Do you have an account where you can get a shell on the mail system, and install a filter for yourself? If so, SpamAssassin is an excellent choice for fighting spam. It has a very broad rulebase, which catches all kinds of typical spam behaviors, has whitelisting support and adjustable thresholding, and other nice features. I just began employing it on my mailserver at work, and it does a great job.
No, I'm not a developer, just a very satisfied user.
However, if it's too easy, spammers will just remove themselves without changing their ways. Yes, they'll eventually end up back in one or more of the open-relay databases out there, but in the meantime, more of their spam gets shuffled around, wasting time and bandwidth.
So there is some benefit to not making it too simple for people whose servers get blacklisted to remove them.
95% open? Maybe 25%. The biggest part of what makes OS X is not Darwin, but all the stuff that sits on top of it - mostly the Objective-C libraries and the GUI and all its trappings. I don't know about their ObjC stuff, but Quartz is assuredly not, and I'm pretty sure Carbon is not either. I don't think that Cocoa is either - OpenStep, upon which Cocoa is based, isn't as "open" as the name might imply. Also, many of the more interesting device drivers are closed source.
You mean like the software modems in the Rev 2 G4 PowerBook and the Rev 2 iBook2s? Apple's taking up that mantle on a few machines now too, sadly. I like their hardware - it runs Linux so nicely. (I'm running 2.4.17 on an iBook FireWire now!)
Well, Darwin does have a "real" BSD kernel on top of a Mach microkernel. I think it's rather pointless, running a full *NIX kernel on top of Mach - it's not a "true" microkernel arrangement, since it's just a minor rewrite to make the BSD kernel run as a Mach server.
Of course, keeping in mind why NTBugTraq was brought into existence - because BugTraq moderators were tired of being inundated with massive quantities of NT (and co.) bug reports. I'd base such a comparison on the number of Linux bugs listed on BugTraq versus the number on NTBugTraq altogether (hint - it'll be a lot less, since Linux is just a kernel).
Except for stuff like display drivers. OS X uses a native, accelerated binary driver for talking to the display hardware. If you have a display chip that Apple themselves never used, and that those drivers don't (and have no reason to) support, you'll find they don't work.
Besides, the higher-level stuff could theoretically examine the OF ROMs, and see if they are or are not genuine. I don't know if it does this or not - considering the hacks to make OS X run on older PPC Macs, probably not - but it could be done in response to something like this.
No, not really. The Classic Mac OS (with the 9.x line) no longer actually uses a hardware ROM. The way it works with the modern (aka NewWorld) systems is that the Mac OS ROM is stored in a file on disk, as an ELF executable wrapped in an OF Forth script, which the OpenFirmware loads at boot and invokes. Apple has actually gone a long way in terms of separating the hardware and the software in their newer systems.
The main thing is that the OpenFirmware has to have support for (a) HFS/HFS+ filesystems, and (b) loading monolithic ELF binaries. Shouldn't be too hard to duplicate that kind of stuff without stepping on Apple copyrights.
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I've not used MetroX myself, but I did use AccelX some time back on an S3 PCI video board I had. It sucked. It was horribly unstable, much more so than XFree was at the time (3.3.x then). For all their talk about high performance and stability, IMNSHO their products didn't bear out their promises. And from what I've heard from some other people, they still don't.
I think the previous poster was referring to the WinAmp3 alpha for Linux (which is slow, bloated, a major CPU hog, and completely unstable, just as he described). But I see the point made - AOL basically has left NullSoft to its own devices, not really making any use of WinAmp (or Netscape for that matter - they still use IE, even though Mozilla is getting quite good). Yes, Tcl/Tk and Gtk+ are independent of AOL, but the two clients they released were based on them.
Also, XMMS isn't really related to WinAmp in any significant way at all, other than (a) it plays MP3s (and some other audio formats), (b) they use the same format skins, and (c) some other inspiration has been gleaned from its design (of WinAmp 2 anyway).
Well, it seems Fox is a network that's stuck in a rut, and always looking for a cash-cow.
Back in its early days, they weren't pulling a lot of money, sure, but they didn't have a big audience to begin with. They were much more willing to give a show (like the X-Files, or the Simpsons) a chance - even if it was considered by some to be offbeat or weird. They had nothing to lose at the time.
However, now they're nationwide, and they want marketshare. Big time. They don't seem to think they can give a show a chance to get the bugs worked out, to refine its "sense of self", so to speak - "for all my selfless devotion, I except some really big returns". And if they don't see the returns fast - that being in terms of BIG ratings - they're tripping over themselves to cut it loose ASAP.
Which is, of course, why they're milking the everliving fuck out of the series that they've got that did catch on - because they don't know where they'll find the next "big thing" - the next X-Files, or the next Simpsons, to keep them in the ratings.
I use it as a springboard to installing woody. Of course, if I had to install on a box (at least an x86 box) right now, I'd just use a woody prerelease ISO, or use a root/boot/driver set and net-install (the woody net install is much more slick than it was in potato).
Except that it's an obvious form letter/mass-mailing message (no names or personalization) - plus it's to someone he doesn't even know. Also, the message to a guy at Concordia U - I mean, come on, they're not an IT company, and according to the people at Concordia whose messages appeared, they don't even have anything about HR on their pages.
However, in later messages he says how (I'm paraphrasing) "I didn't want to work for your stupid company anyway, I was trying to get clients for my business". Seems like a funny way to go about it to me. But what do I know anyway?
I just a bit ago got similar advice from a friend (a SourceForge admin). That makes it much faster. That's great - now I may actually be able to make some serious use of LDAP as an auth backend (before, I'd end up with so many waiting auth requests, my systems would choke and die before long).
I've been trying the same, and have run into the same lack of tools for managing an LDAP server as an authentication backend. However, I've also noticed that using OpenLDAP v2 is a _whole lot_ slower than a NIS authentication system. This just isn't really acceptable. I've tried looking for a performance-tuning guide for OpenLDAP's slapd daemon, without success. Anyobdy know of any such guide, or have experience getting better performance out of slapd?
No one's saying you can't smoke. In California, you can smoke at home, you can smoke outdoors. There are other places too, I think (smoking areas at airports and places like that). Just that if you want to kill yourself, don't do it around everybody else, taking the rest of us down with you.
You're drawing a comparison where THERE IS NONE. A physically harmful habit, which is harmful to others as well, compared to video games, which I can play all the time if I want, and it doesn't affect ANYONE ELSE, and it doesn't harm me. I'm for freedom of choice, but if I'm in a restaurant with someone who smokes, I don't get a choice as to whether or not my health will be damaged (unless I leave). No one's making anyone play video games, but I'm not given a choice about inhaling second-hand smoke.
Most "computer users" - i.e., overall, not Linux/*BSD/UNIX users specifically - associate viruses, crashes, and such with _computers_, not any particular operating system. Most people can't make the distinction of where the hardware ends and where software begins. It just happens that most people assume Windows == PC, and may be aware of Macintosh, but probably don't know about anything beyond that.
No. It's a virus - it attaches itself to an executable, and spreads to others by being run. A trojan horse is a program that is designed to look like some (legitimate) program, and may do what it advertises, but has some "extra" features that involve subverting security, damage and destruction (or some combination of those).
Hardly. Smoking poses a REAL danger not just to the smoker, but to those around them. To make a comparison between video games (which IMO don't harm anyone) and smoking is just an absolute joke.
Or to you still believe that "smoking never hurt anybody"?
Totally decent DVD players are available for US$200 or less. They're not _quite_ as cheap as VCRs yet, but they're getting close. If you don't WANT to, though, then you're just beyond our help...
This isn't what MS does with their kernels. NT4 workstation, server, advanced server - all the same kernel, with a registry entry (and a watcher thread to prevent its change) to dictate personality. Same with 2K pro/server/advanced server - same kernel, just a registry entry and some extra bundled software to differentiate them. If you scour the 'net, you can actually find ways to hack the registry to "upgrade" NT workstation or Win2K Pro.
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Do you have an account where you can get a shell on the mail system, and install a filter for yourself? If so, SpamAssassin is an excellent choice for fighting spam. It has a very broad rulebase, which catches all kinds of typical spam behaviors, has whitelisting support and adjustable thresholding, and other nice features. I just began employing it on my mailserver at work, and it does a great job.
No, I'm not a developer, just a very satisfied user.
However, if it's too easy, spammers will just remove themselves without changing their ways. Yes, they'll eventually end up back in one or more of the open-relay databases out there, but in the meantime, more of their spam gets shuffled around, wasting time and bandwidth.
So there is some benefit to not making it too simple for people whose servers get blacklisted to remove them.
95% open? Maybe 25%. The biggest part of what makes OS X is not Darwin, but all the stuff that sits on top of it - mostly the Objective-C libraries and the GUI and all its trappings. I don't know about their ObjC stuff, but Quartz is assuredly not, and I'm pretty sure Carbon is not either. I don't think that Cocoa is either - OpenStep, upon which Cocoa is based, isn't as "open" as the name might imply. Also, many of the more interesting device drivers are closed source.
You mean like the software modems in the Rev 2 G4 PowerBook and the Rev 2 iBook2s? Apple's taking up that mantle on a few machines now too, sadly. I like their hardware - it runs Linux so nicely. (I'm running 2.4.17 on an iBook FireWire now!)
Well, Darwin does have a "real" BSD kernel on top of a Mach microkernel. I think it's rather pointless, running a full *NIX kernel on top of Mach - it's not a "true" microkernel arrangement, since it's just a minor rewrite to make the BSD kernel run as a Mach server.
GPL'd OS's are far less likely to be embraced by a major player like Apple.
Wow, you think so?
Of course, keeping in mind why NTBugTraq was brought into existence - because BugTraq moderators were tired of being inundated with massive quantities of NT (and co.) bug reports. I'd base such a comparison on the number of Linux bugs listed on BugTraq versus the number on NTBugTraq altogether (hint - it'll be a lot less, since Linux is just a kernel).
Yes, that's how it is done. It's just an added module in the newer OpenFirmware versions.
Except for stuff like display drivers. OS X uses a native, accelerated binary driver for talking to the display hardware. If you have a display chip that Apple themselves never used, and that those drivers don't (and have no reason to) support, you'll find they don't work.
Besides, the higher-level stuff could theoretically examine the OF ROMs, and see if they are or are not genuine. I don't know if it does this or not - considering the hacks to make OS X run on older PPC Macs, probably not - but it could be done in response to something like this.
No, not really. The Classic Mac OS (with the 9.x line) no longer actually uses a hardware ROM. The way it works with the modern (aka NewWorld) systems is that the Mac OS ROM is stored in a file on disk, as an ELF executable wrapped in an OF Forth script, which the OpenFirmware loads at boot and invokes. Apple has actually gone a long way in terms of separating the hardware and the software in their newer systems.
The main thing is that the OpenFirmware has to have support for (a) HFS/HFS+ filesystems, and (b) loading monolithic ELF binaries. Shouldn't be too hard to duplicate that kind of stuff without stepping on Apple copyrights.
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I've not used MetroX myself, but I did use AccelX some time back on an S3 PCI video board I had. It sucked. It was horribly unstable, much more so than XFree was at the time (3.3.x then). For all their talk about high performance and stability, IMNSHO their products didn't bear out their promises. And from what I've heard from some other people, they still don't.
I think the previous poster was referring to the WinAmp3 alpha for Linux (which is slow, bloated, a major CPU hog, and completely unstable, just as he described). But I see the point made - AOL basically has left NullSoft to its own devices, not really making any use of WinAmp (or Netscape for that matter - they still use IE, even though Mozilla is getting quite good). Yes, Tcl/Tk and Gtk+ are independent of AOL, but the two clients they released were based on them.
Also, XMMS isn't really related to WinAmp in any significant way at all, other than (a) it plays MP3s (and some other audio formats), (b) they use the same format skins, and (c) some other inspiration has been gleaned from its design (of WinAmp 2 anyway).
Well, it seems Fox is a network that's stuck in a rut, and always looking for a cash-cow.
Back in its early days, they weren't pulling a lot of money, sure, but they didn't have a big audience to begin with. They were much more willing to give a show (like the X-Files, or the Simpsons) a chance - even if it was considered by some to be offbeat or weird. They had nothing to lose at the time.
However, now they're nationwide, and they want marketshare. Big time. They don't seem to think they can give a show a chance to get the bugs worked out, to refine its "sense of self", so to speak - "for all my selfless devotion, I except some really big returns". And if they don't see the returns fast - that being in terms of BIG ratings - they're tripping over themselves to cut it loose ASAP.
Which is, of course, why they're milking the everliving fuck out of the series that they've got that did catch on - because they don't know where they'll find the next "big thing" - the next X-Files, or the next Simpsons, to keep them in the ratings.
I use it as a springboard to installing woody. Of course, if I had to install on a box (at least an x86 box) right now, I'd just use a woody prerelease ISO, or use a root/boot/driver set and net-install (the woody net install is much more slick than it was in potato).
Except that it's an obvious form letter/mass-mailing message (no names or personalization) - plus it's to someone he doesn't even know. Also, the message to a guy at Concordia U - I mean, come on, they're not an IT company, and according to the people at Concordia whose messages appeared, they don't even have anything about HR on their pages.
However, in later messages he says how (I'm paraphrasing) "I didn't want to work for your stupid company anyway, I was trying to get clients for my business". Seems like a funny way to go about it to me. But what do I know anyway?
I just a bit ago got similar advice from a friend (a SourceForge admin). That makes it much faster. That's great - now I may actually be able to make some serious use of LDAP as an auth backend (before, I'd end up with so many waiting auth requests, my systems would choke and die before long).
I've been trying the same, and have run into the same lack of tools for managing an LDAP server as an authentication backend. However, I've also noticed that using OpenLDAP v2 is a _whole lot_ slower than a NIS authentication system. This just isn't really acceptable. I've tried looking for a performance-tuning guide for OpenLDAP's slapd daemon, without success. Anyobdy know of any such guide, or have experience getting better performance out of slapd?
No one's saying you can't smoke. In California, you can smoke at home, you can smoke outdoors. There are other places too, I think (smoking areas at airports and places like that). Just that if you want to kill yourself, don't do it around everybody else, taking the rest of us down with you.
You're drawing a comparison where THERE IS NONE. A physically harmful habit, which is harmful to others as well, compared to video games, which I can play all the time if I want, and it doesn't affect ANYONE ELSE, and it doesn't harm me. I'm for freedom of choice, but if I'm in a restaurant with someone who smokes, I don't get a choice as to whether or not my health will be damaged (unless I leave). No one's making anyone play video games, but I'm not given a choice about inhaling second-hand smoke.
Most "computer users" - i.e., overall, not Linux/*BSD/UNIX users specifically - associate viruses, crashes, and such with _computers_, not any particular operating system. Most people can't make the distinction of where the hardware ends and where software begins. It just happens that most people assume Windows == PC, and may be aware of Macintosh, but probably don't know about anything beyond that.
No. It's a virus - it attaches itself to an executable, and spreads to others by being run. A trojan horse is a program that is designed to look like some (legitimate) program, and may do what it advertises, but has some "extra" features that involve subverting security, damage and destruction (or some combination of those).
Hardly. Smoking poses a REAL danger not just to the smoker, but to those around them. To make a comparison between video games (which IMO don't harm anyone) and smoking is just an absolute joke.
Or to you still believe that "smoking never hurt anybody"?
Totally decent DVD players are available for US$200 or less. They're not _quite_ as cheap as VCRs yet, but they're getting close. If you don't WANT to, though, then you're just beyond our help...
This isn't what MS does with their kernels. NT4 workstation, server, advanced server - all the same kernel, with a registry entry (and a watcher thread to prevent its change) to dictate personality. Same with 2K pro/server/advanced server - same kernel, just a registry entry and some extra bundled software to differentiate them. If you scour the 'net, you can actually find ways to hack the registry to "upgrade" NT workstation or Win2K Pro.
If you're using xfs-xtt, then you aren't using XRENDER, which provides font anti-aliasing. Are you even running XFree 4.x?