Not too long ago it was that digital would never replace film, period. It's just a matter of time before there are digital sensors of that quality. Really.
Keep in mind that as sensors are getting better and cheaper, film is also getting better. Better films are introduced into the marketplace that are rated at higher ISOs with considerably less visiable grain as their predecessors.
It all depends on why you are taking the photo. Is it to put it on your online photo-album? Or are you shooting the roll for the print to be used in a art gallery, or a huge billboard ad?
As always, you should use the right technology/tool for the job.
You can't beat the price of digital photography when it comes to your everyday point-and-shot jobs. Those of you that have growing kids know what I mean. You a get a 4 or 5 mega-pixel camera for almost next to nothing now a days and the rest is free! You'll never have to pay for either rolls of film or for developing those rolls of film.
On the other hand for prints you can't beat what is offered to you as a photographer in film; especially when we start discussing medium and large formats.
Maybe the poster you are replying to has a problem with the "glorification" of this guy as a former spammer and not the "HOW-TO" bit.
Would you also be offended if someone objected to an interview with a murderer explaining the how's, when's, whom's and where's of committing his or her crimes?
I mean, that would be "information and all" as you put it.
Re:does this really require a readme.txt??
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I think there is more to it than having bandwidth and software.
You must have quite a few clients willing to pay you
for your "services".
Otherwise, every friend and coworker I have can be a spammer.
Each one of these persons have either a DSL or Cable modem
connection, and most are proficient with computers.
What they (my friends) lack are people willing to pay them for
sending out spam (oh, yeah, another thing working aginst their
success as spammers is morality).
To fight spam and spammers successfully, i think, we must
fight the source and not the messanger (= spammer). That
is finding out who is actually paying for the spam being sent
out and "pound" on them.
I've been fighting spam for several years now. I use RBLs
and ORDBs and even have blacklisted close to 14000 IP
addresses in addition to using spam-filters. But the spam
keeps coming in.
I used to get zero (honest zero!) spam on that account. The only mistake I think I made was to use that account in my purchases both at buy.com and outpost.com. So, I have those two sites under suspicion of selling my email address.
My personal address though, I used to get about may be 3 or 4 spams a day. A tolorable amount. These were spams where I was in the To or Cc list as I filter emails where my email address isn't in those field into a spam folder which I browse through for valid emails from friends once a month or so.
Then I noticed a big jump in amount of spam: 10-15 spams a day!
Keep in mind I have been using ordb.org for quite a while now.
This increase in spam prompted me to start my own blacklist. I started keeping my spam and parsing source IP addresses. Originally I had about 900 IPs listed. I didn't see a dramatic decrease in spam though. Though I did notice soon after using my blacklist that i got a few emails confirming my subscription to "so and so list" was.
Next I noticed a huge flood of spam from azoogle.com servers. So they just got firewalled out! (a quick search on them also showed quite a few sites, including universities, that blocked out azoogle.com completely).
Now, my blacklist is roughtly at 2200 IP addresses and I get about 5-8 spams a day. A fair decrease from the original 10-15 a day I would say. And every week i keep adding to my blacklist.
You can have some anti-social person in a team that would cause all sort of problems for the entire project just because of his work habbits and lack of communication skills.
I have worked with such a person that as a coder he was a very capable and a very smart person. Just not very social and not very good at communications.
He would go about doing his coding and modifying sources here and there and would unintentially break other pieces of software because he would change things that others' code relied on.
Imagine db table schemas changing without you being warned. You make a build send it to QA and a slew of bug reports are written up because someone decided they could go ahead and changes things without consulting w/the rest of the group!
That just there wasted at least a couple of days of work for everyone:
development staff has to figure out what went wrong and how to fix the problem.
QA wasted precious testing time with things that shouldn't have broke in the first place and didn't get to test things they should've since they were busy watching thigns fall apart
Anyway, this type of a problem and the one the original post presents is also the fault of management and project leader(s).
It is ultimately the responsibility of management and/or project leader to make sure things like this doesn't happen.
One simple fix for the problem i outlined is to designate one single person as the "db keeper" and every db change needs to be reviewed and approved by this person. That way by selecting the best person with the db skills in charge of the db changes the project benefits in many ways:
the "db keeper" would make sure changes to tables are acceptable and that the tables remain normalized and no extra columns/tables are ever left in the db (a plus for performance)
assurance that things don't break every week. The "db keeper" would know which pieces of software rely on the changing bits of the db and the proper developers would be notified of the changes.
I think what Tom7 meant was if you have daemon_proc_a and daemon_proc_b running as user nobody and both write their temporary files in the/tmp directory (with our without sticky bit set on/tmp) if daemon_proc_b is exploited it can clobber daemon_proc_a's temporary data files and cause some "damage".
Your comments about how Wal-Mart is loading Linux, Apple doing this and IBM doing that and some countries are considering... etc. reminded me of the old days when i used to use OS/2 and how excited we would get on some irc #os/2 channel with such stories when a new bank would announce they were loading OS/2 on their ATMs;-)
Ha...such memories.
Keep in mind that what we are doing in these type of discussion threads is little more than what would be considered "self-patting on the back".
"who should control the code you use ...?"
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I am one who usually agrees with views of RMS. I'm more pro-GPL than any other "OSS Approved" licenses.
One thing i don't understand from reading the writing in question is who is being forced to obay "proprietary" software restrictions?
The way i see it is if you do not like the fact that you have no control over the software you use, where control == (browse the soruce | modify the source | redistribute the source), then don't use that software. Either look for an alternative or come up with an alternative yourself (Note that writing software yourself is an alternative).
I use GPL software cause i choose to do so. I do not feel that Micro$oft or any other "proprietary software company" is imposing their will on me.
My parents on the other hand use proprietary software because they choose to do so. They are not satisfied with any alternatives available out there and are comfortable acepting the restrictions imposed on them by the software they choose to use. (Though I'm working on them...;-)
The only single problem with GPL in my opinion is the "freedom" it gives the recepient of the software to redistribute it. This "freedom" renders GPL license useless for use by a software programmer who depends on income generated by his work.
People say that GPL doesn't mean it has to be for free. True, it doesn't. But say an developer writes code and sells the software for $10,000 w/GPL licensing. The first person that pays for the software and receives all the rights granted to him (or her) by GPL is allowed to redistribute this software for free, and to anyone he (or she) pleases.
You see that this reduces the incentive for another person purchasing the software at the price the developer set for the software he hopes to sell and keep his family fed.
I think the problem is that the cost to reproduce software is next to nothing while cost to reproduce any other commodities essential for life is not!
So a software programmer's work could be reporduced in large quantities in a very short time at low cost once the hard work of the programmer is done. However, the work of a farmer raising cattle or harvesting crops would take just as much effort and money to reproduce as the first time.
What i mean is if a person is trying to multi-task 5 different tasks during the 8 hour work-day then this might be true.
Personally I do a lot of multi-tasking as in i'm involved in at least 2 (ideally 3) different coding tasks. I actually find myself to be very productive that way.
This was actually something i recently realized. One of the projects i am involved with was put on hold due to configuration problems with new hardware that was installed, leaving me to work on a single project until the hardware issue is solved.
I find myself getting extremely bored and tired of this single project after about 5 hours or so. I end up not being able to concentrate as well and my motivation level drops considerably compared with its level at the start of the day.
... you were going somewhere with your ranting just before you started on your last paragraph.
"genetically defective"? And who made you the genetic's expert to decide this? I suppose your next post would have something to do with "gay" people are also "genetically defective" so "kill them"?
Leaving your possibly flawed genetics aregument aside, what makes you so damn sure that your US justice system is so perfect and error free that you can so easily advocate the "death penalty".
Even if your justice system was 100% perfect and error free, who gives you the right to make such a decision for someone else?
I am sorry but I must say that I truly hope you do not raise your daughter with the same values and thought-patterns as yourself. You would be doing a great injustice to the society.
Looking back at my comments I suppose they could be considered a bit "biased and unfair" as you put it.
However, the thread of discussion to which I was posting to was revolving around Microsoft (Note that I spelled just the way you *like* it!)
I do however, think that the government should regulate what is being patented and not granting any 'ol ya-hoo ( I hope Yahoo! doesn't have a patent on that word) a patent who applies for the patent.
There has to be a way to discourage such behavior. One way to do it is to impose somewhat of a high penalty for such inappropriate practices.
This is analogous to the punishment criminals face when they commit a crime. You steal a car you face x number of years in prison. You steal a car by forcing the driver out at gun point (ie. commit a car-jacking) you face y (where y > x) number of years in jail. And so on and so forth...
If you didn't have this type of system in place and a government which inforced the system you'd have chaos. Since there would be no repercussions to face up to. Say, I see you driving a nice lexus and I like the colour of it... hell I'll drag you out of it and drive off... of course I'll only possess the lexus until a bigger and badder guy pulls me over and takes off with it.
Are you getting the picture I am trying to paint for you?
There has to be measures taken to prevent such behavior in the real world... and hence, there should be such measures in place in the US Patent Office.
I wonder if this post and this other one are the type of posts we've been reading about on/. lately.
You know, Micro$oft employees getting on the web and posting annonymously defending their anti-everything and everyone company!
I think the US government should review all the patents granted to Micro$oft and for every patent that they find which is either too broad in scope or is a "twist" on a public-domain idea they should fine Micro$oft say $5,000,000? (USD)
I will point and laugh at you when you try go get the thing running reliably
ahmm.. I've bought a clone about 8 months ago. The only parts that are not so "clone" are the 233 Pentium processor, Diamond Video card and the SoundBlaster 64.
About only time I reboot/shutdown my Linux boxes is when I have to either upgrade my kernel or install new memory/board on the motherboard! Oh yea.. and it was that other time when I moved out of my parents home to my own place;-)
Did someone stop and think how this "security" would work with SMP (multi-processor) systems? If each Pentium III will have its own PSN which one would be transmitted to as a security check? What if the order that the processors are installed on the motherboard are changed? I think INTeL didn't do their homework too well (not that they ever did). Either that or they had something other than "security" on their mind when they came up with this idea.
I think there is a wc that emulates the look and feel of wps.. though I don't understand why anyone would like that. I personally thought it was not that great of a wm when I was using OS/2 (Long looooooong ago).
I wonder if INTeL will be next in line to sue Connectix for their Virtual PC software (an x86 processor "emulator")? I'd love to see this go on... sidster--
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Not too long ago it was that digital would never replace film, period. It's just a matter of time before there are digital sensors of that quality. Really.
Keep in mind that as sensors are getting better and cheaper,
film is also getting better. Better films are introduced
into the marketplace that are rated at higher ISOs with
considerably less visiable grain as their predecessors.
It all depends on why you are taking the photo. Is it to
put it on your online photo-album? Or are you shooting
the roll for the print to be used in a art gallery, or a
huge billboard ad?
As always, you should use the right technology/tool for
the job.
You can't beat the price of digital photography when it
comes to your everyday point-and-shot jobs. Those of you
that have growing kids know what I mean. You a get a
4 or 5 mega-pixel camera for almost next to nothing now
a days and the rest is free! You'll never have to pay
for either rolls of film or for developing those rolls of
film.
On the other hand for prints you can't beat what is offered
to you as a photographer in film; especially when we start
discussing medium and large formats.
Would you also be offended if someone objected to an interview with a murderer explaining the how's, when's, whom's and where's of committing his or her crimes?
I mean, that would be "information and all" as you put it.
You must have quite a few clients willing to pay you
for your "services".
Otherwise, every friend and coworker I have can be a spammer.
Each one of these persons have either a DSL or Cable modem
connection, and most are proficient with computers.
What they (my friends) lack are people willing to pay them for
sending out spam (oh, yeah, another thing working aginst their
success as spammers is morality).
To fight spam and spammers successfully, i think, we must
fight the source and not the messanger (= spammer). That
is finding out who is actually paying for the spam being sent
out and "pound" on them.
I've been fighting spam for several years now. I use RBLs
and ORDBs and even have blacklisted close to 14000 IP
addresses in addition to using spam-filters. But the spam
keeps coming in.
I've noticed an increase on my yahoo! account.
I used to get zero (honest zero!) spam on that
account. The only mistake I think I made was to
use that account in my purchases both at buy.com
and outpost.com. So, I have those two sites under
suspicion of selling my email address.
My personal address though, I used to get about
may be 3 or 4 spams a day. A tolorable amount.
These were spams where I was in the To or Cc list
as I filter emails where my email address isn't
in those field into a spam folder which I browse
through for valid emails from friends once a month
or so.
Then I noticed a big jump in amount of spam:
10-15 spams a day!
Keep in mind I have been using ordb.org for
quite a while now.
This increase in spam prompted me to start my own
blacklist. I started keeping my spam and parsing
source IP addresses. Originally I had about 900
IPs listed. I didn't see a dramatic decrease in
spam though. Though I did notice soon after using
my blacklist that i got a few emails confirming my
subscription to "so and so list" was.
Next I noticed a huge flood of spam from
azoogle.com servers. So they just got firewalled
out! (a quick search on them also showed quite
a few sites, including universities, that blocked
out azoogle.com completely).
Now, my blacklist is roughtly at 2200 IP addresses
and I get about 5-8 spams a day. A fair decrease
from the original 10-15 a day I would say. And
every week i keep adding to my blacklist.
Does anyone else have similar experiences?
You can have some anti-social person in a team that would cause all sort of problems for the entire project just because of his work habbits and lack of communication skills.
I have worked with such a person that as a coder he was a very capable and a very smart person. Just not very social and not very good at communications.
He would go about doing his coding and modifying sources here and there and would unintentially break other pieces of software because he would change things that others' code relied on.
Imagine db table schemas changing without you being warned. You make a build send it to QA and a slew of bug reports are written up because someone decided they could go ahead and changes things without consulting w/the rest of the group!
That just there wasted at least a couple of days of work for everyone:
- development staff has to figure out what went wrong and how to fix the problem.
- QA wasted precious testing time with things that shouldn't have broke in the first place and didn't get to test things they should've since they were busy watching thigns fall apart
Anyway, this type of a problem and the one the original post presents is also the fault of management and project leader(s).It is ultimately the responsibility of management and/or project leader to make sure things like this doesn't happen.
One simple fix for the problem i outlined is to designate one single person as the "db keeper" and every db change needs to be reviewed and approved by this person. That way by selecting the best person with the db skills in charge of the db changes the project benefits in many ways:
- the "db keeper" would make sure changes to tables are acceptable and that the tables remain normalized and no extra columns/tables are ever left in the db (a plus for performance)
- assurance that things don't break every week. The "db keeper" would know which pieces of software rely on the changing bits of the db and the proper developers would be notified of the changes.
- etc...
you see where this is going.Are these spam-posts by anonymous posters becoming
more common or are they just a regular thing that
get "suppressed" as they are moderated?
- Php and html mix exteremely well.
- It is very easy to extend php if you needed to.
- Tons of interfaces are available from Php
- GD
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- PDF
... shall i go on?
- Php is very well documented.
- If you know C and Perl then Php becomes second nature.
You probably use a hammer for all your tasks.Please note that the apache_1.3.26.tar.gz file was on their server (according to their server) at 11:24 am PDT time!
/dist/httpd/apache_1.3.26.tar.gz HTTP/1.1
I had it downloaded and installed on my box at work at about 6pm PDT.
Output from HEAD on apache_1.3.26.tar.gz:
Connected to www.apache.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD
Host: www.apache.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 04:00:49 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.39 (Unix)
Cache-Control: max-age=86400
Expires: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 04:00:49 GMT
Last-Modified: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 18:24:15 GMT
ETag: "cbbee-2324ab-73a911c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 2303147
Content-Type: application/x-tar
Content-Encoding: x-gzip
Connection closed by foreign host.
I think what Tom7 meant was if you have daemon_proc_a and daemon_proc_b running as user nobody and both write their temporary files in the /tmp directory (with our without sticky bit set on /tmp) if daemon_proc_b is exploited it can clobber daemon_proc_a's temporary data files and cause some "damage".
Your comments about how Wal-Mart is loading Linux, Apple doing this and IBM doing that and some countries are considering ... etc. reminded me of the old days when i used to use OS/2 and how excited we would get on some irc #os/2 channel with such stories when a new bank would announce they were loading OS/2 on their ATMs ;-)
Ha...such memories.
Keep in mind that what we are doing in these type of discussion threads is little more than what would be considered "self-patting on the back".
One thing i don't understand from reading the writing in question is who is being forced to obay "proprietary" software restrictions?
The way i see it is if you do not like the fact that you have no control over the software you use, where control == (browse the soruce | modify the source | redistribute the source), then don't use that software. Either look for an alternative or come up with an alternative yourself (Note that writing software yourself is an alternative).
I use GPL software cause i choose to do so. I do not feel that Micro$oft or any other "proprietary software company" is imposing their will on me.
My parents on the other hand use proprietary software because they choose to do so. They are not satisfied with any alternatives available out there and are comfortable acepting the restrictions imposed on them by the software they choose to use. (Though I'm working on them... ;-)
The only single problem with GPL in my opinion is the "freedom" it gives the recepient of the software to redistribute it. This "freedom" renders GPL license useless for use by a software programmer who depends on income generated by his work.
People say that GPL doesn't mean it has to be for free. True, it doesn't. But say an developer writes code and sells the software for $10,000 w/GPL licensing. The first person that pays for the software and receives all the rights granted to him (or her) by GPL is allowed to redistribute this software for free, and to anyone he (or she) pleases.
You see that this reduces the incentive for another person purchasing the software at the price the developer set for the software he hopes to sell and keep his family fed.
I think the problem is that the cost to reproduce software is next to nothing while cost to reproduce any other commodities essential for life is not!
So a software programmer's work could be reporduced in large quantities in a very short time at low cost once the hard work of the programmer is done. However, the work of a farmer raising cattle or harvesting crops would take just as much effort and money to reproduce as the first time.
Personally I do a lot of multi-tasking as in i'm involved in at least 2 (ideally 3) different coding tasks. I actually find myself to be very productive that way.
This was actually something i recently realized. One of the projects i am involved with was put on hold due to configuration problems with new hardware that was installed, leaving me to work on a single project until the hardware issue is solved.
I find myself getting extremely bored and tired of this single project after about 5 hours or so. I end up not being able to concentrate as well and my motivation level drops considerably compared with its level at the start of the day.
Anyone else notice anything similar?
"genetically defective"? And who made you the genetic's expert to decide this? I suppose your next post would have something to do with "gay" people are also "genetically defective" so "kill them"?
Leaving your possibly flawed genetics aregument aside, what makes you so damn sure that your US justice system is so perfect and error free that you can so easily advocate the "death penalty".
Even if your justice system was 100% perfect and error free, who gives you the right to make such a decision for someone else?
I am sorry but I must say that I truly hope you do not raise your daughter with the same values and thought-patterns as yourself. You would be doing a great injustice to the society.
Looking back at my comments I suppose they could be considered a bit "biased and unfair" as you put it.
However, the thread of discussion to which I was posting to was revolving around Microsoft (Note that I spelled just the way you *like* it!)
I do however, think that the government should regulate what is being patented and not granting any 'ol ya-hoo ( I hope Yahoo! doesn't have a patent on that word) a patent who applies for the patent.
There has to be a way to discourage such behavior. One way to do it is to impose somewhat of a high penalty for such inappropriate practices.
This is analogous to the punishment criminals face when they commit a crime. You steal a car you face x number of years in prison. You steal a car by forcing the driver out at gun point (ie. commit a car-jacking) you face y (where y > x) number of years in jail. And so on and so forth...
If you didn't have this type of system in place and a government which inforced the system you'd have chaos. Since there would be no repercussions to face up to. Say, I see you driving a nice lexus and I like the colour of it... hell I'll drag you out of it and drive off ... of course I'll only possess the lexus until a bigger and badder guy pulls me over and takes off with it.
Are you getting the picture I am trying to paint for you?
There has to be measures taken to prevent such behavior in the real world... and hence, there should be such measures in place in the US Patent Office.
sidster--
... Bill Gates is
micro + soft
(small) + (limp)
sidster--
I wonder if this post and this other one are the type of posts we've been reading about on /. lately.
You know, Micro$oft employees getting on the web and posting annonymously defending their anti-everything and everyone company!
I think the US government should review all the patents granted to Micro$oft and for every patent that they find which is either too broad in scope or is a "twist" on a public-domain idea they should fine Micro$oft say $5,000,000? (USD)
sidster--
ahmm.. I've bought a clone about 8 months ago. The only parts that are not so "clone" are the 233 Pentium processor, Diamond Video card and the SoundBlaster 64.
You talk about reliability? Check this out:
5:51pm up 153 days, 20:04, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
Let me see any other non-Unix OS do similar?
About only time I reboot/shutdown my Linux boxes is when I have to either upgrade my kernel or install new memory/board on the motherboard! Oh yea.. and it was that other time when I moved out of my parents home to my own place ;-)
sidster--
Linux rox ...
You must be thinking of SoftWindows or
something else.
sidster--
If each Pentium III will have its own PSN which one would be transmitted to as a security check?
What if the order that the processors are installed on the motherboard are changed?
I think INTeL didn't do their homework too well (not that they ever did). Either that or they had something other than "security" on their mind when they came up with this idea.
sidster--
Big brother watching? Well, poke his eye out!
I think there is a wc that emulates the look and feel of wps .. though I don't understand why anyone would like that.
I personally thought it was not that great of a wm when I was using OS/2 (Long looooooong ago).
I wonder if INTeL will be next in line to sue Connectix for their Virtual PC software (an x86 processor "emulator")? I'd love to see this go on ... sidster--