I really hate the way Windows handles roaming profiles. One thing that you can do to partially alleviate the problem is to prevent the local machines from caching profiles.
In the registry create a value named DeleteRoamingCache of type REG_DWORD and set it to 1 under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Win dows\System registry subkey.
This doesn't solve the delays in copying the profiles around, but it does prevent them from filling up the hard drive. I particularly like this because it eliminates the issue of an old cached profile updating your real profile with files and settings you got rid of months ago. It seemed like that was always happening to me.
I don't think that the problem is really people buying spam-advertised products. In the last year, I have received about 30,000 spam messages.
Of these, I would estimate 80% are in a language other than English, so I can't buy anything from them (and who knows what they're even about). That leaves 6,000 messages.
About 75% of these don't have a product that I could actually purchase. Viagara e-mails with no URLs and that sort of thing (I have no idea why these message are even sent out in the first place).
That leaves about 1500 messages that I could actually buy things from if I wanted to, which I don't. If you figure that some incredibly small percentage of people might actually be ignorant enough to do so, that's not very many purchases.
But the important thing is that it doesn't matter! The cost to send out these spam messages is zero. Every ISP and IAP is paying for it instead. Every user that has to sort through spam messages instead of working or doing anything else is paying for it. You get the idea.
So I don't think that user education is the key to defeating spam. The key is to make sending spam messages difficult through elimination of unauthenticated SMTP servers (even ones that aren't open relays) and infected Windows hosts. In addition, spam should be refused rather than accepted and filtered (although this creates problems with false positives).
That's true, so it does cut into my argument. But I also still have some issues with this. It's all done on a state-by-state basis, so who's to say what Georgia will do (for instance)?
It seems that this sort of thing is building momentum lately. The Ohio pink plate thing for instance.
I think all this stuff against sex offenders lately is kind of misguided. Particularly when you consider what counts as a "sex offense" in some cases. Like being 16 and having consentual sex (although of course you can't "consent") with your 16 year old girlfriend. OK, it's illegal I guess. Does that mean that you should be GPS tracked when you're 85?
Plus e-mail is trivial to forge, so you can send messages as your coworkers and get them fired. This is way easier than faking their voice on the phone or copying their signature.
That's very good for OS X (although I have never heard of the majority of those file systems, and a lot of them are network or not particularly useful). The real question is why do you need support for the filesystem when all that's needed is to low level format the disk and that sort of thing?
This is exactly the reason why I don't use any RBL's on my e-mail server. I'd really like to, it would be nice to cut down on spam. But there are a million lists out there, and it's quite difficult to know who is responsible and who isn't. MAPS is one that I definitely don't agree with though.
This sort of "making a statement" tactic, like blackholing all of AOL or something similar, is all well and good in theory. Except that it doesn't reduce my work! Maybe I don't have to spend as much time on spam because of it, but now I have to figure out why a lot of people can't send e-mails. Some of which, maybe, were even important.
My university totally beat the government on this one. We hired the dude from Doubleclick to be chief privacy officer on campus. I believe all the same ironies apply equally well.
I have seen many, many terrible movies; but the absolute worst are all ones that I had high expectations for. Until I actually saw the film and realized how totally, completely wrong I was.
Jackie Brown sucked so horribly that the entire second hour of the movie was filled with internal debates as to whether or not to walk out. I wound up staying, and I regret it immensely.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover was excruciating from the title on. But I had heard how wonderful it was, blah blah blah. The best part turned out to be that my date also wanted to leave but we both stayed because we thought the other was enjoying it. If only we had known!
What Dreams May Come looked good in the previews. Oh how wrong I was.
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Those are the only threads that I ever post to anymore, by which I mean the last 6 years.
Touch it!
You know full well that you gain geek points for that stuff. If more than 1000 people do things a certain way, its no longer elite.
I really hate the way Windows handles roaming profiles. One thing that you can do to partially alleviate the problem is to prevent the local machines from caching profiles.
n dows\System registry subkey.
In the registry create a value named DeleteRoamingCache of type REG_DWORD and set it to 1 under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Wi
This doesn't solve the delays in copying the profiles around, but it does prevent them from filling up the hard drive. I particularly like this because it eliminates the issue of an old cached profile updating your real profile with files and settings you got rid of months ago. It seemed like that was always happening to me.
I don't think that the problem is really people buying spam-advertised products. In the last year, I have received about 30,000 spam messages.
Of these, I would estimate 80% are in a language other than English, so I can't buy anything from them (and who knows what they're even about). That leaves 6,000 messages.
About 75% of these don't have a product that I could actually purchase. Viagara e-mails with no URLs and that sort of thing (I have no idea why these message are even sent out in the first place).
That leaves about 1500 messages that I could actually buy things from if I wanted to, which I don't. If you figure that some incredibly small percentage of people might actually be ignorant enough to do so, that's not very many purchases.
But the important thing is that it doesn't matter! The cost to send out these spam messages is zero. Every ISP and IAP is paying for it instead. Every user that has to sort through spam messages instead of working or doing anything else is paying for it. You get the idea.
So I don't think that user education is the key to defeating spam. The key is to make sending spam messages difficult through elimination of unauthenticated SMTP servers (even ones that aren't open relays) and infected Windows hosts. In addition, spam should be refused rather than accepted and filtered (although this creates problems with false positives).
That's true, so it does cut into my argument. But I also still have some issues with this. It's all done on a state-by-state basis, so who's to say what Georgia will do (for instance)?
It seems that this sort of thing is building momentum lately. The Ohio pink plate thing for instance.
I think all this stuff against sex offenders lately is kind of misguided. Particularly when you consider what counts as a "sex offense" in some cases. Like being 16 and having consentual sex (although of course you can't "consent") with your 16 year old girlfriend. OK, it's illegal I guess. Does that mean that you should be GPS tracked when you're 85?
I hope they interface this with Google Maps, like the taxi finder service. Then we can watch them run around the city in real time!
Plus e-mail is trivial to forge, so you can send messages as your coworkers and get them fired. This is way easier than faking their voice on the phone or copying their signature.
If you configure CUPS using its web interface, it gives you an example for each connection type.
I'm pretty sure the example for JetDirect/AppSocket printing is exactly as you described.
That's very good for OS X (although I have never heard of the majority of those file systems, and a lot of them are network or not particularly useful). The real question is why do you need support for the filesystem when all that's needed is to low level format the disk and that sort of thing?
Thanks for reminding me that the furthest I can go now is kissing. The Scripps Institute has ruined my sex life.
I tried this out, specifically touching the HIV molecules. Now I'm infected. This technology really works!
This is exactly the reason why I don't use any RBL's on my e-mail server. I'd really like to, it would be nice to cut down on spam. But there are a million lists out there, and it's quite difficult to know who is responsible and who isn't. MAPS is one that I definitely don't agree with though.
This sort of "making a statement" tactic, like blackholing all of AOL or something similar, is all well and good in theory. Except that it doesn't reduce my work! Maybe I don't have to spend as much time on spam because of it, but now I have to figure out why a lot of people can't send e-mails. Some of which, maybe, were even important.
Seems like the only reason I've posted in the last 5 years is to point out my UID.
My university totally beat the government on this one. We hired the dude from Doubleclick to be chief privacy officer on campus. I believe all the same ironies apply equally well.
I have a slimp3 at my office and tivo series 2 at home. Slim's web interface is by far the superior of the two options.
I like my Tivo quite a bit, but it's music playing mode is more of an extra than a real reason to purchase.
I hate Sun's tools as well, which is why I spend tons of time replacing it from NetBSD's pkgsrc or elsewhere.
But they have at least made UFS journaling the default in one of the later releases of Solaris 9.
I have seen many, many terrible movies; but the absolute worst are all ones that I had high expectations for. Until I actually saw the film and realized how totally, completely wrong I was.
Jackie Brown sucked so horribly that the entire second hour of the movie was filled with internal debates as to whether or not to walk out. I wound up staying, and I regret it immensely.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover was excruciating from the title on. But I had heard how wonderful it was, blah blah blah. The best part turned out to be that my date also wanted to leave but we both stayed because we thought the other was enjoying it. If only we had known!
What Dreams May Come looked good in the previews. Oh how wrong I was.
Actually I tried to change it after the fact, for your information. Rob dissed me.
The term is "salad toss". No penii are involved.
I find that all I post about in the last 3-4 years is my UID.
The whole point of an ATM is to avoid all human contact. Your solutions all involve human intervention, which sucks.
Plus I'm usually doing laundry in my apartment building, which doesn't have a gas station attendant on duty 24/7. He's only on until 5pm.