I don't really understand what features a volunteer management solution would contain, but maybe some kind of highly modifiable forum / bulletin board backend would work.
slashcode / scoop / phpbb / snitz / webwizard / invision - board could help, some have mods e.t.c for timesharing and calendar scheduling.
I once dealt with a guy who tried to pull the same trick, the problem was he had no clue as to how things work.
It was funny reading his emails about how he had the source and docs for his new web app and how I could go get fscked if I thought I would get paid, when in reality all that he had was 2-3 lines of HTML redirecting him to my dev server.
A quick edit and redirect to the man with the bottomless hole certainly must have improved his business.
Not quite a 'backdoor' but his visitors certainly will have seen one.
Yeah, I bet this has a huge impact on the problem, I figure:
If the users of the software are so poor they are 'Forced' to use pirate copies, then they are sure to read about the reduced cost option and uninstall the perfectly good pirate copy, and then go spend a couple of months wages on a legitimate version of the same thing.
Yeah, right.
Chances are, this is just a punt out to try and shift new versions of the software to reduce the interoperability between legitamate new software and thousands of times pirated versions of the same (read office 98 > office XP).
If they can't afford the software, then how will they afford the hardware upgrade to run the new software?
Whilst the post was funny, it's probably due to the complacency of choosing 1-2-3-4 or similiar as a password that got him into trouble in the first place.
I can see why you want to stop these abusive emails, but you dont go into too much detail about why you are receiving them.
All the suggestions thus far have been sound, but deal with this current epidemic of abuse being active already and also for the forseeable future.
As others have pointed out, maybe blocking these mails isn't the answer, if its a problem with your method of business or who you are, then it would probably be more efficient to speak to the people with the offending website.
Maybe they might find the bridges and stuff Patrick Moore claimed to have seen several years ago. Looking at him now, could have been hundreds i suppose:)
Anyone else remember that meme?
Google came up with www.lunartics.co.uk, i think he probably had too much sherry and put his monocole on the wrong peeper myself.
Great props towards one of my favourite sites, keep up the good work.
My question:
With the introduction of this service (and later searchable answers e.t.c), how long can we (and any aliens planning roadworks) expect to be able to access googles version of the HHGTG?
I realise the net is this to some extent already, but the Answers KB is pure signal.
Do you have any other plans for the sum of this collected knowledge than the web (mobile devices, schools e.t.c) and how well is it going?
I also have bad eyesight, (not quite as bad as the posters though)and have spent some time looking into decent displays.
I can recommend the trust precision view and the phillips 107E (17'', £100) for a budget option, that is what i am using now.
I used to work as reviews editor for a pc mag here in the UK and snaffled a trust excellence series 17'', this was the best with the most depth i have ever seen (the phillips is better all round though).
At the end of the day though, perhaps it isnt your monitor to worry about but your desktop and applications.
Try looking for high visibility cursors and themes somewhere, my desktop carries an oil painting of buffy (the vampire slayer) and at 1024x768 (windows, 32 bit colour) i have no issues with readability or useability.
I DO increase the text size from medium to larger in IE though.
Coming from an amiga background to the PC, it is hard for me to ally myself with shareware authors who think the world owes them a living.
Progressing from the amiga to the PC, and starting at that point to release my efforts as freeware to other users to share was the big step.
It was more the understanding that i was learning and also givng others the benefits of my labor, look at most of the demo crew from those amiga days.
Usually, (at least nowadays it seems) people forget the helpfulness that the 'community' gave them to enable them to create their own 'products' in the first place. it seems almost akin to a preacher preaching, and the preached too charging to relay it to others.
look at the very engine we use to debate this topic a 'product' created for a purpose, and also freely available to those who want to learn how it works, plus available to use for no charge!
Software is a means, not an end IMHO, regardless of who produces it. (marketing and promotion aside), the sheer hours the author instills in its creation, once it is let loose, all the author should (personally) be concerned about is good reports and recognition. IMHO
s/ware dev is also usually a learning curve, who amongst us recognises this list of tools, all buggy to begin , progressing with each version, whos authors utilised the newsgroups and other enthusiast groups or boards to acheive their ends?
1: Winzip (still use command line equivalent)
2: paint shop pro
3: various registry editors, notepad++ (freeware?)
4: snes 9x, etc
5: WINAMP
lets face it people, shareware and freeware (and it seems we are mostly looking at a windows platform) is usually a medium for the author to extend his or her profile or recognition, i should know, and i got 300 out of 1200 registrars. i wasnt looking for cash, just appreciation, and to improve my skills, making tools i wanted.
Rock on,
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I can remember when the AWE 64 SOFTWARE required a patch to work with AMD processors, it wouldn't work on CYRIX either.
It was a software patch that as far as i remember didnt work 100% satisfactorally for someone buying a card of its quality at the time, so buyer beware, this may be the same case here.
"time is never wasted when your wasted all the time!"
Its an interesting concept, about the flag and shit, but who does actually get a say in who gets to do what with the moon and other planets resources?
Is it fair to say anyone who can get up there and build some kind of secret hideout/mine/base/spaceport (a la moonraker stylee) is free to do what they like with it? Who can stop them?
Are some organisations on the earth today capable as far as cash, expertise and resources are concerned to build such a facility?
What if this were a private company, with no public 'control' or 'restriction'?
I think the way to colonize space, and ensure the survival of the human race lies in building a spaceport / hangar thing on the moon or as far away as possible, but who owns it?
If such a thing were to be built (for individual profit), then whose forces and laws would serve it?
Wow thats some serious shit! What were they doing with your boxes? Playing football?
I saw this all the time here in the UK.
Our firm made PC's. All our boxes (cardboard) were nearly always in perfect order upon their return, it was the customer arranged for return boxes that got nailed by the courier every time.
If you are sick of the machine being away from you why send it for repair?
Its obvious they can't fix the problem so why send it for repair?
I know what my answer to giving you a new one after two years would be, a big fat NO!
After the first couple of times it broke, I would have tried for a new one, if they didn't give me it I suppose I would cry on for a while and then write it off and not buy from them again.
You could always hook a monitor up to it and use it as a desktop machine.
I don't see your reasoning sending it back four times when you know whats going to happen as soon as you start using it again.
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And we listened to the radio, as the salesmans body burnt, raiding his car for cigarettes.
So long Captain Trips
So what makes this coffin on wheels news for nerds, or stuff that matters?
I could understand ir if it utilised chobham platelet armour, super nailguns and motorised sharks, but as it stands, its shit.
Tanks rock, but this story is a night-fighting shit-kicker.
I mean, who would be scared of a little boy in a tank? Priests?
I don't really understand what features a volunteer management solution would contain, but maybe some kind of highly modifiable forum / bulletin board backend would work.
slashcode / scoop / phpbb / snitz / webwizard / invision - board could help, some have mods e.t.c for timesharing and calendar scheduling.
Here is a link to said flaming in case anyone watching hasn't seen it.
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book
I once dealt with a guy who tried to pull the same trick, the problem was he had no clue as to how things work.
It was funny reading his emails about how he had the source and docs for his new web app and how I could go get fscked if I thought I would get paid, when in reality all that he had was 2-3 lines of HTML redirecting him to my dev server.
A quick edit and redirect to the man with the bottomless hole certainly must have improved his business.
Not quite a 'backdoor' but his visitors certainly will have seen one.
How will it sort itself out though?
Certainly not to anyone who enjoys accessing the things they buy anyway they like's benefit.
It is getting so frustratingly stupid these days, the people who prosecute and persecute don't even know what they are looking at half the time.
Take for instance the recent articles on Openofffice and the world of spectrum being accused of piracy, at the behest of a SCRIPT.
I hope Jon has a good judge, over here in the UK, I would wager a large percentage of judges have no idea what a DVD even is.
Yeah, I bet this has a huge impact on the problem, I figure:
If the users of the software are so poor they are 'Forced' to use pirate copies, then they are sure to read about the reduced cost option and uninstall the perfectly good pirate copy, and then go spend a couple of months wages on a legitimate version of the same thing.
Yeah, right.
Chances are, this is just a punt out to try and shift new versions of the software to reduce the interoperability between legitamate new software and thousands of times pirated versions of the same (read office 98 > office XP).
If they can't afford the software, then how will they afford the hardware upgrade to run the new software?
Just as Bill is pitching the strengths of Windows security to the japanese
/. has too much on MS already IMHO.
government.
Would submit it as a story myself, but
I remember games on my Amiga featuring ad's and still being full retail price, the adverts were fairly unobtrusive.
Jaguar XJ220 - Jaguar and CVG (magazine) boards.
Pushover - Walkers Crisps
Lotus - Lotus boards by trackside
There were also many more.
And the games were good too, I'd hate to pay for new shit games with advertising that get good reviews thanks solely to the advertising hype.
I just read the comments not the FA
Whilst the post was funny, it's probably due to the complacency of choosing 1-2-3-4 or similiar as a password that got him into trouble in the first place.
Self installing exe available only to MS Outlook users.
I can see why you want to stop these abusive emails, but you dont go into too much detail about why you are receiving them.
All the suggestions thus far have been sound, but deal with this current epidemic of abuse being active already and also for the forseeable future.
As others have pointed out, maybe blocking these mails isn't the answer, if its a problem with your method of business or who you are, then it would probably be more efficient to speak to the people with the offending website.
How many mails are we talking about anyway?
i agree, whats a degree in ai anyway, working in mc d's?
/., if someone wants advice come fucking hire me
I'm sick of this shit at
Maybe they might find the bridges and stuff Patrick Moore claimed to have seen several years ago. Looking at him now, could have been hundreds i suppose :)
Anyone else remember that meme?
Google came up with www.lunartics.co.uk, i think he probably had too much sherry and put his monocole on the wrong peeper myself.
Hi Craig,
Great props towards one of my favourite sites, keep up the good work.
My question:
With the introduction of this service (and later searchable answers e.t.c), how long can we (and any aliens planning roadworks) expect to be able to access googles version of the HHGTG?
I realise the net is this to some extent already, but the Answers KB is pure signal.
Do you have any other plans for the sum of this collected knowledge than the web (mobile devices, schools e.t.c) and how well is it going?
Thanks,
Sy
I think we should all consider the impact of microsoft on open source software.
Isnt MS the reason we have open source alternatives?
Their involvement would just muddy the water, although i am all for more windows based open source alternatives.
Hi,
I also have bad eyesight, (not quite as bad as the posters though)and have spent some time looking into decent displays.
I can recommend the trust precision view and the phillips 107E (17'', £100) for a budget option, that is what i am using now.
I used to work as reviews editor for a pc mag here in the UK and snaffled a trust excellence series 17'', this was the best with the most depth i have ever seen (the phillips is better all round though).
At the end of the day though, perhaps it isnt your monitor to worry about but your desktop and applications.
Try looking for high visibility cursors and themes somewhere, my desktop carries an oil painting of buffy (the vampire slayer) and at 1024x768 (windows, 32 bit colour) i have no issues with readability or useability.
I DO increase the text size from medium to larger in IE though.
Sy
no trolling intended.
Coming from an amiga background to the PC, it is hard for me to ally myself with shareware authors who think the world owes them a living.
Progressing from the amiga to the PC, and starting at that point to release my efforts as freeware to other users to share was the big step.
It was more the understanding that i was learning and also givng others the benefits of my labor, look at most of the demo crew from those amiga days.
Usually, (at least nowadays it seems) people forget the helpfulness that the 'community' gave them to enable them to create their own 'products' in the first place. it seems almost akin to a preacher preaching, and the preached too charging to relay it to others.
look at the very engine we use to debate this topic a 'product' created for a purpose, and also freely available to those who want to learn how it works, plus available to use for no charge!
Software is a means, not an end IMHO, regardless of who produces it. (marketing and promotion aside), the sheer hours the author instills in its creation, once it is let loose, all the author should (personally) be concerned about is good reports and recognition. IMHO
s/ware dev is also usually a learning curve, who amongst us recognises this list of tools, all buggy to begin , progressing with each version, whos authors utilised the newsgroups and other enthusiast groups or boards to acheive their ends?
1: Winzip (still use command line equivalent)
2: paint shop pro
3: various registry editors, notepad++ (freeware?)
4: snes 9x, etc
5: WINAMP
lets face it people, shareware and freeware (and it seems we are mostly looking at a windows platform) is usually a medium for the author to extend his or her profile or recognition, i should know, and i got 300 out of 1200 registrars. i wasnt looking for cash, just appreciation, and to improve my skills, making tools i wanted.
Rock on,
I can remember when the AWE 64 SOFTWARE required a patch to work with AMD processors, it wouldn't work on CYRIX either.
It was a software patch that as far as i remember didnt work 100% satisfactorally for someone buying a card of its quality at the time, so buyer beware, this may be the same case here.
"time is never wasted when your wasted all the time!"
This is a humongous step forward in genetic manipulation, anyone else feel that the whole civilised world should get the vote on this?
Its alright saying this will enable us to grow organs e.t.c, but its the next bio-warfare tool also.
What's the take on this from religous people (i'm not one of them) I'd be interested to hear it.
Its an interesting concept, about the flag and shit, but who does actually get a say in who gets to do what with the moon and other planets resources?
Is it fair to say anyone who can get up there and build some kind of secret hideout/mine/base/spaceport (a la moonraker stylee) is free to do what they like with it? Who can stop them?
Are some organisations on the earth today capable as far as cash, expertise and resources are concerned to build such a facility?
What if this were a private company, with no public 'control' or 'restriction'?
I think the way to colonize space, and ensure the survival of the human race lies in building a spaceport / hangar thing on the moon or as far away as possible, but who owns it?
If such a thing were to be built (for individual profit), then whose forces and laws would serve it?
Hey man, why not write one yourself?
Wow thats some serious shit! What were they doing with your boxes? Playing football?
I saw this all the time here in the UK.
Our firm made PC's. All our boxes (cardboard) were nearly always in perfect order upon their return, it was the customer arranged for return boxes that got nailed by the courier every time.
I have been using Windows ME and XP recently, and also looked at a friends portable computer using win CE.
CE Has a nice interface in my opinion and keeps all the windows nicely organised for the small screen.
Litestep and thousands of other free window managers are great for this!
Check out www.tucows.com and C|Net for free window managers, find an open source one and configure it to behave as you like it.
If you are sick of the machine being away from you why send it for repair?
Its obvious they can't fix the problem so why send it for repair?
I know what my answer to giving you a new one after two years would be, a big fat NO!
After the first couple of times it broke, I would have tried for a new one, if they didn't give me it I suppose I would cry on for a while and then write it off and not buy from them again.
You could always hook a monitor up to it and use it as a desktop machine.
I don't see your reasoning sending it back four times when you know whats going to happen as soon as you start using it again.
just my 2 pence