Did anyone else notice that the author of this nearly content-free article referred to Bruce Schneier's complaint about hotels requiring a driver's license, then completely ignored the REST OF THE SENTENCE where Bruce explained why that is a bad thing?
It's a good thing the article was short, or I'd be bummed about wasting the time to read it.
Tom did a great job listening to our design constraints (small fingers, unconsciously abusive to jewelry) and made great rings for us. They are mostly platinum with some yellow gold. I think he spent about two hours or so going over our design and making changes to make it structurally sound, to protect the diamonds better, etc. He explained how the rigs would wear, suggested certain features (mostly invisible things to make the rings more comfortable to wear), and did a great job. Not cheap, but about what I had planned to spend.
And like a hundrred others have said, learn to communicate with her NOW, before it's too late.
Paying for DNS would be okay, if it was an option at all. Paying an absurd about for delegation of reverse DNS should be criminal. A reverse DNS delegation is as much as right as having a public IP address.
I agree. And most people pay for the 'right' to have a public IP address. If you need a functional PTR, pay for it.
Most of the spam I get comes through machines with no PTR. Most of the legitimate email I get comes from machines with valid PTRs. How do I know this? I run my own MTA, and have done so for around 4 years.
Google can help you find a cheap DNS provider. I've seen them for less than $20/year.
My 9-year-old address has been forged in spam headers about 6 times. I'm guessing that around 150k spam messages have been sent with my email as the 'From' address. I haven't found my domain or my address to be on any blacklists as a result, and I've only gotten ONE reply from a spammee who couldn't tell that the email didn't really come from me.
I hate it, it sucks, etc. But it hasn't affected my legitimate use of the address.
The Excel Meridian NAS is pretty cheap, and support is great. A client of mine got 160G of RAID5 for $1k. You can reach files via Appleshare, SMB, NFS, and HTTP. Novell, too, I think. Web-managable, knows rsync (if you turn it on), pretty easy to set up and run.
I named a test lab 'companyname Proving Ground' once. That could work for a server room also...
I also named all the machines and user accounts (used for testing) after famous disasters, e.g. hindenberg, pinto, bush, etc.
Full disclosure: I didn't come up with the name myself; thanks Baba.
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El Gato makes Toast for Roxio (long story truncated: the Toast guys quit, Roxio begged, they said "we won't be your employees, but pay our company and we'll keep working on Toast"), so it will get better. They do have a clue about creating great software.
Same with Oceanic in Hawaii. The guy came out, saw the router and switch (which are expressly forbidden unless you pay about twice the regular residential price), and noticed that I wasn't running Windows.
So he installed the cable modem and asked me if I could see the home page for Oceanic. He even made up a T fitting with a short cable to split the signal off for the cable modem, and an extension for the TV (it lives in a closet unless my kid is watching Elmo or something).
Then he left. No hassles.
My best cable experience ever. Of course, everything is better in Hawaii.:)
First, they planned to use a distributed architecture from the beginning. Then they used cheapo machines until the reliability started costing more than it saved, and then they started buying Rackable Systems boxes. 1U, half-depth, 82 to a cabinet with a hub (or was it a switch?) at the top on each side.
From there, they figured out a functional failover system and set up four geographically distributed data centers.
Oh, and they coded up a search engine thing at the same time.
Can someone who has implemented Bynari's solution (Linux server apps, DLL for Outlook to allow use of a generic IMAP server instead of Exchange) please comment on how well it works, and how it compares to Exchange?
Specifically, what features of Exchange are missing or weak when using the Bynari products, and how robust is Outlook with the Bynari DLL (relative to an unmodified Outlook)?
Even though there are some payware components, if it really allows me to dump Exchange, it's worth doing.
You think customer service at eBay is hostile, try applying for a job there! There is no 'jobs@ebay.com' alias, you have to copy and paste little chunks of your resume into their web form, which was quite broken last time I looked at it. I got so frustrated that I ended up pasting the URL to my resume into each box.
Of course, that didn't fit their filters, so I got the usual Silicon Valley resume response (no response whatsoever).
You mean because some versions of NT won't run the updater? Is that really a big deal? Boot a DOS floppy and try again, you'll lose a whole 3 minutes.
I ran the updater on a W2k machine with one of those drives this morning, and it ran with no problems, and in the GUI.
The drive is a little funky and slow and unreliable, but that's what you get when you buy stuff that's on the bleeding edge (as far as consumer products go, anyway). I've never seen an update make it worse, and I've installed 5 firmware updates on this drive.
The article leads readers to a false conclusion: that all that that money was spent expressly to defeat this bill.
It's not true, if you read between the lines. The money was spent for general favors, bribes-as-usual, on an ongoing basis. Maybe a few lobbyists told the legislators in question "our clients don't like this privacy thing", but it's unlikely that they said "OK, here's a pile of money, now please vote no on this one and yes on that one...".
I may leave Citibank because of this and other offenses (though I must admit that the service in the bank is the best I've found), but this article is slimey.
A more useful article would have presented information on lobbying growth that could reasonably be connected to defeating this bill, maybe a graph of contributions by those banks and credit card companies over the last 5 years.
But maybe that wouldn't have shown anything specific about this particular bill, and thus would not have been published.
There are a few other Bayesian filters, too, not tied to qmail. I like the idea of putting word pairs into the database like this one does, but has anyone checked the stats to see if it really improves spam matching? I'm using ESR's bogofilter, and it's pretty effective and not a big drag on resources.
Homeschooled students simply do not get the myriad of opportunities to interact with peers and authority figures that they would in school.
My brother-in-law teaches high school art, and he says "public school teaches you to deal with assholes". I see that as an important thing to learn, but I'm also looking for homeschooling info to cover the academic side of my daughter's education.
BTW, unschooling looks pretty interesting... see also the com and org version of that domain.
Since Google uses Rackable Systems 1U boxes (mostly), they can put 80 in a telco cabinet along with a couple of switches. About double the normal capacity of a cabinet. That means about double the power draw per cabinet.
Exodus reworked their pricing after Google forced them to rewire a bunch of cabinets to handle double the power draw.
As of a year ago when a couple of the Google techies gave a talk at a BayLISA meeting, they had four data centers, two on the west coast and two on the east coast.
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Did anyone else notice that the author of this nearly content-free article referred to Bruce Schneier's complaint about hotels requiring a driver's license, then completely ignored the REST OF THE SENTENCE where Bruce explained why that is a bad thing?
It's a good thing the article was short, or I'd be bummed about wasting the time to read it.
Tom did a great job listening to our design constraints (small fingers, unconsciously abusive to jewelry) and made great rings for us. They are mostly platinum with some yellow gold. I think he spent about two hours or so going over our design and making changes to make it structurally sound, to protect the diamonds better, etc. He explained how the rigs would wear, suggested certain features (mostly invisible things to make the rings more comfortable to wear), and did a great job. Not cheap, but about what I had planned to spend.
And like a hundrred others have said, learn to communicate with her NOW, before it's too late.
www.uptoten.com
www.pbskids.com
www.sfskids.org
Some Disney stuff, Noggin (already mentioned), etc.
Someday www.colorpalooza.com will be back up; she checks it every day.
I agree. And most people pay for the 'right' to have a public IP address. If you need a functional PTR, pay for it.
Most of the spam I get comes through machines with no PTR. Most of the legitimate email I get comes from machines with valid PTRs. How do I know this? I run my own MTA, and have done so for around 4 years.
Google can help you find a cheap DNS provider. I've seen them for less than $20/year.
Obviously, their product is a slick brochureware web site. Without prices, of course.
There's no good legal definition of it either. That's the real problem.
My 9-year-old address has been forged in spam headers about 6 times. I'm guessing that around 150k spam messages have been sent with my email as the 'From' address. I haven't found my domain or my address to be on any blacklists as a result, and I've only gotten ONE reply from a spammee who couldn't tell that the email didn't really come from me.
I hate it, it sucks, etc. But it hasn't affected my legitimate use of the address.
The Excel Meridian NAS is pretty cheap, and support is great. A client of mine got 160G of RAID5 for $1k. You can reach files via Appleshare, SMB, NFS, and HTTP. Novell, too, I think. Web-managable, knows rsync (if you turn it on), pretty easy to set up and run.
These guys said that you can't hold ideas for which you don't have words. Maybe losing the language also lost the memories (ideas)?
I named a test lab 'companyname Proving Ground' once. That could work for a server room also...
I also named all the machines and user accounts (used for testing) after famous disasters, e.g. hindenberg, pinto, bush, etc.
Full disclosure: I didn't come up with the name myself; thanks Baba.
El Gato makes Toast for Roxio (long story truncated: the Toast guys quit, Roxio begged, they said "we won't be your employees, but pay our company and we'll keep working on Toast"), so it will get better. They do have a clue about creating great software.
Same with Oceanic in Hawaii. The guy came out, saw the router and switch (which are expressly forbidden unless you pay about twice the regular residential price), and noticed that I wasn't running Windows.
:)
So he installed the cable modem and asked me if I could see the home page for Oceanic. He even made up a T fitting with a short cable to split the signal off for the cable modem, and an extension for the TV (it lives in a closet unless my kid is watching Elmo or something).
Then he left. No hassles.
My best cable experience ever. Of course, everything is better in Hawaii.
From there, they figured out a functional failover system and set up four geographically distributed data centers.
Oh, and they coded up a search engine thing at the same time.
Can someone who has implemented Bynari's solution (Linux server apps, DLL for Outlook to allow use of a generic IMAP server instead of Exchange) please comment on how well it works, and how it compares to Exchange?
Specifically, what features of Exchange are missing or weak when using the Bynari products, and how robust is Outlook with the Bynari DLL (relative to an unmodified Outlook)?
Even though there are some payware components, if it really allows me to dump Exchange, it's worth doing.
Ha!
You think customer service at eBay is hostile, try applying for a job there! There is no 'jobs@ebay.com' alias, you have to copy and paste little chunks of your resume into their web form, which was quite broken last time I looked at it. I got so frustrated that I ended up pasting the URL to my resume into each box.
Of course, that didn't fit their filters, so I got the usual Silicon Valley resume response (no response whatsoever).
AND if you're in Hawaii, they're considered 'formal wear'. Bank presidents wear aloha shirts to work (in Hawaii)!
I find that when I wear aloha shirts to interviews here in California, I have to educate the interviewers so they know that I'm really dressed up.
Get the Cooke Street brand at your local Costco. They're really nice, and reasonably priced.
http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/
There are a few packages that help you to run a private CA, for internal use, or for maing your own certs for web servers, email, VPN, etc.
Look up pyca, xca, openca, then search freshmeat for 'certificate authority'; there are a few others.
this means you can block 209.204.138.* and eliminate most probing from them
Um, no.
Their web site is hosted by sonic.net. Blocking that only means their web server can't probe your systems.
I'd bet they're using a variety of cable modems and DSL connections with dynamic IPs to do the probing.
You mean because some versions of NT won't run the updater? Is that really a big deal? Boot a DOS floppy and try again, you'll lose a whole 3 minutes.
I ran the updater on a W2k machine with one of those drives this morning, and it ran with no problems, and in the GUI.
The drive is a little funky and slow and unreliable, but that's what you get when you buy stuff that's on the bleeding edge (as far as consumer products go, anyway). I've never seen an update make it worse, and I've installed 5 firmware updates on this drive.
No more "are we there yet?"
The article leads readers to a false conclusion: that all that that money was spent expressly to defeat this bill.
It's not true, if you read between the lines. The money was spent for general favors, bribes-as-usual, on an ongoing basis. Maybe a few lobbyists told the legislators in question "our clients don't like this privacy thing", but it's unlikely that they said "OK, here's a pile of money, now please vote no on this one and yes on that one...".
I may leave Citibank because of this and other offenses (though I must admit that the service in the bank is the best I've found), but this article is slimey.
A more useful article would have presented information on lobbying growth that could reasonably be connected to defeating this bill, maybe a graph of contributions by those banks and credit card companies over the last 5 years.
But maybe that wouldn't have shown anything specific about this particular bill, and thus would not have been published.
Any other Bayesian spam filters?
My brother-in-law teaches high school art, and he says "public school teaches you to deal with assholes". I see that as an important thing to learn, but I'm also looking for homeschooling info to cover the academic side of my daughter's education.
BTW, unschooling looks pretty interesting... see also the com and org version of that domain.
Since Google uses Rackable Systems 1U boxes (mostly), they can put 80 in a telco cabinet along with a couple of switches. About double the normal capacity of a cabinet. That means about double the power draw per cabinet.
Exodus reworked their pricing after Google forced them to rewire a bunch of cabinets to handle double the power draw.
As of a year ago when a couple of the Google techies gave a talk at a BayLISA meeting, they had four data centers, two on the west coast and two on the east coast.