Mirabell
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what uh does that mean? what exactly happened? and why is it so easy to change it back?
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what uh does that mean? what exactly happened? and why is it so easy to change it back?
It means someone has somehow gained access to the server. I've checked my computer for any viruses that may allow hackers a sneaky way in, but couldn't find anything. So, under suspicion that they may have randomly got my password, I've changed it. As for why it's easy to change back, is because they only deface the home page. All other files are intact. It's just a case of uploading the original home page file again.
Mirabell
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why don't they do more? what's the use in stamping your tag on a page for all of, if they're unluck, ten minutes?
sorry for asking like this but I'm really that stupid.
Colette Jones
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It might be a permissions issue whereby they are able to get at it without a password. I don't know a whole lot about setting up web sites but the one time I did I remember having to change the permissions of the root directory or the initial file or something to prevent anyone being able to hack in.
saliotthomas
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I'll just ask again about the reading list and editing "forever".
Most of our stars have blogs* so we can keep tracks of their reading but there is other worthy fellas that read so much it's hard to keep up(hey Daniel !)
I like being able to noze around reading list for inspiration on what to buy and what to read next.
Please.
*One of the worst word created in the last years !In betwin slang for toilet and a swamp.
Most of our stars have blogs* so we can keep tracks of their reading but there is other worthy fellas that read so much it's hard to keep up(hey Daniel !)
I like being able to noze around reading list for inspiration on what to buy and what to read next.
Please.
*One of the worst word created in the last years !In betwin slang for toilet and a swamp.
Daniel del Real
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What can I do? My job is most of the times dead so I have to entertain myself with something
.I've thought several times to create a blog, but I guess I'm kind of lazy about it. I really admire those guys like Promtbr, Mirabell and everyone else that have the discipline to write a formal review everytime they finish a book.
saliotthomas
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Enjoy Stewart,have a beer or three for us.
Mirabell
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Bavaria, yes? Nice.
"Obscure writers" is a national thing. Because of the way that bookselling and the promotion of bestsellers works, some authors can be very well known in their own country, but virtually unknown abroad. This is not always because they are bad or provincial. It's a question of what gets marketed internationally, especially by multinational companies and conglomerates.
The Estonian writers I translate remain bloody obscure to my fellow Brits. But they the absolute leading writers in Estonia. The same, mutatis mutandis, goes for very many authors from Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern & Central Europe, and so on. Famous at home, ignored abroad - especially in the English-speaking countries.
But things can be obscure even within the English language. Many American authors remain "obscure" in Britain and vice-versa. And if, for instance, Lionel Britton is worthy of reaching a wider audience, it is up to the copyright-holders to contact small presses to reprint the books, or to publish his novels chapter by chapter on a blog. Where there's a will, there's a way. Over the years, the feminists of Virago have done quite a lot to bring good women writers out of obscurity. But they have, of course, had a gender agenda of sorts.
The Estonian writers I translate remain bloody obscure to my fellow Brits. But they the absolute leading writers in Estonia. The same, mutatis mutandis, goes for very many authors from Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Eastern & Central Europe, and so on. Famous at home, ignored abroad - especially in the English-speaking countries.
But things can be obscure even within the English language. Many American authors remain "obscure" in Britain and vice-versa. And if, for instance, Lionel Britton is worthy of reaching a wider audience, it is up to the copyright-holders to contact small presses to reprint the books, or to publish his novels chapter by chapter on a blog. Where there's a will, there's a way. Over the years, the feminists of Virago have done quite a lot to bring good women writers out of obscurity. But they have, of course, had a gender agenda of sorts.
saliotthomas
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Obscure indeed !
'think he forgot to take his pills...
The weather forcast is'nt great,indoor drinking will have to do.
'think he forgot to take his pills...
The weather forcast is'nt great,indoor drinking will have to do.
I like the local variety of beer (K?lsch) more. In fact, I'm drinking it right now.
Can you get K?lsch in Bonn, or are you sitting in a pub in K?ln/Cologne tapping into your laptop while you quaff? I thought you could only get K?lsch in Cologne. I taught English as a Foreign Language in Nordrhein-Westfalen for two years, and a bunch of us did our initial training in Cologne in August 1977. It took me a while to realise that there was only one drink available in those traditional pubs with waiters in long leather aprons, and it was K?lsch (a light lager-type beer for anyone who doesn't know). And it was only available in one measure, which was about the size and capacity of a thimble. We Brits, especially the Scots among us, were scandalised, and our tongues were hanging out for a pint. Sorry, half-liter (or is it litre?).
In the area I was eventually assigned to, the local brewery was Hannen, and I relished Hannen Alt and Export.
Harry
Mirabell, please answer the beery-query. We are wanting to know where exactly we can buy the Kr?lsch, apart from in Karl-Marx-Stadt (aka Chemicalniche).
Actually, when I was a student at UEA in Norwich in the 1970s, I used to alternate drinking Adnams Bitter (Adapiss, as it was known colloquially) with Black Label Lager. Both were fine, if very different.
Was it Rudolf Steiner that invented the beer measure?
Saliot:we are not needing the pills,we are drinking the obscure beer,like what the Belgians make. We are getting the calm from the beer as we lie on the floor,and are contemplating the literature from below. We are using the syntax to assuage our thirsts.
Actually, when I was a student at UEA in Norwich in the 1970s, I used to alternate drinking Adnams Bitter (Adapiss, as it was known colloquially) with Black Label Lager. Both were fine, if very different.
Was it Rudolf Steiner that invented the beer measure?
Saliot:we are not needing the pills,we are drinking the obscure beer,like what the Belgians make. We are getting the calm from the beer as we lie on the floor,and are contemplating the literature from below. We are using the syntax to assuage our thirsts.
Thanks Mirabell. I drink little German beer myself. Not because it's not nice, but because it's easier to get various brands of Belgian beer here in the Netherlands. And I swear by Belgian beer.
Though I found a nice brand of American beer a couple of weeks ago called Snake Dog - Indian Pale Ale, by a brewery called Flying Dog Ales. I had always assumed that American beer was all like Budweisser and rather insipid. But this is genuinely nice:
Flying Dog Brewery - American Ale Craft Beer Brand Store Online#
and
Flying Dog Brewery - Craft Beer Variety Pack
Snake Dog has a slightly grapefruity flavour.
Though I found a nice brand of American beer a couple of weeks ago called Snake Dog - Indian Pale Ale, by a brewery called Flying Dog Ales. I had always assumed that American beer was all like Budweisser and rather insipid. But this is genuinely nice:
Flying Dog Brewery - American Ale Craft Beer Brand Store Online#
and
Flying Dog Brewery - Craft Beer Variety Pack
Snake Dog has a slightly grapefruity flavour.
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