Reduce your Greylisting delay. 30 minutes is enough... the reason greylisting works against spam is that, for now, the spam bots don't follow the SMTP protocol, and won't try again, even if the delay is as little as 30s. The reason I say 30 minutes is that if it's as little as 30s and they're doing a dictionary attack, that time isn't long enough for the attack to finish before they get autowhitelisted.
It does introduce a delay. And I've had to explain to people on the phone that there's no point in waiting on the phone for me to get their e-mail because it won't be delivered for at least an hour, but I've found that 30 minutes is about the sweet spot for greylisting, where the delay is long enough for a dictionary attack to finish but short enough that the messages are still useable.
Also, introduce an autowhitelist that's good for 3 days. That's in the default configuration of milter-greylist if you're using Sendmail (I am). That way, people that send you messages frequently won't be delayed by greylisting.
Last time I used a free webmail was back before Microsoft owned Hotmail... that said, I do operate a mail server with webmail services for my users. I have a very low spam rate. Most don't make it into my inbox... maybe one or two a week that are false negatives and it's been over a month since my last false positive. Here's how I do it:
Rule #1: Every user has the ability to set their own antispam sensitivity. Mine is set to 1.5 on SpamAssassin. Rule #2: Every user has two folders: "Spam-Bin" and "False-Positives". SA learns them every day at 3am. If you get a spam, just move it to that folder. If you have a false positive, move it to the right folder. Rule #3: GREYLISTING. Implementing Greylisting cut the daily spam hits from over 15,000 to less than 1,000. That's more than 90% reduction in spam, simply by using the "service temporarily unavailable" feature in the SMTP protocol.
I don't know what's wrong with Yahoo's filters. Or what it is that makes GMail filters work. But I can tell you that having a competent sysadmin makes a *huge* difference in how effective the spam filters are. I can also tell you from the logs that spam is going up, not down, lately.
I got a new Dell 630 laptop. 1.8 GHz 7100 Core 2 Duo, which same as reference system. XP is ready to go in 40 secs from a cold start. My disk drive is 5400 rpm. I still remember the good experience of going from Win 98 to XP. From what I've read XP is happy with 512M memory whereas Vista needs at least 1G minimum. Doesn't anyone at Microsoft have enough pride in their software to do thing right? Latest version of Excel has math error. What more can I say.
that has a lot to do with your hard drive speed. I have an Inspiron 1520 (Dell)... 1.6GHz T5450 Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, but I went with the 7200rpm hard drive. Vista Home Premium 32-bit boots, from cold, in about 30-40s. That's to a usable desktop, all my programs started. By comparison... the laptop boots up faster than my desktop, which is running Zenwalk 4.8 with virtually no services enabled, and an ethernet connection instead of wireless. The desktop is an Athlon64 X2 3800+ with 4GB of RAM, and a Seagate 7200.9 SATA-II hard drive.
As for sleep? Pretty much instant-on from sleep, and I don't care how long it takes to actually go to sleep, because it's reliable enough that it's never locked up on me or failed to go to sleep.
I'm not defending Microsoft. They do a lot of things that I don't like, and if decent sound drivers existed for my laptop I'd be running Linux on it. But it's pretty obvious that the test system wasn't optimized (or that it was a piece of junk) when my own laptop boots up in less than half their reduced time, and I don't even have this service pack installed.
Apple must be seriously considering porting Leopard to PCs, if you were buying a new PC which would you prefer Vista ready or Leopard ready?
Why do people persist in beating this dead horse? Apple is most emphatically *NOT* a software company. They are a hardware company. They are not interested in selling Leopard, or any version of OS/X for that matter. They are interested in selling more Mac computers. "porting" Leopard (which in itself is a BS idea since it already runs on x86 and x64 hardware) isn't going to happen.
Fair enough... If it does what you want it to do that's what matters. Presumably, you use it in conjunction with a desktop machine at home.
But I could have sworn that airlines will ignore carry-on baggage requirements for things like a laptop, because they don't want to take liability for making you check a laptop. I've taken my laptop with me all over the USA and Europe, and never had to check it, and always been allowed to bring my carry-on bag as well.
Give me something like your laptop, but with a screen resolution that's actually usable to me, say 1280x800 on that size of screen, and I'd be a lot happier though.
How's the 800x480 pixel 7" screen working for you though? I haven't run at a resolution that low in almost 15 years. There'd be a *lot* of scrolling, I imagine.... I find I scroll too much on full screen apps, and I'm running on a 15.4" 1680x1050 screen on my laptop. I also get 5h battery life when watching DVDs out of it, or about 7.5h if I'm just typing/surfing.
I think it's cool that you can get a laptop for $400. But there's absolutely no way I'd buy one. The screen is just too small for my use, to say nothing of the resolution. Yes, I paid $1200 more for my laptop. It weighs twice as much, and is nowhere near as portable. But I also got a hell of a lot more functionality out of the transaction, not to mention a battery that lasts more than twice as long. If all you want to do is surf and play video games, I think your money would be better spent buying an entry level laptop from Dell or HP, and tossing in the high capacity battery. It may come out to 50% more, but it'll also give you a *lot* more use.
Obligatory Futurama quote: Screw you guys! I'm gonna build my own theme park! With Blackjack! and Hookers!... In fact! Forget the park and the blackjack!
I'm missing out since I don't shop at Wal-Mart, but then again, real techies build their own machines instead of buying them at retailers like Wally World. Just remember, you too can afford a $200.00 computer when it only cost Wal-Mart $50 to make, that includes the $2.00 slave wages they pay the 10 year old Chinese kid in China working 16 hour days for 10 cents an hour. It's probably pumped full of lovely toxins as well..;)
so... $2.00 in wages, at $0.10/hour.... you honestly think this machine took 20 hours to build? This is Linux. There's no Windows Update you need to do after installing.
In TFA, there's a picture of the painting, superimposed with a 5-line stave, and black dots at all of the points in question (hands, loaves of bread). Looks really ponderous, but I've never actually read music backwards. (perfect pitch, I'm one of those weirdos who can be handed a score and hear the music in their head when they read it)
Perhaps you'd be the one to correct me if I'm wrong... but didn't they use a 3-line stave around the time DaVinci was active? I thought the 5-line stave didn't get introduced until about the 1600's....
Yeah... it's a different controller. Apparently, IBM/Lenovo, HP/Compaq, Dell, Acer, etc... all have *different* sound cards that are branded the same way. Mine is not an Intel chipset, it's a SigmaTel, though it was branded as Intel High Definition Audio.
Supposedly, you can make it work by adding a line "option hda_intel model=Dell" to a file in/etc/modprobe.d/ and it'll be detected, but that didn't work for me.:(
It's branded as an "Intel High Definition Audio". Near as I can tell, the actual chipset is a SigmaTel 9205. The intel_hda driver is the one that Alsa tries to load, but it simply doesn't work with my card. I've tried every piece of information I could find about it on the Internet, and had absolutely no success.:( (the laptop is a Dell Inpsiron 1520)
And you're right. If anything, I was expecting to have to fight with the WLAN or Bluetooth to get 'em working, but the bluetooth worked out of the box, and the WLAN is an Intel card and I had zero problems getting it to work once I downloaded the firmware. (well, that's an exaggeration. but ultimately i was able to get it working without what I'd call a lot of hassle) I went out of my way to make sure everything in it was Intel hardware because they support Linux better (well, except the video card. that's a 256MB NVidia GeForce 8600 GT)... ironically, if I had spent an extra $20 on it and gotten the Audigy sound card, I don't think I would have had nearly as many problems.
There comes a point when cost isn't the issue, though... the reason that the GUI BIOS idea that Phoenix developped in the mid-90's fell on its face was that the BIOS update download was 5x the size of a normal BIOS update. By modern standards, a 5mb download is nothing. But in the days before 56k dialup Internet, where only the really rich or the really stupid had high speed, and even then it was only a 128k ISDN connection?
It's not about the cost of flash. It's about the size of the download to update it. The bigger it is, the less likely people are to download/install updates. Granted, most users never update their drivers/BIOS anyway, but making it a 1GB download to update your BIOS? nobody's going to do that. Whereas... 10mb? I get e-mails that are bigger than that.
It can probably be squeezed into less than 10mb... Especially if you don't include things like the ability to write/execute macros or scripts into it. Interpreters like that add a lot of overhead to something that's pretty basic.
Think Pine with a GUI and AbiWord, rather than Outlook/Thunderbird and MS Word/OpenOffice. AbiWord can be installed in 5mb if you don't choose any options, and it's bloated compared to some of the options out there. Pine comes in *well* under 1mb. Add in a couple of MB for the actual *bios* functions and libraries for things like mouse support, and you're off to the races.
Besides, phones and PDAs are "boot" faster not because the initialization procedure is faster (my PDA boots in about 30 seconds) but because they sleep instead of powering off.
My laptop boots from cold in about 25 seconds. It's running Vista Home Premium edition on it. (yah, yah, I know. call me when the ALSA driver supports my sound card. I have tried repeatedly, with multiple distros and multiple kernel versions. Every time it identifies/loads the driver, then the driver crashes claiming there's no codec and there's no sound.)
Instant on would be nice. But I'm not holding my breath on it. 30s from pushing the button to desktop is pretty respectable.
There are those, myself included, who would argue that your example isn't a case of male mimicking female, but rather a case of somebody who actually is female, and that there's a distinction between physical and mental gender.
*shrugs* You do find a lot more transgenders in SL than you do in real life. But most of them are honest about it.
For a 1GB drive, you lose a little. For a 500GB drive, you lose a lot.
I've had customers complain that their shiny new 500GB drive is only 460GB formatted. It's a case of caveat emptor, yes, but it's also a case of misleading advertising. A difference of 40GB is significant.
Lack of driver support for this controller is the reason my laptop is running Windows. *everything* else works under Linux. But no matter what happens or what tricks I try to employ to get the sound working, it fails to load the driver citing lack of codec.
This sound card is often branded as "Intel High Definition Audio", and can be found in laptops from several vendors, including Dell (my laptop is an Inspiron 1520), Lenovo, Acer, and HP.
In this part of the world (Ontario), the cop writing the ticket has to actually witness the crime happening. He can ask for the GPS records all he wants, but can't write you a ticket if he didn't catch you speeding.
Then again... around here there isn't a single cop on the street who'd write you a ticket for going 76 in a 75 zone. You won't even get any demerits unless you're going at least 15km/h over the limit. It just isn't worth their time.
Prince isn't signed with UMG. They were representing their own interests, not his. I'm not even sure they have the copyright on that particular song, since I'm not a big enough fan to know what label it was released under (or if it was released under a label). He's been indy for a long time.
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You mean the Americans didn't have to one-up us after all?
Boy, I bet they feel dumb...
I come seeking... retribution....
Yes... what would Brian Boitano do?
Reduce your Greylisting delay. 30 minutes is enough... the reason greylisting works against spam is that, for now, the spam bots don't follow the SMTP protocol, and won't try again, even if the delay is as little as 30s. The reason I say 30 minutes is that if it's as little as 30s and they're doing a dictionary attack, that time isn't long enough for the attack to finish before they get autowhitelisted.
It does introduce a delay. And I've had to explain to people on the phone that there's no point in waiting on the phone for me to get their e-mail because it won't be delivered for at least an hour, but I've found that 30 minutes is about the sweet spot for greylisting, where the delay is long enough for a dictionary attack to finish but short enough that the messages are still useable.
Also, introduce an autowhitelist that's good for 3 days. That's in the default configuration of milter-greylist if you're using Sendmail (I am). That way, people that send you messages frequently won't be delayed by greylisting.
Last time I used a free webmail was back before Microsoft owned Hotmail... that said, I do operate a mail server with webmail services for my users. I have a very low spam rate. Most don't make it into my inbox... maybe one or two a week that are false negatives and it's been over a month since my last false positive. Here's how I do it:
Rule #1: Every user has the ability to set their own antispam sensitivity. Mine is set to 1.5 on SpamAssassin.
Rule #2: Every user has two folders: "Spam-Bin" and "False-Positives". SA learns them every day at 3am. If you get a spam, just move it to that folder. If you have a false positive, move it to the right folder.
Rule #3: GREYLISTING. Implementing Greylisting cut the daily spam hits from over 15,000 to less than 1,000. That's more than 90% reduction in spam, simply by using the "service temporarily unavailable" feature in the SMTP protocol.
I don't know what's wrong with Yahoo's filters. Or what it is that makes GMail filters work. But I can tell you that having a competent sysadmin makes a *huge* difference in how effective the spam filters are. I can also tell you from the logs that spam is going up, not down, lately.
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thank you... saves me finding the link. damned good documentary, that was.
that has a lot to do with your hard drive speed. I have an Inspiron 1520 (Dell)... 1.6GHz T5450 Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, but I went with the 7200rpm hard drive. Vista Home Premium 32-bit boots, from cold, in about 30-40s. That's to a usable desktop, all my programs started. By comparison... the laptop boots up faster than my desktop, which is running Zenwalk 4.8 with virtually no services enabled, and an ethernet connection instead of wireless. The desktop is an Athlon64 X2 3800+ with 4GB of RAM, and a Seagate 7200.9 SATA-II hard drive.
As for sleep? Pretty much instant-on from sleep, and I don't care how long it takes to actually go to sleep, because it's reliable enough that it's never locked up on me or failed to go to sleep.
I'm not defending Microsoft. They do a lot of things that I don't like, and if decent sound drivers existed for my laptop I'd be running Linux on it. But it's pretty obvious that the test system wasn't optimized (or that it was a piece of junk) when my own laptop boots up in less than half their reduced time, and I don't even have this service pack installed.
Why do people persist in beating this dead horse? Apple is most emphatically *NOT* a software company. They are a hardware company. They are not interested in selling Leopard, or any version of OS/X for that matter. They are interested in selling more Mac computers. "porting" Leopard (which in itself is a BS idea since it already runs on x86 and x64 hardware) isn't going to happen.
Fair enough... If it does what you want it to do that's what matters. Presumably, you use it in conjunction with a desktop machine at home.
But I could have sworn that airlines will ignore carry-on baggage requirements for things like a laptop, because they don't want to take liability for making you check a laptop. I've taken my laptop with me all over the USA and Europe, and never had to check it, and always been allowed to bring my carry-on bag as well.
Give me something like your laptop, but with a screen resolution that's actually usable to me, say 1280x800 on that size of screen, and I'd be a lot happier though.
How's the 800x480 pixel 7" screen working for you though? I haven't run at a resolution that low in almost 15 years. There'd be a *lot* of scrolling, I imagine.... I find I scroll too much on full screen apps, and I'm running on a 15.4" 1680x1050 screen on my laptop. I also get 5h battery life when watching DVDs out of it, or about 7.5h if I'm just typing/surfing.
I think it's cool that you can get a laptop for $400. But there's absolutely no way I'd buy one. The screen is just too small for my use, to say nothing of the resolution. Yes, I paid $1200 more for my laptop. It weighs twice as much, and is nowhere near as portable. But I also got a hell of a lot more functionality out of the transaction, not to mention a battery that lasts more than twice as long. If all you want to do is surf and play video games, I think your money would be better spent buying an entry level laptop from Dell or HP, and tossing in the high capacity battery. It may come out to 50% more, but it'll also give you a *lot* more use.
Obligatory Futurama quote: Screw you guys! I'm gonna build my own theme park! With Blackjack! and Hookers! ... In fact! Forget the park and the blackjack!
so... $2.00 in wages, at $0.10/hour.... you honestly think this machine took 20 hours to build? This is Linux. There's no Windows Update you need to do after installing.
In TFA, there's a picture of the painting, superimposed with a 5-line stave, and black dots at all of the points in question (hands, loaves of bread). Looks really ponderous, but I've never actually read music backwards. (perfect pitch, I'm one of those weirdos who can be handed a score and hear the music in their head when they read it)
Because they weren't using a 5-bar stave in music when DaVinci painted that?
Perhaps you'd be the one to correct me if I'm wrong... but didn't they use a 3-line stave around the time DaVinci was active? I thought the 5-line stave didn't get introduced until about the 1600's....
That would be because you're watching Family Guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsP3cJIplfA
Yeah... it's a different controller. Apparently, IBM/Lenovo, HP/Compaq, Dell, Acer, etc... all have *different* sound cards that are branded the same way. Mine is not an Intel chipset, it's a SigmaTel, though it was branded as Intel High Definition Audio.
/etc/modprobe.d/ and it'll be detected, but that didn't work for me. :(
Supposedly, you can make it work by adding a line "option hda_intel model=Dell" to a file in
It's branded as an "Intel High Definition Audio". Near as I can tell, the actual chipset is a SigmaTel 9205. The intel_hda driver is the one that Alsa tries to load, but it simply doesn't work with my card. I've tried every piece of information I could find about it on the Internet, and had absolutely no success. :( (the laptop is a Dell Inpsiron 1520)
And you're right. If anything, I was expecting to have to fight with the WLAN or Bluetooth to get 'em working, but the bluetooth worked out of the box, and the WLAN is an Intel card and I had zero problems getting it to work once I downloaded the firmware. (well, that's an exaggeration. but ultimately i was able to get it working without what I'd call a lot of hassle) I went out of my way to make sure everything in it was Intel hardware because they support Linux better (well, except the video card. that's a 256MB NVidia GeForce 8600 GT)... ironically, if I had spent an extra $20 on it and gotten the Audigy sound card, I don't think I would have had nearly as many problems.
There comes a point when cost isn't the issue, though... the reason that the GUI BIOS idea that Phoenix developped in the mid-90's fell on its face was that the BIOS update download was 5x the size of a normal BIOS update. By modern standards, a 5mb download is nothing. But in the days before 56k dialup Internet, where only the really rich or the really stupid had high speed, and even then it was only a 128k ISDN connection?
It's not about the cost of flash. It's about the size of the download to update it. The bigger it is, the less likely people are to download/install updates. Granted, most users never update their drivers/BIOS anyway, but making it a 1GB download to update your BIOS? nobody's going to do that. Whereas... 10mb? I get e-mails that are bigger than that.
It can probably be squeezed into less than 10mb... Especially if you don't include things like the ability to write/execute macros or scripts into it. Interpreters like that add a lot of overhead to something that's pretty basic.
Think Pine with a GUI and AbiWord, rather than Outlook/Thunderbird and MS Word/OpenOffice. AbiWord can be installed in 5mb if you don't choose any options, and it's bloated compared to some of the options out there. Pine comes in *well* under 1mb. Add in a couple of MB for the actual *bios* functions and libraries for things like mouse support, and you're off to the races.
Might make more sense to use BSD software then, don't you think? Or perhaps roll their own? They have a rather long history of doing stuff like that.
My laptop boots from cold in about 25 seconds. It's running Vista Home Premium edition on it. (yah, yah, I know. call me when the ALSA driver supports my sound card. I have tried repeatedly, with multiple distros and multiple kernel versions. Every time it identifies/loads the driver, then the driver crashes claiming there's no codec and there's no sound.)
Instant on would be nice. But I'm not holding my breath on it. 30s from pushing the button to desktop is pretty respectable.
There are those, myself included, who would argue that your example isn't a case of male mimicking female, but rather a case of somebody who actually is female, and that there's a distinction between physical and mental gender.
*shrugs* You do find a lot more transgenders in SL than you do in real life. But most of them are honest about it.
For a 1GB drive, you lose a little.
For a 500GB drive, you lose a lot.
I've had customers complain that their shiny new 500GB drive is only 460GB formatted. It's a case of caveat emptor, yes, but it's also a case of misleading advertising. A difference of 40GB is significant.
Lack of driver support for this controller is the reason my laptop is running Windows. *everything* else works under Linux. But no matter what happens or what tricks I try to employ to get the sound working, it fails to load the driver citing lack of codec.
This sound card is often branded as "Intel High Definition Audio", and can be found in laptops from several vendors, including Dell (my laptop is an Inspiron 1520), Lenovo, Acer, and HP.
In this part of the world (Ontario), the cop writing the ticket has to actually witness the crime happening. He can ask for the GPS records all he wants, but can't write you a ticket if he didn't catch you speeding.
Then again... around here there isn't a single cop on the street who'd write you a ticket for going 76 in a 75 zone. You won't even get any demerits unless you're going at least 15km/h over the limit. It just isn't worth their time.
Prince isn't signed with UMG. They were representing their own interests, not his. I'm not even sure they have the copyright on that particular song, since I'm not a big enough fan to know what label it was released under (or if it was released under a label). He's been indy for a long time.