... but you can't deny that it isn't slower. Atleast when I tried (twice) to open MS site I instantly thought of it to be far too slow to be even considered any kind of start page for anything.
I think they're both lacking. I did a random zoom-in to Riverside from your links and got these two. I hate M$ as much as the next guy, but fair's fair.
Harsh, stupid, and ineffective. My IP is in a couple of blacklists because my ISP's ISP's ISP has a customer who has a customer that used to send spam, so some ridiculously huge netblock (/16?) is listed because of them.
Abusing the idea of pressuring ISPs with blaclists in shitty manner proves squat. Ofcourse bad blacklisting is bad, but that's totally different from wether the idea works or not. DNS is not blamed for bad dns administration.
Blacklists should really be well administered and equal amount of effors should be put into removing ip blocks from the lists.
But the bottom line for me is that I cannot see any other, even remotly possibly, effective approach against spam. Blacklisting attacks the roots of the problem, i.e. ISP allowing it's customers to send spam (wether they're end users or other ISPs makes little difference). In this day and age I see absolutely no reason for the rest the Net to allow such ISP to send email. Period.
Actual quote I have heard on the subject of spam blacklists: "I don't care that you're not a spammer. Your ISP allows spammers in their midst and therefore you all go on the list. Get a new ISP."
Oh, ok. Nothing like over reacting a bit.
Harsh as it may seem, it also seems to be just about the only affective way to pressure ISP to cut the spam from where it originates. It's a hell of a lot easier to block it there than in the receiving end and the paying customers are just about to only ones that can demand policy changes from their ISPs.
Will it cause some inconveniences? Yes. But will it lead to less spam driven net? It just might in the long run.
That's a hell of a lot more than any of the other approaches I've heard so far.
"Greasemonkey will cause you nothing but headaches, and may even be a good reason to delay that Firefox pilot you're planning"
It's funny how these so called "researches" are always expressing them like "you better not", "this will happen to you if you use this", they're so anxious to influence the reader that they can't even keep it in.
When more trustworthy reviews always state things like "this piece of sw is buggy/crap/has-poor-design/incompatible-with/usele ss/etc". Without the fragrance of attempted influence.
To me these imperative "researches" only say that some one has paid for those results and hence the opposite _might_ be worth while.
Apple should've done what the free software people have done for years, i.e. name the releases with names even the authors have no fecking idea what they mean.
I am not a lawyer, but I can see Tiger Direct's point here. Tiger Direct certainly isn't guaranteed a position in the search engines, but it's reasonable to argue that if another company in the same sector (computer sales) infringes on a trademark they claim, hurting their search ranking in the process, then they've been injured by trademark infringement.
Few points: - to be found easily from the search engines they cleverly chose the name "tiger" ?! - using "tiger direct" gives them top results on most engines, and rightfully so they're not on the top with mere tiger. - imho, one shouldn't be able to trademark such generic names. ffs, they're not nearly the first ones to use the name "tiger" with computers. - this sueing industry of the us is something I sincerely hope stays in the us.
Microsoft has indicated that they want to see the rules changed, because they believe that the rules are broken. Again, as long as the rules remain unchanged, Microsoft has no choice but to play by them; it would be foolish not to.
sha1 and md5 are generally considered so weak that they should only be used to combat error or accidents, not fraud.
Not true. SHA-1 is the hashing algorithm of practically all common security standards. It's found in SSL/TLS, X.509, PGP (the protocol, not the program, so that means GPG also!), S/MIME, etc. In other words... everything. Replacing this is going to suck.:(
So true. Even the kernel uses that in it's random pools that provide/dev/random and/dev/urandom... not that this weak collision will have didley effect on it's security, but still.
Open Source, freedom, et al != technical superiority.
Technical superiority is not nearly as essential as freedom. Having technical superiority without freedom is somewhat like having sex with a fabulous gal... by forcing yourself on her.
A lot of guys already do this - they pay to see ESPN -it's considered dominant males by those who watch it.
Personally, I think most sports fans are a little "gay". They'd rather watch a bunch of sweaty guys jumping all over eachother, than, say fashion TV - where hot models walk down the runway.
Insightfull start but why did you flush it down the toilet with nimwit remark. It even counters your starts.
There are some of the worlds best developers working for Microsoft.
Being employed by Microsoft is something I would've bought, but as in doing what they know best I beg to differ. Thenagain, with all the evidence so far I'm guessing they must now also be the world's best tetris players.
"Americans love trivia. From the bookish facts of Jeopardy! to the daily dose of ESPN Sportscenter, trivia is as much a part of our pop culture as hot rods or baseball."
From the wannabe-clever dept.: Quiz shows are history. Now it's all reality tv, baby.
From the bush-hating-rest-of-the-world dept.: How can a nation that knows so little claim to love trivia?
That'sa big fat clue that the hardware (which is what they claim to be selling) isn't really doing the work. Effectively, they're selling a WinVideo card and denying it. If the hardware was doing the work, the API would be reduced to a set of obvious verbs that they wouldn't have to care about releasing.
That's a very interesting notion. However, I'm can't help but wonder what exactly it is that they're letting the cpu do.
But yes, it would be very interesting to see benchmarks on those driver upgrades on low end cpus.
Most people will still think of it as an enhancement because it makes the games run faster.
I beg to differ. The interface structures alone would give away certain design choices regarding the driver hw interface.
Also worth note is that they provide not just the kernel module, but the entire opengl library that interfaces with the card. That's not a small piece of code by any standard.
Besides why would they even release functional unoptimized code when some parties have problems releasing functional code (e.g. Ati's linux drivers).
From their perspective I think it makes absolutely no sense to reveal anything to their comptetitors.
But you're dead on about one thing. If enough people weren't happy using their proprietary stuff they'd come up with some, possibly unoptimized, set of open drivers the very next day. Actually, I'd be surprised if they already hadn't prepared for that.
At the end of the day, atleast today, the bottom line is that the market is in M$ land, in which the hell will freeze before they release open source drivers.
The reason hardware vendors don't want to release the source code is they (rightly or wrongly) think that with the source code, their chip can be reverse engineered and some fly-by-night company is going to copycat their product and cause them to lose sales. Same reason Nvidia and ATI only release binary drivers for their video cards.
I can't say that I disagree with you, but I think the reason behind Nvidia or Ati not releasing is not just the fear of reverse engineering. They both have a lot innovation and expertise there. 3D drivers are a bit more complex than just simple wireless nic hw interfaces. Nvidia improving performance by mere driver upgrades by tens of percents on occasions is something they sure as hell don't want Ati to know the details about.
I don't the linux market for 3D cards has jack to do with it either. They both most likely have the almost exact code in their windows drivers and that's the source they don't to release.
Bullshit. Linux is especially great if you have a low end machine. Naturally you can't fit a top notch distro there with all the bells and whistles, but heck, you couldn't even dream running XP with office 2k in there either.
I have RH9 with enlightenment as a wm of choice on my p2 laptop with 128Mb ram without any problems. RH 7.3 would probably be a better fit, but mere upgrade to RH9 or even all the way to FC3 wouldn't increase the size that much. It's the choice of apps that makes the difference.
Moreover there are tinier distros, like feather linux et al, that don't suffer from being outdated, they're just simply smaller.
Perhaps geeks helping family and friends set up their new computers this holiday can make use of this resource
Or perhaps geeks helping family and friends will set up linux distros instead and head over to sourceforge, just to name one good place for solid gpl stuff.
Not trying flame here, but I got tired of being the windoze adming for the family and friends and for some time now I've been saying something along the lines "sorry, it's been years since I touched Microsoft and thesedays I wouldn't know where to begin to sort your problems. Let me set up a linux for ya and I'll promise I'll help you with as much as is needed."
I agree completely. Not getting spam with inactive accounts is like hollering that event a default install of win95 can be virus free by simply not connecting it to the great-wide-open.
Being openly active implies spam. Dealing with it is another issue, and frankly from a geek perspective that is the issue. Effective filters have reduced my spam down all the way to less than ten false negatives a week, which is quite good compared to zero false positives and neglibible effort put into it and the 50ish spams that I would receive every day.
I've been a linux user since 95, work with it, code for living and all that, but...
to go preaching around with it like that? It just sickens me. I mean I go absolutely ballistic with all these jesus-this-jesus-that religious f*ckers. Don't do the same under the linux label, please.
Not to mention, I still don't understand why do we have to assimilate every one of those barely-interested-in-computers to using linux? While admittedly windows still serves them better. My better half has accepted linux, but see it from her that she does it for no other reason than me. And I can only imagine what people like her would think after receiving a freaking live cd for xmas. What some of you guys fail to understand is that they just dont care. They should, but they wont. I mean, I know I should care about politics, but frankly I don't give a rats ass about that either. Getting a political pamphlet as a xmas card from some "friend" of mine would just tick me, nothing else.
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... but you can't deny that it isn't slower. Atleast when I tried (twice) to open MS site I instantly thought of it to be far too slow to be even considered any kind of start page for anything.
I think they're both lacking. I did a random zoom-in to Riverside from your links and got these two. I hate M$ as much as the next guy, but fair's fair.
Harsh, stupid, and ineffective. My IP is in a couple of blacklists because my ISP's ISP's ISP has a customer who has a customer that used to send spam, so some ridiculously huge netblock (/16?) is listed because of them.
Abusing the idea of pressuring ISPs with blaclists in shitty manner proves squat. Ofcourse bad blacklisting is bad, but that's totally different from wether the idea works or not. DNS is not blamed for bad dns administration.
Blacklists should really be well administered and equal amount of effors should be put into removing ip blocks from the lists.
But the bottom line for me is that I cannot see any other, even remotly possibly, effective approach against spam. Blacklisting attacks the roots of the problem, i.e. ISP allowing it's customers to send spam (wether they're end users or other ISPs makes little difference). In this day and age I see absolutely no reason for the rest the Net to allow such ISP to send email. Period.
Actual quote I have heard on the subject of spam blacklists: "I don't care that you're not a spammer. Your ISP allows spammers in their midst and therefore you all go on the list. Get a new ISP."
Oh, ok. Nothing like over reacting a bit.
Harsh as it may seem, it also seems to be just about the only affective way to pressure ISP to cut the spam from where it originates. It's a hell of a lot easier to block it there than in the receiving end and the paying customers are just about to only ones that can demand policy changes from their ISPs.
Will it cause some inconveniences? Yes.
But will it lead to less spam driven net? It just might in the long run.
That's a hell of a lot more than any of the other approaches I've heard so far.
"Greasemonkey Primes Firefox For Embarrassment
by Nate L. Root"
*uh*headache*too many jokes*
"Greasemonkey will cause you nothing but headaches, and may even be a good reason to delay that Firefox pilot you're planning"
e ss/etc". Without the fragrance of attempted influence.
It's funny how these so called "researches" are always expressing them like "you better not", "this will happen to you if you use this", they're so anxious to influence the reader that they can't even keep it in.
When more trustworthy reviews always state things like "this piece of sw is buggy/crap/has-poor-design/incompatible-with/usel
To me these imperative "researches" only say that some one has paid for those results and hence the opposite _might_ be worth while.
Apple should've done what the free software people have done for years, i.e. name the releases with names even the authors have no fecking idea what they mean.
I am not a lawyer, but I can see Tiger Direct's point here. Tiger Direct certainly isn't guaranteed a position in the search engines, but it's reasonable to argue that if another company in the same sector (computer sales) infringes on a trademark they claim, hurting their search ranking in the process, then they've been injured by trademark infringement.
Few points:
- to be found easily from the search engines they cleverly chose the name "tiger" ?!
- using "tiger direct" gives them top results on most engines, and rightfully so they're not on the top with mere tiger.
- imho, one shouldn't be able to trademark such generic names. ffs, they're not nearly the first ones to use the name "tiger" with computers.
- this sueing industry of the us is something I sincerely hope stays in the us.
Heh, that's the equivalent of weaking a "kick me" piece of paper on your back in high school when it comes to the /. effect.
Microsoft has indicated that they want to see the rules changed, because they believe that the rules are broken. Again, as long as the rules remain unchanged, Microsoft has no choice but to play by them; it would be foolish not to.
Ethics?
sha1 and md5 are generally considered so weak that they should only be used to combat error or accidents, not fraud.
:(
/dev/random and /dev/urandom... not that this weak collision will have didley effect on it's security, but still.
Not true. SHA-1 is the hashing algorithm of practically all common security standards. It's found in SSL/TLS, X.509, PGP (the protocol, not the program, so that means GPG also!), S/MIME, etc. In other words... everything. Replacing this is going to suck.
So true. Even the kernel uses that in it's random pools that provide
Open Source, freedom, et al != technical superiority.
Technical superiority is not nearly as essential as freedom. Having technical superiority without freedom is somewhat like having sex with a fabulous gal... by forcing yourself on her.
A lot of guys already do this - they pay to see ESPN -it's considered dominant males by those who watch it.
Personally, I think most sports fans are a little "gay". They'd rather watch a bunch of sweaty guys jumping all over eachother, than, say fashion TV - where hot models walk down the runway.
Insightfull start but why did you flush it down the toilet with nimwit remark. It even counters your starts.
There are some of the worlds best developers working for Microsoft.
Being employed by Microsoft is something I would've bought, but as in doing what they know best I beg to differ. Thenagain, with all the evidence so far I'm guessing they must now also be the world's best tetris players.
"Americans love trivia. From the bookish facts of Jeopardy! to the daily dose of ESPN Sportscenter, trivia is as much a part of our pop culture as hot rods or baseball."
:
:
From the wannabe-clever dept.
Quiz shows are history. Now it's all reality tv, baby.
From the bush-hating-rest-of-the-world dept.
How can a nation that knows so little claim to love trivia?
He meant the Flash application used to create the flash files, not just mere viewing. My mobile can view flash animations.
That'sa big fat clue that the hardware (which is what they claim to be selling) isn't really doing the work. Effectively, they're selling a WinVideo card and denying it. If the hardware was doing the work, the API would be reduced to a set of obvious verbs that they wouldn't have to care about releasing.
That's a very interesting notion. However, I'm can't help but wonder what exactly it is that they're letting the cpu do.
But yes, it would be very interesting to see benchmarks on those driver upgrades on low end cpus.
Most people will still think of it as an enhancement because it makes the games run faster.
I beg to differ. The interface structures alone would give away certain design choices regarding the driver hw interface.
Also worth note is that they provide not just the kernel module, but the entire opengl library that interfaces with the card. That's not a small piece of code by any standard.
Besides why would they even release functional unoptimized code when some parties have problems releasing functional code (e.g. Ati's linux drivers).
From their perspective I think it makes absolutely no sense to reveal anything to their comptetitors.
But you're dead on about one thing. If enough people weren't happy using their proprietary stuff they'd come up with some, possibly unoptimized, set of open drivers the very next day. Actually, I'd be surprised if they already hadn't prepared for that.
At the end of the day, atleast today, the bottom line is that the market is in M$ land, in which the hell will freeze before they release open source drivers.
Having just bought a GeForce 6800 GT for 430 euros (some $560) solely for Doom3 makes the $400 for xbox2 seem, eh, tolerable. :)
The reason hardware vendors don't want to release the source code is they (rightly or wrongly) think that with the source code, their chip can be reverse engineered and some fly-by-night company is going to copycat their product and cause them to lose sales. Same reason Nvidia and ATI only release binary drivers for their video cards.
I can't say that I disagree with you, but I think the reason behind Nvidia or Ati not releasing is not just the fear of reverse engineering. They both have a lot innovation and expertise there. 3D drivers are a bit more complex than just simple wireless nic hw interfaces. Nvidia improving performance by mere driver upgrades by tens of percents on occasions is something they sure as hell don't want Ati to know the details about.
I don't the linux market for 3D cards has jack to do with it either. They both most likely have the almost exact code in their windows drivers and that's the source they don't to release.
Bullshit. Linux is especially great if you have a low end machine. Naturally you can't fit a top notch distro there with all the bells and whistles, but heck, you couldn't even dream running XP with office 2k in there either.
I have RH9 with enlightenment as a wm of choice on my p2 laptop with 128Mb ram without any problems. RH 7.3 would probably be a better fit, but mere upgrade to RH9 or even all the way to FC3 wouldn't increase the size that much. It's the choice of apps that makes the difference.
Moreover there are tinier distros, like feather linux et al, that don't suffer from being outdated, they're just simply smaller.
Perhaps geeks helping family and friends set up their new computers this holiday can make use of this resource
Or perhaps geeks helping family and friends will set up linux distros instead and head over to sourceforge, just to name one good place for solid gpl stuff.
Not trying flame here, but I got tired of being the windoze adming for the family and friends and for some time now I've been saying something along the lines "sorry, it's been years since I touched Microsoft and thesedays I wouldn't know where to begin to sort your problems. Let me set up a linux for ya and I'll promise I'll help you with as much as is needed."
I agree completely. Not getting spam with inactive accounts is like hollering that event a default install of win95 can be virus free by simply not connecting it to the great-wide-open.
Being openly active implies spam. Dealing with it is another issue, and frankly from a geek perspective that is the issue. Effective filters have reduced my spam down all the way to less than ten false negatives a week, which is quite good compared to zero false positives and neglibible effort put into it and the 50ish spams that I would receive every day.
ioccc.org reports that visitors to their site would appear to be more likely programming oriented people rather than management or marketing folk.
What's this world coming to? What next? kernel.org reporting linux to be the #1 OS?
I've been a linux user since 95, work with it, code for living and all that, but ...
to go preaching around with it like that? It just sickens me. I mean I go absolutely ballistic with all these jesus-this-jesus-that religious f*ckers. Don't do the same under the linux label, please.
Not to mention, I still don't understand why do we have to assimilate every one of those barely-interested-in-computers to using linux? While admittedly windows still serves them better. My better half has accepted linux, but see it from her that she does it for no other reason than me. And I can only imagine what people like her would think after receiving a freaking live cd for xmas. What some of you guys fail to understand is that they just dont care. They should, but they wont. I mean, I know I should care about politics, but frankly I don't give a rats ass about that either. Getting a political pamphlet as a xmas card from some "friend" of mine would just tick me, nothing else.