Not that this is so suprising, but as a counter offer to Stork Net's pleasant demeanor, they're the anti-happy mom discussion site: Sybermoms. I lifted this from the homepage:
Are other parent support groups driving you crazy? Are you tired of those parent support groups' heavy-handed moderation, behind-the-scenes bickering and excessive use of {{{{{HUGS}}}}}? Do smiley faces following hateful statements at other parent support groups make you scream?
If you just want to be yourself, break out of the mold and tell the world what you really think, then Sybermoms is the parent support group for you.
We are mothers living outside of the lines. We attract grrrrls, professionals, students, SAHMs, etc etc all with the commonality of being slightly against the grain in our own unique ways. We don't beat around the bush when expressing our opinions and yet we offer the most sincere support when a member really needs it. We stand united against any form of child abuse or self destructive behaviour and we stand for the empowerment and advancement of the family unit as well as self empowerment and satisfaction. We are just so damn hip and cool.
We are a diverse, irreverent group of women, some of whom have been posting together on parent support groups for years. If you are a thick-skinned, bitchy chick, you'll fit in here. Have fun!
I don't have to tell you that these women are crass, at best! I guess that every mom isn't coated with sugar. Salty is ok too, I guess. Meg is still vacilating as to whether or not she plans on participating in the often off-color discussion threads. I think she's leaning toward that of a casual observer, and not a full blown participant.
Anyway, I hope that every got what they wanted and/or what was coming to them in 2002, and that 2003 brings mo', mo', mo'!
When your signature on a discussion forum includes:
who | grep -i blonde | date; cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep
You are a L00z3r!
It appears as if Server.Transfer in ASP.NET takes QueryString values. This was not the case with ASP 3.0. Therefore, the new rule is as such:
Only use Response.Redirect if the target page is not within the same webapp.
I received an email from www.addr.com. They want to host my site. Anyway, I went to their site to check them out. I do have to say that they have a very appealing website. In particular, checkout the Services page, and then mouse-over the services. The little animations are really funny.
The site has another cool featrure, and that's the Additional Site Navigation menu in bottom left. The printer friendly option is cool. Obviously someone at ADDR spent time on the site. There's a fine line between what sucks and what's awesome on the web, and this site is definately on the top end of the good website scale.
[17:55] <atlantic> Is there any reason to use FRAMES anymore?
[17:59] <artificer> that's like asking if there's a reason to use windows95
You're not going to beleive this but I just looked at my Amex stmt, and CI Host charged my CC for $130 on 2/11. Not only did the charge show up, it's with a different merchant name. This is just proof that this company is a pit of snakes.
Amex has removed the charge and has sent it out for review. I'll keep you posted.
Just to let everyone know, CI Host accepted the complaint, and reversed the charge. I guess the folks at CI Host wanted to see if they could get away with randomly charging former customers. I bet there are other former customers like myself that were charged, but didn't pay attention to their bill and payed this random charge. Ya know, if CI Host wants to steal, maybe they should get more creative.
I received an email the other day from John N. He posted some comments to the CI Host Sucks thread. Well, as it turns out, Chris Faukner of CI Host read my weblog (w00t!), and was non-plussed by what John N had to say, and emailed him with the following:
"We will seek injunctive relief Monday in Tarrant County for your slanderous statements."
So, obviously he emailed me and asked if I would delete the comments. Solely because I'm a nice guy did I do just that. Of course, I did save the archive page as a Web Archive in IE6 so I can look back on it and laugh some day. See, it just goes to show you; you never know who's watching!
In the last year and a half (or so), I have used five different Linux firewall distros or scripts to protect my home network from the evils of the net, and to provide NAT. If you don't know, NAT is short for Network Address Translation. It is also referred to as Masquerading. This is the process of allowing n-number of machines on a private LAN to share a single public IP address.
NAT can be accomplished a number of different ways. The most common method in residential settings is a Cable/DSL router from vendors such as Linksys, DLink, and Netgear. These devices are often paired up with an internal WiFi access point. The benefit to the end user in using such devices is ease of setup, and low cost. Unfortunately, what you gain from that, you loose in flexibility of configurations, and a robust feature set. The only catch with using a Linux firewall, is you need a donor PC.
After using a 256/256 SDSL line for a year and a half, I switched over to a cable modem. As a result of the switchover, I lost my static IP addresses (I had 13), and therefore required NAT for my LAN machines to continue accessing the Internet. Since I had been learning/hacking away at Linux for a few months, I decided to setup a machine as a dedicated firewall. The machine I eventually used was my first Linux box ("reggie"), and I purchased a new machine ("jordyn") to take its place.
So, like any good Linux h4x0r3, I mulled around the Netfilter/IPTables mailing list, and the #debian IRC channel. After a few quick HOWTO's, I was NAT'ing my whole LAN onto the the Net. Now, if you know anything about me, I have an overwhelming need to over engineer any solution. Like Tim "The Toolman" Taylor used to say, "I need more power! <grunt> <grunt>". It was this desire that has resulted in my home LAN being behind so may solutions in so little time.
I figured that it would be beneficial to my fellow über-geeks to share my experiences. I will enumerate each setup and give the pros and cons that I found with each.
I have been using ASL for about a week now. After a couple of trial and error attempts, I was able to setup PPTP from my XP box at work to the ASL box at home. Also, I have started to play with the built-in HTTP proxy. Unfortunately, even though I can authenticate users against my Active Directory server (!), ASL is using Squid 2.4, and for NTLM support, you need 2.5. I'm waiting. If they implement that, then I have no need to install an ISA Server at work.
Just as a point of note. I tried Mitel Networks' SME Server in between Smoothwall and ClarkConnect. IIRC, there was no clear DMZ support, and therefore I moved past it. Once feature of SME Server though was native software RAID support. As you can see though, I've had experience with enough packages in such short time, that I can speak intelligently (I think) on the topic. If you want the "Jerry's Last Words", I would recommend Smoothwall if hardware is an issue, but if you can spring for a beefier platform, go ASL.
I found out today that in about 4 weeks, I will be the proud recipient of
H4X0R3D
on my license plate! So, with that, I realized that I must have a computer in the car. I have started to assemble what I beleive to be a real system, and not some cobbled together kludge that I see so often. I plan on using a real industrial embedded machine with an instance of XP Embedded. I was able to source a PC/104 module that has both GPS and GPRS. This will make the install much simplier.
And like any good geek, I will be sure to share the end results!