i aggregate about a dozen email addresses through one Linux user (postmaster) and then filter and distribute the mail using procmail and SpamAssassin.
after tweaking it for the first month or so i have not had to mess with SpamAssassin's filtering.
i get the occasional false positive but my setup rarely lets a false negative slip through.
when i do get a false positive, i put the offender email address in a temporary SpamAssassin whitelist and send the message to a dummy email address (deSPAM) which de-spams the message before SpamAssassin passes it to the intended user.
BitGeek you ignorant slut - you're like the boy in the plastic bubble,
you have an extremely narrow understanding of the employer/employee
relationship and I suspect you have little experience dealing with
multi-tiered management. I could say more about the baseless rhetoric that
you are spewing but... you're an idiot!
As one enlightened reader pointed out, most of the negative views of
labor unions are fabrications of big corporations and mainstream media.
Labor unions are neither universally good nor universally bad nor
universally corrupt - they are best utilized when the balance of power
shifts too far to the management side of the scale. In my experience, the
worst abuse of that power comes not from management but from the HR
department but that's another topic.
As far as IT workers being "professionals", like it or not, all IT
workers are "blue collar" not "professional". At best, IT workers could be
classified as "skilled trade". Either way, you are a grunt; a skilled grunt
but still a grunt.
After accumulating double-digit years of experience one might consider
becoming a "consultant". Unfortunately, unless you are truly an
"independent" consultant, you will likely be working for what is known as an
"umbrella" organization which will likely cleave much more than %15 of the
bill-rate for "administrative" purposes. Since these "umbrella" companies
are effectively collective bargaining organizations, you are already are
working for a union albeit one in which you have no say.
Being an independent consultant is not easy either. It's a business and
the business of business is wrought with politics which most "techies" are
notoriously abhorrent to. Also despite the elitist attitude of most
"techies", most do not have the entrepreneurial skills to make it on their
own.
Lastly, on the subject of unionizing:
I come from a long line of union rabble rousers and I have direct
experience in organizing a union and it's not for the faint of heart. I was
threatened several times with bodily harm mostly by workers who were opposed
to unionizing. In the end the workers narrowly voted against unionization
and although I was young I took the defeat with some sense of pride in doing
what I thought was "right".
My experience taught me one valuable lesson: that risk is proportional
to reward/loss. In my case the workers "reward" and the company's "loss"
was probably less than seven figures and yet people were willing to risk
their jobs and their freedom (assault & battery) to achieve those
results.
thor
walmart - pc's without os
on
Nosy Vendors?
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· Score: 2
Are you willing to defend your way of life?
on
Review: Tolkien's World
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
i submitted this to "Ask Slashdot" but was sumarily rejected...
i wonder why?
---
Sixty years ago, our nation was playing only a supporting role in the fight against evil which was spreading over Europe like the plagues of past and would have reluctantly joined the fight had push come to shove. At the time, our nation had no stomach for a war much less one an ocean away.
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, our nation was attacked without notice and without provocation by a nation with whom we had been conducting diplomatic relations. The horror of this event was reported around the world by radio, by newspaper and by word of mouth.
Our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents did not have pictures, nor graphic simulations, nor television, nor videotape, nor cable, nor the internet and yet they understood that innocent lives were taken without notice and without provocation. There were no graphic images of death etched in their minds but they understood that our nation and way of life was attacked and they went to war. They fought that war and won and we owe them a debt of gratitude we can never repay. After much sacrifice they conquered the evil in Europe and eventually, they righted that terrible wrong.
Since then our nation has had to weather the humiliation and embarrassment of fighting in wars we were not directly involved and not willing as a nation to fight. The evil was no less menacing but without a clear understanding of who and what we were fighting for, the resolve of the nation was not there.
On the morning of 11 September, 2001, our nation was attacked, without notice and without provocation, not by any one nation but by an evil which has plagued our world for much too long.
The horrors of this terrible event unfolded for many on live television and in countless replays of video tape.
So my question is for the men and women of the misnamed X and Y generations, of which I am one:
Are you willing to defend your nation and way of life at all cost and right a very terrible wrong?
Slashdot Mirror
any of the more than 9,000 people who downloaded the NYC and SFC maps care to share?
thor
or using Perl:
;
if((@quads)=m:(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+):)
{
# do stuff
}
else
{
warn ( "bad address" )
}
QED
...whosyourdaddy
fetchyahoo
apt-get install kernel-2.6.0
SpamAssassin catches 99.99% of the SPAM i get.
i aggregate about a dozen email addresses through one Linux user (postmaster) and then filter and distribute the mail using procmail and SpamAssassin.
after tweaking it for the first month or so i have not had to mess with SpamAssassin's filtering.
i get the occasional false positive but my setup rarely lets a false negative slip through.
when i do get a false positive, i put the offender email address in a temporary SpamAssassin whitelist and send the message to a dummy email address (deSPAM) which de-spams the message before SpamAssassin passes it to the intended user.
email me if you want to learn more...
thor
TRPlayer
thor
exactly!
now where can i get 100 copies of each Tanya Grotter book?
i need a link to a russian bookstore...
thanks,
thor
best i've seen so far
JohnCompanies - Collocation Services
thor
bhocop.zip
thor
Dead horse theology
Now that the ignorant have spoken...
BitGeek you ignorant slut - you're like the boy in the plastic bubble, you have an extremely narrow understanding of the employer/employee relationship and I suspect you have little experience dealing with multi-tiered management. I could say more about the baseless rhetoric that you are spewing but... you're an idiot!
As one enlightened reader pointed out, most of the negative views of labor unions are fabrications of big corporations and mainstream media. Labor unions are neither universally good nor universally bad nor universally corrupt - they are best utilized when the balance of power shifts too far to the management side of the scale. In my experience, the worst abuse of that power comes not from management but from the HR department but that's another topic.
As far as IT workers being "professionals", like it or not, all IT workers are "blue collar" not "professional". At best, IT workers could be classified as "skilled trade". Either way, you are a grunt; a skilled grunt but still a grunt.
After accumulating double-digit years of experience one might consider becoming a "consultant". Unfortunately, unless you are truly an "independent" consultant, you will likely be working for what is known as an "umbrella" organization which will likely cleave much more than %15 of the bill-rate for "administrative" purposes. Since these "umbrella" companies are effectively collective bargaining organizations, you are already are working for a union albeit one in which you have no say.
Being an independent consultant is not easy either. It's a business and the business of business is wrought with politics which most "techies" are notoriously abhorrent to. Also despite the elitist attitude of most "techies", most do not have the entrepreneurial skills to make it on their own.
Lastly, on the subject of unionizing:
I come from a long line of union rabble rousers and I have direct experience in organizing a union and it's not for the faint of heart. I was threatened several times with bodily harm mostly by workers who were opposed to unionizing. In the end the workers narrowly voted against unionization and although I was young I took the defeat with some sense of pride in doing what I thought was "right".
My experience taught me one valuable lesson: that risk is proportional to reward/loss. In my case the workers "reward" and the company's "loss" was probably less than seven figures and yet people were willing to risk their jobs and their freedom (assault & battery) to achieve those results.
thor
walmart - pc's without os
thor
linksys
why are the bcast sources on this list?
for all the reasons stated above and...
i was unable to produce a simple Howto document (bulleted list) because the docbook.xsl file had error(s).
when i reported these to the author (?) i was ignored.
now over a year later i'm kicking myself for not finishing my version of what docbook should be: doc-this!
i have been asked recently to finish this so i guess maybe it's woth the effort.
bladerunner
2001
aliens
alien
.
is it just me or has XP already caused the "net" to shit-the-bed?!?
thor
bash-2.01$ while ( [ $? != 0 ] ) ; do wget --tries 0 http://squeeze.sorenson.com/video/fellowshipofther ing_fs.zip ; done
what's your birthday?!?
i wonder why?
---
Sixty years ago, our nation was playing only a supporting role in the fight against evil which was spreading over Europe like the plagues of past and would have reluctantly joined the fight had push come to shove. At the time, our nation had no stomach for a war much less one an ocean away.
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, our nation was attacked without notice and without provocation by a nation with whom we had been conducting diplomatic relations. The horror of this event was reported around the world by radio, by newspaper and by word of mouth.
Our parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents did not have pictures, nor graphic simulations, nor television, nor videotape, nor cable, nor the internet and yet they understood that innocent lives were taken without notice and without provocation. There were no graphic images of death etched in their minds but they understood that our nation and way of life was attacked and they went to war. They fought that war and won and we owe them a debt of gratitude we can never repay. After much sacrifice they conquered the evil in Europe and eventually, they righted that terrible wrong.
Since then our nation has had to weather the humiliation and embarrassment of fighting in wars we were not directly involved and not willing as a nation to fight. The evil was no less menacing but without a clear understanding of who and what we were fighting for, the resolve of the nation was not there.
On the morning of 11 September, 2001, our nation was attacked, without notice and without provocation, not by any one nation but by an evil which has plagued our world for much too long.
The horrors of this terrible event unfolded for many on live television and in countless replays of video tape.
So my question is for the men and women of the misnamed X and Y generations, of which I am one:
Are you willing to defend your nation and way of life at all cost and right a very terrible wrong?
before slashdot there was omni
> When is Slashdot going to get a new icon for these stories?
how about a dead horse!?!
thor
i've made between 200-300 purchases online this year and the only one that went awry was my purchase of Solaris 8 from Sun / Modusmedia.
(i didn't appreciate having my CC info redirected from a secure link to an non-secure link)
thor
listen to WBER online
wouldn't it make sense to require a tax ID to register a .com (commercial) domain?!?
/.?!?
Likewise, create two new TLD's:
    .inc (incorporated) - requires art. of inc.
    .ind (individual) - no last names
Also, fees should be commensurate to TLD:
    .inc - $1K/yr
    .com - $500/yr
    .ind - $100/yr
any thoughts?!?
thor
ps. anyone else having probs connecting to