All-in-all, they didn't blast spamassassin as hard as I thought they were going to. It was sad to see that they didn't think they could get anyone to help them review SA, and it was sadder that they got a lot of the facts wrong about SA, like that it is built around a bayes database.
The mere appearance of SA, though, is impressive because those trade rags rarely include anything open source (partly due to marketing opportunity for commercial, paying companies).
I've been thinking about this for a while. One of the big obsticles is that most companies have a horde of fat clients written specifically for.net/etc., or web-based relying on IE/activex. One of the other posters above mentioned really complex excel spreadsheets, too.
The reality is that those things do exist and are show stoppers. I was thinking the way to tackle that is to have a citrix server/farm for people to connect to for those apps that require Windows. Over time, you can migrate away from those applications.
This is a very thorough article and most likely will convince more than a few companies to take the plunge.
At first, I thought this was going to spell the end of a lot of anti-spyware companies, but then I realized that MS has bought a lot of companies and done next to nothing with them (what was the name of the A/V company they bought again?)
On the upside, if they are serious about it, I think this is going to be a huge boon for corporate IT. Spyware has become one of the biggest headaches for IT these days. I believe about 50% of our support tickets are related to spyware.
I realize IE is probably a huge codebase and a big development team, but it is simply amazing that these problems keep popping up. A company with the size and resources of MS should have a much better handle on these things.
Where I work, we have code reviews, automated code scrubbers, and extensize QA, and we're a relatively small shop compared to them.
I know they're trying, otherwise it would be a lot worse, and SP2 did a good bit to improve things, so I can't be that hard on them.
I think this is another example of government trying to play parent. For a long time, things like this infuriated me. Now that I have kids of my own, and see other people and their kids, I can somewhat sympathize with the intent - we have a lot of really crappy parents running around (me included).
I can say that I could see one of my kids being able to handle violent games, and the other not. How I enforce that, I have no idea.
In general, though, I am well against government taking away parental responsibility.
This is either an April fools joke, or we're seeing a headlong return to the days of 1999. Disk space is cheap, but it's not that cheap. Unless they're going to charge for this, I don't see how they're going to make any economical sense from gmail.
I work for ISS in Atlanta. ISS' headquarters are not downtown near that sign. We happen to own that sign and use it as advertising. We have a strong tie to Georgia Tech, which is near where that sign is located.
Our HQ is in Dunwoody on Barfield Rd.. It is a truely impressive campus and a really nice place to work.
I very frequently hear the people refer to the location of that sign as our HQ. It's almost worth it to take that thing down.
I can tell you from working at a pretty big company with a pretty big marketing department, I can easily see how companies get to spamming on their own. It goes something like this: "Hey Bill, I heard that we have names and email addresses of all the people that downloaded our software or registered on our site. Where can I get me some of that?" "Don't do it Dave"
"Hi, Dave, you didn't happen to send out, say, 100000 emails last night after we all went home, did you?" "Yeah, it's great. We're going to be filthy rich. I'll let you shine my shoes when they promote me to CEO. Did I miss some addresses?" "Nope. We were puzzled that our email servers died at the same time we showed up on some blacklists" "Doh. How to I stop that from happening next time?"
It's pretty involved, but there was an expose in one of the media outlets a few weeks ago about this very thing. Basically a reputible company outsources its marketing to a firm. That firm is partially comp'd on how much traffic they drive. Now all good companies do due diligence and would never hire some PR firm that spams. So the PR firm outsources to someone else who does the same until the get to one of the big time spammers. With each step down the ladder, the companies get more and more sleazy. The linkage is so diluted at that point, it's hard for anyone to tell who requested the spam's to be sent on the original company's behalf.
A company like Symantec can easily say 'my gosh, I can't believe it. we'll talk to our vendor right away.' vendor says 'we had no idea out sub contractor was a spam supporter - we've terminated our relationship with them' and no one has dirty hands.
what made them try? "Hey Bob, we got another load of crap from the bottom on that trawl. want me to throw it overboard?" "Nah, let's try hooking part of it up to our router and see what happens!"
I agree, but the problem is that the story really didn't specify if it was truely 100 concurrent connections. If so and they're needing to handle potentially thousands of connections per second, he is going to have a very hard time.
My first inclination is to recommend throwing that $20k at an ASP that can provide the server infrastructure to give you support for 100 concurrent connections.
Barring that, my recommendation would be to split the web front end and database, spending about $10k on each (using dell or hpq). I can almost gaurantee that you aren't going to get 100 concurrent connections for less that $80k to $100k without doing some sort of load distribution. If you strip down the amount of dynamic content and say script a refresh of a static page, you might be able to do it, but we don't really know what the app is going to be doing.
For years and years I've often thought the Neilson families either hand picked to reflected the desired outcome or spent too much time in front of the microwave. I'm well versed in statistics, but I think that the small subset, and heavy weighting tends to short sell a lot of shows that actually have good viewership (read: the shows I like)
I think this may be an opportunity for a larger dataset to be weighed as networks and advertisers analyze the successfulness of a given show.
As for privacy, I don't really see a problem so long as it is an agregate, but then who knows when that will change.
Exim finally getting a guide for the masses is a good thing. It is true that postfix has a leg up in some areas, but I really like the configuration style and the ability for me to process 100,000 messages per hour vs. 50,000 messages per hour just isn't that big of a deal, just as it isn't for most people, since we don't come anywhere near that volume.
Also, when you're connecting it to a database backend to pull all the delivery info as I and many others do, it's going to be orders of magnitude slower on both platforms anyway.
Hopefully in the future exim can polish off some more of the rough edges, but in the mean time, it's still a damn nice tool.
The national weather service and local weather stations are reporting that they are *still* seeing a cloud of debris from the reentry 10 hours later. They do not know what it is, but something is hanging around up there, though it is starting to dissapate now.
I was watching fox news this morning as all the news channels were desperately trying to talk to anyone who can spell 'space'. I believe it was Buzz Aldren that they had talking. The host asked him if the shuttle had any mechanism for the crew to eject. Rather than answer the question, he started talking about how he had a company that was in the process of designing an ejection system that could be fitted into the existing shuttles... yadayadayada... Really bad taste if you ask me.
It has been interesting to hear the commentators deal with the technical aspects of this story, like speeds and distances. I've heard that the shuttle was 207,000 miles up when it broke up (wow!) I've heard them say that the shuttle was going 12,500 miles per hour, or mach 7 (???).
My thoughts are with the family and friends of the astronaughts.
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The mere appearance of SA, though, is impressive because those trade rags rarely include anything open source (partly due to marketing opportunity for commercial, paying companies).
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The reality is that those things do exist and are show stoppers. I was thinking the way to tackle that is to have a citrix server/farm for people to connect to for those apps that require Windows. Over time, you can migrate away from those applications.
This is a very thorough article and most likely will convince more than a few companies to take the plunge.
Jerry http://www.syslog.org/
Jerry
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On the upside, if they are serious about it, I think this is going to be a huge boon for corporate IT. Spyware has become one of the biggest headaches for IT these days. I believe about 50% of our support tickets are related to spyware.
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/
Where I work, we have code reviews, automated code scrubbers, and extensize QA, and we're a relatively small shop compared to them.
I know they're trying, otherwise it would be a lot worse, and SP2 did a good bit to improve things, so I can't be that hard on them.
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/
Hard to say how the diamond dust would be made, but I'm sure there are probably more than a few ways (the like the way c-60 is grown).
It just strikes me as funny to see something saying "we'll take 2 really expensive things and make something really cheap!"
Jerry
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It's been a long day, so I know I must be missing something
Jerry
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Jerry
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I can say that I could see one of my kids being able to handle violent games, and the other not. How I enforce that, I have no idea.
In general, though, I am well against government taking away parental responsibility.
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/
Jerry
http://www.syslog.org/
This is either an April fools joke, or we're seeing a headlong return to the days of 1999. Disk space is cheap, but it's not that cheap. Unless they're going to charge for this, I don't see how they're going to make any economical sense from gmail.
I work for ISS in Atlanta. ISS' headquarters are not downtown near that sign. We happen to own that sign and use it as advertising. We have a strong tie to Georgia Tech, which is near where that sign is located.
Our HQ is in Dunwoody on Barfield Rd.. It is a truely impressive campus and a really nice place to work.
I very frequently hear the people refer to the location of that sign as our HQ. It's almost worth it to take that thing down.
I can tell you from working at a pretty big company with a pretty big marketing department, I can easily see how companies get to spamming on their own.
It goes something like this:
"Hey Bill, I heard that we have names and email addresses of all the people that downloaded our software or registered on our site. Where can I get me some of that?"
"Don't do it Dave"
"Hi, Dave, you didn't happen to send out, say, 100000 emails last night after we all went home, did you?"
"Yeah, it's great. We're going to be filthy rich. I'll let you shine my shoes when they promote me to CEO. Did I miss some addresses?"
"Nope. We were puzzled that our email servers died at the same time we showed up on some blacklists"
"Doh. How to I stop that from happening next time?"
It's pretty involved, but there was an expose in one of the media outlets a few weeks ago about this very thing. Basically a reputible company outsources its marketing to a firm. That firm is partially comp'd on how much traffic they drive. Now all good companies do due diligence and would never hire some PR firm that spams. So the PR firm outsources to someone else who does the same until the get to one of the big time spammers. With each step down the ladder, the companies get more and more sleazy. The linkage is so diluted at that point, it's hard for anyone to tell who requested the spam's to be sent on the original company's behalf.
A company like Symantec can easily say 'my gosh, I can't believe it. we'll talk to our vendor right away.' vendor says 'we had no idea out sub contractor was a spam supporter - we've terminated our relationship with them' and no one has dirty hands.
I'd be interested in seeing the list of bulk friendly isp's :)
what made them try?
"Hey Bob, we got another load of crap from the bottom on that trawl. want me to throw it overboard?"
"Nah, let's try hooking part of it up to our router and see what happens!"
Those clever scientists never cease to amaze me.
I agree, but the problem is that the story really didn't specify if it was truely 100 concurrent connections. If so and they're needing to handle potentially thousands of connections per second, he is going to have a very hard time.
Jerry
My first inclination is to recommend throwing that $20k at an ASP that can provide the server infrastructure to give you support for 100 concurrent connections.
Barring that, my recommendation would be to split the web front end and database, spending about $10k on each (using dell or hpq). I can almost gaurantee that you aren't going to get 100 concurrent connections for less that $80k to $100k without doing some sort of load distribution. If you strip down the amount of dynamic content and say script a refresh of a static page, you might be able to do it, but we don't really know what the app is going to be doing.
Jerry
How about optimizing the driver for all applications???
Or is that just being silly?
For years and years I've often thought the Neilson families either hand picked to reflected the desired outcome or spent too much time in front of the microwave. I'm well versed in statistics, but I think that the small subset, and heavy weighting tends to short sell a lot of shows that actually have good viewership (read: the shows I like)
I think this may be an opportunity for a larger dataset to be weighed as networks and advertisers analyze the successfulness of a given show.
As for privacy, I don't really see a problem so long as it is an agregate, but then who knows when that will change.
I do love my tivo, though.
Exim finally getting a guide for the masses is a good thing. It is true that postfix has a leg up in some areas, but I really like the configuration style and the ability for me to process 100,000 messages per hour vs. 50,000 messages per hour just isn't that big of a deal, just as it isn't for most people, since we don't come anywhere near that volume.
Also, when you're connecting it to a database backend to pull all the delivery info as I and many others do, it's going to be orders of magnitude slower on both platforms anyway.
Hopefully in the future exim can polish off some more of the rough edges, but in the mean time, it's still a damn nice tool.
The national weather service and local weather stations are reporting that they are *still* seeing a cloud of debris from the reentry 10 hours later. They do not know what it is, but something is hanging around up there, though it is starting to dissapate now.
Very strange.
I was watching fox news this morning as all the news channels were desperately trying to talk to anyone who can spell 'space'. I believe it was Buzz Aldren that they had talking. The host asked him if the shuttle had any mechanism for the crew to eject. Rather than answer the question, he started talking about how he had a company that was in the process of designing an ejection system that could be fitted into the existing shuttles... yadayadayada... Really bad taste if you ask me.
It has been interesting to hear the commentators deal with the technical aspects of this story, like speeds and distances. I've heard that the shuttle was 207,000 miles up when it broke up (wow!) I've heard them say that the shuttle was going 12,500 miles per hour, or mach 7 (???).
My thoughts are with the family and friends of the astronaughts.