[thelist] help with windows batch or windows script file

Tom Dell'Aringa pixelmech at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 15 19:25:20 CDT 2002


Thank David, that was hilarious too.

TOm
--- David Dorward <evolt at david.us-lot.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 16:24:01 -0700 (PDT)
> "Tom Dell'Aringa" <pixelmech at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > > http://www.robvanderwoude.com/index.html
> > >
> > > Stick it in whatever the windows version of cron is (does X at
> time
> > > Y), windows shutting down should kill Media Player.
>
> > David, what am I supposed to be grabbing on that page? Its the
> home
> > page... but good idea for #3 ;)
>
> OK, its official:
>
> (1) Frames are EVIL!
> (2) Misused JavaScript is evil!
> (3) Misused HTTP_REFERRER is evil!
>
> This is what happened. I did a google search. I clicked on a
> promising
> link. JavaScript redirected me (without me noticing) to the
> frameset
> page, presumably with more JavaScript to put the page I actually
> tried
> to visit in one of the frames. The result - I copy/pasted the URL
> of
> the frameset, but people following the copy/paste didn't send the
> HTTP_REFERRER to get the page I intended.
>
> Anyway, this is the page I intended you to see:
> http://www.robvanderwoude.com/shutdown.html
>
> (My goodness, an offtopic thread somehow turned in to an ontopic
> usability rant!)http://www.robvanderwoude.com/shutdown.html
>
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