There's also "A HREF="http://www.ironport.com/">Ironport. We run these baby at work (ISP) and they handle tens of millions of emails a day. So they're definately not the first. Wonder if this article was nothing more than an attention grabbing press release?:)
Assuming her disability is legit and recognized, isn't there a department at the school that can help, or governemnt funding? I know that's the case here in Canada. She can probably get a laptop paid for by the school (or the government). Much easier to investigate that than using an "ask Slashdot" and far more effective;)
A slow site.... 50 meg download. When will these so-called publishers realize that for stuff liek this, Bittorrent is the way to go? You save on some badnwidth and allow ppl to grab the files much more quickly.
Bah, this is absolutely nothing compared to the coding error that brought down Canada's Royal Bank last month, leaving millions of customers without paychecks, access to their accounts, etc.... And this too was attributed to human error, but had far more drastic repurcusions than not getting your morning paper, and cost RBC a heck of a lot more than a million dollars.
Welcome to Iron Browser, where today we pit the challenger from Redwood.
Chairman Kaga: "So, Internet Explorer, which of the Iron Browsers will it be? Iron Browser OSS Mozilla? Iron Browser CS Opera? Iron Browser TXT Lynx? Yomigaeru Aiyan Browser!"
IE: "Mozilla-san"
Bang A Gong, get it on. Who's browsing reigns supreme?
DVDs (in one format or another) aren't gonna go away anytime soon.
Not everyone has or can get broadband. There's no chance of broadband at the summer cottage. There's no broadband available in my car as I'm driving cross country. Yet, at the cottage, I can have a TV and DVD player, and in the car I can get an LCD/DVD player to occupy the kids as I'm driving.
Finally, a traditional novel, if it sells 100000 copies is a pretty good deal, but that few comics can mean the death of an entire series--millions are printed and many more need to be sold just to make the publisher more happy.
This is complete untrue. Before the comic book bubble burst, this was true. A comic like Spawn would sell 2-3 million copies a month. But that was because non-fan speculators would buy 20-30 copies in the hopes of making a quick buck. The bottom dropped out in the mid 90's. The speculators moved on to something else to try and make a quick buck. Now most top 10 selling comics sell 50,000-70,000 copies. 100,000 seller is a rare bonafide hit. The industry is on an upswing, but it's an extremely slow climb.
First off, I've never had a burned CD go on me in a year. Certainly not one that was put in a dark, protected place. I've had some burned CDs from 5 years or so ago that still work fine when I need to retrieve something from them. I have read about estimates of protected CD-R shelf life being anywhere from 10 years to 100 years. That's a wide range so I'd stick with the low end of it.
Oh, I have CDRs from 6-7 years ago that still work. The difference is the thickness of the material. CDRs produced in the last 3-4 years are superthin. Even the 'quality' ones you can see through. This was not true of CDRs made 4-5+ years ago. The metal inside was much thicker. Price of CDRs havent gone down strictly because of supply & demand. They're using less and cheaper materials than they did 5-6 years ago when a blank CDR cost you 4-5$, vs the 20 or so cents they cost now.
I've had a few audio CDs that I play in the car go after 6 months! Not from scratches or abuse, but the metal inside actually ripped and shredded, with the outside plastice 100% intact!
That's all fine and dandy if you don't mind having to buy/.burn it again in a few years...
Current burnt CDs have a shelflife of about 2-3 years (I'va had some go after a year). A pressed CD lasts 20+ years (I have 18 yr old pressed CDs that still play flawlessly). SO the burning scenario just doesn't cut it.
My question is.... When will Firefox and Thunderbird be packaged together in a new full blown Mozilla release? Can't seem to find any info on the website regarding it.
Now this is very sad. How can any semi-reputable company call changing the admin username and password for a major security hole a fix? Especially since they should have realized this new username/password would hit the net faster than Homer at an all you can eat buffet.
Since these things have built in firewalls, wouldnt the fix just include a user-invisible firewall rule preventing access to the router on whatever the admin port is (80, 8080, etc..)? Seems like a fairly simple fix to me.
Thanks Netgear! You've just assured that I'll never buy one of your products!
I know this would only be a bandaid solution, but it would definately help.
These zombie computers are getting the list of email addresses and commands to push somehow.... by connecting to an IRC server, etc... Shut down the source, and all you have left is an infected PC who can't download commands/lists. Has this even been looked at? I know different viruses use different methods, but I don't really think it would be a waste of time to go after the 'distribution' centers.
As others have mentioned, if you really want to go with an SLR camera, go for the Canon Digital Rebel. I don't own one, but a friend of mine does, and it kicks ass.
What I do own, however, is a Canon Powershot G5. It's not an SLR camera per say, but comes very close. Full control of aperture, etc... and you can get extra lenses for it (telescopic lens, fish-eye lens, macro lenses, etc...). It's a fair bit cheaper than the Digital Rebel, is 5.1 megapixels vs 6 of the DR, but in terms of options and settings (aperture, ISO selection, etc...) it's almost identical.
To correct you, screeners ARE copies made from VHS or DVD, sent to movie reviewers and members of the Academy (and others too). Screeners is the best quality you can get.
CAM - This type of VCD was recorded by someone in a cinema with a camcorder and the audience can be heard! The picture quality is usually OK but the sound is mostly very bad and hard to make out speech.
TS (Telesync) - These are also recorded in a cinema but usually on an expensive camera and they should have a seperate audio source (so the audience cannot be heard), these are generally very good quality and highly watchable.
TC (Telecine) - Done a number of ways, all from taking directly from the reel. Ripped in either widescreen (letterbox) or in full-screen (pan and scan) with excellent audio and video.
Screener - A Screener is usually recorded form a promotional video tape or DVD which is sent to censors and film critics etc.. The quality is usually as good as a commercial VCD, some times a copyright message appears on the screen.
Work-Print - Each frame of the film is copied from celluloid (or another source). The sound is usually perfect and the visual quality can vary. These are sometimes incomplete movies.
LD/DVDRip - Are ripped from DVD or Laserdisc versions of the film and the quality is as good as genuine.
Catch-all addresses aren't a good idea. Just wait until some spammer tries a dictionary type attack on your server. It happened to me 3-4 years ago.
What I do is similar to what you do (individual email address for everything I register for), except that I use sendmail's alias feature. I simply create an alias to my main mail account. Once I start receiving spam to the alias, to the virtual shredder that address goes.
Maybe it was shear luck? I tested this out about 6 months ago. I created a honeypot email address that appeared on a website for a total of 24 hours. Got a little bit of spam on the account. When I unsubscribed (the ones which didn't bounce back, etc...), the amount of spam I started to receive grew expotentionally. So in my personal experience, unsubscribing still does nothing more than confirm your email address.
Maybe it was shear luck? I tested this out about 6 months ago. I created a honeypot email address that appeared on a website for a total of 24 hours. Got a little bit of spam on the account. When I unsubscribed (the ones which didn't bounce back, etc...), the amount of spam I started to receive grew expotentionally. So in my personal experience, unsubscribing still does nothing more than confirm your email address.
That's the problem. The CRTC is stiffling incumbent telcos where VoIP is concerned. I've heard (but can't quantify) and telcos will have to wait until 2007 before being able to offer VoIP due to regulations, while cable cos and companies liek Volnage do not have those limitations.
I wonder if this decision will have any impact in Canada. The CRTC (rough equivalent to the FCC) has ruled that traditional telcos must follow traditional regulations for VoIP, but those regulations do not apply to non-telcos such as cable companies, Vonage, etc... that offer/will soon offer VoIP services in Canada. Seriously hurts the ability for telcos to compete. Maybe this ruling will have an affect north of the border.
I wonder how this all affects TechTV Canada. They currently run about 80-90% of TechTV's(US) content. Nothing on the TechTV Canada website. Anyone heard anything?
Your analogy is flawed.
You have to pay the DMV for a license to drive on public roads. You don't own the road.
What Valentini and al have done is the equivalent of forcing you to have a license to drive on your own private property. A license to paint your car a certain color, or a license to install any other car radio other than the manufacturer's.
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There's also "A HREF="http://www.ironport.com/">Ironport. We run these baby at work (ISP) and they handle tens of millions of emails a day. So they're definately not the first. Wonder if this article was nothing more than an attention grabbing press release? :)
Assuming her disability is legit and recognized, isn't there a department at the school that can help, or governemnt funding? I know that's the case here in Canada. She can probably get a laptop paid for by the school (or the government). Much easier to investigate that than using an "ask Slashdot" and far more effective ;)
A slow site.... 50 meg download. When will these so-called publishers realize that for stuff liek this, Bittorrent is the way to go? You save on some badnwidth and allow ppl to grab the files much more quickly.
Bah, this is absolutely nothing compared to the coding error that brought down Canada's Royal Bank last month, leaving millions of customers without paychecks, access to their accounts, etc.... And this too was attributed to human error, but had far more drastic repurcusions than not getting your morning paper, and cost RBC a heck of a lot more than a million dollars.
More like this.
Welcome to Iron Browser, where today we pit the challenger from Redwood.
Chairman Kaga: "So, Internet Explorer, which of the Iron Browsers will it be? Iron Browser OSS Mozilla? Iron Browser CS Opera? Iron Browser TXT Lynx? Yomigaeru Aiyan Browser!"
IE: "Mozilla-san"
Bang A Gong, get it on. Who's browsing reigns supreme?
DVDs (in one format or another) aren't gonna go away anytime soon.
Not everyone has or can get broadband. There's no chance of broadband at the summer cottage. There's no broadband available in my car as I'm driving cross country. Yet, at the cottage, I can have a TV and DVD player, and in the car I can get an LCD/DVD player to occupy the kids as I'm driving.
Finally, a traditional novel, if it sells 100000 copies is a pretty good deal, but that few comics can mean the death of an entire series--millions are printed and many more need to be sold just to make the publisher more happy.
This is complete untrue. Before the comic book bubble burst, this was true. A comic like Spawn would sell 2-3 million copies a month. But that was because non-fan speculators would buy 20-30 copies in the hopes of making a quick buck. The bottom dropped out in the mid 90's. The speculators moved on to something else to try and make a quick buck. Now most top 10 selling comics sell 50,000-70,000 copies. 100,000 seller is a rare bonafide hit. The industry is on an upswing, but it's an extremely slow climb.
First off, I've never had a burned CD go on me in a year. Certainly not one that was put in a dark, protected place. I've had some burned CDs from 5 years or so ago that still work fine when I need to retrieve something from them. I have read about estimates of protected CD-R shelf life being anywhere from 10 years to 100 years. That's a wide range so I'd stick with the low end of it.
Oh, I have CDRs from 6-7 years ago that still work. The difference is the thickness of the material. CDRs produced in the last 3-4 years are superthin. Even the 'quality' ones you can see through. This was not true of CDRs made 4-5+ years ago. The metal inside was much thicker. Price of CDRs havent gone down strictly because of supply & demand. They're using less and cheaper materials than they did 5-6 years ago when a blank CDR cost you 4-5$, vs the 20 or so cents they cost now.
I've had a few audio CDs that I play in the car go after 6 months! Not from scratches or abuse, but the metal inside actually ripped and shredded, with the outside plastice 100% intact!
That's all fine and dandy if you don't mind having to buy/.burn it again in a few years...
Current burnt CDs have a shelflife of about 2-3 years (I'va had some go after a year). A pressed CD lasts 20+ years (I have 18 yr old pressed CDs that still play flawlessly). SO the burning scenario just doesn't cut it.
My question is.... When will Firefox and Thunderbird be packaged together in a new full blown Mozilla release? Can't seem to find any info on the website regarding it.
As much as I like Linus and love what he's done for this world, this just had to be done wiht the picture that was used in the article...
Balkie Torvalds
Now this is very sad. How can any semi-reputable company call changing the admin username and password for a major security hole a fix? Especially since they should have realized this new username/password would hit the net faster than Homer at an all you can eat buffet.
Since these things have built in firewalls, wouldnt the fix just include a user-invisible firewall rule preventing access to the router on whatever the admin port is (80, 8080, etc..)? Seems like a fairly simple fix to me.
Thanks Netgear! You've just assured that I'll never buy one of your products!
I know this would only be a bandaid solution, but it would definately help.
These zombie computers are getting the list of email addresses and commands to push somehow.... by connecting to an IRC server, etc... Shut down the source, and all you have left is an infected PC who can't download commands/lists. Has this even been looked at? I know different viruses use different methods, but I don't really think it would be a waste of time to go after the 'distribution' centers.
As others have mentioned, if you really want to go with an SLR camera, go for the Canon Digital Rebel. I don't own one, but a friend of mine does, and it kicks ass.
What I do own, however, is a Canon Powershot G5. It's not an SLR camera per say, but comes very close. Full control of aperture, etc... and you can get extra lenses for it (telescopic lens, fish-eye lens, macro lenses, etc...). It's a fair bit cheaper than the Digital Rebel, is 5.1 megapixels vs 6 of the DR, but in terms of options and settings (aperture, ISO selection, etc...) it's almost identical.
To correct you, screeners ARE copies made from VHS or DVD, sent to movie reviewers and members of the Academy (and others too). Screeners is the best quality you can get.
FOr your enlightment:
What's CAM, Workprint, Telesync, Telecine, Screener,DVDRip, Subbed?
CAM - This type of VCD was recorded by someone in a cinema with a camcorder and the audience can be heard! The picture quality is usually OK but the sound is mostly very bad and hard to make out speech.
TS (Telesync) - These are also recorded in a cinema but usually on an expensive camera and they should have a seperate audio source (so the audience cannot be heard), these are generally very good quality and highly watchable.
TC (Telecine) - Done a number of ways, all from taking directly from the reel. Ripped in either widescreen (letterbox) or in full-screen (pan and scan) with excellent audio and video.
Screener - A Screener is usually recorded form a promotional video tape or DVD which is sent to censors and film critics etc.. The quality is usually as good as a commercial VCD, some times a copyright message appears on the screen.
Work-Print - Each frame of the film is copied from celluloid (or another source). The sound is usually perfect and the visual quality can vary. These are sometimes incomplete movies.
LD/DVDRip - Are ripped from DVD or Laserdisc versions of the film and the quality is as good as genuine.
Bah, I'm already doing this. Due to the amount of spam coming from Comcast zombies, my sendmail access file has the following:
client.comcast.net REJECT "Mail from dynamic Comcast hosts not allowed"
I've blocked many o-spams this way. Around 1000 a week.
Catch-all addresses aren't a good idea. Just wait until some spammer tries a dictionary type attack on your server. It happened to me 3-4 years ago.
What I do is similar to what you do (individual email address for everything I register for), except that I use sendmail's alias feature. I simply create an alias to my main mail account. Once I start receiving spam to the alias, to the virtual shredder that address goes.
Maybe it was shear luck? I tested this out about 6 months ago. I created a honeypot email address that appeared on a website for a total of 24 hours. Got a little bit of spam on the account. When I unsubscribed (the ones which didn't bounce back, etc...), the amount of spam I started to receive grew expotentionally. So in my personal experience, unsubscribing still does nothing more than confirm your email address.
Damn, wrong article. Ignore the above :P
Maybe it was shear luck? I tested this out about 6 months ago. I created a honeypot email address that appeared on a website for a total of 24 hours. Got a little bit of spam on the account. When I unsubscribed (the ones which didn't bounce back, etc...), the amount of spam I started to receive grew expotentionally. So in my personal experience, unsubscribing still does nothing more than confirm your email address.
That's the problem. The CRTC is stiffling incumbent telcos where VoIP is concerned. I've heard (but can't quantify) and telcos will have to wait until 2007 before being able to offer VoIP due to regulations, while cable cos and companies liek Volnage do not have those limitations.
A crap load more of info can be found here.
I wonder if this decision will have any impact in Canada. The CRTC (rough equivalent to the FCC) has ruled that traditional telcos must follow traditional regulations for VoIP, but those regulations do not apply to non-telcos such as cable companies, Vonage, etc... that offer/will soon offer VoIP services in Canada. Seriously hurts the ability for telcos to compete. Maybe this ruling will have an affect north of the border.
If I had mod points left, this would definately be +1 Funny.
I wonder how this all affects TechTV Canada. They currently run about 80-90% of TechTV's(US) content. Nothing on the TechTV Canada website. Anyone heard anything?
Your analogy is flawed. You have to pay the DMV for a license to drive on public roads. You don't own the road.
What Valentini and al have done is the equivalent of forcing you to have a license to drive on your own private property. A license to paint your car a certain color, or a license to install any other car radio other than the manufacturer's.