Thread: Iraq/Dinar News. 09/05 to 01/14/07

I don't understand, the article says they have been using a fixed rate for the past 3 cessions which means Tuesday, Wendsday, and Thursday...
It clearly tells you that in the article that the CBI has been on a fixed rate for those days, Monday was the last day the rates changed since then they have gone with the "FAMOUS" 1470...
PLEASE READ MY POST ON PAGE 38 POST# 378...http://www.rolclub.com/iraqi-dinar-d...tml#post123297

Originally Posted by kiko

It is about the handout of the ration cards which no one has received yet I believe???

I thought the other read was about Warka that released a credit card.

Kiko... your last statement rattled my memory also.. it was Warka that mentioned the credit card... so there is no connection to the ration card..but someone did make that mistake and thats where the confusion started I think...
really appreciate your imput and research like so many others here.. ez:)

Originally Posted by PopaDinar

I don't understand, the article says they have been using a fixed rate for the past 3 cessions which means Tuesday, Wendsday, and Thursday...
It clearly tells you that in the article that the CBI has been on a fixed rate for those days, Monday was the last day the rates changed since then they have gone with the "FAMOUS" 1470...
PLEASE READ MY POST ON PAGE 38 POST# 378...http://www.rolclub.com/iraqi-dinar-d...tml#post123297

A fixed rate... interesting.... would they use a fixed rate pending a reval...............

Originally Posted by kiko

Well, still no proof of auctions since all articles with "last monday" and in my opinion when you setup a new site or wants to move it then you register the domainname first.

As far as I good see the name is still available and you don't pull out the plug when moving a website.

Must be something else in my opinion!

At the risk of beating a dead and decaying horse, I wanted to elaborate on the point above. You are right, when you want to set up a new site, you register the domain first. Let me preface the rest of my remarks with this: I know very little about server stuff. I knew enough to know what I need, and what questions to ask, and what to request - But as far as the intricacies of how DNS servers talk with each other, and how registries can get farkled up, I'm not your man. But, talk about the nitty gritty of a website, and how things should run - Let me break it down:

When one goes about updating a site with a new look and feel, the last thing you do is shut the old one down. Never in a million years would I do that. Even when I just started in this business, I knew enough to know that you don't do that. You build your new site offline somewhere (maybe using something running IIS, or Apache, for local use), and you test it. If you have the luxury of multiple servers (say a Development box, a Certification Box, and a Production Box), you make sure each box has the exact same configuration. Once you're done developing on the Dev box, you move it to the Cert Box, and pound on it forever and a day, to make sure it doesn't break. When satisfied, you copy everything over to the production box, overwriting everything. In that instance, when the copy-over is complete, your new site is live and ready to go, and the old one "disappears".

If you have not the luxury of multiple boxes, you create a sub-directory on your one single server, and put your new files under there. Testing everything. When you're done, you modify your root index page saying that you are performing maintenance, disable all links, and delete everything else (with the exception of your testing subfolder). Then, copy everything from your testing folder up to the root folder, and bing-o, bang-o, blam-o, you got yourself a new site.

If you have half a brain, you never take your site down for maintenance, or to redesign or anything. People have said there's an invalid entry in the DNS causing this problem. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know - I'm not a server geek. While I know that's a possibility, it begs the question of why was their entry even being edited at all? Yeah, it could indeed be just happenstance that this happened, and purely coincidental, but we won't know until everything comes back online.

And if they're moving servers, domains, whatever, the above still applies. Leave the old in place until the new is ready to go. If you take it down, then you really have no clue what your doing, and you need to be popped like a pimple on the @ss of a blind goat.

So there it is. From one who creates, edits, and deletes pages/sites on a regular basis, that's the common sense approach to doing it. If this is nothing more than some junior web developer who is updating the site, and doesn't know what they're doing, I will literally pitch a fit, and send them quite the nasty gram of an e-mail. Okay, maybe I won't send the e-mail, but I will be seriously steamed. There's no excuse for taking an entire site down to make some modifications.

I only stated that, because I just want us to move on from this topic. If it's a server issue, maybe some network genius can give their 30.73IQD worth on the matter. But the website itself, I believe I have covered all the pertinent bases.

This is all so weird, strange and bizarre.....................

What a ride!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are we having FUN yet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Zipper Report - to be submitted to James Baker

Courses of Action in Iraq:
1. Reval
2. Execute every male Iraqi old enough to talk or carry a weapon to break the cycle of violence
3. Send every bleeding-heart liberal into Baghdad with a whistle, big stop sign and reflective vest until they come up with a better idea.

Military: Baghdad attacks up during Ramadan
Bid to secure capital didn't meet expectations; U.S. refocusing effort

Updated: 6:59 a.m. PT Oct 19, 2006
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The two-month old joint U.S.-Iraqi bid to crush violence in the Iraqi capital did "not meet our overall expectations," as attacks in Baghdad rose by 22 percent in the first three weeks of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday.

The spike in violence during the month of fasting was "disheartening" and the Americans were now working with Iraqi authorities to "refocus" security measures, Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell said.

"In Baghdad, Operation Together Forward has made a difference in the focus areas but has not met our overall expectations in sustaining a reduction in the level of violence," Caldwell said at a weekly news briefing.

The gloomy assessment of the operation, which was set in motion with the deployment of an extra 12,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops on Aug. 7, was issued at a time of perceived tension between the U.S. military and administration and the nearly five-month-old government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Caldwell said, for example, that U.S. forces had been forced to release a captured top organizer for radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday, a day after he was detained on suspicion of "illegal" activities.

He said Mazin al-Sa'edi, a top organizer with the Sadr Movement political party in western Baghdad, was set free on the demand of al-Maliki. Al-Sa'edi had been detain along with five of his aides for suspected involvement in Shiite militant violence.

Caldwell also said that U.S. forces had entered the city of Balad as early as last Friday after it got word of the early stages of the sectarian killings that swept through the region an hour's drive of Baghdad for four days and left at least 95 people dead, most of them Shiites.

He said that the control over the city was left in the hands of the Iraqi military, however, and that the Iraqi government had not asked for U.S. assistance. U.S. forces were continuing to patrol the city, which has a major U.S. air base on the outskirts.

Originally Posted by Dinar Duchess

A fixed rate... interesting.... would they use a fixed rate pending a reval...............

That is exactly what I'm wondering... Need some input from the Dinar Intelligence...

Originally Posted by PopaDinar

I don't understand, the article says they have been using a fixed rate for the past 3 cessions which means Tuesday, Wendsday, and Thursday...
It clearly tells you that in the article that the CBI has been on a fixed rate for those days, Monday was the last day the rates changed since then they have gone with the "FAMOUS" 1470...
PLEASE READ MY POST ON PAGE 38 POST# 378...http://www.rolclub.com/iraqi-dinar-d...tml#post123297

It could be, Good way of thinking.

Is there a member in Baghdad or anywhere in Iraq, that can give us any new information regarding the current topics on this forum.

Originally Posted by Alphamystic

I must have missed the post about the credit cards (easy to do when you get behind on these posts).

As far as the part I highlighted, I was under the impression that they would hand out the ration cards, which the Iraqi's would present to the bank in order to get the $10k?

Can anyone confirm this?

I'll reply to this because I was the one who posted about seeing this today on Kurd Sat.

What I do know:

It was on kurd sat today

They were interviewing people in a grocery store (6-7 different shoppers)]

They interviewed the guy behind the counter, and he held up
a blue colored plastic (or paper) card about the SIZE of a credit card (note that I never said credit card, only the size of one.

The customers were all smiling and happy

What I dont know:

What they were saying

When it was filmed

What the card was (or why it was important to show it)

Why the customers were so happy