If the mail server is broken, get them fixed, or switch ISPs.
If you're on a residental account with restrictions such as 'no servers,' but they say 'we'll not enforce those restrictions unless we have to,' then don't whine when they start enforcing them.
There are services out there where it would never even occur to the company to consider even thinking about blocking off a port; pony up and go for it.
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Ah, but the average building contractor isn't a craftsman.
It has to be justified to some guy on Slashdot because it was asked to some guy at slashdot.
And you're right; a few have ruined it for everybody. Nevertheless, this fellow has a common problem; he does't ask for the right answer. He's looking to find out how to implement a specific solution; he's not asking what solution he should be implementing.
I liken it to 'what's the most efficient way I can shovel the snow out of my driveway with this large teaspoon?' while talking to the guy in charge of snow blowers.
Using the ISP period means that they can snoop each and every packet you send out. Not a lot of difference between checking the mail logs and checking the etherial logs. </Paranoia>
The simple fact of the matter is, this guy probably doesn't need to connect on port 25 outbound.
I need to be able to send Email to other SMTP servers, besides theirs, for a number of legitamate reasons
Enumerate these reasons. I, personally, can't think of many reasons where a residential user needs 25 outbound, when using the network mailservers as a smarthost will work fine.
Oh, and 'lobby' can also mean word of mouth campaigns, legal action (price fixing? Why is the Austin Powers soundtrack CD more expensive than the Austin Powers DVD?) and so on.
The problem, I've always thought, is that the American gov't has gone from being populated by citizens to being populated by career politicans.
Oh, and the concept of the 'two party system' needs to go.
Could I personally come up with a better system? No. For all it's faults, the US republic has done 'better' in many ways than any system before it. Doesn't mean it can't stand some improving, though.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse (bounty, gifts, donations, generous giving, etc.) from the public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by dictatorship.
-- Alexander Tyler.
In other words: Oh, boo hoo. Democracy is dead because YOU'RE NOT BEING ALLOWED TO STEAL. That's so terrible.
Think their product is overpriced? Don't buy it. Want them to change their pricing schemes? Lobby them. Arrange boycotts. Do all sorts of PERFECTLY LEGAL things. End of story.
IveGotAChipOnMyShoulder writes "I'm going to make some nasty allegations against somebody I don't like, with no supporting evidence, using terrible terrible keywords that people will respond to like Pavlovian dogs, and get it posted to slashdot. Gosh, I hope that you don't bother looking into it, and if my target responds, I hope you don't actually mention it in the post; defending onself is for losers." Yup, there's no justice like angry mob justice.
There's a scene in Disney's Tarzan, near the beginning, when Kala pushes open the door to the tree house. The door is very obviously a 3d CGI object, and every time I see that scene, the incorrect looking perspective correction, the nasty texture, all scream out to me PLAYSTATION!
I suspect that anybody who thinks that modern cell shaded games don't look very good haven't played them.
If you've access to a game console, go play, oh, Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast,) Jet Set Radio Future (Xbox,) Robotech: Battlecry (all,) or a few others; they're 'cel shaded;' 3d games designed to look like animated cartoons.
I can't think of any point in the movies that Obi Wan meets 3P0; in TPM he stays on the Queen's ship while Qui Gon winds up in Aniken's home. In AOTC, he's on Geonosis, while Aniken and Amidala wind up on Tattooine.
Dunno if this is the reason, but once you get into hypersonic rounds, as many sniper rifles are, you can get into some pretty interesting effects, such as a shot to the hand will blow out your heart via shockwaves travelling through the blood system.
They don't even need to do that. You have no intrinsic right to copy a binary compiled from pure GPL'd source. You can require the source code from me, compile your own binary, and distribute it to your heart's content, but you can't distribute the binaries I made from the same source, without my permission.
Nope. The GPL allows you to obtain the source to anything you've acquired from a given company, that is under the GPL, and do as you see fit, while obeying, in turn, the GPL. Companies usually extrapolate this out to 'since they can compile it into binaries, lets just let them pass the binaries around.'
Red Hat, however, would be perfectly within it's rights to not allow their CD to be copied willy-nilly, and have a separate 'source' cd distro with tarballs, which can then be copied.
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No, it isn't.
If the mail server is broken, get them fixed, or switch ISPs.
If you're on a residental account with restrictions such as 'no servers,' but they say 'we'll not enforce those restrictions unless we have to,' then don't whine when they start enforcing them.
There are services out there where it would never even occur to the company to consider even thinking about blocking off a port; pony up and go for it.
Ah, but the average building contractor isn't a craftsman.
That's a quality of service problem, and is addressed separately.
It has to be justified to some guy on Slashdot because it was asked to some guy at slashdot.
And you're right; a few have ruined it for everybody. Nevertheless, this fellow has a common problem; he does't ask for the right answer. He's looking to find out how to implement a specific solution; he's not asking what solution he should be implementing.
I liken it to 'what's the most efficient way I can shovel the snow out of my driveway with this large teaspoon?' while talking to the guy in charge of snow blowers.
Using the ISP period means that they can snoop each and every packet you send out. Not a lot of difference between checking the mail logs and checking the etherial logs.
</Paranoia>
The simple fact of the matter is, this guy probably doesn't need to connect on port 25 outbound.
Enumerate these reasons. I, personally, can't think of many reasons where a residential user needs 25 outbound, when using the network mailservers as a smarthost will work fine.
If somebody breaks into your car, hotwires it, and mows down people, you're not responsible.
If you leave the keys in the ignition, you are responsible. Seems kind of simple, neh?
Oh, and 'lobby' can also mean word of mouth campaigns, legal action (price fixing? Why is the Austin Powers soundtrack CD more expensive than the Austin Powers DVD?) and so on.
The problem, I've always thought, is that the American gov't has gone from being populated by citizens to being populated by career politicans.
Oh, and the concept of the 'two party system' needs to go.
Could I personally come up with a better system? No. For all it's faults, the US republic has done 'better' in many ways than any system before it. Doesn't mean it can't stand some improving, though.
Americans already bomb Canadians for doing their jobs...just think of what they'll do if we break their laws!
-- Alexander Tyler.
In other words: Oh, boo hoo. Democracy is dead because YOU'RE NOT BEING ALLOWED TO STEAL. That's so terrible.
Think their product is overpriced? Don't buy it. Want them to change their pricing schemes? Lobby them. Arrange boycotts. Do all sorts of PERFECTLY LEGAL things. End of story.
IveGotAChipOnMyShoulder writes "I'm going to make some nasty allegations against somebody I don't like, with no supporting evidence, using terrible terrible keywords that people will respond to like Pavlovian dogs, and get it posted to slashdot. Gosh, I hope that you don't bother looking into it, and if my target responds, I hope you don't actually mention it in the post; defending onself is for losers." Yup, there's no justice like angry mob justice.
There's a scene in Disney's Tarzan, near the beginning, when Kala pushes open the door to the tree house. The door is very obviously a 3d CGI object, and every time I see that scene, the incorrect looking perspective correction, the nasty texture, all scream out to me PLAYSTATION!
I suspect that anybody who thinks that modern cell shaded games don't look very good haven't played them.
If you have five 36 gig drives, and you RAID-5 them, you'll wind up with one big drive of (5-1) * 36 gigs of space; 144 gigabytes, in this case.
If you have three 36 gig drives, and you RAID-5 them, you'll wind up with one big drive of (3-1) * 36 gigs of space, or 72 gigabytes in this case.Let us not forget that Game Girl Advance already has ideas about how to draw in more women gamers.
Hell, a virtualized sandbox in general; spawn off a virtual processor, and run IIS in that.
Kind of like a chroot jail taken to the next level.
I disagree there; I just think most of the games are going for a different look than Futurama, which is specifically trying to look like the Simpsons.
If you've access to a game console, go play, oh, Jet Set Radio (Dreamcast,) Jet Set Radio Future (Xbox,) Robotech: Battlecry (all,) or a few others; they're 'cel shaded;' 3d games designed to look like animated cartoons.
I can't think of any point in the movies that Obi Wan meets 3P0; in TPM he stays on the Queen's ship while Qui Gon winds up in Aniken's home. In AOTC, he's on Geonosis, while Aniken and Amidala wind up on Tattooine.
Dunno if this is the reason, but once you get into hypersonic rounds, as many sniper rifles are, you can get into some pretty interesting effects, such as a shot to the hand will blow out your heart via shockwaves travelling through the blood system.
Haven't you ever heard of that song by Loverboy? "Elephant and pig DNA just don't mix!"
Although I'd say that for a mouse and a jellyfish to get it on, it would have to be 'unselective' breeding, no?
And the poor mouse... "Oh baby, it tingles...no wait, it stings! IT STINGS! IT BURNS! OH GOD, IT BURNS!
They don't even need to do that. You have no intrinsic right to copy a binary compiled from pure GPL'd source. You can require the source code from me, compile your own binary, and distribute it to your heart's content, but you can't distribute the binaries I made from the same source, without my permission.
Pimps At Sea is where it's at.
They're not too complex, but you can't enter into the game later, as established players will have corporate knowledge that you won't.
Nope. The GPL allows you to obtain the source to anything you've acquired from a given company, that is under the GPL, and do as you see fit, while obeying, in turn, the GPL. Companies usually extrapolate this out to 'since they can compile it into binaries, lets just let them pass the binaries around.'
Red Hat, however, would be perfectly within it's rights to not allow their CD to be copied willy-nilly, and have a separate 'source' cd distro with tarballs, which can then be copied.