If there are four possible answers even a script will be right 1 in four time... So if they make a registration attempt every second they will still get 900 successful registions an hour.
So set a limit of how many times someone from the same IP address can register in a set amount of time, like only once a day, for example.
Local spam filters are great and all, but I seriously prefer using procmail if you can get it. I have been using Thunderbird (and loving it) with an IMAP account and a very simple procmail setup and it has caught almost all my UCE, and I usually get 40-50 UCE a day. I have been getting 0 false negs for about 6 months, and false pos are pretty rare. If you can do it I highly recommend this method.
USENET, the Internet, all have been comercialized and abused over the years. People see a means the make money, save money, exploit, get off, etc. they will take it. It's too bad too.
Take Gopher though, it is an all but forgotten technology, but it is still around. There are still a few good gopher sites out there, and for the most part it isn't corrupted like the rest (mostly because it never became really popular).
So there you go. You want a nice clean place to go online, check out gopher. It's like the small town forgotten in time to the big city of the Internet. Surfing it is like a breath of fresh air.
Have you ever heard of Project Gutenberg?
It is basically doing what you are talking about and has been since the 1970's.
They have a pretty good collection, and I would totally suggest anyone interested in an internet book DB to help them out with their cause.
Although I see your point that a full index of all books (without content) would be a pretty cool thing to have.
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That is really interesting. I discovered Trillian at 0.70 and quickly converted my entire office to it.
I, for one, hope that Trillian can stay, because it is by far a better solution for IM than having 4 different clients running on your computer at once.
You see there is one thing you have wrong with your Windows : Linux:: WinCE : PalmOS comparison.
Linux doesn't hold +70% of the desktop market, were PalmOS does hold +70% of the handheld market.
There is another thing you forgot to mention, the price point. Your standard PocketPC 2002 device costs anywhere from $500-$700, where I can go buy an m100 for $79, and a top of the line PalmOS organizer is around $400. Which would you want?
You speak of a brand people recognize. Palm isn't the new guy on the block when it comes to handhelds, they own the field. If I want something I can recognize and feel safe buying, a Palm device seems the right choice for me.
Another thing about the PocketPC revolution. It's been going on since WinCE 1.0, when Palm was still young MS was entering this field and they still don't own it. People make predictions that PocketPC will take over in 5 years, well that is what they were saying 5 years ago.
But PocketPC owns Enterprise, right? If you are a company that wants to distribute handhelds to all your employees for work purposes and you have tens of thousands of employees, which would you choose the $200 Palm or the $600 PocketPC?
You say Palm needs to pack more features, but that has always been the MS strategy, never the Palm one. Palm says "keep it simple, stupid," and people go for that. Not too many middle aged conservative organizer consumers (which is the target market) care if they can play movies on what is essentially their electronic Franklin Planner.
So finally, I would say this. PocketPC is sweet. It is obviously the better machine, but unless MS changes their vision, or their prices, Palm (the OS, not necessarily the hardware) will continue to lead the pack.
OK, there are a lot of people that didn't like it because they didn't understand the movie. I admit I didn't understand it when it ended, but 10 minutes afterward went I was talking with my buddy outside the theater the ending hit us both and it freaked me out. First of all, that was Mike in the corner. Remember the story about the old man that killed those 7 kids in the woods? He would put one in the corner while he killed the other, because he "felt them staring at him." God, that was freaky when we realized it. The thing in the bail of twigs is Josh's tooth and I am pretty sure that she didn't tell Mike about it. The sticks in the woods were weird, I didn't quite get that, maybe it really was a witch and not the old man, or something paranormal. The stones (three piles) was probably representing the three kids. Mike was an idiot. (kicking the map in the river...) OK there are two things that I didn't connect. The little kid screaming and the shaking the tent the first time. What was that little kid scream? (that freaked me out) and what was the blue slime on Josh's stuff. I know it was signaling his doom, but what was it? I was on edge the entire movie, and thought that it was really well done, especially the way they decided to film it (virtually sans scripts) to fully get the fear experience. Well, those are my thoughts.:)
~jumex "Your 'Gin n'tonic Futon Brain' sure makes you smart!" "That's 'Positronic-photon Brain', you idiot!"
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I have been having this problem on my Inspiron ever since I installed SP2. I have tried a lot of things, and I highly suggest http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm for tweaking your services settings.h tml has a great article on how to do it.r toys/xppowertoys.mspx./ .
Another way to boost your speed is hanging your Prefetch setting, http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6270_11-5165773.
TCPOptimizer http://darkedge.levels4you.com/review.l4y?file=20 also helped speed up my collection a lot.
Another cool tip is fixing Event ID 4226 which limits your connections in SP2, check it out at http://www.lvllord.de/?url=tools#4226patch.
And, of course get the MS TweakUI for XP at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powe
And although they are not freeware I actually bought and really like Registry First Aid http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/reg1aid/ and Registry Compactor http://www.rosecitysoftware.com/RegistryCompactor
I hope you all have as much success as I have with spedding up XP. It is a pain in the butt to do it, but it is worth it in the end.
Why not try OpenOffice? http://www.openoffice.org/
It is a solid applications suite, and offers a good replacement to MS Office, in my opinion.
Local spam filters are great and all, but I seriously prefer using procmail if you can get it. I have been using Thunderbird (and loving it) with an IMAP account and a very simple procmail setup and it has caught almost all my UCE, and I usually get 40-50 UCE a day. I have been getting 0 false negs for about 6 months, and false pos are pretty rare. If you can do it I highly recommend this method.
USENET, the Internet, all have been comercialized and abused over the years. People see a means the make money, save money, exploit, get off, etc. they will take it. It's too bad too.
Take Gopher though, it is an all but forgotten technology, but it is still around. There are still a few good gopher sites out there, and for the most part it isn't corrupted like the rest (mostly because it never became really popular).
So there you go. You want a nice clean place to go online, check out gopher. It's like the small town forgotten in time to the big city of the Internet. Surfing it is like a breath of fresh air.
This planet name was obviously created by zealous Scrabble fanatics in the quest to make another word to use up their "Q"s.
Have you ever heard of Project Gutenberg? It is basically doing what you are talking about and has been since the 1970's. They have a pretty good collection, and I would totally suggest anyone interested in an internet book DB to help them out with their cause. Although I see your point that a full index of all books (without content) would be a pretty cool thing to have.
That is really interesting. I discovered Trillian at 0.70 and quickly converted my entire office to it.
I, for one, hope that Trillian can stay, because it is by far a better solution for IM than having 4 different clients running on your computer at once.
Linux doesn't hold +70% of the desktop market, were PalmOS does hold +70% of the handheld market.
There is another thing you forgot to mention, the price point. Your standard PocketPC 2002 device costs anywhere from $500-$700, where I can go buy an m100 for $79, and a top of the line PalmOS organizer is around $400. Which would you want?
You speak of a brand people recognize. Palm isn't the new guy on the block when it comes to handhelds, they own the field. If I want something I can recognize and feel safe buying, a Palm device seems the right choice for me.
Another thing about the PocketPC revolution. It's been going on since WinCE 1.0, when Palm was still young MS was entering this field and they still don't own it. People make predictions that PocketPC will take over in 5 years, well that is what they were saying 5 years ago.
But PocketPC owns Enterprise, right? If you are a company that wants to distribute handhelds to all your employees for work purposes and you have tens of thousands of employees, which would you choose the $200 Palm or the $600 PocketPC?
You say Palm needs to pack more features, but that has always been the MS strategy, never the Palm one. Palm says "keep it simple, stupid," and people go for that. Not too many middle aged conservative organizer consumers (which is the target market) care if they can play movies on what is essentially their electronic Franklin Planner.
So finally, I would say this. PocketPC is sweet. It is obviously the better machine, but unless MS changes their vision, or their prices, Palm (the OS, not necessarily the hardware) will continue to lead the pack.
Cheers,
trv
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OK, there are a lot of people that didn't like it because they didn't understand the movie. I admit I didn't understand it when it ended, but 10 minutes afterward went I was talking with my buddy outside the theater the ending hit us both and it freaked me out.
First of all, that was Mike in the corner. Remember the story about the old man that killed those 7 kids in the woods? He would put one in the corner while he killed the other, because he "felt them staring at him."
God, that was freaky when we realized it.
The thing in the bail of twigs is Josh's tooth and I am pretty sure that she didn't tell Mike about it.
The sticks in the woods were weird, I didn't quite get that, maybe it really was a witch and not the old man, or something paranormal.
The stones (three piles) was probably representing the three kids.
Mike was an idiot. (kicking the map in the river...)
OK there are two things that I didn't connect. The little kid screaming and the shaking the tent the first time. What was that little kid scream? (that freaked me out) and what was the blue slime on Josh's stuff. I know it was signaling his doom, but what was it?
I was on edge the entire movie, and thought that it was really well done, especially the way they decided to film it (virtually sans scripts) to fully get the fear experience.
Well, those are my thoughts.
~jumex
"Your 'Gin n'tonic Futon Brain' sure makes you smart!"
"That's 'Positronic-photon Brain', you idiot!"
I thought that ZDnet was slaves to the Big Brother effect of Microsoft? Could it be that ZD is actually becoming more open-minded in their reporting?
Then again, when a book sucks, a book sucks.
~jumex
"Your 'Gin n'tonic Futon Brain' sure makes you smart!"
"That's 'Positronic-photon Brain', you idiot!"