Pagz, check below for Marques's (remember him?) comment and my response. Also note that the 12 projector wall is 9 megapixels (4096x2304), and we did have 9MP images, both CG and real. Craig's player was cute but primative... the reason that design was chosen was bandwidth-- if you want 9 megapixel animation at 24bps, you have 27 MBps of raw data... which is quite stressful on the network and the PCI bus.
Please don't slashdot this site (mikeage is mine). I have low bandwidth, and if this takes up too much space, I will have to take it down. Instead, try the google cache.
Note that Marques is wrong here... it's now 12 projectors, 4x3 (so we have a net effect of a widescreen) of 4096x2304. And yes, it does run Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament, though I don't have any good pics handy.
On another note, it's mikeage, or Mikeage, not Mike Age. Goes back to high school... thanks Elie Klein.
This is a very misleading summary. Basically, the bonded program (which even spamassassin recongnizes and assignes according a minus "point") requires mailers to put up a bond before their emails are allowed. They still cannot send spam, however, they may only send mail to registered users. If users complain, the company has to either prove they joined or pay up.
Ok... I tried using Thunderbird, again, like I tried several of the previous versions... but there's one thing I _really_ miss: Outlook Express's "Syncronize all messages" options. I know this is not exactly how IMAP is supposed to work, but even though I use DSL, latency still makes browsing a large folder significantly slower than downloading the whole thing at once (say, while I drink my first sips of coffee), and then displaying the messages immediately. I tried using the offline extention-- too much of a pain to "go offline" each time, and right clicking on the folder and checking download this folder + always check this folder for mail did not work reliably. I hate to say it... but OE is easily the best email client in this regard.
Please don't hold up the rutgers system as good. Having worked for ECS (as well as spent my time as an undergrad there), I can tell you that the routers are so painfully slow... "start to get overloaded" is not quite accurate... "network crawls, routers crash, a lot of rebooting fixes everything, repeat" is a better summary of how things work. And TD's useless port scans have DoS's at least several older Sparc machines that couldn't keep up with the logging-- it appears that in order to finish the entire university in a reasonable time, they're running insanely fast port scans.
Slightly different direction... anyone know of a way to do this under WinXP? PGPDisk (the free version.. 6.0.2) has some bugs that prevent it from handling long file names properly, and 7/8.0 cost money. Scramdisk used to exist, but it's only 95/98/ME, and their new product, DriveCrypt, is not free. Anything else out there?
The reason that there is no campus-wide list of MTA's is that some dept's insist on running there own mail server, often without telling anyone. No, I don't work for TD... just Engineering Computing Services. The proper protocol is to use a listed MTA and set MX records to the proper machine, but you'd be amazed how many don't want to both. As far as the virus filtering... I can't say anything about that. If you want to contact someone, I'd recommend hedrick@rutgers.nbcs.edu (yes, reverse those two)... he seems to be the guy in charge.
We just finished a conversation with staff from AOL's postmaster team. We have an agreement, but it may or may not be satisfactory to users.
First, let me say what they are doing. They have a button on their mail software that lets users report email as spam. They check to see the host from which AOL got the mail, i.e. the previous hop. In principle, if they get a significant number of complaints for any given host, they refuse to accept mail from it. In practice, there is sometimes human review, although they don't guarantee to do that. In practice, they will often alert abuse@rutgers.edu before cutting off mail, although they don't promise to do that either. They will, however, allow us to give them a list of our major MTA's, and exempt that list. What we believe they will do reliably is notify us after the fact when they have cut an IP address off. We will dispatch those reports to the liaison.
They should have most of the major MTA's by now. However we don't have a complete list of all MTA's on campus, so it is certainly possible that in the future some might be cut off. If that happens, we will find out about it after the fact. In some cases, the abuse staff may recognize it as an MTA, and ask them to add it to the list. However we won't always know the way departments use systems, and thus cases might occur where we would have to depend upon responses from the system administrator.
Note that in principle they could remove systems that send announcements to the user community, if users report the messages from the President or other official email as spam. They regard the customers as right, and accept their definition of spam. In practice, that system will be on the list of MTA's. For the moment they look OK.
There are some systems that were on earlier lists that we have been unable to understand. In one case we verified that they had no forwarding entries pointing to AOL. The system itself is not an open relay, and being Solaris, would not have been contaminated by Sobig. In the discussion today, it didn't seem possible to develop an understanding of what had led to these systems being considered problematical. However those systems are MTA's, and should not be cut off in the future.
They have offered to send us all email from any Rutgers host that users report as spam, so we can review it and try to forestall any problems. Since this is in the thousands per day during periods when problems are occuring, we are not currently taking them up on this. In the opinion of our staff, if AOL can't afford the staff time to do intelligent review of their own users' reports, we can't do that job for them.
In this situation, I recommend that no system administrator use AOL for email, since we need to make sure we can contact sysadmins no matter what decisions AOL might have made. Other uses with critical need for mail connectivity might want to do the same. Also, it might be useful for users to understand that they should be careful about reporting as spam mail that comes through Rutgers.
I know... I wanted thunderbird to do it. I use evolution on my desktop at work, where I use Linux exclusively, but at home, my workhorse machines (file servers, ssh, mail) are liunx, while my main machine (because of gaming mostly) gets the real hardware. Yes, I have exceed running, which kinda solves the problem, but I still prefer running applications locally. Thunderbird, of course, has a windows build.
And, I don't think it can just hide them if they're in the same folder, but in the account options, "server settings" you can make the behavior move it to the trash folder. I'm sure there's some way to hack at the theme to change it though.
But that's wrong! (I know, so is starting a sentence with but.) I don't WANT to move them to a deleted folder, nor do I want to purge them, I just want them hidden. OE does it, every other mail client does it... putting a line through it does not cut it (no pun intended).
Ok, but then I have to switch to offline mode. That's my point... OE does this automatically (which I suppose may or may not be the "correct" thing to do, but I find it useful).
On another note: Perhaps I'm just missing it, but how do I get thunderbird to hide deleted messages, instead of showing them with a strikethrough?
Ok... I still use Outlook Express... for one reason. I have several IMAP servers (yes, all over SSL), and in OE, I have them set to syncronize all messages, without having to go offline. I know this is not exactly the main use of IMAP, but I like it-- I don't have to download a message each and every time I view it. No, it's not a speed (bandwidth) issue-- but a latency one. Even over my home network, if it has to hit the server for each message, it's not as fast as if it's cached locally. Evolution doesn't do this, nor does Thunderbird, so far as I can tell. Or do they? And if so, how?
P.S. Please no "feature = bug in OE that I can't find anywhere else" replies. There's enough threads with those already.
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According to Wired/AP
Hrmm.. Wired Access Points, eh...
(no, I'm not Canadian)
Why?
You only get credit if someone actually joins, and it costs you nothing... he wins, costs you nothing. Yes, he should disclose it, but...
Just remember, the real Sal Wise programs in italics
Pagz, check below for Marques's (remember him?) comment and my response. Also note that the 12 projector wall is 9 megapixels (4096x2304), and we did have 9MP images, both CG and real. Craig's player was cute but primative... the reason that design was chosen was bandwidth-- if you want 9 megapixel animation at 24bps, you have 27 MBps of raw data... which is quite stressful on the network and the PCI bus.
On second thought, don't check the google cache-- it butchers the powerpoint. Still, try and go easy...
Please don't slashdot this site (mikeage is mine).
I have low bandwidth, and if this takes up too much space, I will have to take it down. Instead, try the google cache.
Note that Marques is wrong here... it's now 12 projectors, 4x3 (so we have a net effect of a widescreen) of 4096x2304. And yes, it does run Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament, though I don't have any good pics handy.
On another note, it's mikeage, or Mikeage, not Mike Age. Goes back to high school... thanks Elie Klein.
I've also dropped my iPod about 5-6 times, and it still keeps on ticking!
Ticking... did you get the zip drive model?
Who's behind the Sal Wise scam?
Let's think about this for a minute
$699 for the linux license
$001 for the report
====
$700 total.
Not a bad deal at all...
Also, this means that UML is a terrorist threat.
I have no problem with that.
In fact, I'd welcome the declaration of UML as an enemy combatant.
I saw a letter to the editor from US News in which someone commented on a sentence he heard back in WW2 from an airplane mechanic:
Fuck! Fuck this fucking fuck!
The writer noted how he was impressed that in 5 words he could use 4 fucks, each a different part of speech.
This is a very misleading summary. Basically, the bonded program (which even spamassassin recongnizes and assignes according a minus "point") requires mailers to put up a bond before their emails are allowed. They still cannot send spam, however, they may only send mail to registered users. If users complain, the company has to either prove they joined or pay up.
Ok... I tried using Thunderbird, again, like I tried several of the previous versions... but there's one thing I _really_ miss: Outlook Express's "Syncronize all messages" options. I know this is not exactly how IMAP is supposed to work, but even though I use DSL, latency still makes browsing a large folder significantly slower than downloading the whole thing at once (say, while I drink my first sips of coffee), and then displaying the messages immediately. I tried using the offline extention-- too much of a pain to "go offline" each time, and right clicking on the folder and checking download this folder + always check this folder for mail did not work reliably. I hate to say it... but OE is easily the best email client in this regard.
You missed the funniest line in this post:
We make sure that any media has been de-magnetized (in case of floppies and CDs)
De-magnetized CDs. That'll help.
Please don't hold up the rutgers system as good. Having worked for ECS (as well as spent my time as an undergrad there), I can tell you that the routers are so painfully slow... "start to get overloaded" is not quite accurate... "network crawls, routers crash, a lot of rebooting fixes everything, repeat" is a better summary of how things work. And TD's useless port scans have DoS's at least several older Sparc machines that couldn't keep up with the logging-- it appears that in order to finish the entire university in a reasonable time, they're running insanely fast port scans.
So it can avoid civilians who are miles away from the munitions? Even the few dumb bombs dropped on Iraq avoided most citizens in Kuwait...
Read their disclaimer:
SCO reserves the right to withdraw registrations using our discretion.
Just a heads up...
Slightly different direction... anyone know of a way to do this under WinXP? PGPDisk (the free version.. 6.0.2) has some bugs that prevent it from handling long file names properly, and 7/8.0 cost money. Scramdisk used to exist, but it's only 95/98/ME, and their new product, DriveCrypt, is not free. Anything else out there?
Sorry, I wasn't the one who wrote this :)
The reason that there is no campus-wide list of MTA's is that some dept's insist on running there own mail server, often without telling anyone. No, I don't work for TD... just Engineering Computing Services. The proper protocol is to use a listed MTA and set MX records to the proper machine, but you'd be amazed how many don't want to both. As far as the virus filtering... I can't say anything about that. If you want to contact someone, I'd recommend hedrick@rutgers.nbcs.edu (yes, reverse those two)... he seems to be the guy in charge.
One of our TD guys posted the following:
We just finished a conversation with staff from AOL's postmaster team. We have an agreement, but it may or may not be satisfactory to users.
First, let me say what they are doing. They have a button on their mail software that lets users report email as spam. They check to see the host
from which AOL got the mail, i.e. the previous hop. In principle, if they get a significant number of complaints for any given host, they refuse to accept mail from it. In practice, there is sometimes human review, although they don't guarantee to do that. In practice, they will often alert abuse@rutgers.edu before cutting off mail, although they don't promise to do that either. They will, however, allow us to give them a list of our major MTA's, and exempt that list. What we believe they will do reliably is notify us after the fact when they have cut an IP address off. We will dispatch those reports to the liaison.
They should have most of the major MTA's by now. However we don't have a complete list of all MTA's on campus, so it is certainly possible that in
the future some might be cut off. If that happens, we will find out about it after the fact. In some cases, the abuse staff may recognize it as an
MTA, and ask them to add it to the list. However we won't always know the way departments use systems, and thus cases might occur where we would have to depend upon responses from the system administrator.
Note that in principle they could remove systems that send announcements to the user community, if users report the messages from the President or
other official email as spam. They regard the customers as right, and accept their definition of spam. In practice, that system will be on the
list of MTA's. For the moment they look OK.
There are some systems that were on earlier lists that we have been unable to understand. In one case we verified that they had no forwarding entries pointing to AOL. The system itself is not an open relay, and being Solaris, would not have been contaminated by Sobig. In the discussion today, it didn't seem possible to develop an understanding of what had led to these systems being considered problematical. However those systems are MTA's, and should not be cut off in the future.
They have offered to send us all email from any Rutgers host that users report as spam, so we can review it and try to forestall any problems.
Since this is in the thousands per day during periods when problems are occuring, we are not currently taking them up on this. In the opinion of our staff, if AOL can't afford the staff time to do intelligent review of their own users' reports, we can't do that job for them.
In this situation, I recommend that no system administrator use AOL for email, since we need to make sure we can contact sysadmins no matter what
decisions AOL might have made. Other uses with critical need for mail connectivity might want to do the same. Also, it might be useful for users
to understand that they should be careful about reporting as spam mail that comes through Rutgers.
If the French can run a decent power grid for 60 million people, why can't the US?
The US doesn't have 3000+ dead from a heat wave... don't they have A/C there? Or maybe that's why their grid works so well... no power.
I know... I wanted thunderbird to do it. I use evolution on my desktop at work, where I use Linux exclusively, but at home, my workhorse machines (file servers, ssh, mail) are liunx, while my main machine (because of gaming mostly) gets the real hardware. Yes, I have exceed running, which kinda solves the problem, but I still prefer running applications locally. Thunderbird, of course, has a windows build.
And, I don't think it can just hide them if they're in the same folder, but in the account options, "server settings" you can make the behavior move it to the trash folder. I'm sure there's some way to hack at the theme to change it though.
But that's wrong! (I know, so is starting a sentence with but.) I don't WANT to move them to a deleted folder, nor do I want to purge them, I just want them hidden. OE does it, every other mail client does it... putting a line through it does not cut it (no pun intended).
Ok, but then I have to switch to offline mode. That's my point... OE does this automatically (which I suppose may or may not be the "correct" thing to do, but I find it useful).
On another note: Perhaps I'm just missing it, but how do I get thunderbird to hide deleted messages, instead of showing them with a strikethrough?
Ok... I still use Outlook Express... for one reason. I have several IMAP servers (yes, all over SSL), and in OE, I have them set to syncronize all messages, without having to go offline. I know this is not exactly the main use of IMAP, but I like it-- I don't have to download a message each and every time I view it. No, it's not a speed (bandwidth) issue-- but a latency one. Even over my home network, if it has to hit the server for each message, it's not as fast as if it's cached locally. Evolution doesn't do this, nor does Thunderbird, so far as I can tell. Or do they? And if so, how?
P.S. Please no "feature = bug in OE that I can't find anywhere else" replies. There's enough threads with those already.