Really? Any sources for this? We just bought two netgear access points and they kept hanging up. Wonder if it's related (since I've been occasionally using it with a 12" PB with AE card...)
Do any e-mail programs automatically send out pending messages as soon as a network connection is detected?
Yes, Apple's mail.app, and I use that feature a lot while traveling (using an authenticated SMTP connection to my business host to get around the relaying issue). OS X can also automatically connect to the closest hot spot so you don't even have to configure a connection with a SSID if it's WAP free. Just drive up, auto connects, mail.app notices connection is up, it starts sending out pending e-mail and slurping up new e-mail. It's great!
It'll be a sad day when these public hot spots (whether intentional or not) go away...
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Sigh, spammers ruin everything. I often use public hot spots when traveling to quickly slurp up some e-mail and send out pending e-mail (via an authenticated SMTP connection at my business host).
I have Mac Stumbler running on my laptop and it pings me whenever I drive past a hotspot. Sometimes the hotspot will be named "public" or "public hotspot" even. (Saw a few of these in Tempe, Arizona. Was pretty amazed, and grateful).
I haven't read the mentioned book, but O'reilly's advanced Perl programming book covers most of this in one chapter. But what is very valuable in it is they have a C function called perl_call_va() which handles the hassles of passing params in and out of the perl functions so you don't have to worry about the stack yourself.
I did change their code to use strncpy instead of strcpy for copying string return values to a char array in C. Can't believe that was in there...:(
(This is for embedding Perl interpreter into your C program, but the book also covers visa-versa too)
Agreed. What business would dare install a pirated copy of Windows Server? It'll probably be used by some kids trying to learn the thing so they can grow up to be big MCSEs someday too...
He's leading off with "free" then goes into talking about that $250/year figure and how that can be rolled into other distribution channels. One way or another, the artist is going to get paid. That means the music is not free, it's just paid for differently.
His chit-chat about BMI and ASCAP polling people to determine how money is divided among the artists is a key. And where does this money come from?
Reading between the lines, it sounds like it comes from the variuous products. So that $299 iPOD becomes $549 with unlimited rights to fill it with whatever music you can get your hands on.
Now that may not be so bad, if true. It sure beats what the music industry is trying to do. Charge everyone a premimum tax on storage and players, and then STILL not allowing you to just put anything on them without paying for a CD. Therefore, you pay twice under their scheme.
Would you pay a $250 premium for an mp3 system that you could legally put whatever you want on it from whatever source?
well, wandering off topic, but I am envious. A corporate decision was made at my place to kill off the last Mac holdouts last year, the Marketing department. So we got them all PCs and confiscated their G4s. I put one in my office, started playing with OS X, and loved it so much that I got an iMac for my living room and recently a G4 12" laptop for personal use.
It's such a breath of fresh air. I suffer in a Windows world all day long, but when I go home, I use a Mac.
I agree. But as with most things in life, there's more to the story than appears.
It all began in January of 2002, when the decision was made here to move from NT on desktops and NT 4 domain controler to XP on desktops and 2000 server and Active Directory on servers. The plan was to test the environment in vmware machines and get bugs worked out between January-April of that time period, change the servers to AD between semesters in May, then deploy XP desktop to some end users during the slow summer months, then do the deployment in August.
We had used Netscape 4.7 for web and mail client during the NT days and had some nifty logon scripts to edit and install prefs.js and a netscape profile so users didn't have to configure squat. The profile locaton was changable by a simple registry change. It worked very well, the masses were happy.
As anyone in academia is aware, it's a chaotic environment and crap kept being thrown on my team left and right, keeping them from working on this project. You have to understand that most faculty are primma donnas. Getting them to understand that a project of this scope requires a bunch of techs to basically disappear for months and not available to handle their pet projects, grants, and last minute crisis, escapes them. "We are here for the students" is the common mantra (which is true, but often they are best served by, ah like, decent planning).
My pleas for understanding went on deaf ears. "We just signed a contract to provide xxx training and need this lab up in two weeks" for example. "Drop everything and do it."
Now, understand, I'm a manager, not an administrator. I don't get to ask too many questions, I'm here to implement upper decisions and to take the blame when things fail.
So, come May, we're not ready to move to Active Directory. I announce that we won't meet the August changeover date. I get my ass reamed. "Textbooks for XP have been ordered, syllabi changed, we can't go back now."
So, panic kicks in and a lot was done with little testing. We also had hoped to roll out Netscape 7 but it didn't come out until the first week of classes, so we went with Mozilla 1.0.1 instead.
Overall, the deployment was quite a success except for the Mozilla issue. I got lucky in a lot of areas. But people only see the things that fail.
So yeah, in an ideal world, I could have avoided it through proper planning. And I got shafted due to decisions and situations beyond my control. Can you realize how frustrating it is to see decisions being made that will doom your project to failure, have no one care, and then when they do fail as you predict, you are the one who gets the blame? There is a reason why Dilbert is such a popular comic strip.
And if you think CYA memos would have helped, they don't. I do them all the time, remind people of my dire warnings, and you just come off like a whining bitch.
But I am the manager, and it's my job to take one for the team, so thanks for reminding me of my place...
(Note to self: Never post to slashdot hoping to share real-life knowledge again. Everytime I do, I regret it. Just like I'll regret this one since it'll get picked apart and criticized further. It's like being in an abusive relationship. I know I should leave this place, but keep coming back for more abuse for some reason...)
Let's hope they fix bug 162025, another huge corporate blocker. If a place has a GPO that redirects the %appdata% folder, mozilla won't work. If a mozilla profile is pointed at UNC pathname, it won't work.
Read my ranting about it for more details in comment #28 of that bug.
I manage 2000 desktops and deployed Mozilla before fully understanding the ramifications of this bug. The end result was a lot of pissed off users of lost profiles over and over.
Don't think it's a big deal? My employer's entire IT structure was recently looked over by an outside consultant and during my interview, she asked "What is your e-mail client?" I said "Mozilla." She was like "Mozilla was a big mistake let me tell you. Your users hate it."
And the only reason they hate it is because Windows, when using roaming profiles (and my users roam a lot being it's a college) likes to move the location of the profile (eg,...\username,...\username.domain,...\username.domain.001, etc) and if that happens, mozilla goes to hell and loses the profile. And you can't move %appdata% to a UNC path via GPO to get around this because Mozilla just plain ole won't work then.) And while you can move most of the profile to a fixed drive letter place, like Z:\mozilla, registry.dat file still must remain in %appdata%.
So here I tried to give my users a browser alternative and I got reamed by a consultant (whose final report hasn't been released yet) for doing it.
So yeah, I'm a bit bitter... If you manage a windows domain environment, avoid Mozilla, Netscape 7, or anything based on the code, until this bug is fixed,. Learn from my misfortune.
Thanks for all of the interesting information. I just did the RH 9 CD set, got it in very little time, and it's been uploading at 600kB/sec for a few hours now (on a 10mB/sec line!). I see from netstat that I have about 50 connections pulling it too.
Very exciting piece of software! If this hit mainstream and major sites started using it, then alkami (sp?) would no longer be needed!
This is quite nice. I downloaded the rh 9 ISOs in about an hour on my work's 10 Mb/sec line and now it's uploading at 600kB/s. This is a great way to get something out everywhere quickly, and my work's line is almost dead during off hours anyway and they aren't charged for excess bandwidth, so megabits not used are lost forever...
I don't mean to come off sounding like a dick (or stupid), but I just don't get your software. I ran it, set it to launch.torrent files automatically, and then found a.torrent file, loaded it, it loads the details in the general window, but the % value by the checkmark never moves. I click the files tab and for size remaining, it just sticks to ? bytes.
Before I installed your program, I clicked a torrent file, it loaded the app, it asked me where to save the file, then started downloading/uploading the data. Now it's not doing that...
... time passes...
ok, I think I got the hang of it. First step before doing anything, configure the system tab launcher and arg values. I assume your example is correct. Then whenever you click a.torrent link and your app opens, you have to actually hit the LAUNCH button to start it. Then to get stats, click the checkmark button.
I still don't get some of the stats, like downloaders. Is that number represent all grabbing that file from everywhere? What does tracker subtab represent? I just see a bunch of long hex strings.
Thanks for the software. I hope I don't appear ungrateful!
If you are going to implement a mail client, look at how mail.app works on a Mac. I love the way it handles imap folders when off line. All I do is connect to my mail client, it downloads my inbox or any folder i open. Then when I go off line, I can read/delete, copy messages to other folders, send mail, move between folders, anything like I am online. Next time I go online, it just transparently resyncs all folders and makes the changes I did while off line.
I hate hate hate hate having to deal with supporting and installing apps on our systems at work that are not xp logo certified. You have to jump through so many hoops, open up dirs to write access, weaken restrictions, etc, etc... Do you know how many apps say "All users must have administrative rights to run the software"?
Anything that can pressure software vendors to make their packages logo compliant (meaning, well behaved and following rules like don't scribble to HKLM, don't expect to write to the program dir, system dir, etc) is a damn good thing.
Puzzle games are dying? Businesses shouldn't be worried about porn sites, they need to worrry about
popcap.com.
For some reason, women of all ages where I work love this stuff. I'm waiting for the inevitable "can we block this" call.
And it is addictive. I went there to check it out and ended up being stuck there for over an hour. I downloaded alchemy as part of my.Mac subscription and hence now can't get my wife off of the family iMac.
I do that, and it's interesting. I've gotten spam to addresses I've used to register for music-boulevard (long since gone), upside, the magazine, and even Dell. In fact, I also registered my brother's Dell computer as another unque one and it got spammed too. I complained loudly to them, they denied it, said they'd investigate, haven't gotten one since. Very very strange -- and disturbing.
You can't avoid it. Eventually you have to give your addy to someone, or a spammer guesses it via random tries, or some drone at your ISP steals the subscriber list and sells it to the spammers. Even if you are safe from all of that, sooner or later one of your friends will be at a web site, click the "forward your friend a copy of this page" and type in your e-mail address, and bingo, you're screwed.
Very wise advice. I've had some bad luck with rh 7.3 kernels of late. A few Redhat kernel updates ago, after an update, our main servers kept hanging, no panic, just hang. A later kernel update said it fixed a hanging condition in tg3 (gigabit ethernet driver). We installed it, hangs stopped. Then next kernel update, we installed it, hangs started again. Downgraded kernel, hangs stopped. Then yet another kernel update again listed tg3 hang fix. We installed that and ran it, no hangs.
Now there is this latest kernel update. We immediately updated the box with user accounts that have shell access due to the risks, but the other systems we're not updating for now.
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Really? Any sources for this? We just bought two netgear access points and they kept hanging up. Wonder if it's related (since I've been occasionally using it with a 12" PB with AE card...)
Yes, Apple's mail.app, and I use that feature a lot while traveling (using an authenticated SMTP connection to my business host to get around the relaying issue). OS X can also automatically connect to the closest hot spot so you don't even have to configure a connection with a SSID if it's WAP free. Just drive up, auto connects, mail.app notices connection is up, it starts sending out pending e-mail and slurping up new e-mail. It's great!
It'll be a sad day when these public hot spots (whether intentional or not) go away...
I have Mac Stumbler running on my laptop and it pings me whenever I drive past a hotspot. Sometimes the hotspot will be named "public" or "public hotspot" even. (Saw a few of these in Tempe, Arizona. Was pretty amazed, and grateful).
So if you're running one, I thank you.
Thanks. Beings that I am just getting into this myself, I'm more than a bit interested. Can never have too much good information!
I did change their code to use strncpy instead of strcpy for copying string return values to a char array in C. Can't believe that was in there... :(
(This is for embedding Perl interpreter into your C program, but the book also covers visa-versa too)
Agreed. What business would dare install a pirated copy of Windows Server? It'll probably be used by some kids trying to learn the thing so they can grow up to be big MCSEs someday too...
His chit-chat about BMI and ASCAP polling people to determine how money is divided among the artists is a key. And where does this money come from?
Reading between the lines, it sounds like it comes from the variuous products. So that $299 iPOD becomes $549 with unlimited rights to fill it with whatever music you can get your hands on.
Now that may not be so bad, if true. It sure beats what the music industry is trying to do. Charge everyone a premimum tax on storage and players, and then STILL not allowing you to just put anything on them without paying for a CD. Therefore, you pay twice under their scheme.
Would you pay a $250 premium for an mp3 system that you could legally put whatever you want on it from whatever source?
OK, fact, Mozilla in all of its flavors won't work correctly in a corporate windows domain environment.
It's such a breath of fresh air. I suffer in a Windows world all day long, but when I go home, I use a Mac.
I wish I could swing a switch here... :(
It all began in January of 2002, when the decision was made here to move from NT on desktops and NT 4 domain controler to XP on desktops and 2000 server and Active Directory on servers. The plan was to test the environment in vmware machines and get bugs worked out between January-April of that time period, change the servers to AD between semesters in May, then deploy XP desktop to some end users during the slow summer months, then do the deployment in August.
We had used Netscape 4.7 for web and mail client during the NT days and had some nifty logon scripts to edit and install prefs.js and a netscape profile so users didn't have to configure squat. The profile locaton was changable by a simple registry change. It worked very well, the masses were happy.
As anyone in academia is aware, it's a chaotic environment and crap kept being thrown on my team left and right, keeping them from working on this project. You have to understand that most faculty are primma donnas. Getting them to understand that a project of this scope requires a bunch of techs to basically disappear for months and not available to handle their pet projects, grants, and last minute crisis, escapes them. "We are here for the students" is the common mantra (which is true, but often they are best served by, ah like, decent planning).
My pleas for understanding went on deaf ears. "We just signed a contract to provide xxx training and need this lab up in two weeks" for example. "Drop everything and do it."
Now, understand, I'm a manager, not an administrator. I don't get to ask too many questions, I'm here to implement upper decisions and to take the blame when things fail.
So, come May, we're not ready to move to Active Directory. I announce that we won't meet the August changeover date. I get my ass reamed. "Textbooks for XP have been ordered, syllabi changed, we can't go back now."
So, panic kicks in and a lot was done with little testing. We also had hoped to roll out Netscape 7 but it didn't come out until the first week of classes, so we went with Mozilla 1.0.1 instead.
Overall, the deployment was quite a success except for the Mozilla issue. I got lucky in a lot of areas. But people only see the things that fail.
So yeah, in an ideal world, I could have avoided it through proper planning. And I got shafted due to decisions and situations beyond my control. Can you realize how frustrating it is to see decisions being made that will doom your project to failure, have no one care, and then when they do fail as you predict, you are the one who gets the blame? There is a reason why Dilbert is such a popular comic strip.
And if you think CYA memos would have helped, they don't. I do them all the time, remind people of my dire warnings, and you just come off like a whining bitch.
But I am the manager, and it's my job to take one for the team, so thanks for reminding me of my place...
(Note to self: Never post to slashdot hoping to share real-life knowledge again. Everytime I do, I regret it. Just like I'll regret this one since it'll get picked apart and criticized further. It's like being in an abusive relationship. I know I should leave this place, but keep coming back for more abuse for some reason...)
Read my ranting about it for more details in comment #28 of that bug.
I manage 2000 desktops and deployed Mozilla before fully understanding the ramifications of this bug. The end result was a lot of pissed off users of lost profiles over and over.
Don't think it's a big deal? My employer's entire IT structure was recently looked over by an outside consultant and during my interview, she asked "What is your e-mail client?" I said "Mozilla." She was like "Mozilla was a big mistake let me tell you. Your users hate it."
And the only reason they hate it is because Windows, when using roaming profiles (and my users roam a lot being it's a college) likes to move the location of the profile (eg, ...\username, ...\username.domain, ...\username.domain.001, etc) and if that happens, mozilla goes to hell and loses the profile. And you can't move %appdata% to a UNC path via GPO to get around this because Mozilla just plain ole won't work then.) And while you can move most of the profile to a fixed drive letter place, like Z:\mozilla, registry.dat file still must remain in %appdata%.
So here I tried to give my users a browser alternative and I got reamed by a consultant (whose final report hasn't been released yet) for doing it.
So yeah, I'm a bit bitter... If you manage a windows domain environment, avoid Mozilla, Netscape 7, or anything based on the code, until this bug is fixed,. Learn from my misfortune.
Excellent. Thanks for the informative response. May I suggest you copy/paste it into your FAQ section?
Very exciting piece of software! If this hit mainstream and major sites started using it, then alkami (sp?) would no longer be needed!
Those are the same md5sum values posted on redhat's RHN download site too...
This is quite nice. I downloaded the rh 9 ISOs in about an hour on my work's 10 Mb/sec line and now it's uploading at 600kB/s. This is a great way to get something out everywhere quickly, and my work's line is almost dead during off hours anyway and they aren't charged for excess bandwidth, so megabits not used are lost forever...
Before I installed your program, I clicked a torrent file, it loaded the app, it asked me where to save the file, then started downloading/uploading the data. Now it's not doing that...
ok, I think I got the hang of it. First step before doing anything, configure the system tab launcher and arg values. I assume your example is correct. Then whenever you click a .torrent link and your app opens, you have to actually hit the LAUNCH button to start it. Then to get stats, click the checkmark button.
I still don't get some of the stats, like downloaders. Is that number represent all grabbing that file from everywhere? What does tracker subtab represent? I just see a bunch of long hex strings.
Thanks for the software. I hope I don't appear ungrateful!
I now know what I'm buying the wife for Christmas! ;-)
I doubt it, because I just took the redhat SRPMS and applied the sendmail-provided patch and it applied cleanly...
I love it.
Anything that can pressure software vendors to make their packages logo compliant (meaning, well behaved and following rules like don't scribble to HKLM, don't expect to write to the program dir, system dir, etc) is a damn good thing.
For some reason, women of all ages where I work love this stuff. I'm waiting for the inevitable "can we block this" call.
And it is addictive. I went there to check it out and ended up being stuck there for over an hour. I downloaded alchemy as part of my .Mac subscription and hence now can't get my wife off of the family iMac.
I would think you would also need to get liability coverage. What if you get sued?
I also noticed if you hold shift down when clicking user names in the logon box, the animation slows way down too.
You can't avoid it. Eventually you have to give your addy to someone, or a spammer guesses it via random tries, or some drone at your ISP steals the subscriber list and sells it to the spammers. Even if you are safe from all of that, sooner or later one of your friends will be at a web site, click the "forward your friend a copy of this page" and type in your e-mail address, and bingo, you're screwed.
No way to avoid it... :(
Now there is this latest kernel update. We immediately updated the box with user accounts that have shell access due to the risks, but the other systems we're not updating for now.