:
<[Email Removed]> broke off from drinking a cup of tea
at to write:
| QUOTE |
| I've just looked at the Copyright info on IE5 and it says this <quote Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic™; was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. </quote What is Mosaic?......Is it a rowser that MS bought and bastardised into IE, or is it a different product that's actually still available?..... |
<BG>
It's *the* original web browser, from many years ago. And yes it is
still available!
Matt
--
A massive matrix of concise, interlinked encyclopaedia information.
For when you just want to know, quickly and easily.
http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com
rfgdxm/Robert F. Golaszewski wrote:
| QUOTE |
| William Tasso wrote: This story predates the PC by at least 5 years. Elaborate? |
I started working with Xerox Sigma 9s in 1976. IIRC these machines were
already out of production by then. I would have heard that story some time
between summer '76 and summer '77. The place I worked at had 4 of the
beasties in the UK, more in the States and Canada.
128k of RAM filled a whole cabinet, the disks were those huge washing
machine like removable jobbies - can't remember the capacity, 4Mb perhaps.
The swap device(s) was a huge lump of spinning steel with fixed heads.
--
William Tasso - http://www.WilliamTasso.com
GreyWyvern wrote:
| QUOTE |
| On 24 Jun 2003 06:38:08 -0700, OJ <[Email Removed]> wrote: Hi there, So with all the font size constant discussion about accessibility, etc... No one seems to have issues with acrobat files. What makes this so? I'm wondering if it because you can "zoom" in to view whatever size you need. Why don't browsers treat the page like a piece of paper or pdf, and let you zoom in on the section that you wan? The layout would stay the same, relationships would stay the same, the arrangement wouldn't contantly be changing, etc.... Why is the world not like this? Opera already does this. And if Opera does, I'm pretty sure Mozilla does... someone enlighten me here, please. |
AFAIK Opera has the only 'true' zoom.
Nathan W. Collier wrote:
| QUOTE |
| "Richard" <anom@anom> wrote in message news:[Email Removed]... Even windows was a ripoff of the mac system. according to pirates of the silicon valley, what gates stole was the mouse.....not the operating system. and apple got the mouse from xerox. some command line einstein at xerox didnt think there would be any future in the mouse and a gui. i wonder if he feels stupid yet? :-) |
As WW2 drew to an end, my Grandfather, who worked for DeHaviland
Australia at the time (on propellers) met with Mr Sikorsky (spelling?)
who was at the forefront of the development of the helicopter. My
Grandfather was inspired by this and took the concept of a helicopter
back to his boss. The reply:
"What will they use them for?"
thank you!
Mike wrote:
Mike wrote:
| QUOTE |
| "Le Chevalier Noir" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:[Email Removed]... Hello I would like to use a sound on a web page. Something similar as an audio "welcome" message. The problem is I want this sound be played just the first time the page is load. I imagine it is possible, but I don't know how... This is for the page http://www.mecatwin.com/fr/motos/hd/xlcr/ Le Chevalier Noir read here: http://www.htmlclinic.com/bgsound.php |
Hello
Thank you for your help, but what I want is something different :
When someone see the page for the first time, i want the sound been played 1
time.
Then, if this persone visit other pages and come back, I would like the sound
not been played at all this time.
Le Chevalier Noir
Richard wrote:
Thank you for your help, but what I want is something different :
When someone see the page for the first time, i want the sound been played 1
time.
Then, if this persone visit other pages and come back, I would like the sound
not been played at all this time.
Le Chevalier Noir
Richard wrote:
| QUOTE |
| "Le Chevalier Noir" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:[Email Removed]... Hello I would like to use a sound on a web page. Something similar as an audio "welcome" message. The problem is I want this sound be played just the first time the page is load. I imagine it is possible, but I don't know how... This is for the page http://www.mecatwin.com/fr/motos/hd/xlcr/ Le Chevalier Noir Look up the attributes for "embed sound" then use loop="1". don't use bgsound because that's only for IE. loop="-1" would play continously. |
Le Chevalier Noir wrote:
| QUOTE |
| ... When someone see the page for the first time, i want the sound been played 1 time. Then, if this persone visit other pages and come back, I would like the sound not been played at all this time. |
"Nathan W. Collier" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message
news:6G_Ja.94641$[Email Removed]...
news:6G_Ja.94641$[Email Removed]...
| QUOTE |
| "Matt Probert" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:[Email Removed]... Implying that it's stolen? nah, sounds to me like he finanaced it and stopped making payments. |
To sell something with finance owing on it is still an offence.....
| QUOTE |
| My current host offers Horde and Neomail. I am not a big fan of the user interfaces for either of those products. |
I've installed both Horde and Neomail but I prefer squirrelmail. It is
free and has TONS of plugins and is under very active development.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/
Oh..did I mention it is free?
--
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http://www.rootmode.com/
<[Email Removed]> skrev i melding
news:3ef8a442$1$60367$[Email Removed]...
news:3ef8a442$1$60367$[Email Removed]...
| QUOTE |
| Memeber's Area Back Door! http://www.spammityspam.com/mespam/spamevenmore/l/ check this shit out! ehwrlbwyzls |
If the Internet supported the feature, I'd slap you. A lot.
--
Kim Andr Aker
- [Email Removed]
- ICQ: 92708098
While shouting G-UNIT, Nathan W. Collier wrote this:
| QUOTE |
| "Matt Probert" <[Email Removed]> wrote in message news:[Email Removed]... Implying that it's stolen? nah, sounds to me like he finanaced it and stopped making payments. |
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:22:16 -0400, GreyWyvern
<[Email Removed]_am> wrote:
<[Email Removed]_am> wrote:
| QUOTE |
| If the Internet supported the feature, I'd slap you. A lot. You merely have to install RemoteSlap v3.7.8 However, it only runs on Windows and it's a buggy as hell. Half the time you'll just end up smacking some poor guy in the middle of Hoboken. :/ |
I couldn't help myself :(
http://www.greywyvern.com/img/misc/newsoftware.png
Grey
--
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pitfall corollory that nothing is ridiculous.
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