User talk:Mdrejhon

About Me[edit]

Mark Rejhon's original 1990s-2000s website is archived at: http://www.marky.ca

Correspondence[edit]

Morven says: I edited your yestersol article to give it the proper Wiki markup. You bold by enclosing in triple single quotes like '''this'''. You create titles by surrounding with equals-signs, like this ==A heading==. Convention is to start with double-equals for the top level headings and work downwards by adding more equals. We normally capitalise the first word of a heading and lowercase the rest, unless they're proper nouns of course. Thanks! —Morven 20:51, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Response: Thanks for the tips! --mdrejhon

Same-sex marriage in Canada[edit]

Spinboy says: It's not legal until the bill passes the Senate and recieves royal assent. Please revert your change. --File:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy 29 June 2005 06:22 (UTC)

Response: My apologies. Done. --mdrejhon

Spinboy says: Nice website. I like your resume, impressive. I especially took note of your hearing loss, I'm sorry to read about that. For the past year and a bit I've been learning American Sign Language at Algonquin College, and while you say on your site you don't know the language, I just thought I'd mention it anyway. :-) --File:Ottawa flag.png Spinboy 29 June 2005 06:31 (UTC)

Re Vertical Wind Tunnel links[edit]

Sorry, didn't mean to step on toes. I left Aerodium up because they were specifically mentioned in the text, in context. Thats in line with the policy on external links, in that it supports information in the text of the article. External links policy allows for one or two representative links as well, so I will of course defer to people who actually have worked on the article (ie you) if you want to remove Aerodium or reinstate one or two of the other links if you felt it supported the text. I just wanted to act to head things off at the pass in case the anon came back and complained that I was being biased against their link. --Syrthiss 18:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I wasn't the creator of this image. It was user 'thirty-seven'. My work on this image is merely as follows, from the work log of the image:

"Modification of previous (thirty-seven's) image; JASC Paint Shop Pro, convert to Monochrome followed by contrast enhancement, to remove offending copper color from our dime which is silver colored. For original credits, please refer to previous image." Mdrejhon (talk) 16:40, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I wasn't the creator of this image. It was user 'thirty-seven'. My work on this image is merely as follows, from the work log of the image:

"Modification of previous (thirty-seven's) image; JASC Paint Shop Pro, convert to Monochrome followed by contrast enhancement, to remove offending copper color from our dime which is silver colored. For original credits, please refer to previous image." Mdrejhon (talk) 16:39, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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I don't think I've ever been involved in the article involving Luxo (In fact, I don't know what a Luxo is!). Since it no longer exists, can anyone elaborate what exactly got violated (the specific text, image, or website that's in my name)? Was an image used in another article of mine, used in the Luxo article? As I haven't logged on for a while, I am concerned my account may have been hacked so my password has been changed. Mdrejhon (talk) 19:04, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Delete. This article is almost 10 years old on long-obsolete software that has all but disappeared off the Internet. Mdrejhon (talk) 17:14, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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False alarm. The copyright permission is already included -- it is declared as public domain by the author, and is a LaTeX reproduction of a table from a book published in 1842. I've included a copy of the author's email in the notes. See below. Mdrejhon (talk) 04:57, 12 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

From: John Walker <kelvin@fourmilab.ch>

> "Who made the modern copy of Note G on www.fourmilab.ch ? May I have your permission to post a copy of Note G on Wikipedia, in the Ada Lovelace article?"

I made this image myself, using LaTeX to typeset the page and 
produce the PDF and image files.  It is based upon the diagram in
the Dover edition:

   (((amazon link removed -- /dp/0486246914/?tag=fourmilabwwwfour)))

of Babbage-related works.

> "It already links to your page. However, the diagram is missing
> from the encyclopedia.  This historical"first computer
> program"  diagram needs to be preserved for posterity in an
> Internet encyclopedia.
> 
> Please confirm if it's OK..."

This image (as well as the entire content of my edition of Ada's
paper) is in the public domain and may be used in any way without
any restrictions whatsoever.
 
I have attached the original LaTeX source code from which this
image was produced.

-------------  <http://www.fourmilab.ch/>  ------------
John Walker             |  The mind is not a vessel to 
kelvin@fourmilab.ch     |  be filled but a fire to be
                        |  kindled.        -- Plutarch

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Using the disambig page was intentional and accurate -- no modification is actually needed. Mdrejhon (talk) 03:27, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Proxy

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who declined the request. Other administrators may also review this block, but should not override the decision without good reason (see the blocking policy).

Mdrejhon (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

Request reason:

Caught by an open proxy block but this host or IP is not an open proxy. My IP address is 187.189.155.44. I am a Canadian currently at my winter vacation home in Mexico using the TotalPlay Internet service provider, which may be using an ISP-level NAT. Mdrejhon (talk) 6:59 am, 18 April 2023, Tuesday (10 days ago) (UTC+2)

Decline reason:

Your IP is not blocked any more. I see that you made some edits after making this request. Thus, the request is now moot. Vanjagenije (talk) 21:58, 27 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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How long/much longer do you expect to be down there (you don't have to be precise)? I or another admin would be happy to set you up with a temporary IP block exemption until you get back up north. Daniel Case (talk) 06:50, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm guessing end of May / early June but it varies quite a bit, and there are other people who are staying behind (though they don't edit Wikipedia).

Is this going to be an annual re-request? TotalPlay is Mexico's 2nd biggest ISP. Also the IP is dynamic too, but the fiber optic router is rarely rebooted.

That IP address does not appear to be blocked at this time. It looks like it was blocked on the 11th for a week for p2p proxy detections. Are you still getting block notices? If so, what message are you getting? SQL ^{Query Me!} 00:27, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh. Thanks.

BTW, TotalPlay is a gigabit FTTH service in Mexico, their fiber deployments have exploded in the last 12-24 months, so you're probably getting skyrocketing bandwidth by all Mexico users. Even Telmex is yanking copper and replacing with fiber in a hurry-compete. So there's a lot of flux (good and bad) by the aggregate of Mexico users. Mdrejhon (talk) 03:05, 22 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]