Go on. I'm taking notes.... The last psuedo date I was on was with a vegetarian that would eat Taco Bell mexican pizzas. I don't know if that says more about her dietary convictions or the food at Taco Bell.:-)
Oh no. MD does so much more. It can glue a couple Sendmail to a couple dozen AV utilities, SpamAssassin, auto-strip HTML, attachment extension filters, yadda yadda yadda. It can do all sorts of good things. I highly recommend it. We just bought it's commercial big brother called CanIt Pro. It's slick. It has MD at its core with a slick web GUI and fancy quarantine/trap capabilities. I'd take a peak at it if I were you. I think you'll really enjoy it. The mailing list for MD is pretty active.
Good job! I believe that the biblic stories like Noah's Dingy are simply stories created to explain events in nature, in one's environment. Every other religion known to man has done this from the Aztecs that slaughtered folks right and left to appease their Gods to the Native Americans who have some of the best whoppers I've ever heard. It always strikes me as odd how so many religions can be summed up in fables and yet Christian zealots always manage to fall back on 'it's just God's way to spreading his message.' I believe in the KISS methodology. Quite frankly KISS tells me that a lot of nieve individuals take a bunch of old whoppers as word from on high, where ever high is.
Is it at all possible that maybe a person familiar with the tales of Noah's ark actually built a boat on top of this mountain simply to convince the people of the time of something?
Or, like in most myths, there was a boat-like formation on that mountain long ago and a local spun the tale of Noah Ark's to give the children an explanation. Kind of like 'why does the volcano spit fire?'; 'because we haven't sacrificed a virgin to appease the god yet.' Etc.
You, like so many of the folks that responded to you, obviously have no experience running a production mail server. If you did have experience you wouldn't have a need to ask. Yes there are trustworthy DNS providers out there. I'm using 11 of them IN PRODUCTION USE at this very moment. Those 11 providers make up 34 separate blacklists and I use every single one of them. You can voice an educated opinion on the matter when in fact you become educated on the matter.
Your comment is ludicrous and tells me you have zero, zlich, nadda experience running a production mail system. Do you think MAPS is run by spammers? Do you think Paul Vixie is a spammer? Do you think Spamhaus is run by spammers? Do you thin Steve Linford is a spammer? What about Osirusoft.com and Joe Jared? Are the folks are Sendmail, Inc that recommend various DNSBLs (like Neil and Claus) figments our imagination? I can't believe your comment was modded as high as it was for a comment from someone who obviously has no experience to speak from.
A formal registered complaint wouldn't have made it to the desk of the person with the authority to dictate compliance. It would have been pre-screened by his seretary and sent to the appropriate department where again it would be ignored. If by some miracle it did make it to the suit's desk he would recognize a few of the buzzwords as having to do with that Internet Thingy and had his secretary forward on to the tech group. Do you honestly think that a person in that position has any clue what the hell you're talking about when you threaten to blacklist them? Do you really think they're going to bother reading your description? Not likely.
Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about the counter-suit. There are so many lawsuits going on I keep forgetting who's sueing who. LOL. Yeah, they could do what they need in their own lawsuit if needed. Then again maybe the current judge is more likely to grant the subpoenas than the judge presiding over their other case. It could be something else along those lines. Suit #1 cold prove IBM right and leave the door open for Suit #2 to break the company. Woo hoo!
Sure thing. They could try to quash it (I think that's spelled right). I imagine IBM wrote their subpoena well enough to make it seem plenty reasonable to the judge though. Their lawyers get paid the big bucks to get it right.:) Yeah, I wish they'd tell us more. Then again if they do make their plans readily public that would give the folks they are subpoenaing time to prep. Got to keep you best plays hidden in the back of your playbook until you're ready to kick ass, ya know.:)
I think they see SCO's case is about to dry up and blow away and they want to get as much out of this as they can before that happens (if they are unsuccessful at convincing the judge to not dismiss the case at SCO's request (which I believe is coming)). I believe IBM wants to keep this case going so they can get a judgement in their favor, not simply a dismissal but an actual judgement. I think they believe MS is involved and they're seeking evidence to support that belief. If they can prove that MS paid SCO to litigate Linux then IBM will have an extremely strong set of feet to stand on when they oppose dimissing the case. That's what I believe is happening.
I'm 24 as well. No wife and no kids that they've ever managed to pin on me.:) I too had an extremely stressful job (emphasis on past tense). I was going through a large bottle of Maalox a week. Office politics were killing me. The job had great potential. So much needed to be done there that I could have been kept busy in a good career. Unfortunately I eventually became fodder for political office games. Those are games I didn't play. My contract ended up not getting renewed. I didn't work in the office from that day (Jan 15) on. My pay continued until Jun 6 which is when my contract expired. I had planned on leaving that place for a couple of years. My plan was to get out of debt, build some savings, learn as much as I could from the job, and find a less stressful job OR return to college and finish my degree from my savings. The pay was good and helped get me out of debt. I had just finished paying off all my credit cards when they told me they weren't renewing my contract. I had a couple more months to go on a motorcycle loan which the continuing pay took care of. I'd have left within a year but they beat me to the punch. Heck when they cut me lose I was already looking for other jobs and I'd even enrolled at another Unv for the Fall term after that. I kicked myself for turning down an offer less than half an hour away for half again as much money the year before that.
That said I'm extremely happy to not longer have that job. I miss the pay and I miss a lot of the folks that worked in that dept and elsewhere on the campus. I certainly don't miss the politics though. Good riddance to that. The only time I ned Maalox nowadays is when I make tex-mex the way I like it. I'm now self-employed. I've been working for a telco/isp in the area, one I've done contract work with for years. If I make as much money each month this year as I did last month I'll take home 3 times what my former job paid me, literally. I now work from home on hardware I'm confortable with in an environment where I'm at ease. I can cook a healthy lunch with ease while working. I'm doing things I enjoy doing and my opinions and sugestions aren't dismissed out of hand because the wrong person, me, thought of them. They pay me for my opinion and suggestions, not as the office whipping boy. It's a much better situation. Much more healthy.
I highly recommend you try to find something similar. Since you have kids you need to have a separate office space where you can work relatively undisturbed. You can still break after lunch to play catch or change a diaper. You do need your own working environment though. I highly recommend it. Best of luck.
Anyone who understand DNS, their OS's limits, and software applications can deploy BIND 9 in a frighteningly secure manner.
...and anyone that doesn't understand DNS, their OS's limits, or software applications should not be running any server, let along a nameserver, PERIOD, IMHO. The problem today is that there are way to damned many incompotent imbeciles that call them selves admins. Most of the rejects think they know Windows pretty well and thus can run any kind of server. It's really a sad state of affairs. I wish there was a certification that people had to acquire before they could call themselves an admin of any platform.
I run Bind. I run Sendmail. I'll always use both. I supplement Bind with rbldnsd. I have no need to supplement Sendmail. Both do what I want. Since I'm not an incompotent moron I don't have any trouble configuring either of them. The claims people make about both/either being difficult to admin or insecure are complete bullshit. If the person was a half-assed compotent admin neither would be a problem. I swear, what is the world coming to....
I really do think they means One-Third of Mail NOT Spam. I've read a dozen reports in the past year that said that half of all the email was spam. I know it's not decreasing. 2.5 years ago half of the email coming into a provider I contract with was getting rejected as spam. Now that number is even higher. 1/3 my foot. 3/4 is more like it.
Thanks for all the responses. As long as XM mantains this business model then I'd consider subscribing. I don't know that Playboy radio is a good thing to have in a moving car.:)
Here's a question for you. FYI, I'm thiking about getting XM. What all do you get for your monthly fee? Do you get all the XM channels or is it like cable TV where you have to add the comedy package, classic package, etc? $10/month wouldn't be bad if it came with everything.
You know, I had a discussion with a family member just last week about movie theaters and how they bilk you for every nickel. What I don't understand is why a most business folks concentrate on making a nice profit on every sale. Why don't they make a small profit on each sale and do more business overall? Make money in volume not the individual sale? Why charge $3.50 for a medium Pepsi and piss off the consumer when you can charge $1.25 or even a $1 and have a happy consumer. That pop cost so little that the consumer will likely buy 3 more drinks (wife and kids), a package of M&Ms for the kids, Rolos for the wife, and Hot Tamales for himself for $0.75/each. Toss in two big buckets of popcorn for $2.50/each and you have yourself a very happy customer. We're talking $12.25 for all of that (include the tax and keep charges disvisible buy $.25). Anywhere else and you'd be looking at nearly $40 and you haven't even included tickets yet.
We buy all our Chrysler vehicles at a particular dealership in Oklahoma. They always sell their vehicles at invoice price. They don't keep any of the rebates (we get them). They don't tack on bullshit fees for Etch or the holdback or any crap like that. The invoice we see is the one signed by the company when they bought the car off the truck. The dealership makes their $$ in volume sales kickbacks direct from Dodge. That kickback isn't huge by any means. However they do so much volume due to their low low prices that the kickbacks add up. They are by far the most profitable dealership in that corner of the state. Their customer service is excellent and their shop is one of the best in the country. The shops prices are set by Dodge so there isn't any room to fudge there. They don't make much profit from us buying a new Durango there. They make their profit in the sheer amount of volume they handle. They give loyalty discounts to repeat customers out of their own pockets (the dealership). They even give us $50 for referring new customers to them. That's how a business is supposed to be run. Why can't movie theaters operate on this premise?
I'd like to see a movie theater offer more than just movies. Why not have a couple restraunts in the building? Perhaps the patrons could eat while watching the movie. They could serve multiple purposes really. The prices should also be reasonable and the selection of food be diverse. You could even offer a more fancy restraunt for the more wealthy folks if it would fit in at that community. Why not offer a daycare facility for parents so they can leave their todlers with trained professionals (for a small fee of course) while they watch the movie and enjoy dinner together? It would be like valet parking but for your kids. The parents' ID information could be logged for security and verified upon picking up your child). The parents could be given an inexpensive pager so that they staff could page their parents in case the staff needs assistance with the child. I think this is a great idea personally.
Well, I'm rambling. I wish I had the funds to start such a establishment. I think it would be a wonderful moneymaker.
It's not that they don't understand (which they don't); it's that they don't care. All they see is yet another unharnessed source of income. I bet you that the law is so vaguely worded that it could describe the connection between you and your provider (DSL), you and your cable company for TV or cable modem, cordless multi-unit telephones (like the pair Sam's sold last X-mas that could have more handsets added to the setup), and even the datalink between your PDA and your desktop. Hell I bet it could even be applied to your USB hub and devices. I bet this law is that vague. They really don't care what the impact is. They just want more money.
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Go on. I'm taking notes.... The last psuedo date I was on was with a vegetarian that would eat Taco Bell mexican pizzas. I don't know if that says more about her dietary convictions or the food at Taco Bell. :-)
Oh no. MD does so much more. It can glue a couple Sendmail to a couple dozen AV utilities, SpamAssassin, auto-strip HTML, attachment extension filters, yadda yadda yadda. It can do all sorts of good things. I highly recommend it. We just bought it's commercial big brother called CanIt Pro. It's slick. It has MD at its core with a slick web GUI and fancy quarantine/trap capabilities. I'd take a peak at it if I were you. I think you'll really enjoy it. The mailing list for MD is pretty active.
Good job! I believe that the biblic stories like Noah's Dingy are simply stories created to explain events in nature, in one's environment. Every other religion known to man has done this from the Aztecs that slaughtered folks right and left to appease their Gods to the Native Americans who have some of the best whoppers I've ever heard. It always strikes me as odd how so many religions can be summed up in fables and yet Christian zealots always manage to fall back on 'it's just God's way to spreading his message.' I believe in the KISS methodology. Quite frankly KISS tells me that a lot of nieve individuals take a bunch of old whoppers as word from on high, where ever high is.
Or, like in most myths, there was a boat-like formation on that mountain long ago and a local spun the tale of Noah Ark's to give the children an explanation. Kind of like 'why does the volcano spit fire?'; 'because we haven't sacrificed a virgin to appease the god yet.' Etc.
You, like so many of the folks that responded to you, obviously have no experience running a production mail server. If you did have experience you wouldn't have a need to ask. Yes there are trustworthy DNS providers out there. I'm using 11 of them IN PRODUCTION USE at this very moment. Those 11 providers make up 34 separate blacklists and I use every single one of them. You can voice an educated opinion on the matter when in fact you become educated on the matter.
Your comment is ludicrous and tells me you have zero, zlich, nadda experience running a production mail system. Do you think MAPS is run by spammers? Do you think Paul Vixie is a spammer? Do you think Spamhaus is run by spammers? Do you thin Steve Linford is a spammer? What about Osirusoft.com and Joe Jared? Are the folks are Sendmail, Inc that recommend various DNSBLs (like Neil and Claus) figments our imagination? I can't believe your comment was modded as high as it was for a comment from someone who obviously has no experience to speak from.
MIMEDefang does this very thing WITH SpamAssassin. So does half a dozen or more other Milters. Where've you been? :)
A formal registered complaint wouldn't have made it to the desk of the person with the authority to dictate compliance. It would have been pre-screened by his seretary and sent to the appropriate department where again it would be ignored. If by some miracle it did make it to the suit's desk he would recognize a few of the buzzwords as having to do with that Internet Thingy and had his secretary forward on to the tech group. Do you honestly think that a person in that position has any clue what the hell you're talking about when you threaten to blacklist them? Do you really think they're going to bother reading your description? Not likely.
Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about the counter-suit. There are so many lawsuits going on I keep forgetting who's sueing who. LOL. Yeah, they could do what they need in their own lawsuit if needed. Then again maybe the current judge is more likely to grant the subpoenas than the judge presiding over their other case. It could be something else along those lines. Suit #1 cold prove IBM right and leave the door open for Suit #2 to break the company. Woo hoo!
I said judgement when I should have said ruling. A judgement would be something like damages.
Sure thing. They could try to quash it (I think that's spelled right). I imagine IBM wrote their subpoena well enough to make it seem plenty reasonable to the judge though. Their lawyers get paid the big bucks to get it right. :) Yeah, I wish they'd tell us more. Then again if they do make their plans readily public that would give the folks they are subpoenaing time to prep. Got to keep you best plays hidden in the back of your playbook until you're ready to kick ass, ya know. :)
Well put. Thanks.
An NDA doesn't mean jack when staring down the barrels of a subpoena. They'll be in contempt if they don't comply.
I think they see SCO's case is about to dry up and blow away and they want to get as much out of this as they can before that happens (if they are unsuccessful at convincing the judge to not dismiss the case at SCO's request (which I believe is coming)). I believe IBM wants to keep this case going so they can get a judgement in their favor, not simply a dismissal but an actual judgement. I think they believe MS is involved and they're seeking evidence to support that belief. If they can prove that MS paid SCO to litigate Linux then IBM will have an extremely strong set of feet to stand on when they oppose dimissing the case. That's what I believe is happening.
That said I'm extremely happy to not longer have that job. I miss the pay and I miss a lot of the folks that worked in that dept and elsewhere on the campus. I certainly don't miss the politics though. Good riddance to that. The only time I ned Maalox nowadays is when I make tex-mex the way I like it. I'm now self-employed. I've been working for a telco/isp in the area, one I've done contract work with for years. If I make as much money each month this year as I did last month I'll take home 3 times what my former job paid me, literally. I now work from home on hardware I'm confortable with in an environment where I'm at ease. I can cook a healthy lunch with ease while working. I'm doing things I enjoy doing and my opinions and sugestions aren't dismissed out of hand because the wrong person, me, thought of them. They pay me for my opinion and suggestions, not as the office whipping boy. It's a much better situation. Much more healthy.
I highly recommend you try to find something similar. Since you have kids you need to have a separate office space where you can work relatively undisturbed. You can still break after lunch to play catch or change a diaper. You do need your own working environment though. I highly recommend it. Best of luck.
I run Bind. I run Sendmail. I'll always use both. I supplement Bind with rbldnsd. I have no need to supplement Sendmail. Both do what I want. Since I'm not an incompotent moron I don't have any trouble configuring either of them. The claims people make about both/either being difficult to admin or insecure are complete bullshit. If the person was a half-assed compotent admin neither would be a problem. I swear, what is the world coming to....
So what you're saying is the ends justify the means, correct? Well I'm afraid history has proven that theory wrong time and time again.
Every news article covering this story since the ruling was issued. Where have you been?
The thief made much much more than $65mil.
I really do think they means One-Third of Mail NOT Spam. I've read a dozen reports in the past year that said that half of all the email was spam. I know it's not decreasing. 2.5 years ago half of the email coming into a provider I contract with was getting rejected as spam. Now that number is even higher. 1/3 my foot. 3/4 is more like it.
Thanks for all the responses. As long as XM mantains this business model then I'd consider subscribing. I don't know that Playboy radio is a good thing to have in a moving car. :)
Here's a question for you. FYI, I'm thiking about getting XM. What all do you get for your monthly fee? Do you get all the XM channels or is it like cable TV where you have to add the comedy package, classic package, etc? $10/month wouldn't be bad if it came with everything.
We buy all our Chrysler vehicles at a particular dealership in Oklahoma. They always sell their vehicles at invoice price. They don't keep any of the rebates (we get them). They don't tack on bullshit fees for Etch or the holdback or any crap like that. The invoice we see is the one signed by the company when they bought the car off the truck. The dealership makes their $$ in volume sales kickbacks direct from Dodge. That kickback isn't huge by any means. However they do so much volume due to their low low prices that the kickbacks add up. They are by far the most profitable dealership in that corner of the state. Their customer service is excellent and their shop is one of the best in the country. The shops prices are set by Dodge so there isn't any room to fudge there. They don't make much profit from us buying a new Durango there. They make their profit in the sheer amount of volume they handle. They give loyalty discounts to repeat customers out of their own pockets (the dealership). They even give us $50 for referring new customers to them. That's how a business is supposed to be run. Why can't movie theaters operate on this premise?
I'd like to see a movie theater offer more than just movies. Why not have a couple restraunts in the building? Perhaps the patrons could eat while watching the movie. They could serve multiple purposes really. The prices should also be reasonable and the selection of food be diverse. You could even offer a more fancy restraunt for the more wealthy folks if it would fit in at that community. Why not offer a daycare facility for parents so they can leave their todlers with trained professionals (for a small fee of course) while they watch the movie and enjoy dinner together? It would be like valet parking but for your kids. The parents' ID information could be logged for security and verified upon picking up your child). The parents could be given an inexpensive pager so that they staff could page their parents in case the staff needs assistance with the child. I think this is a great idea personally.
Well, I'm rambling. I wish I had the funds to start such a establishment. I think it would be a wonderful moneymaker.
It's not that they don't understand (which they don't); it's that they don't care. All they see is yet another unharnessed source of income. I bet you that the law is so vaguely worded that it could describe the connection between you and your provider (DSL), you and your cable company for TV or cable modem, cordless multi-unit telephones (like the pair Sam's sold last X-mas that could have more handsets added to the setup), and even the datalink between your PDA and your desktop. Hell I bet it could even be applied to your USB hub and devices. I bet this law is that vague. They really don't care what the impact is. They just want more money.
$.30 is more like it. $.30 for M&Ms from any good supply chain.