The idea of SPEWS is not just to block spam, but also to force ISPs to terminate their spammers. Blocking only the spammer's IP is pointless; too many providers just move the spammer about in their IP space, and the world has to play whack-a-mole. SPEWS' policy is that if an ISP decides it wants to keep its spammer online in the face of repeated complaints, fine; but then SPEWS don't want to receive any email from such a network.
The only way to deal with spammers is with a shotgun. I think that if we started with the high profile ones, like the lady featured in the 'economics of spam'/. story a couple of days ago, went to her house and executed her gangsta style, then moved on to a few more, people would start getting the drift, and your spam would stop.
If it didn't well, no problem, spam hunting could be about intimidation or just plain old elimination. I'm sure that there are enough people in places like china and europe that'd love to help, and not just gun-totin' 'merkins!
Come on people, join and rise up and lets show the spammers that there are actual fucking concequences to spamming, not just some "we'll sue you if you're in california" shit. Think that the random korean spammer selling whatever shit people sell or try to sell is going to give two shits about a US/california law? I don't think so. But have a bunch of guys knocking on his door with a shotgun, well, now there are some concequences you can "feel".
Well, I could "make a living" selling small boys to pedophiles, or gassing kittens or beating up people on the street for gangsters, but that doesn't make it right.
Well, assuming he used navigation of the OS to mean using tools like the finder, the panel, etc, then you're comparing apples and oranges. I think if you compared this to navigating around with nautilus/konqeror and using the gnome/kde "OS" tools (I know that they aren't part of the os of course), you might have a better comparision. I really doubt that he meant he booted up into plain old darwin and and typed at the shell prompt:)
I moved about a month ago, and moved from DSL to cable, and thought I'd share my experience with people.
The guy came over, hooked up the cable modem, and watched as I ran about 50 feet of cable from it, around the back of the apartment, and through the window of the office (the only cable jack was on the opposite side of the house to the computers). When I finished he asked which computer had to be set up. "That one" I said, pointing to a small box hidden under the desk. It is a p133 that has run my website on 48 megs of ram for the last 5 years. "But not really that one," I finished.
See I have a nifty little firewall from netmaster (was merilus) which is a full computer on a pci card that uses the host computer only for power via the PCI bus. When I explained this to him he just kinda nodded.
"Don't worry," I told him, "I'll take care of it all." "All I need from you is the end of a cat5 cable." He went back to the cable modem and did the initialization or whatever he needed to do, and I overheard him say to head office something about "no, this guys going to set it all up."
I had already set up the card for DHCP, so it was a matter of replacing the DSL modem cat5 cable and putting in the new one from the cable modem. I borrowed a pen from the slightly stunned installer and reset the system, waited the 40 or 50 seconds for the system to come back up, and then pinged out from my linux workstation.
I mentioned that I worked for the last few years with a networking company and he said "well, you know a lot more than me then." No shit was the un-stated response. He left after having touched nothing more than the cabel modem.
Moral of the story: If you don't want them to touch anything (and any moderately competant geek shouldn't), don't let them! All that needs to be done on a cable modem install is to plug in the external cable into your firewall (you DO have a firewall right?) and for you to either reboot it or renew the DHCP lease. You can set up all the @HOME proxy info if you want, but it's not needed.
Exactly! However, there are still just as many scam/flybynight/whatever companies sending spam as there are legit companies, so you might see an increase in email with ADV in the header, but you'll see just as many with subjects like "re: request for quote on septic tank cleaning" or "webcam now online!" The legislation is only going to affect the people that want to follow it, and the people who aren't going to follow that are the ones that know that people filter on ADV, so they forge headers and subject lines to get around that.
So basically from what I can see, this means nothing? So direct marketting will follow the rules and not forge headers, and they think that it should be illegal.
Big Deal
I will still have to filter out the same number of get rich quick schemes, drug selling operations, and teensexwhoreslutlittlegirlswithbigboobs.com type companies from my mailbox. The "legit" spam will be filtered out just the same as always, or at least, I'll try to keep the filters going.
I can see how this has the same affect as the "you must provide a way to opt out" rule put in a while ago. This meant that now people don't opt out from spam because you don't know if the company is legit and is going to take you off their lists, or if they are just trolling for valid emails.
Basically spam is spam is spam, it's unwanted mail in my inbox, and if someone says it's legal to do, that's great, I still don't want it.
Hmm... now that I think of it, if the GUI reserved all alphanumeric keys for commands, and responded to any button press with a mini "command window", it'd take the non-overhead advantage of the CLI...
I wonder how I (a non-coder) could go about getting something like that done...
No need, E already has done it. EFM, which was out as a stand alone program for a while did just this. You simply started typing and a mini window appeared. You could type in bash scripts ("for i in...") or simple mv, cp commands, and it did The Right Thing. Combine this with a nice GUI to do file manipulation with when you did need a GUI to do things, and it was the shit.
Sadly, it went away not long after to be integrated into E17, which is still being worked on:\ Hopefully EFM will re-appear soon, along with E17.
If you dig around you might be able to find some.debs or archives of EFM.
Personally I really miss Robert (I can't think of him as anything but Kryten:) and think that the quality of hosting has only gone downhill since he left:( I still watch the show of course, but it's just not the same without his "honest" smarminess (the other guys seem quite forced to act the way they do).
Same here. However, I'm guessing that like me, you are familiar with the debian installer, it's ins and outs, and have installed debian more than a couple of times, just like me.
I agree with the article, dselect sucks, the installer sucks, the packages are way out of date,etc (though I haven't seen the wierdness post install with bad fonts or windows way to wide and whatnot). HOWEVER.... those of us who use debian (though I am a recent convert to gentoo for my home box anyway), are used to these things and frankly, deal with them. Oh sure, people spout that you can just ask on #debian, or read the mailing lists, or whatever, but these are people like me who have installed deb many times and *know* the curveballs that it's going to throw.
Frankly I don't think I'd want my mostly-windows-but-dabbling-in-linux friends to install debian without confidence in their hacker-zen, simply because I know it sucks. However, I am happy with it, and am not sure I want it to turn into another redhat/suse/etc with graphical installer and drool-inspired install scripts.
Anyway, my $0.02... sorry to those who I wanted to mod on this story:)
The only killer app I want is an affordable handheld mp3 player. I'd love to get an iPod, but I'm not about to shell out $600CND for one, or shell out $300CND to get a knock off with 128mb ram. I want something I can go to the gym with, or take on a bus ride that's going to give me more than 10 or twenty songs, and that's small enough that it can clip to my waistband or arm. Currently I'm using a cheap ass $100 discman that can play mp3s for the gym. It works, but I can't edit what is on there without burning a new disk, and it's still prone to skipping while on the treadmill.
Please please please give us something small, cheap, and with lots of hard drive space! If you make it play.ogg as well then even better, I'd love to re-rip all my cds to a "better" format than mp3!
IIRC they sued because the themes contained copyrighted icons, ie: the apple symbol. There are a ton of aqua themes out there now and they are getting no flack from apple from what I can see.
I only read the ones that make it past spamassassin, but then again, they only get about a half second of eyeball time before I see they are spam and hit 'd' (or X, which in mutt is bound to spamassassin -r to report them to the razor project:)
Actually according to an article I read the reasons they are walking billboards is due to copywrite issues. Basically it used to go like this:
gap designs cool clothing some people buy it, and are cool clone vendors copy it almost exactly everyone else buys it and they are cool
This didn't jive nicely with gap etc, so they went with the route of putting their logos/names/whatever on the clothing, as the clone companies couldn't copy them then, as if the "coolness" of the design was due to something that they weren't legally allowed to copy, they wouldn't / couldn't copy it.
That said I have no idea where this article was, but the reasoning is solid IMHO.
I thought that this is great, finally all my fonts will work. Well, download, and here is what I see...
no documentation... there is a tiny.tex file in the fontconfig directory telling you what it does, but no main README, no instructions for install/configuration...
of the 4 directories that are created from the tarball, only two compile. fontconfig and Xft compile and install just fine, Xft1 and Xrender fail, and use the very old Imakefile (xmkmf) setup. As there is no readme, I have no idea if these are needed or not.
No change for the installed system. There were no instructions on how to run the program, if there is any thing to run. I downloaded and ran the mozilla version which looked great, but didn't use any of the many hundred extra fonts I have installed (though it did render the default fonts nicely).
That, and I don't see any difference in applications... is this suppose to be transparent (I assume so), or do apps have to be written specifically to use Xft2.so? If the latter, isn't this kinda useless as a "real" solution, as then it's just another way of configuring/rendering fonts that is mentioned above:(
Well, from an end user perspective, this is a real issue. If you load up your new linux peecee and start up a browser, and all your favorite sites look like shit because there are only 5 fonts installed on the system, suddenly, this new "better" OS has a degraded user experience, and therefor the the 90% market currently under Bill's control, worse. The underlying technology may be better, but as we've learned time and time again, they aren't the one that wins...
Sounds like it was the teacher that killed it, not the language. Commenting every line/variable is just plain stupid. You comment why you did something, not what you did... anyone who can code can see what you did, the question they'll ask is "why did he do this here?"
I don't know if I can vouch for everything being taught in ASM for the first while, but I can definately attest to the fact that learning assembler was a huge boost for me.
When I entered my university I took an advanced pascal class (still a 100 level course, first year) which introduced us to dynamic memory allocation, strings, dereferenceing, etc. I was lost. I spent half the time throwing the dereference character (^ IIRC) in front of variables just to see if it worked... I think I came out of there with a C or C+ (maybe a C-).
The next semester we took assembly programming, and wow, everything suddenly made sense! Understanding exactly *what* a pointer is, and how it and dereferencing really works was a huge boost to my understanding of programming, and computers in general. It could be that the advanced pascal teacher didn't do a good job, or that I was just a slacker that year, but ASM gives a huge boost to the understanding of how computers work.
The main difference between IE and the mozilla/galeon/konq/operas of the world is that because IE is the monopoly, they don't have to *care* what make a good browser.
For example, IE will probably *never* implement things like pop up blocking, a cookie dialogue that doesn't suck (more info doesn't stay out), or any of the really funky and innovative things that Konq/mozilla does.
Because MS is the big fish, they have to be friendly to everyone, and that includes places that do things like pop up ads (msn for example), so adding in that ability is counter productive to them, as is things like opening up the API enough that projects like those at mozdev can exist.
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The idea of SPEWS is not just to block spam, but also to force ISPs to terminate their spammers. Blocking only the spammer's IP is pointless; too many providers just move the spammer about in their IP space, and the world has to play whack-a-mole. SPEWS' policy is that if an ISP decides it wants to keep its spammer online in the face of repeated complaints, fine; but then SPEWS don't want to receive any email from such a network.
/. story a couple of days ago, went to her house and executed her gangsta style, then moved on to a few more, people would start getting the drift, and your spam would stop.
The only way to deal with spammers is with a shotgun. I think that if we started with the high profile ones, like the lady featured in the 'economics of spam'
If it didn't well, no problem, spam hunting could be about intimidation or just plain old elimination. I'm sure that there are enough people in places like china and europe that'd love to help, and not just gun-totin' 'merkins!
Come on people, join and rise up and lets show the spammers that there are actual fucking concequences to spamming, not just some "we'll sue you if you're in california" shit. Think that the random korean spammer selling whatever shit people sell or try to sell is going to give two shits about a US/california law? I don't think so. But have a bunch of guys knocking on his door with a shotgun, well, now there are some concequences you can "feel".
(this is of course (mostly) humor)
Well, there was an nvidia driver update that advertised an increase in performance of something like 25%, which isn't that bad....
Well, I could "make a living" selling small boys to pedophiles, or gassing kittens or beating up people on the street for gangsters, but that doesn't make it right.
Well, assuming he used navigation of the OS to mean using tools like the finder, the panel, etc, then you're comparing apples and oranges. I think if you compared this to navigating around with nautilus/konqeror and using the gnome/kde "OS" tools (I know that they aren't part of the os of course), you might have a better comparision. I really doubt that he meant he booted up into plain old darwin and and typed at the shell prompt :)
I moved about a month ago, and moved from DSL to cable, and thought I'd share my experience with people.
The guy came over, hooked up the cable modem, and watched as I ran about 50 feet of cable from it, around the back of the apartment, and through the window of the office (the only cable jack was on the opposite side of the house to the computers). When I finished he asked which computer had to be set up. "That one" I said, pointing to a small box hidden under the desk. It is a p133 that has run my website on 48 megs of ram for the last 5 years. "But not really that one," I finished.
See I have a nifty little firewall from netmaster (was merilus) which is a full computer on a pci card that uses the host computer only for power via the PCI bus. When I explained this to him he just kinda nodded.
"Don't worry," I told him, "I'll take care of it all." "All I need from you is the end of a cat5 cable." He went back to the cable modem and did the initialization or whatever he needed to do, and I overheard him say to head office something about "no, this guys going to set it all up."
I had already set up the card for DHCP, so it was a matter of replacing the DSL modem cat5 cable and putting in the new one from the cable modem. I borrowed a pen from the slightly stunned installer and reset the system, waited the 40 or 50 seconds for the system to come back up, and then pinged out from my linux workstation.
I mentioned that I worked for the last few years with a networking company and he said "well, you know a lot more than me then." No shit was the un-stated response. He left after having touched nothing more than the cabel modem.
Moral of the story: If you don't want them to touch anything (and any moderately competant geek shouldn't), don't let them! All that needs to be done on a cable modem install is to plug in the external cable into your firewall (you DO have a firewall right?) and for you to either reboot it or renew the DHCP lease. You can set up all the @HOME proxy info if you want, but it's not needed.
Exactly! However, there are still just as many scam/flybynight/whatever companies sending spam as there are legit companies, so you might see an increase in email with ADV in the header, but you'll see just as many with subjects like "re: request for quote on septic tank cleaning" or "webcam now online!" The legislation is only going to affect the people that want to follow it, and the people who aren't going to follow that are the ones that know that people filter on ADV, so they forge headers and subject lines to get around that.
So basically from what I can see, this means nothing? So direct marketting will follow the rules and not forge headers, and they think that it should be illegal.
Big Deal
I will still have to filter out the same number of get rich quick schemes, drug selling operations, and teensexwhoreslutlittlegirlswithbigboobs.com type companies from my mailbox. The "legit" spam will be filtered out just the same as always, or at least, I'll try to keep the filters going.
I can see how this has the same affect as the "you must provide a way to opt out" rule put in a while ago. This meant that now people don't opt out from spam because you don't know if the company is legit and is going to take you off their lists, or if they are just trolling for valid emails.
Basically spam is spam is spam, it's unwanted mail in my inbox, and if someone says it's legal to do, that's great, I still don't want it.
Hmm... now that I think of it, if the GUI reserved all alphanumeric keys for commands, and responded to any button press with a mini "command window", it'd take the non-overhead advantage of the CLI...
...") or simple mv, cp commands, and it did The Right Thing. Combine this with a nice GUI to do file manipulation with when you did need a GUI to do things, and it was the shit.
:\ Hopefully EFM will re-appear soon, along with E17.
.debs or archives of EFM.
I wonder how I (a non-coder) could go about getting something like that done...
No need, E already has done it. EFM, which was out as a stand alone program for a while did just this. You simply started typing and a mini window appeared. You could type in bash scripts ("for i in
Sadly, it went away not long after to be integrated into E17, which is still being worked on
If you dig around you might be able to find some
Personally I really miss Robert (I can't think of him as anything but Kryten :) and think that the quality of hosting has only gone downhill since he left :( I still watch the show of course, but it's just not the same without his "honest" smarminess (the other guys seem quite forced to act the way they do).
Same here. However, I'm guessing that like me, you are familiar with the debian installer, it's ins and outs, and have installed debian more than a couple of times, just like me.
:)
I agree with the article, dselect sucks, the installer sucks, the packages are way out of date,etc (though I haven't seen the wierdness post install with bad fonts or windows way to wide and whatnot). HOWEVER.... those of us who use debian (though I am a recent convert to gentoo for my home box anyway), are used to these things and frankly, deal with them. Oh sure, people spout that you can just ask on #debian, or read the mailing lists, or whatever, but these are people like me who have installed deb many times and *know* the curveballs that it's going to throw.
Frankly I don't think I'd want my mostly-windows-but-dabbling-in-linux friends to install debian without confidence in their hacker-zen, simply because I know it sucks. However, I am happy with it, and am not sure I want it to turn into another redhat/suse/etc with graphical installer and drool-inspired install scripts.
Anyway, my $0.02... sorry to those who I wanted to mod on this story
root@gentoobox # USE="+dvd" emerge mplayer :)
The only killer app I want is an affordable handheld mp3 player. I'd love to get an iPod, but I'm not about to shell out $600CND for one, or shell out $300CND to get a knock off with 128mb ram. I want something I can go to the gym with, or take on a bus ride that's going to give me more than 10 or twenty songs, and that's small enough that it can clip to my waistband or arm. Currently I'm using a cheap ass $100 discman that can play mp3s for the gym. It works, but I can't edit what is on there without burning a new disk, and it's still prone to skipping while on the treadmill.
.ogg as well then even better, I'd love to re-rip all my cds to a "better" format than mp3!
Please please please give us something small, cheap, and with lots of hard drive space! If you make it play
IIRC they sued because the themes contained copyrighted icons, ie: the apple symbol. There are a ton of aqua themes out there now and they are getting no flack from apple from what I can see.
"I see you're trying to destroy the music industry, would you like to...."
Tim Hortons!
I need say no more (eh?)
Ooops, that link should be to spamassassin.sf.net
I only read the ones that make it past spamassassin, but then again, they only get about a half second of eyeball time before I see they are spam and hit 'd' (or X, which in mutt is bound to spamassassin -r to report them to the razor project :)
Gotta love the advertising industry, or at least, the ability to brainwash today's youth :)
Actually according to an article I read the reasons they are walking billboards is due to copywrite issues. Basically it used to go like this:
gap designs cool clothing
some people buy it, and are cool
clone vendors copy it almost exactly
everyone else buys it and they are cool
This didn't jive nicely with gap etc, so they went with the route of putting their logos/names/whatever on the clothing, as the clone companies couldn't copy them then, as if the "coolness" of the design was due to something that they weren't legally allowed to copy, they wouldn't / couldn't copy it.
That said I have no idea where this article was, but the reasoning is solid IMHO.
This is where those little USB keychain hard drives will become useful... just carry it around with all your other "keys" :)
That, and I don't see any difference in applications... is this suppose to be transparent (I assume so), or do apps have to be written specifically to use Xft2.so? If the latter, isn't this kinda useless as a "real" solution, as then it's just another way of configuring/rendering fonts that is mentioned above
Well, from an end user perspective, this is a real issue. If you load up your new linux peecee and start up a browser, and all your favorite sites look like shit because there are only 5 fonts installed on the system, suddenly, this new "better" OS has a degraded user experience, and therefor the the 90% market currently under Bill's control, worse. The underlying technology may be better, but as we've learned time and time again, they aren't the one that wins...
Sounds like it was the teacher that killed it, not the language. Commenting every line/variable is just plain stupid. You comment why you did something, not what you did... anyone who can code can see what you did, the question they'll ask is "why did he do this here?"
I don't know if I can vouch for everything being taught in ASM for the first while, but I can definately attest to the fact that learning assembler was a huge boost for me.
When I entered my university I took an advanced pascal class (still a 100 level course, first year) which introduced us to dynamic memory allocation, strings, dereferenceing, etc. I was lost. I spent half the time throwing the dereference character (^ IIRC) in front of variables just to see if it worked... I think I came out of there with a C or C+ (maybe a C-).
The next semester we took assembly programming, and wow, everything suddenly made sense! Understanding exactly *what* a pointer is, and how it and dereferencing really works was a huge boost to my understanding of programming, and computers in general. It could be that the advanced pascal teacher didn't do a good job, or that I was just a slacker that year, but ASM gives a huge boost to the understanding of how computers work.
The main difference between IE and the mozilla/galeon/konq/operas of the world is that because IE is the monopoly, they don't have to *care* what make a good browser.
For example, IE will probably *never* implement things like pop up blocking, a cookie dialogue that doesn't suck (more info doesn't stay out), or any of the really funky and innovative things that Konq/mozilla does.
Because MS is the big fish, they have to be friendly to everyone, and that includes places that do things like pop up ads (msn for example), so adding in that ability is counter productive to them, as is things like opening up the API enough that projects like those at mozdev can exist.