I wouldn't have expected that, seeing that they don't seem to have any problems hammering my servers from spamzombied PC's with dictionary attacks sending mail to hundreds of thousands of -mostly- non existant e-mail addresses on the off chance that a few will reach a valid address that doesn't have spamassassin active.
This spam business is starting to look more and more like one giant distributed DOS attack, so pray tell, why would they be interested in unsubscribe requests?
Opt-out DDOS would be a nice idea in the ideal world...
Because *we* the consumers are the ones that suffer when our 0.99 tracks stop playing on our players.
Disclaimer: I never bought one DRM'ed music file and I don't plan to. I own an iRiver H140 that's just a fully featured music player without a marketing masterplan to rule the universe attached. Thank you very much...
Thank you for your great post. I have nothing against Apple in general but I do have a big problem with all those people that suddenly lose all their critical faculties whenever Apple is mentioned.
And god knows there are many of them polluting this site...
When Sony came out with their first 100 MB versions they had the chance to make it the floppy disk replacement as well as the all out winner in portable audio. They didn't...
If they'd made it a computer storage device at the same time we might not have had the MP3 craze at all. Everyone would have been swapping ATRAC files...
But, wait... That was Sony's nightmare, all this illegal swapping. They'd rather lose their lead position in portable audio to Apple.
I did that test with a an iRiver H140. It fell from my pocket when I was running in the streets (power was off). It bounced on the cobblestones a few times. Thanks to the standard leather case there was no visible damage and it worked like before.
I'll give you another nice tidbit. According to linguists the 'Fries' language is linguistically closest to the English language. (source: Jared Diamond: Guns Germs and Steel)
We don't use tide-energy. The only eco-friendly energy we use is generated by butt-ugly windmills polluting the landscape. The energy they produce is just a fraction of the nucleair energy we import from France yearly.
I believe most of our power plants run on natural gas (which we still have quite a bit of).
The dictionary attacks are become more of a nuisance. Any ip address that sends our server more than 5 undeliverable mails within a second is automatically filtered for 24 hours.
Still we get attacked by many spambots in shifts just trying to complete their dictionary. Luckily the filtering reduces the amount of trash to a minimum.
Is there anything as good as the Slimserver/Squeezebox combo? If there is, I don't know it yet. Populate your house with a few squeezeboxes connected to a central server and you have all you need...
So for allowing Apple to sell their music together with a black iPod they agree to let them use their music for commercials. How is this anything other than a normal business deal.
I don't see any reason to start seeing 'beauty' in this deal.
I have no iPod and I don't like U2 either. They're both to messianic to my atheist tastes.
Yeah, but they don't play over the network do they? Some of us at Slashdot are heavily into networking and don't like to shuffle around with plastic disks.
Still, I'd like it to include PVR functionality as well, so this player's not for me either.
The size is the biggest disadvantage of the 9xxx Nokia's. The size and the build quality, they tend to break a lot and are expensive to get fixed. That's the reason I switched to a Clie TG50/T68i combo 15 months ago when my last 9210 failed.
I'm disappointed with the software (I had expected the Palm platform to do better) and the terrible keyboard of the Clie so that's why I'm considering going back to a Nokia (If I can extend the warranty).
My main applications are browsing (which is better on the Clie). SSH, mail, SMS, IM (which are much better on the Nokia due to the keyboard) and of course the PIM apps (which are more or less on par). The speakerphone is just great.
I'm still not sure if I'll get the 9500 or the 9300, but thankfully the Clie is still in great shape, so I'm in no big hurry...;-)
I had the same choice and I compared a 12" PB with a Dell X300. The Dell has the same features (802.11g, Bluetooth, Firewire, etc) except for the optical drive, which I didn't really need. There was quite a price difference, especially when I considered the fact that the Dell had a 3 year next business day warranty. If you factored in that cost for the Powerbook there was really no comparison. The Dell was *much* cheaper.
I don't want to be stuck with a broken notebook that's just over a year old and will cost a lot of time as well as an arm and a leg to get fixed. That turned out to be the deciding factor.
It's not out yet so it would seem you couldn't have tried it yet. The 9300 is a lot smaller apparently if that's a biggy.
The 9110 and 9210's that I owned before had a very usable keyboard, that really can't be compared to the Treo. (yep I tried a 600 too)
The 9210 keyboard is very usable even while walking because you support the device with your hands while typing with your thumbs. That works pretty well. No need to put it down at all.
I don't see what all the fuss is about with these treo & SE phones. In the coming weeks the Nokia Communicator 9500 http://nokia.com/phones/9500 is coming out and will blow them all out of the water:
Symbian OS (like the P900) Wifi, Bluetooth and GPRS Great keyboard (not like the Treo) Great battery life
I've seen a lot of people scribbling away on their keyboard-less pda's and for me it remains an inferior method of text input. Ever tried doing an ssh session with a pen? The Treo's keyboard is a joke.
Main disadvantage is the size, the 9500 is quite large. In a few months the 9300 http://nokia.com/phones/9300 will be released that solves that issue at the cost of losing the Wifi and some of the battery capacity.
You stumped me with your 'faceticious'. English is not my first language so I tried dictionary.com and google, which returned 0 vs. 91 hits. I guess you must have spelled something wrong, there...
IMAP is a superset of POP, so it's bound to be better from an end user point of view. It really shows when you combine it with web-access because you'll have the exact same view of your folders in your e-mail client. I mostly use Thunderbird to access my mail, but I use fastmail's webmail whenever I'm not on my own system. Incoming mail is automatically sorted into folders upon arrival on the *server*.
IMAP can be tuned to broadband connections like ADSL at home, where I just sync everything, and narrowband connections like my PDA via GPRS that just retrieves the new messages from each incoming folder by default.
These are just a few applications that are either impossible with POP or really hard to do. Get a free fastmail.fm account to try it out if you're interested.
The disadvantages of IMAP are mostly on the side of the provider. It requires more storage, processing power, and backup capacity. That's the reason most normal ISP's don't offer it. You have to go to a specialist.
I believe you are. I think the world is now divided between people using webmail and people using IMAP to get at their e-mail. AFAIK nobody in their right minds uses POP any more.;-)
I pay $40 a year for a 2GB enhanced account with fastmail.fm. They combine an excellent web interface with IMAP access. All my mail ends up there, forwarded or not.
In Holland about 5% of all cars on the road (and the ones that get the most mileage) run on Liquid Petrol Gas (LPG). My car is one of them. LPG is used in the rest of Europe as well.
I have never heard of an exploding gas tank, the tanks are apparently so solid that they crush everything around them but stay intact themselves.
Forgetting to unplug the nozzle while filling up happens relatively often. There's a special weak spot in the tube that breaks in such cases. Also you have to keep a button on the gas pump depressed for the pump to operate. Release it and the gas flow stops. Driving away without unpluggng is harmless (except to your wallet). I've never heard of accidents with pumps.
There have been some accidents with LPG delivery trucks that supply the gas stations. I believe there was big one near a camping ground in Spain quite a while ago.
I can understand driving with a gas tank in your car may seem scary to people who aren't used to it, but we do so without worrying over here.
Of course, I don't know how Hydrogen compares to LPG for these purposes. That might well be a whole different story.
I second that. I also have a laptop, and it has the automatic restart setting OFF.
Interesting enough, another desktop machine that I installed with the same copy of XP (I have a VLK license from work) has it set to ON.
I never touched that setting myself on either machine... (I've seen a BSD on the laptop twice after messing with the install, I've never seen spontaneous reboots on either machine).
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I wouldn't have expected that, seeing that they don't seem to have any problems hammering my servers from spamzombied PC's with dictionary attacks sending mail to hundreds of thousands of -mostly- non existant e-mail addresses on the off chance that a few will reach a valid address that doesn't have spamassassin active.
This spam business is starting to look more and more like one giant distributed DOS attack, so pray tell, why would they be interested in unsubscribe requests?
Opt-out DDOS would be a nice idea in the ideal world...
And please mod anyone down with sigs and content lik ethis.
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Or do we really want
Not quite what you ask for, but I have a good experience using my iRiver H140 as a car player.
http://xenna.no-ip.com/auto/console.jpg
http://xenna.no-ip.com/auto/full.jpg
The remote control works pretty well on the dashboard although the display could be a bit bigger.
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Because *we* the consumers are the ones that suffer when our 0.99 tracks stop playing on our players.
Disclaimer: I never bought one DRM'ed music file and I don't plan to. I own an iRiver H140 that's just a fully featured music player without a marketing masterplan to rule the universe attached. Thank you very much...
Thank you for your great post. I have nothing against Apple in general but I do have a big problem with all those people that suddenly lose all their critical faculties whenever Apple is mentioned.
And god knows there are many of them polluting this site...
I hate minidisk.
When Sony came out with their first 100 MB versions they had the chance to make it the floppy disk replacement as well as the all out winner in portable audio. They didn't...
If they'd made it a computer storage device at the same time we might not have had the MP3 craze at all. Everyone would have been swapping ATRAC files...
But, wait... That was Sony's nightmare, all this illegal swapping. They'd rather lose their lead position in portable audio to Apple.
They deserve what they're getting.
I did that test with a an iRiver H140. It fell from my pocket when I was running in the streets (power was off). It bounced on the cobblestones a few times. Thanks to the standard leather case there was no visible damage and it worked like before.
I'll give you another nice tidbit. According to linguists the 'Fries' language is linguistically closest to the English language. (source: Jared Diamond: Guns Germs and Steel)
Weird little country, this Dutchland...
A note from this mythical Holland:
We don't use tide-energy. The only eco-friendly energy we use is generated by butt-ugly windmills polluting the landscape. The energy they produce is just a fraction of the nucleair energy we import from France yearly.
I believe most of our power plants run on natural gas (which we still have quite a bit of).
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The dictionary attacks are become more of a nuisance. Any ip address that sends our server more than 5 undeliverable mails within a second is automatically filtered for 24 hours.
Still we get attacked by many spambots in shifts just trying to complete their dictionary. Luckily the filtering reduces the amount of trash to a minimum.
Is there anything as good as the Slimserver/Squeezebox combo? If there is, I don't know it yet. Populate your house with a few squeezeboxes connected to a central server and you have all you need...
http://www.slimdevices.com/
And, boy, are we Europeans glad that our politicians (cheered on by Bush) want to invite this wonderful government to join the European union...
So for allowing Apple to sell their music together with a black iPod they agree to let them use their music for commercials. How is this anything other than a normal business deal.
I don't see any reason to start seeing 'beauty' in this deal.
I have no iPod and I don't like U2 either. They're both to messianic to my atheist tastes.
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Hmmm, Aardvark. For some silly reason I feel compelled to tell you that not all Europeans are as dumb as that one.
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Yeah, but they don't play over the network do they? Some of us at Slashdot are heavily into networking and don't like to shuffle around with plastic disks.
Still, I'd like it to include PVR functionality as well, so this player's not for me either.
I'd be more interested in something like this:
http://www.kiss-technology.com/?p=558&v=users
Unfortunately, this is even more expensive...
The size is the biggest disadvantage of the 9xxx Nokia's. The size and the build quality, they tend to break a lot and are expensive to get fixed. That's the reason I switched to a Clie TG50/T68i combo 15 months ago when my last 9210 failed.
;-)
I'm disappointed with the software (I had expected the Palm platform to do better) and the terrible keyboard of the Clie so that's why I'm considering going back to a Nokia (If I can extend the warranty).
My main applications are browsing (which is better on the Clie). SSH, mail, SMS, IM (which are much better on the Nokia due to the keyboard) and of course the PIM apps (which are more or less on par). The speakerphone is just great.
I'm still not sure if I'll get the 9500 or the 9300, but thankfully the Clie is still in great shape, so I'm in no big hurry...
I had the same choice and I compared a 12" PB with a Dell X300. The Dell has the same features (802.11g, Bluetooth, Firewire, etc) except for the optical drive, which I didn't really need. There was quite a price difference, especially when I considered the fact that the Dell had a 3 year next business day warranty. If you factored in that cost for the Powerbook there was really no comparison. The Dell was *much* cheaper.
I don't want to be stuck with a broken notebook that's just over a year old and will cost a lot of time as well as an arm and a leg to get fixed. That turned out to be the deciding factor.
It's not out yet so it would seem you couldn't have tried it yet. The 9300 is a lot smaller apparently if that's a biggy.
The 9110 and 9210's that I owned before had a very usable keyboard, that really can't be compared to the Treo. (yep I tried a 600 too)
The 9210 keyboard is very usable even while walking because you support the device with your hands while typing with your thumbs. That works pretty well. No need to put it down at all.
Try one before knocking it...
I don't see what all the fuss is about with these treo & SE phones. In the coming weeks the Nokia Communicator 9500 http://nokia.com/phones/9500 is coming out and will blow them all out of the water:
Symbian OS (like the P900)
Wifi, Bluetooth and GPRS
Great keyboard (not like the Treo)
Great battery life
I've seen a lot of people scribbling away on their keyboard-less pda's and for me it remains an inferior method of text input. Ever tried doing an ssh session with a pen? The Treo's keyboard is a joke.
Main disadvantage is the size, the 9500 is quite large. In a few months the 9300 http://nokia.com/phones/9300 will be released that solves that issue at the cost of losing the Wifi and some of the battery capacity.
You stumped me with your 'faceticious'. English is not my first language so I tried dictionary.com and google, which returned 0 vs. 91 hits. I guess you must have spelled something wrong, there...
IMAP is a superset of POP, so it's bound to be better from an end user point of view. It really shows when you combine it with web-access because you'll have the exact same view of your folders in your e-mail client. I mostly use Thunderbird to access my mail, but I use fastmail's webmail whenever I'm not on my own system. Incoming mail is automatically sorted into folders upon arrival on the *server*.
IMAP can be tuned to broadband connections like ADSL at home, where I just sync everything, and narrowband connections like my PDA via GPRS that just retrieves the new messages from each incoming folder by default.
These are just a few applications that are either impossible with POP or really hard to do. Get a free fastmail.fm account to try it out if you're interested.
The disadvantages of IMAP are mostly on the side of the provider. It requires more storage, processing power, and backup capacity. That's the reason most normal ISP's don't offer it. You have to go to a specialist.
I believe you are. I think the world is now divided between people using webmail and people using IMAP to get at their e-mail. AFAIK nobody in their right minds uses POP any more. ;-)
I pay $40 a year for a 2GB enhanced account with fastmail.fm. They combine an excellent web interface with IMAP access. All my mail ends up there, forwarded or not.
Movielink is not catering to Europeans.
MovieFlix doesn't seem to have any decent movies anywhere.
Back to mlDonkey and Bittorrent...
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In Holland about 5% of all cars on the road (and the ones that get the most mileage) run on Liquid Petrol Gas (LPG). My car is one of them. LPG is used in the rest of Europe as well.
I have never heard of an exploding gas tank, the tanks are apparently so solid that they crush everything around them but stay intact themselves.
Forgetting to unplug the nozzle while filling up happens relatively often. There's a special weak spot in the tube that breaks in such cases. Also you have to keep a button on the gas pump depressed for the pump to operate. Release it and the gas flow stops. Driving away without unpluggng is harmless (except to your wallet). I've never heard of accidents with pumps.
There have been some accidents with LPG delivery trucks that supply the gas stations. I believe there was big one near a camping ground in Spain quite a while ago.
I can understand driving with a gas tank in your car may seem scary to people who aren't used to it, but we do so without worrying over here.
Of course, I don't know how Hydrogen compares to LPG for these purposes. That might well be a whole different story.
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I second that. I also have a laptop, and it has the automatic restart setting OFF.
Interesting enough, another desktop machine that I installed with the same copy of XP (I have a VLK license from work) has it set to ON.
I never touched that setting myself on either machine... (I've seen a BSD on the laptop twice after messing with the install, I've never seen spontaneous reboots on either machine).
Any other anecdotal evidence?