I know for a fact that the Inspiron 8000 was made by Compal in Malaysia. The current Inspiron 8000-series (8300?) is almost certainly made by Compal as well.
Yeah, we've all heard the "made on the same assembly line yada yada" argument, and indeed that may be perfectly valid in a number cases
I will now share an amusing, yet amazingly on-topic, anecdote:
Canadian Tire, a Canadian institution going back nearly 100 years, sells (surprise!) auto parts (as well as many, many other things), such as regular-maintenance items (like fluids, air filters, etc) under their house-brand Motomaster name.
The Service Manager for the local Honda dealership told me that once they opened a carton of Honda air filters (labelled as genuine Honda parts), shipped to them from the Honda Canada parts warehouse in Toronto, and inside that carton, the individual air filter boxes had Motomaster all over them, including Canadian Tire graphics and part numbers. The filters, when compared with a Honda-boxed filter for the same model of vehicle that they already had in stock, were identical.
So apparently this filter manufacturer fscked up and put the wrong boxes in the wrong carton; obviously this "made on the same assembly line" yada yada does hold true sometimes after all...:)
Upon further examination, two pictures (and the associated paragraphs of text) are no longer in the original version: a picture of who is presumably her and her father, and a picture of her standing in front of a building. I thought these changes might have been to make it harder to identify her, but there's still a photo of her in her jacket on page 14.
Incidentally, my page 15 was broken (the "next page" link went to page 17); this is now fixed.
Wal-Mart meat cutters in one store contemplated joining a union. One actually signed a union card. Days later, every meat cutter in that store was laid off, and one week later Wal-Mart announced it would be going to pre-packaged (and pre-cut) meats in all of its stores.
This guy's server is gonna have a "dull black appearance" once the flames it must be belching at the moment are extinguished, judging by the degree to which the Slashdot Effect is hammering it...
Actually, the RFC, IIRC, states that you're supposed to say hello (actually HELO) first. Therefore, a proper connection will have the third response coming after the third command, which will be the RCPT command (not the DATA command as you state).
Don't believe me? Connect to it and try a HELO, then a MAIL FROM, then a RCPT TO. You'll get a 5xx error there. Try the same RCPT TO again (with the same destination address, even). You'll get a 2xx error, which doesn't make sense if the same address just gave a 5xx error -- then it'll close the socket.
Basically, it is braindead and is programmed to say, in order, "Yes. Yes. No, not now, and not ever." to incoming connections from MTAs.
Here's more stupidity. Apparently the 550 message is hardcoded and doesn't do any checking whatsoever. You *shouldn't* get to this snubby1-wceast box if you've resolved a legit domain, but you never know...
220 snubby1-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready HELO 250 OK MAIL FROM:billg@microsoft.com 250 OK RCPT TO:billg@microsoft.com 550 User domain does not exist.
Amusingly enough, their mail rejection system seems broken. The first RCPT command fails, as it presumably should since the purpose of this "service" is to bounce mail sent to nonexistent domains, however subsequent RCPT commands succeed. Thereafter, the DATA command returns a 2xx condition and closes the socket.
Shouldn't that be a 5xx condition returned, to cause the MTA to bounce the message immediately rather than keep trying (as is the case for 2xx and 4xx conditions)? [alex@penguin alex]$ telnet 098237498273649287364.com 25 Trying 64.94.110.11... Connected to 098237498273649287364.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 snubby4-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready HELO 250 OK MAIL FROM:234@29387239487234.com 250 OK RCPT TO:234@587235987234.com 550 User domain does not exist. RCPT TO:234@587235987234.com 250 OK DATA 221 snubby4-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission channel Connection closed by foreign host.
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They're about 15 days late mentioning this...
I know for a fact that the Inspiron 8000 was made by Compal in Malaysia. The current Inspiron 8000-series (8300?) is almost certainly made by Compal as well.
I could really have done without the mental imagery associated with the concept of double fisting. Thanks for the headline. Not. :P
Launch spoofed DDoS claiming to be from the mark's DNS server/upstream router.
Bye-bye!
My mirror: http://www.alexburke.ca/pripyat/ (God bless wget, even on Windows!)
Quoting the page, several pages in:
On penetration the first thought is usually "Bugger I've torn it"
Too good.
Yeah, we've all heard the "made on the same assembly line yada yada" argument, and indeed that may be perfectly valid in a number cases
:)
I will now share an amusing, yet amazingly on-topic, anecdote:
Canadian Tire, a Canadian institution going back nearly 100 years, sells (surprise!) auto parts (as well as many, many other things), such as regular-maintenance items (like fluids, air filters, etc) under their house-brand Motomaster name.
The Service Manager for the local Honda dealership told me that once they opened a carton of Honda air filters (labelled as genuine Honda parts), shipped to them from the Honda Canada parts warehouse in Toronto, and inside that carton, the individual air filter boxes had Motomaster all over them, including Canadian Tire graphics and part numbers. The filters, when compared with a Honda-boxed filter for the same model of vehicle that they already had in stock, were identical.
So apparently this filter manufacturer fscked up and put the wrong boxes in the wrong carton; obviously this "made on the same assembly line" yada yada does hold true sometimes after all...
Upon further examination, two pictures (and the associated paragraphs of text) are no longer in the original version: a picture of who is presumably her and her father, and a picture of her standing in front of a building. I thought these changes might have been to make it harder to identify her, but there's still a photo of her in her jacket on page 14.
Incidentally, my page 15 was broken (the "next page" link went to page 17); this is now fixed.
The original site has changed, some of the entries and pictures are missing. Good thing you caught this when you did.
:)
God bless wget, even on Windows.
Here you go. No bandwidth limit, and I took a couple of minutes to strip out the ad-insertion JavaScript.
I'd only buy the set if I could guarantee that my money buys the exact slice of pizza you choke on.
:)
This line is so good that you can consider it stolen, grub.
Is it just me, or am I seeing a disproportionate number of these virus-laden emails coming from a single IP address?
66-7-242-122.cust.telepacific.net [66.7.242.122])
OrgName: LAZER TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC
OrgID: LAZERT
Address: 1040 SERPENTINE LN
City: PLEASANTON
StateProv: CA
PostalCode: 94566
Country: US
NetRange: 66.7.242.120 - 66.7.242.127
CIDR: 66.7.242.120/29
NetName: TP-66-7-242-120-CUST
NetHandle: NET-66-7-242-120-1
Parent: NET-66-7-224-0-1
NetType: Reassigned
Comment:
RegDate: 2002-07-19
Updated: 2002-07-19
TechHandle: LD457-ARIN
TechName: Dougan, Lisa
TechPhone: +1-925-462-0505
TechEmail: customer@telepacific.net
OrgTechHandle: LD457-ARIN
OrgTechName: Dougan, Lisa
OrgTechPhone: +1-925-462-0505
OrgTechEmail: customer@telepacific.net
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2004-01-26 19:15
# Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
As I was checking in...
...Damn you Slashdot.
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You seem like a pretty reasonable person.
Silly faggot, dicks are for chicks!
On second thought, never mind.
We talk about unions all the time
Wal-Mart meat cutters in one store contemplated joining a union. One actually signed a union card. Days later, every meat cutter in that store was laid off, and one week later Wal-Mart announced it would be going to pre-packaged (and pre-cut) meats in all of its stores.
commutativity (ie A.B = B.A) is not a requirement for groups, but an abelian group is a group whose elements are also commutative over the relation.
Well, I'm sure glad you... um... cleared that up for me...
580 Km/h = 260 MPH
580 / 1.629 = 356 MPH
If you do activations or WLNP for T-Mobile, then you live in the same city I do. Hello. :)
Christ, Lawrence, you never cease to amaze me. If you're ever in Kingston, drop me a line.
This guy's server is gonna have a "dull black appearance" once the flames it must be belching at the moment are extinguished, judging by the degree to which the Slashdot Effect is hammering it...
How about a wrench? (Although physical hacking probably has more in common with a Dremel than a wrench...)
I have two things to say:
o ooooobaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrr.com
(1) It runs Apache on Linux! Yay!
(2) That had better be the most secure Linux box on the face of the planet
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=foooooo
Actually, the RFC, IIRC, states that you're supposed to say hello (actually HELO) first. Therefore, a proper connection will have the third response coming after the third command, which will be the RCPT command (not the DATA command as you state).
Don't believe me? Connect to it and try a HELO, then a MAIL FROM, then a RCPT TO. You'll get a 5xx error there. Try the same RCPT TO again (with the same destination address, even). You'll get a 2xx error, which doesn't make sense if the same address just gave a 5xx error -- then it'll close the socket.
Basically, it is braindead and is programmed to say, in order, "Yes. Yes. No, not now, and not ever." to incoming connections from MTAs.
Here's more stupidity. Apparently the 550 message is hardcoded and doesn't do any checking whatsoever. You *shouldn't* get to this snubby1-wceast box if you've resolved a legit domain, but you never know...
220 snubby1-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready
HELO
250 OK
MAIL FROM:billg@microsoft.com
250 OK
RCPT TO:billg@microsoft.com
550 User domain does not exist.
Amusingly enough, their mail rejection system seems broken. The first RCPT command fails, as it presumably should since the purpose of this "service" is to bounce mail sent to nonexistent domains, however subsequent RCPT commands succeed. Thereafter, the DATA command returns a 2xx condition and closes the socket.
Shouldn't that be a 5xx condition returned, to cause the MTA to bounce the message immediately rather than keep trying (as is the case for 2xx and 4xx conditions)?
[alex@penguin alex]$ telnet 098237498273649287364.com 25
Trying 64.94.110.11...
Connected to 098237498273649287364.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 snubby4-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 ready
HELO
250 OK
MAIL FROM:234@29387239487234.com
250 OK
RCPT TO:234@587235987234.com
550 User domain does not exist.
RCPT TO:234@587235987234.com
250 OK
DATA
221 snubby4-wceast Snubby Mail Rejector Daemon v1.3 closing transmission channel
Connection closed by foreign host.
the high frequency bands (below 30Mhz)
Is it just me, or did nearly everyone snicker at this (or think it was a typo)?