Actually, I found that you were pretty much screwed even if all you wanted was a more recent Mozilla. For some reason they decided to install WINE and Mozilla in weird locations, and upgrading to a newer Mozilla broke all the plugins which were supposedly one of the benefits of Xandros. I hunted around, but couldn't find and re-enable them.
With WINE, none of the info on the web corresponded to anything in Xandros, and I couldn't work out how to use it. And again, trying to upgrade to the latest version hosed what was there because it was such a non-standard undocumented config.
So, I wiped it and gave my mother Mandrake instead.
Then the spammers build up a database of SPF information, and whenever they get access to a server to spam through, they make their software use one of the correct SPF-allowed domains for that server, to generate the fake From: addresses.
e.g. they 0wn 1000 Windows boxes of Comcast users, so they look up the SPF info from Comcast's DNS records, and use those domains to generate the fake e-mail addresses when spamming using those 0wn3d boxes. When spamming via their collection of open relays in China, they use SPF-valid From: addresses for those open relays.
In short, SPF provides zero protection once spammers work out how it works and build the necessary database into their spamware, which I reckon will take them maybe a week. That's assuming enough people even deploy it to make it worth hacking around in the first place.
Believe me, I wish something as simple as SPF could stop spam. I have no position in the anti-spam world to protect; the stuff is nothing but a nuisance and time sink to me.
Apple somewhat addressed this with OS X but it only runs on Mac hardware so the Windows lemmings can't jump ship unless they buy a new ship to jump on to.
Of course, the classic flawed argument people make is to assume that if Mac OS X ran on PC hardware, that the Windows lemmings would jump ship.
BeOS proved that generally speaking, Windows users aren't interested in switching to another OS, even if it's far superior to what they have. Furthermore, the adoption rates of recent versions of Windows demonstrate that in general, users don't upgrade their OS. There are way more people running Windows 95/98/Me than there are people running XP, and that's including all those corporate machines. The only way Joe Sixpack is going to upgrade to a newer version of Windows is if he gets it when he buys his next computer, and at that point he could just as easily buy a Mac.
This is one of the things Apple has got right. I imagine they did the market research and drew the obvious conclusion. The Apple stores even have people who will help you transfer all your data.
Yes, a few people, probably including anyone reading this, are prepared to upgrade OSs, or maybe even switch OSs. We're special. We're the 1%.
I was hoping maybe he was going to stop writing. That way we wouldn't get any more wingnut rants about how the way to achieve safety on planes is to give guns to all the passengers.
The WinAmp MP3 decoder is really poor quality. There's a plugin to make it use the MAD MPEG decoder, which will give you much better sound. I don't know if the plugin works with WinAmp 5; perhaps someone can try it and report...
My problem with WinAmp is the poor quality of the MP3 decoder. Well, that and the fact that the library starts to be unreliable after about 3000 files.
Unless they have a working MAD plugin or have switched to using MAD internally, I don't see any advantage to using WinAmp.
I don't know where the author has been hiding, but the table's very incomplete. As far as I can see it only lists Pentium and Athlon systems. A table of SFF PCs that doesn't list any VIA systems is just stupid.
A chemical photograph captures the effects of reflected light on a particular chemical substrate. Everything after that is in some sense manipulation - you fix the image, chemically manipulating the original chemical trace.
It's all manipulation. The choice of lens manipulates the geometry of the scene. The choice of aperture changes which parts are in focus. The choice of film manipulates the response curve, grain size, and exposure latitude. The captured reflected light is not in any way an objective representation of the scene; it is already dependent upon artistic choices made by the photographer, before you even get to the darkroom.
Digital is no more or less "real" or "authentic" than chemical photography. It's just different, more convenient in some ways, less convenient in others, with different techniques to learn and different limitations.
The best feature of the Rebel is the automatic hyperfocal setting. Lets you do all the artistic stuff you'd do with manual focus, without the pain.
I really don't see any reason to go with manual focus at this point. I mean, you might as well demand manual film advance for all the difference it'll make.
Yeah, I've lived in a major US city for over six years now, and I've never seen a gun outside of "sports" shops. I've walked through "the hood", wandered Chinatown at night, traveled by public transit everywhere, and I've still not seen a single gun. I do know someone who was mugged, and I heard about an armed robbery at a store a few blocks from our house and saw the police cars, but that stuff happens in the UK too.
My family came over to visit, and were amazed to discover that kids of various races played peacefully on the street, running in and out of the unlocked houses. As "Bowling For Columbine" explains, the media paints a completely distorted view of America. Sure, NYC has 8x the per capita murder rate of London, but that still only means 17 murders per 100,000 people. Or to look at it another way, you could live there your whole life and only have a 1% chance of being murdered--and remember that most murders are committed by people known to the victim, so the chances of some random person shooting you are even lower than that.
I volunteered at a local public school. UK readers may be surprised to hear that there were no bars on the windows, no metal detectors, and none of the kids tried to sell me crack or knife me.
The funny thing is that "Bowling For Columbine" IS NOT ANTI-GUN. Yes, it takes the NRA to task for being grossly insensitive, but its main conclusion is that it's the MEDIA that's mostly at fault in perpetuating the culture of violence. Sheesh, you'd think the gun nuts would have enough brain cells to follow the movie and work out that it supports their position, but no, they assume that any documentary which criticizes their beloved NRA must be anti-gun Commie propaganda.
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Actually, I found that you were pretty much screwed even if all you wanted was a more recent Mozilla. For some reason they decided to install WINE and Mozilla in weird locations, and upgrading to a newer Mozilla broke all the plugins which were supposedly one of the benefits of Xandros. I hunted around, but couldn't find and re-enable them.
With WINE, none of the info on the web corresponded to anything in Xandros, and I couldn't work out how to use it. And again, trying to upgrade to the latest version hosed what was there because it was such a non-standard undocumented config.
So, I wiped it and gave my mother Mandrake instead.
But if we could rely on ISPs to block spam going through their systems, we wouldn't need SPF to start with.
Like whitelisting, SPF works for a while.
Then the spammers build up a database of SPF information, and whenever they get access to a server to spam through, they make their software use one of the correct SPF-allowed domains for that server, to generate the fake From: addresses.
e.g. they 0wn 1000 Windows boxes of Comcast users, so they look up the SPF info from Comcast's DNS records, and use those domains to generate the fake e-mail addresses when spamming using those 0wn3d boxes. When spamming via their collection of open relays in China, they use SPF-valid From: addresses for those open relays.
In short, SPF provides zero protection once spammers work out how it works and build the necessary database into their spamware, which I reckon will take them maybe a week. That's assuming enough people even deploy it to make it worth hacking around in the first place.
Believe me, I wish something as simple as SPF could stop spam. I have no position in the anti-spam world to protect; the stuff is nothing but a nuisance and time sink to me.
Actually, whitelisting is even dumber than SPF and won't work. The other ideas are good, though.
SPF was shot to ribbons on the IETF ASRG list, but obviously someone decided to go ahead with it anyway.
Of course, the classic flawed argument people make is to assume that if Mac OS X ran on PC hardware, that the Windows lemmings would jump ship.
BeOS proved that generally speaking, Windows users aren't interested in switching to another OS, even if it's far superior to what they have. Furthermore, the adoption rates of recent versions of Windows demonstrate that in general, users don't upgrade their OS. There are way more people running Windows 95/98/Me than there are people running XP, and that's including all those corporate machines. The only way Joe Sixpack is going to upgrade to a newer version of Windows is if he gets it when he buys his next computer, and at that point he could just as easily buy a Mac.
This is one of the things Apple has got right. I imagine they did the market research and drew the obvious conclusion. The Apple stores even have people who will help you transfer all your data.
Yes, a few people, probably including anyone reading this, are prepared to upgrade OSs, or maybe even switch OSs. We're special. We're the 1%.
I was hoping maybe he was going to stop writing. That way we wouldn't get any more wingnut rants about how the way to achieve safety on planes is to give guns to all the passengers.
The WinAmp MP3 decoder is really poor quality. There's a plugin to make it use the MAD MPEG decoder, which will give you much better sound. I don't know if the plugin works with WinAmp 5; perhaps someone can try it and report...
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http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin
My problem with WinAmp is the poor quality of the MP3 decoder. Well, that and the fact that the library starts to be unreliable after about 3000 files.
Unless they have a working MAD plugin or have switched to using MAD internally, I don't see any advantage to using WinAmp.
is to bounce it during the SMTP transaction. That way the spammer thinks the mailbox doesn't exist.
Yeah. Don't beat her up; wait until she goes out, and torch her trailer.
I don't know where the author has been hiding, but the table's very incomplete. As far as I can see it only lists Pentium and Athlon systems. A table of SFF PCs that doesn't list any VIA systems is just stupid.
Magic cards make you a munchkin. Magic is the archetypal munchkin game.
It's all manipulation. The choice of lens manipulates the geometry of the scene. The choice of aperture changes which parts are in focus. The choice of film manipulates the response curve, grain size, and exposure latitude. The captured reflected light is not in any way an objective representation of the scene; it is already dependent upon artistic choices made by the photographer, before you even get to the darkroom.
Digital is no more or less "real" or "authentic" than chemical photography. It's just different, more convenient in some ways, less convenient in others, with different techniques to learn and different limitations.
Did you get bored while searching and replacing "Debian" with "Solaris" in your troll text? Or do you not know how to operate a text editor?
Still, I guess you're still one notch smarter than the people who actually replied to it.
Dear AC,
BBC News uses Java and works fine with Mozilla and Safari on the Mac, as well as Mozilla on Windows.
...they're using it to run their web site.
Go to http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ and pick up "Domino 6: A Developer's Handbook", IBM part number SG24-6854-00. Available as HTML, PDF, or dead trees.
If your URLs have an 80 character hash in them, your developers don't know what the fsck they're doing.
Just an FYI.
Charles Fish? Are you sure that's not just another red herring?
(Sorry.)
Yes, but Perl often looks the same backwards.
The best feature of the Rebel is the automatic hyperfocal setting. Lets you do all the artistic stuff you'd do with manual focus, without the pain.
I really don't see any reason to go with manual focus at this point. I mean, you might as well demand manual film advance for all the difference it'll make.
Sikh stuff? Some kind of "Sikh and Destroy" mission?
I think I missed that news.
Rockstar, who just released "Manhunt", socially responsible?
Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
If you implement a Chinese wireless networking standard, half an hour later you'll want to adopt another one.
Yeah, I've lived in a major US city for over six years now, and I've never seen a gun outside of "sports" shops. I've walked through "the hood", wandered Chinatown at night, traveled by public transit everywhere, and I've still not seen a single gun. I do know someone who was mugged, and I heard about an armed robbery at a store a few blocks from our house and saw the police cars, but that stuff happens in the UK too.
My family came over to visit, and were amazed to discover that kids of various races played peacefully on the street, running in and out of the unlocked houses. As "Bowling For Columbine" explains, the media paints a completely distorted view of America. Sure, NYC has 8x the per capita murder rate of London, but that still only means 17 murders per 100,000 people. Or to look at it another way, you could live there your whole life and only have a 1% chance of being murdered--and remember that most murders are committed by people known to the victim, so the chances of some random person shooting you are even lower than that.
I volunteered at a local public school. UK readers may be surprised to hear that there were no bars on the windows, no metal detectors, and none of the kids tried to sell me crack or knife me.
The funny thing is that "Bowling For Columbine" IS NOT ANTI-GUN. Yes, it takes the NRA to task for being grossly insensitive, but its main conclusion is that it's the MEDIA that's mostly at fault in perpetuating the culture of violence. Sheesh, you'd think the gun nuts would have enough brain cells to follow the movie and work out that it supports their position, but no, they assume that any documentary which criticizes their beloved NRA must be anti-gun Commie propaganda.