It used to be that people made their own web pages, and if they were so-inclined and had their own server, a nice document template, some dynamic stuff, whatever.
Now it's this crap. What's sad is that this stuff really adds no particular value to people who had their own webpages.
It's like we're back to AOL and Compuserve all of a sudden. WTF, over?
which is stupid. Nobody should dictate what Microsoft is or is not allowed (of their own creation) to include. The problem, however, is closed formats, APIs, and deals with OEMs. Those are the things that this stupid focus on bundling fails to address. Proper enforcement would focus on making sure you can interchange components at will. Let microsoft include whatever of their own creation they care to, so long as it can be removed and replaced.
It's not necessarily what is bundled or not. It's their #!@$@ business practices and closed APIs. I really don't give a crap if an alternate browser is on the system or not. What they should care about is that it is easy to put it on, remove the one you don't like, etc. You should be able to mix and match as you see fit.
This focus on 'bundling' has always annoyed me. Why should we force microsoft to bundle anything that they themselves didn't create? that's stupid. We definitely should look into their dealings with OEMs though! That whole forcing OS/2 out of the market with their exclusive contracts were not cool. Educate yourself on the real criminal behavior: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
To test for antitrust, they need simply test how easy it is to mix and match different components. If the OS is getting in the way of that, fine the hell out of them.
You're missing the point. To run just ONE KDE app in, say, a clean windowmaker environment, all of that other stuff gets launched, whether you need it or not. Not so with other software.
1) nuke a piece of the thread you don't care about, the whole thing is gone to the trash 2) it encourages >>>>>>>>>>> incredibly ridiculous quoting of unnecessary crap 3) it encourages very poor netiquette
and what, exactly, are all of those bells and whistles necessary for? XDND, XDS, and pipelines already exist, so why the necessity for all of that other crap? I agree with grandparent. KDE is a bloated environment, which is why although there are nice KDE apps out there, I will never run them in my gnome or windowmaker environments. No thanks.
As is a desktop menu. And I don't have to go through dragging down to the bottom of the screen to get to it, and then dragging another direction, searching through icons that may or may not make sense, to get what I want.
total spam rejections this month: 3170 total spam not rejected, but flagged: 6 (my rejection filters are good:-)
While better than it has been in the past, just because you don't see the problem does not mean that it doesn't exist. Now multiply that by, say, 20,000 for a mid/large sized company. Now imagine the resources dedicated to dealing with that. Get it yet?
Here's my techniques, which are very similar to yours:-)
milter-greylist. This has had the largest impact on spam compared with anything else. It can be a hassle for one-time purchases, but I've yet to have a legitimate vendor not properly queue and re-send.
sendmail.mc stuff:
add a greet pause
configure bad recipient throttling
configure privacy flags (more for security): goaway, restrictmailq, restrictqrun
Mimedefang stuff:
To make things easy, I just short circuit known hosts (my own domains) before the following tests
reject based on zen.spamhaus.org and list.dsbl.org
reject if helo is not a FQDN or IP address
reject if envelope sender claims to be from your domain
reject if helo claims to be from your domain
reject if helo is rfc1918 address
Spamassassin stuff
tune your bayes stuff. I do this with simple cron jobs on specific imap folders that I can just drag any spam that gets through to. For multiple users, shared imap folders would work.
keep your ruleset up to date automatically with SARE. Openprotect runs a nice service for this, which seems to now be pay-only, but what I set up with them originally when they first started the service seems to still work. *shrug*
Most (95+%) stuff gets rejected outright, and does not therefore require the horsepower to run through spamassassin analysis. These methods also produce very few false positives, and I've yet to have spam come through unflagged within my thresholds (which are 3.5 flag, 7.0 discard).
I still can't see the fascination with these things, unless used only for applets. As a launcher, they are horrible, and a context menu on a desktop is much more efficient and easy to use and navigate. Same thing goes for 'panels'. Wharf, and the windowmaker dock, at least are useful as a place to put monitoring tools.
I've noticed this in linux lately too. I've used windowmaker for years, but it's just not keeping up with integration with gnome and such. Oh well.
Docks suck. Can we have context menus on the desktop back please?
Then maybe those "adults" with children should raise and monitor them themselves. Your kid is not my problem, put your own damned net filters on, or cut the cable, but leave MY Internet alone.
And, they were taken by the girls themselves. Who was being exploited here? Isn't that the point of the laws, to deal with the sick fucks who exploit children? Not to mention 15yo girls are *JAILBAIT* not CP.
A law that can be used so easily to prosecute somebody for the wrong reasons needs to be abolished.
I dunno. (it's been awhile since I've done any javascript, so forgive me if this has been fixed):
javascript uses the same operator for numeric addition and string concatenation. Pretty bad in a loosely-typed language, don't you think?
a=1 b=1 a+b could be either 11 or 2. Who knows? This one got me when it would always be the former. At least perl uses '.' for strings and '+' for numbers to figure out how to interpret what you're trying to do.
Then again, code is too complex. Those electronic voting machines should never be used in the first place. The process should be simple to understand by ANYBODY who would cast a vote.
how, exactly, is putting in more hours for the same amount of work more efficient?
And what about all the time commuting to and from the office vs. telecommuting on days where it makes sense to do so (working on a project plan that requires no input from anybody else, etc).
It's not about being more productive vs. being in the office more. It's about control, and it's ridiculous.
yet another reason I use rox-filer. Select thing, it is in your cut buffer. Bypass the gnome crap and just middle-click after selecting using your file manager.
I don't develop these days, but GTK is most certainly cross-platform. Sylpheed, Pidgin, Gimp, gvim, and several others are all very clean ports to windows that look as good, and run as fast as their originals in linux.
Dunno what that effort entailed, but the fact that there are quite a few of them seems to mean that it's not too bad?
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Indeed. I commented on this too, but you some it up a lot better.
It's like we've reverted back to compuserve and AOL, pre-web. *shudder*
It used to be that people made their own web pages, and if they were so-inclined and had their own server, a nice document template, some dynamic stuff, whatever.
Now it's this crap. What's sad is that this stuff really adds no particular value to people who had their own webpages.
It's like we're back to AOL and Compuserve all of a sudden. WTF, over?
Ok. Time to start doing something else for a living. This Internet thing has officially jumped the shark.
And how do you do all of that when your budget goes to Microsoft software? Catch-22 :-)
which is stupid. Nobody should dictate what Microsoft is or is not allowed (of their own creation) to include. The problem, however, is closed formats, APIs, and deals with OEMs. Those are the things that this stupid focus on bundling fails to address. Proper enforcement would focus on making sure you can interchange components at will. Let microsoft include whatever of their own creation they care to, so long as it can be removed and replaced.
It's not necessarily what is bundled or not. It's their #!@$@ business practices and closed APIs. I really don't give a crap if an alternate browser is on the system or not. What they should care about is that it is easy to put it on, remove the one you don't like, etc. You should be able to mix and match as you see fit.
This focus on 'bundling' has always annoyed me. Why should we force microsoft to bundle anything that they themselves didn't create? that's stupid. We definitely should look into their dealings with OEMs though! That whole forcing OS/2 out of the market with their exclusive contracts were not cool. Educate yourself on the real criminal behavior: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/f3800/msjudgex.htm
To test for antitrust, they need simply test how easy it is to mix and match different components. If the OS is getting in the way of that, fine the hell out of them.
You're missing the point. To run just ONE KDE app in, say, a clean windowmaker environment, all of that other stuff gets launched, whether you need it or not. Not so with other software.
That mode is why I hate gmail.
1) nuke a piece of the thread you don't care about, the whole thing is gone to the trash
2) it encourages >>>>>>>>>>> incredibly ridiculous quoting of unnecessary crap
3) it encourages very poor netiquette
and what, exactly, are all of those bells and whistles necessary for? XDND, XDS, and pipelines already exist, so why the necessity for all of that other crap? I agree with grandparent. KDE is a bloated environment, which is why although there are nice KDE apps out there, I will never run them in my gnome or windowmaker environments. No thanks.
I dunno. Maybe those 250,000 should also be charged with aiding and abetting...
And that's more straight-forward than right-click on desktop how?
As is a desktop menu. And I don't have to go through dragging down to the bottom of the screen to get to it, and then dragging another direction, searching through icons that may or may not make sense, to get what I want.
On a *home server* that doesn't see a lot of traffic, over the past month:
$ grep reject maillog* | wc -l
1384
$ expr $(grep greylist maillog* | wc -l) - $(grep whitelisted maillog* | wc -l)
1786
total spam rejections this month: 3170 :-)
total spam not rejected, but flagged: 6 (my rejection filters are good
While better than it has been in the past, just because you don't see the problem does not mean that it doesn't exist. Now multiply that by, say, 20,000 for a mid/large sized company. Now imagine the resources dedicated to dealing with that. Get it yet?
Here's my techniques, which are very similar to yours :-)
Most (95+%) stuff gets rejected outright, and does not therefore require the horsepower to run through spamassassin analysis. These methods also produce very few false positives, and I've yet to have spam come through unflagged within my thresholds (which are 3.5 flag, 7.0 discard).
I still can't see the fascination with these things, unless used only for applets. As a launcher, they are horrible, and a context menu on a desktop is much more efficient and easy to use and navigate. Same thing goes for 'panels'. Wharf, and the windowmaker dock, at least are useful as a place to put monitoring tools.
I've noticed this in linux lately too. I've used windowmaker for years, but it's just not keeping up with integration with gnome and such. Oh well.
Docks suck. Can we have context menus on the desktop back please?
Bad parenting?
Then maybe those "adults" with children should raise and monitor them themselves. Your kid is not my problem, put your own damned net filters on, or cut the cable, but leave MY Internet alone.
Same memory came back to me, but it was with a TRS-80 coco and its touch tablet, which was really just a grid of buttons. Ahhh, memories.
And, they were taken by the girls themselves. Who was being exploited here? Isn't that the point of the laws, to deal with the sick fucks who exploit children? Not to mention 15yo girls are *JAILBAIT* not CP.
A law that can be used so easily to prosecute somebody for the wrong reasons needs to be abolished.
I dunno. (it's been awhile since I've done any javascript, so forgive me if this has been fixed):
javascript uses the same operator for numeric addition and string concatenation. Pretty bad in a loosely-typed language, don't you think?
a=1
b=1
a+b could be either 11 or 2. Who knows? This one got me when it would always be the former. At least perl uses '.' for strings and '+' for numbers to figure out how to interpret what you're trying to do.
they'd do the same with voting machines....
Then again, code is too complex. Those electronic voting machines should never be used in the first place. The process should be simple to understand by ANYBODY who would cast a vote.
It breaks down when you have a long commute, or social things to do in the summer when it's light outside. I, unfortunately, have both :-(
how, exactly, is putting in more hours for the same amount of work more efficient?
And what about all the time commuting to and from the office vs. telecommuting on days where it makes sense to do so (working on a project plan that requires no input from anybody else, etc).
It's not about being more productive vs. being in the office more. It's about control, and it's ridiculous.
yet another reason I use rox-filer. Select thing, it is in your cut buffer. Bypass the gnome crap and just middle-click after selecting using your file manager.
I don't develop these days, but GTK is most certainly cross-platform. Sylpheed, Pidgin, Gimp, gvim, and several others are all very clean ports to windows that look as good, and run as fast as their originals in linux.
Dunno what that effort entailed, but the fact that there are quite a few of them seems to mean that it's not too bad?