that is the kind of sci fi i like best, the one that make you feel there or want to be there.
Reading Hyperion, i.e. I was each one of the characters it it own time, even when each one were very different from the others. Also the universe itself was very believable, and with special attention to the details. Maybe is not the most peaceful future universe available (a religion based in an Alien-like monster?;) but was credible.
Of course, the best universe in scifi (? at least it touches a lot of scifi topics, in its own way) is Discworld
I doubt anything will really change and i don't really see the great big problem. I get tonnes of spam and i spend (at most) a minute a day deleting it. I *really* don't care.
Maybe you are waiting that spammers get a plane and crash it against 2 large buildings so Bush declares war against spam.
A better way to implement white lists is TMDA. If it don't know the one that is sending the mail, it automatically sends an email asking for a confirmation, so that defeats most spammers and gives normal people the opportunity to not be ignored by a plain white list scheme.
Spam blocking makes email unreliable. The way it is implemented is generally broad-brush and affects a lot more than just blocking some spam.
Don't forget that what do SBL is not blocking itself, is a way to telling mail administrators and users that that whole provider is very spam friendly, that there are big probabilities that comes spam from there. As an administrator, you can decide to use that info to not accept mail coming from there, or add some amount to an score to see with other criterias if the mail from there is blocked, ignore it, or whatever you want, but is not exactly SBL that do the blocking, is your choice.
If you have a request from your users to stop or minimize all you can, at risk of losing some mails, well, then you can block using SBL, or like others, ban china/korea/etc from the range of accepted sources from mail, or apply some more alternatives to prevent most of the spam coming.
Ok, you can say that it is unfair, but users can change providers if one of them is very spam friendly. And for me would be unfair to declare the net or email PG-17 because all of sexually explicit spam young childrens will get if noone block that kind of things
It simply keeps running. You run an application, it works, install packages, play games, whatever, it still running, no funny blue screen, no exciting "and now what?", no funny 3 finger salute, no data corruption, no halt, no freeze, no crash.
With windows, in the other hand, you don't know for sure what will happen next, it will explode?, will corrupt all your data? what will be the next trojan/virus/worm in my computer? My wife will receive my letter for my lover?
More than this, is even funnier when you have critical data under windows, is like bungee jumping, adrenaline running in your blood, sleeping with an eye open, or, at least, being completely irresponsible for what will happen. It's great!
Why so much interest in prequels, explaining all that was left to the imagination of the readers, when the original series have a wide space for sequels, specially when the 6th original Dune book ends with an open question that is not answered because Frank Herbert died.
Of course, quality went down as the serie continues, so a 7th Dune book could be horrible, maybe even comparable with the prequels,
Akenathon Gates went in a trip to the past to hunt dinosaurs. It missed and hit the wrong dinossaur with the Riffle Mummifier (Windows inside) and left it there without telling anyone. When they went back to the present, well, you know, the Twin Piramids that resisted the planes transformed in the Twin Towers that not, we lost the time travel and all memory of that great time line.
The last thing I knew about Akenathon is that he changed his name to William and lives near Redmond.
Knowing the amount of spam coming from there, maybe are a lot of spammers spreading virus in china. Maybe (I hope) someone think that is time to take extreme measures on spammers because of this
All right, so open source is used more for web serving and penguin downhill racing simulators. Anything else?
Most of internet infrastructure is open source based, not only web serving, think in DNS (bind most used DNS server, by far) or mail serving (sendmail, qmail, postfix are used by more than 50% of the mail servers, and probably each one of them is more used alone than the most sucessful closed source counterpart).
Probably in the next weeks or next month will be available an FTP version (without the commercial software). You can mirror that tree and install from another disk or an ftp/nfs server in your network,
Also should be available in any moment in the ftp server of SuSE the Live-eval CD, you can't install it but at least can try it running from the CD.
But there is no free installable ISOs for SuSE since 7.0 or so. You must buy it to install it.
With enough widespreading and enough no-clues users, you can suppose that a lot of really old virus are around (at least, the ones without timebombs or that break things enough to not working at all after a lot of time). so probably can still be found active boot infectors in old PCs and floppys, in example.
But still widely replicating by email, well, at least I still receiving hybris every week.
As a SuSE user, I see that new package manager as a step forward, it solves a lot of problems that I had with previous versions, add a lot desired features, and at least for me seems that will make things easier.
For the usabilty point of view, well, I think no package manager yet scores perfect, but anyway is too much noise for screenshots that could be intended to show how powerful can be that new version.
If your definition of what is needed is "everything Exchange/Outlook/whatever do" or some rewriting of this, then maybe never, would be like Zenon trying to reach the turtle. By the time you reach what exchange do they already changed it, even if they do it at turtle's speed.
But if you try cleanly to see what you can have now, and realize how useful is it, then you already can do the switch. Maybe what it gives you is not exactly the same that exchange do, but in its own way could be even better.
I.e. some time ago I was arguing with a friend on switching to Twig, in example, you have mail, calendar, groups, access from everything because is web based (a branch have even a wap module), and because it is based in imap, sql, sendmail, etc, you don't need to only rely on it as the only way to access mail, appointments, etc.
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that is the kind of sci fi i like best, the one that make you feel there or want to be there.
;) but was credible.
Reading Hyperion, i.e. I was each one of the characters it it own time, even when each one were very different from the others. Also the universe itself was very believable, and with special attention to the details. Maybe is not the most peaceful future universe available (a religion based in an Alien-like monster?
Of course, the best universe in scifi (? at least it touches a lot of scifi topics, in its own way) is Discworld
Maybe you are waiting that spammers get a plane and crash it against 2 large buildings so Bush declares war against spam.
A better way to implement white lists is TMDA. If it don't know the one that is sending the mail, it automatically sends an email asking for a confirmation, so that defeats most spammers and gives normal people the opportunity to not be ignored by a plain white list scheme.
Don't forget that what do SBL is not blocking itself, is a way to telling mail administrators and users that that whole provider is very spam friendly, that there are big probabilities that comes spam from there. As an administrator, you can decide to use that info to not accept mail coming from there, or add some amount to an score to see with other criterias if the mail from there is blocked, ignore it, or whatever you want, but is not exactly SBL that do the blocking, is your choice.
If you have a request from your users to stop or minimize all you can, at risk of losing some mails, well, then you can block using SBL, or like others, ban china/korea/etc from the range of accepted sources from mail, or apply some more alternatives to prevent most of the spam coming.
Ok, you can say that it is unfair, but users can change providers if one of them is very spam friendly. And for me would be unfair to declare the net or email PG-17 because all of sexually explicit spam young childrens will get if noone block that kind of things
It simply keeps running. You run an application, it works, install packages, play games, whatever, it still running, no funny blue screen, no exciting "and now what?", no funny 3 finger salute, no data corruption, no halt, no freeze, no crash.
With windows, in the other hand, you don't know for sure what will happen next, it will explode?, will corrupt all your data? what will be the next trojan/virus/worm in my computer? My wife will receive my letter for my lover?
More than this, is even funnier when you have critical data under windows, is like bungee jumping, adrenaline running in your blood, sleeping with an eye open, or, at least, being completely irresponsible for what will happen. It's great!
Why so much interest in prequels, explaining all that was left to the imagination of the readers, when the original series have a wide space for sequels, specially when the 6th original Dune book ends with an open question that is not answered because Frank Herbert died.
Of course, quality went down as the serie continues, so a 7th Dune book could be horrible, maybe even comparable with the prequels,
With 4500 computers devoted to this maybe is not so bad the performance hit
Now they will know what happens when they send spam to the wrong mailbox.
Akenathon Gates went in a trip to the past to hunt dinosaurs. It missed and hit the wrong dinossaur with the Riffle Mummifier (Windows inside) and left it there without telling anyone. When they went back to the present, well, you know, the Twin Piramids that resisted the planes transformed in the Twin Towers that not, we lost the time travel and all memory of that great time line.
The last thing I knew about Akenathon is that he changed his name to William and lives near Redmond.
Knowing the amount of spam coming from there, maybe are a lot of spammers spreading virus in china. Maybe (I hope) someone think that is time to take extreme measures on spammers because of this
... like "Gone with the wind"
Pay monthly, and if you found something that they agree to pay back, you win!
At least they now can say that with Linux you can't sue anyone... with this, at the right price, you have your chance.
Already doing that
- Release sources under Shared Source licence
- Get fixes and improvements at no cost from licencees
- Profit!
Most of internet infrastructure is open source based, not only web serving, think in DNS (bind most used DNS server, by far) or mail serving (sendmail, qmail, postfix are used by more than 50% of the mail servers, and probably each one of them is more used alone than the most sucessful closed source counterpart).
Probably in the next weeks or next month will be available an FTP version (without the commercial software). You can mirror that tree and install from another disk or an ftp/nfs server in your network,
Also should be available in any moment in the ftp server of SuSE the Live-eval CD, you can't install it but at least can try it running from the CD.
But there is no free installable ISOs for SuSE since 7.0 or so. You must buy it to install it.
At least it have its own place in the front page
Years calling them "software pirates", in some moment they will be confused enough to need to be real pirates after all.
I think the problem will be selling/distributing (under some national land and laws) not making
I assume that will be zero for the DOJ after they agree that MS is not a monopoly
Wonder how long before this will be included in mplayer and other open source players
With enough widespreading and enough no-clues users, you can suppose that a lot of really old virus are around (at least, the ones without timebombs or that break things enough to not working at all after a lot of time). so probably can still be found active boot infectors in old PCs and floppys, in example.
But still widely replicating by email, well, at least I still receiving hybris every week.
As a SuSE user, I see that new package manager as a step forward, it solves a lot of problems that I had with previous versions, add a lot desired features, and at least for me seems that will make things easier.
For the usabilty point of view, well, I think no package manager yet scores perfect, but anyway is too much noise for screenshots that could be intended to show how powerful can be that new version.
Superman is an ET, so whatever skin color you choose must fit (even green, but that one will be confused with Hulk)
If your definition of what is needed is "everything Exchange/Outlook/whatever do" or some rewriting of this, then maybe never, would be like Zenon trying to reach the turtle. By the time you reach what exchange do they already changed it, even if they do it at turtle's speed.
But if you try cleanly to see what you can have now, and realize how useful is it, then you already can do the switch. Maybe what it gives you is not exactly the same that exchange do, but in its own way could be even better.
I.e. some time ago I was arguing with a friend on switching to Twig, in example, you have mail, calendar, groups, access from everything because is web based (a branch have even a wap module), and because it is based in imap, sql, sendmail, etc, you don't need to only rely on it as the only way to access mail, appointments, etc.
..lets sue the phone company because I called someone that had in their answering machine some copyrighted song.