Every time you post a link to Roland's advertising blog, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens and kill Roland's blog / Slashdot kickbacks instead.
Mail servers (I use postfix as a filtering gateway to an Exchange system) are not "needlessly complicated". They are quite easy to set up if all you want are basic, secure mail services.
However, if you want added functionality, security, filtering, spam / virus control, you need to understand what you are doing if you want to use an open source *nix-compatible mail server.
If you just want something "easy" (read: click and drool), expose Exchange to the Internet and pay through the nose for security software that is behind the times.
If you understand how the internals of a richly-functional mail server work, you too may achieve >99.99% spam and virus filtering with 0.0001% false positives. And do it much cheaper.
"...but I have to ask, how many people out there have a positive view on life because they believe in Star Trek in the same way that other faithful do."
You had to ask on/., where people mod up fantasy Sci-Fi posts and mod down those based upon science?
It depends on your job. If you want to be stuck in a back room answering telephones for a living, go ahead and get some highly visible body mods. If you want to work with the straight-laced business world, keep it private.
I manage a group of IT professionals, and every one of them has tats and piercings. But it is all done in a way to keep it out of sight during work. Even the large ear piercings are covered with plugs (or whatever the body-mod crowd cares to call them) while at work.
At Happy Hour, the sleeves and pants get short and the fishing lures go in the ears. Nice work, but NOT something that should be shared with professionals and client reps.
But I NEVER would have considered them if they had interviewed with facial mods. I simply could not allow that kind of presentation to clients.
Oh, and my ear piercing scars were removed when I had those "moles" removed by the doctor.
Labor boards vary from state to state. Some are effective, some are not. The IRS, however, is a good option to level against your boss. Do not put off telling him you will report the company for failing to give you your last paycheck.
Trust me, it works; I have relatives who work there and they clued me in. I once quit a job and the boss withheld my last paycheck for 6 weeks. I then told him he would be reported to the IRS if I did not have may check within three days. He drove it up and persoanlly delivered it with an apology that night.
To Defend and Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile Program
by Lonquest and Winkler USACERL Special Report 97/01
It covers Nike, Safeguard, BOMARC, Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, Jupiter, Thor and Snark. That's a lot of history, but they managed to put together very reliable systems.
I have used stereo enough that I don't need the painful little glasses anymore. The secret is knowing how to look at then while focusing at "infinity". Takes some practice. Learned it while studying geology, specifically geomorphology (the science of geology and landforms).
Printed at full 8.5" x 11" size and they are fascinating. I was stunned by the dendritic erosion patterns and flat basins. And there is plenty of relief if you know how to look at them, it just takes a trained eye.
But this ain't "geo"morphology. Hell, water is a rock-forming mineral thereabouts. I will enjoy looking them over, though. Wish I had the raw data from the probe available to go along with the pics.
Mars igneous rocks are mafic -- rich in iron and magnesium, low in silica and volatiles (e.g. water). Mafic magmas are low viscosity and have a better chance of reaching the surface in a liquid state. Since they are also low in water, they don't explode.
You are probably thinking of more sialic magmas on earth -- ones richer in silica and water. They move through the crust more slowly and once the pressure gets low enough, the water boils explosively.
On earth, we also have big sheets of mafic lava flows -- the Deccan Traps in India, Watchung Mountains in New Jersey, Grand Mesa in Colorado just to name a few.
Mars igneous rocks are mafic -- rich in iron and magnesium, low in silica and volatiles (e.g. water). Mafic magmas are low viscosity and have a better chance of reaching the surface in a liquid state. Since they are also low in water, they don't explode.
On earth, we also have big sheets of mafic lava flows -- the Deccan Traps in India, Watchung Mountains in New Jersey, Grand Mesa in Colorado just to name a few.
postfix and a Bayesian filter called from procmail. Mine is set up as a mail gateway to keep everything but https on Exchange isolated from the Internet.
More features, better performance, better uptime, lower cost.
As a resident of the Commonwealth, I once again take my shoes off to our elected officials willingness to tax us directly and indirectly to subsidize Verizon. Remeber the sweetheart, multi-billion dolar tax breaks they got to roll out high-speed (10's og Mbit/s) broadband, then stuck us with DSL?
Sheesh! Pennsylvania (aka Pennsyltucky) is Philly and Pittsburg with Alabama in between. If you've ever seen our legislature in session, the bib overalls might clue you in as to how technically savvy those guys are.
Even my own rep. LOVES Verizon. I attended a breakfast Q&A he held, and asked about the Broadband deal and why the legislature amended the requirements for Verizon at MY expense. He got pissed and started bitching to the masses about how he gets all sorts of mail critical of Verizon, but he thinks they are just great. He also "explained" that it would have cost Verizon huge amounts of money to roll out fiber to rural and mountainous areas that don't need it.
So, I asked what the taxpayers got for all that money because Verizon just provided DSL over existing copper. Next question, please!
A post in a comment section of the article should not be taken at face value as actually being written by O'Gara. There is no way to assure it was written by her.
A published retraction or explanation would have some credibility. If they do no do so voluntarily, once IBM's lawyers contact Linuxworld, we'll be seeing that.
Yesterday, I posted that O'gara has as much credibility as Didio in the original topic. I did so before reading the article.
I formally retract that statement. As bad as Didio (and Enderle) are, Ms. O'Gara has sunk to a level beneath them. It looks like she is willing to tell outright lies without any effort to check facts. Rather than ignoring her stories, I will now read them so that I may keep up with the statements that IBM is likely to use in a lawsuit against her and her and anyone who prints her stories.
"All 14 of the branch offices had problems with the database connection. Many of the sites had numerous voters lined up to cast their ballots.
A work-around was created by calling in each voter's name to the main Election's Office in Fort Lauderdale. Two office workers were assigned to each phone, Salas said, for a slowed verification process. The workers would plug into the database, and verify that the voter in one of the branch sites was indeed registered to vote."
Incredible that something was so poorly validated and still made it into the field. My precinct gets voter validation printed out from Motor Voter records. The DMV uses a pretty solid, fully computerized system (IBM) that has worked well for more than five years. Total time to verify I am registered? About a minute. I never wait (and I live in a densely urbanized area), step with up to the lever voting machine and my vote is recorded and verifiable.
How did places like FL fall for this sham? Being a beta user for software that was released before it was ready is one thing when it is a text document, but for VOTING? Jeezoz H. Keerist.
I've also done work in a Federal government office with purchasing power. I can see how cluster f$%^s like this can happen, because there is no ultimate responsibility and accountability for incompetence. If the sales pitch looks good and the vendor "demonstrates" the reliability of the product, no public "servant" will be held accountable. The vendor also likely got paid upon delivery and there is no recourse for going after them. The vendor, rather than getting blacklisted by the contracting office, will get to explain what when wrong and why it was God's Will or somebody else's fault.
What's it up to, 94 Roland Picquepaille/. articles so far this year? If you haven't noticed, Roland has a blipvert "blog" that lifts articles and pictures from other sources. It is not even close to quotation with attribution, it's plain lifting. Then he gets each new plargarism linked courtesy of/. editors, who do not even bother to link to the original article. Then Roland gets to brag about the number of hits he gets courtesy of/. links.
The articles cites don't speak much on methodology beyond using historical data (since 1932) to predict areas where magnitude 5+ earthquakes are likely. It would be interesting to read about the methods and determine if they can predict larger (6 - 6.5+) damaging earthquakes of a larger magnitude. Or more significantly, earthquakes whose damage potential (as measured using the Mercalli scale) is high.
Geologists have been using historical data to predict future potential for many years. Stream flow data are used to predict flood potential; historic hurricane landfall data are used to predict beach erosion potential; lahar ages are used to predict volcanic mud flow damage potential.
What is more useful that merely predicting areas where magnitude 5+ earthquakes are likely to occur is predicting the frequency and areal extent of damage potential -- Mercalli intensity VIII +, roughly correlating to Richter magnitude 6.5+.
Then again, we Americans continue to rebuild on 100 year flood plains, hurricane-savaged barrier islands and earthquake-prone areas. The engineering geology I learned was to avoid areas where Mother Nature is going to win in the long run.
OUCH! I put about 3/4 cup espresso on top of the lauter tun for a five gallon run of Coffee Porter. That's plenty. And it ages very well -- the hops become subdued and the coffee takes on a rich flavor. Best with 12 oz of dextrin malts in the recipe so that the finished beer has a creamier body.
/. is getting to be less about interesting technology and more about Politic(ly correct in the editor's eyes)s and linking to this guy's blog-vert. It is not even timely anymore, either.
I'm beginning to lose interest because the signal to noise ratio is getting low.
Here is one that is near and dear to me: the Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter.
Before the GFCI, the primary electrical circuit protector was the circuit breaker. Does some nice things, but it is NOT good at detecting when current is leaking to ground, say, through your finger, arm chest, leg and foot to a puddle of water in the bathroom. Two companies realized the potentially beneficial (and hence lucrative) potential for such a device and independently developed it. It is known as the GFCI -- and not GFI -- because one company beat the other to market.
Oh, hey, what about that computer you typed your comment on? Did any corporate-funded research went into that?
"As someone who survives on research money for a living, I am sad to see what direction funding is going. Previously, those who had tbe best ideas would get the money."
OK, I am going to get flamed by all of the/. "only the government has the resources to fund XXXYYYZZZ research but is wasting it in Iraq" types who are politicizing every article on this site, but surviving on government research money is quite different than doing corporate research in which some kind of measurable return on investment is expected. And even government research is not a bottomless source of funds that can go to any proposal, regardless of cost and merit.
This article is presented by a someone who has an idea about how to get excellent results for a fraction of the cost of Hubble or a successor.
Your post comes across as "I survive on research money and don't like it when someone out there comes up with more cost effective ideas because I am threatened by innovative ideas."
I brew my own, too, and always have some hefeweizen on hand. A wonderful, fruity wheat beer loaded with protien chill haze. And I find the mandatory suspended yeast (mit hefe, bitte!) is better than fiber.
Yeah, over the road transport of large volumes of hazardous materials is sooo much safer and cheaper than rail. Yeah, I'd feel much safer with all those cars full of acids, caustics, oxidizers, explosives, etc. behind the cab of an overworked teamster (not).
Rail still hauls a lot of volume. If you think the 5 minute wait on a secondary road is bad, think about the delay the last time you got stuck behind an interstate truck accident when it's loaded with hazardous materials.
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Every time you post a link to Roland's advertising blog, God kills a kitten. Please, think of the kittens and kill Roland's blog / Slashdot kickbacks instead.
Mail servers (I use postfix as a filtering gateway to an Exchange system) are not "needlessly complicated". They are quite easy to set up if all you want are basic, secure mail services.
However, if you want added functionality, security, filtering, spam / virus control, you need to understand what you are doing if you want to use an open source *nix-compatible mail server.
If you just want something "easy" (read: click and drool), expose Exchange to the Internet and pay through the nose for security software that is behind the times.
If you understand how the internals of a richly-functional mail server work, you too may achieve >99.99% spam and virus filtering with 0.0001% false positives. And do it much cheaper.
"...but I have to ask, how many people out there have a positive view on life because they believe in Star Trek in the same way that other faithful do."
/., where people mod up fantasy Sci-Fi posts and mod down those based upon science?
You had to ask on
Maybe you just wanted a bunch agreeable answers.
It depends on your job. If you want to be stuck in a back room answering telephones for a living, go ahead and get some highly visible body mods. If you want to work with the straight-laced business world, keep it private.
I manage a group of IT professionals, and every one of them has tats and piercings. But it is all done in a way to keep it out of sight during work. Even the large ear piercings are covered with plugs (or whatever the body-mod crowd cares to call them) while at work.
At Happy Hour, the sleeves and pants get short and the fishing lures go in the ears. Nice work, but NOT something that should be shared with professionals and client reps.
But I NEVER would have considered them if they had interviewed with facial mods. I simply could not allow that kind of presentation to clients.
Oh, and my ear piercing scars were removed when I had those "moles" removed by the doctor.
Labor boards vary from state to state. Some are effective, some are not. The IRS, however, is a good option to level against your boss. Do not put off telling him you will report the company for failing to give you your last paycheck.
Trust me, it works; I have relatives who work there and they clued me in. I once quit a job and the boss withheld my last paycheck for 6 weeks. I then told him he would be reported to the IRS if I did not have may check within three days. He drove it up and persoanlly delivered it with an apology that night.
I recommend another book if you can get a copy:
To Defend and Deter: The Legacy of the United States Cold War Missile Program
by Lonquest and Winkler
USACERL Special Report 97/01
It covers Nike, Safeguard, BOMARC, Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, Jupiter, Thor and Snark. That's a lot of history, but they managed to put together very reliable systems.
I have used stereo enough that I don't need the painful little glasses anymore. The secret is knowing how to look at then while focusing at "infinity". Takes some practice. Learned it while studying geology, specifically geomorphology (the science of geology and landforms).
Printed at full 8.5" x 11" size and they are fascinating. I was stunned by the dendritic erosion patterns and flat basins. And there is plenty of relief if you know how to look at them, it just takes a trained eye.
But this ain't "geo"morphology. Hell, water is a rock-forming mineral thereabouts. I will enjoy looking them over, though. Wish I had the raw data from the probe available to go along with the pics.
Yes, 116 Roland articles on /. this year. That's almost one every three days.
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i que&author=&sort=1&op=stories
Seeing as the links are Roland's advertisement-laden page, is it any wonder people suspect a kickback to
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=&query=roland+p
It was inevitable he would get one posted on 31 December. As predictable as death and Texas.
Actually, they look much like certain lava flows on earth. Here's the URL of a primer on vulcanism with some examples:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/types.html
Mars igneous rocks are mafic -- rich in iron and magnesium, low in silica and volatiles (e.g. water). Mafic magmas are low viscosity and have a better chance of reaching the surface in a liquid state. Since they are also low in water, they don't explode.
You are probably thinking of more sialic magmas on earth -- ones richer in silica and water. They move through the crust more slowly and once the pressure gets low enough, the water boils explosively.
On earth, we also have big sheets of mafic lava flows -- the Deccan Traps in India, Watchung Mountains in New Jersey, Grand Mesa in Colorado just to name a few.
Actually, they look much like certain lava flows on earth. Here's the URL of a primer on vulcanism with some examples:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/volc/types.html
Mars igneous rocks are mafic -- rich in iron and magnesium, low in silica and volatiles (e.g. water). Mafic magmas are low viscosity and have a better chance of reaching the surface in a liquid state. Since they are also low in water, they don't explode.
On earth, we also have big sheets of mafic lava flows -- the Deccan Traps in India, Watchung Mountains in New Jersey, Grand Mesa in Colorado just to name a few.
I like the way you work. Never been comfortable with that OWA setup, but did not know how to do this.
postfix and a Bayesian filter called from procmail. Mine is set up as a mail gateway to keep everything but https on Exchange isolated from the Internet.
More features, better performance, better uptime, lower cost.
As a resident of the Commonwealth, I once again take my shoes off to our elected officials willingness to tax us directly and indirectly to subsidize Verizon. Remeber the sweetheart, multi-billion dolar tax breaks they got to roll out high-speed (10's og Mbit/s) broadband, then stuck us with DSL?
http://www.newnetworks.com/Libertybellstolen.htm
Sheesh! Pennsylvania (aka Pennsyltucky) is Philly and Pittsburg with Alabama in between. If you've ever seen our legislature in session, the bib overalls might clue you in as to how technically savvy those guys are.
Even my own rep. LOVES Verizon. I attended a breakfast Q&A he held, and asked about the Broadband deal and why the legislature amended the requirements for Verizon at MY expense. He got pissed and started bitching to the masses about how he gets all sorts of mail critical of Verizon, but he thinks they are just great. He also "explained" that it would have cost Verizon huge amounts of money to roll out fiber to rural and mountainous areas that don't need it.
So, I asked what the taxpayers got for all that money because Verizon just provided DSL over existing copper. Next question, please!
A post in a comment section of the article should not be taken at face value as actually being written by O'Gara. There is no way to assure it was written by her.
A published retraction or explanation would have some credibility. If they do no do so voluntarily, once IBM's lawyers contact Linuxworld, we'll be seeing that.
Yesterday, I posted that O'gara has as much credibility as Didio in the original topic. I did so before reading the article.
I formally retract that statement. As bad as Didio (and Enderle) are, Ms. O'Gara has sunk to a level beneath them. It looks like she is willing to tell outright lies without any effort to check facts. Rather than ignoring her stories, I will now read them so that I may keep up with the statements that IBM is likely to use in a lawsuit against her and her and anyone who prints her stories.
I think you can safely laugh at this before RTFA.
This is one written by Maureen O'Gara, who has about as much credibility as Laura DiDio.
Straight to the FUD Shill round file.
From the article:
"All 14 of the branch offices had problems with the database connection. Many of the sites had numerous voters lined up to cast their ballots.
A work-around was created by calling in each voter's name to the main Election's Office in Fort Lauderdale. Two office workers were assigned to each phone, Salas said, for a slowed verification process. The workers would plug into the database, and verify that the voter in one of the branch sites was indeed registered to vote."
Incredible that something was so poorly validated and still made it into the field. My precinct gets voter validation printed out from Motor Voter records. The DMV uses a pretty solid, fully computerized system (IBM) that has worked well for more than five years. Total time to verify I am registered? About a minute. I never wait (and I live in a densely urbanized area), step with up to the lever voting machine and my vote is recorded and verifiable.
How did places like FL fall for this sham? Being a beta user for software that was released before it was ready is one thing when it is a text document, but for VOTING? Jeezoz H. Keerist.
I've also done work in a Federal government office with purchasing power. I can see how cluster f$%^s like this can happen, because there is no ultimate responsibility and accountability for incompetence. If the sales pitch looks good and the vendor "demonstrates" the reliability of the product, no public "servant" will be held accountable. The vendor also likely got paid upon delivery and there is no recourse for going after them. The vendor, rather than getting blacklisted by the contracting office, will get to explain what when wrong and why it was God's Will or somebody else's fault.
What's it up to, 94 Roland Picquepaille /. articles so far this year? If you haven't noticed, Roland has a blipvert "blog" that lifts articles and pictures from other sources. It is not even close to quotation with attribution, it's plain lifting. Then he gets each new plargarism linked courtesy of /. editors, who do not even bother to link to the original article. Then Roland gets to brag about the number of hits he gets courtesy of /. links.
Ethics, advertising and News For Nerds? Wow!
The articles cites don't speak much on methodology beyond using historical data (since 1932) to predict areas where magnitude 5+ earthquakes are likely. It would be interesting to read about the methods and determine if they can predict larger (6 - 6.5+) damaging earthquakes of a larger magnitude. Or more significantly, earthquakes whose damage potential (as measured using the Mercalli scale) is high.
Geologists have been using historical data to predict future potential for many years. Stream flow data are used to predict flood potential; historic hurricane landfall data are used to predict beach erosion potential; lahar ages are used to predict volcanic mud flow damage potential.
What is more useful that merely predicting areas where magnitude 5+ earthquakes are likely to occur is predicting the frequency and areal extent of damage potential -- Mercalli intensity VIII +, roughly correlating to Richter magnitude 6.5+.
Then again, we Americans continue to rebuild on 100 year flood plains, hurricane-savaged barrier islands and earthquake-prone areas. The engineering geology I learned was to avoid areas where Mother Nature is going to win in the long run.
OUCH! I put about 3/4 cup espresso on top of the lauter tun for a five gallon run of Coffee Porter. That's plenty. And it ages very well -- the hops become subdued and the coffee takes on a rich flavor. Best with 12 oz of dextrin malts in the recipe so that the finished beer has a creamier body.
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=&query=roland+pi que&author=&sort=1&op=stories
/. is getting to be less about interesting technology and more about Politic(ly correct in the editor's eyes)s and linking to this guy's blog-vert. It is not even timely anymore, either.
I'm beginning to lose interest because the signal to noise ratio is getting low.
Here is one that is near and dear to me: the Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter.
Before the GFCI, the primary electrical circuit protector was the circuit breaker. Does some nice things, but it is NOT good at detecting when current is leaking to ground, say, through your finger, arm chest, leg and foot to a puddle of water in the bathroom. Two companies realized the potentially beneficial (and hence lucrative) potential for such a device and independently developed it. It is known as the GFCI -- and not GFI -- because one company beat the other to market.
Oh, hey, what about that computer you typed your comment on? Did any corporate-funded research went into that?
"As someone who survives on research money for a living, I am sad to see what direction funding is going. Previously, those who had tbe best ideas would get the money."
/. "only the government has the resources to fund XXXYYYZZZ research but is wasting it in Iraq" types who are politicizing every article on this site, but surviving on government research money is quite different than doing corporate research in which some kind of measurable return on investment is expected. And even government research is not a bottomless source of funds that can go to any proposal, regardless of cost and merit.
OK, I am going to get flamed by all of the
This article is presented by a someone who has an idea about how to get excellent results for a fraction of the cost of Hubble or a successor.
Your post comes across as "I survive on research money and don't like it when someone out there comes up with more cost effective ideas because I am threatened by innovative ideas."
Amen.
I brew my own, too, and always have some hefeweizen on hand. A wonderful, fruity wheat beer loaded with protien chill haze. And I find the mandatory suspended yeast (mit hefe, bitte!) is better than fiber.
Yeah, over the road transport of large volumes of hazardous materials is sooo much safer and cheaper than rail. Yeah, I'd feel much safer with all those cars full of acids, caustics, oxidizers, explosives, etc. behind the cab of an overworked teamster (not).
Rail still hauls a lot of volume. If you think the 5 minute wait on a secondary road is bad, think about the delay the last time you got stuck behind an interstate truck accident when it's loaded with hazardous materials.