It just means that AOL has published SPF records for its mail servers in their DNS entries. Any mail server speaking SPF, receiving mail from AOL.COM, will check the SPF record.
If the SPF record (which will contain the IP addresses of AOL's mail servers) doesn't match the originating IP address of the mail message (as in, a spoofed header) the message is invalid. Then it can be either dropped or bounced or whatever.
If the SPF record matches the initiating IP address (as in the case of a message legitimately sent by the mail server) it's clear and goes through.
I might have access to that book you mentioned to me actually. I've got access to quite a library of different books in my circles, I'm sure if I don't own it already (probably been given it in the past) that I can get a copy.
Tell ya what though -- if you've got thread replies enabled, if I can't find a copy of it, I'll let you know. Your offer is more than reasonable. Especially since it's presented rationally, something many evalengical christians seem to have difficulty with.
I used to be a very religious person...getting older, I decided I didn't really believe in it. Your choice to do so, however, isn't any of my business. Who knows, maybe I'll change my mind at a later point in life.
I did find conflicting studies and reports on the subject, I just posted the one I found most interesting and relevant at the time.
Not knowing a good comment to reply to in order to post my two bytes, I am going to do it here.
Duke University Medical Center undertook a study about the power of prayer. They had a randomized selected group of patients to be prayed for by christian, jewish, and muslim clerics -- and a control that was not prayed for.
Neither group was measurably better than the other.
I'm thinking that it'll work similar to the way cable modems work. Bandwidth available varies with congestion...You have to remember, not everyone would be using it at the same time, and not even everyone would want to subscribe to it.
However, it is feasible that in the worst case, it would be 120mbps at 4 AM and 60 bps at 6 PM. However, it'd probably be closer to 512 kbps at 6 PM.
Satellites have quite a few interesting materials...aerospace grade titanium, gold heat shields, some may have communications equipment which is valuable, etc.
If a satellite costs $10m, it's probably got at least $2m of salvagable value in it. Plus, if there's something up there to recover one, it could potentially salvage more.
I've seen a prototype/concept model of a "space runabout" type module with a robot arm, a rocket, and a cockpit...mostly manual/fly-by-wire control, designed to tow satellites around. Not developed yet but it's promising...and whoever does finish development of it, would have access to all the satellites parked out in post-geo "graveyard" orbits: where almost every satellite in middle to high orbits has gone since they were built.
How, then, do you propose they keep pirated copies of XP from downloading updates?
They blocked the number one pirate CD key from downloading them even before SP1. And, with SP1, they blocked around 150 other "commonly used" pirate CD keys.
That doesn't mean there aren't other corporate keys that are valid...corporate keys bypass activation so there's no validity checks. If it's a corporate key leaked from a large company, it's feasible that it could go unnoticed for a long period of time before being caught and invalidated.
I, personally, advocate Windows Update sending a 'destroy installation' command that will cause Windows to boot to some kind of anti-piracy screen, and destroy all other files on the hard drive. And, I think that's perfectly reasonable -- you steal the software, you run the risk of the software you're not using legitimately destroying your data.
You just run into the problem of detecting pirate copies then.
I've hot-swapped (both add and remove) IDE interface drives in WinXP with no problem.
My guess is you removed the data cable before removing the power.
Procedure to Remove Fixed Hard Disks: 1. Remove Power Cable from Drive 2. Remove Data Cable from Drive 3. Scan for Hardware Changes in Device Manager.
No data loss will occur as long as no open file handles are present on the disk at the time of removal. Windows XP will detect and gracefully dismount/remove references to it. If there are open file handles, data in the write cache will be lost, and WinXP will freeze up for a few minutes while waiting for the IDE timeout.
Procedure to Add a Fixed Disk: 1. Connect Data Cable 2. Connect Power Cable 3. Scan for Hardware Changes in Device Manager
Windows will read the drive signature and make it available under My Computer.
I agree that the aid should stop...but it would be unfair to leave them defenseless.
We should pay off Israel to kill every Palestinian alive...after all, they might some day pose a threat to our "national security" and they probably have ties to Al Queda too.
Point taken about XHTML and CSS, however, those aren't communications protocols...I've seen very few sites using XHTML (although, CSS is pretty popular.)
I'm turning mine in, as soon as the Department of Education gets a PIN for my dad.
For some reason even though I'm 18, the US DoE wants my parents electronic signature as well as mine. Whatever.
The calculated net worth of my parents was 0. I hope they qualify me for grants or there's no way I'm getting enough money for Georgia Tech or University of Chicago.
The owner of the intellectual property can ask you to certify you're using it in accordance with their licensing...
Whether or not SCO owns the property that is in question here, however, is really what the debate is all about.
Unix is less of a patented system and more of a trade name for any of a number of POSIX-compatible environments -- even system administrators admit this. Linux deliberately breaks 100% compatibility with Unix but they're basically the same in many respects...Which is why Linux is a Unix-like OS.
Zone Alarm, and even ZA Pro, is one of the worst possible personal firewalls you could use.
Kerio or PeerGuardian are far superior in terms of configurability and functionality (although ZA is better for new users who don't really need to know what a firewall is.)
Except that NT was also the brand name of their previous Windows operating system, therefore, this statement was equivilant to saying "Windows 2000, based on the same technology as our previous business OS."
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This is not a whitelist filter.
It's not any kind of a filter.
It just means that AOL has published SPF records for its mail servers in their DNS entries. Any mail server speaking SPF, receiving mail from AOL.COM, will check the SPF record.
If the SPF record (which will contain the IP addresses of AOL's mail servers) doesn't match the originating IP address of the mail message (as in, a spoofed header) the message is invalid. Then it can be either dropped or bounced or whatever.
If the SPF record matches the initiating IP address (as in the case of a message legitimately sent by the mail server) it's clear and goes through.
Cisco makes a wireless VoIP phone, IIRC.
I might have access to that book you mentioned to me actually. I've got access to quite a library of different books in my circles, I'm sure if I don't own it already (probably been given it in the past) that I can get a copy.
Tell ya what though -- if you've got thread replies enabled, if I can't find a copy of it, I'll let you know. Your offer is more than reasonable. Especially since it's presented rationally, something many evalengical christians seem to have difficulty with.
J.W.
I used to be a very religious person...getting older, I decided I didn't really believe in it. Your choice to do so, however, isn't any of my business. Who knows, maybe I'll change my mind at a later point in life.
I did find conflicting studies and reports on the subject, I just posted the one I found most interesting and relevant at the time.
Not knowing a good comment to reply to in order to post my two bytes, I am going to do it here.
Duke University Medical Center undertook a study about the power of prayer. They had a randomized selected group of patients to be prayed for by christian, jewish, and muslim clerics -- and a control that was not prayed for.
Neither group was measurably better than the other.
Therefore, prayer didn't make a difference.
I'm thinking that it'll work similar to the way cable modems work. Bandwidth available varies with congestion...You have to remember, not everyone would be using it at the same time, and not even everyone would want to subscribe to it.
However, it is feasible that in the worst case, it would be 120mbps at 4 AM and 60 bps at 6 PM. However, it'd probably be closer to 512 kbps at 6 PM.
Satellites have quite a few interesting materials...aerospace grade titanium, gold heat shields, some may have communications equipment which is valuable, etc.
If a satellite costs $10m, it's probably got at least $2m of salvagable value in it. Plus, if there's something up there to recover one, it could potentially salvage more.
I've seen a prototype/concept model of a "space runabout" type module with a robot arm, a rocket, and a cockpit...mostly manual/fly-by-wire control, designed to tow satellites around. Not developed yet but it's promising...and whoever does finish development of it, would have access to all the satellites parked out in post-geo "graveyard" orbits: where almost every satellite in middle to high orbits has gone since they were built.
Thanks! I signed up for this.
$5 for 500 MB. Not bad at all.
Hope they don't fraud my card.
How, then, do you propose they keep pirated copies of XP from downloading updates?
They blocked the number one pirate CD key from downloading them even before SP1. And, with SP1, they blocked around 150 other "commonly used" pirate CD keys.
That doesn't mean there aren't other corporate keys that are valid...corporate keys bypass activation so there's no validity checks. If it's a corporate key leaked from a large company, it's feasible that it could go unnoticed for a long period of time before being caught and invalidated.
I, personally, advocate Windows Update sending a 'destroy installation' command that will cause Windows to boot to some kind of anti-piracy screen, and destroy all other files on the hard drive. And, I think that's perfectly reasonable -- you steal the software, you run the risk of the software you're not using legitimately destroying your data.
You just run into the problem of detecting pirate copies then.
I've hot-swapped (both add and remove) IDE interface drives in WinXP with no problem.
My guess is you removed the data cable before removing the power.
Procedure to Remove Fixed Hard Disks:
1. Remove Power Cable from Drive
2. Remove Data Cable from Drive
3. Scan for Hardware Changes in Device Manager.
No data loss will occur as long as no open file handles are present on the disk at the time of removal. Windows XP will detect and gracefully dismount/remove references to it. If there are open file handles, data in the write cache will be lost, and WinXP will freeze up for a few minutes while waiting for the IDE timeout.
Procedure to Add a Fixed Disk:
1. Connect Data Cable
2. Connect Power Cable
3. Scan for Hardware Changes in Device Manager
Windows will read the drive signature and make it available under My Computer.
Address fields are a fixed 32-bit integer...this notation would overflow.
I agree that the aid should stop...but it would be unfair to leave them defenseless.
We should pay off Israel to kill every Palestinian alive...after all, they might some day pose a threat to our "national security" and they probably have ties to Al Queda too.
NAT isn't good for power users...people who run servers, people with multiple connected machines doing different things, etc.
That's what I was saying.
Point taken about XHTML and CSS, however, those aren't communications protocols...I've seen very few sites using XHTML (although, CSS is pretty popular.)
By routers, I mean, I can't get an IPv6 address with Windows 2003 Server, from my ISP.
Therefore, my ISP's routers are not using IPv6, even though my systems which aren't anything terribly special, have that ability.
IPv6 is native in Windows XP as a module.
It's just not active in...........anything else. No routers have it. No providers have it.
I dunno what the problem is, but if MS can beat it to market, there's something wrong.
Repetitive read/write failure can be avoided by limiting the number of repetitive operations done.
/dev/null or a network port. don't reboot often.
i.e. log to
Also, I think the MTBF is something O(100,000) writes anyways, not O(10,000)
The enhanced rights management requires a server on the network to orchestrate it; none of that checking is done within the file itself.
Only effective within an organization really.
I'm turning mine in, as soon as the Department of Education gets a PIN for my dad.
For some reason even though I'm 18, the US DoE wants my parents electronic signature as well as mine. Whatever.
The calculated net worth of my parents was 0. I hope they qualify me for grants or there's no way I'm getting enough money for Georgia Tech or University of Chicago.
For civil trials above $2000 (or $200) you can elect to have it heard by a jury and not just decided by a judge.
The owner of the intellectual property can ask you to certify you're using it in accordance with their licensing...
Whether or not SCO owns the property that is in question here, however, is really what the debate is all about.
Unix is less of a patented system and more of a trade name for any of a number of POSIX-compatible environments -- even system administrators admit this. Linux deliberately breaks 100% compatibility with Unix but they're basically the same in many respects...Which is why Linux is a Unix-like OS.
Zone Alarm, and even ZA Pro, is one of the worst possible personal firewalls you could use.
Kerio or PeerGuardian are far superior in terms of configurability and functionality (although ZA is better for new users who don't really need to know what a firewall is.)
Except that NT was also the brand name of their previous Windows operating system, therefore, this statement was equivilant to saying "Windows 2000, based on the same technology as our previous business OS."
ahh yes...that is true, isn't it.
I suppose the posted script + a regex to make sure the addresses are semi-valid-looking would catch a fair amount, however.
http://www.asshats.org/phpcms/valid.txt
does exactly what you want. It checks that the e-mail address exists on the remote server.