Yup. I'll settle for this bill, because I'll just add three lines to my.procmailrc and bounce everything with ADV: in the subject line. Situation ends up no worse than today, and it may be better.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of open source MTAs were immediately patched to bounce anything with ADV: in the subject line by default, during the SMTP transaction.
all I have to do is make sure I find your domains with bogus WHOIS data (how many people use 111 Main St?) and spoof the from address. Now the FBI comes and takes YOU away.
Sounds good to me. Assholes with invalid data in their WHOIS entry and misconfigured mail servers that bounce Postmaster mail are almost as annoying as spammers. It's almost not worth trying to report problems with web sites and mail servers, because the mail almost always bounces and when you try to call you get number unobtainable.
crime n. & v. 1 a an offense punishable by law b illegal acts as a whole
conviction v.tr. 1 a the act or process of proving or finding guilty
Microsoft committed numerous offenses punishable under the Sherman Antitrust Act, i.e. "crimes". They were proven guilty of committing those illegal acts in a court of law, i.e. "convicted". Therefore Microsoft are collectively, by definition, convicted criminals.
If you have some alternative Humpty-Dumpty definitions of 'crime' and 'convicted', perhaps you could share them with us.
The preferences are not the same. They've added a bunch of checkboxes saying that I've agreed to receive spam in a dozen different categories. That is simply not true. Those checkboxes were never there when I signed up; I set my preferences on sign up not to receive spam from them.
Spamming someone does not suddenly become acceptable simply because you give people a way to opt out.
If you had bothered to click on the link in the email, you'd find (as I did) that when you opted-out a year ago, they haven't changed anything: you're still opted-out.
I have never at any point opted *in* to receive marketing info from Yahoo. I opted out via all mechanisms available to me at the time I signed up.
Therefore, if Yahoo start sending me marketing messages via e-mail, it is spam. I don't care that they're Yahoo, I don't care if they're giving me a working opt-out link; "spamming with opt-out links" is no more acceptable than any other kind. I will treat them like any other spammer.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w @c=split/[\n.]*/,<>;foreach$c(@c){$n{$c}=$n{$c}?$n{$c}+1:1;} foreach$x(sort{$n{$b}<=>$n{$a}}keys%n){print"$ n{$x } x $x\n"};
Of course, it's probably not as elegant in C++, but like I always say, if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing in two lines of Perl that look like line noise.
(It wasn't clear from your description of the problem whether you wanted to know how many of each character, or just get a 5-character string out, so I made it print a sorted list of most popular characters and how many of each, as that seemed the most comprehensive answer.)
The economy was already turning sour when Clinton was in office. However, the liberal media spin constantly blames the GOP. Funny. George W. wasn't even in office (or elected, for that matter) before the economy went south.
Bullshit. Check the NBER web site. The business cycle peaked--that is, the economy went from growth to recession--in March 2001. Quote:
The NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee has determined that a peak in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in March 2001. A peak marks the end of an expansion and the beginning of a recession. The determination of a peak date in March is thus a determination that the expansion that began in March 1991 ended in March 2001 and a recession began. The expansion lasted exactly 10 years, the longest in the NBER's chronology
So Bush had been chosen (not elected) for over a year before the recession began. Spin that one, FOX-boy.
Hey, didya know that every single Republican president this century has presided over a recession in his first term? Check the data if you don't believe me. But hey, as Bill Hicks would have put it, there is absolutely no connection between giving Republicans final say in signing budgets into law, and having a recession... and you'd be a fool and a Communist to think otherwise.
Ah, so the jaded desensitized palate of the American public for gratuitous violence may finally be stimulated once again by a video game. Thank goodness for that, another great triumph for the industry.
I dunno, sounds to me like GTA without the interesting bits, or a 3D version of Postal.
If you RTFAs, OPM points out that the game includes sodomizing someone with a crowbar. Doesn't that count as sexual? Or is it OK because cops do it to criminals?
More to the point, working on Mono is supporting Bill Gates' latest dreams of world domination. Killing Mono would hardly be "letting the man get you down".
All I know is that I'd rather run Debian or SuSE over RH any day.
Well, obviously it's a matter of taste, as having tried all three in recent incarnations, I'd pick RedHat over SuSE any day... as long as they fixed SMP threading or I could use the 2.6 kernel.
Specifically, the problem Linus and others had with MINIX was that it didn't support protected memory, virtual memory and pre-emptive multi-tasking. That was a deliberate decision, because MINIX ran on a lot of hardware that simply wasn't capable of protected virtual memory and pre-emptible processes--for example, my 68000-based Atari ST.
That's why some people claim MINIX wasn't a "real UNIX", and it's a stupid claim. There were plenty of real UNIXes back in the day that didn't have protected virtual memory. There was even one hardware platform I forget that used two 68000s in parallel so that they could get around the fact that page faults caused loss of state.
It's also amusing that Linus was also scathing about MINIX's microkernel based design--and now we see more and more stuff leaving the once-monolithic Linux kernel and moving into loadable modules.
I've got to admit that there's really nothing terribly innovative about Linux, in a technical sense. It's the licensing that's the worthy innovation.
Because of the various components distributed with Linux, there are a mass of patches to not only initially install, but there are also many services to turn on/off if used as a server with most default variant installations.
Yeah, you have a point there. Most commercial distributions install a crapload of unnecessary stuff by default. I'd like to see the default being "install a shell, kernel, enough for SSH and nothing else", then checkboxes for each additional bundle of services I want to install.
That's why I like Gentoo. No unwanted services to turn off. The only daemons running are ones I explicitly decided I wanted. Good luck getting root via BIND or sendmail, they're not even on the hard drive.
If (dynamic linked/bin and/sbin) + (statically linked/rescue) is smaller than the old statically linked/bin and/sbin, why not move/rescue into/bin and/sbin and reduce size even further?
If you're talking about patches and updates, well, a few months ago I ran Windows Update and Mandrake's update application one after the other, both on more-or-less unpatched installs. The Mandrake one had about 10 times the amount (by byte count) of updates that I selected (let alone available) than XP did.
It's not the number of updates that counts, it's the pain of keeping up to date. With Linux or OS X, I just run the updater and authenticate as admin. Sometimes with OS X I have to reboot, but only kernel holes in Linux require reboots and they're damn rare. The rest of the time it's su then emerge sync ; emerge update world or apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade. If a service daemon changes, I may have to do/etc/init.d/whatever restart, but no reboots, and all my applications keep running. And it's only that difficult because I've been too lazy to write a cron script.
With Windows I have to shut down everything I'm doing, log out, log in as admin and run Windows update, just to find out if there are any updates. Then if there are some, I need to work out which ones I need (as opposed to the ones Microsoft wants me to take, like 15MB of.NET frameworks), wait for the install to finish, reboot, log in as admin once more to let it finish the patching, log out, log back in as myself, and finally go back to whatever I was doing.
Since the process for servers is the same, you're talking about minutes of downtime every week. That makes a mockery of claims that Windows is as stable and easy to maintain as Linux.
If there's some way to reliably run Windows Update without logging out and logging back in as administrator, I'd like to know what it is, as I haven't seen it documented anywhere. While we're at it, I'd also like to know how to upgrade only stuff that's already installed, and do it all automatically without reboots. Then I'll accept that Windows might be as easy to maintain as Linux.
The Notes 4 client port was done by an outsourced UNIX dev shop, and used a separate codebase. It was thrown out for R5 because it turned out to be unmaintainable.
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All those problems reduce to the core problem with GNOME, which is that the only reason it exists is free software politics and religion.
Yup. I'll settle for this bill, because I'll just add three lines to my .procmailrc and bounce everything with ADV: in the subject line. Situation ends up no worse than today, and it may be better.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of open source MTAs were immediately patched to bounce anything with ADV: in the subject line by default, during the SMTP transaction.
Sounds good to me. Assholes with invalid data in their WHOIS entry and misconfigured mail servers that bounce Postmaster mail are almost as annoying as spammers. It's almost not worth trying to report problems with web sites and mail servers, because the mail almost always bounces and when you try to call you get number unobtainable.
Dear Anonymous Microsoft apologist,
Quoting the Concise OED:
crime n. & v. 1 a an offense punishable by law b illegal acts as a whole
conviction v.tr. 1 a the act or process of proving or finding guilty
Microsoft committed numerous offenses punishable under the Sherman Antitrust Act, i.e. "crimes". They were proven guilty of committing those illegal acts in a court of law, i.e. "convicted". Therefore Microsoft are collectively, by definition, convicted criminals.
If you have some alternative Humpty-Dumpty definitions of 'crime' and 'convicted', perhaps you could share them with us.
I know they've been there for a while. I signed up before that, however, so I did NOT agree to the things those preferences say I agreed to.
They may be immortal, but they're nowhere near as cute as the sea otters that eat them.
The preferences are not the same. They've added a bunch of checkboxes saying that I've agreed to receive spam in a dozen different categories. That is simply not true. Those checkboxes were never there when I signed up; I set my preferences on sign up not to receive spam from them.
Spamming someone does not suddenly become acceptable simply because you give people a way to opt out.
I have never at any point opted *in* to receive marketing info from Yahoo. I opted out via all mechanisms available to me at the time I signed up.
Therefore, if Yahoo start sending me marketing messages via e-mail, it is spam. I don't care that they're Yahoo, I don't care if they're giving me a working opt-out link; "spamming with opt-out links" is no more acceptable than any other kind. I will treat them like any other spammer.
Yeah, if you don't mind working for unrepentant convicted criminals, Microsoft are hiring.
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Looks like you didn't get the job, then. That doesn't output the five most frequently occurring characters on stdin.
% echo abcdefffffffffffgggggzyxwv | yourprogram
zyxwv
#!/usr/bin/perl -w /[\n.]*/,<>;foreach$c(@c){$n{$c}=$n{$c}?$n{$c}+1:1 ;}$ n{$x } x $x\n"};
@c=split
foreach$x(sort{$n{$b}<=>$n{$a}}keys%n){print"
Of course, it's probably not as elegant in C++, but like I always say, if a job's worth doing, it's worth doing in two lines of Perl that look like line noise.
(It wasn't clear from your description of the problem whether you wanted to know how many of each character, or just get a 5-character string out, so I made it print a sorted list of most popular characters and how many of each, as that seemed the most comprehensive answer.)
Bullshit. Check the NBER web site. The business cycle peaked--that is, the economy went from growth to recession--in March 2001. Quote:
So Bush had been chosen (not elected) for over a year before the recession began. Spin that one, FOX-boy.
Hey, didya know that every single Republican president this century has presided over a recession in his first term? Check the data if you don't believe me. But hey, as Bill Hicks would have put it, there is absolutely no connection between giving Republicans final say in signing budgets into law, and having a recession... and you'd be a fool and a Communist to think otherwise.
Ah, so the jaded desensitized palate of the American public for gratuitous violence may finally be stimulated once again by a video game. Thank goodness for that, another great triumph for the industry.
I dunno, sounds to me like GTA without the interesting bits, or a 3D version of Postal.
If you RTFAs, OPM points out that the game includes sodomizing someone with a crowbar. Doesn't that count as sexual? Or is it OK because cops do it to criminals?
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More to the point, working on Mono is supporting Bill Gates' latest dreams of world domination. Killing Mono would hardly be "letting the man get you down".
Count yourself lucky you could get that piece of crap to work at all, I couldn't.
Well, obviously it's a matter of taste, as having tried all three in recent incarnations, I'd pick RedHat over SuSE any day... as long as they fixed SMP threading or I could use the 2.6 kernel.
Specifically, the problem Linus and others had with MINIX was that it didn't support protected memory, virtual memory and pre-emptive multi-tasking. That was a deliberate decision, because MINIX ran on a lot of hardware that simply wasn't capable of protected virtual memory and pre-emptible processes--for example, my 68000-based Atari ST.
That's why some people claim MINIX wasn't a "real UNIX", and it's a stupid claim. There were plenty of real UNIXes back in the day that didn't have protected virtual memory. There was even one hardware platform I forget that used two 68000s in parallel so that they could get around the fact that page faults caused loss of state.
It's also amusing that Linus was also scathing about MINIX's microkernel based design--and now we see more and more stuff leaving the once-monolithic Linux kernel and moving into loadable modules.
I've got to admit that there's really nothing terribly innovative about Linux, in a technical sense. It's the licensing that's the worthy innovation.
Yeah, you have a point there. Most commercial distributions install a crapload of unnecessary stuff by default. I'd like to see the default being "install a shell, kernel, enough for SSH and nothing else", then checkboxes for each additional bundle of services I want to install.
That's why I like Gentoo. No unwanted services to turn off. The only daemons running are ones I explicitly decided I wanted. Good luck getting root via BIND or sendmail, they're not even on the hard drive.
If (dynamic linked /bin and /sbin) + (statically linked /rescue) is smaller than the old statically linked /bin and /sbin, why not move /rescue into /bin and /sbin and reduce size even further?
It's not the number of updates that counts, it's the pain of keeping up to date. With Linux or OS X, I just run the updater and authenticate as admin. Sometimes with OS X I have to reboot, but only kernel holes in Linux require reboots and they're damn rare. The rest of the time it's su then emerge sync ; emerge update world or apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade. If a service daemon changes, I may have to do /etc/init.d/whatever restart, but no reboots, and all my applications keep running. And it's only that difficult because I've been too lazy to write a cron script.
With Windows I have to shut down everything I'm doing, log out, log in as admin and run Windows update, just to find out if there are any updates. Then if there are some, I need to work out which ones I need (as opposed to the ones Microsoft wants me to take, like 15MB of .NET frameworks), wait for the install to finish, reboot, log in as admin once more to let it finish the patching, log out, log back in as myself, and finally go back to whatever I was doing.
Since the process for servers is the same, you're talking about minutes of downtime every week. That makes a mockery of claims that Windows is as stable and easy to maintain as Linux.
If there's some way to reliably run Windows Update without logging out and logging back in as administrator, I'd like to know what it is, as I haven't seen it documented anywhere. While we're at it, I'd also like to know how to upgrade only stuff that's already installed, and do it all automatically without reboots. Then I'll accept that Windows might be as easy to maintain as Linux.
The Notes 4 client port was done by an outsourced UNIX dev shop, and used a separate codebase. It was thrown out for R5 because it turned out to be unmaintainable.
What we really want to know is, have they spent their thirty pieces of silver yet?