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Re: The Best All-in-One Printer

Netweb — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 06:19:36 -0000

On principle alone The Wirecutter should stop recommending HP printers

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https://www.gizmodo.com.au/...

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Re: The Best Laser Printer

Netweb — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 06:18:51 -0000

On principle alone The Wirecutter should stop recommending HP printers

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https://www.gizmodo.com.au/...

Re: DNS Performance - Compare the speed of enterprise and commercial DNS services | DNSPerf

Netweb — Mon, 04 May 2015 18:42:28 -0000

Azure has starting DNS hosting (now in preview) http://azure.microsoft.com/... if you could add them when convenient that'd be cool.

Re: How To Back Up Your iPhone SMS Text Messages on Windows

Netweb — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:56:45 -0000

The iPhone SMS file is an actual SQLite database that you can view yourself with any SQLite Database manager (Or Firefox/Chrome SQLite Extension) you can then export it it to csv, txt etc. This removes all the privacy issues as you do no not have to upload the file to a 3rd party website etc.

Re: Scripting News: Will I have to pay for the NYT?

Netweb — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:56:04 -0000

Dave,

See this post http://www.nytimes.com/2011...

"Readers who come to Times articles through links from search engines, blogs and social media will be able to read those articles, even if they have reached their monthly reading limit. This allows new and casual readers to continue to discover our content on the open Web. On all major search engines, users will have a daily limit on free links to Times articles. "

Cheers,

Stephen

Re: BACK OFF, Quigley tells Turnbull, media:
The NBN hasn’t been hacked

Netweb — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:47:27 -0000

My opinion goes much further in that many journo's simply have no idea what they are talking about and as not many other journo's know either no journo is laughing at a colleague who clearly has 'foot in mouth'

Yesterday on 'The World Today'', Elanor Hall was interviewing Mike Quigley
http://www.abc.net.au/world...

"ELEANOR HALL: Isn't it semantics though to argue that the NBN wasn't hacked when it is simply that it wasn't connected yet?"

I near on crashed the car when I heard that.

ELEANOR HALL: Will you end your contract with Platform Networks on the basis of this hacking?

ELEANOR HALL: Given that Platform Networks has been hacked, why won't you end your contract with them?

And with that I was yelling at the radio thinking if the ABC gets hacked does that mean their upstream ISP (Telstra/Optus/Whoever) is at fault? Should said ISP terminate any business contracts they have with the ABC?

With journo's not knowing the definitions (good and bad) of a hack and hacker it makes things very difficult indeed, time to send mainstream media to hackingz sch00l & to learn moar about the subject before reporting on it. You can dig up many cases of reporting gone wrong in regards to the terms hack, hacker and hacking this year from any of the 'populous' stories to have hit the headlines.

I also expect much more from Fairfax's Asher Moses whose article yesterday in Fairfax sites around the web does not help in defining the term with a table embedded in his article:-
http://www.smh.com.au/techn...

Black hat - Hackers who use their skills to attack networks
White hat - Hackers who use their skills for help companies be secure

Seriously WTF! Even if you translate this atrocious grammar you are still asking yourself WTF?

Black Hat == malicious goals | White Hat == non-malicious

More Info on the various definitions of hack, hacking & hacker if you are peeking at this comment and actually wanting MOAR!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

http://www.urbandictionary....
http://www.urbandictionary....
http://www.urbandictionary....

Re: Check-ins Are Dead? Location App Life360 Adds 1 Million Users in 10 Weeks

Netweb — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:21:09 -0000

I don't see check-ins going anywhere expect up with further/better 'gamification'
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/g...

Re: Win 5 Free Tickets to the Real-Time Web Summit, New York City, June 11

Netweb — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:31:13 -0000

All you need is a bit of OPML in your profile :P

Re: Google gets a patent on reading lists (Scripting News)

Netweb — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:09:32 -0000

I think you could call their bluff, BUT if Microsoft or Yahoo were to make a 'reader' supporting 'Reading Lists' they would then no doubt have a crack at them and try to enforce the patent, the 600 pound gorilla will fight hard in the web app's space aginst Microsoft, Yahoo or any other company that seriously challenges Google Reader in the marketplace.

Cheers,

Stephen

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Netweb — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:01:00 -0000

jacopogio,

The settings are the same on either page and do what they are supposed to do. After a setting change you just need to manually navigate back to http://127.0.0.1:5337/river2/ or open River2 from the menu's in the OPML Editor.

With the current amount of updates of the tools Dave is writing 'typically' all settings are usually changed from the page you are seeing at the moment including OPML Editor initial setup parameters etc.

Basically the river2 pref's were being overlayed into the river2 pages but this was causing some issues with other tools so now all the preferences will happen in a single place.

Cheers,

Stephen

ps. Thanks Dave

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Netweb — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:32:36 -0000

Indeed it does look fixed BUT..... Everything looked OK upon first glance but now when on the River2 Home Page ( http://127.0.0.1:5337/river2/index ) when I highlight/click the 'Prefs' link at the top of the page it is now pointing at http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/prefs?title=river2 rather than http://127.0.0.1:5337/river2/prefs?title=river2 - It has the same settings and makes no difference if you change these preferences from either of the sites except to say that people only using River2 would not get to see these preferences rendered under the http://127.0.0.1:5337/river2 'Fancy CSS Layout' page, instead.

I am getting the same for both of my OPML Editor installs, I have double checked both packages for the updates you released for River2 (Specifically 00096.part & 00097.part) and manually 'Updated Front Tool' for both opml.root & river2.root

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Netweb — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:30:21 -0000

Would it be 'river2.root' -> 'river2Website' -> 'prefs' and the code string "return (opmlEditor.website.prefs ("title=river2"))" ?

EDIT: I just installed blogWriter tool and everything is back to the way things are supposed to be ! - Everything at http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/prefs?page=1 is now linking perfectly, I will let you think on that one :P

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Netweb — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:19:43 -0000

S3 is all good, I have some stuff you sent me a while ago or posted somewhere on what I need to do to relocate 'bucket path' for S3 in the settings etc.

I will hook up S3 tommorow (3:15am here local time in Oz) and hit you up with anything weird I come across, this is also the first time in 3+ years I have started from scratch with the OPML Editor on my main machine, I just used to 'shift' my C:\OPML from PC to PC after clean installs etc.

I am soooo missing FlickFan so need to get that up and running and 'fill' the holes from not 'pinging for a month :P

And with some of these latest endeavours and screen captures we can get @Amyloo up and running again on Windows.

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Netweb — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:05:20 -0000

No Frontier guy here :P - I am flat out OPML Editor only and Windows junkie.

All those years ago when @Scoble asked "Whoever supports OPML Import, I will move my blog to your site" (Or words to that effect) and http://ma.tt hooked him up to Wordpress I have been into all things OPML.

I just installed another fresh OPML install this time on my main Windows 7 x64 machine (The one listed above is Windows 7 x86 Virtual Machine) and once I installed river2 I get the same behavior.

ps. The account I am using for all this testing is @OPMLSH and my 'normal account is @StephenEdgar and thats why I tweeted before asking you to follow @opmlsh so I can get that account also 'Cloud Enabled' for more testing etc.

I am digging around the OPML Editor pref's now (need to change Amazon S3 Bucket locations and add in my custom settings and will try (to the best of my skills :P) to see what may be causing the 'redirect' on the 'prefs' after installing river2.

Cheers,

Stephen

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Netweb — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:29:36 -0000

The text is automatically generated by the sceenshot program I am using which I cut and pasted for each pic.

The right click on 'bookmarks' was to ensure that the link in the status bar was showing the link my mouse was hovering over which then caused the screen clipping program to take another screenshot for me.

This is also a clean install of the editior as I have been taking screenshots from start to finish on setting up the OPML Editor in Windows 7 to do an updated 'howto' for others having issues with Vista/Windows7 and installing river2/rssCloud etc - Building on from http://howto.opml.org/steph...

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Netweb — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:09:47 -0000

http://twitpic.com/gq0cc - User left click on "Misc (menu item)" in "OPML"
http://twitpic.com/gq0e7 - User left click on "Preferences... (menu item)"
http://twitpic.com/gq0jg - Standard OPML Editor Preferences page displayed in Internet Explorer
http://twitpic.com/gq0nt - User right click on "Bookmarks menu (editable text)" in "Preferences - Windows Internet Explorer"

(In the last pic you can see the URL in the status bar is showing 'river2' rather than 'opmlEditor'

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Netweb — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:39:29 -0000

I am going through 'Misc' -> 'Preferences...' and every link on the 'typical' OPML Editor pref's page 'looks OK' yet each link is 'river2/pref....

HTML Source of http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/prefs
<snip>
<li><a href="/river2/prefs?page=1.1" rel="nofollow">Name, Mail address, Organization</a></li>

<li><a href="/river2/prefs?page=1.2" rel="nofollow">Automatic updates</a></li>

</ul>

<h4>Optional features</h4>

<ul>

<li><a href="/river2/prefs?page=2.1" rel="nofollow">Bookmarks menu</a></li>

<li><a href="/river2/prefs?page=2.2" rel="nofollow">Custom menu</a></li>

<li><a href="/river2/prefs?page=2.3" rel="nofollow">Web server on Port 80</a></li>

</ul>

<h4>Web Services</h4>

etc....

<snip>

Re: HowTo: River2 is a fresh start

Netweb — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:57:34 -0000

When trying to access eg. http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/prefs?page=2.3 - I can get here directly but once I am back at http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/prefs?page=1 ALL links on that page to ANY preference setting have swapped out 'opmlEditor' for 'river2'

eg. http://127.0.0.1:5337/river2/prefs?page=3.1 (Identi.ca Pref's link) it should be http://127.0.0.1:5337/opmlEditor/prefs?page=3.1

Re: Josh is right, URL shorteners are risky (Scripting News)

Netweb — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 05:19:00 -0000

Dave,

If you still have a vested interest in http://bit.ly can you get that glue worked out with them?

Re: HowTo: This is a placeholder

Netweb — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:19:24 -0000

In Windows when selecting the path to the folder you want the archive to be stored ensure you add the trailing backslash.

eg. C:\OPML\Twitter-Calendar\

If you omit the trailing backslash each archive will be created in the 'parent' directory prefixed with the folder name you thought you were creating. So with the example above without the trailing backslash I ended up with 'lots' of folders in C:\OPML named 'Twitter-CalendarTWITTERUSERNAME' rather than C:\OPML\Twitter-Calendar\TWITTERUSERNAME, C:\OPML\Twitter-Calendar\TWITTERUSERNAME2 etc

Cheers,

Stephen

Re: Lacking Anything Better to Say, Microsoft Blasts Google on Privacy

Netweb — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:01:15 -0000

I am with you Robin on this one. I also wonder how this and this type of post fits into Mashable's 'Social Networking News'.

Then again the auto-generated related posts on this page mentions more Google than MSFT.

Re: HowTo: The OPML Editor by default currently has the 'Mascot' background and this Howto will show you how to change your background to use either http://show.flickrfan.org or a local copy including ...

Netweb — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:48:44 -0000

1. Yep, I was originally approaching this a different way and wil clean up the layout.

2. It was just a quick hack I posted as the code I was using was within the <body> element and broke things so then I added the <meta refresh...=""> as a temp. thing. <meta> indeed should be inside the <head> element.

3. It looks like they can't be at the moment, doesn't matter to much at this stage though.

I am mainly messing about with 'local' type usages of show.flickrfan which would also roll into the Windows Desktop Slideshow app and Windows Live Mesh stuff I am messing about with at the moment. Once I work out some more on the best way to get what I am trying to achieve this Howto should become clearer I hope and of course a title change.

Re: A taste of FlickrFan (Scripting News)

Netweb — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:35:54 -0000

Another addition that I am 'slowly' working my way through is an application for Windows that runs as a slideshow on the desktop to include the image metadata. With huge thanks to Paul Jenkins ( http://twitter.com/aeoth ) for supplying me a code base to build upon and of course Dave, AFP, AP & Wordpress it is coming along nicely. Most slideshow apps I have seen for Windows won't overlay the metadata that we are getting from the FlickFan feeds so here is the base at where I am at and with some more tweaks and controls I hope this will give me (and the community) a slideshow app with the metadata and links to related images at flickr.com.
http://flickr.com/photos/ne...

Re: HowTo: Installing the OPML Editor on Windows XP SP3 Fresh Install

Netweb — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:19:55 -0000

Take your time on that coffee Dave and I will clean this up and check more of the recent updates to what is now fixed as I am 3 days behind on the recent changes.

I wanted to at least upload this to give Amy some info as to what errors I am coming across.

Re: Skyfire+Brings+Full+Browser+Experience+To+Nokia+S60+Phones+%28200+Private+Beta%26nbsp%3BInvites%29

Netweb — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:26:16 -0000

"If your phone is currently not supported or live outside the U.S., you will be notified as soon as Skyfire is available for your phone type or in your area."

If it is a S60 Browser/App why the necessity to have an SMS confirmation or does the phone and/or server need to 'stay-in-touch' via SMS messaging?

Cannot this be tested using any 3G/3.5G/WiFi access points from anywhere in the world?

If you 'must' send a confirmation SMS why not ask for our mobile number anyway and throw an international SMS our way, can't cost that much more via VoIP/Skype SMS Gateways etc?

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Re: BACK OFF, Quigley tells Turnbull, media:
The NBN hasn’t been hacked