Most users don't even know what a whitelist is. If they do they don't know how to add you, and 50% of those that do that will get it wrong.
They may not me able to, even if they know about it, because corporate policy doesn't give them that kind of access (I filter dozens of broken 'you have spam' messages from people who have me in their address book every day. For most of these there is *no way* they can whitelist my address or configure their AV to behave properly because they have precisely zero access to the mail configuration. Most of the rest are running the AV that came with their PC and have no idea how to do sort it out either).
Slower processors *will* make a difference - memory bandwidth is from constant. An old P266 (and there are a hell of a lot of old machines acting as mail relays) simply can't do things as fast as an Athlon64 with DDR4000 RAM.
The mail will be generated by the corporate email server. Company PCs do *not* have the rights to send email directly. Mostly they're Outlook (we're still on 97/2000 - still evaluating XP) connected directly via MAPI to the exchange server. SMTP doesn't get involved until it leaves the company.
Actually it *is* the server if you happen to have a mailing list with 1000 users on it as I do.
If something like this became popular I'd have to drop the mailing list as the hardware cost would be prohibitive (10 messages a day, 10,000 emails at 10 seconds an email doesn't scale when the machine is serving web pages too).
The LKML people would be stuffed... they'd need to invest in one of those expensive zero wait-state memory modules just to stay online.
However on a default install it takes XP about 20ish reboots (provided you can get it installed before blaster fubars it) plus about half a dozen driver CDs, which I have to keep hunting for as I can never find them (a couple of them are busted, eg. my tv card doesn't work under Windows any more).
Slipstreaming doesn't count. Heck, I could make a ghost image of an installed drive and ship that around and claim it took zero reboots...
They use blue lights in hospitals at night, plus the emergency light in offices are blue. I've never seen a red night-light (outside Amsterdam!)... I'll take your word for it that they exist, though.
To most of us British people Europe is just those 'foreigners who smell of garlic' (I'm a bit different... no problem with Europe, it's those damned yanks I can't stand:)
Don't even *think* of suggesting that Britain is part of Europe. That's a hanging offence around here...:)
Not to mention capability support, etc. If you're clever with it you can lock down individual services so they can only do what they need to.
Windows, on the other hand, requires you to be an administrator to do virtually anything (I would so love to remove the admin priviliges from some of our more clueless users, but they need them to do installation testing. Gak.)
The biggest issue for me when I last tried out some 64bit betas was that the 64bit NVidia drivers suck. They don't have an ioctl32 interface, so if you use them you *must* run 64bit 3d apps - which rules out pretty much anything worth running game wise.
btw. what's the article on about 'new' NVidia drivers? They're dated September 23rd!
I'm actually surprised he got gentoo amd64 to compile.. the last time I tried (just last week, actually) it couldn't even compile a stage 3 due to compile errors, let alone get as far as X.
Debian is months away from a stable distro (waiting on dpkg and apt upgrades to support multi-arch installs) and I'm damned if I'm going back to RPM... it's 64bit hell out there:)
Any well configured mailer will do this anyway (look at the received headers sometime) however there are just too many servers with crapped out systems there (eg. Virgin Airlines, who have no reverse DNS at all and send from seemingly random source addresses).
I kinda like the european position - opt-in for any commercial email - if you're selling something, you've got to ask if I'm interested first (and not via email) otherwise get lost.
Now I go to the site and find they've *completely* changed the standard and now I need:
nodomain.org. IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:213.208.99.114 -all"
TBH it isn't helping their adoption when they do things like that. Which do I support, the one that 90% of sites with mention SPF use (the first one) or the one that SPF themselves are pushing? (the second one).
The UK government is so disorganised that if they tried to link up the databases they'd probably screw it up. Even the databases you'd think would naturally be linked (eg. unemployment benefit and housing benefit) are completely separate and largely on paper - requiring you to fill in *more* paper just to tell one department about what the other department is doing.
TBH with the eye ones the last thing I want is some damned laser pointing at my retina - If I wanted laser eye surgery I'd damned well pay for it (yes I know they're supposed to be too low power to have a risk, but what if they go wrong or some idiot decides to crank the power up to see what happens?)
There were leaked photographs from a different angle that clearly showed:
(1) That there can't have been more than 50 people there. (2) There were clearly more press than Iraquis. (3) The troops had blocked off the surrounding streets which were deserted - presumably to stop anyone not part of the 'demonstration' from taking part.
Hell, not even most commercial software I've worked with has any of these.
It's easy to contribute. You want project X to do Y, you post 'I wish project X would do Y', and a developer either replies 'I'm all over it... next release' or 'Send us the patches & we'll look at them'. If the documentation sucks, post 'I'd like to write some better documentation.. give me a couple of weeks'. If the installer sucks, post 'Here's an innosetup script... enjoy!'.
Most software in the real world grows pretty much organically... roadmaps keep PHB happy but in the real world they're not that useful (where I work we talk loosely about where we want to be but noone has any clue about the detail of that - customer requirements change so fast by the time you documented it it would be wrong anyway).
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Users will *not* add you the their whitelists.
Most users don't even know what a whitelist is. If they do they don't know how to add you, and 50% of those that do that will get it wrong.
They may not me able to, even if they know about it, because corporate policy doesn't give them that kind of access (I filter dozens of broken 'you have spam' messages from people who have me in their address book every day. For most of these there is *no way* they can whitelist my address or configure their AV to behave properly because they have precisely zero access to the mail configuration. Most of the rest are running the AV that came with their PC and have no idea how to do sort it out either).
Slower processors *will* make a difference - memory bandwidth is from constant. An old P266 (and there are a hell of a lot of old machines acting as mail relays) simply can't do things as fast as an Athlon64 with DDR4000 RAM.
The mail will be generated by the corporate email server. Company PCs do *not* have the rights to send email directly. Mostly they're Outlook (we're still on 97/2000 - still evaluating XP) connected directly via MAPI to the exchange server. SMTP doesn't get involved until it leaves the company.
This server would easily be >8000 emails a day.
Actually it *is* the server if you happen to have a mailing list with 1000 users on it as I do.
If something like this became popular I'd have to drop the mailing list as the hardware cost would be prohibitive (10 messages a day, 10,000 emails at 10 seconds an email doesn't scale when the machine is serving web pages too).
The LKML people would be stuffed... they'd need to invest in one of those expensive zero wait-state memory modules just to stay online.
However on a default install it takes XP about 20ish reboots (provided you can get it installed before blaster fubars it) plus about half a dozen driver CDs, which I have to keep hunting for as I can never find them (a couple of them are busted, eg. my tv card doesn't work under Windows any more).
Slipstreaming doesn't count. Heck, I could make a ghost image of an installed drive and ship that around and claim it took zero reboots...
They use blue lights in hospitals at night, plus the emergency light in offices are blue. I've never seen a red night-light (outside Amsterdam!)... I'll take your word for it that they exist, though.
To most of us British people Europe is just those 'foreigners who smell of garlic' (I'm a bit different... no problem with Europe, it's those damned yanks I can't stand :)
:)
Don't even *think* of suggesting that Britain is part of Europe. That's a hanging offence around here...
Tell it to the BBC & Reuters.
Slashdot just picked up the existing story (without checking, as is the slashdot way).
Not to mention capability support, etc. If you're clever with it you can lock down individual services so they can only do what they need to.
Windows, on the other hand, requires you to be an administrator to do virtually anything (I would so love to remove the admin priviliges from some of our more clueless users, but they need them to do installation testing. Gak.)
He started making all his animations by hand at home, and his talent got him noticed... He's made a few quid since, though.
WTF? Informative?
Funny, maybe...
Gotta get me some of that crack that the mods are smoking...
Install the popcorn, backhair and evil rules. Effectiveness back up to 99.9% again :)
Wouldn't the RIAA just shut down monolith.2y.net, thus closing the entire p2p network (or at least crippling it enough to kill it - ref. napster).
XOR :)
It's shipped with a 2.4 for ages (although you still have to type bf2.4 to boot it).
The biggest issue for me when I last tried out some 64bit betas was that the 64bit NVidia drivers suck. They don't have an ioctl32 interface, so if you use them you *must* run 64bit 3d apps - which rules out pretty much anything worth running game wise.
btw. what's the article on about 'new' NVidia drivers? They're dated September 23rd!
I'm actually surprised he got gentoo amd64 to compile.. the last time I tried (just last week, actually) it couldn't even compile a stage 3 due to compile errors, let alone get as far as X.
:)
Debian is months away from a stable distro (waiting on dpkg and apt upgrades to support multi-arch installs) and I'm damned if I'm going back to RPM... it's 64bit hell out there
Any well configured mailer will do this anyway (look at the received headers sometime) however there are just too many servers with crapped out systems there (eg. Virgin Airlines, who have no reverse DNS at all and send from seemingly random source addresses).
I kinda like the european position - opt-in for any commercial email - if you're selling something, you've got to ask if I'm interested first (and not via email) otherwise get lost.
Nice idea, but it keeps changing incompatibly :(
I had SPF records as in:
*._smtp-client TXT "dmp=deny"
114.99.208.213.in-addr._smtp-client TXT "dmp=allow"
Now I go to the site and find they've *completely* changed the standard and now I need:
nodomain.org. IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:213.208.99.114 -all"
TBH it isn't helping their adoption when they do things like that. Which do I support, the one that 90% of sites with mention SPF use (the first one) or the one that SPF themselves are pushing? (the second one).
The UK government is so disorganised that if they tried to link up the databases they'd probably screw it up. Even the databases you'd think would naturally be linked (eg. unemployment benefit and housing benefit) are completely separate and largely on paper - requiring you to fill in *more* paper just to tell one department about what the other department is doing.
TBH with the eye ones the last thing I want is some damned laser pointing at my retina - If I wanted laser eye surgery I'd damned well pay for it (yes I know they're supposed to be too low power to have a risk, but what if they go wrong or some idiot decides to crank the power up to see what happens?)
There were leaked photographs from a different angle that clearly showed:
(1) That there can't have been more than 50 people there.
(2) There were clearly more press than Iraquis.
(3) The troops had blocked off the surrounding streets which were deserted - presumably to stop anyone not part of the 'demonstration' from taking part.
Actually nobody ever gave up the ring voluntarily - it has a will of its own, and goes where it wants. It had just finished with Bilbo, that's all.
The US govt of 1784 is totally different to the one of today too... Back then practically nobody could vote except a few landowners, for example.
Just because a government has evolved does not make it substantially different.
Kudos.
:)
And the fact that typing my name into google gets something like 6 pages of hits can't help either
Diagrams? Technical overviews? Roadmaps?
Hell, not even most commercial software I've worked with has any of these.
It's easy to contribute. You want project X to do Y, you post 'I wish project X would do Y', and a developer either replies 'I'm all over it... next release' or 'Send us the patches & we'll look at them'. If the documentation sucks, post 'I'd like to write some better documentation.. give me a couple of weeks'. If the installer sucks, post 'Here's an innosetup script... enjoy!'.
Most software in the real world grows pretty much organically... roadmaps keep PHB happy but in the real world they're not that useful (where I work we talk loosely about where we want to be but noone has any clue about the detail of that - customer requirements change so fast by the time you documented it it would be wrong anyway).