Remember these are prizes, meaning a contest of many parallel efforts which if NASA attempted would surely exceed budgets. It's like paying for a product, not the r&d of all efforts - which is what nasa has essentially been doing (10-30 mill "in house" wouldn't buy very much). No matter how you look at considering all facts, 10-30 mil isn't shit when considering the product produced. Especially when you consider NASA products normally cost amounts that begin with "B". C'mon - just think about the X-prize; 10 million for a reusable spacecraft? How much do you think Nasa would spend on the same endeaver. I would guess SEVERAL *B*illion.
I do control the server, and I have increased the available connections to 500 (for a 25 user server). I have also set the `cache' to 1. I have poured over performance tuning for Courier Imap to see what I could do to stop this but have been unable to completely eliminate it. It seems to happen mostly when a user is composing a message that may take a while. When the user hits send, a message alerting that the "server is disconnected" and that "the message was unable to be copied to the sent folder" - do you want to retry? You hit yes, and all is fine. It sounds like there is more performance tuning available with my imap server - I will check that out, but I am still curious where the Mozilla Mail extensions are.
The main thing was that the "Server is disconnected" notice happens less - only when you try to do something on the server when it has been idle, instead of seemingly every thirty seconds. For some reaseon, my users absoloutley hated this more than anything...I am still looking around to try to squash the message all together.
Browser tweaks are all fine and good, but I find the real leverage in managing data via "tweaks" is within email. Thunderbird has gobs of extensions and what not - but what about Mozilla Mail? Due to Mozilla Mail handling imap a bit better than Thunderbird, I have my company using Mozilla. Now when it comes to extending Mozilla Mail, you're kinda limited to what you can do. Doing a search for "Mozilla Mail extensions" will turn up tons of results, but invariably seem more directed to Thunderbird. Thunderbird extensions don't always work well within Mozilla Mail. Am I missing something? Is there some hidden repository of Mozilla Mail extensions, or minor tweak you can do to Thunderbird extensions to make them useful within Mozilla Mail?
I di dthat for a while - with great results. Then my company open an office in Korea. I have to be able to receive mail from potential customers as well as the office personel. It was like opening the flood gates all over again.
You are so correct - excellent karma to barely positive in one day. Do not gain the attention of the children with unlimited mod points. It was like someone just went into my account and started modding everything as flamebait/troll/offtopic - shit that was obviously none of these.
Beware the WRATH of the MEGAmod - assholes. I have to post this logged in because my IP is blocked. I'm a fucking subscriber to boot.
I will now say good bye to the rest of my karma. Fuck em, it's only/. Fuckers will never get another dime from me.
OK, maybe I'll sound like a jackass, but I gotta ask anyway. It seems to me that if you can reproduce entangled particles reliably, and you have, lets say two hosts, both with one half of the set of the entangled particles. If you were to manipulate the state of one set, and that immediately affects the state of the entangled partner on the other host, wouldn't that be the effectively TRUE wireless communication. One where the rate of communication is limited only by how fast you could read and process the set of particles that are local? Wouldn't that be as secure as it gets - media to intercept? Sure, there would need to be software to interface with the states based on the input from the hosts - but if you could do this, you could control the mars rover in realtime. Is this where this is headed, or am I confused?
'nuff said, if they haven't, well they should never make that mistake again.
If the site is that important - A: It shouldn't be on a free host. Pay for your hosting, you have more leverage in case of downtime - simple as that. B: The site should have a sys admin with his ass on the line - One that makes backups.
Otherwise, the leeches should take some personal responsibility and quit bitchin' - it was free. If it was up a day, they got more than their money's worth, if not for this free service, they wouldn't have learned the invaluable first basic lesson of being a site operator/maintainer - make backups.
"As if hard to use is supposed to be a hallmark of a good Linux distribution."
Naw, I see it like this:
An easy distro enables a n00b to say "i'm a l337 linux user" when in fact they are as cool as they were when they installed xp.
Analagous are script kiddies - "I download this script and 0wned a box, i'm teh l337 hax0r5"
It's the difference between those that are geeks and those that are wanna Bz. I would think most people hate wanna Bz, and thus the enabling mechanism for wanna Bism.
Well said. Ok, I am less adament about it now. I don't like to pay for my governments debt, but you're right, I care much more for the other shit that the government wastes money on than this issue. Singling out the Native Americans when there is broader wastefullness - like welfare - seems like cutting at a small branch to fell a tree.
Create an image, keep your data on the network or another partition. When it acts freaky, rebuild from the image. AHHHH, just like you like it in 10-15 mins. Work smarter, not harder.
Well, that explains it a little clearer, but nonetheless, Native Americans still have access to the "property" we are renting and all rights and priviledges we do, aside from their own land that we have no rights to. They still have access to welfare, can vote, are considered citizens AND collect rent. Kinda like renting out a house you live in. I still believe it is time for us all to move on, doing this together. I am still tired of carrying around someone else's guilt.
Look, you almost had me. You were almost lucid. Again, I am not debating law, which you seem to be missing. Read my fucking posts you condescending fuck. If you read my posts, you'd realize not only am I not reducing it to "Why should I pay for my grandpappy's mistake?", my family wasn't even here. It's like starting out in life with a huge amount of debt, but I digress.
My main points were (and you almost addressed one): *Why do Native Americans receive the benefits they do and no other group does. Here's your answer: "Look, I agree with you. If it was about giving people money for their ancestor's sufferings then I would put African Americans and Holicaust Victims at the top of the list. BUT IT ISN'T, AND THAT'S WHY AFRICAN AMERICANS AREN'T WINNING SETTLEMENTS FOR LAND CLAIMS AND BROKEN TREATIES."
Here is where you didn't follow through: *If there IS justification (i.e. the land claims and treaties you speak of), when will they stop receiving these benefits? See, that is my real quandry. "Indefinitly."
Now maybe my perspective is skewed because it would be easier for me to justify compensation for ancesteral pain and suffering than it is to justify STILL paying for "LAND CLAIMS AND BROKEN TREATIES". If it comes down to broken contracts, we should have had this resolved 100 years ago.
PS: Your wife is selling her self short. My ex-wife is 1/8 cherokee and had ALL of her college paid for. There, I've shown my bias as well.
Are Enron's employees responsible for the actions of the executives? Once they prosecute the executives, will the company continue to pay fines indefinitly? Will they take money from their employees paychecks to pay said fine? I know, they lost their jobs and their retirement - but it is over for them.
When will it be over us? When will this generation of Native Americans have to go get a job instead of living off of the blood of their ancestors? Since you know so much white guy, when is *our* debt paid? The African Americans were enslaved for over 400 years - They were treated (in my opinion) far worse than Native Americans ever were - where is their monthly paycheck? Where is their casino? Where are their reservations? Where is the many African nations and the American government's responsibility there? Since we're on this slippery slope, what about the Mexicans? *We* took their land and killed a bunch of them as well. Why aren't the Germans paying the Jews? That was way more fucked up than anything that ever happened to the Native Americans. Why are the Native Americans any different? Government responsibility and all that is bullshit and an excuse for a free ride. Sure, let us make sure to never repeat these attrocities , but lets do it by having some sort of national day of rememberance - hell, a month would by great. Encouraging sloth by distributing unearned income is a deservice to everyone. AND it is unearned, their ancestors spilled their blood, not the shiftless people I see living in filth on reservations.
It is not that I don't understand the accountability of the government(s), it's that I don't want to pay for their transgressions. I wouldn't mind if there was an end in sight, but how long will WE pay for their sins? Shit Dahmer only got 900 years - when is OUR sentence up? As far as holding the governments "accountable", when does the accounting balance out? Is there a way to quantify the transgressions of America's forefathers? If not, what balance are they paying off? When will it be time for the unsuffering "victims" to quit their bitching and get to work? You explain the end game, and I will then understand. I don't beleive you can explain that to me because noone knows, it's a course we're on indefinitely, that is the problem I have.
Are Dahmer's victims still dead? Yes. Are the victim's families still alive and grieving? Yes. Dahmer's family should continue to pay then - right? Perhaps some sort of check to each victim each month.
Do you still personally grieve your ancestors in other than a ceremonial way? No.
Are you benefiting from land "taken" from your people? Yes AND you have sovereign land with which to do with as you wish outside of the laws of the country that pays your bills so you don't have to work. If you really believe that you are receiving your benefits for use of land, you're sadly mistaken. "We" (those besides Native Americans, i.e. ANYONE that comes to this country no matter how oppressed they were in their country of origin) are still paying for the white man's guilt.
Look, I understand your bitterness, and I am by no means trivializing the attrocities commited against your people. I am not implying you are unjustified, just focusing your anger at the wrong generation. When does it stop? Does AMERICA continue to pay benefits until we are all one race and noone has 1/8 of American Indian in them? Millions of years? The situation is flawed because there is no way you can have retribution unless everyone moves out and leaves the country to you. Then we have to pay for the damage civilization has done to your resources and so on and so on. Yet, you haven't shed a drop of blood and I have never killed ANYONE. The sons and daughters of America will continue to pay for the sins of America's forefathers until.....?
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense does it? So get a job and quit your whining you fucking victim.
How convenient of you to take that attitude when you are not paying. How convenient of you to reap the benefits of your ancestors' suffering when you have not suffered at all. How convenient of you to refer to this as my ancestors mistakes. My ancestors are just as at fault as yours - (hint: they're not).
I care not to argue the legality of the issue - because likely you are technically right. I am arguing the common sense side (i.e. should we imprison Jeffery Dahmer's family? See, he killed a bunch of people, and didn't serve his full 900-year sentence because he was murdered. Using your logic (broken treaties and such) his family should be held accountable for those remaining 900 years - what about the victims!)
How convenient for you to tell me to get out of a country that affords you the opportunity to live effortlessly, and one that I fought for your right to do so.
How convenient for you to despise me because I don't want to give *you* another unearned dime.
Don't misunderstand my disdain for paying for your school and what not as a jab at Native Americans in general. I live in Phoenix and have a handful of Navajo friends - close enough to include me in a couple of sweats. And also close enough to discuss this very issue candidly. They know they are getting a free ride and know to exploit it - because it is available to them. You, sir, are making arguments to justify your sponge like behavior. I pay taxes, because I have a job. I have a job to support my family. You sir, sit over where you are, riding on the suffering of your ancestors. You are sad, pathetic and a disgrace to your proud people.
I am not a racist, bigot or a hater of any kind and I am simply tired of living with this fucking white man's guilt.
America's ancestors were wrong. You can never be completely compensated and neither can the African Americans. But there is one simple fact your missing:
I didn't do it. My family wasn't even here when the pricks did their nastiness. I didn't enslave anyone either.
I sure as hell pay for your ass and the other minorities to go to fucking school though.
I even fought for this country, got the GI bill, and I am still $45000 in debt from school. So to you fucker, *your* ass wasn't poisoned, massacred, and I didn't do it to your ancestors. These reparations are fucking ludicrous. Your ancestors deserve compensation from those of that era, but *you* don't deserve a dime from me. Should we imprison Jeffrey Dahmer's family?
Quite playing the fucking victim and tell your people to get off of their asses and get a job instead of living off the gov.
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Right. See, being the IT guy at my company is sooo Blue Collar. Any blue collar "plumber" can migrate from windows to linux - mail, domain, file servers, printers, cvs, webservers, internal dns without a second of downtime. That is what a developer does when his Tomcat server takes a shit, he calls some blue collar IT guy to fix it. riiiiight. Not to mention that I have to not only know how to administer the server, I have to be able to program Java at least on some basic level to understand how to make it work. Any blue collar "plummer" has the ability to fix not only the plumbing, but any other problem a structure may have. While we're talking IT, what IT guy worth his salt doesn't know how to program at least in perl or some sort of "scripting" language. Maybe my responsibilities go beyond the average IT guy, but I hardly find any of this blue-collar or outside the scope of IT.
Blue-collar where I come from means mostly manual labor. Yes, there is a base of knowledge, but it doesn't have the range of demands that the IT guy must/should know. A plumber knows the plumbing well, just don't ask him to hang drywall, work on your electrical stuff or fix your ac. You can ask your IT guy how to put a formula in Excel or setup lvm on your linux server. And make it ALL secure. Yeah that's "blue-collar" - like a plumber or a truck driver, pretty much the same.
Way to go with the cygwin. I just bought a 512 usb drive and was looking for a proper os/os emulator to put on it. I saw feather linux, which may be viable - but I don't want to have to boot to my pen drive. I also needed to use fat. So I was looking back at cygwin and realized you had to mod the registry and paths to get it to run. You saved me some work this weekend:-) Although I will be adding alot to it. I really look forward to your perl version.
Alright assholes, noone said anything about smtp being on port 143, but it could be if you didn't have anything conflicting. You don't even need a mx record. Mail will try to deliver to the mx according to priority, but will also try directly to the domain. If you have the proper setup on your firewall, with the proper natting used, you can do what you want. As I stated, I have done this and am doing this now. Call me a jackass all you want, but there is more than one way to do things.
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Remember these are prizes, meaning a contest of many parallel efforts which if NASA attempted would surely exceed budgets. It's like paying for a product, not the r&d of all efforts - which is what nasa has essentially been doing (10-30 mill "in house" wouldn't buy very much). No matter how you look at considering all facts, 10-30 mil isn't shit when considering the product produced. Especially when you consider NASA products normally cost amounts that begin with "B". C'mon - just think about the X-prize; 10 million for a reusable spacecraft? How much do you think Nasa would spend on the same endeaver. I would guess SEVERAL *B*illion.
Thanks, I am already all over the enigmail - Doesn't seem to be much more though :-(
I do control the server, and I have increased the available connections to 500 (for a 25 user server). I have also set the `cache' to 1. I have poured over performance tuning for Courier Imap to see what I could do to stop this but have been unable to completely eliminate it. It seems to happen mostly when a user is composing a message that may take a while. When the user hits send, a message alerting that the "server is disconnected" and that "the message was unable to be copied to the sent folder" - do you want to retry? You hit yes, and all is fine. It sounds like there is more performance tuning available with my imap server - I will check that out, but I am still curious where the Mozilla Mail extensions are.
The main thing was that the "Server is disconnected" notice happens less - only when you try to do something on the server when it has been idle, instead of seemingly every thirty seconds. For some reaseon, my users absoloutley hated this more than anything...I am still looking around to try to squash the message all together.
Browser tweaks are all fine and good, but I find the real leverage in managing data via "tweaks" is within email. Thunderbird has gobs of extensions and what not - but what about Mozilla Mail? Due to Mozilla Mail handling imap a bit better than Thunderbird, I have my company using Mozilla. Now when it comes to extending Mozilla Mail, you're kinda limited to what you can do. Doing a search for "Mozilla Mail extensions" will turn up tons of results, but invariably seem more directed to Thunderbird. Thunderbird extensions don't always work well within Mozilla Mail. Am I missing something? Is there some hidden repository of Mozilla Mail extensions, or minor tweak you can do to Thunderbird extensions to make them useful within Mozilla Mail?
I di dthat for a while - with great results. Then my company open an office in Korea. I have to be able to receive mail from potential customers as well as the office personel. It was like opening the flood gates all over again.
You are so correct - excellent karma to barely positive in one day. Do not gain the attention of the children with unlimited mod points. It was like someone just went into my account and started modding everything as flamebait/troll/offtopic - shit that was obviously none of these.
/. Fuckers will never get another dime from me.
Beware the WRATH of the MEGAmod - assholes. I have to post this logged in because my IP is blocked. I'm a fucking subscriber to boot.
I will now say good bye to the rest of my karma. Fuck em, it's only
OK, maybe I'll sound like a jackass, but I gotta ask anyway. It seems to me that if you can reproduce entangled particles reliably, and you have, lets say two hosts, both with one half of the set of the entangled particles. If you were to manipulate the state of one set, and that immediately affects the state of the entangled partner on the other host, wouldn't that be the effectively TRUE wireless communication. One where the rate of communication is limited only by how fast you could read and process the set of particles that are local? Wouldn't that be as secure as it gets - media to intercept? Sure, there would need to be software to interface with the states based on the input from the hosts - but if you could do this, you could control the mars rover in realtime. Is this where this is headed, or am I confused?
users should have been making backups.
'nuff said, if they haven't, well they should never make that mistake again.
If the site is that important -
A: It shouldn't be on a free host. Pay for your hosting, you have more leverage in case of downtime - simple as that.
B: The site should have a sys admin with his ass on the line - One that makes backups.
Otherwise, the leeches should take some personal responsibility and quit bitchin' - it was free. If it was up a day, they got more than their money's worth, if not for this free service, they wouldn't have learned the invaluable first basic lesson of being a site operator/maintainer - make backups.
Finally a post that deserves mod points. I love it when a practical argument shuts up the tin foil hat crowd.
"As if hard to use is supposed to be a hallmark of a good Linux distribution."
Naw, I see it like this:
An easy distro enables a n00b to say "i'm a l337 linux user" when in fact they are as cool as they were when they installed xp.
Analagous are script kiddies - "I download this script and 0wned a box, i'm teh l337 hax0r5"
It's the difference between those that are geeks and those that are wanna Bz. I would think most people hate wanna Bz, and thus the enabling mechanism for wanna Bism.
Well said. Ok, I am less adament about it now. I don't like to pay for my governments debt, but you're right, I care much more for the other shit that the government wastes money on than this issue. Singling out the Native Americans when there is broader wastefullness - like welfare - seems like cutting at a small branch to fell a tree.
However, with the power button set to restart X (through acpid), it's not as much of a problem now.
Why not just do a ctrl-alt-backspace ?
Create an image, keep your data on the network or another partition. When it acts freaky, rebuild from the image. AHHHH, just like you like it in 10-15 mins. Work smarter, not harder.
Well, that explains it a little clearer, but nonetheless, Native Americans still have access to the "property" we are renting and all rights and priviledges we do, aside from their own land that we have no rights to. They still have access to welfare, can vote, are considered citizens AND collect rent. Kinda like renting out a house you live in. I still believe it is time for us all to move on, doing this together. I am still tired of carrying around someone else's guilt.
Look, you almost had me. You were almost lucid. Again, I am not debating law, which you seem to be missing. Read my fucking posts you condescending fuck. If you read my posts, you'd realize not only am I not reducing it to "Why should I pay for my grandpappy's mistake?", my family wasn't even here. It's like starting out in life with a huge amount of debt, but I digress.
My main points were (and you almost addressed one):
*Why do Native Americans receive the benefits they do and no other group does.
Here's your answer:
"Look, I agree with you. If it was about giving people money for their ancestor's sufferings then I would put African Americans and Holicaust Victims at the top of the list. BUT IT ISN'T, AND THAT'S WHY AFRICAN AMERICANS AREN'T WINNING SETTLEMENTS FOR LAND CLAIMS AND BROKEN TREATIES."
Here is where you didn't follow through:
*If there IS justification (i.e. the land claims and treaties you speak of), when will they stop receiving these benefits? See, that is my real quandry. "Indefinitly."
Now maybe my perspective is skewed because it would be easier for me to justify compensation for ancesteral pain and suffering than it is to justify STILL paying for "LAND CLAIMS AND BROKEN TREATIES". If it comes down to broken contracts, we should have had this resolved 100 years ago.
PS: Your wife is selling her self short. My ex-wife is 1/8 cherokee and had ALL of her college paid for. There, I've shown my bias as well.
Are Enron's employees responsible for the actions of the executives? Once they prosecute the executives, will the company continue to pay fines indefinitly? Will they take money from their employees paychecks to pay said fine? I know, they lost their jobs and their retirement - but it is over for them.
When will it be over us? When will this generation of Native Americans have to go get a job instead of living off of the blood of their ancestors? Since you know so much white guy, when is *our* debt paid? The African Americans were enslaved for over 400 years - They were treated (in my opinion) far worse than Native Americans ever were - where is their monthly paycheck? Where is their casino? Where are their reservations? Where is the many African nations and the American government's responsibility there? Since we're on this slippery slope, what about the Mexicans? *We* took their land and killed a bunch of them as well. Why aren't the Germans paying the Jews? That was way more fucked up than anything that ever happened to the Native Americans. Why are the Native Americans any different? Government responsibility and all that is bullshit and an excuse for a free ride. Sure, let us make sure to never repeat these attrocities , but lets do it by having some sort of national day of rememberance - hell, a month would by great. Encouraging sloth by distributing unearned income is a deservice to everyone. AND it is unearned, their ancestors spilled their blood, not the shiftless people I see living in filth on reservations.
It is not that I don't understand the accountability of the government(s), it's that I don't want to pay for their transgressions. I wouldn't mind if there was an end in sight, but how long will WE pay for their sins? Shit Dahmer only got 900 years - when is OUR sentence up? As far as holding the governments "accountable", when does the accounting balance out? Is there a way to quantify the transgressions of America's forefathers? If not, what balance are they paying off? When will it be time for the unsuffering "victims" to quit their bitching and get to work? You explain the end game, and I will then understand. I don't beleive you can explain that to me because noone knows, it's a course we're on indefinitely, that is the problem I have.
Are Dahmer's victims still dead? Yes. Are the victim's families still alive and grieving? Yes. Dahmer's family should continue to pay then - right? Perhaps some sort of check to each victim each month.
Do you still personally grieve your ancestors in other than a ceremonial way? No.
Are you benefiting from land "taken" from your people? Yes AND you have sovereign land with which to do with as you wish outside of the laws of the country that pays your bills so you don't have to work. If you really believe that you are receiving your benefits for use of land, you're sadly mistaken. "We" (those besides Native Americans, i.e. ANYONE that comes to this country no matter how oppressed they were in their country of origin) are still paying for the white man's guilt.
Look, I understand your bitterness, and I am by no means trivializing the attrocities commited against your people. I am not implying you are unjustified, just focusing your anger at the wrong generation. When does it stop? Does AMERICA continue to pay benefits until we are all one race and noone has 1/8 of American Indian in them? Millions of years? The situation is flawed because there is no way you can have retribution unless everyone moves out and leaves the country to you. Then we have to pay for the damage civilization has done to your resources and so on and so on. Yet, you haven't shed a drop of blood and I have never killed ANYONE. The sons and daughters of America will continue to pay for the sins of America's forefathers until.....?
Doesn't make a whole lot of sense does it? So get a job and quit your whining you fucking victim.
How convenient of you to take that attitude when you are not paying.
How convenient of you to reap the benefits of your ancestors' suffering when you have not suffered at all.
How convenient of you to refer to this as my ancestors mistakes. My ancestors are just as at fault as yours - (hint: they're not).
I care not to argue the legality of the issue - because likely you are technically right. I am arguing the common sense side (i.e. should we imprison Jeffery Dahmer's family? See, he killed a bunch of people, and didn't serve his full 900-year sentence because he was murdered. Using your logic (broken treaties and such) his family should be held accountable for those remaining 900 years - what about the victims!)
How convenient for you to tell me to get out of a country that affords you the opportunity to live effortlessly, and one that I fought for your right to do so.
How convenient for you to despise me because I don't want to give *you* another unearned dime.
Don't misunderstand my disdain for paying for your school and what not as a jab at Native Americans in general. I live in Phoenix and have a handful of Navajo friends - close enough to include me in a couple of sweats. And also close enough to discuss this very issue candidly. They know they are getting a free ride and know to exploit it - because it is available to them. You, sir, are making arguments to justify your sponge like behavior. I pay taxes, because I have a job. I have a job to support my family. You sir, sit over where you are, riding on the suffering of your ancestors. You are sad, pathetic and a disgrace to your proud people.
I am not a racist, bigot or a hater of any kind and I am simply tired of living with this fucking white man's guilt.
America's ancestors were wrong. You can never be completely compensated and neither can the African Americans. But there is one simple fact your missing:
I didn't do it. My family wasn't even here when the pricks did their nastiness. I didn't enslave anyone either.
I sure as hell pay for your ass and the other minorities to go to fucking school though.
I even fought for this country, got the GI bill, and I am still $45000 in debt from school. So to you fucker, *your* ass wasn't poisoned, massacred, and I didn't do it to your ancestors. These reparations are fucking ludicrous. Your ancestors deserve compensation from those of that era, but *you* don't deserve a dime from me. Should we imprison Jeffrey Dahmer's family?
Quite playing the fucking victim and tell your people to get off of their asses and get a job instead of living off the gov.
Right. See, being the IT guy at my company is sooo Blue Collar. Any blue collar "plumber" can migrate from windows to linux - mail, domain, file servers, printers, cvs, webservers, internal dns without a second of downtime. That is what a developer does when his Tomcat server takes a shit, he calls some blue collar IT guy to fix it. riiiiight. Not to mention that I have to not only know how to administer the server, I have to be able to program Java at least on some basic level to understand how to make it work. Any blue collar "plummer" has the ability to fix not only the plumbing, but any other problem a structure may have. While we're talking IT, what IT guy worth his salt doesn't know how to program at least in perl or some sort of "scripting" language. Maybe my responsibilities go beyond the average IT guy, but I hardly find any of this blue-collar or outside the scope of IT.
Blue-collar where I come from means mostly manual labor. Yes, there is a base of knowledge, but it doesn't have the range of demands that the IT guy must/should know. A plumber knows the plumbing well, just don't ask him to hang drywall, work on your electrical stuff or fix your ac. You can ask your IT guy how to put a formula in Excel or setup lvm on your linux server. And make it ALL secure. Yeah that's "blue-collar" - like a plumber or a truck driver, pretty much the same.
I am not sure I could find one - your comment, you back it up.
Way to go with the cygwin. I just bought a 512 usb drive and was looking for a proper os/os emulator to put on it. I saw feather linux, which may be viable - but I don't want to have to boot to my pen drive. I also needed to use fat. So I was looking back at cygwin and realized you had to mod the registry and paths to get it to run. You saved me some work this weekend :-) Although I will be adding alot to it. I really look forward to your perl version.
Alright assholes, noone said anything about smtp being on port 143, but it could be if you didn't have anything conflicting. You don't even need a mx record. Mail will try to deliver to the mx according to priority, but will also try directly to the domain. If you have the proper setup on your firewall, with the proper natting used, you can do what you want. As I stated, I have done this and am doing this now. Call me a jackass all you want, but there is more than one way to do things.