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Yellow Dog Linux Gets 64-Bit Version For G5
An anonymous reader writes "There is an announcement on the YellowDogLinux.com page regarding the new release of a 64-bit distribution of Yellow Dog Linux for the Apple G5 and some custom hardware from IBM. The 64-bit release is being dubbed 'Y-HPC' and is scheduled to be released along with the new 32-bit Yellow Dog 4 at the end of May."
This letter and proposal has been sent to Google, Microsoft, and
Yahoo.
I get too much SPAM!!!
It came upon me that there is a SIMPLE SOLUTION to the 180 or so e-mails I receive every day and have to spend several hours
determining which are important and which ones are junk. This is a PERFECT SOLUTION with NO WORKAROUND BY SPAMMERS
This is an invasion of privacy and I have the solution that provides pretty good privacy: it is to include a KEY ACCESS ALPHA-NUMERIC (includes HEXADECIMAL CODE) NUMBER within the E-mail as shown below:
My proposal, THE NEILL SOLUTION, would solve ALL SPAM problems.
As "Bill Neill" billneill#123BFD456@google.com another example
is "Bill Neill" billneill#Family124@google.com where the #123BFD456 or #Family124 is an alpha-numeric (or hexadecimal) number or word THAT IS assigned BY ME and can be changed at will BY ME, and is known as the ALPHA-NUMERIC NUMBER CODE (ANC) KEY.
ANC KEY is the BEST SOLUTION by far. If you send an e-mail to me with the wrong ANC KEY (#123BFD456) OR (#Family124) your e-mail will not be received in my INBOX/Sub Box, but will go to a PENDING BOX that would allow me to read it, if I think it is possibly important and then respond with the current E-mail ANC KEY for further communications. This effectively expands
my existing e-mail box into several sub boxes or none at all, if I
should so choose not to use it.
ANC KEY SOLUTION is preferred over much more complicated attempts to solve the problem because it is simple, easy to program, it is in control of the user, it costs nothing to implement, and is EXCLUSIONARY not INCLUSIONARY.
Attempts to exclude e-mail from a source exposes the test to all the computers in the world, but including the ANC KEY code expressly grants delivery access for this message.
In high security applications for the government and such, the ANC can be extended (made longer, so harder to pick, limited only by the 256 network limitation) and generated on the fly (using a random number generator) or made to follow a particular and predictable algorithm with more keys, and ultimately, we see that this approaches security similar to encryption and digital signature software that provides pretty good privacy.
Since I can change the ANC KEY whenever I want to, without changing my actual e-mail account (billneill@google.com), unlike attempts to invoke a blocked list or some other "list" of the "do not send to me" type, both of which are circumvented by relocating off shore, out of reach of the law or simply send a batch and vanish, by changing the source of the sender, will NEVER WORK in todays world. This is a world-wide problem that contaminates the web and slows transmission to a crawl.
With ANC KEYs, I am able to keep the SPAMMERS out of my IN BOX as below:
INBOXES
SENDER FILTER:
Bulk Box Mail here is filtered as to SENDERS being known as a spammer to the server.
RECEIVER FILTERS:
Private Box: Mail here is filtered as to my selected private ANC KEY, #34C56, or #private69
Business Box: Mail here is filtered as to my selected business ANC KEY, #4444D, #office34
Family Box: Mail here is filtered as to my selected family HEX NUMBER KEY, #1A937, #family22
Public Box: Mail here is filtered as to my selected public ANC KEY, #9FF999. It comes from my answering a public question requiring the entry of an E-mail account for verification or access.
Pending Box: Mail here is not filtered using any ANC KEY or using a KEY of #? or * where the question mark signals to allow ANY OLD, OBSOLETE KEYS AND SO ON, to gain access and is the same as a person sending with NO NUMBER KEY( # ) AT ALL.
Bounce the Message:
NONE OF THE ABOVE: BOUNCE THE MESSAGE, have a nice day SPAMMERS. Notice that no E-mail address is in fact changed from what it is today, just add an account maintenance page to allow selection of the ANC (alpha-numeric) KEYS, and allow me to change them when needed to make the SPAM
You're stupid.
Pot Kettle Black.
'nuff said.
SLASHDOT SUCKS ASS!
heh...you said 'pot'
Calgary can suck a west-coast BOOT!
http://www.spamgourmet.com/ Your idea is too late.
my name is Moofie and here is my story:
I'm involved in installing, configuring and supporting redhat servers.
I spent 3 years performing duties relating to the above tasks. I thought I was a redhat "badass".
In 2004,I decided to go for my RHCE. I'm surely in the drivers seat to earn that puppy. I started to meet with a study group.
First thing I noticed, I was slow. Everything I did contrasted with the other member's techniques. I boot into Gnome and bring up Redhat's tools.
I noticed the other guys were at COMMAND PROMPTS...can you believe that? Well, a few were booted into what they call "fluxbox". And I swear there server configurations were way over my head. I could add/remove users using the tools in Gnome, I could perform basics systems tasks.
But these guys spent all day editing text files, and writing scripts, and typing non-stop for hours...some touched their mouse perhaps, as little as twice a day.
As we covered material for the RHCE, I noticed profound differences in the way we solved the problems. Well in fact, there were a lot of the problems that I didn't even understand the question. I was horrified. I knew every icon on my desktop and what it did.
My study mates created servers that communicated with other x86 linux machines, ppc linux machines, os-x, os9, sparc, aix, next...using a variety of protocols, samba, nfs, nis, ftp, sftp, ssh, http, smtp, pop, the list goes on.
they brought in g4s, g5s, dec-alphas, ppc aix boxes, SGIs, sun boxes, commodores, 8086s, mips, amigas, ataris....we ran it all. well i should say "they ran it all", i kind of just sat back in wonder.
these guys were hacking java, php, c, c++, bash scripts, perl, python, ruby, tcl/tk, fortran, basic, machine language, assembly language, cobol, eiffel etc etc etc.
by week 7, my jaw could not drop any further.
but all hope was not lost. i was confident that running computer systems, beyond making pretty pictures or typing up a word document, was still all in the domain of the desktop.
they stuff these guys were doing was mostly for show...i'm sure of it. it was all ancient history.
well the day finally came and I took my RHCE exam...$750!!!!
omg.
it was a horrible disaster. there was almost NOTHING that was applicable to my gnome desktop experience. overall i scored a 12/100.
After taking a few days off to cool out..i approached the testing center manager (this was in austin), and point blank asked "what in the hell was this fascination with the command line?!!! why do we bother with it, and why is the gui almost completely ignored?!!!!"
he just smiled wistfully and said: "I really think you need to consider a profession change. Your not really cut out to be a programmer, nor really a tech, much less a sysadmin."
"I think you need to find a nice used Macintosh system and go into middle management"
I was despondent. I was depressed for 6 months.
Then one day, I happened to be in the pawnshop, when I spotted a strange looking computer. The shop keeper said it was a "quadra 950", he said he wasn't sure it'd turn on.
I bought it for a mere $450. What a deal!!!! When I got home and hit the power button, I heard a stirring "ta dum" chime.
and low and behold...it booted up.
OS 7 or some such. It was beautiful.
I clicked here, I clicked there, I clicked everywhere.
i was in love.
and just a few days later, I got a voicemessage about a job interview for a management position!!! My life was turning around.
I finally realized that "real computing" was just shit. It wasn't for me. Who wants to setup, maintain, configure, program, program-for and general all around "use computers in a geek way"????
my mother called me.
A FUCKING MORON...cause I had been an avid reader of slashdot. In fact I was a proud 5 digit slashdotter.
but i noticed my life was a lie.
i wasn't a sysadmin, i wasn't a programmer
You really sounded like what you were talking about until this:commodores, 8086s,.
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
sorry.
i was tired..i hadn't slept in 24hr.
=)
haha, stupid troll