...connecting to the A record, but that's not the same thing.
True enough. A lot of spammers are indeed just trying to connect to any A record they can find but we are also seeing an increase in them doing raw port scans against wholesale ranges of addresses and using the reverse DNS to address spam with randomized addresses to any that respond. The combination of the two
methods currently accounts for just over 50% of the spam we see. I didn't clarify this in the original post though, thanks for pointing it out.
Actually, this one is the least accurate: (x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ...for the simple reason that a good 50% of the spam is sent based on port scanning, MX records aren't involved at all.
Here's the Flamebait/Insightful reason why Linux will never be a desktop OS: 99% of the development is driven by developers. Developers are geeks. Developers have their friends and the rest of the OSS community test their stuff. If they ran it by their grandmothers once in awhile maybe we'd make some headway...
Seriously though...if this interpretation is incorrect.
Your interpretation is correct but for proper mathematical representation it should be reduced to its simplest form.
While simpler reductions may be possible I believe the following best conveys the essence of the equation:
"Dr. Anderson is a pompous idiot."
I "fired" a few of my worst customers... Exactly. I did the same thing...
We "interview" all potential new clients - and we decline at least a couple per year simply because we can tell from the outset that they are going to be "problem" clients and simply not worth the heartache. As a result we are able to better serve our "good" clients and that leads to more referrals anyway!:)
Speaking of "re-use"...
I built an entire assembly line with pick-and-place, SMT hot bar, etc for memory modules (single-sided only) out of parts from old printers, floppy drives, tape drives, typewriters, hard-drives, and assorted other junk. This was back in the early 90's when 72-pin modules first came out and were expensive as hell even though they weren't really any different technology than 30-pin. It only produced about 10 modules per hour (with frequent stops and starts for various reasons) at a time when commercial lines produced 50k an hour, but it worked dammit!:)
Slightly OT but of possible interest to some.
Seagate and Western Digital are the only two drive manufacturers who offer a 5 year warranty. WD is much cheaper, so many people go the WD route. However, WD's failure rate in that 5 years is almost 20% where Seagate's is barely 2%. So the question becomes - how expensive is your downtime?
(Also, please note that while Seagate has acquired Maxtor, that does not mean that Maxtor drives are going to get any better any time soon.)
Yeah, see adorn is not really the correct word to use here.
Too true! Tends to evoke images of doilies, or flowers or something.
(Unless of course the submitter has no intention of ever actually reading them, in which case the terminology is sadly apropos.:)
More likely they simply managed to graduate high school. Heck, there might even be a bit of graduate school involved! (The not-so-subtle message here being that some schooling is actually useful in the real world, especially when communicating with a reasonably intelligent audience).
What's with all this talk about humans and wild animals and newfangled killer robots and stuff in the DMZ?!?
I remember the days when all we had in our DMZ was servers, and we liked it that way!
Kids these days...
That does bring up an interesting question - can it withstand a mine blast?
(Cue the Homer "Doh!" as they all get blown to smithereens within hours of deployment.:)
To support the parent post and TFA, I always thought Einstein looked a bit Neanderthal, and if you read his biography he pretty much fucked anything and everything too!
Are these trends a contrivance by corporations to get more 'value' from IT professionals by bundling responsibilities of higher paid jobs into lesser roles and to evade competitive salary by creating titles that have no analogue on pay-scale indexes?
biggest problem I see today is middle managers on up not bothering to talk to their technical people
Indeed, the whole article scores a giant, "DUH!"
The real problem with IT project management is that very few people can functionally integrate management/business skills with IT skills. They are fundamentally different ways of thinking and not very many folks are that flexible upstairs.
So you generally end up with one of two types of project managers, those who can manage but don't know enough about IT to read between the lines and translate a programmer's estimate of 1000 hours into a real world 4000 hours, and those who are ridiculously capable behind the keyboard but can't handle personnel issues worth a damn.
(Speaking as that very rare third type who IS that flexible and has to deal with the other two types on a daily basis. Sometimes I think I should change my title from "Consultant" to "Bi-directional Tech/Management Translator".:)
Why do you think that we would want you here. Please stay in America.
Parent is modded funny but it really should be Insightful. I travel and so do a number of people I know and America isn't scoring very high in the world's opinion right now. It used to be that when people in other countries knew you were from America the conversation would revolve around entertainment, way of life etc. Now you get the cold shoulder and it takes some effort to convince people that you're not like Bush; the undeniable logic being that if he "won" the presidency then the greater part of America must support his actions. (No need to flame on that, it's just the perception someone outside the US is likely to have.)
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...connecting to the A record, but that's not the same thing.
True enough. A lot of spammers are indeed just trying to connect to any A record they can find but we are also seeing an increase in them doing raw port scans against wholesale ranges of addresses and using the reverse DNS to address spam with randomized addresses to any that respond. The combination of the two
methods currently accounts for just over 50% of the spam we see. I didn't clarify this in the original post though, thanks for pointing it out.
Actually, this one is the least accurate:
...for the simple reason that a good 50% of the spam is sent based on port scanning, MX records aren't involved at all.
(x) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
Here's the Flamebait/Insightful reason why Linux will never be a desktop OS: 99% of the development is driven by developers. Developers are geeks. Developers have their friends and the rest of the OSS community test their stuff. If they ran it by their grandmothers once in awhile maybe we'd make some headway...
Well Ron @ Novell should be well over his one night stand with Steve by now.
Eww...
That would take therapy, and antibiotics.
I know with Remedy help desk, a ticket will take 5 minutes...
:)
That's more of a reflection on how badly Remedy sucks than anything else.
May not need as much financial aid if you can get free or practically free hardware.
Seriously though...if this interpretation is incorrect.
Your interpretation is correct but for proper mathematical representation it should be reduced to its simplest form.
While simpler reductions may be possible I believe the following best conveys the essence of the equation:
"Dr. Anderson is a pompous idiot."
I "fired" a few of my worst customers...
:)
Exactly. I did the same thing...
We "interview" all potential new clients - and we decline at least a couple per year simply because we can tell from the outset that they are going to be "problem" clients and simply not worth the heartache. As a result we are able to better serve our "good" clients and that leads to more referrals anyway!
Speaking of "re-use"... :)
I built an entire assembly line with pick-and-place, SMT hot bar, etc for memory modules (single-sided only) out of parts from old printers, floppy drives, tape drives, typewriters, hard-drives, and assorted other junk. This was back in the early 90's when 72-pin modules first came out and were expensive as hell even though they weren't really any different technology than 30-pin. It only produced about 10 modules per hour (with frequent stops and starts for various reasons) at a time when commercial lines produced 50k an hour, but it worked dammit!
Err, no, Dell is NOT the answer to anything any more.
If you need notebook parts go aftermarket.
Here's where to download the JVM for Palm if you don't already have it.
No, they named algorithms after an Arabic mathematician named Al-Khwarizmi(Algorismus).
OMFG, you still got the joke though, right? Right...?
[sob]
Back before Algore invented it. . .
Hey, is that who they named "algorethms" after?!?
Slightly OT but of possible interest to some.
Seagate and Western Digital are the only two drive manufacturers who offer a 5 year warranty. WD is much cheaper, so many people go the WD route. However, WD's failure rate in that 5 years is almost 20% where Seagate's is barely 2%. So the question becomes - how expensive is your downtime?
(Also, please note that while Seagate has acquired Maxtor, that does not mean that Maxtor drives are going to get any better any time soon.)
Yeah, see adorn is not really the correct word to use here.
:)
Too true! Tends to evoke images of doilies, or flowers or something.
(Unless of course the submitter has no intention of ever actually reading them, in which case the terminology is sadly apropos.
Someone give you a thesaurus recently?
More likely they simply managed to graduate high school. Heck, there might even be a bit of graduate school involved! (The not-so-subtle message here being that some schooling is actually useful in the real world, especially when communicating with a reasonably intelligent audience).
Someone was asked to put together a Christmas list, weren't they?
:)
Mod parent up!!!!!!!!!
(Mine just got a heck of a lot easier!
What's with all this talk about humans and wild animals and newfangled killer robots and stuff in the DMZ?!?
I remember the days when all we had in our DMZ was servers, and we liked it that way!
Kids these days...
This robot is far better than a land mine...
:)
That does bring up an interesting question - can it withstand a mine blast?
(Cue the Homer "Doh!" as they all get blown to smithereens within hours of deployment.
People will fuck anything and everything.
To support the parent post and TFA, I always thought Einstein looked a bit Neanderthal, and if you read his biography he pretty much fucked anything and everything too!
Are these trends a contrivance by corporations to get more 'value' from IT professionals by bundling responsibilities of higher paid jobs into lesser roles and to evade competitive salary by creating titles that have no analogue on pay-scale indexes?
Yep
biggest problem I see today is middle managers on up not bothering to talk to their technical people
:)
Indeed, the whole article scores a giant, "DUH!"
The real problem with IT project management is that very few people can functionally integrate management/business skills with IT skills. They are fundamentally different ways of thinking and not very many folks are that flexible upstairs.
So you generally end up with one of two types of project managers, those who can manage but don't know enough about IT to read between the lines and translate a programmer's estimate of 1000 hours into a real world 4000 hours, and those who are ridiculously capable behind the keyboard but can't handle personnel issues worth a damn.
(Speaking as that very rare third type who IS that flexible and has to deal with the other two types on a daily basis. Sometimes I think I should change my title from "Consultant" to "Bi-directional Tech/Management Translator".
people that didn't read the article
Heh, didn't need to RTFA after this: "...former policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher."
Why do you think that we would want you here. Please stay in America.
Parent is modded funny but it really should be Insightful. I travel and so do a number of people I know and America isn't scoring very high in the world's opinion right now. It used to be that when people in other countries knew you were from America the conversation would revolve around entertainment, way of life etc. Now you get the cold shoulder and it takes some effort to convince people that you're not like Bush; the undeniable logic being that if he "won" the presidency then the greater part of America must support his actions. (No need to flame on that, it's just the perception someone outside the US is likely to have.)
Having run into CA's products off and on over the years I've always wondered how the hell they stayed in business...