Baystar chipped in $20 Million and RBC chipped in $30 million.
PS. As for the pan handler a good location can make them $30+ an hour on a good day here in Montreal And that's tax free. Don't feel sorry for his/her lack of income.. feel sorry about whatever addiction it's all blown on.
When I was in highschool I switched my PC from windows 95 to Linux after my sister had damaged my windows install. After the initial horror at what I had done wore off, my younger brother and sister got used to the new system. Four months later I discovered they were both making extensive use of the command line. I hadn't tought them a thing so they learned on their own. By the time I moved out I had my mother using pine over ssh to read her email.
Most of the trouble of Linux is the inertia related to not wanting to learn new things and not being technically difficult.
I doubt this will end spam.. however it will put an end to the collaterol damage caused to other people's inboxes when some other jerk spoofs their domain names. (yes I'm mad.. I have 1000 bounces from the other week when someone sent online pharmacy ads while pretending to be ME)
It will also put an end to using a free email account to recieve spam replies.
So it's not a cure but it will make the game more expensive for the spammers.
The whois field is the best place to get contact info in the event that someone needs contacting quickly. (talking to owners of spam relays, rooted servers etc) Without that we are stuck having to relay through the isp and that makes it more time consuming and more likely to cause trouble for the person we are trying to contact.
Right now it's set to your isp.. you are also able to set it to an agreeable third party.
Setting it to the wrong info only makes it that much harder for those of use who use the whois records for their intended purpose.
" It might be the ads - they're awfully expensive for a decent campaign"
They are expensive only if your looking exclusively at the initial cost and don't take results into account. Clickthroughs from google are far more likely to actually make a purchase than from almost every other source I've looked into. The result is that a google adword page view is a lot more valuable than an ad elsewhere.
The fact that they alert you if they think it's not effective enough only adds to the value.
The breakage problem has nothing to do with "a few non standard systems" NT updates were notorious for breaking popular non MS apps. It was bad enough that windows admins became afraid of patching their machines thinking the kiddy potential was the smaller risk.
Even XP SP 1 was known to prevent some of our office systems from booting.
You have got to be kidding me.. Look how high the price of stock in.com buisnesses a few years ago.. how long did they last? or how about worldcom's stock? or Enron's?
Investors have a tendancy to fall for hype.
What have we forgotten? How about the fact that SCO releasing EVERYTHING they say on prnewswire where the investors get to see them.
Actually theres a good chance those CDs violate the privacy laws of most EU countries.
Anyways whoever bought those cds overpayed.. The head of marketing at the last place I worked handed me a CD with 2 million unique email address(in alphabetical order) that she payed $20 for on ebay.
I took it away from her after a lengtly discussion about how dumb sending to the list would be and then had a look through the addresses.
The "opt in" email addresses contained quite a several hundred postmaster@ entries and even a few abuse@"
To make it even more laughable it had a coupple @openprojects.net belonging to people I know. They of course denied ever opting in. And I'll be t the developer mailing lists never opted in either.
I still have the cd at my house sitting on a shelf in my apartment as a monument to stupidity.
Having run an opt in mailing list for a previous employer I can tell you that some people sign up then go complain to spamcop when they actually get the email. And then the mail server gets an Instant blacklist thanks to the automated system and your stuck with the rest of the emails getting bounced.
The problem gets worse when they black out the email addresses so it becomes impossible to tell who actually wanted off.
I am the source for that.. he ruined one of my previous jobs by talking my boss into hosting and credit card processing for his porn sites.
Ralsky called me one day and we had a long conversation one day with him where we went over my objections to both the content and the way he was "marketing" it. I expressed my concern that he was going to kill the buisness and that was one of the things he told me to try and placate me.
Wasn't that long before I realised the buisness plan change was perminant and there was nothing I could do about it other than quit so I did and changed cell phones.
I'll point out that after I quit.. everything I said would happen.. happened. They lost their internet link then when through 4 different hosting places in a year trying to find a place that wouldn't kick them.
I disagree.. the "contemporary churches" are fading fast and with good reason. The problem with fundimentalists like falwell is that they *aren't* literalists.
It's possible to take the bible literally and not act like a jerk. In fact, theres nothing in the bible that justifies their behaviour. What your seing is a natrual urge of humans to use their religion to justift whatever reprehensable behaviour they are engaged in even if it means warping the religios texts to say something they don't by taking a few verses out of context.
Did Jesus teach us to hate sinners? No. He showed compassion to them. The only people he was on the record as having yelled at were the religious establishments of the time that buried their religion under a bunch of extra rules and therefore took the fun out of it. (sound familliar?)
People like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are blights on what is otherwise a good religion. I can't stand that whenever I mention I am a Christian people automatically think to people like them and expect me to condemn them.
I strongly suspect that if Jesus were come this year it would be the fundimentalists he would be denouncing.
The basic problem is that the average person who launches these things as a built in need to be angry at something. Most of them don't give even give a damn about collateral damage let alone how their acts are viewed by the public.
They are by their nature uncontrollable without either making all machines on the net secure or having the lot of them arrested.
First, as I repeatedly say, this isnt an organization choosing "Linux". This is an org choosing IBM, who is intelligently exploiting a free product in order to sell their product. Im shocked more companies arent jumping on the OSS bandwagon for the same reason- having people make your programs for you, for FREE? Amazing!
IBM is probably getting very good value for the money they spend on Linux but saying they get it for free is showing a complete lack of understanding on how IBM has been doing buisness for the past 3 years.
Just off the top of my head.. they have three Linux development labs of their own staffed with people who have PHDs (not cheap) plus they contribute to OSDL.
Also a server stabillity issue. I had a case where the programmers demanded a log they could write to from anywhere. when I protested they went over my head and got management to force me to do it. These stupid logs would jump by many megabyes per day causing me extra ime spent watching the log sizes then having to down the server rename the logs and create a new empty world writeable log file. And that had to be done for each site using the software.
I'm all for being nice to and working with programmers, but contrary to what the author thinks programmers should rarely be in a position to overrule admins.
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Right idea, wrong country. 419 is the section of the Nigerian criminal code that the scams violate.
Baystar chipped in $20 Million and RBC chipped in $30 million.
PS. As for the pan handler a good location can make them $30+ an hour on a good day here in Montreal And that's tax free. Don't feel sorry for his/her lack of income.. feel sorry about whatever addiction it's all blown on.
Well.. they could actually download them before filing lawsuits.
When I was in highschool I switched my PC from windows 95 to Linux after my sister had damaged my windows install. After the initial horror at what I had done wore off, my younger brother and sister got used to the new system. Four months later I discovered they were both making extensive use of the command line. I hadn't tought them a thing so they learned on their own. By the time I moved out I had my mother using pine over ssh to read her email.
Most of the trouble of Linux is the inertia related to not wanting to learn new things and not being technically difficult.
I have already run into these problems.. when it happens to customers they get webmail. (openwebmail doesn't require a local MTA btw)
I prefer SSH for my own stuff.
I doubt this will end spam.. however it will put an end to the collaterol damage caused to other people's inboxes when some other jerk spoofs their domain names. (yes I'm mad.. I have 1000 bounces from the other week when someone sent online pharmacy ads while pretending to be ME)
It will also put an end to using a free email account to recieve spam replies.
So it's not a cure but it will make the game more expensive for the spammers.
The whois field is the best place to get contact info in the event that someone needs contacting quickly. (talking to owners of spam relays, rooted servers etc) Without that we are stuck having to relay through the isp and that makes it more time consuming and more likely to cause trouble for the person we are trying to contact.
Right now it's set to your isp.. you are also able to set it to an agreeable third party.
Setting it to the wrong info only makes it that much harder for those of use who use the whois records for their intended purpose.
" It might be the ads - they're awfully expensive for a decent campaign"
They are expensive only if your looking exclusively at the initial cost and don't take results into account. Clickthroughs from google are far more likely to actually make a purchase than from almost every other source I've looked into. The result is that a google adword page view is a lot more valuable than an ad elsewhere.
The fact that they alert you if they think it's not effective enough only adds to the value.
The breakage problem has nothing to do with "a few non standard systems" NT updates were notorious for breaking popular non MS apps. It was bad enough that windows admins became afraid of patching their machines thinking the kiddy potential was the smaller risk.
Even XP SP 1 was known to prevent some of our office systems from booting.
The problem is alack of Q&A.
CHOOSE!?
As a sysadmin I am required to keep my cell phone on at all times. My cell phone is a leash and theres not a thing I can do about it.
Windows 3.0 had a BSOD.
You have got to be kidding me.. Look how high the price of stock in .com buisnesses a few years ago.. how long did they last? or how about worldcom's stock? or Enron's?
Investors have a tendancy to fall for hype.
What have we forgotten? How about the fact that SCO releasing EVERYTHING they say on prnewswire where the investors get to see them.
You need to reread that.
I don't consider it opt in without the confirmation emaill.
I was't aware it counts as opt in without the confirmation email.
Despite that warning there are entire isps that use spamcop to filter their email.
Actually theres a good chance those CDs violate the privacy laws of most EU countries.
Anyways whoever bought those cds overpayed.. The head of marketing at the last place I worked handed me a CD with 2 million unique email address(in alphabetical order) that she payed $20 for on ebay.
I took it away from her after a lengtly discussion about how dumb sending to the list would be and then had a look through the addresses.
The "opt in" email addresses contained quite a several hundred postmaster@ entries and even a few abuse@"
To make it even more laughable it had a coupple @openprojects.net belonging to people I know.
They of course denied ever opting in. And I'll be t the developer mailing lists never opted in either.
I still have the cd at my house sitting on a shelf in my apartment as a monument to stupidity.
No.. it's not.
Having run an opt in mailing list for a previous employer I can tell you that some people sign up then go complain to spamcop when they actually get the email. And then the mail server gets an Instant blacklist thanks to the automated system and your stuck with the rest of the emails getting bounced.
The problem gets worse when they black out the email addresses so it becomes impossible to tell who actually wanted off.
Good point.
The owner was Leo Kuvayev and the buisness was 2kservices.com also known as elkasys.com, memberpro.com and ecashservices.com
Not that it matters.. the guy has his own spews listing
I am the source for that.. he ruined one of my previous jobs by talking my boss into hosting and credit card processing for his porn sites.
.. happened. They lost their internet link then when through 4 different hosting places in a year trying to find a place that wouldn't kick them.
Ralsky called me one day and we had a long conversation one day with him where we went over my objections to both the content and the way he was "marketing" it. I expressed my concern that he was going to kill the buisness and that was one of the things he told me to try and placate me.
Wasn't that long before I realised the buisness plan change was perminant and there was nothing I could do about it other than quit so I did and changed cell phones.
I'll point out that after I quit.. everything I said would happen
He IS an arrogant bastard. Were talking about the same guy who once said no one would ever be able to trace the urls from his "encrypted" web pages.
Anti spammers had it all ripped apart in under a week.
I disagree.. the "contemporary churches" are fading fast and with good reason. The problem with fundimentalists like falwell is that they *aren't* literalists.
It's possible to take the bible literally and not act like a jerk. In fact, theres nothing in the bible that justifies their behaviour. What your seing is a natrual urge of humans to use their religion to justift whatever reprehensable behaviour they are engaged in even if it means warping the religios texts to say something they don't by taking a few verses out of context.
Did Jesus teach us to hate sinners? No. He showed compassion to them. The only people he was on the record as having yelled at were the religious establishments of the time that buried their religion under a bunch of extra rules and therefore took the fun out of it. (sound familliar?)
People like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are blights on what is otherwise a good religion. I can't stand that whenever I mention I am a Christian people automatically think to people like them and expect me to condemn them.
I strongly suspect that if Jesus were come this year it would be the fundimentalists he would be denouncing.
Apart from the high end SMP fixes...
On single CPU life is now more interactive.
Thread support is *much* faster and less buggy provided you have the right version of glibc.
Schedular fixes.
IDE cd burning is less CPU intensive if you dump the ide-scsi module and use the newer cdrecord instead.
and the usual driver improvements.
That's all just off the top of my head so there are probably more.
The basic problem is that the average person who launches these things as a built in need to be angry at something. Most of them don't give even give a damn about collateral damage let alone how their acts are viewed by the public.
They are by their nature uncontrollable without either making all machines on the net secure or having the lot of them arrested.
First, as I repeatedly say, this isnt an organization choosing "Linux". This is an org choosing IBM, who is intelligently exploiting a free product in order to sell their product. Im shocked more companies arent jumping on the OSS bandwagon for the same reason- having people make your programs for you, for FREE? Amazing!
IBM is probably getting very good value for the money they spend on Linux but saying they get it for free is showing a complete lack of understanding on how IBM has been doing buisness for the past 3 years.
Just off the top of my head.. they have three Linux development labs of their own staffed with people who have PHDs (not cheap) plus they contribute to OSDL.
Also a server stabillity issue. I had a case where the programmers demanded a log they could write to from anywhere. when I protested they went over my head and got management to force me to do it. These stupid logs would jump by many megabyes per day causing me extra ime spent watching the log sizes then having to down the server rename the logs and create a new empty world writeable log file. And that had to be done for each site using the software.
I'm all for being nice to and working with programmers, but contrary to what the author thinks programmers should rarely be in a position to overrule admins.