“Let’s put Verisign to death” [Daypop Top 40]
I couldn’t agree more. I switched my domain over to Dotster last week. In a nutshell — we basically pay these guys (NetSol/Verisign) for horrible customer serivce and no protection of the property we purchased from them. I knew that the k10k guys lost their .com, but the hoopla.com thing really is upsetting.
Monthly Archive for April, 2002
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Yesterday I moved jumpserve.com to a new webserver. You may miss a day or two of news (not that I’ve been posting all that much anyway) if your DNS doesn’t “catch up” before I add more posts. Feel free to scroll down and catch up if ya miss anything.
Paolo: “All borders between your desktop and the rest of the universe are fading, you can borrow the search capabilities of Google’s powerful servers from within your favourite application, or you can read news from the New York Times on the same page containing the news from your co-worker telling you what’s up today.” # [Scripting News]
“iPod: Music to Hackers’ Ears” [Daypop Top 40]
About the trend to make the iPod do more than just music.
Unix Isn’t Dead [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]
Lots of quotable material in this thread: This one’s my favorite:
"To paraphrase ‘Dark Paladin’ in a recent article about his Mac OS X conversion: Microsoft Windows is like your class president that didn’t do shit. Linux is like a super-smart, sexy redhead girlfriend that’s also a bit insane. Mac OS X is like the geeky girl at school who shed her braces and became a total hottie—and still wants to spend all her time hanging around with you."
No Subscription for Spam Relief. It’s probably not true that responding to spam with a request to stop sending spam will result in more spam, but spam experts still say it’s not a good idea. By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]