Configuring a server to do anything is never "trivial" and if you think it is then I would expect you to run into some serious trouble (rooted box, upset users/managers etc.) sooner or later. If you've managed to set up an "ISP style" server with a few clicks on some GUI-based system then I would love to know what that is, because it certainly isn't Windows/IIS/Exchange.
There is, but the majority of non-technical users wouldn't know how to find that, wouldn't know how to install it and might not have sufficient priviledge in their account to install it even if they did.
If my wife received a.docx file from a colleague she would email back and say "that file didn't seem to work and it had a funny x on the end, are you sure there isn't a problem with your email?". And that will be exactly my approach if I receive one. (Except, I suppose, if it's a client who knows I ought to know what I'm doing, in which case I'll politely explain that they should stick to.doc for the benefit of their clients.)
*sigh*... all major linux distros come with tools, graphical or otherwise, that will help you configure a server for whatever you want. Look at Debian: completely free, it's Debconf system asks you simple questions to set up an MTA, Web server, File server, etc. etc.. Debconf will use command line 'Y/N' prompts, a text-based menu interface or a dialog-box interface depending on what you select.
Apart from anything, the idea that a graphical interface is an easier option than text files for configuration of a non-trivial system like a mailserver or web server is absolute nonsense. If it were that easy MS wouldn't need hundreds of pages of detailed examples for MCSE. I have a little archive of config scripts for various server setups that I can drop into/etc and with a little minor editing have something up and running in a few minutes. Setting up a Windows server takes far longer, and I usually end up missing some obscure option in a dialog somewhere. If I go through a text file I know I've seen and considered every option and made my selection, if I'm unsure of anything I can make a note of it and easily find the option again with my text editor's search function.
I found the comment neither arrogant, nor elitist, nor representative of such.
Indeed, and surely a comment that encourages the poster to get involved in the project (i.e. the Linux kernel) and explore their ideas of where it should change is the opposite of elitist. Elitist would be "it's good enough already, and it's not your project so push off or else".
See, the majority of "open source" development is all about scratching an itch. Most developers don't have that same itch that you're having. They don't have "users" - they run their own machines, maybe give accounts to a few friends/colleagues, but they don't have the problem that you have. Therefore, the secure FTP with jailing is probably not on the horizon.
Don't be silly, there are open source developers producing and using open source software in 1001 different scenarios. Many people are using Linux or BSDs in university computer labs, small companies, running web servers with shell access. You're right that no-one has developed this yet but there are thousands of network utilities in the Debian source tree and BSD Ports that demonstrate that developers are producing high-quality software for large-scale networked environments.
You're right, and I personally think this is the major reason for using an electronic voting system, so long as it's implemented safely and fairly with a proper audit trail. It allows for double checking of the results - once you've made your selection it can display the selection on the screen "You have chosen JOE BLOGGS for XXX position" with a YES or NO choice presented in three different, near-universal ways - written YES (or local language equivalent), colour green and a big tick; written NO, colour red and a big exclamation mark (not a cross because crosses used to mean 'yes' in voting). All options can be presented in the most simplistic manner no 'cancel' option but 'go back' etc.
The problem is that a significant number of people have difficulty understanding how to correctly cast their vote using a pencil and a piece of paper. A racist political party in the UK has won a case to have a ballot recounted because of this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6992574.stm
It's been a long time since I studied physics, but... does a photon 'have' an electron? I thought a photon was a particle of light, not a molecule that has electrons. Please correct me, I'm not trolling!
I've found that a lot of studio recording of pop/rock music are not recorded at concert pitch, A4=440, regardless of whether it's CD/Vinyl/MP3. I'd be interested to see what others think: why not pick your top 10 pop/rock songs of all time, tune your instrument of choice to A4=440 and try to play along with each one. I'd be surprised if you made it through your top 10 without having to change your reference pitch - and since it's pop/rock it's unlikely due to a difficult-to-tune pipe organ or an old piano etc. dictating the reference note.
Thank-you, well said. I've heard a few musicians say that 'perfect' pitch is actually a curse - due to equal temperament and the fact that concert pitch is a variable concept, those with that gift are likely to hear most of the music they listen to as out of tune.
Some studios change the speed of recordings without correcting pitch because it sounds better (apparently) - I'm a musician (rock, not classical) and I often have to retune my guitar to play along with recordings even though I have a decent electronic tuner set to A4=440. I've often wondered (maybe because I don't have that gift) who gets to say what 'perfect pitch' is: is it just people who happen to have an inbuilt sense of A4=440; should be people with an inbuilt sense of A4=415 be called 'perfect dystonics' or something ?!
Far more useful is a very good relative pitch - being able to instantly recognise all the intervals and sing/play harmonies without thinking about it will make a far better musician than someone who happens to be able to tune their instrument to concert pitch without a reference note.
Most cancers, Alzheimer's and heart disease have nothing to do with inflammation, chronic or otherwise. Arthritis does, although I have never heart of hydrogen peroxide in relationship with it.
Mr Bill MacCall from USA asked for a meeting with me in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He introduced me to the "Phage-virus" which is a virus that exists in our waters. A research lab in Georgia (ex-Soviet state) has found that the virus is healing people, animals and plants from bakteria and infections. It is definately something I am going to look into and, if possible, help spreading out for the benefits of the Brazilian grovers.
That's one amazing virus! Maybe he found another virus that can manufacture laptops from manure?
Indeed. Maybe their spam filter take into great account, that his email addresses were created just recently... and the fact he sent dozens of emails a day, that the dozens of emails were sent to multiple times, to different addresses -without using CCs/BCCs or multiple To's-, and that he used five computers, from different connections, to access the same account, and that he accessed two accounts, each time.
That's one heck of a spamfilter with some very accurate stateful information. If Hotmail can really do that sort of analysis of their email traffic I'm surprised they're not telling the world about it.
Is it possible that this guy, who has questionable scientific methods, maybe created his emails (which he doesn't show us their contents so we can't check) in such a way that they looked liked SPAM? Attachments are awfully popular in spam, and if he was creating these random emails with random attachments then they probably looked a fair bit like spam to the Bayesian filters.
You may be right, but your point is irrelevant. Email should never be silently dropped except in the rare circumstances where a server is under a sustained DOS attack and dropping is the only choice. There should be proper bounce-messages and/or the mail should go into a spam folder for the recipient. If you check the article comments the original 'researcher' says he turned off all filtering and checked all his spam folders.
The Hotmail account used were paid-for ones, not freebees. Customers have the right to expect all mail to be delivered unless they have specifically requested aggressive spam filtering.
Maybe not mail fraud, but if this study is corrent then it is fraud in the general sense. These were paid-for, not free, Hotmail accounts. Taking money to receive and deliver emails and then silently not doing it is most certainly fraud.
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Configuring a server to do anything is never "trivial" and if you think it is then I would expect you to run into some serious trouble (rooted box, upset users/managers etc.) sooner or later. If you've managed to set up an "ISP style" server with a few clicks on some GUI-based system then I would love to know what that is, because it certainly isn't Windows/IIS/Exchange.
If my wife received a
It's the "...you had to talk to it before you came on..." bit that worries me. What does he mean? In what context was he coming on?!
Apart from anything, the idea that a graphical interface is an easier option than text files for configuration of a non-trivial system like a mailserver or web server is absolute nonsense. If it were that easy MS wouldn't need hundreds of pages of detailed examples for MCSE. I have a little archive of config scripts for various server setups that I can drop into
Sometimes being double-jointed is a real crowd pleaser. If you cross all of your fingers it starts getting rea77lly h1rd to ty[]=eoope
No, "you're bad".
Indeed, and surely a comment that encourages the poster to get involved in the project (i.e. the Linux kernel) and explore their ideas of where it should change is the opposite of elitist. Elitist would be "it's good enough already, and it's not your project so push off or else".
I like the useful information at the top of the page: "Click REFRESH on your browser if pages seem unchanged"...
*sigh* yes, but the electrical distribution network ("national grid" in the UK) was set up with substantial government funding
Don't be silly, there are open source developers producing and using open source software in 1001 different scenarios. Many people are using Linux or BSDs in university computer labs, small companies, running web servers with shell access. You're right that no-one has developed this yet but there are thousands of network utilities in the Debian source tree and BSD Ports that demonstrate that developers are producing high-quality software for large-scale networked environments.
What makes gold have intrinsic value? I'm not convinced that there is such a thing as "objective value".
One word: rarity.
Yup, but you did end up with the most stable platform ever for running Notepad.
You're right, and I personally think this is the major reason for using an electronic voting system, so long as it's implemented safely and fairly with a proper audit trail. It allows for double checking of the results - once you've made your selection it can display the selection on the screen "You have chosen JOE BLOGGS for XXX position" with a YES or NO choice presented in three different, near-universal ways - written YES (or local language equivalent), colour green and a big tick; written NO, colour red and a big exclamation mark (not a cross because crosses used to mean 'yes' in voting). All options can be presented in the most simplistic manner no 'cancel' option but 'go back' etc.
I'm sure that's exactly the reasoning that was going through their heads whilst they cleared out the office.
The problem is that a significant number of people have difficulty understanding how to correctly cast their vote using a pencil and a piece of paper. A racist political party in the UK has won a case to have a ballot recounted because of this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/6992574.stm
It's been a long time since I studied physics, but... does a photon 'have' an electron? I thought a photon was a particle of light, not a molecule that has electrons. Please correct me, I'm not trolling!
I've found that a lot of studio recording of pop/rock music are not recorded at concert pitch, A4=440, regardless of whether it's CD/Vinyl/MP3. I'd be interested to see what others think: why not pick your top 10 pop/rock songs of all time, tune your instrument of choice to A4=440 and try to play along with each one. I'd be surprised if you made it through your top 10 without having to change your reference pitch - and since it's pop/rock it's unlikely due to a difficult-to-tune pipe organ or an old piano etc. dictating the reference note.
Some studios change the speed of recordings without correcting pitch because it sounds better (apparently) - I'm a musician (rock, not classical) and I often have to retune my guitar to play along with recordings even though I have a decent electronic tuner set to A4=440. I've often wondered (maybe because I don't have that gift) who gets to say what 'perfect pitch' is: is it just people who happen to have an inbuilt sense of A4=440; should be people with an inbuilt sense of A4=415 be called 'perfect dystonics' or something ?!
Far more useful is a very good relative pitch - being able to instantly recognise all the intervals and sing/play harmonies without thinking about it will make a far better musician than someone who happens to be able to tune their instrument to concert pitch without a reference note.
Most cancers, Alzheimer's and heart disease have nothing to do with inflammation, chronic or otherwise. Arthritis does, although I have never heart of hydrogen peroxide in relationship with it.
That's one amazing virus! Maybe he found another virus that can manufacture laptops from manure?
Shouldn't that be "fuck's sake" or "fucks' sake" - certainly not "fucks sake"..?
That's one heck of a spamfilter with some very accurate stateful information. If Hotmail can really do that sort of analysis of their email traffic I'm surprised they're not telling the world about it.
The Hotmail account used were paid-for ones, not freebees. Customers have the right to expect all mail to be delivered unless they have specifically requested aggressive spam filtering.
Maybe not mail fraud, but if this study is corrent then it is fraud in the general sense. These were paid-for, not free, Hotmail accounts. Taking money to receive and deliver emails and then silently not doing it is most certainly fraud.
Um, no she's not.