The fact that you, someone with no knowledge of the situation, were able to do that rewrite suggests that the email was indeed "readable" despite its poor gramatical construction.
Yes, but it is "readable" in the same sense that the assembler output of a compiler is readable. It can be read, but why torture yourself if you can avoid it?
Merk's version below is instantly parsable by anyone, without any special insider knowledge. The original message takes much longer to understand, probably even by those with intimate knowledge.
But this inverse temperature/density relationship only applies over a small temperature range, as
this document describes:
The density of water does increase as it cools (as it should), but at 4 C the density vs. temperature graph goes the other way and the density actually begins to decrease.
This decrease continues until the solid state is achieved (at 0 C), at which temperature the density vs. temperature graph resumes its normal trace.
Except for that four-degree range, water expands as it gets warmer.
No mixup; 200 meters is not my number, it is straight out of the article.
The article mentions that sea level could rise by up to ten meters (33 feet) in the course of a single decade. This means that I could be forced out of my home within my lifetime.
Fortunately, being 29 feet above sea level, I will be able to unload my waterfront property for a good price even after a significant rise, because so many people out there simply won't believe it could really become submerged.
I'll just buy again on the other side of the road (steep hill), and prepare to become a waterfront owner again. Lather, rinse, repeat...
I ask this question in all seriousness: What specific benefits would I gain from switching a Linux system to one of the BSDs?
Possibly none.
But in my case, I use, or will soon use, OpenBSD instead of Linux on all my servers (except my AS/400; I have a Microsoft-free server room).
Why? BSD is less chaotic. OpenBSD is more like my AS/400; it has that single-vendor feel, has good documentation, and problems are extremely rare. There is a place for everything, and everything is in its place. It just works.
I don't "play" with my operating system. I just want a stable platform for the applications I write and/or run on it. I get that with OpenBSD.
I know you are trolling, but I'll bite anyway for the edification of others (as if anyone will see your post at -1).
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that we would be required to publish our source code for others to use.
Wrong. You are only required to publish your source code if you distribute the resulting binary.
If you don't distribute the binary, you can keep your changes to yourself. Go re-read the GPL, particularly section 2: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
What I have a hard time swallowing is that I live in a country where more than half the population is willfully ignorant, politically obstinate, religiously prejudiced, and embarrassingly gullible.
You know what gets me? How Democrats can't seem to shut up about how smart they are. Really. Every single political thread I've seen lately has had some kind of attack on the intelligence of Bush voters, with the implicit or explicit praising of anti-Bush voters.
Americans are (justifiably) proud of their technological achievements. These don't just happen; some of the best, brightest, and most highly educated people in the world worked hard to bring them about.
I would like to point out that most of this excellence took place in the blue (Democrat) areas on the map.
I know there are
Intelligent, educated Republicans
Intelligent, educated rural people
Intelligent, educated southerners and midwesterners
Intelligent, educated Christians
but the fact is, less- or under-educated people are more likely to vote Republican.
And as for why the less educated "don't get it", there was an article on Slashdot a few months ago about how a minimum level of competence in a field is required before learning can take place (sorry, can't find the link). These people "don't know that they don't know."
Tell me, if you guys are so damn smart, then why are you out the presidency, why are you out more senate seats, and why are you out a few more house seats too?
By definition, people of above average intelligence are outnumbered.
If that was insightful, here's the flamebait: In the interests of re-election, the best Republican policy on education would be much talk about improvement, but no action.
I've seen AIX-based database systems that require an overnight downtime to do reindexing, since non-SQL formats like DBase have always been a little funky when they start having to deal with million-record tables. It's amazing how ugly legacy databases can be compared to today's tech.
I have written applications that use million+ -record tables. And yes, rebuilding indexes over such tables is slow.
But an index is an index is an index. I don't care what legacy or modern technology your database uses, when you need to rebuild an index, you need to read all your million+ records to know what to index. That is what takes the time, barring crappy index insertion algorithms (both are SQL-neutral issues).
The right answer is to never let your index get out of date (or corrupted). Worked for me on AS/400...
I know; too bad. I went to Engarde as a replacement for Red Hat, after flirting with OpenBSD. When Engarde Community 2 was released I got nervous about availability of updates, so I moved to OpenBSD.
Give Gentoo a shot,...
Someday I will, but on the desktop.
...it may take you 3 days to compile from scratch on a P200;-)
That P200 server is overdue for replacement. When it does get replaced, it will get OpenBSD.
Heh; so how do *I* fit the slashdot profile?
*BSD is NOT dead around here, all my other servers (except my AS/400) run OpenBSD
Linux is for the desktop, rather than the servers =)
It's an ancient govt-surplus Dell Optiplex P200 running the original Engarde Secure Linux community edition, with i386 binaries. Source is a hassle, because the distro comes without development tools (you have to install them separately).
I was surprised myself; it's a reasonably busy web server, and the usage is usually so low I wonder about the accuracy of the numbers. But serving Squirrelmail pages over HTTPS pegs CPU usage at 100%, and it's slow.
Its going to be a mail/file server. I think you don't need a ton of horsepower...
Don't forget SSL. If you want to run webmail over HTTPS, you need a fair bit of CPU.
My P200/Linux server goes to 100% CPU usage when I hit Refresh on my inbox, and it feels slow as molasses. Otherwise, the machine is adequate; all non-encrypted stuff feels quite snappy.
Most (not all!) spammers filter out postmaster@[all-domains] (spammers may be stupid, but they're not *that* stupid).
Well... actually they are that stupid. Between 10% and 25% of the daily spam arriving at my server is for postmaster, so I finally gave up and stopped exempting postmaster from the spam blocks.
IMHO this means the end of mailing lists - what would prevent me from signing up (automatically, of course) to thousands of mailing lists and collecting all the bonds placed for messages posted through these lists ?
Are you sure?
The mailing list puts no money in escrow.
Those who white-list the list receive the list's mail.
Those who intend to grab the list's money never see list mail, because it is not delivered for lack of escrow.
Mailing lists are safe.
But I do not think this scheme is feasible, for reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
That's one of the reasons.NET is cool. It provides a unified runtime library that caters to any number of languages, as long as someone has bothered to port them. The end result should always be the same. We joke about COBOL.NET, but the reality is, it's made possible by this
- dare I say - revolutionary idea.
You can dare, but revolutionary it ain't.
All languages on IBM's System/38 compiled to a common form in 1978. They continued to do so on the AS/400, and still do on the iSeries. Cobol included. Oh, and you didn't have to recompile them to take advantage of the 64-bit processors when they were introduced on the AS/400 in the late 90's.
BTW, Microsoft used to use AS/400's to run their own business; I wonder where they got the idea?
If these small ISP admins follow the RFCs and do not block mail addressed to "postmaster", they don't need to monitor Internet law in all countries; there is an available avenue for notification of any problems.
Attn spammers: Wash "postmaster" out of your lists; your spam may get through alright , but I can assure you my LART is on its way before your spam run is finished.
I'm not really a car person, but I would imagine that better quality parts would let an engine go faster.
Blueprinting and balancing are how you make an engine go faster.
Blueprinting is re-machining various engine parts so that they match their specifications as closely as possible; for example, making sure that the compression in each cyclinder is the same. Under-spec cylinders would not generate maximum power; over-spec ones would knock.
Balancing directly affects your maximum RPM (clock speed). The more accurately you match the weights of reciprocating and rotating components, the faster the engine can run without damaging itself. Think of a washing machine on its spin cycle with an off-center load, and the crashing and banging that results. Or if you have never done laundry;), think of a tire out of balance.
I don't care if MS goes after spammers who target HotMail users... but more than half of the SPAM I get in my in-box comes through some HotMail address! HotMail is the spammer.
Actually, it does not come from hotmail. The sender name is forged.
I run a patched mail server that checks whether mail purportedly from Hotmail originates from a Hotmail server. If it doesn't, I bounce it.
Bingo, no spam from "Hotmail" in my inbox. Or Yahoo, or Earthlink, or severals others; I check those, too.
Suppose instead of blindly accepting email from everyone, you were to take the domain given to you by the MAIL FROM command, look up the MXes for that domain, and reject the email connection if the IP address of the sender doesn't match one of the domain's MXes?
I am doing something like this now, with a patched version of Postfix.
But I am not doing it globally; I have a list of commonly-forged domains (hotmail, yahoo, earthlink, et al), and if the MAIL FROM is in the list, the sender's domain must match. It certainly stops a lot of mail; only my osirusoft test catches more. And, no false positives (yet).
Slashdot Mirror
Ihren English ist auch besser als die meisten von Slashdot posters' English... ;-) and yes, better than my German.
Yes, but it is "readable" in the same sense that the assembler output of a compiler is readable. It can be read, but why torture yourself if you can avoid it?
Merk's version below is instantly parsable by anyone, without any special insider knowledge. The original message takes much longer to understand, probably even by those with intimate knowledge.
Yes.
But this inverse temperature/density relationship only applies over a small temperature range, as this document describes:
Except for that four-degree range, water expands as it gets warmer.
No mixup; 200 meters is not my number, it is straight out of the article.
The article mentions that sea level could rise by up to ten meters (33 feet) in the course of a single decade. This means that I could be forced out of my home within my lifetime.
Fortunately, being 29 feet above sea level, I will be able to unload my waterfront property for a good price even after a significant rise, because so many people out there simply won't believe it could really become submerged.
I'll just buy again on the other side of the road (steep hill), and prepare to become a waterfront owner again. Lather, rinse, repeat...
Not if it is flooded with salt water...
Try this. Get a globe that shows contour lines, get a blue pen, and color everything less than 200 meters[1] above sea level blue, like the ocean.
Now see how many of the continents you can recognize.
Hint: St. Louis, Missouri is 140 meters above mean sea level.
[1] See article.
You can do that with email, too; block everything not explicitly whitelisted.
IM has no advantage here.
But in my case, I use, or will soon use, OpenBSD instead of Linux on all my servers (except my AS/400; I have a Microsoft-free server room).
Why? BSD is less chaotic. OpenBSD is more like my AS/400; it has that single-vendor feel, has good documentation, and problems are extremely rare. There is a place for everything, and everything is in its place. It just works.
I don't "play" with my operating system. I just want a stable platform for the applications I write and/or run on it. I get that with OpenBSD.
If you don't distribute the binary, you can keep your changes to yourself. Go re-read the GPL, particularly section 2: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt
Americans are (justifiably) proud of their technological achievements. These don't just happen; some of the best, brightest, and most highly educated people in the world worked hard to bring them about.
I would like to point out that most of this excellence took place in the blue (Democrat) areas on the map.
I know there are
- Intelligent, educated Republicans
- Intelligent, educated rural people
- Intelligent, educated southerners and midwesterners
- Intelligent, educated Christians
but the fact is, less- or under-educated people are more likely to vote Republican.And as for why the less educated "don't get it", there was an article on Slashdot a few months ago about how a minimum level of competence in a field is required before learning can take place (sorry, can't find the link). These people "don't know that they don't know."
Tell me, if you guys are so damn smart, then why are you out the presidency, why are you out more senate seats, and why are you out a few more house seats too?
By definition, people of above average intelligence are outnumbered.
If that was insightful, here's the flamebait: In the interests of re-election, the best Republican policy on education would be much talk about improvement, but no action.
It isn't hard. Tell you what, let's you and I get together and do it:
- I'll write the player, and...
- You license the technology.
Call me when your lawyer has all the t's crossed and the i's dotted...I have written applications that use million+ -record tables. And yes, rebuilding indexes over such tables is slow.
But an index is an index is an index. I don't care what legacy or modern technology your database uses, when you need to rebuild an index, you need to read all your million+ records to know what to index. That is what takes the time, barring crappy index insertion algorithms (both are SQL-neutral issues).
The right answer is to never let your index get out of date (or corrupted). Worked for me on AS/400...
I know; too bad. I went to Engarde as a replacement for Red Hat, after flirting with OpenBSD. When Engarde Community 2 was released I got nervous about availability of updates, so I moved to OpenBSD.
Give Gentoo a shot,...
Someday I will, but on the desktop.
That P200 server is overdue for replacement. When it does get replaced, it will get OpenBSD.
Heh; so how do *I* fit the slashdot profile?
I was surprised myself; it's a reasonably busy web server, and the usage is usually so low I wonder about the accuracy of the numbers. But serving Squirrelmail pages over HTTPS pegs CPU usage at 100%, and it's slow.
Don't forget SSL. If you want to run webmail over HTTPS, you need a fair bit of CPU.
My P200/Linux server goes to 100% CPU usage when I hit Refresh on my inbox, and it feels slow as molasses. Otherwise, the machine is adequate; all non-encrypted stuff feels quite snappy.
...
- Springfield, IL
- Springfield, MO
- Springfield, OH
- Springfield, OR
- Springfield, FL
- Springfield, MI
- Springfield, NJ
- Springfield, PA
- Springfield, TN
or how about Springfield, USA?Pay him a salary for two years so he doesn't need to work for the competitor. :/
Well... actually they are that stupid. Between 10% and 25% of the daily spam arriving at my server is for postmaster, so I finally gave up and stopped exempting postmaster from the spam blocks.
Yes. And so are the Linux users, and ..., and the AS/400 users, and the...
Well, certainly the developers are, but most AS/400 users have no clue that they are using an AS/400. In those cirles, that's actually a good thing.
IMHO this means the end of mailing lists - what would prevent me from signing up (automatically, of course) to thousands of mailing lists and collecting all the bonds placed for messages posted through these lists ?
Are you sure?
The mailing list puts no money in escrow.
Mailing lists are safe.
But I do not think this scheme is feasible, for reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
Here is my blocked mail report for yesterday. Want to check this for false positives every day?
Mail from the following sender(s) was not accepted for delivery:
- 238vpkq@yahoo.com pool-68-161-6-16.ny325.east.verizon.net
- 33iqaf@ismart.com.hk adsl-68-79-24-74.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net
- BHBLENRRQDHYND@dtl.co.nz c-24-14-113-140.client.comcast.net
- Cathy@redhotinkjets.com unknown
- DORETHEA@bbb.betterservices.org unknown
- Elnorasqij@erc4v.com unknown
- Gabrielle@redhotinkjets.com unknown
- HTaylor@gotten.co.th pcp03558521pcs.jdover01.nj.comcast.net
- MAI@aaa.betterservices.org unknown
- RChandler@store.cn c-24-4-56-138.client.comcast.net
- angelina_shepherd_zz@gist.net.au unknown
- biftmaknoznctr@bigfoot.com unknown
- billmcc@mail15.com 0019390981.cpe.mvllo.al.charter.com
- chuckhansenkf@online.com.ua c-67-173-62-248.client.comcast.net
- cody.m.navarro_il@iteria.de ACBF8A33.ipt.aol.com
- constancefreyhn@gjr.paknet.com.pk c-24-10-94-16.client.comcast.net
- corrine.driscollqk@cbl.com.au h159.n219-68-16.adsl.giga.net.tw
- curt@bkkmail.com cpe-24-174-253-149.stx.rr.com
- deborahdodd_zs@megatime.de chello062178222063.13.15.vie.surfer.at
- donovanlang@rxconfirmation.net unknown
- ducharme@surfeador.com adsl-209-30-229-193.dsl.ksc2mo.swbell.net
- dzoiikcqrc@cnnic.net.cn cpe-024-211-071-087.sc.rr.com
- e.salinas_se@tenbit.pl f214045.upc-f.chello.nl
- etcptnerc@rocketmail.com dialin-212-144-163-085.arcor-ip.net
- evcnpgap@hongkong.com national-1-82-66-182-143.fbx.proxad.net
- falewsy@yahoo.com unknown
- gz410h@aol.com unknown
- hatkinsonvi@cfpc.ca h24-68-205-47.gv.shawcable.net
- hidpumwcvt@earthlink.net cpc3-scun2-5-0-cust243.nott.cable.ntl.com
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- ipjnwbj@newmail.ru c-24-1-56-146.client.comcast.net
- j268wrcnct@valser.es h64n2fls22o918.bredband.comhem.se
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- jtzejcv@hjyt6.com pool-141-156-215-190.res.east.verizon.net
- jx691ninin@yahoo.ca CPE-65-29-147-13.wi.rr.com
- kristinholmeslh@globalite.com.br w030.z066089058.nyc-ny.dsl.cnc.net
- llilfrafpimh@hotmail.com ti511110a080-0561.bb.online.no
- lmnbqjcko@hotmail.com unknown
- loispurcell_gi@jazz.co.nz modemcable228.150-203-24.mc.videotron.ca
- maryloukrohjr@geocities.com dhcp160180181.columbus.rr.com
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All languages on IBM's System/38 compiled to a common form in 1978. They continued to do so on the AS/400, and still do on the iSeries. Cobol included. Oh, and you didn't have to recompile them to take advantage of the 64-bit processors when they were introduced on the AS/400 in the late 90's.
BTW, Microsoft used to use AS/400's to run their own business; I wonder where they got the idea?
Attn spammers: Wash "postmaster" out of your lists; your spam may get through alright , but I can assure you my LART is on its way before your spam run is finished.
Blueprinting and balancing are how you make an engine go faster.
Blueprinting is re-machining various engine parts so that they match their specifications as closely as possible; for example, making sure that the compression in each cyclinder is the same. Under-spec cylinders would not generate maximum power; over-spec ones would knock.
Balancing directly affects your maximum RPM (clock speed). The more accurately you match the weights of reciprocating and rotating components, the faster the engine can run without damaging itself. Think of a washing machine on its spin cycle with an off-center load, and the crashing and banging that results. Or if you have never done laundry ;), think of a tire out of balance.
I am doing something like this now, with a patched version of Postfix.
But I am not doing it globally; I have a list of commonly-forged domains (hotmail, yahoo, earthlink, et al), and if the MAIL FROM is in the list, the sender's domain must match. It certainly stops a lot of mail; only my osirusoft test catches more. And, no false positives (yet).