...It is CONSTANTLY filled with spam. This could be that the idiot admins have every user's name available for browsing by being oh-so-nice and providing web space, even if you didn't ask for it.
I'm more inclined to think they sell their lists. Not to mention the security at the ISP is attrocious.
I check my 'real' account about twice a week. There are always at *LEAST* 50 messages in the inbox. All spam.
The account I actually use, however, is on my *OWN* mail server. I use dyndns.org for my domain name and to provide the MX record that points to my own mail server.
The account on my own mail server gets 1, maybe 2 spam mails a month.
In summary...I think it's the fscking ISP's lack of security and selling of it's userlists that leads to spam.
btw...I post DAILY to the usenet, using the real email address that is hosted on my own mail server. The fact that I don't get spam leads me to believe that this is no longer a problem. Then again, I only post to a single alt.* group that seems to not be a target of the spambots.
Try "them and Amazon". This might not seem like a big error, but Americans (at least in my region)
typically get this one right. It's typically best to stick to standard grammar, but if you're going to be
less formal, at least a substitute that's widely accepted in the vernacular...
Did you mean "use a substitute?" I always find it funny when a person corrects somebody else's grammar and munges their own.
Of course, I probably just did the same without realizing it:)
Embedding in web pages is just one thing that is popular to do with java. It is not it's sole purpose. You could actually embed any kind of 'applet' in a browser (flash, for example...or mp3 players...avi's...etc.)
Java is used quite extensively on the backend of many web pages (server side). In addition, many appliances/firewalls use a java application to manage them...that way it works on whatever OS your management station happens to be running.
IBM and Sun (of course) use java for the configuration of their firewalling and IPSec products, and it works very well for that task. it's that whole "write once, run anywhere" thing that actually does work if you use the proper class libraries and compiler.
I'm already working on a palm interface to my own jukebox.
At the moment the daemon on the jukebox is a simple FIFO, so I use a telnet session, using ptelnet to send commands.
But whenever I have time to learn a little palm sockets stuff, I will have a palm gui to control the jukebox with. Should work great in the car.
My bandwidth on my cablemodem isn't my problem. It's all the other stupid problems I always have. Block sync going down sometimes several times a day (although that seems to be getting better lately), idiot DNS admins not knowing how to properly configure their servers (it took me a WEEK to get the idiots to have my IP reverse-resolve properly...you can't browse slashdot without resolving, b/c they time out on a lookup (I guess their logs are configured to do lookups), DHCP not configured properly, etc.
Cablemodems are great! It's just the fools administering the service that suck.
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Cablemodems don't require drivers, nitwit. They are simply a bridge. The inside interface is straight ethernet. You use an ethernet card in your linux box.
..but what's the big deal about ActiveX support? Other than some web-sites that are
strictly internal to the companies I've worked for, I've not been anywhere I *HAD* to have
ActiveX.
Trivial virus propogation. The kiddies love it. Just wait till kde starts putting VBScript in everything. Oh joy.
I used to love KDE, mainly becuase of KFM. Now I steer clear of anything with a K in front of it. Why, oh why, does the K environment have so much shit running for no reason? Yes, I understand the purpose, but Kmail can't even do simple drag-drop attachments for fsck's sake. Isn't that what all those socket/pipe daemons are running for?
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Oh, and for all those people who are harping on the security concerns, who said that these
books had to be on an open network? ATMs talk to each other all the time, and hacking of
those networks are minimal. I don't see why they couldn't implement something similar for
books.
For the same reason the ANX is now implementing IPSec to use the public internet instead of using its own dedicated network. IT'S EXPENSIVE!
They can be disabled simply by disabling javascript
You can close them, so they aren't in your face as you try to read the article
They pop up under the window, so they aren't in your face when you open the page
What would be nice is if a standard was enforced whereby the window name for ads is always the same. Then you can keep that window around, minimize it, whatever, and all the junk will always go to it. Good compromise between advertisers and users.
The problem isn't with the bonsaikitten site itself. It's with the fuckers who see that site and then decide to try it.
Rednecks love to torture cats. It's a known fact. If I ever see it occuring, there will be some fucked up rednecks, to be sure. Torture the animal? I'll torture you.
iplayoutside
is very successful. I do not know their revenue model, but my guess is that they get a cut of some of the entry fees from the races they cover. They do an INCREDIBLE job of announcing events, and then covering them.
They have pictures up usually THE NEXT DAY! Promoters LOVE this, so they are happy to send some of the racers' registration to iplayoutside. Race coverage is up in a couple of days in most cases.
They provided the servers, an RF Scan-Badge system, and even an 802.11 wireless network for EVERYONE TO USE (Waaaaaaaaaay cool!) at the 24 hours of snowshoe. This system posted results to the web IN REAL TIME as we raced.
The way to make money on an informational website is to do it the way iplayoutside does. You provide a specialized service that people will pay for. Since the racers are already paying an entrance fee for the event, part of that goes to the web-wizards at iplayoutside for the coverage. It's beautiful! Such a perfect system and it WORKS.
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Do I detect a lisp?
I'm more inclined to think they sell their lists. Not to mention the security at the ISP is attrocious.
I check my 'real' account about twice a week. There are always at *LEAST* 50 messages in the inbox. All spam.
The account I actually use, however, is on my *OWN* mail server. I use dyndns.org for my domain name and to provide the MX record that points to my own mail server.
The account on my own mail server gets 1, maybe 2 spam mails a month.
In summary...I think it's the fscking ISP's lack of security and selling of it's userlists that leads to spam.
btw...I post DAILY to the usenet, using the real email address that is hosted on my own mail server. The fact that I don't get spam leads me to believe that this is no longer a problem. Then again, I only post to a single alt.* group that seems to not be a target of the spambots.
Standard use, fine. Law? WTF??
Of course, I probably just did the same without realizing it :)
Thank you, drive through.
Java is used quite extensively on the backend of many web pages (server side). In addition, many appliances/firewalls use a java application to manage them...that way it works on whatever OS your management station happens to be running.
IBM and Sun (of course) use java for the configuration of their firewalling and IPSec products, and it works very well for that task. it's that whole "write once, run anywhere" thing that actually does work if you use the proper class libraries and compiler.
The better products do not win simply by being better. That is what this is all about. Microsoft's abuse of monopoly power to maintain their monopoly.
Tell me...what happened to word perfect? Corel? Citrix? Borland?
I'm already working on a palm interface to my own jukebox. At the moment the daemon on the jukebox is a simple FIFO, so I use a telnet session, using ptelnet to send commands. But whenever I have time to learn a little palm sockets stuff, I will have a palm gui to control the jukebox with. Should work great in the car.
Cablemodems are great! It's just the fools administering the service that suck.
--SCHecklerX with a degree in Aerospace Engineering
You shouldn't even think of running wireless in an office environment (and probably not at home either) unless you are using IPSec. Problem solved.
Cablemodems don't require drivers, nitwit. They are simply a bridge. The inside interface is straight ethernet. You use an ethernet card in your linux box.
Trivial virus propogation. The kiddies love it. Just wait till kde starts putting VBScript in everything. Oh joy.
I used to love KDE, mainly becuase of KFM. Now I steer clear of anything with a K in front of it. Why, oh why, does the K environment have so much shit running for no reason? Yes, I understand the purpose, but Kmail can't even do simple drag-drop attachments for fsck's sake. Isn't that what all those socket/pipe daemons are running for?
For the same reason the ANX is now implementing IPSec to use the public internet instead of using its own dedicated network. IT'S EXPENSIVE!
What would be nice is if a standard was enforced whereby the window name for ads is always the same. Then you can keep that window around, minimize it, whatever, and all the junk will always go to it. Good compromise between advertisers and users.
Oh well. I can dream, right?
ln -s / c\: ln -s /mnt/cdrom d\:
My personal favorite method is to use rox-filer with the icon size set to huge, associations with gqview and imagemagick's convert for thumbnails.
CF is definitely the way to go if you buy a digital camera.
But if you were serious, you need to go get a bit of clue.
So why doesn't IBM provide a WPS for linux? If you are going to migrate your customers to linux anyway, wouldn't this be a good move?
I really do miss PM and WPS. Beautiful OOI that doesn't get in your way, and EVERYTHING works together the way you would expect.
It would be even more awesome if IBM's PM/WPS libraries gained momentum in linux, getting rid of the god-awful gnome and KDE crap.
You haven't had to reconfigure/install many windoze 98 machines, have you?
It's more like what the computer thinks it knows, and you are powerless to fix the problem.
Rednecks love to torture cats. It's a known fact. If I ever see it occuring, there will be some fucked up rednecks, to be sure. Torture the animal? I'll torture you.
The reason this junk doesn't sell on linux is that there is no real need for it on that platform.
Kind of like trying to sell us a TCP/IP stack, ya know?
They have pictures up usually THE NEXT DAY! Promoters LOVE this, so they are happy to send some of the racers' registration to iplayoutside. Race coverage is up in a couple of days in most cases.
They provided the servers, an RF Scan-Badge system, and even an 802.11 wireless network for EVERYONE TO USE (Waaaaaaaaaay cool!) at the 24 hours of snowshoe. This system posted results to the web IN REAL TIME as we raced.
The way to make money on an informational website is to do it the way iplayoutside does. You provide a specialized service that people will pay for. Since the racers are already paying an entrance fee for the event, part of that goes to the web-wizards at iplayoutside for the coverage. It's beautiful! Such a perfect system and it WORKS.
Or perhaps the ability to relax every now and then is what makes them so efficient in the first place. Did you ever think of that?
Actually I think you could have used SSI to achieve what you demonstrate, and that is almost always available by default. Crude, but works.