and I'll start forwarding my spam to you instead of uce@ftc.gov.
There are lots of people who would like to manage your money. Most of them are in Nigeria. I know it all sounds too good to be true, by a friend of mine actually... <plonk>
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A few updates ago, I noticed that bayesian features were added to spamassassin. Either I'm missing something (very likely), or this is a not-so-useful feature. Since spamassassin, not me, decides what is spam, the resulting analysis should closely mirror the scoring system's analysis.
Time to go read up on spamassassin. But, I hope there is a way to set up an email account (like uce@domain.com) to which email could be forwarded so spamassassin could know what I (and my users) think is spam.
Somedays, it seems like all I do is look stuff up. Oh well, it keeps my aged, abused brain cells from becoming atrophied.
Also get free POP3 Hotmail... in Linux
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I was excited by the prospect of not having to manually check hotmail and discovered that HotPop is Windows only.
Thanks to sourceforge, I'm about to install:
http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net/
I can't recommend it or comdemn it since I'm just now researching on how to configure it for my system, but its sourceforge page says that it is stable/production fwiw.
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I run a small mail server with a dozen or so accounts. I have been using spamassassin for quite a while and it has been awesome.
However, there have been a slew of recent spams that have made it through. The subject lines are simple things such as "Hello". This is also the same subject line of ALL of my mother's emails; after all, that's how she answers the phone. The content is nothing more than an image tag pointing to a screenshot of the ad. Spamassassin doesn't complain since there is not enough wrong with the email - they usually score around 1 or 2 (which is way too low to set a threshold, 5 is reasonable). I could alter the scoring rules, but that would create way too many false positives since many emails are just links to political cartoons and the like.
I don't think bayesian filtering would help the problem.
I keep forwarding them to uce@ftc.gov. Maybe I'll submit the 46,000th entry and win a prize!
The title of the article indicates that it has something to do with copyrights. I see nothing of the sort. What I do see is the beginnings of anti-spam and anti-fraud laws that might actually work. It sickens me when otherwise intelligent people use highly charged phrases like "Super-DMCA" to incite others. It sickens me even more when I see the general slashdot croud merrily feeding this troll.
Also, the college kid has not been bothered in any way by this. Has he been charged with anything? No. His preemptive action drew the attention of some amateurish "journalist" that decided to sensationalize the non-incident.
In this case, "codewizard" is referring to the new Microsoft Access Code Wizard. Apparently, someone at the bank clicked on the "debug" button in the error message dialog they got when their Access database was locked. This, of course, launched the "codewizard" which promptly generated and submitted this Ask Slashdot post.
In the early 1980's, I worked for a software spin-off of an engineering company that was going down the tubes rapidly. One Friday I went to work to find: 1) A very polite policeman at the door. 2) No electricity. 3) No management people. 4) Confused employees. 5) An envelope at my desk with a check for 1/2 of my pay. 6) On the memo line, it read: "WYSIWYG" 7... 8) no profit.
I checked various dictionaries before I posted, and could find no reference. Nothing on everything2 either.
I have not been able to find a definition of the word. The closest I've found is from a google search (from a cached page):
Re: Performant - is it a word
Subject: Re: Performant - is it a word From: Jim Aikens Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 16:45:51 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Brierley, Sean > >Anyway, I saw an earlier post that said "performant" is Canadian-French. I >have yet to see a definition for this word. Does anyone have a definition >for it?
It's a French word -- French French, Canadian French, Swiss French and all the other Frenches in the world. It's actually quite a common word, especially in advertising. In French it has come to mean "high performance" or "works really well". However, when I see it in an English context, especially about software, I take it simply to mean "it works". Which is already quite an accomplishment.
...maintainable, performant, and extensible... I have to wonder what "performant" means. It is proof that marketing types were involved in the writing of this roadmap document.
Well, I wandered back to this old thread to see if there was anything useful. You win. Not by much.:P
I realize that Linksys is most likely bound by NDs, but that shouldn't preclude them from providing an unsupported, binary driver. Sure, its not the best solution, but it beats any alternative that is nonexistent.
I think you've hit the nail on the head. This situation will be definitive. Either the Feds have their way and domains are property, or the Registrars get their way and domains are a service. Both can't coexist. I have a feeling that the Feds will win.
BTW, I'm a glass-is-neither-half-full-nor-half-empty type. The glass is twice as large as it needs to be. Unless you plan on filling it with Guiness.
I'm a voting resident of Missouri. For those that don't know, Ashcroft was Governor of Missouri, then U.S. Senator for Missouri. That said, I hope everyone remembers that Ashcroft lost his senatorial re-election to Mel Carnahan, a very fine man and the deceased husband of Jean Carnahan. Mr. Carnahan died in a plane crash shortly before elections.
It was publicly announced that it was too late to allow an alternate on the ballot, but if Mel Carnahan won, his wife, Jean Carnahan, would be take his place. This action, in itself, was arguably illegal.
Well, it came to pass that Ashcroft lost by a very narrow margin, 49% to 50%. It turned out that the opposition used the courts to extend voting hours in the city of Saint Louis, giving the strongly Democratic area additional strength.
Yeah, the whole national election was screwed that year. But, because of this, President Bush, threw Ashcroft a bone in the form of AG. At the time, I thought it was a fair shake. I was leary of Ashcroft, but figured that he would make a good cop. 9/11 changed all of that.
If he had not been cheated out of his Senate seat, he would be barking, not biting. Enough said...
I, too, forgot to check linux compatibility before I ordered the equipment. It has been so long since I have had hardware issues with Linux that I didn't even think of checking.
I ended up breaking out an old compaq presario 1675 laptop and loading windows98 on it. After all, I got the Linksys WPC54G and WRT54G just to learn and play. My primary linux laptop (Thinkpad A21p) is tethered to so many gadgets that wireless is next to useless anyway.
But now, I find that the battery on the compaq is shot and a new one costs as much as the laptop is worth. So, I have a wireless laptop with about 20 minutes of battery until I force myself to shell out more money for
I dropped an email to linksys asking for status on the Linux support. I'm not holding my breath.
Before pouring on the bleeding-heart isolationist "solve the local problems first" attitude, please tell me more about the "threats on this planet that we have control over". Who the hell is this "We" of which you speak? How do you define "control"? And, finally, show me your plans and how you intend on implementing them.
Control is an illusion. The only thing that you can control is yourself. And even that is quite difficult.
It seems to me that an asteroid, lacking free will, is easier to control than any group of people.
I don't know if you were joking about your dog getting spam and credit offers, but I can tell you that I do have a computer (or rather a phone line) that gets all sorts of junk mail.
Back in the bbs days, I got a separate phone line for computer use and have kept it since. Being the cheap bastard that I am, I didn't want to pay for an unlisted number. When asked what name to put in the phone book, I chose my favorite cartoon character at the time, and the name of my Netware 3.11 server at the time, "Stimpy", as in "...Sometimes your wealth of ignorance astounds me!"
Over the many years, Stimpy was sent the obvious long distance service junk mails, as well as over 100 (I stopped counting) AOL floppies. The majority of our house's junk mail was addressed to me or my wife, but Stimpy was gaining ground. Along the way, someone decided that Stimpy must have been in the military. Stimpy has received mailings letting him know what Veteran benefits he is missing out on. Stimpy has declined offers of prequalified (not preapproved) credit cards for respected Veterans from many different banks.
All from a simple phonebook listing. I've considered getting him a Social Security number and claiming him as an elderly dependent. My wife, a lawyer, thinks it is a bad idea...
Interesting that OED comes up in this thread. I recently installed the cdrom version of the Oxford English Dictionary (3.0). It uses the same intrusive copy protection (c-dilla's (macrovision's now) safedisc) technology as TurboTax.
After installing OED on my dual boot laptop, the box would no longer boot to grub and would boot straight to windows. Fortunately, a linux boot floppy and/sbin/grub-install restores things -- but, the next time you run OED it screws up the boot loader again.
And, when someone says "virii", I have no freaking clue what they mean. Some people took Latin voluntarily - I wasn't one of them either.
Slashdot Mirror
and I'll start forwarding my spam to you instead of uce@ftc.gov.
There are lots of people who would like to manage your money. Most of them are in Nigeria. I know it all sounds too good to be true, by a friend of mine actually... <plonk>
A few updates ago, I noticed that bayesian features were added to spamassassin. Either I'm missing something (very likely), or this is a not-so-useful feature. Since spamassassin, not me, decides what is spam, the resulting analysis should closely mirror the scoring system's analysis.
Time to go read up on spamassassin. But, I hope there is a way to set up an email account (like uce@domain.com) to which email could be forwarded so spamassassin could know what I (and my users) think is spam.
Somedays, it seems like all I do is look stuff up. Oh well, it keeps my aged, abused brain cells from becoming atrophied.
I was excited by the prospect of not having to manually check hotmail and discovered that HotPop is Windows only.
Thanks to sourceforge, I'm about to install:
http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net/
I can't recommend it or comdemn it since I'm just now researching on how to configure it for my system, but its sourceforge page says that it is stable/production fwiw.
I run a small mail server with a dozen or so accounts. I have been using spamassassin for quite a while and it has been awesome.
However, there have been a slew of recent spams that have made it through. The subject lines are simple things such as "Hello". This is also the same subject line of ALL of my mother's emails; after all, that's how she answers the phone. The content is nothing more than an image tag pointing to a screenshot of the ad. Spamassassin doesn't complain since there is not enough wrong with the email - they usually score around 1 or 2 (which is way too low to set a threshold, 5 is reasonable). I could alter the scoring rules, but that would create way too many false positives since many emails are just links to political cartoons and the like.
I don't think bayesian filtering would help the problem.
I keep forwarding them to uce@ftc.gov. Maybe I'll submit the 46,000th entry and win a prize!
Yup. And, he's immortal and wields a sword.
Also, the college kid has not been bothered in any way by this. Has he been charged with anything? No. His preemptive action drew the attention of some amateurish "journalist" that decided to sensationalize the non-incident.
In this case, "codewizard" is referring to the new Microsoft Access Code Wizard. Apparently, someone at the bank clicked on the "debug" button in the error message dialog they got when their Access database was locked. This, of course, launched the "codewizard" which promptly generated and submitted this Ask Slashdot post.
It could happen... right?
In the early 1980's, I worked for a software spin-off of an engineering company that was going down the tubes rapidly. One Friday I went to work to find:
1) A very polite policeman at the door.
2) No electricity.
3) No management people.
4) Confused employees.
5) An envelope at my desk with a check for 1/2 of my pay.
6) On the memo line, it read: "WYSIWYG"
7...
8) no profit.
I have not been able to find a definition of the word. The closest I've found is from a google search (from a cached page):
...maintainable, performant, and extensible...
I have to wonder what "performant" means. It is proof that marketing types were involved in the writing of this roadmap document.
I keep getting spam advertising for these everlasting flashlights! The Last Flashlight You Will Ever Need!
So, I won't be buying one.
All of these sites worked for me except one:
- Official Iraqi News [uruklink.net]
I wonder what could have knocked them offline?
WTF? He is telneting to port 22 so that the ssh banner will show. The same can be done for smtp, pop, imap, http and other services.
a.out
:)
I keep 'em straight by remembering filesizes
I realize that Linksys is most likely bound by NDs, but that shouldn't preclude them from providing an unsupported, binary driver. Sure, its not the best solution, but it beats any alternative that is nonexistent.
BTW, I'm a glass-is-neither-half-full-nor-half-empty type. The glass is twice as large as it needs to be. Unless you plan on filling it with Guiness.
I posted to this thread and can't moderate. Otherwise, I'd do something -- moderate funny, hell yes -- insightful -- also true.
It was publicly announced that it was too late to allow an alternate on the ballot, but if Mel Carnahan won, his wife, Jean Carnahan, would be take his place. This action, in itself, was arguably illegal.
Well, it came to pass that Ashcroft lost by a very narrow margin, 49% to 50%. It turned out that the opposition used the courts to extend voting hours in the city of Saint Louis, giving the strongly Democratic area additional strength.
Yeah, the whole national election was screwed that year. But, because of this, President Bush, threw Ashcroft a bone in the form of AG. At the time, I thought it was a fair shake. I was leary of Ashcroft, but figured that he would make a good cop. 9/11 changed all of that.
If he had not been cheated out of his Senate seat, he would be barking, not biting. Enough said...
I, too, forgot to check linux compatibility before I ordered the equipment. It has been so long since I have had hardware issues with Linux that I didn't even think of checking.
I ended up breaking out an old compaq presario 1675 laptop and loading windows98 on it. After all, I got the Linksys WPC54G and WRT54G just to learn and play. My primary linux laptop (Thinkpad A21p) is tethered to so many gadgets that wireless is next to useless anyway.
But now, I find that the battery on the compaq is shot and a new one costs as much as the laptop is worth. So, I have a wireless laptop with about 20 minutes of battery until I force myself to shell out more money for
I dropped an email to linksys asking for status on the Linux support. I'm not holding my breath.
What is the best part of being The President of The World?
And, of course, take a sports almanac.
Control is an illusion. The only thing that you can control is yourself. And even that is quite difficult.
It seems to me that an asteroid, lacking free will, is easier to control than any group of people.
So, in Soviet Russia... no...
In Chernobyl, the vegatables eat you!
Back in the bbs days, I got a separate phone line for computer use and have kept it since. Being the cheap bastard that I am, I didn't want to pay for an unlisted number. When asked what name to put in the phone book, I chose my favorite cartoon character at the time, and the name of my Netware 3.11 server at the time, "Stimpy", as in "...Sometimes your wealth of ignorance astounds me!"
Over the many years, Stimpy was sent the obvious long distance service junk mails, as well as over 100 (I stopped counting) AOL floppies. The majority of our house's junk mail was addressed to me or my wife, but Stimpy was gaining ground. Along the way, someone decided that Stimpy must have been in the military. Stimpy has received mailings letting him know what Veteran benefits he is missing out on. Stimpy has declined offers of prequalified (not preapproved) credit cards for respected Veterans from many different banks.
All from a simple phonebook listing. I've considered getting him a Social Security number and claiming him as an elderly dependent. My wife, a lawyer, thinks it is a bad idea...
After installing OED on my dual boot laptop, the box would no longer boot to grub and would boot straight to windows. Fortunately, a linux boot floppy and /sbin/grub-install restores things -- but, the next time you run OED it screws up the boot loader again.
And, when someone says "virii", I have no freaking clue what they mean. Some people took Latin voluntarily - I wasn't one of them either.