Earthlink doesn't allow you to run your own SMTP server, as they block outgoing port 25 traffic, supposedly as an anti-spam measure
Good. I wish more ISPs would do this. 90% of the spam I get comes from idiots on dial-up accounts running their own SMTP servers. If you want to run your own SMTP servers, get a business class connection like I did.
I remember having a p200 with 64MB of RAM, and finding a AMDK6-2 350 w/ 256MB Of RAM in the hallway.
We're always stumbling onto stuff in the hallways. Brand new top of the line computers, still packaged and delivered fresh from the manufacturer the same day! They just set them outside people's offices! I guess the people in the offices don't want them, so we just take them home...
This is horse shit. I picked up some nice long sleeved shirts at SCO's booth @ LinuxWorld in January. They're great looking, comfortable shirts, and now I can't wear them...
It sounds like it would be a good area for insurance.
Yeah, you're only the hundredth person to mention insurance. Funny how none of you have really thought this through.
I run my own mail & web servers, at home, on a 1.5Mbps line. My domains get nailed so often, I'd be submitting insurance claims every week. Usually it's virus attacks from Windoze boxes that are dropped at the firewall. Most recently some asshole has been sending hundreds of spam messages to random (non-existent) accounts on my domain. Sure, I can block his IPs at the firewall, but he's still eating up my bandwidth.
My point is this: It's impossible to sell insurance for this because it happens constantly. The money being paid out in claims would outweigh your income a million to one.
I guess it wasn't in the contract, or the programmer would simply have sued.
Yeah - hire a lawyer to recover your money just so you can give the large majority of it back to him. Real smart.
You're only the thousandth person here to slam these practices because "the courts are the appropriate method to resolve these disputes." Yeah - spend years of your time recovering a small fraction of your money. Doesn't sound fair or appropriate to me.
How all these comments are getting modded "insightful" is beyond me.
I for one, am a person of color, and it would be nice to occaisionally see someone on there who is not pasty white.
So you'd like people to be put on the show based on the color of their skin? And you don't think that devalues people of color? I mean, really: Do you want to be on the show because you've earned and deserve it, or do you want them just handing it over to you because your skin is the right shade of grey?
If you have the skills and abilities to get put on this show, then get there based on those skills instead of pulling out the race card.
While I doubt that it will actually work, what is wrong for them wanting to expand their viewership?
Uhm, it's discriminatory?
Really, what you're seeing here is, "White males need not apply." Why is this acceptable to so many people? Could you imagine if they said "Hispanics/blacks/women/(insert other minority group here) need not apply"?
You see, discrimination is OK, so long as we're only discriminating against white males. Personally, I find this one way street disturbing.
(Sorry for the duplicate, I accidentally posted this as AC the first time)
We say you owe us the money. Pay up. I've got a great response to that one: Fuck off.
They can't force you to pay up. Period. What, are they going to take the money out of your checking account? That would violate several laws. They can't even disconnect your telephone service - federal law makes it illegal to disconnect your phone over refusal to pay other pieces of your bill. So long as you pay the core charges for the phone, you're fine. If you don't pay for caller ID, they can drop that service, but not your entire phone.
So do what I do: Tell them to fuck off. Tell them you're not paying it and serve the first collection agency that calls with a cease & desist indicating that any communication to a third party (read: credit agency) will be considered libel and appropriate action taken. And if it ends up on your credit report, who gives a shit? I refuse to be a slave to Equifax (even though my credit score is over 700).
Hey, but do they still get to complain about piracy? Really, BMG has blown it big time. How can they sit and say "We lost $12 Billion to those thieving computer users last year" when their CDs aren't supposed to work in a computer?
If she had kids at twenty that are now grown, is she not a mother?
Of course she is, but she's not under the hardship suggested by the parent post.
The post claimed "60 year old single mothers working 40 hour weeks." The words "single mother" and "working 40 hour weeks" implies a woman with a hardship: Young children at home, struggling to make ends meet.
Last time I checked, 60 year old women aren't often found in this situation.
That means that the DMCA is actually contributing to the destabilization of the systems I am responsible for.
No, posting on/. is contributing to the destabilization of the systems you are responsible for. It's funny that you "don't have the time" to fix the system, but you DO have time to post here.;)
Why the hell is it illegal? This must be a UK thing. I can't imagine this flying in the US.
If I had a car that I could run off of cooking oil and save money in the process, I'd do it, laws or no laws. Talk about the public outcry if they started busting people for not using gasoline over here.
I want a telephone that recognizes an anonymous caller ID and automatically plays back a message saying "Sorry, not accepting anonymous calls. Call back with the * feature to disable anonymous calls."
Microsoft used to sell a 900Mhz cordless phone system that did this. I have one that I bought for $30 or so long after they had been discontinued. It's a hell of a nice phone - a little big, but very powerful. Plug it into a serial port, install the phone software, and you can do anything. You can filter by caller ID, setup nearly unlimited mailboxes, create relatively sophisticated menu driven trees, etc.
The bad: - Only runs under Windows. Worse, it was made for 95/98 and doesn't work under NT or 2k (I didn't try ME) - Computer has to be running 24/7 (not a problem for most people here)
I'm now using an AMX system with a phone interface & serial interface to my PC to handle my call filtering. Much more powerful than the Microsoft phone. Also much more expensive.
Perhaps because they're in business to make money, not support an IT staff?
Considering the 20+ IT staff we already had, I really doubt that had anything to do with it.
Making money generally involves spending it. Spend less to get the same results, and you make more money. On purely financial terms, the solution as to which OS to deploy should be obvious.
Would you rather spend a little extra and get a car with a warranty, or a car "as is"? I'll spend the extra and get the warranty. I'm not a mechanic, and I'm not paying for a fucking mechanic.
Your analogy is flawed. Here's one that may be more appropriate:
Would you rather spend money and get a car with a warranty that has locks under the hood you can't bypass and a dealer that takes their sweet ass time fixing the car when it breaks (sometimes not fixing it at all), or would you rather get a free car that you can fix whenever you like, and as a bonus, lots of helpful people will tell you exactly how to do so?
The last company I worked for spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars with Microsoft every year. And every single time there was a problem, we spent hours on the phone with those idiots getting it resolved. Most of the time, it never did get resolved, or took months for Microsoft to issue a hotfix. Why they didn't just hire a couple of software developers at $80k a year/each and deploy Linux is beyond me...
I have thought about this before, and was curious-- would it have to be an external drive enclosure?
http://www.twinipc.com/product/4U+Chassis/RMC4D/ Holds 18 drives (16 front mounted hot swap + 2 internal) I put 160GB drives in them for 2.8TB of storage per server but with 320GB drives, that could be 5.7TB. MMMMmmmm.....
'course, you lose some of that to RAID overhead, and Linux won't make a filesystem larger than 2TB anyway so I have a few hot spares...
WD is *supposed* to be selling: 180, 200GB 7200 RPM drives, but I havn't seen any for sale yet.
Oh, they're for sale. They just aren't shipping. Quickest bet is from Western Digital themselves, but the ship date is still 2-4 weeks off - and that's their new estimate after they didn't ship a couple weeks ago, so who knows when it will really happen.:(
Tough times for anyone needing another 2+TB box online soon.
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Earthlink doesn't allow you to run your own SMTP server, as they block outgoing port 25 traffic, supposedly as an anti-spam measure
Good. I wish more ISPs would do this. 90% of the spam I get comes from idiots on dial-up accounts running their own SMTP servers. If you want to run your own SMTP servers, get a business class connection like I did.
I remember having a p200 with 64MB of RAM, and finding a AMDK6-2 350 w/ 256MB Of RAM in the hallway.
We're always stumbling onto stuff in the hallways. Brand new top of the line computers, still packaged and delivered fresh from the manufacturer the same day! They just set them outside people's offices! I guess the people in the offices don't want them, so we just take them home...
(it's a joke. laugh.)
This is horse shit. I picked up some nice long sleeved shirts at SCO's booth @ LinuxWorld in January. They're great looking, comfortable shirts, and now I can't wear them...
SCO, you bastards.
It sounds like it would be a good area for insurance.
Yeah, you're only the hundredth person to mention insurance. Funny how none of you have really thought this through.
I run my own mail & web servers, at home, on a 1.5Mbps line. My domains get nailed so often, I'd be submitting insurance claims every week. Usually it's virus attacks from Windoze boxes that are dropped at the firewall. Most recently some asshole has been sending hundreds of spam messages to random (non-existent) accounts on my domain. Sure, I can block his IPs at the firewall, but he's still eating up my bandwidth.
My point is this: It's impossible to sell insurance for this because it happens constantly. The money being paid out in claims would outweigh your income a million to one.
I guess it wasn't in the contract, or the programmer would simply have sued.
Yeah - hire a lawyer to recover your money just so you can give the large majority of it back to him. Real smart.
You're only the thousandth person here to slam these practices because "the courts are the appropriate method to resolve these disputes." Yeah - spend years of your time recovering a small fraction of your money. Doesn't sound fair or appropriate to me.
How all these comments are getting modded "insightful" is beyond me.
I for one, am a person of color, and it would be nice to occaisionally see someone on there who is not pasty white.
So you'd like people to be put on the show based on the color of their skin? And you don't think that devalues people of color? I mean, really: Do you want to be on the show because you've earned and deserve it, or do you want them just handing it over to you because your skin is the right shade of grey?
If you have the skills and abilities to get put on this show, then get there based on those skills instead of pulling out the race card.
While I doubt that it will actually work, what is wrong for them wanting to expand their viewership?
Uhm, it's discriminatory?
Really, what you're seeing here is, "White males need not apply." Why is this acceptable to so many people? Could you imagine if they said "Hispanics/blacks/women/(insert other minority group here) need not apply"?
You see, discrimination is OK, so long as we're only discriminating against white males. Personally, I find this one way street disturbing.
(Sorry for the duplicate, I accidentally posted this as AC the first time)
We say you owe us the money. Pay up.
I've got a great response to that one: Fuck off.
They can't force you to pay up. Period. What, are they going to take the money out of your checking account? That would violate several laws. They can't even disconnect your telephone service - federal law makes it illegal to disconnect your phone over refusal to pay other pieces of your bill. So long as you pay the core charges for the phone, you're fine. If you don't pay for caller ID, they can drop that service, but not your entire phone.
So do what I do: Tell them to fuck off. Tell them you're not paying it and serve the first collection agency that calls with a cease & desist indicating that any communication to a third party (read: credit agency) will be considered libel and appropriate action taken. And if it ends up on your credit report, who gives a shit? I refuse to be a slave to Equifax (even though my credit score is over 700).
>> Tuner cards -NEVER- have AM.
Huh? Mine does...
Hey, but do they still get to complain about piracy? Really, BMG has blown it big time. How can they sit and say "We lost $12 Billion to those thieving computer users last year" when their CDs aren't supposed to work in a computer?
http://www.audioauthority.com/consumer.html
There. Various boxes that convert component, VGA, RGB, etc, to and from one another.
If she had kids at twenty that are now grown, is she not a mother?
Of course she is, but she's not under the hardship suggested by the parent post.
The post claimed "60 year old single mothers working 40 hour weeks." The words "single mother" and "working 40 hour weeks" implies a woman with a hardship: Young children at home, struggling to make ends meet.
Last time I checked, 60 year old women aren't often found in this situation.
60 year old single mothers
Wow! That's an old mother. Who would have known women were waiting until the age of 45+ to have children...
That means that the DMCA is actually contributing to the destabilization of the systems I am responsible for.
/. is contributing to the destabilization of the systems you are responsible for. It's funny that you "don't have the time" to fix the system, but you DO have time to post here. ;)
No, posting on
please define the difference between erotica and pornography.
Erotic: Using a feather.
Pornographic: Using the whole chicken.
All clear now?
It's quite ingenious, though highly illegal...
Why the hell is it illegal? This must be a UK thing. I can't imagine this flying in the US.
If I had a car that I could run off of cooking oil and save money in the process, I'd do it, laws or no laws. Talk about the public outcry if they started busting people for not using gasoline over here.
I want a telephone that recognizes an anonymous caller ID and automatically plays back a message saying "Sorry, not accepting anonymous calls. Call back with the * feature to disable anonymous calls."
Microsoft used to sell a 900Mhz cordless phone system that did this. I have one that I bought for $30 or so long after they had been discontinued. It's a hell of a nice phone - a little big, but very powerful. Plug it into a serial port, install the phone software, and you can do anything. You can filter by caller ID, setup nearly unlimited mailboxes, create relatively sophisticated menu driven trees, etc.
The bad:
- Only runs under Windows. Worse, it was made for 95/98 and doesn't work under NT or 2k (I didn't try ME)
- Computer has to be running 24/7 (not a problem for most people here)
I'm now using an AMX system with a phone interface & serial interface to my PC to handle my call filtering. Much more powerful than the Microsoft phone. Also much more expensive.
Because people will pay the 20 dollers, pounds, Euros or whatever for the CD. The pricing is based on what the customer is prepared to pay.
There were 3.2 million users on the Fasttrack network last night. Obviously, people aren't willing to pay twenty bucks a pop for CDs anymore...
I'm sorry but WTF does Linus Torvalds have to do with any of this?
Dude, this is Slashdot. Linus Torvalds has something to do with everything.
I was reunited with my long lost sister last week. Thanks, Linus!
Landed a great new job with lucrative stock options. Thanks, Linus!
Got a great blow job last night. Thanks, Lin.. err, nevermind...
In all criminal prosecutions
Key words: criminal prosecutions. Speeding tickets are not criminal prosecutions, they're civil fines.
And how, exactly, do you expect to get the to the public?
Well, considering the theme here, I'd say: Pirate radio station!! Might as well get the FCC all riled up while we're at it, right?
Perhaps because they're in business to make money, not support an IT staff?
Considering the 20+ IT staff we already had, I really doubt that had anything to do with it.
Making money generally involves spending it. Spend less to get the same results, and you make more money. On purely financial terms, the solution as to which OS to deploy should be obvious.
Would you rather spend a little extra and get a car with a warranty, or a car "as is"? I'll spend the extra and get the warranty. I'm not a mechanic, and I'm not paying for a fucking mechanic.
Your analogy is flawed. Here's one that may be more appropriate:
Would you rather spend money and get a car with a warranty that has locks under the hood you can't bypass and a dealer that takes their sweet ass time fixing the car when it breaks (sometimes not fixing it at all), or would you rather get a free car that you can fix whenever you like, and as a bonus, lots of helpful people will tell you exactly how to do so?
The last company I worked for spent many hundreds of thousands of dollars with Microsoft every year. And every single time there was a problem, we spent hours on the phone with those idiots getting it resolved. Most of the time, it never did get resolved, or took months for Microsoft to issue a hotfix. Why they didn't just hire a couple of software developers at $80k a year/each and deploy Linux is beyond me...
I have thought about this before, and was curious-- would it have to be an external drive enclosure?
/
http://www.twinipc.com/product/4U+Chassis/RMC4D
Holds 18 drives (16 front mounted hot swap + 2 internal) I put 160GB drives in them for 2.8TB of storage per server but with 320GB drives, that could be 5.7TB. MMMMmmmm.....
'course, you lose some of that to RAID overhead, and Linux won't make a filesystem larger than 2TB anyway so I have a few hot spares...
WD is *supposed* to be selling:
:(
180, 200GB 7200 RPM drives, but I havn't seen any for sale yet.
Oh, they're for sale. They just aren't shipping. Quickest bet is from Western Digital themselves, but the ship date is still 2-4 weeks off - and that's their new estimate after they didn't ship a couple weeks ago, so who knows when it will really happen.
Tough times for anyone needing another 2+TB box online soon.