No, you really don't get it, do you? I receive over 100 spam emails every single day - so on average over 90% of my personal mail is now spam. This is NOT because I publish the address all over the web - nor do I use it to sign up on any websites or mailing lists.
The reason is that I use demon internet and so have a unique hostname (and fixed IP address) - the spammers frequently launch dictionary attacks against demon customers since it's simple to get a list of the hostnames. Of course, I have sendmail configured to bounce anything not sent to legitimate users, so I see almost nothing except the huge amount of mail in root's mailbox. I actually run cron every week now to clear out the crap in there.
Since I'm on ADSL and use fetchmail to periodically pick up the mail for my server I don't notice the bandwidth use. However, I'm sure it would now be almost impossible to use my account normally if I were a modem user (as many demon subscribers still are).
Seriously, I'm at the point now where I believe we need to take some sort of action against the scum spraying this stuff around the net while laughing in the face of the law (such as it is). It's a shame the script kiddies with armies of infected drones don't turn their attention away from IRC and onto DOS'ing the hell out of the known spam-servers in Asia and the US. A few weeks/months of continuous attacks might well put some of the crooked ISPs out of business for good and disuade others.
Before you dismiss me as just another anarchist, I'm really not - I have no idea of how or where to get the software required to attack systems. I'm just fed up with sitting back and taking this shit from a few scumbags who're getting rich on the misery of millions of people (and bragging about it). The legal methods are not working, and as far as I can see, will not work any time soon without the political will/interest to push them harder.
I'll be interested in hearing just what sort of essential software I'd need about my person to help complete strangers fix their 'puters on holiday! Then I can make damned sure I don't have any of it;-)
I keep my favourite mirror a secret (for obvious reasons), and with every release it's always maxed out my connection (downloading now at 580kbps) even when I start a download immediately after a new version of a distro is announced...
Funnily enough I think you'll find that Windows 2000 won't work spectacularly well with your hardware until you install nvidia's drivers either. Well, unless you think it's a good idea to run a Geforce 4 with the default 16 colour software drivers;-)
As the previous poster said, once you've installed, THEN installed nvidia's drivers, you'll be able to switch to using the DVI output in linux.
Hmm, that's useful to know! I wanted to use a wireless card in my main server so I could use my laptop around the house with a constant net connection, but although I got the laptop working (I presume), the server was a nightmare! I rebuilt and rebuilt kernels, changed drivers and tried every config I could think of; read online docs, scanned forums and newsgroups to no avail. In the end I contacted the author and after detailing my system it turned out that the driver "did'nt work on a dual processor machine!".
This was around a year ago, and I know they had an alpha version that sort of worked but I didn't want to risk locking up my server so never tried it. Here's hoping this new version does support my hardware! (yeah, I could have kept trying new betas out, but the server is in the attic, and it's a PITA if I crash it, besides which I got burned out from trying to get the original working at the time;-)
I think you've missed my point; I'm not saying they shouldn't be planning ahead, but rather that an ALL US government brought straight in is a very very bad idea. It'll just reinforce the view of the US as an evil global bully that the arab World is bombarded with through their media day after day. They *should* have included other countries, and maybe even a few clerics from Basra etc to help even things out.
The troops will have to stay for a few months of course, but the fewer US (and UK) faces the Iraqis see sitting in the power seats the better.
It's also an open standard (swf format), so if you really want a flash player with a "kill" option in the context menu, why not start a sourceforge project?
Since it's a third party product, there are no options within the browser to control it. Animated GIFs and annoying Javascript may be problematic at times, but those can be easily disabled for the offending site, then re-enabled later. How do you temporarily disable Flash? Right click on the abomination and you get a menu that contains a single item, "About Flash..".
Well with Explorer you do exactly the same as you would with Javascript. Just disable "ActiveX controls and plugins" for the problem site via the same dialog you'd use for javascript.
Almost any technology is open to abuse, sure; however at the moment I still consider Flash to have more virtues than drawbacks. In these times of scumware and adware infested plugins, it's one of the few I actually trust.
You're not forced to see the Flash advertisements, you know...
Whenever you come across some annoyance on the web - pop-ups, stupid Flash sequences, blinking text, or whatever - don't blame the individual site, instead blame the badly designed web browser that allows sites to inflict these things on you.
No I'm not "forced" to if I visit the site frequently - I can assign it to a zone (with Explorer) that prevents scripting/flash etc. I don't have Flash installed on Mozilla, so it's not an issue there. However, if I'm visiting a site for the first time, I won't know about it until it's splattered across the page!
Your suggestion to cripple my browser by disabling everything is just ludicrous, BTW. I DO blame the individual site - Flash itself is not the problem, I enjoy a lot of Flash sites so why the hell should I disable it because some coke-head in "Web annoyances inc." dreamed up this latest marketing tool to piss of the public at large?
I assume you disable images etc since they're used to insert huge ads in pages too? After all, it's not the fault of those sites, but those evil gif/jpg/png files!!
First of all, Google does not have ADS as far as I know.
Well that comment just proves how well Google has managed to weave ads into their result pages without alienating/annoying people! It's a pity that more sites don't take the hint and remove the pop-up/pop-under/flash-within hell that drives people away from their pages.
The ads that REALLY drive me nuts now are those f*cking embedded Flash animations that appear over the top of the content I'm trying to read! Who, honestly, thought those would be a good idea? Better still, who actually ever lets one of those ads play out before hitting the (usually randomly located) close buttons?
Because that would just show how little you know of what is going on in Iraq.
Then maybe you, since you're obviously privy to all the information the pentagon has so far, as well as a perfect view of every square inch of Iraq, can enlighten us?
I want Saddam dead, like most people; but after hearing how the US has *already* formed a government (of US politicians/military personel) I kind of get the feeling they're not going to come out of this with fewer enemies. Quite the reverse...
Have you guys considered approaching the RIAA with a view to offering your operating system as a platform for their website? Maybe they could provide a stream of revenue from their evil paymasters if you could manage to keep them online for more than 3 days at a stretch!
From the previous BBC article (concerns over safety): BBC News Online put these criticisms to Steve Bennett. He responded: "We are not planning any tests such as wind tunnel or vibration tests before we launch it. That is what the test flight is for."
Man this guy has serious balls;-)
On a related note; there was a programme along the lines of ScrapHeap that aired a while back in the UK where 3 teams from the UK, USA and France (I think) were given the task of building aircraft with the eventual goal of competing for maximum distance, and controllability (they had to land on a line). The caveat was that only tools and materials from the Wright brother's era were allowed to build the craft.
Anyway, come the day, the French and US teams had based their craft upon proven designs, whereas the UK entry was just made up out of thin air so nobody knew quite what would happen! The teams took it in turns to test; the French pilot got his plane rolling and practiced a few hops a few feet in the air. The US team did something similar, but with a little more height, and damaged their craft a bit.
Now the UK team went for their "test run". The pilot gave it full throttle and launched himself into orbit (one of the ground crew mentioned the pilot was "a bit of a nutter") - the thing was hundred of feet up, the pilot - big shit-eating grin plastered across his face was throwing it around the sky for several minutes before making a perfect landing in front of the astonished opponents! It was so utterly irresponsible, but cool at the same time - not testing, just give it some welly and see what happens. Brilliant!
Obviously the UK entry won pretty convincingly in the real flight.
Why not just control the swing with a couple of magnets mounted at the ends of the pendulum's arc? It would surely be cheaper and easier to maintain than a camera and mechanical arm;-)
From the article: Dickson also cautioned Fraser to be careful not to infringe any patents. Even if Fraser uses Apple parts, Dickson said the company may hold patents governing how they are put together. The patents may not even be held by Apple, but by another PC manufacturer, Dickson said.
How on Earth could a patent be granted for this? I mean, how many ways could you plug a CPU into a motherboard, or a PCI card into a PCI slot? Ridiculous...
My cable connection allows me a maximum of 1,5GB per month of upstream (and 5GB downsteam) traffic...
Man that sucks. What's the point in having broadband if you're not allowed to use it?! When I had my MAME site hosted on my ADSL line here I was hitting around 1.3GB upstream a day at times;-) As for download, Kazaa probably uses that 5GB in a week at the outside!
Although I use Java, where OOP is hard to avoid (and I wouldn't want to most of the time), I don't see the need to introduce the performance sapping abstraction of setting up classes and so forth with web scripts.
Let's face it, by the time you've declared you classes, instanced everything a procedural approach would probably have executed and be wating for the next client...
If you really want to publish something that looks the same to absolutely everybody, I suggest either using pdf or mailing out direct mail....
There speaks someone who misses the point completely. A PDF is as much a substitute for Flash as a cream cake is a substitute for a door-knob. And direct mail??!!!
Flash comes into its own for animated vector work. It's also increasingly used (and works well) for specialised interfaces - eg, chatrooms, games, online booking, information kiosks etc. It's simply the most efficient tool for the job - if it were not, it wouldn't see so much use (and I'm not counting the bad examples, of which there are almost as many as bad JS/HTML/Java applet pages).
I can't see this conspiracy theory working; riaa.org has been down since forever (and might I just say what a shame that is;-) so they can't have exchanged any emails...
BTW, the uptime graphs for riaa.org never cease to amuse me. Hardly helps Microsoft's case in their "Extinct Hackers" advertising campaign!
It is SO much faster doing nearly all filters. The 3rd party ones even show considerable differences
Hello? This is the year 2003 calling RevRagnarok!! Come in RevRagnarok!!
Where the hell have you been? I've used PS on fast Macs and PCs and believe me, there is no real difference from a user's point of view. In fact, the PC versions certainly felt snappier to me, and this seems to be confirmed by the benchmarks linked from this article.
Maybe this is why we don't see Jobs bending reality while claiming the G4 is still 6 times as fast as a Cray 5 by running a PS filter any more...
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No, you really don't get it, do you? I receive over 100 spam emails every single day - so on average over 90% of my personal mail is now spam. This is NOT because I publish the address all over the web - nor do I use it to sign up on any websites or mailing lists.
The reason is that I use demon internet and so have a unique hostname (and fixed IP address) - the spammers frequently launch dictionary attacks against demon customers since it's simple to get a list of the hostnames. Of course, I have sendmail configured to bounce anything not sent to legitimate users, so I see almost nothing except the huge amount of mail in root's mailbox. I actually run cron every week now to clear out the crap in there.
Since I'm on ADSL and use fetchmail to periodically pick up the mail for my server I don't notice the bandwidth use. However, I'm sure it would now be almost impossible to use my account normally if I were a modem user (as many demon subscribers still are).
Seriously, I'm at the point now where I believe we need to take some sort of action against the scum spraying this stuff around the net while laughing in the face of the law (such as it is). It's a shame the script kiddies with armies of infected drones don't turn their attention away from IRC and onto DOS'ing the hell out of the known spam-servers in Asia and the US. A few weeks/months of continuous attacks might well put some of the crooked ISPs out of business for good and disuade others.
Before you dismiss me as just another anarchist, I'm really not - I have no idea of how or where to get the software required to attack systems. I'm just fed up with sitting back and taking this shit from a few scumbags who're getting rich on the misery of millions of people (and bragging about it). The legal methods are not working, and as far as I can see, will not work any time soon without the political will/interest to push them harder.
These and a DOS floppy with the right kinds of tools (fdisk, format, edit, etc.) have saved my bacon so many times that I've lost count
Hmm, maybe you'd better include calc in your list then...
I'll be interested in hearing just what sort of essential software I'd need about my person to help complete strangers fix their 'puters on holiday! Then I can make damned sure I don't have any of it ;-)
I keep my favourite mirror a secret (for obvious reasons), and with every release it's always maxed out my connection (downloading now at 580kbps) even when I start a download immediately after a new version of a distro is announced...
Funnily enough I think you'll find that Windows 2000 won't work spectacularly well with your hardware until you install nvidia's drivers either. Well, unless you think it's a good idea to run a Geforce 4 with the default 16 colour software drivers ;-)
As the previous poster said, once you've installed, THEN installed nvidia's drivers, you'll be able to switch to using the DVI output in linux.
Hmm, that's useful to know! I wanted to use a wireless card in my main server so I could use my laptop around the house with a constant net connection, but although I got the laptop working (I presume), the server was a nightmare! I rebuilt and rebuilt kernels, changed drivers and tried every config I could think of; read online docs, scanned forums and newsgroups to no avail. In the end I contacted the author and after detailing my system it turned out that the driver "did'nt work on a dual processor machine!".
;-)
This was around a year ago, and I know they had an alpha version that sort of worked but I didn't want to risk locking up my server so never tried it. Here's hoping this new version does support my hardware! (yeah, I could have kept trying new betas out, but the server is in the attic, and it's a PITA if I crash it, besides which I got burned out from trying to get the original working at the time
I think you've missed my point; I'm not saying they shouldn't be planning ahead, but rather that an ALL US government brought straight in is a very very bad idea. It'll just reinforce the view of the US as an evil global bully that the arab World is bombarded with through their media day after day. They *should* have included other countries, and maybe even a few clerics from Basra etc to help even things out.
The troops will have to stay for a few months of course, but the fewer US (and UK) faces the Iraqis see sitting in the power seats the better.
Oops... I meant to add:
It's also an open standard (swf format), so if you really want a flash player with a "kill" option in the context menu, why not start a sourceforge project?
Since it's a third party product, there are no options within the browser to control it. Animated GIFs and annoying Javascript may be problematic at times, but those can be easily disabled for the offending site, then re-enabled later. How do you temporarily disable Flash? Right click on the abomination and you get a menu that contains a single item, "About Flash..".
Well with Explorer you do exactly the same as you would with Javascript. Just disable "ActiveX controls and plugins" for the problem site via the same dialog you'd use for javascript.
Almost any technology is open to abuse, sure; however at the moment I still consider Flash to have more virtues than drawbacks. In these times of scumware and adware infested plugins, it's one of the few I actually trust.
You're not forced to see the Flash advertisements, you know...
Whenever you come across some annoyance on the web - pop-ups, stupid Flash sequences, blinking text, or whatever - don't blame the individual site, instead blame the badly designed web browser that allows sites to inflict these things on you.
No I'm not "forced" to if I visit the site frequently - I can assign it to a zone (with Explorer) that prevents scripting/flash etc. I don't have Flash installed on Mozilla, so it's not an issue there. However, if I'm visiting a site for the first time, I won't know about it until it's splattered across the page!
Your suggestion to cripple my browser by disabling everything is just ludicrous, BTW. I DO blame the individual site - Flash itself is not the problem, I enjoy a lot of Flash sites so why the hell should I disable it because some coke-head in "Web annoyances inc." dreamed up this latest marketing tool to piss of the public at large?
I assume you disable images etc since they're used to insert huge ads in pages too? After all, it's not the fault of those sites, but those evil gif/jpg/png files!!
Not sure if it'll help you, but I just added the yimg* domain to my local DNS, pointed at 127.0.0.1 - pages load faster, and no ads ;-)
First of all, Google does not have ADS as far as I know.
Well that comment just proves how well Google has managed to weave ads into their result pages without alienating/annoying people! It's a pity that more sites don't take the hint and remove the pop-up/pop-under/flash-within hell that drives people away from their pages.
The ads that REALLY drive me nuts now are those f*cking embedded Flash animations that appear over the top of the content I'm trying to read! Who, honestly, thought those would be a good idea? Better still, who actually ever lets one of those ads play out before hitting the (usually randomly located) close buttons?
Because that would just show how little you know of what is going on in Iraq.
Then maybe you, since you're obviously privy to all the information the pentagon has so far, as well as a perfect view of every square inch of Iraq, can enlighten us?
I want Saddam dead, like most people; but after hearing how the US has *already* formed a government (of US politicians/military personel) I kind of get the feeling they're not going to come out of this with fewer enemies. Quite the reverse...
Yeah, I've also heard there's a story floating about concerning the new "evil bit" in TCP/IP! ;-)
Have you guys considered approaching the RIAA with a view to offering your operating system as a platform for their website? Maybe they could provide a stream of revenue from their evil paymasters if you could manage to keep them online for more than 3 days at a stretch!
From the previous BBC article (concerns over safety):
;-)
BBC News Online put these criticisms to Steve Bennett. He responded: "We are not planning any tests such as wind tunnel or vibration tests before we launch it. That is what the test flight is for."
Man this guy has serious balls
On a related note; there was a programme along the lines of ScrapHeap that aired a while back in the UK where 3 teams from the UK, USA and France (I think) were given the task of building aircraft with the eventual goal of competing for maximum distance, and controllability (they had to land on a line). The caveat was that only tools and materials from the Wright brother's era were allowed to build the craft.
Anyway, come the day, the French and US teams had based their craft upon proven designs, whereas the UK entry was just made up out of thin air so nobody knew quite what would happen! The teams took it in turns to test; the French pilot got his plane rolling and practiced a few hops a few feet in the air. The US team did something similar, but with a little more height, and damaged their craft a bit.
Now the UK team went for their "test run". The pilot gave it full throttle and launched himself into orbit (one of the ground crew mentioned the pilot was "a bit of a nutter") - the thing was hundred of feet up, the pilot - big shit-eating grin plastered across his face was throwing it around the sky for several minutes before making a perfect landing in front of the astonished opponents! It was so utterly irresponsible, but cool at the same time - not testing, just give it some welly and see what happens. Brilliant!
Obviously the UK entry won pretty convincingly in the real flight.
Why not just control the swing with a couple of magnets mounted at the ends of the pendulum's arc? It would surely be cheaper and easier to maintain than a camera and mechanical arm ;-)
From the article:
Dickson also cautioned Fraser to be careful not to infringe any patents. Even if Fraser uses Apple parts, Dickson said the company may hold patents governing how they are put together. The patents may not even be held by Apple, but by another PC manufacturer, Dickson said.
How on Earth could a patent be granted for this? I mean, how many ways could you plug a CPU into a motherboard, or a PCI card into a PCI slot? Ridiculous...
My cable connection allows me a maximum of 1,5GB per month of upstream (and 5GB downsteam) traffic...
;-) As for download, Kazaa probably uses that 5GB in a week at the outside!
Man that sucks. What's the point in having broadband if you're not allowed to use it?! When I had my MAME site hosted on my ADSL line here I was hitting around 1.3GB upstream a day at times
Although I use Java, where OOP is hard to avoid (and I wouldn't want to most of the time), I don't see the need to introduce the performance sapping abstraction of setting up classes and so forth with web scripts.
Let's face it, by the time you've declared you classes, instanced everything a procedural approach would probably have executed and be wating for the next client...
If you really want to publish something that looks the same to absolutely everybody, I suggest either using pdf or mailing out direct mail....
There speaks someone who misses the point completely. A PDF is as much a substitute for Flash as a cream cake is a substitute for a door-knob. And direct mail??!!!
Flash comes into its own for animated vector work. It's also increasingly used (and works well) for specialised interfaces - eg, chatrooms, games, online booking, information kiosks etc. It's simply the most efficient tool for the job - if it were not, it wouldn't see so much use (and I'm not counting the bad examples, of which there are almost as many as bad JS/HTML/Java applet pages).
I can't see this conspiracy theory working; riaa.org has been down since forever (and might I just say what a shame that is ;-) so they can't have exchanged any emails...
BTW, the uptime graphs for riaa.org never cease to amuse me. Hardly helps Microsoft's case in their "Extinct Hackers" advertising campaign!
[sigh], when will people learn? First finish your download, THEN tell everyone about the faster server!! ;-)
Have you noticed that there's also a "review" of RH9 on the front page of OSnews?
It is SO much faster doing nearly all filters. The 3rd party ones even show considerable differences
Hello? This is the year 2003 calling RevRagnarok!! Come in RevRagnarok!!
Where the hell have you been? I've used PS on fast Macs and PCs and believe me, there is no real difference from a user's point of view. In fact, the PC versions certainly felt snappier to me, and this seems to be confirmed by the benchmarks linked from this article.
Maybe this is why we don't see Jobs bending reality while claiming the G4 is still 6 times as fast as a Cray 5 by running a PS filter any more...