If storage manufacturers are actively heading in a direction I don't want then they will not get a penny of my money. I currently actively avoid SDMI limited hardware and encourage others to do the same. e.g. The secure multi media cards and MP3 players that support them.
Standard m/board sizes only though FlexATX etc. Most of the ones I've seen so far aren't really all that different from standard ATX form factor. The SV24 would be nice but for the non standard motherboard.
Very high density. You could get 4 systems into 1U of a standard 19" rack. I know you can get blade servers these days with 19 servers/3U.
It'd be better if they didn't force the OS though. Just use whatever is your favourite. ARM Debian, SuSe, *BSD, whatever. Sell the platform and make it easy to add an OS.
Makes quite a difference. I've pointed my trollbox at the report script. My own spamido scripts were OK, but lacked the distributed functionality of Razor.
The governments are busy trying to relinquish all their responsibilities. They want to raise taxes and not have to actually do anything in return.
They are all desperately trying to get out of managing roads, rail, telecoms, education, energy, health, law and order. The only thing which they seem to want is defense. I suppose that's because the toys are bigger, more expensive and make loud noises.
And sure, 802.11b is just a stepping stone to more effective technologies, but it's cheap and is a start. If we all waited about util the new super duper extra fast and secure systems arrived, nothing would ever get done.
As to who's going to co-ordinate it, well, you join up or fade into the background noise.
I mean, look at the mind numbing junk that they are trying to peddle. Repeat, repeat, repeat, sport, sport, sport, gameshows, gameshows, gameshows, soap, soap, soap. What *utter utter* crap!
And the media companies want to protect this "content"? It's like a beggar protecting his pile of bottles and aluminium cans. What kind of vegetating sheep watches it anyway?
They tend to have few offspring. Therefore the technique may well work. However, I've always liked the concept of using a species natural predators to do the dirty work for us.
Create an environment where the predators can flourish.
Give them an email address, they'll give you a free Zope instance to play with. It takes a couple of hours to get your head round how it works and what you should and shouldn't be trying to do.
BTW, can I just say that Zope absolutely rocks as an web application development platform. It's just sooo[1] much faster than "traditional" methods of web development.
Why not use a domain hitlist? Get more than a couple of spams from a domain, bounce everything from the domain[1]. It's less arbitrary than closing off everything from Asia on the basis of a few spammer ISPs.
XML is not the solution to the problem, XML is just a file format, many different file parsers would still be required for XML just as there are for other file formats.
No what's required is a simple to use *API* which performs the configuration management for you. Whether the configuration information is then stored in a colon separated file, XML file, DB database, SQL database or LDAP server is irrelevant, it can still be read, modified, saved by the application.
LibCFG uses flat text files by default but that's only because nobody's written LDAP, SQL, DBM sections for it.
Note, the license for the library is important. For a library like this to become useful, *everything* has to be able to use it, the most expensive commercial software must be able to include and use the code as well as GNU GPL based software.
And it's a pain in the arse. Completely over deployed. Twit IT managers insist on Oracle for little databases that couldn't remotely be called mission critical.
It requires so much work that other RDBMS simply don't.
Oracle's fine for *big* stuff where you have a dozen DBAs working on a project but it's like taking a jet 5 miles down the road to work every day.
They sell *systems*. You seem to have the impression that the operating system is free wth the hardware rather than integral with the price of the system.
There is no evidence that an Apple operating system purchased individually would be anything other than "overpriced".
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Simple.
If storage manufacturers are actively heading in a direction I don't want then they will not get a penny of my money. I currently actively avoid SDMI limited hardware and encourage others to do the same. e.g. The secure multi media cards and MP3 players that support them.
*I'm* the customer, not the RIAA.
While we're on the subject.
Standard m/board sizes only though FlexATX etc. Most of the ones I've seen so far aren't really all that different from standard ATX form factor. The SV24 would be nice but for the non standard motherboard.
Very high density. You could get 4 systems into 1U of a standard 19" rack. I know you can get blade servers these days with 19 servers/3U.
It'd be better if they didn't force the OS though. Just use whatever is your favourite. ARM Debian, SuSe, *BSD, whatever. Sell the platform and make it easy to add an OS.
It looks like it's designed to integrate quite well with sendmail while Vipuls Razor is easier to plug and play with Procmail.
Vipuls Razor looks easier to install and get running, but DCC might be more effective for high capacity sites.
Two slightly different approaches, Vipuls Razor is Perl based and DCC is written in C. How's about a common data format, common databases and servers?
Makes quite a difference. I've pointed my trollbox at the report script. My own spamido scripts were OK, but lacked the distributed functionality of Razor.
and take credit when it's completed. Standard marketing practice.
The governments are busy trying to relinquish all their responsibilities. They want to raise taxes and not have to actually do anything in return.
They are all desperately trying to get out of managing roads, rail, telecoms, education, energy, health, law and order. The only thing which they seem to want is defense. I suppose that's because the toys are bigger, more expensive and make loud noises.
And sure, 802.11b is just a stepping stone to more effective technologies, but it's cheap and is a start. If we all waited about util the new super duper extra fast and secure systems arrived, nothing would ever get done.
As to who's going to co-ordinate it, well, you join up or fade into the background noise.
Actually, I'm impressed. If you search for the above words in Google my diatribe appears at the number 1 position.
Go on, you know you want to read it and find out what I think about just how useful ICANN are.
I mean, look at the mind numbing junk that they are trying to peddle. Repeat, repeat, repeat, sport, sport, sport, gameshows, gameshows, gameshows, soap, soap, soap. What *utter utter* crap!
And the media companies want to protect this "content"? It's like a beggar protecting his pile of bottles and aluminium cans. What kind of vegetating sheep watches it anyway?
Have a search.
They tend to have few offspring. Therefore the technique may well work. However, I've always liked the concept of using a species natural predators to do the dirty work for us.
Create an environment where the predators can flourish.
Give them an email address, they'll give you a free Zope instance to play with. It takes a couple of hours to get your head round how it works and what you should and shouldn't be trying to do.
BTW, can I just say that Zope absolutely rocks as an web application development platform. It's just sooo[1] much faster than "traditional" methods of web development.
[1] Where "sooo" represents a large number.
They wouldn't *be* middle managers if they had drive, vision and talent.
Leave. Become a consultant and read Dilbert.
Add some spamtrap accounts to poison the mailing lists and sugar to taste.
I haven't implemented automated domain blocking yet, but it shouldn't be all that difficult to do.
I'm seriously considering it though. AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes.
Why not use a domain hitlist? Get more than a couple of spams from a domain, bounce everything from the domain[1]. It's less arbitrary than closing off everything from Asia on the basis of a few spammer ISPs.
[1] Bye bye Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail for a start.
It already exists, at least as a concept, I don't know if they have anything in production yet.
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http://www.airship.com/prod/prod_home.
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/libcfg/
XML is not the solution to the problem, XML is just a file format, many different file parsers would still be required for XML just as there are for other file formats.
No what's required is a simple to use *API* which performs the configuration management for you. Whether the configuration information is then stored in a colon separated file, XML file, DB database, SQL database or LDAP server is irrelevant, it can still be read, modified, saved by the application.
LibCFG uses flat text files by default but that's only because nobody's written LDAP, SQL, DBM sections for it.
Note, the license for the library is important. For a library like this to become useful, *everything* has to be able to use it, the most expensive commercial software must be able to include and use the code as well as GNU GPL based software.
http://www.yelm.freeserve.co.uk/spamido/
To catch the spammers, and:
Vipuls Razor[1].
http://razor.sourceforge.net/
To report the spam to others and widen the protection once they've been caught.
[1] Doesn't that just sound like a spell out of D&D?
And it's biggest asset.
If PostgreSQL implements all the features that Oracle supports, it'll become just as much of a pain in the arse as Oracle to administer.
I wouldn't be in a big hurry to add masses of features.
In order to use OS/X you've already paid Apple for a system, hardware and software and are simply upgrading.
The same will not be true on Intel or other open hardware platform. The hardware won't subsidise the software pricing.
And it's a pain in the arse. Completely over deployed. Twit IT managers insist on Oracle for little databases that couldn't remotely be called mission critical.
It requires so much work that other RDBMS simply don't.
Oracle's fine for *big* stuff where you have a dozen DBAs working on a project but it's like taking a jet 5 miles down the road to work every day.
They sell *systems*. You seem to have the impression that the operating system is free wth the hardware rather than integral with the price of the system.
There is no evidence that an Apple operating system purchased individually would be anything other than "overpriced".
Aint gonna happen, so the version of Windows that'll be pirated will be the corporate version.