bell sympatico in.ca has been blocking outbound port 25 for ages.
it kind of bugged me at first to think "damn them for controlling my usage!"
but then I realized how much spam actually comes directly from idiot systems out there I changed my mind. My server doesn't process all that much mail; maybe 50,000 messages a week. But ever since I stopped allowing mail from unauthorized dynamic hosts (using securitysage's rules and postfix) I've been able to monitor where it comes from. (4400 or so messages/week from comcast hosts)
This type of thing shouldn't affect 'normal' users. For the clients I have that do use sympatico; I've setup an alternative method for them to still use my system as an outbound server -- with authentication, natrually.
It's a lot easier to control spam if email is channeled through an ISPs server rather than a bunch of rogue systems sending directly to destinations... lets see if my numbers on comcast mail rejections drop...
According to the applications I opened the test download with, it has no DRM/licensing/protection.
(winamp, wmp)
So, natrually this can be converted and used wherever you can actually use a WMA file. Do the actual paid-for ones have licensing embedded or not? That's the real question...
The longer another country has to wait, the more profitable and desirable piracy becomes in said country.
It's not about the codes themselves (which have been proven useless time and time again) but merely the distribution dates of the movies themselves.
Single coded (non coded) dvd's would (err.. should) cost less to produce since they wouldn't produce for different regions... makes sense, in my world.
that's slightly different, although annoying none the less. Those are squatters who actually registered the domain, they're just willing to sell it off.
godaddy is notorious for doing it to expired domains. there's many others too.
(obviously replace the redirected url with something useful to you. that php just tells whomever that $host wasn't found, search on google or type it right.)
bouncing mail from an email client is useless in the war against spam (it's only effective on real mailing lists, but mostly annoying anyways)... bouncing mail from a server is mostly useless too considering most spam lists ignore bounces or don't even accept smtp connections.
the only real way is to reject during transmission, and that's a server side config.
I've been using mozilla 1.5a for a while, and thunderbird 0.2a (time to upgrade! woot) and both of them are very good with their adaptive junkmail filters.
Toyota and Honda both have hydrogen powered cars available for leasing, and as I'm aware the Los Angeles city has a lease on 5 Honda FCXs, and another UC Davis has a lease on a Toyota Highlander... sure... it's not much but it's a start.
The cars are here, but the problem is (and for all you business type people out there, you should jump on this like a fat kid on a smartie) we need hydrogen "Gas" stations. There's a few in.ca.us to suit the needs of those few leases, but shit, it's a long drive to California to fuel up my car!
So, until there's wide support for a place to gas up, there's no support for the cars themselves.
Let the wild dog chase at it's tail until it finally catches it.
I'm a hog, I admit it. I've pulled in upwards and beyond 60GB in a month before, and I'll do it again.
However, I DO agree with tiered pricing. I know a lot of people who faster access, but don't want to pay $45+/month for it, why? because they won't use it anywhere near as much as I do. They'll use it to replace their dialup, and use it... about as often to check email and maybe use it's speed to do a few other things, but no leeching like me!
I would happily pay more per month to not be hassled by Cogeco (whom sucks ass, btw) However, again, I would also want a guarentee that my service will be more reliable. As it stands right now they're not really helping me out with my connectivity problems...
Here's how I'd like to see it (since they speak of a dialup equiv. price...)
$22.95 = 1mbps down/128kbps up - perfect for Mom
$35.95 = 2mbps down/512kbps up - perfect for Cousin Ed (cogeco's current setup)
$65.95 = 4mbps down/1mbps up - better for me, yo.
$99.95 = 5mbps down/2mbps up - I wanna run a server.
they could even ad more up, but that's what I'd like to see... PLUS a service guarentee on their part. _all_ companies fail to do that right now...
... Vapourware! I just can't see people actively using that... it's just too hollywood-movie-ish. Sure it's cool, but how many people can actually type properly without looking for keys?... (yeah, i can...:))
I don't give a rats ass what people say about lasers. If sony is selling you a product "top of the line" and it doesn't support a simple disc type as CD-R then they're screwing you.
My cheap ass (cheapest one I could find at the time) Memorex (yes, wal-mart style baby!) can play my Starwars VCD (the only one I have on CD-R format) perfectly fine. Oh yeah, it plays audio cd's quite nicely too.
Companies like Sony are doing it to prevent you from burning your favorite vcd's:p...
(conveniently the Playstation 2 doesn't play VCD's either - on cdr or real ones)
Hmm.. I'm thinking I should put rc5 back on my notebook:) but then again I never take it anywhere, and the fools that steal it would have to a) crack my linux root password, or b) format & install something new, so it would be useless to me:\ oh well.
As far as I know it was #2 on it's opening weekend 2nd to The Runaway Bride...
BUT... it opened in less theaters and averaged $20,000 per screen where the #1 movie only hit about $15,000 per screen. (i think that's how they should rank movies, but nooo big-ass-hollywood guys need the big numbers).
I can't wait to see the Microsoft propganda to start flooding our already crappy cable services. I wonder how this will effect my @Home service? I wonder.. I wonder how much a DSS is worth now...
As good as high speed access is, I personally wouldn't want it from a company that treats people like that. I've been screwed already by my cable company, unforunatly now that I've tasted speed I'm stuck with it:(...
my thinkpad POS 380D is still running... but i wouldn't say it lasted more than 6 months.. battery is dead, cdrom is fooked... yeah. then again its in a plastic case too... stupid IBM.
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bell sympatico in .ca has been blocking outbound port 25 for ages.
it kind of bugged me at first to think "damn them for controlling my usage!"
but then I realized how much spam actually comes directly from idiot systems out there I changed my mind. My server doesn't process all that much mail; maybe 50,000 messages a week. But ever since I stopped allowing mail from unauthorized dynamic hosts (using securitysage's rules and postfix) I've been able to monitor where it comes from. (4400 or so messages/week from comcast hosts)
This type of thing shouldn't affect 'normal' users. For the clients I have that do use sympatico; I've setup an alternative method for them to still use my system as an outbound server -- with authentication, natrually.
It's a lot easier to control spam if email is channeled through an ISPs server rather than a bunch of rogue systems sending directly to destinations... lets see if my numbers on comcast mail rejections drop...
According to the applications I opened the test download with, it has no DRM/licensing/protection.
(winamp, wmp)
So, natrually this can be converted and used wherever you can actually use a WMA file. Do the actual paid-for ones have licensing embedded or not? That's the real question...
Exactly.
The longer another country has to wait, the more profitable and desirable piracy becomes in said country.
It's not about the codes themselves (which have been proven useless time and time again) but merely the distribution dates of the movies themselves.
Single coded (non coded) dvd's would (err.. should) cost less to produce since they wouldn't produce for different regions... makes sense, in my world.
that's slightly different, although annoying none the less. Those are squatters who actually registered the domain, they're just willing to sell it off.
godaddy is notorious for doing it to expired domains. there's many others too.
but this, this is beyond annoying.
i use jesred w/squid to redirect
# Fucking Verisign
regex ^http://sitefinder.verisign.com/(.*) http://192.168.0.1/domainnotfound.php?\1
(obviously replace the redirected url with something useful to you. that php just tells whomever that $host wasn't found, search on google or type it right.)
bouncing mail from an email client is useless in the war against spam (it's only effective on real mailing lists, but mostly annoying anyways)... bouncing mail from a server is mostly useless too considering most spam lists ignore bounces or don't even accept smtp connections.
the only real way is to reject during transmission, and that's a server side config.
I've been using mozilla 1.5a for a while, and thunderbird 0.2a (time to upgrade! woot) and both of them are very good with their adaptive junkmail filters.
The title says it all.
Toyota and Honda both have hydrogen powered cars available for leasing, and as I'm aware the Los Angeles city has a lease on 5 Honda FCXs, and another UC Davis has a lease on a Toyota Highlander... sure... it's not much but it's a start.
The cars are here, but the problem is (and for all you business type people out there, you should jump on this like a fat kid on a smartie) we need hydrogen "Gas" stations. There's a few in .ca.us to suit the needs of those few leases, but shit, it's a long drive to California to fuel up my car!
So, until there's wide support for a place to gas up, there's no support for the cars themselves.
Let the wild dog chase at it's tail until it finally catches it.
So, until then, buy a hybrid win a prize.
It doesn't. It applies to internal PC bios issues.
:)
As long as the MacOS of your choice supports the size of the drives, it'll work.
And as long as HFS supports big-ass partitions...
I just wish damn HD companies would advertise a gig as a gig. :\
No more of thise 1,000,000,000 byte crap.
I want 2^30 damnit! Since these bigguns will only format to ~ 186 GB minus filesystem overhead of course...
(and that my friend, is 3 x 60 GB platter... since these little harddrive guys can't keep their stats straight...)
I give up... where do i sign up to become a stuntman? I'd rather jump off a building for a living than work with computers...
Yeah, WD 40's have a jumper to limit the drive to 32GB for older bios'.
Unjump it, you'll find it will reveal approximately 38GB.
I guess he didn't use Kodak Max(tm) for all his high speed action shots!
I know where you live!
Wow, this guys' got it down, sue a few hundred people for millions then retire! brilliant! Amazing! Outstanding.
Who wants to say I suck so I can sue you? Please? please? any takers?
depends, most likely perpetual overnight leeching... like me!
I'm a hog, I admit it. I've pulled in upwards and beyond 60GB in a month before, and I'll do it again.
However, I DO agree with tiered pricing. I know a lot of people who faster access, but don't want to pay $45+/month for it, why? because they won't use it anywhere near as much as I do. They'll use it to replace their dialup, and use it... about as often to check email and maybe use it's speed to do a few other things, but no leeching like me!
I would happily pay more per month to not be hassled by Cogeco (whom sucks ass, btw) However, again, I would also want a guarentee that my service will be more reliable. As it stands right now they're not really helping me out with my connectivity problems...
Here's how I'd like to see it (since they speak of a dialup equiv. price...)
they could even ad more up, but that's what I'd like to see... PLUS a service guarentee on their part. _all_ companies fail to do that right now...
Dangerous? NO WAY!
just turn on NFS[insert your favorite version here] and drive like the game!
Hell, let the game control your car!
zoom zoom.
;)
... Vapourware! I just can't see people actively using that... it's just too hollywood-movie-ish. Sure it's cool, but how many people can actually type properly without looking for keys?... (yeah, i can...:))
I don't give a rats ass what people say about lasers. If sony is selling you a product "top of the line" and it doesn't support a simple disc type as CD-R then they're screwing you. My cheap ass (cheapest one I could find at the time) Memorex (yes, wal-mart style baby!) can play my Starwars VCD (the only one I have on CD-R format) perfectly fine. Oh yeah, it plays audio cd's quite nicely too. Companies like Sony are doing it to prevent you from burning your favorite vcd's :p...
(conveniently the Playstation 2 doesn't play VCD's either - on cdr or real ones)
Hmm.. I'm thinking I should put rc5 back on my notebook
Time to implant the homing beacon.
-- dc.
Those guys don't rest do they?
*Yawn*
Guess I'll go get me some source then =)
- dc.
As far as I know it was #2 on it's opening weekend 2nd to The Runaway Bride...
BUT... it opened in less theaters and averaged $20,000 per screen where the #1 movie only hit about $15,000 per screen. (i think that's how they should rank movies, but nooo big-ass-hollywood guys need the big numbers).
Anyways, my personal review is Here
- dc.
I can't wait to see the Microsoft propganda to start flooding our already crappy cable services. I wonder how this will effect my @Home service?
I wonder.. I wonder how much a DSS is worth now...
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damn! and for the majority of us who don't have alternatives like DSL yet that cap might just suck. I'm gonna have to go into leech mode only.
c'mon bell. c'mon bell.. gimme dsl!
As good as high speed access is, I personally wouldn't want it from a company that treats people like that. I've been screwed already by my cable company, unforunatly now that I've tasted speed I'm stuck with it :(...
my thinkpad POS 380D is still running... but i wouldn't say it lasted more than 6 months.. battery is dead, cdrom is fooked... yeah.
then again its in a plastic case too... stupid IBM.