It's time for the government to castrated NSI/Verisign.
Then let's do something about it. Contact your local better business bureau and complain, citing specific examples of how they've screwed *you*. Make it professional and personal. The web hosting company I work for has already called the BBB (last week, actually) about Network Solutions on behalf of some of our clients, and the person handling the case sounded rather interested.
no, but it's a start. if the spammers are the ones running the sendmail, then it won't do any good, because they'll just not enable that, but if someone on your network is sending spam, you can note it and stop it.
And no, not everyone sets the from with the -f flag. however, it is one of the ear marks of a spam message - the fact that the from address doesn't exist or is just wrong
You can change your sendmail.cf to disalow sending of messages that have the from field indicated with the -f tag (i.e. a manually specified "from"), and you can set up your spam filters to disalow any mail that has a from field set with a -f tag.
Also, you can stop bounces from happening by editing your deliminators in the Scheck_rcpt section of sendmail.cf so that R$* @ $* @ $* returns an error code. Anything that is "someone colon at someplace at someplace.com" bounces thru your sendmail and gets sent, looking like it came from you.
I was gonna post a good clip of my sendmail.cf file here, but the lameness filter got it first - so here's a link: sendmail.txt. Just don't pound the server too hard, the load balencing's a little off.
This is the first time i've ever bitched about someone who posted a story (other than Katz), and usually i find the everything2 links useful, but when did the slashdot crowd get un-nerdy enough that we needed to put an explanitory link with the term "RTS". I mean, i'm not saying slashdot is news for the technical god, but its not the same audience as, say, the logon ads on AOL. Give the readers some credit.
We first need......a commonly accepted free standard for editable documents
Welcome to.txt! Usable with vi, vim, joe, pico, emacs, MSNotepad, MSWordpad, TeachText for mac (i believe), MS Word, HTTP Browsers, etc.
Now, the above post was meant in jest, I understand there are sometimes where a nice looking document will go a long way (price-quotes, resumes, etc), but, really, how many people need something other than.txt for the majority of things that they just pass around? If i get a txt file, it takes me 30 sec to post it into a word doc and make it pretty if i deem it necessacary.
So the e-mail makes the rounds, everyone at MS clicks over to the poll and votes for.NET.
I'd agree with that, except that the article says that several hosts had been logged making numerous connection attempts, even though it won't let you vote twice from the same IP. Some guy tried to log in like 288 times from one IP. So either they were using a script, or someone had lots of free time.
One can prove that there are an infinite number of points between A and B, and since no-one can traverse the infinite in finite time, no-one can cross from A to B. QED. [...] Except that I can cross from A to B. QED.
Difference between a philosopher and an engineer: They're at a bar and the philosopher says to the engineer "You can't make love to that women, cause there will always be a space halfway between you and her, therefore you can never actually get close and touch her, because to move towards her, you must first move to the halfway point between you and her." Engineer says "Oh, i'll get close enough."
The cause of buggy software is usually an engineering team that has been stretched too thin, or pulled in too many different directions - by a management team that can't or won't stand up to the political forces of the marketing department.
There's that, and there's also the fact that the technology changes. In 1997, when DNForever was announced (according to the article), we were anxiously awating quake 2. Think of all the changes in technonlogy that have happened since then. I mean, even quake 3, UT, and half life are old, now.
The only way you can excuse a 4 year development cycle in a game is if they are creating an entirely new engine. The way the game market works now-a-days, when you release a game in a marketing blitz, it not only has to be fun in order to make the cut, but it has to have pounding graphics. I personally don't think black and white is all that fun, and i own it, but it does pump my PIII-900 for a loop, hence its good reputation. Any game coded in 1997 isn't going to impress me technologically.
If you want to pump a game, grab someone else's engine and write your front end. (alice) Or, if you don't want to release something that has amazing graphics, but rather awesome gameplay, release uplink
NewsOne... When Deja went down, it was the only online usenet archive. Check it out, still alive and thriving
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Square will not make a game for anyone other than sony. Sony owns way too much of Square - they're the 2nd largest shareholder after Square themselves. The reason behind it is remember Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? Yeah. I liked it, but the public as a whole didn't, and it bombed. Well, Sony busts on up to square and is like:
Sony: Hey, so i hear you lost money on that movie. Square: Yeah, about 1.1 million. Sony: Aww man! I hate that. Well, just cause we like you, here's 2 million bucks. Square:...Um, OK. What's the catch? Sony: No catch (hehehe). Just make sure you remember who your friends are.
No FFx titles for X box folks. I doubt nintendo, as well, despite previous relationships.
Oh, and side note: i don't like 10, cause i didn't like 8 and the summon system is the same, but all the other improvemenets are great. I miss the card game. And where the heck is Xeno Saga?
I'm fairly sure you just clicked on over to google to find that link. There are no actual instructions on how to build a LED CPU meter or what the program code is for it, or how to assemble it, or anything. Please stop karma whoring and check your links first.
What i want to know is what are they going to do about Tom Bombadill... I mean i understand them having to leave him out for the sake of time, etc, but without the scene from the barrow downs, where does Merry get his sword from? That sword is important later in the 3rd book where he uses it to kill the leader of the Ringwraiths... That's what i'm worried about... Tolkien's writing was so interwoven that everything tied in with something else.
It's a spoof of a special-interest genre (movies for teens 17 and under)....
Oddly enough, isn't it rated R? As in restricted under 17? So their target audience is 17 year olds, or people under 17 whos parents would actually go to see this with them... Or are they encouraging people to sneak in and/or theaters not to card people?
I don't agree with the ratings system here, but i mean, if its there, use it, ya know?
Reading straight from my Microeconomics textbook, "A monopoly is a firm in an industry where the entrance of competing firms is blocked."
From the article: In Washington, Verizon lobbyists have asked federal regulators to make it more difficult for competitors to lease space on its network, arguing that its success in restoring phone service in Lower Manhattan proves that only a big company could handle maintenance, recovery and security in the wake of such a disaster.
ok i'm gonna go ahead and bite on this one About half of the PS2 games released to date are CD and half are DVD. The most compatible DVD format for PS2 is the DVD+RW (plus RW). Yah. The mod chips for ps2 are still in development, but thus far there are 2 popular ones - the first is easiest and most expensive. It's a USB mod chip, you open the PS2 and solder 3 points together. Put the USB chip in the USB port. Then you get a game shark, boot up the PS2 with the game shark and when it boots, you swap in the burned (cd/dvd). The other way involves no game shark and no swaping games, etc, but it takes 42 solder points inside the PS2, compared with only 5/6 for the PSX. And it's really easy to fuck up, and if you don't get the chip in right, and then remove the chip, the PS2 doesn't work. (friend's expierence).
FYI, if there's anyone out there in retail sales working for a place that sells HP computers, you can log on to HP Info Lab and you can get a $400 rebate for the HP 100i DVD writer. There's also a $50 rebate available, which you can use in conjunction with the $400 rebate. The $50 rebate is available to the general public.
This brings the price of a DVD burner down to $150, since the drive is 600 coon skins before rebate. At that price, and if the playstation 2 drops in price this christmas, i sense lots of burned games in my future...
And another thing: Am i the only one out there who can't stand ID3 tags? It bugs me to no end to see that a file named X will show up in my playlist and be Y. I just want correctly named mp3's, i.e. BandName-AlbumName-TrackNum-TrackName. Gives you displays like GWAR-Scumdogs Of The Universe-03-Sick Of You.
Mabey i'm missing something, but everything i want to know is in that filename.
yeah dude, we used to get about one quickie posting a week. Definately a cool part that i miss. Also: look out for the april first articles =) welcome to/.!
Poor/Incomplete/Out of date documentation is the Achilles Heel of open source.
I would have to disagree with this. While poor documentation does hurt one open source project against another, actual help files, FAQ's, and newbie files are rampant in linux - from a broad base I think mandrake 8.1 is better documented than windows. As to specific documentation in the kernel etc, yeah, its poorly documented, but you're missing 2 important points - one: its poorly documented across the board, and two: when's the last time you saw the documentation in kernel32.dll for windows? ANY documenting is better than none. The fact that we can see the source in and of itsself makes it superior to anything non-open.
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It's time for the government to castrated NSI/Verisign.
Then let's do something about it. Contact your local better business bureau and complain, citing specific examples of how they've screwed *you*. Make it professional and personal. The web hosting company I work for has already called the BBB (last week, actually) about Network Solutions on behalf of some of our clients, and the person handling the case sounded rather interested.
~z
no, but it's a start. if the spammers are the ones running the sendmail, then it won't do any good, because they'll just not enable that, but if someone on your network is sending spam, you can note it and stop it.
And no, not everyone sets the from with the -f flag. however, it is one of the ear marks of a spam message - the fact that the from address doesn't exist or is just wrong
~z
You can change your sendmail.cf to disalow sending of messages that have the from field indicated with the -f tag (i.e. a manually specified "from"), and you can set up your spam filters to disalow any mail that has a from field set with a -f tag.
Also, you can stop bounces from happening by editing your deliminators in the Scheck_rcpt section of sendmail.cf so that R$* @ $* @ $* returns an error code. Anything that is "someone colon at someplace at someplace.com" bounces thru your sendmail and gets sent, looking like it came from you.
I was gonna post a good clip of my sendmail.cf file here, but the lameness filter got it first - so here's a link: sendmail.txt. Just don't pound the server too hard, the load balencing's a little off.
~z
This is the first time i've ever bitched about someone who posted a story (other than Katz), and usually i find the everything2 links useful, but when did the slashdot crowd get un-nerdy enough that we needed to put an explanitory link with the term "RTS". I mean, i'm not saying slashdot is news for the technical god, but its not the same audience as, say, the logon ads on AOL. Give the readers some credit.
~Z
if you observe the bikini clad n'sync
No, no, don't think i will, if it's all the same to you.
~z
I wonder if the irradiation process degrades latex?
We could be blameing the government for a rash of unwitting pregnancies.
Course, it won't affect the slashdot crowd. Slashdotters don't have sex, they fsck.
~z
We first need...
Welcome to
Now, the above post was meant in jest, I understand there are sometimes where a nice looking document will go a long way (price-quotes, resumes, etc), but, really, how many people need something other than
~z
So the e-mail makes the rounds, everyone at MS clicks over to the poll and votes for .NET.
I'd agree with that, except that the article says that several hosts had been logged making numerous connection attempts, even though it won't let you vote twice from the same IP. Some guy tried to log in like 288 times from one IP. So either they were using a script, or someone had lots of free time.
~z
One can prove that there are an infinite number of points between A and B, and since no-one can traverse the infinite in finite time, no-one can cross from A to B. QED. [...] Except that I can cross from A to B. QED.
Difference between a philosopher and an engineer: They're at a bar and the philosopher says to the engineer "You can't make love to that women, cause there will always be a space halfway between you and her, therefore you can never actually get close and touch her, because to move towards her, you must first move to the halfway point between you and her."
Engineer says "Oh, i'll get close enough."
~z
The cause of buggy software is usually an engineering team that has been stretched too thin, or pulled in too many different directions - by a management team that can't or won't stand up to the political forces of the marketing department.
There's that, and there's also the fact that the technology changes. In 1997, when DNForever was announced (according to the article), we were anxiously awating quake 2. Think of all the changes in technonlogy that have happened since then. I mean, even quake 3, UT, and half life are old, now.
The only way you can excuse a 4 year development cycle in a game is if they are creating an entirely new engine. The way the game market works now-a-days, when you release a game in a marketing blitz, it not only has to be fun in order to make the cut, but it has to have pounding graphics. I personally don't think black and white is all that fun, and i own it, but it does pump my PIII-900 for a loop, hence its good reputation. Any game coded in 1997 isn't going to impress me technologically.
If you want to pump a game, grab someone else's engine and write your front end. (alice) Or, if you don't want to release something that has amazing graphics, but rather awesome gameplay, release uplink
~z
Kinda makes you wonder what would become of pages like this
~Z
NewsOne... When Deja went down, it was the only online usenet archive. Check it out, still alive and thriving
Blatant plug: NewsOne is hosted by netmar, where you can get linux webhosting w/ 100 megs and unlimited bandwidth for $8/mo. Also shared/dedicated solaris hosting
~z
Square will not make a game for anyone other than sony. Sony owns way too much of Square - they're the 2nd largest shareholder after Square themselves. The reason behind it is remember Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? Yeah. I liked it, but the public as a whole didn't, and it bombed. Well, Sony busts on up to square and is like:
...Um, OK. What's the catch?
Sony: Hey, so i hear you lost money on that movie.
Square: Yeah, about 1.1 million.
Sony: Aww man! I hate that. Well, just cause we like you, here's 2 million bucks.
Square:
Sony: No catch (hehehe). Just make sure you remember who your friends are.
No FFx titles for X box folks. I doubt nintendo, as well, despite previous relationships.
Oh, and side note: i don't like 10, cause i didn't like 8 and the summon system is the same, but all the other improvemenets are great. I miss the card game. And where the heck is Xeno Saga?
~Z
I'm fairly sure you just clicked on over to google to find that link. There are no actual instructions on how to build a LED CPU meter or what the program code is for it, or how to assemble it, or anything. Please stop karma whoring and check your links first.
~z
Yeah, they'll be there hangin' wit Dr. Dre.
What? you forgot about Dre?
~z
What i want to know is what are they going to do about Tom Bombadill...
I mean i understand them having to leave him out for the sake of time, etc, but without the scene from the barrow downs, where does Merry get his sword from? That sword is important later in the 3rd book where he uses it to kill the leader of the Ringwraiths... That's what i'm worried about... Tolkien's writing was so interwoven that everything tied in with something else.
~z
It's a spoof of a special-interest genre (movies for teens 17 and under)....
Oddly enough, isn't it rated R? As in restricted under 17? So their target audience is 17 year olds, or people under 17 whos parents would actually go to see this with them...
Or are they encouraging people to sneak in and/or theaters not to card people?
I don't agree with the ratings system here, but i mean, if its there, use it, ya know?
Reading straight from my Microeconomics textbook, "A monopoly is a firm in an industry where the entrance of competing firms is blocked."
From the article:
In Washington, Verizon lobbyists have asked federal regulators to make it more difficult for competitors to lease space on its network, arguing that its success in restoring phone service in Lower Manhattan proves that only a big company could handle maintenance, recovery and security in the wake of such a disaster.
Looks pretty cut and dry to me.
Good grief! Can somebody link to the tens of thousands of "designed for IE" webpages....
Sure! Here ya go!
~z
ok i'm gonna go ahead and bite on this one
About half of the PS2 games released to date are CD and half are DVD. The most compatible DVD format for PS2 is the DVD+RW (plus RW). Yah. The mod chips for ps2 are still in development, but thus far there are 2 popular ones - the first is easiest and most expensive. It's a USB mod chip, you open the PS2 and solder 3 points together. Put the USB chip in the USB port. Then you get a game shark, boot up the PS2 with the game shark and when it boots, you swap in the burned (cd/dvd). The other way involves no game shark and no swaping games, etc, but it takes 42 solder points inside the PS2, compared with only 5/6 for the PSX. And it's really easy to fuck up, and if you don't get the chip in right, and then remove the chip, the PS2 doesn't work. (friend's expierence).
~z
FYI, if there's anyone out there in retail sales working for a place that sells HP computers, you can log on to HP Info Lab and you can get a $400 rebate for the HP 100i DVD writer. There's also a $50 rebate available, which you can use in conjunction with the $400 rebate. The $50 rebate is available to the general public.
This brings the price of a DVD burner down to $150, since the drive is 600 coon skins before rebate. At that price, and if the playstation 2 drops in price this christmas, i sense lots of burned games in my future...
This has already been covered both here and here.
And another thing:
Am i the only one out there who can't stand ID3 tags? It bugs me to no end to see that a file named X will show up in my playlist and be Y. I just want correctly named mp3's, i.e. BandName-AlbumName-TrackNum-TrackName. Gives you displays like GWAR-Scumdogs Of The Universe-03-Sick Of You.
Mabey i'm missing something, but everything i want to know is in that filename.
yeah dude, we used to get about one quickie posting a week. Definately a cool part that i miss. Also: look out for the april first articles =) welcome to /.!
Poor/Incomplete/Out of date documentation is the Achilles Heel of open source.
I would have to disagree with this. While poor documentation does hurt one open source project against another, actual help files, FAQ's, and newbie files are rampant in linux - from a broad base I think mandrake 8.1 is better documented than windows. As to specific documentation in the kernel etc, yeah, its poorly documented, but you're missing 2 important points - one: its poorly documented across the board, and two: when's the last time you saw the documentation in kernel32.dll for windows? ANY documenting is better than none. The fact that we can see the source in and of itsself makes it superior to anything non-open.
~z