My last job was working as a field service technician for a small VAR. Service calls had me going to anywhere within a circle defined by Saginaw to the north, Lansing to the west, Jackson/Ann Arbor to the southwest, and Monroe to the extreme south. Ask me where anything is in Detroit, I know how to get there.
Decent radio??? Years ago, maybe. I've been listening to too much internet radio these days.
Lessee... I'll go through the dial:
88.7 fm: Based outta Windsor, plays mostly death metal and extreme alternative stuff. Grates on my nerves after a while.
92.3 fm: Someone decided to resurrect the old WDRQ call letters and the station sounds like competition for WJLB on 97, which is fine if you like R&B/Soul/Rap.
93.5 fm: Lite rock from Windsor with a definitely Canadian bent, but too sugary-sweet for my own personal tastes. 8 years ago it was all I listened to as they had a great alternative rock format. Fell in love with Sarah McLachlan all thanks to 93.5.
94.7 fm: 60's & 70's album-oriented rock. All the deejays from all the other formerly great stations in the 70's and 80's have found jobs here. Definitely dinosaur music.
95.5 fm: More Top 40/Rap buffoon music. Perfect if you're a 14-y/o wigger.
96.3 fm: Used to be the best damned alternative station in the city up until about 2000, now it's somewhat tolerable 80's/90's/2k's Top 40. If only I could get them to stop playing The Artist formerly known as Prince at precisely 1:30 pm *every single day*.
97.1 fm: Talk radio. Howard Stern in the mornings is its only saving grace in my own view. The rest of the shows are either monotonous gabfests on everything from underwear stains to bellybutton lint, or two guys yukkin' it up over the latest sports news.
97.9 fm: WJLB, the soul/r&b/rap capital of the Detroit airwaves. I'm not into the music but I have to admire them for sitting on top of the charts in terms of popularity.
98.7 fm: Formerly WLLZ, used to be *THE* radio station in the '80s for album-oriented and top of the charts stuff. Got bought up in the late 80's and turned into a jazz station. Boring.
99.5 fm: Formerly WABX in the 60's and 70's, was *THE* pioneering album-oriented rock and roll station in Detroit. Changed hands several times over the last 20 years, and now they play nothing but New Country. Gag me with a spork.
100.3 fm: WNIC. Lite rock, fogey style. *PUKE*!!
101.1 fm: Last of a dying breed, still an album-oriented rock station trying to preserve the sound of the 70's. Home to Drew & Mike, Arthur Penhallow (one of the oldest DJs still on Detroit radio after 30+ years), and Doug Podell. Only listen occasionally as they try too hard to be hard rockin'.
101.9 fm: WDET, the NPR outlet outta Wayne State U. Great for international news but I find most of the shows boring. I occasionally stop in for the Thistle & Heather show (going from memory, ICBW), which features Gaelic/Scottish/Irish music.
102.7 fm: Used to be nothing but classical, bought out in the last 10 years and changed hands several times over, gone through several format changes, including another great alternative station for a little while in the 90's. Currently doing an inner-city soul/R&B format.
103.5 fm: From tuning in, they must have changed hands and formats again, as what I hear right now isn't classical or soul, it sounds more like modern alternative. I'll have to stick this one out... oh, wait, they're singin' halleleujahs in the chorus, must be a Xtian station now. Used to be another soul/rap/r&b outlet for years from the mid-80's on, and before that nothing but classical music.
104.3 fm: Long time 50s/60s/70s station. Locked into the idea that old farts only want to listen to the music they heard on the radio during their teen years.
105.1 fm: Couple years back, they had a good alternative format going on, but it got bought out and scrapped, now mostly top 40 with more of a soul flavor.
105.9 fm: Rap/R&B. Not my flavor.
106.7 fm: Formerly WWWW (W4), the first quadraphonic broadcaster over FM back in the early 70's, survived in the AOR market until the mid-80's when it was bought out, and the program changed to modern country. Early 2k's it was again bough
Or I-96 straight out of downtown. One thing that's been done fairly well is the freeways in this town. I say fairly well as I'd love to beat the designer of the Mixing Bowl area (convergence of I-696, Telegraph Rd and Lodge Freeway [M10]) senseless.
Nah, the big Uniroyal tire is along I-94 on the other side of the airport, east of the Southfield Freeway. Unless you're headed into Detroit from the airport, you'll miss it.
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Agreed. I watched the story in Spam Kings unfold, having started reading NANAE regularly a month or two after Shiksaa joined in. Most of the material in the book is derived from NANAE postings from fall of '99 up to early '04. Read the book, then google for some of the subject material. You'll find it on NANAE. It's not all fiction, but don't give much credence to the glamourization of Shiksaa and Hawke. Let's call this a badly spun and/or embellished reference.
This guy's never been on the receiving end of a service call generated by an ID-10-T error or what we commonly refer to in the service business as "loose nut behind the keyboard." He's also never tried to figure out a problem when all the user can tell you is, "It won't work, I don't know what happened," and has no recollection of what error messages he may have seen when his machine failed, or has not documented the series of events that caused his error.
I've spent a good portion of my career opening these very machines to find them so clogged with dust that it was a wonder that they were able to operate at all, and it was usually a PSU failure that promped my intervention. If the owner had the foresight to open the machine every six months and blow it out with commonly available canned air, he would have never needed my services.
Drag what?? I just tried it from Mozilla 1.0 on my laptop running Mandrake (no, not their rpm, but the installer-based package), and I got no maps, just a broken graphic link. Nothing, nada. Appears that there are bugs to be worked out.
The problem isn't how much they are making or what percentage of their profits is derived from their spam support, it's the fact that MCI is turning a blind eye to activities that are blatantly illegal under the CAN-SPAM act. The excuses they make about not wanting to censor content of their downstream customer ISPs is simply a cop-out to avoid losing this stream of income, regardless of how big or small that income may be. Every other ISP prohibits hosting of spamware sites, why does MCI allow this? Websites promoting tools that are used solely for spamming purposes should not be allowed on the net.
Why do you think they called it the "You CAN-SPAM" bill?? Sheesh. Any legislation that depends on an opt-out model is broken in my own bug-eyed viewpoint.
I noted that they were starting to give more coverage to the Linux side of the table before the gutting took place. Maybe Comcast got paid by some software monopolist to take it over and defang the menace. We couldn't have a network that's informing the peasants that there's a choice in operating systems, could we?
I used to enjoy some of the shows on TechTV. Since the Comcast acquisition and the change to G4 and the shift of programming to more gaming-oriented shows, it's lost all appeal to me at all. Looks like it's time to remove it from the Favorites programming on my cablebox.
I agree with the original poster, seeing the Saturn V up close, in person, was the best thing I've ever done. I was in Florida for a couple weeks back in 1996, and on a whim, we took off from our hotel near Orlando and all the attractions there (got tired of waiting in lines) and headed off to KSC. The visitor areas were laid out and set up very nicely. The shuttle display was awesome. The memorial to all the people lost in various accidents was heartwrenching, especially after having witnessed the Challenger explode live on TV. My 5-y/o son loved it!! We even got to see a launch that day, though it was at the Air Force station to the north of KSC proper. The rumble was unlike anything I've ever heard/felt.
Then it should be dead simple to get it to work under Linux. The Linux VLC port is nearly flawless, and I love the idea of streaming video on a home network where if I don't want to hang on the couch with the laptop while doing school work or stuff for work at home, I can still watch some tube or just simply listen to the audio portion.
Free hits? Hah! The guy in Pakistan was selling the software directly from his site, with none of the profits going to the true author. Tell me how that's free advertising? Sounds like outright theft to me.
Yeah, but it's a rather unbalanced opinion piece. Sure, the guy's got a point that spammers are committing nothing more than an annoyance, but it's not necessarily the act of spamming that's being prosecuted for up to $1 billion total spread among four separate entities, it's the fraud and other associated charges that were part of the spamming scheme. These guys ain't saintly, that's for certain. They defraud credit card companies, ISPs, and their own customers to make a buck. To me, that's punishable for anything and everything they can get.
Doesnt have to be permanent, just cut it off and request the user run
ad-aware/spybot/a decent virus scan and away they go......
I think you misspelled "Linux." Honestly, since switching from Windows six years ago, I no longer worry about those things, except when family/friends ask for my help with their Windows-infected crap. My New Year's resolution for '05 will be to no longer provide support for Windows-infected machines. I will be happy to load Linux in a dual-boot situation and tell them how to switch, and that they can call me anytime they want with Linux problems. Otherwise, they can call someone else to deal with Microsoft's crap.
Sounds similar to my own solution. I don't bugger about with client-based spam filtering, it's either firewalled or filtered at the smtp level or nothing.
IPTables --> Postfix --> (new filter that checks SPF records, not fully implemented yet) --> private access list --> RBLs (multiple, at least 20) --> Amavis --> clamd --> spamassassin --> procmail
I don't care what anyone says, RBLs are the best solution, next to my own personal access list and my iptables blocks.
Best solution for iptables spam blocking, for those of you not handling mail for large numbers of people is to block everything from these netblocks:
Slashdot Mirror
My last job was working as a field service technician for a small VAR. Service calls had me going to anywhere within a circle defined by Saginaw to the north, Lansing to the west, Jackson/Ann Arbor to the southwest, and Monroe to the extreme south. Ask me where anything is in Detroit, I know how to get there.
Decent radio??? Years ago, maybe. I've been listening to too much internet radio these days.
Lessee... I'll go through the dial:
88.7 fm: Based outta Windsor, plays mostly death metal and extreme alternative stuff. Grates on my nerves after a while.
92.3 fm: Someone decided to resurrect the old WDRQ call letters and the station sounds like competition for WJLB on 97, which is fine if you like R&B/Soul/Rap.
93.5 fm: Lite rock from Windsor with a definitely Canadian bent, but too sugary-sweet for my own personal tastes. 8 years ago it was all I listened to as they had a great alternative rock format. Fell in love with Sarah McLachlan all thanks to 93.5.
94.7 fm: 60's & 70's album-oriented rock. All the deejays from all the other formerly great stations in the 70's and 80's have found jobs here. Definitely dinosaur music.
95.5 fm: More Top 40/Rap buffoon music. Perfect if you're a 14-y/o wigger.
96.3 fm: Used to be the best damned alternative station in the city up until about 2000, now it's somewhat tolerable 80's/90's/2k's Top 40. If only I could get them to stop playing The Artist formerly known as Prince at precisely 1:30 pm *every single day*.
97.1 fm: Talk radio. Howard Stern in the mornings is its only saving grace in my own view. The rest of the shows are either monotonous gabfests on everything from underwear stains to bellybutton lint, or two guys yukkin' it up over the latest sports news.
97.9 fm: WJLB, the soul/r&b/rap capital of the Detroit airwaves. I'm not into the music but I have to admire them for sitting on top of the charts in terms of popularity.
98.7 fm: Formerly WLLZ, used to be *THE* radio station in the '80s for album-oriented and top of the charts stuff. Got bought up in the late 80's and turned into a jazz station. Boring.
99.5 fm: Formerly WABX in the 60's and 70's, was *THE* pioneering album-oriented rock and roll station in Detroit. Changed hands several times over the last 20 years, and now they play nothing but New Country. Gag me with a spork.
100.3 fm: WNIC. Lite rock, fogey style. *PUKE*!!
101.1 fm: Last of a dying breed, still an album-oriented rock station trying to preserve the sound of the 70's. Home to Drew & Mike, Arthur Penhallow (one of the oldest DJs still on Detroit radio after 30+ years), and Doug Podell. Only listen occasionally as they try too hard to be hard rockin'.
101.9 fm: WDET, the NPR outlet outta Wayne State U. Great for international news but I find most of the shows boring. I occasionally stop in for the Thistle & Heather show (going from memory, ICBW), which features Gaelic/Scottish/Irish music.
102.7 fm: Used to be nothing but classical, bought out in the last 10 years and changed hands several times over, gone through several format changes, including another great alternative station for a little while in the 90's. Currently doing an inner-city soul/R&B format.
103.5 fm: From tuning in, they must have changed hands and formats again, as what I hear right now isn't classical or soul, it sounds more like modern alternative. I'll have to stick this one out... oh, wait, they're singin' halleleujahs in the chorus, must be a Xtian station now. Used to be another soul/rap/r&b outlet for years from the mid-80's on, and before that nothing but classical music.
104.3 fm: Long time 50s/60s/70s station. Locked into the idea that old farts only want to listen to the music they heard on the radio during their teen years.
105.1 fm: Couple years back, they had a good alternative format going on, but it got bought out and scrapped, now mostly top 40 with more of a soul flavor.
105.9 fm: Rap/R&B. Not my flavor.
106.7 fm: Formerly WWWW (W4), the first quadraphonic broadcaster over FM back in the early 70's, survived in the AOR market until the mid-80's when it was bought out, and the program changed to modern country. Early 2k's it was again bough
Or I-96 straight out of downtown. One thing that's been done fairly well is the freeways in this town. I say fairly well as I'd love to beat the designer of the Mixing Bowl area (convergence of I-696, Telegraph Rd and Lodge Freeway [M10]) senseless.
Nah, the big Uniroyal tire is along I-94 on the other side of the airport, east of the Southfield Freeway. Unless you're headed into Detroit from the airport, you'll miss it.
Agreed. I watched the story in Spam Kings unfold, having started reading NANAE regularly a month or two after Shiksaa joined in. Most of the material in the book is derived from NANAE postings from fall of '99 up to early '04. Read the book, then google for some of the subject material. You'll find it on NANAE. It's not all fiction, but don't give much credence to the glamourization of Shiksaa and Hawke. Let's call this a badly spun and/or embellished reference.
Ancient Arab Wisdom: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
$40 for residential customers, $60-$100/hour for commercial depending on the difficulty of the problems, and *I* decide on how difficult.
This guy's never been on the receiving end of a service call generated by an ID-10-T error or what we commonly refer to in the service business as "loose nut behind the keyboard." He's also never tried to figure out a problem when all the user can tell you is, "It won't work, I don't know what happened," and has no recollection of what error messages he may have seen when his machine failed, or has not documented the series of events that caused his error.
I've spent a good portion of my career opening these very machines to find them so clogged with dust that it was a wonder that they were able to operate at all, and it was usually a PSU failure that promped my intervention. If the owner had the foresight to open the machine every six months and blow it out with commonly available canned air, he would have never needed my services.
Coincidence? I think not.
Freedom? We ain't got no freedom. We don't need no *STEENKEENG* freedom!!
Ohhh... that explains it, it needs java... Time to figure out what's fubar in my java config for firefox.
Drag what?? I just tried it from Mozilla 1.0 on my laptop running Mandrake (no, not their rpm, but the installer-based package), and I got no maps, just a broken graphic link. Nothing, nada. Appears that there are bugs to be worked out.
Let's give you an "A" for reading comprehension.
Yes, they should be censored. Seems to be along the same line as banning assault weapons in my own personal viewpoint.
The problem isn't how much they are making or what percentage of their profits is derived from their spam support, it's the fact that MCI is turning a blind eye to activities that are blatantly illegal under the CAN-SPAM act. The excuses they make about not wanting to censor content of their downstream customer ISPs is simply a cop-out to avoid losing this stream of income, regardless of how big or small that income may be. Every other ISP prohibits hosting of spamware sites, why does MCI allow this? Websites promoting tools that are used solely for spamming purposes should not be allowed on the net.
Why do you think they called it the "You CAN-SPAM" bill?? Sheesh. Any legislation that depends on an opt-out model is broken in my own bug-eyed viewpoint.
Any pussy shots, ya think?
I noted that they were starting to give more coverage to the Linux side of the table before the gutting took place. Maybe Comcast got paid by some software monopolist to take it over and defang the menace. We couldn't have a network that's informing the peasants that there's a choice in operating systems, could we?
I used to enjoy some of the shows on TechTV. Since the Comcast acquisition and the change to G4 and the shift of programming to more gaming-oriented shows, it's lost all appeal to me at all. Looks like it's time to remove it from the Favorites programming on my cablebox.
I agree with the original poster, seeing the Saturn V up close, in person, was the best thing I've ever done. I was in Florida for a couple weeks back in 1996, and on a whim, we took off from our hotel near Orlando and all the attractions there (got tired of waiting in lines) and headed off to KSC. The visitor areas were laid out and set up very nicely. The shuttle display was awesome. The memorial to all the people lost in various accidents was heartwrenching, especially after having witnessed the Challenger explode live on TV. My 5-y/o son loved it!! We even got to see a launch that day, though it was at the Air Force station to the north of KSC proper. The rumble was unlike anything I've ever heard/felt.
Go, see!
Then it should be dead simple to get it to work under Linux. The Linux VLC port is nearly flawless, and I love the idea of streaming video on a home network where if I don't want to hang on the couch with the laptop while doing school work or stuff for work at home, I can still watch some tube or just simply listen to the audio portion.
Free hits? Hah! The guy in Pakistan was selling the software directly from his site, with none of the profits going to the true author. Tell me how that's free advertising? Sounds like outright theft to me.
Yeah, but it's a rather unbalanced opinion piece. Sure, the guy's got a point that spammers are committing nothing more than an annoyance, but it's not necessarily the act of spamming that's being prosecuted for up to $1 billion total spread among four separate entities, it's the fraud and other associated charges that were part of the spamming scheme. These guys ain't saintly, that's for certain. They defraud credit card companies, ISPs, and their own customers to make a buck. To me, that's punishable for anything and everything they can get.
I think you misspelled "Linux." Honestly, since switching from Windows six years ago, I no longer worry about those things, except when family/friends ask for my help with their Windows-infected crap. My New Year's resolution for '05 will be to no longer provide support for Windows-infected machines. I will be happy to load Linux in a dual-boot situation and tell them how to switch, and that they can call me anytime they want with Linux problems. Otherwise, they can call someone else to deal with Microsoft's crap.
Sounds similar to my own solution. I don't bugger about with client-based spam filtering, it's either firewalled or filtered at the smtp level or nothing.
IPTables --> Postfix --> (new filter that checks SPF records, not fully implemented yet) --> private access list --> RBLs (multiple, at least 20) --> Amavis --> clamd --> spamassassin --> procmail
I don't care what anyone says, RBLs are the best solution, next to my own personal access list and my iptables blocks.
Best solution for iptables spam blocking, for those of you not handling mail for large numbers of people is to block everything from these netblocks:
218/8
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220/8
221/8
222/8
219/8
> How do I get TurboTAX working in this Lenux
> thing?
Use your webbrowser and go to:
http://www.turbotaxonline.com
> Oh no, my games stopped working!
http://www.transgaming.com/
Stop whining and learn how to make them work.
> How do I install Kazaa on this thing?
http://www.edonkey.com/downloads.php
Try an alternative.
Install Linux on someone's computer when they're not looking. Or someone who can hardly use Windows. See how well it goes. Here's a hint: BADLY.