Spammers are *slightly* less stupid than we give them credit for being. The reality is that they only want email addresses of people who are likely targets. By investing any effort at all in obscuring your email address you've indicated that your address is not even worth the infinitesimally small cost they incur in maintaining and utilizing their lists. It is not at all likely that this rather simple feature will be added to spiders/robots. Of course, IMO.
You forget perhaps that there is no mechanism to do this? We can only vote someone IN. Your approach conveniently leaves no space to discover someone good. You can not build a system upon negativism, that is what Hollywood is trying to do and it won't work. Funnel some of that energy into positive action.
On the content side, up-to-date is the key. On the technical side, no flash, no animated gifs, no browser specific formatting, no assumptions regarding the size of the browser window.
IMO
-michael
Logging to a printer or a serial port opens you up to DOS attacks. All your attacker needs to do is figure conditions generate the most log output and exercise that condition vigorously. If you are loggin synchronously your machine will grind to a halt, if you are logging asynchronously you will eventually lose data.
My point though is that all these data structures are in KERNEL space and in Linux KERNEL space is not pageable thus swap is not going to help with high memory pressure situations. Unless I'm mistaken the only UNIXish kernel which IS pageable is AIX.
The other consideration is that with drives unmounted, all swap space is removed from the machine. This shouldn't be difficult in a machine that is handling even large amounts of traffic, given sufficient amounts of memory. However, in an older machine with fewer resources, it is possible to experience performance issues with extremely large amounts of traffic.
I'm missing something here, is the linux kernel now pageable? If not, how is lack of swap an issue?
Whatever books you guys decide to do, I would urge you to do it in the style of K&R. Two parts, a tutorial that (quickly) moves you from the very basic stuff to using all the features of a language, tool, whatever followed by a complete reference.
Keep the price down, even if I expense it I'll be damned if I'll pay $70 for a book.
For whatever reason my paperback K&R has tolerated physical abuse better than my Internetworking with TCP/IP so I tend to favor paperbacks.
Think of what TV is worth to you. My equation works like this:
I watch TV about 3 times a week for about 1 hour each time. I additionally will watch 1 DVD/week for an additional 2 hours. This means I generally have the TV on 5 hours/week, or 260 hours/year. Since it seems that entertainment center type devices have a lifespan of about 10 years before boredom or penis-envy force an upgrade I figure the devices will be used for 2600 hours. Since I value the addition they bring to my life at about $2/hour I'm willing to spend about $2500 for the TV and the same amount for the other associated upgrades and video rentals (cable service is included in my rent).
In my decision I look at how long I've had my current gear and how much better it would be if I started replacing components. It would seem that my 9 year old 32" Sony will have to provide a couple more years of service. That's my way of doing things. YMMV.
I wandered off to browse the "new & improved" service agreement and encountered this gem:
(g) restrict, inhibit or otherwise interfere with the ability of any other person to use or enjoy the AT&T Equipment or the Service, including, without limitation, posting or transmitting any information or software which contains a virus or other harmful feature; or generating levels of traffic sufficient to impede others' ability to send or retrieve information;
Sounds to me like all machines running windoze are in violation fo the agreement:-).
This whole rant in based on the assumption that globalism is actually a good thing. Is it? Should these countries be allowed their own culture? Should they be allowed their own moral standards? How about allowing them their own language?
Maybe there is not a call for us to impose our standards, culture, and languages upon them. It is even possible that we are not right.
I'm no lawyer so I may be wrong, but... I can send my SO's kid to
school with photocopies of reference books as part of a report or
presentation in class. If the class happens to be one in music
appreciation I can send her with a copy of the music (or a segment
thereof) being analyzed (I expect high quality copy would be a plus
here). In a class delving into acting, or one on animation I can see
wanting to have a high quality segment of West Side Story or Peter
Pan. I wholeheartedly believe this constitutes fair use.
If you chose to post in a public forum they (your ex-employer) should have the right to read it. If you post in a public forum devoted to discussion of your ex-employer you should EXPECT them to read it. If you have concerns WRT your current employer finding out what you have to say about your past employer you probably should not have picked a public forum.
Accountability.
-michael
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Spammers are *slightly* less stupid than we give them credit for being. The reality is that they only want email addresses of people who are likely targets. By investing any effort at all in obscuring your email address you've indicated that your address is not even worth the infinitesimally small cost they incur in maintaining and utilizing their lists. It is not at all likely that this rather simple feature will be added to spiders/robots. Of course, IMO.
-michael
You forget perhaps that there is no mechanism to do this? We can only vote someone IN. Your approach conveniently leaves no space to discover someone good. You can not build a system upon negativism, that is what Hollywood is trying to do and it won't work. Funnel some of that energy into positive action.
-michael
I'm missing the all important option that allows me to give you $15 today and not get an add until the 22nd of April, 2003.
-michael
On the content side, up-to-date is the key. On the technical side, no flash, no animated gifs, no browser specific formatting, no assumptions regarding the size of the browser window.
IMO
-michael
IMO
-michael
-michael
I'm missing something here, is the linux kernel now pageable? If not, how is lack of swap an issue?
-michael
Keep the price down, even if I expense it I'll be damned if I'll pay $70 for a book.
For whatever reason my paperback K&R has tolerated physical abuse better than my Internetworking with TCP/IP so I tend to favor paperbacks.
IMO
-michael
-michael
I watch TV about 3 times a week for about 1 hour each time. I additionally will watch 1 DVD/week for an additional 2 hours. This means I generally have the TV on 5 hours/week, or 260 hours/year. Since it seems that entertainment center type devices have a lifespan of about 10 years before boredom or penis-envy force an upgrade I figure the devices will be used for 2600 hours. Since I value the addition they bring to my life at about $2/hour I'm willing to spend about $2500 for the TV and the same amount for the other associated upgrades and video rentals (cable service is included in my rent).
In my decision I look at how long I've had my current gear and how much better it would be if I started replacing components. It would seem that my 9 year old 32" Sony will have to provide a couple more years of service. That's my way of doing things. YMMV.
-michael
(g) restrict, inhibit or otherwise interfere with the ability of any other person to use or enjoy the AT&T Equipment or the Service, including, without limitation, posting or transmitting any information or software which contains a virus or other harmful feature; or generating levels of traffic sufficient to impede others' ability to send or retrieve information;
Sounds to me like all machines running windoze are in violation fo the agreement
-michael
Maybe there is not a call for us to impose our standards, culture, and languages upon them. It is even possible that we are not right.
-michael
"We cannot, unfortunately, answer telephone enquiries at this time."
Why do I find this hilarious?
-michael
-michael
If you chose to post in a public forum they (your ex-employer) should have the right to read it. If you post in a public forum devoted to discussion of your ex-employer you should EXPECT them to read it. If you have concerns WRT your current employer finding out what you have to say about your past employer you probably should not have picked a public forum. Accountability. -michael