Because DSL providers' SMTP relays don't come without strings attached.
Consider Verizon, for example. In order to relay out, you not only have to authenticate with the assigned Verizon id & password (not a huge problem, but weird, considering that they still only accept relay from their netblock--guess they're worried about rogue wireless connections), but the servers refuse to relay if your email address isn't one of the official "Verizon" hosts (bellatlantic, verizon, etc).
This leaves many in the uncomfortable position of having domains hosted somewhere reliable and being forced to use Verizon for a return address, or try to work around the problem by setting the Reply-To as appropriate (which breaks mailings lists, etc).
Verizon's answer to this idiocy is that they'll happily allow you to pay to host your domain with them, at which point they'll add it to the list of allowed relaying domains.
Disclaimer: I speak only of University of Phoenix.
I will appreciate the fact that a working adult spent the time and effort to get a degree. But, having attended the University of Phoenix for two years, I can confidently assert that the education received there is useless and that a resume that comes across my desk had better impress me with a lot else besides educational background.
This topic is still young and already I see a bunch of posts along the lines of "it doesn't matter where you went, 'cause it impresses the manager that you went anywhere." C'mon, people; instead of sounding clueless, why not ask someone who actually hires people? We do care about trivialities like which institution issues the degree in question. Don't do anyone else the disservice of mouthing platitudes.
I will respect heaps more someone who slogged through getting a real education at a real university more than someone who attended classes online. Or, more accurately, I will better respect the education of the former. The latter is probably someone (like me) who was taken in by the ads and didn't realize until years of commitment later how useless UoP really is.
I've made comments about Phoenix previously on/. Anyone curious can look them up. You learn more, theoretical and practical, at a five month technical institution than at UoP.
Seriously. Before you do anything, find out what an accountant says to you about running a small business. You'll avoid all the hidden expenses that can snag you later when you've already spent your profits, and an accountant can also introduce you to the wonderful world of deductions that you are suddenly entitled to.
For example, Pennsylvania has this inane "self employment" tax for independent contractors and small business owners. It is above and beyond all the rest of the taxes that regular salaried employees pay, but you might not find out about it until they go through your tax return and send you a bill with interest due a year and a half later.
Accountants can help you decide how much of your rent/mortgate/utilities/whatever are permissible for deductions as business expense and whether it's worth it to keep track of them or simply take the standard deduction. Furthermore, they're familiar with local laws that you won't find out about reading a book on national tax law. Philadelphia and NJ, for instance, have a reciprocal tax agreement, the details of which make my head hurt every time someone tries to explain them.
An initial consultation won't cost that much and will, without question, save you headaches in the long run.
Then, lucky for you, you had the opposite experience that both I and my wife experienced. We've both got four courses left to graduation, and only sheer bloody-mindedness is keeping either of us going. We've been warning people away from UoP for over a year now.
The only real contact you have with the administration is via your academic and financial advisors, who are prone to disappearing randomly and being replaced months later by someone new. When they are around, the quality of their work is less than desirable, if indeed they respond at all.
Case in point: my wife is doubling up courses at her own expense to graduate earlier. Her advisor, who scheduled her classes for her, saw this as an error and yanked her out of all her remaining classes pending a rescheduling...and now she can't get back into them because of the demand.
The instructors aren't accountable to anyone, and some are plain awful. In a class about management, of all things, I got in a polite debate about the quality of Microsoft software with a fellow classmate, and got my weekly grade knocked down a couple of letters because my pro-MS instructor didn't appreciate my attitude. My official complaint got buried.
This kind of arbitrary power is par for course. Instructors have confusing and conflicting grading standards that they don't necessarily hold to, and with five week-long grading periods per class, there simply isn't time to get an appeal going that would go anywhere. Hell, UoP guidelines require the instructor to release a student from the grading process when said student withdraws from a class. Some instructors don't if they feel insulted that the student withdrew due to incompetent teaching, leaving the transcript with an F that doesn't count toward the GPA but does show up on reports.
The servers are indeed slow and unreliable, as others have mentioned. Wednesday nights are the end of the grading week, when everyone is trying to turn in weekly assignments, and the servers buckle under the load. I've stayed up for three extra hours on some weeks trying to get my paper in on time. The technical staff has resorted to mass emailings asking us to turn off the option to check for new newsgroups to reduce the load.
The curriculum is close to useless and oddly misdirected at times. One class is in IT Management, in which we proved our grasp of the subject by using MS Project to compare possible locations for a company conference. WTF?
My major is in IT, with a specialization in Networks and Telecommunications. The classes that make it so are Intro to UNIX, Intro to NT, Advanced NT, and Web Server Management. Again, WTF? NT? And the classes barely scratch the surface. There's no meat to them at all. For one of the weekly Discussion Questions that is intended to engender lively debate and conversation that will enrich the lives and enlighten the minds of all those who participate, my wife's class was asked what their favorite SQL function was. Here I lay out a third WTF? Are we back in second grade?
As long as we're discussing wastes of money, Phoenix has this nice little racket where the texts sold for class are custom printings that are better for students because they provide superior relevance and value. I know this because each one comes with a card sandwiched in the pages that tells me this. These are the same texts that refer to the "beta Windows 2000" and discuss organizational strategies from the eighties as current events.
I know how much I'm going to value my degree when I get it. I also know how much I'm going to value it when I see it on any resume that comes across my desk.
I have Verizon DSL. Their relay won't let me send mail with any return address other than @verizon.net. That's completely useless, so I don't use it.
True. In fact, Verizon requires that you both use a From address for a domain that they host (such as bellatlantic.net or verizon.net, or a domain you pay them to host) and authenticate with their outgoing relay.
However, for what it's worth, you can put whatever you want as a Reply-To.
Not to disagree totally with you, but I hate the update agent and turned it off for a number of reasons:
1) I don't want fucking Media Player 7. You hear me MS? Stop telling me I need to install it! I don't like version 6, let alone 7. I don't have either one installed on my system, and telling me to "upgrade" a product that isn't present is an example of inflexible architecture that drives me batshit--especially when it's something like Media Player, because it hits all the hot buttons about desktop control.
2) It mixes product versions in the recommended updates. Is it so hard to locate which version I have and suggest the appropriate upgrade, instead of offering me, say, service packs for both IE 5.5 and IE 6 and hoping I know which I have installed?
The agent is a good idea, just implemented very poorly.
Name one feature that Oracle and DB2 support and PosgreSQL doesn't.
Replication?
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong on this one. The best I could find was GBorg, which appears to be based on a seriously outdated version of Postgres.
What I want to know is why anyone pays the slightest bit of attention to Mr. Brin as a critic. I mean, consider the source. Have you ever read any of his stuff?
Sometime in the next week or so, I am going to stop by your home and probe for any security problems that a burglar might exploit. I know we have never met before but its in your best interests. Since I have the best of intentions, I am sure you won't mind. You wouldn't want to leave your home with security holes in it?
Boy, did you miss the point. It is the function of university tech services to maintain a secured network, which they are permitting students to use. It's not just a courtesy to check the nodes on their own property; it's their responsibility.
An analogy that doesn't sound so misinformed is if you were to rent a room in my house and I were to walk around to my own back yard and tug on the bars over your window to make sure they were still firmly attached.
Perhaps I missed something, but when I went poking around for information all I could find on the website was SAP talking about GPLing the DB, but not the DB itself or any of the technical specs.
Granted, I may have missed something, but if it's too difficult to find after scanning through a few search results and what appear to be relevant links from the home page, I generally go somewhere else. That kind of (missing) organization does not speak well of the product in question.
So, which direction is Red Hat going in right now?
They have to clarify their stance on software patents 'cause they apparently have so many. Fine.
They offer rebates for customers who switch away from other distributions.
Now they're taking on IBM, with whom they have a good relationship and who was one of the instrumental forces in getting Linux taken seriously in the enterprise.
As Red Hat is one of the few Open Source/Free Software/Whatever companies with a positive cash flow these days, are we to learn from today's lesson that profitability only comes when you're willing to play hardball? Seriously, I prefer the RH distribution, but darned if these tactics don't strike me as slimey.
Given that DJB already has implementations of DNS and SMTP around that are heavily focused on security, it wouldn't suprise me if he went into looking at securing NFS (the file system).
That would be rather like DJB looking into optimizing BIND.
I'm taking courses at the University of Phoenix, and my wife is on a schedule one class behind me. Usually she uses my textbooks as soon as I'm done with them.
Recently, however, my dog had a bout of gastrointestinal discomfort and expressed her opinion of the book (and mine, for that matter) all over pages 3-128. The book was a loss, but the whole thing was in PDF format with the included CD, so we tossed the book and let my wife read from the monitor for her course.
If that's not an appropriate use for technology, I don't know what is.
7) MCSEs don't count as degrees in this line of work.
Sure they do.
After hiring my wife, the MIS director for her branch (everything evil brought to life...honestly, you can't imagine) decided to hire only women because he was so impressed with her (my wife's) performance.
The MCSE he hired as a secondary engineer had to ask how to turn the desktop systems on.
Stupidity is found everywhere, and I'm not talking about MCSE's alone.
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What, are we out of kittens?
Strangely, this was not on the printed resume he submitted, but was on his online resume, to which his printed resume referred.
Just to be anal, https is port 443. Imap is 143.
Consider Verizon, for example. In order to relay out, you not only have to authenticate with the assigned Verizon id & password (not a huge problem, but weird, considering that they still only accept relay from their netblock--guess they're worried about rogue wireless connections), but the servers refuse to relay if your email address isn't one of the official "Verizon" hosts (bellatlantic, verizon, etc).
This leaves many in the uncomfortable position of having domains hosted somewhere reliable and being forced to use Verizon for a return address, or try to work around the problem by setting the Reply-To as appropriate (which breaks mailings lists, etc).
Verizon's answer to this idiocy is that they'll happily allow you to pay to host your domain with them, at which point they'll add it to the list of allowed relaying domains.
I will appreciate the fact that a working adult spent the time and effort to get a degree. But, having attended the University of Phoenix for two years, I can confidently assert that the education received there is useless and that a resume that comes across my desk had better impress me with a lot else besides educational background.
This topic is still young and already I see a bunch of posts along the lines of "it doesn't matter where you went, 'cause it impresses the manager that you went anywhere." C'mon, people; instead of sounding clueless, why not ask someone who actually hires people? We do care about trivialities like which institution issues the degree in question. Don't do anyone else the disservice of mouthing platitudes.
I will respect heaps more someone who slogged through getting a real education at a real university more than someone who attended classes online. Or, more accurately, I will better respect the education of the former. The latter is probably someone (like me) who was taken in by the ads and didn't realize until years of commitment later how useless UoP really is.
I've made comments about Phoenix previously on /. Anyone curious can look them up. You learn more, theoretical and practical, at a five month technical institution than at UoP.
Seriously. Before you do anything, find out what an accountant says to you about running a small business. You'll avoid all the hidden expenses that can snag you later when you've already spent your profits, and an accountant can also introduce you to the wonderful world of deductions that you are suddenly entitled to.
For example, Pennsylvania has this inane "self employment" tax for independent contractors and small business owners. It is above and beyond all the rest of the taxes that regular salaried employees pay, but you might not find out about it until they go through your tax return and send you a bill with interest due a year and a half later.
Accountants can help you decide how much of your rent/mortgate/utilities/whatever are permissible for deductions as business expense and whether it's worth it to keep track of them or simply take the standard deduction. Furthermore, they're familiar with local laws that you won't find out about reading a book on national tax law. Philadelphia and NJ, for instance, have a reciprocal tax agreement, the details of which make my head hurt every time someone tries to explain them.
An initial consultation won't cost that much and will, without question, save you headaches in the long run.
That's not true.
- The only real contact you have with the administration is via your academic and financial advisors, who are prone to disappearing randomly and being replaced months later by someone new. When they are around, the quality of their work is less than desirable, if indeed they respond at all.
- The instructors aren't accountable to anyone, and some are plain awful. In a class about management, of all things, I got in a polite debate about the quality of Microsoft software with a fellow classmate, and got my weekly grade knocked down a couple of letters because my pro-MS instructor didn't appreciate my attitude. My official complaint got buried.
- The servers are indeed slow and unreliable, as others have mentioned. Wednesday nights are the end of the grading week, when everyone is trying to turn in weekly assignments, and the servers buckle under the load. I've stayed up for three extra hours on some weeks trying to get my paper in on time. The technical staff has resorted to mass emailings asking us to turn off the option to check for new newsgroups to reduce the load.
- The curriculum is close to useless and oddly misdirected at times. One class is in IT Management, in which we proved our grasp of the subject by using MS Project to compare possible locations for a company conference. WTF?
- As long as we're discussing wastes of money, Phoenix has this nice little racket where the texts sold for class are custom printings that are better for students because they provide superior relevance and value. I know this because each one comes with a card sandwiched in the pages that tells me this. These are the same texts that refer to the "beta Windows 2000" and discuss organizational strategies from the eighties as current events.
I know how much I'm going to value my degree when I get it. I also know how much I'm going to value it when I see it on any resume that comes across my desk.Case in point: my wife is doubling up courses at her own expense to graduate earlier. Her advisor, who scheduled her classes for her, saw this as an error and yanked her out of all her remaining classes pending a rescheduling...and now she can't get back into them because of the demand.
This kind of arbitrary power is par for course. Instructors have confusing and conflicting grading standards that they don't necessarily hold to, and with five week-long grading periods per class, there simply isn't time to get an appeal going that would go anywhere. Hell, UoP guidelines require the instructor to release a student from the grading process when said student withdraws from a class. Some instructors don't if they feel insulted that the student withdrew due to incompetent teaching, leaving the transcript with an F that doesn't count toward the GPA but does show up on reports.
My major is in IT, with a specialization in Networks and Telecommunications. The classes that make it so are Intro to UNIX, Intro to NT, Advanced NT, and Web Server Management. Again, WTF? NT? And the classes barely scratch the surface. There's no meat to them at all. For one of the weekly Discussion Questions that is intended to engender lively debate and conversation that will enrich the lives and enlighten the minds of all those who participate, my wife's class was asked what their favorite SQL function was. Here I lay out a third WTF? Are we back in second grade?
True. In fact, Verizon requires that you both use a From address for a domain that they host (such as bellatlantic.net or verizon.net, or a domain you pay them to host) and authenticate with their outgoing relay.
However, for what it's worth, you can put whatever you want as a Reply-To.
Not to disagree totally with you, but I hate the update agent and turned it off for a number of reasons:
1) I don't want fucking Media Player 7. You hear me MS? Stop telling me I need to install it! I don't like version 6, let alone 7. I don't have either one installed on my system, and telling me to "upgrade" a product that isn't present is an example of inflexible architecture that drives me batshit--especially when it's something like Media Player, because it hits all the hot buttons about desktop control.
2) It mixes product versions in the recommended updates. Is it so hard to locate which version I have and suggest the appropriate upgrade, instead of offering me, say, service packs for both IE 5.5 and IE 6 and hoping I know which I have installed?
The agent is a good idea, just implemented very poorly.
3. I'll try to remember.
Too late.
Replication?
Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong on this one. The best I could find was GBorg, which appears to be based on a seriously outdated version of Postgres.
Ech.
Boy, did you miss the point. It is the function of university tech services to maintain a secured network, which they are permitting students to use. It's not just a courtesy to check the nodes on their own property; it's their responsibility.
An analogy that doesn't sound so misinformed is if you were to rent a room in my house and I were to walk around to my own back yard and tug on the bars over your window to make sure they were still firmly attached.
Granted, I may have missed something, but if it's too difficult to find after scanning through a few search results and what appear to be relevant links from the home page, I generally go somewhere else. That kind of (missing) organization does not speak well of the product in question.
Maybe you should credit Mr. Guninksi when you quote him, word for word.
However, you won't have them, either, when they fire you a day/week/month later in vengeance.
You don't do much in the way of martial arts, do you?
This question is hilarious, considering how the rest of this forum is debating how realistic CGI is.
(Dude, take a closer look.)
- They have to clarify their stance on software patents 'cause they apparently have so many. Fine.
- They offer rebates for customers who switch away from other distributions.
- Now they're taking on IBM, with whom they have a good relationship and who was one of the instrumental forces in getting Linux taken seriously in the enterprise.
As Red Hat is one of the few Open Source/Free Software/Whatever companies with a positive cash flow these days, are we to learn from today's lesson that profitability only comes when you're willing to play hardball? Seriously, I prefer the RH distribution, but darned if these tactics don't strike me as slimey.That would be rather like DJB looking into optimizing BIND.
(Read: not bloody likely.)
Actually, some publishers are doing this.
I'm taking courses at the University of Phoenix, and my wife is on a schedule one class behind me. Usually she uses my textbooks as soon as I'm done with them.
Recently, however, my dog had a bout of gastrointestinal discomfort and expressed her opinion of the book (and mine, for that matter) all over pages 3-128. The book was a loss, but the whole thing was in PDF format with the included CD, so we tossed the book and let my wife read from the monitor for her course.
If that's not an appropriate use for technology, I don't know what is.
<rolling dice>
Sure they do.
After hiring my wife, the MIS director for her branch (everything evil brought to life...honestly, you can't imagine) decided to hire only women because he was so impressed with her (my wife's) performance.
The MCSE he hired as a secondary engineer had to ask how to turn the desktop systems on.
Stupidity is found everywhere, and I'm not talking about MCSE's alone.