Lala Shutting Down
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Comment: Re:A good plot (Score 1) 951
Ah, bad word usage on my part. By work, I mean actually reading the error message and determining if it's a problem or not. For example, one app I built compiles text into an XML file that is used by another application to build the final product. Users can enter data that may not compile correctly but can still be used in the final build. The error message states this but users will still call and say they don't know what to do. I usually suggest reading the error message. I guess it's more of a warning.
And there are the ones that say, could you just finish up the thing I was working on for me instead of fixing the application?
Comment: Re:Dreamhost (Score 1) 456
Thanks for the info guys. The tech support issue might make me change. Although I do deal a lot with off-shore resources in my current job so I can deal with the differences. But I know what really goes on in the tech support shops and won't put up with that BS.
Comment: A good plot (Score 4, Funny) 951
The error message has to have a good plot and some character development. Pull the users in with that and then get the error message across.
Ok, seriously, as a writer of error messages at times, I have found putting in 'interesting' wording works sometimes with some of the more intelligent users. Unfortunately, there will always be the ones that just want someone else to do their work.
I suggest that they be burned because they're witches.
Comment: Summoning it Up (Score 1) 456
The old company I was with sux. But this new company is the shit. You should use it. And here's a link.
In serious, I was hoping to gain more insight into the world of web hosting. Which I did and that is nearly everyone is trying to resell to everyone else. And you really need to know what is important to you because the spectrum of services are from a basic service to enterprise level services. Other than that, pick one and go with it until the suck and then find another.
Comment: Re:Dreamhost (Score 1) 456
So what sucked about 1 and 1? I'm using them now and haven't had any problems. That being said, I don't do much with the domain either.
Comment: Just Say No (Score 1) 118
This is why I don't install toolbars. And you know who else likes to install toolbars? Yeah, Zynga. You trust them with your info?
Space Photos Taken From Shed Stun Astronomers 149
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timothy
from the love-the-gold-mylar dept.
from the love-the-gold-mylar dept.
krou writes "Amateur astronomer Peter Shah has stunned astronomers around the world with amazing photos of the universe taken from his garden shed. Shah spent £20,000 on the equipment, hooking up a telescope in his shed to his home computer, and the results are being compared to images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. 'Most men like to putter about in their garden shed,' said Shah, 'but mine is a bit more high tech than most. I have fitted it with a sliding roof so I can sit in comfort and look at the heavens. I have a very modest set up, but it just goes to show that a window to the universe is there for all of us – even with the smallest budgets. I had to be patient and take the images over a period of several months because the skies in Britain are often clouded over and you need clear conditions.' His images include the Monkey's head nebula, M33 Pinwheel Galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy and the Flaming Star Nebula, and are being put together for a book."
Comment: Re:Jonathan Byrd... (Score 1) 210
Obviously he's not producing very well liked music. Or perhaps he should change his name to something like Johnnie Janus.