Pine has rule-based filters to block out SPAM. However the Help page recommend you to do the filtering between SPAM arrived at your mailbox. But not everyone has that kind of control over all their mail are stored or organised. And also you need to know what kind of rules are best for blocking SPAM, eg checking the To: and Subject: fields, what regexp to use, etc.
Here is a suggestion: As a Xmas gift to your fellow/.ers, post your most successful spam filter rules here (All mail clients welcome).
You can't NOT have paradoxes (sp?) in a time travelling story man! Go read the comic book serise "Time Breakers" (5 issues) from Rachel Pollack (write) and Chris Weston (art). Great stuff about paradox.
It is OKAY to have dependency problems, as long as the vender provides a quick and easy way to solve them, ie "click to download and install them for me" type app.
Things may get complicated when you are installing some software from src AND some from binaries, on the same system. But hey, you shouldn't play with the SRC if you are not prepare to handle the extra work to maintain your box.
If you only install.rpm (or.deb?) from the same vender, you are okay. Every distro has some kind of auto updater nowaday, just run that and let the software work for you.
Sounds a little bit like the recent noval set in the Terminator universe called "Terminator: Infiltrator". It focus on an older Conner and "Arnold" as a... well that will be telling;-)
The book is actually pretty good, and it also explains some plot holes (eg Didn't we win after T2?) in some pudo-logical ways. Go find it in the library or something.
Are they going to allow any type of "second-level" domain name? ".us" is commonly known as a country for the rest of the world, and is quite common outside of us (eg bbc.co.uk). Many countries also has fixed numbers of second-level domains, eg com.au, net.uk, org.ca Will that be the case here?
If not who will get screw.us? A p0rn site or another "name your price" e-tailer site??;-)
Instead turn it into a disturbed number crunching project by hooking up all those "unused" brain power while you sleep. Imagine running SETI@home code in your dream... now you can never be sure whether you were abducted by aliens or just received their signal in your brain;-)
I have suffered way too many "Still using CLI?" for using Linux, haven't you? If someone want to *write* programs for OS/2, all the power to them. "Burrowing" source code is not so good, but that is cleared up now (read above posts!).
...fight Apple to the death. The Liquid looks very much like Aqua (aqua = liquid, get it?). Apple may let it go if it is just a couple of people doing an Aqua clone theme for fun, but once money is involved they will likely sue. I don't see it as a smart move if Future Tech try to claim ownership of it. After all Apple did spend lots of time and money on this new look of OSX, I think it is within their right.
Maybe Mosfet should try to get a contract with Apple to "port" the Aqua look over to KDE, Enlightenment, etc.
I object to this type of video trash. They provide an unrealistic, degrading portrayals of CPUs that take off their heat sinks/cooling units for no apparent reason! Like that sort of things happen all the time in real life.
I don't care who is making them, it must be stopped. Will someone think of the children!
Potential health risk is probably the biggest problem with this idea, since we are still not 100% sure things like mobile phones are safe. Wireless energy will be a lot more powerful than those tiny cell phones. Imagine a misfire, or if you are at the general area of the receiver. Other than that it seems pretty enviromentally sounds, it won't even take up rooms like wind mills or solar panels.
I seems to remember watching a TV documentary about the early days of the internet. During a segment of the show, a guy who worked on the ARPANET project said the first email message send/receive was "HEL". The message is supposedly "HELLO" but the receiving program crashed after it got "HEL". Or maybe the sending program crashed? Can't remember which.
Kind of funny if this is true, because HEL could easily be HELP! And this is before Outlook 1.0;-)
The whole thing could be a dream, or about something completely different so don't bet on it.
Of course no one is buying those TLDs, haven't you heard the slow down of the.com bloom since last year? And with all those gloomy forecasts for the next few years, good luck trying to sell them off. Beside with the current laws most companies are probably automatically entitled to their tradenames. Want to bet how far you can go with amazon.biz before being sued?
I suspect timothy just want a chance to slip in that link to the LED museum, which is much more interesting than the main story;-)
The Subject line says it all, Tomcat needs good documents. The current FAQ is just not a good way for new users, who don't even know what they should be asking. And please don't assume the user know much about JSP and Servlet during installation. Many, like myself, just want to install it so we can start learning JSP! The latest version of web.xml and server.xml now contain more verbose comments on various settings, which is a big improvement on the old ones.
The Apache document is a good example of how it is done. It contains details on every single configuration options and plus entire chapter on common tasks (eg DSO, Virtual Host). The Apache default conf file is probably the best commented of its type out there, sometime you don't even need to refer anything else to fully configure your installation!
Note that this is NOT an attack on Tomcat as an application, once it is installed by someone who know what they are doing, it runs great. It is just that the initial step is very difficult for many people. Hopefully now that 4.0 is out, the developers can spend more time on documentations.
The reason it is (relatively) cheap, hackable is probably because they are looking for good software to run future robots. For example someone may work out a good algorithm that combine robotic vision and motor control to make some kind of rescue bot that can crawl into small places. Or work out a way for a robot to be able to right itself if it falls down.
I bet their idea is to have generic robots that can do many different tasks base solely on the software; rather than spending lots of money building very specialized robots that can only do one or two things. Actually this is just like real human! We are more or less the same physically, but we are trained to do many different tasks without growing extra arms or eyes.
So if you work in an university with a good size robotic research group you can probably convince them to send one to you for free:-)
You know I start seeing these "benefit products" coming out or being planned: those little books, pictures, CDs and what not with "all profits go directly to the victims and their families". You know what? Please just give what you can and ask nothing for returns. I know many of these are from legitimate organizations with good intentions, but really, you should not need to give incentives for people to give in a situation like this.:-(
Since the side seems dead at the moment, lets talk about something else... Several people pointed out that.doc and.pdf are not open source format. Remember, while the.pdf format is well documented it is not open to change.
So why is there no open alternative to PDF? How come no one is using Postscript directly outside of printer-related tasks? PDF is good but there could be potential problems in the future, think GIF here.
Not to be a troll but if Microsoft comes up with some new portable document "standard", someone will work on an alternative before they release the damn thing...
To bring this back in topic, this sounds like a pretty good OSS idea. Right? Maybe EU should look at some XML-based portable document format with special "clues" for language translation since their members are from so many different countries with their own written languages. (hehe, nice save?;-)
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. So we now have super faster computers and graphic cards that can render 1024x768 at 60fps with 32bit colours, so what? It maybe good for gaming and some very specialised research and visualisation applications, but it is no good for general web browsing.
Why? What does browsing mean? Reading (and maybe typing) text, and maybe some images here and there. So what does a 3D environment bring you in this case? Nothing. Reading an article in 3D is pointless; most people will rather stick with the good old "flat text".
The reason Virtual Reality did not catch on for web browsing is that it is not bring anything new. At least not anything people think are useful outside of some very specialised cases. For example 3D maps cool! 3D/.? No thanks.
We are still waiting for a killer (non-game) app in 3D. In the mean time, the idea of 3D browser is probably only of interest to academics researchers.
Did anyone actually read the thing! It is "permission-base commercial email", damn it! Not only did they include a REMOVE line at the bottom of each email, they put one on TOP too! WOW! These are obviously nice decent people...
"...specification for conveying human characteristics through XML" eh? I think they should incorporate this into future transporter technology (a la Star Trek) to cut down on all those crazy transporters "accidents" of the week.
First "convert" all your crews into well formed HML, then armed with a fully validating HML parser/transporter there is no chance of beaming up those all those shapeshifters, evil twins, etc by mistake all the time:-\
Since Dr Felten's paper is not submitted to the USENIX conference because of RIAA's threat and that it is now too late for him to do so. There is definite damages done to his academic reputation.
There may also be potential financial loses, eg future research grants may depends on works he has
done/published etc.
Sorry, but just taking it back now is a bit too later.
So they are gone AND forgotten, so what? The last two years are our "throw everything on the Web and see what stick" period. Try bringing up "Tech Stocks" in a dinner conversation:-0
Another interesting things is that most dot.gones are from the US, this provides a pretty good (and free) lessons to countries where e-commerces are just getting popular. Lessons learned, so lets move on.
I think a software is only good iff it takes forever. As software *approach* perfection, changes are made less often. New features are still being added, but they are few and far in between. Eg old warhorse like tar now has support for.bz2 files (tar -zI). It is impossible to say something is perfect and cannot be improved anymore. Anyone remember that quote about "all the inventions had already been invented"?
Of course this probably don't apply to the commercial environment (which is what the article is aimed at I think). Imagine starting a business selling tar: buy tarXP because... okay lets go to a subscription model;-)
Slighly OT, but anyone remember the old "hidden" keywords on Google? If you typed in something like "evil empire", the Microsft homepage is the first link it returns... There are also keywords for other sites, such as Yahoo and AltaVista.
Am I losing my mind, or did Google change their search algorithm? Now it is just doing keywords matches (it seems). eg "evil empire" now returns something with "evil empire" in the page title... Whats up with that?
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Pine has rule-based filters to block out SPAM. However the Help page recommend you to do the filtering between SPAM arrived at your mailbox. But not everyone has that kind of control over all their mail are stored or organised. And also you need to know what kind of rules are best for blocking SPAM, eg checking the To: and Subject: fields, what regexp to use, etc.
/.ers, post your most successful spam filter rules here (All mail clients welcome).
Here is a suggestion: As a Xmas gift to your fellow
Ho HO HOLD (the SPAM)!
You can't NOT have paradoxes (sp?) in a time travelling story man! Go read the comic book serise "Time Breakers" (5 issues) from Rachel Pollack (write) and Chris Weston (art). Great stuff about paradox.
It is OKAY to have dependency problems, as long as the vender provides a quick and easy way to solve them, ie "click to download and install them for me" type app.
.rpm (or .deb?) from the same vender, you are okay. Every distro has some kind of auto updater nowaday, just run that and let the software work for you.
Things may get complicated when you are installing some software from src AND some from binaries, on the same system. But hey, you shouldn't play with the SRC if you are not prepare to handle the extra work to maintain your box.
If you only install
Sounds a little bit like the recent noval set in the Terminator universe called "Terminator: Infiltrator". It focus on an older Conner and "Arnold" as a ... well that will be telling ;-)
The book is actually pretty good, and it also explains some plot holes (eg Didn't we win after T2?) in some pudo-logical ways. Go find it in the library or something.
Are they going to allow any type of "second-level" domain name? ".us" is commonly known as a country for the rest of the world, and is quite common outside of us (eg bbc.co.uk). Many countries also has fixed numbers of second-level domains, eg com.au, net.uk, org.ca Will that be the case here?
;-)
If not who will get screw.us? A p0rn site or another "name your price" e-tailer site??
Instead turn it into a disturbed number crunching project by hooking up all those "unused" brain power while you sleep. Imagine running SETI@home code in your dream... now you can never be sure whether you were abducted by aliens or just received their signal in your brain
I have suffered way too many "Still using CLI?" for using Linux, haven't you? If someone want to *write* programs for OS/2, all the power to them. "Burrowing" source code is not so good, but that is cleared up now (read above posts!).
...fight Apple to the death. The Liquid looks very much like Aqua (aqua = liquid, get it?). Apple may let it go if it is just a couple of people doing an Aqua clone theme for fun, but once money is involved they will likely sue. I don't see it as a smart move if Future Tech try to claim ownership of it. After all Apple did spend lots of time and money on this new look of OSX, I think it is within their right.
Maybe Mosfet should try to get a contract with Apple to "port" the Aqua look over to KDE, Enlightenment, etc.
I object to this type of video trash. They provide an unrealistic, degrading portrayals of CPUs that take off their heat sinks/cooling units for no apparent reason! Like that sort of things happen all the time in real life.
I don't care who is making them, it must be stopped. Will someone think of the children!
Potential health risk is probably the biggest problem with this idea, since we are still not 100% sure things like mobile phones are safe. Wireless energy will be a lot more powerful than those tiny cell phones. Imagine a misfire, or if you are at the general area of the receiver. Other than that it seems pretty enviromentally sounds, it won't even take up rooms like wind mills or solar panels.
I seems to remember watching a TV documentary about the early days of the internet. During a segment of the show, a guy who worked on the ARPANET project said the first email message send/receive was "HEL". The message is supposedly "HELLO" but the receiving program crashed after it got "HEL". Or maybe the sending program crashed? Can't remember which.
;-)
Kind of funny if this is true, because HEL could easily be HELP! And this is before Outlook 1.0
The whole thing could be a dream, or about something completely different so don't bet on it.
Of course no one is buying those TLDs, haven't you heard the slow down of the .com bloom since last year? And with all those gloomy forecasts for the next few years, good luck trying to sell them off. Beside with the current laws most companies are probably automatically entitled to their tradenames. Want to bet how far you can go with amazon.biz before being sued?
;-)
I suspect timothy just want a chance to slip in that link to the LED museum, which is much more interesting than the main story
The Subject line says it all, Tomcat needs good documents. The current FAQ is just not a good way for new users, who don't even know what they should be asking. And please don't assume the user know much about JSP and Servlet during installation. Many, like myself, just want to install it so we can start learning JSP! The latest version of web.xml and server.xml now contain more verbose comments on various settings, which is a big improvement on the old ones.
The Apache document is a good example of how it is done. It contains details on every single configuration options and plus entire chapter on common tasks (eg DSO, Virtual Host). The Apache default conf file is probably the best commented of its type out there, sometime you don't even need to refer anything else to fully configure your installation!
Note that this is NOT an attack on Tomcat as an application, once it is installed by someone who know what they are doing, it runs great. It is just that the initial step is very difficult for many people. Hopefully now that 4.0 is out, the developers can spend more time on documentations.
The reason it is (relatively) cheap, hackable is probably because they are looking for good software to run future robots. For example someone may work out a good algorithm that combine robotic vision and motor control to make some kind of rescue bot that can crawl into small places. Or work out a way for a robot to be able to right itself if it falls down.
:-)
I bet their idea is to have generic robots that can do many different tasks base solely on the software; rather than spending lots of money building very specialized robots that can only do one or two things. Actually this is just like real human! We are more or less the same physically, but we are trained to do many different tasks without growing extra arms or eyes.
So if you work in an university with a good size robotic research group you can probably convince them to send one to you for free
You know I start seeing these "benefit products" coming out or being planned: those little books, pictures, CDs and what not with "all profits go directly to the victims and their families". You know what? Please just give what you can and ask nothing for returns. I know many of these are from legitimate organizations with good intentions, but really, you should not need to give incentives for people to give in a situation like this. :-(
Since the side seems dead at the moment, lets talk about something else... Several people pointed out that .doc and .pdf are not open source format. Remember, while the .pdf format is well documented it is not open to change.
;-)
So why is there no open alternative to PDF? How come no one is using Postscript directly outside of printer-related tasks? PDF is good but there could be potential problems in the future, think GIF here.
Not to be a troll but if Microsoft comes up with some new portable document "standard", someone will work on an alternative before they release the damn thing...
To bring this back in topic, this sounds like a pretty good OSS idea. Right? Maybe EU should look at some XML-based portable document format with special "clues" for language translation since their members are from so many different countries with their own written languages. (hehe, nice save?
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. So we now have super faster computers and graphic cards that can render 1024x768 at 60fps with 32bit colours, so what? It maybe good for gaming and some very specialised research and visualisation applications, but it is no good for general web browsing.
/.? No thanks.
Why? What does browsing mean? Reading (and maybe typing) text, and maybe some images here and there. So what does a 3D environment bring you in this case? Nothing. Reading an article in 3D is pointless; most people will rather stick with the good old "flat text".
The reason Virtual Reality did not catch on for web browsing is that it is not bring anything new. At least not anything people think are useful outside of some very specialised cases. For example 3D maps cool! 3D
We are still waiting for a killer (non-game) app in 3D. In the mean time, the idea of 3D browser is probably only of interest to academics researchers.
News Flash: /. moderators have no sense of humour, while I got a mail order PhD degree totally free.
Did anyone actually read the thing! It is "permission-base commercial email", damn it! Not only did they include a REMOVE line at the bottom of each email, they put one on TOP too! WOW! These are obviously nice decent people...
... just kidding. DIE SPAMERS DIE!
I guess it is pretty obvious I didn't read the actual story...
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"...specification for conveying human characteristics through XML" eh? I think they should incorporate this into future transporter technology (a la Star Trek) to cut down on all those crazy transporters "accidents" of the week.
:-\
First "convert" all your crews into well formed HML, then armed with a fully validating HML parser/transporter there is no chance of beaming up those all those shapeshifters, evil twins, etc by mistake all the time
Since Dr Felten's paper is not submitted to the USENIX conference because of RIAA's threat and that it is now too late for him to do so. There is definite damages done to his academic reputation. There may also be potential financial loses, eg future research grants may depends on works he has done/published etc.
Sorry, but just taking it back now is a bit too later.
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So they are gone AND forgotten, so what? The last two years are our "throw everything on the Web and see what stick" period. Try bringing up "Tech Stocks" in a dinner conversation :-0
Another interesting things is that most dot.gones are from the US, this provides a pretty good (and free) lessons to countries where e-commerces are just getting popular. Lessons learned, so lets move on.
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I think a software is only good iff it takes forever. As software *approach* perfection, changes are made less often. New features are still being added, but they are few and far in between. Eg old warhorse like tar now has support for .bz2 files (tar -zI). It is impossible to say something is perfect and cannot be improved anymore. Anyone remember that quote about "all the inventions had already been invented"?
Of course this probably don't apply to the commercial environment (which is what the article is aimed at I think). Imagine starting a business selling tar: buy tarXP because... okay lets go to a subscription model ;-)
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Slighly OT, but anyone remember the old "hidden" keywords on Google? If you typed in something like "evil empire", the Microsft homepage is the first link it returns... There are also keywords for other sites, such as Yahoo and AltaVista.
Am I losing my mind, or did Google change their search algorithm? Now it is just doing keywords matches (it seems). eg "evil empire" now returns something with "evil empire" in the page title... Whats up with that?
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