I use a Barracuda here at work, it handles the SPAM and anti-virus checking before it gets to my mail server. I would class this as a spam firewall. By the way the Barracuda works crazy good!
Here at work we only have about 120 e-mail users, on average we get 3200-4000 e-mails per day. I installed a Barracudda Spam Firewall on the 4th of this month. Since then we have gotten 61,938 messages of which 49,455 were blocked as spam, 1,552 were blocked for viruses, and 397 were tagged as bulk mail and passed through the filter. Which leaves 10,534 valid messages. Considering I am still training the filter several spam have obviously made it through. This sure looks like a lot more than 32%. Not sure who they are surveying, but they should broaden their scope a bit.
I used to live with a body builder, taking this suppliment doesn't make you ooze some odor out of your skin. One word, FARTS! Thats it, the stuff that used to come out of him used to clear classrooms! Oh my god, they should bottle that for riot control!
There is nothing wrong with the answer he provided. The problem is over indulgance, period. To much of anything is going to be bad for you. Taking to much Tylenol can cause liver failure. To much beer/wine and you can become an alcoholic. Saying that you shouldn't eat good food in moderation is obsured. Heck for that matter maybe the 300 lb person you saw was buying food for her 12 kids. I suggest you go ask that person next time. This is food not crack.
I used to love Viewsonic monitors, until the day one of them failed and I called customer service. Upon initial review of the warranty I notice that a CRT is covered for 3 years parts and labor. Great I thought! I called the tecnician. I had already troubleshot the monitor. I changed power cords, I changed outlets, I changed machines that I plugged into it. It was done. He still made me jump through hoops for the better part of a day before they told me I would need all of the following (cut and pasted from their website).
To obtain warranty service, you will be required to provide The original dated sales slip Your name Your address The serial number of the product A description of the problem.
A dated sales slip? Even after 3 years? Come on! Ok well fine I can dig out an invoice. But they also want you to ship it back in the ORIGINAL box! Who has that after three years? This is rediculous. They wouldn't take it since I didn't have the original box! My yearly IT budget is only around $150,000 but rest assured they won't see a dime. After that I started buying HP monitors only, one goes bad, I call, no run around, they next day ship a replacement, and pay for the return shipping. Class act right there.
Reasonable expectaion of privacy is established under the guidelines of our policy, which every employee signs. By signing the documents they testify and agree to this. Period thats it. The policy has went through several lawyers and is 100% enforcable in court. There is nothing to sue us about you moron. We haven't taken any action against the guy as of yet. That is a matter for our lawyers. And it sure as hell is not illegal. The whole point is he is a registered sex ofender. You may live in some liberal state but here we have laws. If you are a registered sex offender there are disclosure laws. You move into a new city, the residents of that city are to be notified about you, your address and your criminal history. It is the law, no exceptions! I didn't write them but I happen to work at a place that enforces them. As for backround checks, they are only completed on people working in certain areas. They are not cost effective to do for every employee at $1000 each.
I am an IT manager for a local government agency. We monitor all internet usage on a regular basis. for the most part it is rather boring. This also means that if sombody uses Hotmail or some such at work it gets logged. By state statute here all documents that are created on our equipment, i.e. you type an e-mail. It becomes public record. that means any Joe Blow off the street can send in a request for copies of any and all e-mails that we have on our system. This causes a few interesting problems. So I do a couple things. 1. I do not backup the e-mail system. All users are aware of this. 2. Zero retention on deleted e-mail. 3. A signed Acceptable Usage poilicy for each user. They are all aware of the possibility of being monitored. Does this stop people, no! We have had to take action on abuses several times. Like the guy that wouldn't stop surfing porn at work, he worked in the cube and there are several women that work in that office. Bad judgement. Last week things got worse. I noticed a user surfing a little porn so I checked the logs, I was a little surprised, he was accessing a Sex Offender Database. He was looking himself up! Turns out this guy is a registered sex offender in the neighboring state. I looked up what he was convicted of and it was RAPE. Also 90% of the workers in my building are female. We would have never known any of this without monitoring our system. Our lawyers are working on what to do with him now. People can bitch all they want about Big Brother, but ever consider sometimes this is bigger than one person feeling bad? Think about how you would feel if your sister or mother worked in that office and something happened. Wouldn't you have wanted us to do something about it? Take off the blinders and step off the soap box, because until you are the one responsible you don't know shit.
What are the chances that the RIAA's bandwith comes from one of these upstream companies. Sure would be terrible if the group gets together and pulls the plug to all of the RIAA participants. Just a plain old "I'm taking my ball and going home".
Mr. Brown:
First off, I have to say, love the show, love the book. I went out and bought it right after I read the review of it here and read it cover to cover in a day. My question is more of a suggestion. You have an obvious good taste in beers judging from your show and your book. I do a little brewing myself and after seeking many of your episodes where you recreate a comercial product at home, ala yogurt etc. One thing I would love to see on your show is Root Beer. The history, the science, the methodology and a couple good recipies. Any chance of that in the future?
The Light of Zartha (sp?) is not a planets light source you moron! Were you sleeping through the ending? The girl was the "Light", they stashed the heir to the Zarthan crown, so to speak, on Earth. She was destined to save her people, not act as a flashlight.
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I have Charter Cable as my provider. I switched from Dish Network to them for one reason, cable modems became available in my town. If anyone would bother reading the fine print, which apparently nobody on the East Coast does, you would see that a minimmum subscription to basic cable is required for cable modem service. Here they come right out and tell you this. It shows up as a seperate line item on your bill. Out there they are just rolling it into the cost of your modem fee every month. It is all about how your statements are broken down. If you have a cable modem that is costing you more than $35 a month be assured you are paying for the cable as well. How this made news I will never know it is like "News Flash Toys Come in Happy Meals...More at Ten!".
I have a friend here at work that came in a couple months ago and was livid. Starband/DishNetwork decided to filter out all of the ports used by the major P2P file sharing services. Apparently in the fine print they don't have to let you use the service for anything but web sufring and e-mail. Not only having extremely restrictive ToS, the speeds aren't that great, and they lock you into huge service contracts. But if you can't survive on a modem and you live in the boonies, I guess it is better than two soup cans and string.
The Minneapolis / St. Paul Police departments have been using this for at least two years. Wireless kill switch and viedo included. They flip a switch the car dies the doors lock and the lights start going nuts. Surround the car and BUSTED... But seriously nothing new to see here.
I signed up to be a developer for the Zaurus several weeks ago. I placed my order and had it in my hands within two days. The first thing I did was update the ROM to the latest image. I also updated the drivers for my PC. I hooked up the cradle to my Windows 2k workstation, that does in fact use Outlook. It worked perfect the first time. And with the developer edition no less. Everything synched perfectly.
I seriously have loved this thing since I got my hands on it. That is saying a lot since I have hated every single PDA I have ever had before this. I think the keyboard is great, but it is definitely not for the fat fingered user. One thing that you can not tell from the pictures is that the keys are a hard plastic, not soft rubber. At first I made the mistake of trying to punch them with the stylus. It slipped off for the most part. So I went with the double thumbs technique that is popular with the text messaging via cell phone crowd. Now I can rip right through the keys, oh and they have a very nice tactile click when pressed. I could seriously go on all day about this product. But here are some cool links to an open source version of the Rom image that removes the Jeode JVM and Opera (which has now been replaced with Konqueror). I just have to assume the guy from the WSJ is a fat fingered dolt.
Tyan is recognized as making the best server motherboards on the market, that is why they have the exclusive rights for one year to make SMP Athlon boards. They have an excellent reputation for stability. I have been running a Thuinder K7 since they came out, and it just plain rocks.
Hey brainiac, have you even went out and bought a DVD player? Less than half of the models out there even support CDR/RW disks which means your burned VCDs are worthless on them. I recommend that if you want to do this you do your homework before you buy, that way you don't get home and stick in that Matrix bootleg and go WTF!
The SM2 Block 4 standard missile is Mach 4 plus last time I checked, that is with a directionally fragmenting warhead with 80 pounds of explosives. That should work nicely, oh and FYI the math for the moving target isn't that bad, but hey thats what guidance computers are for. Read up on the AEGIS weapon system, you'll get the picture.
I think many people are missing the point. Why does the government want a plane that goes this fast? Why one answer should be to out run anti-aircraft defenses. Sure you can always fly higher than a standard flak gun, but not so with a surface to air missile. Why waste effort on a missile counter measure that may or may not fool the missle when you can have a plane that is simply to fast to catch? You get in, strike the target and get out fast, the word is surgical.
Ok here goes, the "weapon" is in fact not a torpedo, but an underwater missile. Now consider for a second the forces that act upon a standard missile, friction from air, and small particles in the air. Both effect the performace of the weapon. However in the case of an underwater weapon the drag is much greater obviously. This so called "Cavitation" weapon defeats this problem by basically traveling in a pocket of very fine bubbles. This does create a hell of a noise, which is bad for a submarine. As soon as it is launched you are spotted. The upside is the speed, the Skvall or Squall as we call it reportedly moves at over 200 knots, do the math, that is spooky fast when talking about underwater speeds. So the sub would silently position itself for a shot and lauch a salvo of most likely two shots. The weapon reportedlly does not have homming capabilities. The best part is most of you are just finding out about this toy, I can tell you that the project is over three years old and the the military has been watching it and publishing reports on it for at least that long.:-)
Hmmmm well it seems to me the the US has been working with this for some time. The CIA and FBI both use this technology with mostly unpublished results. However, with the FBI and CIA getting seemingly bored with there toys they are starting to share. I saw a program on Discovery awhile back with the FBI letting the LAPD use this technology at LAX in a random search for fugetives. I belive all they came up with were 3 men avoiding child support payments. Oh well....
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Ummm DB2 and Oracle both have Linux versions...
I use a Barracuda here at work, it handles the SPAM and anti-virus checking before it gets to my mail server. I would class this as a spam firewall. By the way the Barracuda works crazy good!
Here at work we only have about 120 e-mail users, on average we get 3200-4000 e-mails per day. I installed a Barracudda Spam Firewall on the 4th of this month. Since then we have gotten 61,938 messages of which 49,455 were blocked as spam, 1,552 were blocked for viruses, and 397 were tagged as bulk mail and passed through the filter. Which leaves 10,534 valid messages. Considering I am still training the filter several spam have obviously made it through. This sure looks like a lot more than 32%. Not sure who they are surveying, but they should broaden their scope a bit.
Just my 2 cents
I have been on whey before, didn't come close to what the creatine did.
I used to live with a body builder, taking this suppliment doesn't make you ooze some odor out of your skin. One word, FARTS! Thats it, the stuff that used to come out of him used to clear classrooms! Oh my god, they should bottle that for riot control!
There is nothing wrong with the answer he provided. The problem is over indulgance, period. To much of anything is going to be bad for you. Taking to much Tylenol can cause liver failure. To much beer/wine and you can become an alcoholic. Saying that you shouldn't eat good food in moderation is obsured. Heck for that matter maybe the 300 lb person you saw was buying food for her 12 kids. I suggest you go ask that person next time. This is food not crack.
I used to love Viewsonic monitors, until the day one of them failed and I called customer service. Upon initial review of the warranty I notice that a CRT is covered for 3 years parts and labor. Great I thought! I called the tecnician. I had already troubleshot the monitor. I changed power cords, I changed outlets, I changed machines that I plugged into it. It was done. He still made me jump through hoops for the better part of a day before they told me I would need all of the following (cut and pasted from their website).
To obtain warranty service, you will be required to provide
The original dated sales slip
Your name
Your address
The serial number of the product
A description of the problem.
A dated sales slip? Even after 3 years? Come on! Ok well fine I can dig out an invoice. But they also want you to ship it back in the ORIGINAL box! Who has that after three years? This is rediculous. They wouldn't take it since I didn't have the original box! My yearly IT budget is only around $150,000 but rest assured they won't see a dime. After that I started buying HP monitors only, one goes bad, I call, no run around, they next day ship a replacement, and pay for the return shipping. Class act right there.
Reasonable expectaion of privacy is established under the guidelines of our policy, which every employee signs. By signing the documents they testify and agree to this. Period thats it. The policy has went through several lawyers and is 100% enforcable in court. There is nothing to sue us about you moron. We haven't taken any action against the guy as of yet. That is a matter for our lawyers. And it sure as hell is not illegal. The whole point is he is a registered sex ofender. You may live in some liberal state but here we have laws. If you are a registered sex offender there are disclosure laws. You move into a new city, the residents of that city are to be notified about you, your address and your criminal history. It is the law, no exceptions! I didn't write them but I happen to work at a place that enforces them. As for backround checks, they are only completed on people working in certain areas. They are not cost effective to do for every employee at $1000 each.
I am an IT manager for a local government agency. We monitor all internet usage on a regular basis. for the most part it is rather boring. This also means that if sombody uses Hotmail or some such at work it gets logged. By state statute here all documents that are created on our equipment, i.e. you type an e-mail. It becomes public record. that means any Joe Blow off the street can send in a request for copies of any and all e-mails that we have on our system. This causes a few interesting problems. So I do a couple things. 1. I do not backup the e-mail system. All users are aware of this. 2. Zero retention on deleted e-mail. 3. A signed Acceptable Usage poilicy for each user. They are all aware of the possibility of being monitored. Does this stop people, no! We have had to take action on abuses several times. Like the guy that wouldn't stop surfing porn at work, he worked in the cube and there are several women that work in that office. Bad judgement. Last week things got worse. I noticed a user surfing a little porn so I checked the logs, I was a little surprised, he was accessing a Sex Offender Database. He was looking himself up! Turns out this guy is a registered sex offender in the neighboring state. I looked up what he was convicted of and it was RAPE. Also 90% of the workers in my building are female. We would have never known any of this without monitoring our system. Our lawyers are working on what to do with him now. People can bitch all they want about Big Brother, but ever consider sometimes this is bigger than one person feeling bad? Think about how you would feel if your sister or mother worked in that office and something happened. Wouldn't you have wanted us to do something about it? Take off the blinders and step off the soap box, because until you are the one responsible you don't know shit.
What are the chances that the RIAA's bandwith comes from one of these upstream companies. Sure would be terrible if the group gets together and pulls the plug to all of the RIAA participants. Just a plain old "I'm taking my ball and going home".
Mr. Brown:
First off, I have to say, love the show, love the book. I went out and bought it right after I read the review of it here and read it cover to cover in a day. My question is more of a suggestion. You have an obvious good taste in beers judging from your show and your book. I do a little brewing myself and after seeking many of your episodes where you recreate a comercial product at home, ala yogurt etc. One thing I would love to see on your show is Root Beer. The history, the science, the methodology and a couple good recipies. Any chance of that in the future?
The Light of Zartha (sp?) is not a planets light source you moron! Were you sleeping through the ending? The girl was the "Light", they stashed the heir to the Zarthan crown, so to speak, on Earth. She was destined to save her people, not act as a flashlight.
I have Charter Cable as my provider. I switched from Dish Network to them for one reason, cable modems became available in my town. If anyone would bother reading the fine print, which apparently nobody on the East Coast does, you would see that a minimmum subscription to basic cable is required for cable modem service. Here they come right out and tell you this. It shows up as a seperate line item on your bill. Out there they are just rolling it into the cost of your modem fee every month. It is all about how your statements are broken down. If you have a cable modem that is costing you more than $35 a month be assured you are paying for the cable as well. How this made news I will never know it is like "News Flash Toys Come in Happy Meals...More at Ten!".
I have a friend here at work that came in a couple months ago and was livid. Starband/DishNetwork decided to filter out all of the ports used by the major P2P file sharing services. Apparently in the fine print they don't have to let you use the service for anything but web sufring and e-mail. Not only having extremely restrictive ToS, the speeds aren't that great, and they lock you into huge service contracts. But if you can't survive on a modem and you live in the boonies, I guess it is better than two soup cans and string.
The Minneapolis / St. Paul Police departments have been using this for at least two years. Wireless kill switch and viedo included. They flip a switch the car dies the doors lock and the lights start going nuts. Surround the car and BUSTED... But seriously nothing new to see here.
I signed up to be a developer for the Zaurus several weeks ago. I placed my order and had it in my hands within two days. The first thing I did was update the ROM to the latest image. I also updated the drivers for my PC. I hooked up the cradle to my Windows 2k workstation, that does in fact use Outlook. It worked perfect the first time. And with the developer edition no less. Everything synched perfectly.
I seriously have loved this thing since I got my hands on it. That is saying a lot since I have hated every single PDA I have ever had before this. I think the keyboard is great, but it is definitely not for the fat fingered user. One thing that you can not tell from the pictures is that the keys are a hard plastic, not soft rubber. At first I made the mistake of trying to punch them with the stylus. It slipped off for the most part. So I went with the double thumbs technique that is popular with the text messaging via cell phone crowd. Now I can rip right through the keys, oh and they have a very nice tactile click when pressed. I could seriously go on all day about this product. But here are some cool links to an open source version of the Rom image that removes the Jeode JVM and Opera (which has now been replaced with Konqueror). I just have to assume the guy from the WSJ is a fat fingered dolt.
Sharp Developers Program
The OpenZaurus Program
Program Overview
OpenZuarus Downloads
In case nobody has bothered to figure this one out, wiretaps and e-mail are both covered under this federal law. Give it a read sometime.
Tyan is recognized as making the best server motherboards on the market, that is why they have the exclusive rights for one year to make SMP Athlon boards. They have an excellent reputation for stability. I have been running a Thuinder K7 since they came out, and it just plain rocks.
The Tiger comes with 4 or 5 64 Bit PCI slots already.
Hey brainiac, have you even went out and bought a DVD player? Less than half of the models out there even support CDR/RW disks which means your burned VCDs are worthless on them. I recommend that if you want to do this you do your homework before you buy, that way you don't get home and stick in that Matrix bootleg and go WTF!
The SM2 Block 4 standard missile is Mach 4 plus last time I checked, that is with a directionally fragmenting warhead with 80 pounds of explosives. That should work nicely, oh and FYI the math for the moving target isn't that bad, but hey thats what guidance computers are for. Read up on the AEGIS weapon system, you'll get the picture.
I think many people are missing the point. Why does the government want a plane that goes this fast? Why one answer should be to out run anti-aircraft defenses. Sure you can always fly higher than a standard flak gun, but not so with a surface to air missile. Why waste effort on a missile counter measure that may or may not fool the missle when you can have a plane that is simply to fast to catch? You get in, strike the target and get out fast, the word is surgical.
Ok here goes, the "weapon" is in fact not a torpedo, but an underwater missile. Now consider for a second the forces that act upon a standard missile, friction from air, and small particles in the air. Both effect the performace of the weapon. However in the case of an underwater weapon the drag is much greater obviously. This so called "Cavitation" weapon defeats this problem by basically traveling in a pocket of very fine bubbles. This does create a hell of a noise, which is bad for a submarine. As soon as it is launched you are spotted. The upside is the speed, the Skvall or Squall as we call it reportedly moves at over 200 knots, do the math, that is spooky fast when talking about underwater speeds. So the sub would silently position itself for a shot and lauch a salvo of most likely two shots. The weapon reportedlly does not have homming capabilities. The best part is most of you are just finding out about this toy, I can tell you that the project is over three years old and the the military has been watching it and publishing reports on it for at least that long. :-)
Hmmmm well it seems to me the the US has been working with this for some time. The CIA and FBI both use this technology with mostly unpublished results. However, with the FBI and CIA getting seemingly bored with there toys they are starting to share. I saw a program on Discovery awhile back with the FBI letting the LAPD use this technology at LAX in a random search for fugetives. I belive all they came up with were 3 men avoiding child support payments. Oh well....