I've found that since I installed spamassassin, I no longer really care if things are sending me spam or not. I sure as hell never see them - aside from my "caughtspam" file growing in size everyday, and the pm.log that tells me what has been filtered...
I figure as more people get smart about filtering out the spam (yahoo and msn have this too right?), less spam will get through, and more companies will have to up their sleaze levels - so this is likely something we will see much more of.
that said, I can't say enough good things about spamassassin - I went from 500 spam emails a day down to maybe 5 that get throuh (and those are saved out to a "spam" folder that it reads every month and learns from so it gets even better). my daily spam file looks to vary between half a meg and a meg in size - all mail that I never see in my inbox.
(spamassassin.org - all free - I don't work for them, just love the product - even if I did, since it is free, I'm not sure what I would have to gain from it)
I have a friend that is high up in the IT dept for a large resteraunt chain. They bought a lot of used computers and found all kinds of crap on those things - largely very strange porn.
I can recall the research group my dad was in when he was getting his phd at VA Tech - this was back when disks were the wider floppy ones - the huge ass ones, and then the revolutionary 5.25 ones (eventually everyone was astounded by those 3.5s). Well, they needed disks and they found a place to get them cheap - by the hundreds. A few of the guys decided to check the disks prior to writing over them, and sure enough, tons of info on there. No porn since there weren't really jpgs and such back then on the 8088s (but once CGA came out on the 286, I recall an amazing strip poker game). They were nice and called the place selling these disks and let them know that there was still a lot of data on them. Lots of software and business data.
I've only had one hard drive die on me so far (with a wonderful *SPROING* sound) - I promptly tore it open and marveled at the shiny surfaces inside (and my cut hands from tearing it open).
but if I ever do sell a drive, I'm definitely going to fill it up with Pete Townsend porn.
and have the linux box up there be a webserver that gets its power via the sun, and transmits over wireless and you can hit that puppy and get new images.
then again, I didn't read the article since it looks to be slashdotted - so perhaps that is what you had done.
My soph year of college on spring break (96? 97? somewhere in there) - I was with the track team and we were in Florida... maybe it was my frosh year? Anyway, we had no money as we were travelling around and racing at different colleges. We ended up either staying at the houses of various alumni, or at the very least eating there. One family that was high up at Seagrams (sp?) had us over and while wandering through their house, I recall being amused that this couple in their 50s had a SuperNintendo. Then I saw that she had it hooked up to her bike - she was a triathlete and there was some program on there that she would use - not sure if it was a true game where she raced, or something that would just track what she did - but it was most certainly a Super Nintendo connected to her bike and it was specifically for that - not as if she were playing Super Mario Cart while biking.
I recall thinking the whole thing silly even then.
I want my PS2 hooked up to some sort of exercise device. But not one I'm using - I want my score in GTA3 to control the speed of random treadmills in a Balleys in Porter Square.
My apartment now is so small that I think if I got a nice plasma screen tv that was 40" or so, it would pretty much take up one whole wall of my place. And considering my futon is only about 5' from the opposing wall - that would make for a real theater like experience.
Now just to wait about a year or two for all the prices to become reasonable and things are going to kick ass.
I can recall my days in college where I would always install the newest, latest and greatest stuff on my pc and then learn it and think I was cool... well, I don't know if I ever thought I was cool.
but nowadays I'm constantly just thinking "why should I upgrade? this stuff works just fine for me the way it is now!"
I think it is because I'm more business minded now and the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality has an effect on costs in that world.
after reading through what is new in FreeBSD 5, I see no reason for me to change. it looks like things that I don't have much need for in my world. 4.whatever works just dandy for me.
People are saying that it won't fit in the slots of their desks... I suppose I'm not the typical user - I would never ever ever ever ever ever get a desk that had a slot for me to put my computer in. It insulates the machine too much and regardless of how hard you work to cool it, you are exacerbating the issue if you have it in a slot in your desk.
That said, I'm not sure the shape is all that great for my uses because I basically only ever really want either a laptop, or a bunch of small and compact machines to cluster. Something that shape on its own and under an open desk is just dandy - but trying to put that in an area with others just like it takes up more space than just the traditional "brick o' computer"
The main things I want from a case are compactness,quietness, and cheapness. None of those seem to help keep it cool, but when you have multiple white noise sources going, they seem to amplify each other, and it SUCKS on hardwood floors.
I want a case that is quiet and clamshells, but is just a normal shape that is easy to cram a bunch of them in a small place. basically I want a rackmount, but for way less money:)
I was at brunch the other day with friends and my fiancee was bragging about our TiVO, and someone mentioned that their friend's parents' TiVO had been acting up lately and not recording the things it was supposed to and such. We sort of scoffed at them and figured that they were likely morons and didn't set it up properly. But then, sure enough, yesterday our TiVO started acting up and not recording certain things that it was supposed to (most importantly "Scrubs").
I'm not sure what is causing this, but I'm pretty sure that like any major problem, it can be solved with a sufficient amount of swearing on my part.
Everyone knows that the engine has very little to do with racing performance.
It all boils down to the simple concept that if you want to be faster, you are going to need a Type-R sticker, some huge chromed wheels on the rear wheels (regardless of FWD or RWD) - or at the very least some chromed hubcaps that look like alloy wheels (the other racers won't know the difference). you need a monster spoiler, some racing decals, and a coffee can sized exhaust tip. If you want the power of nitrous, but don't want the hassle and/or cost of an installation, you can just clip a small fire extinguisher to the A frame of your car and other racers will know that you are faster.
All of this talk of "engines" and "chips" just shows a general ignorance about cars that I personally find appalling.
The X3 reminds me of... well, a smaller BMW SUV that is coming out in the states in a few months.
But worse yet, it reminds me of those popup ads with the chicks and the house and the small cameras.
I figure this new technology will revolutionize the way we look at digital cameras - so it will probably revolutionize those popup ads for cameras too.
those ads are always like "yes! no! YES! no!" as it pans back and forth from a hot chick and some house. I hope the new ads have midgets in them.
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It is snowing away here in Boston. My fiancee is from Bermuda and also must have some sort of circulation problem. She is always freezing. We have electric baseboard heat in a converted apartment in an old poorly insulated house.
We only run our two laptops in terms of computers (although just this weekend I finally got the PII mp3 server up and going, but it was deemed too noisy to run all the time, and our apartment is small enough that noise is bad for TV and reading and such). We have Tivo and a tv and a dvd player and some lights, which is about it in terms of power consumption. Our electic bill was very close to $300 this past month.
I thought about not using the electric baseboard heat (it is noisy and a fire hazzard since my fiancee is apparently unaware of what are "normal" household temperatures and it routine gets hot enough to melt things that we didn't realize were on the baseboard heaters - such as my phone charger cord, shoes, etc). Instead of the heat, I would put together a Beowulf cluster and use those. Ideally a quiet system to more energy is expelled as thermal energy instead of accoustic. Then I could get the benefit of parallel computing of financial data analysis AND heat during the winter. I can put together an Athlon XP2100 system with 30 gig drive and half a gig of ram for a little over $300 - meaning a 5 node system for around $1600. That is far less than my current dual PIII system that now just sits there lonely.
I suppose if I used my 21" monitor often that would help with the heat too - that thing is quiet, but cranks heat out the back.
My Athlon laptop gets pretty warm too - esp if it is really "thinking" hard - just need to put a distributed.net client on there and then warm the house all day long sans the heater.
Haven't tried to calculate out yet which way is cheaper.
I'm moving soon enough though, so I'm not too keen on the beowulf idea and then having to sell it all off in under 5 months. Still considering it though - as long as I could make it quiet (perhaps those noise dampening mats that the car stereo modding fellas use?). Noise is very noticable in our small place.
they aren't really "unmanned" - there are midgets that control them. the midget union struck up the deal since they were getting fewer jobs in Hollywood these PC days.
so they get jobs and the military gets what looks to be high tech devices which are really controlled by an elite army of midgets.
I must be getting old - I have not once looked at my computer and thought "if only that were made of blue jello" and then acted upon that though.
I guess I am interested more in performance and couldn't give a crap how it looks... although I do think the W series Sony Vaios are purdy.
I assume that is for gaming and such - otherwise, just make a nice little cluster. you could make a sweet one of athlon xp 2100s - 5 of them for $1600 or so. I suppose distributed computing doesn't have much purpose if you just want to play Unreal Tournament though.
I'm gonna go dip my computer in chocolate and bacon fat now because I want to have a cool looking computer like all the kids these days.
Once I make my millions, I'm going to retire to a life of charity work.
My current plan is to start up "Handjobs for the Homeless." I will hire busty blondes to work in plush living quarters where homeless men can come in and get handjobs for free. And some booze if they want it. Then back into the harsh world that bred them once they are done.
You might ask what I will do for the homeless women. And the answer is... I don't know. Them bitches is ugly.
I'd like a job where I can sleep in as late as I want. Then I can wake up and eat butter and milkshakes for a few hours. Then I go back to bed for as long as I want. Then I wake up and I get to have sex with Victoria Secret models until I grow bored. Then I play golf or go bowling. Occasionally I read, but then back to the sleeping. And I would be paid money so big that rap songs would be written about me from an envious vein.
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I've found that since I installed spamassassin, I no longer really care if things are sending me spam or not.
I sure as hell never see them - aside from my "caughtspam" file growing in size everyday, and the pm.log that tells me what has been filtered...
I figure as more people get smart about filtering out the spam (yahoo and msn have this too right?), less spam will get through, and more companies will have to up their sleaze levels - so this is likely something we will see much more of.
that said, I can't say enough good things about spamassassin - I went from 500 spam emails a day down to maybe 5 that get throuh (and those are saved out to a "spam" folder that it reads every month and learns from so it gets even better).
my daily spam file looks to vary between half a meg and a meg in size - all mail that I never see in my inbox.
(spamassassin.org - all free - I don't work for them, just love the product - even if I did, since it is free, I'm not sure what I would have to gain from it)
tell me more about these bras that you speak of and that which they contained
I have a friend that is high up in the IT dept for a large resteraunt chain.
They bought a lot of used computers and found all kinds of crap on those things - largely very strange porn.
I can recall the research group my dad was in when he was getting his phd at VA Tech - this was back when disks were the wider floppy ones - the huge ass ones, and then the revolutionary 5.25 ones (eventually everyone was astounded by those 3.5s).
Well, they needed disks and they found a place to get them cheap - by the hundreds. A few of the guys decided to check the disks prior to writing over them, and sure enough, tons of info on there.
No porn since there weren't really jpgs and such back then on the 8088s (but once CGA came out on the 286, I recall an amazing strip poker game).
They were nice and called the place selling these disks and let them know that there was still a lot of data on them. Lots of software and business data.
I've only had one hard drive die on me so far (with a wonderful *SPROING* sound) - I promptly tore it open and marveled at the shiny surfaces inside (and my cut hands from tearing it open).
but if I ever do sell a drive, I'm definitely going to fill it up with Pete Townsend porn.
it is also how I refer to what my colon holds just prior to me having to take a dump.
and have the linux box up there be a webserver that gets its power via the sun, and transmits over wireless and you can hit that puppy and get new images.
then again, I didn't read the article since it looks to be slashdotted - so perhaps that is what you had done.
I must need more coffee - I was very interested in what this post said because I thought the subject was annoucing that "chipmunks were vulnerable"
I'm not sure if that is a sign of my compassion or some strange sexual deviency (sp?) on my part.
My soph year of college on spring break (96? 97? somewhere in there) - I was with the track team and we were in Florida... maybe it was my frosh year?
Anyway, we had no money as we were travelling around and racing at different colleges. We ended up either staying at the houses of various alumni, or at the very least eating there.
One family that was high up at Seagrams (sp?) had us over and while wandering through their house, I recall being amused that this couple in their 50s had a SuperNintendo.
Then I saw that she had it hooked up to her bike - she was a triathlete and there was some program on there that she would use - not sure if it was a true game where she raced, or something that would just track what she did - but it was most certainly a Super Nintendo connected to her bike and it was specifically for that - not as if she were playing Super Mario Cart while biking.
I recall thinking the whole thing silly even then.
I want my PS2 hooked up to some sort of exercise device. But not one I'm using - I want my score in GTA3 to control the speed of random treadmills in a Balleys in Porter Square.
I'm intrigued... tell me more of this "computer" thing you speak of
Now if only I could afford an HDTV!
My apartment now is so small that I think if I got a nice plasma screen tv that was 40" or so, it would pretty much take up one whole wall of my place. And considering my futon is only about 5' from the opposing wall - that would make for a real theater like experience.
Now just to wait about a year or two for all the prices to become reasonable and things are going to kick ass.
(however one spells "fogey")
I can recall my days in college where I would always install the newest, latest and greatest stuff on my pc and then learn it and think I was cool... well, I don't know if I ever thought I was cool.
but nowadays I'm constantly just thinking "why should I upgrade? this stuff works just fine for me the way it is now!"
I think it is because I'm more business minded now and the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mentality has an effect on costs in that world.
after reading through what is new in FreeBSD 5, I see no reason for me to change. it looks like things that I don't have much need for in my world.
4.whatever works just dandy for me.
People are saying that it won't fit in the slots of their desks... I suppose I'm not the typical user - I would never ever ever ever ever ever get a desk that had a slot for me to put my computer in.
:)
It insulates the machine too much and regardless of how hard you work to cool it, you are exacerbating the issue if you have it in a slot in your desk.
That said, I'm not sure the shape is all that great for my uses because I basically only ever really want either a laptop, or a bunch of small and compact machines to cluster. Something that shape on its own and under an open desk is just dandy - but trying to put that in an area with others just like it takes up more space than just the traditional "brick o' computer"
The main things I want from a case are compactness,quietness, and cheapness.
None of those seem to help keep it cool, but when you have multiple white noise sources going, they seem to amplify each other, and it SUCKS on hardwood floors.
I want a case that is quiet and clamshells, but is just a normal shape that is easy to cram a bunch of them in a small place.
basically I want a rackmount, but for way less money
I was at brunch the other day with friends and my fiancee was bragging about our TiVO, and someone mentioned that their friend's parents' TiVO had been acting up lately and not recording the things it was supposed to and such.
We sort of scoffed at them and figured that they were likely morons and didn't set it up properly.
But then, sure enough, yesterday our TiVO started acting up and not recording certain things that it was supposed to (most importantly "Scrubs").
I'm not sure what is causing this, but I'm pretty sure that like any major problem, it can be solved with a sufficient amount of swearing on my part.
These people are obviously mildly retarded.
Everyone knows that the engine has very little to do with racing performance.
It all boils down to the simple concept that if you want to be faster, you are going to need a Type-R sticker, some huge chromed wheels on the rear wheels (regardless of FWD or RWD) - or at the very least some chromed hubcaps that look like alloy wheels (the other racers won't know the difference).
you need a monster spoiler, some racing decals, and a coffee can sized exhaust tip.
If you want the power of nitrous, but don't want the hassle and/or cost of an installation, you can just clip a small fire extinguisher to the A frame of your car and other racers will know that you are faster.
All of this talk of "engines" and "chips" just shows a general ignorance about cars that I personally find appalling.
The X3 reminds me of... well, a smaller BMW SUV that is coming out in the states in a few months.
But worse yet, it reminds me of those popup ads with the chicks and the house and the small cameras.
I figure this new technology will revolutionize the way we look at digital cameras - so it will probably revolutionize those popup ads for cameras too.
those ads are always like "yes! no! YES! no!" as it pans back and forth from a hot chick and some house.
I hope the new ads have midgets in them.
It is snowing away here in Boston. My fiancee is from Bermuda and also must have some sort of circulation problem. She is always freezing. We have electric baseboard heat in a converted apartment in an old poorly insulated house.
We only run our two laptops in terms of computers (although just this weekend I finally got the PII mp3 server up and going, but it was deemed too noisy to run all the time, and our apartment is small enough that noise is bad for TV and reading and such). We have Tivo and a tv and a dvd player and some lights, which is about it in terms of power consumption.
Our electic bill was very close to $300 this past month.
I thought about not using the electric baseboard heat (it is noisy and a fire hazzard since my fiancee is apparently unaware of what are "normal" household temperatures and it routine gets hot enough to melt things that we didn't realize were on the baseboard heaters - such as my phone charger cord, shoes, etc).
Instead of the heat, I would put together a Beowulf cluster and use those. Ideally a quiet system to more energy is expelled as thermal energy instead of accoustic.
Then I could get the benefit of parallel computing of financial data analysis AND heat during the winter.
I can put together an Athlon XP2100 system with 30 gig drive and half a gig of ram for a little over $300 - meaning a 5 node system for around $1600.
That is far less than my current dual PIII system that now just sits there lonely.
I suppose if I used my 21" monitor often that would help with the heat too - that thing is quiet, but cranks heat out the back.
My Athlon laptop gets pretty warm too - esp if it is really "thinking" hard - just need to put a distributed.net client on there and then warm the house all day long sans the heater.
Haven't tried to calculate out yet which way is cheaper.
I'm moving soon enough though, so I'm not too keen on the beowulf idea and then having to sell it all off in under 5 months.
Still considering it though - as long as I could make it quiet (perhaps those noise dampening mats that the car stereo modding fellas use?). Noise is very noticable in our small place.
oh wait...
they aren't really "unmanned" - there are midgets that control them.
the midget union struck up the deal since they were getting fewer jobs in Hollywood these PC days.
so they get jobs and the military gets what looks to be high tech devices which are really controlled by an elite army of midgets.
I must be getting old - I have not once looked at my computer and thought "if only that were made of blue jello" and then acted upon that though.
I guess I am interested more in performance and couldn't give a crap how it looks... although I do think the W series Sony Vaios are purdy.
I assume that is for gaming and such - otherwise, just make a nice little cluster. you could make a sweet one of athlon xp 2100s - 5 of them for $1600 or so. I suppose distributed computing doesn't have much purpose if you just want to play Unreal Tournament though.
I'm gonna go dip my computer in chocolate and bacon fat now because I want to have a cool looking computer like all the kids these days.
nege, I'll always cherish those words. now hold me.
If I had mod points, I'd wildly give them about all willy nilly, with total disregard to the law like I always do.
Especially to that Anonymous Coward guy - he sure gets around. You have to admire his ability to be so prolific and have so many voices.
I want one of them flat screen TVs and you don't see me begging for other people to help.
that said, just post up if you want to donate money to my cause.
Damn Laotians.
... that these fellas get laid ALL the time. seriously. chicks dig that shit.
Once I make my millions, I'm going to retire to a life of charity work.
My current plan is to start up "Handjobs for the Homeless." I will hire busty blondes to work in plush living quarters where homeless men can come in and get handjobs for free. And some booze if they want it. Then back into the harsh world that bred them once they are done.
You might ask what I will do for the homeless women.
And the answer is... I don't know. Them bitches is ugly.
I'd like a job where I can sleep in as late as I want. Then I can wake up and eat butter and milkshakes for a few hours. Then I go back to bed for as long as I want. Then I wake up and I get to have sex with Victoria Secret models until I grow bored. Then I play golf or go bowling.
Occasionally I read, but then back to the sleeping.
And I would be paid money so big that rap songs would be written about me from an envious vein.
I would envision Ted being all frustrated about how hard it is to get kits these days and resorting to /. to help him out.
At least this poster wasn't ranting on about how technology is ruining the modern world and then inquired about various troll's addresses.
When ATI releases its latest and greatest - buy NVidia stock and sell ATI.
When NVidia announces its latest and greatest - buy ATI and sell NVidia.
Same thing goes for buying the physical cards as well - they come out too high, but will drop when the competition comes out.
Other than that - wow - look at all the pretty colors.