According to historical accounts, there was some fuss (okay, wholesale riots & vandalism) around the time of the creation of the U.S.A. over "taxation without representation."
I'm willing to bet that thread is alive and well today, espcially with the government throwing away federal money into billion dollar highway projects that benefit only downtown drivers in a particular city, corporate welfare, etc.
You should be able to place a filter like this on a sendmail gateway host by using sendmail's mailertable feature in your.mc file, and then saying:
host.com procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/host.com
in the mailertable file, and set the host.com file to something like:
(rules for checking spam, viruses, evil attatchments, etc.)
:0 ! -oi -f $forward_message_on_properly_to_internal_mailserve r
Though I don't have any pressing need to throw the above together and document what I did. Ideally, you would want to combine the above method with one of the several anti-evil-stuff procmail filters on freshmeat.net...
Really? Show me some links. I'm just relaying what I've heard the researchers talk about where I work (e.g. Leory Hood's (former) Department) when they want frequent downloads of the draft human genome (a.k.a 3 GB's of A's, T's, G's, and C's).
Not really. The current push going on in the biotech world is to get a fast and dirty copy of the genome out there, thanks to the various gimmicks being played in the industry.
So the "completed" human genome that comes out soon will be a buggy 1.0 release, in computer terms.
Bill Gates complaining that a breakup of Microsoft would hinder fighting the I LOVE YOU-style email virus reeks of opportunism; instead of monoloplizing the industry, Microsoft should have been fixing their security-deficient products that are the root of the problem.
Charlotte, NC - Pinkerton Inc. announced a new program aimed at reducing lightning strikes by providing an anonymous toll-free number and website where people could report depressed, dangerous, or potentially violent cloud formations.
"We felt this move was necessary," said a Pinkerton official, "given that students are as likely to be struck by lightning as they are to be killed in school violence. Besides, if we didn't offer the program, someone else might."
The problem I have with Bill Gates is that as far as I can tell, the amount he gives in donations is directly proportional to the amount of trouble Microsoft is in with the Justice Department.
For instance, back in 1997:
"Among the stingiest of the top givers was William Henry ("Bill") Gates III,... [his] donations in 1997 came to $210 million, or barely 0.53 percent of his net holdings. Moreover, the money came with virtual strings attached; most of it was earmarked to provide public libraries with Internet access (not books, mind you), a self-serving gift for a software provider if there ever was one. Gates was subsequently quoted by Forbes magazine on the difficulties of philanthropy: "Giving away money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place." Since most of his Microsoft billions are the result of the speculative stock market boom of the '90s and are therefore unearned, it's hard to sympathize."
Which stands in clear contrast to his behaviour today. Did he grow a heart in the last three years, or is he being forced to donate by some exterior influence?
Now, is it charity from the heart, or charity to get good press because of the damn Justice Department, or just chairty to get into a lower tax bracket?
Frankly, while giving a free PC running Windows to a school is not charity in my book, I don't think the folks in Africa care about the monopolistic source of the aid being provided...
Oh, well. Another Rockefeller to write documentaries about in a few decades.
While the Kai's Power Tools "interface" generally bugs me, I rather like the Bryce interface. I suppose that any "artistic" interface will be hit-or-miss-horribly...
Also, better to run it at all than to see the products vanish, given that Metatools is dropping support for it's non-3d-e-commerce thingy.
I recently was at a presentation by a human genome project researcher (doing C14 work) given to us geek types so we would better appreciate the gigabytes of info they're accumulating on the servers at alarming rates.
Anyhow, the scientist indicated that genome variation between individuals is something like 1 pair in 1000; e.g. down at the genomic level we really aren't that different.
But what a difference that 1 in 1000 makes on the final product!
Also, at least here (where I work), the genes are donated anonymously, so there's no way (yet) to attatch a particular sample to a particular person or ethnic group.
Presumably the BSD layer will allow BSD-compatible applications (apache, etc.) to compile and run, and the Mac OS emulation layer similar capabilities for Mac OS software.
The only major problem I see is vendors (e.g. Adobe, Microsoft) not embracing the new OS X-native libraries and instead staying with the lower performance Mac OS emulation layer. Reasons for this might be the cost of retraining developers, or wanting to migrate folks to Windows in the case of Microsoft, which is quite clear to me in light of their current offerings for Mac OS.
a) Most legal teams are probably not up on HTTP headers, in the same way I am not up on Roe vs. Wade.
b) Referrer is supplied by the client. Something I do a lot on sites that disallow direct access to program binaries (wanting you to visit one of their add infested pages first) is:
I guess most immigration agents aren't going to check subdermal bacteria for data pertaining to National Security for at least another year or two at the most...
> Re:New from MS: Delusionsoft (Score:4, Insightful) > by bmetzler (bmetzler@twistedpair.net) on Wednesday December 15, @04:06PM EST (#240) > (User Info) http://users.twistedpair.net/bmetzler/ > > "It took us a while to get here, but that's because we were not ready to compromise," > Valentine said, promising that the first version of the operating system will not need > service packs or bug fixes like other software releases. > > Can someone hang on to this story and rerun it when MS releases the first service > pack for W2K?
Well, not the first service pack, but worthy of requoting...
Why invoke wild claims that OSS grew from Bill Gates's reluctance to part with code when there is a more logical reason for the growth of OSS, steming from the development of unix:
Slashdot Mirror
According to historical accounts, there was some fuss (okay, wholesale riots & vandalism) around the time of the creation of the U.S.A. over "taxation without representation."
I'm willing to bet that thread is alive and well today, espcially with the government throwing away federal money into billion dollar highway projects that benefit only downtown drivers in a particular city, corporate welfare, etc.
BTW, Star Trek has been boldly splitting infinitives for a few decades, but you don't see English majors throwing hissy fits on /. over it...
You should be able to place a filter like this on a sendmail gateway host by using sendmail's mailertable feature in your .mc file, and then saying:
e r
host.com procmail:/etc/procmailrcs/host.com
in the mailertable file, and set the host.com file to something like:
(rules for checking spam, viruses, evil attatchments, etc.)
:0
! -oi -f $forward_message_on_properly_to_internal_mailserv
Though I don't have any pressing need to throw the above together and document what I did. Ideally, you would want to combine the above method with one of the several anti-evil-stuff procmail filters on freshmeat.net...
Really? Show me some links. I'm just relaying what I've heard the researchers talk about where I work (e.g. Leory Hood's (former) Department) when they want frequent downloads of the draft human genome (a.k.a 3 GB's of A's, T's, G's, and C's).
Wow, he had that many folks down there?
The hoodlab I'm used to maintaining only had at most 500 folks, if you include the off-campus place he had.
I would make comments about his fitting in up here, but not under this userid...
Not really. The current push going on in the biotech world is to get a fast and dirty copy of the genome out there, thanks to the various gimmicks being played in the industry.
So the "completed" human genome that comes out soon will be a buggy 1.0 release, in computer terms.
Actually, it was on the 11:00 news here in the Seattle area.
Darn curly quotes not getting stripped...
Bill Gates complaining that a breakup of Microsoft would hinder fighting the I LOVE YOU-style email virus reeks of opportunism; instead of monoloplizing the industry, Microsoft should have been fixing their security-deficient products that are the root of the problem.
Here's a new area they could break into:
Charlotte, NC - Pinkerton Inc. announced a new program aimed at reducing lightning strikes by providing an anonymous toll-free number and website where people could report depressed, dangerous, or potentially violent cloud formations.
"We felt this move was necessary," said a Pinkerton official, "given that students are as likely to be struck by lightning as they are to be killed in school violence. Besides, if we didn't offer the program, someone else might."
The problem I have with Bill Gates is that as far as I can tell, the amount he gives in donations is directly proportional to the amount of trouble Microsoft is in with the Justice Department.
For instance, back in 1997:
"Among the stingiest of the top givers was William Henry ("Bill") Gates III, ... [his] donations in 1997 came to $210 million, or barely 0.53 percent of his net holdings. Moreover, the money came with virtual strings attached; most of it was earmarked to provide public libraries with Internet access (not books, mind you), a self-serving gift for a software provider if there ever was one. Gates was subsequently quoted by Forbes magazine on the difficulties of philanthropy: "Giving away money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place." Since most of his Microsoft billions are the result of the speculative stock market boom of the '90s and are therefore unearned, it's hard to sympathize."
Source: http://www.populist.com/98.3.billionaires.html
Which stands in clear contrast to his behaviour today. Did he grow a heart in the last three years, or is he being forced to donate by some exterior influence?
Now, is it charity from the heart, or charity to get good press because of the damn Justice Department, or just chairty to get into a lower tax bracket?
Frankly, while giving a free PC running Windows to a school is not charity in my book, I don't think the folks in Africa care about the monopolistic source of the aid being provided...
Oh, well. Another Rockefeller to write documentaries about in a few decades.
While the Kai's Power Tools "interface" generally bugs me, I rather like the Bryce interface. I suppose that any "artistic" interface will be hit-or-miss-horribly...
Also, better to run it at all than to see the products vanish, given that Metatools is dropping support for it's non-3d-e-commerce thingy.
The widgets model doesn't work any more, because you are using their widgets through the deep link on your site, not your widgets.
I recently was at a presentation by a human genome project researcher (doing C14 work) given to us geek types so we would better appreciate the gigabytes of info they're accumulating on the servers at alarming rates.
Anyhow, the scientist indicated that genome variation between individuals is something like 1 pair in 1000; e.g. down at the genomic level we really aren't that different.
But what a difference that 1 in 1000 makes on the final product!
Also, at least here (where I work), the genes are donated anonymously, so there's no way (yet) to attatch a particular sample to a particular person or ethnic group.
Standard Mixed model network according to Corporate manifesto:
Servers: Microsoft Windows 2000
Clients: Microsoft Windows 95/98
Handhelds: Microsoft Windows CE
Board Games: Microsoft Monopoly
Presumably the BSD layer will allow BSD-compatible applications (apache, etc.) to compile and run, and the Mac OS emulation layer similar capabilities for Mac OS software.
The only major problem I see is vendors (e.g. Adobe, Microsoft) not embracing the new OS X-native libraries and instead staying with the lower performance Mac OS emulation layer. Reasons for this might be the cost of retraining developers, or wanting to migrate folks to Windows in the case of Microsoft, which is quite clear to me in light of their current offerings for Mac OS.
a) Most legal teams are probably not up on HTTP headers, in the same way I am not up on Roe vs. Wade.
b) Referrer is supplied by the client. Something I do a lot on sites that disallow direct access to program binaries (wanting you to visit one of their add infested pages first) is:
$ lwp-request -H"Referer: http://badsite.com/" http://badsite.com/foo.tar.gz
In other words, I'm lying through my teeth about the referrer.
P.S. Referrer has four r's, HTTP standard be damned.
Either try changing your /etc/hosts file entry to 127.0.0.2 (untested), or, in my case, I hacked the apache conf file on my machine to read:
/foo.gif
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} 127.0.0.1
RewriteRule ^.*$
Assuming you have mod_rewrite compiled and you don't use localhost for anything else (e.g. testing the website)
foo.gif is a 1x1 GIF that should load plenty quick.
There's probably a better way to do this, but the above works well enough...
I guess most immigration agents aren't going to check subdermal bacteria for data pertaining to National Security for at least another year or two at the most...
D.M.C.A. rears,
Corporations cheer, and say:
"Internet, route this!"
(With apologies to John Gilmore and The Matrix.)
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/04/0912233.shtm l
Of course, the memory loss might not be what advertisers want...
... Unless our society is turning into a 30-second sound bite?
> Re:New from MS: Delusionsoft (Score:4, Insightful)
> by bmetzler (bmetzler@twistedpair.net) on Wednesday December 15, @04:06PM EST (#240)
> (User Info) http://users.twistedpair.net/bmetzler/
>
> "It took us a while to get here, but that's because we were not ready to compromise,"
> Valentine said, promising that the first version of the operating system will not need
> service packs or bug fixes like other software releases.
>
> Can someone hang on to this story and rerun it when MS releases the first service
> pack for W2K?
Well, not the first service pack, but worthy of requoting...
Why invoke wild claims that OSS grew from Bill Gates's reluctance to part with code when there is a more logical reason for the growth of OSS, steming from the development of unix:
t ion-2.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part6/sec
Which started well before Bill Gates arrived on the scene, and continues today in linux and other projects.
Sunny and warm with--
We interrupt this broadcast
for sex pistols live!
According to my calculations, the next odd date in unix is on Feb 20, 2000, at 21:31:51. :)