I got SASL working fine on my private box and use it when on the road just fine to send mail while using generous people's no-wap access points. It's very helpful. I just had to set up a saslpasswd for the account.
But I also have mail system at work with 25,000 user accounts. I need to get sendmail to auth through the same pam system-auth other services use (it's a complex mix of kerberos with fallback to ldap). A separate sasldb is just not going to cut it in that environment
I think saslauthd is the ticket. I'd just like some sort of pointer that that is the right track to persue and how to make sendmail use it.
iLife apps were free until last year when iLife debuted and bundled everything together and charged $49. The excuse was the royalty licensing in iDVD or something. But you could still download iPhoto and iMovie updates for free.
Now it looks like you have to buy iLife to get the updates.
I actually don't think it's a bad thing. It's a good deal, at a price around what a typical game costs. And if a fair price pushes them to continue to make improvements, I'm all for it.
A security flaw will be found in Microsoft Windows that will allow a remote attacker to execute code of the attacker's choice on your PC.
A rootable hole will be discovered on Mac OS X that will require someone to be running some rare non-default configuration on OS X and require the computer to be bombarded by high level concentrations of tetryon particles, but only during high sun spot activity. If so, a local user can gain access to the administrator account. Microsoft will release press release saying "See, Macs are insecure too."
Some package that is included with most Linux distros but is not part of the Linux kernel will suffer from a buffer overflow that can be used to cause the app to crash, causing all computer analysts from PC trade magazines and web sites to conclude that Linux is insecure too.
Redhat didn't decide until last year to reinvent the Redhat x line to "consumer" line. I earned my RHCE last April and was certified for Redhat 8 and was told I'd be current until redhat 10.x. Why on earth would I bother getting certified for a consumer OS? The changeover happened that fast.
I like Redhat, I use it on my boxes, but the relatively quick reinvention of their product line threw me and my support staff a real curve ball, so I'm still a bit sore at them. We scrambled to upgrade all of our Redhat 7.3 production boxes to RHEL ES this past christmas break, and if you click on my home page link, you'll see a few things are still broken! (my personal home page of course is last on my priority list...)
Oh well, I'm looking forward to RHEL 3 being supported for 5 years at least. In the long run, I think it's a wise move for them. They just could have been a bit more gentle about it.
Stating obvious, that should have been part of main story summary...
On December 31, 2003, Redhat discontinued support for Redhat 7.3 and on April 30, 2004, Redhat 9, released less than a year ago, gets the support axe.
When compared to that, I think Microsoft has been damn generous. And if you look at my posting profile, you see i don't cut Microsoft much slack either...
I often get calls on my cell phone from my wife at the other end of the house. At least people are communicating. When I was a kid, my mother would do anything just to get a few words out of me. She would have loved all of these new communication devices.
Maybe for those living in a trailer or shoebox, this concept is hard to understand!:)
A swingers club can be quite safe, but only if all participants in the club only have sex with those inside the group, and only let new people into the group after careful review, medical testing, and approval by all members of the group. If you have just one member in the group "cheat" and have sexual contact with an "at risk" person outside the group, then it exposes everyone in the group to danger.
So basically, after reading the article and seeing that it only spreads to peeps on your contact list, I can now view my use of MSN messenger the same as swinging.
I smelll a new MSN Msgr advertising campaign. "All the danger and excitement of swinging. Come on over, we're waiting to fuck you!"
Someone on macslash.org was speculating it could be cheaper DRAM memory. Basically, when the battery goes out, you lose contents. But big deal. With USB 2 or firewire, you plug it in, it charges and redownloads the songs in no time. No need for expensive flash memory.
Point being, you can do some insanely cooler things with very little hardware and FreeBSD. But i'm probably going to be modded as flaimbait.
Sigh, I'd hope not. Interesting, thanks. I don't tinker much with BSD (beyond using Mac OS X). I have an RHCE and use Redhat professionally so it kinda makes sense for me to try to make things work in that environment, although I try not to keep on blinders to the benefits of other platforms. Thanks!
I can top that. Well, not trying to be a show off, just sharing my experiences. I ran a 486-66 with 32 megs of RAM using RH 7.3 (no X) as my house firewall (with 5 internal hosts) until recently. It had no problem slurping crap from the net at 5 megabits/sec (before comcast did caps), had a long list of firewall rules and even ran a squid proxy server and name caching server for the house's hosts and never really broke a sweat. I just recently had to "upgrade" it to a p1-200 with 64/megs because gamespy would blow out the NAT connection track table when refreshing tables and I didn't want to manually add a few thousand more entries to it due to lack of RAM. Other than that, it had no problems.
Point being, you can do some insanely cool things with very little hardware and Linux. But I'm probably preaching to the choir.
My guess is that I am the first gay parent you've ever met.
Actually, not true. I lived with a girl for several years in the 80s and 90s. She had a brother who was gay. She also had a sister who was a mess and got pregnant and was in no shape to raise a child. So her brother and his mate adopted the boy. I was very happy for the child at the time. This was in the late 80s.
Fortunately, they all lived in an area (Rehoboth Beach Delaware) that has a very high concentration of gays, and had a large support group there. Unfortunately, her brother eventually died from complications from AIDS. His mate I guess couldn't handle the child, so he eventually got adopted again, this time by a lesbian couple they knew.
The girl and I didn't work out (sigh), so I lost touch and have no idea how the child turned out. I hope he's doing well.
btw, I read some of your profile. My father travels to the Ukraine every year, and he's going back again this April or May. I believe he stops in Kiev. I know it's a big country, but if there's anyone you want him to look up, or something small like a certain type of candy to bring back, let me know! I can drop it in the mail to you for the kid, that is, if he remembers the place at all and misses things about it. (I doubt there's an amazon.ua that delivers from there!)
To wrap up this long winded discussion, I'll promise to be more careful with how I use the word gay, if you can believe I wasn't thinking fag-bashing or intending anything derogatory when I wrote it. How's that?!:)
I'm not on a crusade. I'm engaging in discussions on slashdot.
I'm of the opinion that if you hadn't started right off in an accusatory attack, your message would have been better received. As I stated many posts ago, I would have apologized for my poor choice of words if you calmly pointed it out. When you begin a debate with an attack, all sides tend to get defensive. Now you may disagree with that, but that is how it affected me.
Excuse you, but what made you think that you needed to tell me this?
Again, I was stating an opinion. No need to get all defensive.
Protecting my son from the fag-bashing slander which is so hideously prevalent in schools today is my number one priority. Gays are perceived as the lowest of the low and the most worthy of torment and abuse.
Is your son gay? Odds are, he's going to be straight, you know. I would hope he's allowed to pick his own orientation, just as anyone should be able to without parental interference and pressure.
Parenting advice from non-parents is worthless. When you become a parent you will understand this.
And how do you know I'm not a parent? And what makes you an expert at it? There's no prior qualifications or training needed to be a parent.
I repeat: I am opposed to the use of the word "gay" as a synonym for "all things shitty".
And I repeat, my original use of the term was to mean effeminate. You are the one who applied the "all things shitty" meaning to it. When I requested you search for my posts on soc.motss (members of the same sex), it was just to try to lend some credibility to a statement that I'm not some homophobe or hate gay people, which I thought might carry a bit more weight than some cliche claim like "I'm gay too" or "I have a gay friend, so I'm cool." And I know plenty of gay folk that use the term gay to mean effeminate, and it's not considered an insult either.
You're on a losing crusade here. First off, language is fluent and changes over time, including insults. Look at how the acceptable term for describing those of African descent in the U.S. has changed over time. First it was Negroid, then Colored person, then Black, then African American, and now I'm hearing "Person of Color."
But I believe you have bigger things to worry about regarding your son. Kids in school are cruel and will pick on anything that is different about someone, and everyone is different in some way. If he dresses different, has a different build, tallness, length of hair, etc. Hell, they may even pick on him if they learn his families' web page is hosted on Geocities!:)
Trust me, soon as his schoolmates find out he has two Dads, "gay" is going to be the least offensive term thrown out. Your efforts will be better served teaching him that this is coming and how best to deal with it. You can't protect him from the harshness and cruel reality of this world.
Why would you ever legitimately need a camcorder in a movie theater?
Ever been on holiday with your camcorder and your group wants to take in a movie and your car is nowhere nearby? Examples, Orlando area, Time Square, the beach. In my state now, it's illegal to just carry one into the theater, intent to use it or not.
I've run into a similar problem with no backpack rules in theaters. I drive a motorcycle and have a backpack for storage needs.
Now all of this could be solved with rentable locker space, but I doubt they think these potential hits to their revenue through. (And checking your stuff in at the counter is hardly a solutuon in my book. You don't trust me, but I'm supposed to trust some underpaid stranger with my stuff?)
I thought Butters said, "...some gay goth kid", and, by the way, I thought that was funny.
I replayed it to transcribe it, and he definitely says faggy goth kid. But the fact you thought it was funny clinches it for me. It's OK to poke fun at others, like goths, as long as it's not your group.
Except that we aren't talking about gay stereotypes, are we? We're talking about the way stupid, punk, teenage kids use the word "gay" as a synonym for "all things negative".
Whose the one being all hateful now? You could have just mentioned calmly your concern about my poor choice of words and I would have apologized, instead of foaming at the mouth at making yourself look silly.
It's pretty tough at times trying to ensure whatever you write doesn't offend some group. I didn't use the word gay in any manner that was intended to be offensive. When I was a kid I just thought prancing around batting a butterfly ball was effeminate, that's all. It just wasn't my scene.
In my other post where I quoted Butters little speech I left out the part where he said "I'd rather be a crying pussy rather than a faggy goth kid" because I didn't want to offend anyone. I honestly didn't mean to be offensive.
Jumping to conclusions and reaching as far as you did is not right either. Assuming I'm some homophobe is wrong. You want your kid to think every straight person out there hates gays? He's going to be quite a paranoid kid, ashamed of his parents.
Here's a clue stick for you. Go to google groups and do a search for author Weaverling (er, that's me) in the group soc.motss.
I guess Christmas is over, so we might as well go back to the usual slashdot trolling and flame wars!:-)
Wow, that sucks aardwolf204. Christmas is never really quite the same after losing a parent, let alone two.
I was 20 when my mother died. I'm now 44. There's the old cliche about she's never really gone if you keep her alive in your memories. While on some level that's a bunch of bullshit, on others it's not. Our minds are like DRAM. Each memory needs to be refreshed regularly or it fades and is eventually lost or at least unreachable. It sucks that I dream about her less now too.
Anyway, I'm really touched by the replies here. It's inevitable that if you care about people in your life, you're going to face these kinds of losses. It's part of life unfortunately.
But, like the great philosopher Butters said in Southpark episode 714, "I love life. Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time I'm happy that something can make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, it makes me feel human. The only way I can feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So it's a beautiful sadness."
Damn that was a great episode! Merry Christmas all. You know, I learned something very important today. Even among the trolls on slashdot, there's goodness in each and every one and you all touched my heart today. Best wishes to all this holiday season. Thanks!
Hell yeah. My mother died when I was young. I remember once she bought us a badminton set for the family to play together. I thought it was gay. We never did use it and I never knew what happened to it. Sometime after she died, I found it stashed away in the corner in the attic and imagined her being sad putting it up there because none of her kids could find the time to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon playing badminton together in the back yard.
Needless to say, I'd do anything to get a chance to play badminton with her now. For all of you with mothers, even if they drive you nuts, I envy you greatly. Now go do something that will make her happy and show her you still love her.
If your state doesn't have one, push your legislators to start one too. Point at Delaware as an example! It beats it ending up in a common landfill without proper handling.
I hate government regulations that specify where wires can run, that they have to be registered with the central authorities -- and that is if you can get the permits and the permission to do so in the first place.
Companies should be allowed to regulate themselves and run wire where they see the need, without big brother government looking over their shoulder. That is what capitalism is all about damn it.
Who knows better what is needed, people and private businesses, or some bureaucrat sitting in some office making the rules?
I tell you, we need to get rid of all the liberals that are ruining this great country, damn it. I'll give them free speech. They can say whatever they want as their last words right before they are all shot for being traitors.
God liberals get me all upset. Where is my bottle of Oxycontin? It's all Clinton's fault you know.
This is what worries me. What if they starting sending DMCA takedown letters to ISPs of people who host Linux binaries and source code? Under this flawed piece of legislation, they can (and have) just claim they own the copyrights, and the ISPs have to shut it down unless the mirror and distro owners stick out their necks for legal action.
I know, I know, it's not just that company that does the annoying pop up ads.
Sorry, whenever I hear X10, it just creates so much rage in me I won't even bother reading the fine article.
Let my lesson be learned by all advertising execs. Annoy your customers enough, the backlash and bad feelings may last forever -- or at least the life of your company.
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But I also have mail system at work with 25,000 user accounts. I need to get sendmail to auth through the same pam system-auth other services use (it's a complex mix of kerberos with fallback to ldap). A separate sasldb is just not going to cut it in that environment
I think saslauthd is the ticket. I'd just like some sort of pointer that that is the right track to persue and how to make sendmail use it.
Now it looks like you have to buy iLife to get the updates.
I actually don't think it's a bad thing. It's a good deal, at a price around what a typical game costs. And if a fair price pushes them to continue to make improvements, I'm all for it.
I like Redhat, I use it on my boxes, but the relatively quick reinvention of their product line threw me and my support staff a real curve ball, so I'm still a bit sore at them. We scrambled to upgrade all of our Redhat 7.3 production boxes to RHEL ES this past christmas break, and if you click on my home page link, you'll see a few things are still broken! (my personal home page of course is last on my priority list...)
Oh well, I'm looking forward to RHEL 3 being supported for 5 years at least. In the long run, I think it's a wise move for them. They just could have been a bit more gentle about it.
On December 31, 2003, Redhat discontinued support for Redhat 7.3 and on April 30, 2004, Redhat 9, released less than a year ago, gets the support axe.
When compared to that, I think Microsoft has been damn generous. And if you look at my posting profile, you see i don't cut Microsoft much slack either...
I often get calls on my cell phone from my wife at the other end of the house. At least people are communicating. When I was a kid, my mother would do anything just to get a few words out of me. She would have loved all of these new communication devices.
Maybe for those living in a trailer or shoebox, this concept is hard to understand! :)
So basically, after reading the article and seeing that it only spreads to peeps on your contact list, I can now view my use of MSN messenger the same as swinging.
I smelll a new MSN Msgr advertising campaign. "All the danger and excitement of swinging. Come on over, we're waiting to fuck you!"
Someone on macslash.org was speculating it could be cheaper DRAM memory. Basically, when the battery goes out, you lose contents. But big deal. With USB 2 or firewire, you plug it in, it charges and redownloads the songs in no time. No need for expensive flash memory.
Sigh, I'd hope not. Interesting, thanks. I don't tinker much with BSD (beyond using Mac OS X). I have an RHCE and use Redhat professionally so it kinda makes sense for me to try to make things work in that environment, although I try not to keep on blinders to the benefits of other platforms. Thanks!
Point being, you can do some insanely cool things with very little hardware and Linux. But I'm probably preaching to the choir.
Actually, not true. I lived with a girl for several years in the 80s and 90s. She had a brother who was gay. She also had a sister who was a mess and got pregnant and was in no shape to raise a child. So her brother and his mate adopted the boy. I was very happy for the child at the time. This was in the late 80s.
Fortunately, they all lived in an area (Rehoboth Beach Delaware) that has a very high concentration of gays, and had a large support group there. Unfortunately, her brother eventually died from complications from AIDS. His mate I guess couldn't handle the child, so he eventually got adopted again, this time by a lesbian couple they knew.
The girl and I didn't work out (sigh), so I lost touch and have no idea how the child turned out. I hope he's doing well.
btw, I read some of your profile. My father travels to the Ukraine every year, and he's going back again this April or May. I believe he stops in Kiev. I know it's a big country, but if there's anyone you want him to look up, or something small like a certain type of candy to bring back, let me know! I can drop it in the mail to you for the kid, that is, if he remembers the place at all and misses things about it. (I doubt there's an amazon.ua that delivers from there!)
To wrap up this long winded discussion, I'll promise to be more careful with how I use the word gay, if you can believe I wasn't thinking fag-bashing or intending anything derogatory when I wrote it. How's that?! :)
I'm of the opinion that if you hadn't started right off in an accusatory attack, your message would have been better received. As I stated many posts ago, I would have apologized for my poor choice of words if you calmly pointed it out. When you begin a debate with an attack, all sides tend to get defensive. Now you may disagree with that, but that is how it affected me.
Excuse you, but what made you think that you needed to tell me this?
Again, I was stating an opinion. No need to get all defensive.
Protecting my son from the fag-bashing slander which is so hideously prevalent in schools today is my number one priority. Gays are perceived as the lowest of the low and the most worthy of torment and abuse.
Is your son gay? Odds are, he's going to be straight, you know. I would hope he's allowed to pick his own orientation, just as anyone should be able to without parental interference and pressure.
Parenting advice from non-parents is worthless. When you become a parent you will understand this.
And how do you know I'm not a parent? And what makes you an expert at it? There's no prior qualifications or training needed to be a parent.
And I repeat, my original use of the term was to mean effeminate. You are the one who applied the "all things shitty" meaning to it. When I requested you search for my posts on soc.motss (members of the same sex), it was just to try to lend some credibility to a statement that I'm not some homophobe or hate gay people, which I thought might carry a bit more weight than some cliche claim like "I'm gay too" or "I have a gay friend, so I'm cool." And I know plenty of gay folk that use the term gay to mean effeminate, and it's not considered an insult either.
You're on a losing crusade here. First off, language is fluent and changes over time, including insults. Look at how the acceptable term for describing those of African descent in the U.S. has changed over time. First it was Negroid, then Colored person, then Black, then African American, and now I'm hearing "Person of Color."
But I believe you have bigger things to worry about regarding your son. Kids in school are cruel and will pick on anything that is different about someone, and everyone is different in some way. If he dresses different, has a different build, tallness, length of hair, etc. Hell, they may even pick on him if they learn his families' web page is hosted on Geocities! :)
Trust me, soon as his schoolmates find out he has two Dads, "gay" is going to be the least offensive term thrown out. Your efforts will be better served teaching him that this is coming and how best to deal with it. You can't protect him from the harshness and cruel reality of this world.
Ever been on holiday with your camcorder and your group wants to take in a movie and your car is nowhere nearby? Examples, Orlando area, Time Square, the beach. In my state now, it's illegal to just carry one into the theater, intent to use it or not.
I've run into a similar problem with no backpack rules in theaters. I drive a motorcycle and have a backpack for storage needs.
Now all of this could be solved with rentable locker space, but I doubt they think these potential hits to their revenue through. (And checking your stuff in at the counter is hardly a solutuon in my book. You don't trust me, but I'm supposed to trust some underpaid stranger with my stuff?)
I replayed it to transcribe it, and he definitely says faggy goth kid. But the fact you thought it was funny clinches it for me. It's OK to poke fun at others, like goths, as long as it's not your group.
Whose the one being all hateful now? You could have just mentioned calmly your concern about my poor choice of words and I would have apologized, instead of foaming at the mouth at making yourself look silly.
It's pretty tough at times trying to ensure whatever you write doesn't offend some group. I didn't use the word gay in any manner that was intended to be offensive. When I was a kid I just thought prancing around batting a butterfly ball was effeminate, that's all. It just wasn't my scene.
In my other post where I quoted Butters little speech I left out the part where he said "I'd rather be a crying pussy rather than a faggy goth kid" because I didn't want to offend anyone. I honestly didn't mean to be offensive.
Jumping to conclusions and reaching as far as you did is not right either. Assuming I'm some homophobe is wrong. You want your kid to think every straight person out there hates gays? He's going to be quite a paranoid kid, ashamed of his parents.
Here's a clue stick for you. Go to google groups and do a search for author Weaverling (er, that's me) in the group soc.motss.
I guess Christmas is over, so we might as well go back to the usual slashdot trolling and flame wars! :-)
I was 20 when my mother died. I'm now 44. There's the old cliche about she's never really gone if you keep her alive in your memories. While on some level that's a bunch of bullshit, on others it's not. Our minds are like DRAM. Each memory needs to be refreshed regularly or it fades and is eventually lost or at least unreachable. It sucks that I dream about her less now too.
Anyway, I'm really touched by the replies here. It's inevitable that if you care about people in your life, you're going to face these kinds of losses. It's part of life unfortunately.
But, like the great philosopher Butters said in Southpark episode 714, "I love life. Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time I'm happy that something can make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, it makes me feel human. The only way I can feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So it's a beautiful sadness."
Damn that was a great episode! Merry Christmas all. You know, I learned something very important today. Even among the trolls on slashdot, there's goodness in each and every one and you all touched my heart today. Best wishes to all this holiday season. Thanks!
Needless to say, I'd do anything to get a chance to play badminton with her now. For all of you with mothers, even if they drive you nuts, I envy you greatly. Now go do something that will make her happy and show her you still love her.
Stop crossing over from that evil site of the endless cliches. This is slashdot, land of the wise and gifted and endless platform wars.
If your state doesn't have one, push your legislators to start one too. Point at Delaware as an example! It beats it ending up in a common landfill without proper handling.
Companies should be allowed to regulate themselves and run wire where they see the need, without big brother government looking over their shoulder. That is what capitalism is all about damn it.
Who knows better what is needed, people and private businesses, or some bureaucrat sitting in some office making the rules?
I tell you, we need to get rid of all the liberals that are ruining this great country, damn it. I'll give them free speech. They can say whatever they want as their last words right before they are all shot for being traitors.
God liberals get me all upset. Where is my bottle of Oxycontin? It's all Clinton's fault you know.
Fire alarm cable is *suppposed* to be in a red jacket for just this reason. But yeah, you have a good point.
This is what worries me. What if they starting sending DMCA takedown letters to ISPs of people who host Linux binaries and source code? Under this flawed piece of legislation, they can (and have) just claim they own the copyrights, and the ISPs have to shut it down unless the mirror and distro owners stick out their necks for legal action.
So a site can survive the slashdot effect. (It only took about 2 minutes to bring up the first page)
Netcraft says survey monkey is Windows 2000 server running IIS 5.0
p.s. Maybe someone should poll surveymoney to find out why they haven't bothered upgrading to 2003 server yet...
I know, I know, it's not just that company that does the annoying pop up ads.
Sorry, whenever I hear X10, it just creates so much rage in me I won't even bother reading the fine article.
Let my lesson be learned by all advertising execs. Annoy your customers enough, the backlash and bad feelings may last forever -- or at least the life of your company.
p.s. SCO could stand to learn a similar lesson.