Virginia has a similar law, however, you are only allowed to shoot the person if you cannot escape, if you are in a room with 1 door and no way out a window and the trespasser is walking in the door you can shoot him, if there is a way for you to escape without shooting, and you do shoot them you can be prosecuted.
I completely agree one of my sites got its adwords shut down because of a minority of people that were making fraudulent clicks, their purpose for doing this? To get my adwords account shutdown. Before these clicks started I had almost $200 in my account from valid clicks they started I got shutdown.
When I attempted to contact google about this they said they will not provide information that could give away their IP methods. They give you the chance to defend against being shut but give you no information on what you are defending against. It is kinda like going to court to defend against charges being brought against you without knowing what the charges are.
Now google is giving site users encouragement to promote click fraud, hey if I write an article for this site and they keep clicking the googleads I will get some of that money....*sigh* Google used to be a good company.
I apologise you are 100% correct, I was only half concentrating when I typed that, I mean't to say.
Postfix is based on sendmails feature set.....
once again sorry for misleading you, that is what happens when you are discussing porting code with a co-worker whilst typing a response on slashdot:op
To play devils advocate (because I do use postfix), but sendmail can be a lot faster than postfix when correctly configured by an M4 / cf master, due to the ability to really get into the guts of sendmail when configuring it, you can remove a lot of the cruft if you have a specialised task in this instance sendmail beats the pants off of postfix.
However that said in most cases the default installs of both, postfix is generally faster, although if it only took you 10 minutes to configure I would suggest spending a couple of hours reading up on how to configure postfix since there is a lot of performance enhancing techniques that can be applied with some more advanced configuration methods.
Postfix is based on sendmails codebase, with much stronger security features and a lot of the more complex configuration hidden away. It is very fast and featureful.
Qmail is a fairly secure pretty fast MTA it is very modular and very suited to sites with multiple domains to handle.
There is others such as exim, james, etc but Sendmail, Postfix and Qmail are the 3 biggest I think next would be exim (it used to be the default in debian I don't know if it still is).
Personally I would recommend postfix if you are handling just your own email, I use postfix, courier-imapd, spamassassin, amavisd, clamav, maildrop, and procmail and I haven't had a single security incident on my system (knock on wood), additionally I have about a 99% success rate catching spam with almost no false positives.
I guess I agree that instead of hacking fixes in place the best option is to rewrite, after defending it earlier I just (for the first time in months) had an emerge fail on me halfway through.:op Kinda negates my earlier statements, but I still love the concept of Gentoo and I will continue to use it warts and all.
emerge -uDp world can totally destroy your system, however, there is now much more effective ways to ensure your system doesn't break as mention in reply to parent the gentoolkit fixes most of these issues. There is new recommended methods of updating the system that eliminate the issues.
You are totally correct the default portage is broken by slowness, however, there are as always ways around this, adding psyhco to portage speeds things up a lot, using esearch instead of emerge -S speeds things even more and adding ccache adds another speed boost, this is in addition to the improvements that have been made to portage from the devs.
I would seriously urge people to try gentoo now there has been a lot of improvement in recent months and will optimisations found at Gentoo wiki you can improve it even more.
I have had this problem in the distant past but I really haven't encountered it for a long long time, if you use the portage correctly it should never happen anymore, especially if you use the gentoolkit, programs like repdev-rebuild eliminate most of these issues.
Oh, please. Every u83r g33k / l33t haxx0r knows that Gentoo's portage easily pwnz both of them!
Okay I will take the bait.....yes it does it resolves all dependencies, it will uninstall, it allows you to upgrade, okay so you have to install the source but IMO portage is better than rpm and dpkg
The purpose of terrorism is to promote terror, given the way people are so afraid of terrorist, I would say Bush and Co have done a great job advertising for terrorists.
Actually I work for the DoD and we just got a new regulation on displaying banners on connection, it is entirely possible there was no banner at the time of the 'break in'.
You seem to be asserting that nVidia pays people to write Linux drivers, even though they see the Linux market as totally insignificant. I don't understand the logic in that.
I haven't said that they don't see the Linux market as significant, I am saying I am insignificant to them, if one user stops using their cards they wouldn't even notice.
At some point, I might find myself buying a card that requires proprietary drivers. If I do that, I'm at least not going to pretend that I'm not part of the problem.
I don't see how that makes you part of the problem, and contacting nvidia and requesting open drivers does at least tell them you want a change, so they are fully aware I am not happy with closed drivers, they don't care that I want open drivers but at least I make them aware of the fact, perhaps if all linux users did the same we would see a change but most people can't be bothered.
Why should nVidia open up their drivers when their customers (e.g. you) are perfectly happy to spend money on their products, even though the drivers are closed? If you really don't care, that's your choice, but you shouldn't act as though you're not part of the problem.
I would love them to open their drivers, in the meantime though they produce the best products and I am not so much of a zealot that I am going to cripple my system because they don't meet my personal preferences in regards to drivers.
How would you say I am part of the problem? At least I am vocal about wanting the drivers opened, if I stopped buying their cards it wouldn't make the slightest difference and wouldn't be noticed and they really couldn't care, I guess you use S3? Have fun with that.
Hey as I already stated many times in this thread, I would love for nvidia to open their drivers, but until they do I will continue to use the closed source drivers.
My point is that FSF take a very extremist view of things, yes in an ideal world all my applications and drivers would be open sourced and money would grow on trees. This isn't an ideal world and the FSF needs to accept that.
I use openssh, I used iptables, I use gnupg, I use bastille to harden my systems, I use monitoring software, I use every security precaution I can, yes perhaps the nvidia drivers are the weak spot in my armor but until they open the drivers I have little choice but to use them and the FSF needs to understand this.
I play games in linux using cedega, my other choice is to use windows......much more likely to find a script kiddie stealing my bank details there. If the FSF has a problem with people using closed drivers perhaps they should step up the campaign against nvidia to get my drivers opened.
First, there are not PLENTY of very capable devs. There are plenty of MEDIOCRE ones. This makes it rather unlikely that one gang of uber-coders would form and present us a state-of-the-art driver supporting the latest geForce in less than one year. Also, the nVidia devs have the advantage of being very, very experienced.
Why do you need a gang of coders to product a good product? 2 or 3 good coders could produce an excellent driver in a good amount of time. Yes there is more bad and mediocre coders than good ones but the point is there is enough good ones to do this.
You are splitting hairs here. These "dozens of calls" are virtually non-existant. They don't see opensource fanatics as the average customer. The average customer just wants good flashy fast 3D.
Perhaps I am splitting hairs but the point is they said something that is not true, saying this hasn't been requested is wrong, perhaps only a small set of their users have requests but the point is it has been asked for.
I don't think it is that big of an issue, nvidia has always pushed the point that their hardware is cutting edge which means the drivers should only be a small part of the performance, besides as someone pointed out earlier, release the information for older models, 6 months even a year after the card is released the contents are no longer a secret so release the documentation. That would have the competitors marketing to "hey look at our card it uses the same technology nvidia used 6 months ago"
Invest millions of *YOUR* dollars into a particular product and then tell me you are willing to give it to the world for free....do this and let's see how long you are in business. People seem to neglect that very fact - nVidia/ATI spends a heck of a lot money on this stuff. I totally understand what they want to remain closed source.
They aren't giving it away for free, provide the documents on how to interface with the hardware, better linux support means more sales which in turn == more money!
some of the best developers in the world, not all the best developers, I am not saying OS only attracts the best, I am just saying there is plenty of very capable developers that could handle the drivers.
Which make up, uh, 1% of all their customers?
Perhaps but the point is some of their customers have made a request, which makes his statement plain wrong.
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Virginia has a similar law, however, you are only allowed to shoot the person if you cannot escape, if you are in a room with 1 door and no way out a window and the trespasser is walking in the door you can shoot him, if there is a way for you to escape without shooting, and you do shoot them you can be prosecuted.
I completely agree one of my sites got its adwords shut down because of a minority of people that were making fraudulent clicks, their purpose for doing this? To get my adwords account shutdown. Before these clicks started I had almost $200 in my account from valid clicks they started I got shutdown.
When I attempted to contact google about this they said they will not provide information that could give away their IP methods. They give you the chance to defend against being shut but give you no information on what you are defending against. It is kinda like going to court to defend against charges being brought against you without knowing what the charges are.
Now google is giving site users encouragement to promote click fraud, hey if I write an article for this site and they keep clicking the googleads I will get some of that money....*sigh* Google used to be a good company.
hahahaha +100 funny
They could have just used the Ompa Lompas isn't it their job to fix the glass elevator and the rest of the chocolate factory?
I apologise you are 100% correct, I was only half concentrating when I typed that, I mean't to say.
:op
Postfix is based on sendmails feature set.....
once again sorry for misleading you, that is what happens when you are discussing porting code with a co-worker whilst typing a response on slashdot
To play devils advocate (because I do use postfix), but sendmail can be a lot faster than postfix when correctly configured by an M4 / cf master, due to the ability to really get into the guts of sendmail when configuring it, you can remove a lot of the cruft if you have a specialised task in this instance sendmail beats the pants off of postfix.
However that said in most cases the default installs of both, postfix is generally faster, although if it only took you 10 minutes to configure I would suggest spending a couple of hours reading up on how to configure postfix since there is a lot of performance enhancing techniques that can be applied with some more advanced configuration methods.
Postfix is based on sendmails codebase, with much stronger security features and a lot of the more complex configuration hidden away. It is very fast and featureful.
Qmail is a fairly secure pretty fast MTA it is very modular and very suited to sites with multiple domains to handle.
There is others such as exim, james, etc but Sendmail, Postfix and Qmail are the 3 biggest I think next would be exim (it used to be the default in debian I don't know if it still is).
Personally I would recommend postfix if you are handling just your own email, I use postfix, courier-imapd, spamassassin, amavisd, clamav, maildrop, and procmail and I haven't had a single security incident on my system (knock on wood), additionally I have about a 99% success rate catching spam with almost no false positives.
I guess I agree that instead of hacking fixes in place the best option is to rewrite, after defending it earlier I just (for the first time in months) had an emerge fail on me halfway through. :op Kinda negates my earlier statements, but I still love the concept of Gentoo and I will continue to use it warts and all.
Yes:
emerge -uDp world can totally destroy your system, however, there is now much more effective ways to ensure your system doesn't break as mention in reply to parent the gentoolkit fixes most of these issues. There is new recommended methods of updating the system that eliminate the issues.
You are totally correct the default portage is broken by slowness, however, there are as always ways around this, adding psyhco to portage speeds things up a lot, using esearch instead of emerge -S speeds things even more and adding ccache adds another speed boost, this is in addition to the improvements that have been made to portage from the devs.
I would seriously urge people to try gentoo now there has been a lot of improvement in recent months and will optimisations found at Gentoo wiki you can improve it even more.
I have had this problem in the distant past but I really haven't encountered it for a long long time, if you use the portage correctly it should never happen anymore, especially if you use the gentoolkit, programs like repdev-rebuild eliminate most of these issues.
Okay I will take the bait.....yes it does it resolves all dependencies, it will uninstall, it allows you to upgrade, okay so you have to install the source but IMO portage is better than rpm and dpkg
The purpose of terrorism is to promote terror, given the way people are so afraid of terrorist, I would say Bush and Co have done a great job advertising for terrorists.
Wrong is everybody were armed society would be a lot smaller.
Actually I work for the DoD and we just got a new regulation on displaying banners on connection, it is entirely possible there was no banner at the time of the 'break in'.
Your policies sound great, it is just a pity that more people don't take this approach.
I haven't said that they don't see the Linux market as significant, I am saying I am insignificant to them, if one user stops using their cards they wouldn't even notice.
I don't see how that makes you part of the problem, and contacting nvidia and requesting open drivers does at least tell them you want a change, so they are fully aware I am not happy with closed drivers, they don't care that I want open drivers but at least I make them aware of the fact, perhaps if all linux users did the same we would see a change but most people can't be bothered.
I would love them to open their drivers, in the meantime though they produce the best products and I am not so much of a zealot that I am going to cripple my system because they don't meet my personal preferences in regards to drivers.
How would you say I am part of the problem? At least I am vocal about wanting the drivers opened, if I stopped buying their cards it wouldn't make the slightest difference and wouldn't be noticed and they really couldn't care, I guess you use S3? Have fun with that.
Hey as I already stated many times in this thread, I would love for nvidia to open their drivers, but until they do I will continue to use the closed source drivers.
My point is that FSF take a very extremist view of things, yes in an ideal world all my applications and drivers would be open sourced and money would grow on trees. This isn't an ideal world and the FSF needs to accept that.
I use openssh, I used iptables, I use gnupg, I use bastille to harden my systems, I use monitoring software, I use every security precaution I can, yes perhaps the nvidia drivers are the weak spot in my armor but until they open the drivers I have little choice but to use them and the FSF needs to understand this.
I play games in linux using cedega, my other choice is to use windows......much more likely to find a script kiddie stealing my bank details there. If the FSF has a problem with people using closed drivers perhaps they should step up the campaign against nvidia to get my drivers opened.
In unrelated news, the IRS has reported sudden loss of all their backups, and serious infection from computer viruses.
But it is a codebase that can be built upon.
The team that wrote the nv driver would have previous experience, are obviously fairly skilled and already have a codebase to work from.
Why do you need a gang of coders to product a good product? 2 or 3 good coders could produce an excellent driver in a good amount of time. Yes there is more bad and mediocre coders than good ones but the point is there is enough good ones to do this.
You are splitting hairs here. These "dozens of calls" are virtually non-existant. They don't see opensource fanatics as the average customer. The average customer just wants good flashy fast 3D.
Perhaps I am splitting hairs but the point is they said something that is not true, saying this hasn't been requested is wrong, perhaps only a small set of their users have requests but the point is it has been asked for.
I don't think it is that big of an issue, nvidia has always pushed the point that their hardware is cutting edge which means the drivers should only be a small part of the performance, besides as someone pointed out earlier, release the information for older models, 6 months even a year after the card is released the contents are no longer a secret so release the documentation. That would have the competitors marketing to "hey look at our card it uses the same technology nvidia used 6 months ago"
They aren't giving it away for free, provide the documents on how to interface with the hardware, better linux support means more sales which in turn == more money!
Perhaps but the point is some of their customers have made a request, which makes his statement plain wrong.