On the other hand, by that time you will be able to run KDE 6.0 that will blow OS X's UI out of the water. Maybe. I guess we just have to wait and see.
On the other hand, by that time you will be able to run Mac OS XII, and that will blow KDE 6.0's UI out of the water.;-)
No. I kept hearing weird rumors about connections between a few people in Earthlink's (not Mindspring's) top management and Co$, but to my knowledge any such personal affiliations had no impact on how the company did business.
1. Say the word "what" and drop the ending "t". Now raise the back of your tongue closer to the roof of your mouth and make the consonant a little harder, but not so much that it sounds like you're hacking up a spitball. 2. Say "muddy water" a few times fast, and notice how on the "t" the tip of your tongue just flicks against the roof of your mouth. Take just the "t". 3. Try to say something halfway between "less" and "lace", erring on the side of "lace". Drop the "l". 4. Say it all together, "wha" + "t" + "ace" 5. If you're in Spain, replace the "s" sound at the end with "th"
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This is pronounced exactly the same as wares, as in "peddling his wares", because that's what it's a (deliberate) misspelling of. Anyone who told you differently is a moron.
Earthlink/Mindspring? I worked for them shortly after the merger; it was a mess. A bunch of Mindspring people wanted to defect and start their own ISP called SpringHeads, which would have been pretty cool, but of course that was mostly just a dream...
Mindspring was once cool enough that they allowed drinking (yes, alcohol) at work, although that policy changed for legal reasons. Employees were generally happy, and their customers LOVED them. They were respected among techie people, and widely used by non-techie people too. Internally they ran by far the best CRM software I've ever seen with a nice big stable UNIX backend. Then Earthlink came along and we had to start changing everything, moving from the easy-to-use reliable web-based CRM tools to the Windows-based buggy pile of crap Earthlink was using (with the #00ff00 green status message that scrolled across the top of the screen repeatedly that nobody knew how to update or turn off), supporting weird-ass DSL connections that we weren't given any tools to troubleshoot, and... many more significant changes I can't think of at the moment. We heard horror stories about how employees were treated in legacy ELNK callcenters (imagine a big room with rows of small desks, no cubicle walls, no assigned seating, and obnoxious Lucent office phones instead of kick-ass Aspect call-center phones like we had).
And then the company closed all their callcenters and outsourced everything. Very glad I left long before that.
My vote has to be the coders. Post a joke in a Perl thread, and you will be modded -1 flamebait. These people are obsolutely incapable of laughing at themselves. Maybe they should get out more.
I don't think it's even possible to code in Perl without having a sense of humor. Maybe you're thinking of C programmers?
Excuse me? No it isn't. My home page uses cookies to track user preferences, but I don't use them to store a unique user ID. Come back to my site tomorrow from a different IP; I'll have no idea you're the same person - I can only tell that you're a previous visitor (or rather, my code can tell - I myself can't, because that's not logged at the moment*).
I've been thinking of changing the way this works, and tracking more detailed per-user and per-session data, just because I could. I haven't figured out what I'd do with the data, though, so I haven't figured out what to collect or a reasonable way to represent it.
* Your chosen theme is logged, so if you change it from the default and come back tomorrow, I could deduce that you're a returning visitor. Also, whether a particular hit is the first for your current session is also logged, so I can tell whether you quit your browser before returning. Reading the log is obnoxious, though.
this is far more a problem with the industry than it is apple. if there were several cpu manufacturers, several mobo manufacturers, etc, then economies of scale would allow you to build a ppc os x compatible machine. don't complain to apple for this, complain to the hardware companies for not offering more solutions.
As I recall, the EULA for Mac OS X explicitly states that you may only install it on an Apple computer; if you assemble a PowerPC machine from scratch, it might work, but Apple legally prohibits you from running Mac OS X on it. You can't blame that on anyone but Apple.
I could then have a farily light weight LinuxPPC image for all my Linux needs,
Out of curiosity, what needs are those, that Mac OS X can't do as well natively? Some people might need Linux/x86 for proprietary software, but I can't imagine there's much proprietary Linux/PPC software that isn't available for Mac OS X. Is there still a lot of open-source software that doesn't compile properly on OSX?
windows uses a proprietary network file sharing protocol. apple uses nfs
Um, Apple uses afp (Apple Filing Protocol, better known as AppleShare), which is certainly no less proprietary than Microsoft's. However, Mac OS X 10.3 also works beautifully with SMB/CIFS (previous versions were supposed to work, but it certainly wasn't beautiful). NFS is supposed to work, but I haven't been successful - maybe it's just me. There's a nice friendly GUI to enable AFP or SMB/CIFS sharing, not NFS.
windows has a closed kernel. mac uses a freebsd kernel (of which you can download on apple's website).
It's not a FreeBSD kernel. It's Mach, which has nothing to do with FreeBSD. They use FreeBSD user-space stuff, not kernel stuff.
microsoft uses it's own proprietary messaging protocol. apple uses oscar (which may not be open, but it's a hell of a lot more used and standard)
OSCAR is absolutely proprietary, which hasn't stopped people from reverse-engineering it, just like they do with Microsoft's protocol. However, are you sure it's still more used? It's what I use (although I think Apple's client sucks compared to AOL's), but MSN Messenger is bundled with Windows now, which means a lot.
microsoft's backing.net and includes a very crappy jvm implementation. apple uses's sun's official jvm with performance improvements and native widget toolkits in os x, and this is installed by default
Um, I think Apple makes the Mac OS X JVM, not Sun, and it's only "official" in the sense that Sun says you should use Apple's, instead of having their own. I could be mistaken, and certainly Apple and Sun do work together on it, but I always figured Apple did most of the work (and always has - MRJ was Apple's too).
Why don't you post your honeypot address here? Mine is honeypot@bl.phroggy.com. I'll add yours to the list of hidden links on my home page, if you'd like.
Presently the only problem with this is that there are no plug-ins for the MTAs themselves yet. The plug-in is for spamassassin. That means that the message has to be transfered and passed onto Spamassassin before it can be dropped or tagged whereas, the other RBLs allow you to drop the connection before the message is transfered. This problem will be solved once there are plug-ins for the MTAs themselves.
Sorry, but that's not because it's a SpamAssassin plugin vs an MTA plugin. That's because the SMTP protocol doesn't allow for what you describe.
Let's say I'm an MTA. When you connect to me, the first thing you do is introduce yourself, then tell me the envelope sender and envelope recipient of the message you're about to send, then give me the full message including headers and body. My options for blocking the message are:
Before you even connect, your IP could be blocked at the firewall level, so I'd never see you.
After you connect, before you introduce yourself, I have your IP address, and can check it against a blacklist and/or whitelist, and give you an error and disconnect if I don't like what I find. I can also do reverse and forward DNS queries on your IP to make sure they agree.
After you introduce yourself, I can compare your greeting against your reverse DNS, since that's how you should be introducing yourself. I can give you an error if I don't like it.
After you give me the envelope recipient, I can make sure that domain exists, etc. (Side note: Verisign wants to break this; ICANN is currently not letting them.)
After you give me the envelope recipient, I can make sure that e-mail address is OK - if it's my domain name and the username is somebody I know I'll accept it, or if it's a valid domain name somewhere else and your IP is on my LAN I'll relay it. Otherwise I can give you an error.
If we've gotten this far, I must now accept the entire message, including headers and body. If there's something in the headers I don't like, too bad! If there's something in the body I don't like, too bad! I have to let you send the whole message.
After I've accepted the message, if there's a problem, I can generate a bounce message to send back to you, assuming the e-mail address you gave me actually works. If that fails, I'll send an e-mail to my postmaster explaining what happened. Or if that's too annoying, I could just delete your message and not tell anyone.
Existing RBLs work at step 2. Filtering based on message content can't happen until step 7. You could build it into the MTA, but MTAs are complex enough as it is; using something else (SpamAssassin, Procmail, whatever) is a better idea.
He'd be the target of a huge lawsuit by all the OTHER people who have contributed to the Linux kernel. That's the key thing here: Linux is more that just Linus and P.G. is more that just this guy. What happening is one guy trying to co-opt the work and good name of a lot of people.
However, the basis of that hypothetical lawsuit against Linus would be copyright infringement - using code contributed by the plaintiffs without a suitable license. PG volunteers can make no such claim, since they do NOT own the copyrights on the work they have contributed (and neither does PG itself, or anyone else).
Basically, from what I've been able to gather, Habeas sells software that adds a haiku to your bulk e-mail to make it less likely to be blocked by spam filters, then adds special headers to make the message easy to identify. They sell the software to people who agree NOT to use it for spam, but only for legitimate (solicited) bulk e-mail. The term they use is "sender-warranted e-mail", i.e. the sender warrants that the message is not spam.
Not sure how effective their strategy is, but it's not a bad idea. The problem is, some spammer has gotten ahold of the Habeas software, and is using it to spam viagra/pharmacy crap. Habeas is trying to put a stop to this, but hasn't been able to so far.
I set up a filter to mark every message containing the Habeas headers in a particular color. In the past few months, I haven't seen any legitimate mail containing the Habeas headers - only viagra/pharmacy spam. That doesn't mean Habeas isn't legit, only that I don't get mail from their customers, I guess.
Anyone know more about Habeas and can add anything?
(This from a guy who is migrating his address book to OpenLDAP because he doesn't want to sync between two PCs.)
Hey, how's that working out for you? I've been thinking of doing exactly that for a couple years now, but people have told me OpenLDAP is kind of a pain to set up for such a simple task and I really know nothing about it. Mac OS X's Address Book LDAP preferences include options like "Search Base" (for example, ou=people, o=company) and "Scope" (base, one level, or subtree); is this more complicated than I want to mess with?
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Actually they do. When they sell the whole business! Count on it being mentioned explicitly in the contract of sale.
I haven't had a problem with this, so either the companies I do business with aren't getting bought out, or the companies buying them out are also respectable and also do not sell my e-mail address.
Um, if you disagree with anything I said, what is your disagreement? Your post doesn't seem to have anything to do with mine.
I get spammed by a very large company everyday. My wife uses a hotmail account, and Microsoft attaches garbage to each and every mail she sends me.
I hope you're not calling what Microsoft appends to messages from Hotmail users "spam", because if you are, you're contributing to the problem by causing confusion. Just because you find it personally annoying and it has something to do with e-mail doesn't automatically mean it's spam. If it bothers you that much, why don't you talk to your wife about switching to a different e-mail service?
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Who with an ounce of sense would request any sort of e-mail promotion, given the tendency those things have to multiply of those accord? Don't answer that.
Each time I sign up for something with a particular company or organization, I create a new e-mail address at my domain, and give them that. That way, if I start receiving spam at that address, I know who sold my address.
What I've found over the few years I've been doing this surprised me a little. The results: legitimate companies do not sell my e-mail address. Never. None of them. There have been times when an e-mail address has gotten listed on a web page in cleartext (e.g. on an eBay auction page) and those get spam because spammers harvest addresses (I believe eBay has stoopped listing e-mail addresses for this reason). The address I actually use as my return address when sending mail to friends gets spam all the time. Once an address is harvested from somewhere, I'm sure it gets sold on CD-ROM or whatever. But the addresses I create for companies and organizations to use (I've got about a hundred of them) simply do not get spam.
.movie, since every movie that comes out has a web site but there's often no way to guess the URL based on just the title of the movie (a few at random: http://www.sony.com/spider-man/, http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/50firstdates/, http://www.miramax.com/jerseygirl/, http://www.dreamworks.com/houseofsandandfog/, http://www.avp-movie.com/, http://www.lordoftherings.net/, http://www.butterflyeffectmovie.com/, http://www.peterpanmovie.net/).
.radio for radio stations, so you could just enter a radio station's call letters plus the TLD and get their web site.
I wonder how different Mac OS X and FreeBSD really is and if it's just a matter of compiling a 3D-shooter on the proper platform.
Far more different than a lot of Slashdotters seem to believe. The userland CLI stuff is largely the same, but kernel is about as different as you could imagine, GUI is completely different, APIs are different (although there may be additional APIs specifically for UNIX compatibility that would make porting to OSX easier....)
I'm not a coder, though, so don't take my word for it.;-)
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On the other hand, by that time you will be able to run KDE 6.0 that will blow OS X's UI out of the water. Maybe. I guess we just have to wait and see.
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On the other hand, by that time you will be able to run Mac OS XII, and that will blow KDE 6.0's UI out of the water.
No. I kept hearing weird rumors about connections between a few people in Earthlink's (not Mindspring's) top management and Co$, but to my knowledge any such personal affiliations had no impact on how the company did business.
Allow me to correct your ignorance:
Juarez
1. Say the word "what" and drop the ending "t". Now raise the back of your tongue closer to the roof of your mouth and make the consonant a little harder, but not so much that it sounds like you're hacking up a spitball.
2. Say "muddy water" a few times fast, and notice how on the "t" the tip of your tongue just flicks against the roof of your mouth. Take just the "t".
3. Try to say something halfway between "less" and "lace", erring on the side of "lace". Drop the "l".
4. Say it all together, "wha" + "t" + "ace"
5. If you're in Spain, replace the "s" sound at the end with "th"
warez
This is pronounced exactly the same as wares, as in "peddling his wares", because that's what it's a (deliberate) misspelling of. Anyone who told you differently is a moron.
Earthlink/Mindspring? I worked for them shortly after the merger; it was a mess. A bunch of Mindspring people wanted to defect and start their own ISP called SpringHeads, which would have been pretty cool, but of course that was mostly just a dream...
Mindspring was once cool enough that they allowed drinking (yes, alcohol) at work, although that policy changed for legal reasons. Employees were generally happy, and their customers LOVED them. They were respected among techie people, and widely used by non-techie people too. Internally they ran by far the best CRM software I've ever seen with a nice big stable UNIX backend. Then Earthlink came along and we had to start changing everything, moving from the easy-to-use reliable web-based CRM tools to the Windows-based buggy pile of crap Earthlink was using (with the #00ff00 green status message that scrolled across the top of the screen repeatedly that nobody knew how to update or turn off), supporting weird-ass DSL connections that we weren't given any tools to troubleshoot, and... many more significant changes I can't think of at the moment. We heard horror stories about how employees were treated in legacy ELNK callcenters (imagine a big room with rows of small desks, no cubicle walls, no assigned seating, and obnoxious Lucent office phones instead of kick-ass Aspect call-center phones like we had).
And then the company closed all their callcenters and outsourced everything. Very glad I left long before that.
My vote has to be the coders. Post a joke in a Perl thread, and you will be modded -1 flamebait. These people are obsolutely incapable of laughing at themselves. Maybe they should get out more.
I don't think it's even possible to code in Perl without having a sense of humor. Maybe you're thinking of C programmers?
Excuse me? No it isn't. My home page uses cookies to track user preferences, but I don't use them to store a unique user ID. Come back to my site tomorrow from a different IP; I'll have no idea you're the same person - I can only tell that you're a previous visitor (or rather, my code can tell - I myself can't, because that's not logged at the moment*).
I've been thinking of changing the way this works, and tracking more detailed per-user and per-session data, just because I could. I haven't figured out what I'd do with the data, though, so I haven't figured out what to collect or a reasonable way to represent it.
Yes, because apple does give full documentation, for free, to it's users while also giving free development tools.
Now if only their repair manuals weren't proprietary.....
this is far more a problem with the industry than it is apple. if there were several cpu manufacturers, several mobo manufacturers, etc, then economies of scale would allow you to build a ppc os x compatible machine. don't complain to apple for this, complain to the hardware companies for not offering more solutions.
As I recall, the EULA for Mac OS X explicitly states that you may only install it on an Apple computer; if you assemble a PowerPC machine from scratch, it might work, but Apple legally prohibits you from running Mac OS X on it. You can't blame that on anyone but Apple.
I could then have a farily light weight LinuxPPC image for all my Linux needs,
Out of curiosity, what needs are those, that Mac OS X can't do as well natively? Some people might need Linux/x86 for proprietary software, but I can't imagine there's much proprietary Linux/PPC software that isn't available for Mac OS X. Is there still a lot of open-source software that doesn't compile properly on OSX?
windows uses a proprietary network file sharing protocol. apple uses nfs
.net and includes a very crappy jvm implementation. apple uses's sun's official jvm with performance improvements and native widget toolkits in os x, and this is installed by default
Um, Apple uses afp (Apple Filing Protocol, better known as AppleShare), which is certainly no less proprietary than Microsoft's. However, Mac OS X 10.3 also works beautifully with SMB/CIFS (previous versions were supposed to work, but it certainly wasn't beautiful). NFS is supposed to work, but I haven't been successful - maybe it's just me. There's a nice friendly GUI to enable AFP or SMB/CIFS sharing, not NFS.
windows has a closed kernel. mac uses a freebsd kernel (of which you can download on apple's website).
It's not a FreeBSD kernel. It's Mach, which has nothing to do with FreeBSD. They use FreeBSD user-space stuff, not kernel stuff.
microsoft uses it's own proprietary messaging protocol. apple uses oscar (which may not be open, but it's a hell of a lot more used and standard)
OSCAR is absolutely proprietary, which hasn't stopped people from reverse-engineering it, just like they do with Microsoft's protocol. However, are you sure it's still more used? It's what I use (although I think Apple's client sucks compared to AOL's), but MSN Messenger is bundled with Windows now, which means a lot.
microsoft's backing
Um, I think Apple makes the Mac OS X JVM, not Sun, and it's only "official" in the sense that Sun says you should use Apple's, instead of having their own. I could be mistaken, and certainly Apple and Sun do work together on it, but I always figured Apple did most of the work (and always has - MRJ was Apple's too).
Forgotten about SCO already?
Certianly trying to!
Wow, thanks for the iChatUSBCam link, I'll definitely try that!
Why don't you post your honeypot address here? Mine is honeypot@bl.phroggy.com. I'll add yours to the list of hidden links on my home page, if you'd like.
Sorry, but that's not because it's a SpamAssassin plugin vs an MTA plugin. That's because the SMTP protocol doesn't allow for what you describe.
Let's say I'm an MTA. When you connect to me, the first thing you do is introduce yourself, then tell me the envelope sender and envelope recipient of the message you're about to send, then give me the full message including headers and body. My options for blocking the message are:
Existing RBLs work at step 2. Filtering based on message content can't happen until step 7. You could build it into the MTA, but MTAs are complex enough as it is; using something else (SpamAssassin, Procmail, whatever) is a better idea.
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He'd be the target of a huge lawsuit by all the OTHER people who have contributed to the Linux kernel.
That's the key thing here:
Linux is more that just Linus and P.G. is more that just this guy. What happening is one guy trying to co-opt the work and good name of a lot of people.
However, the basis of that hypothetical lawsuit against Linus would be copyright infringement - using code contributed by the plaintiffs without a suitable license. PG volunteers can make no such claim, since they do NOT own the copyrights on the work they have contributed (and neither does PG itself, or anyone else).
AND WHAT'S WITH THE POEM AT THE END?
Look at the headers, and report it to http://www.habeas.com/report/.
Basically, from what I've been able to gather, Habeas sells software that adds a haiku to your bulk e-mail to make it less likely to be blocked by spam filters, then adds special headers to make the message easy to identify. They sell the software to people who agree NOT to use it for spam, but only for legitimate (solicited) bulk e-mail. The term they use is "sender-warranted e-mail", i.e. the sender warrants that the message is not spam.
Not sure how effective their strategy is, but it's not a bad idea. The problem is, some spammer has gotten ahold of the Habeas software, and is using it to spam viagra/pharmacy crap. Habeas is trying to put a stop to this, but hasn't been able to so far.
I set up a filter to mark every message containing the Habeas headers in a particular color. In the past few months, I haven't seen any legitimate mail containing the Habeas headers - only viagra/pharmacy spam. That doesn't mean Habeas isn't legit, only that I don't get mail from their customers, I guess.
Anyone know more about Habeas and can add anything?
Far too many people on this thread know *nothing* and are talking crap.
You must be new here.
The trailer for the new Peter Pan movie has music from the game Myst III: Exile.
(This from a guy who is migrating his address book to OpenLDAP because he doesn't want to sync between two PCs.)
Hey, how's that working out for you? I've been thinking of doing exactly that for a couple years now, but people have told me OpenLDAP is kind of a pain to set up for such a simple task and I really know nothing about it. Mac OS X's Address Book LDAP preferences include options like "Search Base" (for example, ou=people, o=company) and "Scope" (base, one level, or subtree); is this more complicated than I want to mess with?
Actually they do. When they sell the whole business!
Count on it being mentioned explicitly in the contract of sale.
I haven't had a problem with this, so either the companies I do business with aren't getting bought out, or the companies buying them out are also respectable and also do not sell my e-mail address.
I say BS...
Um, if you disagree with anything I said, what is your disagreement? Your post doesn't seem to have anything to do with mine.
I get spammed by a very large company everyday. My wife uses a hotmail account, and Microsoft attaches garbage to each and every mail she sends me.
I hope you're not calling what Microsoft appends to messages from Hotmail users "spam", because if you are, you're contributing to the problem by causing confusion. Just because you find it personally annoying and it has something to do with e-mail doesn't automatically mean it's spam. If it bothers you that much, why don't you talk to your wife about switching to a different e-mail service?
Who with an ounce of sense would request any sort of e-mail promotion, given the tendency those things have to multiply of those accord? Don't answer that.
Each time I sign up for something with a particular company or organization, I create a new e-mail address at my domain, and give them that. That way, if I start receiving spam at that address, I know who sold my address.
What I've found over the few years I've been doing this surprised me a little. The results: legitimate companies do not sell my e-mail address. Never. None of them. There have been times when an e-mail address has gotten listed on a web page in cleartext (e.g. on an eBay auction page) and those get spam because spammers harvest addresses (I believe eBay has stoopped listing e-mail addresses for this reason). The address I actually use as my return address when sending mail to friends gets spam all the time. Once an address is harvested from somewhere, I'm sure it gets sold on CD-ROM or whatever. But the addresses I create for companies and organizations to use (I've got about a hundred of them) simply do not get spam.
I wonder how different Mac OS X and FreeBSD really is and if it's just a matter of compiling a 3D-shooter on the proper platform.
;-)
Far more different than a lot of Slashdotters seem to believe. The userland CLI stuff is largely the same, but kernel is about as different as you could imagine, GUI is completely different, APIs are different (although there may be additional APIs specifically for UNIX compatibility that would make porting to OSX easier....)
I'm not a coder, though, so don't take my word for it.