Reading the comments that follow the post, it seems as though it's just that Comcast is having some sort of large scale outage (in Boston), and that it's not limited to open source software or one particular site.
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DXMachina - Sep 26, 2006 1:07:03 pm PDT #9051 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Rob - Sep 26, 2006 1:37:54 pm PDT #9052 of 10003
Thanks Rob! :)
You're welcome. Sadly, I can no longer offer Mac discounts. I'm not working at the fruit factory anymore.
Typo Boy - Sep 26, 2006 2:17:04 pm PDT #9053 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.
Yeah - I can get to google and gmail fine.
Theodosia - Sep 26, 2006 3:07:04 pm PDT #9054 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Well, that 'explains' why I was having trouble this morning at home, which has Comcast, but not at work.
bon bon - Sep 26, 2006 3:33:24 pm PDT #9055 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Me and many of my co-workers were having trouble specifically with gmail/google today, even though we're in NYC.
I guess it was a particular ISP: [link] though doubt it was necessarily comcast.
beth b - Sep 26, 2006 8:07:36 pm PDT #9056 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
My TIVO is gaslightintg me. It says it will be recording VM on Tuesday. But down at the bottom of the list ( where season passes with no shows are listed ) it says "non schedualed". Is this becasue I told it to record on CW before I chnaged my season pass from WB?
§ ita § - Sep 26, 2006 8:18:30 pm PDT #9057 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you have two season passes? Where does it say it will be recording it?
beth b - Sep 27, 2006 2:00:15 am PDT #9058 of 10003
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
nope only onefor cw and it says it will be recording at the proper schedualed time . I think I told i t to do it manually before I put in the new season pass.
Theodosia - Sep 27, 2006 2:28:11 am PDT #9059 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Yeah, it's trying to reconcile what it interprets as two different requests, I think.
Which reminds me that I have to go check through my own Season Passes....
tommyrot - Sep 27, 2006 8:05:43 am PDT #9060 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
The new version of Firefox will alert users when they go to a known fraudulant site.
There's also good news for Mom: Firefox 2.0 has some really great anti-phishing measures built in. Look at what happened when I clicked on a PayPal "update your account" email link (click to enlarge):
The above link details other cool new features....