Spammers are having their zombies dig through the windows configurations to find the owners email relay and using that to send their spam.
In other words, greylisting makes zombies relay spam through their ISP, forcing said ISPs to deal with the problem to keep their mailserver from being both overwhelmed and added to every DNS RBL in existence. In what possible way is this not a Good Thing?
I also do a very quick check on a few sender domains such as yahoo.com A "from" yahoo.com must be from a machine with.yahoo.com. If not, it is rejected.
If by that you mean that you're using SPF or similar, that's a great idea. If it means that you wrote your own code that does something like "if fromdomain != helodomain: reject()", then your system is pathologically broken and needs to be updated.
I wrote basically the same article a year ago for Free Software Magazine. We've been using this setup at my office for the last year, and it's been working perfectly - to the point that an upset coworker told me yesterday that she's received four spams last week and wondered if something was wrong.
My computer architecture class textbook was based on MIPS, and after messing around with 68k and x86 assembler for years, its assembler was like a breath of fresh air. It had a truly elegant design, or so I thought, and it's a shame to see it die.
Alpha, MIPS, and others - where are you now? x86-2^x is pretty much all that's left for general-purpose programming these days (although Sun might have something to say about that), and that's too bad. Kind of like how you can't be a great programmer without ever having seen Lisp, you can't be a great chip designer without ever having known something that doesn't run IA32 code.
the wii, I'm an anti-nintendo guy, I don't like kiddy games (it's a generalisation I know there's a few normal ones) and heck I'm a tech geek, so it's underpowered for me - the controller is a gimmick and they focus primarily on party / mp games whereas I'm a single player gamer who likes storyline.
If it's half as much fun as the DS, they've got a winner. I'd forgotten that I was a gamer until I got a DS and a few games like Advance Wars Dual Strike, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, etc. Nintendo definitely provides a lot of kid-friendly games, but their adult content is absolutely top-notch.
Yes, but you have to provide your own MOTAS. If most Slashdotters were capable of having non-prison "conjugal visits" in the first place, they wouldn't have time to get in trouble. Well, they could hypothetically get into a different kind of "trouble", God help us all.
Critical Infrastructure Component "A" that you've been using is being replaced by "B", and you've come to the conclusion that "B" is wholly unsatisfactory for your needs. Do you:
Find replacement part series "C" and "D" that you believe will work better for you than "B", bite the bullet, and start integrating them into your system, or
Hang on to "A" until the bitter end, knowing full well that none of your other vendors will keep making things that work with it, and that any new work you do on that system only makes the inevitable migration more painful.
You seem to advocate the latter. As for me, I hate being locked into dead ends, particularly when my career hangs on it. If you know that you'll have to eventually make the switch, you're part of the 99% of the population for whom migration costs increase over time (because you have more data and applications to update), and there's no compelling reasons why you can't start today, then why not?
I haven't decided whether to switch to Linux or OSX (I'm a professional web developer, and the GIMP and VIM just don't cut it), but I will NOT be installing Vista!
Do you have to decide right away? Why not download a bootable Linux CD and see if you like using it. If you do, install it on your hard drive and you're up and running. If you don't like it, then go ahead and get a Mac (and see if you can talk your dealer into a short "test drive" just to be sure - ours did).
cdrkit will be a welcome addition to FreeBSD's ports system as well.
Roger that. I'd love to be able to use k3b to master and burn CDs, but it uses cdrecord as its backend and I've never been able to get that to work right with my IDE burner. Here's to hoping that the new maintainers can get the native-IDE code working so that I can finally burn a CD without re-reading the burncd manpage for the hundredth time.
Young people like myself are just told to accept that car insurance is going to be higher for us simply because we're young.
You've never been told that. What you've been told is that your rates are higher because people in your demographic have higher average claims per customer than do other groups.
I pay triple the car insurance my senile grandmother does despite the fact that I've never so much as gotten a parking ticket.
You haven't, but other people your age have had disproportionally more. Insurance companies are very competitive, and if one could underwrite the youth market at a substantial discount and still make a profit, they would. The fact that none have says a lot.
I am also installing my own DNS server as soon as I've finished other stuff that's in the queue right now.
You might bump that up a bit. Configuring a local caching DNS server is pretty darn simple these days, and if you're running a BSD, you almost certainly already have one installed.
I had a cross boston terrier and boxer once, looked a LOT like pitbull. Was a bit dim, but the nicest dog that ever lived, she cured a few people of their fear of dogs.
Nice. I had a friend with a boxer. While it was intimidating at first, as soon as I sat down on the couch, the dog laid its giant head on my lap and nuzzled my hand until I rubbed in front of its ears. After that, I couldn't go anywhere in that house without a tail-wagging, nuzzling dog following me around.
What I want is a liscense for dog-owners, not for dogs. You should prove you are responsible enough to have a dog before being entrusted with the care of a living, feeling animal with the ability to kill large mammals and humans with ease.
I could go along with that. I've known otherwise nice people who treat their animals in ways they'd never treat their kids. Pets aren't just large pieces of mobile decoration, but living creatures that need to be cared for and loved. People who can't commit to that ought not to ever have one.
It is common knowledge however, that the Pit Bull breed was developed for blood sports: Bull baiting, bear baiting, and later, dogfighting.
It is also common knowledge that weiner dogs were bred for hunting badgers, but now people keep them as (uncontroversial) house pets. What was your point?
It's not often that I have cause to say this, but: you're a moron.
Pit Bulls are popularly trained to fight because they're large, strong dogs, not because they're inherently vicious. Any dog of any breed can be made nice or mean.
I used to own a German Shepherd Dog that could easily bite your arm off, but she thought she was a little lapdog and would roll over for a tummy-scratching if she saw you looking at her. I've also had a neighbor with a Pomeranian that would bite the crap out of your leg if it had the chance. "Man Bitten By Toy Dog" doesn't make the headlines, though, because the subheading of "Man Reacts By Punting It Into Street" takes away the dramatic impact.
Your neighbor was a scummy person who raised his dog to fight, and yet you're holding it against the breed? Honestly, that's the animal kingdom equivalent of rounding up all the African Americans because some of them commit crimes.
For what it's worth, I own two Malteses and a Boston Terrier. Your stupid proposal wouldn't affect me one bit, but you're still not going to get my support.
Child porn is the vilest of the vile. I thought that before I became a parent, and I'm doubly certain of that now.
However.
How could you possibly illegalize simulated child porn in the form of two young-looking adults of legal age? Forget what it looks like; it's still two adults doing their thing. Maybe it fuels pedophiles, but so do food and air.
Why cant they just make an iPod phone? 90% of college kids would buy them.
Wired had a good print article on that a few months ago. Summary: you have to get a cell carrier to distribute the phones, and none of them want to let you upload music to your phone for free instead of making you pay to send it through their data network.
Or to put it a third way, is there any situation where swapping is helpful, anymore?
Absolutely. We have a server that processes images uploaded by our customers. It has 4GB of RAM, which is plenty for 99.9% of the workload. Every now and then, though, someone will send a really huge image our way. In those cases, we'd much rather throw some swap at the problem - even if it temporarily degrades performance a bit - than tell that customer that we can't process their work.
Swap isn't for normal circumstances. It's for the unusual situations that you can't really plan for in advance, and is the differences between doing a job more slowly than usual and not being able to do it at all.
The kernel's VM paging algorithms are tuned to perform best when there is at least 2x swap versus main memory. Configuring too little swap can lead to inefficiencies in the VM page scanning code as well as create issues later on if you add more memory to your machine.
Disk is always far cheaper and more plentiful than memory. If you have four gigs of memory, what's wrong with carving eight gigs of swap out of your terrabyte RAID? If you have that much memory in the first place, then you're probably running large apps. Do you and them a favor and give them a little breathing room.
All data which has been produced by me personally is backed up to a (raid 5) computer at my parent's house every night with rsync over ssh.
You misspelled "synchronized". RAID != backup. What happens when you accidentally garble "Doctoral Thesis.odt" and automatically overwrite your only other copy with the new version?
what would the slashdot crowd recommend for other must-have DS (Lite) titles that'll show off the thing?
I'd been addicted to Animal Crossing: Wild World for several months, even though it's completely unlike anything I'd normally play (or admit to playing). I finally broke that streak by discovering Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. At first glance, it's a cheesy 2-d platformer with so-so graphics, in much the same way that Nethack is just a bunch of ASCII characters. It's incredibly fun and deep - far more than I would have ever expected from the screenshots. If you like platformers at all, you have to get this one.
Second, how many times will you buy OS X in between releases of Windows?
Since when did having the option to upgrade count as a negative? The fact that one OS has stagnated for nearly five years shouldn't be held against more responsive vendors.
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Was it because your grandparents lived in Vermont? Come on - don't leave us in suspense!
In other words, greylisting makes zombies relay spam through their ISP, forcing said ISPs to deal with the problem to keep their mailserver from being both overwhelmed and added to every DNS RBL in existence. In what possible way is this not a Good Thing?
If by that you mean that you're using SPF or similar, that's a great idea. If it means that you wrote your own code that does something like "if fromdomain != helodomain: reject()", then your system is pathologically broken and needs to be updated.
I wrote basically the same article a year ago for Free Software Magazine. We've been using this setup at my office for the last year, and it's been working perfectly - to the point that an upset coworker told me yesterday that she's received four spams last week and wondered if something was wrong.
Alpha, MIPS, and others - where are you now? x86-2^x is pretty much all that's left for general-purpose programming these days (although Sun might have something to say about that), and that's too bad. Kind of like how you can't be a great programmer without ever having seen Lisp, you can't be a great chip designer without ever having known something that doesn't run IA32 code.
If it's half as much fun as the DS, they've got a winner. I'd forgotten that I was a gamer until I got a DS and a few games like Advance Wars Dual Strike, Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, etc. Nintendo definitely provides a lot of kid-friendly games, but their adult content is absolutely top-notch.
Yes, but you have to provide your own MOTAS. If most Slashdotters were capable of having non-prison "conjugal visits" in the first place, they wouldn't have time to get in trouble. Well, they could hypothetically get into a different kind of "trouble", God help us all.
You seem to advocate the latter. As for me, I hate being locked into dead ends, particularly when my career hangs on it. If you know that you'll have to eventually make the switch, you're part of the 99% of the population for whom migration costs increase over time (because you have more data and applications to update), and there's no compelling reasons why you can't start today, then why not?
Do you have to decide right away? Why not download a bootable Linux CD and see if you like using it. If you do, install it on your hard drive and you're up and running. If you don't like it, then go ahead and get a Mac (and see if you can talk your dealer into a short "test drive" just to be sure - ours did).
Such as the fact that he doesn't prune the comment spam:
Roger that. I'd love to be able to use k3b to master and burn CDs, but it uses cdrecord as its backend and I've never been able to get that to work right with my IDE burner. Here's to hoping that the new maintainers can get the native-IDE code working so that I can finally burn a CD without re-reading the burncd manpage for the hundredth time.
You've never been told that. What you've been told is that your rates are higher because people in your demographic have higher average claims per customer than do other groups.
You haven't, but other people your age have had disproportionally more. Insurance companies are very competitive, and if one could underwrite the youth market at a substantial discount and still make a profit, they would. The fact that none have says a lot.
You might bump that up a bit. Configuring a local caching DNS server is pretty darn simple these days, and if you're running a BSD, you almost certainly already have one installed.
If only there were some sort of way to intelligently cache the content that users really wanted to access...
OpenBSD is a lot more portable than most people think. That's not its primary focus, but definitely one of their stated goals:
Nice. I had a friend with a boxer. While it was intimidating at first, as soon as I sat down on the couch, the dog laid its giant head on my lap and nuzzled my hand until I rubbed in front of its ears. After that, I couldn't go anywhere in that house without a tail-wagging, nuzzling dog following me around.
I could go along with that. I've known otherwise nice people who treat their animals in ways they'd never treat their kids. Pets aren't just large pieces of mobile decoration, but living creatures that need to be cared for and loved. People who can't commit to that ought not to ever have one.
It is also common knowledge that weiner dogs were bred for hunting badgers, but now people keep them as (uncontroversial) house pets. What was your point?
Pit Bulls are popularly trained to fight because they're large, strong dogs, not because they're inherently vicious. Any dog of any breed can be made nice or mean. I used to own a German Shepherd Dog that could easily bite your arm off, but she thought she was a little lapdog and would roll over for a tummy-scratching if she saw you looking at her. I've also had a neighbor with a Pomeranian that would bite the crap out of your leg if it had the chance. "Man Bitten By Toy Dog" doesn't make the headlines, though, because the subheading of "Man Reacts By Punting It Into Street" takes away the dramatic impact.
Your neighbor was a scummy person who raised his dog to fight, and yet you're holding it against the breed? Honestly, that's the animal kingdom equivalent of rounding up all the African Americans because some of them commit crimes.
For what it's worth, I own two Malteses and a Boston Terrier. Your stupid proposal wouldn't affect me one bit, but you're still not going to get my support.
However.
How could you possibly illegalize simulated child porn in the form of two young-looking adults of legal age? Forget what it looks like; it's still two adults doing their thing. Maybe it fuels pedophiles, but so do food and air.
Wired had a good print article on that a few months ago. Summary: you have to get a cell carrier to distribute the phones, and none of them want to let you upload music to your phone for free instead of making you pay to send it through their data network.
Absolutely. We have a server that processes images uploaded by our customers. It has 4GB of RAM, which is plenty for 99.9% of the workload. Every now and then, though, someone will send a really huge image our way. In those cases, we'd much rather throw some swap at the problem - even if it temporarily degrades performance a bit - than tell that customer that we can't process their work.
Swap isn't for normal circumstances. It's for the unusual situations that you can't really plan for in advance, and is the differences between doing a job more slowly than usual and not being able to do it at all.
Disk is always far cheaper and more plentiful than memory. If you have four gigs of memory, what's wrong with carving eight gigs of swap out of your terrabyte RAID? If you have that much memory in the first place, then you're probably running large apps. Do you and them a favor and give them a little breathing room.
You misspelled "synchronized". RAID != backup. What happens when you accidentally garble "Doctoral Thesis.odt" and automatically overwrite your only other copy with the new version?
I'd been addicted to Animal Crossing: Wild World for several months, even though it's completely unlike anything I'd normally play (or admit to playing). I finally broke that streak by discovering Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow. At first glance, it's a cheesy 2-d platformer with so-so graphics, in much the same way that Nethack is just a bunch of ASCII characters. It's incredibly fun and deep - far more than I would have ever expected from the screenshots. If you like platformers at all, you have to get this one.
Since when did having the option to upgrade count as a negative? The fact that one OS has stagnated for nearly five years shouldn't be held against more responsive vendors.