This is a specific solution targetted at non-administrators. The postmaster can do whatever he wants with them (and yes, cat >/dev/null would work nicely for that).
In the course of day to day work (I do helpdesk work at a company that contracts out to multiple ISPs) I've frequently run across this situation in the past two or three months. It's not terribly common *yet* but it seems to be happening with much more frequency. One individual that I spoke with was receiving about 50 emails an hour, and, whilst out of town for 3 days, received 350 - 400 emails. All of these were bounced.
My solution has always been to renamed the account and cancel the forwarding from the old name to the new one. Seems to do the trick. I wonder what happens to the bounced emails then..:)
This could make the whole process of wiring a new network, well, electrifying. Totally *shocking* new technology. Really though, don't we have enough of a disaster with all the companies [admittedly many now defunct] providing DSL and cable? Do we really need the power companies getting into the fray as well? Personally I'd rather just continue to pay the power company for my electricity and that's it..
On another note I work for a helpdesk outsourcing company and I really cannot imagine how the process of troubleshooting this kind of connection would go!
I work for a fairly large tech support / helpdesk outsourcing company. Programs like this are de facto viruses from the point of view of the end user. 90% of the ones that I talk to have no idea what this is or how it works, and no idea how it got installed. I remember talking to this one person who'd had Xupiter installed and their story was "Well we clicked Yes by mistake once...."
I find it hard to believe that it would install itself with everything set to default on a properly updated copy of IE 6.0 SP1. It's much more likely that Xupiter is just betting on people clicking yes to the security warning prompt.
Taken from Xupiter's end user agreement: To further enhance your media viewing experience, Xupiter reserves the right to run advertisements and promotions based on URLs and/or search terms users enter when navigating the Internet. Other enhancements and to allow access, users web browser, start page, search page, auto search option, bookmarks and default error page will be changed, along with the Xupiter accessory toolbar added to the web browser. Active desktop panel will be installed on the users desktop which will enable active desktops on the system for special promotions. Our software license requires that users browser start page be set to Xupiter.com in order to continue use of the Xupiter toolbar, from time to time we verify that users start page url is set to Xupiter.com, if it is not we reserve the right to alter it back.
This is sort of a temp solution but this is what I do for my users [if they request it]. I just change their email address and cancel the forwarding from the old name to the new name. Problem gone (temporarily).
Then I tell them to stop putting their real email address in at all those porn sites.:)
Well to be honest with you, I can't really tell that anything lower level has changed that much. I did some checking around last night and a lot of the DLL version numbers have changed to reflect that it's build #3683. Other than that, I don't see very many changes! The majority are cosmetic; for example, there's the new sidebar. I think this has potential to be very cool but right now there are limited plugins available for it. I did look at the plugin files and they're XML based (imagine that, Microsoft using a "standard"!).
Interesting sidenote: the new filesystem services are installed and running by default, but I didn't see a way to actually format a drive to use it. Looks like the *cough* very imaginative *cough* name for it so far is "WinFS." They hog a lot of resources until you get em shut down too, so I can't imagine they're too optimized.
As for performance, it's true the "new" windows do seem to be very responsive but I suspect that's simply because there isn't very much behind them i.e. they're not tied into the system yet.
I've used the leaked build for the past few days. There's nothing super impressive about it yet. True, it looks nice from the screenshots, but when you actually start using it, most of those dialogs give you placeholder text whenever you select something. For example if you open the "display" applet from Control Panel and actually choose one of the categories, you get either "currently under construction" or an exception (what fun!). Other than that, it's just plain ole win xp.
American Express Private Payments is an excellent idea and I suppose it works most of the time. However I recently made an expensive purchase from an online retailer of DJ equipment; I used an AMEX private payments number that I funneled through Paypal, figuring that if I were defrauded I would have double protection - both Paypal and AMEX have "guarantees" against online fraud. Well guess what? My money got stolen. Paypal said that "yes, you are entitled to your money back, but only in the case that we recover the funds from the person who stole it, and we couldn't, so you can't have any money...sorry, have a nice day." Amex 'investigated' for 6 weeks, after which I got an email stating that Paypal was responsible for the fraud, not them, sorry...oh and here's interest on the amount you disputed for the time period in which we were investigating your claim.
I suppose the moral of this story is: fraud protection is something that's promised (both Paypal and Amex prominently trumpet their "safety" and "guarantees") but when it comes down to the wire, you're on your own - at least that was my experience!
Same here, I used (probably a mistake but whatever) my primary email address when I signed up for monster.com and I've never received even a single email from them. Of course I made sure to *not* choose to receive their spam when I signed up.
Dell provides the microsoft CDROM for reinstallation along with a secondary cdrom containing all the applications. They don't do system restore at all...... HP is hilarious.
I've been using LWM for the longest time. It's extremely lightweight, blazing fast, and attractive. Very easy to control the running applications and whatnot.
It's too austere for many people but I've grown fond of its speed.
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I really don't see why people argue about things like video game consoles, or even video games for that matter. Video games are subjective material, just like books, movies, magazines, etc..
Whenever people try to argue with me about whether my Gamecube is "better" than their X-Box or PS2, I just smile and tell them that their console is undoubtedly the best for them and I hope they enjoy it. I just got a Gamecube because.. well the games are just fun (for me).
very easy in fact. we upgraded ours with two 100 gb hard drives, so now it holds something like 70 hours of high quality data. crazy! seriously though, I never thought a device would change the way I watch tv but it does (think no commercials ever again). you actually start preferring to watch recordings to live television just because it is so easy to do.
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This is a specific solution targetted at non-administrators. The postmaster can do whatever he wants with them (and yes, cat > /dev/null would work nicely for that).
In the course of day to day work (I do helpdesk work at a company that contracts out to multiple ISPs) I've frequently run across this situation in the past two or three months. It's not terribly common *yet* but it seems to be happening with much more frequency. One individual that I spoke with was receiving about 50 emails an hour, and, whilst out of town for 3 days, received 350 - 400 emails. All of these were bounced.
:)
My solution has always been to renamed the account and cancel the forwarding from the old name to the new one. Seems to do the trick. I wonder what happens to the bounced emails then..
This could make the whole process of wiring a new network, well, electrifying. Totally *shocking* new technology. Really though, don't we have enough of a disaster with all the companies [admittedly many now defunct] providing DSL and cable? Do we really need the power companies getting into the fray as well? Personally I'd rather just continue to pay the power company for my electricity and that's it..
On another note I work for a helpdesk outsourcing company and I really cannot imagine how the process of troubleshooting this kind of connection would go!
I work for a fairly large tech support / helpdesk outsourcing company. Programs like this are de facto viruses from the point of view of the end user. 90% of the ones that I talk to have no idea what this is or how it works, and no idea how it got installed. I remember talking to this one person who'd had Xupiter installed and their story was "Well we clicked Yes by mistake once...."
I find it hard to believe that it would install itself with everything set to default on a properly updated copy of IE 6.0 SP1. It's much more likely that Xupiter is just betting on people clicking yes to the security warning prompt.
Taken from Xupiter's end user agreement: To further enhance your media viewing experience, Xupiter reserves the right to run advertisements and promotions based on URLs and/or search terms users enter when navigating the Internet. Other enhancements and to allow access, users web browser, start page, search page, auto search option, bookmarks and default error page will be changed, along with the Xupiter accessory toolbar added to the web browser. Active desktop panel will be installed on the users desktop which will enable active desktops on the system for special promotions. Our software license requires that users browser start page be set to Xupiter.com in order to continue use of the Xupiter toolbar, from time to time we verify that users start page url is set to Xupiter.com, if it is not we reserve the right to alter it back.
Great - it enables active desktop too; what fun!
This is sort of a temp solution but this is what I do for my users [if they request it]. I just change their email address and cancel the forwarding from the old name to the new name. Problem gone (temporarily).
:)
Then I tell them to stop putting their real email address in at all those porn sites.
Windows 2000/XP/.NET can do this with the built in cipher utility.
/w:pathname
cipher
All done, nice and zeroed.
Well to be honest with you, I can't really tell that anything lower level has changed that much. I did some checking around last night and a lot of the DLL version numbers have changed to reflect that it's build #3683. Other than that, I don't see very many changes! The majority are cosmetic; for example, there's the new sidebar. I think this has potential to be very cool but right now there are limited plugins available for it. I did look at the plugin files and they're XML based (imagine that, Microsoft using a "standard"!).
Interesting sidenote: the new filesystem services are installed and running by default, but I didn't see a way to actually format a drive to use it. Looks like the *cough* very imaginative *cough* name for it so far is "WinFS." They hog a lot of resources until you get em shut down too, so I can't imagine they're too optimized.
As for performance, it's true the "new" windows do seem to be very responsive but I suspect that's simply because there isn't very much behind them i.e. they're not tied into the system yet.
I've used the leaked build for the past few days. There's nothing super impressive about it yet. True, it looks nice from the screenshots, but when you actually start using it, most of those dialogs give you placeholder text whenever you select something. For example if you open the "display" applet from Control Panel and actually choose one of the categories, you get either "currently under construction" or an exception (what fun!). Other than that, it's just plain ole win xp.
American Express Private Payments is an excellent idea and I suppose it works most of the time. However I recently made an expensive purchase from an online retailer of DJ equipment; I used an AMEX private payments number that I funneled through Paypal, figuring that if I were defrauded I would have double protection - both Paypal and AMEX have "guarantees" against online fraud. Well guess what? My money got stolen. Paypal said that "yes, you are entitled to your money back, but only in the case that we recover the funds from the person who stole it, and we couldn't, so you can't have any money...sorry, have a nice day." Amex 'investigated' for 6 weeks, after which I got an email stating that Paypal was responsible for the fraud, not them, sorry...oh and here's interest on the amount you disputed for the time period in which we were investigating your claim.
I suppose the moral of this story is: fraud protection is something that's promised (both Paypal and Amex prominently trumpet their "safety" and "guarantees") but when it comes down to the wire, you're on your own - at least that was my experience!
Same here, I used (probably a mistake but whatever) my primary email address when I signed up for monster.com and I've never received even a single email from them. Of course I made sure to *not* choose to receive their spam when I signed up.
Dell provides the microsoft CDROM for reinstallation along with a secondary cdrom containing all the applications. They don't do system restore at all ...... HP is hilarious.
I've been using LWM for the longest time. It's extremely lightweight, blazing fast, and attractive. Very easy to control the running applications and whatnot. It's too austere for many people but I've grown fond of its speed. linkage
I really don't see why people argue about things like video game consoles, or even video games for that matter. Video games are subjective material, just like books, movies, magazines, etc..
.. well the games are just fun (for me).
Whenever people try to argue with me about whether my Gamecube is "better" than their X-Box or PS2, I just smile and tell them that their console is undoubtedly the best for them and I hope they enjoy it. I just got a Gamecube because
very easy in fact. we upgraded ours with two 100 gb hard drives, so now it holds something like 70 hours of high quality data. crazy! seriously though, I never thought a device would change the way I watch tv but it does (think no commercials ever again). you actually start preferring to watch recordings to live television just because it is so easy to do.