Actually, SpamCop now uses SpamAssassin as well as its own blocklist. And I use it mainly for one-click accurate reporting through the 'held' web interface. You are right that most abuse desks don't care about SpamCop reports, but it's still worth it for the remaining doing their job. Regarding Joker registrar policy wrt to validation procedures, I suppose that the fact that SpamCop goes away tells it all.
I haven't used 15KRPM SCSI, which I imagine is probably faster still, but very noisy I guess you never heard a 15krpm disk recently, and only estimates their noise based on old 10krpm ones. You'd really be surprised, they are not worse than most IDE drives. And to be back on topic, the SCSI drive in a production server means 'disk cache already warmed up', hence the performance results obtained, IMO.
The true question: is the 448m roof of this new tower higher than the CN Tower Skydeck at 447m? If floor(447) is higher than topfloor(Tapei101), then IMO the highest still is the CN Tower (even if it's not considered a true building by charts).
Anyway, forget it if you're outside the US (written in their Terms and Conditions). And 0.99$ is way overpriced (specially compared to 0.00). I really wish some big name company would have the guts to start a 0.10c service for non-DRM downloads, available worldwide, and see how it goes.
I find interesting that Verisign requested 3 days before shutting down the service to give time for the tech community to adjust.. Did they do this when the service kicked in? Also, a quick hint to all of you stuck with Verisign to renew because the domain is past due: Verisign renewal Pay 15USD instead of 35USD for the very same 1 year reneal service.. Ain't that great?
ATI to me means poor driver support Ever heard of Catalyst drivers?
NVIDIA to me means aswome driver installation but be prepared to roll back. Performancewise they are as fast as their agp speed. Ever heard of DX9 or ARB2?
the market leader ATi and the technically superior nVidia lines You got it backwards, nVidia has the biggest market share but ATi is technically superior (seen some recent benchmarks lately? twice as fast in DX9 PS2.0, ditto with ARB2/OGL).
"And now we have a request from an AOL user that suddenly they stopped getting LJ emails. They say AOL did just add some new spam filters, so that may relate.
It almost makes you think that they don't like us..." AOLers are only getting sanitized Internet to the company's liking... Those who are not happy should switch.
I saw a major drop in online customers on our monitoring system, I call our telco and he tells me that from Toronto to Ottawa, there's no longer any power, which I can confirm by the non longer responsives CPEs. Ouch!!
Ultimately, it will be up to the consummer to choose if something is worth paying or not. Those intelligent enough to understand that their favourite artist needs cash to survive will pay whatever they deem appropriate or a reasonnable fixed price. As long as content is available on the internet, forget trying to control it. And even if you wanted to enforce copyright laws, you can't prove that the targetted ip/account hasn't been hijacked/trojaned and/or it was a specific person behind the computer. As soon as there's no longer a need for a central server to achieve Napster's peak performance (which was nothing short of impressive), good bye RIAA and whatever power they think they have.
Is anyone else completely fed up with nvidia's moronic naming conventions? What about ATi's? The 9000Pro is slower than the 8500 (nor it is DX9 compliant as its name could imply). The 9600 is slower than the 9500. New isn't necessarely better, at least for GPUs. All those benchmarks are certainly getting on the marketing droids' nerves! When you think that most of the 9500 non-pro board are for all intent and purposes 9700pros, sold for half the price of the later: -the 4 disabled pipelines can be reenabled -9500+ cards can be overclocked to pro ratings easily -most 9500 non-pro are using the 9700 256bit-memory 6 layers PCB (reenabled thru driver tweaks as well)
I won't talk about the 9800 who's new features are mainly driver optimizations! If you look at Futuremark results, some 9500 non pro boards turned into 9700pro and overclocked to hell are top performers.
Back to the subject, the 5200FX will be history as soon as NV35 is out/available and lowers the price of NV30.
humans are far too complicated to emulate IMHO. Biological factors have so much incidence on our emotions and feelings, plus the random part of it (food, weather, you name it). A rough emulation, maybe, but a true simulation.. good luck! Next step, find a match for your computer;)
"Oregon bill that would require government agencies to consider Open Source software" Ain't that a bit worrying? You've got to make laws to prevent government to waste your tax dollars by giving them to rich software companies, without even thinking that there are free alternatives. Duh!
Here in Canada, telcos/cablos found a new way to attract customers to broadband-like connection, just slower: 128/64kbps access, for around us$17, modem rental included.. It obviously depends on service availability but at least it's truly faster than dialup!
According to the crash-me comparison page, there's not much differences with the previous stable release. Some current benchmarks would probably be more significant, performance-wise.
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Yes, you can't put a price on human lives Of course you can, you actually have to, by finding the middle point between acceptable risk and commercial viability. These days, the price of oil is apparently more valuable than lives'.
Finally the P2P networks will have an incentive to work on content quality, not just availability. Some shared/trusted DB of MD5 matched with valided filenames will do it. Now searches will be done by MD5 (like DNS with IPs). Faster on searches, faster overall because people will stop downloading junk. So, thanks for the effort, it's a good idea.
According to a bugtraq post, uploading a dummy rom file with a valid size will automatically render the box unusable (reboots itself, can't do anything but upload a new valid firmware thru serial port using x-modem). Now, some script kiddie will do a massive DoS against the users, and some Sprint sysadmin will go nuts discovering the whole mess they're now in. G'd luck to the QA department overthere.
Whatever you can say about them being slashdotted, they are apparently squeezing the max out of their box, the site went down while they did some tuning and it's now back online; according to the article, they were allocating only 1GB out of 2 available for their current needs; probably that they had to use the whole 2GB to survive/. So, kudos to them, they survive at peak time, with a few links from slashdot frontpage. Time to finish reading the NSF (not so f..) article!
When they started switching to a user/pass system, they wouldn't give you that info by email, you had to fax to get it reset. Now, they'll gladly send the user/pass to the admin contact without bothering about anything else. Better, you can ask for your user-level password, which will give you control of all domains associated with the handle. And their attempt to restrict tech contacts not to modify admin info is a nice try.. Just edit the URL and you're done;)
Go see LiveForSpeed and see for yourself! More realistic simulation than almost anything out there, free while in beta test, netplay.. Worth a try, really.
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Actually, SpamCop now uses SpamAssassin as well as its own blocklist. And I use it mainly for one-click accurate reporting through the 'held' web interface. You are right that most abuse desks don't care about SpamCop reports, but it's still worth it for the remaining doing their job.
Regarding Joker registrar policy wrt to validation procedures, I suppose that the fact that SpamCop goes away tells it all.
I haven't used 15KRPM SCSI, which I imagine is probably faster still, but very noisy
I guess you never heard a 15krpm disk recently, and only estimates their noise based on old 10krpm ones. You'd really be surprised, they are not worse than most IDE drives.
And to be back on topic, the SCSI drive in a production server means 'disk cache already warmed up', hence the performance results obtained, IMO.
The true question:
is the 448m roof of this new tower higher than the CN Tower Skydeck at 447m? If floor(447) is higher than topfloor(Tapei101), then IMO the highest still is the CN Tower (even if it's not considered a true building by charts).
Anyway, forget it if you're outside the US (written in their Terms and Conditions). And 0.99$ is way overpriced (specially compared to 0.00). I really wish some big name company would have the guts to start a 0.10c service for non-DRM downloads, available worldwide, and see how it goes.
I find interesting that Verisign requested 3 days before shutting down the service to give time for the tech community to adjust.. Did they do this when the service kicked in?
Also, a quick hint to all of you stuck with Verisign to renew because the domain is past due:
Verisign renewal
Pay 15USD instead of 35USD for the very same 1 year reneal service.. Ain't that great?
ATI to me means poor driver support
Ever heard of Catalyst drivers?
NVIDIA to me means aswome driver installation but be prepared to roll back. Performancewise they are as fast as their agp speed.
Ever heard of DX9 or ARB2?
the market leader ATi and the technically superior nVidia lines
You got it backwards, nVidia has the biggest market share but ATi is technically superior (seen some recent benchmarks lately? twice as fast in DX9 PS2.0, ditto with ARB2/OGL).
"And now we have a request from an AOL user that suddenly they stopped getting LJ emails. They say AOL did just add some new spam filters, so that may relate.
It almost makes you think that they don't like us..."
AOLers are only getting sanitized Internet to the company's liking... Those who are not happy should switch.
I saw a major drop in online customers on our monitoring system, I call our telco and he tells me that from Toronto to Ottawa, there's no longer any power, which I can confirm by the non longer responsives CPEs.
Ouch!!
Ultimately, it will be up to the consummer to choose if something is worth paying or not. Those intelligent enough to understand that their favourite artist needs cash to survive will pay whatever they deem appropriate or a reasonnable fixed price. As long as content is available on the internet, forget trying to control it. And even if you wanted to enforce copyright laws, you can't prove that the targetted ip/account hasn't been hijacked/trojaned and/or it was a specific person behind the computer.
As soon as there's no longer a need for a central server to achieve Napster's peak performance (which was nothing short of impressive), good bye RIAA and whatever power they think they have.
Is anyone else completely fed up with nvidia's moronic naming conventions?
What about ATi's? The 9000Pro is slower than the 8500 (nor it is DX9 compliant as its name could imply). The 9600 is slower than the 9500. New isn't necessarely better, at least for GPUs. All those benchmarks are certainly getting on the marketing droids' nerves!
When you think that most of the 9500 non-pro board are for all intent and purposes 9700pros, sold for half the price of the later:
-the 4 disabled pipelines can be reenabled
-9500+ cards can be overclocked to pro ratings easily
-most 9500 non-pro are using the 9700 256bit-memory 6 layers PCB (reenabled thru driver tweaks as well)
I won't talk about the 9800 who's new features are mainly driver optimizations!
If you look at Futuremark results, some 9500 non pro boards turned into 9700pro and overclocked to hell are top performers.
Back to the subject, the 5200FX will be history as soon as NV35 is out/available and lowers the price of NV30.
humans are far too complicated to emulate IMHO. Biological factors have so much incidence on our emotions and feelings, plus the random part of it (food, weather, you name it). A rough emulation, maybe, but a true simulation.. good luck! Next step, find a match for your computer ;)
"Oregon bill that would require government agencies to consider Open Source software"
Ain't that a bit worrying? You've got to make laws to prevent government to waste your tax dollars by giving them to rich software companies, without even thinking that there are free alternatives. Duh!
For those who don't bother to read the article, here's a picture of the thing.
Jeremy, how does it feel to get 47 moderator points in a single thread? If someone owes a karma indicator over 'excellent', it's probably you :-)
Here in Canada, telcos/cablos found a new way to attract customers to broadband-like connection, just slower: 128/64kbps access, for around us$17, modem rental included.. It obviously depends on service availability but at least it's truly faster than dialup!
Maybe Cisco will push IP phones to consumers thru Linksys, at an affordable price.. Big market there!
According to the crash-me comparison page, there's not much differences with the previous stable release. Some current benchmarks would probably be more significant, performance-wise.
Yes, you can't put a price on human lives
Of course you can, you actually have to, by finding the middle point between acceptable risk and commercial viability. These days, the price of oil is apparently more valuable than lives'.
Do you think that we can fight spam efficiently by still relying on the outdated STMP for mail delivery?
What do you think should enhance/replace it?
Finally the P2P networks will have an incentive to work on content quality, not just availability. Some shared/trusted DB of MD5 matched with valided filenames will do it. Now searches will be done by MD5 (like DNS with IPs). Faster on searches, faster overall because people will stop downloading junk. So, thanks for the effort, it's a good idea.
According to a bugtraq post, uploading a dummy rom file with a valid size will automatically render the box unusable (reboots itself, can't do anything but upload a new valid firmware thru serial port using x-modem).
Now, some script kiddie will do a massive DoS against the users, and some Sprint sysadmin will go nuts discovering the whole mess they're now in.
G'd luck to the QA department overthere.
Whatever you can say about them being slashdotted, they are apparently squeezing the max out of their box, the site went down while they did some tuning and it's now back online; according to the article, they were allocating only 1GB out of 2 available for their current needs; probably that they had to use the whole 2GB to survive /. So, kudos to them, they survive at peak time, with a few links from slashdot frontpage. Time to finish reading the NSF (not so f..) article!
When they started switching to a user/pass system, they wouldn't give you that info by email, you had to fax to get it reset. Now, they'll gladly send the user/pass to the admin contact without bothering about anything else. Better, you can ask for your user-level password, which will give you control of all domains associated with the handle. ;)
And their attempt to restrict tech contacts not to modify admin info is a nice try.. Just edit the URL and you're done
Go see LiveForSpeed and see for yourself! More realistic simulation than almost anything out there, free while in beta test, netplay.. Worth a try, really.