They very well may have resold thier customer list to some marketing vermin, BUT there are many other ways spammers work, example (although my sendmail is poorly configured)
(4)-lexx:~> telnet lexx.truthandjustice.net 25 Trying 209.226.XX.XXX... Connected to lexx.truthandjustice.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 lexx.truthandjustice.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 05:25:34 GMT VRFY scarr 250 User Scarr [scarr@lexx.truthandjustice.net]
There... Now, a spammer conected to EarthLink might try something similar to verify E-Mail addresses, or they could be doing something as simple appending @earthlink.net or @earthlink.com to common E-Mail addresses, like adaml, or jsmith, etc...
There HAVE to be other methods. I don't believe it's in the financial or legal interests to give user information away, but you never know.
"You can't buy a '99 Camaro for $1000 from the dealerships, and the same type of reasoning applies to PCs."
...yes... Exactly. Why does my mom need a P-III? She's running a Win95 box with 32megs of SIMM RAM, a P-100, an X2 non-IDE CD-Rom and 2 300meg HDDs. The thing can't be worth more than $150, another $50 for the monitor, in CANADIAN funds! If it wasn't for the proprietary printer support she could be running Redhat 5.2 and WordPerfect, and she probably wouldn't have to upgrade for a long time. I know this because this was my computer before I got my P-II 300. I was running Slackware on it before I upgraded and it was great. I even had a Maxi-Gamer 3D in there that made Quake II playable, and really smooth.
This can totally be done. You're thinking of what you need, not what the really low end consumer actually needs, the person that's just starting out. I'm amazed anyone buys a first PC these days, it would take a lot of faith to dump that much money into something that may end up being unusable anyway.
If computers cost as much as they do now back when I was growing up, we wouldn't have had one, and I'd be moving boxes for a living...
I'm still most impressed by the AI in the original Descent... I don't know if they did anything special with the way the AI was handled but it worked really well. Doom, while one of the greatest games ever, had some of the WORST AI I've seen! You could kill almost anything just by hiding behind an obstacle.
We're all very impressed. Not only did you hear about this first, you submitted it a week ago! you also thought of the witty title but you got no credit... Theft I tell you!
Yeah, I thought this was gonna be MY witty comment, but apparently like 29 people beat me to it;)
But for real, how neat would this be? How about 2 competeing teams of distributed chess clusters? MacOS Vs. Linux? Linux Vs. Linux? Windows Vs. Palm? Heh... I dunno, if I ever get the willpower maybe I'll try to put it together, but I'd really rather someone beat me to it.
Other ISP's will soon be offering residential ADSL service. No real ETA as of yet, but the ISP I work for plans to roll out the service in the near future (good news for me, free ADSL). I can only imagine other ISPs will follow that are a lot kinder to OTHER operating systems than just Windows Whatever.
If Sympatico's thinking about implimenting this, they're totally forgetting about Mac users as well I would assume. It would be beyond stupid.
Do you really think the folks here at Slashdot have enough time to research each peice before they put it up? I wouldn't even want them to! It would spell the end of Slashdot as we knew it. Imagine if Rob or Hemos suddenly started to research every scoop that came in, it would be insanity, and I feel is not the function of slashdot. If a story is false, post some feedback, it's what it's all about, the whole CGI BBS thing...
Actually it is difficult if you have to guess about parts of your hardware. I have a bunch of crap that I got from various sources, most of which is still a mystery (my NE2000 clone card cost me $2). I used a RedHat 5.2 install to gather information about it, and then went on to a FreeBSD 3.1 install. Of course, I'm back on RedHat for the moment, but I'm going to try 3.2..
People get it now, I think. You like a FreeBSD feature? Port it to Linux. You think a Linux app rocks? Run it under BSD. The lines are blurring between distros and UNIX in general.
The only question in your choice these days is exactly what you want out of your OS. Claiming one is better or the best isn't productive and usually isn't valid to other people.
You're right, but I think the old "Yale, frat-boy, pay $25,000 to take X number of classes Y of which you don't actually need, care about or even attend only to end up in debt for the next 5 years" style of education is out... I personally dropped out of High School in grade 11, mostly because I have issues with authority;)
Regardless the choice has served me well, but I also understand that my education will never be over. Without sounding too much like Frank Ogden, It's a new age (no crystals, but still, a new age) and with that there should be a new way of getting an education.
The future; picking up a formal education as you go, coupled with work experience. How could you beat that? In ten years when I'm hiring, it'll be hard to impres me with fraternity alignments, or even a full diploma. I'd want to see a combination of documented skills and past experience.
Kinda ironic though, since I was hired because my cover-letter was amusing and I suspect for no other reason.
..off topic.. On another note. I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm going to puke internal organs if I hear one more Dead Poets Society, John Hughes style reminisce about University being "the best years of my life!" I haven't had the best years of my life yet, and if I did, they wouldn't be the 4 years that I would have spent drinking beer and handing in forged essay papers! No! They are gonna be the Porche years... I'll enjoy those.
Let's not start naming what the PC industry stole from Apple and vice-versa. Hell, the industry's about stealing in some ways, the question is will the theft lead to an improvement?
What Dell is going to put out is going to suck, because when the PC industry does it cheap, it's cheap (one word, WinModem).
I like Apple hardware more, and even though it shouldn't count technically, Apple has better designs in general. There's a book out there called Apple Design or smething like that I was flipping through the other day. I wish they had released some of that stuff.
It's nearly useless, and anyplace it would have a use, it probably wouldn't be worth setting up. I'm sure it'll spark a revolution in how 'Internet Faxes' are sent. I can't believe anyone would waste engineer manpower on it.
Of course, I'm looking forward to the day I step into a corporate office building and hundreds of pages of "u H4v3 b33n 0wn3d" are printing on like 3 different floors....You've always gotta look at the comic up-side to things.
...that's what people are bitching about. I -LIKE- Apple, I'm sure a lot of the people who are laying criticism do. I intend to buy a G3 within the next month....but they've got a crummy licence, it could be better.
The message we've sent is "Your licence is no good to us because it isn't totally free, change it to reflet the GPL because it's the one that works for the developers in the community." I'm interested to see what Apple's reply will be, because the ball is in thier court.
The APSL is starting to look like a big sham. They may not have done it on purpose, but that's what you get when your organization has a marketing and legal department. I was kind of looking forward to MacOS X, but forget it, apparently my copy of LinuxPPC R5 is in the mail!
Good? Yeap. Every time a record company does this it alienates another popular artist.
The Beastie Boys Public Enemy and now, Tom Petty
I read an interview with Chuck-D recently and it sounds like he has plans to cut the record industry out of the loop somehow. It'll happen, it can't not happen. The artists want this format to work, it's the people that make the REAL money that are trying to crush it. If the artists could cut the middle-man out of the industry, they wouldn't suffer as much as people think they do. The real money in the music industry is in selling 10 cent discs for 20 bucks.
Depends on what your business is doing. I think if your business is doing graphics, or design open source would help, but if you're doing any networking or electronic commerce stuff I'd say it's essential for security reasons. I wouldn't use anything else, but of course I'm not an 'IT manager'.
Anyway, they better rename Windows 2000 at this point or they're going to look like idiots in 2002 (pretty much like with Win95, in 1996). I'd just go with NT 5... Of course this is all futile, if RedHat gets any easier to install it's going to be a long, hard decade for MS.
What Linux REALLY needs is more game support, as dumb as that sounds, because we have nearly everything else.
This'd be neat if there was a database of singletrack trails available, maybe there is, of course sometimes the most fun is getting horribly lost while running low on Gatorade. I'd think that you'd probably mount this on a leg or something, and this opens up the market for heavy-duty 'Dolch' style cases for the PalmPilot, they GOTTA be out there.
And I think we killed the site. Wish my site was killed for once;)
500 Server Error The hard transfer limit for this user has been reached
My next computer is probably going to be a G3 for other reasons, but this pretty much seals it shut.
I realised that the only things keeping me from doing it sooner was my own hardware bias which I have no excuse for (as a former Amiga owner) and worrying where LinuxPPC would go. At this point I'm looking at my options and I've pre-ordered LinuxPPC 5.0 with a T-Shirt;)
Honestly I have no good reason to fund the Intel/Microsoft crap-factory anymore... Anything I can or want to do on any platform I can pretty much do in Linux, on a PPC, and if not on the tiny MacOS partition I have planned.
If anyone has any valid arguments against this plan that DON'T have to do with the ammount of software available for PPC, please pass them along as I'd like to hear them.
Any time I send anything via Canada Post it's a roll of the dice that it won't 'fall off the truck' into infinity. As far as E-Mail goes if it does fail I usually get word back about it. I think standard mail is out-dated.
PS, can anyone explain to me why people constantly want to fax stuff through the Internet? Isn't this totally redundant?
It sounds like some stooge got the password, hell the people that run the site probably had the same password for a year and a half, there was probably 20 peices of yellow sticky paper, 5 E-Mails, and an old cocktail napkin with the words;
STAR WARS SITE CODE secret name - strwrs01 secret code pass thingee - dfX8236
Slashdot Mirror
(4)-lexx:~> telnet lexx.truthandjustice.net 25
Trying 209.226.XX.XXX...
Connected to lexx.truthandjustice.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 lexx.truthandjustice.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.9.3/8.9.3; Sat, 10 Jul 1999 05:25:34 GMT
VRFY scarr
250 User Scarr [scarr@lexx.truthandjustice.net]
There... Now, a spammer conected to EarthLink might try something similar to verify E-Mail addresses, or they could be doing something as simple appending @earthlink.net or @earthlink.com to common E-Mail addresses, like adaml, or jsmith, etc...
There HAVE to be other methods. I don't believe it's in the financial or legal interests to give user information away, but you never know.
This can totally be done. You're thinking of what you need, not what the really low end consumer actually needs, the person that's just starting out. I'm amazed anyone buys a first PC these days, it would take a lot of faith to dump that much money into something that may end up being unusable anyway.
If computers cost as much as they do now back when I was growing up, we wouldn't have had one, and I'd be moving boxes for a living...
I'm still most impressed by the AI in the original Descent... I don't know if they did anything special with the way the AI was handled but it worked really well. Doom, while one of the greatest games ever, had some of the WORST AI I've seen! You could kill almost anything just by hiding behind an obstacle.
We're all very impressed. Not only did you hear about this first, you submitted it a week ago! you also thought of the witty title but you got no credit... Theft I tell you!
But for real, how neat would this be? How about 2 competeing teams of distributed chess clusters? MacOS Vs. Linux? Linux Vs. Linux? Windows Vs. Palm? Heh... I dunno, if I ever get the willpower maybe I'll try to put it together, but I'd really rather someone beat me to it.
If Sympatico's thinking about implimenting this, they're totally forgetting about Mac users as well I would assume. It would be beyond stupid.
Yeah, and Malda shot Kennedy, both of them. What happened to people doing thier OWN research? This is still the Internet right?
Do you really think the folks here at Slashdot have enough time to research each peice before they put it up? I wouldn't even want them to! It would spell the end of Slashdot as we knew it. Imagine if Rob or Hemos suddenly started to research every scoop that came in, it would be insanity, and I feel is not the function of slashdot. If a story is false, post some feedback, it's what it's all about, the whole CGI BBS thing...
I think there's a story like this (probably more than one) in almost every culture out there. It's fitting that Geek culture has it's very own ;)
Actually it is difficult if you have to guess about parts of your hardware. I have a bunch of crap that I got from various sources, most of which is still a mystery (my NE2000 clone card cost me $2). I used a RedHat 5.2 install to gather information about it, and then went on to a FreeBSD 3.1 install. Of course, I'm back on RedHat for the moment, but I'm going to try 3.2..
People get it now, I think. You like a FreeBSD feature? Port it to Linux. You think a Linux app rocks? Run it under BSD. The lines are blurring between distros and UNIX in general.
The only question in your choice these days is exactly what you want out of your OS. Claiming one is better or the best isn't productive and usually isn't valid to other people.
FreeBSD rocks. Linux rocks. NT, well, it runs.
Regardless the choice has served me well, but I also understand that my education will never be over. Without sounding too much like Frank Ogden, It's a new age (no crystals, but still, a new age) and with that there should be a new way of getting an education.
The future; picking up a formal education as you go, coupled with work experience. How could you beat that? In ten years when I'm hiring, it'll be hard to impres me with fraternity alignments, or even a full diploma. I'd want to see a combination of documented skills and past experience.
Kinda ironic though, since I was hired because my cover-letter was amusing and I suspect for no other reason.
Ok, I'm done.
What Dell is going to put out is going to suck, because when the PC industry does it cheap, it's cheap (one word, WinModem).
I like Apple hardware more, and even though it shouldn't count technically, Apple has better designs in general. There's a book out there called Apple Design or smething like that I was flipping through the other day. I wish they had released some of that stuff.
That's what it's about.
MMmmm, Whitehouse interns...
Of course, I'm looking forward to the day I step into a corporate office building and hundreds of pages of "u H4v3 b33n 0wn3d" are printing on like 3 different floors. ...You've always gotta look at the comic up-side to things.
The message we've sent is "Your licence is no good to us because it isn't totally free, change it to reflet the GPL because it's the one that works for the developers in the community." I'm interested to see what Apple's reply will be, because the ball is in thier court.
The APSL is starting to look like a big sham. They may not have done it on purpose, but that's what you get when your organization has a marketing and legal department. I was kind of looking forward to MacOS X, but forget it, apparently my copy of LinuxPPC R5 is in the mail!
- The Beastie Boys Public Enemy and now, Tom Petty
I read an interview with Chuck-D recently and it sounds like he has plans to cut the record industry out of the loop somehow. It'll happen, it can't not happen. The artists want this format to work, it's the people that make the REAL money that are trying to crush it. If the artists could cut the middle-man out of the industry, they wouldn't suffer as much as people think they do. The real money in the music industry is in selling 10 cent discs for 20 bucks.Depends on what your business is doing. I think if your business is doing graphics, or design open source would help, but if you're doing any networking or electronic commerce stuff I'd say it's essential for security reasons. I wouldn't use anything else, but of course I'm not an 'IT manager'.
Anyway, they better rename Windows 2000 at this point or they're going to look like idiots in 2002 (pretty much like with Win95, in 1996). I'd just go with NT 5... Of course this is all futile, if RedHat gets any easier to install it's going to be a long, hard decade for MS.
What Linux REALLY needs is more game support, as dumb as that sounds, because we have nearly everything else.
And I think we killed the site. Wish my site was killed for once
My next computer is probably going to be a G3 for other reasons, but this pretty much seals it shut.
;)
I realised that the only things keeping me from doing it sooner was my own hardware bias which I have no excuse for (as a former Amiga owner) and worrying where LinuxPPC would go. At this point I'm looking at my options and I've pre-ordered LinuxPPC 5.0 with a T-Shirt
Honestly I have no good reason to fund the Intel/Microsoft crap-factory anymore... Anything I can or want to do on any platform I can pretty much do in Linux, on a PPC, and if not on the tiny MacOS partition I have planned.
If anyone has any valid arguments against this plan that DON'T have to do with the ammount of software available for PPC, please pass them along as I'd like to hear them.
PS, can anyone explain to me why people constantly want to fax stuff through the Internet? Isn't this totally redundant?
STAR WARS SITE CODE
secret name - strwrs01
secret code pass thingee - dfX8236