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I didn't need to follow that link to require copious application of mind bleach!
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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How long before the "It should be freeWOMAN!" rants start to slow the net down?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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...followed swiftly by the "freePERSON" rants from the "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" brigade.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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When you say 'Free' I find you are being racist against our North Korean brothers.
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TPFKAPB wrote: I find you are being racist against our North Korean brothers
Racist? Me? Nah, they are much faster than I am...
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Awesome!
The only problem is that I'm guessing those who get the honour are not those likely to take the city up on it's privileges.
I promise you if London ever bestows that on me the first thing I'll do is drive a herd of sheep - at swordpoint - across the bridge while drunk.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Don't try it. You'll never survive against White Van Man, London Cabbie or London Bus Driver. If you get past those unscathed, every thieving pikey in town will nick your sheep. You'll also be arrested (or likely shot) for carrying a dangerous weapon (especially in trigger-happy Olympics year) and if you survive all of that, Hackney Social Services will place you in a foster home run by drug addicts and pimps.
You're better off staying put...in a pub.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
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Chris Maunder wrote: drive a herd of sheep
Surely you mean a flock of sheep. Please get your collective nouns right  !
If you vote me down, my score will only get lower
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I think I meant herd a flock of sheep. Or flock a herd of sheep.
I dunno - ask a Kiwi like Bryce what you're meant to do with sheep.
Actually, no. Don't.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I think I meant herd a flock of sheep. Or flock a herd of sheep.
I
dunno - ask a Kiwi like Bryce what you're meant to do with sheep.
Actually, no. Don't.
Mate, I'm going to pay off whomever I have to to get this Pommy thing for you. Just so I finally get to see you drunk.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Only if you buy the beer too.
Which will add, let's see... what's the cost of a pint divided by 2?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I don't mean to complain, but I'm going to anyway.
[RANT]
We've had companies doing web hosting and domain registration for a couple of decades now; why can't any of them get anything right yet? It's not hard, it's not rocket science. I've done rocket science already, and I know it when I see it. This isn't it.
Years ago I got tired of having to change email addresses every time an ISP went out of business, so I registered a domain to use for email. I have no use for a website - nothing interesting to say or show in my life... IIRC, I used Register.com for that, then hosted a site at ReadyHosting.com for many years. They do a fine job, but when I was interested in learning to develop .Net websites (for other people, not me) they didn't offer .Net hosting service. So I switched services, and not knowing that there was no good reason to, I also transferred my domain to the new service, Webhost4life.com. They've served me well for several years - excellent tech support, by the way - but doing a little spelunking on arinc I found that the transfer had never been accomplished. Four tries later I thought I had it done. Just recently I found another service that offers something unique - a hosting plan that allows two domains for one price, at half the cost of webhost4life.com. It just happens that I need that service right now, for a year or two, so I signed up with the new host, then re-pointed the DNS servers to the new host. That worked fine.
I checked my account at webhost4life.com and found that my account was due for renewal on May 19th. Since I already have a new hosting service online, I don't need that. So I declined to renew and switched my account to domain parking status. I thought that all was cool until I checked my bank account this morning. Last week the bastards charged my account $143 for another year of hosting! It's not due for two weeks! Further checking showed that my registrar was still listed as Tucows, which was supposedly changed to FastDomain.com five years ago. So now I have two registrars to deal with, one for each domain I have registered with webhost4life.com.
Enough of that - I'll fix it somehow. In the meantime, at work I have a domain that has been parked for a couple of years, and I've built a site that I want to host. I used the same hosting service as I did for my own domains, and bought a hosting package, then initiated a transfer from the service that has had it parked for a couple of years. Our ex-IT guy registered the domain for us, but never told anyone his password - entirely correct - to access the service. I contacted him for the EPP code to effect the transfer, and this he provided happily. To his honor, he isn't charging us for the fees he paid to register the domain, or to park it for all these years; I think he's entitled to it and should be paid, but he won't accept payment.
Anyway, I started the transfer process with the proper code, and have been waiting for a week for it to complete. I've received and replied to the requisite email asking for permission to make the transfer, and the new host assures me that this should not take more than 5 days. But it's been 6 days, and nothing has happened. I've contacted BlueHost.com, the parking service, and they assure me that there's nothing they can do. I've contacted BizHostNet.com, the destination host, and they tell me that they're waiting for approval of the current host. This is absurd!
I maintain that this stuff should not be hard to do, and there's no excuse for this much confusion and bullshit. I'm a fairly bright guy, and no newbie to the 'net, but if I can't make it work smoothly, what must it be like for the average Joe who just wants to host a blog, or to have a web presence for his small business? This is ridiculous!
[/RANT]
Will Rogers never met me.
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Get your own webspace. Best decision ever.
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How is that different from buying a domain name? Which I did, years ago when the only way to reach the Internet was via a dialup connection to AOL at about $750/hour.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Your rant has been forwarded to the homeland security thought police server, where it will be stored, along with the content of your site, until their people have had time to go through it to find words that prove that you're a commie red yellow-peril pinko terrrist*.
* Not a typo; it's the vogue pronunciation in US government circles.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's simply because by making it confusing and hard, most people don't change and just keep paying the bills.
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Which they can do cos it is unregulated.
Which it is because government still do not understand how these 30 year old (being kind) technologies work.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
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Roger Wright wrote: what must it be like for the average Joe who just wants to host a blog, or to have a web presence for his small business?
I regret to say that IMO many of these companies rely on Joe not spotting that something is amiss for a large part of their turnover.
Henry Minute
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Indeed, they all suck. Every time I use GoDaddy, they screw something up somehow. Like others have mentioned, I suspect that they have no reason to make things easy, because that would lose them business by making it easy for people to transfer to another service.
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I'm just going to leave this here: Death Star? No thank you.[^].
Apparently now it's not cost effective. Aren't you glad economists have spare time?
Now you know: and knowing is half the battle.
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TTFN - Kent
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Now you tell me! And here I've just been waiting for Amazon to deliver the last four dilithium crystals for the warp drive before its maiden flight... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I hope you ponied up for the exhaust port cover. I've heard they've had some troubles with the uncovered ones.
Damn kids. They ruin everything.
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TTFN - Kent
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My accountant told me that the exhaust port cover wasn't cost effective. Maybe I shouldn't have used rent-a-beancounter.
Will Rogers never met me.
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