<rant target="_parent">Let's just blindly state opinions as they were fact without arguments to back them up, and if I assert them strongly enough, I'll get modded Insightful!</rant>
Spam legislation is probably a dead-end, and it is definitely against libertarian principles of less government regulation, which is something I agree with.
Anti-spam software is GOOD, not bad.
I love free anti-spam software. And it's just as easy with Windows, you insensitive clod! Spambayes, POPFile and many other free anti-spam software is either platform agnostic (i.e. based on Perl or Python) or actually has native Windows (typically Outlook) ports and plugins!
Spam has never hogged my bandwidth or disk usage, but that is the least of my concerns. It's frigging annoying! My penis is already large! Jeez!
Who doesn't have a CDR drive? What does backing up have to do with anti-spam software?
I agree with many of the ppl replying to this thread. I have a sizeable collection of books. And I have much smaller, but still sizeable collection of e-books. About 90% of them are books I already own! I'm no angel, but I did purchase Harry Potter in hardcover, and then immediately sat down with my Palm m105 and read it. And took it with me in my pocket wherever I went.
Also s/e-books/audiobooks; s/Palm m105/10g iPod.:) I look fairly silly while wearing my pager and cell phone and reading or listening to a boook.
...and all the smack talk and fake haxxor "I 0wn3d yer ass!" talk. Because the co-operative FPS sub-genre, to a great extent anyway, strives for realism. If you have an entire team who can talk to each other, they can actually plan strategy while moving to position. You can't type while doing that.
And to bring the feature even more realism, the game developers could make the voice chat team-only. And when you open a channel, anyone--including the enemy, would hear the click of static being squelched, possibly giving away your position if you were behind enemy lines. Of course the serious clans would enforce radio silence during certain ops where stealth is of the utmost importance.
This would mean the Engineer (or Hacker:) role in the role-based FPS games would get the ability to spy on the other team's frequency, or at least jam. And the opposing force's CO can have his squad change to a different broadcast code that the engineer cannot immediately decipher. The possibilities!
(I thought of posting this comment on the article's website, but I did not want my friends to know that I read Game Girl Advance.:)
I can't believe I'm not seeing shouts of "wait till I port GNU/Linux to it!"
I'm also surprised more people are not crazy about this idea, especially considering the competition coming out soon like the n-gage from Nokia. Why am I surprised? Because the PalmOS is a haven for open-source developers where many of them can't abide to develop for a Pocket PC, and the n-gage is obviously a more closed type of system.
So, wake up! It's a Palm--and it's got a controller built-in. I've been waiting for this (and had a fully fleshed-out idea for it) for a few years! And I bet the Liberty folks will be salivating over this announcement.
Well that's great that you can do this. I can too. But only for ONE BOX on my LAN. And every time I want to serve something I have to touch multiple points to make it work. It's a big PAIN in the ass.
NAT is not how the Internet was intended to work, it's a hack in itself.
Let's do it the right way and move to IPv6 please!/me used to support firewalls for a living, NAT sucks.
I would try harder on POPfile. No offense, but you probably did not train it very well. I'm up to greater than 97.7% correct filtering with POPfile.
Besides, who wants to switch mailers to block spam? That's kinda drastic. You can use POPfile with any mailer. (Haven't tried TB, but I'm a big fan of FB.)
This has been making my life a living hell for the past 2 months, every night my parents go on and check to see if i have any homework and won't let me do anything till it's done.
Privacy issues aside, which sound dodgy--sounds like you have good parents dude.
-me
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Admins....save ppl time and put the mirrors in the text of the original article.
There's still plenty of other [more useful] Linux guys around here...
Maybe it's just me [trollbait] but I'll take a linux developer who works on HP's own products over a talking head who maintains open source. I'm sure he's useful to the community, I'm not saying he's not. But useful to HP? That's debatable.
Opinions are my own and not those of my employer...
-anonymous HP engineer
Use Sneakmail to keep from getting spammed
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I thought of that and sent him mail using my Sneakmail account.
I highly recommend everyone check out Sneakmail. You create an account, then for every time you must give out an email address to an untrusted source, generate a new sneakmail alias which forwards to your real email address. There's a unique lahel assigned to every address so you can track spam back if you do end up getting spam that way.
As a means for those without their own domains, there's a tool called Mailexpire. As my luck would have it, the site is on hiatus. Hmm. Well, here's posting anyway, maybe someone else knows of a similar service that is active currently:
The way it works is that you enter your real email address in the form, a unique identifier, and an expiration period from days to months. You get a randomly generated mail alias @mailexpire.com that forwards to the real address you specify. Give that address out when you have to (such as forms that send download passwords in email) and you don't worry about spam. If you do happen to get spam at that address--you know for SURE where it came from, and you can expire the address at any time.
If anybody knows of a similar service, post it b/c Mailexpire is having system problems.
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<rant target="_parent">Let's just blindly state opinions as they were fact without arguments to back them up, and if I assert them strongly enough, I'll get modded Insightful!</rant>
WOW. I wish I had the mod bit right now, that was awesome.
I prefer the phrase "righteous bitchslapping".
Go Bush!
Oh my, that's...interesting. Was Bill Gates on the grassy knoll as well?
I agree with many of the ppl replying to this thread. I have a sizeable collection of books. And I have much smaller, but still sizeable collection of e-books. About 90% of them are books I already own! I'm no angel, but I did purchase Harry Potter in hardcover, and then immediately sat down with my Palm m105 and read it. And took it with me in my pocket wherever I went.
:) I look fairly silly while wearing my pager and cell phone and reading or listening to a boook.
Also s/e-books/audiobooks; s/Palm m105/10g iPod.
...and all the smack talk and fake haxxor "I 0wn3d yer ass!" talk. Because the co-operative FPS sub-genre, to a great extent anyway, strives for realism. If you have an entire team who can talk to each other, they can actually plan strategy while moving to position. You can't type while doing that.
:) role in the role-based FPS games would get the ability to spy on the other team's frequency, or at least jam. And the opposing force's CO can have his squad change to a different broadcast code that the engineer cannot immediately decipher. The possibilities!
:)
And to bring the feature even more realism, the game developers could make the voice chat team-only. And when you open a channel, anyone--including the enemy, would hear the click of static being squelched, possibly giving away your position if you were behind enemy lines. Of course the serious clans would enforce radio silence during certain ops where stealth is of the utmost importance.
This would mean the Engineer (or Hacker
(I thought of posting this comment on the article's website, but I did not want my friends to know that I read Game Girl Advance.
Here is BPL_Trial-small.mpg, and here is how Freecache works.
I can't believe I'm not seeing shouts of "wait till I port GNU/Linux to it!"
I'm also surprised more people are not crazy about this idea, especially considering the competition coming out soon like the n-gage from Nokia. Why am I surprised? Because the PalmOS is a haven for open-source developers where many of them can't abide to develop for a Pocket PC, and the n-gage is obviously a more closed type of system.
So, wake up! It's a Palm--and it's got a controller built-in. I've been waiting for this (and had a fully fleshed-out idea for it) for a few years! And I bet the Liberty folks will be salivating over this announcement.
Couldn't refuse the request. :)
Well that's great that you can do this. I can too. But only for ONE BOX on my LAN. And every time I want to serve something I have to touch multiple points to make it work. It's a big PAIN in the ass.
/me used to support firewalls for a living, NAT sucks.
NAT is not how the Internet was intended to work, it's a hack in itself.
Let's do it the right way and move to IPv6 please!
I would try harder on POPfile. No offense, but you probably did not train it very well. I'm up to greater than 97.7% correct filtering with POPfile.
Besides, who wants to switch mailers to block spam? That's kinda drastic. You can use POPfile with any mailer. (Haven't tried TB, but I'm a big fan of FB.)
Privacy issues aside, which sound dodgy--sounds like you have good parents dude.
-meAdmins....save ppl time and put the mirrors in the text of the original article.
There's still plenty of other [more useful] Linux guys around here...
Maybe it's just me [trollbait] but I'll take a linux developer who works on HP's own products over a talking head who maintains open source. I'm sure he's useful to the community, I'm not saying he's not. But useful to HP? That's debatable.
Opinions are my own and not those of my employer...
-anonymous HP engineer
I thought of that and sent him mail using my Sneakmail account.
I highly recommend everyone check out Sneakmail. You create an account, then for every time you must give out an email address to an untrusted source, generate a new sneakmail alias which forwards to your real email address. There's a unique lahel assigned to every address so you can track spam back if you do end up getting spam that way.
As a means for those without their own domains, there's a tool called Mailexpire. As my luck would have it, the site is on hiatus. Hmm. Well, here's posting anyway, maybe someone else knows of a similar service that is active currently:
The way it works is that you enter your real email address in the form, a unique identifier, and an expiration period from days to months. You get a randomly generated mail alias @mailexpire.com that forwards to the real address you specify. Give that address out when you have to (such as forms that send download passwords in email) and you don't worry about spam. If you do happen to get spam at that address--you know for SURE where it came from, and you can expire the address at any time.
If anybody knows of a similar service, post it b/c Mailexpire is having system problems.
-hal