Why was this a troll? I think I had a valid point! RH is increasingly taking more "Microsoftie" approaches. Yes, you can get into their normal product for $39, but they really upsell the advanced or enterprise stuff. They are also cutting support for 7.x series (and 8) in December (oddly sounds familiar). No more updates, even if you buy thier $60/year RHN. Of course they extend the support for the Advanced and Enterprise versions. Hummmm.
Obviously the moderator didn't even read the article this post was attached to.
Oh goodness, it's time to switch to another distribution. RedHat is getting to big and mighty, an bullying the Linux community (at least RH users). At least with RH, users can just switch to another distribution like Debian or Slackware. Never liked RPMs much anyway, less problems if I compile from source.:-)
Looks like someone has been taking notes from M$....
I'll be happy when they teach AIBO to fetch the morning paper or autogrowl at bad people. I wonder if they'll get to a point were I can download new "programs" for the robot -- like in The Matrix -- download a martial arts foosball playing AIBO program. Now that would rock.
Kill spam with tech patents -- patent on sending email in bulk, patent on the "click here to remove me", patent on email header forgery, and of course patent on screwing with the subject field to get by most spam filters. Obviously, you have to actually *find* the spammers to sue them. Oh well.
I can just see it -- I fry myself inserting the Ethernet cable in the card. Instructions read: before inserting, go to your power panel, can shut off the circuit breaker for your computer and then...
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Currently in circulation? Must be a collectors item. I would pay more than the fact value for a coin like that!
In the beginning, no large company would use Apache because it was open source and therefore was not supported by any specific company. Nice thing about OSS is that large projects like Apache are supported 24x7 worldwide by MANY companies -- so if one company provides poor support, you can use another one. BTW, Apache is up to 63 percent of all websites now.:-) And now that it runs on windows, it will become even more popular. Same is true for Linux which has the backing of many large companies, so there is no shortage of technical support. And I haven't even touched on the web forums, newsgroups, list servers, websites, of free support avialable. And traditional media too -- books, magazines, etc all cover OOS projects like Apache, OpenSSL, Linux/*nix, etc.
Support is not an issue. I think the reliablity factor of running on a *nix platform will help a lot.
Not sure about this Future Storage idea, sounds like they just stole something from BeOS and put it on thier *very secure, very reliable" SQL Server product.:-) Do I have the option of running DB2 or PostgreSQL instead of SQLServer? Sounds like the IE-OS integration issue all over again. Oh, down the rabit hole we tumble....
Great, in the future, finally international lawas will catchup and make life hard on spammers on Earth, but just in time for inter-planetary spam. Although it might take a few months for spmammers to confirm your email address when you click on the "remove me" link.:-)
Since we are addressing Internet issues of the universe now, lets deal with interplanetary spam laws in our own solar system first.:-)
Talk about old software, I have friends that are perfectly happy with DOS and don't want that new GUI thing. Of course, I like Linux, at least I can feel comfortable in 20 year old unix box which still hasn't needed to be rebooted.
Over all, the quality of modern software has gone way down so I won't be surprised if there were lots of unix based applications still running.
What I can't believe is how the recording industry went along with this. I guess someone with a brian finally took charge of this part of the business there. I wonder if the other online music sites will follow this example? Nice to dream. Anyways, I hope the website doesn't require me to use a Mac.:-)
If only the burners for blue ray were less then $5K and the discs less than $30 a pop. One day perhaps, but not for now. I'll stick with DVD and normal CD.
I can go to Best Buy and purchase 50 pic DVD+R or DVD-R for $99 which comes out to $2 per disc which divided by 6.7 is the same cost as most CDs bought in packs of 50. If you buy a single CD at CompUSA you're gonna pay $4 compared to $.30 per disc bought in bulk spindle form. Same with DVD media -- singles run $7 or more per disc when bought in singles. Never buy in singles in either format.
I use both formats, If I need to burn a quick disc for a friend that takes less than 700 MB, then I'll use a CD, but for archiving my harddrive or backup all my digital photos I go DVD all the way -- I like a 3 DVD backup instead of a 21 CD backup anyday.
I've had good success with Mozilla and even Netscape 7.01 and up has the popup blocker builtin -- which is nice since the web browser knows the difference between solicited and unsolicitied popups. Mozilla 1.3 I know has the ability to whitelist certain sites you need popups to work properly, so that is not an issue for me. I just feel sorry for Grandma that doesn't know any different than to use Internet Exploder (IE). Most popup add-ons I've seen for IE don't even understand the difference between solicited and unsolicited popups.
Just as spam is hurting email as legit means of communication, advertisers will stop at nothing until they have completely pissed off enough folks to kill off the World Wide Web. Just like parasites, feeding off the host until the host finally dies.
As more sites use this type of adversiting, I will use the Internet/WWW less. Folks that serve ads like this should find a real job and help salvage the Internet before it is too late.
Yeah, if spammers don't provide a way to contact them by email, then any other means will do. People should sue the spammers for endangerment of their families if they run a high risk business like spamming from their own homes.
So, I won't have to waste so many trees getting my point across (and other businesses legit catalogs), spammers should provide a legit reply-to (ie, when Hell freezes over).
The spammed can fight dirty too.:-)
Well, could someone open a modified sendmail relay that only logs connections and attempts to send spam -- that way you'll have a good idea who is sending the spam (at least the ones dumb enough not cover their tracks before it gets relayed). Then you could DOS or hack that system and disable it. Or at least find the owner or ISP of the IP address. Could be a fun experiment.
Ok, here's the plan, setup an open relay (on purpose), but instead of actually sending out email, just log the IP address and act like you sent message (forge the log files, etc). You could setup scripts to monitor this so you know when someone uses your server as a spam relay. You have the evidence in your logs and can go after the spammers that way. Although not all connections to the open relay will be directly from the spammer, most should be. Could be an interesting project.
Well, if the law isn't going to help, especially for villians that spam from outsite the USA, make concerted efforts to hack and disable offending spammers and open relays. Obviously this is illegal, but then again it is only a suggestion (and they deserve it). Spammers are outside the law, and if there is an anti-spam law in a particular country or state, they just move the operation to an another country. For USA offenders, posting physical address on Slashdot helps too, I bet all the spammers want a Sears catalog!
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What the heck are these folks saying???? Obviously these folks either don't have an actual email account or in addition to telemarketting during the day, they run a off-shore spam operation by night. Opt-out only works for spammers -- it verifies there is someone at an email address nieve enough to click on the stupid "remove me" link.
No problem, I treat telemarkeeters as spammers and sign them up for all sorts of catalogs and mailing lists. At least telemarketters will identify themselves in the first 2 seconds of conversation.
No more passive deletions: get active, sue them to the stone age, send them "snail mail" spam, post their address on/., do whatever to get even!
I hear a case where someone started sending spammers bills for the time used to delete messages and investigate who sent the message, etc. The funny thing is, a large number of spammers actually paid or were forwarded to collections. I'm hoping this was not another urban legend -- I want to start doing the same.
I have a few college professors I didn't care much for -- send them up instead. Elemetary, Middle school, and even high school teachers are fairly harmless and some are actually beneficial. At least college professors don't actually have to have a teaching degree or any or much teaching ability (mine didn't).
Oh yeah, let them up there and make them write a 300 page thesis on why this program is a bad idea.:-)
64 I2s is nice and all, but I really want to get my hands on 100 or so AMD ClawHammers. Now that would kick some serious tail. I bet Quake 3 area would run nicely.:-)
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Obviously the moderator didn't even read the article this post was attached to.
NOW THIS IS A REAL TROLL!!!
Oh goodness, it's time to switch to another distribution. RedHat is getting to big and mighty, an bullying the Linux community (at least RH users). At least with RH, users can just switch to another distribution like Debian or Slackware. Never liked RPMs much anyway, less problems if I compile from source. :-)
Looks like someone has been taking notes from M$....
I'll be happy when they teach AIBO to fetch the morning paper or autogrowl at bad people. I wonder if they'll get to a point were I can download new "programs" for the robot -- like in The Matrix -- download a martial arts foosball playing AIBO program. Now that would rock.
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The CR patent reminded me of silly patents like this.
Enjoy
Kill spam with tech patents -- patent on sending email in bulk, patent on the "click here to remove me", patent on email header forgery, and of course patent on screwing with the subject field to get by most spam filters. Obviously, you have to actually *find* the spammers to sue them. Oh well.
I can just see it -- I fry myself inserting the Ethernet cable in the card. Instructions read: before inserting, go to your power panel, can shut off the circuit breaker for your computer and then...
Currently in circulation? Must be a collectors item. I would pay more than the fact value for a coin like that!
In the beginning, no large company would use Apache because it was open source and therefore was not supported by any specific company. Nice thing about OSS is that large projects like Apache are supported 24x7 worldwide by MANY companies -- so if one company provides poor support, you can use another one. BTW, Apache is up to 63 percent of all websites now. :-) And now that it runs on windows, it will become even more popular. Same is true for Linux which has the backing of many large companies, so there is no shortage of technical support. And I haven't even touched on the web forums, newsgroups, list servers, websites, of free support avialable. And traditional media too -- books, magazines, etc all cover OOS projects like Apache, OpenSSL, Linux/*nix, etc.
Support is not an issue. I think the reliablity factor of running on a *nix platform will help a lot.
Not sure about this Future Storage idea, sounds like they just stole something from BeOS and put it on thier *very secure, very reliable" SQL Server product. :-) Do I have the option of running DB2 or PostgreSQL instead of SQLServer? Sounds like the IE-OS integration issue all over again. Oh, down the rabit hole we tumble....
Since we are addressing Internet issues of the universe now, lets deal with interplanetary spam laws in our own solar system first. :-)
Over all, the quality of modern software has gone way down so I won't be surprised if there were lots of unix based applications still running.
What I can't believe is how the recording industry went along with this. I guess someone with a brian finally took charge of this part of the business there. I wonder if the other online music sites will follow this example? Nice to dream. Anyways, I hope the website doesn't require me to use a Mac. :-)
If only the burners for blue ray were less then $5K and the discs less than $30 a pop. One day perhaps, but not for now. I'll stick with DVD and normal CD.
I use both formats, If I need to burn a quick disc for a friend that takes less than 700 MB, then I'll use a CD, but for archiving my harddrive or backup all my digital photos I go DVD all the way -- I like a 3 DVD backup instead of a 21 CD backup anyday.
I've had good success with Mozilla and even Netscape 7.01 and up has the popup blocker builtin -- which is nice since the web browser knows the difference between solicited and unsolicitied popups. Mozilla 1.3 I know has the ability to whitelist certain sites you need popups to work properly, so that is not an issue for me. I just feel sorry for Grandma that doesn't know any different than to use Internet Exploder (IE). Most popup add-ons I've seen for IE don't even understand the difference between solicited and unsolicited popups.
As more sites use this type of adversiting, I will use the Internet/WWW less. Folks that serve ads like this should find a real job and help salvage the Internet before it is too late.
Yeah, if spammers don't provide a way to contact them by email, then any other means will do. People should sue the spammers for endangerment of their families if they run a high risk business like spamming from their own homes. So, I won't have to waste so many trees getting my point across (and other businesses legit catalogs), spammers should provide a legit reply-to (ie, when Hell freezes over). The spammed can fight dirty too. :-)
Well, could someone open a modified sendmail relay that only logs connections and attempts to send spam -- that way you'll have a good idea who is sending the spam (at least the ones dumb enough not cover their tracks before it gets relayed). Then you could DOS or hack that system and disable it. Or at least find the owner or ISP of the IP address. Could be a fun experiment.
Ok, here's the plan, setup an open relay (on purpose), but instead of actually sending out email, just log the IP address and act like you sent message (forge the log files, etc). You could setup scripts to monitor this so you know when someone uses your server as a spam relay. You have the evidence in your logs and can go after the spammers that way. Although not all connections to the open relay will be directly from the spammer, most should be. Could be an interesting project.
Standard Disclaimer: I disclaim everything, even this disclaimer.
No problem, I treat telemarkeeters as spammers and sign them up for all sorts of catalogs and mailing lists. At least telemarketters will identify themselves in the first 2 seconds of conversation.
Enjoy
I hear a case where someone started sending spammers bills for the time used to delete messages and investigate who sent the message, etc. The funny thing is, a large number of spammers actually paid or were forwarded to collections. I'm hoping this was not another urban legend -- I want to start doing the same.
Survivor: The Final Frontier where getting "voted off" the shuttle down right sucks (really).
I guess NASA needs new, creative ways to get funding for the Mars mission (or Survivor series).
I have a few college professors I didn't care much for -- send them up instead. Elemetary, Middle school, and even high school teachers are fairly harmless and some are actually beneficial. At least college professors don't actually have to have a teaching degree or any or much teaching ability (mine didn't).
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Oh yeah, let them up there and make them write a 300 page thesis on why this program is a bad idea.
Enjoy.
64 I2s is nice and all, but I really want to get my hands on 100 or so AMD ClawHammers. Now that would kick some serious tail. I bet Quake 3 area would run nicely. :-)