DRA definitely makes it clear that you're switching your registrar, AFTER the line that says you''re about to lose your domain. I got three notices from DRA, one via snail mail and two junk faxes. I'll be sending them a demand letter (a waste of a stamp, but a good way to vent) for the junk fax penalty.
Oh, and all letters were for the same domain, even though I have 7 or 8 registered.
My only issue is that you need to choose your mount point carefully
My only issue with davfs is that 'umount' doesn't work for me. The docs don't say it's a problem, so maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Anyone else have this problem?
As far as speed, it's faster than my local CDROM when I'm connecting to a server 20 miles away through a DSL line, but on a cable modem across the Pacific, the latency is pretty nasty. It's still faster than running the commands to scp the file manually.
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The numbers suggest that there are a lot of the spammy type out there, but this is a pretty small sample.
I've never posted my resume on HotJobs or Monster, but when it was linked from my home page, I got headhunter spam. It's not linked any more, and never will be again. I'm also switching from HTML to PDF today, and the watermarking idea is a great one.
I block mail with Hotmail.com or Yahoo.com in the sender unless it originates from Hotmail or Yahoo. That way I only get spam from Verisign through Yahoo (who must be getting paid well to allow that repeatedly), and all the fakers are blocked. The message they get tells them to send their email through Hotmail or Yahoo and ask to be put on my exceptions list, so my buddy who puts his yahoo address in his reply-to at work knows what to do.
I also block Asia (which unfortunately includes Australia and NZ) and most eastern European TLDs.
I recently started hosting email for a friend whao has not practiced safe posting of his email, and his spam comes from a completely differet set of lists. So far (over about a month) we've gotten zero spam in common! I think that once you're on the 'spam from Asia' lists, your only choice is to block Asia.
My old Casio Wingman (built in slide rule, both analog and digital displays) gave out after almost 10 years of great service (ignoring the crappy watchbands that crumbled to dust every two years), and I got a Shark tide watch. It shows a cool little graph of the tides at your favorite beach (I have mine set for Oahu's south shore). Multiple alarms and time zones, chrono, etc.
There's nothing geekier than a graphing watch, but surfing is not a geeky activity.
Is it?
Here's a picture, but you can find a better price if you shop.
Should we punish everybody because of one asshole?
Here's the problem: Enron isn't a person. It's tough to think of a box of paper as 'an asshole', but the people that own (or in the case of big corps like Enron, operate) that box of paper can be assholes... shouldn't they be held accountable for their actions?
I'm the CEO of two corporations. It's unlikely that I'd walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars belonging to other people (investors) if I played illegal accounting games. In fact, the IRS and the state would probably find a way to hold me personally accountable.
Why should it be any different for companies the size of Enron?
The level of risk goes up as you add more structure to your business. If you have a $100 corp, you have to have meetings and file the notes. If you spend real money to incorporate with a competent lawyer, you can get a lower-maintenance corp. I spent $2800 (in Silicon Valley), YMMV.
The real hassle of corp-to-corp is billing disputes. Your client will expect you to hire an attorney to help you resolve them, since they have attorneys on retainer who need to feel useful. Unless you know how to play the "get the contractor paid" game within your client companies, you'll probably waste a lot of time getting your invoices paid.
The other two options are a lot easier and less costly up front, but may not give you all the options you can get from having a corporation.
Since about 30% of the spam my filters reject is sent from machines in Korea, I find this number to be pretty believable. If each internet-connected person in S. Korea send 1600 spams per year, that's a lot of spam!
Oh wait. They're saying people in Korea GET a lot of spam?
Buy a used Rackable on eBay. When you're ready to expand, you can put another one in the same 1U of space (on the other side of the cabinet). These are the systems that Google and Yahoo use for their server farms.
I'm also one of those 'first PacBell DSL customers', and I had a really nasty first couple of years, with almost a month (total) of downtime. When I call now, the rep who picks up the phone puts me back on hold for about 10 minutes while they read my file.
Anyway, I've used Linux from the beginning, but I also have a Windows machine on my network (my wife's). For the first year I had a Linux router, and I learned fast that telling the rep that you have two NICs will give them a coronary, and Linux on top of that gives them a stroke. So I just tell them I'm using Windows, and if they ask me for something I can't fake with Linux, I switch to the Windows machine.
I just had a 10-hour outage last week because they hosed the router configuration again (that's been the problem in 100% of my outages). I actually hooked up my notebook directly to the DSL modem and the rep had no problem with the fact that I was running Linux on the notebook (like most of the PacBell DSL field reps!). They admitted quickly that it looked like a router misconfiguration, and put it in the queue to be fixed.
I got a RR cable modem at my other house, and the installer saw that I was running Linux (which RR doesn't support, as so many people have noted here) so he walked away to a place where he couldn't see my screen and told me what to do. I did what he said, and everything worked. He checked the 'Windows' box on the installation form and looked the other way while I put my Linksys router/switch in the cabinet with the cable modem and verified that it worked.
I've gotten direct phone numbers for a lot of the people I've worked with on the support side, including some for people who have the authority to reconfigure the routers. I highly recommend showing these people enough respect that they'll give you their direct numbers. They've gotten me back up in under an hour in the past.
And I don't agree that spam should be legal, unless they're going to pay for my internet connection. The TV advertisers pay for everything except my TV (and cable or sattelite, but I don't mind paying for the additional services); if they'll pay for my connection, they can send me spam.
No, wait. If they pay for YOUR connection, they can send YOU spam. I don't want it, even if it's free.
I placed an order at GoGoCity for a notebook hard disk they had marked as "in stock". It didn't ship for three days (I had ordered 2-day shipping, so I was watching the order), so I called them.
It turns out that "in stock" really means "we think one of our vendors can get that to us fast enough that you'll think we really had it in stock", and in the case of my HD, they were wrong. I cancelled the order.
However, I've ordered other stuff from them since then (yeah, I'm a fool), and it's all come through promptly and without a single screwup.
I use a Palm sporadically, and it does what it's supposed to. I don't do much with its TCP stack, but I would expect a Linux PDA to be able to make a PPP connection for ftp, ssh (telnet?), and maybe even to hook up to a remote file system (palmfs, anyone?).
What does a Linux PDA buy me? I haven't seen lists of apps for it, is there a reasonably up-to-date ssh implementation? Can it run Palm apps (my timesheet probably isn't available as a Linux app)? Does it run any popular interpreters (Python, Perl, how about awk)?
If it doesn't have more than buzzwords, it probably won't have a positive impact on my productivity...
But for $89, I can always flash it back to PalmOS if it doesn't work out for me, right?
Yes, tea has more caffiene than coffee, but it also has some other chemicals that are a sort of natural muscle relaxant. So it's more balanced than coffee.
So, they're pulling out of the area that was making the profits, to concentrate on the loss leaders? Someone explain this, it looks totally insane to me.
I'm sure IBM's investors thought giving up the punch card business to focus on making hardware was foolish, when most of their profits came from punch cards. Not that VA is creating a new market like IBM did, but these decisions don't always make sense, even when they're right.
First you agree that the tags are disabled and then you get worried that users just accept
Yes, I think most Windows users are sheep. Sure, it defaults to disabled, but with all the news about Smart Tags, don't you think a lot of people will turn them on? And then maybe forget about it and start thinking that's just how the pages were built?
If someone enables my smart tag on your web site, you have no right to say I can't mark it up...
And you have no right to say I can't include any meta tags I want, whether or not they block smart tags, right?
I didn't say the filter is enabled, I said it was available.
I didn't say I was a web developer, either, though I am helping some friends build an ASP site (where there will be no ads, and where something like MS-SmartTags would probably increase the cost of support).
I agree that users have the right to view my pages any way they choose. However, I don't think most users will choose, they will accept whatever they see. Also, I do not think denying them an automated unauthorized markup is an invasion of privacy. What private info am I likely to see by setting the 'NO_SMART_TAGS' flag?
OK, great. All I need to know is how to disable it for my sites, and don't tell me I have to study a SDK I'll never use to figure it out. Ideally, I would not have to do any extra work because of this MS 'feature'. And according to articles I've read (no, not the ones on/.), there is a default plugin provided by MS that is available for every page whether it specifies a plugin for custom tags or not.
if someone included an API in a proxy server... to remove advertising content...
Apples and oranges. Please try again, with a relevant analogy. Removing advertising is pretty neutral. Adding links where there were none is less likely to be neutral, especially if the links were chosen by a for-profit corporation.
Q. Why did Microsoft decide to highlight the Shared Source Philosophy at this time?
Highlight? You mean they've been doing this all along? I don't think so, but it's obvious that they've got some talented spin doctors crafting everything about this campaign.
I don't understand the logic here. Compaq and HP have contracts with their suppliers that specify that the suplier must comply with any and all applicable patents. Why does the fact that Compaq and HP have money make them liable for the actions of others?
I can justify this from the perspective of the plaintiff's attorneys, who need to ensure that there's a pot of gold for them at the end of the day, but it doesn't make sense in the context of justice.
It can also make sense from the point of view of the patent-holder, since this action is likely to eliminate quite a number of their competitors.
I know, law and justice are completely separate concepts, and only the law can be enforced. But wouldn't it be nice if the law made some sense?
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DRA definitely makes it clear that you're switching your registrar, AFTER the line that says you''re about to lose your domain. I got three notices from DRA, one via snail mail and two junk faxes. I'll be sending them a demand letter (a waste of a stamp, but a good way to vent) for the junk fax penalty.
Oh, and all letters were for the same domain, even though I have 7 or 8 registered.
My only issue with davfs is that 'umount' doesn't work for me. The docs don't say it's a problem, so maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Anyone else have this problem?
As far as speed, it's faster than my local CDROM when I'm connecting to a server 20 miles away through a DSL line, but on a cable modem across the Pacific, the latency is pretty nasty. It's still faster than running the commands to scp the file manually.
The numbers suggest that there are a lot of the spammy type out there, but this is a pretty small sample.
I've never posted my resume on HotJobs or Monster, but when it was linked from my home page, I got headhunter spam. It's not linked any more, and never will be again. I'm also switching from HTML to PDF today, and the watermarking idea is a great one.
I run my own MTA, and use Postfix lists to do the blocking. Sorry.
I block mail with Hotmail.com or Yahoo.com in the sender unless it originates from Hotmail or Yahoo. That way I only get spam from Verisign through Yahoo (who must be getting paid well to allow that repeatedly), and all the fakers are blocked. The message they get tells them to send their email through Hotmail or Yahoo and ask to be put on my exceptions list, so my buddy who puts his yahoo address in his reply-to at work knows what to do.
I also block Asia (which unfortunately includes Australia and NZ) and most eastern European TLDs.
I recently started hosting email for a friend whao has not practiced safe posting of his email, and his spam comes from a completely differet set of lists. So far (over about a month) we've gotten zero spam in common! I think that once you're on the 'spam from Asia' lists, your only choice is to block Asia.
There's nothing geekier than a graphing watch, but surfing is not a geeky activity.
Is it?
Here's a picture, but you can find a better price if you shop.
Here's the problem: Enron isn't a person. It's tough to think of a box of paper as 'an asshole', but the people that own (or in the case of big corps like Enron, operate) that box of paper can be assholes... shouldn't they be held accountable for their actions?
I'm the CEO of two corporations. It's unlikely that I'd walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars belonging to other people (investors) if I played illegal accounting games. In fact, the IRS and the state would probably find a way to hold me personally accountable.
Why should it be any different for companies the size of Enron?
I like Tech Bargains and FatWallet. They track the deals so you don't have to.
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The level of risk goes up as you add more structure to your business. If you have a $100 corp, you have to have meetings and file the notes. If you spend real money to incorporate with a competent lawyer, you can get a lower-maintenance corp. I spent $2800 (in Silicon Valley), YMMV.
The real hassle of corp-to-corp is billing disputes. Your client will expect you to hire an attorney to help you resolve them, since they have attorneys on retainer who need to feel useful. Unless you know how to play the "get the contractor paid" game within your client companies, you'll probably waste a lot of time getting your invoices paid.
The other two options are a lot easier and less costly up front, but may not give you all the options you can get from having a corporation.
Since about 30% of the spam my filters reject is sent from machines in Korea, I find this number to be pretty believable. If each internet-connected person in S. Korea send 1600 spams per year, that's a lot of spam!
Oh wait. They're saying people in Korea GET a lot of spam?
Buy a used Rackable on eBay. When you're ready to expand, you can put another one in the same 1U of space (on the other side of the cabinet). These are the systems that Google and Yahoo use for their server farms.
www.rackable.com
I'm also one of those 'first PacBell DSL customers', and I had a really nasty first couple of years, with almost a month (total) of downtime. When I call now, the rep who picks up the phone puts me back on hold for about 10 minutes while they read my file.
Anyway, I've used Linux from the beginning, but I also have a Windows machine on my network (my wife's). For the first year I had a Linux router, and I learned fast that telling the rep that you have two NICs will give them a coronary, and Linux on top of that gives them a stroke. So I just tell them I'm using Windows, and if they ask me for something I can't fake with Linux, I switch to the Windows machine.
I just had a 10-hour outage last week because they hosed the router configuration again (that's been the problem in 100% of my outages). I actually hooked up my notebook directly to the DSL modem and the rep had no problem with the fact that I was running Linux on the notebook (like most of the PacBell DSL field reps!). They admitted quickly that it looked like a router misconfiguration, and put it in the queue to be fixed.
I got a RR cable modem at my other house, and the installer saw that I was running Linux (which RR doesn't support, as so many people have noted here) so he walked away to a place where he couldn't see my screen and told me what to do. I did what he said, and everything worked. He checked the 'Windows' box on the installation form and looked the other way while I put my Linksys router/switch in the cabinet with the cable modem and verified that it worked.
I've gotten direct phone numbers for a lot of the people I've worked with on the support side, including some for people who have the authority to reconfigure the routers. I highly recommend showing these people enough respect that they'll give you their direct numbers. They've gotten me back up in under an hour in the past.
> One VERY nice feature I'd like to see is email
> addresses with embedded timeout values in them
That's what spamgourmet does.
www.spamgourmet.com
And I don't agree that spam should be legal, unless they're going to pay for my internet connection. The TV advertisers pay for everything except my TV (and cable or sattelite, but I don't mind paying for the additional services); if they'll pay for my connection, they can send me spam.
No, wait. If they pay for YOUR connection, they can send YOU spam. I don't want it, even if it's free.
It turns out that "in stock" really means "we think one of our vendors can get that to us fast enough that you'll think we really had it in stock", and in the case of my HD, they were wrong. I cancelled the order.
However, I've ordered other stuff from them since then (yeah, I'm a fool), and it's all come through promptly and without a single screwup.
I use a Palm sporadically, and it does what it's supposed to. I don't do much with its TCP stack, but I would expect a Linux PDA to be able to make a PPP connection for ftp, ssh (telnet?), and maybe even to hook up to a remote file system (palmfs, anyone?).
What does a Linux PDA buy me? I haven't seen lists of apps for it, is there a reasonably up-to-date ssh implementation? Can it run Palm apps (my timesheet probably isn't available as a Linux app)? Does it run any popular interpreters (Python, Perl, how about awk)?
If it doesn't have more than buzzwords, it probably won't have a positive impact on my productivity...
But for $89, I can always flash it back to PalmOS if it doesn't work out for me, right?
Yes, tea has more caffiene than coffee, but it also has some other chemicals that are a sort of natural muscle relaxant. So it's more balanced than coffee.
I drink both, but I like coffee better.
I'm sure IBM's investors thought giving up the punch card business to focus on making hardware was foolish, when most of their profits came from punch cards. Not that VA is creating a new market like IBM did, but these decisions don't always make sense, even when they're right.
Yes, I think most Windows users are sheep. Sure, it defaults to disabled, but with all the news about Smart Tags, don't you think a lot of people will turn them on? And then maybe forget about it and start thinking that's just how the pages were built?
If someone enables my smart tag on your web site, you have no right to say I can't mark it up...
And you have no right to say I can't include any meta tags I want, whether or not they block smart tags, right?
I don't think there is a right answer here.
I didn't say the filter is enabled, I said it was available.
I didn't say I was a web developer, either, though I am helping some friends build an ASP site (where there will be no ads, and where something like MS-SmartTags would probably increase the cost of support).
I agree that users have the right to view my pages any way they choose. However, I don't think most users will choose, they will accept whatever they see. Also, I do not think denying them an automated unauthorized markup is an invasion of privacy. What private info am I likely to see by setting the 'NO_SMART_TAGS' flag?
OK, great. All I need to know is how to disable it for my sites, and don't tell me I have to study a SDK I'll never use to figure it out. Ideally, I would not have to do any extra work because of this MS 'feature'. And according to articles I've read (no, not the ones on
if someone included an API in a proxy server
Apples and oranges. Please try again, with a relevant analogy. Removing advertising is pretty neutral. Adding links where there were none is less likely to be neutral, especially if the links were chosen by a for-profit corporation.
I love this question:
Q. Why did Microsoft decide to highlight the Shared Source Philosophy at this time?
Highlight? You mean they've been doing this all along? I don't think so, but it's obvious that they've got some talented spin doctors crafting everything about this campaign.
I don't understand the logic here. Compaq and HP have contracts with their suppliers that specify that the suplier must comply with any and all applicable patents. Why does the fact that Compaq and HP have money make them liable for the actions of others?
I can justify this from the perspective of the plaintiff's attorneys, who need to ensure that there's a pot of gold for them at the end of the day, but it doesn't make sense in the context of justice.
It can also make sense from the point of view of the patent-holder, since this action is likely to eliminate quite a number of their competitors.
I know, law and justice are completely separate concepts, and only the law can be enforced. But wouldn't it be nice if the law made some sense?
I've always said "diet is not a verb". A healthy diet is a habit. A healthy life is a collection of habits: diet, exercise, mind, and spirit.
A friend of mine used to say "the best way to keep the fat off your ass is not to put it in your mouth in the first place."