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Tom Scola - May 12, 2005 5:56:51 pm PDT #2880 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I've got the R200 also. What HiddenSky said.


Strix - May 12, 2005 6:07:44 pm PDT #2881 of 10003
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

btefnet.net is down. Apparently, they got sued by the MPAA today.

Anyone know any alternatives?


le nubian - May 12, 2005 6:29:15 pm PDT #2882 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

try...

isohunt.com


HiddenSky - May 12, 2005 6:32:38 pm PDT #2883 of 10003
"There are two sorts of people in the world: those who believe Joss Whedon is a genius and those who are wrong." - Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

You're welcome, ita. For about $100 for the R200, it's hard to go wrong. I've noticed plain paper photo printing is a bit more vibrant on Epson's own paper, but that's one of the few quirks I've noticed, and it's not that surprising. Photo paper prints are great, though. It prints right to the edge, so you don't have white borders on photos if you don't want them.


Jessica - May 12, 2005 7:27:48 pm PDT #2884 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Can someone give me an example of a properly formatted RFC-822 time/date?

I'm trying to format the pubdate field of an RSS feed, and it's the only thing I can't seem to get validated. Reading this is just making my eyes cross.


§ ita § - May 12, 2005 7:34:00 pm PDT #2885 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My items look like this:

<item>
 <title>Barefoot updates for 12th of May, 2005</title>
 <pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 18:00:02 PDT</pubDate>
 <link><![CDATA[http://barefoot.provocateuse.com/daily.php?date=20050512&stamp=180002]]></link>
 <description>Barefoot and fancy free (1 new): elijah wood</description>
 <author>barefoot@provocateuse.com</author>
 </item>

using:

$pubdate = date("D, d M Y H:i:s T", $now);


Jessica - May 12, 2005 7:43:03 pm PDT #2886 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

I could swear that's what I have now, but I'll copy-paste and try again.

(Huh...now it's validating, but I still don't see any items when I try to subscribe on Bloglines. Thunderbird claims to be downloading 4, but only shows me 1.)

Guess I'll fiddle some more tomorrow when my brain wakes up.


Volans - May 12, 2005 10:16:15 pm PDT #2887 of 10003
move out and draw fire

Windows Media Player question - it won't play any streaming media content from the internet. I can play files off of my computer or the other computer on the network, but nothing off the internet.

  • I've turned the firewall off
    • I've attempted to change my internet security settings to "Low" but they keep re-setting to "Medium."
    • The sites providing the streaming media correctly identify my player as Windows Media Player v.10, and say there's no problem.

Without the firewall on, I shouldn't have to define ports, right? Could it be a codecs thing? Or a conflict with Service Pack 2 (as so much is)?

The computer came with McAfee Security Center loaded, which I tried to eradicate from every nook and cranny of my system as it was preventing me from being networked, but is it possible there's still a remnant of it somewhere that's blocking WMP? I went through the registery pretty thoroughly.


Tom Scola - May 13, 2005 3:22:44 am PDT #2888 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Actually, the date-time format was updated in RFC 2822, and the syntax that ita is using is obsolete. The actual format is:

Fri, 13 May 2005 05:23:00 -0700

The time zone should be a numeric offset from GMT, so EDT is -0400, EST is -0500, and PDT is -0700.

The day of the week in the beginning is optional. The time is 24-hour time, and the hours, minutes and seconds should all be 2 digits, with leading zeros. The seconds are optional.


Jessica - May 13, 2005 5:18:24 am PDT #2889 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The time zone should be a numeric offset from GMT, so EDT is -0400, EST is -0500, and PDT is -0700.

Thanks Tom, I'll update that.