Is this Widget thing a new feature with Tiger?

Widgets are a secret organization, much like the Freemasons, that have existed for thousands of years. Only now have they chosen to reveal themselves.

Is this Widget thing a new feature with Tiger?

Yes.

Okay, irritated.

One, because the TiVo desktop won't install on Tiger.

But secondly, and perhaps more solvable, my Panasonic phone is driving me round the bend. I kvetched about it here before, and ended up going and buying new batteries -- the charge runs down insanely quickly (the main unit can only be off base for a day), and the battery consumption indicator lies (it was up to three bars a second ago, but the unit couldn't maintain a link to base, and then it suddenly went down to RECHARGE BATTERY).

So .. I'm looking for a cordless phone with:

• expandable handsets
• speakerphone on base unit
• speakerphone on handsets
• voicemail waiting indicator
I've also gotten used to
• alarm clock
• phone directory synchronised across units

Yeah, and non-trivial battery life would be nice too.

What's the etiquette for someone sucking bandwidth from me?

Someone is direct linking to the Ben Edlund autographed spoon pic from W&H Auction and using it as a userpic on a few message boards. The lad posts a lot.

Do I just change the name of the pic on my site? Email the kid and say, "Right click, save to hard drive, upload."?

no, the appropriate way to respond is swap out the image for one with the same name that is an icon saying "I'm a bandwidth thief and a loser".

Or WTTE.

I may be evil. But if you want to hit him hard, that's the way to do it. Hotlinking is so wrong, I can't believe people have to keep saying don't hotlink.

Oh! I shall do just that, Consuela!

Believe me, the hotlinking will stop forthwith.

Welcome to the world of fuckos and .htaccess. I'm not good enough to get all tutorial on you, but basically, you drop a file in your image directory that can deny or grant access to the files there to whatever hosts you wish. And it can also swap images. So, when someone tries to grab images from my provocateuse sites, I hand them a 2400x267 gif that's only 5K. Messes up the screens they're dropping it on, doesn't cost me as much bandwidth as the picture they were looking for.

Sometimes I'd drop people an e-mail about it, but it rarely worked.

There are sites that throw up something pornographic or disgusting as a discouraging tactic.

Google lists of hotlink prevention tutorials.

I think I shall do that, ita, thanks.

But first, I must shame.

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Hee. Hee. Hee.

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