One, figgy4@prodigy.net gets so much spam that I'd actually post it to a web page. heh heh. (300 mails in 2.5 days).
The other one, a hotmail account, is 11 characters long, and I don't use it for anything but personal communication. It is not common, in that it is the misspelled name of an element. I never recieve spam at that account.
My Attbi account started recieving spam from the topica.com domain, and after numerous complaints to abuse@attbi.com, as well as topica's admin... I just started signing topica's admin address to as many spam companies as possible. Soon after that, my spam problem from topica went away. heh heh.
You defend Windows as if it were your lifeline, but tell me... How often do you actually walk into your server room, use the KVM switch to get to the proper server, administer the server in person while looking at a monitor? With a GUI, you almost need to do this.
A server is not something that you should not have a mouse or a keyboard hooked up to. It's a little box, in a darkened and protected room. It should NEVER go down. Ideally, it should never even be touched after the day it's installed.
The problem with GUI's is that you need to have a pretty fat pipe to administer the server remotely. You also need to use 3rd party tools like VNC (spawned on UNIX, of course) to do this with any chance of efficiency. The CLI for windows, as you state, is flexible and fit for doing maintenance of most tasks. With UNIX, I don't need a fricken GUI, I can do Everything from the command line.
Tell me, how often do you surf the web from your database or web server? You don't? Then why the hell do these servers have Internet Explorer installed on them? Not only is this a potential security risk, it's cruft... valuable space on the hard disk that could be used to store data that's actually meaningful.
You say that open ports on Windows servers should be taken care of by a firewall. Tell me, if Windows were secure, why would a firewall be necessary at all? If I had all of my *NIX servers exposed to the 'Net, with only the ports open that are necessary, I'm sure that those boxes would still be more secure than the Windows based counterpart. Besides, requiring a firewall is an extra expense, a lame excuse, and usually shooting yourself in the foot... Most decent-excellent FW's out there are Unix based.
The imaging servers / multicasting solution you speak of is the lazy man's solution. It is the state of programming society that has lost the interest in efficiency, because modern hardware can cover up inefficiency. The inefficiency still remains. This lazy way is not the kind of mindset that a forward looking, intelligent individual should have. So what if the right way is sometimes a little more difficult? Tell me, if everyone decided to start doing drugs, and you felt the social pressure... would you take the hard way, yet correct way, or the easy way? I work in a business environment, one where costs are limited by the wisdom of the management. We have to stretch our minds to keep things in budget, which has overlap into our practices in programming/administration. I value every bit of bandwidth that I can save. Sometimes we don't have fibre, sometimes we don't have 1000BT. Most times, we don't have the massive RAID arrays and ultra expensive hardware that MS can provide.
So tell me, can you say that Windows is a more efficient, effective, and secure platform than BSD, or any other UNIX?
Oh, and a *Nix can have just about everything turned off with exception of the kernel. I can load hardware drivers without rebooting, I can kill every process that isn't necessary. I can completely update my system without a reboot, yet every service pack I've encountered requires at least 1 reboot. I've run into situations where I couldn't "Stop" a service that was running on Win2k, but never with *nix.
Some kid is crying because his SimAnt game just wiped out his entire colony with Bottled Air. He didn't even think that something like that would even be in the game.
"Method and procedure for the dismantling of civilized society by exclusive diversion with legistative processes" (making people so busy defending themselves against lawsuits to do anything productive)"
You could also sue the government of the U.S., England,... Any government that has any sort of laws.
Heh... now, would your patent be invalidated once you've forced Government to stop production of governance?
Yeah, I find it amusing that a "Linux Zealot" is serving up Microsoft News.
[Conspiracy Theory] Microsoft has found a new way of causing FUD, by taking advantage of the zealotry that a few Linux users exhibit. Microsoft has found that the pushy nature of such individuals "Sours the Milk," so to speak, and causes people to move away from GNU/Linux as a an OS. They'd rather deal with the "nice and pleasant" environment that Microsoft provides.[/Conspiracy Theory]
Yeah, um... whatever. If the guy is so hard up about hating Microsoft, he's not going to post positive news about it.
To counter, we have to take into consideration the area covered by the beam. If the beam is going to be about the size of a raindrop, we can expect the raindrop to scatter the beam until it is vaporized. If the beam is much larger than a raindrop, we'll say having a 3 or 4 inch diameter, only the portions of the beam that hit the raindrop will be dispersed. The rest of the beam (and the majority) will continue on to the target.
It is more than likely that a thick enough beam will just vaporize a path to the target in a relatively short amount of time. You may have rain on the outside, but it's perfect weather within the beam.;-)
I remember reading somewhere that the Vatican had the worlds largest collection of erotic literature. I wonder if that is included in the "library" that they are putting on-line.
If they did, it would sure beat the Spammed Usenet sewers, or the half-spammed Google groups.
As an aside, it seems a bit disingenuous for a member of the Slashdot crowd to point to it as a fine solution when there have been reams of complaints about spammers who offer opt-out links.
Your point would be valid if those opt-out links actually worked. Spam companies work by way of sending unsolicited e-mail to many addresses, and selling lists of addresses to other spam companies. In many cases, those opt-out links are really just sites that mark your e-mail address as active: iow, an opt-out link is an invitation for more of the same.
If I click on an opt-out link, it should prevent any further unsolicited e-mail from that company, as well as prevent that company from selling my e-mail addy to other spam companies.
If robots.txt is a method of preventing linking that actually works, then there is no basis of comparison between it and the spammers.
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We use it to create distrobuted work eviorments and enabel multiple people and applications work togeter.
You could do the above, but I would strongly advise against it. Especially at the kernel level.
The hardware has an interface to the rest of the computer that works in a set way. As a programmer, I need to be able to keep track of where my bits are on a hard disk, or what is going to get mapped to video at what time. This is what the kernel does (linux being proof of device drivers being built into the kernel).
The file system evolved as a means of a quick and efficient way of earmarking data for fast retrieval. We should not make it any more complicated than that. A lot of programmers have a hard enough time with it as it is.
The system you have described looks more like a framework for the operating system itself, and not the kernel. This OS looks a little on the piggy side too. Convenient for users/programmers? Sure. Fast enough to be actually usable? Hmm. Slim enough to be easy to debug? whoah...
What I really hated was that last comment made about "Suits are taking over, and are here to stay."
Linus is possibly the closest thing to a 'suit' that will have influence over the kernel. "Suits" are left with the GNU system to "Take Over." I will laugh my ass off at any businessman that tries to remove the freedom of GNU from GNU. RMS, and others will not stand for such stupidity, and fortunately the GPL protects the system from pointy - haired idiots.
There were references to changes made to the Kernel and OS that would make it run faster only on their machines. This is to be expected! Ever heard of Gentoo? My version of Gentoo runs fastest on my machine, an Athlon, and not on an Intel Pentium 4. What point is this guy trying to make? That the version of GNU/Linux that IBM/Sun/whateveh comes up with will be proprietary? Is he trying to say that the source code for this version will not be released? Is he trying to say that this version of GNU/Linux will be the only version?
Bad businessman, Bad! You are meddling in things that you cannot possibly understand.
What I don't understand is all of this crap about how M$ is going to Stomp GNU/Linux (thanks for the clarification, RMS). I really don't understand how M$ can stop all development of anything that doesn't belong to them, or any company.
The only way that Ballmer & Friends could stop the Linux kernel from maturing is by taking out the source of the code, mainly the pool of OS developers. Can M$ do this? I imagine that even some dudes that work for M$ work with OS products, or develop and release them. M$ can not legally control one's hobby.
I find it amazing that M$ thinks that there's a competition here. There are companies that have dedicated themselves to the development of OS products, and to the support of them. These are our beloved Mandrake and RedHat, Suse and U.L friends. Those companies may run out of money some day, or be bought by M$. Does that mean that GNU/Linux is dead?
When M$ talks about stomping Linux, I become worried for my own safety, since I would consider myself a part of the OS community.
Ever heard of Chili! Soft? There's also a few other modules for Apache that will let you serve ASP pages. Then again, you can serve Perl through IIS, so this point in your argument doesn't state much in reality.
This will just devolve into another Tivo-esque legal matter. Companies that pay big money for product placement are going to want those tweak utilities made illegal, because they allow for people to remove their paid-for advertising material.
Not that anyone is really going to care about the products in this game. I can sit there and watch commercials for hours, but not be able to specifically recall a single one of them. They turn into "What product is the one with the commercials with those hot chicks?" Do I remember the product? I've been trained by the advertisement industry to ignore what they throw at me. I've been desensitized.
I'll cite "What if it's all a big fat lie" from the NYTimes. I'd post a link, but you have to purchase some kind of archive pack, so screw that b.s.
Basically, your body functions better on ketones then it does on glucose. Ketones are not unhealthy at all, and your cells operate up to 20% more efficiently when you are in ketosis.
The Atkin's diet is not new, it was the diet that everyone had before the rise of agriculture. A society that has the sole source of food as a meat product usually has thinner people that tend to live longer.
Only when you introduce carbs, or anything with a high glycemic index (starches, sugars, etc.), do you run into incidence of diabetes and obesity.
Cooking the feed will cause the feed to be of a higher quality, because it does not contain the parasite. Also possible is that the feed never did contain the parasite.
I'll bet that there is little, if any, parasitic presence in the uncooked slop, and then it's probably cooked for good measure.
When you have something like Big Blue, M$ is not necessary for profit. In fact, I'll bet that IBM makes less money on their Windows machines than they do on anything else.
For a company that's been around for ages, one that is rock steady, you just can't mess with them. IBM can do whatever the fsck they want to, Microsoft knows this and prefers not to bitch.
Then you have the stand with a million tiny penguins that gaurantee that your lemonade will have effects on your body like crack cocaine.
They do all of the work for you, and optimize every little molecule just for your body, so that you have the greatest trip ever. The only drawback is that you have to have patience while they put it all together. This could take a while, depending on the number of penguins you can get working for you.
If I download the movie or not... I'm still going to see it multiple times in the theatre, and pick up all 6 editions of the DVD that they are going to release.
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heh... But it has a massive local exploit: Hitting the "On" Button. :-)
yeah, I've got a couple accounts like that too.
One, figgy4@prodigy.net gets so much spam that I'd actually post it to a web page. heh heh. (300 mails in 2.5 days).
The other one, a hotmail account, is 11 characters long, and I don't use it for anything but personal communication. It is not common, in that it is the misspelled name of an element. I never recieve spam at that account.
My Attbi account started recieving spam from the topica.com domain, and after numerous complaints to abuse@attbi.com, as well as topica's admin... I just started signing topica's admin address to as many spam companies as possible. Soon after that, my spam problem from topica went away. heh heh.
You defend Windows as if it were your lifeline, but tell me... How often do you actually walk into your server room, use the KVM switch to get to the proper server, administer the server in person while looking at a monitor? With a GUI, you almost need to do this.
A server is not something that you should not have a mouse or a keyboard hooked up to. It's a little box, in a darkened and protected room. It should NEVER go down. Ideally, it should never even be touched after the day it's installed.
The problem with GUI's is that you need to have a pretty fat pipe to administer the server remotely. You also need to use 3rd party tools like VNC (spawned on UNIX, of course) to do this with any chance of efficiency. The CLI for windows, as you state, is flexible and fit for doing maintenance of most tasks. With UNIX, I don't need a fricken GUI, I can do Everything from the command line.
Tell me, how often do you surf the web from your database or web server? You don't? Then why the hell do these servers have Internet Explorer installed on them? Not only is this a potential security risk, it's cruft... valuable space on the hard disk that could be used to store data that's actually meaningful.
You say that open ports on Windows servers should be taken care of by a firewall. Tell me, if Windows were secure, why would a firewall be necessary at all? If I had all of my *NIX servers exposed to the 'Net, with only the ports open that are necessary, I'm sure that those boxes would still be more secure than the Windows based counterpart. Besides, requiring a firewall is an extra expense, a lame excuse, and usually shooting yourself in the foot... Most decent-excellent FW's out there are Unix based.
The imaging servers / multicasting solution you speak of is the lazy man's solution. It is the state of programming society that has lost the interest in efficiency, because modern hardware can cover up inefficiency. The inefficiency still remains. This lazy way is not the kind of mindset that a forward looking, intelligent individual should have. So what if the right way is sometimes a little more difficult? Tell me, if everyone decided to start doing drugs, and you felt the social pressure... would you take the hard way, yet correct way, or the easy way? I work in a business environment, one where costs are limited by the wisdom of the management. We have to stretch our minds to keep things in budget, which has overlap into our practices in programming/administration. I value every bit of bandwidth that I can save. Sometimes we don't have fibre, sometimes we don't have 1000BT. Most times, we don't have the massive RAID arrays and ultra expensive hardware that MS can provide.
So tell me, can you say that Windows is a more efficient, effective, and secure platform than BSD, or any other UNIX?
Oh, and a *Nix can have just about everything turned off with exception of the kernel. I can load hardware drivers without rebooting, I can kill every process that isn't necessary. I can completely update my system without a reboot, yet every service pack I've encountered requires at least 1 reboot. I've run into situations where I couldn't "Stop" a service that was running on Win2k, but never with *nix.
Some kid is crying because his SimAnt game just wiped out his entire colony with Bottled Air. He didn't even think that something like that would even be in the game.
You could also sue the government of the U.S., England, ... Any government that has any sort of laws.
Heh... now, would your patent be invalidated once you've forced Government to stop production of governance?
You mean "Board of dictators", right?
Yeah, I find it amusing that a "Linux Zealot" is serving up Microsoft News.
[Conspiracy Theory] Microsoft has found a new way of causing FUD, by taking advantage of the zealotry that a few Linux users exhibit. Microsoft has found that the pushy nature of such individuals "Sours the Milk," so to speak, and causes people to move away from GNU/Linux as a an OS. They'd rather deal with the "nice and pleasant" environment that Microsoft provides.[/Conspiracy Theory]
Yeah, um... whatever. If the guy is so hard up about hating Microsoft, he's not going to post positive news about it.
To counter, we have to take into consideration the area covered by the beam. If the beam is going to be about the size of a raindrop, we can expect the raindrop to scatter the beam until it is vaporized. If the beam is much larger than a raindrop, we'll say having a 3 or 4 inch diameter, only the portions of the beam that hit the raindrop will be dispersed. The rest of the beam (and the majority) will continue on to the target.
It is more than likely that a thick enough beam will just vaporize a path to the target in a relatively short amount of time. You may have rain on the outside, but it's perfect weather within the beam. ;-)
I remember reading somewhere that the Vatican had the worlds largest collection of erotic literature. I wonder if that is included in the "library" that they are putting on-line.
If they did, it would sure beat the Spammed Usenet sewers, or the half-spammed Google groups.
Simpy put, the poincare conjecture implies that every compact n-manifold is homotopy-equivalent to the n-sphere iff it is homeomorphic to th...
Oh, you said "Simpy" instead of "Simply." I get it now.
As an aside, it seems a bit disingenuous for a member of the Slashdot crowd to point to it as a fine solution when there have been reams of complaints about spammers who offer opt-out links.
Your point would be valid if those opt-out links actually worked. Spam companies work by way of sending unsolicited e-mail to many addresses, and selling lists of addresses to other spam companies. In many cases, those opt-out links are really just sites that mark your e-mail address as active: iow, an opt-out link is an invitation for more of the same.
If I click on an opt-out link, it should prevent any further unsolicited e-mail from that company, as well as prevent that company from selling my e-mail addy to other spam companies.
If robots.txt is a method of preventing linking that actually works, then there is no basis of comparison between it and the spammers.
We use it to create distrobuted work eviorments and enabel multiple people and applications work togeter.
I wonder if their code actually compiles:
int inedx;
for (index =0; indxe {etc.}
My gosh. I could hardly understand this site.
You could do the above, but I would strongly advise against it. Especially at the kernel level.
The hardware has an interface to the rest of the computer that works in a set way. As a programmer, I need to be able to keep track of where my bits are on a hard disk, or what is going to get mapped to video at what time. This is what the kernel does (linux being proof of device drivers being built into the kernel).
The file system evolved as a means of a quick and efficient way of earmarking data for fast retrieval. We should not make it any more complicated than that. A lot of programmers have a hard enough time with it as it is.
The system you have described looks more like a framework for the operating system itself, and not the kernel. This OS looks a little on the piggy side too. Convenient for users/programmers? Sure. Fast enough to be actually usable? Hmm. Slim enough to be easy to debug? whoah...
What I really hated was that last comment made about "Suits are taking over, and are here to stay."
Linus is possibly the closest thing to a 'suit' that will have influence over the kernel. "Suits" are left with the GNU system to "Take Over." I will laugh my ass off at any businessman that tries to remove the freedom of GNU from GNU. RMS, and others will not stand for such stupidity, and fortunately the GPL protects the system from pointy - haired idiots.
There were references to changes made to the Kernel and OS that would make it run faster only on their machines. This is to be expected! Ever heard of Gentoo? My version of Gentoo runs fastest on my machine, an Athlon, and not on an Intel Pentium 4. What point is this guy trying to make? That the version of GNU/Linux that IBM/Sun/whateveh comes up with will be proprietary? Is he trying to say that the source code for this version will not be released? Is he trying to say that this version of GNU/Linux will be the only version?
Bad businessman, Bad! You are meddling in things that you cannot possibly understand.
What I don't understand is all of this crap about how M$ is going to Stomp GNU/Linux (thanks for the clarification, RMS). I really don't understand how M$ can stop all development of anything that doesn't belong to them, or any company.
The only way that Ballmer & Friends could stop the Linux kernel from maturing is by taking out the source of the code, mainly the pool of OS developers. Can M$ do this? I imagine that even some dudes that work for M$ work with OS products, or develop and release them. M$ can not legally control one's hobby.
I find it amazing that M$ thinks that there's a competition here. There are companies that have dedicated themselves to the development of OS products, and to the support of them. These are our beloved Mandrake and RedHat, Suse and U.L friends. Those companies may run out of money some day, or be bought by M$. Does that mean that GNU/Linux is dead?
When M$ talks about stomping Linux, I become worried for my own safety, since I would consider myself a part of the OS community.
You obviously did not read the GNU FAQ on this very subject.
Ever heard of Chili! Soft? There's also a few other modules for Apache that will let you serve ASP pages. Then again, you can serve Perl through IIS, so this point in your argument doesn't state much in reality.
This will just devolve into another Tivo-esque legal matter. Companies that pay big money for product placement are going to want those tweak utilities made illegal, because they allow for people to remove their paid-for advertising material.
Not that anyone is really going to care about the products in this game. I can sit there and watch commercials for hours, but not be able to specifically recall a single one of them. They turn into "What product is the one with the commercials with those hot chicks?" Do I remember the product? I've been trained by the advertisement industry to ignore what they throw at me. I've been desensitized.
I'll cite "What if it's all a big fat lie" from the NYTimes. I'd post a link, but you have to purchase some kind of archive pack, so screw that b.s.
Basically, your body functions better on ketones then it does on glucose. Ketones are not unhealthy at all, and your cells operate up to 20% more efficiently when you are in ketosis.
The Atkin's diet is not new, it was the diet that everyone had before the rise of agriculture. A society that has the sole source of food as a meat product usually has thinner people that tend to live longer.
Only when you introduce carbs, or anything with a high glycemic index (starches, sugars, etc.), do you run into incidence of diabetes and obesity.
So... Essentially it is a quality of feed issue.
Cooking the feed will cause the feed to be of a higher quality, because it does not contain the parasite. Also possible is that the feed never did contain the parasite.
I'll bet that there is little, if any, parasitic presence in the uncooked slop, and then it's probably cooked for good measure.
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When you have something like Big Blue, M$ is not necessary for profit. In fact, I'll bet that IBM makes less money on their Windows machines than they do on anything else.
For a company that's been around for ages, one that is rock steady, you just can't mess with them. IBM can do whatever the fsck they want to, Microsoft knows this and prefers not to bitch.
Then you have the stand with a million tiny penguins that gaurantee that your lemonade will have effects on your body like crack cocaine.
They do all of the work for you, and optimize every little molecule just for your body, so that you have the greatest trip ever. The only drawback is that you have to have patience while they put it all together. This could take a while, depending on the number of penguins you can get working for you.
If I download the movie or not... I'm still going to see it multiple times in the theatre, and pick up all 6 editions of the DVD that they are going to release.
Some people are just dumb.
Correction!
That last word should read: R16|-|75