This is great news for the state of Delaware. There is no sales tax in Delaware for offline or online sales. Hopefully if the other states tighten their tax laws, it will push many e-retailers to Delaware. At least it will give Delaware e-retailers a hand up on everyone else. Besides, the relaxed corporate laws in Delaware make it a good state to incorporate in anyway.
Nothing in the world like a minimal install of FreeBSD. Nice and slim with only the base essentials. After the install is done I go to the/usr/ports collection and install all the extra software that I need. Its also nice to be able to upgrade the entire core of the OS in one shot with make world etc. Plus with mergemaster merging the config files, its almost impossible to hose up an upgrade.
You also get an OS that performs better and is more stable than linux. Plus once the Mandatory Access Control TrustedBSD patches gets merged into the CURRENT source tree, we'll have quite good security on an OS that is already quite secure.
I've been waiting for years for someone to take a step in the direction of making a portable mp3 that uses CDs in a similar way to the Apex DVD player etc. This looks like just such a step.
I think a cleaner approach is to use ORBS to filter port 25. They don't block anything except verified open relays. This does however sometimes throw the baby out with the bathwater, but at least they don't make subjective decisions about who to block.
uu.net should take the shoot first, ask questions later approach that hotmail.com does. The problem that large ISPs have is their dialup customers, its quite difficult to track down a spammer on a dynamic IP. I imagine thats the main problem that uu.net has.
What's interesting is that Northern VA and Maryland currently have 10 digit dialing, but here in the District of Columbia its still 7 digit. I remember in the distant past when DC and Northern VA (703) had separate area codes, but did not have overlapping prefixes so you didn't have to dial 202 if you were dialing to a DC number from 703. When they changed that and forced people to dial 202 to call numbers in DC everyone had a hissy fit. Then everyone forgot about it and went on with their lives:)
Most area codes in the NE US are close together and cover a small geographic area anyway, so I don't see it as such a big deal.
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This is great news for the state of Delaware. There is no sales tax in Delaware for offline or online sales. Hopefully if the other states tighten their tax laws, it will push many e-retailers to Delaware. At least it will give Delaware e-retailers a hand up on everyone else. Besides, the relaxed corporate laws in Delaware make it a good state to incorporate in anyway.
Don't they mean eggface?
Nothing in the world like a minimal install of FreeBSD. Nice and slim with only the base essentials. After the install is done I go to the /usr/ports collection and install all the extra software that I need. Its also nice to be able to upgrade the entire core of the OS in one shot with make world etc. Plus with mergemaster merging the config files, its almost impossible to hose up an upgrade.
You also get an OS that performs better and is more stable than linux. Plus once the Mandatory Access Control TrustedBSD patches gets merged into the CURRENT source tree, we'll have quite good security on an OS that is already quite secure.
You should get a VCR that strips commercials out and tape everything before you watch it.
I remember those. I haven't seen one since I started using Junkbuster :)
I've been waiting for years for someone to take a step in the direction of making a portable mp3 that uses CDs in a similar way to the Apex DVD player etc. This looks like just such a step.
I think a cleaner approach is to use ORBS to filter port 25. They don't block anything except verified open relays. This does however sometimes throw the baby out with the bathwater, but at least they don't make subjective decisions about who to block.
That way the military will use a broken operating system to detect problems with their equipment.... Great Idea!
Its obvious that he has never used FreeBSD. That might change his views on UNIX in general.
Do you have any plans for a port to FreeBSD? VMWare does not support FreeBSD (although there are ways to get it to run with linux binary compat libs).
uu.net should take the shoot first, ask questions later approach that hotmail.com does. The problem that large ISPs have is their dialup customers, its quite difficult to track down a spammer on a dynamic IP. I imagine thats the main problem that uu.net has.
What's interesting is that Northern VA and Maryland currently have 10 digit dialing, but here in the District of Columbia its still 7 digit. I remember in the distant past when DC and Northern VA (703) had separate area codes, but did not have overlapping prefixes so you didn't have to dial 202 if you were dialing to a DC number from 703. When they changed that and forced people to dial 202 to call numbers in DC everyone had a hissy fit. Then everyone forgot about it and went on with their lives :)
Most area codes in the NE US are close together and cover a small geographic area anyway, so I don't see it as such a big deal.