Your point is missing one very important piece of information.
In the example you posted above, this would fall under a contract between 2 parties, and failure to comply with the contract would result in a CIVIL case. But thanks to Valentini and al, if you break the contract, you then become criminally responsible and can face jailtime.
Actually, when I bought my first CDs back in 86-87, they were 30-35$ a pop (Canadian) $. Now CDs are roughly 12-20$ a pop. CDs weren't mass market then (tapes were still the king, and you could still find vinyls in stores), hence the higher prices. Tapes and vinyls were 8-12$ a pop then.
When you think about it, 15$ CDs (on average) isn't a bad price when you take into account almost 20 years of inflation. But these are Canadian dollars. 20$ a CD US would be like 25$ Canadian. I wonder why CDs are cheaper up here after conversion... but that's another topic altogether.
This isn't news. Via Rails here in Canada has been offering wi-fi on Via 1 trains on the Montréal-Toronto or Montréal-Québec City routes here for months on a trial basis.
You obviously have not driven in Hull/Gatineau, or Ottawa. Yes, I know, Ottawa's not in Quebec, but 90% of the Hull/Gatineau population work here (Ottawa). When you see someone run a red light, weave in and out of traffic, not use signals when changing lanes, cut people off, going through stop signs and pretty much every other driving infraction in the book, 8 times out of 10 you spot a Quebec license on the car.
Assuming domain names still exist in 100 years. Assuming Verisign is still in business;
I registered my last name as a domain. Assuming it gets passed down to my (i don't have yet) children. How are they going to renew the domain? I'll be long gone 100 years from now. My address, email address, etc... will no longer be valid. How will they get the renewal notice? According to Verisign, the domain belongs to me. If I tranfer the domain, I lose the remaining years on my 100 year contract. Since I can't transfer the domain, how will me heirs prove the domain belongs to them?
The article made specific mention to feces... they did also talk about bacteria and germs. But 90% of bathroom doorhandles in public/office buoldings have actual feces on them. I'll see if I can find the article somewhere, though it's been 3-4 years, and it was on paper.
Don't use your hands on washroom doorhandles, seriously. I can't remember the source, but I did read an article a few years ago that stated when tested, 90% of bathroom door handles in public buildings had feces on them.
Makes you wonder how it gets there in the first place.
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Who with an ounce of sense would request any sort of e-mail promotion, given the tendency those things have to multiply of those accord?
I subscribe to a few mailing lists and promotional emails that fall within my interests. From receiving online coupons by the local grocery chain, news about my local sports team (go Sens go!), TechTV newsletters, weekly recipes sent from Kraft Canada, etc...
There are plenty of mailing lists and promotional emails that do interest me, and I have no problems receiving them, as I signed up for them.
I can also state that the mailing lists/promotional emails I have subscribed to, none of them have given my address to someone else, nor have they ever sent me something that I didnt request (I run my own mail server with my own domain, and create an alias for each thing I subscribe to. Makes it easy to control what I get from whom. The only spam I ever get from these are from registering on questionable websites. When that happens, boom goes the alias).
What I do to relieve eye strain is to look away from the monitor every few minutes. Whether it's looking at the keyboard while I type (which I don't have to do, I can touchtype with the best of them), or look at your cubicle wall, your feet, anything that will have your eyes change focus. Doing this for even just a few seconds is a tremendous help (and I too suffer from diabetes, and if I stare at a monitor for too long my vision just goes blurry).
Jackson has said that if it's up to him, the only other edition to come out will be in a few years when HD-DVD becomes the standard (read my earlier posts).
There is no other extra footage to add. What you get in the Extended Editions is it.
Jackson, however, has little control over what New Line does. They may release a box set, but I doubt they'd do that without Jackson's OK.
Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they'll release the super-trilogy version with more footage.
At last week's post-award show, Jackson did state that New Line was working on a box set, and that he had only found out on that day (so it was without his knowledge or input). He will try to convince NewLine to wait, as he would love to work on a boxset once he's done work with KingKong. If that's the case, a boxset would be 2-3 years away.
Hmmmm, at last count, our shop manages over 70 mail servers. SO you're right, it's not dozens and dozens. It's a lot more than that. Oh yeah, it's an ISP! I guess dozens and dozens of mail servers must be an exageration. 1-2 mail servers should be more than enough to handle millions of mailboxes and hundreds of millions of email transactions a day!
A virus/worm is easilly stopped with one filter? Show me a filter that will stop a worm/virus that sends itself out (or spam) with rotating from field info, random message text and rotating file name attachements.
ANd yeah, you're right on one point. Fighting spam does take up the bulk of our time, because spam has becaome a very major problem. End users don't want to see spam in the inboxes, and more and more the majority of emails flowing to the system is spam. YOu find one way of combatting it, and spammers will turn around and find 10 new ways to get thru your systems. And because of fighting spam, this means you have less time to actually do other work. This is why sysadmins bitch and complain about spam.
When spam stops (and oh god I pray for the day that it will happen), it means sys admins everywhere will actually be able to do other work.
So until you actually become a sysadmin, I highly suggest you stop your whining, cuz you obviously have no clue as to what it means and what it really entails.
You're obviously not a sysadmin. Fighting spam is no longer a trivial thing. When an influx of spam (due to a virus/worm, etc...) peaks CPUs on dozens and dozens of machines, stopping legitimate mail from going through, it's definately not trivial.
Not to mention setting up new servers (an almost daily occurence in our shop... yeah, I guess that's very rare), fixing issues (hardware never breaks. New bugs are never discovered.. shyeah right!), fighting fires and the odd time when you have a few free minutes actually being pro-active... Oh, and actually supporting the customer/end-user to boot.
Why go for a homegrown solution, which will end up costing a bit in both cash and headaches, when something already exists?
Out of the 1000 movies, realistically, how many are you going to watch more than once? I own about 350 DVDs, and seriously, I've maybe watched 200 twice, and less than 40 I watch more often.
Now, what you want to get your hands on is one or 2 of these babies. Sony 400 DVD Jukebox. Even 2 would probably end up cheaper than just the storage you'd need to rip all those DVDs (not to mention the time... and headaches.... Save yourself the trouble, and some cash.
I guess timing might be everything...
I went to a regular college, and left unfulfilled and not wanting to work in the fields I studied it. So I went to Herzing and took a year-long course.
I worked 1 year at a helpdesk for an ISP (not a mom & pop shop either, but a national ISP). Moved up to the backbone group and got on the job training and a few Cisco courses... Moved up to 2nd line within 6 months there. Stayed there for about 4 years. 2 Years ago I moved to the server team for the same ISP. I had no formal *nix training, but had been playing around with various flavours of *nix since 93. Had a blast working on the backbone team, and I'm having an even bigger blast working on the server team.
Lesson? You can't start at the top. Especially if you went to a trade school. Don't think you'll get hired right off the bat into a junior position. You have to work your way up. But the knowledge, and more specifically people networking you gather becomes priceless.
I've been doing this for years. Your own domain + sendmail aliases is a wonderful, wonderful thing. You'd be surprised, however, how very little spam comes from registering on websites (out of the hundreds of emails I created over the years, I can count on one hand how many received spam. Note: these were from non-messageboard type sites).
Most spam comes from having your address posted on some websites. Even newsgroups don't seem to be heavilly crawled by spammers. I did a test last year, posted to a few newsgroups with a honeypot email address, and received no spam.
No, most viruses run their own SMTP engines. The smarter ones do an MX lookup for the host domain (based on reverse DNS) and use that as the MTA. Smart ISPs, however, split inbound and outbound MTAs to block this.
I don't have CT, but when using a regular keyboard and a laptop keyboard, I find my shoulder muscles getting stiff and achy, which doesn't happen when using an ergonomic keyboard (and yes, I use the wristrest on the ergo keyboard).
And for bigger people like me, typing an a laptop feels very constraining. I've used an ergo keyboard for 7+ years, and I find when typing on a regular/laptop keyboard, I make a heck of alot more typing mistakes than an ergo (and no, even though I'm a bit overweight, I don't have fat fingers:P )
OK, Either I'm not as informed as I thought I was, or this article is FUBARed. AM I the only one who saw two references to E3 being released worldwide next month? I was under the impression this movie wasn't out until May 2005?
I had the big brother version, the Tomy Omnibot (not that cheap 2000 version either, but the original). I remember playing with that thing for hours and hours and hours, training it to do stuff (by recording moves on an audio tape). I even remember in grade 5 having to create a little play with 2 of my classmates, and we used the Omnibot... and it was a smash.... Ahhhhh, the memories.... E-Bay, here I come!:)
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Your point is missing one very important piece of information.
In the example you posted above, this would fall under a contract between 2 parties, and failure to comply with the contract would result in a CIVIL case. But thanks to Valentini and al, if you break the contract, you then become criminally responsible and can face jailtime.
Actually, when I bought my first CDs back in 86-87, they were 30-35$ a pop (Canadian) $. Now CDs are roughly 12-20$ a pop. CDs weren't mass market then (tapes were still the king, and you could still find vinyls in stores), hence the higher prices. Tapes and vinyls were 8-12$ a pop then. When you think about it, 15$ CDs (on average) isn't a bad price when you take into account almost 20 years of inflation. But these are Canadian dollars. 20$ a CD US would be like 25$ Canadian. I wonder why CDs are cheaper up here after conversion... but that's another topic altogether.
This isn't news. Via Rails here in Canada has been offering wi-fi on Via 1 trains on the Montréal-Toronto or Montréal-Québec City routes here for months on a trial basis.
Up until 2 years ago, you were correct. But laws were passed making it illegal to receive and descramble errant satellite signals.
You obviously have not driven in Hull/Gatineau, or Ottawa. Yes, I know, Ottawa's not in Quebec, but 90% of the Hull/Gatineau population work here (Ottawa). When you see someone run a red light, weave in and out of traffic, not use signals when changing lanes, cut people off, going through stop signs and pretty much every other driving infraction in the book, 8 times out of 10 you spot a Quebec license on the car.
Assuming domain names still exist in 100 years. Assuming Verisign is still in business;
I registered my last name as a domain. Assuming it gets passed down to my (i don't have yet) children. How are they going to renew the domain? I'll be long gone 100 years from now. My address, email address, etc... will no longer be valid. How will they get the renewal notice? According to Verisign, the domain belongs to me. If I tranfer the domain, I lose the remaining years on my 100 year contract. Since I can't transfer the domain, how will me heirs prove the domain belongs to them?
A DVD+ and DVD- disc will read in virtually any drive, period. Unlike a Beta tape, which will never read in a VHS VCR.
Care to explain why my 2 year old DVD player and 2 year old DVD-Rom only reads DVD-RW and not the + version? Your statement above is simply not true.
The article made specific mention to feces... they did also talk about bacteria and germs. But 90% of bathroom doorhandles in public/office buoldings have actual feces on them. I'll see if I can find the article somewhere, though it's been 3-4 years, and it was on paper.
Don't use your hands on washroom doorhandles, seriously. I can't remember the source, but I did read an article a few years ago that stated when tested, 90% of bathroom door handles in public buildings had feces on them.
Makes you wonder how it gets there in the first place.
Who with an ounce of sense would request any sort of e-mail promotion, given the tendency those things have to multiply of those accord?
I subscribe to a few mailing lists and promotional emails that fall within my interests. From receiving online coupons by the local grocery chain, news about my local sports team (go Sens go!), TechTV newsletters, weekly recipes sent from Kraft Canada, etc...
There are plenty of mailing lists and promotional emails that do interest me, and I have no problems receiving them, as I signed up for them.
I can also state that the mailing lists/promotional emails I have subscribed to, none of them have given my address to someone else, nor have they ever sent me something that I didnt request (I run my own mail server with my own domain, and create an alias for each thing I subscribe to. Makes it easy to control what I get from whom. The only spam I ever get from these are from registering on questionable websites. When that happens, boom goes the alias).
What I do to relieve eye strain is to look away from the monitor every few minutes. Whether it's looking at the keyboard while I type (which I don't have to do, I can touchtype with the best of them), or look at your cubicle wall, your feet, anything that will have your eyes change focus. Doing this for even just a few seconds is a tremendous help (and I too suffer from diabetes, and if I stare at a monitor for too long my vision just goes blurry).
Jackson has said that if it's up to him, the only other edition to come out will be in a few years when HD-DVD becomes the standard (read my earlier posts).
There is no other extra footage to add. What you get in the Extended Editions is it.
Jackson, however, has little control over what New Line does. They may release a box set, but I doubt they'd do that without Jackson's OK.
Sorry, I did forget to add that the box set he wants to work on would definately be HD-DVD. Now that's going to be sweet.
Ya know, I feel like a month after I buy the extended version, they'll release the super-trilogy version with more footage.
At last week's post-award show, Jackson did state that New Line was working on a box set, and that he had only found out on that day (so it was without his knowledge or input). He will try to convince NewLine to wait, as he would love to work on a boxset once he's done work with KingKong. If that's the case, a boxset would be 2-3 years away.
Hmmmm, at last count, our shop manages over 70 mail servers. SO you're right, it's not dozens and dozens. It's a lot more than that. Oh yeah, it's an ISP! I guess dozens and dozens of mail servers must be an exageration. 1-2 mail servers should be more than enough to handle millions of mailboxes and hundreds of millions of email transactions a day!
A virus/worm is easilly stopped with one filter? Show me a filter that will stop a worm/virus that sends itself out (or spam) with rotating from field info, random message text and rotating file name attachements. ANd yeah, you're right on one point. Fighting spam does take up the bulk of our time, because spam has becaome a very major problem. End users don't want to see spam in the inboxes, and more and more the majority of emails flowing to the system is spam. YOu find one way of combatting it, and spammers will turn around and find 10 new ways to get thru your systems. And because of fighting spam, this means you have less time to actually do other work. This is why sysadmins bitch and complain about spam.
When spam stops (and oh god I pray for the day that it will happen), it means sys admins everywhere will actually be able to do other work.
So until you actually become a sysadmin, I highly suggest you stop your whining, cuz you obviously have no clue as to what it means and what it really entails.
You're obviously not a sysadmin. Fighting spam is no longer a trivial thing. When an influx of spam (due to a virus/worm, etc...) peaks CPUs on dozens and dozens of machines, stopping legitimate mail from going through, it's definately not trivial.
Not to mention setting up new servers (an almost daily occurence in our shop... yeah, I guess that's very rare), fixing issues (hardware never breaks. New bugs are never discovered.. shyeah right!), fighting fires and the odd time when you have a few free minutes actually being pro-active... Oh, and actually supporting the customer/end-user to boot.
Why go for a homegrown solution, which will end up costing a bit in both cash and headaches, when something already exists?
Out of the 1000 movies, realistically, how many are you going to watch more than once? I own about 350 DVDs, and seriously, I've maybe watched 200 twice, and less than 40 I watch more often.
Now, what you want to get your hands on is one or 2 of these babies. Sony 400 DVD Jukebox. Even 2 would probably end up cheaper than just the storage you'd need to rip all those DVDs (not to mention the time... and headaches.... Save yourself the trouble, and some cash.
I guess timing might be everything... I went to a regular college, and left unfulfilled and not wanting to work in the fields I studied it. So I went to Herzing and took a year-long course. I worked 1 year at a helpdesk for an ISP (not a mom & pop shop either, but a national ISP). Moved up to the backbone group and got on the job training and a few Cisco courses... Moved up to 2nd line within 6 months there. Stayed there for about 4 years. 2 Years ago I moved to the server team for the same ISP. I had no formal *nix training, but had been playing around with various flavours of *nix since 93. Had a blast working on the backbone team, and I'm having an even bigger blast working on the server team.
Lesson? You can't start at the top. Especially if you went to a trade school. Don't think you'll get hired right off the bat into a junior position. You have to work your way up. But the knowledge, and more specifically people networking you gather becomes priceless.
I've been doing this for years. Your own domain + sendmail aliases is a wonderful, wonderful thing. You'd be surprised, however, how very little spam comes from registering on websites (out of the hundreds of emails I created over the years, I can count on one hand how many received spam. Note: these were from non-messageboard type sites).
Most spam comes from having your address posted on some websites. Even newsgroups don't seem to be heavilly crawled by spammers. I did a test last year, posted to a few newsgroups with a honeypot email address, and received no spam.
No, most viruses run their own SMTP engines. The smarter ones do an MX lookup for the host domain (based on reverse DNS) and use that as the MTA. Smart ISPs, however, split inbound and outbound MTAs to block this.
I don't have CT, but when using a regular keyboard and a laptop keyboard, I find my shoulder muscles getting stiff and achy, which doesn't happen when using an ergonomic keyboard (and yes, I use the wristrest on the ergo keyboard).
:P )
And for bigger people like me, typing an a laptop feels very constraining. I've used an ergo keyboard for 7+ years, and I find when typing on a regular/laptop keyboard, I make a heck of alot more typing mistakes than an ergo (and no, even though I'm a bit overweight, I don't have fat fingers
Yup, it's a hoax/bad joke. http://boards.theforce.net/Episode_III_(Spoilers_A llowed)/b10331/14702368/?33
OK, Either I'm not as informed as I thought I was, or this article is FUBARed. AM I the only one who saw two references to E3 being released worldwide next month? I was under the impression this movie wasn't out until May 2005?
I had the big brother version, the Tomy Omnibot (not that cheap 2000 version either, but the original). I remember playing with that thing for hours and hours and hours, training it to do stuff (by recording moves on an audio tape). I even remember in grade 5 having to create a little play with 2 of my classmates, and we used the Omnibot... and it was a smash.... Ahhhhh, the memories.... E-Bay, here I come! :)
BSD or linux? Who cares what's running on it... The server screams in pain and agony when it's slashdotted out of existence.