Well, in terms of Spamassassin, you could create rules which subtracts a particular number of points from the spam score of any particular message, rather than letting it through automatically, which gives it a better chance to go through if it's a pretty un-spam-like content.
RHCE certifications on 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0 are all considered current by Red Hat, Inc. RHCT certifications commence with 8.0. Red Hat has no plans to de-list RHCEs, however, RHCE and RHCT certification will only be "current" for 2 full releases after the release on which the Exam was taken. Re-certification is a matter of choice by professionals and their employers.
That said, is it such a bad thing for people to be encouraged to keep up to date certs every two years or so?
Isn't that one of the many reasons we see so many servers getting compromised by the latest worm or virus that's going around destroying half the Internet?;)
Um... not being a network expert myself, I have to ask why you don't just set up "smart relaying" on their email servers?
Most email servers have this easy to configure option, which simply forwards all outgoing email from the server to their ISP's SMTP server, with no changes to the email.
Provides you the ability to run your server and the ISP the ability to bottleneck spam, I don't really see the problem here.
I have a static IP address through earthlink, which I use for my two domains, with web and email access, and I have absolutely no problem with both running my own email server while having outgoing traffic on port 25 blocked.
It's called "smart relaying" and can be configured with a simple option under Sendmail, as well as most other email servers, so that your email server will forward all outgoing mail to the ISP's SMTP server.
I'm not a networking expert by any means, but I fail to see how blocking outgoing port 25 email is going to be a problem, when it works perfectly fine for me and my domains.
Conversely, simply having a higher average fps number doesn't guarentee that the highs and lows will be better than the lower average fps.
There's nothing in that single number to say that the higher average fps doesn't suffer from a number of wildly varying large peaks and valleys in performance, while the lower number could be much more steady, with relatively low variance in the number across its peaks and valleys.
It only makes you wish that these benchmarks, especially the "real world" Quake 3 tests, had a graph of fps throughout the test to see how performance was at any particular point.
It was created as a mod to existing, non-free software (Half-Life).
Subtle, but important difference and in line with what the poster above you said about people not wanting to contribute until the ball is already rolling.
And compared with a VCR or DVD player, a TiVo is difficult to set up and maintain.
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When a British media consultancy recently distributed some TiVos, 30 percent of the recipient households "never really got to grips with them"--or, in other words, they preferred to let the pricey boxes gather dust rather than waste another second figuring out the labyrinthine menus.
I suspect that those same families still have their clocks flashing 12:00AM and do little more than read email on their P4 2GHz computers.
You're always going to have people who simply aren't going to make use of technology due to phobia.
However, the opposite side to their figures is that 70% of the people given TiVos ARE using it.
And I honestly can say that once you teach someone initially how to navigate through the menus, having the TiVo automatically catch your favorite shows whenever they're on, despite most schedule changes, is far easier than the hassles of putting in new tapes all the time and manually programming a change in a particular week's showtime.
I don't think that's "security through obscurity", rather "security through incompatibility".
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Um... No.
A little reading through my previous posts will show that my point was that the checking for modifications in the hardware and software by the "XBox Live" online servers wasn't meant originally to simply catch DMCA violators, as some of the more paranoid in other threads have implied. It was designed to catch cheaters which would drive non-cheating, paying customers away from the online service.
Most other massively-multiplayer online systems (Everquest, etc) have similiar checks, though it technically should be easier for Microsoft as not only should you have the same software as everyone else, but the same hardware as well.
The ability to catch copyright infringement and Linux loading modifications is just a side benefit.
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That would be true if the only profit from the XBox came in the form of the games and any hardware accessories.
However, the "XBox Live" which is doing the automagic checking for hardwarew/software modifications is Microsoft's online service for the system, one for which end-users pay $50 annually to play online against others.
If modded boxes allow gameshark like cheats online, and there was no method of checking for such cheat mods, this would ruin enough of the online experience for end-users that the annual $50 Microsoft is counting on to run those now cheat-enabled servers isn't going to be so easy to raise.
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"There's also a story about the XBox online gaming service that implies Microsoft will be scanning your machine to make sure you haven't modified it"
Although some people will take the conspiritorial mindset that this was done solely to Microsoft's advantage and being anti-consumer, it was most likely done not to prevent silly things like Linux running on the box, but to prevent cheaters from modifying their boxes in such a way as to ruin the online experience for others.
It wouldn't take all that many cheaters with modded boxes to tank any online network's value to the average casual gamer.
Of course, there's the side benefit of punishing those who mod their boxes for copyright infringement purposes.
... maybe they deliberately leaked it, knowing full well that the extra hype would only help the movie, the fanatics would still go to the movie theater to see it ten times and would buy all six versions of the DVD, even after seeing it from a downloaded P2P copy.
[ conspiracy mode ]
Additionally, intentionally releasing a relatively clean copy of a movie that they know will be heavily traded provides them a great bullet point in presentations to Congress about how those eterrorist hackers are trading complete movies online and legislation needs to be immediately enacted to give them full search-and-seizure rights to your computer.
Sadly, the evolving circuit was forced into bankruptcy court soon after the RIAA filed new CARP legislation through their paid-congressman of the week in which the circuit was made to pay $.07 per radio channel picked up per listening receiver.
Witnesses say the circuit was last seen on the corner of 7th and Main Street evolving its pan-handling skills.
Company uses DMCA to prevent competition, film at 11.
It's the same old story, the DMCA is used to stop the use or development of technology that would compete with that of the original corporation, doesn't require the original corporation to change and improve their tech to stay competitive, yet we're to believe the well-compensated politicians that the DMCA doesn't inhibit innovation?
Earthlink, which bills itself as the number two ISP in the US behind AOL, does not restrict your use of servers on their home DSL lines, though they obviously won't supply you with any tech support for them.
But then, Earthlink does offer various anti-spam services as well as a new Popup blocker software available free to members, and while they provide dial-up software similiar to AOL's, you're just as free to not install or use the "simplified net interface" and just use the connection on it's own.
For one of the big guns of ISPs, they tend to be one of the better deals, at least if you're not in certain areas and in need of detailed tech support.
Why not? We trust these people to drive tractor trailers, operate on us, cook our food, defend us in court, fix our cars and care for our children. It's not like you don't know a doctor, laywer, driver or cook who may be ace at their job, yet not know the first thing about setting up those "computer things".;)
As a techinal support person at a company populated by large numbers of non-technically orientated employees, such a situation wouldn't surprise me at all.
That's the very reason we do every bit we can to lock the computers down as much as possible.
I think the point isn't that something could go wrong with an electronic voting system.
The point is that, as past elections have shown, something already has gone wrong with the older systems and will continue to do so if those systems are kept in place.
At the very least the attempt at a solution is better than the current problem.
Of course you're not the only one who believes games should be as you say.
However, that's why there's a number of different genres, as well as game developers, so that theoretically you should be able to find a game in the style that you like.
Some people actually enjoy the challenge of design and management, think of it as the videogame equivalent of advanced lego.
Others would prefer to play the virtual equivalent of 'cowboys and indians' and pick up the latest FPS.
Although I was skeptical, Enterprise didn't start out as badly as I would have expected.
It was different enough of a show that I continued to watch, at least up until the episode entitled "Dear Doctor", in which the ship's doctor got morally fixated on the wrong problem and convinced the Captain to ignore the tens of thousands that were dying every day, along with the strong possibility that the entire race would soon follow.
My reaction was along the lines of: "Wait, so this race can't fly through space faster than warp one, and therefore you're going to knowingly kill them off? Fsck you, Federation!"
Since that episode I gave up on the series for falling into the sad attempts at ignoring a good plot in an attempt to "present a moral lesson".
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However, as the previous poster mentioned, the system was set up to throw out those results if the passengers in question did not check any luggage.
Well, in terms of Spamassassin, you could create rules which subtracts a particular number of points from the spam score of any particular message, rather than letting it through automatically, which gives it a better chance to go through if it's a pretty un-spam-like content.
You don't "have to" get recertified ever.
From their RHCE program site:
RHCE certifications on 5.2, 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, and 8.0 are all considered current by Red Hat, Inc. RHCT certifications commence with 8.0. Red Hat has no plans to de-list RHCEs, however, RHCE and RHCT certification will only be "current" for 2 full releases after the release on which the Exam was taken. Re-certification is a matter of choice by professionals and their employers.
That said, is it such a bad thing for people to be encouraged to keep up to date certs every two years or so?
Isn't that one of the many reasons we see so many servers getting compromised by the latest worm or virus that's going around destroying half the Internet? ;)
Um ... not being a network expert myself, I have to ask why you don't just set up "smart relaying" on their email servers?
Most email servers have this easy to configure option, which simply forwards all outgoing email from the server to their ISP's SMTP server, with no changes to the email.
Provides you the ability to run your server and the ISP the ability to bottleneck spam, I don't really see the problem here.
Um ... why couldn't you just use "smart relaying", an easy to use option in most email servers?
All outgoing email from your email server would be forwarded to your ISP's SMTP server, with no change in who the email was sent from.
It allows you to use your email server, as well as provides a spam control method to the ISP.
I have a static IP address through earthlink, which I use for my two domains, with web and email access, and I have absolutely no problem with both running my own email server while having outgoing traffic on port 25 blocked.
It's called "smart relaying" and can be configured with a simple option under Sendmail, as well as most other email servers, so that your email server will forward all outgoing mail to the ISP's SMTP server.
I'm not a networking expert by any means, but I fail to see how blocking outgoing port 25 email is going to be a problem, when it works perfectly fine for me and my domains.
Conversely, simply having a higher average fps number doesn't guarentee that the highs and lows will be better than the lower average fps.
There's nothing in that single number to say that the higher average fps doesn't suffer from a number of wildly varying large peaks and valleys in performance, while the lower number could be much more steady, with relatively low variance in the number across its peaks and valleys.
It only makes you wish that these benchmarks, especially the "real world" Quake 3 tests, had a graph of fps throughout the test to see how performance was at any particular point.
It was created as a mod to existing, non-free software (Half-Life).
Subtle, but important difference and in line with what the poster above you said about people not wanting to contribute until the ball is already rolling.
. . . both stories involved a "star child" half-breed with extraordinary powers who brings the two sides together in some way.
:P
In fact the end of the "V" television series was immediately called back to memory by the end of the last Taken episode.
"Too cartoony" is how I personally would describe the way the prequels look, with everything but the actors being generated by computers.
I suspect that those same families still have their clocks flashing 12:00AM and do little more than read email on their P4 2GHz computers.
You're always going to have people who simply aren't going to make use of technology due to phobia.
However, the opposite side to their figures is that 70% of the people given TiVos ARE using it.
And I honestly can say that once you teach someone initially how to navigate through the menus, having the TiVo automatically catch your favorite shows whenever they're on, despite most schedule changes, is far easier than the hassles of putting in new tapes all the time and manually programming a change in a particular week's showtime.
I don't think that's "security through obscurity", rather "security through incompatibility".
Um ... No.
A little reading through my previous posts will show that my point was that the checking for modifications in the hardware and software by the "XBox Live" online servers wasn't meant originally to simply catch DMCA violators, as some of the more paranoid in other threads have implied. It was designed to catch cheaters which would drive non-cheating, paying customers away from the online service.
Most other massively-multiplayer online systems (Everquest, etc) have similiar checks, though it technically should be easier for Microsoft as not only should you have the same software as everyone else, but the same hardware as well.
The ability to catch copyright infringement and Linux loading modifications is just a side benefit.
That would be true if the only profit from the XBox came in the form of the games and any hardware accessories.
However, the "XBox Live" which is doing the automagic checking for hardwarew/software modifications is Microsoft's online service for the system, one for which end-users pay $50 annually to play online against others.
If modded boxes allow gameshark like cheats online, and there was no method of checking for such cheat mods, this would ruin enough of the online experience for end-users that the annual $50 Microsoft is counting on to run those now cheat-enabled servers isn't going to be so easy to raise.
Although some people will take the conspiritorial mindset that this was done solely to Microsoft's advantage and being anti-consumer, it was most likely done not to prevent silly things like Linux running on the box, but to prevent cheaters from modifying their boxes in such a way as to ruin the online experience for others.
It wouldn't take all that many cheaters with modded boxes to tank any online network's value to the average casual gamer.
Of course, there's the side benefit of punishing those who mod their boxes for copyright infringement purposes.
[ conspiracy mode ]
Additionally, intentionally releasing a relatively clean copy of a movie that they know will be heavily traded provides them a great bullet point in presentations to Congress about how those eterrorist hackers are trading complete movies online and legislation needs to be immediately enacted to give them full search-and-seizure rights to your computer.
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Sadly, the evolving circuit was forced into bankruptcy court soon after the RIAA filed new CARP legislation through their paid-congressman of the week in which the circuit was made to pay $.07 per radio channel picked up per listening receiver.
Witnesses say the circuit was last seen on the corner of 7th and Main Street evolving its pan-handling skills.
Company uses DMCA to prevent competition, film at 11.
It's the same old story, the DMCA is used to stop the use or development of technology that would compete with that of the original corporation, doesn't require the original corporation to change and improve their tech to stay competitive, yet we're to believe the well-compensated politicians that the DMCA doesn't inhibit innovation?
Feh.
Earthlink, which bills itself as the number two ISP in the US behind AOL, does not restrict your use of servers on their home DSL lines, though they obviously won't supply you with any tech support for them.
But then, Earthlink does offer various anti-spam services as well as a new Popup blocker software available free to members, and while they provide dial-up software similiar to AOL's, you're just as free to not install or use the "simplified net interface" and just use the connection on it's own.
For one of the big guns of ISPs, they tend to be one of the better deals, at least if you're not in certain areas and in need of detailed tech support.
Why not? We trust these people to drive tractor trailers, operate on us, cook our food, defend us in court, fix our cars and care for our children. It's not like you don't know a doctor, laywer, driver or cook who may be ace at their job, yet not know the first thing about setting up those "computer things". ;)
As a techinal support person at a company populated by large numbers of non-technically orientated employees, such a situation wouldn't surprise me at all.
That's the very reason we do every bit we can to lock the computers down as much as possible.
I think the point isn't that something could go wrong with an electronic voting system.
The point is that, as past elections have shown, something already has gone wrong with the older systems and will continue to do so if those systems are kept in place.
At the very least the attempt at a solution is better than the current problem.
Of course you're not the only one who believes games should be as you say.
However, that's why there's a number of different genres, as well as game developers, so that theoretically you should be able to find a game in the style that you like.
Some people actually enjoy the challenge of design and management, think of it as the videogame equivalent of advanced lego.
Others would prefer to play the virtual equivalent of 'cowboys and indians' and pick up the latest FPS.
There's no one "right" way to game.
Although I was skeptical, Enterprise didn't start out as badly as I would have expected.
It was different enough of a show that I continued to watch, at least up until the episode entitled "Dear Doctor", in which the ship's doctor got morally fixated on the wrong problem and convinced the Captain to ignore the tens of thousands that were dying every day, along with the strong possibility that the entire race would soon follow.
My reaction was along the lines of: "Wait, so this race can't fly through space faster than warp one, and therefore you're going to knowingly kill them off? Fsck you, Federation!"
Since that episode I gave up on the series for falling into the sad attempts at ignoring a good plot in an attempt to "present a moral lesson".