htaccess on Yahoo Hosting

I have found a picture which I think really sums up my maiden experience with Yahoo Hosting.

For the vision impaired and slow learners, I am comparing Yahoo’s service to a steaming pile of shit. Though, when I think about it, the steaming part is probably inaccurate, as that would suggest their is some freshness about it - perhaps a pic of a dried out near-powder shit would be more accurate.

#1. No .htaccess support, means register globals and magic quotes always ON

#2. No cron job support, we are now expected to wait until 3.05am every night to manually run that script

#3. very, very slow

#4. majorly out-of-date software

#4. Crap control panel that tries to be clever

Yahoo (at your prices), you can do better.

No DVD Sound in Windows Media Player?

Had a nice little surprise today after getting a brand new computer, I had no audio available in Windows Media Player. This is basically a result of the machine not having the correct codecs - you’d think Microsoft would be smart enough to include this stuff by default, but alas no. Even after upgrading to WMP11 I still had no luck.

After a bit of research, I discovered if you have this problem, you likely need the AC3 codec. Its dead easy to install - just go here, get the installer and install and restart Windows Media Player.