w00t something improved NBCi

[niv]

FASTER CONNECTION~!!! :D

[Cracker]

Hell, yeah! I'm now with them instead of Crosswinds. And don't worry Nick, I won't kiss Nbci's ---.

[Coolin]

Don't they stick a *huge* ad-frame on your site?

[psalzer]

Pretty huge, but it's not all that bad for a personal site. Thanks for the heads up on the speed. It does seem better. Hope it lasts. I decided to sort "reactivate" my account after reading the first post here. It all worked well and my family and friends' photo galleries are loading pretty well now.

[niv]

d00d...who the f|_|[K cares? just treat it as idrive with resume :)

[Mandrake]

Originally posted by Coolin
Don't they stick a *huge* ad-frame on your site?

Actually their adframe is not too bad... It goes all the way across the screen, but it's only about 30 pixels high.

[Nick]

Originally posted by Mandrake
Actually their adframe is not too bad... It goes all the way across the screen, but it's only about 30 pixels high.

Actually, the new NBCi one is 76 pixels high.

[niv]

Originally posted by Nick

Originally posted by Mandrake
Actually their adframe is not too bad... It goes all the way across the screen, but it's only about 30 pixels high.

Actually, the new NBCi one is 76 pixels high.

WHO CARES~!!! NBCi is idrive only download resume functions work :)

[Nick]

Originally posted by needcgispace
WHO CARES~!!! NBCi is idrive only download resume functions work :)

Do you like repeating yourself?

[niv]

Originally posted by Nick

Originally posted by needcgispace
WHO CARES~!!! NBCi is idrive only download resume functions work :)

Do you like repeating yourself?

yes :)

[RonDoubt]

does NBCi still spam everyone like Xoom did? I swear i must have gotten 25 emails in a day from them once...

[laurie]

No I don't think they do - not had too much.

I remember xoom, they really liked to test your email was still working :D

[Coolin]

I remember, I hadn't checked my email for 30 days, then, I checked it once. You have 1250 new messages! Almost all of them were from Xoom.

[LeX]

Yup, same here.... and you can't seem to get yourself unsubscribed, huh? I had to abandon the email account, which I used to sign up for Xoom's "unlimited" space.

At least there was a way around those adframes when Xoom was still Xoom, but it always takes a long time to get connected to their servers. :( Wonder if there is still a way around nbci's adframes? ;)

[Coolin]

Some HTML framebreaker?

[NC_TOM]

Not a frame breaker; just the "true" path to your site. When someone went to http://members.xoom.com/you it would load 2 frames, one with the ad and another with your site which was really located at http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/you . Therefore if you go directly to members.xoom.com/_XMCM/you the frame would not load. While this was VERY easy to bypass, it is cheating and should not be done. The frame funds the service.

[Omari]

Originally posted by NC_TOM
Not a frame breaker; just the "true" path to your site. When someone went to http://members.xoom.com/you it would load 2 frames, one with the ad and another with your site which was really located at http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/you . Therefore if you go directly to members.xoom.com/_XMCM/you the frame would not load. While this was VERY easy to bypass, it is cheating and should not be done. The frame funds the service.

thats like saying there is some money in the streets, pointing it out, then saying but don't touch it, then getting in a car and driving off...

[Cracker]

Originally posted by NC_TOM
When someone went to http://members.xoom.com/you it would load 2 frames, one with the ad and another with your site which was really located at http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/you .

As a result of this, if your site itself uses frames, then your site only shows one ad the whole time someone's surfing through it (two in my case, since I have an "entrance" page to remove another site's frames - if any - while still keeping the Nbci frame intact). I used to use a frame remover javascript on my site when it was on Crosswinds, but of course, I can't use it on Nbci.

[NC_TOM]

Originally posted by Omari

Originally posted by NC_TOM
Not a frame breaker; just the "true" path to your site. When someone went to http://members.xoom.com/you it would load 2 frames, one with the ad and another with your site which was really located at http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/you . Therefore if you go directly to members.xoom.com/_XMCM/you the frame would not load. While this was VERY easy to bypass, it is cheating and should not be done. The frame funds the service.

thats like saying there is some money in the streets, pointing it out, then saying but don't touch it, then getting in a car and driving off...

Uhh.. No, not quite Omari. It's more like seeing your boss's credit card number in the office files, and not using it because it isn't yours, you respect your boss, and you value your job.

Even if your boss leaves his CC out on his desk all the time for the public to see, that doesn't make it right for you to use it. Xoom's ad system was poor, but you still need to respect their Terms of Service.

[Edited by NC_TOM on 01-24-2001 at 12:47 AM]

[}:8) Supermoo]

The wise NC_TOM has spoken, follow his words of wisdom. :)

[LeX]

Hell no, you don't use your boss' cc num because you don't know the PIN number (so you can't extract his cash) or you don't know your boss' real name and address (heck, he might be called Jorge instead of George, and his registered address might not be the one he's living at right now).

I'm betting that the majority of people will use the cc num if they found out everything they needed, sort of a way to get back at the boss, for all the times he put you down, refused to raise your salary and always constantly yells at you for smelling like Head and Shoulders. Almost everybody has something to complain about their boss.

[psalzer]

I guess I left the cc on the desk. It still works with NBCI, the same way it did with Xoom. I use it, strictly for three different photo albums. And I post the address with the ad frame. It's very nice to have unlimited space for photos and it's also nice to have free space where you can use frames, because that's they way I like to do the photos. And there's FTP. I'm not messing with that.

[Cracker]

Amen to that, psalzer.

[Chris]

Dude, Lex: <<EDIT>>. Are you saying you only don't obey the law because you're afraid of getting caught? How can you possible say it's moral to steal just beause you have the oppoortunity?!?!?

[Edited by Chicken on 01-26-2001 at 07:52 AM]

[Michael]

A free host is able to remain *free* because of the adverts.

I don't mind banners/pop ups being that its free.... and taking down the adverts only hurts the service your enjoying for free.

If you don't like the adverts choose a host that has ones you can deal with... its not fair to steal from people.

[LeX]

Chris, <<EDIT>>. ;) I was being sarcastic...


[Edited by Chicken on 01-26-2001 at 07:52 AM]

[Chris]

You sure go about being sarcastic in a funny way. Like making bets...