Another option outside of getting a VPS is to get a Postini account and use them as a smarthost. Postini (or Google if you will) has a good reputation out there and you'll find much less mail blocked as a result. They also provide good inbound spam blocking services which you'll need eventually if you don't know.
Jungledisk was aquired by Rackspace some time ago. You can abandon S3 storage for Rackspace Cloudfiles using Jungledisk if you don't like Amazon. It also happens to be cheaper.
Your reasoning starts a slippery slope in terms of rights and is weak arguement at best. People who go to smokey bars know the negative effects of cigarette smoke. I've never been to a town which has no options for non-smokers, for both consumers and employees. Should we ban driving as well? The rate of pedestrian deaths has been decried in the news[1], and its effects are much more immediate.
Your second comment is odd and the start of another slippery slope. You mention the reason it's done is because of higher healthcare costs, yet you mention a special tax that supposedly recovers these costs. This also doesn't take into account the fact that many people pay higher premiums for health insurance as smokers anyhow. This one points directly to a fast food tax because obesity is quickly becoming a leading cause of death[2].
Once again Franklin rings true here:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Also note, I'm not a smoker, but I do believe that our freedoms here are being chipped away. Also apologies to the mods if this all is offtopic but (to tie it all together) the removal of online gambling is just another example of freedoms being eroded for the sake of "morality", greed, or what the state thinks is "good for you".
This is pretty crazy. Washington has tons of casinos nearly everywhere (except Seattle, and the city limits of some other suburbs). That said it seems like they're trying to crack down on the competition. You can go to your local tribal or nontribal casino and blow your money, but don't you *dare* do it online.
This is reminicient of the smoking ban just last year. I don't gamble or smoke, but I do believe in personal freedoms. Sadly, this place is slowly turning into a nanny state as the years go by.
Strange. While in Geneva last fall I saw these all over the place (along with plenty of Smart fortwos). They're so numerous there that one could assume they're still in production but I can't find any evidence to support it. You're right in that I don't see how this car could take off if the C1 didn't make it. It looks more like a 3 wheeled go-cart. I'm really wanting a smaller cars to make in into the states (hello, VW Polo?) and some already have (Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris), but I don't see how this model could succeed.
I was hoping that they'd replace the big goofy icon buttons on OS X and Linux that just don't go with anything. Maybe next version. The upside is the preferences layout is simpler, and browsing is a little snappier.
I'm also hoping that my memory leakage problems on linux are solved. We'll see! Now back to searching for the safarifox theme to see if it'll work...
I thought I'd just chime in as a "me too" comment. As a linguist who's studied 4 different languages it IS a lot like switching between 2 similar languages at times (like French and Spanish).
I've been typing Dvorak for about 4 years now. I've found that if I don't type Qwerty for months and months at a time it can get rusty, but if you use both fairly often you'll really have little or no problem (the language analogy applies here too). Plus if you have the Qwerty layout in front of you it really comes back to you faster. That said, since I primarily type Dvorak, my Qwerty speed has suffered a bit, but it's still not bad.
As for speed I agree with other posters that Dvorak is not really that much faster, but it's much more comfortable and "natural" feeling. I've been typing Dvorak for so long, and in spite of not always having the layout in front of me I still prefer using Dvorak over Qwerty.
Also if you're worried about RSI I highly recommend a Kinesis keyboard (my fave), or at least something with a bit of ergonomic research behind it.
It's really not all that bad, especially if you use the arrow keys to navigate which most all modern distros are able to do with the enhanced vi replacements they provide (vim on linux and nvi on freebsd). Though it's true other *nixs only let you use hjkl it's still just a muscle memory issue (like everything else in typing). Many of the rest of the commands are mnemonics (d for delete, y for yank, G for go, i for insert, a for add, etc)
My biggest problem with using vi in dvorak is the awkwardness that can come from typing ":" all the time (which is where "z" is in qwerty) which isn't really meant to be used that much if you're typing dvorak. This is coming from someone that does all their shell and php scripting in vi.
These days you don't even need hurricane electric to get on the ipv6 net, you can just set up a direct 6to4 tunnel. If you have a ipv4 IP address you are by default assigned a/16 on the ipv6 net (this equals more addresses than you could possibly use). People in the past have made their own writeups but I have mine for FreeBSD here
Getting a ipv6 only network is pretty hard since lots of things don't work yet. For example a lot of implementations of Samba don't support ipv6 and if you want your ipv6 only network to get on the v4 net you'll need something like NATPT (which is only in KAME-SNAP) or faithd set up. I've been looking into this as well since I have yet to see a complete writeup of this sort.
, in any case their setting of ? is neutral which seems to say "This is the only hosts/ip's that can send using my domain, but if anyone else does it I don't care."
I'm surprised no one noticed this, but as I was installing and testing the SPF policy daemon for Postfix I noticed a lot of domains went through that are on the list of "well known domains using SPF"actually have broken records:
earthlink.net. 694 IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:207.217.120.0/23 ip4:207.69.200.0/24 ip4:209.86.89.0/24 ?all
google.com. 300 IN TXT "v=spf1 ptr ?all"
There's others but I won't waste space. In any case the
?all
should be
+all
and makes that record invalid and allowing anyone to send on behalf of that domain, at least according to the perl script mentioned above (the result is DUNNO instead of REJECT). It makes me wonder if these people are just paying lip service to the fight against spam, or if many people actually messed up. Of course the perl script that pobox.com provides could be faulty as well.
You're missing a very important part of the equation. I'm not sure if you've ever gone out and set up mythtv on your own but depending on your skillset it's not a walk in the park.
In other words they're saving most users a hell of a lot of time and stress by providing this all prepackaged and set up.This skips the pain of setting up linux, xwindows, alsa, xine, vid card drivers, dealing with kernel compiles (depending on your distro), lirc config files, xine config files, xine lirc config files, mysql database setup, and a lot of other things I'm probably forgetting. Not to mention the hours spent to figure out how to do it all and what goes where. If I wasn't such a geek and enjoyed this kind of torture I'd definately think an extra few hundred dollars was worth it.
I guess I wouldn't mind dupes so much except, besides the redundancy, for every dupe that gets posted there's probably about 20 valid and informative stories that get rejected so instead of something that is news you get more cruft.
It wouldn't be that bad if it was a slow news day but I don't think at/. any day is a slow news day as far as submissions go. It'll be nice if someday a solution for this pops up.
This may get a redundant but I just wanted to pitch in as a dvorak typist primarily. I currently switch between using my TiBook and my Kinesis keyboard at work (who's interestingly enough in the same business park as I am). I use Dvorak on both of them.
If you don't use Qwerty much you *will* forget it if you don't use it for 4 months or so. This happened in my case. However, like not using a second language after learning it, it's easier to pick up again which I had to do after starting a new job. I'd equate typing both Qwerty and Dvorak a lot like knowing two languages. Since I have to use Querty from time to time to admin other systems, I've still retained it, but I'm much better at (and prefer) Dvorak.
Since I make a living from being able to type well, CTS scares the hell out of me so I've not bothered trying to going back to Qwerty. Plus like other people said, your fingers move a lot less when you type Dvorak. It also has the nice added bonus of people less frequently trying to "borrow" my computer when I'm not using it.
and I'll tell you why. The only reason businesses don't get as much spam compared to home users is because of one difference. The average home user doesn't have an IT department at their disposal to help fight spam.
At the company I'm at we still get tons of spam for the same reason home users do. Too many people treating their work account like their home account and signing up for lists and things they shouldn't be.
Spam has gotten so bad that we're considering implimenting the silver bullet of spam filtering, TMDA. The only problem is that this is very difficult to impliment and it goes purely on a whitelist only basis.
Spam is everywhere and anyone who says differently is either downplaying the problem, or living in a bubble.
When I first heard "Cancer Man" being referred to as a character from X-Files, I always thought of the episode with the Cancer eating man who was an EMT (ironically, played by Paul Mccrane from ER). He was supposedly made of cancer and ate it to live, hence why I always called him "Cancer Man".
In light of that episode "Cigarette-Smoking Man" seems a bit less ambiguous.
I'm getting into this discussion late so this may be redundant, but there's a few points I wanted to emphasize.
I have a feeling most people here log in from work, most companies still use Windows because making the switch still requires a lot of work and in many cases isn't possible. As Unix Admin and someone responsible for creating cheaper open source equivlents, this issue is ever present. So here's a few things we would need to switch.
- An e-mail client that can seemlessly replace Outlook. Evolution's connector can only support one mailbox at a time. Shared mailboxes are out so for those using it for a helpdesk solution are still stuck. Though I'm looking for a 3rd party web app to replace this.
-Jinitiator. Linux can't run Oracle apps needing Jinitiator, which is pretty ridiculous as you can run Oracle server on it.
-MS Office. Yes OpenOffice is *almost* there, but not quite. You still can't do pivot tables in Calc, some advaced Word formatting (and some basic like bullets) can't be displayed correctly.
Those are probably the biggest ones. I still use Linux at work (and OS X at home), but when a company has been raised from the ground up on Windows, Linux isn't quite there in terms of replacing it completely. I have a feeling it will be within the next 5 years. Exciting times.
Except Redmond is land owned by the United States. Not Microsoft. Really I don't think I'd like seeing a squadron of Harriers over my town, and no I don't work for Them. I'm a Unix sysadmin and a Mac OS X/FreeBSD user that works for a small company.
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Another option outside of getting a VPS is to get a Postini account and use them as a smarthost. Postini (or Google if you will) has a good reputation out there and you'll find much less mail blocked as a result. They also provide good inbound spam blocking services which you'll need eventually if you don't know.
Jungledisk was aquired by Rackspace some time ago. You can abandon S3 storage for Rackspace Cloudfiles using Jungledisk if you don't like Amazon. It also happens to be cheaper.
Your reasoning starts a slippery slope in terms of rights and is weak arguement at best. People who go to smokey bars know the negative effects of cigarette smoke. I've never been to a town which has no options for non-smokers, for both consumers and employees. Should we ban driving as well? The rate of pedestrian deaths has been decried in the news[1], and its effects are much more immediate.
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Your second comment is odd and the start of another slippery slope. You mention the reason it's done is because of higher healthcare costs, yet you mention a special tax that supposedly recovers these costs. This also doesn't take into account the fact that many people pay higher premiums for health insurance as smokers anyhow. This one points directly to a fast food tax because obesity is quickly becoming a leading cause of death[2].
Once again Franklin rings true here:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Also note, I'm not a smoker, but I do believe that our freedoms here are being chipped away. Also apologies to the mods if this all is offtopic but (to tie it all together) the removal of online gambling is just another example of freedoms being eroded for the sake of "morality", greed, or what the state thinks is "good for you".
[1] http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/64767_traffic
[1] http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-03-09-ob
This is pretty crazy. Washington has tons of casinos nearly everywhere (except Seattle, and the city limits of some other suburbs). That said it seems like they're trying to crack down on the competition. You can go to your local tribal or nontribal casino and blow your money, but don't you *dare* do it online.
This is reminicient of the smoking ban just last year. I don't gamble or smoke, but I do believe in personal freedoms. Sadly, this place is slowly turning into a nanny state as the years go by.
Strange. While in Geneva last fall I saw these all over the place (along with plenty of Smart fortwos). They're so numerous there that one could assume they're still in production but I can't find any evidence to support it. You're right in that I don't see how this car could take off if the C1 didn't make it. It looks more like a 3 wheeled go-cart. I'm really wanting a smaller cars to make in into the states (hello, VW Polo?) and some already have (Honda Fit and Toyota Yaris), but I don't see how this model could succeed.
I was hoping that they'd replace the big goofy icon buttons on OS X and Linux that just don't go with anything. Maybe next version. The upside is the preferences layout is simpler, and browsing is a little snappier.
I'm also hoping that my memory leakage problems on linux are solved. We'll see! Now back to searching for the safarifox theme to see if it'll work...
I thought I'd just chime in as a "me too" comment. As a linguist who's studied 4 different languages it IS a lot like switching between 2 similar languages at times (like French and Spanish).
I've been typing Dvorak for about 4 years now. I've found that if I don't type Qwerty for months and months at a time it can get rusty, but if you use both fairly often you'll really have little or no problem (the language analogy applies here too). Plus if you have the Qwerty layout in front of you it really comes back to you faster. That said, since I primarily type Dvorak, my Qwerty speed has suffered a bit, but it's still not bad.
As for speed I agree with other posters that Dvorak is not really that much faster, but it's much more comfortable and "natural" feeling. I've been typing Dvorak for so long, and in spite of not always having the layout in front of me I still prefer using Dvorak over Qwerty.
Also if you're worried about RSI I highly recommend a Kinesis keyboard (my fave), or at least something with a bit of ergonomic research behind it.
It's really not all that bad, especially if you use the arrow keys to navigate which most all modern distros are able to do with the enhanced vi replacements they provide (vim on linux and nvi on freebsd). Though it's true other *nixs only let you use hjkl it's still just a muscle memory issue (like everything else in typing). Many of the rest of the commands are mnemonics (d for delete, y for yank, G for go, i for insert, a for add, etc)
My biggest problem with using vi in dvorak is the awkwardness that can come from typing ":" all the time (which is where "z" is in qwerty) which isn't really meant to be used that much if you're typing dvorak. This is coming from someone that does all their shell and php scripting in vi.
--Full time vi and dvorak user
These days you don't even need hurricane electric to get on the ipv6 net, you can just set up a direct 6to4 tunnel. If you have a ipv4 IP address you are by default assigned a /16 on the ipv6 net (this equals more addresses than you could possibly use). People in the past have made their own writeups but I have mine for FreeBSD here
Getting a ipv6 only network is pretty hard since lots of things don't work yet. For example a lot of implementations of Samba don't support ipv6 and if you want your ipv6 only network to get on the v4 net you'll need something like NATPT (which is only in KAME-SNAP) or faithd set up. I've been looking into this as well since I have yet to see a complete writeup of this sort.
Then there's my own pebkac of spelling Cederholm wrong...
looks like his name is Vederholm instead of Cedarholm in the stats box on the review. Minor pebkac!
The funniest spam/virus I've come across yet:
Subject: ^_^ meay-meay!
I don't bite, weah!
Attached was a virus or trojan in a zip file with a code to open it in the e-mail.
"meay-meay!" has been an ongoing inside joke with some friends.
You're missing a very important part of the equation. I'm not sure if you've ever gone out and set up mythtv on your own but depending on your skillset it's not a walk in the park.
In other words they're saving most users a hell of a lot of time and stress by providing this all prepackaged and set up.This skips the pain of setting up linux, xwindows, alsa, xine, vid card drivers, dealing with kernel compiles (depending on your distro), lirc config files, xine config files, xine lirc config files, mysql database setup, and a lot of other things I'm probably forgetting. Not to mention the hours spent to figure out how to do it all and what goes where. If I wasn't such a geek and enjoyed this kind of torture I'd definately think an extra few hundred dollars was worth it.
I guess I wouldn't mind dupes so much except, besides the redundancy, for every dupe that gets posted there's probably about 20 valid and informative stories that get rejected so instead of something that is news you get more cruft.
/. any day is a slow news day as far as submissions go. It'll be nice if someday a solution for this pops up.
It wouldn't be that bad if it was a slow news day but I don't think at
If you don't use Qwerty much you *will* forget it if you don't use it for 4 months or so. This happened in my case. However, like not using a second language after learning it, it's easier to pick up again which I had to do after starting a new job. I'd equate typing both Qwerty and Dvorak a lot like knowing two languages. Since I have to use Querty from time to time to admin other systems, I've still retained it, but I'm much better at (and prefer) Dvorak.
Since I make a living from being able to type well, CTS scares the hell out of me so I've not bothered trying to going back to Qwerty. Plus like other people said, your fingers move a lot less when you type Dvorak. It also has the nice added bonus of people less frequently trying to "borrow" my computer when I'm not using it.
and I'll tell you why. The only reason businesses don't get as much spam compared to home users is because of one difference. The average home user doesn't have an IT department at their disposal to help fight spam. At the company I'm at we still get tons of spam for the same reason home users do. Too many people treating their work account like their home account and signing up for lists and things they shouldn't be. Spam has gotten so bad that we're considering implimenting the silver bullet of spam filtering, TMDA. The only problem is that this is very difficult to impliment and it goes purely on a whitelist only basis. Spam is everywhere and anyone who says differently is either downplaying the problem, or living in a bubble.
When I first heard "Cancer Man" being referred to as a character from X-Files, I always thought of the episode with the Cancer eating man who was an EMT (ironically, played by Paul Mccrane from ER). He was supposedly made of cancer and ate it to live, hence why I always called him "Cancer Man".
In light of that episode "Cigarette-Smoking Man" seems a bit less ambiguous.
Tell me I'm not the only one that read this and thought of Splinter from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (granted he was half rat and not mouse).
So what's next, humans and turtles? Humans and rabbits? Just so long as I don't have talking brains trying to take over the world I think I'll be fine
I'm getting into this discussion late so this may be redundant, but there's a few points I wanted to emphasize.
I have a feeling most people here log in from work, most companies still use Windows because making the switch still requires a lot of work and in many cases isn't possible. As Unix Admin and someone responsible for creating cheaper open source equivlents, this issue is ever present. So here's a few things we would need to switch.
- An e-mail client that can seemlessly replace Outlook. Evolution's connector can only support one mailbox at a time. Shared mailboxes are out so for those using it for a helpdesk solution are still stuck. Though I'm looking for a 3rd party web app to replace this.
-Jinitiator. Linux can't run Oracle apps needing Jinitiator, which is pretty ridiculous as you can run Oracle server on it.
-MS Office. Yes OpenOffice is *almost* there, but not quite. You still can't do pivot tables in Calc, some advaced Word formatting (and some basic like bullets) can't be displayed correctly.
Those are probably the biggest ones. I still use Linux at work (and OS X at home), but when a company has been raised from the ground up on Windows, Linux isn't quite there in terms of replacing it completely. I have a feeling it will be within the next 5 years. Exciting times.
Except Redmond is land owned by the United States. Not Microsoft. Really I don't think I'd like seeing a squadron of Harriers over my town, and no I don't work for Them. I'm a Unix sysadmin and a Mac OS X/FreeBSD user that works for a small company.