That's another thing I wanted to ask. Which file system do folks recommend? Ext3 seems solid ( as it's based on the tried-and-true ext2), Reiserfs, on the other hand, is a fairly new player (though it looks pretty slick on paper).
The server will serving home file systems, so there will be no "norm" for usage patterns. I like that reiser lets you grow filesystems on the fly. But is it as solid as ext2/ext3?
The drives are encased in special mounting hardware (providing status lights, etc.), which are then mounted into 2104-DL1 enclosures. We have 5 of these enclosures, fully populated (10 drives each), and the max size HD they support is 36GB. These HDs list at about $1800 from IBM, and I can get 3rd party refurb units for about half that.
In any case, I wouldn't risk replacing the actual disk within the mounting hardware, even if it were fairly simple. The attached hardware is just too expensive to risk frying.
But I think that the underlying principle is sound.
I wish I could link to another/. post of mine, but I can't find it. I ranted a while back about wanting to start "Project White Noise" after yet another article about how Bush-n-Ashcroft were wiping thier asses with the US's constitution.
It's inspired by the old USENET "spook fodder" method. Fill the 'net with suspicious-looking traffic for the sake of decreasing the S/N ratio of various 3-letter agencies' snooping efforts.
The first and obvious protocol would be email. My goal would be to have email accounts in every country both sending & receiving messages to & from every other country (anyone want to calculate the permutation on that?).
Message payloads would include: legit messages, automated gibberish messages (fortune, spam generator, eliza bot, etc.), and purely random data. Each of these types could be sent: plaintext, public-key encrypted, symetricly encrypted, and encrypted with a one-time-pad (generated on the fly then tossed when sent, rendering the data non-recoverable).
Ideally, each white noise client would get a list of participating email addresses from a source (P2P network, perhaps) and send the messages at random intervals in the background whenever connected to the 'net.
I haven't solved the problem yet of routing truly legit mail through all of this. I guess the ultimate goal of this would be a distributed, peer-to-peer version of the Mixmaster network on steroids.
Then there's all sorts of fun you can have with other protocols and subliminal channels. There's a Phrack article on sending covert data in the payload of ICMP ping packets. I've often thought of using plain old HTTP. You send a line of ASCII-encoded (possible even encrypted) data file to a remote server in a GET line. The remote user massages the lines of data from the log files to reconstruct the data sent (works through corporate firewalls that allow web surfing!).
I'm all for catching bad guys, but I draw the line at wholesale monitoring of citizens. As I stated in a post long ago, I would rather risk dying in another random act of violence (of the 9/11 caliber) than be forced to live in a police state. I'm sure those who lost loved ones in the attacks wouldn't likely share my view, but what makes our country truly great is the freedom its citizens have, and eroding those freedoms cheapens the value of those lives lost on 9/11.
No kidding! I haven't even thought of PKWare since the DOS days. When WinZip arrived on the scene, PKWare's graphical Zip program was awful. That was, what, ten years ago? I haven't used anything but WinZip since (at least on Windows).
Actually, I wish RAR (and it's cousin WinRAR) would have caught on better. As far as I know, it was (is?) only popular in the file trading scene on USENET (or is that ARJ?). I still think RAR's better by a long shot -- they even have Linux versions. Oh well.
Anyone out there ever use Ultra Compressor II? That seemed promising at the time.
Didn't those glasses spawn off an entire infomercial industry selling AmberVision and the like?
I'd forgotten about the shades in V. I initially thought you were talking about John Carpenter's movie They Live. Now that was fun movie -- or maybe I'm just viewing my youth through abmer-colored glasses.;-)
I have to agree. After repeatedly reading The Hobbit and the LotR trilogy, my folks got me the Adventurures of Tom Bombadil and the Simarillian.
Bombadil wasn't too bad, but I just couldn't wade through Simarillian. And trust me, I was a Middle Earth reference geek at the time. I spent as much time pouring over the appendices at the the end of Return of the King volume as I did reading the trilogy itself. I just couldn't get enough of Middle Earth's history.
Even after several attempts to start the book, I couldn't get past the first few chapters. Maybe I should re-visit that book, now that I'm a bit older.
My personal coffee substitute is Teeccino, and it is praised highly in the book I mentioned. I like it because of it's good taste, as well as the fact that it's pretty healthy for you (lots of potassium and inulin, a bennificial soluble fiber). The author's main requirement for a coffee substitute was that it maintained the ritual of brewing (or using a French press, in my case), which you can do with Teeccino. Of course, I still miss the ritual of hand-grinding beans in my Zassenhaus, so that's why I still perform the One True morning coffee ritual occasionally.
Also mentioned is Postum, though it's not a glowing mention. I haven't tried this myself, but I will in the future. My own next personal favorite is Pero, which, while quite different from coffee, is fairly pleasing when mixed in the right proportions.
Most coffee substitutes seem to be mainly dandelion root, chickory (which we've started in our garden this year), or malted/roasted grains (mainly barley and wheat). We do plan on trying homemade versions of some of these -- good way to rid the lawn of dandelions!
To get my tea fix, I've turned to rooibos tea. The fermented "red" type is the best black tea substitute I've encountered (not that I've expended a lifetime in the pursuit of this, but still...). I haven't ordered the unfermented "green" variety yet, but I will eventually. Rooibos is still very new (in the mainstream, at least), and I can't locate pure versions of this stuff at our regional natural food chain, Wild Oats (seems to be down at the moment). You can even get flavored versions of this, such as Darjeeling and (my personal favorite) Earl Grey (served "hot", of course). And as a male in his thirties, I was interested to know that, due to it's ultra-high concentrations of antioxidants, rooibos is recommended often in the sci.med.prostate USENET hirearchy.
Of course, you can get zillions of herbal teas in any old store these days. Hell, I throw a teaspoon of dried rosemary leaves (try it -- you'll like it!) or fresh mint from the herb garden into the french press on occasion for tea.
While researching links for this post, I found this link, which is pretty good coffee substitute starter. You'd do just as well to google "coffe substitute".
I read this book over a year ago, and it caused me to go caffeine free for the better part of a year. Since then, I've taken the road of moderation, as I do love a good cup of coffee once in a while, as well as a good iced-tea. However, I've ditched carbonated beverages for good.
The book includes over 700 references, and while I'm not medical-minded enough to call him on his conclusions, they make sense to me and follow-up internet research of my own suggests that he's in the ballpark.
In my view, there's not much of anything the body can't handle in modest amounts once in a while: caffeine, alcohol, and even some recreational drugs. But chronic usage of any substance in large amounts can't be that good for you -- that just seems like common sense (if not outright supported by the sciences). If we all consumed alcohol as much as we did caffeine, our livers would turn to mush.
If nothing else, this book has some great coffee alternatives listed at the end.
If personal mileage absolutely needs to be tracked (and I doubt it really does), why can't this be simply another item to add to the annual registration renewal routine?
In my state (Utah), we must pass a safety inspection every year, and (if in a county with over 100,000 residents) pass an emissions test (only every 2 years for cars '96 or newer). I can only assume that many states already have a safety inspection requirement.
Why not let the place that inspects the car log your mileage? Then the DMV can calculate a "environmental impact tax" (call it whatever) calculated from your actual mileage and the model of car you drive? The EPA (or whoever runs fuleeconomy.gov) has the MPG stats for cars dating back to '85, and I'm sure there's data somewhere about older cars.
Hell, this could be even simpler (though maybe less "fair") if by using demographic or geographic averages of annual mileage -- plus the car model -- to calculate this tax. This is a much more coarsely-grained taxation scheme, but it should be statistically sound if done right.
Of course if the government tracks actual mileage in any capacity, the insurance companies are going to most certainly get ahold of it eventually and tweak everyone's rates accordingly (for the worse, I'm sure).
I vote fot no mileage tracking of any kind (and certainly not via GPS!). I think statistics can be used well enough to hit everyone anually with a tax simply based on the model of car one drives. Yes, some people will get hit unfairly, while others will benefit. But the average of everyone could potentially be correct.
As an impressionable tween, I read The Bachman Books, a collection of novellas he wrote under that pseudonym. It included a gem of a story called "The Long Walk" -- one of my favorites to date. I won't get into the details (google it), but I'm surprised that it hasn't been implemented into today's reality/endurance TV genre yet.
Anyway, I said to myself, "Those pussies! Walking's easy!" Being reasonably fit, I set out that afternoon along the North Carolina coastline to take a loooooong walk. Mind you, this was in the dead of summer, being on vacation with my family at a rental beach house.
So imagine my humility when, maybe six hours later, and who know how many grueling miles on the beach, I called my folks collect from a payphone and begged for them to come pick me up. I had the absolute worst sunburn of my entire life and my legs were too sore to go any further.
So, assuming that Mr. King isn't found dead in his home before then, can I sue him if I get skin cancer later on in my life?;-)
Ain't that the truth! I tried a free demo for Liquid Audio back in '97 or '98. What a horrible, convoluted experience that was. I downloaded the first tune (can't even remember what it was), listened once, then nuked the software. I giggled gleefully when I heard a few years back that they went under (or we heading that way, I can't rememer).
Weren't they a premier provider of AAC content?
I can't stand using Real's software to listen to free content. I can't imagine DRM stuff on Real Player! I wouldn't be surprised if this attempt failed.
Cute and furry animals do get killed all the time...
Two examples in the US that I know of are domestic rabbits and cats. I heard a bit on NPR a while back about some quiet little suburb that was being overrun by escaped domestic rabbits. They were destroying gardens and flower beds (no, this isn't as severe as disturbing natural species, I admit). The people weren't allowed to destroy the things, and they were getting pretty irked.
If you search on plastic.com, you'll see a headline about how environmental groups (more specifically, bird-lovers) are on the anti-cat campaign trail. I can totally understand their point of view, as the little beasties are pretty evil and run unchecked in most every community.
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I agree completely.
My dad was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany for my last year of high school (any other Patch Panthers around here -- class of '90 myself). I lived on the military base, and all of the stores rounded to the nearest nickle. I thought it was a great idea. They also used 2-dollar bills in regular circulation at the time, as well as Suzzie B. dollars.
What I liked even better were the one, five, and ten Deutchmark (sp?) coins used off-base. I don't know why, but using coins for small "dollar" amounts was cool. Having a pocket full of larger coins seems more managable than a bunch of little bills.
I, too, always pondered a binary type of money system. I used to get Discover magazine as a kid, and one of the brain teasers in the back was something like "You have 175 dollars (or some other amount), and 7 money bags. Distribute the money amongst the bags such that you could provide any dollar amount to someone without taking the money from the bags." The answer (which elluded me at the time) was in a binary fashion: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 112 (the remainder). My puzzle/answer may not be correct (I'm too lazy to verify), but the principle has intruigued me ever since.
Hey, I once contributed to NPR directly. That is until I heard that they lobbied to defeat the no license low-power FM thing a while back. Never again.
Now, I get most of my current events from Off the Hook and Off the Wall (2600.com's weekly broadcasts). I wish more internet talk radio was in MP3 format, though -- most is in Real format for some reason.
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A few years ago, I was timeshifting Rush Limbaugh...
But the thing that bugged me about Wesley, was they made him into such a whiney, little snot on ST:TNG. I was also bothered by the fact that this "Advanced" and "Modern" version of Trek still treated him as a "dumb kid." Despite calling him a "boy genius" in the opening teasers prior to the shows launch.
May have been the writers' bias.
I recently finished watching Season 5 of the DVD collection. I always watch the bonus materials at the end of the last DVD. In nearly all of them, Patric Stewart or someone alludes to the fact that having a child actor on the normal cast wasn't something many felt would be good. Gene admitted himself that he was reliving a part of his childhood image through the Wesley character, so the character was going to be included.
I dunno -- maybe the adult cast/crew never liked having a kid on set and the writing reflected that. Given how stellar Wheaton's performance in Stand By Me was (much better than the late River Phoenix, I thought), I can't believe anything other than bad writing was responsible for the hatred of Wesley.
On a side note, is anyone else irritated by the total lack of balance in the interviews on the DVD sets? My favorite actor (Spiner) hardly gets any screen time, while my least favorite (Sirtis) seems to dominate, getting about as much time as Stewart or Frakes (if not more than the latter).
My last Point excursion was to ride the Magnum. I remember looking down at the Gemini and thinking, "Shit, I'm toast."
Kinda dates me, though. I used to think the Demon Drop was pretty scary. My 30-year-old heart would probably bust a valve if I tried one of these new-fangled coasters!
I don't have the link, but search for the homepage of Ralph Hillendrandt (possible mis-spelling). He's a postfix guru who frequently posts to the postfix list. His homepage is chock full of sample configs.
Also, the sample configs provided in the postfix distribution are a great resource. I haven't found a good definitive list of all postfix parameters and what they do in an easy-to-browse form. For now, we're stuck with trudging through the postfix documentation.
This topic has sparked much heated debate in the postfix mailing list. Two camps exist. The first is the stop-spam-at-all-costs group, and then there's the you-evil-bastard-that's-not-mandated-by-rfc crowd.
Both have valid points.
I once tried this restriction with my employer's email server (we host a handful of university domains). It was a complete failure. Not because it didn't stop spam (I was finding several thousand spams per day rejected -- a 75% reduction of mail let through!), but because there were so damned many legit domains that didn't play by these common sense rules which you seek to enforce.
The overheard of me fielding complaints from my users was just too much. You'd think that the bloody sender would get the clue that it was a problem at his end (due to the bounce messages provided by postfix), but that just wasn't the case.
So I turned off the rules. I did come up with a compromize (I use postfix, btw). For major domains that should know better, and are in fact configured correctly (aol, hotmail, msn, etc.), I add a line like "earthlink.com reject_unknown_client" in my file pointed to by the check_sender_access line in my main.cf file.
Also, when I receive a piece of spam that gets through, I add the forged From: domain to that list if the connecting client was "unknown". I then add the "reject_unknown_client" restriction to the offending class-C in my check_client_access file in main.cf.
This method catches quite a few (maybe 50%). I use a few free RBLs to catch maybe 45% more spams. That other 5% gets through, but I haven't had a single complaint from my users since beginning this practice. So we're all smiles here now.
If and when I ever run my own email domains (business and personal), I will use all the rules postfix can enforce.
Wow! -- you must be pretty thin. I read somewhere that the CDC warns that anything below 1200 calories per dar for your averagw adult is dangerous. Of ourse, you may be a ten-year-old, so who knows.;)
Besides, my goal isn't a crash diet. I want something I can tolerate plus something I can maintain for the rest of my life. I occasionally fast (seems to clear the head) for a day once in a while, but I find it uncomfortable. Currently my daily intake is 1500 calories, and that's about as low as I can take right now.
I really don't understand why you feel you need some piece of software to keep track of your nutritional information. I use pencil and paper and it works fine for me.
'Cause I'm an anal s.o.b., that's why.;) I could use pencil and paper for my personal finances, too, but I prefer to use gnucash.
There are countless websites that list the macronutrient and caloric data for a wide range of foods. Isn't that all you really need?
Nut can do that, and it excels at the raw nutrient data. My biggest gripe with Nut is the inability to delete or modify an existing recipe. If I want to substiute ground turkey for the ground beef in my chili recipe, I simply can't do that. I need to create a whole new recipe.
I like being able to punch in "150 grams" of a given recipe and have it spit out the calories and nutrients I'm getting. Yeah, I could use a calculator to figure this out, but I'm lazy.
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The server will serving home file systems, so there will be no "norm" for usage patterns. I like that reiser lets you grow filesystems on the fly. But is it as solid as ext2/ext3?
In any case, I wouldn't risk replacing the actual disk within the mounting hardware, even if it were fairly simple. The attached hardware is just too expensive to risk frying.
I wish I could link to another /. post of mine, but I can't find it. I ranted a while back about wanting to start "Project White Noise" after yet another article about how Bush-n-Ashcroft were wiping thier asses with the US's constitution.
It's inspired by the old USENET "spook fodder" method. Fill the 'net with suspicious-looking traffic for the sake of decreasing the S/N ratio of various 3-letter agencies' snooping efforts.
The first and obvious protocol would be email. My goal would be to have email accounts in every country both sending & receiving messages to & from every other country (anyone want to calculate the permutation on that?).
Message payloads would include: legit messages, automated gibberish messages (fortune, spam generator, eliza bot, etc.), and purely random data. Each of these types could be sent: plaintext, public-key encrypted, symetricly encrypted, and encrypted with a one-time-pad (generated on the fly then tossed when sent, rendering the data non-recoverable).
Ideally, each white noise client would get a list of participating email addresses from a source (P2P network, perhaps) and send the messages at random intervals in the background whenever connected to the 'net.
I haven't solved the problem yet of routing truly legit mail through all of this. I guess the ultimate goal of this would be a distributed, peer-to-peer version of the Mixmaster network on steroids.
Then there's all sorts of fun you can have with other protocols and subliminal channels. There's a Phrack article on sending covert data in the payload of ICMP ping packets. I've often thought of using plain old HTTP. You send a line of ASCII-encoded (possible even encrypted) data file to a remote server in a GET line. The remote user massages the lines of data from the log files to reconstruct the data sent (works through corporate firewalls that allow web surfing!).
I'm all for catching bad guys, but I draw the line at wholesale monitoring of citizens. As I stated in a post long ago, I would rather risk dying in another random act of violence (of the 9/11 caliber) than be forced to live in a police state. I'm sure those who lost loved ones in the attacks wouldn't likely share my view, but what makes our country truly great is the freedom its citizens have, and eroding those freedoms cheapens the value of those lives lost on 9/11.
Actually, I wish RAR (and it's cousin WinRAR) would have caught on better. As far as I know, it was (is?) only popular in the file trading scene on USENET (or is that ARJ?). I still think RAR's better by a long shot -- they even have Linux versions. Oh well.
Anyone out there ever use Ultra Compressor II? That seemed promising at the time.
I'd forgotten about the shades in V. I initially thought you were talking about John Carpenter's movie They Live. Now that was fun movie -- or maybe I'm just viewing my youth through abmer-colored glasses. ;-)
Bombadil wasn't too bad, but I just couldn't wade through Simarillian. And trust me, I was a Middle Earth reference geek at the time. I spent as much time pouring over the appendices at the the end of Return of the King volume as I did reading the trilogy itself. I just couldn't get enough of Middle Earth's history.
Even after several attempts to start the book, I couldn't get past the first few chapters. Maybe I should re-visit that book, now that I'm a bit older.
Also mentioned is Postum, though it's not a glowing mention. I haven't tried this myself, but I will in the future. My own next personal favorite is Pero, which, while quite different from coffee, is fairly pleasing when mixed in the right proportions.
Most coffee substitutes seem to be mainly dandelion root, chickory (which we've started in our garden this year), or malted/roasted grains (mainly barley and wheat). We do plan on trying homemade versions of some of these -- good way to rid the lawn of dandelions!
To get my tea fix, I've turned to rooibos tea. The fermented "red" type is the best black tea substitute I've encountered (not that I've expended a lifetime in the pursuit of this, but still...). I haven't ordered the unfermented "green" variety yet, but I will eventually. Rooibos is still very new (in the mainstream, at least), and I can't locate pure versions of this stuff at our regional natural food chain, Wild Oats (seems to be down at the moment). You can even get flavored versions of this, such as Darjeeling and (my personal favorite) Earl Grey (served "hot", of course). And as a male in his thirties, I was interested to know that, due to it's ultra-high concentrations of antioxidants, rooibos is recommended often in the sci.med.prostate USENET hirearchy.
Of course, you can get zillions of herbal teas in any old store these days. Hell, I throw a teaspoon of dried rosemary leaves (try it -- you'll like it!) or fresh mint from the herb garden into the french press on occasion for tea.
While researching links for this post, I found this link, which is pretty good coffee substitute starter. You'd do just as well to google "coffe substitute".
I read this book over a year ago, and it caused me to go caffeine free for the better part of a year. Since then, I've taken the road of moderation, as I do love a good cup of coffee once in a while, as well as a good iced-tea. However, I've ditched carbonated beverages for good.
The book includes over 700 references, and while I'm not medical-minded enough to call him on his conclusions, they make sense to me and follow-up internet research of my own suggests that he's in the ballpark.
In my view, there's not much of anything the body can't handle in modest amounts once in a while: caffeine, alcohol, and even some recreational drugs. But chronic usage of any substance in large amounts can't be that good for you -- that just seems like common sense (if not outright supported by the sciences). If we all consumed alcohol as much as we did caffeine, our livers would turn to mush.
If nothing else, this book has some great coffee alternatives listed at the end.
In my state (Utah), we must pass a safety inspection every year, and (if in a county with over 100,000 residents) pass an emissions test (only every 2 years for cars '96 or newer). I can only assume that many states already have a safety inspection requirement.
Why not let the place that inspects the car log your mileage? Then the DMV can calculate a "environmental impact tax" (call it whatever) calculated from your actual mileage and the model of car you drive? The EPA (or whoever runs fuleeconomy.gov) has the MPG stats for cars dating back to '85, and I'm sure there's data somewhere about older cars.
Hell, this could be even simpler (though maybe less "fair") if by using demographic or geographic averages of annual mileage -- plus the car model -- to calculate this tax. This is a much more coarsely-grained taxation scheme, but it should be statistically sound if done right.
Of course if the government tracks actual mileage in any capacity, the insurance companies are going to most certainly get ahold of it eventually and tweak everyone's rates accordingly (for the worse, I'm sure).
I vote fot no mileage tracking of any kind (and certainly not via GPS!). I think statistics can be used well enough to hit everyone anually with a tax simply based on the model of car one drives. Yes, some people will get hit unfairly, while others will benefit. But the average of everyone could potentially be correct.
As an impressionable tween, I read The Bachman Books, a collection of novellas he wrote under that pseudonym. It included a gem of a story called "The Long Walk" -- one of my favorites to date. I won't get into the details (google it), but I'm surprised that it hasn't been implemented into today's reality/endurance TV genre yet.
Anyway, I said to myself, "Those pussies! Walking's easy!" Being reasonably fit, I set out that afternoon along the North Carolina coastline to take a loooooong walk. Mind you, this was in the dead of summer, being on vacation with my family at a rental beach house.
So imagine my humility when, maybe six hours later, and who know how many grueling miles on the beach, I called my folks collect from a payphone and begged for them to come pick me up. I had the absolute worst sunburn of my entire life and my legs were too sore to go any further.
So, assuming that Mr. King isn't found dead in his home before then, can I sue him if I get skin cancer later on in my life? ;-)
Weren't they a premier provider of AAC content?
I can't stand using Real's software to listen to free content. I can't imagine DRM stuff on Real Player! I wouldn't be surprised if this attempt failed.
Two examples in the US that I know of are domestic rabbits and cats. I heard a bit on NPR a while back about some quiet little suburb that was being overrun by escaped domestic rabbits. They were destroying gardens and flower beds (no, this isn't as severe as disturbing natural species, I admit). The people weren't allowed to destroy the things, and they were getting pretty irked.
If you search on plastic.com, you'll see a headline about how environmental groups (more specifically, bird-lovers) are on the anti-cat campaign trail. I can totally understand their point of view, as the little beasties are pretty evil and run unchecked in most every community.
My dad was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany for my last year of high school (any other Patch Panthers around here -- class of '90 myself). I lived on the military base, and all of the stores rounded to the nearest nickle. I thought it was a great idea. They also used 2-dollar bills in regular circulation at the time, as well as Suzzie B. dollars.
What I liked even better were the one, five, and ten Deutchmark (sp?) coins used off-base. I don't know why, but using coins for small "dollar" amounts was cool. Having a pocket full of larger coins seems more managable than a bunch of little bills.
I, too, always pondered a binary type of money system. I used to get Discover magazine as a kid, and one of the brain teasers in the back was something like "You have 175 dollars (or some other amount), and 7 money bags. Distribute the money amongst the bags such that you could provide any dollar amount to someone without taking the money from the bags." The answer (which elluded me at the time) was in a binary fashion: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 112 (the remainder). My puzzle/answer may not be correct (I'm too lazy to verify), but the principle has intruigued me ever since.
Now, I get most of my current events from Off the Hook and Off the Wall (2600.com's weekly broadcasts). I wish more internet talk radio was in MP3 format, though -- most is in Real format for some reason.
Damn, dude -- you admit to this in public?!?
May have been the writers' bias.
I recently finished watching Season 5 of the DVD collection. I always watch the bonus materials at the end of the last DVD. In nearly all of them, Patric Stewart or someone alludes to the fact that having a child actor on the normal cast wasn't something many felt would be good. Gene admitted himself that he was reliving a part of his childhood image through the Wesley character, so the character was going to be included.
I dunno -- maybe the adult cast/crew never liked having a kid on set and the writing reflected that. Given how stellar Wheaton's performance in Stand By Me was (much better than the late River Phoenix, I thought), I can't believe anything other than bad writing was responsible for the hatred of Wesley.
On a side note, is anyone else irritated by the total lack of balance in the interviews on the DVD sets? My favorite actor (Spiner) hardly gets any screen time, while my least favorite (Sirtis) seems to dominate, getting about as much time as Stewart or Frakes (if not more than the latter).
Kinda dates me, though. I used to think the Demon Drop was pretty scary. My 30-year-old heart would probably bust a valve if I tried one of these new-fangled coasters!
It's Ralf Hildebrandt, and his most useful homepage can be found here.
My apologies, Ralf.
Also, the sample configs provided in the postfix distribution are a great resource. I haven't found a good definitive list of all postfix parameters and what they do in an easy-to-browse form. For now, we're stuck with trudging through the postfix documentation.
A more transparent option is to use Privoxy to block them all/b, then add in the few exceptions you do use.
Both have valid points.
I once tried this restriction with my employer's email server (we host a handful of university domains). It was a complete failure. Not because it didn't stop spam (I was finding several thousand spams per day rejected -- a 75% reduction of mail let through!), but because there were so damned many legit domains that didn't play by these common sense rules which you seek to enforce.
The overheard of me fielding complaints from my users was just too much. You'd think that the bloody sender would get the clue that it was a problem at his end (due to the bounce messages provided by postfix), but that just wasn't the case.
So I turned off the rules. I did come up with a compromize (I use postfix, btw). For major domains that should know better, and are in fact configured correctly (aol, hotmail, msn, etc.), I add a line like "earthlink.com reject_unknown_client" in my file pointed to by the check_sender_access line in my main.cf file.
Also, when I receive a piece of spam that gets through, I add the forged From: domain to that list if the connecting client was "unknown". I then add the "reject_unknown_client" restriction to the offending class-C in my check_client_access file in main.cf.
This method catches quite a few (maybe 50%). I use a few free RBLs to catch maybe 45% more spams. That other 5% gets through, but I haven't had a single complaint from my users since beginning this practice. So we're all smiles here now.
If and when I ever run my own email domains (business and personal), I will use all the rules postfix can enforce.
The same was once thought of having open relays, too. See how we changed out behavior with those?
Yes. Smeagol was taken when I registered with /.. so I went with his dead buddy.
Besides, my goal isn't a crash diet. I want something I can tolerate plus something I can maintain for the rest of my life. I occasionally fast (seems to clear the head) for a day once in a while, but I find it uncomfortable. Currently my daily intake is 1500 calories, and that's about as low as I can take right now.
'Cause I'm an anal s.o.b., that's why. ;) I could use pencil and paper for my personal finances, too, but I prefer to use gnucash.
There are countless websites that list the macronutrient and caloric data for a wide range of foods. Isn't that all you really need?
Nut can do that, and it excels at the raw nutrient data. My biggest gripe with Nut is the inability to delete or modify an existing recipe. If I want to substiute ground turkey for the ground beef in my chili recipe, I simply can't do that. I need to create a whole new recipe.
I like being able to punch in "150 grams" of a given recipe and have it spit out the calories and nutrients I'm getting. Yeah, I could use a calculator to figure this out, but I'm lazy.