I know a group of the tech world in Bermuda and I'm curious which ISP this was related to.
Likely a new/smaller one that doesn't really know what they are doing. I know that Bermuda isn't really that interested in people doing things there in terms of internet grey areas - whereas many other island nations really don't care.
my server will tell me that "I" am trying to access it in an inappropriate way (sounds like this girl I knew in high school).
I think it is usually generated from various automated scripts trying to find ways to send out stuff - I'm glad it doesn't work.
Hell - I've gotten enough nasty e-mails just from other people I know getting viruses... virii? the kind where one person gets it and then it randomly picks a name in the addressbook to send things out as and then e-mails everyone else in the addressbook.
Anyway - again, anytime anyone has spam issues, I just have to blurt out SPAMASSASSIN and then do a little dance.
*dancing*
ahh, I remember my 5th birthday...
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its that only shaved psychic genetic freaks that float in a comatose state in a vat underground can tell me who has committed a crime.
Well, technically in regards to the Bermuda company, I'm "part owner" of the company. I get to do all the work, hire the employees, and run the company, and I get a percentage of all the money and my salary. But in the end it is part of a holding company as a matter of technicality (one that takes a lot of money).
My other company, which is entirely financed and owned by me, is slowly getting up - and then until I move in May, I'm working for "the man" doing eLearning software for large pharmaceutical companies:)
Anyway, I think in the end we were both agreeing on many of the points - and in the end, sounds like a lifetime in IT depends on one's personality - I know a lot of us - regardless of what pays the bills - will end up coding in all of our free time anyway:) (wow - I bet I could get more hyphens in there)
Now everyone hug and I'll add you to my frinds list because I think more people should have "crazy" in their names on here.
LOL - calm down twinkletoes - I seem to have gotten you worked up. This thread is ancient anyways, so it isn't even like anyone else will see this - I just happened on it in Meta Moderation.
But anyway, I'll keep discussing... if we can even call this a discussion:)
I have only been in the technology world for 7 years, but in that time I have worked with many men (zero women, so I can't say it applies for them) that were well over 40. I'd agree that of my workmates, probably half of them have been under 30 - but then again, the fields that I have worked in are sectors where they grab programmers early and work them "to death" in that they get out early. the young are cheaper and will work crazy hours - they tend not to have family that they need to get home to, and their bodies are more resiliant to stress. But I haven't worked all over the country, only in MA, so I guess we are different here and hire the older males that the rest of the country aren't willing to hire (or perhaps the jobs here are drawing the skilled workers away from the areas that you are seeking out).
I'm fully aware that the "easiest" way to get a job for life is to get into acedamia or the government (my father used to be a professor and I have friends that are gov positions) - but I personally would rather suck cock for crack than work in those fields. But that just means those fields aren't for me - but that is the way our economy is built, not everyone is going to seek out every job, but the jobs get filled. You claim that the corporate world will rape everyone and not pay for dinner - but having seen my dad in acedamia and having seen several friends with jobs in Washington, they get ass raped there just as much, but they have a secure job so they know that the raping will continue as long as they are willing to endure it... for less money. (that doesn't apply to my friend that is a lucky bastard and gets to work for the NSA - he loves it and I can't blame him - that job would be fun as hell, regardless of pay)
I fully agree with you that whether you are in some high paying job, or are in some lower paying job - either way one should get rid of debts and try to get their spendatures down as low as possible to try and maximize the amount of their income that they can save. But that is just common sense (or should be) - regardless of what industry and what level you are at, you should be doing things like that or you aren't going to last.
And I'm sorry if I took your ALL CAPS use of the word "only" too strongly - I just figured that when you broke out the caps that you had extra emphasis there, and then I figured when you used that word, perhaps you meant... well, what "only" means - in that there aren't any other considerations... I see that I was mistaken and that I should have instead read your parenthetical statement to be "this is one possibility of many, and I choose it, but hell, I might even be wrong... I enjoy typing so bear with me while I go on about my life and imply that you to should do this or you are going about things so entirely wrong that you should be embarrassed" Sounds good to me:)
As for me being naive (single i) - I lived in upstate NY for 6 years (East Rochester), and grew up in the south (Harrisonburg and Blacksburg VA) - I'm not from Boston - I simply moved here because this is where the cool jobs are and I happened to go to school near here (and technically I live in Cambridge). As for me being an elitist snob - if you flip back through what we have written here, I think you might note I haven't said anything elitist and instead only pointed out that one might want to think of some other perspectives - whereas you were in fact the one that were elitst in saying that you were doing it "the ONLY way" - but hey, if that somehow makes me the elitist, that's cool.
and I have to chuckle that you think I own a Lexus - I was simply using that as an example of someone that cares about such things. I don't currently own a car because I live in a city with good public transportation, so I can save a lot of money this way. I had a car when I needed to commute out farther away from here, but now I don't need to commute, so I got rid of it. If you don't care about the car, then don't claim that and then immediately justify your car right back in my face when I never intended to even get to talking about what car you drive. I truly don't care - my comments before were to point out that some people seek those as status symbols and that is what they care about - just as you care about your own ideals. Just because someone else's ideals differ from your's doesn't then make them stupid or wrong.
And seriously - thanks for the parting thought, but I think I'm gonna be alright.:) you probably don't read my journal, but if you did, you would see that I'm moving to Bermuda in a few months and I'm running my own company and... well, I'm pretty sure I'm not worried about too much:) also, I like the stocks comment - that job in Bermuda? neural net and genetic algorithm analysis of future stock movements based on time-series analysis. and I assure you, I never treated you like a hick - I grew up with many a hick - you don't sound like one at all:)
and again - deep breaths man, I'm not trying to fight with you - perhaps I worded it all wrong - just as it sounds like when you said ONLY in all caps you didn't mean it as that.
Good point - if you want to move frequently, then getting rid of a house takes more time than getting out of an apartment. Although I wouldn't normally consider this since all of the apartments I've lived in have clauses that won't allow me to leave prior to the end of the contract - but then, I live in Boston and it sounds like you either live in the South or the Midwest based on your rent. We have different viewpoints based on our personal experiences there.
In the end, you have to determine what level you are happy at. Consumer goods stay at the same price level regardless of what the cost of living in your area is (assuming you remain in the states). They actually go down in price if you live near a major point of entry. A Lexus costs the same in TN as it does in NY - in fact, you can live in NY and buy a Lexus from TN and have it delivered, so the costs are all flat. Groceries don't allow that. If groceries are higher in your area, you can't ship in milk from 3 states away and save money, you will end up paying more in the end either way.
If the lifestyle that you choose to lead involves more consumer goods, then you are better off in an area where the cost of living is higher so that your overall salary is higher. The downside obviously being that your daily goods (groceries and gas) will be higher in that area - so you get a trade off (generally speaking though, the difference isn't that much higher that it makes much of a difference - it is the rent/housing that makes the difference).
If you are content with a lifestyle where you can live away from a city, not have XY and Z consumer goods, then that is great for you - this is frequently the case with someone that is older and has no family.
Those that are younger are more inclined to be closer to the loci of their interests. Which tends to be the cities. Those that have families are more interested in school districts and have no interest in constantly moving all the time once they have found one that has shown to be good enough for their standards.
The ideas that you present sound like they make total sense to you, so for all practical purposes they are indeed the best for you. But to suggest that they, your ideas, are then "the ONLY way" to anyone else is a bit naive without stepping back and looking at it from a less personalized viewpoint.
Judging from what you explain, I would venture to guess that you aren't married, or if you are, you have no kids. I would also venture to guess that you are well into your mid 30s, or if you are younger, then you aren't particularly interested in socializing with others in your demographic. (if that is the case, I can't say I blame you) Amazingly enough, there are actually millions of people out there that are nothing like that... so they can't exactly follow what you feel is right.
just trying to add perspective to an arguement that lacks a larger perspective.
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ohhh - thanks!
doh - now that I think of it - I think I actually hated the change with the Yoshi thing - the one I really liked was when you could get a tail and fly. I knew there was something with flying.
there was something you could do to get a racoon tail and then fly.
I was *awful* at the Yoshi one after only a few levels
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When I was growing up I never had any game consoles. My dad and grandfather each had 286/386/486/etc over time and each started with Apple][gs - so I had access to games on those - but was never allowed a console (mainly due to money, no ethics on behalf of my parents or anything).
My friends had the consoles though and I would play them when I went over to their houses. As a result, I liked games that I could pick up quickly and not die immediately without lots of experience (Zelda was bad for that, Excitebike was GOOD!!). I never really got good at any of the games since I wouldn't get much time to play (none of my friends wanted to watch me play, but they were fine with me watching them:) ).
Then the summer of '99 after I graduated college, I had a month to kill before I started my job - so I spent it at my dad's girlfriend's house sleeping and then playing her son's Super Nintendo. He had some special game pack that had all of the Super Mario games on there. I played so much that I had some sort of injury to my right hand - specifically thumb blisters. I finally got to beat each of the series but I kept going back to one to play it over and over - loved it - I *think* it was SM3 - not sure though. Whichever one first introduced Yoshi the dinosaur - I loved it (although the one just before that was pretty cool too). I've played variants since then and never liked them that much.
Now I have a PS2 and suck at pretty much all of the games to the point where I get too frustrated to play for more than 10 minutes - except at the Tiger Woods golf game - I rule at that.
What were the traits of SM3? I'm not sure if that is the one that I really loved - I think so, but I don't recall the names of all of them and which did which in the series.
google doesn't really do much in terms of actually hardcore processing - it just takes in a LOT of requests - but each one isn't intense, and it is short lived.
On the other hand, say you are running a renderfarm - in that case you want a fast distributed network, the same way google does, but you also want each individual node as fast as freakin possible. They have been using Alphas for a long time for that exact reason - so now with the advent of the Intel/AMD 64s, that will drive prices down on all of it - so I would imagine the render farms are quite happy about that. That means that they can either stay at the speed at which they do things now, but for cheaper - or they can spend what they do now and get much more done in the same time... either way leading to faster production and argueably more profit.
The clusters that I am most familiar with are somewhere in between - they don't need the newest fastest thing, but they certainly wouldn't be hurt by a faster processor. For the stuff I do though, it doesn't matter too much - if I have 20 hours or so to process something, and I have the choice of doing it in 4 minutes or 1 minute, I will take whichever is cheaper since the end result might as well be the same otherwise in my eyes.
while much of what you say has merit ("stick it to da man 'cause he is just after the bottom line, us not included") - I have to point out that any argument that states what it says to be fact and ideal, and then slips up in those facts... well, it then becomes a poor arguement.
you say to get an apartment instead of a house - which in itself is going to lose you massive amounts of money over time in comparison to buying a house (not saying a mansion, but whatever is in your means). houses apreciate in value and your mortgage is over a fixed time - apartment leases always go up over time, effectively last forever, and you are left with no value or tax breaks the entire time that you are in one (aside from the value of not being homeless).
Also - in order to get by with your method, you will need to live somewhere where the cost of living is lower, which then means that you need to live in an area where the pay is lower. So your dollar goes farther on items such as groceries, but you get less pay in relation to that anyway. So ideally you will work in an area with a high cost of living, but live in an area with a low cost of living. This is done frequently and always equates to having a shitty commute (think NH -> Boston).
If it is like this with the 2.17, then it will be sweet when the faster cores get the increased cache.
Although I'm not really sure why I care other than when these things come out the slower ones go down in cost and that makes building clusters cheaper. Right now I feel that the 2000+ chips are the best bang for the buck (I can make a single node in a cluster with one of those and 256M ram for under $300) - but perhaps with this thing coming out the pricing structure will shift and I can get me something faster. hot damn.
I'm currently only using it for myself, but I've not had problems with it.
That said, I do see a mail slip through on occasion with an error in the procmail log that says: procmail: Program failure (-9) spamassassin
or something to that effect.
when that happens, it always recovers the data (the incoming mail) and just puts it in the inbox.
I'm not entirely sure what causes that - but I think it is less a problem of spamassassin and more of it timing out and my host (pair.com) killing. I am just running the sa perl, from what I hear the spamd that in c is much faster and more effecient, but I can't use it since I'm currently on a shared machine and not root on it.
When I started I was filtering out 500 e-mails a day and had about 10 getting through daily (that was with version 2.4). Then I watched the logs and made some changes (basically saw that some of my addresses that I have were getting all spam and no content, so I just always dev null some of them), and I upgraded to 2.5. Now I regularly get 150 e-mails a day, and I'd say on average 130 of those are spam. Out of all of that, the only stuff that slips through is the -9 err, and I've never had a false positive.
I have it set to yank anything that is of a score 4.0 or more, and I have important people in the whitelist. I filter mail out into spam and nonspam (the nonspam folder is all mail that I read that is good and the spam folder is anything that sneaks through and shouldn't be there - again, due to that -9 err). Then every week I run a cron script that runs the bayes learning scripts against the spam and nonspam folders.
I really am impressed with spamassassin and personally have yet to experience anything negative. I get a lot of spam, but it is all to me and I have the advantage of scripts to scan through it and also the advatage of time to occasionally look over manually (my spam gets filtered out into a "caughtspam" file that I can then run "frm caughtspam" on if I want to quickly look it over in an easy to read mailbox format).
I would gladly donate money to the spamassassin group if they had something setup to accept that, but for now, I just use it and look every now and then at the Changelog and see if anything is in there that looks vital to me - or if I'm bored I upgrade:)
The main selling point on it is the looks. It is neither fantastic in sound, nor in playing DVDs, nor as a computer - but it is average in all of those aspects and looks cool.
There are cheaper computers that have better screens and take up less space (I think Gateway has one).
I am still considering getting one, but again, solely for the looks - I have a dvd player, I have a bigger screen monitor, I have faster computers, but none are cool looking like that:)
I work down the street from a choclatier (sp?) and will grab some of that before heading home on friday. then valentine's eve we have reservations at Finale in Harvard Square. good food - better desserts.
if someone is scraping the data and then redistributing it for their own profit - then that would be sketchy to me - but otherwise, I don't see how you look at it matters.
I have scrapers for a few things, and I doubt the company even notices (since they aren't mass distributed scrapers like a CPAN module is) - but I would think scraping wrong if I then took that data and used it for my own profit while getting it free from the other source. (thinking mainly of stock data - strip it for free from one location, but then charge users to see that data on your site)
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I think you forgot "handicapped"
they gotta be in wheelchairs and maybe slur their words.
then you are talking pure gold.
... lately I've just been finding it incredibly hard to keep up with my fast processor.
thank you intel for finally giving me something slower.
What ISP in Bermuda?
I know a group of the tech world in Bermuda and I'm curious which ISP this was related to.
Likely a new/smaller one that doesn't really know what they are doing. I know that Bermuda isn't really that interested in people doing things there in terms of internet grey areas - whereas many other island nations really don't care.
my server will tell me that "I" am trying to access it in an inappropriate way (sounds like this girl I knew in high school). I think it is usually generated from various automated scripts trying to find ways to send out stuff - I'm glad it doesn't work.
Hell - I've gotten enough nasty e-mails just from other people I know getting viruses... virii? the kind where one person gets it and then it randomly picks a name in the addressbook to send things out as and then e-mails everyone else in the addressbook.
Anyway - again, anytime anyone has spam issues, I just have to blurt out SPAMASSASSIN and then do a little dance. *dancing*
...I hope that XML doesn't wake up with a middle-aged hooker and a hangover like I did on mine.
its that only shaved psychic genetic freaks that float in a comatose state in a vat underground can tell me who has committed a crime.
Well, technically in regards to the Bermuda company, I'm "part owner" of the company. I get to do all the work, hire the employees, and run the company, and I get a percentage of all the money and my salary. But in the end it is part of a holding company as a matter of technicality (one that takes a lot of money).
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My other company, which is entirely financed and owned by me, is slowly getting up - and then until I move in May, I'm working for "the man" doing eLearning software for large pharmaceutical companies
Anyway, I think in the end we were both agreeing on many of the points - and in the end, sounds like a lifetime in IT depends on one's personality - I know a lot of us - regardless of what pays the bills - will end up coding in all of our free time anyway
(wow - I bet I could get more hyphens in there)
Now everyone hug and I'll add you to my frinds list because I think more people should have "crazy" in their names on here.
LOL - calm down twinkletoes - I seem to have gotten you worked up. This thread is ancient anyways, so it isn't even like anyone else will see this - I just happened on it in Meta Moderation.
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But anyway, I'll keep discussing... if we can even call this a discussion
I have only been in the technology world for 7 years, but in that time I have worked with many men (zero women, so I can't say it applies for them) that were well over 40. I'd agree that of my workmates, probably half of them have been under 30 - but then again, the fields that I have worked in are sectors where they grab programmers early and work them "to death" in that they get out early. the young are cheaper and will work crazy hours - they tend not to have family that they need to get home to, and their bodies are more resiliant to stress.
But I haven't worked all over the country, only in MA, so I guess we are different here and hire the older males that the rest of the country aren't willing to hire (or perhaps the jobs here are drawing the skilled workers away from the areas that you are seeking out).
I'm fully aware that the "easiest" way to get a job for life is to get into acedamia or the government (my father used to be a professor and I have friends that are gov positions) - but I personally would rather suck cock for crack than work in those fields.
But that just means those fields aren't for me - but that is the way our economy is built, not everyone is going to seek out every job, but the jobs get filled.
You claim that the corporate world will rape everyone and not pay for dinner - but having seen my dad in acedamia and having seen several friends with jobs in Washington, they get ass raped there just as much, but they have a secure job so they know that the raping will continue as long as they are willing to endure it... for less money.
(that doesn't apply to my friend that is a lucky bastard and gets to work for the NSA - he loves it and I can't blame him - that job would be fun as hell, regardless of pay)
I fully agree with you that whether you are in some high paying job, or are in some lower paying job - either way one should get rid of debts and try to get their spendatures down as low as possible to try and maximize the amount of their income that they can save.
But that is just common sense (or should be) - regardless of what industry and what level you are at, you should be doing things like that or you aren't going to last.
And I'm sorry if I took your ALL CAPS use of the word "only" too strongly - I just figured that when you broke out the caps that you had extra emphasis there, and then I figured when you used that word, perhaps you meant... well, what "only" means - in that there aren't any other considerations... I see that I was mistaken and that I should have instead read your parenthetical statement to be "this is one possibility of many, and I choose it, but hell, I might even be wrong... I enjoy typing so bear with me while I go on about my life and imply that you to should do this or you are going about things so entirely wrong that you should be embarrassed"
Sounds good to me
As for me being naive (single i) - I lived in upstate NY for 6 years (East Rochester), and grew up in the south (Harrisonburg and Blacksburg VA) - I'm not from Boston - I simply moved here because this is where the cool jobs are and I happened to go to school near here (and technically I live in Cambridge).
As for me being an elitist snob - if you flip back through what we have written here, I think you might note I haven't said anything elitist and instead only pointed out that one might want to think of some other perspectives - whereas you were in fact the one that were elitst in saying that you were doing it "the ONLY way" - but hey, if that somehow makes me the elitist, that's cool.
and I have to chuckle that you think I own a Lexus - I was simply using that as an example of someone that cares about such things. I don't currently own a car because I live in a city with good public transportation, so I can save a lot of money this way. I had a car when I needed to commute out farther away from here, but now I don't need to commute, so I got rid of it.
If you don't care about the car, then don't claim that and then immediately justify your car right back in my face when I never intended to even get to talking about what car you drive. I truly don't care - my comments before were to point out that some people seek those as status symbols and that is what they care about - just as you care about your own ideals. Just because someone else's ideals differ from your's doesn't then make them stupid or wrong.
And seriously - thanks for the parting thought, but I think I'm gonna be alright.
you probably don't read my journal, but if you did, you would see that I'm moving to Bermuda in a few months and I'm running my own company and... well, I'm pretty sure I'm not worried about too much
also, I like the stocks comment - that job in Bermuda? neural net and genetic algorithm analysis of future stock movements based on time-series analysis.
and I assure you, I never treated you like a hick - I grew up with many a hick - you don't sound like one at all
and again - deep breaths man, I'm not trying to fight with you - perhaps I worded it all wrong - just as it sounds like when you said ONLY in all caps you didn't mean it as that.
perhaps that was why I worded it so poorly. I used the word "certain" twice in close proximity.
that's just plain wrong.
so is spanking it to pictures of the elderly, but that isn't slowing me down.
Good point - if you want to move frequently, then getting rid of a house takes more time than getting out of an apartment. Although I wouldn't normally consider this since all of the apartments I've lived in have clauses that won't allow me to leave prior to the end of the contract - but then, I live in Boston and it sounds like you either live in the South or the Midwest based on your rent. We have different viewpoints based on our personal experiences there.
In the end, you have to determine what level you are happy at. Consumer goods stay at the same price level regardless of what the cost of living in your area is (assuming you remain in the states). They actually go down in price if you live near a major point of entry.
A Lexus costs the same in TN as it does in NY - in fact, you can live in NY and buy a Lexus from TN and have it delivered, so the costs are all flat. Groceries don't allow that. If groceries are higher in your area, you can't ship in milk from 3 states away and save money, you will end up paying more in the end either way.
If the lifestyle that you choose to lead involves more consumer goods, then you are better off in an area where the cost of living is higher so that your overall salary is higher. The downside obviously being that your daily goods (groceries and gas) will be higher in that area - so you get a trade off (generally speaking though, the difference isn't that much higher that it makes much of a difference - it is the rent/housing that makes the difference).
If you are content with a lifestyle where you can live away from a city, not have XY and Z consumer goods, then that is great for you - this is frequently the case with someone that is older and has no family.
Those that are younger are more inclined to be closer to the loci of their interests. Which tends to be the cities.
Those that have families are more interested in school districts and have no interest in constantly moving all the time once they have found one that has shown to be good enough for their standards.
The ideas that you present sound like they make total sense to you, so for all practical purposes they are indeed the best for you.
But to suggest that they, your ideas, are then "the ONLY way" to anyone else is a bit naive without stepping back and looking at it from a less personalized viewpoint.
Judging from what you explain, I would venture to guess that you aren't married, or if you are, you have no kids.
I would also venture to guess that you are well into your mid 30s, or if you are younger, then you aren't particularly interested in socializing with others in your demographic. (if that is the case, I can't say I blame you)
Amazingly enough, there are actually millions of people out there that are nothing like that... so they can't exactly follow what you feel is right.
just trying to add perspective to an arguement that lacks a larger perspective.
ohhh - thanks!
doh - now that I think of it - I think I actually hated the change with the Yoshi thing - the one I really liked was when you could get a tail and fly. I knew there was something with flying.
there was something you could do to get a racoon tail and then fly.
I was *awful* at the Yoshi one after only a few levels
When I was growing up I never had any game consoles. My dad and grandfather each had 286/386/486/etc over time and each started with Apple][gs - so I had access to games on those - but was never allowed a console (mainly due to money, no ethics on behalf of my parents or anything).
:) ).
My friends had the consoles though and I would play them when I went over to their houses.
As a result, I liked games that I could pick up quickly and not die immediately without lots of experience (Zelda was bad for that, Excitebike was GOOD!!).
I never really got good at any of the games since I wouldn't get much time to play (none of my friends wanted to watch me play, but they were fine with me watching them
Then the summer of '99 after I graduated college, I had a month to kill before I started my job - so I spent it at my dad's girlfriend's house sleeping and then playing her son's Super Nintendo. He had some special game pack that had all of the Super Mario games on there.
I played so much that I had some sort of injury to my right hand - specifically thumb blisters.
I finally got to beat each of the series but I kept going back to one to play it over and over - loved it - I *think* it was SM3 - not sure though. Whichever one first introduced Yoshi the dinosaur - I loved it (although the one just before that was pretty cool too).
I've played variants since then and never liked them that much.
Now I have a PS2 and suck at pretty much all of the games to the point where I get too frustrated to play for more than 10 minutes - except at the Tiger Woods golf game - I rule at that.
What were the traits of SM3? I'm not sure if that is the one that I really loved - I think so, but I don't recall the names of all of them and which did which in the series.
next thing you know its gonna get in the phone lines.
I can't be certain, but I'm 90% certain that I have internet all over my pants right now.
google doesn't really do much in terms of actually hardcore processing - it just takes in a LOT of requests - but each one isn't intense, and it is short lived.
On the other hand, say you are running a renderfarm - in that case you want a fast distributed network, the same way google does, but you also want each individual node as fast as freakin possible.
They have been using Alphas for a long time for that exact reason - so now with the advent of the Intel/AMD 64s, that will drive prices down on all of it - so I would imagine the render farms are quite happy about that. That means that they can either stay at the speed at which they do things now, but for cheaper - or they can spend what they do now and get much more done in the same time... either way leading to faster production and argueably more profit.
The clusters that I am most familiar with are somewhere in between - they don't need the newest fastest thing, but they certainly wouldn't be hurt by a faster processor.
For the stuff I do though, it doesn't matter too much - if I have 20 hours or so to process something, and I have the choice of doing it in 4 minutes or 1 minute, I will take whichever is cheaper since the end result might as well be the same otherwise in my eyes.
while much of what you say has merit ("stick it to da man 'cause he is just after the bottom line, us not included") - I have to point out that any argument that states what it says to be fact and ideal, and then slips up in those facts... well, it then becomes a poor arguement.
you say to get an apartment instead of a house - which in itself is going to lose you massive amounts of money over time in comparison to buying a house (not saying a mansion, but whatever is in your means).
houses apreciate in value and your mortgage is over a fixed time - apartment leases always go up over time, effectively last forever, and you are left with no value or tax breaks the entire time that you are in one (aside from the value of not being homeless).
Also - in order to get by with your method, you will need to live somewhere where the cost of living is lower, which then means that you need to live in an area where the pay is lower. So your dollar goes farther on items such as groceries, but you get less pay in relation to that anyway.
So ideally you will work in an area with a high cost of living, but live in an area with a low cost of living. This is done frequently and always equates to having a shitty commute (think NH -> Boston).
If it is like this with the 2.17, then it will be sweet when the faster cores get the increased cache.
Although I'm not really sure why I care other than when these things come out the slower ones go down in cost and that makes building clusters cheaper.
Right now I feel that the 2000+ chips are the best bang for the buck (I can make a single node in a cluster with one of those and 256M ram for under $300) - but perhaps with this thing coming out the pricing structure will shift and I can get me something faster.
hot damn.
I'm currently only using it for myself, but I've not had problems with it.
:)
That said, I do see a mail slip through on occasion with an error in the procmail log that says:
procmail: Program failure (-9) spamassassin
or something to that effect.
when that happens, it always recovers the data (the incoming mail) and just puts it in the inbox.
I'm not entirely sure what causes that - but I think it is less a problem of spamassassin and more of it timing out and my host (pair.com) killing.
I am just running the sa perl, from what I hear the spamd that in c is much faster and more effecient, but I can't use it since I'm currently on a shared machine and not root on it.
When I started I was filtering out 500 e-mails a day and had about 10 getting through daily (that was with version 2.4).
Then I watched the logs and made some changes (basically saw that some of my addresses that I have were getting all spam and no content, so I just always dev null some of them), and I upgraded to 2.5.
Now I regularly get 150 e-mails a day, and I'd say on average 130 of those are spam.
Out of all of that, the only stuff that slips through is the -9 err, and I've never had a false positive.
I have it set to yank anything that is of a score 4.0 or more, and I have important people in the whitelist.
I filter mail out into spam and nonspam (the nonspam folder is all mail that I read that is good and the spam folder is anything that sneaks through and shouldn't be there - again, due to that -9 err). Then every week I run a cron script that runs the bayes learning scripts against the spam and nonspam folders.
I really am impressed with spamassassin and personally have yet to experience anything negative.
I get a lot of spam, but it is all to me and I have the advantage of scripts to scan through it and also the advatage of time to occasionally look over manually (my spam gets filtered out into a "caughtspam" file that I can then run "frm caughtspam" on if I want to quickly look it over in an easy to read mailbox format).
I would gladly donate money to the spamassassin group if they had something setup to accept that, but for now, I just use it and look every now and then at the Changelog and see if anything is in there that looks vital to me - or if I'm bored I upgrade
sounds like you probably don't scan enough spam for it to matter one way or the other.
if you get spam at the level of hundreds a day, from what I have seen after using multiple different versions, 2.5 kicks ass far more than the others.
when people say SpamAssassin is good - they should really be talking about 2.5
that is the version with the Bayes fully in it and it is head and shoulders above the previous versions IMO
The main selling point on it is the looks. It is neither fantastic in sound, nor in playing DVDs, nor as a computer - but it is average in all of those aspects and looks cool.
:)
There are cheaper computers that have better screens and take up less space (I think Gateway has one).
I am still considering getting one, but again, solely for the looks - I have a dvd player, I have a bigger screen monitor, I have faster computers, but none are cool looking like that
I work down the street from a choclatier (sp?) and will grab some of that before heading home on friday.
then valentine's eve we have reservations at Finale in Harvard Square. good food - better desserts.
if someone is scraping the data and then redistributing it for their own profit - then that would be sketchy to me - but otherwise, I don't see how you look at it matters.
I have scrapers for a few things, and I doubt the company even notices (since they aren't mass distributed scrapers like a CPAN module is) - but I would think scraping wrong if I then took that data and used it for my own profit while getting it free from the other source. (thinking mainly of stock data - strip it for free from one location, but then charge users to see that data on your site)
I'm moving to Bermuda and would enjoy having TiVo there.
I suppose I will just setup my own - whatever they call them - PVR or something.
but if the UK doesn't have them, it doesn't sound like Bermuda is going to.
The smell of a melting PowerBook is gross enough, but I would I'd imagine cats smell even worse after time spent in the oven.
"Think Retarded"
I think that should be their new ad campaign.