for the LAST time, spam is not a free speech issue, it's a property rights issue. My computer is NOT a public utility for every sleazy marketing dink in the world to use at MY expense.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but this is just complete bullcrap. You are choosing to run sendmail/qmail/exim/postfix on a publically routable IP address (or you are choosing to buy service from someone who does). You can't have your cake and eat it too; the second you set up (or begin to use) a publically-accessible mail host, you are accepting mail from anyone, i.e. you have a public utility. Don't like it? Use tcpwrappers or some other access-control method. Even so, email is public. Get off it.
"There is no scheme to differentiate between programs and commercials that is not defeatable," one senior network exec said.
Correct -- but there doesn't need to be. So long as commercials are fixed at 30 or 60 seconds, bypassing them is as easy as one or two presses of an instant 30-second-skip button. Four minutes' worth of advertising crap? How long does it take to press a button eight times?
Take that, corporate bastards! [cue maniacal laughter]
As a sysadmin at a Grand Rapids company considering colocating 15 rack U's or so of Linux goodness with USDCO, I've had the opportunity to take several tours of their facility (one was yesterday, in fact). I'll clarify a few points I saw browsing through the comments:
Humid? Err - isn't that a BAD thing for a data center?
Nope. You need 50-60% relative humidity, or static electricity starts to destroy your equipment.
These guys appear to concentrate on bringing a cost-effective service to their customers rather than nuclear bunker bragging rights.
Indeed - their price of $100+80(n-1) per month, where n=# of U's you need, is quite reasonable, especially for a smaller company like us.
And how long does it take to get from ground level to the data center?
The elevators can take you up or down the 85-foot tunnels in about 45 seconds.
In any event, near a river or not, most mines (don't know about gypsum mines) have some ground water seepage, and as a result have sumps and electrically powered pumps to keep the water at bay.
Indeed, there are a few areas in which small pools of water form from the ground seepage. However, these are, as you say, sump pumped away, and no such pool is anywhere in the vicinity of the data center itself.
I forget the name of the river that flows through Grand Rapids, but Grand Rapids wasn't named for fast-moving concert pianos.
It's the Grand River, surprisingly enough...:)
hey - you don't have to go up to the surface to eat lunch! Sweet!
Sorry - the food stored down in the mine itself (as opposed to the storage in the aboveground buildings on top of the mine) consists of 2000-pound (1-ton) lugs of powdered milk for the yogurt factory close to the mine... icky for lunch.:)
Or is it that clients like a cool ultra secure bunker - it makes them feel good and powerfull
Actually...they are forbidden to ship java, they lost the case against sun.
You're a dumbass. Read the damned article:
A Microsoft spokesman said Java support was diminished for "business reasons" and noted that it follows last year's legal dispute with Java's creator, Sun Microsystems Inc. Under terms of a settlement with Sun, Microsoft was given the right to continue to use early versions of Sun's Java code in Microsoft products for seven years, but made no commitment to do so.
> they allow NAT (doesn't cost extra)
What are you talking about? How could an ISP not allow NAT? That's not detectable or stoppable from their end. I use (S)NAT at my house, and there's certainly no way ANYBODY is gonna charge me extra for it.
It is an outrage to suggest a tax on CD burners and media by extending the flawed blank-tape tax model. Blank tapes have many non-copyright-infringing uses, and blank CD's even more so. Millions of CD burners and CD-R/RW discs are used for data purposes. Why should I have to pay the greedy bastard record companies ANYTHING when I buy a disc to back up some programs, pictures, HTML data, or anything else? That's preposterous! F_ck corporations!
Slashdot Mirror
Browsing the site, I saw several Aqua-esque themes for Window Maker. How long until Apple decides to bully them into censoring these images?
Knuth: "Wait, wait - I never said that."
Heh. I think you actually meant Dan Bernstein, or perhaps Theo deRaadt, both of whom are legendary for their humility...
Natural selection at its finest... Crappy, bloated, and stupid distributions die, and real distros that aren't profit-driven continue to flourish...
Who cares? Use a real database...
for the LAST time, spam is not a free speech issue, it's a property rights issue. My computer is NOT a public utility for every sleazy marketing dink in the world to use at MY expense.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but this is just complete bullcrap. You are choosing to run sendmail/qmail/exim/postfix on a publically routable IP address (or you are choosing to buy service from someone who does). You can't have your cake and eat it too; the second you set up (or begin to use) a publically-accessible mail host, you are accepting mail from anyone, i.e. you have a public utility. Don't like it? Use tcpwrappers or some other access-control method. Even so, email is public. Get off it.
For [Pine] users, just remember the magic spell: "m s r f a."
Personally, I prefer to keep spam away from my MUA altogether. That's what the MUA (RBL) and MDA (spam rules in Procmail) are for.
Z80 also powered the sound chip in the Sega Genesis and a modified chip was used in the Gameboy.
Yes, not to mention the TI-81, 85, 86, 82, and 83. Fine machines, they were...
But with 6 wu-ftpd boxes to admin I'm not so sure any more. Hope I see a fix today.
Uhhh... here ya go, buddy...
I just found it interesting that one of two surviving Enigma boxen is "valued at" $144,000.
What? Didn't we just hear an announcement that Enigma is free (as in beer AND speech)?
Mirror located here: kde-2.2.1. Have fun!
"There is no scheme to differentiate between programs and commercials that is not defeatable," one senior network exec said.
Correct -- but there doesn't need to be. So long as commercials are fixed at 30 or 60 seconds, bypassing them is as easy as one or two presses of an instant 30-second-skip button. Four minutes' worth of advertising crap? How long does it take to press a button eight times?
Take that, corporate bastards! [cue maniacal laughter]
Contributing to its mass appeal are the low-cost solutions available. For less than $100, a volunteer can buy an access point
What? Please tell me where to buy a sub-$100 wireless access point. My credit card is standing by at the ready...
As a sysadmin at a Grand Rapids company considering colocating 15 rack U's or so of Linux goodness with USDCO, I've had the opportunity to take several tours of their facility (one was yesterday, in fact). I'll clarify a few points I saw browsing through the comments:
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Humid? Err - isn't that a BAD thing for a data center?
Nope. You need 50-60% relative humidity, or static electricity starts to destroy your equipment.
These guys appear to concentrate on bringing a cost-effective service to their customers rather than nuclear bunker bragging rights.
Indeed - their price of $100+80(n-1) per month, where n=# of U's you need, is quite reasonable, especially for a smaller company like us.
And how long does it take to get from ground level to the data center?
The elevators can take you up or down the 85-foot tunnels in about 45 seconds.
In any event, near a river or not, most mines (don't know about gypsum mines) have some ground water seepage, and as a result have sumps and electrically powered pumps to keep the water at bay.
Indeed, there are a few areas in which small pools of water form from the ground seepage. However, these are, as you say, sump pumped away, and no such pool is anywhere in the vicinity of the data center itself.
I forget the name of the river that flows through Grand Rapids, but Grand Rapids wasn't named for fast-moving concert pianos.
It's the Grand River, surprisingly enough...
hey - you don't have to go up to the surface to eat lunch! Sweet!
Sorry - the food stored down in the mine itself (as opposed to the storage in the aboveground buildings on top of the mine) consists of 2000-pound (1-ton) lugs of powdered milk for the yogurt factory close to the mine... icky for lunch.
Or is it that clients like a cool ultra secure bunker - it makes them feel good and powerfull
Not to mention 31337...
ASCI's Debutante Debut
I first read that as "ASCII's Debut"... sorry, Slashdot, you're about 30 years late reporting that one!
Nobody wants to use a desktop with a second class browser.
Oh, you mean like Galeon/GNOME or Konqueror/KDE?
(Ooh... low blow... there goes the karma...)
Actually ...they are forbidden to ship java, they lost the case against sun.
You're a dumbass. Read the damned article:
A Microsoft spokesman said Java support was diminished for "business reasons" and noted that it follows last year's legal dispute with Java's creator, Sun Microsystems Inc. Under terms of a settlement with Sun, Microsoft was given the right to continue to use early versions of Sun's Java code in Microsoft products for seven years, but made no commitment to do so.
Appeals Court Sets Guidelines for Penetrating Anonymity Online
Methinks this story was just an excuse for the editors to post a "Guidelines for Penetrating" headline...
> they allow NAT (doesn't cost extra) What are you talking about? How could an ISP not allow NAT? That's not detectable or stoppable from their end. I use (S)NAT at my house, and there's certainly no way ANYBODY is gonna charge me extra for it.
Forget about congested mirrors... help me abuse my school's T3 bandwidth:
http://www.kevindegraaf.net/mirror/
Figure out how the crackers got in, root the ISP yourself, and hold their servers ransom until the problems are fixed...
I don't get it... "before I fork (fuck) you, are you slash one six"?
After all, Mir had spent somewhere near 3.5 billion (million million for the UKians in the audience) miles
You're dumb... a billion is a thousand million. A trillion is a million million. Perhaps you're from the UK?
It is an outrage to suggest a tax on CD burners and media by extending the flawed blank-tape tax model. Blank tapes have many non-copyright-infringing uses, and blank CD's even more so. Millions of CD burners and CD-R/RW discs are used for data purposes. Why should I have to pay the greedy bastard record companies ANYTHING when I buy a disc to back up some programs, pictures, HTML data, or anything else? That's preposterous! F_ck corporations!
Yeah, so I hadn't finished uploading yet... bite my head off, whydoncha. It's up there now.
If kernel.org is slow, go here.