1 www.ardi.com have(had?) executor that its a news implementation of the old mac firmware... it could run 68K macos in a i386 legally and mostly without any problem there is also vmac, a 68K emulator that requires a file with the rom (if you had one old mac plus, its legal, if you dont, its ilegal... but...)
you have now pearpc and guess what, it works in x86 without any rom... take out the ppc emulations and it gets alot easier
macos will run on normal x86 PC and that is for sure...
the ONLY way to stop that is the new DRM capabilites of the CPU+system checking if the hardware is the correct one (and maybe that can be also emulated) and that is your 2 point
just wait untill you get a software layer or a hardware card to emulate that or a direct crack to the macos kernel to remove that check and you are free to go
-setup some secure place to...err... place the files... i would say a webserver with encription -create several dirs to the several different systems you want to update (or one dir for each machine, with syn/hardlinks to the packages needed for each machine)
-place the distro packages you want to update there
-setup a bash script that connects to the https (and verify the certificate, just in case someone plug a fake network to takeover a site... better yet, sign your packages!!) -get the file list and grep -v with a list of already installed packages -fetch the needed packages -install (and check the signature if it exist!!) -send a email with the update result and update the installed package list - optional check the email result and automaticly remove updated packages
-profit!!!
each server/computer will update the files, you have one central place to update everything, you can manage what updates you will install in each server by the synlinks/hardlinks if you need to run a extra script, just umcompress a rc.local or a new crontab file that do what you need and revert to the old one in the end...
setting up this is simple and fast, its cheap and its hard to break
privoxy main objective is to filter ads and anoying things, but we can easilly setup a filter for one site that change its behavior, look and layaout...
to view this movies you need to install this codec (link or links for various OS)
that how it worked with flash, PDFs, quicktime, etc, etc
yes, WMV is already in recent windows, but for wmv9, most of then had also to download the latest version of media player... old windows dont even know what wmv is (any version!!)
well, i'm still using a 486 as my main computer...
not joking, its a pet computer, with more than 10 years:
amd 486dx5 (aka 5x86) @133, overclocked to 160Mhz, bus 40Mhz 64Mb EDO ram (max for the motherboard and chipset) 1 80G IDE HD, 2 SCSI HD (20Gb and 4Gb) 1 SCSI CDRW matrox millenium PCI graphic card 3Com PCI network card
it is running a slackware 10.0, kernel 2.6.9, X11 with fluxbox, dillo, sylpheed, xfe, alot rxvt running in background samba, cups, apache, ssh, mysql, privoxy, spambayes,nfs and postfix
it have some users and its also my main server
it have many tuneup so its dont waste cpu cycles
for normal using (web, mail, system manager, etc) is still very good, not that diferent than a moderm machine
now if i try to compile anything, well... i have to wait, so i only compile things during when i'm sleeping or before leaving for work some times i turn on distcc and my duron 700 and laptop at 700Mhz give a help algo, gpg trustdb checks also take long time, and anything that last more than 10 seconds in a moderm machine
by the way, the 2.6.9 kernel took about 8 hours (or more, can tell for sure) to compile
i'm using about 400Mb of swap, in the scsi drive, so the low memory is not that much a problem unless if i try to use too much things at same time also, i search and test alot of apps to see the lighters and fasters, check all options in programs and servers to see the effect (i found that some little options eat ALOT of CPU, while others make almost no diference) its great to test server daemons in higher load, i can see that some daemons are junk, but with moderm machines people cant see that, while others are still very complete and alot faster
it still very stable, very usable and its my favorite computer... that is why i still use it as may main machine, and not the others near it that are fasters with more memory i also like to recover old computers to use for what ever people around me need
if you have SPF defined, every servers that check for it will reject the fake emails. the ones that dont check and complain back (or send too much bounces), tell then to install a SPF check to solve the problem
i had the same problem and after setting up the SPF, bounces have dropped alot the more people use SPF, the best result we will get
but also, while all mail servers dont check for SPF, you will still get some bounces... but also, with luck the spammers stop using your domain because its getting too much rejections
by the way, i suspect that the spammers used my domain because i used several blacklist to reject spam and this was their way of retaliate... seens that we are finally start to winning over spammers...
blacklist (spamcop, spamhaus, spambag are the main), SPF, spambayes, challenge-reply systems are finally hurting the spammers... add now the lycos screen saver DoS, looks like we reach the breaking point of this war
things are not that easy, one of the main china powers is its (BIG) numbers, other its the stealth/suprise
one of the first attack will be china sabotage in taiwan and with luck, to the US army/navy also, disabling key defenses and even form a army from inside taiwan already
simple things could also be used to disable or confuse the US and taiwan radars, like simple gliders just to create fake ecos in the radar, giving change for planes and missils to go over the defenses anti-missils missils are very expensive, so they will run out sooner or later and before more arriving the invasion would already be done
boats? if you are thinking that they would invade with 10 big boats full of mens, you are right, but they are not stupid, they would invade with MANY small and fast boats, with bigger boats for backup and of course, air escort... subs will do damage, but will be useless in the big picture. US and taiwan planes will get a rain of land-air and sea-air missils, many will fail, but each plane shot down is a big vitory, specially for US moral, and will put that planes busy trying to escape from the missils instead of shotting the boats and planes and key targets in china
in iraq there was no air support for the iraqi side, but in china things are different, you cant just lunch some planes and expect that china will let you fly freelly... even if their planes are shot down, the time lost by the US and taiwan dealling with then is enough to allow the invasion
no, taiwan would be taken for sure, and taiwan gov and the US gov know that... what they gamble is setting the price so high for china that it could turn china so weak that a internal revolution could happen or the total colapse of the economy or the comunist gov not to talk about a counter attack from the US (i dont belive, china is also a nuclear country, it would be too hard/costly in human lives to do that) or a oportunistic attack from any neighbor
again, dont understimate the human power of china and the little value life have there...
in WW2 the axis used some zepplins for bombing the UK... in the start they flight so high that the anti-arcraft guns couldnt hit then... then the UK sent the planes and found out that not even the planes could fly so high and so couldnt shot down the zeppins bombers...
but the axis zepplins bombers used hidrogen and so they were dangerous and expensive and in the middle of the war, the UK had some planes that could fly high enough to shot down the zepplins, so this bombing tatic was abandoned
so our days, zepplins would fly even higher and ground weapons would have alot more trouble hitting it also a ground-air missile would have alot of trouble tracking the zepplin, as usually they have little metal, stopped engines and no heat... they are just stopped in the air like a cloud
you want be use the bleeding edge version, you got to be ready to have some problems
this is real even in all kernels, even in 2.{0,2,4} you have a system that its working fine, its realeased a new kernel version, you shouldnt upgrade unless it fixes some problem that you are having and need to correct it fast
let some time going by and if you see that the bug fix of that kernel are something good that might be good to upgrade, upgrade it, but only after several weeks of testing without reports of problems went by
things can break in any update, stable or unstable, if you are using the plain kernel tree distros usually do alot of testing to check if one kernel breaks anything before releasing and even them find times to times that they have miss one spot and broke something in the way
the kernel is as stable as the user wants, if the user want to use gentoo with the latest kernel, full of newest interesting patchs, go for it, but dont complain if something broke
if you want some production server that MUST work no matter what, choose a 2.4 or even a 2.2 or 2.0 kernel, test it and if it works, dont mess with it anymore (unless security fixes and such)
For the first time in my life, I *DON'T* trust what's coming from Linus & Co.... and that's scary....
you shouldnt trust then only, never!!
they are humans (well, linus i'm not sure 8) and they can fail... the all kernel team can fail...
check everything with YOUR experience, if it fails, go back to the old kernel and report the bug, dont use something just because someone important said its good, that it works for him, might not work for you...
(and this apply to real live also, not just the linux and kernel)
let see... you complain about FC being 6.9Gb and then complain that slackware only have 3 console fonts instead of 20 as FC??
make up your mind, do you want a small and fast distro or a distro that have all kind of trash you will never use (or do you really use 20 console fonts?!)
if you like another font, take then from FC and install in slackware, you even have rpm2tgz or plain rpm in slackware!!
first start using checkinstall to manage source instalations... no need for packages if you want to install/uninstall/track package
so other problem you said is the mess about versions and compile options...
that is also simple, put all the source package in/usr/src, instead of building it directly, edit a small file (i like naming it 123.sh) with the./configure --* && make && checkinstall
this way you have a easy and fast way to recall any compile time options and its easy to change and recompile
if they are servers, dont do this directly on the server, use a test machine, build the package with the checkinstall and install then on the servers
when there is one security pacth or one update, just patchs the source, run./123.sh and install the package
yes, using only packge is easier, but its also more limited, you have to settle with their compile time options and have more junk than you need or missing that very usefull thing that little people know or use
the only real problem that i see using the source is the sercurity updates... you have to be subscribed in security mailing lists or track the news about your programs, so you know when a new security hole was found... with packages the distro do that job and you only install the package
1. Launching a typical application (mozilla or openoffice) takes about 1-2 minutes, even when the application is entirely cached in RAM. On Windows, this takes
?! in my ancient 486, with just 64Mb mozilla takes about 2 minutes to start... how the hell does your 600Mhz with lots of mem takes soo long?!
check the DMA and like setting in your HD, with the hdparm check how much memory is really being detected (with dmesg or free) check how much memory are you using at that time, if you are using 500Mb of memory with other programas, of course this will be slow swapping the memory to the HD are you using a accelerated drivers of just the vesa framebuffer support?
and finally, are you trying to compare in windows, both mozilla and openoffice with the quickstart option on and linux? linux (at least for now) doesnt have any quickstart in both openoffice and mozilla because its a multiuser OS, imagine all users pre-loading both mozilla and openoffice, the computer would be without memory in no time... in windows its easier because its single user always without the quickstart, loading times should be near in both OS
2. Resizing a window looks like complete shit, because the resizing drags behind my mouse movements by several seconds. On windows, this is completely instantaneous on far older hardware, even if I jerk the mouse back and forth as fast as I can.
sounds like you are using the vesa drive, that isnt acelerated... try using a decent driver also, very old cards may not be fully acelerated in linux (as there where no true support for linux for the company at that time), so if its the case, you can try switching the card
also, resizing with "show windows rezise" option turn on makes things slower, because the apps and the X have to draw the resized windows all the time, and in more complex apps, (like a konqueror showing a PDF) this can be slow try to turn off that option, for "border-wire only resize", it should be alot faster... or change to ligther apps
again, in my 486, with wire-border resize, i can resize without any slowdown at all... i'm running fluxbox 0.1.14 by the way
3. Moving windows takes visible time.
again, you are using the vesa drive for sure if not, try again turn on the backingstore in the X, so it can cache the apps look (it use more memory but you have lots of memory) if all fails, try also the option above, but i dont think will make huge difference
4. Opening new windows takes several seconds. Again, completely instantaneous on windows years ago.
are you talking about what apps? KDE or gnome apps? this apps start, talk with central daemons, load configs, load fonts, load thenselfs and finally show up... yes, the latest versions of KDE and GNOME are slow in older computers, if you want to use then try to make then simpler and with as little thing possible ( that means that its less eye candy, but also the candy look of windows XP uses alot resources)
KDE and GNOME right now are desktop managers for recent computers, they can do all, but they also require a fast CPU and alot memory
try testing something like fluxbox/blackbox, WMaker, etc as a windows manager try XFCE or ROX as a desktop manager its a huge difference in computer resource use
also, is the HD using DMA?! have you about 5000 fonts and use one different font in each apps?
i can tell you, i use a 486@133 overclocked to 160Mhz (should be about a P90), with 64Mb ram slackware 9.1, fluxbox and i dont thing the X is slow... i use dillo as a browser, sylpheed as email, rxvt as a xterm, and several other light apps so i can see when the X is being slow or the app is slow small options in the apps can do huge difference in performance
the only think that i usully see as slow that i can point to X is drag and drop, but i suspect that its more gtk and qt/kde fault
ok, i was thinking in the server level filtering and you in the user level filtering
the server level is better because it cleans all users from spam, not just one
i already saw several systems that when someone sent a email and they arent in the whitelist (server level), they get a reply asking to register the email (ie: replying to that email is enough) and after this, they are whitelist and the original email is removed from the spool hold
this works well with personal emails, but not for mailing lists, and as all email that arent whitelisted is put on hold for 5 days, the only how to workaround this setup is to manually find a way to whitelist all mailinglist posts and keep the eye on the spool hold to try to catch "not yet whitelist" emails... a very boring soluction 8(
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1 www.ardi.com have(had?) executor that its a news implementation of the old mac firmware... it could run 68K macos in a i386 legally and mostly without any problem
there is also vmac, a 68K emulator that requires a file with the rom (if you had one old mac plus, its legal, if you dont, its ilegal... but...)
you have now pearpc and guess what, it works in x86 without any rom... take out the ppc emulations and it gets alot easier
macos will run on normal x86 PC and that is for sure...
the ONLY way to stop that is the new DRM capabilites of the CPU+system checking if the hardware is the correct one (and maybe that can be also emulated) and that is your 2 point
just wait untill you get a software layer or a hardware card to emulate that or a direct crack to the macos kernel to remove that check and you are free to go
quoting from other post here:
And ever tried UltraVNC with the Mirror Video Driver? Its just as responsive as RDP.
just use something that detects the screen changes and make vnc only send that info and is almost just as fast
i use vnc for everything, but yes, i have rdesktop installed in linux also to use if the other side isnt win2k/xp and/or dont have vnc
i would say aply the KISS to it!!!
-setup some secure place to...err... place the files... i would say a webserver with encription
-create several dirs to the several different systems you want to update (or one dir for each machine, with syn/hardlinks to the packages needed for each machine)
-place the distro packages you want to update there
-setup a bash script that connects to the https (and verify the certificate, just in case someone plug a fake network to takeover a site... better yet, sign your packages!!)
-get the file list and grep -v with a list of already installed packages
-fetch the needed packages
-install (and check the signature if it exist!!)
-send a email with the update result and update the installed package list
- optional check the email result and automaticly remove updated packages
-profit!!!
each server/computer will update the files, you have one central place to update everything, you can manage what updates you will install in each server by the synlinks/hardlinks
if you need to run a extra script, just umcompress a rc.local or a new crontab file that do what you need and revert to the old one in the end...
setting up this is simple and fast, its cheap and its hard to break
privoxy main objective is to filter ads and anoying things, but we can easilly setup a filter for one site that change its behavior, look and layaout...
check the slashdot theme changer
i already use it for a long time to correct some bad html code from some pages (mostly for dillo, a very small and fast web browser)
as it use regexp and we can setup to only apply to some urls, the possiblities are endless
simples, add this:
to view this movies you need to install this codec (link or links for various OS)
that how it worked with flash, PDFs, quicktime, etc, etc
yes, WMV is already in recent windows, but for wmv9, most of then had also to download the latest version of media player... old windows dont even know what wmv is (any version!!)
and who destroyed then on the first hand?!
well, i'm still using a 486 as my main computer...
not joking, its a pet computer, with more than 10 years:
amd 486dx5 (aka 5x86) @133, overclocked to 160Mhz, bus 40Mhz
64Mb EDO ram (max for the motherboard and chipset)
1 80G IDE HD, 2 SCSI HD (20Gb and 4Gb)
1 SCSI CDRW
matrox millenium PCI graphic card
3Com PCI network card
it is running a slackware 10.0, kernel 2.6.9, X11 with fluxbox, dillo, sylpheed, xfe, alot rxvt
running in background samba, cups, apache, ssh, mysql, privoxy, spambayes,nfs and postfix
it have some users and its also my main server
it have many tuneup so its dont waste cpu cycles
for normal using (web, mail, system manager, etc) is still very good, not that diferent than a moderm machine
now if i try to compile anything, well... i have to wait, so i only compile things during when i'm sleeping or before leaving for work
some times i turn on distcc and my duron 700 and laptop at 700Mhz give a help
algo, gpg trustdb checks also take long time, and anything that last more than 10 seconds in a moderm machine
by the way, the 2.6.9 kernel took about 8 hours (or more, can tell for sure) to compile
i'm using about 400Mb of swap, in the scsi drive, so the low memory is not that much a problem unless if i try to use too much things at same time
also, i search and test alot of apps to see the lighters and fasters, check all options in programs and servers to see the effect (i found that some little options eat ALOT of CPU, while others make almost no diference)
its great to test server daemons in higher load, i can see that some daemons are junk, but with moderm machines people cant see that, while others are still very complete and alot faster
it still very stable, very usable and its my favorite computer... that is why i still use it as may main machine, and not the others near it that are fasters with more memory
i also like to recover old computers to use for what ever people around me need
are the US troops doing ANYTHING good in iraq right now?!
just if you say that protecting the oil fields and pipelines is a good thing, but then its just all about control...
use the SPF, nag everyone to use it also...
if you have SPF defined, every servers that check for it will reject the fake emails.
the ones that dont check and complain back (or send too much bounces), tell then to install a SPF check to solve the problem
i had the same problem and after setting up the SPF, bounces have dropped alot
the more people use SPF, the best result we will get
but also, while all mail servers dont check for SPF, you will still get some bounces...
but also, with luck the spammers stop using your domain because its getting too much rejections
by the way, i suspect that the spammers used my domain because i used several blacklist to reject spam and this was their way of retaliate... seens that we are finally start to winning over spammers...
blacklist (spamcop, spamhaus, spambag are the main), SPF, spambayes, challenge-reply systems are finally hurting the spammers...
add now the lycos screen saver DoS, looks like we reach the breaking point of this war
you are a day-dream...
things are not that easy, one of the main china powers is its (BIG) numbers, other its the stealth/suprise
one of the first attack will be china sabotage in taiwan and with luck, to the US army/navy also, disabling key defenses and even form a army from inside taiwan already
simple things could also be used to disable or confuse the US and taiwan radars, like simple gliders just to create fake ecos in the radar, giving change for planes and missils to go over the defenses
anti-missils missils are very expensive, so they will run out sooner or later and before more arriving the invasion would already be done
boats? if you are thinking that they would invade with 10 big boats full of mens, you are right, but they are not stupid, they would invade with MANY small and fast boats, with bigger boats for backup and of course, air escort... subs will do damage, but will be useless in the big picture.
US and taiwan planes will get a rain of land-air and sea-air missils, many will fail, but each plane shot down is a big vitory, specially for US moral, and will put that planes busy trying to escape from the missils instead of shotting the boats and planes and key targets in china
in iraq there was no air support for the iraqi side, but in china things are different, you cant just lunch some planes and expect that china will let you fly freelly... even if their planes are shot down, the time lost by the US and taiwan dealling with then is enough to allow the invasion
no, taiwan would be taken for sure, and taiwan gov and the US gov know that... what they gamble is setting the price so high for china that it could turn china so weak that a internal revolution could happen or the total colapse of the economy or the comunist gov
not to talk about a counter attack from the US (i dont belive, china is also a nuclear country, it would be too hard/costly in human lives to do that) or a oportunistic attack from any neighbor
again, dont understimate the human power of china and the little value life have there...
in WW2 the axis used some zepplins for bombing the UK... in the start they flight so high that the anti-arcraft guns couldnt hit then...
then the UK sent the planes and found out that not even the planes could fly so high and so couldnt shot down the zeppins bombers...
but the axis zepplins bombers used hidrogen and so they were dangerous and expensive and in the middle of the war, the UK had some planes that could fly high enough to shot down the zepplins, so this bombing tatic was abandoned
so our days, zepplins would fly even higher and ground weapons would have alot more trouble hitting it
also a ground-air missile would have alot of trouble tracking the zepplin, as usually they have little metal, stopped engines and no heat... they are just stopped in the air like a cloud
that's really a feature, not a "security bug"
so you activate the file sharing for your lan and dont have the internet sharing and have the XP sp2 firewall on the external device on
so you say that a feature that the filesharing is also turn on to the external device AND that the firewall is open for that ports?!
ok, if you say that a feature, please explain me what the hell is a security bug...
not all ISP block netbios ports, you know?
so THIS is a ISSUE that might affect many users!!
So why are you upgrading to 2.6.7?!
you want be use the bleeding edge version, you got to be ready to have some problems
this is real even in all kernels, even in 2.{0,2,4}
you have a system that its working fine, its realeased a new kernel version, you shouldnt upgrade unless it fixes some problem that you are having and need to correct it fast
let some time going by and if you see that the bug fix of that kernel are something good that might be good to upgrade, upgrade it, but only after several weeks of testing without reports of problems went by
things can break in any update, stable or unstable, if you are using the plain kernel tree
distros usually do alot of testing to check if one kernel breaks anything before releasing and even them find times to times that they have miss one spot and broke something in the way
the kernel is as stable as the user wants, if the user want to use gentoo with the latest kernel, full of newest interesting patchs, go for it, but dont complain if something broke
if you want some production server that MUST work no matter what, choose a 2.4 or even a 2.2 or 2.0 kernel, test it and if it works, dont mess with it anymore (unless security fixes and such)
For the first time in my life, I *DON'T* trust what's coming from Linus & Co.... and that's scary....
you shouldnt trust then only, never!!
they are humans (well, linus i'm not sure 8) and they can fail... the all kernel team can fail...
check everything with YOUR experience, if it fails, go back to the old kernel and report the bug, dont use something just because someone important said its good, that it works for him, might not work for you...
(and this apply to real live also, not just the linux and kernel)
you can use RPM, but i dont recomend, as it doesnt know what slackware already have installed
i prefer installing the tgz packages (from slackware or linuxpackages.net) or install from the source
its simpler and you have more control on what is in the system
let see... you complain about FC being 6.9Gb and then complain that slackware only have 3 console fonts instead of 20 as FC??
make up your mind, do you want a small and fast distro or a distro that have all kind of trash you will never use (or do you really use 20 console fonts?!)
if you like another font, take then from FC and install in slackware, you even have rpm2tgz or plain rpm in slackware!!
you could even win easy with this prior arts, but there is a MAJOR problem...
the lawyers and court cost it's HUGE and so only a number of companies could do it
that is why the software patents are wrong, they give power to those that have alot of money, the others might go broke before the end of the trial
first start using checkinstall to manage source instalations... no need for packages if you want to install/uninstall/track package
/usr/src, instead of building it directly, edit a small file (i like naming it 123.sh) with the ./configure --* && make && checkinstall
./123.sh and install the package
so other problem you said is the mess about versions and compile options...
that is also simple, put all the source package in
this way you have a easy and fast way to recall any compile time options and its easy to change and recompile
if they are servers, dont do this directly on the server, use a test machine, build the package with the checkinstall and install then on the servers
when there is one security pacth or one update, just patchs the source, run
yes, using only packge is easier, but its also more limited, you have to settle with their compile time options and have more junk than you need or missing that very usefull thing that little people know or use
the only real problem that i see using the source is the sercurity updates... you have to be subscribed in security mailing lists or track the news about your programs, so you know when a new security hole was found... with packages the distro do that job and you only install the package
try sylpheed...specially the claws version
its fast, light, full of goodies and with the actions and plugin support you can extend it alot more
1. Launching a typical application (mozilla or openoffice) takes about 1-2 minutes, even when the application is entirely cached in RAM. On Windows, this takes
?! in my ancient 486, with just 64Mb mozilla takes about 2 minutes to start... how the hell does your 600Mhz with lots of mem takes soo long?!
check the DMA and like setting in your HD, with the hdparm
check how much memory is really being detected (with dmesg or free)
check how much memory are you using at that time, if you are using 500Mb of memory with other programas, of course this will be slow swapping the memory to the HD
are you using a accelerated drivers of just the vesa framebuffer support?
and finally, are you trying to compare in windows, both mozilla and openoffice with the quickstart option on and linux?
linux (at least for now) doesnt have any quickstart in both openoffice and mozilla
because its a multiuser OS, imagine all users pre-loading both mozilla and openoffice, the computer would be without memory in no time...
in windows its easier because its single user always
without the quickstart, loading times should be near in both OS
2. Resizing a window looks like complete shit, because the resizing drags behind my mouse movements by several seconds. On windows, this is completely instantaneous on far older hardware, even if I jerk the mouse back and forth as fast as I can.
sounds like you are using the vesa drive, that isnt acelerated... try using a decent driver
also, very old cards may not be fully acelerated in linux (as there where no true support for linux for the company at that time), so if its the case, you can try switching the card
also, resizing with "show windows rezise" option turn on makes things slower, because the apps and the X have to draw the resized windows all the time, and in more complex apps, (like a konqueror showing a PDF) this can be slow
try to turn off that option, for "border-wire only resize", it should be alot faster... or change to ligther apps
again, in my 486, with wire-border resize, i can resize without any slowdown at all...
i'm running fluxbox 0.1.14 by the way
3. Moving windows takes visible time.
again, you are using the vesa drive for sure
if not, try again turn on the backingstore in the X, so it can cache the apps look (it use more memory but you have lots of memory)
if all fails, try also the option above, but i dont think will make huge difference
4. Opening new windows takes several seconds. Again, completely instantaneous on windows years ago.
are you talking about what apps? KDE or gnome apps? this apps start, talk with central daemons, load configs, load fonts, load thenselfs and finally show up... yes, the latest versions of KDE and GNOME are slow in older computers, if you want to use then try to make then simpler and with as little thing possible ( that means that its less eye candy, but also the candy look of windows XP uses alot resources)
KDE and GNOME right now are desktop managers for recent computers, they can do all, but they also require a fast CPU and alot memory
try testing something like fluxbox/blackbox, WMaker, etc as a windows manager
try XFCE or ROX as a desktop manager
its a huge difference in computer resource use
also, is the HD using DMA?!
have you about 5000 fonts and use one different font in each apps?
i can tell you, i use a 486@133 overclocked to 160Mhz (should be about a P90), with 64Mb ram slackware 9.1, fluxbox and i dont thing the X is slow...
i use dillo as a browser, sylpheed as email, rxvt as a xterm, and several other light apps so i can see when the X is being slow or the app is slow
small options in the apps can do huge difference in performance
the only think that i usully see as slow that i can point to X is drag and drop, but i suspect that its more gtk and qt/kde fault
actually the Maias were from the south america, like the Incas...
Maybe you are thinking in the Astecs 8)
no, the from email is stolen from the founded emails in the computer
if the virus have its own smtp engine, the bounce will be ignored, as it doesnt care...
nope, its really just me needing to change lenses 8)
its really the first of the list, but i only checked the "changes since..."
its just me or there isnt any reference to a big remote security hole being fixed?!
a thing like that should be the first of the list, not hidding inside (maybe) the "Fix a number of memory leaks."
ok, i was thinking in the server level filtering and you in the user level filtering
the server level is better because it cleans all users from spam, not just one
i already saw several systems that when someone sent a email and they arent in the whitelist (server level), they get a reply asking to register the email (ie: replying to that email is enough) and after this, they are whitelist and the original email is removed from the spool hold
this works well with personal emails, but not for mailing lists, and as all email that arent whitelisted is put on hold for 5 days, the only how to workaround this setup is to manually find a way to whitelist all mailinglist posts and keep the eye on the spool hold to try to catch "not yet whitelist" emails... a very boring soluction 8(