My domain registrar (domaindiscover) tells me when a domain name is about to expire, and gives me plenty of notice (just yelled at me about one in October). The term "DNS host" is a little confusing, but I think you mean registrar, right? The name servers that do the actual primary resolution belong to the same company that hosts the site, in my experience.

Although you don't have to do it that way. It's just the most convenient for me.

My domain registrar (domaindiscover) tells me when a domain name is about to expire, and gives me plenty of notice (just yelled at me about one in October).

Hey, me too!

Thanks. And yeah the wording was clumsy I did indeed mean domain registrar

I've used both Dotster and Godaddy with no problems -- they've both given me plenty of notice on renewals.

Back to my shiny toy question...let's say you've all convinced me to go with a Treo 650 as cheaper than a 700p and not really all that different. Can you think of a good reason for me not to buy this one?

[y'all are too slow, so I went ahead and bought it. Cheaper than the new-contract price, so yay!]

My laptop (iBook) is freaking out.

It sounds a lot like the problem that is covered by the Expanded iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program. The bad news is that this happens a lot. My friend is sending hers in for the fourth time. The good news is that they are very quick about getting them back to you fixed.

Hmm - if they all work equally well GoDaddy is cheaper.

Thanks, Rob. That may be one of my problems. I susect there are several workin together, at this point.

I've used GoDaddy quite a bit, and never had any problems. They have an autorenew option if you don't want to have to think about it again.

This is a little too geeky for me, but... gotta love that "hello world" program.

Anyway, I decided that it would be amusing to inflict my obsession on you, my readers, with a new feature: the friday pathological programming language. You see, there are plenty of crazy people out there; and many of them like to invent programming languages. Some very small number of them try to design good languages and succeed; a much larger number try to design good languages and fail; and then there are the folks who design the languages I'm going to talk about. They're the ones who set out to design bizzare programming languages, and succeed brilliantly. They call them "esoteric" programming languages. I call them evil.

Today, the beautiful grand-daddy of the esoteric language family: the one, the only, the truly and deservedly infamous: Brainfuck!, designed by Urban Müller. (There are a number of different implementations available; just follow the link.)

Only 8 commands - including input and output - all written using symbols. And yet Turing complete; and not just Turing complete, but actually based on a real formal theoretical design. And it's even been implemented in hardware!

Here's a hello-world program

++++++++[>+++++++++<-]>.<+++++[>++++++<-]>-.+++++++..+++.<

++++++++[>>++++<<-]>>.<<++++[>------<-]>.<++++[>++++++<-]>

.+++.------.--------.>+.

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Yeah, Gar, I use GoDaddy and they've been fine for me. And cheap.