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le nubian - Jul 13, 2005 3:29:05 am PDT #3655 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

You know, I still think this is a better alternative to the Nokia product:

[link]

Typo Boy - Jul 13, 2005 11:23:41 am PDT #3656 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

What is a good basic desktop that has a good on-site service contract available if you want it? Speed is nice, but not essential - reliable and great service are the priorities.

DXMachina - Jul 13, 2005 12:27:12 pm PDT #3657 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Dell. Their lower level desktops are start at about $300 these days (no monitor), and they have on-site service. We've been pretty happy with them here.

Typo Boy - Jul 13, 2005 4:18:10 pm PDT #3658 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Really? I'd heard from several source that Dell service sucks - that they are good machines if nothing goes wrong, but if something happens you have to fight for service. That in fact is why I asked: Dell used to be my default for such situations so if they are not giving good service any more, then I need to find someone who is. Or are all those stores isolated incidents? Does Dell still give decent service after all?

DXMachina - Jul 13, 2005 4:27:07 pm PDT #3659 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

We've gotten good service, although we've occasionally had to be firm with the people on the phone to get it.

Typo Boy - Jul 13, 2005 4:28:10 pm PDT #3660 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Ah if Dell is still OK that makes things easy. I was afraid we needed to switch.

Thanks DX.

Jesse - Jul 13, 2005 4:57:21 pm PDT #3661 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

When I had a refurbished Dell laptop under warranty a few years ago, they were very prompt with sending someone to my house to fix my computer when it died. Just for another data point.

Hil R. - Jul 13, 2005 6:59:26 pm PDT #3662 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

I've had a Dell for a few years, and I've had to call tech support a few times and they've always been pretty helpful.

Eddie - Jul 13, 2005 9:48:24 pm PDT #3663 of 10003
Your tag here.

ita, this will do what you want wrt fuckers.com:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.*.)?fuckers.com/.*$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://(.*.)?asswipes.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\\.(jpg|jpeg|gif)$ [link] [R,NC,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*.)?buffistas.org/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*.)?worldcrossing.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(.*.)?provocateuse.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule .*\\.(jpg|jpeg|gif)$ [link] [R,NC,L]

The main point being the L flag in the RewriteRule which tells it this is the Last command and stop processing this chain. Oh, and the order of the commands is important, otherwise fuckers.com will match the second chain. For extra credit, I wrote the rule so that you can add more domains to the list using the OR flag (see asswipes.com above).

You might just want to consider forbidding the hotlinking altogether thusly:

RewriteRule .*\\.(jpg|jpeg|gif)$ - [F,NC,L]

§ ita § - Jul 14, 2005 5:08:17 am PDT #3664 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Thanks, Eddie! So far, that doesn't break my site.

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