Spam stopped being a problem for me and all my clients after we setup a SpamAssassin mail server - even if you run Outlook on Windows, you can still run the local version:
Let it be a problem for those that don't know any better, or how to deal with it. Set up a SpamAssassin-enabled mail server for you, your buddies (or clients) and let the rest of the world deal with the junk.
On April 16, Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, published a startling report that old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico were somehow being refilled. That is, new oil was being discovered in fields where it previously had not existed.
Scientists, led by Mahlon Kennicutt of Texas A the remaining 60 percent, which is known to exist, cannot be produced economically and is therefore not included in proven reserve estimates. However, higher prices and advanced technology can easily make it profitable to expand production in existing fields.
Higher prices also encourage exploration into areas that geologists strongly suspect to have oil, but where drilling costs are too high at present. Only a small portion of the Earth's surface has ever been explored for oil, and there is no reason to believe that there are not many large deposits yet to be discovered.
If oil were really becoming more scarce, we would expect to see prices rising over time. In fact, the real price of oil, adjusted for inflation, has been remarkably stable at around $15 per barrel. Temporary price spikes by OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) have not proved sustainable because they brought forth new supplies, encouraged substitution of oil with coal or gas, and stimulated conservation by consumers and businesses.
In short, even if the new scientific evidence about oil is wrong, one can still say the world will never run out of it. Higher prices will always bring new supplies to market. As Bjorn Lomberg points out in his new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge University Press), $40 per barrel oil will immediately increase world reserves from a 40 years supply to 250 years because vast known oil shale deposits will become economically viable.
Of all the things we have to worry about in this day and age, running out of oil should not be one of them.
Bruce Bartlett, a senior fellow for the National Center for Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C., writes for Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century, Suite 700, Los Angeles, Calif. 90045.
made all sorts of cool patterns while we played Aerosmith until our ears bled
One of my most prized posessions in college was an old B&W TV with 8 ohm vertical and horizontal coils.
By FAR the coolest patterns were produced by Dire Straits from the Brothers in Arms LP - especially the song Telegraph Road. I still think it was all the pot smoke that eventually burned out my stereo, not the boob tube.
At some point, I could actually look at the boob tube's patterns and identify what song was playing - I shite thee not!
Send your CD collection to me, and I'll rip it at your prefered bit rate, all with proofed ID3v2 tags. I can't guarantee, tho, that a copy of the MP3s will not stay on my 160Gb Maxstore MaxAttach NAS that I maintain just for my.mp3 collection.
I got tired of my cable modem losing signal everytime it rained, and DirecTV-DSL (Telocity) was dissapointing, so I got me a dedicated 1.54Mb microwave wireless connection from MCI Worldcomm about 2 hops off UUNets's backbone.
Ok, so its about $340.00 a month, but I can write it off;-)
Each employee specifically designated as in an "on-call" status shall be paid twenty percent (20%) of the job rate for his/her classification for hours spent in that status. Employees, when designated for on-call status, are required to restrict their whereabouts to the extent that they are required to leave word at their home or with their supervisor where they can be reached and be in a position to return to work immediately when called. Upon return to work, such employees are not eligible for call back or reporting pay, as provided in Articles XII and XIII, nor for on-call pay while at work, but shall be paid their regular hourly rate, plus shift premium or special schedule premium, if applicable, or the overtime premium as set forth in Section A. of Article X, if applicable, for actual work performed. Time spent in an on-call status shall not be counted in calculating time worked for deter-mining when an overtime premium shall be paid.
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91) is lightweight syndication format for distributing news headlines on the web. It is a format that originated at Netscape for syndication of content through Netscape Netcenter. The format was also influenced by the the Channel Definition Format, which Microsoft defined and saw its window of opportunity open and close with "push" technologies. Userland.com built and hosted the first RSS aggregator outside of Netscape. Dave Winer of Userland formalized the Netscape specification as RSS 0.91.
There is no consensus on what RSS stands for, so it's not an acronym, it's a name. Later versions of this spec may say it's an acronym, and hopefully this won't break too many applications.
RSS is dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website.
At the top level, a RSS document is a element, with a mandatory attribute called version, that specifies the version of RSS that the document conforms to.
"Featherbeds were long ago outlawed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Why? Because such an indulgence induces and encourages lascivious feelings."
"Public servants in Argentina had better be on the ball and smile - It's illegal to be surly."
"An Argentina ordinance demands that disk jockeys play as many tango records as all other types of music combined."
"Teachers, especially those with large bustlines, face a serious peoblem in Cordoba, Argentina. A woman simply cannot be hired to teach if her chest is big. Why? Because lawmakers in Cordoba finally came to realize that a large, shapely chest is just "too much of a distraction for teenage boys in a classroom."
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The Pro version is available for MS Outlook users, and works wonders.
...if you can't run the SERVER:
SpamAssassin PRO for Windows Users
What you are suggesting is the equivalent of not running the air conditioner in my car so I can be more aware of the global warming problem.
Or not running anti-virus software because what I REALLY should be doing is hunting down those dang evil virus programmers.
Spam filter that works. End of problem.
Spam stopped being a problem for me and all my clients after we setup a SpamAssassin mail server - even if you run Outlook on Windows, you can still run the local version:
A Spam Filter that Works. Problem Solved.
Let it be a problem for those that don't know any better, or how to deal with it. Set up a SpamAssassin-enabled mail server for you, your buddies (or clients) and let the rest of the world deal with the junk.
Junk-Filter that works. End of problem!
Isn't this infinitely more interesting?
Sure, mod me offtopic. But please, post something INTERESTING on slash occasionally, ok?
A spam filter that works. Problem Solved.
SpamAssassin Pro makes the 50-100 spams I get each day to my dozen or so different addresses a NON-ISSUE !
A spam filter that works. Problem Solved.
The monitor they show is only video, not VGA ! Has *ANYBODY* ever found a source for a ~10" LCD VGA Monitor?
I don't want to use NTSC out from a video card (clarity and all) and I don't think I'll have much luck dismanteling laptop LCD's.
Help!
(By Bruce Bartlett)
On April 16, Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, published a startling report that old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico were somehow being refilled. That is, new oil was being discovered in fields where it previously had not existed.
Scientists, led by Mahlon Kennicutt of Texas A the remaining 60 percent, which is known to exist, cannot be produced economically and is therefore not included in proven reserve estimates. However, higher prices and advanced technology can easily make it profitable to expand production in existing fields.
Higher prices also encourage exploration into areas that geologists strongly suspect to have oil, but where drilling costs are too high at present. Only a small portion of the Earth's surface has ever been explored for oil, and there is no reason to believe that there are not many large deposits yet to be discovered.
If oil were really becoming more scarce, we would expect to see prices rising over time. In fact, the real price of oil, adjusted for inflation, has been remarkably stable at around $15 per barrel. Temporary price spikes by OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) have not proved sustainable because they brought forth new supplies, encouraged substitution of oil with coal or gas, and stimulated conservation by consumers and businesses.
In short, even if the new scientific evidence about oil is wrong, one can still say the world will never run out of it. Higher prices will always bring new supplies to market. As Bjorn Lomberg points out in his new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist (Cambridge University Press), $40 per barrel oil will immediately increase world reserves from a 40 years supply to 250 years because vast known oil shale deposits will become economically viable.
Of all the things we have to worry about in this day and age, running out of oil should not be one of them.
Bruce Bartlett, a senior fellow for the National Center for Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C., writes for Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century, Suite 700, Los Angeles, Calif. 90045.
I'm working on something similar; no sense in re-inventing the wheel, better to improve upon it.
made all sorts of cool patterns while we played Aerosmith until our ears bled
One of my most prized posessions in college was an old B&W TV with 8 ohm vertical and horizontal coils.
By FAR the coolest patterns were produced by Dire Straits from the Brothers in Arms LP - especially the song Telegraph Road. I still think it was all the pot smoke that eventually burned out my stereo, not the boob tube.
At some point, I could actually look at the boob tube's patterns and identify what song was playing - I shite thee not!
I used to use Yahoo exclusively until they started placing search results higher for pay. Now I use Google, and will until they start doing the same.
Send your CD collection to me, and I'll rip it at your prefered bit rate, all with proofed ID3v2 tags. I can't guarantee, tho, that a copy of the MP3s will not stay on my 160Gb Maxstore MaxAttach NAS that I maintain just for my .mp3 collection.
I'm serious - really.
Cool rack, who makes it and where'd you get it?
See Here
Is that Tower o'Power running.... Windoze?!?!
Heh - only 1 out of 4 is 'doz (game PC) - other 3 are Linux (bottom two are Alpha's)
Even the MaxAttach is running Linux...
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;-)
Just got it installed this week:
My Internet Connection
I got tired of my cable modem losing signal everytime it rained, and DirecTV-DSL (Telocity) was dissapointing, so I got me a dedicated 1.54Mb microwave wireless connection from MCI Worldcomm about 2 hops off UUNets's backbone.
Ok, so its about $340.00 a month, but I can write it off
While I'm bragging, also check out my Tower O' Power
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This is nothing new. I've had this photo for a while: Black Hole at the center of the Milky Way.
Click here, go down the list and open each link in a new window (rightclick, openinnewwindow then tally up the $ damage yourself.
Hit 'em where it hurtz -
Article XIV: On-Call Pay
Quoting:
Each employee specifically designated as in an "on-call" status shall be paid twenty percent (20%) of the job rate for his/her classification for hours spent in that status. Employees, when designated for on-call status, are required to restrict their whereabouts to the extent that they are required to leave word at their home or with their supervisor where they can be reached and be in a position to return to work immediately when called. Upon return to work, such employees are not eligible for call back or reporting pay, as provided in Articles XII and XIII, nor for on-call pay while at work, but shall be paid their regular hourly rate, plus shift premium or special schedule premium, if applicable, or the overtime premium as set forth in Section A. of Article X, if applicable, for actual work performed. Time spent in an on-call status shall not be counted in calculating time worked for deter-mining when an overtime premium shall be paid.
I see things like this as an INCREASE in job security, not the other way around.
How many toaster operators do you know?
How about all the A/C and Refrigerator technicians that make more money than God? How much more turn-key can you get than a thermostat?
...the fewer technically skilled people there are available to handle the inevitable failures.
I've already seen an huge increase in demand from clients that buy turn-key solutions, and then need technical help with problems that arise.
I see things like this as an INCREASE in job security, not the other way around.
I can always find the TAB I want at Harmony Central's search engine and the search target always seems to be hosted on a different site all the time.
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91) is lightweight syndication format for distributing news headlines on the web. It is a format that originated at Netscape for syndication of content through Netscape Netcenter. The format was also influenced by the the Channel Definition Format, which Microsoft defined and saw its window of opportunity open and close with "push" technologies. Userland.com built and hosted the first RSS aggregator outside of Netscape. Dave Winer of Userland formalized the Netscape specification as RSS 0.91.
There is no consensus on what RSS stands for, so it's not an acronym, it's a name. Later versions of this spec may say it's an acronym, and hopefully this won't break too many applications. RSS is dialect of XML. All RSS files must conform to the XML 1.0 specification, as published on the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) website. At the top level, a RSS document is a element, with a mandatory attribute called version, that specifies the version of RSS that the document conforms to.
"Featherbeds were long ago outlawed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Why? Because such an indulgence induces and encourages lascivious feelings."
"Public servants in Argentina had better be on the ball and smile - It's illegal to be surly."
"An Argentina ordinance demands that disk jockeys play as many tango records as all other types of music combined."
"Teachers, especially those with large bustlines, face a serious peoblem in Cordoba, Argentina. A woman simply cannot be hired to teach if her chest is big. Why? Because lawmakers in Cordoba finally came to realize that a large, shapely chest is just "too much of a distraction for teenage boys in a classroom."