China is the worst for me because some jerk spammer is sending junk with my domain on the reply-to. His stuff is hosted in China and there's not a thing I can do.
Well, if you're running Fedora Core 1, then the default setting is for the X server not to accept external connections at all (-nolisten tcp). Very sensible default (even if it caused me a puzzled few minutes figuring out why the xhost +blah didn't work).
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If you have a manned presence in space, the most effective weapon to take out an enemy satellite is probably a shotgun.
Only if you're prepared to fly backwards rather uncontrollably for a while...
My most reliable floppy disks are my old no-name 720K disks from '96 with an extra hole neatly drilled in them. I've thrown out many times as many "real" 1.44 disks as I have of those!
(Alright, I admit that a lot of them aren't thrown out per se, they've been used to make various shelf units and wardrobes more level...)
If you run Solaris on x86 in a production environment you're an idiot.
If you want Solaris, stick to Sparc. If you want NT/2k, then go for x86. Whether or not you might be an idiot for wanting NT/2k in the first place I'll leave for others to "discuss".
You should look into using SPF if you want to avoid such things. It won't solve your problem overnight, but its adoption is on the rise, including large players like AOL.
In fact, if you search the/. archives, you'll find a somewhat recent article.
For the average/. reader who can't be bothered to RTFA, the short of it is that works like a reverse MX record. Only hosts listed in your SPF (Sender Policy Framework) rules (published in DNS) are considered allowed senders of email from your domain. Recieving MTAs can then make an informed decision on whether to accept mail that has an envelope sender from you domain, based on whether the sending host is listed as permitted. This means that for any domain that is publishing SPF rules, spoofing the sender address while using an open relay/M$ zombie box becomes impossible, as long as the receiving MTA checks SPF.
It won't put an end to spam, but when enough domains have implemented both publishing SPF rules as well as checking them for inbound mail, it will cause severe headaches to the spammers, and cut down their arena significantly. Best of all, if there ever are any false positives that are rejected, it's due to the originating site policies, not the receiver's or middleman (as the case easily is with distributed blacklists)!
While GPS certainly helps, it is by no means necessary in order to pinpoint the location of a mobile. As long as you are within coverage of at least three cells (less than that and you lose accuracy), it is perfectly possible to triangulate the position of the mobile terminal, regardless of what support there is or is not on the actual mobile itself.
I say this with some authority, as I used to be working one floor above the guys developing the MPS (Mobile Positioning System) solution. That was, ummm, about four or five years ago. So no, this is nothing new... these aren't the droids you're looking for; move along.
Unless I'm mistaken, landing on Europa could be a very bad thing, since it's quite possible that the lander could contaminate the environment there. After all, it's been proven that some bacteria is capable of surviving in space. I don't think anyone will want to take chances like this. Not quite yet at least.
Check out http://www.magnatune.com then. The range is still limited, but you get lossless music if you want it (and MP3s if that's your preferred option).
There was also a/. story covering that site a month or two ago. Check the archives.
This isn't anything new. There have been tengwar and sindarin TTF fonts available for many years, at least 8 or 9 years.
The reason I know is that I did a project in school that was related to precisely tengwar and sindarin, and I managed to get hold of a couple of TTFs which made my life easier (but I won't say easy - querty + elvish = not good). Should still have the TTFs on a floppy somewhere.
Got good marks for the project too. I'm guessing it might've been related to the fact that the teacher couldn't read a substantial part of it as it was in fact written in sindarin... =)
I even got a phone book from them! And Yellow Pages too!;-)
Wish they'd stop wasting the paper.. I have an internet connection for a reason! (and no, I'm not with Hellstra...anymore)
Well, I don't know about you, but if I found myself in a world where it is possible to go to extremes without risking permanent injury, I'd do it.
In a world where nothing really matters, it's only logical that emphasis is likely to be put on emotions. Pain and fear just happens to be two very strong and easily obtainable drugs:)
(Did I mention that there is very little meaning to the world we already live in?;)
Hmmm, interesting reading. Thanks for the link! I should be able to have a lot of fun with this:)
The only question that I have and can't find an answer to on that site is whether lucid dreams give you as much rest as a non-lucid dream. Any input on that?
I'm not one to have a great deal of nightmares, just once in a while. Usually your average something's-chasing-you-can't-get-away type (well, average been a very relativistic term of course).
Anyway, over the last few months I've had a rather interesting change. For some reason I am now able to control the outcome of these nightmares, as well as a lot of details in them. It's almost like going over a threshold - at a certain point I do not want the anxiety levels that the dream is causing, and I force a complete turnaround of events, completely dispelling the threatening nature of the dream. For lack of a better analogy, think Neo after he comes back to life - it's like I have gained a subconscious insight into the very structure of the dream, and can use that knowledge to manipulate it to my will.
What I'm really curious about is if anyone else has/have had the same experience?
Nope, you weren't alone. Couldn't for my life make any sense of the paragraph until about the fourth time I read it, when I finally realized it didn't actually say "Everquest". And I don't even play EQ! Bah!
While I don't claim to be a saint, my morals would definitely prevent me from continuing working a spamhaus. If I was worried about the money, I guess I'd just post to slashdot saying I've closed a major spamhaus down but am in financial distress due to it, and ask for donations. Somehow I think I'd be able to live off the donations until such a time I found a job;)
Like yourself, I'm a developer who's been myopic (-3.0) for about half my life and wanted to do something about it. I was looking at LASIK and PRK, and was very close to doing it, when I found this site: http://www.surgicaleyes.com. I recommend you read some of the stories there and think again, carefully, very carefully, before you go ahead.
What I did was post there and ask if there were any known alternatives, and lo and behold, a person recommended a method called Ortho-K (http://www.ortho-k.net), which I've happily gone with instead. Basically it means that I wear contacts during the night and have perfect vision during the course of the day. And it's fully reversible, and can be adjusted as your eyes change with age (try and do the same with LASIK!). The fact that my optometrist offered either that I'd be fully satisfied with the outcome, or a full refund didn't make things worse, exactly. I'm very happy, and I've been using this for about a month now.
My vision is easily 20/20 these days, but I've learned that that doesn't necessarily mean that I have a good quality vision. I have had days when I have had a fair bit of ghosting, and in poor lighting I experience too significant starbursts. I have just had small modifications made to my lenses to compensate for this, and my optometrist is quite optimistic about improving this considerably.
Now that I've had the chance to "toy around" with my vision and have seen some of the effects that can result from it, there is no way in hell that I'd use something as permanent as LASIK, with little or no way of adjusting after the deed is done. The prospect of coding in braille is not one I'd look favorably upon.
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Yes there is. It's called SPF.
Well, if you're running Fedora Core 1, then the default setting is for the X server not to accept external connections at all (-nolisten tcp). Very sensible default (even if it caused me a puzzled few minutes figuring out why the xhost +blah didn't work).
Only if you're prepared to fly backwards rather uncontrollably for a while...
Same here.
My most reliable floppy disks are my old no-name 720K disks from '96 with an extra hole neatly drilled in them. I've thrown out many times as many "real" 1.44 disks as I have of those!
(Alright, I admit that a lot of them aren't thrown out per se, they've been used to make various shelf units and wardrobes more level...)
If you run Solaris on x86 in a production environment you're an idiot.
If you want Solaris, stick to Sparc. If you want NT/2k, then go for x86. Whether or not you might be an idiot for wanting NT/2k in the first place I'll leave for others to "discuss".
Nope, I'm a member of the EFA (Electronic Frontiers Australia) instead. I hope all the aussies reading slashdot have membership though... *poke*poke*
In fact, if you search the /. archives, you'll find a somewhat recent article.
For the average /. reader who can't be bothered to RTFA, the short of it is that works like a reverse MX record. Only hosts listed in your SPF (Sender Policy Framework) rules (published in DNS) are considered allowed senders of email from your domain. Recieving MTAs can then make an informed decision on whether to accept mail that has an envelope sender from you domain, based on whether the sending host is listed as permitted. This means that for any domain that is publishing SPF rules, spoofing the sender address while using an open relay/M$ zombie box becomes impossible, as long as the receiving MTA checks SPF.
It won't put an end to spam, but when enough domains have implemented both publishing SPF rules as well as checking them for inbound mail, it will cause severe headaches to the spammers, and cut down their arena significantly. Best of all, if there ever are any false positives that are rejected, it's due to the originating site policies, not the receiver's or middleman (as the case easily is with distributed blacklists)!
No, it only came with man(1).
That's the problem.
Unfortunately, the parent post should be modded Insightful.
Remember: Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics.
The RIAA will make the numbers support their theory, regardless of what that theory is.
While GPS certainly helps, it is by no means necessary in order to pinpoint the location of a mobile. As long as you are within coverage of at least three cells (less than that and you lose accuracy), it is perfectly possible to triangulate the position of the mobile terminal, regardless of what support there is or is not on the actual mobile itself.
I say this with some authority, as I used to be working one floor above the guys developing the MPS (Mobile Positioning System) solution. That was, ummm, about four or five years ago. So no, this is nothing new... these aren't the droids you're looking for; move along.
Unless I'm mistaken, landing on Europa could be a very bad thing, since it's quite possible that the lander could contaminate the environment there. After all, it's been proven that some bacteria is capable of surviving in space. I don't think anyone will want to take chances like this. Not quite yet at least.
Check out http://www.magnatune.com then. The range is still limited, but you get lossless music if you want it (and MP3s if that's your preferred option).
/. story covering that site a month or two ago. Check the archives.
There was also a
Doh. I can think of no way to explain THAT typo away. Okay, I suck :)
This isn't anything new. There have been tengwar and sindarin TTF fonts available for many years, at least 8 or 9 years.
The reason I know is that I did a project in school that was related to precisely tengwar and sindarin, and I managed to get hold of a couple of TTFs which made my life easier (but I won't say easy - querty + elvish = not good). Should still have the TTFs on a floppy somewhere.
Got good marks for the project too. I'm guessing it might've been related to the fact that the teacher couldn't read a substantial part of it as it was in fact written in sindarin... =)
I even got a phone book from them! And Yellow Pages too! ;-)
Wish they'd stop wasting the paper.. I have an internet connection for a reason! (and no, I'm not with Hellstra...anymore)
Well that was a cleverly disguised "BSD is dying" post! :)
Please tell me where you work. If you have well engineered projects I'd dearly like to work there for a change!
Well, I don't know about you, but if I found myself in a world where it is possible to go to extremes without risking permanent injury, I'd do it.
:)
;)
In a world where nothing really matters, it's only logical that emphasis is likely to be put on emotions. Pain and fear just happens to be two very strong and easily obtainable drugs
(Did I mention that there is very little meaning to the world we already live in?
Hmmm, interesting reading. Thanks for the link! I should be able to have a lot of fun with this :)
The only question that I have and can't find an answer to on that site is whether lucid dreams give you as much rest as a non-lucid dream. Any input on that?
I'm not one to have a great deal of nightmares, just once in a while. Usually your average something's-chasing-you-can't-get-away type (well, average been a very relativistic term of course).
Anyway, over the last few months I've had a rather interesting change. For some reason I am now able to control the outcome of these nightmares, as well as a lot of details in them. It's almost like going over a threshold - at a certain point I do not want the anxiety levels that the dream is causing, and I force a complete turnaround of events, completely dispelling the threatening nature of the dream. For lack of a better analogy, think Neo after he comes back to life - it's like I have gained a subconscious insight into the very structure of the dream, and can use that knowledge to manipulate it to my will.
What I'm really curious about is if anyone else has/have had the same experience?
Nope, you weren't alone. Couldn't for my life make any sense of the paragraph until about the fourth time I read it, when I finally realized it didn't actually say "Everquest". And I don't even play EQ! Bah!
Liquid diet? Are you insane? You could choke on that!
I would.
;)
While I don't claim to be a saint, my morals would definitely prevent me from continuing working a spamhaus. If I was worried about the money, I guess I'd just post to slashdot saying I've closed a major spamhaus down but am in financial distress due to it, and ask for donations. Somehow I think I'd be able to live off the donations until such a time I found a job
Like yourself, I'm a developer who's been myopic (-3.0) for about half my life and wanted to do something about it. I was looking at LASIK and PRK, and was very close to doing it, when I found this site: http://www.surgicaleyes.com. I recommend you read some of the stories there and think again, carefully, very carefully, before you go ahead.
What I did was post there and ask if there were any known alternatives, and lo and behold, a person recommended a method called Ortho-K (http://www.ortho-k.net), which I've happily gone with instead. Basically it means that I wear contacts during the night and have perfect vision during the course of the day. And it's fully reversible, and can be adjusted as your eyes change with age (try and do the same with LASIK!). The fact that my optometrist offered either that I'd be fully satisfied with the outcome, or a full refund didn't make things worse, exactly. I'm very happy, and I've been using this for about a month now.
My vision is easily 20/20 these days, but I've learned that that doesn't necessarily mean that I have a good quality vision. I have had days when I have had a fair bit of ghosting, and in poor lighting I experience too significant starbursts. I have just had small modifications made to my lenses to compensate for this, and my optometrist is quite optimistic about improving this considerably.
Now that I've had the chance to "toy around" with my vision and have seen some of the effects that can result from it, there is no way in hell that I'd use something as permanent as LASIK, with little or no way of adjusting after the deed is done. The prospect of coding in braille is not one I'd look favorably upon.
Of course people (a.k.a. suckers) buy.
They buy the email lists so that they too can GET RICH FAST by sending GET RICH FAST spams.
I don't think very many actually buy all those toners and herbal viagra, I mean, if someone actually did, wouldn't they have run out of stock by now?!