You can't legally volunteer to help a for-profit corporation. And for IT staff, there is a minimum amount you have to pay them (well above minimum wage; don't worry). -russ p.s. R0ML says that this is why he couldn't get a carrier-grade accounting system turned into open source.
Paul Ehrlich was predicting that people would be dying by the millions, and that we would be running out of many mineral resources. You dismiss the parent poster's evidence... just as he predicted you would. -russ
That's not a dictionary attack, then. They're just shovelling email at you in the hopes that you'll deliver it. I'll bet that if you dump the smtp sessions, they're just sending email to user1@, user2@, user3@, etc, and ignoring the result codes. You'll have the same problem if you switch to another SMTP server. -russ
Yes. It's not rubbish. Rediffmail is using it on their mail service and they have 25,000,000 users.
Operationally, however, there are HUGE holes in his code.
Your bullet points are numbered, but this one doesn't deserve a number, since it simply says that you have a non-zero number of bullet points.
#2 qmail accepts all mail first, THEN generates bounce messages internally.
Yes, it does. Why tell remote attackers which email addresses are valid and which are not? You're just inviting dictionary attacks. Qmail users never complain about dictionary attacks because they're never subjected to them.
#3 the qmail queue processes choke up on any amount of moderate to high load,
This is the silly qmail syndrome. You can either provision more servers or apply a patch.
#4 DJB arrogantly states that all servers should be running in GMT time because that makes more sense when trying to figure out logfiles. Hello?! ALL MY USERS ARE IN JAPAN. They don't care about the rest of the world.
And you call djb arrogant?
#5 The log files are barely readable. It is almost impossible to actually track what happened to a particular delivery.
Obviously you never discovered qmailanalog.
#6 Want spam/virus scanning? Forget it! You'll have to patch the code!
Well, this one is simply wrong. There are any number of qmail-queue replacements which don't require any patching.
#7 Want LDAP support? Forget it! You need to patch it!
Well, qmail-ldap certainly patches a whole hell of a lot of code, however, it also does boat-loads more than simply supply an ldap interface. Contrary to what you say, I managed to write an LDAP interface for a customer without having to patch qmail. LDAP, on the other hand, is generally a piece of crap, but that's another topic.
#8 Want to fix any problem operationally with qmail? FORGET IT! IT NEEDS TO BE PATCHED!
How else do you fix software? When you were a child did you walk to school uphill both ways?
Sorry, I have a lot of pent up hatred for DJB and qmail. Anyone who says he is a good developer needs to actually USE his software in a real environment, in the real world,
I have, and qmail works just fine for me and my customers.
We're already making a "ZigBee" module, called the WISAN. $60 Q1, $30 Q100. Four-layer board, plugs into a two-layer board with your circuitry on it. -russ
That's what we're doing. Ignore Zigbee and stay within 802.15.4. Sooner or later they'll notice that nobody is using Zigbee and they'll open up their spec. -russ
The climate is always changing. Sometimes it gets warmer and sometimes it gets colder. What is controversial here is 1) should we attempt to stop changing the climate if that is indeed what is happening, or 2) save our resources for adapting to the inevitable change?
If you think 1) is correct, then you worship Kyoto as the God that will Save Mankind (nevermind the fact that if the predictions are correct, and they are not likely to be, that Kyoto is only intended to reduce the INCREASE IN CO2 emissions by less than 10%).
Kyoto will do nothing to actually save us, but it WILL cause a huge amount of resources to be consumed. Somehow, environmentalists think that consuming resources to no good result is good IFF the intentions are good. You see this all the time. That's because environmentalism is a religion, and has nothing to do with science. -russ
Nobody forces you to redistribute your modifications, just as nobody forces you to use the code. If, on the other hand, you *choose* to use GPLed code, then you have to pay for that right by giving up the right to keep your code a secret. -russ
You could do what Keith Packard did when he went to work for HP's Cambridge Research Lab: he said up-front "I will only work for you if all my code is open source." -russ
I only worked for a government once. It was in the Nassau County (NY) sign shop. We were paid to be there from 6:45 to 3:45, and we worked from 7:30 to 3:00 with a very generous lunch hour... or two. If I didn't finish at least one SF novel a day, it was a hard-working day. Why, sometimes I even broke out into a sweat. -russ
And Buddhists are worse than Mormons, Scientologists, or Jehovah's Witnesses? I can't recall the last time a Buddhist knocked on my door trying to save my soul from reincarnation as a worm, a bird, or some other lower form of life like, say, you.
Actually, an Indian engineer gets about $20K starting salary. Given the prices of things in India, that's about the equivalent of a $50K salary. You can't buy a hummer on that salary, but you wouldn't WANT one in Indian city traffic. My friend Sumit has a tiny little car, and even so, one of us had to get out to STOP TRAFFIC so we could get through.
Well, no, there are busses that run on the RUF, and there's no reason why you couldn't have companies that owned fleets of cars to serve as automatically-driven taxicabs.
The other thing about the RUF is that it scales in the same manner as the Internet, because each car finds out about congestion, and seeks its own path just like packets in routers. Whereas with the SkyWeb system, you have a central computer running things. What if it fails, or communication to it fails? -russ
I was there in 1999 during the taxi drivers strike, and lo and behold, with no taxis on the road, the smog was gone and the air was clear. No, it's not just the smell, although the smell is, whoa, makes you wonder how a hotel can get a five-star rating. -russ
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You can't legally volunteer to help a for-profit corporation. And for IT staff, there is a minimum amount you have to pay them (well above minimum wage; don't worry).
-russ
p.s. R0ML says that this is why he couldn't get a carrier-grade accounting system turned into open source.
You sound like a kook yourself. You keep repeating the same URLs and the same information, as if repetition created truth. It doesn't.
-russ
Paul Ehrlich was predicting that people would be dying by the millions, and that we would be running out of many mineral resources. You dismiss the parent poster's evidence ... just as he predicted you would.
-russ
That's not a dictionary attack, then. They're just shovelling email at you in the hopes that you'll deliver it. I'll bet that if you dump the smtp sessions, they're just sending email to user1@, user2@, user3@, etc, and ignoring the result codes. You'll have the same problem if you switch to another SMTP server.
-russ
Boy this article seems familiar? Didn't I already flame somebody for saying something stupid about this book? Probably. Remember:
We tried that already. Didn't work.
-russ
Have you ever actually worked with qmail?
Yes. It's not rubbish. Rediffmail is using it on their mail service and they have 25,000,000 users.
Operationally, however, there are HUGE holes in his code.
Your bullet points are numbered, but this one doesn't deserve a number, since it simply says that you have a non-zero number of bullet points.
#2 qmail accepts all mail first, THEN generates bounce messages internally.
Yes, it does. Why tell remote attackers which email addresses are valid and which are not? You're just inviting dictionary attacks. Qmail users never complain about dictionary attacks because they're never subjected to them.
#3 the qmail queue processes choke up on any amount of moderate to high load,
This is the silly qmail syndrome. You can either provision more servers or apply a patch.
#4 DJB arrogantly states that all servers should be running in GMT time because that makes more sense when trying to figure out logfiles. Hello?! ALL MY USERS ARE IN JAPAN. They don't care about the rest of the world.
And you call djb arrogant?
#5 The log files are barely readable. It is almost impossible to actually track what happened to a particular delivery.
Obviously you never discovered qmailanalog.
#6 Want spam/virus scanning? Forget it! You'll have to patch the code!
Well, this one is simply wrong. There are any number of qmail-queue replacements which don't require any patching.
#7 Want LDAP support? Forget it! You need to patch it!
Well, qmail-ldap certainly patches a whole hell of a lot of code, however, it also does boat-loads more than simply supply an ldap interface. Contrary to what you say, I managed to write an LDAP interface for a customer without having to patch qmail. LDAP, on the other hand, is generally a piece of crap, but that's another topic.
#8 Want to fix any problem operationally with qmail? FORGET IT! IT NEEDS TO BE PATCHED!
How else do you fix software? When you were a child did you walk to school uphill both ways?
Sorry, I have a lot of pent up hatred for DJB and qmail. Anyone who says he is a good developer needs to actually USE his software in a real environment, in the real world,
I have, and qmail works just fine for me and my customers.
No, but that's a good suggestion. Thanks!
-russ
We're already making a "ZigBee" module, called the WISAN. $60 Q1, $30 Q100. Four-layer board, plugs into a two-layer board with your circuitry on it.
-russ
That's what we're doing. Ignore Zigbee and stay within 802.15.4. Sooner or later they'll notice that nobody is using Zigbee and they'll open up their spec.
-russ
Yes, that's a bit of a problem. We're sticking to the IEEE 802.15.4 layers of Zigbee.
-russ
Big in phones??? Why?
-russ
The climate is always changing. Sometimes it gets warmer and sometimes it gets colder. What is controversial here is 1) should we attempt to stop changing the climate if that is indeed what is happening, or 2) save our resources for adapting to the inevitable change?
If you think 1) is correct, then you worship Kyoto as the God that will Save Mankind (nevermind the fact that if the predictions are correct, and they are not likely to be, that Kyoto is only intended to reduce the INCREASE IN CO2 emissions by less than 10%).
Kyoto will do nothing to actually save us, but it WILL cause a huge amount of resources to be consumed. Somehow, environmentalists think that consuming resources to no good result is good IFF the intentions are good. You see this all the time. That's because environmentalism is a religion, and has nothing to do with science.
-russ
Nobody forces you to redistribute your modifications, just as nobody forces you to use the code. If, on the other hand, you *choose* to use GPLed code, then you have to pay for that right by giving up the right to keep your code a secret.
-russ
Indeed, yes.
-russ
You could do what Keith Packard did when he went to work for HP's Cambridge Research Lab: he said up-front "I will only work for you if all my code is open source."
-russ
I only worked for a government once. It was in the Nassau County (NY) sign shop. We were paid to be there from 6:45 to 3:45, and we worked from 7:30 to 3:00 with a very generous lunch hour ... or two. If I didn't finish at least one SF novel a day, it was a hard-working day. Why, sometimes I even broke out into a sweat.
-russ
And Buddhists are worse than Mormons, Scientologists, or Jehovah's Witnesses? I can't recall the last time a Buddhist knocked on my door trying to save my soul from reincarnation as a worm, a bird, or some other lower form of life like, say, you.
Actually, an Indian engineer gets about $20K starting salary. Given the prices of things in India, that's about the equivalent of a $50K salary. You can't buy a hummer on that salary, but you wouldn't WANT one in Indian city traffic. My friend Sumit has a tiny little car, and even so, one of us had to get out to STOP TRAFFIC so we could get through.
That's Bangalore. Go to Mumbai and say that.
-russ
Hey, I know! Let's post a story about India just before all the Indians go to bed!
-russ
This is the Definitive Complete Ultimate comment on this story. Moderators: you can now mark all other comments Redundant.
-russ
That's why you want to use a RUF. It only needs a small set of batteries, because the guideway powers the car on trips longer than ten miles.
-russ
No, it's not about the batteries. You need a road that charges your car, so you only use batteries when you're off that special road.
-russ
Well, no, there are busses that run on the RUF, and there's no reason why you couldn't have companies that owned fleets of cars to serve as automatically-driven taxicabs.
The other thing about the RUF is that it scales in the same manner as the Internet, because each car finds out about congestion, and seeks its own path just like packets in routers. Whereas with the SkyWeb system, you have a central computer running things. What if it fails, or communication to it fails?
-russ
I was there in 1999 during the taxi drivers strike, and lo and behold, with no taxis on the road, the smog was gone and the air was clear. No, it's not just the smell, although the smell is, whoa, makes you wonder how a hotel can get a five-star rating.
-russ