Wasn't he in one of the Wing Commander games?:^) He does good voice talent work. I had to look at the credits for that Batman series to figure out who it was.
Lots of non-open source mail programs are free, are better at filtering spam than Outlook or OE, and don't randomly execute malicious code.
I'm still wondering how the open sourceness of mozilla has changed the OP's life. I'd make a case for an open review process being good for catching bugs, tapping talent outside the core team, features and functions not being dictated by a marketing dept that doesn't understand security, stuff like that. But so far replies have mainly been "Open source good, must have open source, open source shiny!" (I'm exaggerating for retorical purposes here, sorry.;) Hey, I like open source, but I doubt it'll ever be a life-changing experience.
WordStar and Delrina almost merged back in.. 1993? It even got to the baseball cap and t-shirt stage before they disagreed about which set of.. people.. would be running the single company. I've sure that the nick-name around the office of "Del-Star-Dot-Star" had nothing to do with the failure.
I hate Outlook, but there are a number of bayesian plug-ins for it, and there's an extensive COM interface for rolling your own plug-ins and external apps to connect with it. What exact advantage does open source give you over a published interface in this case?
It's a Devil's advocate question. Source is good, but my time available for diving into a huge app, making changes, and maintaining my changes over new versions, is limited.
Entire countries, where the country has an ISP monoculture. Besides SPEWS is only a tool. You can either whitelist ranges, or you can add them where you think SPEWS isn't firm enough.
I see the 10% figure waved frequently by sock-puppets on nanae. I also see an amazing pulse in the anonymous coward posts on spam issues. Interesting.
If you went by the actual source of the spam (Received lines) rather than the forged hotmail From, you might find that your numbers would be a lot smaller.
Rackspace has been "cleaning up" for years. They used to sacrifice a few token spammers every couple of months on nanae, but that just seemed to be the cheque-bouncers. If they've started to delete spammers faster than they sign up, that would be a nice change.
At least with Spamcop and SPEWS, they stand a chance of getting out for good behaviour. They must be in a lot of private lists for life (of the universe).
RedHat and SuSE do a pretty good job making money on free software.
They do provide a lot of value-added development to the software that they package. They're also big enough that they can break into the retail channels and get boxes on shelves. (The amount that they get for those boxes probably isn't that large. The channel takes a lot of that sticker price.)
They're still shifting to corporate customers and services to make their money. I doubt their model will be that easy for the little guy to use.
Under the GNU licence, I could try charging for software that I also provide the source for, but I suspect that success stories for that will be as rare as registrations for "free" software in the BBS days. Some made a living at it, but most were lucky to see some beer money. (And a lot of it was crap that no one would pay for anyway.) As I recall the people who mainly made money in those days were the people who packaged that free software on CDs for rack sales.
I could also make a living at support/admin/customization. But why bother developing anything (other than to be first in line for support/admin/customization contracts for my own product)? And admin jobs suck.
It'd be nice if all this worked, but I think we're still at the ???? stage. The main things to look out for are (a) more stupid "innovation" patents, (b) large companies using free software as a commodity to bundle/support. There needs to be more definition of how living expesses will get to small developers (as developers, not admins), (c) software the requires connection to home base to be useful, or the subscription model.
Yeah but.. changing from a development income model to services is a major change. It also tends to focus efforts towards a small number of big-ticket clients rather than general end-users.
I'd reply in more detail but my boss (me) is bitching at me to get to work.
Harsh. He doesn't say don't trust your fellow programmers, he says don't trust the companies making a lot of money using software they didn't have to pay to develop.
His letter is basically "What's your plan for moving out of your parents' place?"
Thanks, I would have eventually RTFMed, but now I know what look for. Actually, I think I noticed them before, but when the topic of too-quick Slashdot refreshes came up, I was wondering why this problem was happening. (I suppose I'll allow users to override ttl, but with a suitably worded warning that they're being a fugghead.)
I'm still at the metaphor description stage, so it'll be be a little while I have to worry about it. Describing a program as doing "lots of stuff" just doesn't work these days--gotta have a metaphor! After that, a little programming and I'll be straight into the ???? stage.
The beauty of it is that search engines tie it all together. No matter how small a number people interested in a topic, they can find each other. And it'll be there when someone has a momentary reason to look for information. When you're dealing with an entire planet, someone's bound to be looking.
Well, it might be there. Google has no reference to "Canadian yellowtail finch".:)
Aha, general etiquette, there's a solid standard!:^P Call me Mr. Thicky, but since RSS feeds are supplying all that formated data, why don't we all agree on a field that says what the recommended and absolute minimum refresh periods are for each feed? (With a default if it's not present.)
I was thinking adding RSS to some software I'm writing, but I know that info junkies and clueless will grab the refresh slider and yank it down to whatever minimum time I allow. (And that minimum will be short. Some RSS feeds might be special purpose private access ones that refresh often over LANs.)
This is the first time a Fantasy movie wins the Best Picture award
True, but some came close like the Wizard of Oz which lost against Gone With The Wind. (another fantasy:) Good fantasy is very hard to do. Being good enough to beat all other movies in a particular year.. unique! (Would RotK have won if it'd been stand-alone rather than the last of an outstanding trilogy? Maybe, maybe not.)
But all but the last would have been true if it'd been Francis Ford Coppola directing Eye of Darkness. "Rivendell. I was still in Rivendell..." "Let that be a lesson to you Master Frodo, never get out of the boat!" "Hey, this is Gondor right? Who's in charge here?!"
Are there any rough guidelines for "this is okay unless they say not to" for RSS? (I've got the RSS 2.0 specs, but I doubt there's anything in there.) Is it like Usenet where half the standards are traditional rather than stone?
(OT: oh gawd. I just spent a few hours playing Black and White for the first time and now all my UI reflexes are twisted. I expect to be able to browse with grab and move as well as zoom in/out.)
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· Score: 5, Interesting
With the professional turn in viruses, I wonder if we'll ever see an
automated version of the Make Money Fast scam?
At each hop in the infection, a virus could gather PayPal and other
account information from the hard drive. That would be passed along in
all the mailings it sends out to other machines, gathering more account
info along the way. Once it travelled five hops, it would use the
information to send five dollars to the account at the top of its list,
remove top account, move the others up, repeat.
The social engineering aspects are huge: "Gee, my computer has been
infected, but if I wait until it's infected several other computers before
removing it, I could make millions!" It could even come with a reassuring
EULA: "This is really legal honest! The FTA said so!"
There are privacy concerns, of course, but if it only passed on the
account information required to deposit and not to withdraw money, I'm
sure people would feel so much better about it.:^P
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And on the Muppet Show at least once. (Where he "sang" with a gargling Scotsman.)
Wasn't he in one of the Wing Commander games? :^) He does good voice talent work. I had to look at the credits for that Batman series to figure out who it was.
I'm still wondering how the open sourceness of mozilla has changed the OP's life. I'd make a case for an open review process being good for catching bugs, tapping talent outside the core team, features and functions not being dictated by a marketing dept that doesn't understand security, stuff like that. But so far replies have mainly been "Open source good, must have open source, open source shiny!" (I'm exaggerating for retorical purposes here, sorry. ;) Hey, I like open source, but I doubt it'll ever be a life-changing experience.
I just hope you're not looking for a post on nanae by Jamie or another kook.
Yes, but that doesn't answer my question of how open source relates to that. (Before anyone else jumps in, please read my original question.)
WordStar and Delrina almost merged back in .. 1993? It even got to the baseball cap and t-shirt stage before they disagreed about which set of .. people .. would be running the single company. I've sure that the nick-name around the office of "Del-Star-Dot-Star" had nothing to do with the failure.
Ah man, you had to tell them! I was going to start selling an invisible Clippy replacement and make a killing!
Does your setup have a warning to let you know how much of your bandwidth and resources are used to pipe spam to /dev/null?
It's a Devil's advocate question. Source is good, but my time available for diving into a huge app, making changes, and maintaining my changes over new versions, is limited.
I see the 10% figure waved frequently by sock-puppets on nanae. I also see an amazing pulse in the anonymous coward posts on spam issues. Interesting.
If you went by the actual source of the spam (Received lines) rather than the forged hotmail From, you might find that your numbers would be a lot smaller.
That's an interesting factoid. Too bad it's wrong. Where did you read that whopper?
At least with Spamcop and SPEWS, they stand a chance of getting out for good behaviour. They must be in a lot of private lists for life (of the universe).
They do provide a lot of value-added development to the software that they package. They're also big enough that they can break into the retail channels and get boxes on shelves. (The amount that they get for those boxes probably isn't that large. The channel takes a lot of that sticker price.)
They're still shifting to corporate customers and services to make their money. I doubt their model will be that easy for the little guy to use.
Under the GNU licence, I could try charging for software that I also provide the source for, but I suspect that success stories for that will be as rare as registrations for "free" software in the BBS days. Some made a living at it, but most were lucky to see some beer money. (And a lot of it was crap that no one would pay for anyway.) As I recall the people who mainly made money in those days were the people who packaged that free software on CDs for rack sales.
I could also make a living at support/admin/customization. But why bother developing anything (other than to be first in line for support/admin/customization contracts for my own product)? And admin jobs suck.
It'd be nice if all this worked, but I think we're still at the ???? stage. The main things to look out for are (a) more stupid "innovation" patents, (b) large companies using free software as a commodity to bundle/support. There needs to be more definition of how living expesses will get to small developers (as developers, not admins), (c) software the requires connection to home base to be useful, or the subscription model.
Interesting times, wheee!
I'd reply in more detail but my boss (me) is bitching at me to get to work.
His letter is basically "What's your plan for moving out of your parents' place?"
I'm still at the metaphor description stage, so it'll be be a little while I have to worry about it. Describing a program as doing "lots of stuff" just doesn't work these days--gotta have a metaphor! After that, a little programming and I'll be straight into the ???? stage.
Well, it might be there. Google has no reference to "Canadian yellowtail finch". :)
I was thinking adding RSS to some software I'm writing, but I know that info junkies and clueless will grab the refresh slider and yank it down to whatever minimum time I allow. (And that minimum will be short. Some RSS feeds might be special purpose private access ones that refresh often over LANs.)
True, but some came close like the Wizard of Oz which lost against Gone With The Wind. (another fantasy :) Good fantasy is very hard to do. Being good enough to beat all other movies in a particular year .. unique! (Would RotK have won if it'd been stand-alone rather than the last of an outstanding trilogy? Maybe, maybe not.)
But all but the last would have been true if it'd been Francis Ford Coppola directing Eye of Darkness. "Rivendell. I was still in Rivendell..." "Let that be a lesson to you Master Frodo, never get out of the boat!" "Hey, this is Gondor right? Who's in charge here?!"
The spyware formally known as Gator has changed their name to the venerial disease Claria or some-such.
(OT: oh gawd. I just spent a few hours playing Black and White for the first time and now all my UI reflexes are twisted. I expect to be able to browse with grab and move as well as zoom in/out.)
At each hop in the infection, a virus could gather PayPal and other account information from the hard drive. That would be passed along in all the mailings it sends out to other machines, gathering more account info along the way. Once it travelled five hops, it would use the information to send five dollars to the account at the top of its list, remove top account, move the others up, repeat.
The social engineering aspects are huge: "Gee, my computer has been infected, but if I wait until it's infected several other computers before removing it, I could make millions!" It could even come with a reassuring EULA: "This is really legal honest! The FTA said so!"
There are privacy concerns, of course, but if it only passed on the account information required to deposit and not to withdraw money, I'm sure people would feel so much better about it. :^P