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[tinyjo]

I've just realised that I've let my journal birthday pass completely without comment - this won't do! I'm still amazed sometimes that a year on I'm still here. I still haven't got myself quite organised enough to manage to post at weekends and stuff but I have managed to post much much more than I thought I would or ever have in a journal before. Also, somewhat paradoxically, I seem to be able to write much more openly here than I ever was in my pen and paper journals - there I always ended up feeling stilted and inhibited whereas here it all seems to come pouring out. Perhaps I'm just not very good at talking to myself.

I find myself continually thinking cynically that soon this'll just all slip away and become another cobwebbed bit of the web but actually, I seem to be getting in deeper and deeper all the time. So here's to next year :)

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Suport or Support?

[jinty]

You seem to be getting deeper and deeper but still need to pay attention to yer spelling, love -- yer link to support is broke...

Me too on the getting in deeper front -- not to the extent of working or anything, but I decided in the end to get a paid membership for jenniscott and use it for reposting some journal entries. That's going to be the version I end up showing to the world by embedding it in http://www.jenniscott.net.

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

oops! Thanks :)

Also, hurrah for complicated embedding! I've nearly finished mine now so that you'd never know LJ was behind it if you didn't see the link at the bottom of the page. In further URL weirdness the fullstop at the end of your comment causes it to redirect to a central yahoo page :(

boo!

[jinty]

Damn! Thanks. Will try harder next time. (Yahoo host my domain name hence the weird redirect I spose.)

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Yeah - they don't have their DNS set up right or it wouldn't be a problem. Strictly speaking all URLS should end with . - it's just suppressed/assumed most of the time.

[e-pepys.livejournal.com]

Strictly speaking all URLS should end with . - it's just suppressed/assumed most of the time.

<pedant>
Are you sure? Root URLs (like http://www.jenniscott.net) should really end in a /, but I hadn't heard about any trailing .s. Where's that from?
</pedant>

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

I think I misspoke - meaning domain names not urls but I'm pretty sure it was in my MCSE course. It's to do with namespaces. All computers are members of the root namespace - . Then some of those are members of the com namespace - net. - then some of those are members of the jenniscott namespace... and so on. I'll look it up later.

Obscure DNS trivia

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, technically DNS names are supposed to end in . just as file names start with /. The exception was partial DNS names, which are searched for in your local domain and its superdomains (e.g., frog.sales would be mapped on to frog.sales.example.com. if its local domain was example.com.). In practice everyone uses domain names that are local to . (as in example.com, which is in theory incomplete, and resolved relative to the domain . to give example.com.).

Of course no-one uses dots at the end of names. The only time people do use dots at the end of domain names is in DNS software (like BIND, or nslookup, or whatever DNS servers they use). Once your resolvers are set up properly, writing DNS names the way we usually do should work as expected.

As a result, a lot of everyday software falls over if you add that trailing dot.

—Damian

[tinyjo.livejournal.com]

Wow. That means that I actually remember something from my MCSE!