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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, January 31 2007 14:11
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Collection #6 just in! -------------------- You Shall Die Laughing: http://www.worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted The Roost: www.roost01.proboards104.com. Birds of a feather flock together. Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, January 31 2007 22:58
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Having seen this in a couple of cases, I'd just like to make a brief general announcement. Concerning "www." in URLs "www." comes from a time when the web was very new. Back then, domain names were hard to come by, and most of them did not point to http servers. Instead, they were either for other things - file storage, news or mail servers - or complete organizations (hence "domain") that offered several of these things (which would result in names like mail.domain.com, news.domain.com, ftp.domain.com...). So when the World Wide Web appeared, the way to implement it on current domains was to add a new subdomain on the current one: www.domain.com. The www indicated that this was a "web server" which could be reached with a "browser". The reason for different names was also that each service would be reached with a different protocol, and if you tried to send a website request to a mail server, it would cause errors. In the past two decades, the www has expanded to become the most popular aspect of the internet, and most domain names these days are primarily for websites; or even exclusively. Also, it has become good practice to host different services on the same name (take "mail.google.com", which is both a mail and a web server), because the server will know which protocol to use from the port. Port 80 is for http, port 25 for sending mails. This means "www." has absolutely no purpose anymore, and domains should not require it (unless they are one of those big organizations and do have a lot of servers under their domain name - and even then port 80 should ideally be redirected to the web server). ---- Therefore, x.ermarian.net sites will never have "www" preceding them. Trying to reach them over www .x.ermarian.net will work of course, but it will only redirect to x.ermarian.net. ---- Thank you. For more information, refer to no-www.org. :) Edit: The only other reason to use the www. is that UBB will turn it into a link. :P [ Wednesday, January 31, 2007 22:59: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Thursday, February 1 2007 12:14
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It's mind-boggling how many don't realize the above. quote:Hmmm... seems I've been ranting a lot about my inept friends lately. Oh well. EDIT: UBB is too user-friendly. -------------------- Canada's treasury board has just published the results of a $1.5 million survey on public service morale. The results indicate that 90 percent of federal public servants like their jobs, while 20 percent report being harassed on the job. Which means... 10 percent don't mind a bit. - Rick Mercer [ Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:19: Message edited by: Dintiradan ] Posts: 1509 | Registered: Tuesday, January 10 2006 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, February 1 2007 12:53
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Well, it's good practice to still acknowledge www while the less techy people are adjusting - of course it's best to redirect it to the URL without the www immediately to give them a nudge. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Thursday, February 1 2007 13:55
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quote:Seconded, and quoted for awesomeness. And if those 3 megabyte monsters are the product of Aran's attempts at compression, then I shudder to think how large the originals must have been. I'm not hallucinating, am I? The pictures hover around 3 megabtyes in size, right? -------------------- Thuryl: I mean, most of us don't go around consuming our own bodily fluids, no matter how delicious they are. ==== Alorael: War and violence would end if we all had each other's babies! ==== Drakefyre: Those are hideous mangos. Posts: 1415 | Registered: Thursday, March 27 2003 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, February 1 2007 16:03
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quote:Dude, those are the originals. Edit: Well, that or you counted the digits wrongly. They're 300k each. [ Thursday, February 01, 2007 16:07: Message edited by: Arancaytar ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Thursday, February 1 2007 20:27
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From my right-click information window: Size of File = 2968.57 KB. Either that is nearly 3 MB or my name is Shirley (it's not). EDIT: ARG. I kept getting the stats from the original originals instead of the miniaturized converted versions. [ Thursday, February 01, 2007 20:28: Message edited by: Garrison ] -------------------- Thuryl: I mean, most of us don't go around consuming our own bodily fluids, no matter how delicious they are. ==== Alorael: War and violence would end if we all had each other's babies! ==== Drakefyre: Those are hideous mangos. Posts: 1415 | Registered: Thursday, March 27 2003 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, February 1 2007 23:12
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I knew it had to be one of the above. Because the alternative was that I could suddenly download over 1 meg a second from the west coast. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Friday, February 2 2007 11:21
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The originals were between 2.5 and seven megs, for the curious souls here. And Diki, I have two more crossbow strips here, upon request. -------------------- You Shall Die Laughing: http://www.worfthecat.ermarian.net/converted The Roost: www.roost01.proboards104.com. Birds of a feather flock together. Posts: 794 | Registered: Thursday, July 27 2006 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Saturday, February 3 2007 04:59
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Yes, because when I read Garfield I think to myself 'It's good, but could it be done with thought balloons photoshopped onto pictures?' I'm just glad Milton Friedman didn't live to see this. [ Saturday, February 03, 2007 04:59: Message edited by: Protocols of the Elders of Zion ] Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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