On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 at 09:43:49, Tarquin Mills wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>Tony Firshman wrote: >> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 at 12:32:25, Tarquin Mills wrote: >> >I hope do not mind, if so I apologise, but Microsoft's DOS and Windows >> >monopoly has done much damage to QDOS systems. >> > After this website http://www.oft.me.uk appeared earlier last week as >> >part of the Reboot Movement(i.e. Me) launch of a fresh campaign to end the >> >MicrosOFT and Intel monopoly which is holding Linux and many other systems >> >back. Following on swiftly from the launch of the MacBook signalling the >> >beginning of the end of non-x86 based PCs being available in the >> >highstreet. The OFT called Reboot at 10.50am on Friday and said take the >> >website down by midnight Friday or face legal action. The website running >> >on Gentoo Linux on a Mac parodies former OFT Director General John >> >Bridgeman and the OFT with a spoof press release. As you can see the >> >site is still there, as are copies worldwide (mirrors are welcome and >> >some of the content uses FSF licences). >> Not loading this Friday morning.... >> >> Tony > >www.anonymizer.com says it is still there and my server is still running >fine, maybe Fasthosts or NTL or DynDNS have been giving a unreliable >services.The www.oft.me.uk domain name uses web forwarding not IP >forwarding so only the root directory is mapped across, once across to >speccyverse.homedns.org then the other pages are available. >DynDNS seem most likely to the cause of the problem, as I will have to >move the site offshore soon anyway this will be solved if this is the >cause. Stuck at the hop after 195.188.40.106 ------------------------------------ 149.121.2.81.in-addr.arpa (81.2.121.149) 0.701 ms 0.721 ms 145.121.2.81.in-addr.arpa (81.2.121.145) 0.759 ms 2 sleepless.aaisp.net.uk (81.187.81.72) 12.297 ms 13.724 ms 10.424 ms 3 aimless.aaisp.net.uk (217.169.20.3) 11.808 ms 12.089 ms 10.576 ms 4 186.ge1-0.er1a.lhr4.uk.above.net (213.161.69.146) 13.419 ms 11.086 ms 13.400 ms 5 so-2-2-0.cr2.lhr4.uk.above.net (208.184.231.129) 12.291 ms 13.203 ms 12.314 ms 6 pos7-0.mpr2.lhr1.uk.above.net (208.184.231.169) 11.911 ms 11.662 ms 13.548 ms 7 gw1-tw-abovenet-pi.telewest.net (194.117.148.161) 11.494 ms 15.235 ms 12.838 ms 8 194.117.136.157 (194.117.136.157) 25.873 ms 24.267 ms 27.245 ms 9 194.117.136.177 (194.117.136.177) 19.649 ms 20.459 ms 22.588 ms 10 194.117.136.181 (194.117.136.181) 26.759 ms 23.550 ms 26.113 ms 11 195.188.230.41 (195.188.230.41) 23.579 ms 23.772 ms 24.793 ms 12 195.188.230.74 (195.188.230.74) 23.142 ms 23.895 ms 27.332 ms 13 82.33.208.14 (82.33.208.14) 19.558 ms 19.179 ms 20.765 ms 14 195.188.40.106 (195.188.40.106) 23.494 ms 24.245 ms 26.489 ms 15 * * * > -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 tony@<surname>.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
