no kidding, I love flying because I can relax and READ A BOOK! Really, with 2 kids at home it's a rare time that I can get a book in, flights are my favorite place for them. now with my iPod I can have some Coltrane with my read too.
but phones, laptops emails? eeekkk! let me have some time to myself; sometimes I'm just unreachable, get over it.
I read this last year, that games were more popular than movies ($ wise) and couldn't believe it. Does anyone besides me remeber when the death knell of video games was sounded? I think it was 91-92 or something? Honestly, I rem them saying they would just fade away, and I hoped they wouldn't.
Of course when LAN games spread to internet games...
Sorry, had to plug that one. I run Drupal for my CMS, and lately I've been getting some 'free poker' spams in my comments. I've installed the Spam module and am holding my breath. Do modules like that work in MT?
Agreed, and the Sprint/Verizon deal made them on the 3rd largest! It's just impossible for 4-5 companies to compete anymore, they have to have more capital than most 3rd world countries to even be on the radar.
As an aside, nice Refused quote, "Fanning the flames of discontent" and "Shape of punk to come" are two of my all time favs, amazing stuff.
I've already bought a new camera just a few weeks ago for the Thanksgiving holiday. It's the Canon 75 - 3.2M - with a 512 CF card. I can take the highest resolution and have room for 300+ pics, and that's more than what I need. I would suggest going with 3.2M unless you need to print larger than 8x10, anything higher is just for bragging rights. This Canon is all auto, but has a ton of options (via the dial on the top) to turn on/off diff auto aspects, so you can do allot manually if you want to. I love it.
I've handed down my old Olympus 460Z to my daughter (4 1/2 years old) to play with, and she's having a blast. Amazing how much digi cams have improved.
I want to do the same thing, I've had aliases on my mailserver that started getting spammed, so I just disabled that alias and did a newaliases to give any emails to that addy a REJECT. But how can you do this on a real user account? The MTA needs to REJECT, but Spamassain doesn't get into the game until AFTER Postfix ACCEPTs it.
Is there anything I'm missing? I wish Postfix could wait until SA looked at the email before ACCEPTing, but can't image how. 3.0 maybe? But it would have to be part of your MTA...
I have thought of this, but can't live w/o my home email server for that long. Still, I have Spamassasin catching almost all spam, but to give it a hard bounce would eliminate. Wonder if SA 3.0 has some sort of setting for that.
Hmmm...maybe over the weekend I'll just shutdown postfix...
This is a horrible trend; it will reward the 'marketing' groups that dream this crap up. I've got my mom working against all this crap via GoogleToolbar, Spybot, etc. It's a joke that she has to do that, but on dial up a few well laid spyware apps make her system un-surfable.
What will it take to break the back of Spyware? Spyassassin?;)
Nicely put, it just annoys me to be called a 'fan boy' simply because I love using Gentoo, and appreciate Portage, as I appreciate Ports in FreeBSD. I used to use Slackware so I compiled things all the time, but without things like make.conf and emerge, it took allot more time to admin my server. With Gentoo it takes far less time, and is much easier to keep secure.
Using Gentoo ebedded makes total sense, since you can customize it during install to be as big or small as you want.
as for the compiling joke, it's pretty old, and partially untrue if you use binaries during emerge (much like FreeBSD's pkg_add). Nonetheless, please read Dispelling the myths of Gentoo Linux, an honest review, and learn before you flame. After that, go on using whatever Linux distro you prefer.
Here's a livejournal entry about working at EA, and it's pretty revealing.
Also, I worked in Austin for Origin Games, until EA slowly strangled the company to death, so I'm no fan of EA either (although their Hockey on Sega was the bomb in the day)
this was just an awful day, and I've relived some of it thanks to an npr commentatory this morning. He recalls this horrible image of a http://www.studentsforbhopal.org/Dead.htm>dead child being buried, from when he was a child in india 20 years ago.
The fact that things still haven't been cleaned up is testimate to corporate greed and indifference for human life.
There's a website: Artists against 419, that does the same thing. Interesting tactic, and really, spam eats our bandwidth, so is this turnabout fair play?
I still can't fathom WHY Microsoft doesn't have something like this builtin to XP. My mom bought a Dell and a neighbor has had to clean the thing 3 times in the past 6 months! I'm embarassed now that I didn't push her towards a Apple now, but I only run Mac and Linux at home, and had no idea how bad the spyware issue is for Windows.
Really, this is an OS problem, and MS should provide a solution, you shouldn't have to reply on 3rd party providers to fix a shortcoming of the OS!
Nice to hear, hopefully with successes more companies will follow leads like yours and allow software to really work for them, vs them working for (and to afford) software. Buying a new Dell with XP for every new developer we get just makes me cringe; sure, maybe they'll only work in windows, but all I ask if that we give people the option.
That's exactly what I was thinking! When I reboot my server if I screw anything up with Lilo (or if the kernel doesn't boot) I have to hall the old monitor out of the garage and hook it up just so I can choose my old kernel to get back in.
all software has bugs, what happens when 1/2 thru the trip they have an update? who installs remotely, and I guess having a sysop reboot is out of the question...
where i work IT is hard at work...keeping all of the MS servers running. I do the Unix side, and they're always amazed when I can grab something from freshmeat.net and get it going to solve some problem . From a simple web form to an all out Wiki, it's just funny how much faster you can get results with OSS if you have the skills (and having the skills just means that you've been jacking/hacking it for years).
Now I need to get back to getting Horde 3 Beta running on my sandb^H^H^H^H server!
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no kidding, I love flying because I can relax and READ A BOOK! Really, with 2 kids at home it's a rare time that I can get a book in, flights are my favorite place for them. now with my iPod I can have some Coltrane with my read too.
but phones, laptops emails? eeekkk! let me have some time to myself; sometimes I'm just unreachable, get over it.
CB
I read this last year, that games were more popular than movies ($ wise) and couldn't believe it. Does anyone besides me remeber when the death knell of video games was sounded? I think it was 91-92 or something? Honestly, I rem them saying they would just fade away, and I hoped they wouldn't.
Of course when LAN games spread to internet games...
PCB#
Netcraft comfirms it; Movable Type is dying!
Sorry, had to plug that one. I run Drupal for my CMS, and lately I've been getting some 'free poker' spams in my comments. I've installed the Spam module and am holding my breath. Do modules like that work in MT?
Time for me to go check my friends MT sites...
CB
this firefox extention fixes it: Slashfix
It was annoying the heck out of me too...
PCB$#
Agreed, and the Sprint/Verizon deal made them on the 3rd largest! It's just impossible for 4-5 companies to compete anymore, they have to have more capital than most 3rd world countries to even be on the radar.
As an aside, nice Refused quote, "Fanning the flames of discontent" and "Shape of punk to come" are two of my all time favs, amazing stuff.
CB
so when will we start seeing links to http://goatse.xxx?
PCB32
I've already bought a new camera just a few weeks ago for the Thanksgiving holiday. It's the Canon 75 - 3.2M - with a 512 CF card. I can take the highest resolution and have room for 300+ pics, and that's more than what I need. I would suggest going with 3.2M unless you need to print larger than 8x10, anything higher is just for bragging rights. This Canon is all auto, but has a ton of options (via the dial on the top) to turn on/off diff auto aspects, so you can do allot manually if you want to. I love it.
I've handed down my old Olympus 460Z to my daughter (4 1/2 years old) to play with, and she's having a blast. Amazing how much digi cams have improved.
Pcv%%
I want to do the same thing, I've had aliases on my mailserver that started getting spammed, so I just disabled that alias and did a newaliases to give any emails to that addy a REJECT. But how can you do this on a real user account? The MTA needs to REJECT, but Spamassain doesn't get into the game until AFTER Postfix ACCEPTs it.
Is there anything I'm missing? I wish Postfix could wait until SA looked at the email before ACCEPTing, but can't image how. 3.0 maybe? But it would have to be part of your MTA...
CHB
I have thought of this, but can't live w/o my home email server for that long. Still, I have Spamassasin catching almost all spam, but to give it a hard bounce would eliminate. Wonder if SA 3.0 has some sort of setting for that.
Hmmm...maybe over the weekend I'll just shutdown postfix...
CB
I agree with you, best to next move her to Firefox, with the mozdev google toolbar hack, that should stay more trustworthy in the long run.
Oh, and mark me as a troll, but gmail sucks imo.
PCB#
This is a horrible trend; it will reward the 'marketing' groups that dream this crap up. I've got my mom working against all this crap via GoogleToolbar, Spybot, etc. It's a joke that she has to do that, but on dial up a few well laid spyware apps make her system un-surfable.
;)
What will it take to break the back of Spyware? Spyassassin?
PCB@
Nicely put, it just annoys me to be called a 'fan boy' simply because I love using Gentoo, and appreciate Portage, as I appreciate Ports in FreeBSD. I used to use Slackware so I compiled things all the time, but without things like make.conf and emerge, it took allot more time to admin my server. With Gentoo it takes far less time, and is much easier to keep secure.
CB
Using Gentoo ebedded makes total sense, since you can customize it during install to be as big or small as you want.
as for the compiling joke, it's pretty old, and partially untrue if you use binaries during emerge (much like FreeBSD's pkg_add). Nonetheless, please read Dispelling the myths of Gentoo Linux, an honest review, and learn before you flame. After that, go on using whatever Linux distro you prefer.
CB
Here's a livejournal entry about working at EA, and it's pretty revealing.
Also, I worked in Austin for Origin Games, until EA slowly strangled the company to death, so I'm no fan of EA either (although their Hockey on Sega was the bomb in the day)
CB
this was just an awful day, and I've relived some of it thanks to an npr commentatory this morning. He recalls this horrible image of a http://www.studentsforbhopal.org/Dead.htm>dead child being buried, from when he was a child in india 20 years ago.
The fact that things still haven't been cleaned up is testimate to corporate greed and indifference for human life.
CB
There's a website: Artists against 419, that does the same thing. Interesting tactic, and really, spam eats our bandwidth, so is this turnabout fair play?
CVb
I still can't fathom WHY Microsoft doesn't have something like this builtin to XP. My mom bought a Dell and a neighbor has had to clean the thing 3 times in the past 6 months! I'm embarassed now that I didn't push her towards a Apple now, but I only run Mac and Linux at home, and had no idea how bad the spyware issue is for Windows.
Really, this is an OS problem, and MS should provide a solution, you shouldn't have to reply on 3rd party providers to fix a shortcoming of the OS!
BCB
Here's a mirror.
CB
Perhaps it's because I have the 20Gig iPod, but I can fit far more than 3 books on it!
CB
Nice to hear, hopefully with successes more companies will follow leads like yours and allow software to really work for them, vs them working for (and to afford) software. Buying a new Dell with XP for every new developer we get just makes me cringe; sure, maybe they'll only work in windows, but all I ask if that we give people the option.
CB
That's exactly what I was thinking! When I reboot my server if I screw anything up with Lilo (or if the kernel doesn't boot) I have to hall the old monitor out of the garage and hook it up just so I can choose my old kernel to get back in.
CB
I've had no crashes since upgrading, but I'm only playing on Linux and OS X.
DV$BCB
all software has bugs, what happens when 1/2 thru the trip they have an update? who installs remotely, and I guess having a sysop reboot is out of the question...
CBB
where i work IT is hard at work...keeping all of the MS servers running. I do the Unix side, and they're always amazed when I can grab something from freshmeat.net and get it going to solve some problem . From a simple web form to an all out Wiki, it's just funny how much faster you can get results with OSS if you have the skills (and having the skills just means that you've been jacking/hacking it for years).
Now I need to get back to getting Horde 3 Beta running on my sandb^H^H^H^H server!
CV*)$#b
load Slashdot faster, or block popups?
j/k
CB