Comments for DanKohn.com http://www.dankohn.com Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. - A.J. Liebling Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:40:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 Comment on Google AdSense doesn’t honor their policy on inappropriate content by Chris http://www.dankohn.com/archives/344/comment-page-1#comment-241 Chris Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:40:02 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/344#comment-241 Dan, this is not regarding the content of ad sense but I saw you were looking at doing a quick presentation on Ad manager at the drupal meet-up. I am going out of town tomorrow and wont be able to make it but I had atleast one question. Do I need to install the Adsense Module in drupal before installing the ad manager module or can I just ad the Ad Manager module... Cheers Chris skeet103@gmail.com Dan, this is not regarding the content of ad sense but I saw you were looking at doing a quick presentation on Ad manager at the drupal meet-up. I am going out of town tomorrow and wont be able to make it but I had atleast one question. Do I need to install the Adsense Module in drupal before installing the ad manager module or can I just ad the Ad Manager module…

Cheers
Chris
skeet103@gmail.com

]]> Comment on The Linux desktop needs to be pre-installed by Roberto Di Cosmo http://www.dankohn.com/archives/349/comment-page-1#comment-223 Roberto Di Cosmo Thu, 03 Sep 2009 12:29:12 +0000 http://www.dankohn.com/archives/349#comment-223 I strongly agree: upgrades are extremely difficult operations (their complexity is NP complete at best), and one should not confront new users upfront with its intricacies. Nonetheless, the problem of upgrades is real, and will only get worse with time, so it needs to be adressed scientifically. You may want to look at what the Mancoosi project is doing in this area (http://www.mancoosi.org). I strongly agree: upgrades are extremely difficult operations (their complexity is NP complete at best), and one should not confront new users upfront with its intricacies.
Nonetheless, the problem of upgrades is real, and will only get worse with time, so it needs to be adressed scientifically. You may want to look at what the Mancoosi project is doing in this area (http://www.mancoosi.org).

]]> Comment on Adding Google AdSense to MediaWiki 1.4 by unangst http://www.dankohn.com/archives/340/comment-page-1#comment-45 unangst Sun, 23 Oct 2005 18:46:36 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/340#comment-45 Thanks for the code. I've already inserted it on my site http://www.wikiweb.org and for the most part it's up and runnning. But for some reason it doesn't show up on the main page, just content pages deeper in. Running MediaWiki: 1.4.9 Any ideas would be great. Reply to: unangst/gmail Thanks for the code. I’ve already inserted it on my site http://www.wikiweb.org and for the most part it’s up and runnning. But for some reason it doesn’t show up on the main page, just content pages deeper in. Running MediaWiki: 1.4.9 Any ideas would be great. Reply to: unangst/gmail

]]> Comment on Google AdSense doesn’t honor their policy on inappropriate content by Gearspring http://www.dankohn.com/archives/344/comment-page-1#comment-51 Gearspring Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:47:20 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/344#comment-51 Maybe there is a loophole. Obfuscated email addresses don't violate AdSense rules, so maybe we need a wikimedia markup that obfuscates generaly. <obfuscate>HGH</obfuscate> which can be rendered in multiple ways that are hard to scrape. Possibilities are a picture, letters mixed with invisible html markup, look-a-like fonts, and more. Maybe there is a loophole. Obfuscated email addresses don’t violate AdSense rules, so maybe we need a wikimedia markup that obfuscates generaly. <obfuscate>HGH</obfuscate> which can be rendered in multiple ways that are hard to scrape. Possibilities are a picture, letters mixed with invisible html markup, look-a-like fonts, and more.

]]> Comment on Adding Google AdSense to MediaWiki 1.4 by Chris http://www.dankohn.com/archives/340/comment-page-1#comment-44 Chris Sat, 27 Aug 2005 18:19:01 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/340#comment-44 Does anyone know how to add Adsense into the articles themselves, rather than the border? It works much better if it's in the content rather than off to the side. There is a setting ($wgAllowUserJs)that is supposed to allow Javascript, but it doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know how to add Adsense into the articles themselves, rather than the border? It works much better if it’s in the content rather than off to the side.

There is a setting ($wgAllowUserJs)that is supposed to allow Javascript, but it doesn’t seem to work.

]]> Comment on Google AdSense doesn’t honor their policy on inappropriate content by Klaws http://www.dankohn.com/archives/344/comment-page-1#comment-50 Klaws Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:42:48 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/344#comment-50 Yup. Right. And the Google AdSense rules leave no loopholes at all. In other word, one may not use any software to process or filter AdSense ads (and the required AdSense code snippet, as provided by Google, may not be modifiend or altered anyway). Of course you might choose to try things out, like having the web server request the AdSense ad, filter it, and then forward it to the browser. Of course, Google will see that all views come from the same IP address, so I guess that you might lose a substantial part of the pay-per-view compensation (pay-per-click would still work). Google's threat is that they might kick you out of AdSense, if they find out. Yup. Right. And the Google AdSense rules leave no loopholes at all. In other word, one may not use any software to process or filter AdSense ads (and the required AdSense code snippet, as provided by Google, may not be modifiend or altered anyway).

Of course you might choose to try things out, like having the web server request the AdSense ad, filter it, and then forward it to the browser. Of course, Google will see that all views come from the same IP address, so I guess that you might lose a substantial part of the pay-per-view compensation (pay-per-click would still work). Google’s threat is that they might kick you out of AdSense, if they find out.

]]> Comment on Adding Google AdSense to MediaWiki 1.4 by mariano http://www.dankohn.com/archives/340/comment-page-1#comment-43 mariano Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:18:43 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/340#comment-43 hi dan.. many thanks for this article. Im starting a new Wiki and didnt found any useful step-by-step guide on how to add adsense on it. Thanks again :) hi dan.. many thanks for this article.
Im starting a new Wiki and didnt found any useful step-by-step guide on how to add adsense on it.

Thanks again :)

]]> Comment on I got married! by Cameron Barrett http://www.dankohn.com/archives/332/comment-page-1#comment-42 Cameron Barrett Wed, 24 Mar 2004 03:30:38 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/332#comment-42 Congrats! I hope you and your new wife have a wonderful life together. You look very happy. Congrats! I hope you and your new wife have a wonderful life together. You look very happy.

]]> Comment on Morroccans on failed utopian ideas by Joe McBride http://www.dankohn.com/archives/331/comment-page-1#comment-41 Joe McBride Thu, 19 Feb 2004 05:09:22 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/331#comment-41 I once visited Morocco and had the best and worst experiences as a traveler. Unfortunately the bad experience is what sticks out the most in my memory. I was basically robbed in Tangiers (sp). While this isn't entirely relevant to "utopian modernist" ideas, it does reflect a general, probably irrational sentiment of mistrust for such cultural/religious/political fundamentalism. I'm sure I could have had a similar experience anywhere else of course. I once visited Morocco and had the best and worst experiences as a traveler. Unfortunately the bad experience is what sticks out the most in my memory. I was basically robbed in Tangiers (sp).

While this isn’t entirely relevant to “utopian modernist” ideas, it does reflect a general, probably irrational sentiment of mistrust for such cultural/religious/political fundamentalism.

I’m sure I could have had a similar experience anywhere else of course.

]]> Comment on The coolest map ever by Eiji Hirai http://www.dankohn.com/archives/330/comment-page-1#comment-40 Eiji Hirai Fri, 30 Jan 2004 05:28:37 +0000 http://dankohn.flydash.com/archives/330#comment-40 This reminds me of the excellent CGI sequence at the start of Contact <a href="http://contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/main.html" rel="nofollow">http://contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/main.html</a> the Robert Zemeckis film based on Carl Sagan's novel. The sequence is a pan out from Earth amidst a cacophony of radio and television noise, and the further we pan out, the further back in broadcast history we go and the less you hear. We also pan past various landmarks in the universe like the Oort cloud, past the Horsehead Nebula and past the local group of galaxies, as if we're interactively moving through images of the Hubble Deep Field, <a href="http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html</a> . Very nice. This reminds me of the excellent CGI sequence at the start of Contact http://contact-themovie.warnerbros.com/main.html the Robert Zemeckis film based on Carl Sagan’s novel. The sequence is a pan out from Earth amidst a cacophony of radio and television noise, and the
further we pan out, the further back in broadcast history we go and the less you hear. We also pan past various landmarks in the universe like the Oort cloud, past the Horsehead Nebula and past the local group of galaxies, as if we’re interactively moving through images of the Hubble Deep Field, http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/science/hdf/hdf.html . Very nice.

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