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1. Only one bank account (with a debit card) into which everything I make is direct deposited
You have no retirement or other investments? No money market accounts? No savings accounts? Nothing which pays any interest? Why not? Are you married? Do you trust your wife or girlfriend? No kids with bank accounts to keep track of?
Mandating having only one bank account is taking a woefully simplistic approach to finances.
2. No credit cards (they are EVIL)
Credit cards are not evil. Interest rates on credit cards are evil. As long as you pay on time and don't charge more than you can afford (yes, it IS possible to do this while maintaining one or more credit cards in good standing and not paying a dime of interest), you will have no problems.
Last year I charged $5000 worth of home improvment supplies to my credit card in one fell swoop. They gave me 12 months no interest to pay it off. So I took the $5000 I would have spent on paying it off the next month, and stuck it into a 12 month CD (a poor investment, but fairly safe). A couple weeks before I was about to get socked for several hundred dollars in back interest PLUS the balance owed, I cashed in the CD and kept the additional money it had earned, and paid off the card.
No interest paid, and someone ELSE carried the debt for a year while I used the money to sit in an account and earn interest.
Credit cards are not bad. You just need to know how to use them responsibly.
Actually, they only ponied up $500 when they fucked up and let passport.com expire 6 years ago...an event that made hotmail.com very useless:
Read about it here
Seriously. And I'm not talking about Magic or anything like that. I'm talking about Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Pinochle, Whist, Pitch, etc. There are countless games you can play with a $1.00 deck of cards.
I used to work at a place where we did this every day, and the human contact and team building aspects of playing cards were much more enjoyable than any computer game.
Any time we got bored with what we were playing, we'd switch games, or add in a house rule. Plus it lent itself well to activities outside of the workplace. Things like parties at someone's house where we'd all be playing cards. Gatherings to watch a football game, etc. Even better, it's easy to always have a deck of cards in your car, or carry one to a bar with you, so you can always break out a game of something.
And if this isn't enough to sway you, real, live, actual, breathing WOMEN play cards. No, seriously. You might have never met a woman before, but I have, and trust me, they would much rather play cards over a beer than have you say, "Wanna play Warcraft with us?".
Buy a deck. Buy 12. Learn a new game. Have fun. Get laid.
Ah! So a spammer who sends out 10,000,000 messages a day would then need to be able to afford enough bandwidth to handle the onslaught of all those emails being downloaded at once? Why, hell, that might just put a spammer out of business trying to afford something like that.
I guess if you wanted to send a ton of email, you'd need to be able to afford to handle the cost that goes with it, rather than pass it off to the sender.
Please explain to me again where the detriment is in this scenario.
The basic idea is to reverse the concept of how mail is handled today. If you want to send an email, you store it on your site until someone comes and picks it up from you. It is never delivered, all mail must be picked up. Instead of pulling your mail from a single Inbox, you pull your incoming mail from hundreds of repositories, depending on who is mailing you.
One advantage is that if someone wants to send out a million emails, it is up to THEM to store it, not you. Blacklisting becomes easier, as does whitelisting, etc.
And for you whiners who love bitching about how Dan Bernstein is behind it so it MUST be bad, please don't bother. That horse has been beaten to death hundreds of times before.
Just food for thought, this isn't so much about speed as it is about size (and you all thought that didn't matter).
Think about it this way. If you have a 1" pipe, and you send a little bit of water down it, the water reaches from one end to the other in a certain amount of time. Now take that up to a 4" pipe. Does the water travel any faster simply because it's a larger pipe? No. But the difference is that you can send MORE water in the same amount of time, not that you can send it from one end to the other any faster. (And don't bore me with stats about friction or using a pump, and if the pipe is at capacity, etc. I know this. I'm trying to make a general point here.)
By the same token, I would bet that ping times on a T1 are going to be relatively the same as they will be on an OC-192, assuming the same number of hops, etc. You just can't send as much data through the T1 as you can the OC-192.
This isn't about how fast the connection goes, as much as it is about how much we can push through that particular connection. This matters greatly as backbone routers expand and have to push more and more traffic. And yes, I know that when pipes get full, things DO get slower because the pipe is full. They do go hand in hand, but they're not exactly the same either.
When my ping times between Pittsburgh and LA are in the 1 - 5ms range, then I'll believe it's faster, instead of just bigger.
This really should be titled "Internet2 CAPACITY Record Broken".
This is a fantastic idea. And it will never happen. Why? Because no matter how cheap you make it, there will still be people who won't pay a fucking nickel to see the show, and will want to get it for free. And there will always be enough of them to discourage the purveyors of said media from doing something like this.
The minute you open this up for a nickel a show, there will be free copies of the same thing out on the P2P networks, because people would rather spend the extra time thinking they are getting it for free than they would to take the time to pay the nickel for seeing the show. Say all you want about people being willing to pay for it. There are still going to be enough who aren't, because people, for the most part, suck.
Its config file syntax is even more human-unfriendly than BIND's
I've got to disagree with you when I can parse a zone file like this:
while (<STDIN>) { $line = split(':', $_); for $line[0] { if (/Z/) { # Zone file } elsif (/+/) { # A Record } elsif (/\@/) { # MX Record } etc. etc. etc. } }
All you need is this page to understand the entire format of any zone file: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html
For BIND, I need the entire manual. Maybe it's just me.
You should look at Analog. It is free, and open source. While it probably doesn't export straight to Excel, you would likely have two choices there:
First, since it's open source, you could add support to export to CSV fairly easily.
Second, Analog can export to what it calls "COMPUTER" output, which is designed for easy parsing. Couple the COMPUTER output with a little Python or PERL, and you'll have a CSV file fairly quickly.
When you're finished looking at Analog, make sure you also consider Report Magic for Analog to make things look pretty in a browser.
Hmmm....pretty cool, but I still can't switch back & forth if I need to like I can in Outlook. Like if I get halfway through an HTML message and decide I need it in plain text or vice versa.
But I NEED to be able to switch between HTML and plain text emails on the fly, between either one, with plain text as my default.
Currently, if you have plain text as your default, there is no way that I'm aware of to switch to HTML for a single email except by going in and modifying the profile of that user to send as HTML. I need to be able to do this on the fly, with a single button or menu item, not because I want to, but because several of my customers use HTML, and I want to be able to click "New Mail", and choose how I'm sending it. Same for Replies, same for Forwards.
Honestly, my Outlook 2000 does this pretty much how I want it (I could use an improvement or two in the quoting ability of replies, but that's neither here nor there). When Thunderbird does this the way I need it done, I will be the first one to switch permanently.
Until then, I use it pretty much only with the --addressbook flag...Thunderbird has a great addressbook, in my opinion.
Golf is such an excellent game. The concept is so simple, yet it has so many complexities. The key thing about golf is that I will still be able to play it when I'm 70 years old. Will you mountain bikers and skateboarders be able to say that?
And I'm talking in terms of a couple days. If the affected parties hit the snooze button and two weeks roll by, then yes, release the info and make fun of them for the havoc it causes.;)
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1. Only one bank account (with a debit card) into which everything I make is direct deposited
You have no retirement or other investments? No money market accounts? No savings accounts? Nothing which pays any interest? Why not? Are you married? Do you trust your wife or girlfriend? No kids with bank accounts to keep track of?
Mandating having only one bank account is taking a woefully simplistic approach to finances.
2. No credit cards (they are EVIL)
Credit cards are not evil. Interest rates on credit cards are evil. As long as you pay on time and don't charge more than you can afford (yes, it IS possible to do this while maintaining one or more credit cards in good standing and not paying a dime of interest), you will have no problems.
Last year I charged $5000 worth of home improvment supplies to my credit card in one fell swoop. They gave me 12 months no interest to pay it off. So I took the $5000 I would have spent on paying it off the next month, and stuck it into a 12 month CD (a poor investment, but fairly safe). A couple weeks before I was about to get socked for several hundred dollars in back interest PLUS the balance owed, I cashed in the CD and kept the additional money it had earned, and paid off the card.
No interest paid, and someone ELSE carried the debt for a year while I used the money to sit in an account and earn interest.
Credit cards are not bad. You just need to know how to use them responsibly.
What happened to the other $50K that we just read about two days ago?
Actually, they only ponied up $500 when they fucked up and let passport.com expire 6 years ago...an event that made hotmail.com very useless: Read about it here
Courier IMAP is running to support both IMAP and POP access to the mailboxes.
I would switch to dovecot. I found the performance to be quite a bit better than Courier, and it seemed more stable as well.
Seriously. And I'm not talking about Magic or anything like that. I'm talking about Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Pinochle, Whist, Pitch, etc. There are countless games you can play with a $1.00 deck of cards.
I used to work at a place where we did this every day, and the human contact and team building aspects of playing cards were much more enjoyable than any computer game.
Any time we got bored with what we were playing, we'd switch games, or add in a house rule. Plus it lent itself well to activities outside of the workplace. Things like parties at someone's house where we'd all be playing cards. Gatherings to watch a football game, etc. Even better, it's easy to always have a deck of cards in your car, or carry one to a bar with you, so you can always break out a game of something.
And if this isn't enough to sway you, real, live, actual, breathing WOMEN play cards. No, seriously. You might have never met a woman before, but I have, and trust me, they would much rather play cards over a beer than have you say, "Wanna play Warcraft with us?".
Buy a deck. Buy 12. Learn a new game. Have fun. Get laid.
Well, at least have fun.
It may help you to know that a qmail mail server with ezmlm mailing list manager does exactly this, without requiring any significant resources.
We do this for several customers.
Ah! So a spammer who sends out 10,000,000 messages a day would then need to be able to afford enough bandwidth to handle the onslaught of all those emails being downloaded at once? Why, hell, that might just put a spammer out of business trying to afford something like that.
I guess if you wanted to send a ton of email, you'd need to be able to afford to handle the cost that goes with it, rather than pass it off to the sender.
Please explain to me again where the detriment is in this scenario.
Eliminate RSS from the mix, and essentially you are talking about something similar to IM2000.
http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
The basic idea is to reverse the concept of how mail is handled today. If you want to send an email, you store it on your site until someone comes and picks it up from you. It is never delivered, all mail must be picked up. Instead of pulling your mail from a single Inbox, you pull your incoming mail from hundreds of repositories, depending on who is mailing you.
One advantage is that if someone wants to send out a million emails, it is up to THEM to store it, not you. Blacklisting becomes easier, as does whitelisting, etc.
And for you whiners who love bitching about how Dan Bernstein is behind it so it MUST be bad, please don't bother. That horse has been beaten to death hundreds of times before.
Just food for thought, this isn't so much about speed as it is about size (and you all thought that didn't matter).
Think about it this way. If you have a 1" pipe, and you send a little bit of water down it, the water reaches from one end to the other in a certain amount of time. Now take that up to a 4" pipe. Does the water travel any faster simply because it's a larger pipe? No. But the difference is that you can send MORE water in the same amount of time, not that you can send it from one end to the other any faster. (And don't bore me with stats about friction or using a pump, and if the pipe is at capacity, etc. I know this. I'm trying to make a general point here.)
By the same token, I would bet that ping times on a T1 are going to be relatively the same as they will be on an OC-192, assuming the same number of hops, etc. You just can't send as much data through the T1 as you can the OC-192.
This isn't about how fast the connection goes, as much as it is about how much we can push through that particular connection. This matters greatly as backbone routers expand and have to push more and more traffic. And yes, I know that when pipes get full, things DO get slower because the pipe is full. They do go hand in hand, but they're not exactly the same either.
When my ping times between Pittsburgh and LA are in the 1 - 5ms range, then I'll believe it's faster, instead of just bigger.
This really should be titled "Internet2 CAPACITY Record Broken".
This is a fantastic idea. And it will never happen. Why? Because no matter how cheap you make it, there will still be people who won't pay a fucking nickel to see the show, and will want to get it for free. And there will always be enough of them to discourage the purveyors of said media from doing something like this.
The minute you open this up for a nickel a show, there will be free copies of the same thing out on the P2P networks, because people would rather spend the extra time thinking they are getting it for free than they would to take the time to pay the nickel for seeing the show. Say all you want about people being willing to pay for it. There are still going to be enough who aren't, because people, for the most part, suck.
I've got to disagree with you when I can parse a zone file like this:
All you need is this page to understand the entire format of any zone file: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/tinydns-data.html For BIND, I need the entire manual. Maybe it's just me.
...since D. J. Bernstein's hasn't been updated for years...
Maybe because it hasn't needed updating.
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html
You found the marble in the oatmeal!!
Too much money? My PO Box costs me $36 a YEAR. I spend more than that in a month for my phones.
Get a PO Box. They are cheap, and useful.
A funnier list is the one the CarTalk guys compiled for the millenium. It is no longer on their site, but is mirrored here:
http://www.qis.net/~jimjr/misc160.htm
My favorite quote is about the Yugo: "At least it had heated rear windows -- so your hands would stay warm while you pushed."
You should look at Analog. It is free, and open source. While it probably doesn't export straight to Excel, you would likely have two choices there:
First, since it's open source, you could add support to export to CSV fairly easily.
Second, Analog can export to what it calls "COMPUTER" output, which is designed for easy parsing. Couple the COMPUTER output with a little Python or PERL, and you'll have a CSV file fairly quickly.
When you're finished looking at Analog, make sure you also consider Report Magic for Analog to make things look pretty in a browser.
Hmmm....pretty cool, but I still can't switch back & forth if I need to like I can in Outlook. Like if I get halfway through an HTML message and decide I need it in plain text or vice versa.
Still, this is a step in the right direction.
But I NEED to be able to switch between HTML and plain text emails on the fly, between either one, with plain text as my default.
Currently, if you have plain text as your default, there is no way that I'm aware of to switch to HTML for a single email except by going in and modifying the profile of that user to send as HTML. I need to be able to do this on the fly, with a single button or menu item, not because I want to, but because several of my customers use HTML, and I want to be able to click "New Mail", and choose how I'm sending it. Same for Replies, same for Forwards.
Honestly, my Outlook 2000 does this pretty much how I want it (I could use an improvement or two in the quoting ability of replies, but that's neither here nor there). When Thunderbird does this the way I need it done, I will be the first one to switch permanently.
Until then, I use it pretty much only with the --addressbook flag...Thunderbird has a great addressbook, in my opinion.
They also pay something like 50% of the taxes, so tell me again how unfair this is?
Golf is such an excellent game. The concept is so simple, yet it has so many complexities. The key thing about golf is that I will still be able to play it when I'm 70 years old. Will you mountain bikers and skateboarders be able to say that?
Yes. Or at least, someone is trying. Check out http://www.freevix.org
From the apache site:
http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/
And I'm talking in terms of a couple days. If the affected parties hit the snooze button and two weeks roll by, then yes, release the info and make fun of them for the havoc it causes. ;)
FYI, this flaw was actually found in December and just reported yesterday, roughly two months later.
It's a "Jump To Conclusions" mat. You see, you have this mat, with different conclusions on it that you could jump to.