Because if you get enough of these and flag them as spam, the filter will start to catch them, too -- "Hmm... multipart message with no text content and embedded images is usually spam." That's the beauty of the way these filters work.
Not really. My mail client automatically sorts suspected spam into a "Junk" box and, um, colors it brown [heh]. I just glance in the box once a day (at the Subject lines and Senders), which is almost always enough to tell me whether there are any false positives or not (i.e. are any of the senders known acquantances, do any of the subject lines correspond to any active projects). Since the spam filter is the last one that runs against my incoming messages [earlier filters take care of legitimate mailing lists, etc.], false positives are extremely rare: on the order of one or two a week, and I get thousands of emails. Rarely do I actually need to read a message it's flagged to determine whether it's spam or not.
Over the last month or so, I've received a few really strangely worded porn spams that seem to be engineered so as not to trip ISP porn filters. They use lots of passive verbs, no exclamation points, no HTML, and dictionary definitions of whatever kink the spammer is selling.
Since I use Jaguar's mail client, I just told it that these were spam too and now it catches them by itself.:)
Exactly. As long as your vendor provides a default reasonable install of sendmail (most do, nowadays) it isn't notably harder to configure safely as any other server app.
In other words, pay lots of money to turn the thing into a PC. You'd be better off buying this, at least you wouldn't have to screw around with modchips.
So far we have several dozen posts complaining about licenses (so very Slashdot of you, really), and no one talking about why releasing the Releasing the Rendezvous source is so cool. Zeroconf is cool stuff. Imagine setting up a dozen machines at a conference or a LAN party and having them automatically self-configure their networking and discover each others services, without having to worry about subnet masks or a DHCP server. They already demoed a forthcoming version of iTunes that lets you play music from another 802.11 connected laptop without any configuration.
Oh, but I forgot -- bitching about the license is more important.
I've see the same effect. I almost never see spam anymore, and get almost no false positives. I wish I could find the quote, but one of the Jaguar engineers confirmed that there's some "serious math" behind Mail.app's spam handling. I can't find any technical reference about the algorithms being used, though.
Whew, the ISS marketing guys really did a number on your mind, didn't they?
I worked on intrusion detection at a site where we had two IDS systems set up in parallel, one based on RealSecure and the other being a custom tailored solution that utilized a "sensor" machine sitting in our DMZ with a quiet NIC, similar to what's described in the linked article. It used tcpdump for data collection, and saved most of our incoming and outgoing network traffic to a fast disk array for analysis (based on tcpdump filters.) Hourly scripts would process the saved packages with Snort (and a variety of other tools, some of them free and some of them custom written for us and the other sites on our WAN.)
While RealSecure is fine for detecting bumbling script kiddies and obvious misconfigurations (like unpatched boxes becoming Nimda zombies), the tcpdump solution was far better at detecting the serious intrusion attempts, like the slow and low network probes with custom crafted packets, and telling us exactly who on our network was doing boneheaded things like using telnet across network boundaries. RealSecure's coming in a pretty box and costing a lot of money doesn't make it the end-all be-all of intrusion detection systems.
You're approaching it the wrong way. On a 72-dpi screen, a 12-point character can be represented by 144 pixels (I know, I'm deliberately omitting the effects of subpixel aliasing / anti-aliasing, hinting, and all those other tricks that modern display technologies use to boost perceived resolution in order to make this easier to follow) On a 200 dpi screen, over 1100 pixels can be brought to bear on that very same character. This means that the character can be rendered with much greater fidelity, so that if it's rendered at the same height as on the 72DPI screen it should be far more readable. Of course, your OS has to be smart enough to compensate for the much smaller pixels, but modern GUIs have this one figured out, for the most part.
If you look at the amount of engineering Apple has been throwing at the PIMesque components of Jaguar (namely the substantially upgraded Mail.app, the new Address Book and iSync), I'd say the most likely point of origin for Outlook interopability is Apple themselves. They seem to be doing some of the backend work too, with the expansion of their directory services plugin stuff on at the infrastructure level.
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Last Sunday, the Detroit News ran an article about local spammer (and convicted felon) Alan Ralsky.
I cycle about 100 miles a week. My bike is probably where I end up listening to the most music. A good portable player (I use an iPod, but this would apply to some others as well) beats the crap out of a discman in this situation, because of the vastly superior portability. The iPod is about a third of the size of any portable CD player except for those useless 3-inch models, has an effectively infinite anti-skip buffer, and requires hauling around no bulky media.
As for theft, since the iPod is only the size of a cigarette pack, there's no reason to leave it in the car to be stolen when you go inside somewhere -- that's what pockets are for, chief.
Haven't you noticed how hard Apple's been pushing MPEG 4 since they released Quicktime 6? They even streamed the Macworld keynote im MPEG 4 the other day.
What in the world is "unopen" about Quicktime, since the metafile format is fully published and the codecs they're pushing most loudly are an ISO standard?
The Applescript update requires a reboot, presumably because a user might be running Applescript Studio-built binaries linked against the old libraries.
You can start it and stop it from System Preferences (analagous to the Control Panels in MacOS 9.x and below.) There's a pane on the sharing button that essential hooks up to "apachectl" on the backend, which fires off httpd just like every other Unix box in the world.
Pages under the hierachy/Library/WebServer/Documents and in the users home directories (/Users/[username]/Sites) are served, you can tweak everything in Private/etc/httpd, logs go in/Private/var/log/httpd
He's probably referring to the OS X Networking Update last week that some people bitched about because it forced a reboot. That one required a reboot because it replaced the network stack, not just a few daemons.
Apple tends to err on the side of caution with their Software Update scripts, usually forcing a reboot. I don't mind myself, not being one of those people who equates uptime with anatomical endowment.
You do of course realize that you're comparing the performance of a pre-release OS complete, with debug code (you're breaking your NDA, btw) to a relased product, don't you?
As I distantly recall from an article I read around the time the movie was released, the filmmakers made a point to make sure that Matthew Broderick's rig was accurate inasmuch as being real technology available at that time, rather than the usual (for that time period) cardboard mockups that were used in most movies. They also wanted to give the impression that it was sort of secondhand or castoff gear that an avid geeky kid might piece together-- even at the time that film was made, 8-inch floppies and acoustic couplers were well on their way out.
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Because if you get enough of these and flag them as spam, the filter will start to catch them, too -- "Hmm... multipart message with no text content and embedded images is usually spam." That's the beauty of the way these filters work.
Not really. My mail client automatically sorts suspected spam into a "Junk" box and, um, colors it brown [heh]. I just glance in the box once a day (at the Subject lines and Senders), which is almost always enough to tell me whether there are any false positives or not (i.e. are any of the senders known acquantances, do any of the subject lines correspond to any active projects). Since the spam filter is the last one that runs against my incoming messages [earlier filters take care of legitimate mailing lists, etc.], false positives are extremely rare: on the order of one or two a week, and I get thousands of emails. Rarely do I actually need to read a message it's flagged to determine whether it's spam or not.
Over the last month or so, I've received a few really strangely worded porn spams that seem to be engineered so as not to trip ISP porn filters. They use lots of passive verbs, no exclamation points, no HTML, and dictionary definitions of whatever kink the spammer is selling.
:)
Since I use Jaguar's mail client, I just told it that these were spam too and now it catches them by itself.
I've had occasion to play around with AllTheWeb, which also often gives different (but still relevant) results on lots of queries. Worth a look.
Exactly. As long as your vendor provides a default reasonable install of sendmail (most do, nowadays) it isn't notably harder to configure safely as any other server app.
In other words, pay lots of money to turn the thing into a PC. You'd be better off buying this, at least you wouldn't have to screw around with modchips.
So far we have several dozen posts complaining about licenses (so very Slashdot of you, really), and no one talking about why releasing the Releasing the Rendezvous source is so cool. Zeroconf is cool stuff. Imagine setting up a dozen machines at a conference or a LAN party and having them automatically self-configure their networking and discover each others services, without having to worry about subnet masks or a DHCP server. They already demoed a forthcoming version of iTunes that lets you play music from another 802.11 connected laptop without any configuration.
Oh, but I forgot -- bitching about the license is more important.
I've see the same effect. I almost never see spam anymore, and get almost no false positives. I wish I could find the quote, but one of the Jaguar engineers confirmed that there's some "serious math" behind Mail.app's spam handling. I can't find any technical reference about the algorithms being used, though.
Whew, the ISS marketing guys really did a number on your mind, didn't they?
I worked on intrusion detection at a site where we had two IDS systems set up in parallel, one based on RealSecure and the other being a custom tailored solution that utilized a "sensor" machine sitting in our DMZ with a quiet NIC, similar to what's described in the linked article. It used tcpdump for data collection, and saved most of our incoming and outgoing network traffic to a fast disk array for analysis (based on tcpdump filters.) Hourly scripts would process the saved packages with Snort (and a variety of other tools, some of them free and some of them custom written for us and the other sites on our WAN.)
While RealSecure is fine for detecting bumbling script kiddies and obvious misconfigurations (like unpatched boxes becoming Nimda zombies), the tcpdump solution was far better at detecting the serious intrusion attempts, like the slow and low network probes with custom crafted packets, and telling us exactly who on our network was doing boneheaded things like using telnet across network boundaries. RealSecure's coming in a pretty box and costing a lot of money doesn't make it the end-all be-all of intrusion detection systems.
You're approaching it the wrong way. On a 72-dpi screen, a 12-point character can be represented by 144 pixels (I know, I'm deliberately omitting the effects of subpixel aliasing / anti-aliasing, hinting, and all those other tricks that modern display technologies use to boost perceived resolution in order to make this easier to follow) On a 200 dpi screen, over 1100 pixels can be brought to bear on that very same character. This means that the character can be rendered with much greater fidelity, so that if it's rendered at the same height as on the 72DPI screen it should be far more readable. Of course, your OS has to be smart enough to compensate for the much smaller pixels, but modern GUIs have this one figured out, for the most part.
If you look at the amount of engineering Apple has been throwing at the PIMesque components of Jaguar (namely the substantially upgraded Mail.app, the new Address Book and iSync), I'd say the most likely point of origin for Outlook interopability is Apple themselves. They seem to be doing some of the backend work too, with the expansion of their directory services plugin stuff on at the infrastructure level.
Last Sunday, the Detroit News ran an article about local spammer (and convicted felon) Alan Ralsky.
As for theft, since the iPod is only the size of a cigarette pack, there's no reason to leave it in the car to be stolen when you go inside somewhere -- that's what pockets are for, chief.
What in the world is "unopen" about Quicktime, since the metafile format is fully published and the codecs they're pushing most loudly are an ISO standard?
Homeboy, you're must be scratched because you keepskipping.
With the Dreamcast BBA going for over $150 on eBay, you won't be saving all that much.
The Applescript update requires a reboot, presumably because a user might be running Applescript Studio-built binaries linked against the old libraries.
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Apple tends to err on the side of caution with their Software Update scripts, usually forcing a reboot.
I don't mind myself, not being one of those people who equates uptime with anatomical endowment.
OS X 10.2 DP (i.e. a Developer Preview release),
which is (a) still under development, with debug code (b) covered by NDA.
You do of course realize that you're comparing the performance of a pre-release OS complete, with debug code (you're breaking your NDA, btw) to a relased product, don't you?
As I distantly recall from an article I read around the time the movie was released, the filmmakers made a point to make sure that Matthew Broderick's rig was accurate inasmuch as being real technology available at that time, rather than the usual (for that time period) cardboard mockups that were used in most movies. They also wanted to give the impression that it was sort of secondhand or castoff gear that an avid geeky kid might piece together-- even at the time that film was made, 8-inch floppies and acoustic couplers were well on their way out.
Damn, that's cool.
Works great, even on a G3.
Weird. I suggest filing a bug, as that's definitely not normal performance -- I haven't seen that on any machine I've run Chimera on.