[thelist] Re: help recognize a font

Kenneth Smith kennethbsmith at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 30 12:33:01 CDT 2002


You asked:
Does anyone recognize this font: www.tioka.com/font.html

It looks to me like ITC Lubalin Graph® demibold with the white stripes
added.

kbs

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> 1. Re: Shopping Sites, Credit Cards (Techwatcher)
> 2. CGI submission to print (Jeff Hinds)
> 3. Shopping Sites, Credit Cards and PayPal (Kathy Long)
> 4. help recognize a font... (Nick Wilson)
> 5. Re: XTHML 1.1 modularisation [was Hn tags] (Lachlan Cannon)
> 6. Re: Testing WML pages on a PC? (Olly)
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> Message: 1
> From: "Techwatcher" <techwatcher at accesswriters.com>
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:41:22 -0400
> Subject: [thelist] Re: Shopping Sites, Credit Cards
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>
> Hi, Keith and others --
>
>> In fact, this kind of internal "employee" theft accounts for more
> than half
>> of all credit card theft, offline and online. This kind of theft is
>> epidemic in mail/order-telephone/order businesses and becoming more
>> widespread on websales.
>
> You are absolutely correct; I know because my father worked about 35
> years for IBM, and was one of their representatives to an international
> standards committee working to make CC usage safer. Insider theft is
> indeed the largest risk, by a very large majority.
>
>> When paying with PayPal
>> the "merchant site" NEVER gets to see the buyer's credit card info.
>
> Further, all professional risk assessment starts from the basic premise
> that a risk/benefit analysis is the only reasonable way to proceed.
> (Yes, you can prevent kidnapping by remaining entirely inside a
> saferoom in your home at all times; you just don't want to live that
> way!) And the real risk of giving out your personal financial
> information (esp. CC numbers) is that there are just so many of them in
> one place! So, the crook thinks, who cares if it takes 4 years and
> $1,000,000 to crack the code, when the payoff is $10,000,000! That's
> why I always warn people not to use CC online. It's the aggregation
> factor -- which is so much higher online than off.
>
> Cheers --
> Carol Stein
> techwatcher at accesswriters.com
>
>
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> Message: 2
> From: "Jeff Hinds" <jhinds at netagency.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 08:51:25 -0500
> Subject: [thelist] CGI submission to print
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>
> I'm a novice at PERL/CGI.
>
> Can someone help me get this script to print new submissions
> to the index page?
> http://www.sonvenezuela.com/tour/
>
> This is not my script but I'm trying to modify it for my needs.
>
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>
> ###############################################
> # Link Management Utility
> # by Alexander Moskalyuk
> # http://moskalyuk.com/
> # Please keep this info and refer to the site for additional support
> ###############################################
>
> # Set the path to the file, i.e. what is the directory
> # name on local server where the file is located?
> $sitepath = "/home/sonvene/public_html/tour/";
>
> # Set the phrase to search for, where to install the new link
> $phrase = "<ul>"; # by default search for an unordered list and
> # install a link after it
>
> use CGI;
>
> my $myobject = new CGI;
>
> my $sitename = $myobject->param('sitename') || "SonVenezuela.com";
> my $siteurl = $myobject->param('siteurl') || "http://www.sonvenezuela.com";
> my $sitedesc = $myobject->param('sitedesc') || "Home of Salsa Music!";
> my $siteappend = $sitepath.$myobject->param ('siteappend');
>
> open (FILEIN, "<$siteappend") || die ("Wrong file $siteappend!");
> while (<FILEIN>)
> {
> push (@thefile, $_);
> }
> close (FILEIN);
>
> open (FILEOUT, ">$siteappend") || die ("Bye, bye, $siteappend!");
>
> # this is where the HTML code for the new link gets created
> # edit it depending on the formatting you use
> my $text = "$phrase\n<li><b><a href="."$siteurl".">"."$sitename"."</a></b> -
> "."$sitedesc"."</li>\n";
> $|=1;
> foreach $htmlline (@thefile)
> {
> $htmlline =~ s#$phrase#$text#i;
> print FILEOUT $htmlline;
> }
> close (FILEOUT);
> direct();
>
> sub direct
> {
> # Direct users back to the URL
> print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
> print ("<script language=\"JavaScript\">");
> print ("window.location=\"http://www.sonvenezuela.com/tour\"\n\n");
> print ("</script>");
> }
>
>
> </END>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jeff
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 06:55:46 -0700
> From: Kathy Long <kathy at site-etc.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: [thelist] Shopping Sites, Credit Cards and PayPal
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>
> I have a client who has been using Paypal successfully at eBay. She is now
> setting up a store and we are tying it into Paypal. I, of course, had to
> test it to be sure it was working. Here's the email I sent her regarding my
> first experience AS A BUYER at her site.
>
> Chesna,
> Here is my attempt to purchase from your site.
>
> I hit the order button on your site.
> It took me to Paypal where I was asked to login or create a new account.
> I didn't remember what my login was so I attempted to create a new user.
> Then it wouldn't accept my email address because it said I already had an
> account.
> So I did it again with a different address at my domain.
> It said I was already a user. Guess it doesn't like more than one person at
> my domain.
> So I requested that it send me my password. By this time I don't know where
> my order went.
> I get my password email. It says to go to this link.
> I click the link. I get an error saying the link is on 2 lines and I have to
> copy and paste the link in.
> I copy and paste the link in as it says.
> I get the same error.
> I give. I didn't want that vintage blouse that bad!
>
> I wonder how many orders vendors lose because of this.
>
>
> Kathy
>
>
>
>> Message: 38
>> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 01:27:51 -0600
>> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>> From: Keith <cache at dowebscentral.com>
>> Subject: Re: [thelist] Re: Shopping Sites, Credit Cards
>> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>>
>> <quote> Carol
>> send Paypal with their link-click. I love PayPal because I refuse to
>> use any credit card, and they allow weird folks like me to link to a
>> bank account instead of a credit card.
>> </quote>
>>
>> I too love using PayPal when I'm purchasing, because I too use funds from
>> my bank account instead of from my credit card.
>>
>> But, if you DO use a credit card, there is very important reason to use
>> PayPal, a reason that few consumers are aware of. When paying with PayPal
>> the "merchant site" NEVER gets to see the buyer's credit card info. Most
>> online credit card theft happens when someone associated with the website
>> (webmaster, host, employee, etc) steals the credit card info.  If you are a
>> a PayPal merchant you do not have a "merchant account" and it would be
>> illegal for PayPal to let you see that info.
>>
>> In fact, this kind of internal "employee" theft accounts for more than half
>> of all credit card theft, offline and online. This kind of theft is
>> epidemic in mail/order-telephone/order businesses and becoming more
>> widespread on websales. The customer has no way of knowing how many people
>> in your web business may have "legitimate" access to that data in your
>> accounting and fulfillment functions, let alone "legitimate" access to it
>> while it is safely parked on the server or more safely in the company
>> customer service database. And any one of those people could be selling
>> that info in your company's parking lot or down at the cyber-cafe.
>>
>> This internal company access control is the most overlooked part of "web
>> sales security" discussions. And yet, this is where most of the theft
>> actually takes place. If you store the credit card data, at all (on the
>> server or elsewhere), you need to have a secure access control, complete
>> with audit trails for each time the data is accessed. Even if you do pass
>> the credit card info through to a third party processor you can still be
>> open to internal theft. As the holder of a merchant account you will have
>> access to that cardholder info even if you did not process the actual
>> authorization. Just beware who has access to that info all the time that it
>> is in your possession, and be prepared to prove it.
>>
>> But back to PayPal. This is something that really irks me about Peter
>> Thiel's sophomoric concept of his company. He thinks that the anonymous
>> nature of a PayPal transaction is valuable because it allows people in
>> countries with weak economies to move money into strong economy countries.
>> And yes, some countries indeed outlaw PayPal exactly on that basis. But,
>> this Mickey Mouse money laundering is insignificant. What's important is
>> that the buyer knows that joedink.com will NEVER get to see the credit card
>> number, and joedink can say, "Hey, it didn't get stolen here, I never got
>> to see it". PayPal should be making a big deal out of this anonymous
>> feature and they are instead hung up on playing 2 bit global politics.
>> Peter should take a look at the VISA S.E.T. protocols and the foundation
>> behind MS Passport. The fundamental idea behind both (from the banking
>> industry point of view) is that the "merchant" will not possess the card
>> number, eliminating the opportunity for internal theft.
>>
>> <quote>Martin
>> Sorry Carol, I'm not sure I buy that one until they obtain a banking
>> license.
>> </quote>
>>
>> PayPal does not have a "bank charter" because they do not engage in any
>> banking activity. They do not qualify for a charter any more than evolt
>> would qualify for a charter. Look at what it takes to qualify as a bank or
>> a saving and loan in California where PayPal is located, people deposit
>> money on the promise of interest and people borrow that same money with a
>> promise to pay interest. Evolt doesn't do anything like that and neither
>> does PayPal. There is not a single activity that PayPal engages in that
>> qualifies as a "banking" activity.
>>
>> But that does not mean that PayPal is outside of the banking industry's
>> oversight. They haven't crawled up some pole and tapped into somebody's
>> telephone line to process $80 million in transactions per day.  In order to
>> process all those credit card transactions PayPal has a "merchant account"
>> through an acquiring bank. And just like any other "merchant account", the
>> acquiring bank represents the cardholder's interest and would shut PayPal
>> down in a heart-beat if the cardholder's interest is not protected. PayPal
>> doesn't qualify as a bank, they qualify as a "merchant", and answer to
>> their acquiring bank just like anyone else with a merchant account.
>>
>>
>>
>> Keith
>> ====================
>> cache at dowebscentral.com
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 16:01:45 +0200
> From: Nick Wilson <nick at explodingnet.com>
> To: thelist <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: [thelist] help recognize a font...
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> Hi everyone.
>
> Does anyone recognize this font: www.tioka.com/font.html
>
> Many thanks ;-)
> - --
> Nick Wilson     //  www.tioka.com/
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:04:19 +1000 (EST)
> Subject: Re: [thelist] XTHML 1.1 modularisation [was Hn tags]
> From: "Lachlan Cannon" <luminosity at members.evolt.org>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>
>
> James Newbery said:
>> What of modularisation? I remember (half-) reading the
>> XHTML 1.1 spec when it was first released as a
>> candidate recommendation. There was stuff in there
>> about modularisation of XHTML into functional, well,
>> modules (splitting tags into related groups and
>> allowing them to be 'loaded' on an as needed basis).
>
> Nah... modularisation (great word) is seperate. In XHTML1.1 they've
> reassembled the modules for you, so it's like 1.0 strict with the changes
> mentioned.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/changes.html#a_changes
>
> Lach
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> Message: 6
> From: "Olly" <gnarly at punkass.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Testing WML pages on a PC?
> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 16:30:11 +0100
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "pandion" <pandion at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Testing WML pages on a PC?
>
>
>>> Can anyone point me in the direction of a WAP browser that runs under
>>> Windows, or let me know what (if any) modifications I can make to IE/Moz
>>> that would let me view WAP pages? A Linux one would do if that's really
> all
>>> there is available, but it would be much more hassle.
>>
>> Opera has pretty good WML support. See their specification:
>> http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/#wml
>
> Check these out too:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=wap+emulator
>
> I believe Nokia has a WML extension for Dreamweaver somewhere on the
> exchange, with a built in WAP browser.
> http://www.macromedia.com/exchange/dreamweaver/
>
> Olly.
>
>
>
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