March 12th, 2010
There is no clear demarcation between what is “modern” and what is “obsolete,” either with respect to individual units or their relationship to current types, ..
THAT; little sentence (above) sums up, how I feel about recent efforts to create a simplified “Framework”, / template, for future web-development projects. I have made the working templates, with button navigation, and css (style-sheet), … HOWEVER; when I validate the code template against the http://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_upload there are errors within the “page.html” – GRRRRR – (need to revise, and study some more)
New Knowledge 1962
IF this post was anything to do with Web-Development, could I be more obscure? (A puzzle seems to emerge) – And I have gone off the rails since last Saturday, .. but Iam still here. Other places to find stuff on web-dev here >>> ‘Grids and Wireframes‘ <<<
Tags: HiFi knowledge
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March 10th, 2010
THIS QUOTE; (taken from “military-robots-and-the-laws-of-war” ~ scroll down the page 80% to the end of the page) FROM-URL; http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/military-robots-and-the-laws-of-war
[QUOTE] >> We, Robot
As military robots gain more and more autonomy, the ethical questions involved will become even more complex. The U.S. military bends over backwards to figure out when it is appropriate to engage the enemy and how to limit civilian casualties. Autonomous robots could, in theory, follow the rules of engagement; they could be programmed with a list of criteria for determining appropriate targets and when shooting is permissible. The robot might be programmed to require human input if any civilians were detected. An example of such a list at work might go as follows: “Is the target a Soviet-made T-80 tank? Identification confirmed. Is the target located in an authorized free-fire zone? Location confirmed. Are there any friendly units within a 200-meter radius? No friendlies detected. Are there any civilians within a 200-meter radius? No civilians detected. Weapons release authorized. No human command authority required.” <<[END QUOTE]
AND; (a little bit further down, it also says this)
theologians (who helped create the first laws of war)
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March 7th, 2010
The WP-Ban IP plugin, can be gotten around somehow.
HOWEVER; combined that (WP-Ban) with WP-Mail-Validator – Not much is getting through, .. after the initail configuration – (But the spammer is peristant, and sneaky)
RESULT; Today, .. “WP-Ban” has recorded 3 attempts today, and there is nothing in the spam que from the persistant spammer. (As a matter of fact, there is nothing at all there, NOTE; the Akismet plugin is also installed catching all spam)
Spam Zeitgeist; http://akismet.com/stats/ 5,918,939 so far today? (Wow – wish I was getting that much spam)
RESULT – UPDATE; (The following morning – Monday 9:45am) – 54 attempts in total
RESULT – UPDATE; (The following afternoon – Monday 6:55pm) – 66 attempts in total (He just keeps trying – even when access is denied, ~ MUST be an automated software, that is not being monitored in any way) – UPDATE; Thursday 11 March 8:15am, Total of 140 attempts to spam have been blocked, (And the automated software seems to have been turned off for now, Ie, spamming activity stopped approx YESTERDAY)
THE DOWN-SIDE; (Like all security features) I have traded-off ‘ease-of-use’, for tighter control. Hence, the procedure to make a comment requires a valid email account to be entered.
Tags: spam
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March 6th, 2010
GOOGLED – wp email validation plugin
TESTING; http://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/wiki/wp-mail-validator
LINK; – (From the google search phrase above) that I thought relevant.
[START QUOTE; here]
So, what’s happened here? In order to successfully submit a spam TrackBack, a spammer has to:
- Set up a real blog (or blog-like website).
- Create a stable URL (like a blog post).
- Link from this post to your site.
- Send you a TrackBack from the stable blog post URL.
We knew this would happen (assuming the writer means TrackBack instead of Pingback) and consider this a victory: The spammer is now giving you PageRank, but more importantly, his website looks just like a blog. It is, effectively, a real blog. Who’s to say he’s a spammer and not just another blogger out there (the contents of whose blog you’re not particularly impressed by)?
At this point, we’ve moved into a more philosophical area of spam prevention. I’ll still argue that this is a victory, however. Consider this: What if we “defeated” email spam to the point that the only “spam” you ever got in your INBOX was personal notes, hand-written by advertisers, custom-tailored to your interests? Is that even spam anymore, or just email you’re not as interested in? I argue we’ve now made this exact leap with TrackBack spam.
[END QUOTE; here]
Tags: eMail validation
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March 5th, 2010
Some details from Wikipedia;
Prior to its announcement on July 22, 2005, Windows Vista was known by its codename “Longhorn.”
Development was completed on November 8, 2006; over the following three months it was released in stages to computer hardware and software manufacturers, business customers, and retail channels. On January 30, 2007, it was released worldwide,
VISTA-BIZ; Installing the updates; (I need SP1 installed, so Zonealarm ver 9xx-blah will install) – The update completed, and SP1, still needs to be installed separately.
REMOVED; A lot of “Lenovo – Thinkvantage” applications -/- software, as the ‘extra-layers of STUFF only serve to make Vista more-complicated than need be.
THE OFFICIAL VISTA M$ website; http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/default.aspx
Tags: Vista SP1
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March 4th, 2010
A programmable logic controller is a specialized computer used to control machines and processes. – visit – http://www.plcdev.com/how_plcs_work
PLC – Timeline; http://www.plcdev.com/plc_timeline
Tags: PLCs
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March 4th, 2010
GOOGLED – wordpress ban ip
Installed wordpress – Plugin; WP-Ban
WP-Ban ~ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ban/
Author: Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan
It will display a custom ban message when the banned IP, IP range, host name or referer url trys to visit you blog. You can also exclude certain IPs from being banned. There will be statistics recorded on how many times they attemp to visit your blog. It allows wildcard matching too. Lesters blog here >>> http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/
REFERENCE; (Reason why) http://grd.net.au/blog/?p=1793#comments
Tags: WP-Ban
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March 3rd, 2010
http://itsvista.com/topic/commands/ (nice list of commands)
RELATED – (To a recent post here at GRDnetau – titled; < F10 (access standard menu) > Here is an alternative way of accessing the hidden system file extensions (and other stuff; - click the link below – (open’s in a new tabbed-page OR window))
http://itsvista.com/2006/12/itsvista-tip-11-reveal-the-files-vista-tries-to-keep-hidden/
Tags: Vista
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March 2nd, 2010
Need to configure your (Vista-Biz) LAN – adapter manually, and just cant seem to find the “Local Area Connections Properties”…. without having to wade through “Vista-GUI”?
GOOGLED ncpa.cpl
Google-suggests ncpa.cpl run as administrator
Type ncpa.cpl into the vista ‘Start-Search’ box – (The RUN box on any XP box), and press enter. This will start the “ncpa.cpl” – (The “Networking applet”) – for from here, you can manually configure you LAN, and ISP/DNS ip numbers.
Little screen-dump (Coming soon) -
TYPE; "ncpa.cpl" into the Search box (without the double quotes " ")
Vista ncpa.cpl registry edits ->>> Tech-Idiots URL <<< (Looks useful – so pasted here )
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comments moderated
March 4th, 2010HOW / WHERE – (Might I put this code?) – informing commenters of this?
ANSWER;- comments.php (Edited successfully
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CODEX info - Moderate all comments
CODEX info - Inform Users When Comments are Moderated
Inform Users When Comments are Moderated
When people submit comments, they expect them to appear on your blog immediately. Implementing comment moderation and not telling people will almost certainly result in some people repeatedly submitting the same comment as they think it has disappeared. To prevent this from happening, and to avoid disgruntled and confused readers, inform people that their comment is under review by doing the following:
If you use popup comments, edit comments-popup.php and if you do not, edit comments.php.
Look for the following code:
<p> <input name="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e("Say it!"); ?>" /> </p>Change that to the following, adding your own customization:
<p> <blockquote> Comment moderation is in use. Please do not submit your comment twice -- it will appear shortly. </blockquote> <input name="submit" type="submit" tabindex="5" value="<?php _e("Say it!"); ?>" /> </p>TESTED -&- CONFIRMED;- (The comments are still working)
comments are moderated
Tags: comments
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