I'd prefer reasonable prices for the DVDs and CDs. Paying for content that has been compressed and indexed in a manner that may or may not suit your needs seems pretty stupid to me. Charge reasonable prices for the stuff and then let me use it however works best for me under existing fair use laws. Get rid of the DRM, charge a fair price. Maybe people would buy more of it then.
As an ISP, offer your users the ability to alias their mail address for companies they do business online with.
If the user receives mail from that company not to the alias they registered, it's obviously a phishing attempt or spam. Heck, the ISP could just drop it altogether based on the mail routing information.
It seems socially acceptable for some black folks to refer to each other as nigger. Try doing that as a white boy to your black office worker and see what happens.
I agree. Windowmaker is quite nice. I try gnome or KDE every now and then, but always go back. Using it in combination with Rox-filer's pinboard is a nice combination.
Two things I like about windowmaker: 1) the ability to create dynamic menus. 2) the nice UI config, even though everything is stored in plain text files on the backend.
Things that could be better: 1) more window management control. Like the ability to tile or cascade based on a selection from the "F11" menu. 2) support of more than 3 mouse buttons and a scrollwheel. I'd love to be able to use my thumb button to close windows, or change desktops, for example. 3) same as 1) above, but with selected windows instead of via the "F11" menu.
Um. It's TRIVIAL to remove yourself from the spamhaus lists. Just go to their site, fill out the form, and you are off. This is the reason that it is the only XBL/SBL list that I use to outright reject mail on the servers that I manage. All others will, of course, simply raise spamassassin hit counters.
Why be worried about "connecting and issuing simple queries". I am not a PHP coder, so don't know whether this is standard practice or not, but shouldn't you be using a persistent connection to the database? Especially if you are using something like MySQL which (the version I still use, it's likely changed by now) forces you to make a whole lotta little queries if you want to emulate a sub-select? I'd hate to see the MySQL logs for some apps if it is standard practice to open that connection for every query on every page!
I've been using html::embperl for about 6 years now, and it works great. It's trivial to modularize (just write your own supporting perl modules). And it takes advantage of mod_perl (pre-load your perl modules as part of the apache process. Good stuff!). Of course, you also have all of CPAN at your disposal this way too.
embperl does some nice escaping and such by default, adding some security benefits.
The solution to me seems to be the approach used in linux, bsd, whatever. Fully document the security APIs, or command-line tools to configure the security aspects. Let other vendors write their GUIs for controlling security, such as firewalling, using that API. Let people pick the tool that fits their needs best, while all providing the same type of security through the OS.
I don't know. But personally, I think childhood should be like a calvin and hobbes strip.
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What most managers fail to realise is that a skilled staff can actually decrease that bottom line using innovation and skill instead of buying an endless stream of products, licenses, and investment in training of 'cheap' outsourced staff. That is the situation I run into all the time with my own company. There have been situations where we have taken the time to run the numbers and prove that we had a solution, already in place except for one component (that was the decision to be made) that performed beyond expectation, was less expensive than other methods, and was also manageable by lower paid, less skilled staff, allowing us to focus on other things. Despite this, they STILL chose to outsource the entire infrastructure. This cost roughly 3x the money, and there have been several problems with the implementation causing disruption to business to date. And, since it's fully outsourced, we exert no real control over getting problems resolved.
Businesses need to trust their own staff (Isn't that why they hired them in the first place?) and let them use their skills to hit that bottom line rather than listen to vendors' (outsourcing and otherwise) claims of lower cost, higher quality, and reduced SLA (I've never seen a single one ever be better than what we would have done ourselves). Vendors selling you products and staffing services have NO VESTED INTEREST in your company's success. Your own employees DO!
It solves the problem of education while not trying to criminalize those of us who know what we aredoing. It makes sense, just like all of the stickers and warnings and such that come with car stereos you install yourself, TVs, Microwaves, Etc.
Greylisting most certainly does not just drop the message. It sends a tempfail to the sending host, which should try again later. If enough time has elapsed between tries for the tuple (to, from, relay), then the message is accepted. If the sender's mail system is misconfigured IT might drop the message without notifying the sender, but that is NOT the greylilsting system's fault.
Ok, then tunnel ppp over ssh with the default route pointing to the other PPP endpoint, and then use your own private resolver as well. Just don't forget to add a static route for the remote endpoint first...oops:)
Why any service? Why would I want to actually purchase music that is by definition not the real thing since it is in a lossy format? Why don't the record companies simply charge a fair price for CDs, people will buy them and encode themselves? I download here and there. If it's something I like, I usually go find the CD used and buy it so that I can encode it to MY tastes.
I don't understand why people buy stuff that isn't lossless.
Maybe the person didn't get it yet. Mail can be delayed for many different reasons. A spam fighting technique is to use greylisting. Some mail servers will simply queue the tempfail and not try again for a few hours, or maybe not until tomorrow. SMTP servers will guarantee delivery. They won't guarantee delivery in a few seconds.
Just make up a fake one for these purposes. Unless they are paying you, taxing you, or checking on your finances, they don't have any need for it. Certainly not as a customer ID.
This thing works great for dumping stuff from my garmin etrex. He has options for google and several other mapping services. Way cool. Now if only he'd support kismet files natively for war driving.
Yeah, these are nice. I just bought one to use in the car with the new Kenwood head unit I just bought (Kenwood DPX701), which can take USB input. Now I easily have my whole collection with me. Yay! The kenwood interface is not ideal, so growing your own still seems the best way to go, if you have the time.
I've been working on a nice portable solution myself. Ideally, now that fast hardware and RAM is cheaper, it would be very nice if every OS had a standard virtual machine (java, whatever) and then we could all carry around one suite of tools that works everywhere. That being a dream, most people have windoze at home, so my portable apps are all windoze based. Here's what I've done:
First, you have to deal with the fact that your USB key may not always mount as the same drive letter. I use pstart to take care of this: http://www.pegtop.de/start/. A great little app to give you a consistent environment no matter who's machine you are using.
Next, a unix environment. First, get a bunch of tools (including zsh) from here: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/. Some of these don't work (man, df, etc), so you will want to find better versions elsewhere (they do exist! I just discovered a good version of DF from this thread, thanks! Others include dd, ls). Zsh is the killer app from this suite. A nice shell that does not depend on cygwin. You'll need to create two files to set up your environment. All of my unix tools exist in a subdirectory called 'unixtools' on the key disk.
Start with a script (call it startup) to properly initialize zsh to know where your stuff is. You then initialize zsh from pstart using 'unixtools/zsh.exe startup' Note that $UTD will now be defined as your unix tools drive for use in any other sh scripts you want to write:
And of course we need a.zshrc (you need to replace ls with a version I don't recall where is at this moment for DIRCOLORS to work). You can see I have set up some aliases, most notably for gvim (this demonstrates the use of $UTD):
alias ls='ls -F --color' alias clear=cls alias vi="$UTD/gvim/PortableGVim.exe" alias awk=gawk precmd () {
title $USERNAME@$HOST: $PWD }
One app I like to use on the USB drive is freecommander. Unfortunately, this program relies solely on its INI file, and does not take parameters for browsing. To fix this, I wrote the following script called 'browse' for launching it:
if [[ -z "$1" || "$1" == '.' ]]; then
DWP=`echo $PWD | sed -e 's!/!\\\\\\\!g'` else
DWP=`echo $1 | sed -e 's!/!\\\\\\\!g'` fi
TRHOME=`echo $HOME | sed -e 's!/!\\\\\\\!g'`
sed -e "s/^Dir2.*/Dir2=$DWP/" $FCINI > $FCTMP sed -e "s/^Dir1.*/Dir1=$TRHOME/" $FCTMP > $FCINI
exec $UDT/freecommander/freeCommander.exe
Notice above that I can actually use a 'shebang' line, thanks to the $ZSHROOT environment set up in our startup script. Very cool! This even works if you install activestate perl on your key disk. I put perl in unixtools/perl. That means that from your zsh, you can do things like './test' where 'test' has '#!/perl/bin/perl.exe -w' as its first line. I think this is very cool!
I should put this all on a web page one of these days:) Some other things I have on the key disk, that didn't involve quite the devotion of time:
Sylpheed. I have my home mail server set up to use imap over ssl and smtp auth with ssl. Those two things were a little bit of work to set up. You can always use ssh forwarding instead v
How about we just eliminate software and business method patents, and require working models for physical devices within a certain timeframe of issuance of the patent?
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um...even the subject here is a dead giveaway...Battlestar Gallactica is a beautiful piece of work.
I'd prefer reasonable prices for the DVDs and CDs. Paying for content that has been compressed and indexed in a manner that may or may not suit your needs seems pretty stupid to me. Charge reasonable prices for the stuff and then let me use it however works best for me under existing fair use laws. Get rid of the DRM, charge a fair price. Maybe people would buy more of it then.
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It seems socially acceptable for some black folks to refer to each other as nigger. Try doing that as a white boy to your black office worker and see what happens.
Weird al is 'one of us', so he's allowed.
I agree. Windowmaker is quite nice. I try gnome or KDE every now and then, but always go back. Using it in combination with Rox-filer's pinboard is a nice combination.
Two things I like about windowmaker:
1) the ability to create dynamic menus.
2) the nice UI config, even though everything is stored in plain text files on the backend.
Things that could be better:
1) more window management control. Like the ability to tile or cascade based on a selection from the "F11" menu.
2) support of more than 3 mouse buttons and a scrollwheel. I'd love to be able to use my thumb button to close windows, or change desktops, for example.
3) same as 1) above, but with selected windows instead of via the "F11" menu.
Why are you using nautilus? Why not use something like rox-filer?
Um. It's TRIVIAL to remove yourself from the spamhaus lists. Just go to their site, fill out the form, and you are off. This is the reason that it is the only XBL/SBL list that I use to outright reject mail on the servers that I manage. All others will, of course, simply raise spamassassin hit counters.
Why be worried about "connecting and issuing simple queries". I am not a PHP coder, so don't know whether this is standard practice or not, but shouldn't you be using a persistent connection to the database? Especially if you are using something like MySQL which (the version I still use, it's likely changed by now) forces you to make a whole lotta little queries if you want to emulate a sub-select? I'd hate to see the MySQL logs for some apps if it is standard practice to open that connection for every query on every page!
I never made the jump to trying PHP because perl already meets all of my needs. Specifically, check out embedded perl. Very powerful stuff: http://perl.apache.org/embperl/pod/doc/Embperl.htm
I've been using html::embperl for about 6 years now, and it works great. It's trivial to modularize (just write your own supporting perl modules). And it takes advantage of mod_perl (pre-load your perl modules as part of the apache process. Good stuff!). Of course, you also have all of CPAN at your disposal this way too.
embperl does some nice escaping and such by default, adding some security benefits.
The solution to me seems to be the approach used in linux, bsd, whatever. Fully document the security APIs, or command-line tools to configure the security aspects. Let other vendors write their GUIs for controlling security, such as firewalling, using that API. Let people pick the tool that fits their needs best, while all providing the same type of security through the OS.
I don't know. But personally, I think childhood should be like a calvin and hobbes strip.
What most managers fail to realise is that a skilled staff can actually decrease that bottom line using innovation and skill instead of buying an endless stream of products, licenses, and investment in training of 'cheap' outsourced staff. That is the situation I run into all the time with my own company. There have been situations where we have taken the time to run the numbers and prove that we had a solution, already in place except for one component (that was the decision to be made) that performed beyond expectation, was less expensive than other methods, and was also manageable by lower paid, less skilled staff, allowing us to focus on other things. Despite this, they STILL chose to outsource the entire infrastructure. This cost roughly 3x the money, and there have been several problems with the implementation causing disruption to business to date. And, since it's fully outsourced, we exert no real control over getting problems resolved. Businesses need to trust their own staff (Isn't that why they hired them in the first place?) and let them use their skills to hit that bottom line rather than listen to vendors' (outsourcing and otherwise) claims of lower cost, higher quality, and reduced SLA (I've never seen a single one ever be better than what we would have done ourselves). Vendors selling you products and staffing services have NO VESTED INTEREST in your company's success. Your own employees DO!
It solves the problem of education while not trying to criminalize those of us who know what we aredoing. It makes sense, just like all of the stickers and warnings and such that come with car stereos you install yourself, TVs, Microwaves, Etc.
Greylisting most certainly does not just drop the message. It sends a tempfail to the sending host, which should try again later. If enough time has elapsed between tries for the tuple (to, from, relay), then the message is accepted. If the sender's mail system is misconfigured IT might drop the message without notifying the sender, but that is NOT the greylilsting system's fault.
Ok, then tunnel ppp over ssh with the default route pointing to the other PPP endpoint, and then use your own private resolver as well. Just don't forget to add a static route for the remote endpoint first...oops :)
ssh -L $pickaport:localhost:3128 you@your.home.server.running.squid
And then use any browser of choice via SSH by using $pickaport as the local proxy.
Why any service? Why would I want to actually purchase music that is by definition not the real thing since it is in a lossy format? Why don't the record companies simply charge a fair price for CDs, people will buy them and encode themselves? I download here and there. If it's something I like, I usually go find the CD used and buy it so that I can encode it to MY tastes.
I don't understand why people buy stuff that isn't lossless.
Mail shouldn't be high priority. That is what pagers and phones are for.
Maybe the person didn't get it yet. Mail can be delayed for many different reasons. A spam fighting technique is to use greylisting. Some mail servers will simply queue the tempfail and not try again for a few hours, or maybe not until tomorrow. SMTP servers will guarantee delivery. They won't guarantee delivery in a few seconds.
Just make up a fake one for these purposes. Unless they are paying you, taxing you, or checking on your finances, they don't have any need for it. Certainly not as a customer ID.
With the stupid ads that the cable companies has been running lately, I'm wondering if they hired someone to do this.
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/
This thing works great for dumping stuff from my garmin etrex. He has options for google and several other mapping services. Way cool. Now if only he'd support kismet files natively for war driving.
Yeah, these are nice. I just bought one to use in the car with the new Kenwood head unit I just bought (Kenwood DPX701), which can take USB input. Now I easily have my whole collection with me. Yay! The kenwood interface is not ideal, so growing your own still seems the best way to go, if you have the time.
First, you have to deal with the fact that your USB key may not always mount as the same drive letter. I use pstart to take care of this: http://www.pegtop.de/start/. A great little app to give you a consistent environment no matter who's machine you are using.
Next, a unix environment. First, get a bunch of tools (including zsh) from here:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/. Some of these don't work (man, df, etc), so you will want to find better versions elsewhere (they do exist! I just discovered a good version of DF from this thread, thanks! Others include dd, ls). Zsh is the killer app from this suite. A nice shell that does not depend on cygwin. You'll need to create two files to set up your environment. All of my unix tools exist in a subdirectory called 'unixtools' on the key disk.
Start with a script (call it startup) to properly initialize zsh to know where your stuff is. You then initialize zsh from pstart using 'unixtools/zsh.exe startup' Note that $UTD will now be defined as your unix tools drive for use in any other sh scripts you want to write:
And of course we need a .zshrc (you need to replace ls with a version I don't recall where is at this moment for DIRCOLORS to work). You can see I have set up some aliases, most notably for gvim (this demonstrates the use of $UTD):
One app I like to use on the USB drive is freecommander. Unfortunately, this program relies solely on its INI file, and does not take parameters for browsing. To fix this, I wrote the following script called 'browse' for launching it:
Notice above that I can actually use a 'shebang' line, thanks to the $ZSHROOT environment set up in our startup script. Very cool! This even works if you install activestate perl on your key disk. I put perl in unixtools/perl. That means that from your zsh, you can do things like './test' where 'test' has '#!/perl/bin/perl.exe -w' as its first line. I think this is very cool!
:) Some other things I have on the key disk, that didn't involve quite the devotion of time:
I should put this all on a web page one of these days
How about we just eliminate software and business method patents, and require working models for physical devices within a certain timeframe of issuance of the patent?