I had the misfortune of having cable installed on September 11, 2001. It didn't work, and when I called for tech support I was told "The military has taken over the Internet".
Not really helpful, but before I started working from home, someone told me this:
The best part of working from home is that you're always at home when you're at work. The worst part of working from home is that you're always at work when you're at home.
nothing is filtered until you manually set up your own filters
it's hard to configure and poorly documented
non-commercial blacklists come with no guarantees
end users can't add to the whitelist
Bayesian filtering isn't included by default, and he couldn't make it work anyway
it doesn't catch words like Viagra and invisible HTML characters
I knew nothing about filtering spam until I installed SpamAssassin 2.6 in a multi-user environment last week. Here are my responses:
it took less than half an hour to install (from CPAN) and start
effectiveness out of the box was about 95%, with no false positives -- after a few minor tweaks, I'm at about 98% with no false positives
simply not true -- it runs right out of the box
maybe it's hard to configure if you're used to a GUI -- if you're not afraid of editing a text file, it's very easy to set up; and there's no shortage of documentation at spamassassin.org and elsewhere
do commercial blacklists come with guarantees? I don't know
with a very little bit of scripting, you could allow users to add to the whitelist
I haven't tried the Bayesian filtering because it's apparently not well suited to a multi-user environment
simply not true -- it flags this stuff out of the box
I wouldn't recommend that my grandmother install SpamAssassin, but if you have any admin skills whatsoever, it's quite easy to use it to set up effective and useful filters. Furthermore, there are enough factual errors in the article that I'm tempted to dismiss it outright.
Of course, it's possible that it got a lot better between 2.44 and 2.6, but that begs the question, why did he install 2.44?
"Or something even geekier, arguably: ur-geeks. Keepers of the geek flame. For if The Lord of the Rings is not the sine qua non of geek culture, it's hard to think what is."
The folks who spend their weekends dressed as Klingons will be mighty unimpressed with this.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be . . . an easy way to factor large prime numbers"
"What a ridiculous concept. The security of an infrastructure is far more the people and dedication to keeping on top of issues more than it's the operating system."
That's absolutely true. That's why it's only 5-15% more expensive, because the operating system is only one aspect. If it was all about the operating system, the price difference would be significantly more.
There's no suggestion that the operating system is the only determining factor, just that it's one determining factor.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be . . . an easy way to factor large prime numbers"
"I'm posting this story, even though we've been over this ground before, primarily so that we don't get accused of bias by not posting it."
so this story would not have been posted if Slashdot didn't belong to VA Linux, because it does not meet the standard Slashdot criteria (i.e. it's "old news")
even though the story is critical of the new arrangement, does the mere fact that it is a substandard story posted because it is critical of the Slashdot/VA tie up not prove that the arrangement is detrimental to the quality of Slashdot?
I haven't come across any reference to xlinux at/.
I think it's relevent here, as it may be the first large-scale attempt to "globablise" linux - it's a commercial venture that is translating linux text into 12 asian languages - recently got some coverage on cnbc asia
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I had the misfortune of having cable installed on September 11, 2001. It didn't work, and when I called for tech support I was told "The military has taken over the Internet".
The problem with those links has nothing to do with the page name being skipped -- it's the fact that the ampersands aren't encoded as "&"
Not really helpful, but before I started working from home, someone told me this:
The best part of working from home is that you're always at home when you're at work. The worst part of working from home is that you're always at work when you're at home.
I knew nothing about filtering spam until I installed SpamAssassin 2.6 in a multi-user environment last week. Here are my responses:
I wouldn't recommend that my grandmother install SpamAssassin, but if you have any admin skills whatsoever, it's quite easy to use it to set up effective and useful filters. Furthermore, there are enough factual errors in the article that I'm tempted to dismiss it outright.
Of course, it's possible that it got a lot better between 2.44 and 2.6, but that begs the question, why did he install 2.44?
"Or something even geekier, arguably: ur-geeks. Keepers of the geek flame. For if The Lord of the Rings is not the sine qua non of geek culture, it's hard to think what is."
The folks who spend their weekends dressed as Klingons will be mighty unimpressed with this.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be . . . an easy way to factor large prime numbers"
"What a ridiculous concept. The security of an infrastructure is far more the people and dedication to keeping on top of issues more than it's the operating system."
That's absolutely true. That's why it's only 5-15% more expensive, because the operating system is only one aspect. If it was all about the operating system, the price difference would be significantly more.
There's no suggestion that the operating system is the only determining factor, just that it's one determining factor.
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be . . . an easy way to factor large prime numbers"
"I'm posting this story, even though we've been over this ground before, primarily so that we don't get accused of bias by not posting it."
so this story would not have been posted if Slashdot didn't belong to VA Linux, because it does not meet the standard Slashdot criteria (i.e. it's "old news")
even though the story is critical of the new arrangement, does the mere fact that it is a substandard story posted because it is critical of the Slashdot/VA tie up not prove that the arrangement is detrimental to the quality of Slashdot?
I haven't come across any reference to xlinux at /.
I think it's relevent here, as it may be the first large-scale attempt to "globablise" linux - it's a commercial venture that is translating linux text into 12 asian languages - recently got some coverage on cnbc asia
http://www.xlinux.com/index_1.html
cheers