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Offline Fury

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The ads here
on: December 09, 2005, 12:46:09 pm
The ads you see on HLP mainpage, forums, etc, are all text ads. No pop-up ads, no images, no flash. As most of you are using Firefox and adblock or equivalent, we would like to ask you not to block ads on hard-light.net. We need to pay for the server's monthly fee after all, and all the extra that does not go to paying the monthly fee, will be saved for rainy days. Click an ad or two a day if you feel like it. :)
 

Offline kode

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Re: The ads here
Reply #1 on: December 09, 2005, 01:03:39 pm
Quote from: Mr. Fury on December 09, 2005, 12:46:09 pm
The ads you see on HLP mainpage, forums, etc, are all text ads

well, sure I could buy that. but even if it's got text on it, it's not automagically a text ad:
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Offline Fury

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Re: The ads here
Reply #2 on: December 09, 2005, 01:09:56 pm
It's not an ad. :p It is a hit counter. Which I hope will be removed because of Google Analytics and Webalizer.
 

Offline kode

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Re: The ads here
Reply #3 on: December 09, 2005, 01:17:52 pm
It sure looks like an ad to me.
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Offline Fury

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Re: The ads here
Reply #4 on: December 09, 2005, 01:24:33 pm
Semantics, I don't like it any more than you do. Sandwich likes the statistics it gives, but now that we're using both webalizer and google analytics, I hope Sandwich will find them to be sufficient and removes the annoying alexa hit counter.
 

Offline kode

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Re: The ads here
Reply #5 on: December 09, 2005, 01:29:44 pm
"duck test". If it looks like an ad, and behaves like an ad, it's most definitely a duck.
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<Redfang> You're almost like Stryke 9 or an0n
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Offline Taristin

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Re: The ads here
Reply #6 on: December 09, 2005, 01:31:41 pm
Quote from: kode on December 09, 2005, 01:29:44 pm
"duck test". If it looks like an ad, and behaves like an ad, it's most definitely a duck.

Well, so long as it's a duck and not an ad...
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Offline Kie99

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Re: The ads here
Reply #7 on: December 09, 2005, 01:36:03 pm
:lol:
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Offline kode

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Re: The ads here
Reply #8 on: December 09, 2005, 01:40:29 pm
Quote from: Raa on December 09, 2005, 01:31:41 pm
Quote from: kode on December 09, 2005, 01:29:44 pm
"duck test". If it looks like an ad, and behaves like an ad, it's most definitely a duck.

Well, so long as it's a duck and not an ad...

quck qack

* kode does some Ruby duck-typing
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- Ambrose Bierce
<Redfang> You're almost like Stryke 9 or an0n
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
- Aldous Huxley
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
 

Offline Grey Wolf

Re: The ads here
Reply #9 on: December 09, 2005, 01:41:56 pm
Alexa has been known for making spyware in the past.
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Offline Sandwich

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Re: The ads here
Reply #10 on: December 10, 2005, 06:22:18 am
Yes, it has been known for that. Don't click on that image - it doesn't do HLP any good. :p I've yet to check out the other hit tracking systems we have, so I haven't removed the HitsLink thing (the Alexa image) yet.
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Offline FireCrack

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Re: The ads here
Reply #11 on: December 10, 2005, 06:49:25 am
The bottom google adbar can be scrolled revealing ugly whiteness
actualy, mabye not.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: The ads here
Reply #12 on: December 10, 2005, 07:09:11 am
I have a question. Why exactly did we move away from GameSpy?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline FireCrack

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Re: The ads here
Reply #13 on: December 10, 2005, 07:12:06 am
Because of all the problems...
actualy, mabye not.
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3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944 59230781640628620899862803482534211706...
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Offline Kosh

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Re: The ads here
Reply #14 on: December 10, 2005, 07:18:12 am
Like what?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Fineus

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Re: The ads here
Reply #15 on: December 10, 2005, 07:59:10 am
You really don't know?
 

Offline KappaWing

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Re: The ads here
Reply #16 on: December 10, 2005, 08:06:44 am
TIM3W4RP!!!
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Offline kode

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Re: The ads here
Reply #17 on: December 10, 2005, 09:01:39 am
Quote from: Kosh on December 10, 2005, 07:18:12 am
Like what?

like losing one sock everytime you wash them.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: The ads here
Reply #18 on: December 10, 2005, 09:02:19 am
Quote from: Kalfireth on December 10, 2005, 07:59:10 am
You really don't know?


I am not sure if they are what I think they are, or if they are something else.
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Offline Sandwich

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Re: The ads here
Reply #19 on: December 10, 2005, 06:16:16 pm
Timewarp. Slow tech response (for getting hosted FTP logins). Downtime ( :nervous: ). Database corruption.

Shall I go on?
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
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