I have a DSL account with them. I get 1 master email address plus 3 others. I immediately created a new email account to use day to day and never used the master account for *anything*. I get spam on it every now and then--they are the only ones who have it which means they are selling my address to spammers. When I say I never used the master account, I mean *never*. Not even to contact them.
Feel sorry for everyone who won't be getting their mail though. Maybe this will change their policy on selling email lists.
I liked the guy in the new miniseries better than the guy in the 84 Movie (I forget his name, but I think he was a noted actor).
Jose Ferrer. Big actor 50 years ago. Played Cyrano de Bergerac, among other things.
>Finally, I liked the fact that, unlike the movie, the director did not try to directly translate the book for the movie.
Umm.. since when did the original movie try to directly translate the book???
Voice powered lasers (the weirding way??)
The Kwisatz Haderach can make rain (I don't think so).
These were two MAJOR things the original movie changed which completely ruined it. The book was much more subtle: the weirding way was the training developed by sword-masters like Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho which was making the Atreides troops well-trained enough to tackle Sardaukar. This is the reason the Emperor attacked House Atreides--the army was a threat to him. All of this was wiped out in the original movie by "weirding modules", which as far as I could tell were voice powered lasers (not even las-guns, just lasers).
The Kwisatz Haderach: more or less "he who can be many places at once" (I'm too lazy to grab the book and get the exact translation). Well... he had prescient visions and could see both masculine and feminine race memories, but telekinetic powers over the weather??? I think not.
Don't get me wrong, I thought the casting in the original movie was excellent (except for possibly Kyle Mclachlan), and the overall mood was superb. But a direct translation of the book it was not.
By using three-dimensional files, of course. though it may seem thin, the typical magnetic platter does indeed have that third dimension, thus making any file stored on it three-dimensional. So no more talk of so called "flat" files, ok?
I would have gone one further... If you read the original book (note singular) and loved it, do no read an of the others. They really hold no comparison to the first. I can only imagine how degenerate the prequels are. Anyone else out there agree that even the Frank Herbert sequels are not worth reading?
No linux drivers for the satellite modem because MSN does not want you using anything other than windows. Even though you can still hook up to their regular dial-up service with linux or a mac, they will explicitly tell you that you can't. Would anyone expect them to be different offering a broadband satellite modem?
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Wrong. Any OS that relies on the registry, a big database, to keep the machine running is a poor design. Are there any security controls to keep unauthorized access from happening to the registry? Can you lock down individual hives or even the whole thing with specific access? chmod 755 registry just doesn't exist on NT.
About the only control you have over it is to use policy editor to prevent people from installing programs--but this is not on by default! Anyone with access to the system has the ability to install programs which change the registry. And we all know that if the registry gets changed, it has the potential to fsck the system.
And of course there's the fact that databases tend to get corrupted. When was the last time you saw a flat text file in Unix keep the system from booting because something got changed. Now when was the last time you saw the registry keep win95/98/nt/00 from booting. It was 2 days ago for me.
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But Outlook and Outlook Express are capable of running attachments without the user having to view them. Like the Kak worm, for instance.
And since when are internal policy documents protected under copyright law? How about memos? Letters? Street signs, maybe? These are not artistic creations subject to copyright law.
If I post the instructions off the back of a Tylenol bottle do you think Tylenol should be able to sue me?
I used spamcop and found that my spam was getting worse and worse.
The problem with spamcop is that it reports it to the network administrator of the originating spam--which may be the spammer himself. In my case all it did was confirm that they were sending to a valid address.
Seems to me that Hotmail accounts get spammed even worse than others. I recommended Excite because it's a nice service which doesn't attract the spammers like hotmail seems to.
OK, did anyone else notice a bug in submit.pl that submitted a comment twice? I swear I didn't subit this post twice, but here it is twice on the page, dammit. I'm willing to bet the triple poster up above got hit by this too. Looks like my karma's gonna take a hit.
never give out your real email account to anyone but close friends.
Set up a free account with excite mail and use that for everything else. When it gets too spam-ridden, cancel it. Set up a new one.
I had 7 email accounts and usually got about 5 spams a day on some of them. I canceled those acounts, set up a new account which NO ONE but my friends/family gets, and set up an account at Excite (which is a nice one).
Email's cheap enough (free) that you can afford to set up a new one.
On the other hand, if you're already bombarded by spam, that is a problem.
never give out your real email account to anyone but close friends.
Set up a free account with excite mail and use that for everything else. When it gets too spam-ridden, cancel it. Set up a new one.
I had 7 email accounts and usually got about 5 spams a day on some of them. I canceled those acounts, set up a new account which NO ONE but my friends/family gets, and set up an account at Excite (which is a nice one).
Email's cheap enough (free) that you can afford to set up a new one.
On the other hand, if you're already bombarded by spam, that is a problem.
nice civic virtue there. at least you can admit that you're just voting for the candidate who's giving you the most money.
of course, how many big recessions have started under a republican? (1929, 1987...) feels like its about time for the republicans to start another one, huh?
But why don't they (IBM, SGI, et al) grab HURD and add to it all the things they find important for 'big iron' support?"
Because no one buys an operating system named HURD. That's the short answer.
The longer answer is that they want linux because right now linux has a name which is infinitely marketable. Even my father has heard of linux. A better question is why don't they run AIX/IRIX/whatever on their big iron instead of linux (if linux won't develop in the way they want)? Which is what they are already doing. Why would someone suggest taking HURD and developing it? That's repeating a lot of hard work already done with linux on an operating system that no one outside of the slashdot community has heard of, tied to even more radical open source ideas than linux.
I believe it was Cordwainer Smith, the author, who first came up with the idea of giant sails, albeit propelled by light, to travel to the stars. This was from the great Instrumetality of Mankind books. Does anyone know of someone who predates Smith in coming up with this?
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Rae Dawn Chong. Daughter of Tommy Chong.
Feel sorry for everyone who won't be getting their mail though. Maybe this will change their policy on selling email lists.
Amen! of course, when things break you still have to go rooting around in the conf files. but webmin gets you up and running *very* quickly.
I liked the guy in the new miniseries better than the guy in the 84 Movie (I forget his name, but I think he was a noted actor). Jose Ferrer. Big actor 50 years ago. Played Cyrano de Bergerac, among other things.
i.e. = ille est. trans. that is.
etc. = et cetera. trans. and the rest.
Umm.. since when did the original movie try to directly translate the book???
- Voice powered lasers (the weirding way??)
- The Kwisatz Haderach can make rain (I don't think so).
These were two MAJOR things the original movie changed which completely ruined it. The book was much more subtle: the weirding way was the training developed by sword-masters like Gurney Halleck and Duncan Idaho which was making the Atreides troops well-trained enough to tackle Sardaukar. This is the reason the Emperor attacked House Atreides--the army was a threat to him. All of this was wiped out in the original movie by "weirding modules", which as far as I could tell were voice powered lasers (not even las-guns, just lasers).The Kwisatz Haderach: more or less "he who can be many places at once" (I'm too lazy to grab the book and get the exact translation). Well... he had prescient visions and could see both masculine and feminine race memories, but telekinetic powers over the weather??? I think not.
Don't get me wrong, I thought the casting in the original movie was excellent (except for possibly Kyle Mclachlan), and the overall mood was superb. But a direct translation of the book it was not.
Also, yes it was Gurney in the slave pits.
Just my (brief) experience working as a truck loader for consolidated freightways.
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Yes
About the only control you have over it is to use policy editor to prevent people from installing programs--but this is not on by default! Anyone with access to the system has the ability to install programs which change the registry. And we all know that if the registry gets changed, it has the potential to fsck the system.
And of course there's the fact that databases tend to get corrupted. When was the last time you saw a flat text file in Unix keep the system from booting because something got changed. Now when was the last time you saw the registry keep win95/98/nt/00 from booting. It was 2 days ago for me.
THIS is what is really stupid.
If I post the instructions off the back of a Tylenol bottle do you think Tylenol should be able to sue me?
The problem with spamcop is that it reports it to the network administrator of the originating spam--which may be the spammer himself. In my case all it did was confirm that they were sending to a valid address.
Seems to me that Hotmail accounts get spammed even worse than others. I recommended Excite because it's a nice service which doesn't attract the spammers like hotmail seems to.
Set up a free account with excite mail and use that for everything else. When it gets too spam-ridden, cancel it. Set up a new one.
I had 7 email accounts and usually got about 5 spams a day on some of them. I canceled those acounts, set up a new account which NO ONE but my friends/family gets, and set up an account at Excite (which is a nice one).
Email's cheap enough (free) that you can afford to set up a new one.
On the other hand, if you're already bombarded by spam, that is a problem.
Set up a free account with excite mail and use that for everything else. When it gets too spam-ridden, cancel it. Set up a new one.
I had 7 email accounts and usually got about 5 spams a day on some of them. I canceled those acounts, set up a new account which NO ONE but my friends/family gets, and set up an account at Excite (which is a nice one).
Email's cheap enough (free) that you can afford to set up a new one.
On the other hand, if you're already bombarded by spam, that is a problem.
of course, how many big recessions have started under a republican? (1929, 1987...) feels like its about time for the republicans to start another one, huh?
Because no one buys an operating system named HURD. That's the short answer.
The longer answer is that they want linux because right now linux has a name which is infinitely marketable. Even my father has heard of linux. A better question is why don't they run AIX/IRIX/whatever on their big iron instead of linux (if linux won't develop in the way they want)? Which is what they are already doing. Why would someone suggest taking HURD and developing it? That's repeating a lot of hard work already done with linux on an operating system that no one outside of the slashdot community has heard of, tied to even more radical open source ideas than linux.