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  1. I've been doing it for years... by cjsnell · · Score: 1 · on Blocking a Nation's IP Space

    My company has been blocking foreign IP space for years. We are a retail outfit and we don't do business with China, Southeast Asia, South America, the Persian Gulf, Africa, or former Eastern Bloc nations. So, consequently, our mail servers block these guys. I use lists from the now-deceased blackholes.us site, plus other netblocks that I have culled on my own. Since blackholes.us is no longer operational, you can download my archive of these lists from me: http://saba.island.nu/blackholes/

  2. Re:I'm seeing this, too! by cjsnell · · Score: 1 · on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger


    For comparison, here is a screenshot from my G5, which does not exhibit the problem. The fonts look much clearer on this machine.

  3. I'm seeing this, too! by cjsnell · · Score: 2, Informative · on Rave Reviews for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

    One thing I have noticed so far is that Expose seems a lot less fluid than in Panther. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I going mad? The difference is noticable even with only a couple of windows on the desktop.

    Yes, I absolutely have noticed the slowness. I'm sitting here on my dual G5 2.0GHz with 1.5GB RAM and (what I thought was) a decent graphics card and its definitely a LOT less smooth than in Panther.

    Another thing that I've noticed is a problem with font smoothing on my home machine, a Quicksilver G4 with a GeForce3 card. For some reason, most of my fonts look like total crap. I've tried every permutation of the font smoothing settings but nothing seems to help. Has anyone else seen this problem?

  4. Re:Flash! by cjsnell · · Score: 4, Informative · on Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4B

    And Photoshop couldnt output a sub 50k jpg that looks decent if its life depended on it.

    Try using Save for Web... instead of Save.... Save for Web saves the file without all the metadata and the preview icon, which seriously cuts down on size. Here's an example that I did for Fark (safe for work), which looks halfway decent. 48k.

  5. Here's the flight tracking info... by cjsnell · · Score: 2 · on Another Plane Down in New York


    Here's the flight tracking info from Flytecomm. Please don't kill my server. Thanks.

  6. Not a talentless bimbo? Heh, listen to this... by cjsnell · · Score: 1 · on Revenge Of The MP3 Quickies!

    Sublime_-_11_-_Courtney.mp 3

    For those interested, this is a tape from (I believe) Brad Nowell's answering machine. Brad is the now deceased former frontman of Sublime.

  7. Ever heard Courtney on a bad day? by cjsnell · · Score: 1 · on Revenge Of The MP3 Quickies!

    Great speech. I didn't know the girl had it in here, especially after listening to this gem:

    Sublime_-_11_-_Courtney.mp3

    Enjoy! :-)