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  1. Re:Companies from Basements? on Unplugging Email To Combat Spam · · Score: 1

    What to do, though, when your spamassassin bayesian filter determines that EVERYTHING has a 100% probability of being spam?

  2. Re:DOS by False Accusation? on Unplugging Email To Combat Spam · · Score: 2, Informative

    grep username logfile(s)

  3. Re:Hotmail DOS? on Unplugging Email To Combat Spam · · Score: 1

    well, i am going to start by having my mail processor add every thing that even remotely resembles a hotmail address that comes thru my email added to a database.. then we can use that database to kill everything.. :D

  4. Re:I dont get it.. on Cingular To Offer Mobile High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    People bitch about Verizon's selection of phones (yeah, they do take a long damn time to get any new cool equipment).. but the reason for that, is the same reason why Verizon has so much better service availability in virtually everywhere:

    Quality Control.

  5. Re:Great for the Customer on Cingular To Offer Mobile High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    Great, because most of the phone models available simply will not roam... and rollover sucks donkey balls.

  6. Re:Unnoted Point... on Cingular To Offer Mobile High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    They have authorization, beginning this year, I think, to start taking down the AMPS network.

  7. Re:small on Cingular To Offer Mobile High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    I chat on yahoo messenger, through my phone's browser, while doing around 100mph on a freeway. No big deal. :P

  8. Re:Found one on Cingular To Offer Mobile High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    T-Mobile gets away with charging so little for all their stuff, because their service absolutely sucks. I live in the middle of the Metro Detroit service area, and there's not a T-Mobile phone within 3 miles of me that works. "Searching for signal..."

    I have an employee that works for me with T-Mobile service. Every call he makes starts with "Hello? Hello? Hello?" and ends with "Let me call you back on a landline" (and he's changed phones four times)

  9. Re:I hope it's better than their phone service on Cingular To Offer Mobile High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    Omnipoint became Voicestream became T-Mobile.

    Cingular and T-mobile's roaming agreements have ended.

    And, in almost every major market now, if you have an ATT phone, when you bring it online, it should identify itself as being connected to Cingular.

    They aren't gonna wait for regulatory approval of the merger.

  10. Re:Death to telephone numbers on Cingular To Offer Mobile High-Speed Internet · · Score: 1

    well the really sad thing for some of us.. I can remember every telephone number I've ever dialed... it sucks. They get jumbled a lot, and I can't always associate them to the right persons/places anymore :(

  11. here you go! on Internet Accessible Home Security Systems? · · Score: 4, Informative
    Linksys Wireless-B Internet Video Camera
    • Sends high-quality live video wirelessly to a Web browser anywhere in the world
    • Broadcasts over Wireless-B (802.11b) network or over 10/100Base-T Ethernet cable
    • Built-in stand-alone Web server for remote video viewing from anywhere
    • In security mode, it automatically e-mails an alert with images to your designated addresses
    • Supports up to four users simultaneously
    • Access the camera anywhere in the world via the Internet
    • Dimensions: 3.35x6.1x3.15" (8.5x15.5x8cm) (WHD)
    • Weight: 0.53 lbs. (0.24 kg)
    • Warranty: 1-year
    Specifications:
    • Ports: one 10/100 RJ-45 port, one power port
    • Control: one reset button
    • LEDs: ready, act/link, LAN, wireless
    • Security: user authentication & WEP encryption
    Minimum Requirements:
    • PC with 550MHz or faster processor
    • 64MB RAM memory
    • Microsoft Windows® Internet Explorer® 5.5 or higher for Web viewing and Web-based configuration
    • Cable/DSL connection for Internet viewing
    • CD-ROM drive
    • Windows® Media Player 7 or higher
    • Wired or wireless network adapter with TCP/IP protocol installed
    • Windows 98 SE, Me, 2000, XP
    What's in the Box:
    • Wireless-B Internet video camera
    • Setup CD-ROM with User Guide
    • Quick installation guide
    • Power adapter
    • Ethernet network cable
    • Camera desktop stand
    • Registration cards
  12. Re:Question on SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it was weight, but it certainly was not equipped with the hardware to dock.. And I think that was since it did have a smaller cargo bay than the newer units did...

  13. Re:Predictions? on SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully · · Score: 1

    I'd like to point out one thing a lot of people are missing. This can be considered, in the near time, a major improvement in flight capabilities. Put some horizontal thrust capabilities onto SSO, and you could be running a delivery from the U.S. to Fiji in like... mayube 2-3 hrs?????

  14. Re:Chase planes? on SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully · · Score: 1

    Moderators: +4 Sarcastic/JESUS I wet my pants funny!

  15. Re:Except they didn't. on SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully · · Score: 1

    Well, if nothing else the Rutans are fucking BRILLIANT at their craft - designing, building, and promoting aircraft.

    And they've got a lot of "I want to do it, because I just fucking want to do it." behind them. Who wanted an airplane design that could go around the entire world without stopping for refuel? No one! it was the answer to a question no one asked! (just like Windows.. but I digress) And they did it.. and they fucking rock!

  16. Re:flavor of the day on Winning Critical Acclaim · · Score: 1

    The critical acclaim that Nirvana reached was only because reviewers were trying to identify themselves to the kids.

    Nirvana sucked, musically. Awful.

    But they still made good songs.

  17. Re:Doom to fail... on GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome · · Score: 1

    That's my POINT. If the software were at all remotely intelligent, you wouldn't HAVE that user error.

    Asshole. lol.

  18. Re:Not that impressive on Gmail Spam Filter Testing · · Score: 1

    Absolutely correct. If I turn on Spamassassin's bayesian methods, it automatically determines that everything coming in is spam, and drops it in the spam folder.

    Turning it off, it pretty much determines that at least a good 80% of everything coming in is spam.. but the false-positive and false-negative ratios are probably about 50% for both, at default settings. I had to adjust the point scores for MANY of it's rules to get most of my legitimate email through.. which decreased also the accuracy with which it marks spams..

  19. Re:Not that impressive on Gmail Spam Filter Testing · · Score: 1

    maybe you guys just don't receive over 800 spams per day :)

    when you've been using the same email address for .. 14 years.. it'll probly be different. heh.

  20. Re:Doom to fail... on GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome · · Score: 1

    right, i'm running application "A".. I notice that there's a new update for application "A".. so I download it, close the version i have of application "A", run the new version setup, get it installed, click the button to launch application "A".. and I get.. the old version.

    Huh?

    Open command line, issue "where applicationa", get back: /usr/bin/applicationa /usr/local/bin/applicationa /usr/doc/applicationa /usr/man0/applicationa /usr/local/doc/applicationa /usr/local/man0/applicationa .. and several other replies.

    then issue /usr/bin/applicationa -v
    to get "application 'a' oldversion"
    then /usr/local/bin/applicationa -v
    to get "application 'a' newversion"

    then "ln -s /usr/local/bin/applicationa /usr/bin" to solve the problem.

    Why?

  21. Re:SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux on GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome · · Score: 1

    ^H is "Ctrl-H", which is a synonym for Backspace.

    If you telnet to something that doesn't understand your current keymap, pressing backspace may result in seeing ^H^H as the telnetd on the receiving end is expecting DEL for backspace instead of BACKSPACE... bleah.

    It's an ancient thing. (10 years, while respectably aged, is not quite ancient)

  22. Re:First step on GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome · · Score: 1

    I've never heard of Moulinex.

  23. Re:What newbies need... on GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome · · Score: 1

    oh, here's a fun topic to get me started on. heh.

    I decided to give WINE another shot, so I loaded up the absolute latest apt-get wine installation.. hooked up a real, live Windows XP installation via a network drive. Setup WINE to use the real, live XP installation for it's DLL's.

    Then I tried to load many different programs. The only programs that WORK are SETUP programs (Windows SETUP programs didn't work at all the last time I tried WINE), and one of the two games I tried.

    All I wanted to use was IE (which worked last time I tried wine), yahoo messenger, and msn messenger. The last time I tried WINE, all three of those worked. This time, none of them worked. What good is it if all i can do is install software? heh.

  24. Re:You forgot... on GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome · · Score: 1

    It's not the notion that WINDOWS CRASHES. It's the notion that COMPUTERS CRASH.

    I actually spent yesterday talking with a whole bunch of non-geek Windows users about what they think of Windows and computers as a whole, and although every one of them complained about getting metric assloads of viruses, and things crashing all the time not a one of them was interested in DOING anything to change it.

  25. Re:Listening to Newbies on GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome · · Score: 1

    I dunno what email programs YOU use, but I've had four or five different ones in the last year or so, and not a one of them were compatible with each other!