If you are using an Exchange server, then the decision can be taken out of your hands, depending on the Exchange server's settings.
It's actually possible to override what the Exchange server wants to do, but you have to go way out of your way to do it. It's been a while, but IIRC it had to do with moving the message to a PST file and then doing stuff while offline. I seem to remember being able to read/delete a message without a receipt being generated, and also fooling it into sending multiple receipts (both read and deleted) for the same message...
NB: I don't actually download music, but I do like to rip my disk collection to play at work and listen to on my portable on the way to work etc.
*EXACTLY*. I do the same thing because A. there's not a CD changer big enough to random-play my entire collection, B. I'm not going to cart that many CDs back and forth between work and C. I have a normal CD player in my car but only carry CD-Rs so that my originals don't get scratched/lost/stolen. I suspect between A, B, and C, there are many more who do the same.
Of course my collection isn't growing nearly as fast since the RIAA started this crap. And they wonder why their member companies' sales are plummeting... Indie and local music is nice but can be harder to find because they don't advertise as much.
The sooner that they realize that copying and fair use are what their customers want, and that not only pirates and theives have a use for copying, the better the chance they have of saving their sorry butts. Though the damage may already be too extensive, it's hard to tell.
Didn't some of those "copy-protected" CDs supposedly try to install drivers on Win32-based platforms that prevent you from ripping certain CDs?
Granted, the user shouldn't be running under an admin account (or get infected with all sorts of random crapware), but still. If that's the case I'd like to see them get smacked down for installing software without the user's consent...
If I was a betting person, I would be that most Windows 2000 Pro installs were done from a Verbatim/Memorex/Fujifilm (tm) CD-R with the words 'Win2k Pro' scribbled on it in black magic marker.
Well of course. Before we implemented RIS at work, do you really think we would have wanted to risk losing/damaging the 1 CD that comes with a bulk license?
You might want to look at ipfilter/ipnat. I run that on my router at home because I find it to be much more flexible than natd. ipnat is kernel based and rules can be loaded / removed hot.
It's part of the base distribution -- you just have to use "options IPFILTER" rather than IPFIREWALL in the kernel.
Domains are so throwaway that I'm not sure SPF will help all that much, though. I'm for it (or something like it), though.
I agree -- SPF won't magically stop all spam (not that it was really intended to). I'm mainly interested in it because it will stop spammers from forging mail that looks like it's from MY domain...
Whitelists are nifty (we use them extensively), but what worries me on that score is that if they become frequent, I suspect we'll just see spammers hijacking address books along with machines, and forging "trusted" From lines.
I think the hash-cash technique would be most effective when combined with something like SPF, which effectively (and very cheaply) prevents forging mail from a domain that isn't yours.
The WMP11? Be careful with that one. We bought one for work a while back and ended up using it in a FreeBSD router since it has a Prism2 chip. Since it worked out well, we then bought another one (same model number) a few months later. It turns out that they changed the chipset without changing the model number and that the new (and "improved") one has a Broadcom chip instead, for which there is no BSD driver...
The driver works all right on me for 4.9, but seems to have some xvideo problems (mplayer crashes about 30% of the time on startup, running it again usually works).
I've been unable to get it to work at all on current. While several others have reported success with GeForce 2/3s, my 5200 Ultra hasn't worked since a couple months before the 5.2 branch. Just shows garbled text instead of switching to graphics mode. Same thing happens with either AGP driver.
And forget about using any of the new threading libraries on 5.x. The nvidia driver mucks with %gs and static LDT allocations, causing libthr and libkse to not work with it at all.
It's really annoying because I'm about to start experimenting with some rather drastic changes to the kernel; and I know I'll never be able to get OpenGL working again as long as those are in. If the driver was open source, maybe, but as a binary there's no hope...:(
Mere compilation is not enough to ensure accurate and correct operation of all programs.
Personally, I would have more concerns about the stability of the recompiled system than the 32 bit time based one at this point.
That's exactly why I'm performing the test;)
So far, I've only come across problems in 3 software packages. One is a compiler written in its own language that needs to be re-bootstrapped (yuck). The other two are not due to assuming N-bit times, but rather in assuming that time_t is the same size as long int. These probably slipped by because it's true on 64-bit systems as well (both time_t and long are 64 bits), but on my system time_t is 64 while long is still 32. One of them (C++) produced a compile error, while the other (old K&R-style C) compiled without complaint but exhibited strange behavior at run-time.
Recompiling everything is no big deal to Gentoo and *BSD people.
That's pretty much right. Just out of curiosity I tried recompiling everything on my FreeBSD system after changing the definition of time_t from int32_t to int64_t.
Surprisingly, everything works. I guess this is probably because it's already sometimes compiled for 64-bit architectures anyway.
Since, in order to "comply" with RFCs, only webservers and mail servers should be on either of those ports, it is not an issue.
Bzzt! Thanks for playing. Quoth RFC 793 (Transmission Control Protocol):
The binding of ports to processes is handled independently by each Host. However, it proves useful to attach frequently used processes (e.g., a "logger" or timesharing service) to fixed sockets which are made known to the public.
Well-known ports are an optional part of the specification, designed to make connections to previously unknown systems easier. If my system binds ssh to port 80, or even use port 80 as a source port for outbound connections, that's not in violation of any RFCs.
Your line of arguing might extend to the pleding the fifth. "If he has nothing to hide, why doesn't he say anything?"
Pleading the fifth implies guilt because of the way the amendment is written. It can only be invoked to prevent self-incrimination. "...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..."
So you're pretty much saying, "I can't say anything because if I did you would know I was guilty." However, though it implies guilt, it doesn't PROVE guilt of the specific charge. I.e. you could plead the fifth to avoid incriminating yourself in a totally unrelated matter.
AFAIK, you can't simply refuse to answer because you don't feel like it. Well you can try, but you might get held in contempt of court.
Yes, I'm running 3.1.4. While konsole has definitely improved (it's actually usable now), it just doesn't feel as blindingly fast as an xterm. It's especially noticable when something is producing output that scrolls by really fast. This is on a moderately speedy (1.8ghz) box.
Done! It now works really well. Except I can't get middle-click to open a background tab (it opens a new window). Otherwise as good or better than Safari.
What you want is:
Settings menu, Configure Konqueror.
Go to the web browser "Behavior" page (the one with the same icon as Konqueror)
Check "Open links in new tab instead of new window"
Uncheck "Automatically activate new opened tabs"
Voila! Middle-click now causes a new tab to open in the background without switching to it.
Can you show me your statistics? And dont say online polls since that is the biggest load of BS I have ever seen. Here is one newbie that changed from KDE and hasn't been happier!
1:0, meanwhile gnome seems to be ahead;)
That's really funny. I used to be a die-hard GNOME user. Then they released 2.0 and I hated it. I installed KDE 3.1 and was really impressed by how much it had improved since KDE 2.x. Haven't looked back.;)
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If you are using an Exchange server, then the decision can be taken out of your hands, depending on the Exchange server's settings.
It's actually possible to override what the Exchange server wants to do, but you have to go way out of your way to do it. It's been a while, but IIRC it had to do with moving the message to a PST file and then doing stuff while offline. I seem to remember being able to read/delete a message without a receipt being generated, and also fooling it into sending multiple receipts (both read and deleted) for the same message...
...or just inject some 802.1q tagged packets with the VLAN number set to whatever you want.
Yeah, if the iPod had vorbis support I'd buy one, but for now I'll let the mac crowd have their fun.
NB: I don't actually download music, but I do like to rip my disk collection to play at work and listen to on my portable on the way to work etc.
*EXACTLY*. I do the same thing because A. there's not a CD changer big enough to random-play my entire collection, B. I'm not going to cart that many CDs back and forth between work and C. I have a normal CD player in my car but only carry CD-Rs so that my originals don't get scratched/lost/stolen. I suspect between A, B, and C, there are many more who do the same.
Of course my collection isn't growing nearly as fast since the RIAA started this crap. And they wonder why their member companies' sales are plummeting... Indie and local music is nice but can be harder to find because they don't advertise as much.
The sooner that they realize that copying and fair use are what their customers want, and that not only pirates and theives have a use for copying, the better the chance they have of saving their sorry butts. Though the damage may already be too extensive, it's hard to tell.
Didn't some of those "copy-protected" CDs supposedly try to install drivers on Win32-based platforms that prevent you from ripping certain CDs?
Granted, the user shouldn't be running under an admin account (or get infected with all sorts of random crapware), but still. If that's the case I'd like to see them get smacked down for installing software without the user's consent...
When was the last time a 2.0 series kernel was released with a new patch?
You also don't have to _PAY_ to upgrade to a 2.4 or 2.6 series kernel...
If I was a betting person, I would be that most Windows 2000 Pro installs were done from a Verbatim/Memorex/Fujifilm (tm) CD-R with the words 'Win2k Pro' scribbled on it in black magic marker.
Well of course. Before we implemented RIS at work, do you really think we would have wanted to risk losing/damaging the 1 CD that comes with a bulk license?
So... which one is the bot?
If these ever find their way onto Jabber, maybe one will end up in a conversation with my eliza-bot... Hmm, might be amusing.
You might want to look at ipfilter/ipnat. I run that on my router at home because I find it to be much more flexible than natd. ipnat is kernel based and rules can be loaded / removed hot.
It's part of the base distribution -- you just have to use "options IPFILTER" rather than IPFIREWALL in the kernel.
Domains are so throwaway that I'm not sure SPF will help all that much, though. I'm for it (or something like it), though.
I agree -- SPF won't magically stop all spam (not that it was really intended to). I'm mainly interested in it because it will stop spammers from forging mail that looks like it's from MY domain...
Whitelists are nifty (we use them extensively), but what worries me on that score is that if they become frequent, I suspect we'll just see spammers hijacking address books along with machines, and forging "trusted" From lines.
I think the hash-cash technique would be most effective when combined with something like SPF, which effectively (and very cheaply) prevents forging mail from a domain that isn't yours.
The WMP11? Be careful with that one. We bought one for work a while back and ended up using it in a FreeBSD router since it has a Prism2 chip. Since it worked out well, we then bought another one (same model number) a few months later. It turns out that they changed the chipset without changing the model number and that the new (and "improved") one has a Broadcom chip instead, for which there is no BSD driver...
The driver works all right on me for 4.9, but seems to have some xvideo problems (mplayer crashes about 30% of the time on startup, running it again usually works).
:(
I've been unable to get it to work at all on current. While several others have reported success with GeForce 2/3s, my 5200 Ultra hasn't worked since a couple months before the 5.2 branch. Just shows garbled text instead of switching to graphics mode. Same thing happens with either AGP driver.
And forget about using any of the new threading libraries on 5.x. The nvidia driver mucks with %gs and static LDT allocations, causing libthr and libkse to not work with it at all.
It's really annoying because I'm about to start experimenting with some rather drastic changes to the kernel; and I know I'll never be able to get OpenGL working again as long as those are in. If the driver was open source, maybe, but as a binary there's no hope...
That's exactly why I'm performing the test ;)
So far, I've only come across problems in 3 software packages. One is a compiler written in its own language that needs to be re-bootstrapped (yuck). The other two are not due to assuming N-bit times, but rather in assuming that time_t is the same size as long int. These probably slipped by because it's true on 64-bit systems as well (both time_t and long are 64 bits), but on my system time_t is 64 while long is still 32. One of them (C++) produced a compile error, while the other (old K&R-style C) compiled without complaint but exhibited strange behavior at run-time.
Bah, you amateurs... the only proper way to represent a date/time is as an unsigned long long, signifying microseconds-since-epoch.
What do you do when you need to represent a date before the epoch?
The first rule of Fight-O-Net is: You do not talk about Fight-O-Net.
The second rule of Fight-O-Net is: You do not talk about Fight-O-Net.
Recompiling everything is no big deal to Gentoo and *BSD people.
That's pretty much right. Just out of curiosity I tried recompiling everything on my FreeBSD system after changing the definition of time_t from int32_t to int64_t.
Surprisingly, everything works. I guess this is probably because it's already sometimes compiled for 64-bit architectures anyway.
Er, there are 32-bit processors out there that can address more than 4GB of RAM.
Usually via bank switching (e.g. PAE) which is slow and cumbersome.
There are several proposals in the works, such as SPF...
:)
I'll take any opportunity to plug SPF
I'm not directly involved with it but it's always good to see it getting attention.
Since, in order to "comply" with RFCs, only webservers and mail servers should be on either of those ports, it is not an issue.
Bzzt! Thanks for playing. Quoth RFC 793 (Transmission Control Protocol):
Well-known ports are an optional part of the specification, designed to make connections to previously unknown systems easier. If my system binds ssh to port 80, or even use port 80 as a source port for outbound connections, that's not in violation of any RFCs.
Your line of arguing might extend to the pleding the fifth. "If he has nothing to hide, why doesn't he say anything?"
Pleading the fifth implies guilt because of the way the amendment is written. It can only be invoked to prevent self-incrimination. "...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself..."
So you're pretty much saying, "I can't say anything because if I did you would know I was guilty." However, though it implies guilt, it doesn't PROVE guilt of the specific charge. I.e. you could plead the fifth to avoid incriminating yourself in a totally unrelated matter.
AFAIK, you can't simply refuse to answer because you don't feel like it. Well you can try, but you might get held in contempt of court.
Disclaimer: IANALBIPOOTV
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Isn't that a conflict of interest?
Have you tried KDE 3.1.x?
Yes, I'm running 3.1.4. While konsole has definitely improved (it's actually usable now), it just doesn't feel as blindingly fast as an xterm. It's especially noticable when something is producing output that scrolls by really fast. This is on a moderately speedy (1.8ghz) box.
What you want is:
Voila! Middle-click now causes a new tab to open in the background without switching to it.
Can you show me your statistics? And dont say online polls since that is the biggest load of BS I have ever seen. Here is one newbie that changed from KDE and hasn't been happier!
;)
;)
1:0, meanwhile gnome seems to be ahead
That's really funny. I used to be a die-hard GNOME user. Then they released 2.0 and I hated it. I installed KDE 3.1 and was really impressed by how much it had improved since KDE 2.x. Haven't looked back.