Or you could have kept using WP5 for DOS or whatever version you were using before, and that is exactly what many people did untill after quite a long time no viable alernative had shown up still and they switched to Word as well (tho both WP and AMI Pro showed that it was quite possible to write a word processor for Windows even when you aren't called MS)
We were about 6 months into the conversion from dos to win - we ran with the crippled wp5, waiting for WP's upgrade to 6. When that came out and was still broken we couldn't put off change. We had had problems with WP4, mainly with its document size limitation. WFW was the only functional program that worked and that had sufficient features such as revision control, tables, etc that AMI Pro didn't provide which WP6 would have if it wasn't broken. I'm not saying I was happy with this, but given the choice of reverting back to a DOS app when Word did the job, the company decided to use Word.
You further say that it was actually features that Word offered that made it better
No, The contest was between Word and WP6. WP6 was better (or would have been given the chance), it was just broken.
I think that Microsoft Office won in the marketplace, and did have quite a bit of serious competition untill relatively recently, and now got some again with OO.
Before MS finally got a usable GUI, Word Perfect was the word processor of choice, as Lotus 123 was for spreadsheets. But the word processor was the critical component.
Once Win 3.0 & 3.1 came along, MS Office won because Word Perfect couldn't write a workable GUI. Both versions 5 and 6 crashed so much it just couldn't be used in a production environment, we had to convert to Word for Windows. Unfortunately, there just was no viable competition for the corporate market (AMI Pro didn't make it either due to lack of features).
Now, _why_ WP couldn't do it I'll leave as an exercise for the reader...
With adequate robot labor, you would have no need to exploit the world. At that point, added territory is no longer a source of useful resources but only an administrative burden.
Try greed, lust for power and arrogance. Works every time. People with this mindset will always want more.
The technologically advanced nations which invented chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons could use them to to enslave the world, but we don't do that.
You have got to be kidding. Dominant powers can and will use whatever they like. Things just haven't got to that point yet. Except of course against Japan in WWII and who can forget Agent Orange and napalm in Vietnam? And didn't the Soviet Union put out some nasties in Afganistan? And of course if said powers don't want to get their hands dirty they give the means to others such as Saddam Hussein.
My wife's mum has dementia and we found one of the early things to go was her ability to read digital clocks. She kept saying she didn't have a clock even though the digital one was right there on her dresser. We finally realised she had lost that ability/memory and got her an analogue.
She was fine for quite a while, till eventually she lost her understanding of the relationship between the hands - and probably linear time as well....
In addition, treadmill tests (of live tribesmen of course) resulted in these individuals having comparable or superior performance to Olympic champions.
Yeah, those dead tribesmen really skewed the results when we put them on the treadmill.
Yes of course, but what I'm saying (and making a hash of) is that multi Intel/AMD type computers just haven't to date had enough bus bandwidth to be all that useful in larger i/o-intensive applications which I thought was glossed over in the original comment...
PCs or even the hopped up cpq servers just can't move enough data. Our IBM RISC machines have anywhere from 4 to 16 256mhz PCI buses (new models have 28). You put a couple of GB ethernet interfaces, fibreSCSI cards, etc and there just isn't the bandwidth to service the data on PCs.
A good example of this was shown with a simple mock up of Gandalf standing still with Gollum jumping up onto his back and ripping off his head. Most of the actions were done by the computer.
Most of the actions? I guess they couldn't simulate the head ripping part.;-)
As per RFC2505, a receiving MTA could send a 4xx error:
For some events, like "Denied - you're on the spammer's list", 5xx may be the correct Return Code, since it terminates the session at once and we are done with it (assuming that the spammer plays by the SMTP rules, which he may decide not to do - in fact he can put the mail back on queue or turn to some other host, regardless of Return Code). However, a 5xx mistake in a configuration may cause legitimate mail to bounce, which may be quite unfortunate.
/snip/
A 4xx response also makes the spammer's host re-queue the mail and if it really is his own host who gets to do this it is probably a good thing - fill up his disks with his own spam. If, on the other hand, he is using someone else as Relay Host, all the spam mail being queued is a fairly strong evidence that something bad is going on and should cause attention at that Relay Host.
Does anyone know why this hasn't been written into sendmail (and other MTAs) yet?
This is hardly useless or risk-free. It would be quite easy to create a worm to pump arbitrary escape/binary code into syslogs and apache error logs around the world.
If you had read the article the author gave quite a convincing hack sequence.
Yes I agree ISPs aren't being responsible, but they probably will never do anything until they are forced through legislation.
But most DDoS attacks are from compromised machines direct to the victim using real addresses - egress filtering doesn't help.
And, no, egress filtering is not a big deal. You actually filter at the ingress point (where the client connects to the isp) - that way it doesn't affect throughput at the isp's boundary.
I wonder how many MS stooges are astroturfing this discussion (and others)? I agree it is pathetic to whinge about MS all the time, but the pro-MS comments are starting to feel rather similar.
with this much time to spare we should be able to push it away from us
Nah, you don't need to do any of that. The guy says "additional observations in coming weeks will almost certainly, we hope, eliminate the current threat".
Pens may be mightier than the sword, but those observations are even better than rockets!
philosophers' stone, n. A substance that was believed to have the power of transmuting base metal into gold. - from www.dictionary.com
The Philosopher's Stone is a legend most Americans (amongst others) apparently don't know about. But I think Scholastic (publishers) felt most people don't know about this and would be confused by the title (poor dears) and that would affect sales. I don't think it is an American problem so much as a commercial one - pitch sales to the lowest denominator - though Americans do seem to have invented this approach, certainly they excel at it.
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This is quite right - the guy doesn't need PDF where a simple image will do. There is no hope of OCR here.
What, the only difference is they now reboot? I've had a few, the screen is still blue however briefly displayed....
Passive E-Mail Monitoring Leads To Arrest
I'd better lay off that passive email monitoring for a while.
We were about 6 months into the conversion from dos to win - we ran with the crippled wp5, waiting for WP's upgrade to 6. When that came out and was still broken we couldn't put off change. We had had problems with WP4, mainly with its document size limitation. WFW was the only functional program that worked and that had sufficient features such as revision control, tables, etc that AMI Pro didn't provide which WP6 would have if it wasn't broken. I'm not saying I was happy with this, but given the choice of reverting back to a DOS app when Word did the job, the company decided to use Word.
No, The contest was between Word and WP6. WP6 was better (or would have been given the chance), it was just broken.
Before MS finally got a usable GUI, Word Perfect was the word processor of choice, as Lotus 123 was for spreadsheets. But the word processor was the critical component.
Once Win 3.0 & 3.1 came along, MS Office won because Word Perfect couldn't write a workable GUI. Both versions 5 and 6 crashed so much it just couldn't be used in a production environment, we had to convert to Word for Windows. Unfortunately, there just was no viable competition for the corporate market (AMI Pro didn't make it either due to lack of features).
Now, _why_ WP couldn't do it I'll leave as an exercise for the reader
Try greed, lust for power and arrogance. Works every time. People with this mindset will always want more.
The technologically advanced nations which invented chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons could use them to to enslave the world, but we don't do that.
You have got to be kidding. Dominant powers can and will use whatever they like. Things just haven't got to that point yet. Except of course against Japan in WWII and who can forget Agent Orange and napalm in Vietnam? And didn't the Soviet Union put out some nasties in Afganistan? And of course if said powers don't want to get their hands dirty they give the means to others such as Saddam Hussein.
Some may be poor, but they do live a *long* time. ;-=)
In Australia the AJC is the Australian Jockey Club. I thought "Jockey Club, voting machines, yeah that's appropriate"
My wife's mum has dementia and we found one of the early things to go was her ability to read digital clocks. She kept saying she didn't have a clock even though the digital one was right there on her dresser. We finally realised she had lost that ability/memory and got her an analogue.
She was fine for quite a while, till eventually she lost her understanding of the relationship between the hands - and probably linear time as well....
Frank said. "Reversible computing is absolutely the only possible way to beat this limit," he said."
Don't people ever learn?
There really is nothing magic about vpns, they are quite dangerous - they can provide clear access to your internal network.
Most of the actions? I guess they couldn't simulate the head ripping part. ;-)
This is hardly useless or risk-free. It would be quite easy to create a worm to pump arbitrary escape/binary code into syslogs and apache error logs around the world.
If you had read the article the author gave quite a convincing hack sequence.
Yes I agree ISPs aren't being responsible, but they probably will never do anything until they are forced through legislation.
But most DDoS attacks are from compromised machines direct to the victim using real addresses - egress filtering doesn't help.
And, no, egress filtering is not a big deal. You actually filter at the ingress point (where the client connects to the isp) - that way it doesn't affect throughput at the isp's boundary.
Nah, you don't need to do any of that. The guy says "additional observations in coming weeks will almost certainly, we hope, eliminate the current threat".
Pens may be mightier than the sword, but those observations are even better than rockets!
I looked on the Foundry website, 'only' 10Gbit.
I hate those exponential powers!
The Philosopher's Stone is a legend most Americans (amongst others) apparently don't know about. But I think Scholastic (publishers) felt most people don't know about this and would be confused by the title (poor dears) and that would affect sales. I don't think it is an American problem so much as a commercial one - pitch sales to the lowest denominator - though Americans do seem to have invented this approach, certainly they excel at it.