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Check out XKCD ...
... WTF happened?
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"Mike Raiford" <mra### [at] hotmail com> a écrit dans le message de news:
47f21bc9$1@news.povray.org...
> Check out XKCD ...
>
>
> ... WTF happened?
Well, I read today that Microsoft will include POV-Ray in DirectX 11 to
support real time raytracing and that it will shipped with Vista SP2 by the
end of the year.
G.
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Gilles Tran wrote:
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> Well, I read today that Microsoft will include POV-Ray in DirectX 11 to
> support real time raytracing and that it will shipped with Vista SP2 by the
> end of the year.
>
> G.
>
Now, really. Would the POV-Team ever allow that to happen?
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Check out XKCD ...
>
> ... WTF happened?
We call it April Fools' Day.
Regards,
John
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John VanSickle wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
>> Check out XKCD ...
>>
>> ... WTF happened?
>
> We call it April Fools' Day.
Yeah, not soon after posting that did I look at the calendar.
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In other news today... www.dnsstuff.com have stopped allowing you to use
all mannar of useful tools they previously offered. (Now apparently you
have to *pay* for them.)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> In other news today... www.dnsstuff.com have stopped allowing you to use
> all mannar of useful tools they previously offered. (Now apparently you
> have to *pay* for them.)
Quite typical. First develop something and offer it for free, and if
it gets popular enough, get greedy and start enforcing your right to
ask money for it. Basically it's not even morally questionable. Of course
it's a slight bummer to all those who got to like the free tools and
cannot get upgrades for free anymore.
In a few cases it's the other way around: First the products were
commercial, but then they became free of charge (and in even fewer
cases open source).
A slightly more common variant of the previous is that the products
become free for personal use but remain non-free for commercial use.
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> In other news today... www.dnsstuff.com have stopped allowing you to use
>> all mannar of useful tools they previously offered. (Now apparently you
>> have to *pay* for them.)
>
> Quite typical. First develop something and offer it for free, and if
> it gets popular enough, get greedy and start enforcing your right to
> ask money for it. Basically it's not even morally questionable. Of course
> it's a slight bummer to all those who got to like the free tools and
> cannot get upgrades for free anymore.
Indeed. Now if I have a DNS problem, I have *no way* of finding out what
the outside world sees... This site used to be a highly valuable tool
for diagnosing DNS faults.
> In a few cases it's the other way around: First the products were
> commercial, but then they became free of charge (and in even fewer
> cases open source).
Mozilla?
> A slightly more common variant of the previous is that the products
> become free for personal use but remain non-free for commercial use.
Yes, that too...
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http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible escribió:
> Indeed. Now if I have a DNS problem, I have *no way* of finding out what
> the outside world sees... This site used to be a highly valuable tool
> for diagnosing DNS faults.
dnsstuff just keeps increasing the size of their "buy our services!"
banner. Free tools remain.
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Mike Raiford escribió:
> Check out XKCD ...
>
>
> ... WTF happened?
Why? I don't see anything strange on the site.
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:38:40 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> Indeed. Now if I have a DNS problem, I have *no way* of finding out what
> the outside world sees... This site used to be a highly valuable tool
> for diagnosing DNS faults.
nslookup -s [externalserveripaddress]
Then enter the DNS lookup you want to check out.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> nslookup -s [externalserveripaddress]
>
> Then enter the DNS lookup you want to check out.
Yes. Because manually walking the DNS tree one step at a time by hand
using only a primitive CLI tool with very terse and confusing output is
really easy...
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:21:24 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
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>> nslookup -s [externalserveripaddress]
>>
>> Then enter the DNS lookup you want to check out.
>
> Yes. Because manually walking the DNS tree one step at a time by hand
> using only a primitive CLI tool with very terse and confusing output is
> really easy...
Well, I certainly don't have a problem doing it, have been using tools
like that for years....
Jim
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:21:24 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> CLI tool with very terse and confusing output is really easy...
And what's confusing about:
Server: x.x.x.x
Address: x.x.x.x#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: my.server.dns.name.here
Address: y.y.y.y
?
If I know that the address is supposed to be y.y.y.y and server x.x.x.x
shows me that it is, then I know it's not a problem with that DNS server.
Jim
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Yeah, not soon after posting that did I look at the calendar.
I think the best this year was yesterday's announcement by Google that
you'll be able to read tomorrow's web sites today via Google Search.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
"That's pretty. Where's that?"
"It's the Age of Channelwood."
"We should go there on vacation some time."
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Mike Raiford wrote:
> Check out XKCD ...
>
>
> ... WTF happened?
The comic just get better. Apparently...
I think there's something "wrong" with the way my brain functions. Every
time I see a webcomic, I become instantly hooked. Hmm...
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I think there's something "wrong" with the way my brain functions. Every
> time I see a webcomic, I become instantly hooked. Hmm...
...and reading through the strip, I just discovered one I've seen
before. WTF?
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> dnsstuff just keeps increasing the size of their "buy our services!"
> banner. Free tools remain.
For years now, that's all that has happened. But now it seems that the
number of available free tests is actually shrinking.
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Darren New wrote:
>
> I think the best this year was yesterday's announcement by Google that
> you'll be able to read tomorrow's web sites today via Google Search.
>
The best I've seen this year was at a Finnish Nissan-forum. They claimed
that AKE (Finnish officials to supervise car inspections, registrations
etc) is calling all Skyline GT-R's that were registered before 2007 back
to inspection, and they will 99% fail, since the 4WD-system used in GT-R
is illegal in Europe. They kept it going for whole day, removing the
"April's fool" -messages in order as soon as they arrived in the topic
and people kept throwing water by telling that they have verified this.
I'm still not sure if one guy draw his order for a "new" car back or not.
Hilarious. And darn nasty.
--
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
http://www.zbxt.net
aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid
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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
news:47f29d87$1@news.povray.org...
> Mike Raiford wrote:
> > Yeah, not soon after posting that did I look at the calendar.
>
> I think the best this year was yesterday's announcement by Google that
> you'll be able to read tomorrow's web sites today via Google Search.
On a similar note:
http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/2008/03/31/SQLskillscomAnnouncesTimeSetb
ackTechnologyForDBAs.aspx
I wish!
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