"adaptation" is better than "being john malkovich". not to say much better.
robert's resource for help with dns issues: ask mr dns. (a service by verisign, btw.)
robert needs a weblog urgently to share his excellent knowledge himself. but who knows, maybe it will pop up one day, autonomatically?
related to the previous posting: network solutions horror stories. makes me wanna expropriate this comapny...
mark paschal got a link to a horror story, too. furthermore, he somehow recommends jumpdomain.com as registrar.
i also found godaddy.com being mentioned some more times. and certainly the community at slashdot got good advice for frustrated nsi customers, too.
from my own experience i absolutely agree upon the bad reputation of nsi/verisign. it's not only a fishy commercial corporation administrating the people's web identity but even an unscrupulous syndicate using questionable business practices to gain profit selling the heart of the world wide web.
the good news is, though, that nic.at comes off quite well in direct comparison: it did not take one day for them to update the a domain's dns record after i sent both the online request and the fax confirmation to them.
cacert.org provides server and e-mail certificates on an (almost) free basis "due to the growing popularity of using this method for authentication, and a growing concern about existing certificate authoritites (ca) starting to charge excessively, and increasing on a yearly basis, as well as extremely serious breaches of security in the past".
from the i-did-not-know dept.: mysql driver for rebol/core. just 21kb!
april, april!
rick jelliffe asks (and answers): "the new european currency, the euro, has a symbol € in unicode 3.2 as character u+20ac. how can we use it with xml?"
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the old server, piefke.helma.at, will be shut down in the very near future. (which is quite close to the present :)
besides an incredible amount of variations of sweets one finds strawberries, pears, apples, melons and a bunch of other fruits all made of marzipan at the wonderfully quaint lebensmittelhandel seba, bognergasse 5, vienna.
i will buy marzipan carrots there the next time i make the legendary swiss rübli cake for my loved one.
"'today's front pages' is an online version of one of the newseum's most popular exhibits. every morning, more than 100 newspapers from around the world submit their front pages to the newseum via the internet. [...] all of the front pages received that morning are then posted on the newseum's web site. the full selection of each day's front pages is available on the web site by 9:30 a.m. daily". via langreiter.