The difference between this software and say MS Office is that you don't "own" MS office, you have a license to use it but you do not have property rights on it.
If I don't "own" it, and I'm "licensing" it, then I didn't buy it; I'm only renting it. If I'm renting it, then why do I pay sales tax on the (non)purchase? Why does a business pay property tax on its software when it is counted as a capital asset? If Microsoft still owns the software, then Microsoft should pay the property tax. Since they don't, I take it that means that they agree that I bought the copy of the software and that I own it.
Also, I've got a somewhat extensive file of html advice that loads whenever SGML mode runs in HTML mode. It provides advice functions for the HTML mode commands so that things work the way that I want. I'm lazy and don't like a lot of typing, so I have the advice scan the text and insert stuff where I think it ought to go, and not where HTML mode's author thought it should go. If I keep adding to it, I may just have my very own, complete, HTML mode.
On the Help menu there are two options that can help you find Emacs packages. The first is Find Emacs Packages and is bound by default to ^h-p. It will give you the hierarchal list of packages stored on your system. The other command, Find Extra Packages, opens an info page with information on a few Emacs code repositories and links to some extra packages.
Additionally, there's a news group (gnu.emacs.sources) where folks have traditionally posted their Emacs lisp code.
You are right, though, it would be nice to have something like CPAN/CTAN available straight from Emacs. A light bulb turns on over Panda's head.
I've been using Emacs for 15 years and started using Emacs before I even knew that vi existed. I use vi when I must, i.e. no Emacs on the server or I'm going in on a slow remote connection, but don't want to use vi for my every day editing. I can do all the basic editing that I need in vi, but for the truly fancy stuff, I feel much more at home in Emacs.
Automation of repetitive task can go way beyond recorded key strokes once you get a grip on Emacs lisp. This tool has saved me years of work over the time that I've used it.
The best way to learn Emacs is to just use it. Having this book will help you. I have the first edition now collecting dust on a shelf at home. The help, actually info, is very helpful. There's an interactive tutorial that comes with it, etc.
Ah ha! But what if you do to the chess-bayes what you do with your spam-bayes?
Bayesian spam filters are not particularly smart at telling the difference between spam and ham until trained. That's why the directions for spamassassin and most other bayesian filters recommend that you have it learn from some saved spam and ham messages before putting the filter into production use. When that is done, the filter starts out being somewhat trained and does a much better job from the start.
I'll wager that if you ran through a set of games, say from a collection of books on championship chess, then the bayesian filter would eventually learn to play like a grandmaster. At least as far as the traditional chess canon is concerned. Make random moves against it, and it will be totally confused.
What it means is Microsoft is not changing their strategy. They support interoperability between the current releases of the their own software and nothing else.
I haven't yet deployed any filtering on other peoples SPF records, indeed with my current spam filtering I've yet to see the point, most of the viral dross, and paypal scams are killed by other techniques - RBL, greylisting, mime type filtering for Windows executables.
Largely, that's the point. It is useless, because a. people don't use it, and b. it doesn't really solve any problem whatsoever.
I find it interesting that the majority of the proponents of spf with whom I communicate have only gone half way in their implementation of spf. They admit to having published spf records for their domains, but to not using spf in the filtering on their incoming mail. I find that simple fact to be rather telling.
The point is to say that emails from @domain.tld come from servers that @domain.tld approves. However, if you check the records for the large ISPs, almost all end in "?all." I have found very few spf records that end in "-all." (Actually if you check for SPF records on my personal domains, sigio.com,.org, and.net, you'll find spf records that end in -all.)
There's nothing to stop someone from setting up something like:
v=spf1 mx +all
There you go, every computer on the Internet is allowed to send mail purporting to be from your domain. What's your libspf-enabled spam filter supposed to do with that?
I've done some looking into this and given it serious consideration. While I created spf records for my domains, I actually believe now that spf is not so useful.
I just want to point out that one of the finest semi-automatic handguns ever made was the Polish Radom Model 35 9mm. It is very durable and highly sought-after by collectors of fine weaponry.
In fact, the Radom arsenal is reknowned for the quality of all its weapons.
There are studies that indicate the majority of SPF records are setup by spammers to legitimize their spam.
SPF allows you to set up a record that says any domain is allowed to send mail from me and should be considered legitimate. As long as it allows that, it is pointless.
That post isn't funny. It's insightful. I started using Linux back in 1996 on my home computers as my primary OS.--I also used Macs back then.
I've used various incarnations of Red Hat, Debian, and Slackware at various jobs and at home.
Guess what! In 2000, I started working at a place that used a wide variety of Unix and Unix-like OS. There, I became introduced the joy that is FreeBSD. About a month after starting that job, I was running FreeBSD on my workstations both at work and at home. I'm posting from my home workstation now.
I haven't looked back to Linux for my personal use or programming since.
BTW, I don't have the sound channel problem on this machine that Zawinski reports on Linux. I have a similar but lesser card to what he mentions in his post and have it configured for 4 channels. I just tested playing a MP3 and sound from another application at the same time. No hitch.
I agree with you pretty much completely and was discussing with a co-worker the other day that if IPv6 becomes widespread that the situation would likely get worse as IPs would essentially be disposable at that point. (Many spammers already treat them as such now.)
As for your problem with receiving mail claiming to come from your own domain, my answer to that is reject it. All of the email servers that I'm responsible for respond with a 5xx error whenever a computer connects and uses a hostname or ip address in my server's domain, when the actual IP address doesn't match my domain. This step alone eliminiates 100s of bogus messages a day.
The other step I take is too make sure that my servers run in pedantic mode and reject mail from servers that don't follow the SMTP protocol. If you connect and don't say HELO|EHLO, or don't wait for a response before spewing data at us, then the connection is unceremoniously dropped. This eliminates hundreds if not thousands of spam connections daily, and so far has only dropped 1 "legitimate" mass mailer who refuses to change their software to conform to the standards.
Even with those steps, I still need to run spam and virus filtering on the servers.
> An Open Source project is being killed because the highest authority in Open Source OS namely Mr. Linus, decided not to use it and now the rest of the community is cheering it. Way to go guys.
Uh-huh, right......
BitKeeper is not "open source." Nobody ever got the source outside of Larry McVoy's company. BitKeeper is proprietary software that you normally have to pay money to use. McVoy allowed "free" use for "free" software projects and Linus chose to use it for managing his end of Linux kernel development.
After Andrew Tridgell showed how you could connect to a BitKeeper repository using netcat to see what the "protocol" does, Mr. McVoy said no more "free" BitKeeper for you and went home.
No Open Source or Free Software projects were harmed in all of this, except that now Linus is going to develop his own tool for managing the kernel code instead of using something that's already available, because apparently, he's tried them all and decided that none really work for him.;)
I once went to Canada with three Japanese students who were studying in America. When we got to the Canadian border control, I went inside the office with them in case they had linguistic problems. The official there looked at each of their passports, looked at their visas for the U.S., then stamped that they'd entered Canada.
He looked to me with his hand out as if expecting another passport. I simply answered, "I'm a citizen." He smiled and let us through.
The Americans did check my driver's license on the way back, though.
I use BlackBox, not because of its small size, but because of its minimalist approach. I like that it doesn't try to be an "environment" with a huge task bar, built-in apps, etc. It's a window manager, it should do one thing and do it well, manage windows, which it does very well, thank you.
Call me old school if you like, but I get most of my work done in just a couple of applications and the command line. I don't give a fart for fancy graphics, spinning twerli-bobs, task bars, etc. I've got the menu that pops up when I right-click in the desktop and I have all the apps I use reqularly on there as well as some rxvt terminals for different purposes. What more user interface does anyone really need? (That's a rhetorical question, btw.)
I think that eventually, and unfortunately, there's gonna have to be a law. No organization except the social security administration should be allowed to store our SS #, for example
Actually, that used to be the law in the U.S., but the regulations have been relaxed. I refuse to do business with companies that ask for my SS# when they don't need it. If I tell them they can't have it and they insist, then I tell them that they won't get my business.
I've spent the last several days trying to figure out how to let my users update their sites on a WebDAV-enabled Apache server using Microsoft Web Folders. Microsoft's implementation of client side WebDAV in Windows 2000 (and probably others) is really only compatible with their own IIS DAV module. It does things that are not RFC-compliant and that break when you try to upload to a RFC-compliant DAV module.
Microsoft isn't interoperable with anything but their own software, so why should we try to interpoperate with theirs? Let 'em hang!
Wow! That's almost exactly what I was going to say.
I believe I can answer the last question implied in your summation. No one seeks to answer the question of what truly differentiates humans from other animals, because to answer it trutfully, you realize that the answer is "nothing." The more we've learned about other species, the more we've learned what we all have in common. It's pure hubris and willful ignorance that keeps people believing that humans are not animals and that we are somehow "better" than the other species.
I realized a long time ago that the universe does not care, and that we are not special. However, most people will not allow themselves to come to that conclusion because it requires throwing off all the old, cozy notions of human supremacy that are steeped in superstition. Many could not face living in a world where nothing ultimately matters, so they build their little world views, their deities, and their dubious ethical stances all so that they can wake up the next morning and feel good about themselves.
The pornographer has a few other options beyond not distributing his.htaccess file and having a robots.txt to keep googlebot away.
One that jumps readily to mind is to check the refering URL when a request for an image is made and to only send the graphic if the referrer is on an "approved" list of sites. Otherwise, return a 401, 403 or 404 error for the graphic.
If he's using Apache on his site, there's an example in the Apache documentation on how to set that up.
That won't stop "pirates" who have access to the site via a passworded account or a valid affiliate site, but it should cut down on automated bot-raping of his graphics.
However, I was talking about double indemnity, which many life policies pay for accidents. My policy has this clause, so what it means, the insurance pays double if I were to die in an accident, as opposed to paying out the policy value if I die of a heart attack or suicide.
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The difference between this software and say MS Office is that you don't "own" MS office, you have a license to use it but you do not have property rights on it.
If I don't "own" it, and I'm "licensing" it, then I didn't buy it; I'm only renting it. If I'm renting it, then why do I pay sales tax on the (non)purchase? Why does a business pay property tax on its software when it is counted as a capital asset? If Microsoft still owns the software, then Microsoft should pay the property tax. Since they don't, I take it that means that they agree that I bought the copy of the software and that I own it.
What I'd like to find and or write is a good PHP/HTML mode for emacs, or even a CPAN/CTAN clone for emacs modes and scripts.
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You might want to check this out: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/HtmlModeDel
Also, I've got a somewhat extensive file of html advice that loads whenever SGML mode runs in HTML mode. It provides advice functions for the HTML mode commands so that things work the way that I want. I'm lazy and don't like a lot of typing, so I have the advice scan the text and insert stuff where I think it ought to go, and not where HTML mode's author thought it should go. If I keep adding to it, I may just have my very own, complete, HTML mode.
On the Help menu there are two options that can help you find Emacs packages. The first is Find Emacs Packages and is bound by default to ^h-p. It will give you the hierarchal list of packages stored on your system. The other command, Find Extra Packages, opens an info page with information on a few Emacs code repositories and links to some extra packages.
Additionally, there's a news group (gnu.emacs.sources) where folks have traditionally posted their Emacs lisp code.
You are right, though, it would be nice to have something like CPAN/CTAN available straight from Emacs. A light bulb turns on over Panda's head.
I've been using Emacs for 15 years and started using Emacs before I even knew that vi existed. I use vi when I must, i.e. no Emacs on the server or I'm going in on a slow remote connection, but don't want to use vi for my every day editing. I can do all the basic editing that I need in vi, but for the truly fancy stuff, I feel much more at home in Emacs.
;)
Automation of repetitive task can go way beyond recorded key strokes once you get a grip on Emacs lisp. This tool has saved me years of work over the time that I've used it.
The best way to learn Emacs is to just use it. Having this book will help you. I have the first edition now collecting dust on a shelf at home. The help, actually info, is very helpful. There's an interactive tutorial that comes with it, etc.
My favorite editor, though, must be sed.
Ah ha! But what if you do to the chess-bayes what you do with your spam-bayes?
Bayesian spam filters are not particularly smart at telling the difference between spam and ham until trained. That's why the directions for spamassassin and most other bayesian filters recommend that you have it learn from some saved spam and ham messages before putting the filter into production use. When that is done, the filter starts out being somewhat trained and does a much better job from the start.
I'll wager that if you ran through a set of games, say from a collection of books on championship chess, then the bayesian filter would eventually learn to play like a grandmaster. At least as far as the traditional chess canon is concerned. Make random moves against it, and it will be totally confused.
What it means is Microsoft is not changing their strategy. They support interoperability between the current releases of the their own software and nothing else.
I haven't yet deployed any filtering on other peoples SPF records, indeed with my current spam filtering I've yet to see the point, most of the viral dross, and paypal scams are killed by other techniques - RBL, greylisting, mime type filtering for Windows executables.
.org, and .net, you'll find spf records that end in -all.)
Largely, that's the point. It is useless, because a. people don't use it, and b. it doesn't really solve any problem whatsoever.
I find it interesting that the majority of the proponents of spf with whom I communicate have only gone half way in their implementation of spf. They admit to having published spf records for their domains, but to not using spf in the filtering on their incoming mail. I find that simple fact to be rather telling.
The point is to say that emails from @domain.tld come from servers that @domain.tld approves. However, if you check the records for the large ISPs, almost all end in "?all." I have found very few spf records that end in "-all." (Actually if you check for SPF records on my personal domains, sigio.com,
There's nothing to stop someone from setting up something like:
v=spf1 mx +all
There you go, every computer on the Internet is allowed to send mail purporting to be from your domain. What's your libspf-enabled spam filter supposed to do with that?
I've done some looking into this and given it serious consideration. While I created spf records for my domains, I actually believe now that spf is not so useful.
as safe as a polish handgun
I just want to point out that one of the finest semi-automatic handguns ever made was the Polish Radom Model 35 9mm. It is very durable and highly sought-after by collectors of fine weaponry.
In fact, the Radom arsenal is reknowned for the quality of all its weapons.
JDB Pollard and the grandparent are right.
There are studies that indicate the majority of SPF records are setup by spammers to legitimize their spam.
SPF allows you to set up a record that says any domain is allowed to send mail from me and should be considered legitimate. As long as it allows that, it is pointless.
Makes me recall what Patton said about Eisenhower:
He was the best clerk I ever had.
That post isn't funny. It's insightful. I started using Linux back in 1996 on my home computers as my primary OS.--I also used Macs back then.
I've used various incarnations of Red Hat, Debian, and Slackware at various jobs and at home.
Guess what! In 2000, I started working at a place that used a wide variety of Unix and Unix-like OS. There, I became introduced the joy that is FreeBSD. About a month after starting that job, I was running FreeBSD on my workstations both at work and at home. I'm posting from my home workstation now.
I haven't looked back to Linux for my personal use or programming since.
BTW, I don't have the sound channel problem on this machine that Zawinski reports on Linux. I have a similar but lesser card to what he mentions in his post and have it configured for 4 channels. I just tested playing a MP3 and sound from another application at the same time. No hitch.
Damn! Damn! The mods are making me laugh. I hope the parent gets put up for m2. Too bad, you can't m2 the moderation as "funny."
They said in your body, not on your body.....
I agree with you pretty much completely and was discussing with a co-worker the other day that if IPv6 becomes widespread that the situation would likely get worse as IPs would essentially be disposable at that point. (Many spammers already treat them as such now.)
As for your problem with receiving mail claiming to come from your own domain, my answer to that is reject it. All of the email servers that I'm responsible for respond with a 5xx error whenever a computer connects and uses a hostname or ip address in my server's domain, when the actual IP address doesn't match my domain. This step alone eliminiates 100s of bogus messages a day.
The other step I take is too make sure that my servers run in pedantic mode and reject mail from servers that don't follow the SMTP protocol. If you connect and don't say HELO|EHLO, or don't wait for a response before spewing data at us, then the connection is unceremoniously dropped. This eliminates hundreds if not thousands of spam connections daily, and so far has only dropped 1 "legitimate" mass mailer who refuses to change their software to conform to the standards.
Even with those steps, I still need to run spam and virus filtering on the servers.
I prefer to call it WalFart, myself.
> An Open Source project is being killed because the highest authority in Open Source OS namely Mr. Linus, decided not to use it and now the rest of the community is cheering it. Way to go guys.
;)
Uh-huh, right......
BitKeeper is not "open source." Nobody ever got the source outside of Larry McVoy's company. BitKeeper is proprietary software that you normally have to pay money to use. McVoy allowed "free" use for "free" software projects and Linus chose to use it for managing his end of Linux kernel development.
After Andrew Tridgell showed how you could connect to a BitKeeper repository using netcat to see what the "protocol" does, Mr. McVoy said no more "free" BitKeeper for you and went home.
No Open Source or Free Software projects were harmed in all of this, except that now Linus is going to develop his own tool for managing the kernel code instead of using something that's already available, because apparently, he's tried them all and decided that none really work for him.
Yes, and so do I.
I once went to Canada with three Japanese students who were studying in America. When we got to the Canadian border control, I went inside the office with them in case they had linguistic problems. The official there looked at each of their passports, looked at their visas for the U.S., then stamped that they'd entered Canada.
He looked to me with his hand out as if expecting another passport. I simply answered, "I'm a citizen." He smiled and let us through.
The Americans did check my driver's license on the way back, though.
'Course, this was 15 years ago.....
I use BlackBox, not because of its small size, but because of its minimalist approach. I like that it doesn't try to be an "environment" with a huge task bar, built-in apps, etc. It's a window manager, it should do one thing and do it well, manage windows, which it does very well, thank you.
Call me old school if you like, but I get most of my work done in just a couple of applications and the command line. I don't give a fart for fancy graphics, spinning twerli-bobs, task bars, etc. I've got the menu that pops up when I right-click in the desktop and I have all the apps I use reqularly on there as well as some rxvt terminals for different purposes. What more user interface does anyone really need? (That's a rhetorical question, btw.)
I think that eventually, and unfortunately, there's gonna have to be a law. No organization except the social security administration should be allowed to store our SS #, for example
Actually, that used to be the law in the U.S., but the regulations have been relaxed. I refuse to do business with companies that ask for my SS# when they don't need it. If I tell them they can't have it and they insist, then I tell them that they won't get my business.
I've spent the last several days trying to figure out how to let my users update their sites on a WebDAV-enabled Apache server using Microsoft Web Folders. Microsoft's implementation of client side WebDAV in Windows 2000 (and probably others) is really only compatible with their own IIS DAV module. It does things that are not RFC-compliant and that break when you try to upload to a RFC-compliant DAV module.
Microsoft isn't interoperable with anything but their own software, so why should we try to interpoperate with theirs? Let 'em hang!
Wow! That's almost exactly what I was going to say.
I believe I can answer the last question implied in your summation. No one seeks to answer the question of what truly differentiates humans from other animals, because to answer it trutfully, you realize that the answer is "nothing." The more we've learned about other species, the more we've learned what we all have in common. It's pure hubris and willful ignorance that keeps people believing that humans are not animals and that we are somehow "better" than the other species.
I realized a long time ago that the universe does not care, and that we are not special. However, most people will not allow themselves to come to that conclusion because it requires throwing off all the old, cozy notions of human supremacy that are steeped in superstition. Many could not face living in a world where nothing ultimately matters, so they build their little world views, their deities, and their dubious ethical stances all so that they can wake up the next morning and feel good about themselves.
The pornographer has a few other options beyond not distributing his .htaccess file and having a robots.txt to keep googlebot away.
One that jumps readily to mind is to check the refering URL when a request for an image is made and to only send the graphic if the referrer is on an "approved" list of sites. Otherwise, return a 401, 403 or 404 error for the graphic.
If he's using Apache on his site, there's an example in the Apache documentation on how to set that up.
That won't stop "pirates" who have access to the site via a passworded account or a valid affiliate site, but it should cut down on automated bot-raping of his graphics.
True, true.
However, I was talking about double indemnity, which many life policies pay for accidents. My policy has this clause, so what it means, the insurance pays double if I were to die in an accident, as opposed to paying out the policy value if I die of a heart attack or suicide.
But with a family, well, you just can't check out while your children still depend on you.
No, my friend, that's what "double indemnity" is for and why it must be an accident.
Face it, most of us with jobs and life insurance are worth more dead than we are alive.
Hastur! Hastur! Hastur! Ouch!
The solution is pretty simple, really.
Don't use tabbed browsing!