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i love gmail by teh_chrizzle · 2007-02-08 03:44 · Score: 4, Informative · on Google Opens Gmail To All

i'll be the first to admit that i am a pretty serious google fanboy and i haven't used a fastmail account so proceed with caution.

i have two public access unix accounts, one on SDF and one on hobbiton (hobbiton stopped being public access like 6 years ago). two years ago there was a sudden astronomical increase in the amount of spam that i was getting on both accounts. both systems had not yet set up greylisting or some other anti-spam measures and so i was worried that i would have to abandon an email address that i have had for almost 10 years.

i got a gmail invite from a friend and set up my new account, and gmail has an option where you can choose to send mail as another account and make that the default method for sending mail, so i set up my gmail account to send as the two unix accounts and then added the gmail address to a .forward for each shell account.

so now i use gmail as the central store for all of my email. now that both shell accounts have graylisting and other spam filtering i take advantage of that PLUS gmail's ability to bucket spam, so i have not seen a spam email in something like 6 months. i could go back to the old way (i look really oldschool using ssh to check my mail with pine) but i have become so lazy and spoiled thanks to gmail that there is no real reason to go back.

so, if you want to keep your old address and switch to gmail, it is possible, provided your old provider has some means for you to forward your mail.

Re:geeks arent always the victims of elitism.. by The+Silicon+Sorceror · 2000-11-03 02:49 · Score: 1 · on The Kid Who Wouldn't Be King (UPDATED)

Don't believe it? Try going into a linux channel on IRC and asking a 'newbie' question...If you're lucky, you'll just get kicked. Usually you'll be insulted and then kick banned...

I don't see this behaviour much (not on Undernet, anyway). 'Newbie' questions are usually answered quickly, if somebody has the knowledge and desire to reply to them. 'Stupid' questions are quite different. 'Stupid' questions are asked by people who have no degree of clue whatsoever. I stopped being amazed at the cluelessness of these people long ago, and started collecting some of this species of question (mostly stupid, some trolls, some just funny) instead. You can see this at the Undernet #linux Hall of Lame.

On the other hand, some of you will sympathize with the plight of these helpless beginners, some of whom are obviously just uninformed. Don't forget that bans are temporary.

DSL and free shell providers by The+Silicon+Sorceror · 2000-09-27 05:18 · Score: 1 · on On the Reliability of DSL Providers...

Ever heard of hobbiton.org?
They are a big provider of free Unix shells to those who have a need. And they've been shut down a few times (without cause) by fickle DSL providers who apparently hired their workers at gas stations.
Read the sordid story at http://hobbit on.org/ displayfile.cgi?title=News&file=/info/news. Some interesting tidbits on how they were treated by different DSL ISPs are provided.

Re:Careful with those links? by Eviltar · 2000-06-04 21:15 · Score: 2 · on The Future of Computers

Am I the only one who knows how to do URL hacking? :)

If you want to see how the author did it (to see if its CGI or whatever), then go here:

http://hobbiton.org/~zk65/

There is a tar-zipped file there (which I haven't checked out) containing a do-it-yourself kit for ruinning Slashdot discussions.

The author was also kind enough to leave an e-mail address, so you can express how much you love this piece of work (heh).

wow.cgi now stopped by zk65 · 2000-06-04 20:17 · Score: 1 · on AMD's New Thunderbird Articles & Benchmarks

wow.cgi has now been edited to put its comments in sid=wow which you can access by going to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=wow
If you want to run it click wow.cgi or view wow.txt (the source to the cgi)

wow.cgi now stopped by zk65 · 2000-06-04 20:17 · Score: 1 · on AMD's New Thunderbird Articles & Benchmarks

wow.cgi has now been edited to put its comments in sid=wow which you can access by going to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=wow
If you want to run it click wow.cgi or view wow.txt (the source to the cgi)

wow.cgi by zk65 · 2000-06-04 20:11 · Score: 1 · on AMD's New Thunderbird Articles & Benchmarks

Whoops, this took over the whole thread, shows how stupid people are...
As somebody wants to view the source it is here (this is the source to the cgi programme)
and if you want to see how many people have visited go to the log. Maybe I should disable it now....

zk65@hobbiton.org

wow.cgi by zk65 · 2000-06-04 20:11 · Score: 1 · on AMD's New Thunderbird Articles & Benchmarks

Whoops, this took over the whole thread, shows how stupid people are...
As somebody wants to view the source it is here (this is the source to the cgi programme)
and if you want to see how many people have visited go to the log. Maybe I should disable it now....

zk65@hobbiton.org

Re:More information by Eviltar · 2000-06-04 19:17 · Score: 3 · on AMD's New Thunderbird Articles & Benchmarks

If you appreciate this CGI script, then you can contact the original author at zk65@hobbiton.org. You can also visit the author's web page here.

:)

Re:More information by Eviltar · 2000-06-04 19:17 · Score: 3 · on AMD's New Thunderbird Articles & Benchmarks

If you appreciate this CGI script, then you can contact the original author at zk65@hobbiton.org. You can also visit the author's web page here.

:)

More information by martin · 2000-06-04 16:29 · Score: 1 · on U.S.-E.U. Data Privacy Deal Near

This is more informative

More information by martin · 2000-06-04 16:29 · Score: 1 · on U.S.-E.U. Data Privacy Deal Near

This is more informative

More information by bebot · 2000-06-04 16:20 · Score: 1 · on U.S.-E.U. Data Privacy Deal Near

This is more informative

Finally... a story where this is *not* offtopic... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-05-19 20:38 · Score: 5 · on Oxford Yanks Student Page Over Spoof DeCSS

and I'm asleep at the keyboard. Doh!

Oh well... here it is.
Add your own, and spread this far and wide:

This announcement brought to you by the DeCSS Polar Bear.

Time for Slashdot to take a stand... by Anonymous Coward · 2000-04-05 03:12 · Score: 4 · on MPAA Files Another Injunction Against 2600

The following is a list of all the mirrors from the 2600 site.

Slashdot Mirror

Domain: hobbiton.org

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