Thanks for the reply and the suggestion. I did indeed check that spam database lookup mechanism.
I do respectfully disagree with you that I am off topic. If you check out that page you will see that I have tried to contact Cox.Net several times, as have my customers trying to explain to them that Cox is blocking the e-mail and not their clients. In every case, Cox has tried to convince my customers that it isn't Cox that is blocking the mail it is: 1. Outlook 2. My server 3. CIA etc.
I setup a new mail server on an IP address that isn't listed in ANY blacklist I've found on the Internet. However, it did appear in a few ISP local black lists. I've been trying to get off some of these lists for over 2 weeks.
Welcome to the first ever E-Commerce site on IPv6. Who says no one on the ground is running it. Shop for yourself, or your favorite man at http://www.best4men.com/
I just started with a company called cari.net and their service has been exemplary so far. I have really enjoyed working with them.
I was working with a company called valueweb.net and their DNS took a huge hit, and they came out with the statement "DNS is not a guaranteed service" My opinion of them took a hit.
The cari.net server I just turned up was on an IP address that wasn't on any black lists, but I've been getting bounces like this: T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: host mx.west.cox.net [68.6.19.3]: 554 fed1rmimpi01.cox.net IMP X1.X.1XX.XX7 is locally blacklisted (Xs inserted by me)
from Cox.net and a similar message from sbcglobal.com. At least SBC has a way off the list, though I haven't had a reply yet. Tom a manager in the Northern Virginia Cox.net call center told me that my domain was on a CIA Domain Black list. Yeah, whatever. I'm still trying to get cox to unblacklist the domain.
I post this fleeting thought here to see if this is viable, and maybe spark a thought in the minds of Credit Card companies.
What if our CC numbers weren't so persistant. I have cards in my wallet that don't expire for 3 or 4 years. Why not issue a new card every 12 months? That way, people who steal credit cards from these systems only have at most 12 months to use them.
One possible problem: recurring bills. Instead of the one time use cards that Amex used to have (I REALLY liked those) or that Discover Card has now, you issue a One Merchant number. So if I want to purchase dedicated server hosting, I give the server company a specially created CC number that doesn't expire after 1 year, but once 1 merchant uses it, only that merchant can use it again.
Actually, the machine I was installing the HP onto was a redhat fedora core 6. Are the HPLIP drivers included with this distribution that far out of date as to cause problems?
I don't mean to single out HP as the culprit here. I think my problems were a combination of cups, hal, and HP. I didn't keep the printer on all the time, so I think the USB target was moving. On top of that, I never quite figured out how to solve the battle between A4 and 8.5 X 11. A different driver seemed to help.
Now it prints, but cups gets back a "Pen Mismatch Error". Even though it is a laserjet.;-)
So it isn't just HP. Also, kudos to the crew working on the printers. There are so many of them out there. Also reverse engineering the drivers can't be easy either.
Glad to see companies like HP stepping up to make this a little easier.
I still have a hard time as an administrator to get things like HP Printers to work with Linux. When I do get them working, I run into strange things like not being able to print out a landscape PDF in portrait.
Or trying to use third party print servers with linux.
Anyway, I think for 80% of the stuff that people do, Linux is a great choice. But everytime I run into a printer or a scanner, I find the area that Linux lacks, and can't compete against windows.... yet.
I am glad that there aren't audio snippets associated with the visual, otherwise it would be the loudest website in the world.
It is great to have the data available, but to have it that animated. I haven't even seen "High Tech" displays like that in the movies / tv, where everything has to have a wow factor.
The data is cool enough, no need to flash the heck out of it.
It wasn't made in less than 10 minutes, and I don't know why you think that, as you didn't really offer any useful opinions. "It looks like it was built in less than 10 minutes because...." would be useful and I would greatly welcome those comments too.
Wasn't made in 1995 either.
The about us -> about issue is a bug, and is fixed in the next release of the website. Thanks for pointing it out.
Two other questions that I have are... 1. Why post anonymously if you are critiquing something? If you respect your own opinion, stand behind it. 2. Why only find the bad in something? Sure, that is 50% of being useful, but if you have such a great eye for websites, why not offer up the full critique?
If you say "Because you aren't paying me to do that," that is true, but then I'm not paying you to give negative feedback, and I have a hard time respecting any of your analysis because it seems it is done out of malice (and the desire to put something down) than to actually offer your opinion.
That's the company I run, and that is the service I provide. Honestly it is hit or miss if you get someone worth their while. Unfortunatly you won't discover this until you are in the thick of it.
If you want more information, let me know. Always happy to help.
I used to have this problem too. I'd get to the end of the week not knowing what the heck I had done. Then for some reason, I got this appointment calendar. I think the first one was the far side.
Anyway, the day started at 7AM and ended at 7PM. It had one hour blocks in there for appointments. I used it to keep track of what I was doing at the time. You can get these things from Staples or OD, which ever. They are called appointment books.
What is really nice about them, is that if you talk to some dude on Tuesday, and a week later, you recall, hey, they guy never called me back, you just flip back a page, and there you are, you probably (if you are like me) scribbled down his phone number, and you know exactly when you called.
All sorts of notes are handy this way. Especially because you can scribble them down. Something computers haven't exactly reproduced with any great flexibility.
So you don't have a calendar right now, or you want to try out this method before plunking down the hard $10 for the calendar?
Go into MS Outlook, select the work week, print it out daily style. It's the same deal.
It is also helpful when you need to schedule something in advance, or when you need a notebook to scribble notes.
Cheers & good luck.
P.S. One of the other comments, that if you are switching tasks faster than 2 per hour (or so), you might be wasting more time task switching, than task performing. Take an operating systems class and tell your boss your internal page file isn't large enough. You either need more swap space (employees to work for you), larger paging size (bigger office), or a faster cpu (more cash).
This type of thing has happened before, but in this case we did have a 802.11A/B/G network running as well as wired. There is no solution to prevent it from happening (short of forcing people not to bridge their connections), but there are ways to detect and contain it. The netadmins just need to setup something that will also talk to these bridged 802.11A/B/G cards. Once they detect a bridge, find out what hardwired port they are coming through, find the Mac address, penalty box the mac address, and you've then forced them to go seek help hopefully from a helpdesk that knows what you are doing to people to cause them to go to the helpdesk.
Cheers!
--Brett
More Hail & Larger Rain Drops?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Wouldn't this also have an effect on hail, lightning and snow flakes? If these items are affected by travel within the storm, wouldn't a larger area of vertical travel cause hail to be more likely, lightning to be stronger (more convection space) and snow flakes to be larger?
All our weather happens in the tropopause yes, but doesn't it extend down into the troposphere where it hits the earth making the troposphere that much larger?
Also, if the tropopause is rising, does that mean the stratosphere is shrinking or rising? Is the whole atmosphere being pushed out? Is the jet stream rising with it?
Suppose this could mean higher expenses for air carriers, as they would need to climb to higher altitudes to get to the calmer stratosphere?
It appears as though a HUGE amount of energy is required to contain and control the system. Would the system be able to generate enough energy to control itself, and have excess power to give away?
It's an interesting thought they propose, that if the US Government is keeping documents in certain formats, and those formats aren't available, is it really readily accessable data?
Not that I really want everything to be ascii. But if they come out with a power point presentation, and I want to read it, up until Open Office, MS Power Point was my only option. (I am sure there may have been others, forgive my ignorance)
I would think that if they are required by law to disclose all of this information, they should be required by law to disclose it in a fashion that is accessable to all people. Maybe the best fashion is indeed MS-Word Doc format, in that case, before they use it, they should make sure that they have the ability to disclose the format of the file.
In other words, on the surface, looks like a good letter!
I thought somewhere along the way, the developers that be, agreed to accept a star method. Where people submit their patches to the Lieutennants (sp?) and then they do most of the work, and then just pass them on to Linus as appropriate?
Maybe we just need more Lieutennants?
Maybe we just need fewer patches!
Slashdot Mirror
Site has been mirrored (and is updating).
Available at: http://newton.cranialthunder.c...
I hope this helps. Seems like a waste to let it just disappear.
Add that to their outbound filters or SMTP OK.
Anything to reduce the amount of SPAM that comes from those networks.
Thanks for the reply and the suggestion. I did indeed check that spam database lookup mechanism.
I do respectfully disagree with you that I am off topic. If you check out that page you will see that I have tried to contact Cox.Net several times, as have my customers trying to explain to them that Cox is blocking the e-mail and not their clients. In every case, Cox has tried to convince my customers that it isn't Cox that is blocking the mail it is:
1. Outlook
2. My server
3. CIA
etc.
Cheers!
I setup a new mail server on an IP address that isn't listed in ANY blacklist I've found on the Internet. However, it did appear in a few ISP local black lists. I've been trying to get off some of these lists for over 2 weeks.
Watch the gory details at:
http://www.HandyNerds.com/blacklist.html
Oh, and if you can point me to the CIA Domain Blacklist as one tech support guy referred to, I would appreciate it.
Welcome to the first ever E-Commerce site on IPv6. Who says no one on the ground is running it. Shop for yourself, or your favorite man at http://www.best4men.com/
EC-Commerce, Chat & E-mail, all on IPv6.
--Brett
I just started with a company called cari.net and their service has been exemplary so far. I have really enjoyed working with them.
I was working with a company called valueweb.net and their DNS took a huge hit, and they came out with the statement "DNS is not a guaranteed service" My opinion of them took a hit.
The cari.net server I just turned up was on an IP address that wasn't on any black lists, but I've been getting bounces like this:
T=remote_smtp: SMTP error from remote mail server after initial connection: host mx.west.cox.net [68.6.19.3]: 554 fed1rmimpi01.cox.net IMP X1.X.1XX.XX7 is locally blacklisted (Xs inserted by me)
from Cox.net and a similar message from sbcglobal.com. At least SBC has a way off the list, though I haven't had a reply yet. Tom a manager in the Northern Virginia Cox.net call center told me that my domain was on a CIA Domain Black list. Yeah, whatever. I'm still trying to get cox to unblacklist the domain.
--Brett
I post this fleeting thought here to see if this is viable, and maybe spark a thought in the minds of Credit Card companies.
What if our CC numbers weren't so persistant. I have cards in my wallet that don't expire for 3 or 4 years. Why not issue a new card every 12 months? That way, people who steal credit cards from these systems only have at most 12 months to use them.
One possible problem: recurring bills. Instead of the one time use cards that Amex used to have (I REALLY liked those) or that Discover Card has now, you issue a One Merchant number. So if I want to purchase dedicated server hosting, I give the server company a specially created CC number that doesn't expire after 1 year, but once 1 merchant uses it, only that merchant can use it again.
What about returns? Keep your receipts.
Ok slashdotters. Poke your holes!
--B
Actually, the machine I was installing the HP onto was a redhat fedora core 6. Are the HPLIP drivers included with this distribution that far out of date as to cause problems?
Thanks for the advice.
Really? It does. That's cool.
;-)
I don't mean to single out HP as the culprit here. I think my problems were a combination of cups, hal, and HP. I didn't keep the printer on all the time, so I think the USB target was moving. On top of that, I never quite figured out how to solve the battle between A4 and 8.5 X 11. A different driver seemed to help.
Now it prints, but cups gets back a "Pen Mismatch Error". Even though it is a laserjet.
So it isn't just HP. Also, kudos to the crew working on the printers. There are so many of them out there. Also reverse engineering the drivers can't be easy either.
Glad to see companies like HP stepping up to make this a little easier.
I still have a hard time as an administrator to get things like HP Printers to work with Linux. When I do get them working, I run into strange things like not being able to print out a landscape PDF in portrait.
Or trying to use third party print servers with linux.
Anyway, I think for 80% of the stuff that people do, Linux is a great choice. But everytime I run into a printer or a scanner, I find the area that Linux lacks, and can't compete against windows.... yet.
I am glad that there aren't audio snippets associated with the visual, otherwise it would be the loudest website in the world.
It is great to have the data available, but to have it that animated. I haven't even seen "High Tech" displays like that in the movies / tv, where everything has to have a wow factor.
The data is cool enough, no need to flash the heck out of it.
1. Was the draft refused for technical merits, or because the solution was simply too expensive?
2. Are they trying to re-write the draft so address the issues that can be addressed without eliminating the solution to the problem?
3. Who do we contact in our government to urge them to get this voting mess corrected? Senators, Congress people, NIST representatives?
It wasn't made in less than 10 minutes, and I don't know why you think that, as you didn't really offer any useful opinions. "It looks like it was built in less than 10 minutes because...." would be useful and I would greatly welcome those comments too.
Wasn't made in 1995 either.
The about us -> about issue is a bug, and is fixed in the next release of the website. Thanks for pointing it out.
Two other questions that I have are...
1. Why post anonymously if you are critiquing something? If you respect your own opinion, stand behind it.
2. Why only find the bad in something? Sure, that is 50% of being useful, but if you have such a great eye for websites, why not offer up the full critique?
If you say "Because you aren't paying me to do that," that is true, but then I'm not paying you to give negative feedback, and I have a hard time respecting any of your analysis because it seems it is done out of malice (and the desire to put something down) than to actually offer your opinion.
Here's to better days!
--Brett
So you asked for a company, here it is:
HandyNerds.com http://www.handynerds.com/
That's the company I run, and that is the service I provide. Honestly it is hit or miss if you get someone worth their while. Unfortunatly you won't discover this until you are in the thick of it.
If you want more information, let me know. Always happy to help.
--Brett
I used to have this problem too. I'd get to the end of the week not knowing what the heck I had done. Then for some reason, I got this appointment calendar. I think the first one was the far side.
Anyway, the day started at 7AM and ended at 7PM. It had one hour blocks in there for appointments. I used it to keep track of what I was doing at the time. You can get these things from Staples or OD, which ever. They are called appointment books.
What is really nice about them, is that if you talk to some dude on Tuesday, and a week later, you recall, hey, they guy never called me back, you just flip back a page, and there you are, you probably (if you are like me) scribbled down his phone number, and you know exactly when you called.
All sorts of notes are handy this way. Especially because you can scribble them down. Something computers haven't exactly reproduced with any great flexibility.
So you don't have a calendar right now, or you want to try out this method before plunking down the hard $10 for the calendar?
Go into MS Outlook, select the work week, print it out daily style. It's the same deal.
It is also helpful when you need to schedule something in advance, or when you need a notebook to scribble notes.
Cheers & good luck.
P.S. One of the other comments, that if you are switching tasks faster than 2 per hour (or so), you might be wasting more time task switching, than task performing. Take an operating systems class and tell your boss your internal page file isn't large enough. You either need more swap space (employees to work for you), larger paging size (bigger office), or a faster cpu (more cash).
--B
This type of thing has happened before, but in this case we did have a 802.11A/B/G network running as well as wired. There is no solution to prevent it from happening (short of forcing people not to bridge their connections), but there are ways to detect and contain it. The netadmins just need to setup something that will also talk to these bridged 802.11A/B/G cards. Once they detect a bridge, find out what hardwired port they are coming through, find the Mac address, penalty box the mac address, and you've then forced them to go seek help hopefully from a helpdesk that knows what you are doing to people to cause them to go to the helpdesk.
Cheers!
--Brett
Wouldn't this also have an effect on hail, lightning and snow flakes? If these items are affected by travel within the storm, wouldn't a larger area of vertical travel cause hail to be more likely, lightning to be stronger (more convection space) and snow flakes to be larger?
All our weather happens in the tropopause yes, but doesn't it extend down into the troposphere where it hits the earth making the troposphere that much larger?
Also, if the tropopause is rising, does that mean the stratosphere is shrinking or rising? Is the whole atmosphere being pushed out? Is the jet stream rising with it?
Suppose this could mean higher expenses for air carriers, as they would need to climb to higher altitudes to get to the calmer stratosphere?
It appears as though a HUGE amount of energy is required to contain and control the system. Would the system be able to generate enough energy to control itself, and have excess power to give away?
It's an interesting thought they propose, that if the US Government is keeping documents in certain formats, and those formats aren't available, is it really readily accessable data?
Not that I really want everything to be ascii. But if they come out with a power point presentation, and I want to read it, up until Open Office, MS Power Point was my only option. (I am sure there may have been others, forgive my ignorance)
I would think that if they are required by law to disclose all of this information, they should be required by law to disclose it in a fashion that is accessable to all people. Maybe the best fashion is indeed MS-Word Doc format, in that case, before they use it, they should make sure that they have the ability to disclose the format of the file.
In other words, on the surface, looks like a good letter!
--Brett
They should have done the American thing, and just spied on all of their customers, and then sold the personal information to the highest bidder.
Without napster, do we really need all that bandwidth anymore? ;-)
Wow, now that is freedom. Free beer, that is. When is the big day?
That's cool and all, but where is the "You Are Here" tag?
I wonder if anything like this has ever happened on earth, and if it happening there, is at all similar to it happening here.
I thought somewhere along the way, the developers that be, agreed to accept a star method. Where people submit their patches to the Lieutennants (sp?) and then they do most of the work, and then just pass them on to Linus as appropriate?
Maybe we just need more Lieutennants?
Maybe we just need fewer patches!