>Thanks to the MPAA & RIAA I no longer spend any money on music or movies. I use an AM/FM radio for music and if I watch a movie it is something old on basic cable. You will never see me with music CDs or movies on DVD at the checkout line at the store, if i ever buy anything like that it will have to be at some yard sale or pawn shop for pennies on the dollar...
The MPAA dosn't have a column in their spreadsheet for people like you.
They just put you in the "stopped buying due to piracy" column, to show losses to the lawmakers.
That's the same column they use for people who buy less 'content' because their paycheck shrank.
>>Interesting. I read it as more of a ransom note:
>"We have QT, and unless you give us DRM software in 6 months, you can kiss future GPL releases goodbye!"... and this is why GTK has had so much support... even back in the bad old days of GTK 1.0 (god, does anyone remember the flashing widgets, and how bad pulldowns were when they got big?)
Qt's pretty nice (Amarok makes a fantastic demo vehicle for it) but a lot of people were re-assured by the Qt Foundation and a promise to always be free. I can't say bad things about Qt these days (even if my strong preference is for GTK). It's nice.
Nokia contributes quite a bit to Linux in general (kernel and upper layers). But if their management thinks they can trojan horse a campaign to co-opt the kernel, they have another thing coming. I love my N800 tablet, but someone else will come along and take it's place eventually.
Where we are going is that DEVICES will be commodities - replaceable cogs. Without proprietary lock-in, competition will "open up" devices more and more.
It will be a slow process, like US cell phone companies took their sweet time in de-crippling features one at a time, to "add features" over the next carrier.
>The problem with the "Everything is so perfect for life that a supreme being did it on purpose" argument is that it makes the assumption that life cannot exist in any form but ours.... and if we ever meet intelligent life that's an exception to that, that life will require extermination. There's historical precedent for this (the colonist's view that smallpox wiping out the natives was "destiny", and should be helped along by donating the clothes and blankets of smallpox victims). Amherst, etc.
>just like a website should never crash a browser it is relevent that the OS/website is abusing the specifications soo badly to cause the crashes.
All browsers MUST expect garbage input, and pretty much anyone who expects otherwise has their head in the sand, and shouldn't go NEAR code. Document formats don't run in local memory and do not have system access - they're interpreted structures. If a browser crashes, it's the browser's (or it's plugins) fault, 100% of the blame 100% of the time. At worst, you should expect degraded-looking content and that's that.
I don't mean to be snarky, but your argument couldn't be more wrong or inappropriate. With networking, you're pretty close to the physical layer (not a great analogy, but browser code is far removed from traffic and is just a local representation, a user application).
We don't know yet what this is caused by. If it is affecting a lot of routers, it might very well be a "DOS". Or it could be something that holds too many connections open, or IP6 traffic that doesn't go anywhere and ties up the router table till it times out.
This could happen to Linux also, but it's less probable -- it's be code put out in the wild, and the distro's would do their own QA process, and may hold back. Most distros don't run kernel.org kernels, but their own patched tree.
>About time the United States became like the other industrialized countries, don't you think?
I wish it happens in my lifetime. Americans have been BRAINWASHED into thinking ANY government program is socialism, which is in turn Communism in disguise, and Communists had missiles pointed at the US and THEREFORE... US socialists are harboring nuke missiles in their basements.
I'm not kidding. People equate corporate dominance of the government with what's good about America. Americans are very patriotic, but they're also very blind. Plenty of people SHRUG that 18% of the US federal budget goes to INTEREST ONLY LOANS.
Here's what WILL get Americans to be pro-trains: When Dubai owns our ports and bridges, and gas hits $11.
Until then, too many people will equate public transportation with a "plot to take away their cars". Canada (Montreal) has been FOR YEARS wanting to build a high speed train from Montreal to Boston. They're not well connected cities. The US always rebuffs their attempts.
With the scope of financial waste and lack of planning in the US, I wouldn't be surprised to see (in 30 years) that Canada dominates the US economically. It's already starting to happen.
When it's done, the TOP SPEED will be 65MPH I'm guessing.
Allowing real high speed trains in the US is a threat to our dependence on foreign oil, and the foreign lobbyists simply won't ALLOW it. At some point there will be no wide open spaces left for these trains, and then the public (nimbys) will be against trains on their own, without opposition from Big Oil.
Here's what's wrong with your (and all the other) comments that the "Cell is not a good processor for Linux/computing", etc:
You are observing bad performance (correct) but drawing in-correct conclusions as to the source of the problem.
** I'll put it more simply than the other replies: GCC compilers for the Cell processor SUCKS. ** That's all people need to know.
Everyone's assuming that because Linux "works" on the Cell, it's on equal footing with other PowerPC. It's not the "same" PowerPC, and therefore there are NO or ALMOST NO optimizations for Cell-targeted compiles.
The problem's not likely to get better because those who know compiler optimization magic, are not (for a variety of reasons) working to improve the PS3 Cell performance.
Sony also is not afraid of a good performing Linux on the PS3. What they don't want is to lose control of the software toolchain and this is why they lock out the graphics chip and some of the DMA functions. The software performance issue is one that can be fixed, if enough people care to improve GCC.
Overall I'm pleased with Linux on PS3. This is Sony's SECOND attempt, and it's better than the first. Microsoft and Nintendo won't go there (Heck, you can not even install your OWN standard SATA drive on a XB36... you need a proprietary drive, but PS3 owners are dropping in 250GB standard laptop drives to make room for big Linux installs).
This could be a fad, but I think this is a concept that will grow. Sony's obviously benefits by watching to see what people want to do to 'extend' their platform, without yielding control of the platform completely (which would be nice, but that's how they recover their costs)
All the network admins I know want the smallest possible laptop that will run:
Remote Desktop
VNC
ssh
VPN support
I challenge you to name one - JUST ONE - 'network a admin requirement' that XP "Pro" provides that XP Home can't do. The famed "Microsoft Backup" utility (hahaha)? Do you REALLY need the "Support for 2 CPU" that only XP Pro provides?
"Demanding" XP Pro might inflate your self worth, and I can see that being important. Especially since you are not aware that there are very few "technical" differences between Home and Pro.
I have no issues using XP Home for remote admin, although I'd rather be running Ubuntu. I'll even forsake the laptop altogether, and POCKET my trusty $200 Nokia N800, $30 bluetooth keyboard and phone. (that said, these Acer and other UMPC's are pretty sweet).
As much as I hate to say it, there are bigger issues than the RI/MP-AA legislation attempts. I'm pretty sure that if we give the MPAA/RIAA what they really WANT and stop fighting them, they'll generate a backlash.
Corruption from foreign lobbyists has much more potential destructive power.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the UN Security Council, that a CONDITION for China and Russia's support for the Iraq War was that the US *not* I repeat NOT raise taxes to pay for it. That the condition was, we go into very long term debt TO THEM.
China's certainly in a good position, flush with a cash surplus and a LOT of US Treasury notes, and in charge of much of our food supply. Meanwhile, our government's information security is about the quality found in the average K-12 schoolsystem, we're selling our toll bridges and ports to ACTUAL foreign governments, that 9-11 was NOT enough to get a sensible energy policy through Washington... and worst of all, 18% of the US Federal Budget goes towards paying INTEREST-ONLY LOANS (housing market analogies anyone?).
US economic policy for most of the last 28 years has been to drain the treasury. Having first given the investor class ample warning to shuffle their assets (and their patriotism) overseas so they can ride the waves of borrowing and trade deficit.
I'm trying to not get my hopes up too much about Obama, but at least he "gets" technical and long-economic issues that could benefit America PAST his presidency. With Bush and McCain, they actually JOKE that they don't know how to use email (admittedly, this is a pathetic luddite state of affairs and I doubt there will ever be a candidate like McCain again in this respect).
Your suggestion seems to be "Would one side please 'stand down'?"
You clearly don't GET it. After YEARS of being passively trampled on, of ceding power to the right wing and the neo-cons and the jet setting globalists... we're fighting to take BACK this country. We're tired of these people setting our policies for a GENERATION, even determining policy (like Iraq, Cuba, Venezuela, Stem Cells and 'Science' in general, etc) even when they are OUT of power.
Guess what? We're not going to take a seat and watch ourselves decay further. We don't want to sell our ports and bridges to Dubai. We still have resources, and smart people, and we can pay off this debt and rebuild our infrastructure. I've spent time in the United Kingdom and I can say if we DON'T remedy things, our society will break down along the same lines theirs has.
Actually, the terrorist cell responsible for 9-11 came from Saudi Arabia. 7 years later we STILL can not question other Saudi suspects, including some with high placement in the Saudi government and the Saudi 'royal' family..
You still think it was an accident we invaded Iraq?? I don't.
Old laptops are great for customizable routers and proxies (try m0n0wall... and yes I know it's FreeBSD-basednot Linux) They're also good for household webservers... streaming audio servers or streaming audio clients.
They're decent on power and generate relatively little heat, and for these tasks, you might go into the BIOS and even UNDER-CLOCK the CPU. You would also use a slimmed-down OS install and possibly no desktop (look at web-based admin tools like WebMin and the like) if you'd rather not deal with remote console access.
Or give them to a charity that wipes the drives and installs Linux. Anything above 266 Mhz is usable enough for studying and schoolwork, or email and some web browsing. Typically you can max out the memory on these things for under $10 if you find larger (compatible) memory on eBay.
From experience: you only need Spamhaus Zen and SpamCop for connection checking. If you parse DATA before you accept it, you should incorporate URIBL.COM it's very good, and helps catch Yahoo and Gmail spam (which will get past Spamhaus and Spamcop all the time) because it scans bodies for naughty links
dsbl.org is REDUNDANT -- incorporated in Spamhaus Xen. Spamhaus SBL-XBL -- incorporated in Spamhaus Xen. NJABL.org is dead and a mirror of the CBL, I believe (-- incorporated in Spamhaus Xen also)
Never send bounce notices for spam. What notices leave your server are likely going to forged From: addresses....
>The capacitors I use are a cluster of those 2000 Farad Car stereo ones (I know I know it is not the right thing to do but it is the cheap thing to do, and they are firewalled)
I am curious on this statement, but I don't get the context enough to Google it. Care to explain briefly?
I think a lot of people in the UNIX/Linux community completely miss the point about SCO.
THIS "SCO" is not the same as the original SCO. The original SCO was bought out by a team of lawyer-investors, and this includes Daryl.
"Plan B"... was to extort money from licensing, but they NEVER expected this to be the end of it! This was never their focus, except for refueling.
"Plan A" was to DRAIN THEIR TREASURY on legal costs, spending it lavishly on THEMSELVES. Another way to put this is, to bilk their investors.
Investors can usually depend on Accounting to oppose any company's attempt to commit suicide. But SCO is MOSTLY the legal team, and no entity within SCO exists to prevent a runaway failed strategy. SCO will not settle, ever, unless it settles in a way that brings fresh money into their gang, and they have a new target. Prolonging the lawsuits IS their objective.
The investors are the stupid folks, who got shares super cheap on huge gamble on a topic they know little about (copyright). These are the kind of folks who read Forbes, have minimal exposure to technology, don't understand copyright (except that it's always supposed to help Goliath), and subscribe to WIRED without reading it. These people look at open source in general with reactionary views: it's ALL theft, and "costing the IT industry billions". They see the money spent on IT, and any improvement that lowers costs is a threat.
Also, there will be no jail time for any perjury committed here. These people are lawyers, not middle class, and need not fear the law.
The industry is full of stories like this, for years. Exchange by default can't handle it - it's still a workgroup server at heart, and subject to many OS and filesystem limits. Does Hotmail.com even rely 100% on Exchange, or is it still UNIX at the core?
De-centralized email storage and PST files?? COME ON!
It is almost CERTAIN to expect that they knew this would cause emails to be lost and take the system from bad to worse. Even a junior IT person fresh off the boat would say this was CRAZY to attempt, with FEWER benefits and increased risk. In the corporate world, this would be met by massive civil lawsuits and possibly criminal charges. Any "contractor" the WH employed would know this for a fact.
So given that such warnings had to have been given and they went ahead anyways, you have to wonder if strategic "loss" of emails was perfect cover for an email purge. Given the shady nature of these characters, I'm sure this was a calculated "feature".
This is like a hybrid vehicle vs normal gas shootout, with each vehicle towing something. It's irrelevant.
He boiled down all the variables and performance profiles into just one - the one that favors traditional drives. There is NO WAY this should have been published as-is.
I can't attribute this to malice, but basically Bill O'Brien of Computerworld DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING, and neither does his editor for letting this slide. This was probably a case of a traditional drive maker whispering in his ear that this would make a GREAT expose, and not knowing any better he walked right into it.
Besides power savings, and heat, these drives kill spinning discs on certain applications such as a read-mostly database server or file server, or any server that handles queues of small-files where a normal drive would have a read head all over the place.
Unbelievable. This is why I avoid magazine reviews and focus on (usually) better sources like Anandtech, Toms, etc. ComputerWorld is like ComputerShopper...
I have heard MANY MP3 owners (who don't have iPods) say the same thing as you, and even use words like "monopoly". Do you need to see a YouTube video showing Amazon.com media going onto an iPod?
Your statement is 100% false. It's wrong.
For the audience, the reason why non-iPod owners spread the 'compatibility' myth is because some cute girl asked them "Is that an iPod", and the guy says "No, it's a Creative" and the girl says "Oh" and looks away. Guy gets all mad inside, blames Apple. Instead of enjoying his media player as-it-is, he has to justify his purchase to others.
I get 3 spams per day in my inbox, and my email address is in Google from unscrubbed UNIX mailing lists. My Spam folder is a mess, but I rarely have to do much there.
+1 on the other poster regarding SpamAssassin. I maintain a server install of it and it rocks. If you are a user, you can still run RBL checks on email (header parsing), and URIBL gets rid of tons or Google-hosted (Blocgspot) spam.
Now, the SA ruleset is good (organization could be better from a developer perspective... lots of overlapping rules to catch 'viagra' typos, but hey it works).
What the other poster said about topping off, and salts.
You can irrigate, but you also need rainfall once in a while (or you need really cheap energy and good desalination and demineralization such that you're not just watering plants, but spraying the soil slowly and without saturating the soil). If you constantly flood using irrigation, you cause salts to rise to the surface and ruin the soil.
The Soviet Union destroyed entire nations through bad irrigation policy, turning semi-arid soil into desert. You can find it in Wikipedia under man made disasters.
You raise a bunch of irrelevant points. OS X is very much like Linux in that you can easily port code. Sure, you may need to SLIM the OS on a small device... RAID driver's aren't much use on a solid state board with no need for it.
Embedded Windows is nothing at all like XP, but embedded OS X or Linux IS sourcecode compatible with their big brothers.
Go ahead and talk to a developer who has ported code from XP to Windows CE... I have.
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>Thanks to the MPAA & RIAA I no longer spend any money on music or movies. I use an AM/FM radio for music and if I watch a movie it is something old on basic cable. You will never see me with music CDs or movies on DVD at the checkout line at the store, if i ever buy anything like that it will have to be at some yard sale or pawn shop for pennies on the dollar...
The MPAA dosn't have a column in their spreadsheet for people like you.
They just put you in the "stopped buying due to piracy" column, to show losses to the lawmakers.
That's the same column they use for people who buy less 'content' because their paycheck shrank.
>>Interesting. I read it as more of a ransom note:
... and this is why GTK has had so much support... even back in the bad old days of GTK 1.0 (god, does anyone remember the flashing widgets, and how bad pulldowns were when they got big?)
>"We have QT, and unless you give us DRM software in 6 months, you can kiss future GPL releases goodbye!"
Qt's pretty nice (Amarok makes a fantastic demo vehicle for it) but a lot of people were re-assured by the Qt Foundation and a promise to always be free. I can't say bad things about Qt these days (even if my strong preference is for GTK). It's nice.
Nokia contributes quite a bit to Linux in general (kernel and upper layers). But if their management thinks they can trojan horse a campaign to co-opt the kernel, they have another thing coming. I love my N800 tablet, but someone else will come along and take it's place eventually.
Where we are going is that DEVICES will be commodities - replaceable cogs. Without proprietary lock-in, competition will "open up" devices more and more.
It will be a slow process, like US cell phone companies took their sweet time in de-crippling features one at a time, to "add features" over the next carrier.
>For crying out loud, the man did not inhale ;)
No, but Monica did!
>The problem with the "Everything is so perfect for life that a supreme being did it on purpose" argument is that it makes the assumption that life cannot exist in any form but ours. ... and if we ever meet intelligent life that's an exception to that, that life will require extermination.
There's historical precedent for this (the colonist's view that smallpox wiping out the natives was "destiny", and should be helped along by donating the clothes and blankets of smallpox victims). Amherst, etc.
>just like a website should never crash a browser it is relevent that the OS/website is abusing the specifications soo badly to cause the crashes.
All browsers MUST expect garbage input, and pretty much anyone who expects otherwise has their head in the sand, and shouldn't go NEAR code. Document formats don't run in local memory and do not have system access - they're interpreted structures. If a browser crashes, it's the browser's (or it's plugins) fault, 100% of the blame 100% of the time. At worst, you should expect degraded-looking content and that's that.
I don't mean to be snarky, but your argument couldn't be more wrong or inappropriate. With networking, you're pretty close to the physical layer (not a great analogy, but browser code is far removed from traffic and is just a local representation, a user application).
We don't know yet what this is caused by. If it is affecting a lot of routers, it might very well be a "DOS". Or it could be something that holds too many connections open, or IP6 traffic that doesn't go anywhere and ties up the router table till it times out.
This could happen to Linux also, but it's less probable -- it's be code put out in the wild, and the distro's would do their own QA process, and may hold back. Most distros don't run kernel.org kernels, but their own patched tree.
>About time the United States became like the other industrialized countries, don't you think?
I wish it happens in my lifetime. Americans have been BRAINWASHED into thinking ANY government program is socialism, which is in turn Communism in disguise, and Communists had missiles pointed at the US and THEREFORE... US socialists are harboring nuke missiles in their basements.
I'm not kidding. People equate corporate dominance of the government with what's good about America. Americans are very patriotic, but they're also very blind. Plenty of people SHRUG that 18% of the US federal budget goes to INTEREST ONLY LOANS.
Here's what WILL get Americans to be pro-trains:
When Dubai owns our ports and bridges, and gas hits $11.
Until then, too many people will equate public transportation with a "plot to take away their cars". Canada (Montreal) has been FOR YEARS wanting to build a high speed train from Montreal to Boston. They're not well connected cities. The US always rebuffs their attempts.
With the scope of financial waste and lack of planning in the US, I wouldn't be surprised to see (in 30 years) that Canada dominates the US economically. It's already starting to happen.
When it's done, the TOP SPEED will be 65MPH I'm guessing.
Allowing real high speed trains in the US is a threat to our dependence on foreign oil, and the foreign lobbyists simply won't ALLOW it. At some point there will be no wide open spaces left for these trains, and then the public (nimbys) will be against trains on their own, without opposition from Big Oil.
Here's what's wrong with your (and all the other) comments that the "Cell is not a good processor for Linux/computing", etc:
You are observing bad performance (correct) but drawing in-correct conclusions as to the source of the problem.
** I'll put it more simply than the other replies: GCC compilers for the Cell processor SUCKS. **
That's all people need to know.
Everyone's assuming that because Linux "works" on the Cell, it's on equal footing with other PowerPC. It's not the "same" PowerPC, and therefore there are NO or ALMOST NO optimizations for Cell-targeted compiles.
The problem's not likely to get better because those who know compiler optimization magic, are not (for a variety of reasons) working to improve the PS3 Cell performance.
Sony also is not afraid of a good performing Linux on the PS3. What they don't want is to lose control of the software toolchain and this is why they lock out the graphics chip and some of the DMA functions. The software performance issue is one that can be fixed, if enough people care to improve GCC.
Overall I'm pleased with Linux on PS3. This is Sony's SECOND attempt, and it's better than the first. Microsoft and Nintendo won't go there (Heck, you can not even install your OWN standard SATA drive on a XB36... you need a proprietary drive, but PS3 owners are dropping in 250GB standard laptop drives to make room for big Linux installs).
This could be a fad, but I think this is a concept that will grow. Sony's obviously benefits by watching to see what people want to do to 'extend' their platform, without yielding control of the platform completely (which would be nice, but that's how they recover their costs)
All the network admins I know want the smallest possible laptop that will run:
Remote Desktop
VNC
ssh
VPN support
I challenge you to name one - JUST ONE - 'network a admin requirement' that XP "Pro" provides that XP Home can't do.
The famed "Microsoft Backup" utility (hahaha)?
Do you REALLY need the "Support for 2 CPU" that only XP Pro provides?
"Demanding" XP Pro might inflate your self worth, and I can see that being important. Especially since you are not aware that there are very few "technical" differences between Home and Pro.
I have no issues using XP Home for remote admin, although I'd rather be running Ubuntu. I'll even forsake the laptop altogether, and POCKET my trusty $200 Nokia N800, $30 bluetooth keyboard and phone. (that said, these Acer and other UMPC's are pretty sweet).
As much as I hate to say it, there are bigger issues than the RI/MP-AA legislation attempts. I'm pretty sure that if we give the MPAA/RIAA what they really WANT and stop fighting them, they'll generate a backlash.
Corruption from foreign lobbyists has much more potential destructive power.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the UN Security Council, that a CONDITION for China and Russia's support for the Iraq War was that the US *not* I repeat NOT raise taxes to pay for it. That the condition was, we go into very long term debt TO THEM.
China's certainly in a good position, flush with a cash surplus and a LOT of US Treasury notes, and in charge of much of our food supply. Meanwhile, our government's information security is about the quality found in the average K-12 schoolsystem, we're selling our toll bridges and ports to ACTUAL foreign governments, that 9-11 was NOT enough to get a sensible energy policy through Washington... and worst of all, 18% of the US Federal Budget goes towards paying INTEREST-ONLY LOANS (housing market analogies anyone?).
US economic policy for most of the last 28 years has been to drain the treasury. Having first given the investor class ample warning to shuffle their assets (and their patriotism) overseas so they can ride the waves of borrowing and trade deficit.
I'm trying to not get my hopes up too much about Obama, but at least he "gets" technical and long-economic issues that could benefit America PAST his presidency. With Bush and McCain, they actually JOKE that they don't know how to use email (admittedly, this is a pathetic luddite state of affairs and I doubt there will ever be a candidate like McCain again in this respect).
Your suggestion seems to be "Would one side please 'stand down'?"
You clearly don't GET it. After YEARS of being passively trampled on, of ceding power to the right wing and the neo-cons and the jet setting globalists... we're fighting to take BACK this country. We're tired of these people setting our policies for a GENERATION, even determining policy (like Iraq, Cuba, Venezuela, Stem Cells and 'Science' in general, etc) even when they are OUT of power.
Guess what? We're not going to take a seat and watch ourselves decay further. We don't want to sell our ports and bridges to Dubai. We still have resources, and smart people, and we can pay off this debt and rebuild our infrastructure. I've spent time in the United Kingdom and I can say if we DON'T remedy things, our society will break down along the same lines theirs has.
Actually, the terrorist cell responsible for 9-11 came from Saudi Arabia. 7 years later we STILL can not question other Saudi suspects, including some with high placement in the Saudi government and the Saudi 'royal' family..
You still think it was an accident we invaded Iraq?? I don't.
whippersnapper.
I bet your first computer had a full 16-bits.
Old laptops are great for customizable routers and proxies (try m0n0wall... and yes I know it's FreeBSD-basednot Linux)
They're also good for household webservers... streaming audio servers or streaming audio clients.
They're decent on power and generate relatively little heat, and for these tasks, you might go into the BIOS and even UNDER-CLOCK the CPU. You would also use a slimmed-down OS install and possibly no desktop (look at web-based admin tools like WebMin and the like) if you'd rather not deal with remote console access.
Or give them to a charity that wipes the drives and installs Linux. Anything above 266 Mhz is usable enough for studying and schoolwork, or email and some web browsing. Typically you can max out the memory on these things for under $10 if you find larger (compatible) memory on eBay.
Chill for a moment. If you read his post again, it is _satire_ not trolling.
Some people are ALWAYS offended when they don't recognize satire..
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38 and not living in parent's basement.
Wow. You need to review your config!
From experience: you only need Spamhaus Zen and SpamCop for connection checking.
If you parse DATA before you accept it, you should incorporate URIBL.COM it's very good, and helps catch Yahoo and Gmail spam (which will get past Spamhaus and Spamcop all the time) because it scans bodies for naughty links
dsbl.org is REDUNDANT -- incorporated in Spamhaus Xen.
Spamhaus SBL-XBL -- incorporated in Spamhaus Xen.
NJABL.org is dead and a mirror of the CBL, I believe (-- incorporated in Spamhaus Xen also)
Never send bounce notices for spam. What notices leave your server are likely going to forged From: addresses....
>The capacitors I use are a cluster of those 2000 Farad Car stereo ones (I know I know it is not the right thing to do but it is the cheap thing to do, and they are firewalled)
I am curious on this statement, but I don't get the context enough to Google it. Care to explain briefly?
I think a lot of people in the UNIX/Linux community completely miss the point about SCO.
THIS "SCO" is not the same as the original SCO. The original SCO was bought out by a team of lawyer-investors, and this includes Daryl.
"Plan B"... was to extort money from licensing, but they NEVER expected this to be the end of it! This was never their focus, except for refueling.
"Plan A" was to DRAIN THEIR TREASURY on legal costs, spending it lavishly on THEMSELVES. Another way to put this is, to bilk their investors.
Investors can usually depend on Accounting to oppose any company's attempt to commit suicide. But SCO is MOSTLY the legal team, and no entity within SCO exists to prevent a runaway failed strategy. SCO will not settle, ever, unless it settles in a way that brings fresh money into their gang, and they have a new target. Prolonging the lawsuits IS their objective.
The investors are the stupid folks, who got shares super cheap on huge gamble on a topic they know little about (copyright). These are the kind of folks who read Forbes, have minimal exposure to technology, don't understand copyright (except that it's always supposed to help Goliath), and subscribe to WIRED without reading it. These people look at open source in general with reactionary views: it's ALL theft, and "costing the IT industry billions". They see the money spent on IT, and any improvement that lowers costs is a threat.
Also, there will be no jail time for any perjury committed here. These people are lawyers, not middle class, and need not fear the law.
The industry is full of stories like this, for years. Exchange by default can't handle it - it's still a workgroup server at heart, and subject to many OS and filesystem limits. Does Hotmail.com even rely 100% on Exchange, or is it still UNIX at the core?
De-centralized email storage and PST files?? COME ON!
It is almost CERTAIN to expect that they knew this would cause emails to be lost and take the system from bad to worse. Even a junior IT person fresh off the boat would say this was CRAZY to attempt, with FEWER benefits and increased risk. In the corporate world, this would be met by massive civil lawsuits and possibly criminal charges. Any "contractor" the WH employed would know this for a fact.
So given that such warnings had to have been given and they went ahead anyways, you have to wonder if strategic "loss" of emails was perfect cover for an email purge. Given the shady nature of these characters, I'm sure this was a calculated "feature".
+1
This is like a hybrid vehicle vs normal gas shootout, with each vehicle towing something. It's irrelevant.
He boiled down all the variables and performance profiles into just one - the one that favors traditional drives. There is NO WAY this should have been published as-is.
I can't attribute this to malice, but basically Bill O'Brien of Computerworld DOESN'T KNOW WHAT HE'S DOING, and neither does his editor for letting this slide. This was probably a case of a traditional drive maker whispering in his ear that this would make a GREAT expose, and not knowing any better he walked right into it.
Besides power savings, and heat, these drives kill spinning discs on certain applications such as a read-mostly database server or file server, or any server that handles queues of small-files where a normal drive would have a read head all over the place.
Unbelievable. This is why I avoid magazine reviews and focus on (usually) better sources like Anandtech, Toms, etc. ComputerWorld is like ComputerShopper...
I have heard MANY MP3 owners (who don't have iPods) say the same thing as you, and even use words like "monopoly".
Do you need to see a YouTube video showing Amazon.com media going onto an iPod?
Your statement is 100% false. It's wrong.
For the audience, the reason why non-iPod owners spread the 'compatibility' myth is because some cute girl asked them "Is that an iPod", and the guy says "No, it's a Creative" and the girl says "Oh" and looks away. Guy gets all mad inside, blames Apple. Instead of enjoying his media player as-it-is, he has to justify his purchase to others.
>Are you saying you were flying along and accidentally encountered the US border?
Hey you made a strawman!
I get 3 spams per day in my inbox, and my email address is in Google from unscrubbed UNIX mailing lists. My Spam folder is a mess, but I rarely have to do much there.
+1 on the other poster regarding SpamAssassin. I maintain a server install of it and it rocks. If you are a user, you can still run RBL checks on email (header parsing), and URIBL gets rid of tons or Google-hosted (Blocgspot) spam.
Now, the SA ruleset is good (organization could be better from a developer perspective... lots of overlapping rules to catch 'viagra' typos, but hey it works).
What the other poster said about topping off, and salts.
You can irrigate, but you also need rainfall once in a while (or you need really cheap energy and good desalination and demineralization such that you're not just watering plants, but spraying the soil slowly and without saturating the soil). If you constantly flood using irrigation, you cause salts to rise to the surface and ruin the soil.
The Soviet Union destroyed entire nations through bad irrigation policy, turning semi-arid soil into desert. You can find it in Wikipedia under man made disasters.
You raise a bunch of irrelevant points. OS X is very much like Linux in that you can easily port code. Sure, you may need to SLIM the OS on a small device... RAID driver's aren't much use on a solid state board with no need for it.
Embedded Windows is nothing at all like XP, but embedded OS X or Linux IS sourcecode compatible with their big brothers.
Go ahead and talk to a developer who has ported code from XP to Windows CE... I have.