Heck I sometimes dream about starting to run a pirate radio and plan on how I would have the transmitter on something mobile to avoid getting caught too quick, like mounting it on a van or something.
running a real radio doesn't differ _that_ much from running an internet radio(shoutcast), you could pretty easily use the easy tools made for that as well.
Obviously I've never had anything to do with pirate radio, and don't know anything about it. Someone once told me, however, that a common tactic is/was to find two tower-blocks next to each other, have the transmitter hidden at the top of one and have the deejay/mc in the adjacent tower block with a much lower powered link to the main transmitter or an IR link. But, as I say, I've never had anything to do with pirate radio, so I couldn't say if this was true or not.
I find it quite strange how quickly many American's love of capitalism and free trade is forgotten as soon as they are the ones loosing out.
Isn't the sort of protectionism you are suggesting akin to a socialist command-economy?
I whole-heartedly agree with you on the the unfairness with regards to environmental damage, which is why I believe you government shouldn't have torn up the Kyoto treaty. I don't see how this directly relates with regards to programming jobs moving to India though.
No, remember that in X the 'server' is local and the 'client' is the app, so the X server sends a request to the client for a foot shooting event, and the client then returns the gun to the server.
Two main reasons - the extra load generated and the risk of false positives.
If filtering were done as you suggest, with a simple attatchment file size check, then there's a reasonable chance a perfectly legitimate mail would be dropped. It also wouldn't take very long for the virus writers to create viruses that vary the file size on every reproduction.
If a customer gets themself infected with a virus then it's their fault for not have adequate virus protection - if the ISP drops their mail because it was of a similar size to a virus it's the ISP's fault.
I fail to see how 2.6.1-rc3 (rc == release candidate) is confusing. rc numbering is pretty standard, even Bill's boys do it (Windows 2003 rc-1 for example).
There's also the question of why exactly people new to Linux are compiling their own kernel rather than using that provided by their distro of course.
For even more clarity the ftp site now has the rc-whatever releases in a 'pre-releases' subdirectory, so I really don't see an issue here.
Novell bought Ximian as much for Mono as anything else. This is a key part of Novell's future, I hardly think they are publishing the roadmap "in spite of the Novell purchase".
I've no idea why it took you a year from launch to buy a Gamecube - Super Monkey Ball alone was enough to make me want to get it, and Eternal Darkness, Luigi's Mansion and Pikmin are all great games. As it happens Super Monkey Ball is an excellent example of a third party exclusive.
The lack of third-party exclusives for the Gamecube is something one could say equally about the X-Box, and in many respects the PS2 too. With the console wars now split three ways and game production costs far higher than previously it's a pretty risky strategy to only target one console.
The Genesis did very well, the Megadrive less so (Megadrive was the Japanese/EU name for the console). In fact, the Megadrive did very poorly in Japan - worse than the PC Engine in fact. By contrast the Saturn sold extremely well in Japan, but terribly everywhere else.
IMO the real reason the Genesis did so well in the US was all down to Madden. Part of the reason for the commerical failure of the Dreamcast was undoubtedly the lack of EA Sports titles.
Bringing the system out so quickly would mean that 3rd-party developers would have insufficient time to get release games ready, and I think after the N64 Nintedo has learnt that a system with only 1st and 2nd party games isn't going to be a commercial success. Personally I'd be very surprised to see a completely new Nintendo system launch next year anywhere, because without software to support it there would seem to be little incentive to buy.
Except, of course, that part of SpamAssassin's checks are to use the 'antispam registries' you are complaining about.
Quite frankly, with the current volumes of spam it is impractical to try and run a mailserver for more than a few thousand users without some form of blocklist or having extremely deep pockets. The problem with SpamAssasin is that it actually increases the load on ones mail servers - a variety of checks have to be run on every single mail. By contrast, using a blocklist means that spam can be rejected before the DATA stage, reducing the load on the server, and the bandwidth consumed by spam.
Knoppix seems like a massive overkill for this task. Personally I've been using tomsrtbt for this job for some time, and I don't expect to be switching to Knoppix anytime soon. Admitedly it doesn't have any of the graphical fluff, but quite frankly if you need graphics to get into the system I very much doubt you're going to be able to fix it once you're in anyway.
Knoppix is great, but it's a ten-tonne anvil doing the job of a nut-cracker in this situation.
Yeah, I noticed these posts afterwards. I'm using plain vanilla centericq 4.9.7.
I'm beginning to think you might be right about the disconnecting/reconnecting thing - I've been connected since Monday to the server at 207.46.106.96.
Don't you see? It's Sony's master plan for piracy avoidance.
Naughty people want to chip their 'PSX', they search for 'PSX chipping' and get loads of results for chipping the PS1 (not the PS One, which is, of course, something different). Piracy problem solved!
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Obviously I've never had anything to do with pirate radio, and don't know anything about it. Someone once told me, however, that a common tactic is/was to find two tower-blocks next to each other, have the transmitter hidden at the top of one and have the deejay/mc in the adjacent tower block with a much lower powered link to the main transmitter or an IR link. But, as I say, I've never had anything to do with pirate radio, so I couldn't say if this was true or not.
Isn't the sort of protectionism you are suggesting akin to a socialist command-economy?
I whole-heartedly agree with you on the the unfairness with regards to environmental damage, which is why I believe you government shouldn't have torn up the Kyoto treaty. I don't see how this directly relates with regards to programming jobs moving to India though.
Drop me a mail, samb at forkqueue.com and we can sort something out :)
Well, "she," actually, but excellent work nonetheless.
Come on, you're not fooling anyone - I visited your blog, and I'm pretty certain there are no women as attractive as 'you' posting to /.
Ten pounds (US dollars if you prefer) says you're male, ~30 years old, morbidly obese and living in your mother's basement.
There's a Register article too.
Let's hear it for hackers from Woodford Green (come on, there must be more than just me and this guy).The hobbits now live in Teletubbie land.
As a license-fee payer I hope that the BBC earned some money for letting the Hobbits stay in their set.
No, remember that in X the 'server' is local and the 'client' is the app, so the X server sends a request to the client for a foot shooting event, and the client then returns the gun to the server.
Well done to the BPI for giving those who download music for free yet more reason to not feel guilty. Truly a great day for record companies..
The criminaly bad theme music.
Two main reasons - the extra load generated and the risk of false positives.
If filtering were done as you suggest, with a simple attatchment file size check, then there's a reasonable chance a perfectly legitimate mail would be dropped. It also wouldn't take very long for the virus writers to create viruses that vary the file size on every reproduction.
If a customer gets themself infected with a virus then it's their fault for not have adequate virus protection - if the ISP drops their mail because it was of a similar size to a virus it's the ISP's fault.
Narcoleptic spam creators
I fail to see how 2.6.1-rc3 (rc == release candidate) is confusing. rc numbering is pretty standard, even Bill's boys do it (Windows 2003 rc-1 for example).
There's also the question of why exactly people new to Linux are compiling their own kernel rather than using that provided by their distro of course.
For even more clarity the ftp site now has the rc-whatever releases in a 'pre-releases' subdirectory, so I really don't see an issue here.
Buy them a console. Let them use the PC for web browsing/email/being groomed by peodophiles (aka MSN chat).
Che Guevara is the most famous revolutionary of them all, and he made millions of Pesos!
I too am moving to apt, but dpkg too - I'm moving all the servers to Debian.
I thinkm you'll find Monsanto are way ahead of you..
Novell bought Ximian as much for Mono as anything else. This is a key part of Novell's future, I hardly think they are publishing the roadmap "in spite of the Novell purchase".
The lack of third-party exclusives for the Gamecube is something one could say equally about the X-Box, and in many respects the PS2 too. With the console wars now split three ways and game production costs far higher than previously it's a pretty risky strategy to only target one console.
IMO the real reason the Genesis did so well in the US was all down to Madden. Part of the reason for the commerical failure of the Dreamcast was undoubtedly the lack of EA Sports titles.
Bringing the system out so quickly would mean that 3rd-party developers would have insufficient time to get release games ready, and I think after the N64 Nintedo has learnt that a system with only 1st and 2nd party games isn't going to be a commercial success. Personally I'd be very surprised to see a completely new Nintendo system launch next year anywhere, because without software to support it there would seem to be little incentive to buy.
http://www.forkqueue.com/freedesktop.org_keithp_sc reenshots/
Except, of course, that part of SpamAssassin's checks are to use the 'antispam registries' you are complaining about.
Quite frankly, with the current volumes of spam it is impractical to try and run a mailserver for more than a few thousand users without some form of blocklist or having extremely deep pockets. The problem with SpamAssasin is that it actually increases the load on ones mail servers - a variety of checks have to be run on every single mail. By contrast, using a blocklist means that spam can be rejected before the DATA stage, reducing the load on the server, and the bandwidth consumed by spam.
Knoppix is great, but it's a ten-tonne anvil doing the job of a nut-cracker in this situation.
I'm beginning to think you might be right about the disconnecting/reconnecting thing - I've been connected since Monday to the server at 207.46.106.96.
CenterICQ is working fine on MSN for me at present...
Don't you see? It's Sony's master plan for piracy avoidance.
Naughty people want to chip their 'PSX', they search for 'PSX chipping' and get loads of results for chipping the PS1 (not the PS One, which is, of course, something different). Piracy problem solved!