To try and bypass filters - if someone blocked email with the subject of "F|_|CK1NG in Jai1!!1!!1" then it's conceviable that "F|_|CK1NG in Jai1!!1!!1 (ye47fa3d) " would get through, and if that's blocked then "F|_|CK1NG in Jai1!!1!!1 (hgkh3hjkj)" may get through.
Of course, the filters are getting more strict and "cleverer" and even my simple regexps in Mailwasher can't be fooled by those basics (as I filter for 'sub phrases' such as "K1NG" or "!1!" - stuff I wouldn't expect to see in proper emails (and combine that with email addresses that were used once over 6 years ago - I can get Mailwasher to slowly educate itself)
Ah - but as their profits are falling, it becomes obvious to the CEO's that they need to do something to encourage people to use them for their domain names - and how about adding a wildcard A entry as a good advertisement?
It's a bit like tha RIAA: profits are falling, let's f--ck the few remaining customers we have and put all the others off using us for life. And profits continue to fall, so let's sue!
books with you as well(order of phoenix being unnecessarely large book i find it hard to believe that somebody would use that as something to read while commuting).
Freaky - the first Ebooks I downloaded were the Harry Potter ones (admittedly illegally) on to a Palm in PDF ebook format. As soon as Order of the Phoenix came out in hardback (in fact, the day it was released), I brought it and all the other HP books. However, just buying a "kids book" like Harry Potter "just to see what it was like" just didn't feel right - but the Ebooks gave me a chance to sample them! Thanks Kazaa(Lite), Adobe, Palm and whoever OCRed the books!
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Well, it took a strain, but I managed to get the reference as well. 2010: Andromeda Two wasn't it?;)
>> Try installing PerlMagick; even with a working ImageMagick installation on your system, it's not straightforward to get PerlMagick up and running.
Tell me about it - I've got ImageMagick all happily running on my RH box at the moment, but can I get PerlMagick to run? Nope... 2 hours last night were wasted on this until I twigged that MovableType also supported NetPBM: I could of clicks and everything was hunky dory.
Well, perhaps the Canadians are more aware of power conservation and don't have so many lights on at any time (I'm sure we've all seen pictures of the Manhattan skyline late at night lit up like a christmas tree: including empty offices). Plus I guess in larger cities like NY you have more street lights and (IIRC) around 40% of light from street lights go straight up (hence why stargazing near cities is pointless) these and many many other factors attribute to light pollution which those images show.
Echo'd here. When I've finished watching a movie or something on my computer, I usually turn around and read a book or something - but I can still hear when the monitor goes into power saving mode due to the "flop" sound it makes.
Likewise: the really experienced people would probably chose option 2. I know a hell of a lot about the Internet, TCP/IP, programming (various languages) etc - but I'm willing to admit there may be something I don't know (like how the hell BT's Colossus network which routes all the ADSL customers in the UK works): therefore I'd rather go for option 2 then option 3.
Actually Dell make a similar recommendation for their machines - disconnect the network cable from the hub instead of the PC first. They say it prevents damage to the motherboard, and I'm inclined to believe them (otherwise why else would they put the warning there?).
Just don't ask me how many times I've actually done it in that order (either on my home Dell or over 60 computers I've had to change the network cables on). RTFM: I did. Followed the FM: well, erm;)
In contrasts, here in the UK when I've had to call tech support/helpdesk of Demon Internet (my ISP) as I'm having problems - I just give my nodename (aka my username) and say something like "traceroute is failing at router-bt176.telehouse.demon.net" and they either bounce me to "high level support" (only happened once) or say "Yes, we're aware of that problem and we're in the process of updating our free status information line and our helpdesk page with information. Expect an outage for around 30 minutes."
Demon may not be the cheapest solution for either dialup (I think they're the 2nd most expensive for that) or ADSL provision (11th most expensive IIRC) - but tech support has been excellent for me (even at 8pm on Boxing Day!) and the techs actually know what they are talking about - reliability has been ok to extremely good etc etc. I suppose it's a case of "you get what you pay for". I pay extra per month for a toll-free service status line and "local rate" tech support: other people pay less per month but get premium rate tech support and no service status information (which, 9 times out of 10, actually prevents me from calling tech support as they acknowledge the problem before I get a chance to report it)
I do a bit of tech support in the role I'm in, and I agree with you that most of the problems actually stem from the user end. We've got nearly 1,000 customers: yet it always seems to be the same dozen customers "having problems". Today we had a customer saying "got a problem with email", three people told him to either call the dedicated tech support line or open a helpdesk ticket. He called again. And again. But no call to the tech support helpline and no ticket opened on the helpdesk (we even emailed him at his Yahoo address with details - saying we need more than "problem with email"). Eventually, it got escalated right up as sales were getting fed up with it - then it was escalated back down to tech support where it took less than 2 minutes to find out this numbskull had set email forwards up which forwarded his email to non-existant domains. No wonder it was failing - but if he had followed the online help support, used our knowledgebase, used our helpdesk OR called the right blinking number the problem could be resolved in minutes.
Problem is - what country would they prosecute him under? Sealand claims it a seperate nation, yet the UK doesn't recognise it as such: therefore the whole legal situation gets a bit "muddy".
Is it still legal if they say "I'm calling from XYZ and I was hoping you would be interested in the following prerecorded sales notification" whilst your Outgoing Message is still playing. They've complied by the law by making the announcement within the first 30 seconds and "it isn't our fault if the potential customer's answerphone didn't start recording from the start of the call".
True, true. At the moment, my WinXP box has been up for over 24 days continually (and continually connected to the Internet via ADSL for 16 days) - I've only had one major gripe with it. When I use Internet Connection Sharing to a Debian Linux box that I'm installing, it does crash Windows Network. Of course, Windows then offers to send a crash report - but since it's the network stack that's somehow screwed up, it's not able to...
I know the nearest Tesco supermarket store to me has those "metal strip" detector thingies (you know: like in libraries in stuff) every 5 feet across all entrances and exits and the razorblades are kept in "DVD-style" cases (which they open at the checkout for you): already quite good security in my book - why do they need to combine it with CCTV?
Sigh. I wish for the days back when I only had 1 message waiting. For me, those "alertvertisments" would be more believable if they said "You have 3,962 messages waiting. 3,960 of those are spam" (and yes, I do get that amount of spam in any 12 hour period:( )
Or what happens when a family are shopping and adult A picks up the razor blades, decides they don't want them and gets child B to return them. Then they get to the checkout and realise they do need them, so they get child C to fetch a new pack - and finally adult D pays for the goods.
That's really going to screw up any "photographic auditing" system!
Ah - but then you'll "see" 10 "nothings" (ie your screen reader will just say "image" or "space" or similar) so your password could be nsnsnsnsnsnsnsnsnsns (10 _n_othing_s_) or ieieieieieieieieie (either 10 _i_mage_e_ s or a deranged Old McDonald without his farm)
What good is a body without a mind? I think it was Douglas Adams who prophesied that if you died in a virtual world you would also die in the real world.
Actually that's scarily near the truth: I've often written routines that do complex mathematic models with algebra that just on the edge my understand and once testing finishes I say to my self "Well, it works - but please please don't ask me how!".
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To try and bypass filters - if someone blocked email with the subject of "F|_|CK1NG in Jai1!!1!!1" then it's conceviable that "F|_|CK1NG in Jai1!!1!!1 (ye47fa3d) " would get through, and if that's blocked then "F|_|CK1NG in Jai1!!1!!1 (hgkh3hjkj)" may get through.
Of course, the filters are getting more strict and "cleverer" and even my simple regexps in Mailwasher can't be fooled by those basics (as I filter for 'sub phrases' such as "K1NG" or "!1!" - stuff I wouldn't expect to see in proper emails (and combine that with email addresses that were used once over 6 years ago - I can get Mailwasher to slowly educate itself)
Ah - but as their profits are falling, it becomes obvious to the CEO's that they need to do something to encourage people to use them for their domain names - and how about adding a wildcard A entry as a good advertisement?
It's a bit like tha RIAA: profits are falling, let's f--ck the few remaining customers we have and put all the others off using us for life. And profits continue to fall, so let's sue!
It's already broken our DNS availability checker: it checked to see if a domain name resolved to an IP address before doing the WHOIS check for speed.
Ten SSL certificates cost you $3000? Rackshack do them for $25 a piece (total of $250).
Freaky - the first Ebooks I downloaded were the Harry Potter ones (admittedly illegally) on to a Palm in PDF ebook format. As soon as Order of the Phoenix came out in hardback (in fact, the day it was released), I brought it and all the other HP books. However, just buying a "kids book" like Harry Potter "just to see what it was like" just didn't feel right - but the Ebooks gave me a chance to sample them! Thanks Kazaa(Lite), Adobe, Palm and whoever OCRed the books!
Well, it took a strain, but I managed to get the reference as well. 2010: Andromeda Two wasn't it? ;)
>> Try installing PerlMagick; even with a working ImageMagick installation on your system, it's not straightforward to get PerlMagick up and running.
Tell me about it - I've got ImageMagick all happily running on my RH box at the moment, but can I get PerlMagick to run? Nope... 2 hours last night were wasted on this until I twigged that MovableType also supported NetPBM: I could of clicks and everything was hunky dory.
Well, perhaps the Canadians are more aware of power conservation and don't have so many lights on at any time (I'm sure we've all seen pictures of the Manhattan skyline late at night lit up like a christmas tree: including empty offices). Plus I guess in larger cities like NY you have more street lights and (IIRC) around 40% of light from street lights go straight up (hence why stargazing near cities is pointless) these and many many other factors attribute to light pollution which those images show.
Cool - you're right - there is some really good porn on http://127.0.0.1/ , but it must be a really old site and I'm sure I've seen it before...
Echo'd here. When I've finished watching a movie or something on my computer, I usually turn around and read a book or something - but I can still hear when the monitor goes into power saving mode due to the "flop" sound it makes.
Likewise: the really experienced people would probably chose option 2. I know a hell of a lot about the Internet, TCP/IP, programming (various languages) etc - but I'm willing to admit there may be something I don't know (like how the hell BT's Colossus network which routes all the ADSL customers in the UK works): therefore I'd rather go for option 2 then option 3.
Just don't ask me how many times I've actually done it in that order (either on my home Dell or over 60 computers I've had to change the network cables on). RTFM: I did. Followed the FM: well, erm ;)
Demon may not be the cheapest solution for either dialup (I think they're the 2nd most expensive for that) or ADSL provision (11th most expensive IIRC) - but tech support has been excellent for me (even at 8pm on Boxing Day!) and the techs actually know what they are talking about - reliability has been ok to extremely good etc etc. I suppose it's a case of "you get what you pay for". I pay extra per month for a toll-free service status line and "local rate" tech support: other people pay less per month but get premium rate tech support and no service status information (which, 9 times out of 10, actually prevents me from calling tech support as they acknowledge the problem before I get a chance to report it)
I do a bit of tech support in the role I'm in, and I agree with you that most of the problems actually stem from the user end. We've got nearly 1,000 customers: yet it always seems to be the same dozen customers "having problems". Today we had a customer saying "got a problem with email", three people told him to either call the dedicated tech support line or open a helpdesk ticket. He called again. And again. But no call to the tech support helpline and no ticket opened on the helpdesk (we even emailed him at his Yahoo address with details - saying we need more than "problem with email"). Eventually, it got escalated right up as sales were getting fed up with it - then it was escalated back down to tech support where it took less than 2 minutes to find out this numbskull had set email forwards up which forwarded his email to non-existant domains. No wonder it was failing - but if he had followed the online help support, used our knowledgebase, used our helpdesk OR called the right blinking number the problem could be resolved in minutes.
Problem is - what country would they prosecute him under? Sealand claims it a seperate nation, yet the UK doesn't recognise it as such: therefore the whole legal situation gets a bit "muddy".
Yeah - he's probably in favour of shooting bears into space on massive catapults covered in silver glitter (the catapult, not the bear!)
Is it still legal if they say "I'm calling from XYZ and I was hoping you would be interested in the following prerecorded sales notification" whilst your Outgoing Message is still playing. They've complied by the law by making the announcement within the first 30 seconds and "it isn't our fault if the potential customer's answerphone didn't start recording from the start of the call".
True, true. At the moment, my WinXP box has been up for over 24 days continually (and continually connected to the Internet via ADSL for 16 days) - I've only had one major gripe with it. When I use Internet Connection Sharing to a Debian Linux box that I'm installing, it does crash Windows Network. Of course, Windows then offers to send a crash report - but since it's the network stack that's somehow screwed up, it's not able to...
I know the nearest Tesco supermarket store to me has those "metal strip" detector thingies (you know: like in libraries in stuff) every 5 feet across all entrances and exits and the razorblades are kept in "DVD-style" cases (which they open at the checkout for you): already quite good security in my book - why do they need to combine it with CCTV?
Sigh. I wish for the days back when I only had 1 message waiting. For me, those "alertvertisments" would be more believable if they said "You have 3,962 messages waiting. 3,960 of those are spam" (and yes, I do get that amount of spam in any 12 hour period :( )
Or what happens when a family are shopping and adult A picks up the razor blades, decides they don't want them and gets child B to return them. Then they get to the checkout and realise they do need them, so they get child C to fetch a new pack - and finally adult D pays for the goods.
That's really going to screw up any "photographic auditing" system!
Ah - but then you'll "see" 10 "nothings" (ie your screen reader will just say "image" or "space" or similar) so your password could be nsnsnsnsnsnsnsnsnsns (10 _n_othing_s_) or ieieieieieieieieie (either 10 _i_mage_e_ s or a deranged Old McDonald without his farm)
Only if it wasn't true.
What good is a body without a mind? I think it was Douglas Adams who prophesied that if you died in a virtual world you would also die in the real world.
Actually that's scarily near the truth: I've often written routines that do complex mathematic models with algebra that just on the edge my understand and once testing finishes I say to my self "Well, it works - but please please don't ask me how!".