You can find an exceptionally detailed answer at http://people.freebsd.org/~alex/libh/
which should give you a very good idea of where the FreeBSD distribution is headed, in the manner of granular, custimizable upgrades. JKH wrote a wonderful paper that covers this.
Everybody knows there's no such thing as a perfect system. As such, what do you think is the most, and least perfect points regarding security in FreeBSD.
Also, in terms of security, what do you think the most common dangerous behaviours are by FreeBSD users and admins? What would you change about the FreeBSD userbase if you could?
Ummmm, there's no problem there. Binary only software for Linux is absolutely not an issue, unless they want to make proprietary kernel modifications, and then Linus has deemed that it's cool, as long as it's a kernel module. There's absolutely nothing stopping them, other than a resistance to eat crow.
After all, it'll be fully compatible with Microsoft Office, which, whoops, requires a binary only library that only ships with MSLinux. And besides, this next gen of Linux users wouldn't be geeks, they'd be the current generation of Windows users, and they wouldn't even know what was different. They'd just think it's cool that Windows 2003 seemed really stable.
NO, you're putting your question into the place of his, since I answered his.
I'm curious as to how you think systems should find out that a file exists, if you're not allowed to edit a file or run an 'installation' program. I presume that you're suggesting that ld be modified such that every file on the entire system gets checked to see if it's a library, rather than keeping hints?
Hint to Spitzak: you ALWAYS need code to run on your computer, if you want something to change. Mozilla currently doesn't follow the first or second rules of UI design though. Those being 'only use one button' and 'if at all possible, make that button press itself'.
Also, make a mozilla plugin sometime... when you do, you'll discover that all this editing happens auto-magically. The self-clicking button exists, but isn't deployed since nobody in their right minds would bother releasing such things until mozilla is fully matured.
it's slower to start a window, but page rendering tends to actually be faster than 4.7, with the notable exception of soros.ath.cx which is still faster on 4.7. Slashdot, on the other hand, renders faster in mozilla than ns47, when I hit one of those 500 comment articles, that I read in nested mode.
You mean like what I can setup by editing my user specific $HOME/.mozilla/$moz_profile_name/plugin.list file?
You know, the one that's user configurable and everything.
AP - Investors, having learned that Ebay is willing to engage in annoying practices that help them retain market presence, upgraded their price points for Ebay. At time of this press release Ebay's stock is up 9%.
In other news, Ebay CEO Meg Whitman took a break from the work involved in attempting to become the Asian Internet Auction leader, to cry over the loss of one customer.
Thanks for the humour. Your choice of incompatibilities is pretty humourous.
Here's a quote from RFC 793:
Urgent Pointer: 16 bits
This field communicates the current value of the urgent pointer as a positive offset from the sequence number in this segment. The urgent pointer points to the sequence number of the octet following the urgent data. This field is only be interpreted in segments with the URG control bit set.
And now here's a quote from the Linux tcp(7):
tcp_stdurg
Enable the strict RFC793 interpretation of the TCP urgent-pointer field. The default is to use the BSD-compatible interpretation of the urgent-pointer, pointing to the first byte after the urgent data. The RFC793 interpretation is to have it point to the last byte of urgent data. Enabling this option may lead to interoperatibility problems.
It's not until RFC 924 where this difference is noted, and corrected. Thus, your example of an incompatibility is one where there was a legitimate cause. The 3 full years between the publishing of RFC 793 and 924 meant that there was software written to adhere properly to a standard. The interoperability problems between the two revisions meant that a de facto standard had been created. I'm sure somewhere there's archived discussion on what to do about this matter.
Anyway, think what you want about my reasoning skills, I was responding to an obvious troll, sort of like what I'm doing right now. I don't generally invest effort in such posts, as it wouldn't be appreciated anyway.
A couple things. First of all, getting first post in the BSD section is about as hard to accomplish as getting drunk at a frat party.
Secondly, look at documentation. Take a look at the documentation for a random program, for this purpose, we'll use cksum. The BSD version of cksum has three different methods of deriving a checksum, with mathetmatical descriptions of what each one does, making it easy to interoperate, and easy to figure out why two cksum's don't match.
The Linux man page contains almost no information, with a pointer to an info page with only slightly better information, that still pales compared to the BSD documentation.
Linux also invents it's own standards sometimes. Linux users don't realize this, since they're too busy hating microsoft, but sometimes Linux does things differently, just because some author didn't know any better.
As for Linux being more popular, which one? It makes the BSD community look downright united.
Better supported? why do you say that other than to troll?
Easier to learn? Bullshit. Pure bullshit. I knew slackware really well, then I switched to RedHat. Suddenly I was in a new world. I got sick of RedHat and switched to debian, and there it was, another new world.
PS: Is there any real reason that you've never gotten laid?
There are two problems with this discussion, one is wonderful. I'm making an attempt to identify them in the hopes that one or two more people might post intelligently and inspire some good ideas and responses.
The first problem is wonderful. The question that's been posed to us is vague, perhaps purposefully vague. It talks of "neural networks" without a stated problem. Is Hougaard looking for a way to run his heat and air conditioning? Does he want lights to automatically do what he'd like them to do? Does he want his house to predict what kind of music he'd likely enjoy at a certain point, and play it? This lack of definition seems to have stumped most respondants.
The second problem is a lack of informed, creative response. This is slashdot, a place where people like to think they have a better grasp on technology and it's implications than the rest of the world. This discussion is proving that it isn't so. Where's the creativity? Why are there posts which don't seem to indicate any hint of knowledge about how neural networks work?
I think this is a wonderful, amazing idea. Imagine if you will, starting small. Take one thing, for the first item, I'll pick air conditioning and heat. The system is set up such that in each room, there's a method of indicating if it is too hot, or too cold. The system could contain a clock, a basic weather station with access to humidity, temperature, wind speed and direction.
After a little bit, one could have a system which knows that if the wind has kicked up from the south, then the master bedroom starts to feel a little bit cold, but the rest of the house will be the same as usual. It will know that you tend to watch TV in the family room, which isn't over a basement, and thus gets a cold floor when the temperature has been below 50 for more than a few days. These are the kind of optimizations that would take forever to program into standard logic.
As a more interesting, harder to get right example, music. Let's say you have a centralized database of music, with automated access to your CD players, your mp3 database, and Music Choice on your satellite TV. That part's easy, I've got that. I also categorized all my music, no matter what the format is, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. After all, it's a hell of a lot easier to buy a stack of 200 CD changers, and write some software to control them, than it is to remember where it was you decided to file that Negativland cd, or that orchestral recording with Brahms and Rachmaninov on the same CD.
Now all we do is modify that software, to help the neural network understand what it is we're likely to want to hear at any given time. If I've been sitting at my unix box working (detectable by the state of xscreensaver), then I'm probably coding. Because I've manually picked the same genre of music every other time I've been activating these neurons, it puts on the new Dark Soho album, and I find myself listening to some slammin' trance. If it guessed wrong, well I just go to the standard music interface, tell it 'no, i wanted to listen to that midfield general ep i finally picked up' and eventually it figures out 'hey, this guy overrides his standard preferences, for stuff that's new to my database.' It might not get it right every time, but it'll likely be a hell of a lot better than what I'd get if I just put the player on random.
Surely somebody in this crowd of self-proclaimed geeks and cutting-edge thought, can realize the potential of this, and open your mind to the possibilities of a system like this. Possibilities like incredible profit. Ludicrously incredible profit.
Stop whining about what isn't possible, and think about what is! It's the 21st century, and if I can't have a rocket pack and a flying car, I want a house that plays dope tracks, automatically.
Look, I know this seems like a good thing right now, but you should really hold off on the pride for a bit. After all, it's clear that you don't understand a lot about the world.
There's a saying in Ireland: Show me a teacher who does it for the money and I'll show you a hooker who loves her line of work.
Okay, maybe I was lying about that being a saying, but if you do everything for the money, one day you'll wake up and realize that your life sucks. The fact that you'll realize this while commuting from a $3 million dollar house to a well-compensated position, in a modified Audi S4 won't help. It'll still suck.
Pretty dumb comment for a "unix guy". Supporting more than one operating system has numerous advantages, and not just in the security department. If there's simply a bug in one of the operating systems, then only half the computers get affected.
It requires more resources, however if your operation is of a critical nature, then a heterogenuous environment is absolutely neccessary, to prevent a single failure from taking down all systems.
For exceptionally important servers, (as an example), it's fairly standard to have two of them running in parallel, but with completely different hardware, running different operating systems. This way no one bug can take down the cluster. I've seen, more than once, a rack of Netfinitys, next to a rack of PowerEdges, and they all run the same apps.
As for interface risks, that's a bullshit argument made by somebody who either got bit by some minor incompatibility at some point, or who always runs homogenuous systems, blindly assuming that if they run the same OS, they must be more compatible. It's utterly and completely illogical, unless your inhouse coders haven't learned the word 'portable' yet.
Anyway, I shouldn't respond to trolls, it's a waste of time.
Well then you should just learn to fucking write, or stop bullshitting.
Paragraph 7: "Another method I use is factories. I have objects that construct related objects and return a handle to just the interface. This way other code that I write is never directly accessing the implementation of the object."
Paragraph 13: "Another method I use is factories. I have objects that construct related objects and return a handle to just the interface. This way other code that I write is never directly accessing the implementation of the object."
Ditto, as we go down.
Now you could have either a) cut and paste this from somewhere else, b) written as an original comment the exact same thing two times or c) are so incompetant that not only did you accidentally cut and paste your entire comment into the textarea, then posted without previewing, then decided to act without thinking with your response, so you couldn't even tell why I used the term "double-paste".
Sorry if my criticism offends you, but until you stop stealing your comments and denying it, you'll never make it in the real world.
Nope, according to Title 18, Section 333 of United States code, if you render currency unfit to be reissued, you can be fined up to $100, and sent to jail for up to 6 months. Title 18, Section 331 specifies harsher penalties, if the act is done with intent to defraud.
Well, spammers have found interesting ways to try to get these completed user lists. A standard spammer trick is take any address they get at all, and make variants of it for the big ISPs. After all, if there's a barbsmith@someisp.net, there's probably a barbsmith@aol.com. Given the negligable cost of sending spam, it doesn't matter if it only hits one in ten times.
AT&T gets something in the neighborhood of a million or two bounces from this type of spam, per day.
The red encoded as green is actually a known issue, so I'm surprised you haven't run into it. I'm assuming that it must be something signal specific (maybe my signal is a tad hot or something?). Whatever it is, it's a publicly admitted problem, and one that a Tivo plugged into the same spot doesn't experience
I've crashed them just by using them. I have some weird knack for finding ways to break software that nobody else notices. Just yesterday I got a Tivo into a mode where while displaying guide data, the first two lines of guide data would be blank... <shrug> it happens. no big deal, just a minor annoyance.
As for Replay's ability to record by preference, it doesn't touch Tivo. Tivo, after using a unit for a few weeks, will record almost nothing that you don't like, and it only does this with extra space anyway, so if you fill to capacity, it just won't do that. I, however, record very little with my main Tivo... one or two shows a day, basically. This means that the auto-disk-fill feature is pretty kickass for me.
I didn't know about this new mode, I'll have to check it out when I go home, see what I haven't been paying attention to.
One bad thing about both, that I forgot.... No HDTV recording.... maybe in a few years, I guess.
Hey now, no need to get defensive:-) I actually do have an H-card, which is reprogrammed, but I don't use it to steal. I have the platinum subscription with all the extras I want anyway (neccessary since the card only lasts a few weeks at a time). I use it to get extra local channels, so I can get more Simpson's episodes. I guess that's illegal, but I certainly don't feel any guilt about that.
As for your point, I totally agree with you. My old Hughes receiver has a much easier to use interface than my Sony and especially more than my RCA. To this day I can't figure out how to make the RCA purchase a PPV program in advance.
I don't have one of the older ReplayTVs though... Do you have any idea what model I should look for to try to find one with firewire? I'd love to crack one open, and try to figure out what was meant to be possible, and if it still is somehow possible, with some work.
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You can find an exceptionally detailed answer at http://people.freebsd.org/~alex/libh/ which should give you a very good idea of where the FreeBSD distribution is headed, in the manner of granular, custimizable upgrades. JKH wrote a wonderful paper that covers this.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
Everybody knows there's no such thing as a perfect system. As such, what do you think is the most, and least perfect points regarding security in FreeBSD.
Also, in terms of security, what do you think the most common dangerous behaviours are by FreeBSD users and admins? What would you change about the FreeBSD userbase if you could?
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
Ummmm, there's no problem there. Binary only software for Linux is absolutely not an issue, unless they want to make proprietary kernel modifications, and then Linus has deemed that it's cool, as long as it's a kernel module. There's absolutely nothing stopping them, other than a resistance to eat crow.
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After all, it'll be fully compatible with Microsoft Office, which, whoops, requires a binary only library that only ships with MSLinux. And besides, this next gen of Linux users wouldn't be geeks, they'd be the current generation of Windows users, and they wouldn't even know what was different. They'd just think it's cool that Windows 2003 seemed really stable.
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NO, you're putting your question into the place of his, since I answered his.
I'm curious as to how you think systems should find out that a file exists, if you're not allowed to edit a file or run an 'installation' program. I presume that you're suggesting that ld be modified such that every file on the entire system gets checked to see if it's a library, rather than keeping hints?
Hint to Spitzak: you ALWAYS need code to run on your computer, if you want something to change. Mozilla currently doesn't follow the first or second rules of UI design though. Those being 'only use one button' and 'if at all possible, make that button press itself'.
Also, make a mozilla plugin sometime... when you do, you'll discover that all this editing happens auto-magically. The self-clicking button exists, but isn't deployed since nobody in their right minds would bother releasing such things until mozilla is fully matured.
Go back under your bridge.
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it's slower to start a window, but page rendering tends to actually be faster than 4.7, with the notable exception of soros.ath.cx which is still faster on 4.7. Slashdot, on the other hand, renders faster in mozilla than ns47, when I hit one of those 500 comment articles, that I read in nested mode.
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You mean like what I can setup by editing my user specific $HOME/.mozilla/$moz_profile_name/plugin.list file? You know, the one that's user configurable and everything.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
AP - Investors, having learned that Ebay is willing to engage in annoying practices that help them retain market presence, upgraded their price points for Ebay. At time of this press release Ebay's stock is up 9%.
In other news, Ebay CEO Meg Whitman took a break from the work involved in attempting to become the Asian Internet Auction leader, to cry over the loss of one customer.
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Here's a quote from RFC 793:
Urgent Pointer: 16 bits
This field communicates the current value of the urgent pointer as a positive offset from the sequence number in this segment. The urgent pointer points to the sequence number of the octet following the urgent data. This field is only be interpreted in segments with the URG control bit set.
And now here's a quote from the Linux tcp(7):
tcp_stdurg
Enable the strict RFC793 interpretation of the TCP urgent-pointer field. The default is to use the BSD-compatible interpretation of the urgent-pointer, pointing to the first byte after the urgent data. The RFC793 interpretation is to have it point to the last byte of urgent data. Enabling this option may lead to interoperatibility problems.
It's not until RFC 924 where this difference is noted, and corrected. Thus, your example of an incompatibility is one where there was a legitimate cause. The 3 full years between the publishing of RFC 793 and 924 meant that there was software written to adhere properly to a standard. The interoperability problems between the two revisions meant that a de facto standard had been created. I'm sure somewhere there's archived discussion on what to do about this matter.
Anyway, think what you want about my reasoning skills, I was responding to an obvious troll, sort of like what I'm doing right now. I don't generally invest effort in such posts, as it wouldn't be appreciated anyway.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
A couple things. First of all, getting first post in the BSD section is about as hard to accomplish as getting drunk at a frat party.
Secondly, look at documentation. Take a look at the documentation for a random program, for this purpose, we'll use cksum. The BSD version of cksum has three different methods of deriving a checksum, with mathetmatical descriptions of what each one does, making it easy to interoperate, and easy to figure out why two cksum's don't match.
The Linux man page contains almost no information, with a pointer to an info page with only slightly better information, that still pales compared to the BSD documentation.
Linux also invents it's own standards sometimes. Linux users don't realize this, since they're too busy hating microsoft, but sometimes Linux does things differently, just because some author didn't know any better.
As for Linux being more popular, which one? It makes the BSD community look downright united.
Better supported? why do you say that other than to troll?
Easier to learn? Bullshit. Pure bullshit. I knew slackware really well, then I switched to RedHat. Suddenly I was in a new world. I got sick of RedHat and switched to debian, and there it was, another new world.
PS: Is there any real reason that you've never gotten laid?
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
There are two problems with this discussion, one is wonderful. I'm making an attempt to identify them in the hopes that one or two more people might post intelligently and inspire some good ideas and responses.
The first problem is wonderful. The question that's been posed to us is vague, perhaps purposefully vague. It talks of "neural networks" without a stated problem. Is Hougaard looking for a way to run his heat and air conditioning? Does he want lights to automatically do what he'd like them to do? Does he want his house to predict what kind of music he'd likely enjoy at a certain point, and play it? This lack of definition seems to have stumped most respondants.
The second problem is a lack of informed, creative response. This is slashdot, a place where people like to think they have a better grasp on technology and it's implications than the rest of the world. This discussion is proving that it isn't so. Where's the creativity? Why are there posts which don't seem to indicate any hint of knowledge about how neural networks work?
I think this is a wonderful, amazing idea. Imagine if you will, starting small. Take one thing, for the first item, I'll pick air conditioning and heat. The system is set up such that in each room, there's a method of indicating if it is too hot, or too cold. The system could contain a clock, a basic weather station with access to humidity, temperature, wind speed and direction.
After a little bit, one could have a system which knows that if the wind has kicked up from the south, then the master bedroom starts to feel a little bit cold, but the rest of the house will be the same as usual. It will know that you tend to watch TV in the family room, which isn't over a basement, and thus gets a cold floor when the temperature has been below 50 for more than a few days. These are the kind of optimizations that would take forever to program into standard logic.
As a more interesting, harder to get right example, music. Let's say you have a centralized database of music, with automated access to your CD players, your mp3 database, and Music Choice on your satellite TV. That part's easy, I've got that. I also categorized all my music, no matter what the format is, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. After all, it's a hell of a lot easier to buy a stack of 200 CD changers, and write some software to control them, than it is to remember where it was you decided to file that Negativland cd, or that orchestral recording with Brahms and Rachmaninov on the same CD.
Now all we do is modify that software, to help the neural network understand what it is we're likely to want to hear at any given time. If I've been sitting at my unix box working (detectable by the state of xscreensaver), then I'm probably coding. Because I've manually picked the same genre of music every other time I've been activating these neurons, it puts on the new Dark Soho album, and I find myself listening to some slammin' trance. If it guessed wrong, well I just go to the standard music interface, tell it 'no, i wanted to listen to that midfield general ep i finally picked up' and eventually it figures out 'hey, this guy overrides his standard preferences, for stuff that's new to my database.' It might not get it right every time, but it'll likely be a hell of a lot better than what I'd get if I just put the player on random.
Surely somebody in this crowd of self-proclaimed geeks and cutting-edge thought, can realize the potential of this, and open your mind to the possibilities of a system like this. Possibilities like incredible profit. Ludicrously incredible profit.
Stop whining about what isn't possible, and think about what is! It's the 21st century, and if I can't have a rocket pack and a flying car, I want a house that plays dope tracks, automatically.
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yeah, you're so right dude. I encoded this 5th generation analog (All Nakamichi) with frau, and it was almost totally the same.
the train's got it's brakes on, and the whistle is screaming dude. don't worry about these guys who don't get it.
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It was a joke, ya maroon. Haven't you ever seen a bad Hollywood portral of hackers?
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Look, I know this seems like a good thing right now, but you should really hold off on the pride for a bit. After all, it's clear that you don't understand a lot about the world.
There's a saying in Ireland: Show me a teacher who does it for the money and I'll show you a hooker who loves her line of work.
Okay, maybe I was lying about that being a saying, but if you do everything for the money, one day you'll wake up and realize that your life sucks. The fact that you'll realize this while commuting from a $3 million dollar house to a well-compensated position, in a modified Audi S4 won't help. It'll still suck.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
Heh, maybe if you'd finished school you wouldn't be an ill-tempered badger now.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
Pretty dumb comment for a "unix guy". Supporting more than one operating system has numerous advantages, and not just in the security department. If there's simply a bug in one of the operating systems, then only half the computers get affected.
It requires more resources, however if your operation is of a critical nature, then a heterogenuous environment is absolutely neccessary, to prevent a single failure from taking down all systems.
For exceptionally important servers, (as an example), it's fairly standard to have two of them running in parallel, but with completely different hardware, running different operating systems. This way no one bug can take down the cluster. I've seen, more than once, a rack of Netfinitys, next to a rack of PowerEdges, and they all run the same apps.
As for interface risks, that's a bullshit argument made by somebody who either got bit by some minor incompatibility at some point, or who always runs homogenuous systems, blindly assuming that if they run the same OS, they must be more compatible. It's utterly and completely illogical, unless your inhouse coders haven't learned the word 'portable' yet.
Anyway, I shouldn't respond to trolls, it's a waste of time.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
Well then you should just learn to fucking write, or stop bullshitting.
Paragraph 7: "Another method I use is factories. I have objects that construct related objects and return a handle to just the interface. This way other code that I write is never directly accessing the implementation of the object."
Paragraph 13: "Another method I use is factories. I have objects that construct related objects and return a handle to just the interface. This way other code that I write is never directly accessing the implementation of the object."
Ditto, as we go down.
Now you could have either a) cut and paste this from somewhere else, b) written as an original comment the exact same thing two times or c) are so incompetant that not only did you accidentally cut and paste your entire comment into the textarea, then posted without previewing, then decided to act without thinking with your response, so you couldn't even tell why I used the term "double-paste".
Sorry if my criticism offends you, but until you stop stealing your comments and denying it, you'll never make it in the real world.
The real world is treating me just fine.
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next time don't double-paste your stolen commentary. quite annoying for those of us who actually want to read intelligent conversation.
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Well, I'm on FreeBSD, so my answer might not be the same as that of a Linux user, but for me it was... (drum roll)
man XFree86
Putting the directions in the manual section seems pretty intuitive to me, no offense.
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If you increase the numismatic value, the fine is up to $2000, and the jail term is up to 5 years.
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Nope, according to Title 18, Section 333 of United States code, if you render currency unfit to be reissued, you can be fined up to $100, and sent to jail for up to 6 months. Title 18, Section 331 specifies harsher penalties, if the act is done with intent to defraud.
--
"Don't trolls get tired?"
Well, spammers have found interesting ways to try to get these completed user lists. A standard spammer trick is take any address they get at all, and make variants of it for the big ISPs. After all, if there's a barbsmith@someisp.net, there's probably a barbsmith@aol.com. Given the negligable cost of sending spam, it doesn't matter if it only hits one in ten times.
AT&T gets something in the neighborhood of a million or two bounces from this type of spam, per day.
--
"Don't trolls get tired?"
The red encoded as green is actually a known issue, so I'm surprised you haven't run into it. I'm assuming that it must be something signal specific (maybe my signal is a tad hot or something?). Whatever it is, it's a publicly admitted problem, and one that a Tivo plugged into the same spot doesn't experience
I've crashed them just by using them. I have some weird knack for finding ways to break software that nobody else notices. Just yesterday I got a Tivo into a mode where while displaying guide data, the first two lines of guide data would be blank... <shrug> it happens. no big deal, just a minor annoyance.
As for Replay's ability to record by preference, it doesn't touch Tivo. Tivo, after using a unit for a few weeks, will record almost nothing that you don't like, and it only does this with extra space anyway, so if you fill to capacity, it just won't do that. I, however, record very little with my main Tivo... one or two shows a day, basically. This means that the auto-disk-fill feature is pretty kickass for me.
I didn't know about this new mode, I'll have to check it out when I go home, see what I haven't been paying attention to.
One bad thing about both, that I forgot.... No HDTV recording.... maybe in a few years, I guess.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
Hey now, no need to get defensive :-) I actually do have an H-card, which is reprogrammed, but I don't use it to steal. I have the platinum subscription with all the extras I want anyway (neccessary since the card only lasts a few weeks at a time). I use it to get extra local channels, so I can get more Simpson's episodes. I guess that's illegal, but I certainly don't feel any guilt about that.
As for your point, I totally agree with you. My old Hughes receiver has a much easier to use interface than my Sony and especially more than my RCA. To this day I can't figure out how to make the RCA purchase a PPV program in advance.
I don't have one of the older ReplayTVs though... Do you have any idea what model I should look for to try to find one with firewire? I'd love to crack one open, and try to figure out what was meant to be possible, and if it still is somehow possible, with some work.
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"Don't trolls get tired?"
It's really very unhealthy to be concerned about how people think of an IPv4 address. You should prefer to smack yourself in the head with a bat.
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