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http://impressive.net/games/barney/fun.cgi

This has been on the internet FOREVER. It's time to take those years of torment out on the purple monstrosity, my friend.

Good luck, and God speed.

"The secret to success is simple: make a good product and sell it at a fair price."

Guess Michael Moore's movie must have been a bad product at a hugely inflated price then.

Even the stuff that's not yet for sale.

Good thing that only happens to games.

The rdf stuff feels like overkill, but overall, lots of places and things to look at:

http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/09/photo. html#software

Yes, look at Mong Weng Wang in his full splendour!

Use dtrt as your home page and it will do whatever you need no matter what browser you use. Gerald Oskoboiny was nice enough to give me the source when I asked for it, so I've made some modifications to make it suit my needs better (e.g. I've added Usenet search through google). For my web page, I've also made focus move to the search box automatically.

1. Spamassassin scans all my incoming email. It has pretty good hueristics, which get better if you allow it to use bayesian learning. If Spamassassin thinks its spam, a header is added.
2. CRM114 uses a much more sophisticated bayesian approach to check to see if the mail is spam. If it is spam, a header is added.
3. If the sender is on my whitelist (this is a good reference), I put the whitelisted mail in my inbox.
4. If the message is not on the whitelist and does not have a spam header (from either Spamassasin or CRM114) put the message in my inbox.
5. Otherwise, the message is spam and put it in my spam folder.

That is basically it. When one gets through, I put it into the false-negative folder, and a cron job has CRM114 learn it. If a good email winds up in the spam folder, I put it in the false-positive folder and CRM114 learns it as non-spam, and I add the sender to my whitelist.

Fortunately, both types of errors are *VERY* rare. The system just works.

A lot of /.ers just dismiss the idea that the problem can be solved. It can be solved. There are even ways my approach can be made more accurate. If I find more than an error or two a month, I may work on it (think: turing test confirmations for spammy email).

I put up a page describing my efforts. This is a problem which can (and has for many) been solved!

I think widespread deployment of checksum-based URIs like urn:sha1 could help solve this problem.

Here's a screenshot, and here's the .bashrc stuff used to do it.

Here's a screenshot, and here's the .bashrc stuff used to do it.

I once saw a mouse that could change its own ball: see mpeg movie

It's amazing what you get with a webmaster account for only $29/month -- 120M disk (and extra is cheap), 400M/day bandwidth, virtual FTP server, modern Apache http service, CGI scripts anywhere, shell access, unlimited email aliases, etc.

And they're extremely well-connected (redundant DS3s); cumulative downtime over the last few years has been maybe a few hours.

I don't get anything for plugging them, I'm just a happy customer. Oh, and unlike most sites, their own web site doesn't suck.