Tag: WEB

Firefox 5 out now

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Mozilla Firefox 5.0 is out today.
Just released.
So far Conduit toolbars do not work with 5 yet.
They will. in due time.

Fire Fox 5

Fire Fox 5

Get FireFox 5.0

 

The firefox web browser is the latest and current longest running web browser by mozilla as of now. The firefox web browser now has just as much competition as the mozilla browser had back in the day when mozilla was the best alternative web browser.

 

So far I give the firefox web browser a 8/10 for the small amount of testing I have been able to perform as of now.

Microsoft and the Cloud

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Microsoft and the Cloud

Cloud computing in it’s real form is using an off site storage and operating system. Cloud computing is booting up your computer and the cmos/bios calls out to an off site location and is given the proper command to tell your computer to boot up. This giving you, the owner of your computer, no ability to control your content because your computer does not have it’s own storage. Because it simply does not need it. Yes your computer will last longer. but your computer will practically be like a cable box. you will not be 100% in control of your surfing and or your content.

Currently the definition of cloud computing is a lesser than what it really is.
From wikipedia October 2 2010

Cloud computing is Web-based processing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the smart phones.

Being able to network your material across locations and platforms, fine. That’s excellent. But the moment it gets changed to you having to install this and that to operate better with the cloud and the instance you lose features and functions and personal control of processes, is the clue that this is going to be something we do not want. A gradual acclamation into forfeiting freedom, creation, knowledge, learning and teaching.

The reason Why I say it’s Microsoft and the Cloud is because they seem to be pushing the cloud like crazy on their recent commercials. But cloud computing has been around since before windows Vista. I am assuming they expected windows Vista to not be a flop. That way the buzz about Cloud computing would be just prime for Microsoft to jump on the term. but now they are almost two years into windows 7, Microsoft is now boasting “the cloud”.

It seems they have (for now) Separated Cloud Computing and “Online Operating System“. Here is one that lets you test it. (there is one that forces you to install Microsoft Silver light, but lol no way dude)Here is a fake one that limits what you can do, done in flash.
Hey the whole online operating system is perfect for grand parents, aunts and the idiot who thinks he is to tough to learn. an online operating system is not for the kid growing up who needs to learn how to build a computer and fix an operating system and test theories and some day be a rocket scientist. An online operating system is for people who will learn nothing hands on from their computer, but get a chance to use wikipedia and google a bunch.

With comcast setting a cap and saying that if you use more than 250 gigs of bandwidth (internet) a month you have will have to pay for each meg that you go over. 250 sounds unreachable right? Imagine all the times you drag something around your computer from one drive to another. Imagine if your computer was scattered all over the internet. Yeah 250 gigs will burst in a week. and in that case, a web based operating system surely is not for a company that has lots of backed up documents.

We need to vote that we can never be forced into online operating systems and that all companies who make stuff for web bases operating systems, also make the software compatible with local storage computers, and no one can decorate the web based operating systems to be better.
what gets me is palm hp and Linux and Microsoft and apple are all pushing this like it’s the biggest and most wanted thing, but when you ask people how they feel about it, the respond with ” I have no idea what you are talking about” . We don’t want it,
Do not decorate it to be something it is not and do not give it to us in small tiny doses and then strip us of the last final thread. We know it will happen.

I’m sure to some it may look as if i am screaming the sky is falling. Sad thing is, when it does fall, My site will be gone and blocked and all of my traffic will be gone. Some stury of incompatible with the new internet or some lame crap.

DON’T TOUCH MY COMPUTER AND DON’T TOUCH MY INTERNET

I am not against or for net neutrality. Quit saying “either or” because what it is now, is not “either or”. Let’s keep the internet as it is and you need to quit capitalizing on it.

There needs to be a third picket sign at the rally that says ” LEAVE MY INTERNET ALONE! ”

Right now as it is, the biggest mover what has helped computers evolve the most is being shut down. PC Gaming. go to three game stops and tell me how many at all three have pc games anymore.

I Test Drive BIng

Posted onAuthorTech News

Well the big Selling point of Bing is that you can ask direct questions.

So i had my very first question to ask bing.

We got a file today, labeled with a .mso extension. Email opens it fine, but once out of email I have no idea hat to open it with, so i turned to bing with a question. “what is .mso” . Number one answer is “Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra”.

Didn’t like that answer at all lol. So I look deeper. Nothing identifies the use of the period/point mark showing that was not an abbreviation, but it was a file extension. Nothing for pages. So I tried a few simple ones. Sure that was fine and dandy, but why show me the simple ones but not the hard ones??

so I did the same search in google. Top answer was the same but in like the 8th  spot, there it was.

Sure it’s more difficult to locate things in Google sometimes, unless you know the tricks for locating specific details. like plus minus quote and so on.

My opinion, Bing is still being developed into a blue version of yahoo search and is not ready yet for competing with anyone other than old msn search.

The whole pop up description thing is anoying

Bing= but it’s not google!!!???….(with a sad face)

Internet Explorer released

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Well here we are passed the whole” let’s catch up with firefox” phase of adding tabs. Let’s see if explorer caught up on the whole ” well let’s let them see the page they are trying to access , before we ask them if they want to save the password.” One thing I hate is when a page will not load until I select yes or no on save password “what if I typoed”.

Some have informative responses (kinda)
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5937995.ece

Steve Ballmer, the chief executive officer of Microsoft, said: “With Internet Explorer 8, we are delivering a browser that gets people to the information they need, fast, and provides protection that no other browser can match.”

but here is the actual page so you can evaluate for yourself
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

Now you can quickly display websites that were designed for older browsers. If you’re looking at a page and the text or images aren’t lined up right, just use the new Compatibility View button next to the Refresh button on the Address Bar.

What is Google Analytics

Posted onAuthorTruXter

If you have ever  clicked in to see a website and noticed that by you launch/start button you notice your browser says that you are waiting for  some program to start up from google. If you have ever said ” Hmmm should I be scared?”

If you are looking for a simple answer,

It’s a program you link with code on your website. The code in your  website sends information to google. Th information gathered is really thorough.  Types of data gathered are about the people surfing your website, such as point of origin, screen resolution, operating system, Exact search query, time on site, exit location.

For me some of this information is pretty useful. It tells me what size pictures I can put on my site to please the common public, what browser and operating system is my target to please. What content people where looking for and if I have exactly what they want or should I cover that content also or should I give a link to someone who does.

Google’s Version of the story

Not to be super conspiracy filled, but.

Um, that’s to much info about me. I am not comfortable with that much data. I really wouldn’t want the guy’s on the adopt a pet, website seeing that I whent straight to their site from an athlete’s foot site, and when I left I whent to a site about people who liked to eat with their feet.

Why is it that the google urchin gathers personal info about  us, kinda adware info. I mean really isn’t it for advertisement purposes….. why doesn’t my spybot ,asquared and addaware find it?  it is a js file so it does have beef.

Other than the issue with my personal self not liking the monitoring, I love being able to  tweak my site with the info I gather.

Web Page Creator

Posted onAuthorTruXter

Ok So I was sent to office depot 5 minutes before lunch started. I decided to swing by the burger place and get some lunch before I go in, and just waste an hour and 15 minutes for lunch instead of my regular hour lunch. I went in to Office depot and gathered all the things I needed into a buggy (office supply junk, paper pens toner ink) and walk in circles for a few minutes. While walking in circles and getting followed around by the depot snipers ( not sure they thought I was shop lifting, so i picked up stuff and would misplace it like crazy) I stumbled on the $9 software bin. While rooting around I saw a “buy one get one free” sign. So I decided to dig around and make sure I find something. Well I found a web page design thingy disk. I pretty much knew it would be crap because it’s price and the fact that the makers say nothing about it’s form or style. Like css,html javascript. Nothing just says something about templates.
The product is made by a company named Cosmi, the product name is “WEB PAGE CREATOR”. there is a circle stamp on the front with a symbol that says “#1” and some stuff in tiny freaking print though I can make out the work “productivity” . Well I scanned it with asquared,virscan.org, norton anti vir and found no reason to freak out.
So today I finally install the software. The actual software they are selling is all of about 10 megs of software, the rest, well, the rest is a 2002 version of open office.
The software they created (I think they created or just downloaded from some poor joke’s website) is just a shell script hand full of short cut links to open office items but named differently in the program. Don’t worry, when the open office items open up they do show their names at the top of the program’s window.
Well My True honest opinion, as far as web design goes, you can do everything this software bundle can do, Simply by using netscape navigator 7.2 suite edition. ns 7.2 suite comes with a program called “composer” and well, you can do the whole “what you see is what you get” web design part of using a program just like you can with cosmi’s erm, uh, java sun system’s? open office program.
plus netscape 7.2 s does not come with netzero crapware like this program does..

My call?
Walk past this thing, sure waste of ten bucks.

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A Letter To Comcast- You Blocked My Site!

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I am the owner of iworkwithpeople.comI have not been able to connect to my website now for nearly a week, I have seen that I can connect while at work on a t3 line, and I can connect on my female friend’s computer that has a dsl line, and a few friends from live.Pirillo.com have helped me and checked the connection from where they are and they all connect.. except the people on comcast . My site’s address is iworkwithpeople.com and the service I have is through 50megs.com. i assume they took it upon themselves to block 50megs.com for what ever reason they saw fit. in the process of blocking 50megs, they blocked me.. This reduces the number of page visits considerably. Considering they monopolized the cable industry, it looks more like a 20’s gangster bull crap “ehh mugsy don’t let no one connect to them until they pay me 50% seeeeeeee” .I am not happy with this .

The letter I wrote is to follow…

Comcast Houston blocking my domain.
I own a website, through 50megs.com
I can connect to my file manager on sbc dsl, I can connect through sprint dsl and I have connected at work with a t3 line, but when I get home or to any of my friend’s houses with Comcast I can not connect to 50megs.com . I am near time to re up on my domain name and hosting bills and getting really frustrated that I can not connect from home where i feel safe. I want to connect to my service and it appears you are blocking me. Please look into this and solve this issue.

From work we did a tracert

After doing a tracert and a whois we find these services
1 19 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 74.7.23.193
3 8 ms 9 ms 7 ms 172.22.213.125
4 14 ms 7 ms 9 ms 192.168.39.48
5 13 ms 9 ms 7 ms 192.168.38.34
6 12 ms 8 ms 9 ms ge-1-6.r03.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [128.241.1
.177]
7 13 ms 9 ms 8 ms xe-0-1-0.r20.hstntx01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250
.2.228]
8 15 ms 16 ms 14 ms as-0.r20.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net [129.250.3.1
29]
9 17 ms 17 ms 16 ms ge3-0.cr02.dal01.pccwbtn.net [206.223.118.48]
10 54 ms 50 ms 48 ms unitedonline.ge2-5.br01.lax01.pccwbtn.net [63.21
8.25.14]
11 52 ms 57 ms 57 ms ve113.r1.bu3.lax.untd.com [64.136.1.171]
12 51 ms 48 ms 57 ms pop.communityarchitect.com [64.136.25.170]

Trace complete.

communityarchitect.com
northsky.com
freeservers.com
direct-connect.com

tell me if you can connect through Comcast

these three are the chain I chased at work.

Now from home I do a tracert

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:Documents and SettingsTruXter>tracert 50megs.com
Unable to resolve target system name 50megs.com.

C:Documents and SettingsTruXter>

It has been confirmed by my Domain Host that Comcast is surely blocking all of 50megs.com domain hosting from being connected by Comcast users !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Message today 1-15-08 from 50megs.com

We have contacted Comcast and have ticket open with them. They are working to clear out the cache and correct the outage issues.

We have resolved the issues on this side.

It should be up and running shortly. Mike

Mysite Customer Service

Original Message Follows: ————————

Form Message

Complaint: Looks like comcast is blocking all connection to 50 megs. I can not connect to my site or the file manager located on 50megs.com
Full Name: Mr. TruXter
Email Address: XXXX@comcast.net
Web Site URL: iworkwithpeople.com
Partner Domain: 50megs.com
service_level: 213
user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Java Script: YES
Application Name: Netscape
Application Version: 5.0 (Windows; en-US)
Subject: MWS-Complaints: Looks like comcast is blocking all connection to 5

Message from comcast today 1-15-08

Dear Customer,

Thank you for contacting Comcast Cable.

I understand that you are experiencing difficulties with your Comcast
service. Offering our customers the most effective possible support is a
priority at Comcast. We appreciate that you have given us this
opportunity to communicate with you and we want to address your concerns
as quickly as possible. Although most issues can be addressed from
within the email forum, in some cases "Live Interaction" is necessary as
this issue will have to be escalated for resolution. In order to assist
you, we ask that you use the link below to open a "Chat session" with a
representative or call us using the information provided.

 http://www.comcastsupport.com/chat

If you require assistance and prefer to speak to a representative:
Please call us at 1-800-COMCAST (266-2278) - Customer Care and Internet
Support 24/7

If you need further assistance, please feel free to respond directly to
this email. We appreciate you taking the time to contact us.

Thank you for choosing Comcast.

Sincerely,

Tonya
Comcast Customer Care Specialist
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Comments:
Comcast houston blocking my domain.
I own a website, through 50megs.com
I can connect to my file manager on sbc dls, I can connect through
sprint dsl and I have connected at work with a t3 line, but when I get
home or to any of my friend''s houses with comcast I can not connect to
50megs.com . I am near time to re up on my domain name and hosting bills
and getting really frustrated that I can not connect from home where i
feel safe. I want to connect to my service and it appears you are
blocking me. Please look into this and solve this issue.
IPAddress:
98.XXX.X.XXX




Kinda looks like they sent me a bunch of nothing from comcast.. feels like I am trying to teach my cat how to pee in the toilet.


************update****************


Someone sent me a link to a proxy thingy for myspace

and it actually worked, just typed in my web site address and bamI whent directly to my site. I did not type in my password or anything though, I really do not know  if I trust a third party site like that… ya know?  so if you are on comunismcast or any service that can not see my site right now, gie that a try. see for your self that you are actually blocked.


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50megs.com is down


				
					
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They host my stuff and for two days now I can not log into my account or even see http://iworkwithpeople.com 


which is hosted at 50megs.com .. heck i can’t even go to 50 megs. . this is killing my visit count.


You know, I am starting to think  comcast is blocking my host’s i.p. address.


No one can go there that I know of, who are on comcast.


I mean my buddy in another city on dsl can go there


I can go there from my job just 4 miles up the road, and my job uses a whole nother service.


if you can go to 50megs.com or iworkwithpeople.com   please leave a notice as to what service you use and which of the two sites you can access.