If the domain in the From address doesn't match any of the Received headers, just silently bin the thing.
The world is not that simple. You have a pacbell.net dial-up, but your e-mail is provided by your place of business-- say, UC Irvine (uci.edu). You check and send e-mail from home. Because uci.edu does not allow smtp relaying for non-authenticated smtp sessions (I'm just using them as an example, I don't really know), you have to use pacbell.net's local smtp server instead.
This means that your perfectly valid e-mail has a From address (foo@uci.edu) that does not match any of the servers in the Received headers (bar.pacbell.net, etc.). This is not uncommon.
Our scientific users are highly dependant on specific software packages for their research and data reduction. This means, once you follow the multiple "have you tried this?" arguments, is that we need to use RedHat for about half of our 150 scientific workstations (the other half are Solaris).
Due to RedHat's rearrangement of their product lines, our current "approved" version of RedHat Linux is 7.3. We will not migrate to 8.0, as it was the first release in a major version change, and we will not migrate to 9, as it is now the sandbox for potentially unstable features.
We are currently investigating the RedHat Enterprise Linux WS distribution; thanks to being an education institution, we can get volume licenses for a whole lot less than the list price. If it weren't for the price break, we'd already be looking for an alternate distribution to use. If the Enterprise WS distribution doesn't work out, we'll be looking anyway.
Why does this matter? Hardware support. The x86 hardware market will not let us buy 3-4 years behind the times. As it is, we already buy our hardware well behind the bleeding edge, and there's still the occasional compatability issue. We already custom-build most of our software from source, but the hardware support is a real sticker. Custom compiling current kernels for a highly diverse workstation clientele is not a time-effective option.
It's worth noting that the particular user making this comment lives in the UK; the vast majority of the twitch games worth playing are going to be served and populated by locals-- in this case, people on the Eastern side of the Atlantic.
I've seen far too many lame people on "local" U.S. of A. servers to believe that France has the highest incidence of cheaters across the globe. At the very least, I don't see how they could be at the top of the list if you're talking about sheer quantity.
Couldn't agree more. Though I've played a few games that I would call "better" than the Ultima series (by "Ultima series" I mean the time window in which the games were "good"-- Ultima 5 though 7, including the Underworlds, and yes, even the Worlds of Ultima), there are few other games that had as much of an impact on my personal morals. Part of it was the timing in my life, of course, but still... no other game ever acted as such a strong catalyst for my personal development.
Ultima 6, I think, was the one that really hit it home for me.
First point: they've already accepted you for the job. Is this just an argument of principle?
If so, you have outdated notions of absolute privacy. At some point, you have to believe that your peers will respect the privacy of your personal information; if you cannot place that trust in them, I would start first by questioning why you are at this company. Or do you have something to hide?
Credit reports are a good source of information about your financial responsibility; this is directly relevant to any position that is required to manage a budget of any kind, middle-management included.
In the realm of landlording, if your credit report is used in such a way that you are denied the position you are applying for, the landlord is obligated to provide either a copy of the credit report or the name of the agency that supplied said report.
Take your $$$ elsewhere. No matter how much love you have for the game, it has forsaken you. There's too many other quality games out there; why waste time on sheer frustration?
eBay is great for finding used games, sometimes at hardly more than the cost of a month of EQ.
did anybody ever buy the Ultima I-VI compilation on CD-ROM? I wanted that so badly. Was it everything an avid Ultima player dreamed about?
I received a copy of Ultima IX Special Edition as a gift (note: it actually played fine on modern hardware, with the latest patch!), and it included Ultimas 1-8 on a separate CD.
Short answer: no, it was kind of a letdown; the main problem was that the compilation had to compete with my memories of my first run through those games.
At the time, I felt that if I played through the older Ultimas, maybe by the time I was done I would have enough hardware to play Ultima 9. I tried playing Ultimas 1-3, and couldn't force myself to get into any of the games, despite having gone through them in the past. Ultima IV was a little closer to the mark, but even then, I didn't feel like I was playing my way through an epic-- rather, I was just spinning my EGA wheels, and taking a lot of notes for no particular purpose. I didn't try Ultima V, having remembered how long that game took to finish!
I imagine Ultima VI would have been OK, but still would have appeared short. Even now, though, the call of Ultima VII is impressive, and I may yet replay it. That was one of the finest games (in four parts) to ever cross my path... you don't often find attention to detail on that scale in video games.
That same sense of "scale" is exactly what prevented Ultima IX from redeeming the Ultima series. While the attention to detail was there (just as it was in Ultima VIII, don't forget), the world itself was far, far too small, in all respects.
Now, if only someone would re-make Wasteland... it aches for the Fallout engine!
The field of cosmology has advanced at an incredible pace in the past decade, with major discoveries within the past calendar year. Much of the recently published evidence (i.e., fact, not opinion) addresses many of the points raised in this chunk of plagarism (the original article was authored by Duane T. Gish in 1991).
Don't take my word for it; read up on the latest developments yourself. Even for someone that's not intimately familiar with the field, it's quite exciting.
Cancel your cable/satellite/whatever subscription. Think of the money you'd save if you purchased just the Good Crap(tm) when it came out of DVD instead of paying for it and all the Bad Crap(tm) monthly.
You may surprise yourself by not even wanting to watch the Good Crap(tm) anymore.
(if you naively assume that a photon feels the force of gravity, despite the fact that it has no mass)
Photons have energy; gravity acts on energy just as well as it acts on mass. Einstein brought us that formula as well.
Likewise, energy exerts a gravitational force, just like mass. A famous example of this is the precession of Mercury's orbit, caused by the corona of the sun.
NASA isn't the answer to getting off this planet. It will be commercial interests that get us in orbit, and beyond... NASA is primarily a military-style organization (owned by the government), which means it's got a bad case of the bloat.
Compare the cost of the space shuttle, and re-usable SSTO (single-stage-to-orbit) prototypes. You can build and launch a re-usable SSTO with "off the shelf" componenents for orders of magnitude less than the cost of a single space shuttle mission.
I don't want a tax on the products I buy to be pigeon-holed for an organization like NASA. Let them set up a treasury bond for NASA instead.
Digital UNIX does this already, except it's part of their licensing program. If you don't keep your licenses up to date, the entire system basically shuts down.
It's a royal pain, especially when you've got a highly diverse computing environment.
"Whatever anyone thinks about their business practices and operating systems, they sure seem to always sell good mice."
I beg to differ. Microsoft Products always follow a distinct cycle: release the first (frequently bad) rev, and evolve it from there. It's like an iterative approximation algorithm. Compare Windows 2.0 to Windows98, or IE 3.0 to IE 5.5; while the overall shape is largely similar, the finer points have evolved substantially, such that the product became something that people were willing to use, and not simply avoid.
I owned one of the first Microsoft mice, by sheer chance. They're still shaped the same way now as they were back then, but the mouse I had was fully dead within 12 months. Since then, they've evolved the product substantially, to something that many people tout as the holy grail of mice.
I have a personal preference for Logitech optical trackballs, and haven't used any MS mice since my first one died (it really was that shoddy of a product). It's also my personal belief that Microsoft takes their "evolution" process too far, and throws in too many features at the expense of stability and longevity. Note that I draw no comparisons to WinXP or IE 6.
Foreword: I have a bachelor's in computer science, and am currently in a physics graduate program.
If you're truly concerned about the applicability of your degree, stick with engineering. If you're thinking about doing computer science, do computer engineering instead; you can apply your classes to either computer science or Real Applications(tm) once you're a bit further along in your career-making-path.
Likewise, you can apply an electrical engineering degree to almost any scientific field with only a minimum of further training. There's lots of theorists out there, and not a lot of people that can build the equipment that tests their theories.
The vast majority of what one studies in college has no practical application, unless you're looking at becoming an academic yourself. Engineering degrees are, from what I've seen, the exception.
I don't have any sources, but this is not a new theory in any way... astronomers and astrophysicists have a rather good understanding of angular momentum and its application, and have maintained for some time that the Earth would not be completely enveloped by the outer layers of our sun as it goes into a red-giant phase.
As others have pointed out, the natural life-cycle of the sun will sear all life from the surface of the Earth long before any potential engulfing happens (as if it was the engulfing that mattered; the outer layers of a red giant are extremely thin, much more tenuous than our atmosphere). We'll experience some kind of runaway greenhouse effect something like a billion years before the sun enters the red giant phase... and our galaxy will collide with Andromeda before the sun goes belly-up.
One of our hopes for preposterously-long-term survival, as researched (with a smile on his face and a glint in his eye) by Greg Laughlin (et al.), is for the Earth to be caught by a wandering type-M star and pulled out of the solar system.
But really now... we're talking billions of years, here. It's fun to think about, but calling it "news" (especially "breaking news") is a pretty harsh misnomer.
Keck's been capable of "beating" Hubble for a good long while now. Adaptive Optics is wild and crazy stuff.
Please don't believe that we'll be able to do away with space-based observing because of this innovation. Our atmosphere absorbs an awful lot of interesting wavelengths.
Why aren't Germans doing this if they want access to the banned sites?
Come on now. Can you imagine trying to explain how to change your computer's DNS server to an entire country, which is inevitably comprised of a large percentage of Joe Users? These are people that don't know what a DNS server is, much less why their favorite "unsavory" website isn't working, or how changing some technical-sounding "DNS server" widget would help.
The truly motivated people will always find a way around such trivial blockades, but Joe User is another story... raw technical information will never save Joe User. Hence, the political battle.
just a small note. i read somewhere (i believe toms) that those intel cards eat tonnes of cpu and us eless bandwitdh than they should. personally i would go with a 3com 3c905c. thoes people know what they are doing.
In my experience with network cards, I have yet to have an Intel EtherExpress card fail. I've had more than six 3Com boards fail (fatally) on me. I've used about equal numbers, maybe more Intel boards than 3Com. I know a lot of those 3Com boards were 3C905's, and I think I had a few 3C509's go out on me.
I've also had very bad experiences with 3Com switches, but I won't get into that...
I tried running GNOME 1.4 on a couple of new machines we were integrating into the network, and it was unbearably sludgy. The combination of Nautilus and the bloated Sawfish window manager ate over 50% of the valuable CPU time, time that could be far better spent handling database queries and web requests.
Why are you running X-Windows, period, on your database and web server(s)? Division of labor, man. Save the UI (and its inherent overhead) for the end-user workstations. And yes, if the machine is truly an end-user workstation, you're allowed to spend a hideous amount of CPU + memory on the UI. Older versions of the MacOS spent 100% of the CPU on rendering the menu anytime you clicked on the menu bar. Nobody, except for the people that were trying to run background tasks (very few and far between in the Mac world), seemed to mind.
I suppose there's an alternative to my question-- why are you running core services on end-user workstations? That's asking for trouble in my book. Workstations are subject to the whims of users; servers should not be.
As for GNOME not shipping with Solaris 9-- I find that somewhat disappointing. Most of my Linux users (on their workstations) seem to prefer GNOME to KDE. It'd be nice to have the choice.
Hear hear. Set all your rationale and twisted logic aside; I'm not proud that, as an American citizen, I share some measure of responsibility, even if in name only, for the events that transpired today.
There was a fireworks show in Santa Cruz tonight. It made me uneasy to watch it... it's too easy to imagine the flashes against the clouds and the loud booming associated with violence as opposed to entertainment. It was too easy to imagine the fighting happening in my backyard instead of someone else's.
It's an entirely different situation when the "justice" is happening in your backyard. I've tried and failed to come up with some sort of stirring accompaniment to that statement. Just think about it for a bit, and see if you still feel the same way, warmongers and tree-hugging-hippies alike.
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This means that your perfectly valid e-mail has a From address (foo@uci.edu) that does not match any of the servers in the Received headers (bar.pacbell.net, etc.). This is not uncommon.
Our scientific users are highly dependant on specific software packages for their research and data reduction. This means, once you follow the multiple "have you tried this?" arguments, is that we need to use RedHat for about half of our 150 scientific workstations (the other half are Solaris).
Due to RedHat's rearrangement of their product lines, our current "approved" version of RedHat Linux is 7.3. We will not migrate to 8.0, as it was the first release in a major version change, and we will not migrate to 9, as it is now the sandbox for potentially unstable features.
We are currently investigating the RedHat Enterprise Linux WS distribution; thanks to being an education institution, we can get volume licenses for a whole lot less than the list price. If it weren't for the price break, we'd already be looking for an alternate distribution to use. If the Enterprise WS distribution doesn't work out, we'll be looking anyway.
Why does this matter? Hardware support. The x86 hardware market will not let us buy 3-4 years behind the times. As it is, we already buy our hardware well behind the bleeding edge, and there's still the occasional compatability issue. We already custom-build most of our software from source, but the hardware support is a real sticker. Custom compiling current kernels for a highly diverse workstation clientele is not a time-effective option.
I've seen far too many lame people on "local" U.S. of A. servers to believe that France has the highest incidence of cheaters across the globe. At the very least, I don't see how they could be at the top of the list if you're talking about sheer quantity.
If only they still had the source code. According to the powers that be, it is lost.
Couldn't agree more. Though I've played a few games that I would call "better" than the Ultima series (by "Ultima series" I mean the time window in which the games were "good"-- Ultima 5 though 7, including the Underworlds, and yes, even the Worlds of Ultima), there are few other games that had as much of an impact on my personal morals. Part of it was the timing in my life, of course, but still... no other game ever acted as such a strong catalyst for my personal development.
Ultima 6, I think, was the one that really hit it home for me.
The real lesson you needed to learn:
1. User apps should never be setuid root. Ever.
It's a lot simpler if you don't buy a car. Two wheels and 21 gears gets you around most anywhere in-town.
First point: they've already accepted you for the job. Is this just an argument of principle?
If so, you have outdated notions of absolute privacy. At some point, you have to believe that your peers will respect the privacy of your personal information; if you cannot place that trust in them, I would start first by questioning why you are at this company. Or do you have something to hide?
Credit reports are a good source of information about your financial responsibility; this is directly relevant to any position that is required to manage a budget of any kind, middle-management included.
In the realm of landlording, if your credit report is used in such a way that you are denied the position you are applying for, the landlord is obligated to provide either a copy of the credit report or the name of the agency that supplied said report.
Take your $$$ elsewhere. No matter how much love you have for the game, it has forsaken you. There's too many other quality games out there; why waste time on sheer frustration?
eBay is great for finding used games, sometimes at hardly more than the cost of a month of EQ.
Short answer: no, it was kind of a letdown; the main problem was that the compilation had to compete with my memories of my first run through those games.
At the time, I felt that if I played through the older Ultimas, maybe by the time I was done I would have enough hardware to play Ultima 9. I tried playing Ultimas 1-3, and couldn't force myself to get into any of the games, despite having gone through them in the past. Ultima IV was a little closer to the mark, but even then, I didn't feel like I was playing my way through an epic-- rather, I was just spinning my EGA wheels, and taking a lot of notes for no particular purpose. I didn't try Ultima V, having remembered how long that game took to finish!
I imagine Ultima VI would have been OK, but still would have appeared short. Even now, though, the call of Ultima VII is impressive, and I may yet replay it. That was one of the finest games (in four parts) to ever cross my path... you don't often find attention to detail on that scale in video games.
That same sense of "scale" is exactly what prevented Ultima IX from redeeming the Ultima series. While the attention to detail was there (just as it was in Ultima VIII, don't forget), the world itself was far, far too small, in all respects.
Now, if only someone would re-make Wasteland... it aches for the Fallout engine!
The field of cosmology has advanced at an incredible pace in the past decade, with major discoveries within the past calendar year. Much of the recently published evidence (i.e., fact, not opinion) addresses many of the points raised in this chunk of plagarism (the original article was authored by Duane T. Gish in 1991).
Don't take my word for it; read up on the latest developments yourself. Even for someone that's not intimately familiar with the field, it's quite exciting.
I suggest starting here.
Cancel your cable/satellite/whatever subscription. Think of the money you'd save if you purchased just the Good Crap(tm) when it came out of DVD instead of paying for it and all the Bad Crap(tm) monthly.
You may surprise yourself by not even wanting to watch the Good Crap(tm) anymore.
...waiting for the DVD. Like the third movie will be released before the DVD, or something?
(if you naively assume that a photon feels the force of gravity, despite the fact that it has no mass)
Photons have energy; gravity acts on energy just as well as it acts on mass. Einstein brought us that formula as well.
Likewise, energy exerts a gravitational force, just like mass. A famous example of this is the precession of Mercury's orbit, caused by the corona of the sun.
NASA isn't the answer to getting off this planet. It will be commercial interests that get us in orbit, and beyond... NASA is primarily a military-style organization (owned by the government), which means it's got a bad case of the bloat.
Compare the cost of the space shuttle, and re-usable SSTO (single-stage-to-orbit) prototypes. You can build and launch a re-usable SSTO with "off the shelf" componenents for orders of magnitude less than the cost of a single space shuttle mission.
I don't want a tax on the products I buy to be pigeon-holed for an organization like NASA. Let them set up a treasury bond for NASA instead.
Digital UNIX does this already, except it's part of their licensing program. If you don't keep your licenses up to date, the entire system basically shuts down.
It's a royal pain, especially when you've got a highly diverse computing environment.
I owned one of the first Microsoft mice, by sheer chance. They're still shaped the same way now as they were back then, but the mouse I had was fully dead within 12 months. Since then, they've evolved the product substantially, to something that many people tout as the holy grail of mice.
I have a personal preference for Logitech optical trackballs, and haven't used any MS mice since my first one died (it really was that shoddy of a product). It's also my personal belief that Microsoft takes their "evolution" process too far, and throws in too many features at the expense of stability and longevity. Note that I draw no comparisons to WinXP or IE 6.
Foreword: I have a bachelor's in computer science, and am currently in a physics graduate program.
If you're truly concerned about the applicability of your degree, stick with engineering. If you're thinking about doing computer science, do computer engineering instead; you can apply your classes to either computer science or Real Applications(tm) once you're a bit further along in your career-making-path.
Likewise, you can apply an electrical engineering degree to almost any scientific field with only a minimum of further training. There's lots of theorists out there, and not a lot of people that can build the equipment that tests their theories.
The vast majority of what one studies in college has no practical application, unless you're looking at becoming an academic yourself. Engineering degrees are, from what I've seen, the exception.
...from the people that are co-ordinating AO research across the country:
http://cfao.ucolick.org/
I don't have any sources, but this is not a new theory in any way... astronomers and astrophysicists have a rather good understanding of angular momentum and its application, and have maintained for some time that the Earth would not be completely enveloped by the outer layers of our sun as it goes into a red-giant phase.
As others have pointed out, the natural life-cycle of the sun will sear all life from the surface of the Earth long before any potential engulfing happens (as if it was the engulfing that mattered; the outer layers of a red giant are extremely thin, much more tenuous than our atmosphere). We'll experience some kind of runaway greenhouse effect something like a billion years before the sun enters the red giant phase... and our galaxy will collide with Andromeda before the sun goes belly-up.
One of our hopes for preposterously-long-term survival, as researched (with a smile on his face and a glint in his eye) by Greg Laughlin (et al.), is for the Earth to be caught by a wandering type-M star and pulled out of the solar system.
But really now... we're talking billions of years, here. It's fun to think about, but calling it "news" (especially "breaking news") is a pretty harsh misnomer.
Keck's been capable of "beating" Hubble for a good long while now. Adaptive Optics is wild and crazy stuff.
Please don't believe that we'll be able to do away with space-based observing because of this innovation. Our atmosphere absorbs an awful lot of interesting wavelengths.
Why aren't Germans doing this if they want access to the banned sites?
Come on now. Can you imagine trying to explain how to change your computer's DNS server to an entire country, which is inevitably comprised of a large percentage of Joe Users? These are people that don't know what a DNS server is, much less why their favorite "unsavory" website isn't working, or how changing some technical-sounding "DNS server" widget would help.
The truly motivated people will always find a way around such trivial blockades, but Joe User is another story... raw technical information will never save Joe User. Hence, the political battle.
just a small note. i read somewhere (i believe toms) that those intel cards eat tonnes of cpu and us eless bandwitdh than they should. personally i would go with a 3com 3c905c. thoes people know what they are doing.
In my experience with network cards, I have yet to have an Intel EtherExpress card fail. I've had more than six 3Com boards fail (fatally) on me. I've used about equal numbers, maybe more Intel boards than 3Com. I know a lot of those 3Com boards were 3C905's, and I think I had a few 3C509's go out on me.
I've also had very bad experiences with 3Com switches, but I won't get into that...
I tried running GNOME 1.4 on a couple of new machines we were integrating into the network, and it was unbearably sludgy. The combination of Nautilus and the bloated Sawfish window manager ate over 50% of the valuable CPU time, time that could be far better spent handling database queries and web requests.
Why are you running X-Windows, period, on your database and web server(s)? Division of labor, man. Save the UI (and its inherent overhead) for the end-user workstations. And yes, if the machine is truly an end-user workstation, you're allowed to spend a hideous amount of CPU + memory on the UI. Older versions of the MacOS spent 100% of the CPU on rendering the menu anytime you clicked on the menu bar. Nobody, except for the people that were trying to run background tasks (very few and far between in the Mac world), seemed to mind.
I suppose there's an alternative to my question-- why are you running core services on end-user workstations? That's asking for trouble in my book. Workstations are subject to the whims of users; servers should not be.
As for GNOME not shipping with Solaris 9-- I find that somewhat disappointing. Most of my Linux users (on their workstations) seem to prefer GNOME to KDE. It'd be nice to have the choice.
Hear hear. Set all your rationale and twisted logic aside; I'm not proud that, as an American citizen, I share some measure of responsibility, even if in name only, for the events that transpired today.
There was a fireworks show in Santa Cruz tonight. It made me uneasy to watch it... it's too easy to imagine the flashes against the clouds and the loud booming associated with violence as opposed to entertainment. It was too easy to imagine the fighting happening in my backyard instead of someone else's.
It's an entirely different situation when the "justice" is happening in your backyard. I've tried and failed to come up with some sort of stirring accompaniment to that statement. Just think about it for a bit, and see if you still feel the same way, warmongers and tree-hugging-hippies alike.