Thanks Casey, I did this redirection: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dial_home_features&redirect=no
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dial_home_features&redirect=no> Nevio 2010/7/30 Casey Brown <[email protected]> > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Henry Hartley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/30/2010 10:24 AM, Steve VanSlyck wrote: > >> > >> From: nevio carlos de alarcão<[email protected]> > >>> Hi, could you explain what does this dial home feature mean? It > >>> would be more comprehensive toward those who are not software > >>> expert but do want to contribute. Thank you. Regards, Nevio > >> > >> "Dial home" or "phone home" is a euphimism from the movie ET. It > >> refers to software that "checks in" periodically with the software > >> devolper. Many people consider phone home implementations not to be > >> features so much as spyware. > > > > When software phones home to give the folks at home information about > > the computer doing the phoning, that's spyware. We're talking about > > software that phones home and asks if there's anything new that it might > > want. Or at least that's what it sounds like to me. Two totally > > different things. No one has suggested MediaWiki software phone home and > > give anyone any information (other than what might show up in an httpd > > log). Just make it something that can be turned off for the really > > paranoid types. > > > > On the other hand, I'm pretty paranoid when it comes to "automatic > > updates" of things like this. I like to have the old code base that I > > can switch back to if anything goes wrong -- and things DO go wrong. > > > > Just reminding everyone that there's this awesome free encyclopedia > out there with an article on the subject. ;-) > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoning_home> (Though everyone's given > great answers already!) > > -- > Casey Brown > Cbrown1023 > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > -- {+}Nevinho Venha para o Movimento Colaborativo http://sextapoetica.com.br !! _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
