Apple Loses Customers Over This - Including Me
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Apple Sues Think Secret
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· Score: 1, Flamebait
As great as a lot of Apple products are, and as tempted as I am over OS X, I could never be a happy customer of Apple because of their overzealous legal dept.
This is a long term trend. I've seen Apple sue people over the smallest, stupedist things and it sickens me, really. Especially, when they STOLE the damn name of their company from Apple records.
This was the last straw. F*** Apple, I fart in their general direction.
Savvis is NOT a US company. They are a UK company.
I don't know about C&W. I also don't know whether most of the spammers came from C&W or were already Savvis customers.
I manage a group of servers hosted at the Savvis LA1 NOC and they seem like a competent company. This year, I got a couple of compaints forwarded to me, which were resolved quickly (no spamming from my servers).
Still, I am glad they are going to be proactive in combating abusers.
"We need to question the validity of their position, and do that in an intelligent manner without instantly rejecting their position."
No, we don't need to ponder these questions. Their position and intentions are clear. We should do everything we can to make sure all these fuckers and their twisted ideology are dead.
They have no interest in having a dialogue with us, or a peace with us. If you read the entire article, or read any of their propaganda, they believe in MONOTHEISM. Allah or nothing. Until the entire world is firmly in the grasp of a Taliban like regime, they will keep killing innocent people, then trying to justify it afterwards. They are psychotic, and cannot be helped.
We are not in a war against Terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic. We are at war with Radical Islamists. Lest we forget, there have been ugly periods of Radical Christianity in the past and we must guard against that coming back, too. Radical Islam as a movement must be destroyed and that means destroying the carriers of the disease. Simple.
Postfix became the default mailer in SuSE 8.2. It has been the default mailer in Libranet forever. Red Hat makes it easy to switch to Postfix from Sendmail with a simple switch script.
I evaluated mailers in 2000, choose Postfix as the best and have never gone back. It is very powerful, fast, and secure. And you can edit the configuration with a plain text editor.
Now, if sendmail was twice as fast or had some other great advantages, then maybe the extra pain would be worth it, but why make your life harder than it has to be?
Re:Nice but...
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YOPY Arrives
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Another thing it is lacking is a Linux based PIM appliction. Something that the Sharp Zaurus offers (by way of the Qtopia application).
I run Linux on my desktop and my Linux PDA better damn well sync with it. The Yopy desktop PIM is Windows only. F it.
Yup, Doom was the one for me as well. It was first game that made me physically lean over to peek around a wall to see if something was waiting for me. Of course, then I would realize that leaning over wouldn't help me see what was on my screen.
Also, the terrible first roar of the Cyberdemon, and the clip-clap of his hooves is something that could scare the crap of anyone.
Things started to go wrong with the Online Update in 8.0, then got much worse in 8.1. Bad enough for me to switch to Red Hat. Now, Red Hat will have do something really bad for me to bother switching back.
I really tried to work with SuSE on the updates last year, but they ignored me. I think they lost a lot of customers because of it.
One of the value added features distros can bring to the table is fast and reliable security updates. If you can't get the updates, you're dead. And this is the one piece of code (YaST2) that SuSE has ABSOLUTE CONTROL over. I hope you are right about the updates working now, because SuSE is over without that.
I was a moneydance user for a couple of years, and it worked well, but I was put off by the closed source and opaque file format.
After a month of parallel testing, I switched on January 1 of this year to Jgnash.
It is also a java program, so it will run on Windows or Linux (I use it on Linux with the Sun JDK). It can supposedly import GnuCash data but I haven't tried. The code is open, the file format is XML.
Jgnash is not as mature as moneydance, and doesn't have all the features (yet), but it is stable, usable, and works great for me.
Guess what? I write code for government agencies, too, and we don't rig our RFPs from the start. If that is what you are doing, maybe you should get your local media to report on it because someone is screwing up big time.
There are certainly government agencies and/or department heads at the local, county, state or federal level that "cheat", but that is not how it is supposed to work. And it does NOT work that way where I work.
Would a lot of the system selections end up with the same result if you didn't fudge your RFPs? Maybe, since many vertical apps (like police dispatch) don't exist yet in the open source world, but you can at least make the process fair.
A better solution (the one I use) includes a summary report of spam filtered each day. The report lists the number of spams from each sender and I can usually spot valid mail in the list of "From"s without having to look at a single message.
If I spot a false positive, then I dig into my spam archive for that day and check it out.
I use the spastic filter: http://spastic.sourceforge.net
"isn't that the digital equivalent of mugging and rape?"
Well, if someone was walking around the Internet, flaunting their IE all over the place, with their security settings half way down to their waist, then weren't they asking for it?
Come on, you know they wanted Xupiter. They wanted it!
The links to 911 detainees has NOTHING to do with hacker cases. Why is Hemos looking for an opportunity to lash out at the U.S. government?
If you are pissed about anti-terrorism, then post an opinion piece or at least make it a separate post. You harm your case by trying to link it something related to hacking and computers.
What kind of muddled thinking leads to this kind of front page post?
My opinion of Hemos and/. just went way, way down.
There _is_ such a book. It's called Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition:
http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/rute.html.gz
Full text online, but the book is the best general linux book I've read. Buy one!
Re:Where do you want me to stick that?
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Windows Refund Day II
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· Score: 2, Informative
There are great laptops WITHOUT AN OS at http://www.powernotebooks.com.
On top of great hardware at a great price, you also get the best customer service I've experienced (and I've bought from Dell, Toshiba and Micron). I am not associated with them in any way other than a happy customer.
I am typing this on a new Powernotebooks laptop running Red Hat 8.0. On the day I purchased it, the same hardware at Dell was selling for $350 more AFTER applying all their xmas discounts.
Don't buy from any vendor that won't unbundle the OS from their hardware. And tell them why you are not buying from them!
My daughter boots whichever OS she wants pretty much on her own. While most of her games are Windows based, some of her favorties, like Frozen Bubble, are on Red Hat.
I haven't given her Internet access on her computer, she has to use mom or dads, which means supervised.
While she has been using Red Hat a lot lately, it may simply be because that's what dad runs all the time.
Like many bad elements in life, I can't keep her from being exposed to Windows, but I can educate her so she knows when its ok to use it, and when to say no if pressured to use it by her peers.
Re:Switch User Feature
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Xandros 1.0
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· Score: 1
Every distro can do this out of the box, though not with a menu selection. Try this:
1. Login as yourself, then "startx" 2. Ctrl-Alt-F2, login as another user, then type "startx --"
Now you have one X session on vt7 and one on vt8.
Next, Ctrl-Alt-F7 for user 1, Ctrl-Alt-F8 for user 2.
The YaST2 license gives you the complete source code for it. You are free to modify the source for your needs and even redistribute it to other users. The only way it differs from the GPL is that you are not allowed to SELL your modified version. The YaST2 license would have satisfied Richard Stallmans needs when he encounted his famous printer software problem that gave rise to the GPL.
People who bash SuSE over licensing have no idea what they are talking about.
The Zaurus is not really in the same category of devices as Palms. I was a happy Palm user for 5 years and I still like Palms for basic PDA stuff. But the Z is an ultra small computer with all the power and complexity that goes with a real computer.
Yes, I use it for PDA stuff and it syncs nicely with my Qtopia desktop on SuSE 8.0. But I also use it for testing bash scripts, controlling servers with ssh, wireless web browing, programming routers, etc. It's much easier to lug into a wiring closet than a laptop.
Just another me too, I agree. They should have changed the name from PC Magazine to Microsoft Lovers Magazine a long time ago. I cancelled my subscription around 1997, but still hung out on the web site for a few years...until Jesse Burst left and they brought in the laughable David Coursey for Anchor Desk.
Coursey's articles are slightly warmed over MS PressPass pages. He is full of shit and I hope they all starve:)
I stopped buying Windows only games last year. I only reluctantly buy Linux games that require a Windows install to copy the files over.
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was the same way. It required a Windows install to copy over the files for the Linux client. Of course, it runs much better under Linux:)
I won't buy NWN until the Linux client has been out for a while.
As much as I like Patrick V. and Slackware, it is commercial, too, just not nearly to the extent of these other companies. Why do think Slackware jumped from version 4 to version 7?
I think what you meant to say was thank the gods for Debian.
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As great as a lot of Apple products are, and as tempted as I am over OS X, I could never be a happy customer of Apple because of their overzealous legal dept.
This is a long term trend. I've seen Apple sue people over the smallest, stupedist things and it sickens me, really. Especially, when they STOLE the damn name of their company from Apple records.
This was the last straw. F*** Apple, I fart in their general direction.
Savvis is NOT a US company. They are a UK company.
I don't know about C&W. I also don't know whether most of the spammers came from C&W or were already Savvis customers.
I manage a group of servers hosted at the Savvis LA1 NOC and they seem like a competent company. This year, I got a couple of compaints forwarded to me, which were resolved quickly (no spamming from my servers).
Still, I am glad they are going to be proactive in combating abusers.
No, we don't need to ponder these questions. Their position and intentions are clear. We should do everything we can to make sure all these fuckers and their twisted ideology are dead.
They have no interest in having a dialogue with us, or a peace with us. If you read the entire article, or read any of their propaganda, they believe in MONOTHEISM. Allah or nothing. Until the entire world is firmly in the grasp of a Taliban like regime, they will keep killing innocent people, then trying to justify it afterwards. They are psychotic, and cannot be helped.
We are not in a war against Terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic. We are at war with Radical Islamists. Lest we forget, there have been ugly periods of Radical Christianity in the past and we must guard against that coming back, too. Radical Islam as a movement must be destroyed and that means destroying the carriers of the disease. Simple.
PS2 Only!
F Microsoft. F Xbox. No, I'm not joking.
That is what you see at the top of the Dell Desktop web page. That is hardly distancing itself from Microsoft.
Dell does NOT support Linux, their sales people won't even tell you about N series or that you can get a PC without Windows.
DON'T BUY DELL!!
Any professor with Nine Inch Nails in their music collection is worth supporting.
Maybe we can get him to spill other beverages and mixed drinks onto CDs and record the results.
A government grant should also be in the works.
Postfix became the default mailer in SuSE 8.2. It has been the default mailer in Libranet forever. Red Hat makes it easy to switch to Postfix from Sendmail with a simple switch script.
I evaluated mailers in 2000, choose Postfix as the best and have never gone back. It is very powerful, fast, and secure. And you can edit the configuration with a plain text editor.
Now, if sendmail was twice as fast or had some other great advantages, then maybe the extra pain would be worth it, but why make your life harder than it has to be?
Another thing it is lacking is a Linux based PIM appliction. Something that the Sharp Zaurus offers (by way of the Qtopia application).
I run Linux on my desktop and my Linux PDA better damn well sync with it. The Yopy desktop PIM is Windows only. F it.
Yup, Doom was the one for me as well. It was first game that made me physically lean over to peek around a wall to see if something was waiting for me. Of course, then I would realize that leaning over wouldn't help me see what was on my screen.
Also, the terrible first roar of the Cyberdemon, and the clip-clap of his hooves is something that could scare the crap of anyone.
Things started to go wrong with the Online Update in 8.0, then got much worse in 8.1. Bad enough for me to switch to Red Hat. Now, Red Hat will have do something really bad for me to bother switching back.
I really tried to work with SuSE on the updates last year, but they ignored me. I think they lost a lot of customers because of it.
One of the value added features distros can bring to the table is fast and reliable security updates. If you can't get the updates, you're dead. And this is the one piece of code (YaST2) that SuSE has ABSOLUTE CONTROL over. I hope you are right about the updates working now, because SuSE is over without that.
After a month of parallel testing, I switched on January 1 of this year to Jgnash.
It is also a java program, so it will run on Windows or Linux (I use it on Linux with the Sun JDK). It can supposedly import GnuCash data but I haven't tried. The code is open, the file format is XML.
Jgnash is not as mature as moneydance, and doesn't have all the features (yet), but it is stable, usable, and works great for me.
Guess what? I write code for government agencies, too, and we don't rig our RFPs from the start. If that is what you are doing, maybe you should get your local media to report on it because someone is screwing up big time.
There are certainly government agencies and/or department heads at the local, county, state or federal level that "cheat", but that is not how it is supposed to work. And it does NOT work that way where I work.
Would a lot of the system selections end up with the same result if you didn't fudge your RFPs? Maybe, since many vertical apps (like police dispatch) don't exist yet in the open source world, but you can at least make the process fair.
A better solution (the one I use) includes a summary report of spam filtered each day. The report lists the number of spams from each sender and I can usually spot valid mail in the list of "From"s without having to look at a single message.
If I spot a false positive, then I dig into my spam archive for that day and check it out.
I use the spastic filter:
http://spastic.sourceforge.net
"isn't that the digital equivalent of mugging and rape?"
Well, if someone was walking around the Internet, flaunting their IE all over the place, with their security settings half way down to their waist, then weren't they asking for it?
Come on, you know they wanted Xupiter. They wanted it!
Damn Right!
/. just went way, way down.
The links to 911 detainees has NOTHING to do with hacker cases. Why is Hemos looking for an opportunity to lash out at the U.S. government?
If you are pissed about anti-terrorism, then post an opinion piece or at least make it a separate post. You harm your case by trying to link it something related to hacking and computers.
What kind of muddled thinking leads to this kind of front page post?
My opinion of Hemos and
There _is_ such a book. It's called Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition:
http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/rute.html.gz
Full text online, but the book is the best general linux book I've read. Buy one!
There are great laptops WITHOUT AN OS at http://www.powernotebooks.com.
On top of great hardware at a great price, you also get the best customer service I've experienced (and I've bought from Dell, Toshiba and Micron). I am not associated with them in any way other than a happy customer.
I am typing this on a new Powernotebooks laptop running Red Hat 8.0. On the day I purchased it, the same hardware at Dell was selling for $350 more AFTER applying all their xmas discounts.
Don't buy from any vendor that won't unbundle the OS from their hardware. And tell them why you are not buying from them!
My daughter boots whichever OS she wants pretty much on her own. While most of her games are Windows based, some of her favorties, like Frozen Bubble, are on Red Hat.
I haven't given her Internet access on her computer, she has to use mom or dads, which means supervised.
While she has been using Red Hat a lot lately, it may simply be because that's what dad runs all the time.
Like many bad elements in life, I can't keep her from being exposed to Windows, but I can educate her so she knows when its ok to use it, and when to say no if pressured to use it by her peers.
Every distro can do this out of the box, though not with a menu selection. Try this:
1. Login as yourself, then "startx"
2. Ctrl-Alt-F2, login as another user, then type "startx --"
Now you have one X session on vt7 and one on vt8.
Next, Ctrl-Alt-F7 for user 1, Ctrl-Alt-F8 for user 2.
Voila, switch user!
It IS free software in every way that counts.
The YaST2 license gives you the complete source code for it. You are free to modify the source for your needs and even redistribute it to other users. The only way it differs from the GPL is that you are not allowed to SELL your modified version. The YaST2 license would have satisfied Richard Stallmans needs when he encounted his famous printer software problem that gave rise to the GPL.
People who bash SuSE over licensing have no idea what they are talking about.
The Zaurus is not really in the same category of devices as Palms. I was a happy Palm user for 5 years and I still like Palms for basic PDA stuff. But the Z is an ultra small computer with all the power and complexity that goes with a real computer.
Yes, I use it for PDA stuff and it syncs nicely with my Qtopia desktop on SuSE 8.0. But I also use it for testing bash scripts, controlling servers with ssh, wireless web browing, programming routers, etc. It's much easier to lug into a wiring closet than a laptop.
Just another me too, I agree. They should have changed the name from PC Magazine to Microsoft Lovers Magazine a long time ago. I cancelled my subscription around 1997, but still hung out on the web site for a few years...until Jesse Burst left and they brought in the laughable David Coursey for Anchor Desk.
:)
Coursey's articles are slightly warmed over MS PressPass pages. He is full of shit and I hope they all starve
I stopped buying Windows only games last year. I only reluctantly buy Linux games that require a Windows install to copy the files over.
:)
Return to Castle Wolfenstein was the same way. It required a Windows install to copy over the files for the Linux client. Of course, it runs much better under Linux
I won't buy NWN until the Linux client has been out for a while.
As much as I like Patrick V. and Slackware, it is commercial, too, just not nearly to the extent of these other companies. Why do think Slackware jumped from version 4 to version 7?
I think what you meant to say was thank the gods for Debian.
Jordon Hubbard is DYING.