It's called denying iexplore.exe and other apps known to embed the IE OCX the right to connect to the public Internet on port 80, using a software firewall on each machine or a proxy server that only Firefox knows about.
He's not talking about marketability, but rather consistency and interoperability.
He even addresses the issue you are berating him for. From the article (titled "Achieving higher consistency between OSS graphics applications"):
This is often mentioned as establishing a "suite", however I think what is desired is more about establishing ourselves as a "team".
To me, a "suite" conjures up the notion of corporate software giants bundling applications together to try to kill off the competition.
There was some discussion regarding this on SATalk recently. It appeared that spell-checking email didn't work as well as people thought it might. IIRC there was only attempts to spell check the subject line, however. Somebody mentioned they would try to filter out common *legitimate* spelling mistakes (names, mailing lists, version numbers, etc)
But what if one spammer uses "v1@gr@", one uses "v|agra", and one uses "vi agra"?
I wrote a script to handle such cases. It will take a simple SpamAssassin rule (or just a word, if you choose) and output a very broad SpamAssassin rule that matches all these variations:
Spider every url in each newly arrived spam, if the ip address of the server was blacklisted. Ideally the http requests would be spread over the lifetime of the spam-- the period during which "customers" respond to it. I suspect most responses occur within a couple hours of the spam being sent. It may be different for spams sent at night.
-snip-
Anyone running a blacklist should assume, by default, that any url mentioned in a spam is the victim of a Joe job, and only blacklist sites when, after inspection, this is clearly not the case.
Another "wouldn't-it-be-cool-if" playlist feature: While playing an extra-large queue (for instance, all your 10,000 tracks in Random mode) there are order-tweak buttons on the remote. Tap the "2/abc/Artist" button to find another track in the queue by the same artist and move it to right after the current track. Hold the button down instead and it removes all tracks by that artist from the queue(Same goes for Genre, Source [album], Year and Title).
Another geek-factor goodie that plugs into Hijack: a VNC Server. Here's a screenshot of the web interface with the VNC server running (displaying one of the "Informative" visuals: InfoTex Pist)
While I'm not sure all the features the Car player has will be in the Karma, I know there will be some extra goodies we Car player guys don't have yet. The empeg guys seriously know how to make great player software; if the Karma is any bit as good as the Rio Car, I don't think you will be disappointed.
This product is developed by the folks at empeg. I've been using a car player they built (now discontinued) that was marketed by sonic blue (Incidentally, I got the 60GB version for just over $400 when Sonic Blue was cleaning out their inventory!).
I haven't played with a whole lot of digital audio players, but the player software in the Rio Car (Player software 2.0) is simply awesome. The Karma will be using the next version (3.0 -- then us Rio Car owners should get it too!). With 2.0, everything is organized how you expect it to be. Playlist management is easy, yet highly customizable. Playlists organization allows nesting (I think this is pretty common) and allows files or playlists to reside in multiple places, so when I rip the new Plumb album, I create a playlist at "Rock\Plumb\Beautiful Lumps of Coal" and also "New Albums\Plumb\Beautiful Lumps of Coal", but of course there is only one copy of the audio on the drive(s).
There are plenty of "wouldn't it be cool if..." features like: multiple insert modes (Insert, append, enqueue) while queueing up music, multiple (customizable) randomizer algorithms (Least recently played, Least often played, Newest additions, Just plain random), plenty of shortcuts (Navigate 5 playlists down to find some album and queue it up... re-enter playlists and hold the button down; it re-navigates the 5 playlists so you can choose one of its siblings), 10-band parametric EQ, "Wendy" filters (filter all gangsta rap from the playlists when your girlfriend is in the car), Bookmarks (Store your current queue of music/audiobooks to one of three "bookmark" positions, play something else when your friends are in the car on Friday night, then jump back to exactly where you were within your original music/audiobook queue), and a bunch of nifty visuals.
Then, install Mark Lord's Hijack kernel, install Debian (if you want) and other apps that use Hijack, you get stuff like telnet access, ftp access, khttpd for web-based streaming (over ethernet) of.m3u/.mp3s, text-to-speech audio clocks, pacman, compression (not the space-saving kind... the audio level adjusting kind), and a bunch of other user-developed stuff.
The designers are regular posters on the bulletin board. You may have noticed a couple of them posting in this thread.
Speedy's posted a number of videos on his website where he describes the construction process. The vid where his car winds up on its roof is most entertaining. Go Speed(y) Racer!"
Always makes me chuckle when there are videos on some guy's DSL posted on the front page
I can tell you that the average ad has more impact on FFW2 than it does on 'normal' TV because the viewer is intently watching to determine when the show comes back on so they don't overshoot.
Slashdot Mirror
wow, that's a long name.
bleh, marketers...
He even addresses the issue you are berating him for. From the article (titled "Achieving higher consistency between OSS graphics applications"):
AWL and BAYES are not included in the auto-learn threshold calculation. I am not sure about WHITELIST_* but I believe it is also ignored.
Deja Vu
There was some discussion regarding this on SATalk recently. It appeared that spell-checking email didn't work as well as people thought it might. IIRC there was only attempts to spell check the subject line, however. Somebody mentioned they would try to filter out common *legitimate* spelling mistakes (names, mailing lists, version numbers, etc)
Doh.
Make that refinance
I wrote a script to handle such cases. It will take a simple SpamAssassin rule (or just a word, if you choose) and output a very broad SpamAssassin rule that matches all these variations:
Here is a rule that match many forms of viagra.
Here is a rule that matches only obfuscated refinance. (I may get a message from my realtor regaring a legitimate refinance, but not a R3F|NANCE.
The Debian packages seem to be pretty up to date in sid. Upgrading my box to 2.60 was as simple as apt-get -t unstable install spamassassin
In the example on page 8 of the letter you can see they are BOTH attempting to copyright the freaking SWITCH construct!
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This post (c) 2003, Knights who say Ni, LTD.
What would an FFB do?
Spider every url in each newly arrived spam, if the ip address of the server was blacklisted. Ideally the http requests would be spread over the lifetime of the spam-- the period during which "customers" respond to it. I suspect most responses occur within a couple hours of the spam being sent. It may be different for spams sent at night.
-snip-
Anyone running a blacklist should assume, by default, that any url mentioned in a spam is the victim of a Joe job, and only blacklist sites when, after inspection, this is clearly not the case.
Hree's a cool ltitle scprit taht I use to sned emial to my mboil phnoe: email2sms
Why aren't there any questions and answers here?
(rtfa)
Oh yes, I forgot to mention a couple things:
Another "wouldn't-it-be-cool-if" playlist feature: While playing an extra-large queue (for instance, all your 10,000 tracks in Random mode) there are order-tweak buttons on the remote. Tap the "2/abc/Artist" button to find another track in the queue by the same artist and move it to right after the current track. Hold the button down instead and it removes all tracks by that artist from the queue(Same goes for Genre, Source [album], Year and Title).
Another geek-factor goodie that plugs into Hijack: a VNC Server. Here's a screenshot of the web interface with the VNC server running (displaying one of the "Informative" visuals: InfoTex Pist)
While I'm not sure all the features the Car player has will be in the Karma, I know there will be some extra goodies we Car player guys don't have yet. The empeg guys seriously know how to make great player software; if the Karma is any bit as good as the Rio Car, I don't think you will be disappointed.
This product is developed by the folks at empeg. I've been using a car player they built (now discontinued) that was marketed by sonic blue (Incidentally, I got the 60GB version for just over $400 when Sonic Blue was cleaning out their inventory!).
I haven't played with a whole lot of digital audio players, but the player software in the Rio Car (Player software 2.0) is simply awesome. The Karma will be using the next version (3.0 -- then us Rio Car owners should get it too!). With 2.0, everything is organized how you expect it to be. Playlist management is easy, yet highly customizable. Playlists organization allows nesting (I think this is pretty common) and allows files or playlists to reside in multiple places, so when I rip the new Plumb album, I create a playlist at "Rock\Plumb\Beautiful Lumps of Coal" and also "New Albums\Plumb\Beautiful Lumps of Coal", but of course there is only one copy of the audio on the drive(s).
There are plenty of "wouldn't it be cool if..." features like: multiple insert modes (Insert, append, enqueue) while queueing up music, multiple (customizable) randomizer algorithms (Least recently played, Least often played, Newest additions, Just plain random), plenty of shortcuts (Navigate 5 playlists down to find some album and queue it up... re-enter playlists and hold the button down; it re-navigates the 5 playlists so you can choose one of its siblings), 10-band parametric EQ, "Wendy" filters (filter all gangsta rap from the playlists when your girlfriend is in the car), Bookmarks (Store your current queue of music/audiobooks to one of three "bookmark" positions, play something else when your friends are in the car on Friday night, then jump back to exactly where you were within your original music/audiobook queue), and a bunch of nifty visuals.
Then, install Mark Lord's Hijack kernel, install Debian (if you want) and other apps that use Hijack, you get stuff like telnet access, ftp access, khttpd for web-based streaming (over ethernet) of .m3u/.mp3s, text-to-speech audio clocks, pacman, compression (not the space-saving kind... the audio level adjusting kind), and a bunch of other user-developed stuff.
The designers are regular posters on the bulletin board. You may have noticed a couple of them posting in this thread.
You guessed it: Frank Stallone
Always makes me chuckle when there are videos on some guy's DSL posted on the front page
*puts on lead underwear*
ni!