Then why is redhat astro-turfing every opportunity it can? slashdot/osdn/whoever they are these days are getting paid to make this redhat/fedora thing look bigger than it is. redhat isn't kicking the crap outta anyone, they're going down.
Also how up to date is Debian's distro? It is very stable (and I use it on certain servers), but a lot of the packages are somewhat behind.
A lot? Isn't this is the distro that never made a release during the entire 2.4 kernel series? The entire distro is behind. Anyone using debian these days is living in the past... in more ways than one. Debian is about as current as yggdrasil.
I'm betting that one day there will be proof that being bombarded by all the radiation from wireless devices increases your chance of developing cancer.
So this is a stupid idea (city going wireless), IMHO.
News flash! Redhat is *paying* companies to generate a bunch of community hype around Fedora. This includes the many/. postings.
They're faking a grass roots movement around fedora, and that is astro-turfing. These tactics are not acceptable. Investigate before you choose a linux distro!
Hans and co's attitude:
"For $25 you get an answer to any question we can answer with less than half an hour of working on it. fsck support sometimes takes more than half an hour" - http://www.namesys.com/support.html
I only have a 5 minute greylist delay, meaning there's almost no downside to this method.
Hmm, it sounds like you don't understand how greylisting works. That 5 minute delay is only the minimum delay before you'll accept a message. It has no bearing on how long the actual delay will be.
This is because it is up to the remote MTA to decide how long to wait before retrying, so your 5 minute setting doesn't really affect the actual message delay. ie If the remote MTA wants to wait 4 hours before retrying, there is nothing you can do about it.
I just went through a couple of rounds of interviews with a spam filtering company about doing something similar. The problem these days is that spammers have figured out that "V1AGRA" can be spelled in a number of ways which fool word-based spam filters. There is also a lot of hidden information, such as html and urls, which may be significant, but is difficult to identify with exact string matching.
I don't think there are any real "word-based-spam filters" other than some useless but well intentioned procmail scripts and such.
Baysian (any adaptive filter really) will handle cases like v1agra quite well because its unlikely that anyone would ever spell viagra like that. So it will be considered a very likely spam token. Of course it needs to see a known spam message using the v1agra spelling first, which is the big shortcoming of all adaptive filters.
I know at least 1 company where they already has worked around the n^2/2 problem with efficient algorithms. These filters know that v1agra or v.agra or v i a gra is actually spelling viagra and score the message appropriatly.
Finally, the spammers are not keeping up at all in the arms race. Anyone with a good antispam solution doesn't really get any spam.
I had backspace key issues with Sol 9, x86, out of the box, while sitting at the console.
This is true for HP-UX also. Plug in a HP-UX serial console to one of their "Enterprise" servers (they have no videocard or keyboard port) login and hit backspace. It doesn't work!!!
Sure you can install GNU utilities to get around this but I'll install my GNU utilities with linux, thanks!
Also, Solaris tar is busted in that paths longer than 255 characters are truncated. Solaris tar is a POS.
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I've been saying this for years, Redhat is trying to become the next Microsoft. They are the Redmond of linux.
Burn in hell Redmond Hat, in the cell between Balmer and Gates.
Too bad the caps are suitable for a 56k line though. :(
Guess you never used the previous Flagship OS, known as MacOS.
Co-operative multi-tasking, crappy memory protection, and it goes downhill from there...
Subject says it all, debian is the walking dead.
No kidding, the arrival of the 1.44 MB floppy started the era of unreliable ejectable media. Zip, CD, DVD have all had less than stellar reliability.
Then why is redhat astro-turfing every opportunity it can? slashdot/osdn/whoever they are these days are getting paid to make this redhat/fedora thing look bigger than it is. redhat isn't kicking the crap outta anyone, they're going down.
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... the word of the day (for redhat)!
Their overall market share is way down
Down
You found a bunch of redhat email addresses on your redhat install and redhat packages ... very interesting!
Anyone using debian these days is living in the past
XBOX2 is based on Power5 and runs a modified version of XP.
I guess it does work?
http://downloads.activestate.com/unsupported/Perl
It is actually a desktop case (not tower) and makes a nice monitor stand! Not good for much else.
I'm betting that one day there will be proof that being bombarded by all the radiation from wireless devices increases your chance of developing cancer.
So this is a stupid idea (city going wireless), IMHO.
Hope it don't go boom while they're recovering it....
News flash! Redhat is *paying* companies to generate a bunch of community hype around Fedora. This includes the many /. postings.
They're faking a grass roots movement around fedora, and that is astro-turfing. These tactics are not acceptable. Investigate before you choose a linux distro!
Redhat: the Redmond of linux.
Fedora -- astro-turfing linux to new heights.
Sarathy was the force behind making Perl work well on Windows.
r .p lex#gurusamy
Anyone using Perl on Windows can attest to its seamless integration.
Thanks man!
http://www.ActiveState.com/Company/people_senio
I remember going out for beers with Ingy once ... its best described by the frantic words "Put it back on! Put it back on!" (*)
(*) spoken with a German accent.
On reliability:u ly/msg00418.html
"After 3 or 4 power cycles, ReiserFS became corrupted to the point that the system would not boot up (the fsck failed and the bootup stopped there)." - http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-J
On code maturity:r y/l-fs7/
"In contrast, ReiserFS' fsck is in its infancy..." - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/libra
Hans and co's attitude:
"For $25 you get an answer to any question we can answer with less than half an hour of working on it. fsck support sometimes takes more than half an hour" - http://www.namesys.com/support.html
Hmm, it sounds like you don't understand how greylisting works. That 5 minute delay is only the minimum delay before you'll accept a message. It has no bearing on how long the actual delay will be.
This is because it is up to the remote MTA to decide how long to wait before retrying, so your 5 minute setting doesn't really affect the actual message delay. ie If the remote MTA wants to wait 4 hours before retrying, there is nothing you can do about it.
I don't think there are any real "word-based-spam filters" other than some useless but well intentioned procmail scripts and such.
Baysian (any adaptive filter really) will handle cases like v1agra quite well because its unlikely that anyone would ever spell viagra like that. So it will be considered a very likely spam token. Of course it needs to see a known spam message using the v1agra spelling first, which is the big shortcoming of all adaptive filters.
I know at least 1 company where they already has worked around the n^2/2 problem with efficient algorithms. These filters know that v1agra or v.agra or v i a gra is actually spelling viagra and score the message appropriatly.
Finally, the spammers are not keeping up at all in the arms race. Anyone with a good antispam solution doesn't really get any spam.
ActiveState PureMessage has been doing this for years.
Also now available for free via SURBL
Just when you though you had a new idea, it turns out to be older than the hills...
Articles about Fedora and Redhat is the only astroturfing around these parts.
Thunderbolt Thursday! Yeah!
It happens every Thursday in the summer.
Yup. Good times!
This is true for HP-UX also. Plug in a HP-UX serial console to one of their "Enterprise" servers (they have no videocard or keyboard port) login and hit backspace. It doesn't work!!!
Sure you can install GNU utilities to get around this but I'll install my GNU utilities with linux, thanks!
Also, Solaris tar is busted in that paths longer than 255 characters are truncated. Solaris tar is a POS.
I'd call my processor a Sextium. Sextium sounds like its higher than pentium so it must be better. Plus it has sex in it.
We all know that sex sells. Imagine the ads!
fp!