Try that for kicks. Then open Explorer (your file browser); in the address field type in "http://slashdot.org" and hey presto - Internet Explorer opens Slashdot...
I thought you said you removed it?
No, what you do is remove the SHORTCUTS for it. Not quite the same thing now, is it?
Imagine if all programs were "uninstalled" like that. Your 2 GB $program would still take up 2 GB of space, that you can't reclaim, and it still takes up RAM. Not quite what I have in mind, when I uninstall programs...
Tell you what - if you can find anyone, who would want all the waste (this includes all the smoke as well) generated by a regular fosil fuel powerplant in their backyard, I'll buy you a beer.
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LOL!
You're assuming that the administrators are competent! Now hear this:
I e-mailed them and phoned them, because I was getting 200 MB of virus mails a DAY while one of the worms was at a high point. This was a BIG problem, mostly because of the storage policies, and mail storage is part of that policy, and their notification script kept spamming every time another mail hit my inbox - INCLUDING MAIL FROM THEIR OWN FUCKING SCRIPT!!!
Their reply: We run UNIX so we won't get infected.
What this has to do with me getting 200 MB of completely unnescesary mail, which would be dropped by using even the simplest virus scan or filter I never got an answer to. Now, they have more than 15,000 users. If 1% of their users get the same mails I get, that's 30 GB of virus mail a day, that they'd have to store. Answer: "We run UNIX, so we won't get infected". Of course this doesn't even cover the worst case scenario which is a portion of the 2,500 Windows machines on campus being infected and running over night/weekend. Imagine how much spam can be sent over a 1 Gbit/second internet connection (yes, internet connection - the campus backbone is 10 Gb/s I'm told). Sources in the know tells me, that the college helped take down those root dns servers a while back (apparently single handedly taking out one of them); sources in the know being a knowledgable admin not associated with the bumbling idiots that handle our e-mail-servers, but responsible for quite a lot of the other IT-stuff on campus.
I asked them if they could perhaps set up an IMAP-server instead of pop3. Their reply: "No not currently, however we are looking into the available IMAP servers that will support Qmails Maildir-format, and how secure these IMAP servers are. IMAP servers have been notorious for being very insecure." Apparently they haven't updated their knowledge since '98 or thereabout.
So no, I cannot rely on administrators to do jack shit about it. Let alone anything resembling anything intelligent.
Joe Jobs aren't your only problem. Stupid fucking idiots in charge of mail-servers are much worse. Especially when they won't listen to reason.
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I'm not sure SPF would work that well, sadly.
Real life example (my own actually).
My primary e-mail (heck, it's my only one at the moment) is one given to me by my college.
My college doesn't have an e-mail-server I can send through, unless I use their hopelesly slow-ass webmail.
At home I can use my ISPs smtp-relay, but I can't use that outside their network, and my e-mail doesn't belong on their network.
My sollution? One of my friends has an smtp-relay with authentication that I can use, but my e-mail doesn't belong on his ISP's network either. It belongs on my college's network (yes, they're THAT big).
How would SPF work with that? Wouldn't it in fact force me to either drop my college e-mail completely or use their slowass webmail for everything?
No, wait... that would call for stuff like "Gay Windows" jokes. Of course that would make it recursive. Or something like that. Maybe.
Of course this would make the trolls start an internal flamefest against eachother as to wether or not Gaywins Law is applicable to itself, so we wouldn't be bothered by them for a while.
Regarding the notification, I have disabled sounds in Opera, but I still get notified. When new mail arrives, a very small little yellow box pops up in the lower left corner of the browser saying "xx messages received" or "xx messages sent" if that's the case. Nothing intrusive or anything.
Well, you can get dual Opterions, that is correct, but they seem to be contact lenses. Not sure you're like to plug that in to a motherboard... at least not while wearing them.
Denmark, for instance, has the worlds ONLY state funded Nazi radio station. Why? Because the legislation that allows for publicly funded radiostations set out some guidelines that the Nazi station lives up to, namely public service (like news etc).
I have absolutely no problem with that. Why? Because if I want freedom of speech, it should also cover the speech I find deeply appaling! If it doesn't, how can it be free?
And our politicians? Well, they want to ban it. But they can't do it by law, as they haven't broken any laws yet. When they try to remove funding from the station by tweaking the law, they end up closing fifty other stations as well, so that doesn't work.
And damnit - I wish they'd keep their fucking hands of them! Not because I like Nazis - I don't like their view of the world, but because it is so much easier keeping them in check, when they're out in the open and you can ridicule them instead.
Nazis here like marching on various occasions. They're allowed to, it's quite legal. So how do you stop them? By having citizens organize a fundraiser. "We will donate ?150 to various jewish organisations [like holocaust center] for every km the nazis march." That took the air right out of their balloon...
THAT'S how you use free speech to impede dangerous speech... not by restricting it, but by making i lose its power by exposing it to sunlight.
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Is this just me, or does that sound somewhat similar to crashing into the ocean!?
your seat cushions may be used as a floatation device.
Well imagine that. My seat cushion. Just what I need... to float around the North Atlantic for a couple of days, clinging to a pillow full of beer farts!
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Well, the arrows for Oedipus and his mom and dad would be interesting ...
You've got it the wrong way around ...
They've spliced snake brain capacity, 800-pound gorilla brain capacity, and dinosaurs brain capacity into humans.
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Exelent joke ... sir.
Funny thing ...
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Try that for kicks. Then open Explorer (your file browser); in the address field type in "http://slashdot.org" and hey presto - Internet Explorer opens Slashdot
I thought you said you removed it?
No, what you do is remove the SHORTCUTS for it. Not quite the same thing now, is it?
Imagine if all programs were "uninstalled" like that. Your 2 GB $program would still take up 2 GB of space, that you can't reclaim, and it still takes up RAM. Not quite what I have in mind, when I uninstall programs
Regarding your .sig:
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Tell you what - if you can find anyone, who would want all the waste (this includes all the smoke as well) generated by a regular fosil fuel powerplant in their backyard, I'll buy you a beer.
LOL!
You're assuming that the administrators are competent! Now hear this:
I e-mailed them and phoned them, because I was getting 200 MB of virus mails a DAY while one of the worms was at a high point. This was a BIG problem, mostly because of the storage policies, and mail storage is part of that policy, and their notification script kept spamming every time another mail hit my inbox - INCLUDING MAIL FROM THEIR OWN FUCKING SCRIPT!!!
Their reply: We run UNIX so we won't get infected.
What this has to do with me getting 200 MB of completely unnescesary mail, which would be dropped by using even the simplest virus scan or filter I never got an answer to. Now, they have more than 15,000 users. If 1% of their users get the same mails I get, that's 30 GB of virus mail a day, that they'd have to store. Answer: "We run UNIX, so we won't get infected". Of course this doesn't even cover the worst case scenario which is a portion of the 2,500 Windows machines on campus being infected and running over night/weekend. Imagine how much spam can be sent over a 1 Gbit/second internet connection (yes, internet connection - the campus backbone is 10 Gb/s I'm told). Sources in the know tells me, that the college helped take down those root dns servers a while back (apparently single handedly taking out one of them); sources in the know being a knowledgable admin not associated with the bumbling idiots that handle our e-mail-servers, but responsible for quite a lot of the other IT-stuff on campus.
I asked them if they could perhaps set up an IMAP-server instead of pop3. Their reply: "No not currently, however we are looking into the available IMAP servers that will support Qmails Maildir-format, and how secure these IMAP servers are. IMAP servers have been notorious for being very insecure." Apparently they haven't updated their knowledge since '98 or thereabout.
So no, I cannot rely on administrators to do jack shit about it. Let alone anything resembling anything intelligent.
Joe Jobs aren't your only problem. Stupid fucking idiots in charge of mail-servers are much worse. Especially when they won't listen to reason.
I'm not sure SPF would work that well, sadly.
Real life example (my own actually).
My primary e-mail (heck, it's my only one at the moment) is one given to me by my college.
My college doesn't have an e-mail-server I can send through, unless I use their hopelesly slow-ass webmail.
At home I can use my ISPs smtp-relay, but I can't use that outside their network, and my e-mail doesn't belong on their network.
My sollution? One of my friends has an smtp-relay with authentication that I can use, but my e-mail doesn't belong on his ISP's network either. It belongs on my college's network (yes, they're THAT big).
How would SPF work with that? Wouldn't it in fact force me to either drop my college e-mail completely or use their slowass webmail for everything?
Thank you, but I think I prefer being spammed.
I much my 10" solid state actually ...
Call it "Gaywins Law" instead.
... that would call for stuff like "Gay Windows" jokes. Of course that would make it recursive. Or something like that. Maybe.
No, wait
Of course this would make the trolls start an internal flamefest against eachother as to wether or not Gaywins Law is applicable to itself, so we wouldn't be bothered by them for a while.
Neat!
Regarding the notification, I have disabled sounds in Opera, but I still get notified. When new mail arrives, a very small little yellow box pops up in the lower left corner of the browser saying "xx messages received" or "xx messages sent" if that's the case. Nothing intrusive or anything.
I suggest using Opterion contact lenses like this poster.
Go get a job offer from Microsoft ... please?
There's only one 't' in rusty.
In SOME European countries ... some ...
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... not by restricting it, but by making i lose its power by exposing it to sunlight.
Denmark, for instance, has the worlds ONLY state funded Nazi radio station. Why? Because the legislation that allows for publicly funded radiostations set out some guidelines that the Nazi station lives up to, namely public service (like news etc).
I have absolutely no problem with that. Why? Because if I want freedom of speech, it should also cover the speech I find deeply appaling! If it doesn't, how can it be free?
And our politicians? Well, they want to ban it. But they can't do it by law, as they haven't broken any laws yet. When they try to remove funding from the station by tweaking the law, they end up closing fifty other stations as well, so that doesn't work.
And damnit - I wish they'd keep their fucking hands of them! Not because I like Nazis - I don't like their view of the world, but because it is so much easier keeping them in check, when they're out in the open and you can ridicule them instead.
Nazis here like marching on various occasions. They're allowed to, it's quite legal. So how do you stop them? By having citizens organize a fundraiser. "We will donate ?150 to various jewish organisations [like holocaust center] for every km the nazis march." That took the air right out of their balloon
THAT'S how you use free speech to impede dangerous speech
IMHO
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Appologies to George Carlin.
I see you're holding on to the signs value ...
"Oh, to finish this program, you need the Borland C++ compiler, because it uses some Borland-only calls"
"Oh, to finish this program, you need the Microsoft C++ compiler, because it uses some Microsoft-only calls"
"Oh, to finish this program, you need to port it to your favorite C compiler, because it uses standard calls that no compiler implement all off."
What the fuck? And this is just in classes??? I'm scared to find out what it's like in the "real world".