...All others were flipphones, which I personally hate...
I really don't "get" the flip-phones. I mean, isn't it a backward step to have to answer your phone with two hands instead of one? Maybe I'm just a ham-fisted fool, but I can't open any of the models I've looked at with one hand. I do like the smaller size (for instance, the Motorola V500), but I think having to open the cover would annoy the hell out of me after a while.
Surely it wouldn't cost that much to add a spring-loaded hinge to the things, so you could just press a button to open them...
Well I'm not sure if it's any sort of relevant benchmark, but running the OGR benchmark of dnetc on the Ultra10 I used to use at work showed it could crunch gnodes *almost* as quickly as an AMD K6 500. I was surprised at that since it actually felt slower to use (the AMD setup was running Linux, BTW)...
Targetted advertising or so called "Spam" is a commercial venture that goes to the very heart of a great American capitalist tradition. IT IS YOUR DUTY AS A GOOD CITIZEN TO READ ALL THE SPAM IN YOUR INBOX.
I just checked google, and the phrase litigious bastards does not bring up sco in the first 15 or so pages of results. Do you think that google, anticipating a lawsuit has intervened so as to not provoke sco?
Ah yes, but if you try a search for Stock pumping you'll see our good friends Darl and co come in at #2!
I've already manually kicked the SpamAssassin score for Habeas to -.5...
Well my filters (at home and work) are now +10.0 for the Habeas headers. The only mail I've seen with those headers has been spam, and it's a no-brainer to filter it all out. Let's hope ALL spammers start using these headers!!;-)
I think this is more a reflection of poor administration than driver issues. I personally have set up a great many machines with both ATi and Nvidia cards. Never had a problem with ATi, except when trying some beta drivers. Nvidia, well the latest driver release seems a little odd, however if you stick with the 4496 driver at the moment it's plenty stable.
As someone who had to suffer with an Ultra10 and CDE for a year - I'd GLADLY experience a problem once a week with a nice fast machine with powerful graphics than the horror of 256 colour VGA style graphics where you can actually feel the machine struggle to keep up with a window drag across the desktop!
If you want to alert the owners of these machines, just send a massive file back for these requests; just a stream of characters with no line breaks. It'll crash the IIS box making the request pretty quickly;-) I do this on a few sites, and it does seem to wake people up when their box keeps imploding during the day...
Of course, it was more fun (and a fair bit faster) to write direct to (y<<8)+(y<<5)+x;-) Well that was if you didn't take the plunge and unchain mode 13h to use the (admittedly awkward yet advantageous) 31337 modeX...
The good old days of calling a BIOS interrupt to put your display into 13h and writing direct to the video memory at (320*y)+x are dead and buried, unfortunately (I'll admit those were fun times:D)
Of course, it was more fun (and a fair bit faster) to write direct to (y8)+(y5)+x;-) Well that was if you didn't take the plunge and unchain mode 13h to use the (admittedly awkward yet advantageous) 31337 modeX...
Let's hope they've fixed ALSA in this release then. I was surprised when I tried using it with 2.6.0 and it seems full of broken drivers. Of course, downloading ALSA and building it the same way I would with 2.4.x works fine! I'm thinking they should either try to include the latest ALSA driver code in the kernel, or just leave it out so that it can be built separately...
Demon Internet - been with them for years. No real issues with them. No restrictions on what you do with your ADSL connection. I've served over 30GB of data from my webserver in my house in one month (used to have a MAME site on it)!
Actually this would make an interesting Slashdot topic. I've often marvelled at the fact that in many companies, certain members of an IT team have the potential to commit serious crime, AND cover their tracks until well after they've left the country. Whereas normal personel in a company can work there for 20 years and not have access to sensitive information, an admin/developer can often wander in to a job and have complete access to every part of the business within a day...
Well Firebird is the one for me. Absolutely fantastic browser - looks great, fast, no popups, can use Mozilla's plugins. It's made converts of lots of my friends and colleagues too! Also use Thunderbird for mail now, and it rocks!
For god's sake man, you must grow yourself a spine and cure the child of this habbit. The next time he starts gnawing on your movie collection simply lock him in a room with a box of 100 blank DVDs. Then tell the boy that he's to stay there until he's eaten every last one of them... and the box. He'll think twice before chewing disks again, I can tell you!
Yes but how many Slashdot users, or indeed anyone with enough technical knowledge to admin their own smart host wants to talk to an a member of the (A)rmy (O)f (L)osers? And if you're about to say your relatives are using it, then you should be damned ashamed for allowing them to do such a thing!
They've got the IP addresses of half a trillian zombies and open proxies.
Erm, I think you'll find that the average spammer will send more than one email from a compromised machine. So there's probably slightly less than half a trillion machines involved here...
Most spamware buyers are in no position to complain about poor quality lists of email addresses - after all, they're just going to use them to sell poor quality penis-enlargement pills...
Woah, hold on a minute... How do you know they're poor quality, eh?;-)
I have to concurr, Bayesian filtering has all but stamped out all spam for me now. Well, it's the last in a chain really - sendmail drops everything that's aimed at a non-existant address, then Spamassassin gets to play and captures another 70-80%, and lastly Thunderbird pulls the remainder. It's extremely rare for me to get any false positives now (so much so that I rarely even grep for anything).
The only new trick I've seen lately has been the feeble method of adding random words to emails. This is ridiculous for two reasons. A: The email is often so full of junk that it's difficult to work out what they're trying to push, and B: They use such bizarre combinations of words that it's no problem for the learning filters to pick them up;-)
I'm pretty sure the general spam problem is much worse than reported in the press though. My personal account recieves around 200-250 spam emails a day, with 10-15 valid messages. Thus, around 90% of my mail is now spam. I'm sure I'm not the only one like this either, so the recent stories stating 50% of email is now spam seem a bit optimistic...
Well maybe not a prison cell, I'd rather see him locked into a set of stocks, with a nice big pile of cans of spam nearby his victims could fling at him for a few weeks;-) It'd be worth the plane ticket for me!
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...All others were flipphones, which I personally hate...
I really don't "get" the flip-phones. I mean, isn't it a backward step to have to answer your phone with two hands instead of one? Maybe I'm just a ham-fisted fool, but I can't open any of the models I've looked at with one hand. I do like the smaller size (for instance, the Motorola V500), but I think having to open the cover would annoy the hell out of me after a while.
Surely it wouldn't cost that much to add a spring-loaded hinge to the things, so you could just press a button to open them...
Damn motherboard blew (volt-regulator poped... literally) and its been 3 weeks so far w/ no new one comming in!
;-)
BTW, does anyone know how to Overclock a GeForce 5600 in Linux? Haven't found anything yet...
Why do I get the impression that your motherboard problem wasn't entirely unprovoked?
Weakest Link, Pop idol (though as a Brit I feel pretty damned ashamed of that one ;-)
Am I the only one who read that as corpses at first? :-)
Yeah, I thought it was a reference to the BSD booth too...
Well I'm not sure if it's any sort of relevant benchmark, but running the OGR benchmark of dnetc on the Ultra10 I used to use at work showed it could crunch gnodes *almost* as quickly as an AMD K6 500. I was surprised at that since it actually felt slower to use (the AMD setup was running Linux, BTW)...
I think Bush would rather see companies like IBM profit than those like SCO.
Depends which one has been "sponsoring" him the most heavily of late...
Targetted advertising or so called "Spam" is a commercial venture that goes to the very heart of a great American capitalist tradition. IT IS YOUR DUTY AS A GOOD CITIZEN TO READ ALL THE SPAM IN YOUR INBOX.
Darl? Darl? Is that you?
I just checked google, and the phrase litigious bastards does not bring up sco in the first 15 or so pages of results. Do you think that google, anticipating a lawsuit has intervened so as to not provoke sco?
Ah yes, but if you try a search for Stock pumping you'll see our good friends Darl and co come in at #2!
I've already manually kicked the SpamAssassin score for Habeas to -.5...
;-)
Well my filters (at home and work) are now +10.0 for the Habeas headers. The only mail I've seen with those headers has been spam, and it's a no-brainer to filter it all out. Let's hope ALL spammers start using these headers!!
I think this is more a reflection of poor administration than driver issues. I personally have set up a great many machines with both ATi and Nvidia cards. Never had a problem with ATi, except when trying some beta drivers. Nvidia, well the latest driver release seems a little odd, however if you stick with the 4496 driver at the moment it's plenty stable.
As someone who had to suffer with an Ultra10 and CDE for a year - I'd GLADLY experience a problem once a week with a nice fast machine with powerful graphics than the horror of 256 colour VGA style graphics where you can actually feel the machine struggle to keep up with a window drag across the desktop!
Next up: learning how to upgrade.
;-)
That's pretty easy: Install Gentoo...
If you want to alert the owners of these machines, just send a massive file back for these requests; just a stream of characters with no line breaks. It'll crash the IIS box making the request pretty quickly ;-) I do this on a few sites, and it does seem to wake people up when their box keeps imploding during the day...
Dammit! Lost the <<'s... Try again:
;-) Well that was if you didn't take the plunge and unchain mode 13h to use the (admittedly awkward yet advantageous) 31337 modeX...
Of course, it was more fun (and a fair bit faster) to write direct to (y<<8)+(y<<5)+x
The good old days of calling a BIOS interrupt to put your display into 13h and writing direct to the video memory at (320*y)+x are dead and buried, unfortunately (I'll admit those were fun times :D)
;-) Well that was if you didn't take the plunge and unchain mode 13h to use the (admittedly awkward yet advantageous) 31337 modeX...
Of course, it was more fun (and a fair bit faster) to write direct to (y8)+(y5)+x
Let's hope they've fixed ALSA in this release then. I was surprised when I tried using it with 2.6.0 and it seems full of broken drivers. Of course, downloading ALSA and building it the same way I would with 2.4.x works fine! I'm thinking they should either try to include the latest ALSA driver code in the kernel, or just leave it out so that it can be built separately...
Demon Internet - been with them for years. No real issues with them. No restrictions on what you do with your ADSL connection. I've served over 30GB of data from my webserver in my house in one month (used to have a MAME site on it)!
Actually this would make an interesting Slashdot topic. I've often marvelled at the fact that in many companies, certain members of an IT team have the potential to commit serious crime, AND cover their tracks until well after they've left the country. Whereas normal personel in a company can work there for 20 years and not have access to sensitive information, an admin/developer can often wander in to a job and have complete access to every part of the business within a day...
Well Firebird is the one for me. Absolutely fantastic browser - looks great, fast, no popups, can use Mozilla's plugins. It's made converts of lots of my friends and colleagues too! Also use Thunderbird for mail now, and it rocks!
For god's sake man, you must grow yourself a spine and cure the child of this habbit. The next time he starts gnawing on your movie collection simply lock him in a room with a box of 100 blank DVDs. Then tell the boy that he's to stay there until he's eaten every last one of them... and the box. He'll think twice before chewing disks again, I can tell you!
Yes but how many Slashdot users, or indeed anyone with enough technical knowledge to admin their own smart host wants to talk to an a member of the (A)rmy (O)f (L)osers? And if you're about to say your relatives are using it, then you should be damned ashamed for allowing them to do such a thing!
They've got the IP addresses of half a trillian zombies and open proxies.
Erm, I think you'll find that the average spammer will send more than one email from a compromised machine. So there's probably slightly less than half a trillion machines involved here...
Most spamware buyers are in no position to complain about poor quality lists of email addresses - after all, they're just going to use them to sell poor quality penis-enlargement pills...
;-)
Woah, hold on a minute... How do you know they're poor quality, eh?
I have to concurr, Bayesian filtering has all but stamped out all spam for me now. Well, it's the last in a chain really - sendmail drops everything that's aimed at a non-existant address, then Spamassassin gets to play and captures another 70-80%, and lastly Thunderbird pulls the remainder. It's extremely rare for me to get any false positives now (so much so that I rarely even grep for anything).
;-)
The only new trick I've seen lately has been the feeble method of adding random words to emails. This is ridiculous for two reasons. A: The email is often so full of junk that it's difficult to work out what they're trying to push, and B: They use such bizarre combinations of words that it's no problem for the learning filters to pick them up
I'm pretty sure the general spam problem is much worse than reported in the press though. My personal account recieves around 200-250 spam emails a day, with 10-15 valid messages. Thus, around 90% of my mail is now spam. I'm sure I'm not the only one like this either, so the recent stories stating 50% of email is now spam seem a bit optimistic...
calling for the brutal anal rape of Ralsky is disgusting, uncivilized, pointless, and, frankly, disturbing.
... but justified...
Well maybe not a prison cell, I'd rather see him locked into a set of stocks, with a nice big pile of cans of spam nearby his victims could fling at him for a few weeks ;-) It'd be worth the plane ticket for me!