You know what I like about Postfix? Its ability to easily use MySQL for transports and aliases. There are various howto's listed on the Postfix documentation/howto page and its enough to get you going if you're familiar with both Postfix and MySQL. I'm sure something similar exists for Qmail and the others, but I was suprised at how easy it was to set up with Postfix.
As to the Great MTA Debate, everyone is going to have their preferences and everyone is going to be needing something slightly different. I don't see the point in arguing. Joe Blow likes Qmail more than sex? Great, I hope the security and modularity works out for him. Jimmy Johnson likes the raw power of Sendmail and eats three milters for breakfast? Cool. Myself, I feel more comfortable with Postfix. As long as the sysadmins are competent and the security holes are patched, it's all good in my opinion
Apparently they think they can. In the Arkansas bill section 4-88-603 starts off with:
"Each person who sends or causes to be sent an unsolicited commercial electronic mail or an unsolicited sexually explicit electronic mail through the intermediary of an electronic mail service provider or to an electronic mail address held by a resident of the state..." [Emphasis mine]
Then it lists what they need to do to make their spam legal, like having a valid address, their legal name, a valid domain and e-mail address, the words "ADV:ADULT" in the subject for adult spam, a legit way to unsubscribe, etc.
So it doesn't matter who sends the spam, but if the recipient is an Arkansan, they would be committing a class B misdemeanor in Arkansas. IANAL, but I think this can be enforced, because it's not exactly like trying to enforce Arkansas laws in Texas. It is more like a Texan smacking around an Arkansan who is at home, and the Texan getting punished for it.
I don't work for a large corporation, but a state-wide ISP. I asked my boss, the chief technical officer of the company, why we weren't using Spam Assassin. He replied that while it is a very neat program and does a great job of filtering spam, the performance just isn't quite there yet. He's of the mindset that it needs some tweaking still before it can be a competitor to commercial products like what Brightmail offers.
Personally, I'd like to see more companies using SpamAssassin just to prove that it can stack up against other products, because I think it can work well if it's configured properly and you use spamd. I use it on my mail server at home and at last check it catches 98.2% of all spam message sent to my machine, and I haven't had any false positives since I set up my whitelists.
Are there any motherboards out that are supporting USB 2, or is it still add-on only?
The cool thing about Firewire is that Mac's have support for it now. Plus there are plans to eventually bring Firewire up to 1600 Mbps later this year. Also, Firewire can transfer data from device to device, while USB has to go through your computer as a go-between. People more intelligent than I are more than welcome to expound upon, correct, or add to this.
Slashdot never dissapoints. You wait a minute; and 10 people have already said what you want to say.
I, like others, suggest a RDBMS to implement a secure and quick mail system. This way you get the benefits of administrative security, file locking already in place, performance, redundancy, and potential for easy management. This, of course, all hinges on how well your RDBMS handles those specific details. That might also lead to some cool server-side email apps, as well. A blinding-fast email search utility on a MySQL mail system, or a nice way to relate your user information to email statistics (shudder).
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The Simple Truth: Customer Service/Support Representatives are under-paid, under-trained, and usually stressed-out individuals who are trying to work their way up the corporate/tech ladders from the slag pools of phone center work.
For every two or three crappy CSR's you encounter, there is usually one who is informed, nice, and knows what they are doing. These people tend to enjoy their work and you usually don't hear gripes from the people they talk to unless it is the user/caller that is the problem.
Then there is the person who is just trying to pay for a car or for school and they hate their job. This person just wants to get the caller off the phone. It gets frustrating, not only for the caller, but for the CSR when a problem comes up that is beyond the Normal Scope of Things (tm), because the caller wants a resolution, and the CSR wants to surf the web or read or do anything other than help.
So to alleviate the headaches that they cause, and get back to the nice, warm, and fuzzy customer service feelings, customer service centers worldwide need to get rid of the flack and only keep the people that DO care about helping people. Unfortunately, businesses don't care as much about quality as they do the quantity of calls they handle. Oh, and keeping people from cancelling.
Heh. After all the bad press from Episode 1 I think George is willing to do a lot to appease his fans and keep the money flowing in. But seriously, Jar-Jar wasn't *that* bad. After seeing Episode 1 a few more times, he's kind of growing on me, like those cute widdle Ewoks.
Using it right now, on a decent system, too (1.4 gigahertz pentium 4, with only 128Mb of RDRAM). It is still lots more sluggish than the linux installs I have done on my Pentium 133 sitting in the corner. Of course, I'm not using a lot of bloatware on my Linux box (Nautilus is waaaay too slow for my taste on ANY system) so I guess it is an unfair comparison.
That's a very nice system, and I can't help but drool. With the Raw Coolness factor of Linux, this machine must SCREAM. Of course, install Windows XP on it and watch it just barely outperform a cranky 286 with the turbo button un-depressed.
FWIW, this auction is priced at a relatively decent rate. I expect that only a toy dealer would be able to purchase this, since most Transformer nuts with that kind of money to blow probably already has most of those toys.
If you would like to appraise some of these toys, you can check out the price guide on my site, HERE.
I don't have a script to tally up total prices, but if you look at the prices for some of those Generation One toys, you'll see that they are quite pricey, depending on their condition.
A sealed Fortress Maximus from 1987 is valued at a whopping $1250 alone (according to Lee's Action Figure News and Toy Review). The cars such as Sunstreaker and Sideswipe are close to $400 a piece. So a complete G1 set can easily cost you that much, if all the toys are C10 (from a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best condition) and MIP (Mint in the Package).
Well, my "smart" side wants to side with those who chose porn as the correct answer. I'm sure the future is safe in that respect. It needs to be broken down into further subgroups, though, like: "Perl hacker with a taste for 80's cartoons, Macromedia software, and lots of hentai." Or even: "PHP hack who enjoys walks along the beach underneath the moon and surfing BUGTRAQ seeks clueless script kiddie. And lots of pr0n."
Starting out with a cheeseball sound that transfixed the intellectual crowds, you moved on to a full-band type atmosphere. Now, with digital music and the rising popularity of your online presence, what does the future hold? Do you perhaps see a return to the "more pure" sounds of the days past?
Also, do you foresee your solo projects (John Linnell's stuff, and Mono Puff, for those who don't know) taking the digital-presence plunge too?
I love technology. First, cellphones get wireless web, and now digital cameras. I can just imagine what this will do for the porn industry, as well as everyday use.
Next, I'd like to see wireless web capabilities in a camcorder. Then, I could be at... oh, say Botcon (the Transformers convention), and update my site on the fly with streaming video.
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Just wait a little bit and it will be supported. I just got the following e-mail from Gmail when sending in a feature request:
You might be interested to hear that we are announcing these upcoming features:
- Automatic forwarding of your email to another account
- Plain HTML version of Gmail
- Import/export Contacts
So it looks good for support on browsers like Opera or older browsers like on older versions of the Mac OS. Remember, this service is still in Beta.
You know what I like about Postfix? Its ability to easily use MySQL for transports and aliases. There are various howto's listed on the Postfix documentation/howto page and its enough to get you going if you're familiar with both Postfix and MySQL. I'm sure something similar exists for Qmail and the others, but I was suprised at how easy it was to set up with Postfix.
As to the Great MTA Debate, everyone is going to have their preferences and everyone is going to be needing something slightly different. I don't see the point in arguing. Joe Blow likes Qmail more than sex? Great, I hope the security and modularity works out for him. Jimmy Johnson likes the raw power of Sendmail and eats three milters for breakfast? Cool. Myself, I feel more comfortable with Postfix. As long as the sysadmins are competent and the security holes are patched, it's all good in my opinion
"Each person who sends or causes to be sent an unsolicited commercial electronic mail or an unsolicited sexually explicit electronic mail through the intermediary of an electronic mail service provider or to an electronic mail address held by a resident of the state..." [Emphasis mine]
Then it lists what they need to do to make their spam legal, like having a valid address, their legal name, a valid domain and e-mail address, the words "ADV:ADULT" in the subject for adult spam, a legit way to unsubscribe, etc.
So it doesn't matter who sends the spam, but if the recipient is an Arkansan, they would be committing a class B misdemeanor in Arkansas. IANAL, but I think this can be enforced, because it's not exactly like trying to enforce Arkansas laws in Texas. It is more like a Texan smacking around an Arkansan who is at home, and the Texan getting punished for it.
I don't work for a large corporation, but a state-wide ISP. I asked my boss, the chief technical officer of the company, why we weren't using Spam Assassin. He replied that while it is a very neat program and does a great job of filtering spam, the performance just isn't quite there yet. He's of the mindset that it needs some tweaking still before it can be a competitor to commercial products like what Brightmail offers.
Personally, I'd like to see more companies using SpamAssassin just to prove that it can stack up against other products, because I think it can work well if it's configured properly and you use spamd. I use it on my mail server at home and at last check it catches 98.2% of all spam message sent to my machine, and I haven't had any false positives since I set up my whitelists.
Are there any motherboards out that are supporting USB 2, or is it still add-on only?
The cool thing about Firewire is that Mac's have support for it now. Plus there are plans to eventually bring Firewire up to 1600 Mbps later this year. Also, Firewire can transfer data from device to device, while USB has to go through your computer as a go-between. People more intelligent than I are more than welcome to expound upon, correct, or add to this.
True. For some reason "GigaWire" sounds more like a Transformers name than a piece of up-and-coming technology.
Woohoo! Now maybe people will start taking Firewire more seriously! Down with USB, up with Firewire!
Slashdot never dissapoints. You wait a minute; and 10 people have already said what you want to say.
I, like others, suggest a RDBMS to implement a secure and quick mail system. This way you get the benefits of administrative security, file locking already in place, performance, redundancy, and potential for easy management. This, of course, all hinges on how well your RDBMS handles those specific details. That might also lead to some cool server-side email apps, as well. A blinding-fast email search utility on a MySQL mail system, or a nice way to relate your user information to email statistics (shudder).
The Simple Truth: Customer Service/Support Representatives are under-paid, under-trained, and usually stressed-out individuals who are trying to work their way up the corporate/tech ladders from the slag pools of phone center work.
For every two or three crappy CSR's you encounter, there is usually one who is informed, nice, and knows what they are doing. These people tend to enjoy their work and you usually don't hear gripes from the people they talk to unless it is the user/caller that is the problem.
Then there is the person who is just trying to pay for a car or for school and they hate their job. This person just wants to get the caller off the phone. It gets frustrating, not only for the caller, but for the CSR when a problem comes up that is beyond the Normal Scope of Things (tm), because the caller wants a resolution, and the CSR wants to surf the web or read or do anything other than help.
So to alleviate the headaches that they cause, and get back to the nice, warm, and fuzzy customer service feelings, customer service centers worldwide need to get rid of the flack and only keep the people that DO care about helping people. Unfortunately, businesses don't care as much about quality as they do the quantity of calls they handle. Oh, and keeping people from cancelling.
Heh. After all the bad press from Episode 1 I think George is willing to do a lot to appease his fans and keep the money flowing in. But seriously, Jar-Jar wasn't *that* bad. After seeing Episode 1 a few more times, he's kind of growing on me, like those cute widdle Ewoks.
Using it right now, on a decent system, too (1.4 gigahertz pentium 4, with only 128Mb of RDRAM). It is still lots more sluggish than the linux installs I have done on my Pentium 133 sitting in the corner. Of course, I'm not using a lot of bloatware on my Linux box (Nautilus is waaaay too slow for my taste on ANY system) so I guess it is an unfair comparison.
That's a very nice system, and I can't help but drool. With the Raw Coolness factor of Linux, this machine must SCREAM. Of course, install Windows XP on it and watch it just barely outperform a cranky 286 with the turbo button un-depressed.
If you would like to appraise some of these toys, you can check out the price guide on my site, HERE. I don't have a script to tally up total prices, but if you look at the prices for some of those Generation One toys, you'll see that they are quite pricey, depending on their condition.
A sealed Fortress Maximus from 1987 is valued at a whopping $1250 alone (according to Lee's Action Figure News and Toy Review). The cars such as Sunstreaker and Sideswipe are close to $400 a piece. So a complete G1 set can easily cost you that much, if all the toys are C10 (from a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best condition) and MIP (Mint in the Package).
Well, my "smart" side wants to side with those who chose porn as the correct answer. I'm sure the future is safe in that respect. It needs to be broken down into further subgroups, though, like: "Perl hacker with a taste for 80's cartoons, Macromedia software, and lots of hentai." Or even: "PHP hack who enjoys walks along the beach underneath the moon and surfing BUGTRAQ seeks clueless script kiddie. And lots of pr0n."
On the other hand, nevermind....
John & John,
Starting out with a cheeseball sound that transfixed the intellectual crowds, you moved on to a full-band type atmosphere. Now, with digital music and the rising popularity of your online presence, what does the future hold? Do you perhaps see a return to the "more pure" sounds of the days past?
Also, do you foresee your solo projects (John Linnell's stuff, and Mono Puff, for those who don't know) taking the digital-presence plunge too?
I love technology. First, cellphones get wireless web, and now digital cameras. I can just imagine what this will do for the porn industry, as well as everyday use. Next, I'd like to see wireless web capabilities in a camcorder. Then, I could be at... oh, say Botcon (the Transformers convention), and update my site on the fly with streaming video.