Doesn't a great deal of spyware tie into the TCP stack? Or am I thinking of something that happens at a higher level? I thought thats why bad things happened when you just simply deleted certain spyware.dlls, that they had their hooks too deeply in the network stack.
I'll agree, I'm well past 99% accuracy with POPFile on several hundred messages a day. I can still quickly scan the messages labeled as spam to catch the rare false positive and then forward the spam to the ftc.
Might have something to do with the post (near the bottom of the page) that Sam Latinga (formerly of the SDL project, now with Blizzard) reporting yesterday that he ported the RAD game tools to Linux.
I use Cox in Las Vegas both at home and at work. The account at work is $50/mo for 512 down/128 up, just enough for a small office. The home account is 1.5M down, 128 up, same pricing. Cox originally had the proprietary COM21 modems you mention, they then rolled out a DOCSIS compliant network. They put the business accounts on the COM21 network and most of the consumer stuff on the DOCSIS network and then block assorted ports (including 80) on the DOCSIS network.
They've recently offered 3M down/256 up for those on the DOCSIS network. I've heard rumors that you can get that speed in a 'business' account for about $80/mo without ports blocked, I'm weighing out the options for doing something like that and moving some of my hosting home with me.
My experience with HE's tech support is quite the opposite. I couldn't connect to the MySQL server so I gave them a call at about 8pm. The tech support guy called me back an hour later to let me know the issue had been fixed. And this is on one of those $10/mo accounts. Every other time I've called I've been able to speak to a live person and resolved issues right away. Compare this to other web-hosts ticketing systems, support via email or via IRC.
HE doesn't have the best features for the money but they've been much more reliable than some of the other hosts I've tried (csoft.net sucks, for one) and more responsive that any I've used.
I'd be interested to see more on HE's link to spam. The one article I've seen provided a tenuous link at best and the email they sent me a while back about a vulnerable formmail.pl indicated they were at least trying to reduce the spam.
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I had issues getting Debian working with a cheapie integrated Promise hardware RAID as well. Someone had pre Woody instructions that didn't quite work for me and at the time Promise only had the Red Hat closed driver on their site. It is now listed as partial open source but I've already gone for software RAID, from what I've read thats basically what the low end Promise stuff is anyway.
I bought one of the early Manning PDFs that was reviewed here on/. a couple of years back, good writing and convenient to be able to purchase an inexpensive yet quality piece of writing. Dead tree format is nicer but sometimes you gotta stay under budget while expanding that (virtual) bookshelf.
In case you haven't found it, they offer up downloads of Starflight and Starflight II on their download page. Only to replace copies of the original media, of course. Seemed to work ok for me in WinXP, although certain things seemed to require double keystrokes. What a trip down memory lanes, abruptly ended when it started asking copy protection questions.
Even funnier, I thought I might have the old star charts in a drawer. I didn't, but I did find the original disk. I wonder if that star chart is floating around anywhere online?..?
Spammers confirm the functionality of open relays by sending test messages to themselves.
You could certainly escalate the smoke and mirrors by allowing a low rate of messages from a certain IP through while killing a higher rate. But spammers would escalate right back by automating the system of sending test email to themselves.
Besides, the true industrial grade spammers simply find connectivity that accommodates their practices instead of relying on open relays.
On the client side, Bayesian works for me. Well past 99% accuracy classifying a wide variety of email (not just spam vs non-spam) and of the false classifications very few of those are false positives.
One Bayesian email filter bills itself as more than just a spam filter but an general email classification system. You can easily define many categories and train it accordingly.
I don't know enough about MDP to know if this is feasible work but it may move the scope of the solution far enough away from the patent to allow the submitter to continue his work.
I had the question of Linux vs Windows CE developer community size come up last year. I narrowed down a few different search terms for resume buzzwords and hit up Google and assorted other search engines. I also hit up some online job sites like Monster.com to see what was in demand and how many resumes were available.
By no means will you come up with accurate results but you should get a decent idea of the relative sizes of the two development communities. Bonus points for weeding out the people who have simply used either platform.
FWIW+IIRC, Linux weighed in at 9x the WinCE community.
Something called iFile has been doing something similar since 1996. Changelog and readme document this. Some thoughts from the POPFile project (my sources for those links).
We have 200 custom PIII 'industrial' boards deployed as kiosk type units. We started accumulating board failures, our manufacturer wouldn't help us and I couldn't find anyone that seemed interested in motherboard repairs. So, for lack of anything better we obtained some replacement caps and now we've got most of our boards working again.
Co-worker found a P200 system in the trash. Wouldn't boot so we replaced some suspicious caps and now my wifes friend has a free computer.
No, not presently. It seems the author wants to keep it as simple as possible. However, as it matures it might be great to look at all the different ways people use mail and mail clients and start making allowance for what people like to do.
Thats a good idea. Message classification would get less accurate on just the headers or headers+top of message but that might be enough to avoid downloading spam (biggest drawback to POPFile, you still download the spam, only to delete it).
You can separate the newsletters from the businesses you've opted in to from the penile-enlargement spam. Thats one of the beautiful things about POPFile, it isn't just about spam vs useful mail. In fact, it seems to be more accurate and learn faster when you define categories for all the different types of mail you recieve, not just spam vs inbox.
I think lots of people here are missing the point of POPFile. Everyone is happy to point out that there are already several assorted solutions to Bayesian mail filtering in many different languages. Nearly all of these work on the mail server. Now lots of us are qualified and interested in setting up our own mail server, customizing the mail processing our own One True Way and happily enjoying an inbox free of spam. But the average windows user has no idea how to set up a mail server. Others could easily do it but feel their time is better spent on other things, not admining a mail server.
This is what POPFile is for. Its a pop3 proxy server, it sits between your pop3 client and the server and simply adds a classification to the headers (or the subject line for braindead mail clients).
Currently POPFile is a bit rough on computer newbies, it needs a Perl install and such. However, if you read the forums it is intended to end up as an easily installed executable for windows users and to remain a nifty little perl script for the rest of the platforms where it might come in handy. So when those pesky friends and relatives come asking about all the viagra and farmyard spam they get (and you haven't already set them up on your tightly filtered mail server) set up POPFile for them.
Also, its not just for spam filtering. Think of what you could do if you could go beyond simple rules for your inbox. Want email you think is important forwarded to your phone? Create a category for important email and go through your archives and feed POPFile email you would have wanted forwarded instantly. Create a new folder to recieve those mails and watch it for a few days, retraining POPFile until it is getting reasonably good at putting important mail in there. Now set up your mail system to forward those to your phone. Will it work? I don't know, but based on the results I'm getting, it probably would. How about using it to filter help desk emails?
You're absolutely right. I've been closely following POPFile's development (and trying to help with docs) and it is a goal of the developer to create a brainless install that the masses can use, while still retaining the cross platform core that is useful for much more than spam detection. POPFile is under very active development and is only recently getting close to the point where it will be ready to stabilize on a release.
As others have pointed out, thats exactly what POPFile is. Unfortunately it is not yeat a point and click kind of install but that is the direction it is heading.
I find it interesting that the Curl website is served up by Java Server Pages. I'd have a little more faith in their tech if they were using it themselves.
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Doesn't a great deal of spyware tie into the TCP stack? Or am I thinking of something that happens at a higher level? I thought thats why bad things happened when you just simply deleted certain spyware .dlls, that they had their hooks too deeply in the network stack.
I've got to figure out how to use 'disambiguatable' in a conversation with my boss, I might be able to get a raise out of it.
I'll agree, I'm well past 99% accuracy with POPFile on several hundred messages a day. I can still quickly scan the messages labeled as spam to catch the rare false positive and then forward the spam to the ftc.
Might have something to do with the post (near the bottom of the page) that Sam Latinga (formerly of the SDL project, now with Blizzard) reporting yesterday that he ported the RAD game tools to Linux.
They've recently offered 3M down/256 up for those on the DOCSIS network. I've heard rumors that you can get that speed in a 'business' account for about $80/mo without ports blocked, I'm weighing out the options for doing something like that and moving some of my hosting home with me.
HE doesn't have the best features for the money but they've been much more reliable than some of the other hosts I've tried (csoft.net sucks, for one) and more responsive that any I've used.
I'd be interested to see more on HE's link to spam. The one article I've seen provided a tenuous link at best and the email they sent me a while back about a vulnerable formmail.pl indicated they were at least trying to reduce the spam.
I had issues getting Debian working with a cheapie integrated Promise hardware RAID as well. Someone had pre Woody instructions that didn't quite work for me and at the time Promise only had the Red Hat closed driver on their site. It is now listed as partial open source but I've already gone for software RAID, from what I've read thats basically what the low end Promise stuff is anyway.
I bought one of the early Manning PDFs that was reviewed here on /. a couple of years back, good writing and convenient to be able to purchase an inexpensive yet quality piece of writing. Dead tree format is nicer but sometimes you gotta stay under budget while expanding that (virtual) bookshelf.
FWIW, the map is here. Now I'm gonna spend all night on a 13 year old game...
Even funnier, I thought I might have the old star charts in a drawer. I didn't, but I did find the original disk. I wonder if that star chart is floating around anywhere online?..?
You could certainly escalate the smoke and mirrors by allowing a low rate of messages from a certain IP through while killing a higher rate. But spammers would escalate right back by automating the system of sending test email to themselves.
Besides, the true industrial grade spammers simply find connectivity that accommodates their practices instead of relying on open relays.
On the client side, Bayesian works for me. Well past 99% accuracy classifying a wide variety of email (not just spam vs non-spam) and of the false classifications very few of those are false positives.
I don't know enough about MDP to know if this is feasible work but it may move the scope of the solution far enough away from the patent to allow the submitter to continue his work.
By no means will you come up with accurate results but you should get a decent idea of the relative sizes of the two development communities. Bonus points for weeding out the people who have simply used either platform.
FWIW+IIRC, Linux weighed in at 9x the WinCE community.
Something called iFile has been doing something similar since 1996. Changelog and readme document this. Some thoughts from the POPFile project (my sources for those links).
But then the missing feature is 'send to desktop X', allowing you to organize desktop sets.
Turn off Shared Desktops and the TweakUI thing for XP works a little more like the *nix desktops that inspired it.
We have 200 custom PIII 'industrial' boards deployed as kiosk type units. We started accumulating board failures, our manufacturer wouldn't help us and I couldn't find anyone that seemed interested in motherboard repairs. So, for lack of anything better we obtained some replacement caps and now we've got most of our boards working again.
Co-worker found a P200 system in the trash. Wouldn't boot so we replaced some suspicious caps and now my wifes friend has a free computer.
No, not presently. It seems the author wants to keep it as simple as possible. However, as it matures it might be great to look at all the different ways people use mail and mail clients and start making allowance for what people like to do.
Thats a good idea. Message classification would get less accurate on just the headers or headers+top of message but that might be enough to avoid downloading spam (biggest drawback to POPFile, you still download the spam, only to delete it).
You can separate the newsletters from the businesses you've opted in to from the penile-enlargement spam. Thats one of the beautiful things about POPFile, it isn't just about spam vs useful mail. In fact, it seems to be more accurate and learn faster when you define categories for all the different types of mail you recieve, not just spam vs inbox.
This is what POPFile is for. Its a pop3 proxy server, it sits between your pop3 client and the server and simply adds a classification to the headers (or the subject line for braindead mail clients).
Currently POPFile is a bit rough on computer newbies, it needs a Perl install and such. However, if you read the forums it is intended to end up as an easily installed executable for windows users and to remain a nifty little perl script for the rest of the platforms where it might come in handy. So when those pesky friends and relatives come asking about all the viagra and farmyard spam they get (and you haven't already set them up on your tightly filtered mail server) set up POPFile for them.
Also, its not just for spam filtering. Think of what you could do if you could go beyond simple rules for your inbox. Want email you think is important forwarded to your phone? Create a category for important email and go through your archives and feed POPFile email you would have wanted forwarded instantly. Create a new folder to recieve those mails and watch it for a few days, retraining POPFile until it is getting reasonably good at putting important mail in there. Now set up your mail system to forward those to your phone. Will it work? I don't know, but based on the results I'm getting, it probably would. How about using it to filter help desk emails?
This tool also has a web interface to reclassify mail. Not as good as client integration but a little easier than the command line for the masses.
You're absolutely right. I've been closely following POPFile's development (and trying to help with docs) and it is a goal of the developer to create a brainless install that the masses can use, while still retaining the cross platform core that is useful for much more than spam detection. POPFile is under very active development and is only recently getting close to the point where it will be ready to stabilize on a release.
As others have pointed out, thats exactly what POPFile is. Unfortunately it is not yeat a point and click kind of install but that is the direction it is heading.
I find it interesting that the Curl website is served up by Java Server Pages. I'd have a little more faith in their tech if they were using it themselves.