Were it for the fact that Slashdot's friend/foe feature is broken (or at least it is for me) I would certainly be more than inclined to mark you as a foe simply for being an arrogant ass. Your definition of "decency" is not my definition of decency, nor it is everyone elses' definition of decency. Likewise your morals are not my morals. What you believe to be immoral is not what I believe to be immoral. Walk away if you don't like what I have to say.
To go along with your statement I'll throw in an simple OSS tool that hooks into Sendmail and does just what you said (and so much more). MIMEDefang is the tool I'm referring to. My last check of the config script listed about 20 AV clients it supported out of the tarball and a number of Perl addons that also help identify malicious crap like Anomy::HTMLCleaner and File::Scan. MIMEDefang has been rolled up into a commercial app which I highly recommend as well called CanIt. There are a number of CanIt options including CanIt-Pro which has a kickass GUI. They also make a SMB appliance and a full-size appliance. They also include the source. I highly recommend it. I use CanIt-Pro myself. It makes the Barracuda products look like the worthless pieces of junk that they are. CanIt also installs Clam out of the box.
AVG did the same for me about a month ago. Vundo got on my laptop and it took forever to get rid of the damn thing. It always makes me nervous when the instructions for doing something in Windows point out that "your machine will blue screen after this step but don't worry; that's normal."
That's easy enough. Just buy the generic version. J&J doesn't make a generic product. Why would they? They make a killing off of the non-generic product because people like the prettier box.
The only way it will ever change is after a revolt of the artists. The artists have much more control over the labels and thus the RIAA than any one individual or any 1,000 consumers can ever hope to achieve. If the artists revolt en masse then we can effect greater changes within the labels and thus the RIAA.
I commonly access the Internet from production servers as well. They aren't even my own property but that of my employers and our clients. Would I be expected to steal the property of those entities for submission to the court?
The size of the routing table is only pertinent IF you take a full table. There are very few reasons for any dual-homed non-SP entity to need a full table. All they need is a default route from each peer. If it's a matter of wanting to more efficiently steering traffic destined to a specific peer onto that peer's link then you can either use a route-map and a list of that peer's larger prefixes to adjust the MED or weight or you can simply ask your peers to send you only their routes (trivially easy for them to do).
For those of us SPs that require full tables then the number of routes is a concern that's easily mitigated. We can implemente RIR policy filtering. That cuts the full table down to just over 1/3rd the normal size. For larger platforms relying on TCAM allocations for entries in the RIB you can generally adjust the size resource usage to free up more TCAM space. These are very larger routers though with old supervisor engines. SPs with these routers are pushing them further into the distribution and aggregation layers where they don't need full tables (in non-MPLS cases at least). These would be 6500/7600s with Sup2s. Soon Sup32s will be on the chopping block. As far as the smaller routers go they are typically limited by RAM. I replaced a decrepit Cisco 3660 with 192MB of RAM a few months back. That old router was receiving 3 full tables. 3! Granted, it didn't have enough RAM to run CEF but that's another story. Most people who have a legitimate need for full table won't be trying to put them on a router that small and preferably not that old.
So in short the size of your RIB isn't a problem for those who have a legit need for full tables and for the few that are in a pickle with older supervisor engines there are easy ways to mitigate it. It's how big your RIB is; it's how you use it.
You don't have to actually do the upgrade on January 1st or the night before. Any SP that's responsible will have this implemented well in advance of the due date.
This is something that every needs to see. This should go a long way towards fighting the 'anti-IPv6 because the addresses are hard to remember' crowd of cry babies. Yes, Virgina we are running out of IPv4 allocatable addresses.
Would someone please bury this AC's comments with negative mod points. The AC is truly and idiot. He's full of shit on no less than all four of his points. I think that may be a new record.
Like you I know at least a hundred people who've tried them as well (at 4 past employers) and I can't think of anyone who likes those things. For me it's just too touchy. I never got the hang of it. You're right about making your finger hurt. It didn't feel too good on my finger. The Dell I used to have had one of those and it had a very coarse-feeling texture. It annoyed me to no-ends when I'd rub my nail across that thing. It reminded me of finger nails on a chalkboard.
Everyone I know that had a laptop with a TrackPoint swore AT them, including myself. I'd be typing along and hit that little bastard and suddenly I'll have clicked in the middle of some other window or even worse if it was in the middle of a block of text. They are as bad as a trackpad that hasn't had the sensitivity adjusted to prevent my palm from causing an accidental click while typing.
Lovely. So you're one of "those" people that interpret the standards as you see fit. Nice. So what you're saying here is that you're actually blocking all mail from people who's DNS is broken when you make your query. Or for people who's have complete in-addr.arpa zones but the single UDP reply packet got lost along the way. That's rather expected considering UDP is of course "best effort" and "unreliable". I have no doubt that you're blocking a large amount of spam. That's a given. I also have no doubt that you're blocking a large amount of ham as well. The RFCs are written for a reason and by very smart people I might add. Strict adherence to the standards is the only way to ensure accurate communication for this medium. We can't simply interpret the standards any damn way we please. Reverse DNS is not required by RFC 2821. It's recommended but not required. I would recommend scoring based on rev-DNS but never blocking outright. That's plain ignorant. I say that as a mail admin and avid spam-fighter.
Clearly some things will for the forseeable future require a brick and mortar down the street. However, and I'll point this out since I'm an Amazon Associate (ie, I have a webpage and an account) as well as an Amazon Prime member, most of their dry grocery goods are significantly cheaper. For one thing almost all of their items are sold in bulk. Ie instead of buying 1 box of Chicken Helper @ $2.50 a box you buy 12 of them for $25. On top of that if you're an Amazon Prime member you'll get free 2nd-day shipping.
For those that don't already know about Amazon Prime it works like this. I pay $79/year to be a member which gets me free 2nd-day shipping and discounted next-day shipping $4/item I believe). I don't have to buy a minimum amount of stuff. I also don't have to worry about grouping my orders to work around backordered items (which is what I used to do so I wouldn't have my entire order held up by one item or have to pay extra $$$ to ship items separately). I can also share it with family (friends too if you don't get caught). This of course wouldn't make sense for everyone. You have to buy a lot from Amazon to make this worthwhile. In my case I bought about $4500 worth of books from them last year which would have normally been in roughly $50-100 chunks. Assuming an average of $75 that's 60 separate shipments. I believe I was paying $12-15 for 2nd-day air depending on the weight. That's $720-900 I would have paid in shipping. This of course doesn't include the books that I have to have immediately. So for me it's a very good deal.
Back to the topic at hand. If you do a little price checking and use Amazon Prime to get free shipping (not exactly free because of the yearly fee but very discounted from the normal rates) you can save a lot of $$$. Most of the dry goods can be had this way. Some of the heavier items like canned goods aren't really any cheaper. Imagine yourself going to the store, guiding a cart through the isles overcrowded with everyone else who got off at 5:00, picking through the already picked-through selection, adding items to your cart that you really didn't need but are buying them anyway because the picture on the front makes you hungry, sorting coupons, and waiting in one of the 3 checkout lines that are open during the busiest hours of the day. That's at least 1.5 hours of your life down the crapper. Now imagine yourself drinking your 2nd-cup of joe in your office chair (or at home on the couch in your skivvies), opening up your web browser, searching for the dozen items that you need, running into the kitchen real quick to check the cupboards to see what you forgot, and checking out in about a minute's time (less if you don't read every single word on every single page). Which would you prefer to do?:-) I don't want to knock the little guys; my father was a "little guy" who ran his own service station for many years so I know what it's like competing with a giant. However there will always be little guys because they can offer you a level of service you can't get on your own. For those that prefer less service and lower prices they've got Amazon.
I have to reboot my XP laptop every couple of days or I run out of RAM. I have 2GB in my laptop. After one day of typical usage on my laptop Firefox will be consuming about 400MB of RAM. After a couple of days with a hibernation in the middle it'll be consuming almost 800MB. Killing and respawning FF doesn't help much. I usually reclaim about half the RAM that FF was using.
I'm not saying Sprint is blameless, I'm sure they are not. However if there's a problem, calling every day or multiple times per day just to whine "is it fixed yet?" doesn't help. People need time. Bugging them for an update every day doesn't help anything.
This of course implies that someone is actually going to work on the problem. With Sprint's track record of blowing off calls to bump up call center stats I'd call them back once an hour on the hour until the problem was resolved.
I attended LinkSys One training with a couple Sasktel guys about 9 months ago. In fact Cisco goofed up on my temp badge and printed my name and Sasktel as my employer. I still have that badge some where.
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Were it for the fact that Slashdot's friend/foe feature is broken (or at least it is for me) I would certainly be more than inclined to mark you as a foe simply for being an arrogant ass. Your definition of "decency" is not my definition of decency, nor it is everyone elses' definition of decency. Likewise your morals are not my morals. What you believe to be immoral is not what I believe to be immoral. Walk away if you don't like what I have to say.
To go along with your statement I'll throw in an simple OSS tool that hooks into Sendmail and does just what you said (and so much more). MIMEDefang is the tool I'm referring to. My last check of the config script listed about 20 AV clients it supported out of the tarball and a number of Perl addons that also help identify malicious crap like Anomy::HTMLCleaner and File::Scan. MIMEDefang has been rolled up into a commercial app which I highly recommend as well called CanIt. There are a number of CanIt options including CanIt-Pro which has a kickass GUI. They also make a SMB appliance and a full-size appliance. They also include the source. I highly recommend it. I use CanIt-Pro myself. It makes the Barracuda products look like the worthless pieces of junk that they are. CanIt also installs Clam out of the box.
AVG did the same for me about a month ago. Vundo got on my laptop and it took forever to get rid of the damn thing. It always makes me nervous when the instructions for doing something in Windows point out that "your machine will blue screen after this step but don't worry; that's normal."
And on the 8th day there was a great spark...
That's easy enough. Just buy the generic version. J&J doesn't make a generic product. Why would they? They make a killing off of the non-generic product because people like the prettier box.
Prior to this thread I hadn't even heard of ChaCha.
The only way it will ever change is after a revolt of the artists. The artists have much more control over the labels and thus the RIAA than any one individual or any 1,000 consumers can ever hope to achieve. If the artists revolt en masse then we can effect greater changes within the labels and thus the RIAA.
I commonly access the Internet from production servers as well. They aren't even my own property but that of my employers and our clients. Would I be expected to steal the property of those entities for submission to the court?
For those of us SPs that require full tables then the number of routes is a concern that's easily mitigated. We can implemente RIR policy filtering. That cuts the full table down to just over 1/3rd the normal size. For larger platforms relying on TCAM allocations for entries in the RIB you can generally adjust the size resource usage to free up more TCAM space. These are very larger routers though with old supervisor engines. SPs with these routers are pushing them further into the distribution and aggregation layers where they don't need full tables (in non-MPLS cases at least). These would be 6500/7600s with Sup2s. Soon Sup32s will be on the chopping block. As far as the smaller routers go they are typically limited by RAM. I replaced a decrepit Cisco 3660 with 192MB of RAM a few months back. That old router was receiving 3 full tables. 3! Granted, it didn't have enough RAM to run CEF but that's another story. Most people who have a legitimate need for full table won't be trying to put them on a router that small and preferably not that old.
So in short the size of your RIB isn't a problem for those who have a legit need for full tables and for the few that are in a pickle with older supervisor engines there are easy ways to mitigate it. It's how big your RIB is; it's how you use it.
You don't have to actually do the upgrade on January 1st or the night before. Any SP that's responsible will have this implemented well in advance of the due date.
This is something that every needs to see. This should go a long way towards fighting the 'anti-IPv6 because the addresses are hard to remember' crowd of cry babies. Yes, Virgina we are running out of IPv4 allocatable addresses.
Bravo.
Would someone please bury this AC's comments with negative mod points. The AC is truly and idiot. He's full of shit on no less than all four of his points. I think that may be a new record.
Like you I know at least a hundred people who've tried them as well (at 4 past employers) and I can't think of anyone who likes those things. For me it's just too touchy. I never got the hang of it. You're right about making your finger hurt. It didn't feel too good on my finger. The Dell I used to have had one of those and it had a very coarse-feeling texture. It annoyed me to no-ends when I'd rub my nail across that thing. It reminded me of finger nails on a chalkboard.
Everyone I know that had a laptop with a TrackPoint swore AT them, including myself. I'd be typing along and hit that little bastard and suddenly I'll have clicked in the middle of some other window or even worse if it was in the middle of a block of text. They are as bad as a trackpad that hasn't had the sensitivity adjusted to prevent my palm from causing an accidental click while typing.
Lovely. So you're one of "those" people that interpret the standards as you see fit. Nice. So what you're saying here is that you're actually blocking all mail from people who's DNS is broken when you make your query. Or for people who's have complete in-addr.arpa zones but the single UDP reply packet got lost along the way. That's rather expected considering UDP is of course "best effort" and "unreliable". I have no doubt that you're blocking a large amount of spam. That's a given. I also have no doubt that you're blocking a large amount of ham as well. The RFCs are written for a reason and by very smart people I might add. Strict adherence to the standards is the only way to ensure accurate communication for this medium. We can't simply interpret the standards any damn way we please. Reverse DNS is not required by RFC 2821. It's recommended but not required. I would recommend scoring based on rev-DNS but never blocking outright. That's plain ignorant. I say that as a mail admin and avid spam-fighter.
They should have used beavers. Everyone knows that the beaver is the most dangerous animal in the world...
For those that don't already know about Amazon Prime it works like this. I pay $79/year to be a member which gets me free 2nd-day shipping and discounted next-day shipping $4/item I believe). I don't have to buy a minimum amount of stuff. I also don't have to worry about grouping my orders to work around backordered items (which is what I used to do so I wouldn't have my entire order held up by one item or have to pay extra $$$ to ship items separately). I can also share it with family (friends too if you don't get caught). This of course wouldn't make sense for everyone. You have to buy a lot from Amazon to make this worthwhile. In my case I bought about $4500 worth of books from them last year which would have normally been in roughly $50-100 chunks. Assuming an average of $75 that's 60 separate shipments. I believe I was paying $12-15 for 2nd-day air depending on the weight. That's $720-900 I would have paid in shipping. This of course doesn't include the books that I have to have immediately. So for me it's a very good deal.
Back to the topic at hand. If you do a little price checking and use Amazon Prime to get free shipping (not exactly free because of the yearly fee but very discounted from the normal rates) you can save a lot of $$$. Most of the dry goods can be had this way. Some of the heavier items like canned goods aren't really any cheaper. Imagine yourself going to the store, guiding a cart through the isles overcrowded with everyone else who got off at 5:00, picking through the already picked-through selection, adding items to your cart that you really didn't need but are buying them anyway because the picture on the front makes you hungry, sorting coupons, and waiting in one of the 3 checkout lines that are open during the busiest hours of the day. That's at least 1.5 hours of your life down the crapper. Now imagine yourself drinking your 2nd-cup of joe in your office chair (or at home on the couch in your skivvies), opening up your web browser, searching for the dozen items that you need, running into the kitchen real quick to check the cupboards to see what you forgot, and checking out in about a minute's time (less if you don't read every single word on every single page). Which would you prefer to do? :-) I don't want to knock the little guys; my father was a "little guy" who ran his own service station for many years so I know what it's like competing with a giant. However there will always be little guys because they can offer you a level of service you can't get on your own. For those that prefer less service and lower prices they've got Amazon.
I have to reboot my XP laptop every couple of days or I run out of RAM. I have 2GB in my laptop. After one day of typical usage on my laptop Firefox will be consuming about 400MB of RAM. After a couple of days with a hibernation in the middle it'll be consuming almost 800MB. Killing and respawning FF doesn't help much. I usually reclaim about half the RAM that FF was using.
Yes, everything released after and including the original bondi blue iMac and the B&W G3s and later are NewWorld.
This of course implies that someone is actually going to work on the problem. With Sprint's track record of blowing off calls to bump up call center stats I'd call them back once an hour on the hour until the problem was resolved.
FYI, it's advisable to simply ignore Slashdotters with IDs over one million. Stick with 6 digits or less and you'll run into far less trolls.
I attended LinkSys One training with a couple Sasktel guys about 9 months ago. In fact Cisco goofed up on my temp badge and printed my name and Sasktel as my employer. I still have that badge some where.
That's horseshit and here's the proof.
Ever hear of former District Attorney for Durham County, North Carolina Mike Nifong?