Try bsdwebhosting.net, I've never tried sending more than a few emails a day but I'd be surprised if they were limiting it. You can send them an email to check I guess.
I've used them for about a year now and it's been pretty economical.
severoon, what you have done, whether you know it or not, is present a classic straw-man argument.
Ieshan argues "If everyone decided tomorrow to stop trying to break the machines that others have worked so hard to build, voila - they'd not be broken anymore." This is mostly correct (except for software bugs that break the machines), you do not address that in your post. Ieshan also says "Why are people so quick to assume that it's okay for people to break things and hurt people just because it's possible to do so?" which I assume was the question you were answering when you constructed your straw-man argument.
You go on to discuss that we need robustness in our systems, and say if there are no viruses companies will become lazy. This is your first straw-man argument, you should have more correctly stated "It's ok for virus writers to break things and hurt people because it keeps companies from being lazy", except that the statement would be bordering on the absurd. You go on to discuss banking software, without any proof to back up your assertions that it has been made more secure by people hurting others.
From what I can distill your argument seems to be "It is alright for one person to hurt another, as long as the greater whole becomes stronger". This is a common abuse of Darwins theory of evolution, what you fail to take into account is that we are not evolving, and haven't been for a long time. We live in societies where the basic rule is "protect everyone and the greater whole becomes stronger". Just because we are talking about "computer viruses" it doesn't mean we are not still part of society, don't let the terminology distort your view of things. There is no evolution here, it is simple reasoned attack and response anything that becomes stronger or weaker does so purely because of decisions made by human minds.
If you are really interested in the technomages I can recommend reading the Technomage trilogy (actually four books if you include the prequel). This happens around the times of the shadow war but is still very interesting.
The Cemtauri trilogy is also pretty good, a lot of Drakh stuff is covered there. There is also a psi-corps trilogy but this almost misses the telepath war, it happens between books 2 and 3. Still interesting if you want to know how the psi-corps is formed (first book) and a biography of bester (2nd and 3rd books).
I'm a pretty big B5 fan, i.e. I have all the books, novels, episode guides, comics, and magazines as well as the episodes themselves. I'd say these 10 books are must reads for fans, the rest can be comfortably skipped for all but the biggest fans:)
Sorry but I'm not gonna put the links here, but you can check out the novels page at the lurkers guide. All should be available at amazon still, oh and the name of the prequel to the technomages is "The Shadow Within".
Well having lived there for 20 odd years before emigrating before to Europe I can tell you that you probably wouldn't want to live there unless you were a movie star or an oil baron.
It's a fine country to live in if you don't have to work but if you do be prepared to be fucked upon and ripped off. When I left I was working for a big international IT firm and was getting around US$9 per hour. ON FIXED TERM CONTRACT. Not even as a full employee (Although I was employed, not an independent contractor). The only regret I have is leaving friends and family.
If you move there and are not already wealthy, then prepare never to leave it again, as you will find it very difficult to match income with a 1st world country, making it difficult to get out.
Having said all that, it still might be a step up from the USA, the lower class in NZ seem to do better from what I can tell.
I might go back to NZ to retire, but I'd say there's a higher chance I'd retire to Australia as long as it doesn't keep following US trends.
Textpad and Ultraedit are actually pretty good editors. One of the nice features is the ability to open _very_ large files without making the entire file memory resident.
Last time I checked vi, emacs and the popular (for windows at least) JEdit can't do this. I can't remember is SciTE can, but I suspect not. It really is a killer feature for some people.
I think the baseball bats would be cheaper and more effective. One marshal can potentially be taken out. Two or more acting in concert would be really effective, but two or three times as expensive. 200 passengers with baseball bats would be even more effective, and very cheap.
Fantastic idea, but I'd prefer tasers (or stun batons mabye) - not so cheap thou:-/
Can i give you another cruel tip instead of the "anomalies"?
Distribute the program with a public key, then when you work out the copy is pirated, encrypt the user directoy (presuming the program has one, or else you may need to add that as a feature:) with the public key, then notify the user what happened.
If they are a legitimate user then you can decrypt the data for them with your private key, else they need to register before you decrypt it for them.
nasty
I also use drive images to restore my XP partition. The problem is that the programs above compress the parts of the disk which aren't used.
RL example, I have a 40GB drive in my laptop, it has been full previously, I now delete the data and install winXP fresh, apply all updates and the service pack. Install the must have software like firewall, browser etc. Then I make an image, unfortunatly the image rolls in around 25GB even though only 2GB is being used.
Norton Ghost didn't seem to have this problem though.
Anyway the "quick fix" was to boot from a linux cdrom and shred the disk with a 0 pattern before archiving, then I just dd the partition and it's about 600MB.
This is fine for creating a post install recovery disk but not reall suitable for backing up live data.
Uh, you realise, of course, that table layout is actually significantly more complex computationally than the CSS box model, and most tables based layouts use a LOT more tables than CSS sites use divs.
Actually I don't have enough experience having neither written enough css/table webpages, nor having written any code to display them.
I imagine the CSS sites you are talking about use fixed positioning in some way
perhaps, however unfortunatly I don't actually have any examples to provide. The only qualification I can give here is when I enforce the user.css in Opera these pages have gone from slow to fast.
As a programmer, I'm sure you'll appreciate the difference good design and a good language can make to your work
I sure do and if I was creating websites today I would most likely use it (I have used it and found it to be very straightforward). I'd probably be hesitant to upgrade any significant webpage I had already coded in HTML unless it had problems.
When it comes to HTML I really couldn't care less whether they are coded properly or not as long as they display fine, many people disagree (and I used to as well) and believe they should be created better however I think there are too many fscked sites already and these people are dreaming. I think XHTML and XML pages should strictly enforced, however I've come to think of HTML as webpages for idiots.
Almost all css sites I have used have been really slow when scrolling (this was on Opera and Mozilla, I don't know about IE). With a different div for each comment I imagine this might be fscking slow, although I should point out I'm a programmer not a web developer.
stylesheets are implemented differently in different browsers, and the implementations are bound to be more dynamic than tables. The bugs for tables have been worked out why do it again for css.
Isn't slashcode opensource? Why don't you go in and fix it yourself if it bothers you?
That is how the spam war will end: The spammers will become sophisticated enough that no matter what we do, any filter we try to use will result in too many false positives (falsely labelled "spam") to be of any use
At this point people will most probably switch to whitelists or somesort, however I had a horrible thought once when thinking about this.
<horrible_thought>
Another approach other than a whitelist is to include a signature like PGP in the email. This could be placed in the headers of the mail and attached by the mail client. Mail servers could have an option to check these signatures automatically, or the signature can be checked by the recieving mail client at the expense of a bit more bandwidth. Once the clients can transparently sign and verify messages this means that a user can choose to only to accept signed messages (i.e. I don't add you to a whitelist but you need a valid key). These keys need to be managed by some central authority which revokes keys if they are found to be used by spam, therefy causing all the messages sent to be useless.
My horrible thought is that MS is in the best position to offer this becasue of the Outlook/Hotmail dominance. They would call it their spam inititive and ship all updates to outlook with this feature, the next update when the feature is widespread would auto-enable the feature. This would block out most mail to and from non MS agents in the name of fighting SPAM.
TCL was originally designed to have a minimal syntax which was to be extended with custom bindings for a program. It is by it's nature a "glue" language, and I don't see how means the language can't be used for prototyping. In the way we used it it had bindings only for Oracle exec/selects and TUXEDO RPCs/FML buffers, nothing else. The rest of the app was built entirely in TCL and it works well as, is as fast as, and has much fewer defects than existing similar services written in C despite being developed by a more junior team with no experience in the project area.
Your examples of prototyping languages were c# and java however my idea of prototyping languages are TCL or Python. I worked with java for years and you can develop some stuff quickly, but it's not a protyping language IMO. Python on the other hand seems quite good for prototyping, for instance you can write a threaded/forked/multiplexed chat server in about 10 lines of code, and it is suitable for building full apps without binding C code (although you may want to do this for speed reasons).
I should qualify this by saying I am a C programmer profesionally, and don't have a problem doing it if thats what I'm payed for, I love C and every programmer should know it. If I have a choice I will program in Python because it's easily about 5 times quicker to develop in than C and I don't like to waste my time. I also like Java but don't see much use for it beyond EJB systems. I think the only advantage Java has is that it can be used for clients, servers, servlets, JSPs and EJBs. Management like it because they wrongly think (and the hype promotes the image) of their Java programmers as a pool resource who can be moved between these areas seemlessly.
I've worked on large projects and this approach has worked just fine. The basic idea is not to write the entire program in the higher level language but rather to use this language as the glue for calls to functions in lower level languages.
As a RL example a project I worked on used TCL as the glue for C TUXEDO services and Oracle. So to adress your points above WRT this project:
1)There were no performance issues in the delivered product, if a part of the code is under performing in the glue language you rewrite it in C and bind to it instead.
2)We did not need to port all the code to C, identify the small portions of code which benefit greatly from a port and port only them. The time saved here is enormous compared to implementing the entire project in C.
3)calling to native code in TCL was trivial, if it's "far from trivial" for you perhaps you chose the wrong language for the glue. A popular language for doing this today is Python, in which it is also straightforward to create bindings for.
Four days after the airing of this episode, Joss Whedon announced that this would be the last season of Buffy, feeling that the show had come full circle
Man I remember spending so much time on "Hero's Quest" (QFG1) on my Atari ST. The manual said I could use the character to jumpstart my QFG2 charactor so I kept it around for years but could never get hold of QFG2.
HQ was definatly one of my all time favorites next to E.L.I.T.E and damocles, QFG2 is being remade, ELITE is already has an excellent remake so all I have to wait for is damocles.
But mainframes which haven't been upgraded in 25 years are incredibly rare. Just like any other type of computer, every few years you upgrade the hardware with a new version.
I don't disagree with you, I was implying that an attitude of "It works now so we don't have to think about replacing it" is irresponsible, and that by taking this position can place you in the situation where a hardware upgrade (because of no legacy hardware available) causes a driver upgrade, causing an library upgrade, causing a OS upgrade, causing legacy apps to die in a big way.
The first machine was a huge custom beast (as in many rooms of equipment) built by univac, can't remember the specific DBMS it was running but it caused a lot of bother.
If they'd stuck with Big Blue, they could have just swapped the hardware for something newer
Well perhaps but who knew then. IBM screwed them quite severly (100's millions) at a failed attempt to migrate the system onto their hardware a decade ago so I expect they won't play much of a role in the future either.
If a machine, no matter how old, is working, and you paid a lot of cash for it, no business will get rid of it to get something new just because its new/ flashy.
Well it depends, when I worked for [a large software shop] we had a (huge) customer who had a mainframe which was so old they had someone employed fulltime to source secondhand parts for it. They took the view you had, then the machine began to fail. Of course porting 25 years of applications and data to a new platform is a non-trivial exercise, and of course the added pressure that there actually may not be any more of widget X after the next one fails, doesn't help.
Not surprisingly in the migration, they chose to break up into several isolated systems, the isolated systems were made less homogenous within them selves being a mixture of different servers. But I bet they wished they had tried tio do it befor any problems were happening.
We also had another potential client which the suits were courting. They were a telco company which had their support systems (by this I don't mean anything to do with the actual core business, but the HR systems, the programs which tell the installers where to go, the customer suppoert services etc, so an important system nonetheless) implemented on an old mainframe system (also obsolete) using a depreciated messaging middleware product and a niche language which was no longer used. The system hadn't actually started to fail yet, however their management didn't really see a problem since it's working, and they paid a lot of cash for it.
because I'm stuck in Germany at the moment and I sure don't speak enough German to understand TTT! I can't even read this article because of the spoilers!! Anyone know of any English movie-theatres around Cologne/Dusseldorf area?
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Try bsdwebhosting.net, I've never tried sending more than a few emails a day but I'd be surprised if they were limiting it. You can send them an email to check I guess.
I've used them for about a year now and it's been pretty economical.
severoon, what you have done, whether you know it or not, is present a classic straw-man argument.
Ieshan argues "If everyone decided tomorrow to stop trying to break the machines that others have worked so hard to build, voila - they'd not be broken anymore." This is mostly correct (except for software bugs that break the machines), you do not address that in your post. Ieshan also says "Why are people so quick to assume that it's okay for people to break things and hurt people just because it's possible to do so?" which I assume was the question you were answering when you constructed your straw-man argument.
You go on to discuss that we need robustness in our systems, and say if there are no viruses companies will become lazy. This is your first straw-man argument, you should have more correctly stated "It's ok for virus writers to break things and hurt people because it keeps companies from being lazy", except that the statement would be bordering on the absurd. You go on to discuss banking software, without any proof to back up your assertions that it has been made more secure by people hurting others.
From what I can distill your argument seems to be "It is alright for one person to hurt another, as long as the greater whole becomes stronger". This is a common abuse of Darwins theory of evolution, what you fail to take into account is that we are not evolving, and haven't been for a long time. We live in societies where the basic rule is "protect everyone and the greater whole becomes stronger". Just because we are talking about "computer viruses" it doesn't mean we are not still part of society, don't let the terminology distort your view of things. There is no evolution here, it is simple reasoned attack and response anything that becomes stronger or weaker does so purely because of decisions made by human minds.
If you are really interested in the technomages I can recommend reading the Technomage trilogy (actually four books if you include the prequel). This happens around the times of the shadow war but is still very interesting.
:)
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The Cemtauri trilogy is also pretty good, a lot of Drakh stuff is covered there. There is also a psi-corps trilogy but this almost misses the telepath war, it happens between books 2 and 3. Still interesting if you want to know how the psi-corps is formed (first book) and a biography of bester (2nd and 3rd books).
I'm a pretty big B5 fan, i.e. I have all the books, novels, episode guides, comics, and magazines as well as the episodes themselves. I'd say these 10 books are must reads for fans, the rest can be comfortably skipped for all but the biggest fans
Sorry but I'm not gonna put the links here, but you can check out the novels page at the lurkers guide. All should be available at amazon still, oh and the name of the prequel to the technomages is "The Shadow Within".
Hope that helps
thanks! I wasn't aware gmail supported it.
Well having lived there for 20 odd years before emigrating before to Europe I can tell you that you probably wouldn't want to live there unless you were a movie star or an oil baron.
It's a fine country to live in if you don't have to work but if you do be prepared to be fucked upon and ripped off. When I left I was working for a big international IT firm and was getting around US$9 per hour. ON FIXED TERM CONTRACT. Not even as a full employee (Although I was employed, not an independent contractor). The only regret I have is leaving friends and family.
If you move there and are not already wealthy, then prepare never to leave it again, as you will find it very difficult to match income with a 1st world country, making it difficult to get out.
Having said all that, it still might be a step up from the USA, the lower class in NZ seem to do better from what I can tell.
I might go back to NZ to retire, but I'd say there's a higher chance I'd retire to Australia as long as it doesn't keep following US trends.
Textpad and Ultraedit are actually pretty good editors. One of the nice features is the ability to open _very_ large files without making the entire file memory resident.
Last time I checked vi, emacs and the popular (for windows at least) JEdit can't do this. I can't remember is SciTE can, but I suspect not. It really is a killer feature for some people.
Also in germany Textpad seems to be very popular.
Cheers, nzhavok
We've been watching this feed for 90 minutes and now it will be slashdotted, insensitive bastards :(
/me prays for nasa's bandwidth
I think the baseball bats would be cheaper and more effective. One marshal can potentially be taken out. Two or more acting in concert would be really effective, but two or three times as expensive. 200 passengers with baseball bats would be even more effective, and very cheap.
:-/
Fantastic idea, but I'd prefer tasers (or stun batons mabye) - not so cheap thou
Can i give you another cruel tip instead of the "anomalies"? Distribute the program with a public key, then when you work out the copy is pirated, encrypt the user directoy (presuming the program has one, or else you may need to add that as a feature :) with the public key, then notify the user what happened.
If they are a legitimate user then you can decrypt the data for them with your private key, else they need to register before you decrypt it for them.
nasty
I also use drive images to restore my XP partition. The problem is that the programs above compress the parts of the disk which aren't used.
RL example, I have a 40GB drive in my laptop, it has been full previously, I now delete the data and install winXP fresh, apply all updates and the service pack. Install the must have software like firewall, browser etc. Then I make an image, unfortunatly the image rolls in around 25GB even though only 2GB is being used.
Norton Ghost didn't seem to have this problem though.
Anyway the "quick fix" was to boot from a linux cdrom and shred the disk with a 0 pattern before archiving, then I just dd the partition and it's about 600MB.
This is fine for creating a post install recovery disk but not reall suitable for backing up live data.
OT but got any tips for people starting contracting apart from being bitter and not trusting anyone? Serious question.
Uh, you realise, of course, that table layout is actually significantly more complex computationally than the CSS box model, and most tables based layouts use a LOT more tables than CSS sites use divs.
Actually I don't have enough experience having neither written enough css/table webpages, nor having written any code to display them.
I imagine the CSS sites you are talking about use fixed positioning in some way
perhaps, however unfortunatly I don't actually have any examples to provide. The only qualification I can give here is when I enforce the user.css in Opera these pages have gone from slow to fast.
As a programmer, I'm sure you'll appreciate the difference good design and a good language can make to your work
I sure do and if I was creating websites today I would most likely use it (I have used it and found it to be very straightforward). I'd probably be hesitant to upgrade any significant webpage I had already coded in HTML unless it had problems.
When it comes to HTML I really couldn't care less whether they are coded properly or not as long as they display fine, many people disagree (and I used to as well) and believe they should be created better however I think there are too many fscked sites already and these people are dreaming. I think XHTML and XML pages should strictly enforced, however I've come to think of HTML as webpages for idiots.
really? well you should check out German then you'd love it, all nouns are capitalized :)
That is how the spam war will end: The spammers will become sophisticated enough that no matter what we do, any filter we try to use will result in too many false positives (falsely labelled "spam") to be of any use
At this point people will most probably switch to whitelists or somesort, however I had a horrible thought once when thinking about this.
<horrible_thought>
Another approach other than a whitelist is to include a signature like PGP in the email. This could be placed in the headers of the mail and attached by the mail client. Mail servers could have an option to check these signatures automatically, or the signature can be checked by the recieving mail client at the expense of a bit more bandwidth. Once the clients can transparently sign and verify messages this means that a user can choose to only to accept signed messages (i.e. I don't add you to a whitelist but you need a valid key). These keys need to be managed by some central authority which revokes keys if they are found to be used by spam, therefy causing all the messages sent to be useless.
My horrible thought is that MS is in the best position to offer this becasue of the Outlook/Hotmail dominance. They would call it their spam inititive and ship all updates to outlook with this feature, the next update when the feature is widespread would auto-enable the feature. This would block out most mail to and from non MS agents in the name of fighting SPAM.
</horrible_thought>
TCL was originally designed to have a minimal syntax which was to be extended with custom bindings for a program. It is by it's nature a "glue" language, and I don't see how means the language can't be used for prototyping. In the way we used it it had bindings only for Oracle exec/selects and TUXEDO RPCs/FML buffers, nothing else. The rest of the app was built entirely in TCL and it works well as, is as fast as, and has much fewer defects than existing similar services written in C despite being developed by a more junior team with no experience in the project area.
Your examples of prototyping languages were c# and java however my idea of prototyping languages are TCL or Python. I worked with java for years and you can develop some stuff quickly, but it's not a protyping language IMO. Python on the other hand seems quite good for prototyping, for instance you can write a threaded/forked/multiplexed chat server in about 10 lines of code, and it is suitable for building full apps without binding C code (although you may want to do this for speed reasons).
I should qualify this by saying I am a C programmer profesionally, and don't have a problem doing it if thats what I'm payed for, I love C and every programmer should know it. If I have a choice I will program in Python because it's easily about 5 times quicker to develop in than C and I don't like to waste my time. I also like Java but don't see much use for it beyond EJB systems. I think the only advantage Java has is that it can be used for clients, servers, servlets, JSPs and EJBs. Management like it because they wrongly think (and the hype promotes the image) of their Java programmers as a pool resource who can be moved between these areas seemlessly.
I've worked on large projects and this approach has worked just fine. The basic idea is not to write the entire program in the higher level language but rather to use this language as the glue for calls to functions in lower level languages.
As a RL example a project I worked on used TCL as the glue for C TUXEDO services and Oracle. So to adress your points above WRT this project:
1)There were no performance issues in the delivered product, if a part of the code is under performing in the glue language you rewrite it in C and bind to it instead.
2)We did not need to port all the code to C, identify the small portions of code which benefit greatly from a port and port only them. The time saved here is enormous compared to implementing the entire project in C.
3)calling to native code in TCL was trivial, if it's "far from trivial" for you perhaps you chose the wrong language for the glue. A popular language for doing this today is Python, in which it is also straightforward to create bindings for.
It appears not, from TVTome
Man I remember spending so much time on "Hero's Quest" (QFG1) on my Atari ST. The manual said I could use the character to jumpstart my QFG2 charactor so I kept it around for years but could never get hold of QFG2.
HQ was definatly one of my all time favorites next to E.L.I.T.E and damocles, QFG2 is being remade, ELITE is already has an excellent remake so all I have to wait for is damocles.
But mainframes which haven't been upgraded in 25 years are incredibly rare. Just like any other type of computer, every few years you upgrade the hardware with a new version.
I don't disagree with you, I was implying that an attitude of "It works now so we don't have to think about replacing it" is irresponsible, and that by taking this position can place you in the situation where a hardware upgrade (because of no legacy hardware available) causes a driver upgrade, causing an library upgrade, causing a OS upgrade, causing legacy apps to die in a big way.
Must not have been an IBM mainframe
The first machine was a huge custom beast (as in many rooms of equipment) built by univac, can't remember the specific DBMS it was running but it caused a lot of bother.
If they'd stuck with Big Blue, they could have just swapped the hardware for something newer
Well perhaps but who knew then. IBM screwed them quite severly (100's millions) at a failed attempt to migrate the system onto their hardware a decade ago so I expect they won't play much of a role in the future either.
If a machine, no matter how old, is working, and you paid a lot of cash for it, no business will get rid of it to get something new just because its new/ flashy.
Well it depends, when I worked for [a large software shop] we had a (huge) customer who had a mainframe which was so old they had someone employed fulltime to source secondhand parts for it. They took the view you had, then the machine began to fail. Of course porting 25 years of applications and data to a new platform is a non-trivial exercise, and of course the added pressure that there actually may not be any more of widget X after the next one fails, doesn't help.
Not surprisingly in the migration, they chose to break up into several isolated systems, the isolated systems were made less homogenous within them selves being a mixture of different servers. But I bet they wished they had tried tio do it befor any problems were happening.
We also had another potential client which the suits were courting. They were a telco company which had their support systems (by this I don't mean anything to do with the actual core business, but the HR systems, the programs which tell the installers where to go, the customer suppoert services etc, so an important system nonetheless) implemented on an old mainframe system (also obsolete) using a depreciated messaging middleware product and a niche language which was no longer used. The system hadn't actually started to fail yet, however their management didn't really see a problem since it's working, and they paid a lot of cash for it.
because I'm stuck in Germany at the moment and I sure don't speak enough German to understand TTT!
I can't even read this article because of the spoilers!! Anyone know of any English movie-theatres around Cologne/Dusseldorf area?
move out of the stix
dialup in a seaside town in Australia
Are you sure it's the dialup driving you nuts?