It's still up and running via my BT connection. May the forces of dissension live on!
Cheers Colin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Firshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] OT: OFT say you have our attention on M$ [long] > 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 > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
