Install OpenVPN and use that instead, it works. I tried getting the SSH method working but was never able to get it to go, yes it worked for many other US based services but not for Hulu. In the end I just installed OpenVPN on the server and the client on my home machine(s) and now I can watch Hulu just fine.
From what I've gathered when you try and use the SSH proxy method in the browser the Flash player just continues to use the direct method. Using OpenVPN your entire network connection goes via the VPN so then it works fine.
I installed Playon on a Windows machine and when using the VPN I can now watch Hulu on my PS3 as well, saves me firing up the HTPC.:)
There is always Playon (www.themediamall.com/playon/) which allows you to play Hulu on a PS3, Xbox360 or even a Wii by streaming the content from a PC on your network running the Playon Media Server.
I have a HTPC on my big screen but as of late I've switched to just using Playon and firing up the PS3 to watch TV content. The PS3 also doubles well as a media player, I upgraded the hard drive to 320GB and it plays most content you download via torrents anyway, so I've got 4 seasons of Doctor Who I need to sit down and view someday.
Granted I'm also in Canada so to even watch Hulu I have to get my PC linked via a VPN to one of my US based servers, but it works:)
Umm.. ants can lift more than their body weight as well.. and can work as a social group to overcome obstacles, build bridges for themselves (using their own bodies no less), etc.
Really, we aren't that special, we're just more advanced technologically than the other species we share the planet with but we are still nothing more than another animal species on its surface. Heck we're dumber than some species since we tend to over exploit our environment.
As for 200 more for bluray not being a big deal- 200 is 1/3 of a new computer, 20 paperback books, 4 video games, 6 or so good meals out, or 3-4 concerts. I'd rather have any of those rather than Bluray. Just because I could afford to buy it doens't mean I'm going to waste money like that. Of course I forget- I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't spend money unless he actually needs something.
A good meal out with my wife usually hits at least $100, any less and you're not talking "good" but chain restaurant food. Big difference.
Concerts are heading up in price big time, nearest venue for me averages around $70/ticket for a concert and that is a 7,000 seat venue, of course I need to add travel expenses to that cost. Even if I lived local to the venue you still have transit, parking, etc. Last concert I actually attended was Van Halen in Vancouver. Tickets alone were approximately $180/each after all the fees, add hotel, meals, travel expenses and that event cost about $500+ per person to attend.
The $400 I spent on my PS3 which allows me to play not only BluRay but a nice selection of games as well was a bargain in comparison to just attending one concert. It also doubles as a great media center and a not bad communications device since you can set it up to do video chat, etc.
And concerts being released on BluRay look and sound amazing, cost less than $30 and have lasting replay value:)
I can believe time travel before I believe faster than light travel.
Time travel would basically require it anyway. Think of it this way, if you want to travel back in time on Earth you would need to travel to the location of Earth at the time you intend to visit, which isn't the same location Earth inhabits today since we're moving through the cosmos with the Sun which is moving along with the galaxy which is also moving. So to time travel you basically still have to overcome the whole "travel long distances through space" issue we currently have.
I think it depends on how prevalent life is in the universe. We're beginning to find life almost everywhere we look on Earth including in many places we considered impossible for it to survive, it shows how versatile life is, it can survive at great depths, under enormous pressures which really makes us question a lot of things.
If it turns out life is the norm rather than the exception then there is likely a lot of life mingling around elsewhere. We're a young species in comparison to what could be out there, we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking we know all about how to traverse great distances through space. If life is the norm then the chances of intelligence rising up increases and with that the chance that some species somewhere figured out a method of travel that allows them to explore distant planets. It only takes one such species but if one can do it then others can increasing the odds they'll visit Earth at some point.
Now I'm not convinced they've been here either, but I do feel there are a lot of strange things people have seen over time that seem to point to "something" in at least a small percentage of reports. It deserves some serious study but for some reason there does indeed seem to be a policy of ridicule in our societies right now. Of course now with the prevalence of cameras we should be seeing more but then I'm sure it isn't like any visitors would always be here, it is more likely an explorer ship would pass by every few decades or so and spend a few weeks/months in the system. I would think that most would be able to observe from afar though without the need to enter the atmosphere except for sample gathering, even then they could do that in remote places without informing the native inhabitants.
I agree, we find our clients feel email hosting is as important and for some more important than their website hosting. Set up correctly the email aspect of hosting isn't that tough to provide, while our filters may not be as robust as Gmails (who have a much larger dataset to build filters from) we do manage to keep spam to a minimum, coupled by not overloading the servers and keeping a clean customer base I really find it hard to understand why DH would tell customers to get email hosting elsewhere.
Sounds more like overloaded servers having trouble just keeping up with web services and adding the email (and required SpamAssassin, ClamAV, etc.) on top of that is giving them grief.
Next they'll be telling the clients who only use basic HTML websites to go to Google Pages I suppose.
Just go with a Wii as they're getting a bit easier to find. We just picked one up yesterday and my wife was instantly hooked on Wii Sports, and she generally hates sports. She was actually starting to sweat while playing tennis on it. We bought it for the reasons the OP states, something to play together. Upgrading the HTPC to handle running games at 1920x1080i was going to cost more than just getting the console, not to mention finding "fun" stuff to play would be tougher since she isn't into the FPS games I enjoy.
Well we do get feedback on other mail issues, usually related to the remote end servers. For example a rather large local cable ISP in our main trading area installed an automated system whereby the were counting how much incoming email servers sent them and then blocking those that they felt were sending too much with a high score, of course many clients are forwarding their domain email to accounts at said ISP and that includes any spam that manages to get through the filters we have in place. We heard about that within hours.
We do have the option for a client to circumvent the RBLs it they so desire and we have one client who does that for their domain as they are located in Mexico and were getting a few false positives here and there. They still use SpamAssassin though to filter what gets in.
If you watch the SMTP logs after you enable the RBL you will see that it does mainly block the dynamic ranges of foreign ISPs and of course known spammer IP ranges. Legitimate sources rarely are blocked and if they are any email admin running a legit email box would be doing their darnedest to get off the Spamhaus RBLs because otherwise that mail server is practically useless in todays internet.
But always a good idea to keep an option to not use them for certain clients, but we're finding it rare for any to request not using RBL blocking.
Not many, I run this on my servers as well and rarely hear any problems from the clients using them.
Floodgates wide open is NOT an option because when I tried that I then heard many complaints from clients about slow server and way too much spam for their liking, they seem to prefer we try and do something about the spam levels rather than simply let everything through.
"offer shared hosting at ~$15/month for 200GB disk, 2tb bandwidth, That sounds impressive.
How about $8 for 500gb of disk and 5tb of bandwidth ? Or even 8tb of bandwidth or 700gb, if you get the right promocode ? Dream host..ing ? (this is what a professional calls "surreptitious advertising", just in case you wanted a contrast to your spamlink). There are some people competing in a lunar-cyclish page way, and HOSTs drinking GATORade are out there as well." Yeah, quite the amazing offer if I say so myself, 2tb of bandwidth for $15/month... wow. When I check datacenter costs at a reputable datacenter on their best connections it is upwards of $150/month for a machine that comes with a 250GB hard drive and 2000GB of bandwidth.
Since bandwidth is never delivered at a steady rate 24/7 it means you're going to be going through a cycle of peaks, I've got a game server pulling a terabyte a month and during prime time that is pulling 7mbit/s sometimes hitting 10mbit/s.. find me a 10mbit/s connection I can max out a majority of the time for $15/month.. apparently these hosts have found some hidden cheap bandwidth I guess.
Sure, we could go get a full time 100mbit/s connection from a NOC for a thousand a month, but when you're talking about the possibility of maxing out that line with 10-20 customers paying you $15, something doesn't add up. These high numbers being claimed are just as much horseshit as the guys doing unlimited.
If they can truly deliver 2tb for $15/month I've got a few download servers they can try out... really, this should be putting all the NOCs out of business.
They'll probably get released to the retail outlets soon, hit up your computer supplier for them if they already carry Asus parts, they should be able to source them.
I'm looking at grabbing the larger battery for mine.
I bought mine right at release date and I love the thing, it is exactly what I've been looking for in portable computing. As a sys admin I would often be in town and concerned about what I'd do if the pager went off, of course it meant heading for the home office asap. I do have a Dell Inspiron but it is a pain to lug around if you're just running to town for a few hours.
Not so with the EEE though, unplug from what, throw in its little carrying sleeve and off I go, it tucks nicely into the pouch on the back of the seats in the car. Wife goes shopping, I can find a nice parking spot with open wifi and go surfing. I have it set up so that I can SSH tunnel to the home office if I want to check mail or if I need to get on to a server to fix something, or if I want to surf a bit more securely I can just tunnel the traffic over that SSH tunnel, etc.
I'm still using the Xandros install that it came with and I'll probably tinker with Ubuntu on it at some point but I did manage to get Xandros set up in advanced mode with the apps I needed (most already installed from factory), so I am in no hurry to change things.
The other night my wife had a party with a bunch of her girlfriends over, they were all loving the EEE while I was sitting on the couch surfing. A couple are in the market for a PC and they want one of these as their main systems. It could work fine, easy enough to hook up a full monitor to it with a USB keyboard/mouse combo and you have a decent enough home system to use which can be unplugged and taken on the road easily. Bonus would be if your neighbours had open wifi routers to use:D
LOL.. nice story there. I didn't work for Lightspeed, just a small ISP here on the Island who was dialup for the most part but added DSL as broadband took hold. He asked Telus for the information on getting access to DSL ports and they pointed him towards AEBC and Uniserve for them. Being a dialup ISP he didn't want to go with Uniserve since they were of course a direct competitor with him in the area.
He lasted about 12 months with AEBC, as soon as his contracts were up he moved to Uniserve and actually ended up with a better deal in the end, they pool all the bandwidth for the ports he has and this means he is a bit more lenient with his allotment per client, as long as you are not a total pig about it he has no problem if you use a bit more than others.
At first some of their fees were a bit much ($20/month for a static IP???) but they've since lowered those fees ($3/month for static now, although the dynamic leases last a LONG time, mine has only changed due to MAC changes as I changed routers, etc.).
Overall I find the Uniserve sourced ports to be much better, although one thing kinda sucks, you can't talk to anyone else on the same subnet, so your neighbours might not be able to visit your home website. Other than that, torrents work well, etc. so far:)
I'm using a third party DSL provider who wholesales from Uniserve, so far they aren't inserting any additional advertising from what I've seen unless they are only doing it to their own DSL clients, which could be the case.
My ISP, which I used to work for, started out using AEBC as their DSL port provider but switched to Uniserve as their source due to too many problems with AEBC including them inserting extra ads into web pages at seemingly random locations. I first noticed it after seeing the same ads for a Vancouver restaurant, being new to DSL at the time I just figured it was IP based from a known ad network. Then I started to notice the ad on pages I knew had no ads at which point I contacted the ISP and told them to get me out of that transparent proxy ASAP since it explained other issues at the time.
In the meantime I used a few SSH socks5 proxy tunnels to my US servers to get around that ad blocking nonsense, it also added the benefit of encrypting most of my traffic at least as far as the ISP would see it.
I still use the SSH tunnels quite often even with the Uniserve sources line now, mostly to be able to browse some US based sites that won't work with an out of country IP (abc.com, sho.com, etc.). I also use the tunnels for email checking so that is all encrypted and also allows me to get around any port 25 outgoing blocks, although Uniserve doesn't block incoming port 25 they are starting to block it outgoing, actually not block it just port forwards to Uniserve's SMTP servers.
Oh, AEBC were also hijacking DNS queries and it was very hard to notice it because the query you made would come back showing the response from the DNS server you were trying to use. However one day both their DNS servers go down and we couldn't do any lookups, no matter what DNS server I'd enter into my local machines I would get no response when trying a lookup. I was livid and luckily the ball was already rolling to transfer our ports to Uniserve. To this day though I generally try and use outside DNS and much of that is now tunneled over VPN or via SSH socks proxy.
Anyway, Uniserve is likely a good choice, especially with how Telus has their own network setup, yikes.:)
I buy the Costco pack, they don't have too long a warm up at all, and produce enough light at turn on to manage.
I also have an early Panasonic CFL, it cost around $20 and that one DOES have bad warm up, indeed it is in a 2 bulb fixture with one of the Costco bulbs and the latter is much brighter at turn on and warms up quicker.
Pretty much all our bulbs in the house are now CFL.
I can confirm that Warcraft III runs great under wine these days. I recently set it up under Ubuntu, it even has Battle.net support. One tip is to run it under OpenGL mode, it will run in DirectX mode too. Only problem mine has is viewing the cinematic movies, it just shuts down at that point but the actual game play works very well.
Same here, I have no desire to visit the US now after hearing about this fingerprint requirement. I'm hitting 40 this year, in all that time on this planet I have never been fingerprinted by the authorities since I have never been convicted of a crime. I live in Canada, my wife's sister is in California and I have never been to visit while my wife has gone several times. I've pretty much told them I will never visit.
I was born in the UK, my birth mother still lives there and kinda wants me to come visit for her 60th birthday in a few years. Unfortunately I will be telling her I can't make it and it is partly because I am unwilling to supply fingerprints, DNS and other "biometrics" they're trying to get just to go visit, that and a society looking more and more like a scary 1984 setup (cameras on every corner, etc.), I just cannot do it.
Unfortunately, G'Kar is now gone and will never get to tell us those stories, I too would have loved to have him in the new offerings but I am also glad JMS is not recasting the character since the original actor passed away.
Specifically I have been testing out the Token Appending method, it looks like it might be a good method to try.
I've set it so that the token is a SHA1 hash of todays date, client browser string and a text string of my choosing, so basically this token with change daily for recurring visitors and be fairly unique to each visitor (you can just throw more unique qualifiers at it if needed).
It does rely on javascript in the client browser but most have that enabled anyway and it is an easier method for the end user than the Captcha method. Of course you could use both and really help keep the bots away.
Well yeah that is the best option... I've got my wife using Linux and has been for years, in fact when I moved her desktop to Windows for a short spell a few years back she bitched about it:)
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Install OpenVPN and use that instead, it works. I tried getting the SSH method working but was never able to get it to go, yes it worked for many other US based services but not for Hulu. In the end I just installed OpenVPN on the server and the client on my home machine(s) and now I can watch Hulu just fine.
From what I've gathered when you try and use the SSH proxy method in the browser the Flash player just continues to use the direct method. Using OpenVPN your entire network connection goes via the VPN so then it works fine.
I installed Playon on a Windows machine and when using the VPN I can now watch Hulu on my PS3 as well, saves me firing up the HTPC. :)
There is always Playon (www.themediamall.com/playon/) which allows you to play Hulu on a PS3, Xbox360 or even a Wii by streaming the content from a PC on your network running the Playon Media Server.
I have a HTPC on my big screen but as of late I've switched to just using Playon and firing up the PS3 to watch TV content. The PS3 also doubles well as a media player, I upgraded the hard drive to 320GB and it plays most content you download via torrents anyway, so I've got 4 seasons of Doctor Who I need to sit down and view someday.
Granted I'm also in Canada so to even watch Hulu I have to get my PC linked via a VPN to one of my US based servers, but it works :)
Umm .. ants can lift more than their body weight as well .. and can work as a social group to overcome obstacles, build bridges for themselves (using their own bodies no less), etc.
Really, we aren't that special, we're just more advanced technologically than the other species we share the planet with but we are still nothing more than another animal species on its surface. Heck we're dumber than some species since we tend to over exploit our environment.
As for 200 more for bluray not being a big deal- 200 is 1/3 of a new computer, 20 paperback books, 4 video games, 6 or so good meals out, or 3-4 concerts. I'd rather have any of those rather than Bluray. Just because I could afford to buy it doens't mean I'm going to waste money like that. Of course I forget- I'm one of those weirdos who doesn't spend money unless he actually needs something.
A good meal out with my wife usually hits at least $100, any less and you're not talking "good" but chain restaurant food. Big difference.
Concerts are heading up in price big time, nearest venue for me averages around $70/ticket for a concert and that is a 7,000 seat venue, of course I need to add travel expenses to that cost. Even if I lived local to the venue you still have transit, parking, etc. Last concert I actually attended was Van Halen in Vancouver. Tickets alone were approximately $180/each after all the fees, add hotel, meals, travel expenses and that event cost about $500+ per person to attend.
The $400 I spent on my PS3 which allows me to play not only BluRay but a nice selection of games as well was a bargain in comparison to just attending one concert. It also doubles as a great media center and a not bad communications device since you can set it up to do video chat, etc.
And concerts being released on BluRay look and sound amazing, cost less than $30 and have lasting replay value :)
I can believe time travel before I believe faster than light travel.
Time travel would basically require it anyway. Think of it this way, if you want to travel back in time on Earth you would need to travel to the location of Earth at the time you intend to visit, which isn't the same location Earth inhabits today since we're moving through the cosmos with the Sun which is moving along with the galaxy which is also moving. So to time travel you basically still have to overcome the whole "travel long distances through space" issue we currently have.
I think it depends on how prevalent life is in the universe. We're beginning to find life almost everywhere we look on Earth including in many places we considered impossible for it to survive, it shows how versatile life is, it can survive at great depths, under enormous pressures which really makes us question a lot of things.
If it turns out life is the norm rather than the exception then there is likely a lot of life mingling around elsewhere. We're a young species in comparison to what could be out there, we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking we know all about how to traverse great distances through space. If life is the norm then the chances of intelligence rising up increases and with that the chance that some species somewhere figured out a method of travel that allows them to explore distant planets. It only takes one such species but if one can do it then others can increasing the odds they'll visit Earth at some point.
Now I'm not convinced they've been here either, but I do feel there are a lot of strange things people have seen over time that seem to point to "something" in at least a small percentage of reports. It deserves some serious study but for some reason there does indeed seem to be a policy of ridicule in our societies right now. Of course now with the prevalence of cameras we should be seeing more but then I'm sure it isn't like any visitors would always be here, it is more likely an explorer ship would pass by every few decades or so and spend a few weeks/months in the system. I would think that most would be able to observe from afar though without the need to enter the atmosphere except for sample gathering, even then they could do that in remote places without informing the native inhabitants.
As a geek, yup, would love if it were true :)
I agree, we find our clients feel email hosting is as important and for some more important than their website hosting. Set up correctly the email aspect of hosting isn't that tough to provide, while our filters may not be as robust as Gmails (who have a much larger dataset to build filters from) we do manage to keep spam to a minimum, coupled by not overloading the servers and keeping a clean customer base I really find it hard to understand why DH would tell customers to get email hosting elsewhere.
Sounds more like overloaded servers having trouble just keeping up with web services and adding the email (and required SpamAssassin, ClamAV, etc.) on top of that is giving them grief.
Next they'll be telling the clients who only use basic HTML websites to go to Google Pages I suppose.
Just go with a Wii as they're getting a bit easier to find. We just picked one up yesterday and my wife was instantly hooked on Wii Sports, and she generally hates sports. She was actually starting to sweat while playing tennis on it. We bought it for the reasons the OP states, something to play together. Upgrading the HTPC to handle running games at 1920x1080i was going to cost more than just getting the console, not to mention finding "fun" stuff to play would be tougher since she isn't into the FPS games I enjoy.
Well we do get feedback on other mail issues, usually related to the remote end servers. For example a rather large local cable ISP in our main trading area installed an automated system whereby the were counting how much incoming email servers sent them and then blocking those that they felt were sending too much with a high score, of course many clients are forwarding their domain email to accounts at said ISP and that includes any spam that manages to get through the filters we have in place. We heard about that within hours.
We do have the option for a client to circumvent the RBLs it they so desire and we have one client who does that for their domain as they are located in Mexico and were getting a few false positives here and there. They still use SpamAssassin though to filter what gets in.
If you watch the SMTP logs after you enable the RBL you will see that it does mainly block the dynamic ranges of foreign ISPs and of course known spammer IP ranges. Legitimate sources rarely are blocked and if they are any email admin running a legit email box would be doing their darnedest to get off the Spamhaus RBLs because otherwise that mail server is practically useless in todays internet.
But always a good idea to keep an option to not use them for certain clients, but we're finding it rare for any to request not using RBL blocking.
Not many, I run this on my servers as well and rarely hear any problems from the clients using them.
Floodgates wide open is NOT an option because when I tried that I then heard many complaints from clients about slow server and way too much spam for their liking, they seem to prefer we try and do something about the spam levels rather than simply let everything through.
Checking in from Qualicum Beach here :-)
That sounds impressive.
How about $8 for 500gb of disk and 5tb of bandwidth ? Or even 8tb of bandwidth or 700gb, if you get the right promocode ? Dream host..ing ? (this is what a professional calls "surreptitious advertising", just in case you wanted a contrast to your spamlink). There are some people competing in a lunar-cyclish page way, and HOSTs drinking GATORade are out there as well." Yeah, quite the amazing offer if I say so myself, 2tb of bandwidth for $15/month
Since bandwidth is never delivered at a steady rate 24/7 it means you're going to be going through a cycle of peaks, I've got a game server pulling a terabyte a month and during prime time that is pulling 7mbit/s sometimes hitting 10mbit/s
Sure, we could go get a full time 100mbit/s connection from a NOC for a thousand a month, but when you're talking about the possibility of maxing out that line with 10-20 customers paying you $15, something doesn't add up. These high numbers being claimed are just as much horseshit as the guys doing unlimited.
If they can truly deliver 2tb for $15/month I've got a few download servers they can try out
They'll probably get released to the retail outlets soon, hit up your computer supplier for them if they already carry Asus parts, they should be able to source them.
I'm looking at grabbing the larger battery for mine.
I bought mine right at release date and I love the thing, it is exactly what I've been looking for in portable computing. As a sys admin I would often be in town and concerned about what I'd do if the pager went off, of course it meant heading for the home office asap. I do have a Dell Inspiron but it is a pain to lug around if you're just running to town for a few hours.
:D
Not so with the EEE though, unplug from what, throw in its little carrying sleeve and off I go, it tucks nicely into the pouch on the back of the seats in the car. Wife goes shopping, I can find a nice parking spot with open wifi and go surfing. I have it set up so that I can SSH tunnel to the home office if I want to check mail or if I need to get on to a server to fix something, or if I want to surf a bit more securely I can just tunnel the traffic over that SSH tunnel, etc.
I'm still using the Xandros install that it came with and I'll probably tinker with Ubuntu on it at some point but I did manage to get Xandros set up in advanced mode with the apps I needed (most already installed from factory), so I am in no hurry to change things.
The other night my wife had a party with a bunch of her girlfriends over, they were all loving the EEE while I was sitting on the couch surfing. A couple are in the market for a PC and they want one of these as their main systems. It could work fine, easy enough to hook up a full monitor to it with a USB keyboard/mouse combo and you have a decent enough home system to use which can be unplugged and taken on the road easily. Bonus would be if your neighbours had open wifi routers to use
LOL .. nice story there. I didn't work for Lightspeed, just a small ISP here on the Island who was dialup for the most part but added DSL as broadband took hold. He asked Telus for the information on getting access to DSL ports and they pointed him towards AEBC and Uniserve for them. Being a dialup ISP he didn't want to go with Uniserve since they were of course a direct competitor with him in the area.
:)
He lasted about 12 months with AEBC, as soon as his contracts were up he moved to Uniserve and actually ended up with a better deal in the end, they pool all the bandwidth for the ports he has and this means he is a bit more lenient with his allotment per client, as long as you are not a total pig about it he has no problem if you use a bit more than others.
At first some of their fees were a bit much ($20/month for a static IP???) but they've since lowered those fees ($3/month for static now, although the dynamic leases last a LONG time, mine has only changed due to MAC changes as I changed routers, etc.).
Overall I find the Uniserve sourced ports to be much better, although one thing kinda sucks, you can't talk to anyone else on the same subnet, so your neighbours might not be able to visit your home website. Other than that, torrents work well, etc. so far
I'm using a third party DSL provider who wholesales from Uniserve, so far they aren't inserting any additional advertising from what I've seen unless they are only doing it to their own DSL clients, which could be the case.
:)
My ISP, which I used to work for, started out using AEBC as their DSL port provider but switched to Uniserve as their source due to too many problems with AEBC including them inserting extra ads into web pages at seemingly random locations. I first noticed it after seeing the same ads for a Vancouver restaurant, being new to DSL at the time I just figured it was IP based from a known ad network. Then I started to notice the ad on pages I knew had no ads at which point I contacted the ISP and told them to get me out of that transparent proxy ASAP since it explained other issues at the time.
In the meantime I used a few SSH socks5 proxy tunnels to my US servers to get around that ad blocking nonsense, it also added the benefit of encrypting most of my traffic at least as far as the ISP would see it.
I still use the SSH tunnels quite often even with the Uniserve sources line now, mostly to be able to browse some US based sites that won't work with an out of country IP (abc.com, sho.com, etc.). I also use the tunnels for email checking so that is all encrypted and also allows me to get around any port 25 outgoing blocks, although Uniserve doesn't block incoming port 25 they are starting to block it outgoing, actually not block it just port forwards to Uniserve's SMTP servers.
Oh, AEBC were also hijacking DNS queries and it was very hard to notice it because the query you made would come back showing the response from the DNS server you were trying to use. However one day both their DNS servers go down and we couldn't do any lookups, no matter what DNS server I'd enter into my local machines I would get no response when trying a lookup. I was livid and luckily the ball was already rolling to transfer our ports to Uniserve. To this day though I generally try and use outside DNS and much of that is now tunneled over VPN or via SSH socks proxy.
Anyway, Uniserve is likely a good choice, especially with how Telus has their own network setup, yikes.
I buy the Costco pack, they don't have too long a warm up at all, and produce enough light at turn on to manage.
I also have an early Panasonic CFL, it cost around $20 and that one DOES have bad warm up, indeed it is in a 2 bulb fixture with one of the Costco bulbs and the latter is much brighter at turn on and warms up quicker.
Pretty much all our bulbs in the house are now CFL.
I can confirm that Warcraft III runs great under wine these days. I recently set it up under Ubuntu, it even has Battle.net support. One tip is to run it under OpenGL mode, it will run in DirectX mode too. Only problem mine has is viewing the cinematic movies, it just shuts down at that point but the actual game play works very well.
Err .. DNS .. doh! ... DNA! :)
Same here, I have no desire to visit the US now after hearing about this fingerprint requirement. I'm hitting 40 this year, in all that time on this planet I have never been fingerprinted by the authorities since I have never been convicted of a crime. I live in Canada, my wife's sister is in California and I have never been to visit while my wife has gone several times. I've pretty much told them I will never visit.
:)
I was born in the UK, my birth mother still lives there and kinda wants me to come visit for her 60th birthday in a few years. Unfortunately I will be telling her I can't make it and it is partly because I am unwilling to supply fingerprints, DNS and other "biometrics" they're trying to get just to go visit, that and a society looking more and more like a scary 1984 setup (cameras on every corner, etc.), I just cannot do it.
Looks like I'm stuck in Canada for now
Funny thing is CBC does HD ... Hockey Night In Canada as well (usually just the Leafs games).
http://www.cbc.ca/hdtv/
It is even OTA in a few cities already.
Unlike Global who has a HD feed on Rogers and ExpressVu (for simsubbing reasons only) but no functioning OTA transmitter.
http://www.s-video.com/hdmicable.html
:)
Starts at $8.95 for 3ft, I purchased a 6ft cable from these guys for $11.95, works just fine, especially compared to the Monster $199 version
Unfortunately, G'Kar is now gone and will never get to tell us those stories, I too would have loved to have him in the new offerings but I am also glad JMS is not recasting the character since the original actor passed away.
I have been tinkering with the methods in this PDF ..
e dAttackTools.pdf
http://www.ngssoftware.com/papers/StoppingAutomat
Specifically I have been testing out the Token Appending method, it looks like it might be a good method to try.
I've set it so that the token is a SHA1 hash of todays date, client browser string and a text string of my choosing, so basically this token with change daily for recurring visitors and be fairly unique to each visitor (you can just throw more unique qualifiers at it if needed).
It does rely on javascript in the client browser but most have that enabled anyway and it is an easier method for the end user than the Captcha method. Of course you could use both and really help keep the bots away.
Well yeah that is the best option ... I've got my wife using Linux and has been for years, in fact when I moved her desktop to Windows for a short spell a few years back she bitched about it :)