Bernard Balan, 51, who operates a bulk mail site from Emsdale, Ontario, called one-stop-financial.com, says he has gone through "unbelievable hardships" to keep the spam flowing.
"My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters," said Balan, a former truck driver and pinball machine mechanic.
Payback's a bitch huh? I guess this means we're "winning".
Depends on what they're opening up. Does anyone has a list of protocols that will be opened, and under what license? As with typical big media coverage, there is not a single link to something with information.
They say they're going to open up 113 protocols, somehow I don't see them opening up their crown jewels. SAMBA is already kicking their ass performance and pricewise, without an open protocol, can you imagine if the SAMBA guys got the specs to play with? Imagine every mailer out there being able to play with Exchange server, including all the groupware features. I don't see MS opening these protocols up.
I think what we will see is things like MS_BOB_API.DLL and old COM garbage.
Works for me in Mozilla... looks like you need to switch your browser. Complaining about simply fixed problems on Slashdot, which is read by techies (at least used to) is a pretty lame excuse.
If you want later, we can send someone over to your house and show you how to use your mouse too.
Once again... "recompiling the kernel" seems to be a pretty good excuse.
With most modern distros you never, ever have to recompile the kernel. I've been running Linux for 4 years, and I haven't HAD to recompile a kernel in almost two. Linux on the desktop does not mean Grandma compiling kernels and reading man pages.
a) Laws prevent spamming or b) I'm allowed to track them down, kill them, and be bestowed with riches for my trouble...
then we really have no choice but to figure out better ways to ignore them. Until we as an "internet community" weed out and eliminate spammers to get OUR bandwidth back, I can really see of no better way to make email usable again, that is of course, except for option b above. heh.
Do something about it Taco....
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Somehow I doubt this. If Spam didn't work, why do I get a hundred pieces of it every morning? Someone is buying.
OK Taco... someone mentions this everytime you complain about spam, install Spamassassin and be done with it. No joke, over 5 spams a day to a spam maildir, where it sits for 2 days just in case it's legit, then promptly to/dev/null... it even makes getting spams fun.
Hell, if you need help, fork over one of them slashdot.org email addresses and I'll help you for free.:P
I ended up moving the domain to Register.com [register.com] instead.
Which will promptly spam the crap out of *@yourdomain.com, forcing you to move to another registrar, thus continuing the cycle of registrar stupidity. If only ICANN would do something... no wait, that would make things worse....
If the Ximian release of gnome2.0 is anything like their 1.4 release, we should really be in for a treat. They manage that slick easy to use polish without dumbing everything down. My only complaint is the 'doorman' or whatever it's called goes a little bit too newbieish.
Other than that, I always point users to the Ximian stuff, especially if they're coming from windows. It doesn't behave like windows, but it's set up really professionally.
My complaint is this: Why aren't distro's packaging ximian gnome as the default gnome distro? We all know Redhat kind of ignores the linux desktop, concentrating on the server stuff. If I was them, I'd package ximian and have an instant polished gnome desktop. Redhat employs enough gnome hackers, that in a sense, they're already subsidizing the cost of Ximian gnome anyway.
Not to take anything away from the RH gnome install, but why reinvent the wheel, Ximian has done most of the work already.
And I think everyone agrees that jimmnac and tigert could be the best linux artists anywhere... droolworthy work from those two.
Debian seems very focused on a stable kernel, even more so than any other distribution I know of.
I think you mean a stable core of the distro. Debian uses Linus' kernels, they don't keep a seperate distribution specific fork like the commercial distributions.
I'm wondering why #10 is a problem. Do people change their resolution all the time? I don't get it, I set mine on X config, and never ever change it again...
Are people just switching alot? I don't know anyone, windows user or not, who switches their resolution, ever.
bah... no it doesn't... sure somethings could be done better - but when it comes to kernel development as a whole, its already broken about every rule to 'proper software' development... and it's doing ok so far.
The difference between kernel distributions is not really a big deal. Maybe in a close source system it would be... but as long as everything stays open, its no big deal. I can grab the source to the latest redhat kernel and compile it on a debian system. That's what makes linux so great in the first place.
I find the OSX/XP-like look not as appealing as the classic looks myself, and I do agree with you.
But, you can always change it. I do find it interesting that with the newest development of any major desktop environment, window manager, or application, one of the first things that always gets ported is an OSX/XP looking theme.
Someday, E17 will come out - and someone will do an OSX for E and Luna for E theme too. Check out the stats on theme sites, those themes are popular, so its natural that the developers would cater to the users.
I don't like them either, but at least we have a choice!
Which is more important: the software and how we can continue evolving it by any legal means, or the licensing and philosophy behind it?
What's wrong with how OSS software is being written now?
Lot's of people having itches, lots of people scratching them... the larger projects have sponsors or full time developers by companies that use the software, I don't really see a need for something like this.
As a guy who server 4 years in the Army, I can't "avoid your propaganda at all costs." Especially when you're sitting at +5.:P
Yes, the game cost taxpayer money... could it have been spent on better things? Probably. The game is hugely popular it turns out... will it improve the Army's recruitment problem? I doubt it. Will it improve the perception of the Army with America's youth? Yes, for the same reason Saving Private Ryan and Blackhawk Down did.
The Army is trying to portray itself as a professional organization, where a soldier has many educational opportunities and other benefits that most of them would not have otherwise. They're trying to change the typical perception from "People who join the Army out of high school are losers, and had no choice." to "People who choose the Army are doing their country a great service and are fighting for our rights." When the shit hits the fan, the soldiers are the ones who pay the price... by the way, they're still doing it right now in places like Afghanistan.
In the grand scheme of things, the game cost almost nothing. Ask a Vietnam Vet sometime of the reception they got when they came home. I guarantee it wasn't the patriotic flag waving you see today. (Everyone's a couch patriot). It's PR ploy, that's for sure... but damn it, these guys are due.
One day, I was walking in a freaking toy store, and there was an action figure "Infantry Platoon Leader". I looked at it with some friends, and we were like "Holy shit, we're an action figure!". This game is the same thing --- an action figure for gamers, that's all it is.... nothing more, nothing less.
Think of the costs of this game as the fee for living in a free country. Now, get off your pedestal and enjoy it like everyone else, it's only a game.
We should just give up on decent service and professionalism. I don't think so.
My ISP (Ameritech) seems to think so, considering my DSL connection and their promptness to "Get ahold of me within 24 hours..."
Bleh... It's not unrealistic... don't expect people to live with downtime just because a good portion of those systems need to be rebooted on a regular basis (Win machines), and general retardness of sysadmins around the world allow things like Nimda and Codered to get out of hand. This is an excuse to let companies too cheap to have decent customer support off the hook. Maybe if they were educating their tech staff instead of finding more ways to rip us off, they'd have decent servive.
Everyone with competent sysadmins on rock solid *nix systems raise your hands...
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Bernard Balan, 51, who operates a bulk mail site from Emsdale, Ontario, called one-stop-financial.com, says he has gone through "unbelievable hardships" to keep the spam flowing.
"My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters," said Balan, a former truck driver and pinball machine mechanic.
Payback's a bitch huh? I guess this means we're "winning".
We can expect the fixes for all the open source systems to come way before Microsoft's "investigation" is complete.
Depends on what they're opening up. Does anyone has a list of protocols that will be opened, and under what license? As with typical big media coverage, there is not a single link to something with information.
They say they're going to open up 113 protocols, somehow I don't see them opening up their crown jewels. SAMBA is already kicking their ass performance and pricewise, without an open protocol, can you imagine if the SAMBA guys got the specs to play with? Imagine every mailer out there being able to play with Exchange server, including all the groupware features. I don't see MS opening these protocols up.
I think what we will see is things like MS_BOB_API.DLL and old COM garbage.
You mean like like this?
Works for me in Mozilla ... looks like you need to switch your browser. Complaining about simply fixed problems on Slashdot, which is read by techies (at least used to) is a pretty lame excuse.
If you want later, we can send someone over to your house and show you how to use your mouse too.
So the sources are bad but the binaries are good? Is today bizarro-world day or something?
-- there is little or no job security, there are long hours typically with no overtime paid, the stress can be extreme and the rewards are not great.
You mean, just like the rest of us?
Once again ... "recompiling the kernel" seems to be a pretty good excuse.
With most modern distros you never, ever have to recompile the kernel. I've been running Linux for 4 years, and I haven't HAD to recompile a kernel in almost two. Linux on the desktop does not mean Grandma compiling kernels and reading man pages.
Please get your facts straight.
It exists - Jabber.
What do you mean? The squid was probably just trying to cache some fish.
*runs*
Yeah, but until:
a) Laws prevent spamming or
b) I'm allowed to track them down, kill them, and be bestowed with riches for my trouble...
then we really have no choice but to figure out better ways to ignore them. Until we as an "internet community" weed out and eliminate spammers to get OUR bandwidth back, I can really see of no better way to make email usable again, that is of course, except for option b above. heh.
Somehow I doubt this. If Spam didn't work, why do I get a hundred pieces of it every morning? Someone is buying.
/dev/null ... it even makes getting spams fun.
:P
OK Taco... someone mentions this everytime you complain about spam, install Spamassassin and be done with it. No joke, over 5 spams a day to a spam maildir, where it sits for 2 days just in case it's legit, then promptly to
Hell, if you need help, fork over one of them slashdot.org email addresses and I'll help you for free.
UnitedLinux already is short one founding member.
Too bad it isn't the one we were hoping for.
The contest is on...
Which will be worse, the slashdot effect or the mass unsubscribes pounding the mailing lists??
I ended up moving the domain to Register.com [register.com] instead.
... no wait, that would make things worse ....
Which will promptly spam the crap out of *@yourdomain.com, forcing you to move to another registrar, thus continuing the cycle of registrar stupidity. If only ICANN would do something
Bleh ... let the "Icon on desktop, system tray, quick launch menu, start menu war" begin as well.
All pale compared to the Retarded User Interface Competition, where everyone wins, except the user.
If the Ximian release of gnome2.0 is anything like their 1.4 release, we should really be in for a treat. They manage that slick easy to use polish without dumbing everything down. My only complaint is the 'doorman' or whatever it's called goes a little bit too newbieish.
... droolworthy work from those two.
Other than that, I always point users to the Ximian stuff, especially if they're coming from windows. It doesn't behave like windows, but it's set up really professionally.
My complaint is this: Why aren't distro's packaging ximian gnome as the default gnome distro? We all know Redhat kind of ignores the linux desktop, concentrating on the server stuff. If I was them, I'd package ximian and have an instant polished gnome desktop. Redhat employs enough gnome hackers, that in a sense, they're already subsidizing the cost of Ximian gnome anyway.
Not to take anything away from the RH gnome install, but why reinvent the wheel, Ximian has done most of the work already.
And I think everyone agrees that jimmnac and tigert could be the best linux artists anywhere
Debian seems very focused on a stable kernel, even more so than any other distribution I know of.
I think you mean a stable core of the distro. Debian uses Linus' kernels, they don't keep a seperate distribution specific fork like the commercial distributions.
I'm wondering why #10 is a problem. Do people change their resolution all the time? I don't get it, I set mine on X config, and never ever change it again ...
Are people just switching alot? I don't know anyone, windows user or not, who switches their resolution, ever.
bah ... no it doesn't ... sure somethings could be done better - but when it comes to kernel development as a whole, its already broken about every rule to 'proper software' development ... and it's doing ok so far.
... but as long as everything stays open, its no big deal. I can grab the source to the latest redhat kernel and compile it on a debian system. That's what makes linux so great in the first place.
The difference between kernel distributions is not really a big deal. Maybe in a close source system it would be
I find the OSX/XP-like look not as appealing as the classic looks myself, and I do agree with you.
But, you can always change it. I do find it interesting that with the newest development of any major desktop environment, window manager, or application, one of the first things that always gets ported is an OSX/XP looking theme.
Someday, E17 will come out - and someone will do an OSX for E and Luna for E theme too. Check out the stats on theme sites, those themes are popular, so its natural that the developers would cater to the users.
I don't like them either, but at least we have a choice!
*sigh*, once again ... we have people living in the past.
... wow, look, burner recognized, icon on desktop ... Click, burn.
Grab a modern linux distro, install
User doesn't know/care about any of what you just mentioned.
Which is more important: the software and how we can continue evolving it by any legal means, or the licensing and philosophy behind it?
... the larger projects have sponsors or full time developers by companies that use the software, I don't really see a need for something like this.
What's wrong with how OSS software is being written now?
Lot's of people having itches, lots of people scratching them
As a guy who server 4 years in the Army, I can't "avoid your propaganda at all costs." Especially when you're sitting at +5. :P
... could it have been spent on better things? Probably. The game is hugely popular it turns out ... will it improve the Army's recruitment problem? I doubt it. Will it improve the perception of the Army with America's youth? Yes, for the same reason Saving Private Ryan and Blackhawk Down did.
... by the way, they're still doing it right now in places like Afghanistan.
... but damn it, these guys are due.
.... nothing more, nothing less.
Yes, the game cost taxpayer money
The Army is trying to portray itself as a professional organization, where a soldier has many educational opportunities and other benefits that most of them would not have otherwise. They're trying to change the typical perception from "People who join the Army out of high school are losers, and had no choice." to "People who choose the Army are doing their country a great service and are fighting for our rights." When the shit hits the fan, the soldiers are the ones who pay the price
In the grand scheme of things, the game cost almost nothing. Ask a Vietnam Vet sometime of the reception they got when they came home. I guarantee it wasn't the patriotic flag waving you see today. (Everyone's a couch patriot). It's PR ploy, that's for sure
One day, I was walking in a freaking toy store, and there was an action figure "Infantry Platoon Leader". I looked at it with some friends, and we were like "Holy shit, we're an action figure!". This game is the same thing --- an action figure for gamers, that's all it is
Think of the costs of this game as the fee for living in a free country. Now, get off your pedestal and enjoy it like everyone else, it's only a game.
We should just give up on decent service and professionalism. I don't think so.
... It's not unrealistic ... don't expect people to live with downtime just because a good portion of those systems need to be rebooted on a regular basis (Win machines), and general retardness of sysadmins around the world allow things like Nimda and Codered to get out of hand. This is an excuse to let companies too cheap to have decent customer support off the hook. Maybe if they were educating their tech staff instead of finding more ways to rip us off, they'd have decent servive.
My ISP (Ameritech) seems to think so, considering my DSL connection and their promptness to "Get ahold of me within 24 hours..."
Bleh
Everyone with competent sysadmins on rock solid *nix systems raise your hands...